City Commission - Regular Meeting

Welcome. Welcome, everybody, to the South Miami City Commission Tuesday, July 21. We're going to go ahead and get started. Please silence your cell phones. Madam City Clerk, can you please call the roll?

Thank you very much. And if everyone could join me for a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance by Commissioner Kaye. Commissioner Kaye.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Hug it. I can help you. It'll be like an Iwo Jima moment.

All right, so next up is public remarks. I don't know if everyone had a chance to fill out the sheet in the back of the room. When I call your name, if you could just come up to the podium, give your address, please. One moment. Thank you very much. First up is Reynold Martin. Welcome, Reynold. Good, thank you. You might have to turn the microphone on.

I think that's OK. Yeah. We'll call you back up when the initiative. Right. So they won't be able to. OK. Well, it is a presentation. So it's going to be coming up soon. So if you'd like to speak, you could speak now. Sorry about that.

Thank you very much, Randall. Next up is Darren Rizzo.

Okay, great. We'll reserve your comments for the presentation.

And there's one more name down here. I'm probably going to butcher it. I can't quite see. I think it's Sasha. OK, great. So we'll call you up at that time. All right. Thank you very much. Is there anybody online?

ALL RIGHT, GREAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO THAT WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENTS. AND IF WE COULD MOVE INTO THE FIRST PRESENTATION, PLEASE. I BELIEVE CITY MANAGER, YOU'RE TAKING THIS ONE?

Can you come up for a picture, please? And we're doing the proclamation now.

Good evening, everyone. I apologize for my tardiness. So we are on proclamation for Mano de Vera. Perfect. So today we want to honor a relatively new restaurant here in South Miami, which certainly is one of my favorites, which is Mano de Vera.

You too? Fantastic. So I'll briefly read the proclamation. We'll just ask you guys to come up to be recognized. Whereas the City of South Miami proudly recognizes the outstanding achievements of the local businesses whose commitment to excellence enhances our quality of life, cultural richness, and economic vitality. And whereas Manolimera, located in the heart of South Miami, has distinguished itself through its innovative interpretation of authentic Italian cuisine, exceptional hospitality, probably repeat the authentic and exceptional Italian cuisine, and unwavering dedication to culinary a

You got to give us your name and address for the record. So sorry.

Thank you. And for those who don't know the restaurant, can you tell us a bit about I know my favorite is walking in and asking him to basically come up with a menu on the spot. So can you share a little bit about the dining experience for those who may be listening, haven't been, and may want to check you guys out?

Thank you for that. Yes, we appreciate it.

Well, if you've not been, I highly encourage you to go. It's a fantastic dining experience. The food is as good as any in this community. And certainly the attention and detail, the staff, the service is, again, among the best that certainly we have in South Miami, say anywhere in Dade County. So thank you for investing in our small city and anchoring that very nice space in certainly one of our, I think, favorite streets here in South Miami. Thank you so much. Congrats again. Thank you.

OK, Commissioner Rodriguez, I think you had the next presentation, which is F3, for the Thelma Gibson Health Initiative. Do you want to kick us off?

Jordan, when you start, please, your name and address for the record.

Jonathan, thank you for your comments. Commissioner Rodriguez, do you want to kick us off in terms of questions?

Thank you. No, as far as questions and all that, I've already had my conversation, so I leave it open to you guys to ask.

Any questions, colleagues? I'm happy to take it in any order you guys like. I've got a couple questions, but you probably asked the same one, so I'll let you have the floor.

When you say you are currently in our city, you provide the hurricane preparedness. What else are you doing with our seniors? And how is that getting funded?

thank you further questions uh yeah mayor you recognize sir thank you um you were able to provide some documentation based on budgets and all that so i think that the only issue that i see for a two hundred thousand dollar uh it's not recurring right it's a one-time yes fun and you're staffing right so we staff only for one year or I don't know how long that will last. I think I just want to see that, like what your plan is, what's your plan for the $200,000 so I can understand it better and kind of make a decision based on that. I do know that we'd have other opportunities that we need to loo

Mr. Corey? Vice Mayor, excuse me. No worries. I was going to echo the same thing as Commissioner Kaye. I think we have some decisions to make on the allocation of those funds, and I think having more detail on it will only help that. It's a good time for us to be talking about this. It's during our budget season, but it would be great for us to see that.

Again, thanks for the presentation. Again, anything that has Ms. Gibson's name on it deserves our immediate respect and attention. She's an icon in this community. So we're grateful for the services you guys have been offering. I think just as part of the information that you'll send over, if you could just kind of let us know, again, what's the annual cost of serving South Miami residents currently? um how that's being funded funded what the scope of work is under whatever grant agreements you have so we can figure out you know how if we were to make a commitment you know what terms basis and

Okay, thank you for your time. Okay, let's move to item F4, please. Okay, so colleagues, this is a quick update on discussions about opportunities for waste diversion or waste handling at our public works yard. You'll recall that we put out an RFP earlier this year. Fortunately, unfortunately, it came back with no responses. Before I've gotten these two proposers have sent in some information, which I wanted to share with all of you. But before we went on embarking on a very long analysis and possible negotiation of an agreement with either party, as we have in the past, I know we've gone down

I'm sorry to interrupt, but are you advancing the presentation, the PowerPoint? Does he have the clicker? Just so we know we're on the right page. There we go.

We have the handouts as well, but I just want to make sure we're following along. Okay. Thank you.

Just to be clear, so I want to make sure I'm hearing this correctly, 1.6 million to 7.4 based on either 300 tons a day to 1,200 tons a day. That's the range. Okay, and then on the RSH, 150,000 to 700,000 tons.

Okay, so 3% of whatever your sales are of the byproduct. And so you're saying that it's between collectively $2.5 million to $9 million a year, every year for the 20-year period. Yeah, for the 20-year period. So roughly $180 million. Yeah. Gross. Gross, exactly. Thank you. Sorry, continue.

If you can give me another 30 seconds, we can wrap it up. Thank you. Thank you. We have some samples that we bought if the commission would like to see them. Sure, if you want to bring them forward. Is that the RSH you want to show us? Yeah.

ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO ADD FOR THE RECORD?

WE APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION. COLLEAGUES, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. BURBANO THAT YOU WANT TO ASK? MR. GALLEA WILL GO DOWN FROM MY RIGHT TO LEFT.

SIR, YOU'RE RECOGNIZED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I HAD A FEW QUESTIONS. You said the capital upfront costs would be roughly, you said, $35 to $50 million?

And how does that get capitalized? What's the source of funding to go ahead and do something like that for this particular project?

