Community Redevelopment Agency - Regular Meeting

Will arrive, but we'll get started. Thank you for being here. Our clerk will let us know as soon as we're ready to go. Alright. Welcome. Welcome to City Hall here in Hollywood. Today is Thursday, 10/09/2025. I hope everybody's been enjoying the holidays that are celebrating. Alright. Welcome, everyone.

Welcome to City Hall here in the city of Hollywood. Today is a regular community redevelopment agency meeting. Today is 10/09/2025. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. God bless America. Roll call, please.

Board member Shuham? Board member Hernandez?

Here.

Board member Clary? Here. Vice chair Quintana? Board member Biedemann? Here. Board member Gruber?

Here.

Chair Levy?

Here. All right. Thank you. Any conflict disclosures today? If not, let's go ahead with 9AM citizens' comments. If you're here to speak on any issue regarding the CRA, please fill out a card. There's our clerk, and she will be happy to bring it by. Let's begin with none other than Bob Wickman, And he'll be followed by Andre Brown.

Good morning. Bob Glickman, Hollywood Beach. I just came out here today to give you an observation of what's happened during the recent king tides. Since a couple of months ago, we installed the Wapro valves in the storm drain basins on the beach side streets. So on the streets that I live on where it was installed, they work.

However, the storm drain system is not interconnected. So they're like in four street segments. So even though they're working on our streets, if you go a block down, it's coming up through that street, going down the gutter along A1A, and then coming back into the street. It's also coming up through the manhole covers on A1A as well. So I'm sure that you're all aware of this.

However, if we want to continue with the pilot program, perhaps one of the things to do is to do a four street segment where we're putting them into the storm street basins on the side streets and all of this and see if it will actually stop it. I still believe we have a problem with the flap gates on the intercoastal where water is still coming in. But in a normal rain where we would have flooding on the streets, we're no longer having flooding. And that's the main reason I came out here today. And I'm glad to see there's so many people from staff here as well.

I know that they try to come out. And I know I've spoken to them in the time in between. But they can't be there all the time. But those of us that live there, we can observe this. And we can report it. So when you're making a decision and they're making a decision to do something, you can take the facts into consideration. I did send an email with some pictures to some of you and to some staff members just to show them exactly what's happening. But I think it's important for the residents to come out and tell you when you're doing these programs whether they're working or not and possibly how they could be improved. And that was my intent here today, to tell you, yes, it did work. But yes, it can be improved.

And I'm not an engineer, but I would think that if you would do the other adjoining streets, it would stop the water from flowing up. We're not going to stop it coming up from the manhole covers. And we need

to fix the flap gates so they're properly sealed. And we need to fix the drainage system so there's no breaks or cracks or anything else in that. So the program is working. I just wanted to come

out and let you know that it is. And I thank you, and the residents on the beach thank you. But this is you need to know about this stuff. And this is the best way, I think, to let you know, is to just to come out here and give you our observations, because we're out there all the time. Thank you.

Thanks, Bob. And executive director, maybe during your informational report, can have a little bit update by CRA staff as it relates to the beach and the tidal flooding.

Yep. Already anticipating that on the agenda. Thank you.

Okay. Great. Thank you. Andre Brown, welcome.

Mayor commissioners, city managers, and to all my brothers and sisters, good morning.

Good morning.

I'm in a good mood this morning. Very good mood. When I leave here, I'm going out there with my redneck friends and, yeah, we're going out there where the gators at. All my uniforms out there in the vehicle and I'm motivated this morning. I'm in a good, good mood and I thank God many mornings I don't wake up in a good mood, you know.

I make sure I take all my meds, as you know, commissioner Clari, that I must take them. And I'm happy to be here in front of the commissioners this morning with everybody with a bright smile, you know? But the thing is, I just wanna say, just don't forget what we talked about long time ago. We talked about the gardeners blowing that grass and debris all out in the roads that clogs up some of these drains along the area. Even though we don't have no vac trucks like we want yet, but I'm quite sure that's in order.

Mhmm. And I'd be glad to see new employees out there cleaning out the drains and keeping our city beautiful. Mayor, I think you did a great job in the city. Now you know I'm in a great mood.

Thank you.

I am in a great mood this morning, man. And I wanna thank my commissioner, Hernandez. I see what you doing inside the community Well, I can go put my hands on it, what you've done in the community. See, a lot of people say, I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do that, but you know what? I go out and check.

I've been in your community, commissioner Beatenman, I've been in your community, and I can see what you've done, what I put my I can put my hands on. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna get y'all report card next month. Everybody going to get a report card. And guess who's going to sign off on it? Andre Brown. That's me. I'm going to let you know what you need to be done. No, I can't say that because I'm not the boss. I'm only Andre Brown. I just asked to be what can be done in a community, you know? And by the way, ma'am, I asked for a raise earlier. You think I can get a raise, but you tell me to come back to work.

Yeah.

But I'm looking out for my brothers and sisters out here getting a fat raise too. You know what I mean? So think about that. Well, everybody have a blessed day. I gotta get out there. I know they're waiting on me.

Alright. Be safe, Andre. We appreciate it. Thank you for thank you. Gratitude is a beautiful sentiment. Makes us all feel better.

Yes. Alright.

We should just leave it there. I had good feelings. Everybody ready to go home. Now we've got work to do. Let's start with this consent agenda, ladies and gentlemen. Item five, six, and seven today. Are there any speaker cards, clerk, on five, six, or seven?

No speaker cards.

No speaker cards. We have a motion to approve by board member Shuham, second from board member Coleri. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show the consent agenda items passed six-zero. All right, onto our regular agenda. Let's invite through the executive director, Lisa Liotta she's the development officer to provide an update regarding the Lead with Love Mosaic mural, which we've designated for the Hollywood Beach Theater. And it is great to learn the status. Lisa.

LYODA Good morning. For the record, Lisa Liotta, development officer, CRA, City of Hollywood. And yes, Mayor, the Lead with Love Mosaic Mural. We've been working on this project for a number of months now. And we've just taken what I believe to be is a huge leap forward.

It's very exciting. And in this presentation, you will see a rendering of what has been proposed. And I hope you like it as much as I do and the others who have seen it. But we're going to start with the history and overview of this project. And this project was brought to us by Business for the Arts, BFA, when they contacted the city in 2024 regarding participating in their county wide Lead with Love mural project.

BFA is a not for profit organization that educates the business community about the importance of Broward County's art and cultural community. And it engages the business community as well, in an effort to it engages them in building connections between cultural vitality, creative success, and economic development. Their board of directors is comprised of local business owners and executives who have a passion about preserving and promoting the arts and culture in Broward County. And Robin Vegas is their executive director. And I'm delighted to say that she is here with us today.

Robin's waving. Okay. Now, the Lead with Love mural project is a partnership between the Community Foundation of and Business for the Arts Broward, two different organizations. However, BFA has taken the lead. And the purpose of this project is to instill a sense of pride and ownership by all residents of Broward to be a place they love, and to call home, and a destination people love to visit.

The project takes place between fall twenty twenty four and 2027. And it aims to create nine distinctive murals. Each in a different city. Current locations include the cities of Fort Lauderdale, Plantation, and Dania Beach. And I believe another mural was recently created in Lauderdale By The Sea.

A very exciting component of this project is the artist. The artist is Say Adams. And each mural is a unique creation by Mr. Adams. Say Adams is an American visual and graphic, visual artist, graphic designer and author.

As a New York native, he emerged from the downtown graffiti movement to exhibit along fellow artists Jean Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring. He was the founding creative director of Deaf Jam Recordings. And is known for his work with the Beastie Boys, LL Cool J, Jay Z, Mary J Blige, as well as others. Today, I found that to be incredibly impressive, I have to say. Right. We remember them all very well. Who's

50

here? Exactly.

Or 40.

Okay. Today, his practice consists of working with mixed media materials to create large paintings, works on paper, bright colorful murals. And he has recently collaborated with the Smithsonian, Temple University, Apple, Levi's, Converse, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Foot Locker, YouTube, Google, and many others. I had to keep this as a short list.

Get to the artwork, Lisa.

Okay, I'm going, Okay, I'm going. Every time, right? Every time. I'll read this very quickly. So if you remember, you probably remember Robin. She gave her presentation on August 28 in regard to the Lead with Love program. To participate, there is a $10,000 fee that secures Mr. Adams. Our program, we're taking it in a little bit of a different direction, because the location that we've chosen, as you mentioned earlier, is the east elevation of the band shell on the beach. And we believe that, instead of painting the mural, a mosaic mural will be more resilient and, actually, quite frankly, beautiful and attract more attention.

It will be unique. It will be a location that is used for selfies and other forms of photography and video. And I do want to say that you'll be seeing the rendering today. You will have an opportunity to provide a modify it, if you choose to do so. And we are I want to thank Otis and Gina, because they've been wonderful, very supportive, and helped us navigate through the procurement process.

