City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening everyone and thank you for your patience. Uh welcome everybody. Thank you for coming to the um Halia City of Halia Council meeting of May 12th, 2026 at 5:42 p.m. I am calling this meeting to order. Madame clerk, please call the role. Mr. Zagby present. Mr. LaGa is absent. Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Morero, Miss G. Perez, Miss M. Perez is absent. And Mr. Rodriguez is absent. Mr. President, you have enough members to conduct business. Thank you. Uh invocation, Madame Clerk, please.

Lord, we ask for your continued blessing upon our city. We ask that you grant the members of this council wisdom and understanding in every decision they face. Amen. Thank you. I ask everyone to kindly rise for the pledge of allegiance, face the flag, and repeat after me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. Madame clerk, can you please read the meeting guidelines for tonight?

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Thank you, madam clerk. I don't see any presentations on the on the agenda. Correct. That's right, sir. Thank you. And number seven, item seven is comments and questions. Madame clerk, who's our first registered speaker except for Frank Deapas? I believe it says Angel Martinez. Angel Martinez. Come on up, sir. Thank you. Uh name and address for the record and you have up to three minutes. Thank you, sir.

Um thank you, council members. Thank you, um honorable city clerk and mayor office. Um, so I will be um addressing you guys uh respectfully. My name is Angel Martinez. I live at 6215 West 22nd Court um Halia, Florida 33016. Um, and I'm going to um this commentary is in English. It's about the DPR BPR uh um request commentary for the condo associations and condominiums. It's in Spanish, so I'm so sorry if I butcher this. I'm not attacking any council member. Um, the DPR, I'm not attacking the councils. Um, we're moving very fast. Um, uh, Brian, you're you're moving excellently fast and I appreciate your your amazing work and service and I appreciate the council members for trying to exact change, but sometimes we're just moving a little too quickly. So,

the condominiums is a lot of organizations and a lot of these are volunteer positions. So, we need to be just a little bit slower on how we go about doing this process. I I see it in my own neighborhood. I see it in my own association how a volunteer position like this could be done so hastily that we forget to imagine how we implement this on a grand scale. It's a lot of condo associations on the east and west. I'm just begging for us to like, you know, think about this and like be a little bit more expansive when we go about, you know, for the West and East Halia um cons consortium so that we actually are able to implement the changes that you want to go. Brian, you did amazing, excellent job, but you know, you just you're moving a little fast. That's my only commentary. I thank the city council and I thank uh Mayor Calvo uh for his excellent job.

Thank you, sir.

Thank you. And I just want Thank you. I just wanted to let you know on Monday, uh, May 18th, so this coming Monday, between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and and 2:00 p.m., we're going to be having some office hours related to condominiums as part of the broader, uh, condominium agenda. It's going to be on the fourth floor. Uh, it's by appointment only. The information for that is on the social media of the city and also my personal page. uh you can uh register there or you can call my office and we can register you uh to speak you know more of depth as to condominium issues and that's to you or to anyone that's interested uh like I said that's going to be Monday May 18th from the hours of 10:00 a.m. uh to 2 p.m. We'll be doing these uh every month but this is the uh second event. We had a much bigger event uh last month at Myander Center. So, we had over a thousand uh complaints with the condominiums. Understand that, you know, in large part we're trying to do as much as we can, but we're also obligated under state law, which we cannot ignore.

Um, and so we're we're trying to to walk that happy tight rope, which is it's a difficult line. It's a difficult line. We understand uh there's a lot of people that are hurting. We also understand that a lot of these buildings are very old and they do require um you know, the updates that are required under state law. So, we're doing the best we can. Again, if you want to have a more in-depth conversation, we're happy to do that. And that the best time to do that would be Monday, uh, during these office hours, 10:00 a.m. to 2 p.m. Okay. Thank you, Mayor Kell. Thank you. Thank you, council members. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Have a good night. Uh, next speaker, Madame Clerk. For the record, uh, Council Vice President and Council Member M. Perez are present.

Welcome. The next speaker is David Binger. Come on up, sir. Uh, name and address for the record, and you have up to three minutes.

