Town Commission - Regular Meeting

All right today is Thursday August 20th 1122 AM starting and take the role please.

Thank you chief if you lead us please the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. All right, moving on to item 2A, resolutions and proclamations. Consideration of a resolution canceling the special election schedule for November 3rd, 2026 on Charter Amendment Resolution Number 20263518 and 20263519. Madam Clerk, if you'll read the title of the resolution into the record, please. Yes, Mayor.

All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Sorry, Madam Attorney, if you'll introduce the item.

Before we get to that, I'm going to just, again, put a motion on the table. So I guess I'll request a motion to approve the resolution as presented, and we'll take it from there.

This is David here. I'll make a motion to take consideration of the resolution canceling the special election. This is item 2A, special election scheduled for November 3rd, 2026, on Charter Amendment Resolution Number 20263518 and 20263519. Is there a second? Second.

All right, so before we get into Commission discussion questions, I'm just going to go through public comment. Ms. Alida Krasner. Krasner. Thank you, Mrs. Love.

All right, name and address of the record, please.

Thank you, Mrs. Kretzer. Michael Kerouken, three minutes, please. Are you going to speak?

All right, anybody else wanna speak before we close public comment? Seeing none we'll close and move on to Commission debate if anybody has any questions for the town attorney

Yeah, so I have a question, which is a clarification, I guess. So one of the things that were highlighted by Mr. Karke's email this morning were connected to the actual conversation over the language that is highlighted in red in your memo. So my question is, I couldn't find the document, the original document, basically the one that you put your red marks on, the one that you redlined. So can you just clarify that for me?

Yeah, no, thank you. I think it's a good clarification. It'd be great if we could add that original resolution to this whole conversation, because that's probably the document that we don't have here.

I think Commissioner Trevani is asking if we could just add that document to the minutes after today's meeting.

SO I'M GOING TO STOP THE SO I'M GOING TO STOP THE CONVERSATION BECAUSE WE KEEP CONVERSATION BECAUSE WE KEEP REPEATING OURSELVES AT THIS REPEATING OURSELVES AT THIS POINT. POINT. I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR AND I I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR AND I THINK WE CAN PUT THIS ITEM TO REST. THINK WE CAN PUT THIS ITEM TO REST. SO, MADAM CLERK, IF YOU'LL CALL SO, MADAM CLERK, IF YOU'LL CALL THE ROLE, PLEASE.

Okay, but you also have to understand that our time up here is limited. Your ability to keep a question going for an hour is limited. You had, what, two, three bites at the apple already? It's been clarified.

That's all that's been happening up here.

All right, so please have your three minutes, and then we're going to vote. Okay.

All right, any other comments before we?

I mean, we didn't talk about the next step, like what's gonna happen? How do we nullify this? Because to me, the issue is that it's, we went out to the voters, it is true. They voted on something which I think conceptually they kind of understood, and this is what they wanted. So now we're finding a problem. So it's very convoluted. So on one side, we have the residents who have expressed an opinion. So now we're trying to... not consider that because of a technical issue, which I totally understand, by the way. And I understand your argument also about what you guys went through with the prop

Well, I just want to give some clarity, and I'm sorry for interrupting. The item, and I just want to check for myself, the item we're voting on today is to remove the ballot question, right? The issue of the legality of the question and do we still apply that law is something that we still have to deal with. But today, because of the deadline, we need to give Miami-Dade County an answer. Do we put this question on or not? So this is not going to, and Steve, please correct me if I'm wrong, this is not going to give or take away what was put in until there is another action on that. So today is

potentially, or it could completely stop those projects, right? Isn't that why you guys pulled it off in the first place? No, no, no. When I said when your commission value engineered the memorial, it was for that exact purpose, which is if the voters voted no on it, you were completely screwed. You would never have been able to do the water main project. This town would never be able to build a memorial. So no, I don't think going to the voters right now on this, if that vote's no, it can have an adverse effect and completely mobilize this town. All right, so Madam Clerk, let's call the roll, please.

Yes, and thank you, Council, for addressing the concerns that were brought to us via email, and I'll appreciate that and the diligence of your team.

Well, first of all, I just want to make a comment. I mean, Commissioner, you've stated at prior meetings that you were all about process and procedure. And the town attorney has sat here for 50 minutes and explained why this process and procedure wasn't due diligence. At the August 6th special meeting, you tried to delay the memorial, saying that, hey, we're going to be able to change this very soon as soon as the attorney comes forward. So you've kind of made statements that you're alluding to it. We spent the last 45 minutes talking about this and you're just gonna say no anyway. So I'd like

Motion to adjourn. Second, all in favor?