We've already identified a mosaic mural artist, who will create the mural and install it. As soon as we are able to confirm the design, that artist is on standby to order the tiles. So that's where we stand right now. In case, for those who are not familiar with mosaics, traditionally mosaics are a form of art that are created with small pieces of colored glass, stone, and other materials. We do have a number of mosaics on the beach. We have the street ends, which are in mosaics. But we also have two buildings. You'll see one, the DeHaan Building, right on Johnson. That was created in 2015. Hard to believe it was ten years ago.

It's still in excellent condition. And then, of course, created in the beginning of 2024 is the Billies mosaic. And that mosaic, while it doesn't look very large can you imagine? That's like 1,000 square feet. Moving right along, a little bit of history and mosaics just to show the resiliency.

The Gypsy Girl, which is in Zuguma, Turkey, was created in the second century. The Salamander Below, which was created in 1904, is located in Barcelona, Spain. And of course you may recognize the Bacardi Building in Miami, which was created in 1963. And to the best of my knowledge, it's only been repaired once since that time. So mosaic murals tend to be very resilient.

Especially, we're putting this, the sun is going to be beating down on this. And so we really want to make sure that it lasts. If it were painted, quite frankly, will probably fade in a few months. So the location, the east elevation, the entire back side, that east elevation, is approximately eight thirty three square feet. The intention is to mosaic almost all of it, about seven twenty square feet.

We're probably going to leave about a foot on the bottom. And the stairwell will not be mosaic ed. We also have to work around. There are these little pipes that go down the wall. Say Adams, we'll work with the mosaic artist hand in hand to ensure that the integrity of the design is kept with the mosaic. Installation, now the moment you've been waiting for. This is the rendering of the mural. Very bold. We asked for bold colors. You can see that he has Florida's Hollywood located on the right side of the mural.

And so far, the few people who have seen it have provided very positive feedback.

I love it, to use the word. That's amazing. Let's give a round of applause to the artistic imagination here. Definitely beautiful colors, it's tropical. And I'm excited about it.

It definitely has that pop, you know?

The artistic yep.

Sorry.

I'm lighting everybody up.

I think it's up to your interpretation.

I got a question. Are we actually redoing the door with the glass door as well? Because

It's not glass. The door is solid.

Yeah, but the door looks like glass

from MARY know, it does. But it does look like

MARY Only because we fall in love with what we see. And then when it comes to reality, it doesn't look the same.

MARY If it's not able to be mosaic, we will be using an identical hue of paint, so that if you get up close, yes, you will see it is painted, such as the stairwell. We are avoiding areas that could sustain damage.

Okay, no, I know. But if you back up to the other picture, I'll show you what I mean. Look at the width of what you guys see right now. And look at the width here. It doesn't look the same. I just want to make sure that when we look at something and we look at the end product, we don't get disappointed with what we see. If it takes a little more, I'm more than happy to provide whatever funding you may need for that. But we love the look of that because the glass actually makes the rest of it jump out. But when you have something like this, it doesn't look the same.

But this is a photograph.

Think there's a mural on the backside on the inside of the bandshell. So Peter, I'm not sure the glass

No, no, it may not. But I'm just saying, whatever material you may need to make it look like glass would yeah, go back to the picture, because it looks much wider here. And that's my point.

I know does. It's a bit of an optical illusion. Will say that

Well, I'm looking at it.

So it's possible hold on. It's possible to put plexiglass or acrylic panel on the door and have it be shiny and cleanable. And that's actually a great idea because it won't get, you know, discolored with paint. So, I mean, that's pretty simple to do an acrylic panel, Susan, yeah? Or or even plexiglass on the door, even tint it from behind, then it'll wherever you want to tint, you can even wrap it on the backside, on the inside.

Yeah, we can put like a UV rated polycarbonate panel on the door. Yeah.

Help.

JOSHUA And right now, it looks like it's a double pane door versus a single pane door. If you're going to bring it something for us to fall in love with, let us go back over there and take a picture with it similar to what it's here. But

I love what

it looks like.

We can definitely do Pun intended.

All right. Others? Commissioner Biederen?

SPEAKER So I love the design. I'm not in love with the location. I

don't

know who picked the location. I just don't see that many eyes on it. Listen, the bandshell needs a lot of work. I'm not I mean, it needs to be beautiful. I just don't see the amount of eyes that are gonna be seeing this that this kind of money and this kind of design and this kind of love should attract. So I think that it should have been in a more high profile area. And I just don't know if we discussed it here, because I don't remember that, the location. But how was the location picked? Did we have like five locations and vote on which one's the best? Or how did that come about?

Think what happened was that the Love mural came to us as something that we could do together with other cities that did it. And we, at the same time, were talking about the bandshell. And that's where the thought was to utilize the initiative of the LOVE program together with the bandshell. But to Commissioner Beederman's point, I think our board would probably like the idea of taking this LOVE mural and the colors and the design and going three sixty with it around the front of the bandshell as well. The sides and the front, whatever the arch and the columns.

I know we talked about doing the coral stone at the bottom of the front of the bandshell for purposes of the scuffing and everything. And the knee wall has done well with regards to it and remains clean, yet the front of the bandshell always remains scuffed. So what do you think about the idea of going all the way three sixty with it? Obviously, there's the airplane image on the inside, which will remain. But what do you

think if

we I'm take open for discussion. I just confused the limited visibility of

I I agree about that.

The east profile.

Not too many people are looking at it from the ocean side.

Unless you're on a cruise ship.

But let me open it up for more comment. Board member Shuham? Whoops. Let me do that again. Go ahead.

I was just going to say, I think it's beautiful. I think that to do something with that door is a great idea. We had a hotel with the mosaic. And where the mosaic ended I'll wait for Lisa. That's Okay. That's Okay, Liz.

I'm so sorry.

The hotel where we did a grant for Mosaic recently. Oh, the mosaic where we the hotel did a they had a grant, and they did a mosaic. I don't know if it's installed yet, but we approved a mosaic. In areas where the mosaic ended, they painted to match the mural.

Correct. Call it a bleed in It bleeds.

So is any of this that bleed? Or is the mosaic 100%, with the exception of the draw?

The bottom. The intention was to have the bleed on the bottom, the last bottom, like the foot. However, I do want to say that Mr. Adams, the artist as well as the mosaic artist, These are professionals. I mean, Mr. Adams is an internationally renowned artist. And I feel quite confident in saying that whatever he does is going to be exceptional, up to his standards.

So Would

this be glass or

It's glass. These are glass. The mosaic artist will be using glass tiles.

Okay.

And the bleed right now, the plan is for the bleed to be on the bottom. And of course, areas that are not easily mosaic ed, or that could sustain damage, like the stairs, where we're not going to mosaic. We're painting that, especially the shape and everything. We're just planning on painting that So as

just another comment is, with respect to that door, then I would defer to the artist and see what material they would recommend on

that JULIE can make suggestions, as the very good suggestions made here today.

And then my only other question is with respect to the remainder of the band shell. I didn't hear whether it was going to be painted or not painted a different color.

We shouldn't let this opportunity pass by and not address

this front. Susan I mean, there's so many great colors in this mural that could be carried out. But I know Margaritaville, they just painted it, right? So my question is, it looks like that's the color above the mural here. But what are your thoughts, Susan?

Actually, Susan, would you mind if I jump in? Because Mr. Adams actually mentioned that. And he had said, you know, the painted area, clearly he wants it to match whatever's on the front. So he did mention that. But Susan, I apologize.

So the bandshell was painted recently. It's a fairly dull bluish gray with yellow columns. This particular rendering is showing a much more bright blue which I think given the fact that there's not going to be that much left to this between the sides and the sides of the stage, I think if we didn't want to do that in mosaic, we should definitely pick the same colors he has here and bring them around because they're much more vibrant than the more neutral neutral colors colors that that the the bandshell band has till today. But adding this on the back, I mean, I think it's a good recommendation by the board to bring these vibrant colors around. If there's an opportunity to do some of those sections in mosaic and bring like strands of those around, I think that would make it exciting and interesting and definitely something we could suggest to the artist.

I absolutely support that. If there's a way to continue like these Palm Beach mosaics on the front two panels, that would be awesome.

And even on the on the roof line where the sign is Yeah. Not the soffit, but, you know

Similar to Billy's. The fascia.

Yeah.

That's what I'm saying. I would it doesn't have to totally mosaic, but I think that

But why not? If it's preferable to have a mosaic on the on the on the stage side, the front side, then let's go all the way. I mean, this is like

Perfect opportunity.

It'll last forever, and it'll look amazing.

We'll save painting money.

Bring the sunset. The sun will shine on the tile and actually, like, maybe glitter a little bit.

Yeah. The in talking to the mosaic artist, and you can see the materials that were used on Billy's, a lot of the glass, it's vitreous glass. And he's able to get iridescent vitreous glass, which is really cool because, exactly like you said, with the sun shining on it, it really becomes alive.

