Community Relations Board - Regular Meeting

We have to seat each other. And I'll do...

6E and 6F. Hello, Kayla. Hello. And we have no public here. And anybody want to make a change, add anything, a correction to the minutes? Okay, so I need a motion to approve the minutes as written.

I make a motion to approve the minutes as written.

I need a second. I'll second. Okay, Rita. All those in favor say aye.

My response is Y. David and Gerardo were kind enough to join us and despite all the publicity and the postings and somehow it did not land and maybe everybody could offer suggestions on what to do next time. Maybe it's the day, maybe it's the time. Maybe it's flyer distribution at the stores downtown, the hotels. Was it invasive because it was on Sunday?

I think Sunday's a good day. I think there's just a lot of people, especially the orthodontists.

The orthodontist is usually on Sundays, like this past Sunday. I was walking my dog and it was packed.

Oh yeah, it was packed when we were walking too. They just weren't working with us.

specific week. I wouldn't worry about the day of the week or the time.

I really think that we... And maybe we can create a flyer sooner and, you know, all of us could take a bundle and designate territories. Like, somebody will count just, like, the hotels or the condos and downtown, you know, the stores.

Do you have a date? Like, is it once a month?

It was too early or too late? Too early. Okay, what time did we have it?

I think that's what you were hoping for.

So what about 9 o'clock at some point in February? Should we try? I would like that better.

Is that like I don't think you're gonna make everyone happy with one time like for me like The 8 o'clock we do that or the 9 o'clock like I like to get my day started So like I think it just depends person to person so I would say do what makes sense for you you guys and then maybe we switch our 8 I think that I think everybody's different, you know, like some people sleep it. I wake up at 6 So like by 9, I'm already like in my day on Sunday.

So I think, but I think we can, as May said, I think we should switch off. Maybe do every other one as we've talked about before where it's like evening, morning. So if you're not a morning person, you do the evening or your evening. Maybe should we schedule like two for February? Good morning.

Maybe it's something where it's the same day every month. Like, it's every third Sunday or something like that. So people just know, and it's just you don't have to advertise it the same way because it's just consistently always that, and you know that's when you go. Uh-huh. Okay.

We set up a chat, but I really don't like being the administrator of it. We had a last stand.

And then I set up a new one. But, I mean, other events you don't, you know, say I'm coming or something. So I would like to get rid of that. join us. If anything, I'll talk with Rita the whole time.

Yeah, I'd like to put that only because... that might happen again? Depends, if they want their own.

Whoever comes in brings in their own people, so.

You can reapply. Is there like an announcement of quick, there are just two candidates? So far.

March 1st, read it. What do you want? Do you want a 5? And 9 a.m. or? 9 a.m. or?

Okay, March 8th, and what do you want to read? Do you want the morning or the evening walk?

Should we do both the same day or no? Is that scary? Just one. Let's see. That's the late savings time. So is that ahead or spring forward? Spring forward. So that would be, so if we're doing the second Sunday, then we have to also check with Passover and Easter. When? 12th, 13th, 10th. Mother's Day is May 10th. So, no Mother's Day. Well, March 8th, is March 8th a Sunday?

We're doing the second Sunday. I mean, there's always going to be something.

Let's just do one, and then if we're reelected, if we're re... Oh, that's right. If we're combined, then we'll do the next one.

Okay. Yeah. March 8th, I would say. What would you like? Could we vote on it to see who likes 8, who likes 9, or 8.30? Do it any way you want. If it's at 9, I'll make it. Come to town. Do 9.

If more people like to sleep in, do 9. At the same place? So that's a good question. Instead of 88, let's make it 87.

Oh, that's a good idea. More central. And then we walk towards the market, which is open at 9. And if people want to continue to the barge, fine. Good idea.

And then we could even, you know, the option of if they're coming with their family and they want to park their stuff at the community center, you know, if somebody wants to hang back and not go, somebody in the family can go. The father can take the two kids and the mother can sit down and read a book for an hour. Okay. Very good. And... Right. Sweat. Do we have stuff to give away? Do we have any of those water bottles?

You can do like the first 20 people, you know, who don't need 100 pieces of anything.

