City Council - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our January council meeting. Today is Thursday, the 15th of January. The time is now 1016 a.m. We apologize for the late start, and I hereby call this meeting to order. A reminder to please silence your phones. If you must take a call, we kindly ask that you please step outside and maintain a respectful atmosphere. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Councilwoman Corrinoso. Present. Councilman Maureen Porras is not here. Councilman Rafael Pinedo.

Present.

Vice Mayor Degna Cabral. Present. Mayor Christy Fraga. Present. Mayor, you have court.

Thank you very much. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Councilman Pinedo. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic Okay, we will now have our invocation, our first of the year, by Nando Quintero from WWJD.

Hello, good morning. My name is Nando Quintero, representing WWJD Church. It is a privilege, it is a blessing to be here, not at any meeting but the first one of the year. I am very happy to be here, very honored. And as I was reflecting, on what God had to bring today, praying. I really came to a conclusion that 2025 was a good year. I welcome my firstborn. He's nine months now. So it's been quite a crazy year. But 2026 sounds even more promising. I will be turning 30 years old. It'll be 20 years since I first moved to Doral, since my family came to the U.S., and we came, and we've been here in Doral since then. So 2026 marks very nice numbers, very solid decades. But as much as 2026, we all feel very encouraged. We all feel very positive. We all feel very excited to what's to come and we pray and we ask God for guidance and for his blessings to come to each one of us. I couldn't get 2025 out of my mind because individually it was very hard on the day to day. It was now objectively looking back, beautiful year, probably one of the best ones, but also one of the most challenging ones. And in the day to day, I felt like there was a lot of unanswered prayers. And usually when you pray and when you go to God, you expect to get a response right away. You expect to get something in return fairly quick. And most of the times I felt very alone, very left alone by God, not by my surroundings. My family were there. All my community was there. But by God directly. So it was tough. A lot of unanswered prayers. But as days and weeks passed by, as I looked back, it was very clear that God had better plans, that all those closed doors just meant bigger One's opening and 2026 will bring some challenges because as human beings that we are, we know a life will bring challenges. Not because you trust and believe in God means that everything will be perfect. And that is exactly what got me through 2025. Now, looking back, I could say, like I mentioned, one of the best years. I have my firstborn. He's beautiful. He makes me a better person every single day. And I thank God for that. And I thank God for the year and all the growth that it brought. But at the same time, this verse came to mind, which is one of my go-to verses, a from a lot of years ago, and it says, Ephesians 3, 20, 21. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus through all generations, forever and ever, amen. So that verse is very straightforward. As much as we believe we may have the right intentions, the right ideas, the right plans, at the end of the day, God's will will prevail. And my desire is only for our elected officials and the ones to come, and thanking also the ones that have been in office. Because what City of Doral has been We can only say that it has been glory to God because it has been a welcoming community for myself and my family. God willing, my son will be here in 20, 30 years. I won't be counting 20, but 30, 40 years myself. And I just ask God to bless you guys, to protect you and your families, keep blessing you. And just encourage you guys to keep seeking God, depending on him. And at the end of the day, if we do this and ask through him, he will only do things even better. So if God has been doing such a great job in the city, just imagine what he could do if we go all in and pray to him and really rest in him and depend on him. I will just lead a small prayer to conclude. Please bow your heads and close your eyes. Lord, Heavenly Father, we thank you for this day, for this council meeting, for this first council meeting of the year. And we don't only put this one in your hands, but all the ones to follow this year, God. Please guide our elected officials. Please guide every single decision to be made. We ask you to be the priority in every single word that is to be said, every action to be made. And please protect our elected officials. Bless them. Protect them. Prosper them in every single way possible. And as well to our citizens and every single person that has Doral as its home. Please, Lord, we give you everything. We rest in you. We put all our doubts, our worries in your hands. And we give the glory to you for everything that you've done and for everything that you will do. We recognize you today as our Lord and Savior. We thank you for Jesus, why you sent him here to die for us. We thank you for that gift of eternal life because we recognize him as our Lord and Savior, and we know that he resurrected on the third day. We thank you for this meeting, and please, as I mentioned before, you be the one leading this meeting always, every single month. In the name of Jesus, we pray, amen.

Amen. Thank you, Nando, and thank you for serving also on our... faith-based advisory board. I appreciate you. Okay, we're going to move on to our agenda order of business. I'll go ahead and start with the city manager's office.

Good morning, mayor and council members. Yes, we will be putting item 6A. That's the item with the agreement with Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue. The county attorney is going to be making some changes, and we'll bring it back once that process is complete. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Mr. City Attorney, do you have anything?

Good morning, Madam Mayor. I have nothing.

Councilman Pinedo.

Yes, Mayor, I'm pulling item 6G for discussion.

6G?

Correct.

Okay. Vice Mayor Cabral?

No, thank you.

Okay. Council Member Reynoso?

Good morning, Mayor. No, I won't be pulling anything, thank you.

Okay, thank you very much. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna pull item 6D for discussion, but I'm gonna do it in the evening, if that's okay. And then we're gonna go ahead and pull off item 9D off the agenda. An email was circulated this morning to all of you. The applicant has asked to take the item off and will hopefully maybe be coming back in the future. Okay, anything else before we move to public comments? Madam Clerk, you good? Nothing for you? Okay. All right, we're gonna go ahead and open the public comments portion of our meeting. You will now be able to approach the podium for public comments. Each speaker will have three minutes to address any item on this agenda or anything related to the city of Doral. Please begin by stating your name and address for the record to ensure you are registered with the city clerk. We will first hear from those who are preregistered, followed by any walk-in speakers. Once they have spoken, I will then announce that any walk-in speakers can speak for any final comments. As a reminder, in accordance with the City of Doral Code of Conduct, we ask that your remarks please be respectful. courteous, and in an orderly manner. Personal attacks, offensive language, and disruptive behavior will not be permitted. Let's work together to keep this a productive and constructive conversation for all. Okay, Madam Clerk, do we have any pre-registered speakers? We do not have any pre-registered speakers, so anyone who would like to speak on any item on the agenda or anything germane to this council, please approach the podium. This would be your reasonable opportunity. Okay. One last opportunity. Okay, all right being done the public comments portion is now closed and I need a motion on madam clerk If you could please read the items on the concerns agenda, and then I need a motion on the concern Yes, madam mayor. It'll be all of the items on section 6 with the exception of 6a 6d and 6g Okay, I need a motion motion to approve by councilman Reynoso second by councilman Pineda on favor say aye Let the motion reflect a unanimous vote I Now need a motion on the minutes Second. Motion by Councilman Pinedo to approve the minutes and second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Favor say aye. Aye. Motion is approved unanimously. All right, we'll move it into presentations. Madam Clerk.

Item 8A, keep draw beautiful business award.

Mr. Del Toro, welcome. Thank you.

Good morning, Honorable Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the Council, Madam Manager, Mr. Deputy Manager, Mr. City Attorney, Madam Clerk, Danny Del Toro, Court Compliance Director. We are pleased to kick off 2026 by recognizing Amerit Bank for their outstanding commitment to keeping the route beautiful. The property for which they are being recognized is located at 2500 Northwest 87th Avenue. Amarant Bank has been the city of Doral for 26 years. This property is approximately 46,000 square feet and the business has six employees. Amarant Bank is the largest community bank headquartered in Florida and is dedicated to delivering the most personal and exceptional service to help you achieve your financial goals. Some of the recent improvements include painting of the building to maintain a clean and vibrant appearance, weekly landscape maintenance to help enhance the parking lot and building, and a facilities team which ensures any maintenance issues are corrected properly. It is with great pleasure that we name Amarant Bank for the Keep the Route Beautiful Business Award for their continued efforts to keep the route beautiful. Madam Mayor and Council, here to accept the award on behalf of the property is Assistant Vice President Viviana Ospina and her team, Diana Valdez, Martha Barbetti, and Edwin Mejia.

Are they here? Yes? OK, please join us. Would you like to say anything?

Good morning, everyone. We're very honored for this award and for the opportunity to service the Doral market. It has been dear to our heart, and it's an instrumental market for our business. We have much love for Doral, and we're honored to be servicing you. And we hope to continue servicing all of you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you for continuing to invest in our community. Please come up for a photo. Fabulous. Okay. We'll move on to our discussion items.

Madam Clerk. Item 9A, a resolution of the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Doral, Florida, authorizing the restructuring of Parks and Police for Kids, Inc., providing for reconstitution of the board's directors, revision of the foundational bylaws, and realignment of the foundation's purpose and mission, providing for implementation of incorporation of recitals and an effective date.

Members of the Council, I brought this forward, as you all know, I've been working with Parks and Police for Kids now for the past year. We had our first Mayor and Chief Scala, benefiting Parks and Police for Kids, we had a golf tournament, raised over $300,000 in benefit of this organization to be able to provide more funding for the programs that it has provided. After much consideration and discussion, as we prepare for what may come out from the state with property tax reform, we feel that it would be prudent to restructure this organization being that we have now proven that we can raise quite a significant amount of money to be able to benefit the community and restructure this organization to be the NGO arm of the city, so the nonprofit arm of the city, possibly in the future even reallocating general funds into, from general funds to this organization privately funded opportunities like the CBO grants and the PTA grants and, you know, lessen the burden on tax dollars on our taxpayers. Right now, a lot of these subsidized programs are funded through our general fund. And I think it would be beneficial and fiscally responsible to look at continuing to fundraise in this organization and use this arm to be able to fund these programs. It will take some time, but I think we need to restructure Parks and Police for Kids to truly meet the needs of the community on the nonprofit end. And to that end, I decided to bring this forward. The board that has been there is wonderful. This is not a reflection of them. They did a great job. They were great with us in our They were very supportive in my crazy idea to try and put together a gala and golf tournament in three months to fundraise, and we were able to do that. And so I want to publicly thank them for their service. They, again, have been wonderful. So this is in no means a reflection of their work. This is really in an effort to promote restructure this board so it has better benefits to our community and Gives us the ability to free up general fund money for what it should be done for which is municipal services But not cutting our subsidized programming so with this with support of you all today We will bring the parks and police for kids board back to the council. We will serve as the board to do the restructuring and I do have some ideas on how that restriction will happen. So in our first PP4K board meeting, once this happens, I will bring forward, as the board, the ideas of how we will restructure and move forward to make this a benefit for all. If you are willing to indulge in in this new endeavor, that's what this item will do if anybody has any questions I'm happy to answer them. I worked with Lorenzo on this as well So if there's any questions, it's not the first time this would be done We did this before where the council served as the board to do some restructuring. So this is really just There's precedent done on this being done before any questions

Yes, I actually have some comments. We're going to be getting a copy of the new restructure, the bylaws, if there are going to be any changes, and when is that going to happen?

That will happen when we sit as the board, because only the board can do the restructuring and changes. So once we sit as the board of the organization, we will be bringing forward a complete restructuring and how we will move forward the potential ideas for the organization and what it will fund in the programming.

Now that you're proposing this, what is your vision? Different from what is doing?

Yes, I think I was pretty clear in stating the intent of the fundraising. So the way this nonprofit has been functioning is that it never actually raised money. It would only take money from our general fund to program. And so the idea would be that it actually becomes a nonprofit of the city so we can fundraise and move subsidized programming to that organization. So that would be the new idea of the board.

My understanding, it is a nonprofit.

It is a nonprofit. It would continue to be a nonprofit, but it was never functioning like a nonprofit.

Because my rationale on this is that if we have a board that is independent, that it is based on residents of the city. These are people that live here, people in another community that they wanted to do service to the residents. That would not limit us to be able to help them to get funding. So we're gonna be the one managing and not allowing the community, the residents to be able to bring up ideas and for them to manage something that we can be bringing funds. It's the same thing that Luigi did in 2012. So at that time he did the same thing. He dissolved it, the council took over, something that I don't agree. I think that it's a committee that should be run by residents and we are here to support them and there's nothing that limit us to be able to help them to get funding.

So let me clarify, because I think you misunderstand what's happening. And also, I think you misunderstood what happened in 2014 or 2015 when this was done. The only way to restructure the bylaws of this organization is for us to serve as the board to do that. I'm not taking it away from the residents. We're bringing it in to restructure it, and then we will put it back out to be an independent organization. Again, if that is what this body so chooses, once we do the restructuring. So that's what's currently going to happen now. For many, many years, and you can go back and request all the financials and take a look, this organization never raised funds. It was funded with general fund money. The only organization that gave this nonprofit money was the PGA. That's the only money that was ever raised. And it wasn't raised. It was basically a gift. that was given. No one from this council ever took an opportunity or ever took the initiative to raise money for the kids in our community. I was the first one to decide to do that, along with my two colleagues, Councilman Reynoso and Councilman Pinero, who helped me fundraise for the event we had this year where we raised over $300,000 of private funds. Excuse me, I have the floor at this time. Private funds to be able to do more things in our community without using taxpayer funds. So after looking at that and seeing its success, the decision has been brought forward so that we can all have the conversation and move on and do this better next year and raise more money and actually make this a nonprofit so that the city can continue to provide programming, grants, subsidized opportunities for our community without using taxpayer money. We will use nonprofit and fundraised funds on the private sector to be able to do that. However, with the structure it currently has, we're very limited to how we can do it. very difficult to actually go out there and put together this event with the current structure we have. So after much discussion with the administration, with legal, it was decided to bring this forward so that we could restructure it. So moving forward, not just our council, but future councils could help the board that will be in place fundraise. The way it is right now, it's very difficult to do it because it was never the intention of this nonprofit. But it is the intention, my intention, to fundraise for the kids in our community. So that is what we're doing here today. So I appreciate your comments. I don't think you necessarily understand what we're trying to do. 15 or 2016, I believe, when this was done, it was for the same purpose, but it never really got restructured to be what it should have been. So we're going to make sure to fix it this time so that for future, it is doing its job.