So I completely support that. And Susan, I'm wondering if just a very ballpark, ballpark figure to try to extend a couple of these panels to the front. I mean, what's the wild ballpark range?

I know that for this elevation here on the 700 square foot, I think it was about $50,000

We negotiated with the mosaic artist $50,000 However, I do want to point out that the artwork is owned by the artist. And so we can't take his work and duplicate it. So he would also be involved in the design. And so it's going to require time and money to do this. Put it simply.

For me personally, like, do it. Yeah.

All the way.

All the way.

Let's go ahead to other board members. Vice Chair Quintana?

Well, was exactly my question. If we start to add to what the design is that's being presented to us, I'd want to know what the additional cost would be before we committed to doing anything different. I love the idea of being able to match the colors on the front, But that's exactly what I was thinking is, you know, given that this artist has such an international reputation and all of his past experience with corporate clients, I was kind of thinking that it would end up costing us significantly more if we start to really change the front to incorporate his art. And I have a little bit of a concern about that. And then, I mean, just to put it on the record, I love it that this is an international artist.

It'll probably attract attention from people who otherwise might not go to the back of the stage. But I'm always big on let's support our local artists whenever there's an opportunity. And so just want to put that out there that whenever it's possible for me, I get excited about supporting the talent that's local. So that's all I wanted

to Thank you. Board member Kolari. Let's do that again. Go ahead.

You thought I would know this by now. So I love the design. I love that they chose the city of Hollywood to come and put this meaningful mural along with other cities. So while I support local artists 100%, this artist, world renowned, has chosen Hollywood, which is super exciting. So my only suggestion and I don't know how it would look, but maybe you can bring back they chose us, but we jumped on board with them.

My suggestion I guess it's all in the eyes of the beholder. But this becomes and we were just kind of like under our breath talking like a seek and find, a scavenger hunt type of situation where you take a selfie and we've talked about this throughout all the other cities It may be a little challenging for some to find because it's on the backside. But my question would be, instead of carrying it forward I don't know how it would look, and I don't know you all's suggestion but if you could take that love that seems to be the generic form of love, I think, through all of them. Isn't it that kind of similar to others?

He uses different fonts. Each one is unique. But yes, you can tell they're all related.

So just thinking out of the box, if you could take that love and on that knee board that's on the bottom of the band shell, instead of bringing the mosaic, you bring that same love at the bottom so that it's in the front and it's in the back. So then it gives you really notoriety and you could see it everywhere. Just food for thought. Like if we're putting it out there and we're going to invest, if you could just take the love that's on the back and put it on the bottom of that. I don't know how it would look with the mural that's already there and so forth and so on. But I think that that way, it kind of serves its purpose for visibility, but also gives an opportunity for people to go back and see the wow.

That's another idea. Susan, just in that regard of the bottom footer of the front of the band shell, did you already order the coral stone facade or no?

I have to coordinate with Public Works. I had met them out there several months ago. We did some measurements to figure out how to fasten it because there's a lip on the stage. But I couldn't find it.

So you haven't yet ordered it?

Well, no. We coordinated it.

I don't know if it was ordered.

Alright. Well, to the point of whether it would be that, you know, you know, concrete, you know, coral look or additional mosaic pursuant to the idea, then just, you know, think about that with the artists, designers, the people who know, etcetera, the scuff and all that. And, you know, I trust you'll be able to decide what's the best for the front and bottom. But certainly, it could be artwork as well, just like board member Clari said. All right. Board Member Hernandez, then Biederman.

Thank you, Mayor. One of the things sorry, I'm so detail oriented that I've noticed is there's no light for this. Is there any way that we can have some solar lights down lighting the venue in order for it to be accessible to people that want to take a picture. Because in the early morning with the sunrise, this being glass, you're not going to be able to take such good pictures because of the reflection of the sun and the glass in the mosaic. So my point is, do we have any idea of trying to light this thing?

And if we do, can we do it with solar lights so that we don't tear into the band shell to try to bring the lights, if it's possible? If not, we can do it electric order to be able to have something that we can be proud of and be seen at night. I also like the idea of wrapping around. If you want to go with coral or the coral look, it's basically a keystone type look on the bottom. They can replicate those tiles with concrete and beige concrete cement. And they use baking soda in order to get that look. So we don't have to spend an economical amount of money to make it look as if it was coral. But if you want to spend the money and we have the money, we can spend the coral. And we can always have signage. Remember, we're talking about signage to be able to have mural in the back, wayfind.

So come look at our surprise. And then you have more people coming into the back. I can see a whole family taking a picture. And I can see an individual taking a picture standing on the stairs when it comes to this.

I like that.

With that purpose, I think this is a great idea. I love the design. And I was counting to see how many hearts you can find in that thing. There's quite a few hearts. Some of them are upside down, some of are sideways. But you can see hearts in that picture. So I like the design. Love to be able to bring it around the side. And I don't think that the money at this point is, as long as we waited, this is how we manage to prolong and prolong and prolong. I think at some point, I'd like for you to bring something back for us, if an agreement with the artist to be able to do something like that, and for us to be able to move.

But I don't know how the board feels about having some type of uplighting or downlighting on the mural so that they could be seen in Okay, well that was

So I don't know about up lighting because then you're looking at the glare of the light. But down light, it could be done with solar. The problem is that it has to be the amber light. It has to be all the way set in. But we could look to see where the possibility, the height would be to mount something to give it some illumination.

Well, you have the height right there. You have the height right there or you would have to bring it out and then bring it in. But if you do it in material that it's light in nature, whether it's fiberglass, whether it's aluminum or whether it's resin, that you can actually, it don't have to be big lights, big nice mirrors

On don't the soffit?

Yes, you can either do it on the soffit to bring it in. And it could be solar in nature with a low voltage so that it doesn't have a big glare when it comes to that. I just want to be able to have something to give it some kind of ambience during the evening.

I'd like the walkway too. It's supposed to you're supposed to ride your bike in the backside when there's a show. Yeah. And it probably is dark there. So probably wouldn't hurt for There's general lighting

a bunch of the little LED lights that they use on streets right now. Right. You can put in different colors. You we can highlight this. Right. The mural is great, but we are able to highlight everything else you have so that it has a night appeal.

I mean Susan, well, I would suggest, and board member, I'm sure, would agree, the artwork is the artwork. Don't complicate the project with a lighting that could be separate simultaneous. But don't hold back the artwork. I think that's not intended, right?

No, no. That's not the intent. My point is if we're talking about the design and what we want to see in the long run and you want this is going to last forever, If we cannot do it solar and you need to do it with pipes, I wouldn't want the artwork to be damaged or be compromised because of that. We can always run the pipes on the inside. But I just figure solar would be something that we could all agree on.

All right. Awesome. Let's go back to Bornevar Biederman, who stimulated this conversation of the front side and everything else.

Go ahead. It's hard to remember what everything looks like there. But I know that we, at one point, asked for concrete restoration along those stairs because the stairs were falling apart at one point. Has that all been done? I I hope we're going to make sure this is a solid rock building before we start to add a mosaic art project to it that we expect to last for one hundred years. That's a current picture?

Yes.

Okay. And the artist and the installer already inspected the whole building? Because I'm sure that they want to make sure that it's solid before they start work also.

The artist has been to the site. The mosaic artist has not been contracted because he has not seen the artwork as of yet. But I have been in communication with him for quite some time. And he is familiar with the site. He is an artist who has worked on the beach before.

I think what Boardman Rebiederman is referring to is the stucco, make sure the stucco is not hollow and that it's not going to fall. And I think it recently had a rehab program, so I think it was all reviewed. Susan, did they look at the walls and stucco and things, Margaritaville when they did the rehab or the city did?

They did restoration work. So the Mosaiyah artists will

go out They and CAROLINE appointed a hammer and kind of checked the stucco.

CAROLINE

Okay. And just to clarify on the funding. So it's $10,000 which is basically to the artist for his envision. And And then the $50,000 is basically for the installation. I mean, we call it a mosaic artist, but it's basically an installer, right?

Well,

No disrespect to his talents. Right. I'm just

Say Adams is the $10,000 is, quite frankly, a percentage of his fee that is offset by BFA. So his artwork, as you can imagine, is not inexpensive in his time as well. It's his intellectual property. So yes, the 50 at this time, it was $50,000 Now, the mosaic artist, he's not just a painter or somebody who slaps tiles down. He'll be working with the tiles, cutting the tiles, placing them.

And he will be working very closely with Mr. Adams to ensure that the color and the integrity of the artwork is maintained. So I understand what you're saying, but I think there's a little bit more to his trade.

I didn't want to take anything away from his talent. I understand. Wanted to be clear. The other question is and it's hard to remember again, but it's not just a west facing profile. It's the north and south. So is this covering the north and south so you can actually see it coming from the north or the south?