I guess the question is, is it a debt or equity model? Or how are you raising the capital to finance the facility? I understand it gets paid back over time from the revenues from the operation, right? So you recover your costs and earn a profit on it.

It's like what the mayor said. How are you capitalizing the $55,000? million dollars to set up this facility. It's not a construction normal type of financing, so it's a different financing model. I'm just trying to understand how you would build it up. What is the way you're going to pay for it?

If you can go to the microphone so we can hear you and it can be in the record, please. If you can speak, please come forward.

Is this something you need to go pitch to have that opportunity? Like you need to have the piece of land to go pitch that opportunity?

It's committed to... So now that we're talking about the experience, can you tell me a little bit more about the experience? Where is it that you guys facilitate? What facilities do you guys have?

Okay, and what's your role with the company? I'm sorry, just to make sure I'm on the same page.

I have a lot of questions. So what I'll do is I'll reserve my time, and maybe we can set up a time afterwards to go over this. I just want to understand it better.

But I think, Commissioner, just so it's helpful for staff, why don't you at least, if we don't take answers right now, why don't we get our questions out into the record so that the manager and Mr. Munoz can then do some further diligence to address your concerns? Because I don't, while we all want to have one-off meetings, I want them to also kind of work up an analysis for us. Okay. So we're comfortable whatever option we choose, you know, there's the right technological back, you have the right to license, you know, the technology. Okay. You've got the partnerships in place to actually buil

Okay? How many tons of garbage do we process a day in South Miami? Do you have a rough understanding? The optimal amount? No, what do we do right now?

And then you think that we can process up to 800 to 1,200 tons a day is what you were saying in your presentation? Yeah, tons a day. So you can expand to that level?

So are you dependent on getting more municipalities to get that type of garbage? Yeah, that's the intention.

The product that you're developing, the outcome, the actual product. The final product, okay. Can you walk me again through how the sale of that, who buys that?

And so can you tell me, like, what the efficiency rate is? If we're doing 1,000 tons a day, how much of this are you producing?

Yeah. And what is, I mean, how do you sell this, by the ton? By ton, yeah. And what is the growing rate for this per ton?

So this is very similar to Omalo where we do plastic pellets and we put them in and create plastic.

mean it in in theory it sounds like it's gonna work um i think there's a lot of factors that we need to discuss one is 55 million dollars for an infrastructure cost we need to understand how that's going to work uh whether you have partners you know where is that money coming from who are your partners because we're not going to lease you the land if we're not we don't understand where the money's coming from right like that's one of the things that are very important in any development opportunity yeah um and then secondly i would love to see i mean if you guys can show me i don't know if you

What's the name of the one in Durham? What is the name of the facility in Durham?

Thanks. OK. Commissioner Rodriguez, you're recognized.

So I just want to get this correct, and just to reiterate. So Insoftel doesn't have any of its own functioning facilities like this one right now, but there are other ones that are existing that have the technology. So it's basically what you would do is use that technology and create your own facility in Insoftel, which would be here.

It's going to be... And then in Softel, the origin of the company, I mean, you started it, but I imagine you have some experience in this field of energy and...

So to build a facility like this, what regulations are there? Do you have to go and get special permitting from the state, the county, the federal government?

But for example, the city of South Miami, let's say, we all- You'd have to be right.

It would be permitted under the county's environmental regulations in chapter 24 of the county code. So yeah, basically the germ section of the code. And in this case, it would be in unincorporated counties. So it would be subject to their zoning regulations. I think this is, if I remember the county use schedule for having industrial, it would be a permitted use.

Think but you know we'd have to if I have to do some tillage just to confirm all that Just a couple more quick questions, so how big is this facility?

Okay, because obviously you're going to need the space to do that. So I'm just going to reiterate what my colleague said was, yeah, we definitely need to know about the financing. That's very important. I would imagine that everybody up here, the fear would be to have a facility, you know, half built or fully built and then all of a sudden funds go away and then we're just stuck with this facility you know so obviously before any decisions made at least on my part yeah we definitely need to see how uh not just construction but also operational wise how all that's going to get funded But, I mea

Thank you. Thank you very much for the presentation. Very, very interesting creative project. I just had two questions, and maybe you can bring this with the further analysis as well. It looks like from here that you would probably need to have 40 times the waste that we're providing to make the project viable. I just wonder if you've done analysis of the area in the region and how many people, what percentage of the market you need to do to achieve that. It would be nice to know how you envision that happening, where you can be competitive. Because obviously, if it goes too far away, people p

Yes. And obviously, this is your business model, but it's all contingent on RSH being something people want to buy. So I'd love to see what that looks like. Obviously, we could do our own research on it on the global market for that and demand and trends for that for the last five, 10 years or however long it is.

Yeah, I think it would be helpful in our follow-up conversations with staff to understand what is the global market for this kind of a product. So we understand the underwriting risk with financing the facility.

No, but I mean, in terms of, again, theoretically it's a replacement fuel for fossil fuels. Certainly, so that market is vast. I think what we would want to understand today, who are actual, what's the market of actual buyers for this? That's what you're saying, right, Vice Mayor? What's the actual market for buyers? How much?

Yeah, if it may not be the same exact product, but what equivalent product, how much of it's being sold and acquired in the marketplace? So again, the risk to us, to my colleagues' comment is, We give you a lease. You build a facility. The facility fails. We now have a single-use facility that's expensive to, an asset that's now expensive to reposition. So we have to make sure that whatever deal we strike, we have a pretty good understanding. of who your, that your economic model is viable, right? Not just as a, I would say not just as a replacement for traditional fossil fuels or other hydroc

That means that annually we are going to produce... 125,000 tons, it's $24 or $25 million in revenue.

That's what we need to know. Is there a buy? Is there a put agreement with them? Essentially, you produce it. They're obligated to buy it. What's the structure on the back end so that we know we've got an integrated system here?

Okay, madam commissioner Thank you Mine is much a much more practical conversations Number one, how do we avoid the flagami situation? If you go to where the waste transfer is, I imagine, by flagami, by the park, any given day on 75th Avenue, is it, or 72, there are 10 trucks backed up just sitting on the street waiting to go in. You can imagine it smells wonderful. So I'm like, okay, how are we proposing to deal with that? If we've got all this trash, supposedly like 10, I'm going to make up a number, 10 times the trash that we could give you flowing in there every day, the smell is going to

If you need four acres, and we have three and we're using some of it, how is that supposed to work?

No, you don't produce the smell. The garbage coming to you produces the smell.

And luckily it's an industrial district, so it's not near the residential and programming.