First of all, I do understand, but I also have questions. Can I ask a question to the city attorney? If I may?

Yes, go ahead.

So can this be restructured having the actual board? Can this is something that can be talked with the board that is sitting there and restructure any idea that we may want it to bring?

So the current board does have authority to be able to make decisions for the organization. That being said, The way that this organization and its intent was to be an arm of the city, of Independent 501 to use city funds and city resources to be able to carry out a lot of these programs. You are the governing board and body of the city. So it makes sense if you want to align both what the city mission is and the board to have you as a governing body make those changes. It kind of makes sense. And then in the future, you can bring on, obviously, yes, the community to participate once you have it aligned with kind of what are your goals going forward.

My question, and I guess that you're answering to me, yes, that if we, like how we do with other committees, we can sit down with them, tell them what is our vision, and they will work also, and we can sit down and we will be able to restructure through them, or they can also restructure based on our vision. Is it possible, yes or no?

It's possible. I'm not sure that it's efficient.

No, but it can be done. Yes. Yes. It can be done through them. Like we can go and have, so that's my question. So we don't need to dissolve the board in order to have our vision brought to them and that they can execute it.

The only thing I would say on that You're right with what you're saying. Yes, I can yeah, but I believe from my understanding and and speaking with the mayor taking a look at You know kind of the history of this organization and speaking with administration is that this board was really created to carry out these programs Not really to do a fundraising activity, which is I believe what the vision of the mayor is and bringing forth this item. I

When I was there serving as the vice chair, yes, we were doing activities to be able to raise funds. Yes, I was part of it. That was the intent and that was something that we were actually doing at that time. So that's why my question that I don't see the rationale in dissolving it when actually we can sit down with those residents that live here in the city, that we can actually work with them. There's no limitation. So for us to tell them when many of them actually, my appointee is really sad. She actually told me I've been serving for so many years and now I've been just told, you know what, you're not gonna be part of this board anymore. So that's my clarification that my, And I do understand, because you're saying that I don't understand. I do understand how it's being run because I was chair, vice chair from that committee for a few years, is that I don't see the need that we need to dissolve it if we can sit down with them and we can go and work with them the same way that you've been doing it on raising funds and for the other council members, they can keep doing that. And if you have a vision, we just have to sit down like all the other committees. But the difference is that this one does have managed money compared to the other ones. That's the only difference from the other committees from the city. So those are just my comments. I don't agree on dissolving when we can actually sit down with those residents that they gradually has given hours of their time volunteering on being able to help with this committee.

OK, are those complete, your comments? So I would check the bylaws, council, because the board cannot change the bylaws. They cannot change the bylaws. And I would read them again because they're not allowed to change the bylaws. It's very clear because we as a city don't want the committees to be able to change the bylaws. To my understanding, that's why we had to bring it back. Because they cannot change the bylaws. They cannot change the vision or the mission of the organization. Only we can. Exactly. They bring it to us, they present it, and then we vote. But we're the ones presenting the difference. So I understand what you're saying. And no, I do understand what you're saying. But unfortunately, for the restructuring we're doing for the future of this organization, it makes more sense for us to be the ones to make the big decisions on how this will proceed. So that's the item on the agenda. You're welcome to have your own vote. But it's very clear in the bylaws that no board No board of the city, whether it's this board or any board, can change the bylaws or the mission of that committee or that board. Only we can do that. And so they could come and present to us, oh, we would like to change the structure of this committee, and then we can make the decision to do that. But at the end of the day, the decision lies with us. And so what makes the most sense in the restructuring that we're going to do here is that the board comes to us to be able to make the big decisions and manage the future outcome of this organization, only because it manages a lot of funds that are beneficial to the community. So I understand that you're not in agreement. You're a member of the board is more than welcome to serve in the future again when the board is restructured. Again, this is not dissolving the PP4K board. It's only making us the board while we restructure the functions of the organization. Being now that we are putting a lot of effort into going out and fundraising for this community. So I understand that it had never been done before, but I've put in a lot of time and energy to make sure that we're not using the taxpayers' dollars to fundraise and do things for our subsidized programming.

Madam Mayor, if I can make a point, you're absolutely 100% right. It is in the bylaws that this board, just like any other committee, you are the governing body. And that's what I was trying to make that point, that you are the governing body of the city. So anything that dealing with funds, you're the ultimate say. And of course, anybody, any of these meetings, and I just want to make a point, since we are all subject to public records and sunshine, they're all sunshine. So the community will still have the opportunity to come and give their comments and their ideas. Of course.

Yes. Thank you. All right. Any other questions? Through the mayor? Yes. Councilwoman Reynosa.

I understand that some members of this council have a problem with efficiency, and it's very clear now, but I'm completely on board with this new proposed restructuring that needs to happen for a better use of people's time to be able to fundraise, get money for programs that are absolutely needed in our community. So it's very hard for me to sit here and listen to discussions that are so opposed to things that benefit our community. But you can count on my support. And I would like to present a motion at this time.

Okay, thank you, Council Member Reynoso. Motion by Council Member Reynoso.

Second.

Second by Council Member Pinedo. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Thank you.

Motion to approve, made by Councilwoman Reynoso, seconded by Councilman Pinedo. Councilwoman Reynoso? Yes. Councilman Pinedo?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Cabral?

No. Mayfra? Yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you very much. We will call a meeting of the board in the next couple of weeks. Thank you.

All right, next item. Item 9B, a resolution of the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Doral Flora, approving the co-designation of Northwest 92nd Avenue from Northwest 33rd Street to Northwest 25th Street of Maria Corina Machala Way, providing for implementation and incorporation of recitals on an effective date. Okay, Councilman Bineto, this is your item.

Thank you, Mayor. Mayor, colleagues, members of the community, first of all, I just want to say thank you to everyone that is here this morning, not only from our Venezuelan community here in Doral, but I know from other places too. First of all, I want to recognize the group Veinte, which is Maria Corina Machado's organization. Thank you for being here. I know there are other political leaders from Venezuela that have to leave the country as well. They're here today. So thank you for being here. We have Gran Logia de Venezuela group. Thank you for being here as well. And before I go over the item, I also want to recognize Mari. Carmen Davila, she's the South Florida District Director for Senator Reece Scott. Thank you for being here. I also would like to recognize the elected officials that have sent their support to this particular item, starting with Miami-Dade County Mayor Levin Cava, Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Darrell Fernandez, Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections Alina Garcia, Miami-Dade County Sheriff Rosie Cordero, Office of Senator Reece Scott, and the Venezuelan American Republican Club. So I want to say thank you to not only these elected officials, but also the organizations that have expressed their support for designating the Maria Corina Machado's Way. Today I bring this item forward not only as a councilman but as a Venezuelan American and as someone who carries in his heart the story of millions of people who have lived without freedom for far too long. Doral is not just a city on a map, it is a place of refugees, opportunities, and hope. It is the home to the largest Venezuelan community in the United States, families who left everything behind in search of liberty, dignity, and a future for their children. That is why sponsoring the co-designation of Northwest 92nd Avenue between the streets of 25th and 33rd as Maria Corina Machado way carries such deep meaning. And especially today that by coincidence, Maria Corina is already in Washington, D.C. for the first time in years meeting with President Trump. This roadway running parallel to the United States Solar Command symbolized more than a street name. It represents courage in the face of persecution, conviction in the face of intimidation, and an unwavering belief that democracy is worth defending no matter the cost. For more than 26 years, Venezuela has endured oppression and the systematic dismantling of democratic institutions. Throughout that time, Maria Corina Machado has stood firm, but her leadership took on even greater significance during the July 28, 2024 election, when she played a decisive role in exposing the Maduro's regime's abuse, irregularities, and attempts to undermine the will of the Venezuelan people. At a moment when truth was under attack and fear was being used as a political weapon, she shows transparency, accountability, and courage by confronting the regime and bringing international attention to what was taking place. She once again gave voice to millions who were being silenced and reaffirmed that democracy cannot exist without truth. Her leadership and moral clarity have transcended borders. She has become a symbol of resistance, hope, and determination, not only for Venezuelans inside the country, but for those of us in the diaspora who continue to believe in a free and democratic Venezuela. This item is deeply personal for me, but it's also collective. It belongs to every Venezuelan family in our city, and to every resident, no matter where you're from, or political views, who believe in liberty, justice, and the rule of law. Today, Doral has the opportunity to send a clear message not only to the county, to the state, but to the country as well, one that rise above politics and ideology, that freedoms matters, that human rights matter, and that those who stand for democracy will not stand alone. With faith in the future, we trust that one day soon, we will help witness the rebirth of a free, democratic, and prosperous Venezuela. So Madam Mayor, colleagues, I certainly respectfully ask for your support of this item, but before we do that as well, I know that Mari Carmen from Senator Rees-Cott's office would like to say a few words, if you don't mind.

Yes, of course.

Good morning, Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the Council. It's an honor to be here and represent Senator Scott in his office. The Senator is currently in DC representing us and doing the work of the Senate as we elected him to do. He says hi, and he wanted me to be here to express his continued support for Venezuelans in Doral and throughout the state of Florida, but also his support for freedom and democracy in Venezuela. I'd also like to share that our office is here to serve you, the city of Doral, its residents, and anything that you guys may need that's federally related. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. And also, Madam Mayor, we have Lisbeth Garcia on behalf of Vente Organization, which is Maria Corina Machado's organization. We'd like to say a few words. I know Maria Teresa Morin is still on her way. She's going to try to make it, but you're here.

Buenas. Permiso para hablar en español.

We need to have a translator. Necesitamos una traducción.

Gracias. Buenos días. Saludos a todas las autoridades presentes electas, distinguidas personalidades de la ciudad del Doral. Estamos muy agradecidos en este momento.

Good morning. We are very pleased to be here. We are very thankful to the authority, Christy Fraga, and all the mayors.

Nombraron una calle. To have a name of a street is very important, but to have a name of geographic situation is more important. Una calle con el nombre de nuestra líder, María Corina Machado, dignifica los valores de democracia, respeto a los derechos humanos y libertad.

To have a name of María Corina Machado is very important because it dignifies our human rights, respect and our democracy and freedom.

Representa también una forma de que los visitantes, los vecinos y las futuras generaciones Represent that our neighbor and the future generation. Can connect with all the freedom, all the courage of the liberty of the values. This will allow future generations that tomorrow Recuerden que hay una mujer con estas características que representa más que una líder de un país que ha trascendido a convertirse en una luz para el mundo entero y un referente mundial.

That represents a future generation can recognize in Maria Corina Machado a woman of value and future recognition.

We are very thankful with all the authorities in Doral because we have a recognized democracy with Maria Corina Machado. In the name of the Venezuelan diaspora, we are very grateful for this democratic gesture and we are always aware that the rest of the cities, the rest of the countries of the whole world that are going through this type of situation, have in us the strength, our Cuban brothers, Nicaraguans, and all the cities and the whole world that is going through this situation.

We are very thankful and we recognize that all the world in Cuba and all the situation, not only in Venezuela, that all the world recognize that we are living and we are doing for future generations.

Bueno, solamente nos queda agradecer como representantes de la diaspora venezolana y gracias a nuestro concejal venezolano Rafael Pinedo que está proponiendo esta iniciativa, gracias a todas las autoridades y aquí estamos para seguir apoyando a la ciudad.

We are very thankful for all you do. Thank you, Christy Fraga. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you, Nicole Reynolds, especially. Thank you, Rafael Pinero, because you are Venezuelan. You are a man of God. Thank you very much, all of you. Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Thank you Mayor and once again I just wanna say thank you to these elected officials once again that they're not here obviously today and they couldn't make it but they send their not only messages directly to me, once again Miami-Dade County Mayor Levine Cava, Miami-Dade County Tax Collector Dale Fernandez, the supervisor of elections, Elena Garcia, sent her a letter. Chair, Miami-Dade County Chair, Rosie Cordero, expressed her support as well. We have the office from Senator Ray Scott here present, the Venezuelan American Club, Republican Club as well, the Venezuela Group, and obviously all these leaders that you have here, they're a part of our community. I also would like to recognize Mr. Carlos Ortega, which has suffered political persecution for a good number of years. Not only by the Chavez and Maduro's regime, it's part of our community too. So thank you for being here. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you, Councilman. Any comments? Councilwoman Reynoso?

Through the Mayor?

Yes.