Or JULIE Well, those are covering panels two that do those angled panels on the right, the north and south side, they are angled. I think you'll be able to see something. But obviously, it depends on where you're standing or

And we have to carry it around, whatever the artist has to do to Right. Of

It's not only

JULIE Right.

The artist we can have conversation with Mr. Adams to make that modification and wrap it around. It will increase. I'm not really worried about, say, Adams. I'm not worried about anything, quite frankly, about this. But I do want to point out that the larger the mural, the mosaic between the labor, the time, the thought, and the product, that is where the price increase. That's where we're going to see. Because we really did negotiate what I believe to be a very good price. And the bigger this gets, the more expensive.

A landmark in our city. It has hundreds of people five days a week, sometimes over a thousand listening to music. The beach is the most attended place in the city. This is where the investment I think we're happy to make it and this is where we deserve to have. Honestly, the main highlight of the beach is this banjo. So let's go all the way. Let's go three sixty. It's what the board wants. And let's make it happen as quick as we can also.

As commissioner Caleri always says, go big or go home, which my last comment or question is not just to tap into the CRA funds for this whole thing, but we have an art fund, right? We have some money. Do we have money in the art fund at the city level?

I think very little right now. Who's talking about it?

Checked the amount, but it wasn't much there, yeah.

It was like under $10,000 last time they updated us.

Well, I mean, there's other developments that are coming along.

Yeah, yeah.

Think we've got plenty in the And

we could always get BFA to pay more.

We'll incorporate all the ideas and bring you back a package, including cost and design and logistics. But

if we're going to do it, we might as well do it right. So it's gonna last a hundred years. And maybe he can incorporate that 100 logo into it so that when people look back twenty five years, it's kind of dated so that we know how, you know

Alright. Board member Gruber.

I love it. I like all the ideas of bringing it around. My only issue, and I agree with Commissioner Beeterman, is that everybody sitting in front of this piece of art is gonna be sitting with their backs facing it because those are the people on the beach. So that bothers me a little bit. Is it not possible to put it somewhere else, like Garfield Street? Did we look at other locations? And I get it. This is the highlight of our broad walk, the band shell. But to know that it's going on the back of it where the people that are in front of it are sitting on the beach facing the ocean instead of this, You know? That's what's giving me a little bit of heartache.

Did we explore other places? Is this sized just for this? Can it be sized for something else? Like, I'm not I can't picture what's on Garfield Street, but maybe some of the sides of those paddleball courts. I'm just thinking out loud before we kind of give the Okay on this, that this would be the best location on the beach for it, because the people in front of it are going to be having their back to it.

Right. Well, you do have to leave the beach and walk towards it, too. But

Right. So when the people will see it, is the people who are coming to the beach leaving?

Well Right. We did. We looked at all different locations. We looked at many of the murals are on private property. We looked on private locations. We looked at publicly held locations. And we believe that this was the best location.

Let me just try to help and say that while this might not be, you know, enjoy the visibility of all the millions of people who walk the Broadwalk every day, doesn't mean we can't do a mural somewhere else that's in other locations. Let's not hold back on this. Let's do the Van Chel right. I think when people walk on the shoreline, they'll be able to see this. It'll be really cool. It'll be there forever. And let's do more murals elsewhere.

No, and I agree with that. Just because of the location on the back there, I was just thinking, you know, because we didn't see any alternative locations, so I was just wondering if those were explored and what they were or whatever. But no, I love it. I love the idea of wrapping it around so people get the theme and then they can walk back and see it. That's just my only disappointment is that more people won't be able to see when there's so many people there. You know? That's it. But no, I'm all for it. Thank you.

All right. Let's go to Board Member Kalari, and then we'll close with Board Member Quintana. Vice Chair.

So after Commissioner Gruber's comments about the I loved that we talked about the band shell. And now thinking out of the box, is there a better location that there is more visibility to some extent? This is such an amazing piece of work that I think maybe there are other areas that might be more visible or more prominent. But with that being said, number so I did get a text message asking, because we have the bike path going behind the concerts and that area gets pretty congested, and then you're going to have people taking selfies, What would we do for bike? I feel like it's gonna create a congestion possibly.

So I don't know if there's if I look at the picture properly, maybe the old, the one without the mural, it looks like there's a greater band and then a part where they would be able yeah. So it seems like there's enough room. Okay, perfect. And then my can you go back to the mural? So just curiosity where it says Florida's Hollywood. Can it be changed? Is that stuck? I think it should be the city of Hollywood, Florida. Like, that's how we I don't know. If Florida's Hollywood, I don't know how everyone feels about it. But I see that it's like, Okay, Florida's Hollywood, which we know. But I don't know. Do you think that the city is city of Hollywood? Or I don't know how everybody feels about it. Just curiosity.

City of Hollywood.

Or do like Florida's Hollywood? Or our logo on there. Yeah. That would be cool.

Or Hollywood Beach, Florida. I mean, Hollywood Beach, Florida.

This makes it look like Hollywood is the prominent thing. Mhmm. Florida is Hollywood, meaning that there was another Hollywood somewhere else and we have to hire Right. Ours. I like the one that will prominate ourselves. My my

Which is would be what? Hollywood Beach? Or

Hollywood Beach.

Hollywood Beach, Florida? Just the geographical, hey, this is where it is, Hollywood Beach, Florida?

Mhmm.

So take that back, Lisa, Hollywood Beach, Florida.

Okay. That's that's an easy one.

Yeah.

Yep. All right. That's good. Vice Chair Quintana?

I just wanted to support Commissioner Biederman's comments about the structural integrity. I mean, I thought at some point we kind of said that we wanted to focus CRA resources on resilience and that that was the priority. And so certainly, this is a beautiful piece of art. I think it's going to be wonderful. But just making sure that the building will be there as long as the mosaic.

And I think that should be a priority. And so I also just, I don't remember us seeing options for location. Maybe it came to us, but I just don't remember having a conversation. Forgive me, I'm entering that phase where I forget things. So I'll go with what the majority thinks of, but I just would have liked to maybe think about where else it could go.

I think the mayor's idea that we could have things related in other pieces of art in other parts of the beach it doesn't have to be, say, Adams artwork I like what you said about that. But I like Florida's Hollywood because a lot of times people don't know that we are not Hollywood, California. So it kind of makes that distinction with just less words. So I actually thought that that wasn't a bad way to do it. And that's my input. Thank you.

All right, Lisa. Well, and CRA staff, we've got a directive to go three sixty with the mural, design all the way around, decide whether or not the the bottom footer should be mosaic art or the the concrete recast similar to the knee wall, for purposes of maintenance and things. And and let's go all the way fast and let's not delay and let's let's make this happen as quickly as possible. If you have updated, you know, designs, bring them forward to the on regarding the front and let's just help. Even Susan, if for whatever reason you think from an execution standpoint, we would do the front and the the north and south separate from this project if that's, you know, the way it would work most efficiently from a procurementexecution standpoint, let's just make it happen and make it happen.

All right?

I just want clarification, if you don't mind. So we want to wrap the mural in some capacity, three sixty degrees. The knee wall is an opportunity to do so, and possibly bring it around in some capacity, not necessarily straight lines, but possibly feeling out around in a three sixty capacity, so that individuals who are standing on west, on the broad walk, will see some something, like not necessarily a completely wall of mosaic, or possibly, that will lead them to be curious and follow it around.

Art and color all the way around the building. Love stays here. We're not taking I mean, but I'm not the artist. But I just want the whole band shell to pop in these colors and artistic design. You guys get it. Susan, you get it. Right? Yeah.

I think the intent is to tell the artist that we want the front and sides of the building incorporated into the design and let him complete the design. And that would be executed with mosaic tile as well.

Yeah. And it doesn't necessarily mean that this backside changes an iota. It's just a matter of continuing doing the additional sections. Yeah. Got it.

Thank you.

Got it. Got it. Thanks. All right. Thank you so much. Excited. Excited. Was there any sense of timing on this, Susan? Lisa? I

do want to point out every time we do make a change, it does take time. We have to get in communication with the artist, say Adams, who is very much available to us. However, this is also a very busy man. So he will provide him with the photographs and the specifications. We have to go out and measure all the specs and send that to him and give him the directive. He will work on the design. And as an artist, I can't tell you how long that will take. He's been very easy to work with.

What would have been the timing for this exact item that we just saw?

How Like,

say it's good to go.

CHANCELLOR What was your expectation in terms of installation?

Oh, installation on this? If it was approved as is, I would take the design, send it to the mosaic artist today, and knock out a contract with him. And the intention was to have it in production in December. That was our intent at some

because we're not changing this.