Yes, but no, because they are building huge condos there.

Yes, they're building a live local life project there, yes.

It's huge. I don't know if any of you have been by there.

750 units. I'm very familiar with it, which is why I want to do something on the site sooner rather than later because I certainly don't want people complaining about a nuisance use when essentially the Live Local Act has allowed people to locate near nuisance by the home residents will be built in a heavy industrial district, right? So, you know, we can debate the wisdom of that provision of the bill at another time. Oh, bless you in advance.

Thanks a lot. OK, so those are my concerns. My concern is the space, the smell, and that is a heavily trafficked road. And when you've got trucks of that size backing up there, that's a huge concern. Thank you.

OK. Yeah, I'm going to get back to you with questions. I'm going to take my quick second. I apologize. Again, thank you for your interest, number one. We appreciate it. Number two, I think to me it's a very intriguing technology. For us, I think if I was wearing my entrepreneur hat, I'd say let's go all in because I think it speaks to my values. I don't want to I was talking with the other party. The idea of sending my way somewhere else doesn't sit personally well with me. But that said, we sit here as a fiduciary for a city. So sometimes we've got to err on being more conservative. So I thin

And then certainly understanding where your money to build a facility is going to come from, very important. And that you have agreements in place with TRI, which seems to be providing you the technology. And I guess Jenkins, which basically actually has the know-how to build the facility. Understanding where you are in your discussions with them, very important as well. I would also want to know what conversations, if any, you've had with CSX. about the use of their right-of-way to move this product and where that product, where the rail cars, I think you're envisioning being used to move the

We'll have our staff follow up with you to have some further conversation. Got it.

No, the mayor asked, I thought, was an important question. I just wanted to elaborate a little bit. As you see on your presentation, you have trucks, but we also have the railway. Is the majority of hauling away the hydrogen, is that through the rail, or is that on trucks?

Through the rail, OK. All right, that was it.

Commissioner Gai, you want to close us out on this presentation?

I think a lot of the questions that we ask is if you can provide the business case model. It's a whole process. A lot of us have backgrounds in startups and big companies like this, and we just really want to understand all the details, especially if you're going to be our partner moving over for the next 20 years. It's really important that we understand the whole business model. Yeah, I'm going to do it.

Okay, I think next up, Darren Rizzo for UDP, please. Thank you.

Taryn, before you move on from the side, so your numbers assume 750 tons.

Based on the size of our property, what would you say could be the maximum throughput tonnage on a facility located on our property?

Thank you very much for that. We appreciate it. Let's go left to right this time. Commissioner Bonita, any questions?

No, he already answered the questions I had. Thank you very much.

Is there any way you could break down? I know you had the 80-year picture, but like the annual financial picture of the benefits to the city?

Thank you for the presentation. Very detailed and very organized and a lot of backing and experience, so that helps. I'm sorry, I didn't know if you had it there, but what's the lease life that you're looking for?

It wasn't the presentation, so you should know.

One a day. And in your landfill in Alabama, what do you guys do with the waste? It's just standard landfill where...

Can you talk a little bit about your transfer stations up in Tennessee? What waste, just name one of them, roughly what the cost is per ton on acquiring and transporting and then dumping it on the site in Alabama?

So the municipals are picking it up and putting it into a transfer station, right?

No, what you're charging is fine. I don't need to know your secret sauce. It's fine.

I mean, we've seen this before. And a lot of the questions, we know what to ask. I don't have too many questions. I think, to me, is, again, on the building of the transfer station, what does the investment look like? You know, we've been through this road a little bit already, so we're pretty well-versed. I mean, this is your first one, but...

And that'll be subsidized with you guys through our lease?

And the split again was revenue split that you're proposing?

Darren, my question's pretty simple. I think most have been covered, but I think if you could just... Touch upon two points. One is, obviously you've got experience permitting this facility, so what would be your expectation, assuming we sign the lease tomorrow, in terms of a permitting timeline for this kind of a facility, the build, so we could actually get a sense of when we would be starting to jointly cash flow?

I live in the world of permitting. It's not going to hold you to it. I just want to get a sense of what you realistically would expect.

We would not be approving it. It would be the county. So we'd be working with our partner there as well. Yeah. It's a six-month bill then? Yeah. Okay, so 24 months roughly, soup to nuts.

And then if I could just ask, you mentioned something that's of interest to me. You'd said, again, BTG Pact will global alternatives as your financial backer. Yes. Can you share the range of their capital investment in your company?

Okay. Again, I think that speaks to your ability to proceed quickly.

So then, yeah, I'm sure their balance sheet's a lot bigger than that.

So potentially we'd have recourse to a company that's actually, you said you have $100 million of operating revenues today? I thought that you said at one point. Okay. So you've got your, it's a going concern. We'd be contracting with not. Yes. A new builder. Okay. And then I guess you said the, the lease could be bankable. So can you, can you tease that out for myself and the benefit of the board, but I can't represent that it would be bankable.

So potentially you're saying we could, if your projected gross revenue is over 50 years, with all the extensions, it's $80 million, we could try to borrow against this lease to address any other issues or needs that we have?

Yeah, I'd love to see a model, and if you could make some assumptions about, you know, how quickly, so we're not going to get to 750 tons the first month, are we going to grow the business so we can understand how that number grows over time? Obviously, we've got the minimum floor with the lease, but I would like to see how our revenues would grow.

Certainly, I'd love to see us get to the $1,250, right?

Any further questions? Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate your time. Thank you. Appreciate everybody. Colleagues, any other questions or direction you want to give to the manager and his team? Nope. Just looking.

Aren't they just, they're gathering the information to give to all of us, I imagine.

Do we want them to, I mean, do we want them to vet both options, one option? Is there, what's your, is there, is there any reticence about pursuing or exploring both?

I don't have any reticence about exploring both. They're very different.

I agree with Commissioner Bonnich. Okay. I would ask that we can maybe get like a sample understanding of what the terms would be. A quick one-sheeter, just so we're all on the same page. And then from...

I think we have those now because I do... I didn't have that. It just came in today. That's why. So that I believe that both UDP and now Insoftel have given us kind of an outline of what the basic economic terms of their deal are. But I think a lot of the questions that you asked have not been as of yet vetted. So we certainly want staff to delve into those.

Yeah, Mayor, I think it's really important that from Insoftel, right? Did I say it right? Insoftel, yeah. Insoftel? Yeah. That we really get a business like, you know, give me a really a deck a business model so i can fully understand it i mean i would really love to see that i don't know if you're giving that to the city manager or the clerk but just get our information just send it out to us i think let's do it through the manager and then he can distribute it okay okay thank you all for your time we appreciate it let's move on then um

Colleagues, can we get a motion to approve the minutes of June 9th, 2026? You want them deferred? Yes, please. Okay, show that item as deferred. Mr. Manager, I think you're giving the report tonight?