My name is David Badinger. I'm known to some as the Alto Gringo. The address of one of my commercial properties is 1149 East 26th Street. My dad bought an industrial building for his manufacturing business back in 1970. Doing business in and with the city of Haley was much better back then. In my opinion right now, it is the worst I have ever experienced. I am here primarily on behalf of my tenants. As a management and efficiency expert based on my education and work experiences, we are forced to deal with chaos, massive in inefficiencies, and zero accountability. Last week's Herald art article suggested there would be cost cutting and improvements in efficiency. For decades, this has not been the case. The bar was set very low. The article mentioned prioritizing residents. That's a good thing. But you also need to prioritize non-residents, non-resident taxpayers. Back in the day, there was a Jonathan Martinez to help property owners navigate the chaos of Hyia. Last year, Mark Gomez became the director of the newly established office of business relations. Did it last even two months? Was it an impossible job or was it too sensical, too good an idea to remain? Many of my tenants have been not been denied occupational licenses. A tenant was denied and told a sprinkler system was required at a cost of $50,000 plus. It's just not viable. I have a marble and granite fabricator was told he had to build out a handicapped bathroom. He cannot hire handicapped personnel. I opened a water account for a tenant that was denied. When they moved out, I closed the account. I received my deposit funds 130 days later. The promise was 45 days. If I paid my water bill 85 days late, no doubt there would be interest in late fees. There was a traffic accident at an intersection

where one one of my buildings is for months. I called the police department to get the name of the detective assigned so I could contact the at faults insurance company. Transferred call to the detectives were unanswered. I was told multiple times no detective was assigned. I called the streets department two months ago. It rang and rang. No answer, no message could be left. Now the whip new whipping post is dumpster enclosures. Any senseless idea forced upon us so the city so the city may exercise, you know, their their their push for power and money. A dumpster enclosure takes away parking and access. It is not a one-sizefits-all. One of my tenants needed a survey. I gave him the one I had. It was denied by Hyelli because it was not less than 6 months old. Surveys rarely change. We do not pay for new surveys every 6 months. One of my oldest and dearest friends was the mayor of one of the largest cities in Florida. As a conservative, he was reelected in the city with 70 plus% Democrat registered voters. Why? Because he instituted policies that benefited all, not just a select few. A great nation needs great cities. Helia can be great. It has a long way to go. If you keep beating us up, no doubt there will be short-term and long-term consequences. My question to you is, does the Halyia City Commission have the wherewithal to fix the mess and to get the job done? Time will tell.

Thank you. Thank you, sir. Hold on to Sir. Sir, so Jonathan is here. Actually, you mentioned him. I don't know if you could stand up. Been a long, long time. So, he's he's working back in my office. Maybe you can connect with him. I'm sure he's more than available to try to address some of these issues head. Okay. Okay. Thank you for coming. We appreciate your comments. Thank you. Next um registered speaker, Madam Clerk. Barbara Canales. Come on up, Barbara. Name and address. Barbara, we know you, but just for the record, thank you.

Okay. I had to figure it out. Um, oh, the pictures. Oh, Barbara Canalis, 1681 West 68 Street 3014. Can you make it as like big big big

please? Thank you. Like huge the entire Oh, like one by one is fine. Thank you. up up like I wanted the picture itself to show not the letters. That's fine. That's perfect. Oh, sorry. Honorable Brian Calbo, mayor of Halia, please make my block pretty again. Number one, the lawless law, bring your work home, needs to be abolished, dismantled, deleted. The infamous Biggie Bakery has turned my block into a commercial parking lot. You can see it right there. Next picture, please. That's a utility van, service van. This is a commercial vehicle. Park on High Ali as well, right across the street of my house. Next picture, please. So, number two, turn West 16 Drive and West 68th Street into a three-way stop sign and install a no parking sign right across the street of my house. Just like that one. Next picture, please. Repeater offenders traffic. You see that's highly as well. Look at the traffic. Very tiny street. Next picture, please. Thank you. Look how they park. utility van, service van, cargo van. Well, it's a commercial vehicles parked on Hyali as well. You see the car behind it. The great utility van is parked right next to the canal. Next picture, please. And here we go. Beautiful. A dump truck really with another cargo van. Next picture, please. It's a hali as well. So number three, the previous administration stopped Hay Alia police officers to patrol Hay Alia as well.