Do you need a budget for that, or do you have it?

We can always store it at the community center until we come back. Yeah, that's great.

Frank, how do you want to advertise it? Do you want to put it in the Gazette?

Can you put it on Nextdoor? Yeah, yeah, of course. I'll put it on all of the channels. And email blasts. And Rita, do you want flyers?

Yes, I'd like flyers, and I'll take the condos from 88th to 96th Street. And if anyone else wants to do the stores, the restaurants and stores downtown.

And you just take tape and ask them if you can put it up?

No, you just bring them, and they put them in the mail room. Okay.

I feel like I'll ask whoever is working there. Yeah, if they're willing to do that, that'd be awesome. Yeah. Okay, thank you very much.

So, Rita will do the condos, and Kayla will do the... Downtown. Downtown.

Take your mother. I love it. I love telling people to live in downtown. Oh, and then she'll go, yeah, they'll give her bagels.

It's great. Yeah, 16 handles is great. Oh, yeah.

Okay, I'd like to make a motion while we have our youth guest here to move this. Let me just make sure I have this on here. Yes, 60, may I? Do I need a motion to move that? Yes. So I'd like a motion to move a 60 and bike safety awareness event to discuss now since we have one of our youth councilors. What's your name?

I'll make the motion to move up 6D to 6B. I'll second it.

And what's your last name? Garcia. Welcome. And very impressive. They know how to run a meeting. Oh, yeah.

Can I take a picture and send it to your mom?

We'll get a group one, too. So they had a meeting. They're going to work with Michelle Weinberg, who Gerardo. Did Gerardo give us anything on 60? Okay, so the Youth Council is going to do a study with Michelle Weinberg over two days, correct me if I'm wrong, on encouraging bike safety and educating people. The Youth Council is going to try to get as many of their friends for that. And then the second meeting, I think, was going to be a follow-up. Is that right, Ella?

And did I say we would partner with them? I think we were going to put our name on it too.

So then I spoke after that. It wasn't what we had in mind, like safety, but I said we would certainly... put our name, our committee to it, and if any of us wanted to come, and if you needed some money, we could do that too. So that's how that ended. Right, Ella?

Right, so I'll talk about that now. So at our last meeting, a couple of us brought up a bike safety event. Giving away helmets, checking... The tires, I think Rita you were going to talk to.

I did. I spoke to him. Oh, Sam. He's on board. What's the name of that?

They're on 74th Street. C&B or? Yeah. The bike place.

So, just to, I don't know if you know, Avery Pack is married to Sarah Litz, who a lot of you know because she does events. He owns two bike companies. They live on Byron. So, they're another JV bike.

So Rita at the last meeting knew JB Bike.

Yeah, he's more of a manufacturer of bikes, so it's probably a different thing.

Yeah, he's worked with the Miami Beach Police Department. Great, yeah. And he'll come and he'll... You're going.

Yeah. Okay. Great. And then... But if you have something... No, no, no. Okay. So then I talked to Cheap Press, and he wants to do this very badly. Good. So then I or Frank, we'd have to meet with Chief Press to see what he wants to do, stationed. the right height of the seat, the handlebars. Like I said before, I was at one where they engraved my son's bike, so if it was stolen, I could call the police. And if they did come across one, here was my number. I think that's a good idea. We also talked about maybe an obstacle course where a red stop sign. So Chief Press has done this, and he had qu

Through the chair, when my kids were little, in the parking lot right out there, we also did that for skateboarding. I don't know if you want to incorporate that in. They actually put out mats to show the safe way to fall, which is really helpful because a lot of these kids are out there on their skateboards, and it's a little... And scooters, yes.

you know we might have asked you to man a station you know if we have okay so so I first like to make a motion to incorporate the Youth Council on our I'd like someone to make a motion to make a motion to include the Youth Council in our event second okay any discussion on that sorry do the chair what would be the name of the recommended by Safety Rodeo. So just a discussion. They don't have to do any pre-planning with us. They'll get their committee to try to get people to come. And they can bring their bikes and scooters, and they can be involved, or they can help out. Is that right?