Well, I may not be Venezuelan, but I am Cuban-Puerto Rican. And my grandparents and my mother and my aunt left Cuba many, many years ago. And they came to this country to have the future that they have today, to have the future that I have and my children have because of their sacrifices. And that's not to say that I am married to a Venezuelan, a maracucho, in fact, for those that don't know. So I get extra points there. And the blood that runs through the veins of my children is Venezuelan, is Cuban. And it's been an honor to be able to represent the Venezuelan community during this time. I think everything happens for a reason. The timing of God is perfect. And as I said in many interviews before, what has happened has turned the page from hope to now a process, a process that's going to guarantee freedom, that's going to guarantee many people the opportunity to be reunited with their families, to have peace. to have democracy where the voice that many have not been able to share has been denied by horrible, horrible people in that country. So the future of Venezuela is a future of democracy. It's a future of peace. It's a future of reunion. And again, I'm so glad to be able to be here representing this community during this time in history. And I know that God has his hands in Venezuela. And all the best things are yet to come. We have to keep fighting. We have to keep our eye on the goal of freedom and democracy. But it's going to happen. And I'm glad to be part of this council that is here to help and support the residents. It's not you. supporting us it's us supporting you and to be able to have that voice to connect with other municipalities with our president with other governments and the eyes that are on dural right now it's really such an amazing thing an opportunity for us to be those that lead the voices of those that don't have voices so it's our pleasure our honor to be able to be representing all of you and may god bless the country of venezuela the venezuelan people that are here in the united states I know in my heart everything's going to work out, so thank you.

Thank you, Councilman. I first would like to ask if you'd be OK with me co-sponsoring this item and anyone else who would like to join. This is obviously a great thing for our community. So thank you for bringing it forward. Maria Corina Machado is an incredible woman that represents courage, freedom, democracy, human rights, perseverance. And so not only is it an incredible Role model and something to a person to look up to by many young women in our community but those who have had to flee Venezuela and even Cubans and Nicaraguans and everywhere and and she was so rightfully given the Nobel Peace Prize for all these merits and all these accomplishments she's had and so I think it's only fitting that in the community where the largest diaspora lives in the United States that a street be named after Maria Corina Machado, not just for her work for peace and liberty in Venezuela and in the world, fighting for democracy, but for her heart and her courage. As it was stated before, I think it is a symbol that is incredibly deserving of future generations looking towards and learning from. So I love that it's the street right in front of Doral Central Park, but also abuts Southern Command. I think it's very significant. And therefore, I'm fully supportive of this. I think it's great. As Councilwoman Reynoso said, we are here to support you, not the other way around. But you all have always been such a supportive community. And so we are delighted to be able to do these small but meaningful gestures that show our compassion and our support for this community. So thank you very much. Thank you, Councilman. And I look forward to when we can unveil the name and hopefully, hopefully she will be here present with us to be able to do that. I say that cautiously, but it is our hope that Maria Corina Machado could be here with us as we unveil the street naming in her honor. So thank you once again.

Thank you, Mayor.

Yes, Vice Mayor would like to say something too.

Thank you so much, Councilman, for bringing this up. And I definitely would love to co-chair also your proposal. We've been here fighting against and supporting you all during this difficult period. So many families that I have personally met, friends that I consider also family that have gone through with so many difficulties. So by that being said, I would like to motion to approval, to approve of your resolution, Councilman.

Okay, I think we can all be added as co-sponsors, the four of us that are up here. If you don't mind, Councilman? You don't mind? Thank you. On behalf of all of us. Okay, we need a motion. Motion to approve. Motion to approve by Vice Mayor Cabran.

I'll second. I just have a comment.

Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. Go ahead. Do you want to say your comment?

I didn't thank my council member for bringing the item, so thank you, of course. And the co-sponsor has been addressed, so thank you. And I love the fact that we're honoring such an amazing woman. Yes, absolutely.

All right. Madam Mayor, there's a little technicality on the item. We'll have to amend it to state Maria Corina Machado path, not Maria Corina Machado way. Okay.

So if that's okay, I'll read the motion as that. Yes.

So it's motion to approve as amended to co-designate the road as Maria Corina Machado Path, made by Vice Mayor Cabral, seconded by Councilman Reynoso. Vice Mayor Cabral?

Yes.

Councilman Reynoso?

Yes.

Councilman Pinedo? Yes. Mayor Praga? Yes.

Motion passes.

All right. Thank you very much.

Okay, if it's okay with my colleagues, we can take a quick 10 minute recess so we can say, you know, just hug the members of the community I'm sure wanna say thank you and then we can reconvene, is that okay? All right, any motion to recess? Motion for a 10 minute recess? Second. Second, all right, all in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, we'll be back in 10 minutes. Let's try and keep it brief.

Microphones hello there we go all right we're going to reconvene the meeting and Take it back right from where we left off madam clerk item 9c item 9c a resolution of the mayor and the City Council of the City of Doral Florida proving the adoption of no through trucking ordinance along Northwest owner and 12th Avenue between Northwest 25th Street and Northwest 29th Street and Northwest 27th Street between Northwest 112th Avenue and Northwest 108th Avenue providing for implementation and corporation or recitals on an effective date

Okay, before I turn it over to Councilman Pinedo, can we have the sergeant at arms just make sure that they keep their voices out down there? Please, and the door is closed. Out of respect for the meeting. All right, thank you very much. Councilman Pinedo, this is your item.

Thank you, Mayor. I bring this item forward not only because I have been receiving calls and messages from residents, but at the same time concerns, parents' concerns from, in this particular case, Doral Academy, during the drop-off and pick-up hours. Based on that, I had the opportunity to speak to the city attorney, which by the way, thank you for helping me on drafting this resolution. And it is something that for quite some time we have been speaking about it, especially when we have the schools located under or around industrial, inside industrial sections. But I think it's time for us to take proactive actions and actually make the corrections that we have to make or the creation in this case, which is what I will be requesting an ordinance. But it's because there has been an increase of incidents when it comes to and concerns, as I mentioned before. not only by residents, parents, and school administration as well, when it comes to the circulation of commercial trucks during the school hours. In particular, during the drop off and the pick up times. It has become evident that the areas surrounding Doral Academy has experienced recurring, and in some cases, accidents. These incidents have occurred on a consistent basis and have often involved students from the school or drivers passing by, parents passing by. The impact of these accidents have been detrimental to our community and has reached a point where intervention by us is necessary and, in my humble opinion, it should be urgent. After conducting research and consulting with the city attorney, what I seek is to establish a well-defined commercial trucking access hours that will restrict truck circulation during school drop off and pick up times throughout the school week. The purpose of this measure is to mitigate the risk of future traffic incidents and to prioritize the safety of our students parents, and pedestrians in the area. Of course, for the clarification of traffic rules, violations of possible citations will be established through a formal ordinance, and this ordinance will clearly define restricted hours, designated zones, and relevant vehicular classifications. In addition to this implementation of this measure will be supported by a comprehensive public awareness campaign carried out through coordinated efforts between the Doral Police Department and Public Affairs Department to ensure proper dissemination and understanding of these new traffic regulations. And the reason why, and after speaking to our city attorney and administration, the reason why we're starting with with Doral Academy is certainly because it's the one, as you can see some of the pictures, the one that has been probably the more regular concerning school in the area, but we also have hopefully in the future consider other schools that are located inside the industrial zones. Again, what will be, if we move forward with this, which I hope we do, because it's for the well-being of our residents, especially our kids, what I'm proposing is, when it comes to hours, is during the drop of hours between 7 and 8, and the pickup hours from 2 to 3. And again, this is only right now in the drought by the Doral Academy, 112th Avenue between Northwest 25th Street and Northwest 29th Street. And between 27th Street and 112th Avenue, between 112th Avenue and Eighth Avenue. So there's gonna be a number of industrial businesses in that area that of course we're gonna have to involve in the conversation. But again, hopefully we can work this out in an amicable way that they understand the need of during these specific hours. Again, my recommendation will be from seven to eight, especially after speaking to the parents and the school administration. 7 to 8 in the mornings and 2 to 3 in the afternoon.

Thank you, Councilman. So if there's any other, is there any questions? I have a couple. Okay, I do have some questions because I was a little confused on, I looked at this actually yesterday at the map. You mentioned 112th, because right now, as it states on the resolution, 102nd Avenue between 27th and 25th is a residential, it is a no-through-truck street because it's right in the middle of Vanderbilt.

No. This one will affect just the one on the middle and high school.

Okay, so the actual resolution says 102nd Avenue, so it should be 100. I just want to make sure that it's 112, because the resolution reads 102nd Avenue between 27th Street and 25th Street.

That's correct, Mayor. There's a typo on the resolution.

Okay, I just wanted to make sure. So we're looking at 112th Avenue. Correct. And 108th Avenue.

It should be 112 between 25 and 27, between 112 and 107 or 108, that frontage surrounding the Dora Academy.

Yes, okay. So I just want to make sure we change that Is this the new one? Oh, okay, I have the old one. Okay, perfect, because the one I had said 102nd, so I wanted to make sure. Okay, and then the, when we bring this forward, it would be for specific hours. My only concern with that area is, and I know it is very dangerous, and I've seen it forever, and unfortunately, this is an industrial zone that the school is in, is that we don't, There's very few other access points to some of those businesses in that area. So I think we're going to get a little pushback in the sense that if they have a delivery that needs to get to them and there's no other access point to them through that area, we may find ourselves kind of prohibited from allowing them to get to their destination at that time. That's what I've encountered in the past with no-through truck zones.

I was going to say that no-through really means any trucks that are not trying to get to their destination. So they're just using that road to pass. So there's other ways that you can go around. So if someone's trying to get to one of those warehouses that abut or are adjacent, they can still do that. But if they're just using the road to go through, which is what we're finding to cut through, that's what we'll be avoiding.

I just want to clarify that for the residents because whenever they see a no through truck sign, they almost have an expectation that that means that there's no trucks going through there. And that's not the case. We can't prohibit conducting business, right? And that is an industrial area. So you're going to still have trucks that as long as they can prove that they're going to their final destination or a destination within their route within that area, they still have to utilize that. Now, if there's another way to get there, then they're required to use that other way. But in looking at this area, it's very limited to the roads that actually access some of those warehouses. I just wanted to put that on the record. I'm not opposed to it. I think that if there is some relief that we can provide for safety to the students and for ease of traffic in the area, then I welcome it by all means. But I just think that sometimes there is an expectation for something that's a little unrealistic. I mean, at the end of the day, which is what I tell parents when they call me about some of that stuff, is you're in an industrial area. I understand the inconvenience. It's horrible. And the truth is that with the viaduct opening also in that area, the flyover, it increased also some of the truck you know, traffic in that zone. So, because it's one of the streets that leads to the flyover bridge to the Turnpike. They don't have to go to 12th Street anymore. So, just wanted to put that out there. But yes, I'm in support, and I look forward to seeing an ordinance that we can make sure we're, you know, we're careful and conscious of the surrounding businesses as well. Any other comments? Motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Reynoso. Second. Second by Vice Mayor Cabrera. Yes, Councilman Pinero.

Just a quick comment, and you're right. The only thing we'll, I mean, I think this is a, and I thank you, thanks my colleagues for moving this forward. It's, at least we're showing to the residents that we care about their concern, and at the same time, let's see how that goes. I mean, once we put that sign out there, might be the first step, and we might need to take additional steps looking forward, depending how we see, how we get the report from the police department, and I'm sure we're gonna keep getting calls and pictures from residents, but hopefully this will be a relief, and we can, start with something in this particular area. But again, there are other schools that we will have to look into and apply the same regulation.

Through the mayor. Yes. I think just continuing the comment that Councilman Pinedo said, as a council, we do what is allowed or allowable for us to do within the rights and the powers that we have. So I think this is a great example of us doing the most that we can with the authority given to us to overlook and see if there's any positive change in protecting our children, helping with the traffic situation there. And it's really the most that we can do with the allowed authority that we have. So I'm in support of this. Thank you. And I think it's a point that we have to make for the residents to understand the limitations of what we can do as council here as well.

Yeah, and with that being said, I'll just mention also, there was a time where it was put into our code further restrict schools opening up in industrial zones. And we were preempted. We cannot restrict schools opening up in these zones. So a lot of families will say, well, why did that get approved there? Well, our hands are kind of tied to, limitations on that so it's something that we need to because when we take actions like this sometimes it it just welcomes Tallahassee's pre-emptive legislation and which is not what we want so we want to make sure that we don't strangle free commerce all right madam clerk motion to approve may by councilman Reynoso second

Councilwoman Reynoso?

Yes. Vice Mayor Carral? Yes. Councilman Pinero?

Yes. Mayor Fraga? Yes. Motion passes.

All right. Wonderful. All right. We pulled item 9D, so we're moving to 9E.

9E, discussion proposed solar streetlights Northwest 82nd Street from Northwest 107th Avenue to Northwest 114th Avenue. Madam City Manager.

Yes. Good morning, Mayor and Council. We have the Public Works Director, Carlos Arroyo. He's going to speak to you regarding this item and the options that we have before us for solar power or wiring for this particular area. Thank you.