That was with no change, no wrap arounds, no nothing. If we're depending on having additional modifications made, wrapping around, including mosaic with his design,

Hold on, George. We didn't change any of this design. There's no reason why we can't let the mosaic installer go with the existing design, get that December timetable going. In In the meantime, the artist looks at the size in the front. Hopefully, he can get to it quickly. If that has to follow the mosaic and is, you know, later in a second phase, I don't wanna hold back the first phase. Right? We don't wanna do that. So that's easy. Mean, name of the city is that's not a problem, right?

I'm not sure what we agreed upon, though, what you agreed upon.

Beach, Florida.

Hollywood Beach, Florida. And we'll keep it staggered as it is, Hollywood Beach on top, Florida on the bottom. Okay.

Yeah. All right. You guys get it. JAMES Yeah,

we'll back on that. Do we need a vote to make that happen?

JAMES We'll talk.

Well, we need to just have the agreement DAY: come in the next meeting and just go ahead.

JAMES We understand the intent. Yeah.

JAMES Great. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Lisa.

Thank you.

Alright. Item nine is a presentation by Susan Goldberg, deputy director of the CRA on the coastal resiliency phase for East West Street State Road A1A construction project, including update by Burkhart Construction on an update on the F dot pump participation construction by FJ Group. I guess, city manager, that's where you pointed out that we'll be talking about the resiliency. All right. Let's go ahead. Sarita.

Good morning, Mr. Chair, Vice Chair, Board Members. Sarita Shama, Senior Project Manager, Hollywood CRA. The CRA is very pleased to present a construction project status of the coastal resiliency phase four for both the East West and the State Road A1A segment. Adam Rosmell from Burkhart Construction is going to be making the presentation.

But I want to acknowledge Nick Fasullo, project manager for Burkhart Construction, and Mark Kleisley, vice president of Burkhart Construction. This presentation will be followed by an FDOT pump presentation. And this would be presented by Jesus Sarmiento from the FDOT department.

Thank you.

Okay.

Good morning, everyone. Adam Rossmell with Burkhart Construction, project manager for the phase four streetscape and underground improvements on the beach. So today, we're going to give a little presentation about what's been going on over there. As I'm sure you've heard and seen,

we have had a lot of

things going on also in conjunction and coordination with FDOT. Depending on the day, there's a whole lot of stuff going on A1A on the South Side between Hollywood Boulevard and Holly Mill Beach. So just an overall geographical area. This project encompasses from Hollywood Boulevard South all the way down to Magnolia Terrace. It's 17 streets and then the surface parking in Keating Park.

So storm drainage installation has actually been completed at this time on all the East West Streets. Just a little background on it. Each street originally had two catch basins kind of at the end right there at A1A. All the existing inlets and pipes were removed. We installed approximately four to six new inlets with drainage lines connecting to each.

And then a new tie in manhole was installed at A1A containing a Waypro check valve. The new manhole connects the side street system with the FDOT system on A1A. And then during the installation, we just noted, you know, we encountered conflicts with existing utilities and also dealt with all the wet conditions, high tide, groundwater, and all that kind of stuff. Here's some great photos of what some of the stuff we encountered out there. The far left photo is removal of the existing drain lines.

You can see what they used to look like. The kind of center left picture there is the utilities we had to go up and down and around. And then the third picture there is setting new manhole, mudding in our pipe, and then connecting with a concrete jacket to the FDOT drainage system. And then you see on the right there, those are some of the things we encountered while we were digging during the high tide events. This is one of the Waypro check valves actually being installed in our drain line.

So our drain line came out of our manhole, tied into the FDOT system, and then the Waypro check valve was on the city side of that. So at this time, again, our storm drainage installation is 100% completed and all of that work covered from Harrison all the way up to Hyacin Terrace. As part of this as well, we're relocating some of the fire hydrants on the street in coordination with the streetscape construction and also franchise utilities and all the other stuff. We just wanted to note that. Some of the hydrants have already been installed.

We're about 90% complete with those along the East West Streets. Here's just some photos of us doing our fire hydrant installation. The franchise utility conduit installation so this is for the undergrounding of all the franchise utilities. At the moment, the conduit installation is slightly ahead of where we thought we'd be at this moment. All of the East West conduits are about 90% complete.

We've already started out on A1A with the lighting and conduits along A1A. And as we're building the roads, the French our subcontractor, sorry, is tying in all those conduits to A1A. So and we've actually been in contact with Comcast and AT and T. Some of them are ready to actually start coming out and pulling cable and proofing some of the lines. So we're hoping that as we're moving along, we might be able to do some of that.

And then on the private property side, we've also been installing all the conduits on the private property as we've been going down each street as well. So a lot of that's been going, knock on wood, fairly well for this phase. And here's just some photos of us installing the franchise utilities. Some of those photos are out on A1A, East West conduit tie in there. And then when we drill through and pull back the big reel on the third photo, we attach all those and pull all those back all the way through the hole we've just drilled.

So again, we're out on A1A at the moment. And the East West drilling is, I think, mostly complete. Every now and then, have to redrill something. But for the most part, it's completed. Here's just some more photos of what those kind of conduit installation looks like.

And here's some of the franchise utility conduit installation onto private properties. On some of the properties, we're able to directional drill with a smaller machine and get all the way up next to the house without impacting, any of their items. And then we've had other areas where we have to remove sidewalk, put in our conduits, then restore sidewalk, or pavers, or grass, or whatever. And every time we go up, we coordinate with the property owner, make sure they know what our scope of work is going to be. Sometimes you can't even tell we were there after we put the pavers back, and now you just have a conduit, you know, sticking up on your wall.

Good. So

And then the other thing we've actually started doing as well, in coordination with the condominiums and some of

the commercial

properties, some vault work, which is just where all the FP and L equipment comes into their vault rooms in each of these buildings. We've been doing some of these outages during the down season so that when we actually switch over to the full underground system, the outage will only be thirty minutes or something. Or some buildings might not even be out at all. So we've been able to schedule a lot of these impacting them during high season. And that's been very successful coordinating with each condominium owner or property group.

Here's just some photos of the equipment that you see in those vault rooms. As you can tell, we take the photos outside and let the professionals stay inside because there's a lot of high voltage power coming in and out of those rooms. Streetscape construction. We finally started streetscape construction. So we started on Van Buren Street kinda August, early September, and then it immediately rained, I think, every day for, like, twenty days straight.

We've completed the sidewalks on both the north and south sides of Van Buren, and we just closed the road starting last week to actually start building the roadway. So right now, the roadway on Van Buren is under construction. We anticipate it's going to take four to five weeks, and then we'll reopen the road. Here's kind of what our streetscape construction looked like for curb installation and sidewalk installation on both the south and north sides. So again, the two sidewalks on Van Buren are completely open.

We're building the roadway right now. Again, here's just some photos of us starting the roadway demolition and grading. And then we do set up barriers everywhere to get in and out of the different businesses. Like on Van Buren, we have Sardelli's. We've been putting in a crosswalk every night so they can walk down the sidewalk, get to their parking lot, come across into the restaurant.

And we've been coordinating with them and all other property owners as far as parking, you know, where their customers can go, all that kind of stuff. As part of this, too, the private property harmonization takes place right after we finish our streetscape. Sometimes, if we can get done with it, we finished, like on Van Buren, we finished the north sidewalk, and we did some of the private property harmonization up there while we were building the south sidewalk. So we were able to do that. Again, the private property harmonization includes removing and replacing portions of sidewalks and driveways to ensure a smooth transition onto the new sidewalks.

And all areas are restored with like kind materials to match. So if they had concrete before, they get concrete. If there was pavers, we pick up all the pavers and relay them in a new grade. And so we've been coordinating with each property owner to review and approve those transitions as well. This was actually the property we did on Bamburin. So the photos on the left, We demoed it all out, graded it down to the new sidewalk elevation, and then re poured all new concrete along there, and then re tied in all the pavers. So just a little schedule. The Van Buren Roadway Streetscape is underway. We think that'll take approximately four weeks. After Van Buren, we're going to start working our way south, so the next street will be Virginia Street.

We anticipate to start that in the November. Directional drilling for franchise utilities along South Ocean Drive and A1A will continue. And the final utility tie ins will continue on the East West Streets. We are still on schedule, kind of what we laid out before, where each street takes about eight or nine weeks from sidewalk, sidewalk, and then roadway. And then we'll move on to the next one.

And then in conjunction with this, we've been coordinating we have a weekly coordination call with the FDOT pump contractor, pump station contractor, so that we can coordinate our MOTs and all that kind of stuff to make sure we don't have conflicting lane closures, shutdowns. So if they have a lane closed in the median, we make sure our lane is enclosed right next to them so that you whittle down A1A to one lane in a certain area. So we've been coordinating that as well, and we'll continue to do that. And then resident outreach most, if not all, of the businesses and property owners have my cell number or Nick's cell number, along with Melissa, the CRA's community liaison. So I think everyone talks to us and texts us multiple times now, so we're very in tune with everyone over there.

