Community Relations Board - Regular Meeting

Thursday, December 18, 2025Official site

The Community Relations Board approved plans for a Community Resource Fair and Wishing Tree event on February 22nd, including a "Bullets for Life" activity. They also set a date for their second book club in February and discussed a future bike/scooter safety event.

About this meeting

Government Body
Community Relations Board
Meeting Type
Community Relations Board
Location
Surfside, FL
Meeting Date
December 18, 2025

Published excerpts

Only published remarks appear here. The full transcript is not published.

226 sections (from 234 segments)

0:00•David Karp

I appreciate everybody's work all year, so thank you.

0:08•David Karp

So you want to call the roll, Angie, please?

0:35•David Karp

Okay, thank you. All right, so here you have our agenda. And Commissioner, do you have anything about the report? Oh, thank you.

1:20 – 1:31•David Karp

Anybody read over any changes they want to make to the minutes that Angie sent out? Okay, all those in favor of the minutes as published, say aye.

1:31•Mary Henderson

Sorry, someone has to make a motion first. I'll make the motion to approve the minutes of November 13th.

1:39 – 1:58•David Karp

And I need a second. Second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Motion passed. So we first want to talk about the Singer Fest. Frank, do you want to say anything?

3:32 – 4:23•Rita Regev Spector

Yes. I was really very happily surprised. It was standing room only. The people were so engaged. They were so excited. And it was really really wonderful to see that. It was great that Mitch Kinzer spoke, who was the mayor at the time and had a lot of interaction with him. I spoke a little bit because my mom used to meet Isaac Bischoff's singer for coffee at Sheldon's Drugstore. But yeah, it was good. I think that the speaker, though he was very, very knowledgeable, his His speech didn't flow. It's hard to sometimes get somebody who is an expert and is a really good, engaging speaker. I felt l

4:25•David Karp

Yeah, I thought it was very nice. Isaac, what's his name? Isaac.

4:37 – 5:01•David Karp

That was good. I thought both events, people really liked the other food too, the klezmer and the kosher foods set up that was out there. It went like about golems and things like that. It was just very hard to hear, but I thought that helped.

5:42 – 6:04•David Karp

But it was very good. It really was a good party. A lot of residents talked. They stayed. And it looked really nice out there in the green space. Very nice. Okay. So we should thank who? Was that the tourist board? The tourist board, yes. So thank them in the minutes, too. That was well done. Okay. 6B, community resource. So I asked you all to

6:17•Rita Regev Spector

today here's Joanna's right through the chair yeah the vice chair she asked me to send these to you to provide these to you guys

6:59•David Karp

Mary, did you have anybody you wanted to share?

7:01 – 7:13•Mary Henderson

I had one that I mentioned before when we first started talking about it. They have not gone back to me initially. So I'm still waiting for just a little email back from them. So once I get them, I'll send them over to them. Send them right to Frank.

7:13 – 7:27•David Karp

I have one more coming to Frank. Community Resource Fair and Wishing Tree. So did we pick a date? I don't think we picked it. Did we pick a date?

7:36 – 8:12•David Karp

When did we do the Wishing Tree last year? Was that the morning? It was morning. So that's And then Frank, you'll be, so Frank, is this right? You will be contacting each one to see if they would like to, so what it is, I think it's just a simple table they would need with some brochures and people that walk over to them to ask what group they represent. Is that our idea?

8:27•David Karp

I'm going to have you call the ones I sent because I didn't know the date or time.

8:55•David Karp

Did she send you an email? Yes, an email. Okay. Can you write her that the date will be February 22nd? 10 to noon, Frank?

10:13 – 10:47•Mary Henderson

talk about the wishing tree so we want to do that right beside it yeah okay and same as last year everything the same yeah so is there anything we want to change maybe we'll improve like we just need the we needed a little bit of a different paper right yeah we'll work on the paint and maybe like the string color just like we did it so last minute last time but um yeah i think honestly it would be good It attracts people and you can eat it while listening to everyone so it's a little bit more engaging than just walking up to people for pamphlets.

10:49 – 11:28•David Karp

So the way I was envisioning it, so if there's a table here about Hatsala, I would go over to that table. So we just walk over, hi, how are you? What do you do? Oh, you have a magnet. And then they could talk, right? And the same with poison information. Do we want, I was saying, maybe our fire department? Could we ask our fire department and police? We could have. Do the police do anything like safety with bike helmets or anything? Probably. I think so, yeah. I'm not sure there's...

11:33•Rita Regev Spector

being stolen. I'm seeing on this, I have a group chat, like every day somebody's screaming from the sink.