Good morning, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Council Members, City Manager, City Attorney, City Clerk, members in the public. Carlos Arroyo, Public Works Director. So the Polyworks Department continuously looks for ways to improve services and the city's infrastructure to provide the best possible level of service for the community. Northwest 82nd Street, between 107th Avenue and 114th Avenue currently lacks proper illumination. So as such, the department commends to perform research on solar infrastructure for the possible implementation of a solar street-like pilot program along the corridor. While performing research, the department was approached by two solar streetlight vendors from Roche Lighting America and Cell Solar, offering their services and products. Proposals were requested from both vendors to provide solar streetlight infrastructure for the mentioned corridor. Both vendors were asked to visit and analyze the site to provide a proposal. Each vendor performed a photometric analysis in the corridor and provided preliminary proposals based on their analysis and products capabilities. CELS provided a proposal for 19 dual arm poles and 17 single arm poles for the area, totaling 36 light poles. Front Roche provided a proposal for nine dual arm poles and 14 single arm poles, totaling 23 light poles. The preliminary total cost provided by CELS is $366,000 approximately, and the preliminary total cost provided by Front Roche is $191,000 approximately. So staff is presenting this item as a discussion item. To get the council's input and direction and to allow both vendors to present their products and proposals, Front Roche Lighting and Cell Solar are here to present their equipment and proposals to provide solar streetlights along the mentioned corridor and to answer any questions that the council may have. So city staff seeks council feedback and direction on where to proceed and which approach to advance. So we have Front Roche. They're gonna be presenting first. If I could put the presentation, please.

Thank you, Carlos. Good morning, Madam Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor, council members. We are honored to be here. Thank you for having us. I'm Hossein Benaoum, CEO of Roche Lighting America. I'm here with Elazar Acosta, who is the territory manager for Florida. So we are here to discuss about streetlights. We are a streetlight manufacturer. And we are very focused on regulations and technical aspect of a streetlight. But the more we talk with communities, the more we talk with official, we understand that the street light is way more than that, way more than a technical product, way more than a regulation. It's a product that bring, Safety. It's a product that has a big cost for municipality. It's a product that brings equity between areas that have streetlights and areas that don't have streetlights. I'm from France. We, in Europe, we work a lot also with Africa. When you fly above Europe and when you fly above Africa, you have one area of the hemisphere that is lit and the other area that is dark. So that's our product help to bring equity. So we see the same thing with communities and municipalities. So we are dedicated, our mission is to bring a product that is the most cost-effective for municipalities, that brings sustainability, that brings equity, and brings, of course, safety. So this is the mission of Forge. So I will just start with a very general presentation before going to the project in Doral. But we've been in U.S. for about five years. The company exists since 2010. We've been in U.S. for about five years, and we are working currently with 500 municipalities across U.S., We started in areas where there was a lack of electricity, lack of infrastructure, like Native Americans areas. And today we are in the heart of Las Vegas, in the heart of Los Angeles, Denver, New York. And I'm very surprised to see that Florida has very little solar streetlights because you have everything that is needed, a lot of sun, a lot of irradiation, some rains to clean the solar panels, which is very important. And hopefully we are here to bring a little bit more education on this product. So wrong direction, sorry. So since we started about 18 months ago in Florida, we are currently working with about 30 counties and municipalities. Most of them are pretty much either on the north side of Florida, either on the south side of Florida. But we had the opportunity to experience the weather in Florida, your storm, You had some issue with hurricanes. So we are very aware of the issue that we can have here in Florida. So why installing solar streetlights? First, it's very quick and easy to install. A solar street light doesn't require conduit, doesn't require any wire, and it takes about 20 minutes to install from the beginning. You plant it like a tree. So you don't need the utility, you don't need anything. You arrive, you dig a hole, five-foot hole, you plant the light, you let the cement dry, and the same night, the light will work. So it's very reliable because it's not connected to any wire. There is no wire. There is no utility connected to it. And of course, because there is no utility, there is no bill linked with that, you acquire a streetlight. You are not paying any monthly bill whatsoever. You are free. It's your streetlight. You generate your own energy to power your own streetlights. And of course, it's sustainable. because it's 100% solar, poured by the sun. So when it comes to Florida, our poles have been rated for 180 miles per hour. So in case of, God forbid, there is very strong winds, we are very familiar with that, and our system can resist to this type of storm. All our systems are connected. So what we want to do is to be proactive. We don't want to have the community come to us or come to you and tell you a street light is not working. If a street light is not working, we have the information. Instead, as you can see on the green dots, if a street light has an issue, if a street light is not working, it turn red. We know there is an issue with the street light. And we see if we can fix it from a remote area remotely sorry or if we can fix it or if we have to come on site so when it comes to street lights There have not been much of innovation since Thomas Edison. And I'm saying that because since Thomas Edison, the way we bring electricity to light is through a wire. What we offer in our system, it's a wire-free system. So it's a solar panel that collects the energy during the day, charges the battery during the day, and during the night, the battery activates the light fixture, and you have the light needed at the intensity needed for the rest of the night, 365 nights a year. So now the way we do, so when the public works give us the instruction on Northwest 82nd Street, we perform the photometric study. So that's what I'm showing here. The street is obviously dark. We make some simulation on how many lights and what's the height of the lights needs to be. And we say, OK, we need 22 streetlights with this model, with this height. And this will do the job as per the regulation. For Doral, Northwest 87th Street, we offered a model called Opera, which we suggest because of the area, because of the streets. And we tried to offer a very elegant model. With a color called Queens and King. So it's the color kind of change depending on the day. If it's cloudy, it's more bronze. If it's sunny, it's more towards the purple and it fits perfectly with the Northwest 82 Second Street. So this is a mock-up for the street, what it would look like. And I know the taste, you can say it's beautiful or whatever. We suggest this. And of course, we can make some adjustment based on your test. And I think we will share the information with you. But pretty much, it would look like this. It's very close to the reality. And during the night, It's going to look like that with a 3,000 Kelvin warm light with a lot of uniformity to avoid some dark spot and to avoid to have lights that are too bright, more lights toward the blue, which is not really healthy. What is recommended by Dark Sky? It's to be close to 3,000 Kelvin, 2,700 Kelvin. So we offer that. That's it. I don't know if you have any questions. Oh, yes?

Thank you. Good afternoon. So what I wanted to say is that we, um, actually gave, uh, we gave the Carlos the opportunity to try one of these operas that we're going to be putting, uh, potentially if you guys want to in Northwest 82nd street, and it's actually here, uh, in the back parking lot here at city hall. So you, you know, after this, you have the opportunity to go check it out and see it in person and see it live to, you know, and the purpose of that was to really, uh, not only take, not have you guys take our word for it, but really, uh, be able to have a proven concept and something that it's tangible for you guys to be able to utilize and look at. So, thank you.

Thank you. We'll hear from the other presentation and then we'll do questions at the end. Thank you.

If I take a good sales presentation, please. We have here the file.

Well, first, Mayor Fraga, council members, thank you for listening about our tailored proposal for the city of Doral.

Make sure you speak into the microphone, please, because it's hard to hear.

Yes, perfect. Well, who we are? We are Cell Solar. We have been designing and engineering solar power solutions for many industries, from solar lighting to large solar generators, for example. As we speak, we are deploying today some solar generators huge for homeland security. Y cells, you know in solar there is something that it's really important one side doesn't fit all so everything needs to be tailored according to the specifics of Each location there's state regulations. There is FD ot regulations and there are city regulations and You know, that's why some of our, you know, principles is also, you know, we are a minority business enterprise. We are SBA. Our products are made in High Point, North Carolina. You know, we are presenting a turnkey solution for you guys. This turnkey solution actually, when we present a proposal, it goes a whole story. It's not just a number. So all of our proposals require engineers, local engineers that stamp the proposal that everything is complied with FDOT, that it's Florida Department of Transportation. but also we're taking into consideration the lighting levels for this type of road, that is a type road two, and also with the specifics of what the city is actually doing, using, and what is safer for the riders in the road, and also for reducing liability for the city. So for this project, what we did is that STL product is one of our signature systems. So we can customize any type of luminary from bell lamp to cover style. We use also lithium batteries. And pretty much the systems will be you know, confirm with everything, you know, everything is the size of the solar panels, batteries, and all that, based on the solar radiation that you guys have here. One of the things when we, as I said before, we do a whole assessment when we're going to present a proposal. What luminary the city of Doral is using the most is using the Guideway series from Cree Lighting. So with that said, our systems will incorporate that luminary into our system. Why? Aesthetically, the whole city will look kind of the same. For maintenance purposes for the parks and recs people, it's an easier system for them to handle. So as I said before, all of our proposal has been stamped and approved by Florida DOT to install in a roadway lighting. So on this proposal, we just not took in consideration, yes, we're going to provide the lighting, so we're going to install it. That's not the case. We went through the whole engineering stamp and all that. And with that said, we came with a precast foundation. That's what was approved. And that's what you guys have through the whole city.

It's not a direct burial system.

If you guys see during the whole city, there are different methods of installation, direct burial, precast foundations, and so on. We mentioned before here that they're going to dig a hole that is five foot and put the pole. On this specific case, there is a stamp engineering drawing for a resistance at 150 miles per hour wind zone that we are. That foundation is seven feet by 30 inches. And that's what's going to be in the ground installed to sustain what FDOT requires. So this is just a stamp of engineers and foundations. Also something that is important, it is that this is a roadway project. With that said, we need to take in consideration the safety for our drivers in the road. All of our systems are considering a breakable device. A breakable device, it is when a vehicle hits a pole that is common. All these light poles are going to be in a boulevard and beside the road. The pole will break. That will prevent. We will save lives with that. And also, that will eliminate liability to the city in case of an accident. If there is an accident and there is not a breakable device installed, the city will be liable for, because didn't follow the right guidelines. This is the breakable device. And if you guys see around the city, I believe that in the last eight to eight years, everything that you have installed use a breakable device. Here you will see same vehicle, Honda Civic, hitting a pole. Two people, two women there. The other one with breakable device. The vehicle not even got damaged. We also did our photometrics presenting for the specific road, what FDOT requires. And that's why we came with the amount of luminaires that we're going to install. Our system, we also have a platform management. That platform management will give you the city members or the city who's going to be in charge of maintenance. They're going to be able to see the health of the battery, how much solar connection we are receiving. Everything's going to be GPS located. And they are going to be able to control, dim down the whole project or a specific light. If there is a neighbor that says, hey, this light is shining into my window, hey, we're going to dim down that light. And Carlos or his team can do it remotely from his office. So it's also, you know, this is just a little bit information about how it looks, the system. Also, it gives you all the lamps, how they are on, off, the deeming, you know, all the information. Also, our system, because we do solar power solutions, also we can incorporate surveillance. If you see in here, there's one lamp taking a picture of another one that it's underwater. Also, something that is important, you know, we have our local partner from Total Electrical Solutions. They have been here in Doral, 10 minutes from here, for the last 14 years. So our system complies with all four. FDOT regulations is installed for taking in consideration also the sandy layer that you guys have here, a direct burial pole, it's not safe to install in these areas. Also that it's, well, no, I think this is our proposal that we are presenting. I would love some questions.

OK, thank you very much, both companies. Do we have any questions?

I'll start. I do have a couple.

All right, so I did review the proposal and the memo presented by staff to take a look at what was being proposed. First, taking into consideration a traditional lighting option, which would be connect with hardwire, FPL. I realize that this proposal or this estimate was done in 2021. But to do 13, so the proposal of a traditional hardwired corridor would be 13 poles at 228,000, assuming that's probably going to go up a bit. And that has no infrastructure. basically a cost associated with it, which means the actual preparation of the groundwork, possible easements, all of those things that we would need, right?

That example was widening on 112th Avenue. So there was no sidewalks that you had to like re-pour. Any trees had to be moved. That was just like virgin ground where that system was constructed.

And a full traditional lighting system, you would have a lot of groundwork that would need to be done. So you're looking probably much higher cost. And then the ongoing cost of FPL, correct?

Yes. Especially with the existing infrastructure in the area, the sidewalks, the major trees. So yeah.

So that's why solar was taken into consideration.

Correct. And also it's faster the installation.

Correct. Okay. So now looking at the two companies that have been proposed that you have had conversation with, to my understanding, and I may say your company name wrong, Fonarch? Fonarch? Okay. Yes. Fonarge had an opportunity to install a poll, which I've seen. I've gone out there and seen it myself. I've gone a couple of nights to take a look at it because this is something that I've taken an interest in for some time now. Was CELS given an opportunity to install a poll?

We had some discussions about that.

Was it installed?

They haven't.

Okay.

It was last week, right? Last week or the week before?

Yeah. Okay, but you had a conversation last week. But this poll has been installed for almost a year now.

No, like a month.

No, it's been much longer than a month.

No, but it's been a lot longer. It's been at least half a year.

Yeah, like six months because I've been going out there looking at it for some time. Did we pay for any of that?

We did.

We did?

Yeah.

Okay. Why wasn't sales given an opportunity earlier on? so we can see the difference.

Because we had first approach from them and then we had sales approach us at a later time.

OK. So that's one of the things that I potentially may want to see come out of this, OK? Just so we have a clear distinction. The prices are not that far off, and that's a question I do have for cells. So the difference in cost with cells is about $156,000. But what I noticed is that you're proposing much more illumination than Fornage.

Yes, Mayor Fraga, and it's not just that. It's also more luminary, and also it's the installation method that complies with everything that you guys are doing through the city.

And that was my next thing. So there was two things that stood out to me as well. We talked about FDOT regulation. So the proposal that you all have is up to FDOT standards.

Yes.

Is yours up to the FDOT standards? Do you have FDOT approval?

Yes and no.

OK, I don't like that answer. It's a yes or a no. Please approach the podium. Thank you.