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, motion passes. Okay. Not yet, so. Anyway, now, next part of it. So, would anybody like to, like, I'll be glad to meet with Chief Press to see his ideas.

Yeah, and I also am relatively friendly with Michelle who, you've heard of it, she's an incredible advocate for safety. So that's part two.

So do you want to do it or do you want me to do it? If we met when she pressed, can she and I both go or can that only be one person?

And you would just have to set up the time with him and see if Frank can come. And then if I'm allowed, if you'll let me know and I'll email us all. Unless somebody else wants to do it. Unless somebody else wants to be in on it. I'm happy to. I'll be glad to help you out. Okay. Okay, next. So Michelle has written me a couple of emails. She's the next part. Okay. She's aiming for March or April to do this because it's called micro, it could be called the micro mobility rodeo.

Micro. And I'll read what she wrote. And then she wrote me another micro mobility. I am helmet fit certified and anyone who distributes a helmet must fit each individual properly and have the helmet accounted for. I'd be happy to help with that and include Sue from Bike 305. Do you know her? No. Okay. And UM Mickey Witt from the Kids Neuroscience to join us.

Okay, so that's her first email. She can't meet today. I invited her today. And then I asked her what dates were good. So everybody write this down. She said March 15th, 22nd or 29th. Angie, you have those for me. Okay. April 19th or 26th. Okay.

Well, as you mentioned, we don't know if we'll still be even.

Right, exactly. Okay, so here's what she's doing. Here's one more email and then we'll talk. Okay. I highly recommend getting as many people that are interested and have the ability to get helmet fit certified. For all your information, Frank, you might want to publish this. I'll send this to you. The helmet fitter certification will take place on February 18, 2026, 10 to 12. So if you want to become a fitter, it's at the Miami-Dade Center. transportation planning organization office if you could forward those emails to me also so all of them yeah the ones we're reading into the record oh sure

Okay, so if any of you are interested, just show up. It's from Jesus Fuentes, P.E., Miami Dade, TPO, in-house consultant. Okay. All right, so she's very... board with helping us I'd like to I think we should go it just my opinion I know what you said we might be out of office but if we could get one of the March dates I mean Youth Council will be there we could just come as residents you can you know if they if they strip the committee's like they do the chair yeah I guess true

strategy-wise if we have this incredible event that is good for the health of our children's heads planned in April and they disband us and don't want to do this event that's very you know it's like yeah so I think we go ahead with whatever we want to do assume that they see this as value for the community and through the chair it's going to be joint with PD so you know PD is not going to get disbanded so I think there's there's virtually no chance yeah that

I like that March 22nd. Let's do the March 22nd.

All right, let's give two dates. Let's give one in April in case Chief Press can't get it organized. Okay. So what were the dates? So March 22nd or April 26th? April 26th. Okay. Um... leave the time up to Chief Press? Do we want to, what else, should we approve a budget amount? For the helmets? The whole thing? Yeah, the whole thing. Let's do, I think the helmets might be free, but they have to be fitted. I think that's the condition. Joanna?

I was thinking we just say a little higher. Yeah, maybe a little higher than we think it may be, just in case there's things we're not thinking of.

Let's go all out. We say $2,000, but if we spend less money.

This is to buy, huh? If possible, helmets, pizza.

Let's just say $2,000, and then if we don't have to spend it, then we don't.

Well, we'll work through the police chief. He might say, I can get them free. Or Michelle might say, I can get them as long as you let me fit in.

It's always easier to not use the money than not ask for it and try to...

And then we can get pizza. I think at the last meeting we said we'll only start getting fialcoffs because that way we don't have to go to two different places. You can have water.

I think, Frank, you were going to ask the Grove for something. Did you talk to the Grove? They never burn it. Did you talk to the Grove? Rita, did you approach the Grove?

Do you want to see if they wanted... Does it matter which pizza vendor we use?

Okay, so we use that for the Grove, if Rita can arrange something.

Okay, so pizza. What else? The advantage of going with The Grove is that they have hundreds of vendors who supply them. Vendors want to keep their clients happy. So they might say, you know what, I'll give you four cases of chips, you know, this and that and all that, to stay in their good graces, so they keep reordering from them. That's true. So that's probably more... Please. And we want the letter from Frank.