12:01•Rita Regev Spector

Is she from the ice cream? I don't think so.

12:23 – 12:40•David Karp

I've been at one of these years ago and A bike company came and just made sure the seat was the height, filled their tires, put some oil. So that could be a future event. I'd rather, and then give them helmets and locks.

12:40•Mary Henderson

Maybe this could be her kind of like soft watch. Oh, I like that word. Kind of like a soft watch. Yeah, that's actually great.

13:00•David Karp

Yes, that's what they did at the one I was at. Yes, I don't know if that's still something. So do you want one of us to talk to Officer J or the police chief?

13:28 – 13:48•David Karp

Alright, so who wants to, should we contact, do you want to be the lead, do you want to talk to her and see if she would do one with us and Youth Council? Youth Council can certainly be the lead and then we'll just come in like we did for the gun violence one because we didn't have to. We didn't have to do anything else.

13:48 – 14:32•Rita Regev Spector

So apropos to that, I just picked up my bike from servicing JB or JD Bikes on 74th and Collins. Sam Doner, super nice guy. They might want to do that pro bono is to come out and check bikes for, like you said, the height, the oil, air. So it might need to be on a Sunday because they're closed Sunday, I think. Maybe. Could be. I mean, it's a thought. I mean, it's publicity for him just like... Sure. Yeah, yeah.

14:32 – 15:00•David Karp

And do we can, like, we have a little money, like, give them a, like, $250, what do you call it? Not a donation, but... Stipend. Honoraria for helping us out. Do we want to wait until we talk? How should we proceed? Do we want to see if officers, who should, which police person should we contact? Officer J or the Chief?

15:07•David Karp

Okay, I have his number. Do you want me to call him? Yeah. You'll call Michelle and I'll talk to him and...

15:24•David Karp

Chief, okay. And then, what's that gentleman's name?

15:28 – 15:56•Rita Regev Spector

Sam, and I can send you the phone number. I remember one of the block parties a while ago, They had a paint your helmet thing for the kids. And so they had a whole table encouraging helmet awareness. I don't know, I could volunteer with my husband to talk about concussions that he's seen from kids not wearing helmets.

15:57 – 16:16•David Karp

Yeah, this war. Because if your commission doesn't get voted in or out, then we could be stripped of this too. I don't think we have it.

16:16•Mary Henderson

If it's already planned, though, does that...

16:28 – 16:39•David Karp

Okay. Is there a date? Do you have any dates in March? And is there anybody that's doing anything about scooters, like safety? Like, what can you really do? Are there locks for scooters?

16:40•Rita Regev Spector

No, but the kids aren't wearing helmets. Yeah, I think that.

16:54 – 17:11•Rita Regev Spector

Maybe parent and child, and also these kids, especially like the under 12 girls, not abiding by street signs and things, just like going through stop signs and And just talking to each other while they're riding. On their phones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And two people.

17:12•David Karp

Yeah, two on the scooter. So a March event for bike and possibly scooter safety? Yes.

18:13 – 18:51•David Karp

Okay. All right, so how do you want us to proceed? So you'll talk to Michelle. I will. So Gerardo. Rita, I'd like you to talk to Sam because I find And I'll talk to the police. The tentative date would be in March. March. Is there any times in March? When's Passover Purim Easter? I don't know what Purim is. I'm sorry. I have to Google it.

18:52 – 19:22•Rita Regev Spector

I think instead of giving, I don't know, this is just a thought, instead of an honorarium to give him, he should be auctioning, you know, like doing a raffle of a helmet or a helmet and lock or something and collect, you know, and get a QR code and collect intel. And that's, you know, for him that's worth a lot more than $250 and then we don't have to pay anything. I'm big on saving money.

20:01•David Karp

It was the fireplace room. The hot chocolate was warm. Yeah, I'm waiting for it.

20:12 – 20:38•David Karp

I don't think we're really. So quorum is March 2nd and 3rd and Passover is until April 1st. So we're good in March after the 3rd. Easter, when is Easter? In March. So, Angie, can you somehow send our board an invitation to the Youth Council for January 7th?

20:43•David Karp

And then I'll send you a reminder, see if anybody wants to join me, and then I'll talk, I guess, at the public comment or something.

20:58 – 21:42•David Karp

We're not going to know very much. I mean, we're not going to meet before January 7th, this committee, so we can tell them what we're planning to do and we would like to join them, you know, in a small role, possibly. Does that sound good? Rita, does that sound okay? Yeah, it sounds great. Okay. All right, so Yeah. See if they can both meet me. Okay. All right. And March, Frank, did you find the date? Or should we wait for, we should wait for the youth council?