Please reinstate them. Next picture, please. Thank you. You see that those two corners? Can you go back to the other one? I'm sorry. That one. You see that pickup truck parked right behind an two electrical boxes. And on April 13 of 2026, Monday morning, fatal car accident happened on Northwest 122nd Street and West 17 Court. A few feet away from these two corners. Traffic coming in and out, in and out. Three-way stop sign. The traffic coming from Northwest 122nd Street has the right away at all times, but they have to stop because of the traffic coming in and out from those two corners. Next, please. Thank you. Look, they even park reverse because it's hard to come in and out. Can you imagine then coming on that road? You have to hit the brake for let them go in or out. Next picture, please. Finally, that corner West 668 Street and 19 Court coming off the Palmetto. So, if you don't have a car accident on the Palmetto, you're going to have it right there on that corner. Seriously, bring your worker home. So please, the lawless law, bring your worker home needs to be deleted, dismantle, abolished. Please reinstate the police officers to patrol Hay Ali as well. And please don't forget the three-way stop sign and no parking sign right across the street of my house. Thank you.

Thank you, Barbara. Thank you, Barbara. And we are increasing the enforcement. Chief, I don't know if you can provide us an update on how that's looking.

Good evening, George Point, 555 East 8th Avenue. Uh so, uh yes, uh Mayor, like you said, we have increased our proactive uh enforcement, not just in regards to our traffic laws, but our uh parking laws in the city of Halia. Um, all of you uh, council members are constantly uh, calling our commanders and I appreciate it. Uh, my deputy chief in regards to any complaints that you receive. And the first thing I'd say to our community is if there's an issue in any area, please call us, let us know, and our officers will be directed to your areas to ensure uh, that we enforce all of our laws. to give you a uh a brief of the last two weeks of the enforcement that our department has performed. Um this is between calls for service, proactive actual police work. Uh they've issued 214 parking citations, 36 parking warnings. They've issued 240 commercial vehicle citations, 18 commercial vehicle warnings, 18 toes, and 116 referrals to our code enforcement unit. citywide. I think that's uh impressive. They're proactive. But again, what I ask is uh from our community, if you see something, say something. If there's an issue in your neighborhood, we're here to ensure that everybody's quality of life is what it should be. All right. So, uh thank you.

Let's see. That's non-emergency 3056872525. But chief, can you please let let the sector 4 commander know for afternoons at midnight because that still is a problem, that canal, I see it too, Barbara. They sneak by us. Like the chief said, we've been given hundreds of tickets, but I see it too, Barbara. I do. I do. I do. We're going to give it more attention and you deserve it. Okay. You're very welcome. I reached out, but the canal itself is extremely dirty. And they've been cleaning the canal. They have usually in Westport, but I'm not sure that one. No, this one is the problem is is 12 to 19.

Yeah. Yeah. Probably an insurance type of fraud or something. They dumped it in the canal. Yeah. Through through the chair. Yes, ma'am. Um, for this question is for streets. Wasn't there plans for us to do some sort of parking, legal parking there, Jose? Was there ever anything? I I thought that's because we've had so many complaints of that area. We I know we've done cleanups there and then the next day it's back to So, I'm just curious, was there anything set for there to be legal parking?

Yeah, good evening. Jose Sanchez, the director of the streets division, 956 Street. We have a conceptual plan for for that area. However, it's not funded yet. Um, we've gotten some requests from some members there on that area for no parking, some for parking. So, it's been uh a mixed mostly they want parking, but right now all we have is a conceptual design for parallel parking on one side and uh on the other side it's uh angled parking, but at this time it's not funded yet. We're okay. We're trying to seek funding for it. Yes, you could come up, Barbara, because we need to for the record have it recorded.