Commissioner Kaya, you're recognized for questions. Thank you, Mr.

Manager. From the Grey Ghost and the cheerleaders, are we marketing that in our social media and content, blasting that on their behalf to get a little bit more people understanding about our program in Palmer Park? All right, thank you. Secondly, are we changing the grass model on the south side of South Miami Park? I know it's done, but what did we do differently?

And lastly, you did a taste of some. Anyone you recommend? Any good ones that you've been to? So we can let everybody know?

You can have a free beer with a sandwich at La Traila. I did that this past weekend.

I did that today, by the way. I would say testimonial. Testimonial. I would say Secreto. Secreto's great, yeah. Secreto does a glass of wine, an appetizer, a meal, and a dessert for 36 bucks.

And it's very generous. And it's very good. Yeah, I did that one, too.

They also have one for dinner. Yeah. That's the lunch one. And dinner, they also have one. Yeah. So I recommend it.

I got to get my chocolate fixed before it's over. You know what?

Something having, like, really, yes, restaurant, no taste of somi. You know, Kitchen 57 has bingo on Wednesday. Tomorrow night, I'll see you there. I know, there you go.

Just before we move on, anyone have questions on the manager's report? No? Before we move on, Mr. Manager, if it's okay, I'd like to just, I know we had an announcement about a staff member moving on to greener pastures here in short order, and so I just wanted to have you put in the record. You're talking about me? Oh, no. No, not you. We're lucky. We're lucky. I mean, unless you've got something, some breaking news. You're going to ruin my otherwise good mood.

Yeah, I just wanted to, and I'll recognize you next, I just wanted to thank Brandon on the records. I had a film session this morning with the GMCVB, and if I didn't appreciate it before, certainly it became very evident, the foundation you've laid today, because it was great to have a conversation about you've got B-footage, you know, B-roll on this and that, and you've got a whole inventory of product that we can share with third parties to market the city and put us in a very nice light and It's, you know, the whole team that kind of kicked off this program was exceptional. It's great to se

No, no, yeah. We're both too old. So, Commissioner Kaya, you're recognized.

Brandy, I know I always talk to you. You've done a phenomenal job. It's really like a startup, right? Getting a product straight from zero, what you've done with our Facebook organizations, our marketing, and what you've learned to start doing from a digital perspective, from video, from photography. you've done a great job thank you for everything that you've done for the city um i'm glad that you got the position and i think that the next person that's coming in has a very good setting and understanding of what they can do so thank you for that i really do appreciate you and i appreciate eve

I know Wendy, we usually do a thing, but Marcus Lightfoot is 20 years with the city of South Miami. That's something to be special about. And by the way, 20 years is 20 years. So thank you for a lot of things that you do. And I really appreciate it.

Some of those were dog years, I'm sure. So thank you, Marcus.

Okay, moving on. Let's get the city attorney's report. I'm sorry. Okay. Sorry, anybody else? That was the whole point of mentioning that he was going on. We won't have another meeting before he's gone, but we expect to celebrate his future success. Let's do it. We do have a taste of Somi conclusion party, correct? Marcus.

We'll take a selfie. That'd be very appropriate. We do have a Taste of Somi wrap party, so I think maybe we can celebrate with Brandon his departure then. That's your problem.

Because you're right. This is going to be the last meet. I didn't really catch that, so I guess I'll... But now you want to speak. I was going to do it more in private, but I remember... Yeah, he's gone. I'm leaving next week. But hey, Brandon, thank you for... Even though I've only been here for a little over a year and a half, it's been a great experience learning what you've done with... just with the social media from the instagram going from what a thousand to twelve thousand followers um you know what you did with the website i mean what you do with us every time that we have a commissio

Yeah, that's the biggest news But no we're in the same field so I've always appreciated him so much I mean just four years ago was the first time we as a city sent out Newsletters and to come from from where we are then to where we are now is incredible redoing a municipal website is done the easy thing I think you you know Did an amazing job there, amazing job on social, amazing job on just, you know, really doing the kind of outreach and media that you've done for the city. So thank you.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. 11 years ago.

Brandon, you better check the camera before the meeting's over just to make sure we got a picture that's usable.

It looked like we were getting our knees and our feet only. It's going to be the best picture you've ever seen. He's like blurry.

We're going to consolidate Brandon's job in Alfredo, so we're going to expand his portfolio. Okay, moving on to the city attorney's report. Madam city attorney, good evening. Good evening.

I have a question for the attorney. Yes. Do we have an update? When you say Turner, that's not, what was that?

She mentioned she doesn't have anything formal to report, but we're going to go over the charter amendment items later in the meeting.

My question to you is, do we have an update roughly on how the term sheets and the lease is going with 13th floor?

The information provided by Mr. Ruscio at the meeting was that we are targeting, I think, the August, the last meeting in August to bring the lease forward for our consideration. So that's the current timeline as last reported.

Okay, you're welcome. OK, let's move on. I'm going to skip the discussion items for the moment and just take up the consent agenda. Anyone have any questions regarding items 1, 2, 3, or 4 that you want to pull for discussion? No. 1, 2, 3, or 4. Item 1 is the, again, appropriation of the first $50,000 in art and public places money provided by Vue Church. Item 2 is the grant of the easement at South Miami Park to Miami-Dade Water and Sewer. Number three is the interlocal agreement with Miami-Dade County on the Office of Film for film permitting. And the last is a resolution to purchase, install

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Is there a motion to adopt items 1, 2, 3, and 4? I'll move the motion. Is there a second? We have a motion by Commissioner Rodriguez, a second by Vice Mayor Corey. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you very much. OK. I've been informed we have someone here on discussion item M1. So without objection, I'm going to call up that item. which is a pedestrian bridge design conceptual discussion that I ask be put on the agenda. Mr. Mayor, do you want to kind of give us a lead in, and then we can recognize Mr. Munoz, or how do you want to proceed?

So Mr. Manager, again, just to build on what you said, the only reason I, I had been approached by our very intrepid grants manager about the fact that there was some planning money and possibly some capital money out there for us to revisit this connector. We had, I think four of the five of us will recall when we got here very early, Quickly put the kibosh on a few projects, one being the police station and this project, both of which we spent some of the order of $450,000 to $500,000 designing without a plan to finance it. The only reason I thought it was timely to possibly revisit the conv

So I guess being the youngest one here, I've never seen this. So I love it personally. I love it. I love the fact that you have advertising on it. So So Many Second Saturdays, our art festival, a lot of the things that we... do in the city, we can advertise it. And what better place to advertise than on US 1? My question is, do we know, since we're at 90% drawings, roughly, do we know what it would take to complete the drawings?