21:45•David Karp

It should be the youth council picking the date, right?

21:52 – 22:06•Rita Regev Spector

Well, we should go through, check the calendar for what is already going on in March if there is. Yeah. Like our monthly block party and when's the election? What date? 17th.

22:11•David Karp

So they spoke about having it in either January or February.

22:24•David Karp

Okay, so January, we need to be ready in case they wanted February. That'd be okay? The Youth Council was thinking February.

22:39 – 22:52•David Karp

So actually, they're meeting January 7th, so they should pick a date already. Okay, and then I can pass you the date. And then I tell Rita, and then I talk to the police.

22:58•David Karp

Or wait until January after we hear if they want us?

23:17 – 23:35•David Karp

So we'll have one more month for this community resource. So Frank, we'll have a recap of that for January, okay? For the community resource fair and the wishing tree.

24:01•David Karp

So Joanna would need to... She has one email.

24:09•David Karp

It might be better to start with the phones. I mean, I have to see what I have in that work because it's a lot of... All right, I'll work on getting the emails.

25:04•David Karp

Do you want to call them first and then send it to Frank? They would just set up a table.

25:16•Rita Regev Spector

Magnets or something? Yeah, they do that sometimes and they all get adopted.

25:52 – 27:17•David Karp

So they do turn out. Frank, would you contact them? This one would need a motion. We'll need a motion for food to buy, right? So this was one of the ones I sent Frank. This is... They take a bullet and they pound out the powder. And then they attach it here. So it's one less bullet, one more life is their theme. It's for mothers who have lost children to gun violence. I'll pass it around. This is the one I made. So let me tell you what the cost. I've been to two events with them. And people will like, they'll make an extra. $15 to the organization because they like it. So let me tell you, it's

27:49•David Karp

Do we need a motion to hold this event? Which one? The community resource tables and the wishing tree. You can make a motion.

28:22•David Karp

11 to 2? Yeah. Okay. On February 22nd, was that right?

28:31•Rita Regev Spector

And this is going to be at the community center or the 96 viewpoint?

28:38•David Karp

There was no parking. Oh, that's right. There was horrible parking for that night. We had it over there. Yeah.

28:46•Rita Regev Spector

You're not supposed to, you're supposed to walk.

28:50•David Karp

Yeah, but I brought two 90-year-olds. Oh, okay. Alert. Oh, we could have had little rides.

28:58•Rita Regev Spector

Okay, so is there a second? Second. All those in favor?

29:03•David Karp

Say aye. Aye. Motion approved. Should we do a budget for the food? So we want pizza and water?

29:14•Rita Regev Spector

Yeah. Okay. Do they pay? Do the vendors pay to get a table?

29:19•David Karp

No. No. Because we want them to come freely.

29:25•Mary Henderson

How much was the pizza last night for the Aria Gray?

29:38•Mary Henderson

I think they did like half of it, right? Or did they do all the pizzas?

29:45•David Karp

Okay, but this would be us. Yeah, of course. How much did we do for the Palm Branch?

29:55•Mary Henderson

Another thought that I had, how many tables can we fit? Because then we may have to fraction down our resources.

30:17•David Karp

I think it was roughly, I think there was one for like $164, then I ordered another one for like $90. Let's do $500. Okay. Just in case.

30:51 – 31:02•David Karp

Gerardo was real good at getting the people last time into the event. We'll have him as the bouncer. Maybe you're good at that.

31:10•David Karp

Do they have to show proof of... No, just like they want to go to the beach. Say they just want to walk to the beach. They would just walk through.

31:24•Rita Regev Spector

Some people are just walking through. Oh, my God. They're just like, Yeah, if you're just walking through, they're not checking. Well, they're supposed to.

31:35•David Karp

Usually it's just the people going to the pool and then getting teached there. But if they're just going through, they would go there. Oh, okay.

31:42•Mary Henderson

Well, I mean, that's... Well, yeah, with the wishing tree that last time, I mean, we were pulling people off of the... Yeah, they would come off of the pass.

31:50•David Karp

Mary and Gerardo. Rita is good, I can tell.

31:56 – 32:27•David Karp

sure that the fishbowl the roads are open yeah and the just in case it's an event a rain event sure um did we pass that to five hundred dollars no angie i will make okay i'll make a motion to approve five hundred dollars for pizza and water for the community resource fair and wish and tree event and and you want to tie on the ribbons and the um And then the paper for the wishing tree. It's like $50.