And so that continues, obviously, especially with all the work that we're doing. So we just continue that. And before we go on to individual properties, we make sure they understand our scope of work, what our tie in is, how far we're going back, and what to kind of expect, and also our schedule so that they know how long they're going to be impacted. And that was our update for phase four. So I'll take any questions.

Thank you. Let's go to board member Hernandez. Thank you, Mayor.

Adam, can we go to slide six, please?

Sure.

JOSHUA Was that the one with the storm drainage?

JOSHUA That's the one with the manhole?

JOSHUA Yes.

That one right there?

Yeah.

This is the in essence, it works as a backflow to make sure that the water doesn't go back into the street, correct? But you tie it into the existing DOT drainage system.

Yes.

Do they have the same thing at the outfall of this thing? Because otherwise, what happens is we don't allow the water the part that you guys done, but the water actually comes up, bubbles up through the manhole. And that goes to what Bob was talking about. Because then we're only doing we're doing everything on our end,

but

half of the job is being done. The other half of the job on the outflow is not being done. I just want to make sure that the board actually knows that. I'm answering, but I don't know if you

No, correct. So we don't actually know what's in their system on that time. Unlike the, let's say, intercoastal side, I can't answer that. We have witnessed what Bob has witnessed where our street isn't actually backing up. But if there's an inlet between, I know, like Georgia and Jefferson, the water finds its way over there and bubbles out of there and then floods onto Georgia and Jefferson. So I'm not I can't speak to the DOT

No, no, I know that.

But we've witnessed that same

thing. I just want for clarity for our Peter,

why don't we ask Vin or Chris O'Brien to speak on that? Okay.

Was going say DOT

CERF: DOT CERF:

think they're going to do their own presentation.

VINT Okay. So I just want to

make sure that us, for our purpose, that we know that what we're doing is basically trying to seal what we're installing. But from that point of installation where you actually tie into their system from there on, it's unknown. Yes. Maybe they can answer some of those questions. That's all. I just wanted you guys to see that this is looking it's a brand new one. It looks nice and round, and there's no issue. But whenever you have an older facility, if you would, it has a lot of kinks and corks and a lot of stuff that goes through there, it sometimes jams it as well. But that's thank you. That was my own question.

Problem.

All right. Board member Shuham.

Thank you, Chair. Well, same exact comment, that I just want people to understand these are two connecting systems. And really just wanted to say thank you. This is like literally hand to hand combat out there, for lack of a better term. But I know that the residents in the area deeply appreciate the commitment that Burkhart has made. And also Melissa is fantastic. And the idea that we have residents directly contacting our contractors, I would say it's not common. It is common.

JULIET We've dealt with it the whole time we've been here.

JULIET Yeah. So a simple really, just a simple thank you. This is very tedious, time consuming work. And you've done a great job. And look forward to hearing from FDOT to understand

The other side.

Why AIA why A1A is still flooding. So thanks.

Thank you. Appreciate that.

All right. Well, that's a great handoff to A1A. Thank you, Adam. Thank you. Let's go ahead and invite our folks from the Florida Department of Transportation and FJ Group.

Morning, everyone. Welcome. I'm Jesus Armiento. I'm the project manager for the A1A pump project. Let's wait for the presentation.

But before the presentation, I want to give a little bit of an overview of the projects for those that do not know. So right now, we're installing four pump stations as part of the infrastructure improvement of the DOT. These pumps are located in Sheridan Street, Franklin Street, Van Buren, and Bougainvillea. Those are the four locations that we have planned in this three year long project. Last time we spoke, we didn't we haven't started yet.

We started this project in June. And we have an estimated completion time of summer twenty twenty eight. That's the bottom line. So I just wanted to give a quick update of where we are right now. Right now, we're working at the Sheridan location and the Bougainvillea location.

Can you move the slide? Oh. So these are the two locations that we're currently working. Sheridan Street, we are doing a pump station there, but we're also building a seawall. So right now, the seawall construction is what is underway.

We started with the sheet piling about three weeks ago. And we plan on finishing that in the next two, three months. Right now we're finishing the sheet piling and then we have to do the bulkhead, the concrete bulkhead of the wall. After that, we will continue with inlet the installations and the pump construction. This is substantial excavation work that is going to be happening there.

But for the Sheridan location, we foresee any long full closures. For the Sheridan location, it will be about seventy two hours closure for the drainage crossings that we will be installing there. And also the Sheridan is one of the locations where we have incentive to have the contractor expedite the work and obviously have less traffic impacts for the public. For Bougainvillea, right now we're working on drainage inlets. As for traffic impacts, we have one lane in the southbound close and one lane on the northbound to be able to accommodate construction.

And we're basically installing the inlets that will feed the pump at that location. After that, we will continue with the pump installation and the alpha work. Those pictures are showing the traffic switches. I don't know if you guys are familiar with a traffic switch, but essentially that's we reconfigure the lanes that were there by removing the median to be able to accommodate construction but limit the impact to the traffic because we're not closing lanes. We're just reducing the width to be able to accommodate the construction.

So that's why we have those pictures there is to show you guys what we have. These are more pictures of the current activities. Sheridan, that's where they're building the sea wall. And then Bougainvillea is just, we're just installing the drainage, like I said, that will feed the pump. These are the future activities.

These are cutoff sections from the plants. At the bottom, left right, you can see that's how the pump looks like from the plan. This is not something that we're going to be able to see because this is mostly underground infrastructure. So yes, it's massive but it's all going to be underground. There's going to be barely anything above ground except for the electrical panel.

And that's it. That's the update.

All right. Mr. Sarmiento, you obviously are the project manager for the four pumps.

Right.

Is there anyone here from FDOT just in general so I know that can speak to the existing storm system and the issues there?

No. I don't have that information. I can find someone from Drainage Design that will

We'll invite our utilities department who's coordinating with them to speak But on I appreciate it. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't anyone else on a that could speak to the broader issue. But go ahead, Board Member Hernandez.

I think you just asked a question that I was going to ask. And if he's not familiar with it, he's not going to be able to answer that. But I think that one of the things that we need to communicate to them is that we would love to be able to have some answers. If those things are not in place, when are they going to be in place, and if there's any funding? Or can we go ahead and do that work and then be refunded by them? Those are the questions that we had a few months ago. And I know you guys are working on that. Just see if we can get an update

from Let's have this will ahead.

No, no. Was just going to say we will get those pieces put together and bring you back an information on the best way to get it done. Right.

Okay.

I can put you guys in contact with our district drainage engineer. He will be able to give everyone more light on the existing system that is out there because I was not involved in the installation or construction of that.

Thank you. Board member Shuham.

Thank you. I just want to thank FDOT. I know Jackie's here. She's doing a great job with community outreach and keeping everybody posted on what's happening. What is the completion date for each of the four pumps?

For each of the four pumps. So right now, we have only started

Two.

Two locations. We haven't really started the pump construction. We're basically building the infrastructure But to connect to the right now, we our rough plan because that can change is to finish these two locations in about a year, year and a half and then move on to Van Buren and Franklin locations, which will then take another year, year and a half to So it's a three year project overall.

For the Franklin Street, which is not in the CRA, but I thought some of the pre planning maybe this is for the city. There was some oh, that's what

it was.

There was some city work that had to be done.

Yes. There's some Watermere locations that are pending right now. But that's I mean, Franklin is at least a year, a year and a half away from us starting there.

So my only question is and the tides have been crazy. But yesterday, we had a lot of people at the community center, Bougainvillea. And there's a ton of water on A1A. And so my question is, is there something that you can do, whether it's temporary pumps or something that you can put out there over the next couple of months until this king tide season ends in December to keep A1A drier where you're working?

We have pumps where, I mean, therefore, dewatering for our excavation does I know that's not what you're asking. HUNTER: I can reach out to our asset maintenance to see

JOSE Please.

If we can provide some support during especially during king tide events.

Yes. Think just the combination of narrowing the lanes and the construction work that's going on there. The water, maybe in other years, we deal with it. But because there's so much happening right in that site, to try to keep some of that water off of the roadway would be extremely helpful.

I'll see what I can do. And I'll copy you on the correspondence, just so

Thank you. And Vin, if you could follow-up with them. It's not a good situation during the high tide right now. Thank you.

Thank you, Jesus. Let's go to Vice Chair Quintana.

You. Thank you, Chair. I just wanted to say to thank Burkhart for the way that they did their presentation. So often, the things that happen underground, we don't understand. The public doesn't understand what it is and its value. And so to actually take pictures of what's happening underground, I just think, FDOT, as you do your work, if you could also do that, because it really helps, I believe it certainly helps me understand what's happening, not being a mechanical person. But for the public to understand the value and why this is worth investing in, the pictures were great. I just want to thank you.

Okay. Thank you all. Executive director, could we hear from Vin regarding the beach situation. Obviously, the pilot project has, I think, accomplished three out of the four streets. How has that panned out in in utilities observation? And he's walking up. Yeah. And maybe give us an update from his perspective on

Yeah.