Yes, please. Okay. And do we want, what was that little ice cream vendor? She was like in a cart. She scooped it. Was that from Rita's or something?

I think Chief Press and I mentioned right here.

At the parking lot right there? Yeah, that's what they did the last one. They cleared out all the cars.

We have to commit to the date. We have to ask chief press as soon as possible.

So what kind of motions do we need? So we already approved it this we have to approve the money to would somebody make a motion to approve?

I make a motion to approve $2,000 for the bike rodeo I'll second

And Frank, if you see a cute little souvenir for the day or something. For the... The bike. The bike thing.

Nothing more than kids like a fanny pack, right? Yeah, I have a horn that I can move sometimes. Do you want to... Should we get Belle?

Yeah, and I have to say, and I didn't take the picture because I thought it would be creepy, but I was walking the dog and there were three probably 13-year-old boys on fast scooters. So fast. No, they were wearing their helmets and they stopped at the stop sign. And I said, you guys, great job. Thank you so much. We stopped. And they were like, and I was almost like, can I take your picture? Because I wanted to put it on next door. I decided it would be weird. But I watched them too. They stopped at the next stop sign and they were very considerate of the street.

Maybe the youth council could get some kids together and do a video.

But it's coming from like 7-year-olds and 10-year-olds. It's like, no, I believe it's like safety.

Okay, well, we're on the right track. This is exciting because it's safety for the kids. So that's one of our... Okay, so we passed the $2,000? Through the chair.

All those opposed? Motion passes. There you go. Okay. And is there anything else, Frank, we should include?

I called the non-emergency number, and they put me through to him, but the voicemail didn't.

I might just stop downstairs and leave a note.

And if I can come, Angie, let me know, and I'd like to go too.

Well, I think, you know, since your group is working with Michelle, and she's giving me this, she's bringing these people to do the fitting, I think we can, I can also ask, if she's your good friend, you could ask her what a good title would be. I do like micro mobility. It's sort of the high end.

Bike rodeo might be more. Bike safety. Just like, oh, tell me what's going on.

How's bike safety rodeo? Or just call it bike rodeo?

I think bike safety rodeo is good. It gives them the strength.

Okay. So if it helps Michelle with her mobility, Which, you know, with her, what she's doing with the Youth Council on us, I have no problem going with micromobility if that's what she would, but if, but see what she, just get rid of it. I'll text her right now. Okay. Ask her if she minds it. Anything else, anything else you have? Any ideas? Do you have anything else you would like to share?

Okay, so my thoughts were that it'll be our committee. You just bring people. Yeah. And yourself. But we can certainly make you a partner. So, frankly, you would put in conjunction with the police department, community relations, and the youth council. And then if you could talk about it at your next meeting, If you would come to ours, when's our next meeting, Angie? All right, I have it here.

At 4 o'clock. Can I jump ahead to that just in case they say that's not a good day or time? Do I have to make a motion for that? Yes. Just in case she wants to. That way we give her the exact date. Is there a motion? Okay, everybody look at their count. I'd like a motion to move 8A to discussion now.

I'll make a motion to move 8A under 6C. Is it C now?

So if you move it up, do the alphabetical letters change too?

Okay, is there a motion? There was a motion. Is there a second? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay, motion passes. Everybody look at their calendar because that's when we're going to plan this.

I'm fine with that. Okay. First of all, let's start with the date. Thursday, February 19th. I think she wanted to do it.

Yeah, but is that, are you going to, can you be here?

Yeah, and we have Mediterranean. Oh, yeah, I have the 16th of February.

Yeah, you can go right into the Mediterranean. Do we want 3 o'clock, or do we, okay, Joanna, what did you find?

For the 19th? Yeah, it's the day of our meeting and that's fine for me. It's 3 or 4 o'clock, okay. Oh, for the meeting? Yeah, it's at 4 o'clock.

Yeah, 4 o'clock's here, but if we want to get out before the party, yeah.

Okay. All right, so our next meeting... You're welcome to come or another committee or as many that want to come.