32:28 – 32:45•Mary Henderson

And then do you want to do the bracelets as well? Well, I was going to make that another motion. Okay, okay. So then I guess to add on to that motion, it will also be another $50 for biodegradable paper and string for the wishing tree.

32:50 – 33:16•Rita Regev Spector

Question. Pizza, stand-alone. What about approaching the Grove and seeing if they want to provide pastries or cookies or something like that? I mean, there's a big opportunity there because if you don't ask, the answer's always no. And I think if you ask, like, you know, nine out of the ten restaurants, they would willingly participate. Participate.

33:22•David Karp

pizza from the Grove? Yeah. No, not necessarily the pizza, but I'll say... We eat kosher, too.

33:27 – 33:38•Rita Regev Spector

Yeah, yeah, kosher. So the pizza, was it... Yeah, yeah. So they're probably, you know, they'd probably be willing to do the pizza, but...

33:53 – 34:26•Rita Regev Spector

I don't know if she sold it. She's a former attorney. Jessica. Jessica Weiss. Yeah, Jessica Weiss. And she had a cart at one of our meetings. Yeah, the little ice cream cart. Yeah, a little ice cream cart. So there's a brand new, I just got a coupon today for another, like the 15th ice cream place. You know, my husband wanted to open Carvel's. You know, if any of these other people have cards and they want to...

34:29•Rita Regev Spector

I'll be glad to talk them into doing it. And Jessica was on our board.

34:41 – 35:36•Rita Regev Spector

Well, why not? So if I could have a formal letter from the town, from you... Or somebody like, you know, thank you for participating in our upcoming event. We could do a boilerplate and just use it for different things. And I'll walk up and down the street. I live in downtown, basically. And just say, here's an opportunity. I did this for Stephanie Trump and I have a dream foundation. And I couldn't believe the stuff people were like, yeah, yeah, here, take, yeah. You know, like... Some people are so willing because they understand the power of marketing. If you give something away, it's going

35:46 – 36:06•David Karp

Okay, so did we finish the first, did we vote on the five? There was a second. Okay, Rita, you want to make a second? All those in favor say aye. Aye. in case we need to get an ice cream cart from Rita's? Is it Rita's? It could be Rita's.

36:12 – 36:23•Rita Regev Spector

Something easy. I mean, you don't want to bring soft ice cream. Carvel has those, you know, flying saucers. Something that you pull out of the ice cream cart. And also, it's very festive, and the kids get really excited

36:31•David Karp

Say, I want everyone, this person would be our best, but they want $250.

36:50•Rita Regev Spector

We can cap it at 100 or 50 or whatever we're anticipating. We run out, we run out. Yeah, we run out first come first serve.

37:02 – 37:22•Rita Regev Spector

And the same vendor who's going to give us the free ice cream, in my vision, would have coupons. I'm so sorry we ran out, but please accept that as a two-for-one. So that at least they're making some money back and then that two-for-one usually turns into... Something else, yeah. Let's do 75.

37:33•David Karp

Well, that's just... Yeah, yeah. For three... The whole event would be for pizza and ice cream for 75 people.

37:43 – 37:54•Rita Regev Spector

75 people. And also we can offer them another incentive to do for free is we will, you know, special thanks. We'll give them a recognition.

38:00•Rita Regev Spector

Exactly, then they can promote on their social media.

38:04•David Karp

And do we just find kosher pizza just to make it easier? Yeah, easy.

38:12 – 38:26•David Karp

What about, are you going to go to Grove to check? I'm going to go to Grove. They all make the pizzas and then you could ask them for a donation of dessert or something. Yeah. Because if we're buying it from Fialikoff's. Right, right. Yeah, right.

38:31 – 39:05•Rita Regev Spector

Yeah. I mean, if you have the contact person at Fialikoff, I could talk to them too. You know, we're trying something out here. You know, it's worked in other communities. I've done this in all kinds of... where I do, at the Miami Beach, at the Michael and Russell JCC, I had a zero budget, and I did like this phenomenal event with like 20,000 people. Zero budget. I got everything donated. Miami Dolphins, Panthers, everything.

39:05 – 39:41•David Karp

So. Well, if you know a sports star, they could come and sit there. Is there a mascot for any of these teams? We need a little pickle All those in favor say aye. Aye. No, motion passes. All right, are you interested in this for hands-on?

39:43 – 39:56•Mary Henderson

I think it would be really nice. I think it would also... Pull some people in. Yeah, I mean, it's gorgeous. We're tying with the youth council event last week. Yes, exactly.

40:10•David Karp

And they'll be, I think they just hit people. I've been in a room where it's done.