So, it is true. And previously, Carlos Cernandez trying to do that. We collected I collected with others neighbors s signatures. No parking. We don't want parking. When the previous mayor Bobo was here, I collected again door by door down the two boxes and I still had the signatures. We do not want parking because officially it's like the brand new law officially. It's

you see trucks park all over the place all over Halia. Let let's not even get into boat. Okay, you see first see the boats or the trucks and then you see the ten houses or the houses. So if we make that permanently officially a parking a lot like you the city of Hali is planning to do it's going to be worst. I got you

worst. So I have the signatures. My neighbors don't want to come here because they're afraid of their other neighbors. Well, not really. It's that permanent building. I'm not. My car has been vandalized three times. I'm coming. I'm here. I don't care. It's because of this what I'm doing. I have no enemies ever in my life. I work, go to work, go to home, go to my house. When I was in college, college house, never had an enemy. Since I retired fighting for this cause, I' been my car has been vandalized and my neighbors warned me, don't do that. because something bad is going to happen and it has and it's not but I'm not going to stop. I asked my neighbors to come up because I told them it's easy to give me a signature. You have to come up here but they are afraid. Most of them are senior citizens.

It's okay. Your your voice is enough. Did you Did you have any questions for her? Anybody else? Thank you again, Barbara. Uh okay. But in the meantime till we figure out what we're going to do with this, we need to enforce the commercial vehicles there for sure. And that we can do. The commercial vehicles, if there were little cars parked there, just regular passenger cars, wouldn't be that bad for now. But yeah, the commercial vehicles are unacceptable there. I agree. I agree. Uh, thank you. Next registered speaker, Madam Clerk, Jose Azie. Hello, Jose. Name and address for the record, please.

Good evening. Jose Ali 788 Southeast Park Drive. I want to talk about the Gullet Park, the renovating Glet Park, but I want to give a little history of Glet Park first. The park opened in 1982. I came from Cuba in 81 and all that was cow pastures. I worked in Goodlet when they opened up the park, the theater and and the tennis court. There was no basketball court. There was no field and the track was done later on. Mango Hill, the developer under they donated that land. That's just my first point. Maybe the developers that are doing all this, they need to help out our parks and rec because they're making millions and they need to contribute like Mango Hill like we used to require them for you. You haven't stopped the start of the clock, miss I don't want to take up the time. Thank you.

Thank you, Jose.

Yes. So, so like developers, I think they contribute more that that that uh theater is a children's theater. It's a community center. I've talked before about the Department of Cultural Affairs. They give $200 million per year for grants. One of the grants is they they revitalize community theater of community theaters. In the last 20 years, we haven't even applied for that grant. That's a million-dollar grant. We haven't even applied for the cultural arts department. It's always based on grants. You have these night foundation, all these foundation, they give money. Cities don't spend their money on cultural affairs. It's all donated. We don't even have a cult culture affairs director. We have a regular park manager within the field of parks and recreation. That's a specialized position. You can't have someone in recreation. That's a specialized position just like therapeutics recreation specialized. So I think the first thing we need to do is but we don't have the money to even put it out. So the second thing we do to do Brian I I'm not advising you're the man but you decide. But but I think we shouldn't spend the money on yet develop fixing this unless you have the money coming from another area. I think we need to hire a grant writer. The the last good grand writer we had was Ken Solar and Parks and Recreation. Now they don't have a qualified grant writers. We could easily get millions, especially because we're low income. Man, we could get there's so much money. I've talked to four of you returning. I've given you copies of of the $200 million county CBO grants that have been on the board highly and then apply the $200 million cultural affairs. Even companies like CVS, they donate $200 million to low-income communities. So we could apply for grants that lo the other communities can't and we're not even doing that but we don't have grant writers. So this what what Carlos Hernandez and what Bovo did we have to go back and be open-minded. Let's do

what I want to use Opalaka as an example. We we used the economic downturn 20 years ago. Why we closed our parks, why we closed the pool. Opalaka did not close any parks, any pools. And I'm going to compare their summer program to our summer program. Opaalaka has more poverty than Hyalia. They have 17,000 residents. In 1995, Governor Rick Scott took over Opalaka. It was an emergency, financial emergency. How did Opaaka recover and we still haven't? You know how how did Opaaka didn't close any pools? Okalopa didn't close any park. They didn't get rid of the programs. They didn't bring these private companies. Later on, I'm going to just talk about the pools. What the the program at Manda Park, Maranga Park is our prestige park. They charge $2,000 per season. It's all West End Dorado and we have enough recreation facilities. We have good lit. Good lit was supposed to be a culture arts center of the south. I showed a video of the culture art center of the north of the south and so we have enough facility. We have Wild Park that has a little theater. Wild Park has a dance rooms. We need grants. We need staff and we need a cultural affairs director. That's a specialty. Thank you. Thank you. Point taken, sir. Anyone? Thank you, Jose. And any other registered speaker, Madam Clerk?