What was the unspent amount on the prior contract, Mr. Manager?

Yeah, they would have to bring it to today's code, basically.

No, beyond that, I think it's also the execution of the landing on the west or north side. I mean, it's now in conflict with an existing improvement. So if you want to address that, Mr. Alfonso, we'd appreciate it.

Do you have an order magnitude cost on what it would cost

Okay, that's in but that was in 2021 dollars, okay, the study was done in 2019 So and their design was done in 21

Okay, my construction guys to my right say add 30% to that, so let's just say it's $7 million. Okay, okay. So, and then do we have one, have you guys discussed or looked into what the utilization is of the bridge that was supposed to be the South Miami bridge that's now at the University of Miami station? What's the utilization there today? Do we have any sense of that?

Again, I'm just curious and what makes less sense to me about this is certainly we want to get people across US 1, but the main goal is to get them into the transit station. We know Miami-Dade County is very particular about things touching or going over the guideway and touching their platforms. So that might not be feasible, but I'm just curious to seeing what number of people at that other location where you don't have any accurate costings in close proximity. That are accessible because all that section is fenced in. How many people are actually using the bridge today? Because our conditio

I personally don't see any difference from when we originally looked at this till now, except that we find ourselves in a more precarious position cash-wise than we did when we decided that this was not worth our money. More than that, I think we find ourselves, just like I said when we were talking about, and I know it's not safe streets, but it was that study where people are getting hurt on county and state roads, and they're looking to us to pay for it. US 1 is not our road yet. We're being looked at to fix or fund or find a way to fund a bridge that is crossing a street that is not ours.

Exactly. More than all of us probably combined. And he doesn't ever have a problem. Again, to fork out even $200,000 to figure out, hey, what's the bridge going to cost us today, I think is highly irresponsible considering everything that we are possibly facing and the changes we want to make to our own city as a whole. Why on earth would I even spend $2 trying to figure out a bridge for someone else? It doesn't make any sense for me.

Um, yeah. So obviously I was part of the commission even while some of these studies were being approved and eventually when we decided not to do it, I think now I've kind of come to the conclusion that I think a lot of the positives of this can be accomplished for less money in different ways. If we're looking for much nicer signage or to potentially pacify US 1 if we can, not that the road belongs to us, but different ways of doing that, that might be better money spent and less of a risk on our part to be able to do it, beautify it, pacify it, come up with signage that can help us, things l

I think that there's three major crossings, Sunset, 57th Avenue, and then 70th Street. So I see more and more usage model of people crossing the street. I don't know if the idea is that we want people to cross from one side to the other. I think people are going to cross, especially all the residents that we have coming in on the other side, on the west side of US 1. They're not going to want to go up and across when we have three easy intersections that are working. I think they would rather wait to 20 seconds, let the light turn the crossover, and then go all the way upstairs, go all the way

We have a lot more. And I think the difference is, unlike our condition, there are no immediately accessible, accurate crossings there because they've basically fenced in that whole perimeter. So I share your skepticism. Again, I wanted to bring it back because Again, we had this grant opportunity. We've done a large portion of the design. There is a back end piece to help us finance it. I'm not saying we have to pay for all of it, but we do have a way now to find a path to doing it. Before we had none. I think it is a substantial amount of capital that's dedicated to it. my biggest concern ha

Midtown developers to figure out if they can use that grant. If we have a lot of the infrastructure, maybe we can connect them with them. They can get the grant and figure out if that's something that they want to go work on.

One of the alternatives had the connection landing at the entire Kingdom site, right? Yeah.

if you're looking at what they're doing, an at-grade crossing that was an enhanced something pretty, whatever, that you were actually alluding to, I think would be, if they were considering anything, that would be better for them because if not, you're taking, the bridge is, if there is a bridge, the bridge draws your eye. So if you're a developer and you're building all of this thing, the last thing I think you want is a bridge.

The only thing that I would say about that is that if we're using a metro station and this is a destination that's going to be used a lot more. No, this one not. I'm not talking about this one specifically.

One of the options actually connected, had the landing on the east side, east and south side near the Tire Kingdom location. It's not the designed option. But the study did look at that as a location. I think to your point, to his point, that would probably serve that property better certainly than this location. Again, what I'm hearing generally is we don't think this is worth our time. And I just want to make sure that we had a group understanding. There are additional dollars that we could pursue. I don't want our team here pursuing grant dollars for something that we don't intend to execut

Yep. It's actually super simple. When we were looking at all of the possible charter amendments a while back, we picked the ones that we thought were the best, and those are being put on the ballot. The rest, we have a list somewhere in the universe of, hey, things to consider for the future. I had forgotten all about this because my planning board person was there forever, but now she's stepped back. And I wanted to see if there's any interest from any of you to put onto that list of charter amendments for a future date of the possibility of having landowners, commercial landowners, be part o

I think she's asking us to consider a modification to the charter in the future that would allow for a non-elector because you have to be a voter. I think a resident elector to serve on the board. Look, I think it's a conversation we can have. I think the only thing I would say right now is I don't want to spend the time having a big discussion about it just because we really can't act on it right now. It's my understanding from city attorney that to kind of move the question forward, we'd have to have language.

No, no. And it's not something that we want to do. I'm not saying to do it now.

I think we should put it in the parking lot when we, you know, in a year or two, when we probably year out from the next general election, which would be, you know, in 2028. I think it's something that we could certainly consider and have a longer conversation about.

Somebody that is not me needs to remember this. I will never remember this after we have this conversation a year from now. It literally popped into my head because I had to replace my planning board member.

I think it's a conversation for some parking lot item for January of 2028. Can I leave some parting ways real quick, Mayor? I'm sorry.

Sure. I would just say maybe instead of doing that, we just remove it from the charter. Let it just be legislative. Let it be part of the code. Just get rid of it. And just put it in the code.

Again, all things I would say we can discuss.

Maybe it was Mandy, the one that- No, I doubt it, because when I said it to him, he was like- He heard it from you and said it there.

OK. Removing it from the charter, not adding commercial people. Got you. OK. So maybe the discussion then to be had is removing it from our charter. That's actually a good idea. And having it managed by code so that it can be easier to manipulate. OK.