40:18•Rita Regev Spector

Wow. Is there like a YouTube video of somebody doing it? Not sure. Because then they could understand it better.

40:27•Mary Henderson

I mean, I think it's great, but maybe we...

40:29 – 40:55•David Karp

I've been at two events with it. for the, let me get the title on the group.

41:04•David Karp

Is there a motion to approve $500 for Bullets for Life?

41:08•Mary Henderson

Yeah, I'll make the motion to approve $500 for Bullets for Life.

41:13•Rita Regev Spector

So that's for the materials, and then people come and make the bracelets themselves?

41:17•David Karp

And then we pay the $500, then they can take these.

41:22•David Karp

And the idea is there's one less bullet on the street to kill a kid or try a vaccine. And it's a conversation starter.

41:30•Mary Henderson

So while people are making it, they can have a piece of pizza, understand, and maybe get a little quick lesson.

41:41 – 41:53•David Karp

This is quite popular. I've been at two events and we have like three or four tables just for this. Wow.

41:53•Rita Regev Spector

So the 500 is going to cover all the materials?

41:58•David Karp

I'm thinking maybe this should just be a standalone because it might be too overwhelming.

42:18•Mary Henderson

Also getting something that you create yourself, it also does draw more attraction to the event itself. Right.

42:25 – 42:47•David Karp

Okay, let's try. All right. So Mary made the motion. Do you want to second, Rita? I'll second. Okay, any discussion on it? Okay, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. All right, so What was this? The Bullets for Life.

42:51•Rita Regev Spector

So, just so I understand, the Community Resource Fair is, what's the theme?

42:59•David Karp

Community resources in our community that can help the community.

43:04•Rita Regev Spector

Help the community, kind of the global, so mental health and safety.

43:11 – 43:25•Rita Regev Spector

Wellness, would that include any of the... physicians on Harding Avenue, the dermatologists. She had a booth at the grand opening. Do you know her? Yeah, yes, Sarah.

43:25 – 43:36•David Karp

Do you want to go to her too? We can walk together and have lunch at Bagel Bus. That's right. Everybody, we'll eat at Bagel Bus after.

43:36•Rita Regev Spector

First we'll pitch them and then we'll say, hey, we're here for So are the vendors paying for the tables?

44:09 – 44:44•David Karp

One of our roles here is to help and care we would call a quick meeting how can we help out by getting some right is that what your vision the vet could be a resource yeah if there was another shooting what should we do to get things out the urgent care they should be involved for sure like the biggest store on Harding they don't take a lot of insurance that's why it's

44:48 – 45:02•David Karp

Yeah, but if you don't have the insurance to pay for it, you can't. Like I had to take a friend in to explain it to them, and they said, oh, we don't take that insurance. Oh. Okay, so they're a little restricted. They're trying to get other insurance companies, but no.

45:15 – 45:37•David Karp

I mean, if they want a table and pass it out, why not? I mean, like services, like home services, like plumbing and AC? No. No, we don't want to get into that? No. It's service, not... It's like something free. It's free to, you know, you call us, we'll help you. Gotcha. Right, Frank? Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

45:38 – 45:54•Rita Regev Spector

Yeah, I'm wondering what the Humane Society sent you, Tony's... bring their pets to hospitals to, you know, to consult patients.

45:55•David Karp

Is this the same group you called Frank for?

45:56 – 46:09•Rita Regev Spector

No, I, no, I just, uh, I just sent you... Me or Frank? Mrs. Debbie, both of you. I just... Frank is going to do the content. Yeah, Tony, she's with the Humane Society. She's a good resource. And you can just ask her, is there anything else you do?

46:10 – 46:23•David Karp

Yeah, yeah, um, yeah, emotional support. Okay, um... Do we have a local fire department or are we community-based?

46:31•David Karp

Would you put them down too? You know, because they can put, like, change your batteries on April, you know, your smoke detectors. Sometimes they give out batteries. Okay.

47:41•David Karp

January 7th, because if February is that safety month, they'll pick a date on January 7th.

47:54 – 48:22•David Karp

So I'll put out to you what out the date so I can send it to our committee here for what date it is. Yes. Okay. All right. Sorry to digress. Go back first. Okay. Anything else? Okay. I'm looking forward to that. And if you're thinking I think that's what Hillary had to do last time.

48:22•Rita Regev Spector

We're a municipality and we don't pay right away or something.

48:33•David Karp

Or is our policy wait until after they show up? We don't want to pay and they don't come?