Marlene Kario. Ma'am, name and address for the record, and you have up to three minutes. Okay. Marlene Kio, 773 East 23rd Street.

Okay. Um, good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Marlene Kerio, and this is Nola Cario. And I'm here today because I have spent years in litigation over this property, spent tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees and repairs, successfully obtained a partition through the court process, and now that I am finally trying to resolve the property issues legally and properly, I still cannot obtain the permits necessary to correct the violations. I want the record to reflect that I am not avoiding compliance. I am trying to comply. For years, this property has been tied up in court proceedings, financial hardship, and legal disputes. After finally obtaining legal rights through a partition process, my goal has been to bring the property into compliance, improve it responsibly, and resolve all outstanding issues with the city. Instead, I have encountered repeated delays, changing comments, unclear direction, and a permitting process that feels impossible to navigate. I've hired professionals. I submitted plans. I've responded to comments. I paid fees. I follow the process. Yet, despite making a good faith effort, I continue to face obstacles that prevent me from resolving the violations. This puts residents like me in an impossible position. The city expects violations to be corrected. But when permits are delayed or continually pushed back, property owners are left trapped financially, legally, and emotionally. Every additional delay costs money. Every correction cycle delays compliance further. And after years of litigation and tens of thousands of dollars already spent, these delays become devastating. I respect the importance of building codes and safety requirements. I support enforcement when it is fair and consistent. But there must also be accountability within the permitting system. So residents who are generally trying to fix problems are not treated like they are the problem themselves. I am respectfully asking the council to look into excessive permitting delays tied to violations, repeated or consistent review comments, lack of

coordination between departments, and overall impact these delays have on residents trying to comply in good faith. At some points, the process should help residents reach compliance instead of preventing it. I am simply asking for a fair opportunity to resolve these issues and move forward after years of litigation, financial burden, and effort to do things the right way. Thank you for your time. Thank you.

Thank you, Camila. Camila's from my office. She works in constituent services. If you can just get with her, you can give her all the information. We can try to help you as best we can. Okay. Okay. And that goes for anyone, you know, going through an issue, we have the constituent services office, which is fully operational right now. We have several case managers. Um, so if any council member, anybody watching this, anybody from the audience, um, you can direct those concerns there and they're they're trained in the different department so they can try to speed up as much as possible. Okay. All right. Thank you for coming. Thank you for bringing that to our attention. Thank you. Any other registered speaker, man? No, sir.

Is there anyone in the audience that hasn't registered? I can get Didn't I specifically exempt you from this? Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Frank de Laas, 11,000 Southwest 104 Street, Mama, Florida. Uh, I'm just going to make a c a short comment as to the issues that we presented on the last council meeting. We were able to download the plans. Not a easy task, but we were able to accomplish it. And why is not an easy task?

Very simple. You have to know that you have to look for the plans on uh on the vendor's web page and then you have to have an account and you know it's not like you go to public work and find the plans there. They're in another you know they're on the on the web page where the people

uh do the contracts. But it's okay. We got the the plans. We made them big. We have meetings. We look at it. Uh we appreciate what's being done. Uh we are not objecting to what's being done. We just wish that we had been involved earlier because the only thing that we don't like is the black olive trees that are going to remain and that you all going to try to save them where maybe a couple of years ago we will have been able to raise some funds and it's not the first time that I have donated trees to the city and we would have had changed them from black olives to the Spanish topple or something that it will be nicer because the way the plants are, the black olives are going to be next to sidewalks and they're old and they're going to be there and it's going to be eventually messy. But we can live with what is being proposed. So, we have no objection except that it's too late to remove the black olives and change it for some other trees because the plants call for the size of the canopy and so forth and so on. So, that's the only comment. I uh I did receive uh a call from uh the street department asking us if we needed anything else. So to that effect, we all satisfy and uh let's hope for the better when the project gets built. Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you Frankie. Any anyone else in the audience or No. Okay, I guess we're moving on. Uh, board appointments. Oh, no. I'm sorry. Announcements and amendments to the agenda. M.