So here's the thing. No one has FDOT approval because FDOT does not have an approval for solar streetlights. The only approval they have is for gridlights. So what we do is we focus on their recommendation. If we have this type of road, we need to have this type of illumination on the ground. That's what we have done. We took the recommendation from FDOT for the illumination on the ground. And we submitted the design as is. This being said, this road, Northwest 82 Street, it's not an FDOT segment. So you don't have to follow their recommendation. And there is no specific requirement based. You make the requirements, actually. You, the city, make the requirements. So a lot of municipalities in Florida follow the guidance. We have no reason not to follow the guidance, but there is no solar streetlight company approved, and I made two or three times the trip to Tallahassee to try to get something going. No one has a solar streetlight approval as of today, madam.

Okay. So, thank you very much. So, that being said, and understanding it's not an FDOT road, but it is a high-trafficked road for us because it is in a highly dense residential area. And so, if there are standards that have higher safety measures, I want to follow them. And it should be our policy as a city to follow them, whether it's an FDOT road and whether we need to meet those exact requirements or not. I want to meet the highest safety requirements. Your first, so your quote also has two installation options, which was a direct bore, and then you included the precast foundation breakaway pole. So you can do one of the two. My understanding is your price can be significantly less expensive because you offer the direct bore option. But, yes. I mean, it's here. I see it. It's in black and white.

Can you explain the difference between both?

So the one we have back here is direct more. Yes. I know what the difference is. I'm familiar.

So we installed close to 10,000 solar streetlights in US, including highways for TxDOT, like big highways. This gentleman is right. The lack of breakaway system in some poles can kill the people that are driving. But that's systems that are overengineered. We had close to 100 knockouts on our streetlights. They were direct buried. The reason why we direct bury, it's because there is no wires on the ground. So you don't need to spend money on the concrete. You don't need to spend money on the breakaway if your pole is thin enough so when a car hit it, it breaks. And I guarantee you, it breaks. You don't need that. And today, the issue we are seeing in the traditional street light, and that's where our job is very difficult, is that a lot of technical people or whatever try to install a solar street light like a grid light. It's different. It is different. And for us, putting a foundation, putting the breakaway is just additional cost, and it's useless. But if... We don't want to be more king than the king. And if the customer asks us to do that, we do it. But that's not what we recommend as the Solar Street Light manufacturer.

Okay, so what you're saying is what I was saying. You have two options. You're recommending a direct bore. Yes. That's why that's the price you provided.

Absolutely.

But you can do the precast, but raises the cost because it is a more intensive installation process.

Absolutely. In our opinion, completely useless, to be honest.

Because of the type of strip it is.

not because of the type of street, because the pole will break anyway. If a car come and hit it, our pole is thin enough. The density, the thickness of our pole is thin enough where the pole, if you look at our poles compared to a traditional streetlight pole, They are way thinner. Traditional street light pole is about 25 inch in diameter, ours are like half of that. So they will break. And the fact that we elevate a pole on a concrete base, this is the way we install grid light because we have to go through wires. You don't have this wire with solar streetlight. You don't need that.

What is the material of your pole?

There are two different types of poles, depending on the ground. You have aluminum poles, or you have hot, deep, galvanized steel poles. OK.

Let me ask you one more question before I go back to cells. What is your battery backup life? If there's no sun, if we have a cloudy two days, three days, rain, what is the battery backup? Or how does that function?

So the way it functions, actually, it's a question that we hear pretty often. There is sun... every day. Even if today, right now, it's cloudy, there is still irradiation. So the way we do that, we make a study on Doral. On this area, we check how much irradiation we had over the past 10 year in Doral. Based on that, we take the worst year. So if 2018 was the worst year, we take this year as reference. For us, the worst year is a year with less sun. So we take this in reference. Then we take the worst month. Typically it's December, what we call the worst month. It's a month where you receive less radiation and where the nights are the longest. So we take the worst year, the worst month, and we size our system based on these two worst case scenarios. So mathematically, unless there is a situation like the only situation where we had some issues was in Los Angeles during the fires, when there was the fires because of the big smoke. Three days after, our anti-blackout systems start to activate. You see the lights in orange in the display. And the lights will start to dim. They will start to dim. It works just like, I would say, a human body. A street light is supposed to receive a certain amount of light. If this amount of light is not received, there is something wrong. So the light will say, OK, let's wait one or two more days. I still don't receive the amount of lights, and it's worse than the worst case scenario. What is going on? So the system will put itself on a starving mode, just like human metabolism. When you don't get food, your metabolism will slow. So visibly, it will be difficult to see, but the light will start to save some energy and so on. I can answer, and I know you like direct answer, tell you, OK, you put the blanket on the light on the solar panel during five days and you will still have light. Yes, but it's not really how it works. It's based on how much irradiation I receive, so how much consumption. I'm working on that. I need, based on the two worst case scenario I described, 10 years and worst months.

OK. One last question. Your product is made where? Are you local?

So our product is the brain and the heart of the system is made in France. This is where we started the activity. But our US headquarter is in Fort Worth, Texas.

OK.

The light fixture are assembled in the U.S. The system is programmed in the U.S. We are transitioning the assembly of the energy box in U.S., but we're not there yet. So any system received, installed until probably October 2026 will be made in France on the energy box.

And you have a local office?

We have a local office here.

You have a representative.

Yes. No, we have a local office in Orlando.

In Orlando. Okay. Perfect. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam.

Okay. So I had asked a question of the discrepancy in the amount of lights.

Yes. Yes. The reason the discrepancy is because we follow a. Can you? It's hard to hear you. Sorry again. So that's based on the luminaries that we are using. We are using the signature lights that you're using through the whole city. And we did our photometrics based on that. So that changed a little bit the amount of luminaries. Also, we follow FDOT standards for road tool. If there is an accident and you are not following that, it can be a liability. Also, I want to comment a little bit as a you know learning about what? You've seen mentioned it is yes There's no solar lighting that need to be certified, but our installation methods that needs to be certified If you see through the whole city all the lamps that you are installed are with a precast foundation a difference with what we are seeing. We have a bigger mass in the top of the pole. With that said, if we don't have a bigger foundation in the bottom, You know there's high wind zones, and we don't have concrete is a direct burial pole. You know that system will be you know crook and bend after two or three storms Additionally to that You know the breakable device we took in consideration the breakable device because Needs to be done. Yeah, we need to take in consideration what a If there is an accident, if there is a dead end bulb or a major accident, lawyers gonna sue the city because they are not using a breakable device that is a safety standard for road lighting. There is, I'm just gonna let you do more questions.

You don't think it's worth the risk is what you're saying?

There's no way that the city should take that risk. Also, we have in that specific area, the soil is a sandy soil, needs to be installed with concrete. There's no other way. And also, there is a third party that already stamped All our plants, the pole, our pole is an aluminum pole. It's manufactured by Hapco. That's the biggest pole manufacturer in the US, that it's in Virginia. And that pole is specific for this project. Having a thin pole is not the solution. It's having the right pole.

OK. All right, I think I have my answers, my questions answered. I'm still a little bit questioning really how, I'm understanding it's the lumens. Is your pole taller?

Our poles are 26 foot.

What are the ones that, what's the one that's outside now? I'm trying to, since I didn't see them side by side, I don't. 22. 22, so yours are taller.

Yes. Okay. The whole pole's through there.

The only thing I'm going to say about the one I saw outside, to me, it looked like a park. It looked like a pole that belonged in a park. And so what you're saying is that the poles that we have throughout the city are precast foundation.

The whole city in our parks precast foundations and also breakable device even with The streets you're talking about on this one the streets. Yeah on the parks.

It's a different It's a different illumination different illumination similar.

What do you guys have outside?

All right any other questions anybody have any questions Warranty there was a question about warranty when I looked at this and Can you comment on your warranty? Oh, here we go. CELS proposal, five-year warranty to our components. And Farnoosh's proposal is an eight-year warranty. Any, yes?

Including manpower.

Including manpower. Well, I would hope, right? The warranty should be all inclusive. If it's not working, you should come fix it. So do you have anything?

Well, you offer five-year warranty. You know, in our system, if there's a need that we need to extend the warranty, we definitely can evaluate that. But on that proposal that we present, we put a five-year warranty that is standard in that industry.

Okay. And you do have a local office. You said you're right down the street.

We do. Like 10 minutes away from here.

Okay. All right. My questions have been answered. I don't know if anybody else has any questions. Yes, Councilman Pinero.

Just a quick comment, Mayor, following up on your comments and questions. Has the staff conducted a life cycle analysis, including maintenance, replacements, comparing both companies? We have the cost. We have. Looking beyond.

We just look at the cost and the proposals, yeah.

Is that a thing that that will help as well to understand the whole?

I think the warranty is what covers that. You have the warranty. So, I mean, at the end of the day, this is solar lights. You may have to have replacements 10 years from now, but an eight-year warranty is substantial for this cost.

Because regardless of what we do, it's something that has been an issue for a good number of years. So we have to certainly move forward regardless.

And I think the issue that we have is that we don't control most of the lights. That's the main issue.

No, I think this is a viable option. We have had our disappointments with solar when we did our paths. But we're talking about many, many years ago. Technology has changed a lot. I do think this is a viable solution for the area. It's been dark for many years. So I definitely want to move forward. Look, I think you're both commendable companies with similar technologies. Obviously, you can both offer a substantial product. I am inclined to go with cells for several reasons. I think while the FDOT standards may not be a requirement, if I can provide the best safety for the area, I'm going to do that. And I see that you do have the precast, right? The difference in price is not much when you talk about that. Again, they're offering more lighting. I would have liked to see, like, if we were going to compare two companies, give me both polls so I could take a look at it. I think it's unfair that we did one and not the other. In all reality so you know my recommendation is one of two things I like that you're local that you're right there down the street to me That's extremely important because I think that the service is is extremely valuable to our residents so I'm okay to make the decision today. Otherwise, I would say I'd like to see the poll installed and let's take a look at it and give them two, three months so we can take a look and see what the illumination is. I've seen yours. I'm not saying it's a bad thing. I think it would work well. But it does look more like a park pole to me it doesn't look like a street pole to me it looks like you know I don't know that the illumination and I'm a little concerned with the fact that you're offering less poles and to me the illumination didn't look substantial from what I saw out here so Again, I didn't have a visual comparison either with sales, but looking into the different proposals, the presentations, and the product, I'm inclined to go with something made locally, something that has a safer mechanism, in my opinion. So those are my points. I'm not going to take any more questions. I'm not going to continue to debate it. That's where I stand. So I'll let anyone else who has any questions move the item.

Okay, through the mayor.

Yes, Councilman Reynoso.

So I'm going to also say a few comments on this. One, there's one company that we're getting more lighting than the other. Pricing, quality is important. The risk to life is something that we're definitely responsible for. So although lighting is a priority, I think in in case of an accident and having the opportunity for somebody to survive an accident is also quite, I mean, above alighting. And then technology features, I do like the solar powered option. I do understand that the type of soil here in Florida is different. The way to install is more difficult. So I do understand that. I would like to see what the light pole looks like. If there's a trip maybe that we can take or maybe not exactly see it installed and wait two or three months. If there's somewhere that we can go and look at a pole that's already installed and compare that way so we can have like a quicker I'll come to which company we would like.

Yes, of course. We can go or we can bring it here even tomorrow so you guys can see it. Actually, we presented to Carlos and his team last week about the product. So you are welcome to visit us at the office or we can bring it here, whatever you guys decide.

Yeah, I think we all need to have the same opportunity to view it in the same format. So our opinion is based on some type of level of quality control.

Maybe we can have them install one somewhere in the city, and then we can compare apples to apples. Right, right. There are some areas within the city that I think there's a need for lighting. Vanderbilt Park is another area I have in mind.

And I know our residents need this sooner than later. They've been asking for it for quite some time. So I do wanna be able to turn around a product for them that they're going to like, especially that this decision has been brought to us here at the dais. I wanna take all the opportunities available to us to make the best decision possible. But I do think that comparing the two products live in a controlled environment where we can all have the same opinion or the same opportunity to make the same opinion same time, the same area, so it's just a better form of judging the product. That's what I would like for us in Council.

Any other questions?

Thank you. I just wanted to make a clarification. Mayor Christie, just so that it's clear, we do have the option to do anchor bays with the same foundation with the breakaway, just so that it's clear for everybody. That option is there. When we say we recommend direct burial, it's just A preference thing. At the end of the day, the city needs to look into safety and what they need for safety of the residents. So just because that's not what we recommended doesn't mean it's not viable or not doable. No, it's in the memo.

Perfect, thank you. Your cost with the precast breakaway is in the memo. Thank you.

And then I wanted to reference what you commented about it looks like a park. Yes, we usually put that fixture in the parks because it looks aesthetic, right? We looked at the aesthetics of Doral, keeping Doral beautiful. We wanted to kind of continue that. However, City of Hollywood just last month approved $250,000 a year per year for the next four years. And what they're doing is they're transforming the entire city from the beach all the way down to downtown everywhere in the City of Hollywood. And they don't have that fixture. They have the essential fixture. So the top of our fixture can be changed to whatever preference you want. So if it needs to look more like a street light per se, that's totally an option as well. So just to make sure that everybody is clear, just because that's not what we presented on there doesn't mean it's not available and that we can't do it right.