48:59 – 49:15•David Karp

I'll find out if they want the money first. Okay, good. Okay, next item. Lending library for books and TED items. That's Joanna's. Do we wanna defer that? Anybody have, Frank, do you have anything on that?

49:54•David Karp

Now, is this a book? I can't... I think this was pet items.

50:04•David Karp

I think we were going to start with the pet items. So did we approve any money for this yet or should we wait?

50:21•Rita Regev Spector

And the landscaping, is that for a bid or did they choose somebody already?

50:30•David Karp

I can definitely suggest someone. Well, they have to go through a process. Yeah, yeah.

50:42•David Karp

So, okay. Should I put this, do we need to talk about this anymore?

51:02•David Karp

a 60-monthly book club. So this is July.

53:04•Rita Regev Spector

I was going to ask... Because you have to announce it. Don't you announce the book? Exactly.

54:03•David Karp

Yeah, there was something. So do we want, let's start with, do we want January? Is she available? When is she available?

54:19•David Karp

If we have it after our meeting, then we have one more time to plan it.

54:47 – 55:03•David Karp

Um. Did you want another month or do you want another date in January, another month? Dr. Seuss Day is, like, March 2nd, you know, and a lot of kids are doing that in school. This could be our adult version.

55:37•Rita Regev Spector

9 is only until 6 p.m. 6 is early. I mean, you know.

55:46•Rita Regev Spector

Oh, the park. Inside? It was cold. Parking.

55:55 – 56:08•Rita Regev Spector

There you go again. I mean, for the book club? I mean, that's a a public place, not people's homes. Yeah. Yeah, that's like a private place. Okay.

56:55•David Karp

And they really like this last one, too.

57:15•David Karp

It'd be the 22nd. Oh, I can't count Hillary's birthday. It's in grade.

57:44•David Karp

I don't have to be there. If that's the best day, please.

57:54•Rita Regev Spector

That's my next question. When does the Gazette go to print?

58:11 – 58:29•Rita Regev Spector

Okay. I used to run a magazine so I know that you have to have everything in a certain date and it goes and then there's only days to print it. So do you have a set deadline every month of file material?

58:39•Rita Regev Spector

Deadline. Yeah. Okay. So that's, we should work around that for relevance too.

59:17•Rita Regev Spector

So when would we be able to announce the...

59:19 – 59:41•David Karp

So February 22nd is our... January. No, February 22nd. So it could be in the Gazette. Oh, I see. So we could do something early in February. That way it would be able to be put in the Gazette and books could be gathered. Right.

59:42•Mary Henderson

It also gives people a little bit of time to read.

1:00:02•David Karp

12th is Lincoln's birthday, so Lincoln was a reader.

1:00:22•David Karp

About the 12th. Is that our next meeting?

1:00:28•Rita Regev Spector

Yeah, the 14th is Valentine's Day. People might be going away for weekends. Yeah, yeah.

1:01:27•Rita Regev Spector

And the park is open, could stay open until 8 o'clock?

1:01:47 – 1:02:00•David Karp

We were there until 7.30, 8. Something like that. But that was a different kind of event. Okay, and then, so we're looking at two hours, six to eight. And do we run a budget? Do we want to put in pizza and water again?

1:02:12•David Karp

But you could order it for us and set up a delivery, right?

1:02:36•Rita Regev Spector

I'm like, I'm snoring a lot of stuff already.

1:02:47 – 1:03:01•Rita Regev Spector

I mean, we had... Do you screw up things? One of the events, we had pastries that they donated from the ex-roller pin. No, that wasn't a... I thought it was a donation. No, it wasn't a... Yeah, we bought them. Wow. That might just be enough.

1:03:08•David Karp

So how about we want a $500 budget for that?

1:03:11 – 1:03:35•Rita Regev Spector

You know, I'm not going to be speaking out of turn, but... LG, his daughter started making cupcakes. I don't know if she's going to be doing this as a side hustle, but I got a box. Are we allowed to do that? Do a private vendor like that? I think so. Kosher. They're definitely kosher. I mean, tiramisu and caramel.

1:03:50•David Karp

Okay, do you want me to call Apple G? I don't know. I'll speak to them because I just taste them. Tell them I didn't get any.

1:04:34•David Karp

Black people again? I don't know. For a book club? No.

1:04:38•Rita Regev Spector

Okay, how about 50? Maybe 20 people come, I think.

1:04:44•Mary Henderson

How many people came for Cinefest today?

1:04:50 – 1:05:12•Rita Regev Spector

Yeah. Cinefest was over 50 probably, and there were people coming in. But that was well promoted, it was a long time, and it was a historical event. I mean, I've been part of the book club, so it's not more than 15 people in people's homes.