Since then, item 10N has been added to the agenda. Zoning item 15A is withdrawn by the applicant. Zoning item 15F is postponed until the city council meeting of June 23rd, 2026. and zoning items 15B and 15 C are postponed until the city council meeting of May 26. Thank you. Uh item nine, board appointments, Madame Clerk, proposed resolution appointing Andrea Ramos to the Cultural Affairs Committee as Mayor Brian Cowbell's appointment for a two-year term beginning on May 12th, 2026 and ending on May 11th, 2028.

Mayor, um yes, Andrea's right here. She's has 23 years of experience in public service, community engagement, and cultural programming, currently serving as the director of government and community relations at FIU and spent nearly two decades uh with the city of North Miami Parks and Rex Department. Uh so her experience and dedication uh would make her a great addition to the cultural affairs board. Uh thank you. Thank you for serving. Thank you. Thank you, Andrea. Let's just complete the formalities. Um motion from council vice president Melinda de la second from councilwoman Jayen Perez. Madame clerk please call the role. Mr. Morero? Yes. Miss G. Perez? Yes. Miss Dega? Yes.

Miss M. Perez? Yes. Mr. Zagby? Yes. Mr. Gonzalez. Motion carries. The item is approved. Thank you and congratulations. Thank you. Um consent agenda item 12. Is there anyone on the dis that would like to pull any of the any part of the consent agenda? Um go ahead Jose. I I would like to pull F resolution by the education and parks and recreation department the the contract to edge above academy. Okay. F.

Okay. Jose Azie pulled F. Otherwise, for the remainder of the consent agenda, pleasure of the council. Second. Uh mo first motion from Councilman Luis Gonzalez, second from Councilman William Maro. Madame clerk, please call the role. Miss G. Perez, Miss Dega, yes. Miss M. Perez, yes. Mr. Zagy, yes. Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Morero, yes.

Motion carries. The consent agenda has passed, except item F. Thank you. Madame Clerk, can you please read item F into the record? proposed resolution to wave competitive bidding and authorize the mayor or his designate and the city clerk as a testing witness on behalf of the city to execute a master services agreement with Edge Above Academy LLC to provide enrichment classes for the city of Halia parks and community engagement department education and community services division and approving the expenditure for reference services in a total commumulative amount of $29,2775 and in substantial conformity with the agreement attached here 2 and made a part hereof as exhibit A and authorizing the mayor designate to sign any related and customary documents to effectuate this resolution and providing for an effective date.

Sir Jose Ali 788 Park Drive. Yeah, this is a perfect example what happens when we don't have qualified uh recreation managers where this is a service like arts and craft archery that we used to have in all the parks because to be a a center director a park manager you had to like work hard and then when you got to that level you could you could teach you could promote you could educate we we didn't contract these service because we would do it now we have 18 year olds right as park managers where I'm going to give you example when When I worked in Myander, we had a hundred from the clap program of the education because we get that money from the children's trust fund. They have a lot of money, right? So we we've but we've gutted the education staff so much we don't have grant writers. We we we're getting like half or much less from the children's trust fund. I don't know how many millions have they have like astronomical amount. We pay special tax to the children's trust fund. So before every park, every single park, 15 parks in Halia provided archery, arts and crafts, summer, we had sports in all the park. Now we're only offering sports in two parks, right? This whole gutting of of of the staff requirement. I'm going to give you one example. In in 1982, I said I worked at as at the recreation leader at Goodlet Park. A lot of you know know Marty Gaparo from Prestige Builders. We were recreation leaders, right? When you had were a recreation leader, you had to work three years as a part-timer, three years an assistant director, and then three years to be a director of a small park and we had college degrees. You couldn't even take tests if you didn't have college degrees. When I was a director of Cotson, Marty was the director of Oakwin. I remember him telling me, "I'm going to go work with my dad because my dad is in real estate." And I thought he was crazy because at that time, our department to make this to a director, it was very prestigious. We had prestige all over the county at FIU in Florida Parks and Recreation. and the plan of Carlos Hernandez where he couldn't

adjust to the when we had the economic downfall he didn't reach out for the county money for the state money for grants and we kept gutting the position lessening the requirement lessening the requirement and now the requirement to be a park manager is one GED a GE degree and one year experience and the education department I hope you look back Sher does a great job and Willy do does a great job too I don't know how they do it when you guys I'm I'm sorry when you counsel When you visit Babcock Park, that's an amazing project. Not because it's amazing, but because they barely have any staff, like management staff, administration staff. There's a lot of stuff to do for a grant. The the children's trust fund requires a lot of paperwork and you need the administrative staff. This we could have easily got a grant for save that money. I would definitely save money. I wouldn't I would not approve this. Save this money. get grant writers. What we need is grant writers and all this. This is the only way. We don't have money in the budget. I'm going to talk about that. We don't have money in the budget for recreation. We don't have money. We barely have money. But through grants, we need to reach out and change our thinking. Thank you.