No, I think everybody understands that they're both very customizable.

Yeah, and then on FDOT, we do follow all of the FDOT regulations. Those are all in place, whether it be with the anchor base or not. We do go by those standards, and that's what we've, you know, we've shown in there. So, thank you.

Thank you.

I want to just, you know, ask a question. I was not clear what's the material of your pole?

It could be aluminum or...

But in the proposal, in the proposal.

That's what I asked here. I asked the material of your poll in the proposal.

So on the proposal, it's the opera? OK, it's the hot, deep, galvanized steel.

Galvanized steel.

Yes, hot, deep, galvanized steel. Very robust, 30 years. Just one more thing about the street light. And I'm very respectful of your feedback. And for me, I've been doing that for like five years, and I've been to all the states in US. There is an impression when I said that the streetlights did not change since Thomas Edison. I mean it. We've been running wire since the beginning, and when a street light... And I don't understand why nothing has happened, nothing has been improved. I see a lot of... Fear from the municipalities to disrupt. And I agree with you. Safety is our top priority. We don't install streetlights to kill people. That's not what we do. However, we need to disrupt that. We need to distribute that. And in my opinion, if we have a product, if you have a brand new iPhone, a brand new smartphone, and we tell you, OK, I don't trust the battery, so I'm going to keep it plugged on a wire, we don't use the benefit of the smartphone. So I assume the fact that we don't want to put that many poles, that we want a very nice light that is uniform, with a lot of uniformity. And these lights, in the proposition we made, they are 30%. of their capacity. You want more light? We click on two buttons. You have 20% more lights. There's no problem. The only thing is we think you don't need that anymore. And LED is 210 lumens per watt. It's way, way more efficient than a grid light. So the problem with too much light, it's lack of uniformity. It's too much light. It's too bright. It's light pollution. And we are here to change things. More light, it's not always better. And yes, we lost many deeds because we assume the fact that you don't need breakaway. You don't need that And if you want us to call that we will quote it But we are 100% sure that the future of solar streetlight all over us all over the world It's not the base. It's not the concrete base. It's not the breakaway and it's not being have fear that because I'm not doing things like 70 years ago, that what we are offering can kill people. And you can make your due diligence on us. Faroche has never killed anybody, God forbid. Actually, we bring safety. We're here for that. That's our mission. So I just wanted to clarify that. Thank you very much for your attention. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Yes, all right.

I'm just going to address something. You know, tin galvanized coal, as they mentioned, tin and galvanized, it will rust and will disappear. We are in a saline environment, and the only poles that stand in the saline environment are aluminum poles.

OK. All right. So what are we going to move forward with? Because we have to have a decision. And I don't want this to be prolonged for another six months. Ideally, I would like to see this area be illuminated this year. That's the priority and our goal. We can move forward in having them install a light in the next month. And we bring this back in March. And we make a decision based on looking at both of the polls independently. Or we make a decision today with what is in front of us, taking into account, again, the proposal of both and the product that's being offered. And we move forward.

We can bring a luminary to you guys, the solar panel and all that for your evaluation tomorrow. We have it here for your revision. We didn't want to bring it today because I don't think it was the right way to present here, but we can do that tomorrow or even later today. Appreciate it.

So through the mayor, I would feel comfortable putting this on for a later date and to have the opportunity to review what that light would look like. I don't think we would need to wait until March. I think February would give us enough time. The memo, their information was.

I'm only saying because if they're gonna install it for us to actually look at it, I think there needs to be an identified location for them to do that. I agree. It may not, I mean.

I have one, so.

You have one already? OK. All right. Well, then, install it. Carlos, we trust. Install it and put it back in February and let us know where it's installed so we can go take a look at it. The one that Fornage has, it's back there. I don't know if any of you have noticed it. It's right between the Publix and the- In the little pathway. It's right in the little path right there, right behind our building. So you can go take a look at it at night and look at what it illuminates. Question for you, he mentioned that you can control the luminaries on the light.

Yes, you can dim down the luminary or anything like that. You can do that as well? Yes, one of the things is that the poles that we're gonna be using through the 82 second road are custom poles made from Hapco that will take three, four months to date to finish the manufacture of the poles. We can install that one with a different pole, but the luminary and the performance is going to be the same. Just the pole, it's not going to be exact as the one that we're going to install in here because that one was designed based with stamp engineering drawings and everything from them. Also, that pole has a warranty of 50 years for saline environments like here.

Okay. All right. Perfect, all right, I don't think we need to, do you need an action or I think you all have direction as to what to do?

No, Mayor, we'll go ahead and do the installation of the poll and then you can, at your leisure, go and review it, all of you, and we'll bring the item back in February for a final decision. Okay, sounds good.

Through the mayor, is there a way that we can verify that each of us have looked at both poles, some type of log or anything that we can sign off?

I think we have to hold ourselves accountable and go out there and look at it. Just make sure you email us the address. I'm telling you, I've gone out and looked at this one several times when I leave late, yes. So just make sure you email us the location. Yes, cool.

Carlos, you will put together an email just letting you know where both are.

If anyone would like to go out with Public Works, I'm sure they can accommodate to send somebody with you.

Absolutely.

All right, great. Thank you very much. Thank you. We'll see you all back in February then. Yes. Thank you for coming to present. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

All right, Madam Clerk. Yes, we'll go back to the item that was pulled from consent. 6G. 6G, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Doral, Florida, approving the award of fiscal year 2526 community-based organizations for cycle grants in the amount of $5,810 to Mine and Melody, $5,600 to Shine Bright Foundation, $5,460 to Vet Info, $4,560 to Miami Youth Orchestra, and $3,570 to Friends of Doral Scouts. providing for implementation and incorporation of recitals and an effective date. This was pulled by Councilman Pinero. Councilman Pinero.

Thank you, Mayor. The reason why, first of all, I decided to pull this item is, as you might recall, I'm the one that proposed last year to increase not only the amount, available amount per organization, from 5,000 to 7,000, but at the same time, the cycles, instead of one, to do it twice in a fiscal year. So first of all, I'm happy that the fact that we're increasing the number of, we had increased the number of organizations that apply. I know we had 14 organizations that submitted their applications. And that at least three of them are receiving above the 5,000 number for the first time. So I think that I have to recognize that because that was part of my intention when this was approved with your support last year. But at the same time, I know that we're still limiting the number to five organizations. We have done in the past more than five, depending when we review these numbers and these scores and all that. At the same time, part of that resolution, I know it was to, to review the guidelines and the processes how this takes place. And by looking at some of the organizations that, and I'm happy that they're receiving this award and this grant from, and I know some of them are here, by the way. There's two of them are here. Three, I'm sorry, yes. So mine and Melody, Shine Bright, Bait Info, the Miami Youth Orchestra, and the Friends of Doral Scouts, which they all do a great job. So thank you for being here. I know you have been waiting all this morning. But thank you for what you do in our community and for all our residents. So I thank you for that. At the same time, I know there are other organizations that are part of our community as well that they have done, I believe, an incredible work in the past, helping families. And that's why I would like to include two other organizations in this cycle. And let me go back for a second. What we have done in the past is when we had the maximum amount of $5,000, the organizations that were included after or during a council meeting, it was half of the amount, the maximum amount, meaning in the past was 2,500, that was awarded to X or any other particular organization. In this case, since the new cap is $7,000, half will be $3,500. So what I'll be asking my colleagues is to consider two additional organizations. One of them is Education for All, which I think they do a great job when it comes to especially Latino families. And they're trying to take their kids to college and sometimes they don't understand the process. And I think it's vital in our community to have organizations like this one that can offer the free workshops and all free resources to our communities, especially the ones that doesn't speak English. And the other one is Perla de Esperanza, which has been around for a good number of years here in our community, and they do offer services when it comes to domestic violence. which is something that for me has been, for the last two, three years, something that I have been working on to try to not only provide more resources when it comes to information and support these organizations, not only Perla de Esperanza, but any other organization related with domestic violence. So I will leave that up to your consideration. But again, what I'm looking for is to include Education for All with $3,500 and Perlas de Esperanza with $3,500 as well.

Thank you, Councilman. I have no problem with that. We've extended it in the past before to organizations that applied and just didn't meet the amount by very little because we usually just pick five but we have extended the funds. We can always take it from the funds for the later one to get them the opportunity to give it to more of the ones that applied for this round. It's something we've done in the past and I have no issue with it. Usually we try and limit it to five but, They all applied and are all, I mean, equally merit the opportunity and serve a great purpose in our community in providing services that go beyond what we do at times. So I have no problem with it. We just need a motion to approve with the amendment by Councilman Pinedo. Motion to approve. Motion to approve with the amendments by Councilman Pinedo, by Councilwoman Reynoso.

Second.

Second by Councilman Pinedo. Madam Clerk, please call the vote.

Motion to approve as amended, made by Councilman Reynoso, seconded by Councilman Pinedo. Councilman Reynoso. Yes. Councilman Pinedo.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Cabral.

Yes.

Mayor Fraga. Yes. Motion passes.

All right. Okay, this exhausts our discussion items for today. So I will go into my mayor's report. All right, so very briefly, I want to just, we went to Tallahassee, myself and Council Member Reynoso were in Tallahassee this week. We just came back yesterday and had very productive meetings. Obviously a lot of eyes on what will happen regarding property taxes. Um, we have not much news different than what everyone's hearing at this time, but we will continue to monitor and be involved. We met, um, had a great meetings with, um, the governor's office and, um, and talked about our appropriations. So we're looking forward to getting everything that we, um, have asked for this year that will only continue to enhance our programming and, uh, and infrastructure work here in the city of Doral as well as our law enforcement, which is something that we asked for, um, that is significant to our community, especially this year, 2026, being a year where there will be a lot of high-profile activity happening in the city of Doral, as you all know. So we look forward to the legislative session being a productive one and being one that will yield great results for the city of Doral in its funding. And we'll be watching those preemptive bills that continue to roll out and how they affect our city and the authority within the city on zoning matters and things of that nature. But it was a good productive meeting. It was the opening of the session. We were there for the state of the state and were able to watch the governor speak as well as the speaker of the house for their last session. And then also I'd like to announce that our 2050 comprehensive plan update is starting, and we will be having our first workshop on Tuesday, January 20th at 6 p.m. at Doral Central Park. We would love for our community to come out and participate in that. There will be several workshops. This is the initial one, oh, just one workshop. One workshop we'll be having as we prepare the update to our comprehensive plan, so we hope you'll join us and bring your perspective. And last for my mayor's comments this month, well actually there's one more thing, but I wanted to highlight 10 achievements for 2025 that we had top, top achievements and congratulate our administration. I didn't do it in December and I should have, but I wanted to not let January pass without congratulating our administration, our incredible staff, and my colleagues for these 10 highlighted things that we did last year that I think will really Turned to a new page in the city of Doral first we had we purchased Doral 10, which is the first time we've purchased lands In the city since its inception to be able to create revenue generating assets, which is something that we've discussed on Doing for this community we completed come we completely completed Doral Central Park finally We in record time Negotiated and came to an agreement on our collective bargaining agreement with police the limited Association and We took important steps forward on the future of our police headquarters. We now have a conceptual design. Congratulations to the chief's staff and Orlando particularly, Alicia, all of you, but I know Orlando was a huge part of that process. We have the planning and also renderings for the future parking garage, pickleball courts, and retail in Doral Central Park, another project that is geared towards our policy of revenue generating assets. We introduced the emergency hardship grants for families. I want to thank Artis and Nick for their hard work on that. The first two months of it were extremely successful in finance. I know you guys worked really hard, Fernando, everybody. But particularly Nick and Artis have really really extended their hand to the community on this, and there's a lot of families that are very grateful for it. We also have the Golden Hearts Senior Grant Program, which I received many, many thank yous and emails from residents on. And we worked alongside our Parks and Police for Kids and the Chief of Police as well as the Police Department to raise over $300,000 for Parks and Police for Kids that directly supports youth families and programming in our city. We lowered our millage rate, keeping us still the lowest millage rate in all of Miami-Dade County. And we enhanced constituent services once again. And I have a little graphic that I would like to share with everybody. I think IT has it, if not, I believe, oh, we printed them, here you go. This is an impressive little graphic as to what constituent services, do you mind passing it that way, please? Constituent services is doing for our residents We had over 500 cases opened. We had over 643 phone calls for assistance and over 500 emails with constituent services. So that is a huge achievement and just a testament to the customer service of this city. And so I just wanted to thank everybody involved and just, again, say it was a fantastic 2025 and 2026 has some big shoes to fill. So get to work, people. And last, I just want to wish artist Samuels a happy birthday, our constituent services coordinator. Her birthday was on the 13th. I was in Tallahassee, so I just wanted to wish her a happy birthday. today for, and thank her for everything that she does. Lastly, oh, one more thing I forgot. We need to change the council meeting for February to, it was supposed to be February 11th to February 18th, as it falls on the same days as date days. I almost forgot. So if I have the support, I'd like to go ahead and change our council meeting date for February from the 11th to the 18th. Everybody okay with that? Yes? All right. That is it for my council comments. That's it. All right, we move on to the next one. City Manager's report.

So good morning again. Mayor, thank you for that recap. It's been an amazing year and we're looking for an amazing year to come as well. Right now, I just wanted to let you know that I'm delighted to share that the city has been honored with the Government Finance Officers Association Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024.