And then Joanna and Chief and Frank will have it. The events. Do I have to make a motion for that or is it already?

Thank you very much. Thank you. You're welcome to stay.

How senior are you? It's good. Okay. It's over.

Give out bells. But I don't think Frank heard that.

And through the share, you can order on it. Just as, like, an example really quickly, you can order –

Yeah, I got one, an easy one. I think I just took a Phillips and screwed it. I didn't have to screw into the handlebar or anything. It was very easy. Okay. Thank you, everybody. That's good. Okay. Six, resource fair and wishing tree.

So, sorry. Lori Da Silva is at Beach High. She's like the mental health coordinator there now. When my kids were at Beach High, as the parent, I ran the... Mental and physical wellness day expo and so now it's still going on I was one of the ones that started it's basically an all-day thing where they bring it it's similar to what we're doing except it's it's targeted to teenagers and It's it's mental and physical wellness, but they have like all of the different resources So she is a really great resource for that.

She's a great resource. She's very busy, but she can give.

So, Frank, do you have the list we gave you last month?

The top one is going to be better. I have a moment to talk to Angie so I can see how the set is. So I have a... three emails from Michelle Weinberg. Do I just send them each one for individual ears that way?

It's true. Audra's the mom that's in the Bermans.

Okay, so we went March 1st at the community center table. Do you have the list that we gave you?

Okay. And I think we approved money for the bracelets. And so I'll contact you. Did I have you contact her or did I contact her? Or was I going to contact her?

Mitzvah day, that's cute. And then Hillary's table, right?

Good question. March 1st is a Saturday, isn't it? I think it might be an issue. Wait, wasn't it? No, no, I hope it was a Sunday. I might be looking at the wrong year, sorry.

Organizations will man their own tables. Right, I know that.

But does he have enough to have a table? Enough tables? Like physical tables? No. Did we give you enough community resource people that it'll make it worthwhile rather than just one or two?

Through the chair, in my experience, we had more people than we could fit. We had 40 tables.

Right, but I guess if the eight people he calls all say no, we have another eight. There's a million different scenarios we could do these.

So Angie would need to, through Frank, contact us and say, I have zero people that I need more names.

But I live here, I'm local, real estate, whatever.

All right, let's let Frank start planning. And calling, emailing. Calling. And then if he's finding a problem, then he and Angie will email us all for more resources.

I don't know if that's the original, if that's what... That was more of a last resort in my head, like if we can't fill up, that could be a possibility. You have somebody? I mean, yeah, my aunt helps out with dogs and elderly people.

yeah but two meetings ago the Jewish Family Services through the Debbie through the chair we had for instance Surfside police come every year when I did the expo they brought Mike the dog they walked around they talked to teenagers about how police are they're there to help them not to be so there were so many different we can go other avenues I don't know

I'm just concerned because we gave him a list and now we have the date.

Let's start there. The fallback is to get more resources if necessary.

You would record that they're coming so you'd have a master list too.

I think that's a good idea. There are things within Surfside that we don't even know. are available to us.

You could tell Walter Javier, who's a Surfside resident, is a fireman. We can have him come and talk about fire stuff if we wanted to. I mean there's a million different...

Okay, so we have a problem with the first batch. Okay, there's a lot of... Okay, so everybody will need to jump in with that. You got it. And then you'll have the wishing tree stuff.

So that's March 1st, 11 to 2. Okay. Yay. Good, good, good. 6C. The apartment. The apartment book. The book. Do you have something on that, Andrea?

No. It's pretty good. I just bought it. I haven't started it yet.

What country are you from? Kerala. That's an interesting building.

Do we want to do food? Did we talk about that yet? We probably need a budget. I think we did talk about it.

Oh wait, I have mine here. We were talking about it.

Everybody look at the minutes. Because we would have to be running this one ourselves.

Let's look at your minutes from last month.

And also, being in the park, there's a parking issue. And a lot of people are driving.

I see it right here. It says about food. Yeah, and we were talking about some cupcakes.

The hard part for the food is going to be we don't know how many people. There's not an RSVP kind of situation, so it could be four people and it could be 40. I doubt it'll be 40. The parking situation makes it impossible. People can walk.