So, I mean, should we give direction to the clerk to, do we want to bring back, have her put a, I don't know what the right term is, but. Earmark. Yeah, earmark or a note on the calendar. For January, have a discussion on January 2028 of the. 2027. 2028. Because again, we couldn't put it on the ballot. We couldn't put it on the ballot until, we wouldn't want to put it on the ballot until, because otherwise we're paying for the election.

Right, so I think they just let's start the conversation in January of 28, ahead of either the August or the November general. You can then remind us of that time frame, what the time frame we have to act within is. We can have a conversation of those three or four months and decide what we want to revisit and put on based on the last, the UNADDRESSED THE LIST OF CHARTER REVIEW COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE DID NOT MOVE ON TO THE BALLOT. CORRECT.

Thank you. Mr. Manager, do you want to add anything or...

Colleagues, any questions? If not, is there a motion? Mr. Frankel, I don't want to, just again, thank you for appearing. I don't think we have any questions for you at this time. We'll entertain a motion to adopt. I'll move it. We have a motion by Commissioner Bonnich.

I'll second it, and thank you, Mr. Blanco.

Okay. We have a second by Commissioner Kaye. Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll, please.

Oh, it is a public hearing item. I'm sorry. If there is any member of the public who would like to address this body on item seven, which is the approval of the multi-year agreement with our federal lobbyist at Becker and Polyakov, please come forward at this time. Seeing no one online and no one in the chamber, we'll close the public hearing again. We had a motion by Commissioner Bonich and a second by Commissioner Kaye. I'll ask the clerk to call the roll again. Thank you.

Mr. Franco, good job, and keep that money coming, sir. We appreciate your help.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Commissioners.

Okay, colleagues, any questions of Mr. Munoz, the manager on item five, please? None. Everyone understand the objective again here? Trying to test out alternatives to save money on waste disposition, kind of consistent with our earlier discussion. Mr. Vice Mayor, do you have any questions? No? Okay. Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll on it. I need a motion to adopt item five, please.

No problem. I move the item. Okay, is there a second? I have a motion by Vice Mayor Corey, a second by Commissioner Rodriguez. Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll, please.

Okay, let's take item 15, please. Item 15. 15.

Thank you. Mr. Manager, I think, sorry, my apologies. Madam Mayor, sorry. It's been a long day, folks. I apologize. Madam City Attorney, Madam City Attorney, you probably need a Madam Mayor so you can keep things in order here. Madam City Attorney, if you could just, we've discussed this before as we modified our policy regarding waste collection. We had two communities that were affected, the Banyans and Miller 57. And I think we were trying to find a path to continue to accommodate them as part of our residential waste program. So can you just walk us through the legal basis for doing this?

Okay, so basically, if they've been serviced from that date forward, we're saying we're going to continue to honor that policy determination, whatever the basis was. Correct. We think that that is legally defensible against any third parties who, properties who may otherwise want to be serviced by us because they've been just in continuous service since that period of time.

Mr. Manager and to you or Mr. Munoz, my only question is, again, this stays within the existing operational cost structure for solid waste residential program, or does it affect our cost structure in light of the other modifications we made to kind of go from four to 20 units, correct, was the threshold?

No, understood that we're doing it, but we also are now expanding the cohort of? Up to 20. Yes, up to 20. The aggregate of that, does it change our cost profile?

Okay, just wanted to make sure that I'm remembering. Wanted to make sure I'm remembering correctly. Thank you. Okay. Colleagues, any further questions?

Can I make a comment? Please, you can. So I spoke to a resident today, and they're extremely happy with the situation. They had already gotten out of their contract and have been on a month-to-month, so they've been working on this. So they're extremely excited and said thank you both.

No, I'm happy for them. I will tell you that one of these communities, we've had calls recently, myself and staff, you know, because they are large communities, they're waste piles. are a particular nuisance for a lot of the abutting single family neighbors. And so again, I think we need to, I would like to revisit the conversation about, I feel like I'm trying to invoke Josh Lieben here in eliminating or modifying that service because we do see a lot of piling on, particularly for the larger communities on these major corridors where it's easy for people to come in and just dump their third p

I REMEMBER, AND MAYBE I'M REMEMBERING IT CORRECTLY, BUT I'M HOPING MY MEMORY ISN'T FAILING ME, THAT WHEN WE ARE DEALING WITH THE COMMUNITY RIGHT BEHIND 6-2, RIGHT BEHIND WHERE THEY'RE BUILDING SPROUTS, They literally reach out to us when they are going to trim their trees, and we pick it up. Other than that, I don't think we do regular big claw pickup there. So maybe that's something for us to consider on second reading, that those larger scale buildings don't have big trash pickup every week. because it is essentially those bigger communities that have this big trash problem. I've seen it. I

The problem I would tell you, the complaints I get about are not about the green waste. It's about all the other stuff that goes onto the pile. You know, some of which is, you know, people have home-based businesses and they're dumping their business-related items into our pile. So we are, you know, we are, a lot of the cost is being externalized on us.

Yeah, but the only way that you can control that is by maybe controlling time frame?

I think it's, I think it's in all, I don't think time frame requires us to do enforcement. i would humbly tell you that's not our strong suit either no disrespect to our team here we don't have the resources to be out there uh in doing it as aggressively or maybe we do and we're just not doing it i don't know i don't want to make those you know categorical statements but it's not been our strong suit it's been a it's a problem um i think it doesn't it does not um particularly these gateways create a really nice aesthetic for people coming through the city I'd like just again going into the nex

We can do with the app, exactly. So with that, is there a motion to adopt item 15? I'll move it. Okay, is there a second? Second. Okay, Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll.

All right, let's take up all the public hearing items we have left. Can you read item six, please?

Okay. Mr. Riverall, you're recognized please for presentation on this item.

Okay, I just have one I apologize was not here earlier. It's attained on a work matter We've gone through the budget pretty exhaustively with the manager and I appreciate the all the work you guys have done on it thus far and Still got a ways to go before we adopt the final product But I think we are projecting, you know net surplus revenues like a hundred and fifty thousand dollars plus or minus a few bucks 129 so Again, for tonight, I'm going to support, I want to keep the millage flat, but going forward, if we're going to structure a budget to just kind of give that money back, essentially,

Okay, so we go from 395 to 39. Okay. Thank you. It would be, I believe, like... 389 or... Right. Okay, that's fine. I just wanted to get a rough estimate of what it would be. Okay. Further questions?

Yeah. Yes, sir. Yes. Discussion. That's what you would want to do? That's your opinion on it?