Awesome.

This prestigious certificate of achievement represents the highest level of recognition in governmental accounting and financial reporting, signifying a major accomplishment for both our government and its management. The city of Doral has proudly received this award every year since 2004. This recognition highlights the dedication and expertise of our finance team and underscores our commitment to maintaining fiscal responsibility and fostering trust within our community. So I extend a very heartfelt gratitude to everyone who's contributed to this remarkable achievement, to our finance team. And I'd like, Mayor, if they could come up to take a picture with you in order to commemorate this award.

Actually, if you don't mind, if you just wait till the end of the meeting, we'll go down and take a picture with them as we recess, OK? Don't go anywhere. Does that conclude your mayor?

And that concludes my comments.

So I forgot something. It is also our city manager's one year anniversary. So congratulations. Great job in your first year.

Thank you.

Yes. All right. Mr. City Attorney.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Nothing really to report. Looking forward to a very good 2026.

Awesome. Madam Clerk.

It's attached. So efficient, thank you. All right, we're ready to take a recess.

I do have a personal privilege. So I didn't want the council meeting to be over without recognizing that it is the vice mayor's last birthday at the city of Doral. So I just wanted to bring out.

Her birthday as well. So from my office. But you didn't have to.

No, it's okay. Thank you. From my office, thank you.

Happy birthday. Thank you. Thank you for your wishes.

We can sing happy birthday.

We can sing happy birthday. That's fine.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday, dear Vice Mayor. Happy birthday to you.

Thank you everyone and your wishes. Thank you so much.

Okay, we need a motion to recess. Oh, motion. Motion to recess by Council Member Reynoso. Second by Council Member Pinedo. All in favor say aye. Aye. All right, we will see you back here at six o'clock.

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Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the second session of our January Council meeting. Today is Thursday, the 15th of January, and the time is now 6.16 p.m. I hereby call this meeting to order. Just a reminder that if you need to use your phones, please step outside. We kindly ask that you help us maintain a respectful atmosphere during our meeting. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Councilwoman Nicole Reynoso. Present. Councilwoman Maureen Porras is absent. Councilman Rafael Pinero.

Present.

Vice Mayor Dana Cabral.

Present.

Mayor Christy Fraga. Present. Mayor Hufkorn.

Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance led by Vice Mayor Cabral. Okay, I don't believe there's any changes to our agenda order of business. Just item 6D from the morning. Okay, perfect, thank you very much. And now we're gonna go ahead and open for public comments. We will go ahead and open the floor for public comments. Each speaker will have three minutes to address any item on today's agenda or anything that's germane to this council. Please start by stating your name and address for the record. Make sure you are registered to speak with the city clerk's office either before or after your comments. We will first hear from those who have preregistered to speak. Once those have been heard, then any walk-in speakers will be allowed to approach the podium. As a reminder, and according to the city code, We ask that all remarks be made in a respectful, courteous, and orderly manner. Personal attacks, offensive language, or disruptive behavior will not be permitted. Let's work together to keep this a productive and constructive conversation for all. Okay, we'll go ahead and start with those who have pre-registered to speak, and I believe we only have one at this time, Jody Steinberg. Thank you.

Okay. My name is Jody Steinbauer, 5598 Northwest 102 Place. Ms. Mayor, I've known you for about 10 years, maybe more, and you've known my husband. I would think out of respect you would know how to pronounce my name. Anyway, I'll go on.

It was an honest mistake, Jody. Good evening, everyone. Happy New Year.

My husband and I have been homeowners in Doral for 32 years. We've been very involved in community service. I have been a volunteer director for Parks Police for Kids Foundation for over 10 years. My husband was a volunteer director before me. I'm here to discuss the item 926-6477 Restructuring PP4K that was put on the agenda this morning by the Mayor. I was not able to attend this morning as I had physical therapy due to a recent surgery. Basically, this item wants to change the mission statement and bylaws and have the council run the 501C not-for-profit foundation instead of the volunteer directors. This morning, the mayor said that we did not raise funds. This is not true. An example of some of our sponsors that the directors were able to get are Jersey Mike's, Papa John's, Super Autos, Alpha Brokers, Doral Foods, just to name a few. One year, one of the directors was able to get Baptist Hospital to donate the funding to buy the backpacks for the back to school backpack giveaway. The mayor said the gala and golf tournament raised $300,000. After expenses, it raised close to $100,000. I was the only director to buy two tickets, even though I was having surgery and unable to go. As the name states, Parks Police for Kids, the mission is to give to the kids in our community, which this foundation has always done. We raise funds so we can fund programs for the kids. We have funded an after-school program for at-risk middle school kids that interact with the police and are tutored by their teachers. We fund a backpack giveaway for all the kids in our community. We help with the free summer camp run by the police department. We run bicycle safety events with donated Little Tox bikes and we funded a truck to store the bicycles. It is all about the kids, and I hope the restructuring will not hurt the funding going directly to the kids. All foundation funds should go to the programs that help them. I have enjoyed volunteering for PP4K and helping kids. I will miss being involved with them. Thank you.

Thank you, Jody Steinbauer. Anyone else who would like to speak at this time? We have no more pre-registered speakers. Please approach the podium. All right, being none. We will now close the public comments portion of this meeting, and we'll move on to our first item, which is going to be the item that was pulled this morning, which is 60.

Correct. Item 60, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Doral, Florida, approving the award of invitation to bid 2025-22 tables, tents, and chairs to the top-ranked providers, authorizing the city managers to negotiate and enter into an agreement with Glenn's Tents and Table Rental Service, Inc., and SBS Investments of Dade County, Inc., for the provision of rental services for tents, tables, and chairs for the city's recreational programs and special events for a period of three years with one two-year renewal term for a total of five years in an amount not to exceed approved budgeted funds per fiscal year, providing authorization to use Miami-Dade County RTQ008A0 in order to expand and supplement the vendor pool for these services, providing for implementation and incorporation of recitals in an effective date. This was pulled by Mayor Fraga.

All right. Thank you very much. So the only reason I pulled this is because I would like to reduce the amount of years that we're going into the contract for. For several reasons, we're currently restructuring the events that we're having, how many. There was a conversation had at one point that why didn't we have our own tents, the quality of the tents that have been used in the past and their conditions, and the difference of what we would get versus what we're getting if we were to have our own and things like that. So I'm OK with moving forward with this. I just want to reduce the period of time so that we have just more evaluation throughout the year. So I'm just going to recommend that we do for a period of one year with one two-year renewal, with two one-year renewals. Is that OK?

Yes, Mayor, of course. You can.

Yeah, I just think it gives us a better opportunity to evaluate throughout the year the quality of what we're getting and also maybe do an analysis of if we buy our own tents, if that's an option, and if we would save money. So I wanna take a look at that.

That's all. Thank you.

You okay with that, Michael?

Yeah. Okay, good. Motion.

All right, motion to approve by Councilman Pinero with the amendment. Second. Second by Councilman Reynoso.

Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Motion to approve as amended, made by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Councilman Reynoso. Councilman Pinedo?

Yes.

Councilman Reynoso?

Yes. Vice Mayor Cabral? Yes.

Mayor Fraga? Yes. Motion passes.

Okay, great. Thank you very much for your support on that. We'll now move into the public hearing items. May I pre-swear in the witnesses, Mayor?

Yes, please do. If you will be presenting testimony on any of the public hearing items, please stand up, raise your right hand, and repeat after me. I do solemnly swear or affirm that the information that I'm about to present Shall be the truth and nothing but the truth. Thank you very much. Item 19A, Ordinance Number 202601, amending Chapter 26, noise. An ordinance of the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Doral Ford amending portions of Chapter 26, Article 5 of the City's Code of Ordinances relating to noise, providing for civility incorporation to the code and an effective date. Okay, thank you very much.

I believe this belongs to the administration and Parks and Recreation.

Good evening, Mayor. Michael Festa, Parks and Recreation Director. So this proposed amendment to the code would align the code with proposed uses at Doral Central Park, particularly for concerts, open-air events, mostly associated with the Doral Amphitheater. And we've been working with the city attorney on this language and this amendment to the code.

OK. Thank you very much. I'm going to go ahead and open for public hearing real quick Pass me to do that. We're gonna open up the floor for public hearing for item 26-6478. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please come up. Okay, being none, we'll close public hearing. And if anyone has any questions for our Parks and Recreation Director.

Motion to approve.

Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso.

No additional questions. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Motion to approve ordinance number 202601 on first reading, made by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Councilman Reynoso. Councilman Pinedo?

Yes.

Councilman Reynoso? Yes.

Vice Mayor Cabral? Yes.

Mayor Fraga? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you very much, Mike.

Thank you.

Item 19B, ordinance number 202602, vacation of streets. An ordinance of the mayor and the city council of the city of Doral, Florida, creating chapter 38, article 7 of the city's court of ordinances relating to the vacation of streets, providing for suitability and cooperation to the code and an effective date.

Okay, I'm going to go ahead and open up public comments for this item. Public comments is now open for item 26.6479. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Being none, public comments now close, and I believe this item is for Public Works.

Um, yes, Mayor. Good evening. Yes. Um, we, um, uh, the city does not have, did not have a, a process for vacations of right-of-way, um, on the books. Um, we have Recently received a request for a vacation of right away. And so what we have decided to do, we did some research and other municipalities and we have developed a process. The attorney has worked with public works to develop our process and codify the way to get around a request made to the city to to vacate right away. And that's basically what what this is.

This ordinance, though, does not actually vacate any streets. It's just a process in place so that if that should happen in the future, this would be what would be followed and it would need to come before this council.

Correct.

Okay. Just wanted to clarify, is there any questions for the administration or for Public Works? Being none, we need a motion. Motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso.

Madam Clerk, please call the vote. Motion to approve ordinance number 2026, first reading, made by Councilman Pinero, seconded by Councilman Reynoso. Councilman Pinero?

Yes. Councilman Reynoso? Yes.

Vice Mayor Cabral?

Yes.

Mayor Fraga? Yes. Motion passes.

All right, thank you very much, Mr. Arroyo.

Next item, second reading, 19C, Ordinance Number 2025-22, Doral Concourse Fund Amendment. An ordinance of the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Doral Ford approving a small-scale land use amendment to the City of Doral Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map to change the land use categories from office and residential OR and industrial I to downtown mixed-use DMU for a five-acre parcel land located at 8400 Northwest 36th Street, providing for incorporation and recital, survivability conflicts, and an effective date. This was approved on first reading on June 4th.

Okay, so the next items, items 19C, D, E, and F, all have to do with the same concept. So we're going to hear one presentation, and then we will have them read into the record. We will open up public comments. We will do ex parte communication, and then we will take a vote. So just one presentation will be given for this, so. We'll go ahead and have Michelle come up and do her presentation now. Let me go ahead and open up public comments for this one. We're gonna open up public comments for item 19C, also known as 25-6190. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Being none, public comments now close and we'll hear a presentation from our Planning and Zoning Director.