Yeah, and hopefully it's not raining. The cupcakes won't work, I thought.

Oh, his daughters? Yeah, she just did it for fun. Oh my God, they were amazing.

Because I had put hot water, you know, like tea and cupcakes.

Yeah, she put it in this beautiful little And so she's sticking to medical school. Okay, so 6 o'clock.

So they'll put the chairs up for us, is that right?

I'm happy to be the point person for the food if somebody else wants to be the point person maybe for beverage so we can split it up a little bit and then

Does the Surfside have like hot water urns or anything like that?

Why don't you choose the park that you're using?

Last time when I went to the gun safety forum, I parked over at CVS and then just walked. It was a bad idea. That's a good option.

Or for this, so we would be running this. Welcome. And then do we do a book discussion after?

So what I would, through the chair, what I would recommend is that one of us meets with Anna Menendez before to see how she would like to do it, to see if she... And who she's inviting. Who she's inviting. That's a good point, and also she may have specific questions already that she has.

so what did we want to so and then what happens in a book talk do you like um do you have some questions ready for her or so through the chair my recommendation is that she may have some already that she's because she's maybe done these before and if not i think we can definitely find them online but there's a pretty good chance that she's going to have specific talking points from the book that she would like to.

So she could read a little bit first, and then she could talk? And then she picks a passage and reads it. Oh, that would be good. Okay. So we'll start with Commissioner Girardo to be the host. If he can't do it, Joanna, you would be okay with that? Sure. And then we'd learn how to run the next one.

How's that? Yep. I can't imagine having a book club without wine. It seems kind of crazy not to not have a wine, but I don't know how the town feels about that. Then we would have to make that bed like 21 years old.

I'll be in charge of the beverages. It's like the Heineken factory in Amsterdam.

Wait, through the chairs. I don't mind getting one. Are we allowed to?

Okay, if you find out it's possible, let us know. Okay, so what kind of food and food would we like first?

That's a good question. Snap, snap, slip we had with the... Gifted crust or something. The fellow who came in talking about how to talk to your neighbors about politics. We had from the bakery. Oh, that was good. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. From that bakery, that was good.

Actually, if it's going to be kosher, maybe we talk to the Grove. Maybe that's a good event to do.

Yeah, as soon as I get that letter. Or do we want that new bakery that we got for that?

So you two are going to take care of that? Yeah, we'll be the effing bake. Maybe for a beverage we could do some sparkling cider or something. Get in the mood without causing the liability.

Give out flasks so people can bring their own.

Hot cider. What do you do at Christmas time? They have hot cider.

Okay. So the market ones are fantastic. The photography is so good. I think it really brings... The photography for the...

I think that they would really agree to that. So, yeah. Why wouldn't they? Here's my idea. The... All the server-side posts are all still photos. Do we ever do video?

where, like, hi, I'm Anna Melendez. Sure, yeah, of course. If she wanted to, of course. Our very first book club event. This is a book that I wrote, and she can hold it up, and I hope to see you all. But we need some kind of point of contact. A text, you know, like a number where people can text, like, oh, I need to find out more information, or I live in Bay Harbor, am I allowed to come?

But if they call the town, nobody's going to know.

And, I mean, I'm always in meetings and all over, so I'm not a good number to... For that author, I, you know... She might also have a list, like you mentioned, of people coming already.

I mean, if we had a contact, email or a phone... and people got interested, at least we can get an idea. 20 people have called. This is gonna happen. Now we have an idea that we should be ordering

Through the chair. We may have, as we said, five people. We may have 40. It'll be a learning. We'll either run out of food or have too much. It's okay.

I think so. I'm sure she's going to bring her family. Maybe start moving in that direction where we partner with Bay Harbor and Bell Harbor because we're Surf Bell Bay. That's my dream.

We've always been a family, the three towns, the triangle. Correct, but you might have somebody on the beach who wants to come to this, and then they can't.

We're going to have our walks from the hotels.

Rita, if you have a contact there, I'm happy to go over there with you and talk to them and see what they'll donate, what we'll buy, come up with an array of snacks.