1:05:43•David Karp

Well, I'm over that. She can't do that date, I mean. Are you allowed to send Angie an email? She would send us and we could say yes that day. It would be good for me to help.

1:05:58 – 1:06:09•Mary Henderson

Is there a reason why we came to you on the 19th or the 26th? of February, those are both Thursdays as well. So we could also just have those in the back of it. So she says she can't do that.

1:06:12•Mary Henderson

So in the 26th, that could be a contingency date. That's a? Is that PNC? Penny and Tony. Oh. Yeah.

1:06:24•David Karp

I would have a conflict then of PNC. Let's stick with that first week of February and see what we can do.

1:06:36•Rita Regev Spector

So we're going to make this a monthly event?

1:06:44 – 1:07:15•Rita Regev Spector

We'd have to start planning the next one. I was thinking I'll reach out to my friend in New York. He might be coming out. It would be much too expensive to fly him down here. He's a Floridian. He's a... I mentioned he's a Harvard professor and he runs the 92nd Street Y program, Dane Rosenbaum, and he wrote a book called How Sweet It Is about 1970s Miami Beach. He's a little controversial at times. He's very controversial.

1:07:15 – 1:07:28•David Karp

Yeah, he's, I mean, I don't know. I was in something and some people were just hating it. But he's friends with them. One of my friends is a manatee, too.

1:08:13•David Karp

Like a campfire. I mean, otherwise? Yeah, let's just see how this one goes.

1:08:37•David Karp

or do we have one for the date for Ana Menendez?

1:08:41•Rita Regev Spector

Would you like to make a motion? Are you going to put that with her, what dates she prefers?

1:08:46 – 1:09:03•David Karp

Well, I'd rather get a motion to do it that way, once he gets the date. If it's the date we want, then Frank can get in the Gazette. And if it's the other dates, Angie's going to send us an email to see if we can attend. And then we can still get it in the Gazette.

1:09:11•David Karp

So Frank, state what you want us to say for the motion.

1:10:01 – 1:10:29•David Karp

All those in favor, say aye. All right, so then we'll get, and if the date is different, then we'll just see if we can attend, and it'll go back to Angie and Jill Belfranc, and then we can get in the Gazette. Okay. And then the next meeting, we can do the cupcake prices. Yeah. Are there hot water urns anywhere?

1:10:41•David Karp

Okay, tea and cupcakes, that'd be great. Unless you want to put brandy in it or whiskey in the tea.

1:10:50•Rita Regev Spector

If we had the house over here, can you imagine?

1:10:54•David Karp

It would be so ideal. There was an old cheers one, they had a book talk in the back and they just had whiskey in the back.

1:11:06•Rita Regev Spector

It's like, yeah, you hit a little bit and then all the shots.

1:11:09•David Karp

New York, they play, young people, they play big guns and take a shot at everybody. Okay, good, good, good, well done.

1:11:50•David Karp

Is there room at the 96th Street Park? Yeah.

1:12:23 – 1:12:41•Rita Regev Spector

But that room where we had the lecture, where they do yoga and everything, would there be, could they Like when you go to an Airbnb and they have a bunch of books, isn't it like that? See, I think it's going to be, no, this is the London Library of Things. Yeah, that's all.

1:13:11 – 1:13:30•David Karp

I forgot to put on the walking tools. Do I have to make a motion to do that? Can we just brief on that? Somebody make a motion to add A discussion on the walking event this Sunday.

1:13:30•Mary Henderson

I will make a motion to add the walking event this Sunday as 6G.

1:13:44•David Karp

All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Okay, Rita. Okay, do we have flyers?

1:13:56•Rita Regev Spector

Is there another way of printing them? Where would they go? Well, I was going to take them to the restaurants, to Harding, because tomorrow is the only time.

1:14:16•Rita Regev Spector

I couldn't print anything because I was out of town.

1:14:18•David Karp

Let's leave it. Let's leave it, Emma. because it's so soon, and then next time we'll know how to do it.

1:14:23•Rita Regev Spector

How are we going to get the word out? Well, it's been out.

1:14:35•Mary Henderson

Well, yeah, because there was too much... We were hacked. No, I made a whole new chat. Yeah, because that happened. They hijacked the chat.

1:14:42•Rita Regev Spector

I might have added it to my Surfside updates because I send out emails.

1:14:47•Mary Henderson

I mean, it's on the billboard, too, when you drive in.

1:14:50•David Karp

I know. I said what time? 8? 8 a.m. We're at the Turtle. 88th Street. 88th Street.