I mean, look, the truth is we're, you know, projects, we have a lot of projects coming online and hopefully by fiscal year 29, right, fiscal year 28 will probably be pretty light on the number of new construction projects that will hit before the January 1 date. You guys all know what my priority has been. The manager knows it. I've been looking at hopefully creating capacity holding the millage rate, you know, flat so that we could give it back in the form of improvements. I mean, it's going slower than I honestly would hope. It's none of our fault. It's just, you know, we're, you know, marke

I don't I think that one of the things that we spoke about is With the impending vote with tax reform That is really forcing our hand to return a mill rate, right? So our taxable revenues are actually going to decrease significantly, which is really a cost savings across the board to all our residents throughout the city. So reducing the mill rate was something that, just like you, that's something I really wanted to continue to work on, whether it was commercially or giving back in improvements, if it wasn't revenue itself. Yeah. But now, if the state forces our hand, then there's no real nee

Look, I think I was very worried about this issue in January. Today, I'm pretty much happy to bet anyone that it's going to fail, because it's not going to hit the threshold. I just don't see why, as a political actor, if I spent a year in change talking about substantial property tax reform, why I would walk away from the issue. In the homestretch once I got out of the legislature to me makes no sense other than if the governor Israel thinks it must think must have calculated this is a politically losing issue and the easy Path is to scapegoat the legislature for not adopting his policy. That

I THINK IF WE'RE LOOKING AT INVESTING THAT MONEY, JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE FOR PEOPLE TO THINK ABOUT AND YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT'S COMING FROM MY MOUTH. Vice Mayor Corey for a long time has talked about reforestation of our city. Our director, Surami, has really leaned into that. And I think we would do our city a disservice if we started to cannibalize those funds that could be used for something that quite literally will visually affect every single one of us. So I just put it there. We don't really need to talk about it, but just something to consider.

I think it's an excellent option. So would support it. Okay. Thank you. Do we have a motion on this item, Madam Clerk? It's a public hearing item. So there's a member of the public who'd like to address. This commission on item six, which is our setting of the proposed millage rate for fiscal year 2027. Please come forward at this time. Seeing no one in the chamber and no one online, Madam Clerk. No. We will close the public hearing. Colleagues, is there a motion to adopt the millage as proposed by the administration? I'll move the motion. Is there a second? Second. We have a motion by Commissioner Rodriguez, a second by Commissioner Kaye. Madam Clerk, with that, please call the roll.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Let's read items 9, 10, and 11, since they're all ballot questions, and we can just discuss them together.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Madam State Attorney, for purposes of trying to expedite the conversation, I'm going to try and summarize the effect of the four questions. Actually, the first three, I'll have you explain the fourth, if that's fair. So number eight allows us to basically determine what the maximum term of lease would be on any city property. So if we wanted to contract beyond the current 50-year limitation, lease agreements would be excluded from that current limitation, correct?

Okay. With respect to ballot item 9, basically we're allowing ourselves more options with respect to the method for publishing items, correct? Which, as I understand it, will reduce our operating costs. For item 10, we're basically taking the purchasing standards that the manager operates under out of the charter, And we will be adopting them by ordinance so we can modify them as needed over time without having to go back out To referendum in the future. Is that the effect?

And then can you explain item 11? What's the effect of it so

OK, great. So basically, we're conforming with their process.

So we'd be extending the period based on the determination of the supervisor or election. Correct. Whatever that period is. So she says it's not 30 days, it's got to be 90 days. It would be held in 90 days. Colleagues, any questions on the four items? Okay. Let's go left to right. Madam Commissioner, you're recognized. Yes.

9, 10, 11 makes sense to me. Even the way they read is simple. If you read 8, there is a ton of words there. There has to be an easier way to say this. If it wasn't because Javi's sitting here explaining to me exactly what that says, and I was just any person standing there trying to vote, I would have no freaking clue what you're trying to tell me here. So I am a hard no on this, unless we can, as a group, come up with a better way of saying this. If what we're trying to get through here we want to be able to change the leases, the time of the lease, then we've got to save that. I mean, if yo

Well, thank you. So, um, I, I agreed with, uh, I agree with commissioner. The thing is, I spoke to the manager. So if you read the language, I mean, what you're reading here, read it. It says so basically what it's doing, it's removed out of. out of, it's removing leases out of it. So then leases and 99 year leases and it's no longer 50 by exclusion, basically. That's the way that.

If you didn't have the city manager and the city attorney and the mayor, you wouldn't know what that means.

Correct. Because the reason there, it's not, exactly, it's not stating it like you said.

So can I just jump in here and say, Madam City Attorney, Is there a way to recast the language between now and the end of this meeting so that it can read more affirmatively expressing what the actual change is, which is you restate there is a prohibition in the charter and the section on leases of a term of greater than 50 years? Yes. Your approval of this item would allow the commission to enter into an agreement or I turn to leases with a maximum term that they determined to be appropriate. Something that's a little bit more direct as opposed to you're now trying to say only franchise agree

But there were no sorry and they were no longer means a term limit for How many words are we at with the with the proposal that you have in front of us? We're limited 75 correct.

Yeah, I'm happy to read the question out loud. So I'll make sure we're all reading the same thing.

FOR QUESTION FOR ITEM 8 IT READS THE CHARTER CURRENTLY DEFINES A FRANCHISE TO INCLUDE LEASES AND OTHER LIMITED TERM INTERESTS IN CITY OWNED REAL PROPERTY REQUIRING TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS AND LIMITING THE TERM TO 50 YEARS. SHALL THE CHARTER BE AMENDED TO NARROWLY DEFINE A FRANCHISE AS A PRIVILEGE GRANTED TO A PRIVATE ENTITY TO USE PUBLIC PROPERTY FOR UTILITY OR PUBLIC SERVICE EXCLUDING LEASES AND OTHER LIMITED TERM INTERESTS FROM THOSE REQUIREMENTS I will tell you that does not, if I read that, it's not going to induce me to want to vote for it. Again, I don't think it's misleading. I do think it'

No, but this is the actual question. What you're going to vote on is this. It's right here.

It is here, and then you check yes or no. That's the actual, that's what I said here. Sorry, what, can I? You were reading it, but the actual one is here, and then it finishes here, and then you vote yes or no. That's the valid question.

I'm sorry, is it lines 108 to 112 that are going to be on the ballot?

Or 129 to 143? 129 to 143. I read 108 to 112.

You're confusing the hell out of me, honestly. I mean, there's the two official ballots.

I don't know that more words makes this more palatable.