The date's getting close. That's the thing about get the book now and read it. Yeah, we're super close to the date. Are you going to buy some?

Excuse me, are you going to buy some, put in the rec center like last time?

Was that us last time, or was that the tourist?

Okay, so food will be you two. And you'll let me know. And there'll be no other meeting. Just reach out to me. And then, who's the park and rec guy that's stationed over there at the community, at the 96th Street Park? Carlos, small rec. Yeah, Carlos. Okay, maybe I'll ride over and see if he'll put up the chairs for us. Okay.

Okay, so my son's getting married the next day. The 7th, but we have the event 6, so I'll be a little... I'll try to help out if I can, but all of you are going to need to pitch in.

But I'll run over to Carlos and see if he'll help with the chairs and tables. That way it'll be done. I'll go ask him.

I'll go over and take a look. And then... Okay, so everybody hands on. How about meet at five on the... Okay, we can meet at 5. Thursday the 5th. And you two will, can you get the food delivered or you'll need to pick it up? We don't know yet. Okay, and then we have to propose a monetary amount. So would someone like to make a motion?

I'll make a motion to have a food and drink budget of $300. I'll second that motion.

Can we have an extra amount? Just like one time, Frank had to order extra. Was that you, Frank? We had to order extra for something. Maybe the pizza, yeah. I think that one. How about make it $500, just in case we have to order more. Remember how we ran out of the pizza product?

I think it's fair. I think that should be a lot.

And Frankie, did you see the letter, the pitch letter?

What is this? For to go to the Grove, I'm just trying to think because, I mean, the Anna thing is like a really timely thing. Yeah, so I did the one for the resource there. If I could tomorrow morning before I go to IAC.

Yeah, I'll print it out at home and I'll just run over there.

Yeah. Let's do a bunch of email blasts each week until it's done.

So I'm going to ask Gerardo for that. Did you write him? I did.

I sent him a text, but he hasn't responded yet.

I need to get going. I know that the... Thank you. We have the lending line of the elderly help. Is that the idea that I have?

Angie has a report on that. Okay. But we'll be okay. Okay. Thank you very much, Rita. Thank you. Thanks, everybody. Okay.

All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed?

Who's the president of that youth council? Lucia. I was going to say, obviously Lucia.

She's the president of the world already.

She's going to Stanford. She just knew exactly what to say. She's amazing.

She's totally Lindsay. They're like the same person.

I have one more thing on this. I wanted to throw out to you. That Isaac pack. He did that nice. He did a great job. I was wondering if you'd have to contact him. If he would make one for Anna Menendez and we could post it there in advance.

I think we did it last minute, last time.

It was a $300 sponsorship. Did he use up all the money? He did, yeah. All right, what do you think about that?

Sure, I mean, if he's willing to do it, it was really impressive.

Would we take the old stuff off? I think it's better... Oh, so you'd want to do it at the community center? I want it here, because this is where... But he would need to put, like, at the 96th Street. That would be one of the conditions, put it at the 96th Street part on one of his decal prints, so they don't get confused, you know what I mean?

But as part of one of the things he puts up, Oh, yeah, where it is. Right, because if not, they're going to come here.

I think it'd be better rather than, like, I'm here every day and other people are here.

And the people, I think, that go to book talks come to do their... What I would say to the chairs, I know that he's also a busy kid. If he can't do it, maybe we have a small budget of whatever it is to blow up the cover of her thing. And we can probably do this pretty easily. I don't know. King goes and put a big...

I mean, can we just put it up in the, like, just do the poster? Yeah, just like a poster.

From the other side. Do we just want to do that instead?

I think maybe we just do that, just because it's going to be a lot cheaper. I think maybe, where do we get the most traffic? In the 96th Street?

But that would be another party. Another party, yeah.

Would we pick it up at FedEx? Where do you get it at?

Through the chair, Gerardo said he will be the contact for that, so it's all good.

Okay. Excellent. So do we want to pass a budget for this? Just make two posters? Two posters, yeah. I don't know what they're called. Whatever they are.