Or any other related matters going forward. Yep.

VINT Vin?

VINT Good morning. So I'll start with the pilot project, which is really a derivation of what you heard Burkhart was doing. And it's simply this. We can't control FDOT or the responsiveness. So we've established we're going to put way pros at the demarcation point between the FDOT utility and ours.

And to a point, it's working. So we've also, through the CRA, engaged engineering firms to go and do I and I studies of FDOT system to force the issue of how badly their system has deteriorated and the maintenance needs. I might suggest and I always see the frustration from the CRA and from the commission on the FDOT maintenance of their system, that we make arrangements to have certainly the maintenance person, Tony Castro, here. Because it's always you have James Poole here, and he's very knowledgeable about the capital design. But it always goes to the maintenance, which is Mr.

Tony Castro. And maybe even have the district secretary, Steve Braun, here so he can hear firsthand what the issues are. Because we've

I mean, more importantly from hearing from us, it's for them to observe what's happening on A1A and on

the beat.

Some of us are in touch with Steve Braun. If we just need to send him if you feel like he needs to be more alerted to what's going on here, then sending him videos of the circumstance is probably the most effective than even a meeting here where we describe I'd rather him see video or have a field visit. So if you need to pull f dot folks for a field visit, if you feel like they don't realize what's happening or you wanna demonstrate what it is. Tony Castro, the contractor that has, you know, a multi year agreement with them, I mean SPEAKER He talked to the He should be engaged. I don't know if that's he's F.

Dodd or he's the contractor. But know they hire a third party contractor to maintain the system. I mean, is that person on the ground during these king tide events and looking to clean drains that are clogged and actively trying to troubleshoot the situation?

I don't know his day to day activities. But he is the FDOT person responsible for tasking the third party contractor to maintain the system. He is the person that we give our I and I reports to. I mean, to say that, just picking up on Mr. Klickman's observations, he has a case where we put the WAPROs in. They are working. The water is finding other avenues to bubble up. And then the other, combining that with the field observations that I've shared with the city staff on the emergency chat

group,

the videos during King Tide. At a three foot to 3.2 foot tide, you could almost paddleboard from the East Side of A1A across right into the Intracoastal. So you need also, in addition to the Way Pros, you need the sea walls to keep the water out. Now, that said, let's talk about the pump stations that FDOT is constructing, and the other two that we have in design to kind of fill in the gaps. What will change with pump stations is, and project from FDOT can speak to this is when you have these two pump stations, my understanding of the new outfall rules are because we're looking at our own pump stations on the West Side Of The Intercoastal.

No more outfall pipes through seawalls. We have these sort of spillover structures that are elevated above the sea level, and the water comes up and over. And so there's no way for the water to come up and infiltrate like it's been doing. So when we get to that, at least with the FGOT pump stations, there's a wet well. I'm not sure if we're about to spill over structure, but there's a wet well.

And so NEC water coming in should stop at the wet well in the pump station or at the discharge of the pumps. So the combination of the installation of new pump stations, the eventual elimination and departure from Wapro valves and flap gates and other backflow preventers, and the installation of seawalls and of course, the pump stations will be of capacity that can compete with the incoming tide and the rain events, that confluence of all those solutions will ultimately solve it. But in the meantime, the meetings I've had with FDOT in the field, we've shown them where they've had contractor penetrations, conduits drilled through their storm water. They've acknowledged that they have a process where they contact the contractor that's done the damage, and they do a repair effort. And so we've been sharing that for them to institute their own utility repair procedure, where they reach out to the third party contractor, Comcast, AT and T, and say, look, you broke this pipe.

Have your contract come out and do a sectional repair or a liner to restore it. And that's, I think, a summation of all the efforts we've had to try to drive FDOT to better maintain their

So, Zinn, you mentioned that there's a new standard for what you would describe as the pump houses that need to have these spillover and be elevated and not through seawalls. Years ago, I had mentioned the idea of basically putting like a 90 degree extension on these outfalls out of the water so there's no chance for the water, even at high tide, to backflow in. But that would require a forcing out of rainwater. And whether that's a stop gap measure that would be only installed during king tide season or whatever. But my question is this.

You mentioned that the pump stations need to have the elevated outfall, forced outfall. But is that a new rule for all outfalls? Or like regular road drain outfalls can still be

So the elevated structure only works on the pump situation. Right? So the reason that all your outfalls are low and at the seawall at almost sea level

That's GREGORY gravity.

Gravity. It's all sloped, so everything's

GREGORY So

is gravity still allowed, or is gravity not allowed in that

Gravity GREGORY is still allowed. But what we're going for is a network to a pump station just to handle the and I don't think gravity will no longer work with the rising sea elevation. So we're building seawalls, obviously, five, six feet above the new level. So

But even with these four pump systems I'm sorry. Even with these four pump systems, not all the systems, the drainage systems, are going to connect to these four pumps, are they? No.

They're going to network All

of them are going to flow through these four pumps?

Have project management from FTOT to talk about how they're networked into the

pump Okay. Let's hear that. Jesus, please come on up. You want me to ask the question again? And maybe you know the answer to this. The four pumps that you're putting in, mainly the three that are in the between Sheridan and South Of Holly Boulevard. Are those pumps going to be connected to all of the street networks that are there?

We're connecting to the existing system. Yes. We're The

existing system, I understand, is like three blocks at a time.

Yes.

Three you know, every three blocks is a separate outfall.

Right. But we are We are connecting

The entire network

Yes.

To the pump systems?

Like, we we're building a network for the pump but we're also connecting into into the exit.

So once these pumps are activated, are they are we going to be able to abandon the existing outfalls? Because all the water is gonna flow through to your pump system which has a backflow in it?

That's that's a question for design. I I don't

You know, about Susan? Design. There GREGORY

are gaps in between the pumps. The pump, let's say, at Sherman Street, includes several streets. But then there's no other pump until Van Buren. And that's the

big My thing. Question is, are they going to connect to the Van Buren and to the Sherman Street pumps? Or the basins stay isolated still?

GREGORY The pumps are designed for each basin. And the basin is more than one street.

But not all the streets in between Sherman and Van Buren. In other words

No. There's only one pumping installed only at Sherman. So that's only handling

Yeah. Alright. Let's clarify, you know, which basins and which blocks Jesus and your pump system. If any are are not gonna be connected to your pump system, we wanna know which ones so we can come up with a solution for them.

I I mean, will have to see the plans for that. That's not something that

So please get that answer for us if you could. Okay. We just want to make sure that all the streets in this network, from Sherman to Van Buren to Bougainvillea, ideally, those would all flow through a pump system and have that, basically, that abandon the old gravity outfalls that are too low now. Right? If that's the case, then we don't have to put wave probes maybe in every single structure. Obviously, it'd

be better to have them.

Vin, do you have a recommendation at this point that the pilot program CERF: has proven itself and we should go ahead without waiting, put these in line way pros in every single street

No, I view this pilot, these way pros, as a stop gap measure. The ultimate solution I view is the pump stations. And just speaking to Mr. Klickman's point about interconnecting all the basins, we had CDM model that. It wasn't effective.

In fact, it caused problems because if you had a heavier flow in one area, you'd have, first of all, if you network them all, you'd have to build super pump stations which the land and the area and just the logistics of it doesn't exist. So you actually have more resilience by having smaller pump stations serving basins or a pair of basins so that you can if you have one pump station failure, it just doesn't pull down the whole network. But hydraulically connecting, interconnecting them actually could cause problems.

Okay. So smaller pump stations?

So that's where we're at. And so we have the four under construction. We have the two that the CRA initiated. It was a good catch. There was gaps. And so we're designing those two. And the plan for the beach is just to just continue

All So I think what would

pump stations for

the beach. Think what would be good for the CRA board to see is a full a map of all the streets, from Sherman all the way down to wherever the south limit is in your eyes. I mean, I would say city limits. And show us the F dot pump systems and which basins they address. Show us the CRA designed pump systems, which ones. And let's see if there's any gaps in any basins or streets that are not with the current six pump stations going to be addressed. And so if we need to start the work on additional pump stations, if you're saying pump stations are the solution, then let's see if there's any gaps. And then separately from that, do you recommend that we put the WAYPROs in on all the streets because all this stuff is going to take years?

It's correct. So we'll do what we can. Put the WAYPROs in to keep and maintain our side of the system. And we'll keep hitting FDOT on the lining and repair of their system.

DANIEL Even though you said the FDA system has issues, obviously, WAYPROs are handling a ton of the effort to reduce the water level and prevent how substantial it is.

And don't forget, it's a two part issue. It's not only the integrity of FDOT system. It's just the sheer fact that the tides are coming over land

In some cases.

To keep flowing.

In some cases, yeah.