Thank you, Mayor. Before you this evening, we have four applications that are related to this project. We refer to it as MG3 Doral Office or Concourse Doral. The applicant is seeking a future land use map amendment from industrial commercial to downtown mixed use, a rezoning from office residential and industrial to downtown mixed use, a master development agreement, and a site plan for Doral Concourse, which is a currently developed site approximately 5.05 acres, located at 8400 Northwest 36th Street. The site is currently developed with an office building with a structured parking garage at the rear. The office building is that office residential zoning that's currently in place, and the structured parking garage to the south is currently zoned as industrial. So the future land use map amendment would accomplish a couple of things. It would permit business, retail, office, and residential uses on the same parcel. It would allow for, or it requires a mixture of the permitted uses that I just described, which is required on every downtown mixed use site. Downtown mixed use is typically limited to 10 acres or more to provide a horizontal and vertical integration urban oriented projects. However, for projects that are five acres or more, if you're currently located next to an established downtown mixed use, you can request that flume amendment rezoning and master development agreement. In this case, the parcel is located adjacent to city place Doral, which is land used and zoned as downtown mixed use. So that creates the path to move forward for these requests. The rezoning, which which is also a part of this application. The applicant currently seeks to go from industrial commercial to downtown mixed use. And again, this request would allow for business, retail, office, and residential uses, allowing that mixture of uses. So the intent for the rezoning is to integrate restaurant use through the master development agreement and the rezoning on the ground floor of the already built environment. The development plans, and the community connectivity plans for the DMU sites shall identify strategic locations where vertical mixed use shall occur and to facilitate multimodal options in which this project accomplishes that. At these locations, retail service businesses are encouraged to be located on the ground floor with office and residential uses above. Again, this project accomplishes that with the office uses already established and developed in the current structure. This shall not preclude horizontal mixed uses where the site plan and community connectivity plans demonstrate that the functional arrangement of such uses achieves the purpose of the district. So again, the project for rezoning and land use amendment accomplish the goals of your comprehensive plan and your land development code. With every request for a rezoning to downtown mixed use and a flume amendment to downtown mixed use, the code requires that the applicant also a proffer and that the council approve a master development agreement and a concurrent site plan. The applicant has applied for those requests. This is second reading of the MDA. The MDA establishes the project location, the legal description, and a description summarizing the information contained in city code section 685828A. The project includes the specifications as identified by the code, retrofitting an existing single-use structure currently comprised of offices only, and then activating the ground floor by adding the restaurants totaling approximately 19,565 square feet. The MDA also establishes a community benefit features and public art to be installed. It's gonna activate frontage with pedestrian friendly amenities including walkways, landscaping, trellises. There's gonna be an upgrade to the fountain and we're gonna incorporate some public art in that area. And then it's gonna make the lake accessible to the public as civic space with kind of a walking path surrounding that lake. The MDA also provides for roadway and transit improvements to be built by the developer. They're gonna signalize the main intersection access driveway on Northwest 36th Street pending related agency permit approvals and prior to occupancy coordination with Miami-Dade County TSS for signal length and signal operating plan at Northwest 36th Street to minimize traffic spill back onto the nearby adjacent intersections. The MDA also provides for project phasing, commencement, completion dates for each phase, and a build out for the entire project as required by our code. And then there's technical statements showing how the city's public facility levels of service standards are being met or exceeded by the project, and that's part of your concurrency management system. Finally, as I stated previously, the MDA also runs concurrently with a site plan, which will be presented this evening. And then any other information that's deemed pertinent by the planning and zoning director or the city council, that is also accomplished through the master development agreement. The last item. for this project before this evening is the site plan. And while the MDA, the rezoning and the flume amendment were heard at first reading in June, the site plan only requires a resolution. So you're seeing that tonight for the first time. As previously stated, the site plan seeks to convert the ground floor of the existing single use office structure to include restaurant use. And it's gonna activate the space and enhance the pedestrian engagement. All of your LDR requirements are met through this application request with no variances being sought. And project features include modern architectural designs, bike racks, landscaping improvements, pedestrian walkways, and compliance with the Doral Boulevard Master Plan urban streetscape character district. I want to point out that the applicant paid very close attention to the Doral Boulevard Master Plan. In order to activate Northwest 36th Street, there were some constraints due to the building already being developed and the county requiring kind of an access drive that comes in from the south and then circles to the west and then loops around to the front of the building on Doral Boulevard and then through the project for circulation. So the applicant's architectural team worked very closely with the city so that we could ensure that that activation along Doral Boulevard was not gonna be impeded or impacted in a negative way. So they are compliant with the Doral Boulevard master plan. We're really pleased with that. Renderings for the project as described are before you on the screen. You can see that link and the related, the fountains, the related walkways, et cetera, and how those restaurants are gonna activate that frontage on the ground floor and how it's nicely illuminated. There's some rendering perspectives. And compliance with your site plan evaluation standards, which include consistency with a comprehensive plan. We accomplished that through the Fluma Amendment. Promoting better site design, which I've described in this presentation. Integration of project more effectively into the surrounding environment. Again, it's adjacent to Doral City Place, so it's going to complement that project nicely. Enhancement of property values. ensuring harmonious relationship among buildings, uses, and visitors, a protection of the health, safety, and welfare of our residents and our visitors. All traffic concerns have been addressed. And again, consistency with the standards and regulations of the approved master development agreements, pattern books, conceptual site plans, et cetera, within the DMU projects. So with that, Staff recommends that the mayor and council approve the following request for property generally located at 8400 Northwest 36th Street. Future land use map amendment from office and residential and industrial to downtown mixed use for approximately 5.05 acres. A rezoning from industrial commercial to downtown mixed use for the same 5.05 acres. The master development agreement and the site plan. The applicant's legal counsel is here. Should the counsel have any additional questions? Thank you so much.

Thank you, Michelle. That was wonderful. Mr. Delabor.

And good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, council members, staff. My name is Miguel Diaz de la Portilla. I'm an attorney at Gunster, 600 Brickwell Avenue, 35th floor, Miami, Florida. I agree 100% with that wonderful presentation from your director. What you have are four applications, really, to accomplish a very simple purpose. The simple purpose is to take a pre- incorporation of Doral building and structure, which is a single-use structure, an office building, and activate the ground floor with 19,565 square feet of restaurant spaces, and to also improve the site to make it walkable, to make it livable, to connect it, to advance the goals, objectives, and policies of your comp plan, and to advance the vision of your strategic plan for the city of Doral, creating revenue, movement, interest, and beauty. in what is a very nice, but quite frankly, boring building. So we ask for your support. We have a very strong staff recommendation. I would like to point out one thing on page nine of the comp plan recommendation of approval from your staff. It says there's not a single goal, objective, or policy of your comp plan that this application doesn't advance or meet. And I think that's a significant thing to say because that's not always the case when you have a comp plan application. So yes, what we're doing is we would like to re-designate the property DMU. We're right next to city place, rezone it to DMU. We have a development agreement before you that spells out how we're going to go about doing that and a site plan that you've already seen the renderings of what it would look like once we're done and it'll all be done in short order. We meet all levels of service. We've addressed every concern and every question raised. And we've worked very collaboratively with your staff, and we're very proud of it. And we ask for your support. And we're here to answer any questions. I would like to just introduce my wife, Helenette, who is co-counsel, also with Gunster, and Evo Fernandes, who is our architect for MODIS, who did a wonderful job in bringing this beautiful project before you. Thank you.

Okay, thank you very much for your presentation. I just need a disclosure of ex parte communications and then any questions that may arise. None. And no ex parte communications either, no? Okay, any questions for the applicant or for staff? And we will incorporate all of our comments and questions into each reading. Yes, Congressman Pineda.

I just want to say, well, happy new year to you both.

Yes, of course, happy new year. I forgot to.

I think it's a great project. It's something that makes sense, especially for that particular area. So I'm glad that we're moving forward on this one. So I place the motion to approve.

Second. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo, second by Vice Mayor Cabral. I just have a very quick comment. Again, thank you for the presentation. I just want to make clear in layman's terms, just because when some people hear rezoning, they think a whole new development. The existing building is going to be retrofitted for the restaurant, so it's not a redevelopment. I also want to point out, should there ever be a future redevelopment of the the location of the land, they would have to come back to council. There's no description of residential or anything in this modification. So I know that sometimes people see rezoning and they think that it's a whole new concept. So I think you very tastefully made upgrades to a more dated property that will fit what's already coming on Doral Boulevard. And I'm glad that there was no need to abandon our master development plan for Doral Boulevard because that's important as we enhance the city. And so I'm glad that was able to be incorporated. There's always a concern when it's an existing building. So thank you very much for your work. And we look forward to having some good restaurants there.

Thank you, Mayor.

All right, Madam Clerk, please. Motion to approve ordinance number 2025-22 on second reading, made by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Vice Mayor Cabral. Councilman Pinedo?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Cabral? Yes. Councilman Reynoso?

Yes. Mayor Fraga? Yes. Motion passes. All right, wonderful. Okay, so now we're going to hear 19D, read that into the record, and we'll go through the same process.

Item 19D, ordinance number 2025-23, Doral Concourse Rezoning. An ordinance of the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Doral, Florida, approving an amendment to the city's official zoning map from Industrial Commercial IC to Downtown Exuse DMU for a five-acre parcel located at 8400 Northwest 36th Street, providing for incorporation of recitals, severability conflicts, and an effective date. This was approved on first reading on June 4th.

Okay, we're going to go ahead and open up public comments for item 19D, also known as 25-6191. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Being none, we will close public comments. Madam Clerk, if the record reflects, no one has chosen to speak at this time, and I'll take any ex parte communication. Being none, okay, Madam Clerk, we need a motion, sorry. Motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo, second by Vice Mayor Cabral. All former comments will be incorporated into this item as well. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Motion to approve ordinance number 2025-23 on second reading, made by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Vice Mayor Cabral. Councilman Pinedo? Yes. Vice Mayor Cabral? Yes. Councilman Reynoso?

Yes.

Mayor Fraga?

Yes.

Motion passes.

Next item, Madam Clerk.

Next item, Ordinance Number 2025-24, Doral Concourse, MDA. An ordinance of the Mayor and the City Council of the City of Doral, Florida, approving a development agreement with MG3 Doral Office LLC for a mixed-use development project known as Doral Concourse in the Downtown Mixed-Use Zoning District, DMU, to incorporate approximately 19,565 square feet of restaurant use within an existing office building for the property located at 8400 Northwest 36th Street, providing for incorporation of recitals and an effective date. This was approved on first reading on June 4th.

Okay, we'll go ahead and open up public comments for item 19E, also known as 25-6196. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Being none, we will close public comments, and I will take any expert take communications. Being none, we will incorporate all the former presentations and comments, and I need a motion to approve.

Motion.

Second. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinero, second by Vice Mayor Cabral. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Motion to approve ordinance number 2025-24 and second reading by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Vice Mayor Cabral. Councilman Pinedo?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Cabral?

Yes. Councilman Reynoso? Yes. Mayor Fraga?

Yes. Motion passes. One last time. Item 19F, a resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Doral, Florida, approving the site plan for Doral Concourse located at 8400 Northwest 36th Street in the city of Doral, Florida pursuant to section 53-184F for the city's land development code and providing for an effective date.

All right, we're gonna go ahead and open up the public comments again for item 19F, also known as 26-6460. Anyone would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Being none, we will close the public comments again and take any export communications. Being none, we will incorporate the previous presentations and comments once again, and I will need a motion to approve. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo, second by Vice Mayor Cabral. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Motion to approve, made by Councilman Pineda, seconded by Vice Mayor Cabral. Councilman Pineda?

Yes.

Vice Mayor Cabral?

Yes.

Councilman Reynoso?

Yes. Mayor Fraga?

Yes. Motion passes. Okay. All right. Thank you very much. All right, we'll move on to the next item, 19G. Item 19G.

Thank you. Thank you. Ordinance number 2025-47, text amendment to adjust for future land use. An ordinance of the Mayor and the City Council of City of Doral, Florida approving slash denying a text amendment to the City of Doral Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element Policy 2.1.2 entitled Industrial Category to remove the prohibition of amusement center, entertainment, health, exercise, and sport facility uses within said Future Land Use Category. Authorizing the transmittal of the text amendment adoption package to the State Land Planning Agency and or the required governmental reviewing agencies pursuant to the provisions of Section 163.3184 Florida Statutes providing for conflicts of ability, authorization, and adoption and effective date. This was approved on proceeding on December 10th.

Okay, we're going to go ahead and open up the public comments for item 19G, also known as 25-6430 for second reading. Anyone who would like to speak on this item, please approach the podium. Being none, public comments is now closed, and we will hear from staff. If anything, I don't think there's any significant changes on this at all.

There are none.

Okay, perfect. Any questions? Again, this is the second reading. If there's no comments or questions, we need a motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Vice Mayor Cabral. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Motion to approve ordinance number 2025-47 on second reading by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Vice Mayor Cabral. Councilman Pinedo? Yes. Vice Mayor Cabral?

Yes.

Councilman Reynoso?

Yes.

Mayor Fraga?

Yes. Motion passes. All right. Final item.

Last item, 19H, ordinance number 2025-48, special exception uses for industrial zoning. An ordinance of the name of the City Council of the City of Doral, Florida, amending section 53-128, use compatibility table of the city's code to add definitions for fitness, sports uses, and to update the compatibility table accordingly. Amending article six of chapter 68, including division two, industrial commercial district IC, division three, industrial district I, and division four, industrial restrictive district IR. To list indoor outdoor recreation facilities as a special exception, use subject to special development regulations. And further amending the permitting uses in the industrial commercial IC and industrial I zoning districts to conform amendments provided herein. Amending Section 68-848 and 68-849 related to downtown Doral Art District to update fitness sports use terminology. Amending Section 68-861 to clarify allowable special exceptions used in the Doral Decor Overlay District. Creating Section 74-171 indoor outdoor recreation facility to establish special development regulations, amending section 52-5 definition, to eliminate conflicting terms, amending section 77-139, to update uses in the minimum off-street parking matrix, providing for conversion recitals, codifications of mobility conflicts, and an effective date. This was approved on first reading on December 10th. Take a deep breath.

We're going to go ahead and open up public comments for item 19H, also known as 25-6392. Anyone who would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium. Being none, public comments is now closed. Let the record reflect no one has chosen to speak at this time. This is the second reading. Again, no significant changes from first to second reading. No, I think the clerk covered it all. Yeah. Thank you. If you could understand her. No, just kidding.

Motion to approve.

All right, motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Vice Mayor Cabral. If there's no additional comments, Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Motion to approve ordinance number 202548 on second reading, made by Councilman Pinedo, seconded by Vice Mayor Cabral. Councilman Pinedo? Yes. Vice Mayor Cabral? Yes. Councilman Reynoso? Yes. Mayor Frank? Yes. Motion passes.

All right, thank you very much. That exhausts our agenda for today. I do have one announcement before we adjourn the meeting. I want to repeat once again at the request of our planning and zoning director that on January 20th at 6 p.m. from 6 to 8 at Doral Central Park, we will have our 2050 Comprehensive Plan Update Workshop. This is your one and only chance. No, we will also hear it here in the council, but... to come and participate, give your feedback on the future of our community and our comprehensive master plan. So please join us Tuesday, January 20th at 6 p.m. at Doral Central Park. We shall see you there for our workshop. If there's no other comments, we will adjourn this meeting with a motion from Councilman Pinedo.

Motion.

Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. Second by Councilwoman Reynoso. All in favor say aye. Aye. This meeting is adjourned. See you all in February. Thank you.