1:15:01•Rita Regev Spector

Also 88th Street at the beach. at the beach, and we're going to walk down to the Fresh Market.

1:15:07•David Karp

I wouldn't worry about the coffee right now. I don't think it's, I would just, let's walk.

1:15:16 – 1:15:32•Rita Regev Spector

Walk and talk. So I'm on a group chat of... Surfside Women, I think it's called, and it's like 636 people. I posted on there a few times. I didn't get any response.

1:15:47•Rita Regev Spector

Yeah, if we could all do, you know, a little bit, I think that might help just to spark people's, because they're going to, you know, people don't remember.

1:16:00•Mary Henderson

Yeah, 6 p.m. Yeah, sounds 6 p.m. Maybe we can all also just throw it up on our next stories.

1:16:34 – 1:17:42•Rita Regev Spector

I think I might have mentioned it in the past. Doing home beautification, a home beautification project for the elderly and maybe disabled people in Surfside that need help with their homes. Repairs, painting, gardening. where we have a crew of volunteers, people, you know, with different expertises, like I already volunteered my husband, and my neighbour who's an inspector, and there's a bunch of handymen, you know, people in the neighbourhood, and sometimes you just see, you know, you drive by or ride by or walk by homes that just look really dishevelled, and you'll see an elderly person com

1:17:42 – 1:17:55•David Karp

I think Joanna had, that was, she wanted to get like someone who sews, someone who Repair cafe. Yeah, repair cafe. We're trying to group that together.

1:18:40 – 1:19:13•Mary Henderson

I would like to add for next meeting a sponsored by a non-profit that my mom is on the board for. It's called Coast Love. And I would love for us to do a community, the CRB sponsored beach cleanup. I think that would be nice. And we could also, I know there's somebody on next door who involved in doing that would be really nice. So I thought that would be nice.

1:19:13 – 1:19:25•David Karp

Would you present that next time? Yes, I'll present it next time. Alright, so here's the agenda. Anything else? Here's what I have for next month. Frank, are you ready?

1:19:29 – 1:19:46•David Karp

Bike safety event? We'll have a recap of Community Resource Day.

1:20:17•David Karp

We'll have a discussion on elderlyhelp.com slash repaircafe as well as, what is yours called? Oh, Beach Cleanup.

1:20:27 – 1:20:58•David Karp

Beach Cleanup. Anybody else? And if you want anything on the agenda, you send it to Frank after, or you send it to Angie, right, after Angie. And once Angie sends the monthly notice, if you have anything for the agenda, right, then you send it to Angie and she sends it to Frank and myself. That works if you want. Like the first one you called me, Frank, to see if you want. We've just been working it this way. Okay. Okay, so... And everybody has their homework for the...

1:20:59•Rita Regev Spector

Right, for the fall. So the two events, the community resources February 22nd

1:21:16•David Karp

All right, is there a motion to adjourn?

1:21:28•David Karp

I'm okay on that date. January 15th is...

1:21:40 – 1:21:59•Rita Regev Spector

It's the Jewish Film Festival premiere and AIC event. That's Thursday, right? I mean, what time? Same time, like 4 o'clock?

1:21:59 – 1:22:12•David Karp

4 p.m. We could move it to 3 if that would help you. Are we allowed to do that, Angie? What time is the... Yeah, my events are in the evening. Would you like 3 o'clock, Rita?

1:22:13•Mary Henderson

Yeah, 3 o'clock. Okay, you okay? I'll figure it out.

1:22:18•David Karp

Frank? Sure. All right, so 3 o'clock on the 15th.

1:22:46•Rita Regev Spector

Can we do, as a one-off, can we do Wednesday the 14th?

1:22:59 – 1:23:11•David Karp

Would you send that out right away to the whole committee? And do you still want 3 o'clock, Rita? Sure. Wednesday, January 14th at 3. Gerardo, are you okay on that?

1:23:14•David Karp

Thank you. Agenda items first. Okay, so everybody can make a note of the walking.

1:23:25•Rita Regev Spector

Yes, and everybody come at 8 a.m. and bring your neighbor.

1:23:30•David Karp

And a lot of just be us. We'll have a good time.

1:23:58•Mary Henderson

There's a holiday? From May 21st to 22nd.

1:24:32•David Karp

Shavua, it's May 21st. What date were you looking at?

1:24:59•Mary Henderson

Should I make a motion to change both of them? Because we just changed them to January 14th.

1:25:08 – 1:25:29•Mary Henderson

I'll make a motion to change the May meeting to May 20th. Can I also make a motion to adjourn this meeting? Yes.

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