To the mayor to the chair's point about future plans. I mean, I'm assuming when we're looking at the master plan, to the extent that CDM feels, or has determined, that the projects in the loop today are inadequate, that they've included work to address future conditions?

I can take a look at that. I think my recollection is that they had looked at FDOT had a plan. And their recommendation was to allow FDOT to continue with that plan, notwithstanding whatever the schedule was. The So DANIEL can you

I want to verify that. And so it ties to what the chair is asking, which is looking ahead, which is what CDM did in the master plan. They're looking ahead, knowing what's coming onto A1A, and just confirming that they're good, or here are the few projects that they believe

are I'm sure they know the plan shows what's needed. And then we can tie that together with what the schedule, what FDOT thinks they're going to build what's remaining. And one other thought to answer Commissioner Hernandez's question. The preliminary answer whether we can maintain FDOT system and get reimbursed is no. We've reached out and asked them and said, hey, we want to without an agreement in place and I think we've even conferred or moved in the city attorney on this Without having an agreement in advance, ability to grab money from FDOT after the fact is nil.

So that was my second part of my question was, with respect to the I and I information that you're sharing with FDOT, we had talked at a few meetings ago about the ability for our staff to direct their contractor. And that, I think, is the ILA that we were I was curious about. If there's an emergency situation, do we have the contacts at the FDOT maintenance company to make sure that we can get them out here?

I don't believe we have the authority to direct their contract. We have the FDOT contacts, such as Tony Castro. Fact, there was a video that was shared at one of the last rainstorms with federal highway flooding. And I shared that with Mr. Castro and Mr. Pool, and told them to look at the system to see if it was functioning properly.

I

think, city manager, they were here I don't know, it feels like six months ago, but maybe longer. And we talked about this idea of how best to take advantage of the maintenance contract that FDOT has on our city roads, or roads within our city. And I think it's unless you're completely satisfied with the current system, it seems like what I remember is they weren't that thrilled with the maintenance work. Nothing was being done in a prospective way. Everything was reactive.

Well,

it's true.

It's FDOT. It's their system. I don't know what the precedents would be to be able to write, essentially, a check out of FDOT's checkbook to have their contract to go fix their system. I don't think we would have that control.

Of course.

Maybe an ILA or something, maybe a piggyback with their contract, where we'll use our own funds. But certainly, we'd want in that ILA the ability to get reimbursed by using their contract with their unit prices, but directed by us. And I don't know what that would look like, but that's something

GREGORY

I

mean, it's really something we need to pursue. I mean, FDOT is huge. They have so much going on. For us, this is like it really has to be addressed

And more often. The final option maybe to look at is, as a city, as a municipality, if we don't feel we're being served by a state department GREENEZ:

very well, I don't know what

Legal remedies?

Litigation or whatever claims we could make to kind of compel them to better serve or serve to a standard our area.

Don't know. Right. I mean, that was kind of how we left it at that other meeting was the maintenance contractor needs to start doing maintenance. It can't all be reactive. And that was the discussion about an ILA looking at what their scope was. And personally, I would like you to pursue that with them. Maybe there's other cities that have come up with something. Obviously, we can't direct spending of FDOT funds. But maybe there is a way to allow the city to ensure that the maintenance obligations are being handled. And then, I guess Jackie, this one's for you.

What Vin is saying is that he is sharing with FDOT breaks in the system that need to be repaired. And that you guys are then reaching out to whoever's responsible to get them fixed. I would like a list of where each of those breaks are and what the status of the repair is. Can we get that from you? Okay.

You can get that from us.

Chuck, you can come up with a microphone if you want to respond.

Yes. Yeah.

On the record?

Yeah, sure. You're the PR person. Come on up.

Yes, we can do that.

Okay. So we would like that very promptly. Like, as you might imagine right now, these king tides used to be we would have a couple of days. But this is going to continue until December. And so I would like that very promptly. So if it takes some extra nudging from our staff to those contractors, we need to get that. So I would just like a list of everything you've received from the city and the status of the repair, if you could get that to us, like, within a week.

And you said from Van Buren to

I mean, for me, I would just do all of A1A. But we're at a CRA meeting. So that is basically Sheridan to Hallandale Beach.

And you're

talking about maintenance complaints?

I'm talking about what Vin is reporting. We have undertaken to examine the storm water sewer storm water lines under your road, which is your responsibility. But because we're having severe problems in the city, Vin has undertaken these investigations and has reported defects to FDOT. So I want a status report on each one that's been reported by the city to FDOT, who's responsible, and what the status of the repair is.

And you submitted those? Okay, if you could send them to me that way. Oh, sorry, if you could send them to me, that would be helpful so I can Right,

so they

who are you sending them to, Susan?

I mean, should make this request to Steve Braun, honestly, and not to Yeah.

Well, if it's

Let's send Steve an email with the same request, Borrimer Shuhem.

Okay. But Jackie JACKIE I mean, she's amazing. She can get it for us.

SUSAN I think Sarita's been coordinating with public utilities.

SUSAN I can try.

We can absolutely just send an email directly to you or directly to Steve. Not a problem.

We can copy everybody.

There's just a lot of cooks in the kitchen. Yes.

Wouldn't you know who's getting them? We should know by public works or CRA. Like, who's getting this email of you? So we have verification. So can we get a copy of that?

Want a catalog of what we have found and where they are with the repair. But this is on FDOT. Like, we've already expended funds and gone above and beyond what the municipal side should be doing. But that's Okay. We wanted to do that. And now the information is going to FDOT. And we need to know the status of these repairs.

And did Tony Castro ever get back to you?

No idea. Vin is sending it to him. But I am asking for the status and the timing of each of the repairs.

Okay. I can get I've never worked with Tony, so I can't really speak on where the status of these inquiries are. I can try and help. This is the first I'm hearing about this disconnect that seems to be happening. In all honesty, I'm sure Tony would be the first person you would want to contact just because I am not within that realm of maintenance. I work specifically with construction. So it would be kind of me going into someone else's house somewhat. He would be like, why are you asking? But I can do

Then to the mayor's point, we can just reach out to the secretary. That's the best way.

Executive director.

If I may, will on the communications, we will do that and copy everybody on the detail issues. But Vin and I will have direct contact with Mr. Braun, discuss the overriding issue, and then ask him to actually come here once prepped, and so that we can make sure all the pieces are fitting together.

Right. Just feel like we are already going above and beyond. Understood. And then FDOT now has to reach out to the slew of all different contractors. I just want a catalog somewhere so we can track the progress. Okay? All right. And let's see. Status. Vin? And I don't know, maybe this is Jesus. But do you know the status CERF: of the FDOT seawall

Off the top of my head, no. I just want to point out that quarterly, I've been sending, largely to the mayor and to you, Commissioner Schuham, a quarterly tracking report of all the FDOT projects, including at least not Not a sea by basin, but it says we completed this basin. We've

No, I love that.

We're also in the process of hiring I mean, we approved have position as a senior project manager to handle specifically the storm water on the beach and those projects.

Fantastic.

Well, as I

heard somebody asking about a Vactor. We're pulling money from the CRA under a to a vector to

Okay. All right. Thank you. Actually, Jesus, do you know the status of the Seawall project by any chance?

I do not. I mean, I can talk for the ones that we are doing.

We're That's what I mean, yours.

Yes. So that's what I said. We're building Sheridan is under construction right now. I believe the sheet piling is completed, which is the

All the way through?

Yeah, all the way through. Yeah. It's, I will say, about three four hundred feet.

So the water stopped now.

The sheet piling program was still going on yesterday when I went through them.

Yeah, me too.

They were still doing it.

Yes, they have about two days left.

Yes. So it's not going to

And is that the only location?

No, we have another one in Franklin, which we will start in about a year and a half.

But that's it? Nothing south of

No. Those are the two seawalls that we have under this project. If there are more, it will I mean, I'm not

How aware of how to come from many feet around Franklin? Do you know, roughly?

I will have to see the plans to give you an answer on that.

Gotcha. Because is there a way to accelerate that? Because we have the water running over. And if you could please see if you can mobilize the seawall work and not wait a year and a half to start that seawall work on the Franklin side, it would help us with the situation with the water running over the existing elevation of the wall or berm that's there.

That's something we can talk about. I don't know if the contractor is able to work at three locations at the same time. If that's something excuse that I will have me?

But you said Sherman is basically done two days?

No, no. The sheet piling? The sheet piling. That's the first step, basically. After that, they have to be cut. The bulkhead has to be built. They all fall. I mean

What I mean really

there is still work to be done there.

I mean, the sheet piling is what stops the water, right? So Sheet piling is the

metal that they do in order not to have road erosion. But it stops the water Right. In essence, but it's The wall. It's not a seal. It's a metal thing that does that.

Right. Right. I mean, if they can accelerate the

But that's something I mean, that is designed, is ordered. I don't know if the That's contractor seeing

it sooner.

So if you could look at that, that's what

I'm asking. We can look on that, yes.