I don't think we, for like... No, because we can just come back and then when you recap the IM, we'll just approve it.

Okay. Oh, thank you. Thank you. This is sort of a... Okay. 6E. 6E. Beach cleanup with Coastal. Mary?

So unfortunately, we have not been able to get in contact with them at the moment. My mom has a board meeting with them this... Month, so hopefully by next meeting, um, she'll be able to discuss this more with me and potentially she'll come in to discuss it more. Um, so I'll let you guys know next, um, or next meeting if, uh, we've gotten to be able to reach out to them.

Okay. So I'll put on for next agenda chair.

Yeah, I like that a lot. I'll definitely talk to them about that, too, and see if they... I'm assuming they... I've been to a couple of their events now, and they are very, very knowledgeable in all things marine biology and sand and...

Okay, so four or five years ago, I saw, like, Miami Dade doing that. Like, it was part of, like, the big operation. So I don't know if we could... So just check if there's permission for the town.

Okay, so did he send you anything on that? Yes.

I'm sort of overwhelmed with everything. That's okay. I'd like to sort of put this on next month after. What was the idea? I just think we're planning so much and we're having, you know. So can I, is it okay to postpone this next time? Yes. That way we'll be able to ask him more pointed questions.

Okay. And I'd hate us to go off on the wrong tangent. Okay, 6G, General Lending Library, my name, but...

Well, I've got some more information on the Library of Things.

So when I was in Cape Cod, I took some pictures of some of the things they had at their Library of Things. And I was talking to the librarian. She said it is popular. Some things are not popular and some things are. kind of intrigued. She said that the most popular thing is a metal detector. That makes a lot of sense. But some of the things I took pictures of, a KitchenAid mixer, sewing machine, drill and bits, karaoke machine, ice cream maker, food dehydrator, pickleball paddles and balls, pasta maker, folding camping chairs, and they had other things with those, and then the metal chairs. So

So there's nowhere in this building, Angie and Frank, Frank's office?

We need someone assertive to go in there.

I mean, I think the eventual home for it just makes sense to be in that building, the new building. The new house. You know, I think that that just makes sense to make that sort of a... library things, maybe have a leave-a-book, take-a-book.

I don't see that becoming available anymore.

I'm going over to Carlos tomorrow, Friday, to see if he'll help with the chairs and tables. I'll ask him to see it.

Yeah, see if we don't need a ton of space. Especially if we start small, start with five things.

You want to call him, or do you mind if I... No, you can... I'll take a look, yeah. We'll post on more discussion until we find a space.

That's a great idea. People know how to play and they can do teaching some things. We could bring back, I have like four backgammon sets. I love backgammon. That's fun. I love that idea. It's a great idea. Love that.

I saw something on Amazon. They're making a consistent looking box. So instead of having all these clue boxes and monopoly, you can put it in and store it on your bookshelf. So I'll put this on for next time. So keep thinking. Okay. All right. Any other new business?

No, no, it was something for Surfside residents, but it was very small.

a review of the March 8th community walk at 9 a.m., so we'll talk about that. Joanna will have a report on the bike safety helmet event. And if I can go, you'll let me know, Angie? Yes. Okay. Recap of the book talk, how that went. The beach cleanup, Barry, so we'll have a report on that. Elderly Health Repair Cafe, Gerardo. Lending library, I'll see if I can talk to Carlos. Are there places like, Sharon, if I can go back to that, like next door, anybody giving away like a metal detector, we want it.

Right, exactly. Once we determine there's a place to put it, then we can figure out how to source all the things.

I'm not on it. The Jewish one. I'm not on it. You're hiding.

I was trying to get rid of my sister-in-law's refrigerator, freezer.

And then we'll put it on for Frank to check with. What is that department that you would check with? Parks. Okay, so we'll put that on. And game night, Kayla, if you'll just write down ideas and thoughts and how you envision it. And the full moon yoga. Does that mean we go in the evening? Is that why it's called full moon? Yeah.

Okay, so envision how you would like to handle it. Anybody else for anything on the agenda? Okay, oh, thank you, everybody. Great. I'm looking forward to all these things. Good job. Good job, everybody.

All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Opposed?