Thank you. Point taken. This is better than nothing right now though. That's that's the the situation. And um pleasure of the council. Thank you for your comments, Jose. Pleasure of the council. On item F. Did you say um motion? Are you hungry today? Thank you. You're Yeah, you're in a hurry. I love it. Anyhow, motion from Councilman Luis Gonzalez, second from Cong. Second from Councilwoman Jayen Perez. Please call the role. Miss Dega, Miss M. Perez, yes. Mr. Zagmik, yes. Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Morero, yes.

Miss G. Perez. Motion carries. The item is approved. Thank you. Uh, I guess we're up to item 11, administrative items. Madame clerk, item A, when you're ready.

Second reading and public hearing of proposed ordinance repealing and rescending Halia ordinance number 2021-140. Attached here to us, exhibit 8, granting a special use permit to allow the expansion of the neighborhood business district overly pursuant to Hilia court of ordinances section 98-1630.8 and granting a variance permit to allow 24 units, 86% with floor areas ranging from 695 square ft to 729 square ft where 850 ft is the minimum required and only 10% of the units may have an area of 600 square ft. Allow 46 parking spaces where 67 parking spaces are required. All contra to highly accord sections 1630.2 2 and 98-2189 subsection 16A and B for the property located at 167 West 23rd Street and 187 West 23rd Street. Hallelia zoned M1 Industrial District authorizing release of the declaration of restrictive covenants recorded in official records book 332 to8 page 860 of the public records of Miami Day County, Florida. repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict here with providing for severability clause and providing for an effective D.

Okay. Item A is on second reading but open to public discussion. I doubt there would be any unless there's from the dis because this is basically killing this project. So all these details are null and void. Right, Matt? Oh, I was looking at you over there. Now you're here, right? Correct. This is going away. evidence on an official. This is to eliminate terminate the project. Thank you, Claudia. Does anyone have any questions for or pleasure of the council? Motion. Motion from Councilman William Moredo. Second from Councilwoman Jayen Perez. Please call the role. Madam clerk, Miss M. Perez, yes. Mr. Zagy, yes. Mr. Gonzalez, yes. Mr. Morero,

yes. Miss G. Perez. Miss Dega. Motion carries. The item is approved. Thank you. Item 12, unfinished business. Anyone? Okay, moving right along. New business. Anyone? Uh, there are two reports, sir, of Scrivener's errors. Yes, ma'am.

The first is on April 14, 2026, resolution number 2026-109 was passed and adopted authorizing the usage of a piggyback contract to purchase 58 municipal vehicles. The seventh whereas clause is being amended to reflect the purchase amount as $168,46 from F001 general fund and $2,250,000 from F340 impact fees fund. The second is on April 14, 2026, resolution number 2026-100 was passed and adopted authorizing the issuance of a purchase order to Civic Plus LLC in an amount not to exceed $75,68.32 for the payment of continued maintenance of the city's website and for the purchase of the annual renewal for audio ADA scanning and dock access. The resolution is hereby being amended to reflect the expenditure amount in one more dollar $75,69.32 like

Okay, now we got that out of the way. So, we're ready to move into zoning. Madame Clerk, can you administer the oath? Will all those persons who will be testifying on an item, please stand and raise your right hand? Okay, I see one person. Do you swear or affirm that the evidence you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? So, help you God. If so, say I do. Let the record reflect that I have responded in the affirmative.