I think it does simply because if I were to, I mean, look, we all have a healthy skepticism of our elected officials, including all of us, notwithstanding how great I think we all are. Right. But I think if you say excluding leases and other limited term interest from those requirements, with the exception of a required super majority vote. Right. All of a sudden say, oh, OK, there still is a safeguard. Right. Not as to the term, but as to the consensus that's required for a lease to be approved. Right. So I don't know if adding the words with the exception of a super majority vote keeps us un

Can we can we take out narrowly define a franchise? Like, you know what I mean? If you want to add those words, are there words in this word salad we could take out?

I Congratulations. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm glad I was able to get out of there quickly. Much appreciated.

So, Mr. City Attorney, we were just discussing the language on 108 to 112 or 134 to 138, which is the official ballot language. Commissioner Bonich was concerned that this is very opaque and difficult to understand. I understand what she's saying, although I think it's clear, right? What concerns me is more the fact that as a layperson, if I'm reading this, It reads to me that we are exempting leases from all of the term requirements without expressing to the public that there still are safeguards as to the threshold for their approval, right? So my preference would be to, if we can, within th

narrowly define a franchise as a privilege granted to a private entity. Can't you say that in normal people talk?

Can we just say also, shall the charge be amended to retain the existing definition of a franchise, skip the description, and only be revised to exclude leases Let me think about this. Shall the charter be amended to retain the existing definition of a franchise with the exception of leases and other limited term interest who shall only be subject to a supermajority vote of the city commission?

It's not in the charter. No, it is in the charter. It's an article. What's the article reference?

Yeah, we say that we are. Shall the charter be amended?

No, we're not. The definition exists, right? To retain the definition of a franchise and exclude leases and other limited term interests from the definition.

Yeah, but we can say to redefine the definition of a franchise to solely exclude leases and other limited-term interests

OK, let's table this one. Any questions on item nine, colleagues?

Only eight. OK, so let's open the public hearing on all four items. Is there any member of the public who would like to address this commission with respect to items 8, 9, 10, and 11, which are proposed amendments to the charter to be placed on the November 3rd, 2026 ballot? Please come forward at this time. Seeing no one in the chamber and no one online, we will close the public hearing. Let's get a motion if there is one in order for items 9, 10, and 11. OK. I'll second. We have a motion by Commissioner Bonnich and a second by Commissioner Rodriguez. Madam Clerk, can you call the roll on items 9, 10, and 11?

Thank you. I'm going to propose we table item eight to the end of the meeting. Okay. Give our city attorneys a little bit of time to work on some alternate ballot language, and we can revisit the conversation then, okay? All right. Let's go to item 12, please.

We voted on them already. I think she said nine.

All of them, yeah. One by one. Yeah, she said nine.

Okay, we've got a motion. Is there a motion on item 10? I'll move the motion. Is there a second? I'll second. Okay, so a motion by Rodriguez, a second by Kaye. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

We have a motion by Commissioner Boniche, a second by Commissioner Kaye. Madam Clerk, please call the roll on item 11.

Thank you. Mr. Munoz, anything you want to add for the record? This is a multi-year service contract for elevators.

Colleagues, any questions? Okay. Is there any member of the public who'd like to address this commission on item 12? Seeing no one in the chamber and no one online, we'll close the public hearing. Is there a motion on item 12? Is there a second? I second. A motion by Commissioner Bonich, a second by Commissioner Rodriguez. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Madam Clerk, if you could read item 13, please.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Chief, anything for the record? Okay. Colleagues, any questions of the Chief on item 13? No. Nope. Okay. So this is a public hearing item. If there's any of the public who'd like to address this commission on a contract with SDK, Urban SDK Inc. Yes. I do have one question.

I'm sorry. You're recognized. Chief, is there any way that, I was just looking at the data reports with Director Munoz on an SDK. My understanding is that we used to do, we can do traffic counts as well through the SDK system. Is that?

They'll aggregate some data for us, but it's not a hard count that the county would accept No, it's not about the counties for our information, but is it part of the system now, or it's something separate We have to go to I'm sorry to have this could be separate sir. Is that something we have to pay for I?

I saw the report earlier today. And I saw the average speed. I just didn't see a count.

Thank you, Chief. We appreciate it. Again, if there's any member of the public who would like to address this commission on item 13, please come forward at this time. Okay, seeing no one in the chamber, and again, Madam Clerk, no one online, we'll close the public hearing.

Commissioner Kaye, you want to move this item? Yeah, I'll move.

Thank you. A motion by Commissioner Kaye, a second by Commissioner Rodriguez. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Thank you, Mr. Riverall. You want to just quickly put two comments on the record on item 14?

THANK YOU, SIR. COLLEAGUES, ANY QUESTIONS? SEEING NONE, LET'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC HEARING. IF THERE'S ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THIS COMMISSION ON THE CREATION OF THESE TWO PROJECT FUNDS IN OUR BUDGET. Please come forward at this time. Seeing no one again in chambers and no one online, we will close the public hearing. Is there a motion on item 14, please? Is there a second? Second. If a motion by Commissioner Rodriguez, a second by Commissioner Kaye. Madam Clerk, if you could call the roll, please. Yes.

Thank you. Mr. Rocio, Ms. Simo, do we need a few more minutes? We can take a five-minute recess, if that's fine.

Let's take a quick five-minute recess to give them some time to polish the language, and we'll be back shortly. OK, we're calling to order again this meeting of the South Miami City Commission. Madam Clerk, again, if you could just read for the record item 8, please.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Mr. City Attorney, do you want to read the proposed revisions to the language once again? Sure thing. Just an abundance of caution. I'm going to reopen the public hearing. Sure. Close it so people can comment on the modification. And then assuming there's no discussion, we'll move to adopt the item, okay? Perfect, perfect. You're recognized, sir.

Okay. Colleagues, any comments on the revised language? Yes, you're recognized, Commissioner Bonnich. Can I hear it again?

Can you please read, shall the charter be amended one more time?

HOW MANY WORDS DO WE HAVE THERE? 70. 70. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY. OKAY.

Valid question. If there's any member of the public who would like to address this commission, item eight, which is a proposed modification to the definition of franchises in our charter with the ballot language just read by the attorney, please report at this time. Seeing no one in the chamber, and again, Madam Clerk, no one online, we'll close the public hearing. Is there a motion to adopt item eight with a language, ballot language as modified and read into the record by the city attorney? We have a motion by Commissioner Kaye. Is there a second?

A franchise, okay. With that final modification, does the mover accept it?

Sure. Okay. So we have an item in proper posture. Madam Clerk, if you can call the roll, please.

Thank you. Colleagues, any further business before this commission? Seeing none, we stand adjourned. Thank you, everyone.