All right. Um zoning item A, B, and C are postpon withdrawn. Item A, item B is postponed, right? Yes, sir. And item C is postponed until May 26 as well. Yes, sir. So, we're moving right over to item D. Madame Clerk,

second reading and public hearing of proposed ordinance granting variances to allow one, the required off- streetet parking spaces to be located partially within the right of way where off- streetet parking must be located within the property lines. Two, 11 parking spaces where 16 parking spaces are required. Three, all parking spaces to back out into the ride ofway where backup parking is not permitted. and four 0% pvious area where 10% is the minimum pvious area required contrary to HIA code of ordinances sections 98-191 98-189-190 and the Hilia landscape manual updated July of 2025 section E respectively and granting a waiver of the minimum landscape requirements through landscape mitigation pursuant to section 98-2235 for the property located at 4725 East 10th Court and 4735 East 10th Court. Hi Alia zoned M1 Industrial District. Repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict here with providing penalties for violation hereof, providing for a seability clause, and providing for an effective D.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Item zoning item D is on second reading, open for public discussion, certainly open for our discussion. I believe we have in case anyone has any questions for him. You're Ernesa Perez, right? the applicant. Okay, stand by. Does anyone have any questions for Ernesto Perez? Motion. Motion from Motion from Councilman William Maro, second from Councilwoman Jayen Perez. Please call the RO. Mr. Zagi, yes. Mr. Gonzalez, yes. Mr. Meredo, yes. Miss G. Perez. Miss Dega. Miss M. Perez. Yes. Motion carries. The item is approved.

Congratulations, sir. I hope you do a lot of business there. Thank you. But not too much because the parking is restricted. Not too much. Okay. Uh item E. Uh Madame Clerk.

Second reading and public hearing of proposed ordinance granting variances to allow one 23 parking spaces where 53 parking spaces are required. Two 10 of the proposed parking spaces to back out into the rightway where backout parking is not allowed. and three 0% pvious area where 10% is the minimum pvious area required contra to HIA code of ordinances sections 98-2189-2190 and the HIA landscape manual updated July of 2025 section E respectively and granting a waiver of the minimum landscape requirements through landscape mitigation pursuant to section 98-2235 for the property located at 5650 Northwest 36th Avenue and 56 660 Northwest 36th Avenue, Helia, zoned M2, Industrial District, repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict here with providing penalties for violation hereof, providing for a severability clause, and providing for an effective D.

Thank you. Item E is on second reading, open to public discussion if we don't have any. I have a question for Maritz Maritza Harrow Salgado. Where is Paul Hernandez today? You know, he's in the office again. He texted me last time. I'm busy. I know he's watching. We love him. He's hard at work. Awesome. Uh, does anyone have any questions for Marissa? Motion. Second. Thank you. Was that motion from Yes. Madame Vice President, did you do the second one? Yes. Was that That was you. Okay. And second from Councilwoman Monica Perez. Please call the role. Mr. Zagby.

Yes. Yes. Mr. Gonzalez, Mr. Morero, yes. Miss G. Perez. Miss Dega, yes. Miss M. Perez. Yes. Motion carries. The item is approved. Good night, Marissa. Thank you. Right. So, we're jumping right to um zoning item G. Correct. Yes, sir.

All right. Whenever you're ready. First reading of proposed ordinance granting a conditional use permit pursuant to highly code of ordinances section 98-181 to allow the operation of a vocational and technical school for the property located at 3412 West 84th Street unit 100 Florida zone C2 legally described herein repealing all ornes or parts of oraces in conflict here with providing penalties for violation hereof providing for a severability clause or providing for an effective deed Thank you. This um item is on first reading, not open for public discussion, but certainly open for our discussion. Are you Raul Enio?

Yes, you're the applicant. Okay, the applicant. We have Claudia. Does anyone have any questions for Claudia or the applicant? Motion to approve. Motion from uh Councilman Luis Gonzalez, second from Councilwoman Jayen Perez. Please call the role. Mr. Morero, yes. Miss G. Perez. Miss Dega? Miss M. Perez? Yes. Mr. Zagby? Yes. Mr. Gonzalez. Motion carries. The item is approved. Second reading and public hearing is scheduled for May 26, 2026 at 5:30 p.m. Thank you very much. Two weeks, Raul. Good luck. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Unless anyone from the dis has any comments to make. Are we Do I have a motion to adjourn today's meeting at 6:32 p.m.? Motion. Okay. I guess it's unanimous