City Council - Special Meeting

Tuesday, May 26, 2026Official site

The North Miami City Council held a special joint meeting with the North Miami Youth Council, which presented a proposal to establish non-voting youth alternate member positions on select city boards and committees.

About this meeting

Government Body
City Council
Meeting Type
City Council
Location
North Miami, FL
Meeting Date
May 26, 2026

Published excerpts

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

12 sections

0:00 – 0:17•Kassandra Timothe, MPA

All righty good evening everyone and welcome to a special joint city of North Miami Council meeting along with the North Miami Youth Council. I know we're starting a bit early before 7 PM but we are pleased to have our youth Council today so madam clerk at this moment can we please do the call to order.

0:36•Kassandra Timothe, MPA

We'll go into the pledge of allegiance. And if Councilman can read it. We have one right of action.

1:27 – 1:42•Kassandra Timothe, MPA

Madam and no additions deletions amendments or deferrals. Thank you and at this time we'll move into a discussion item and I know will be presenting the North by me youth Council Council and Mary estimate Irvin would you like to present them please.

1:43 – 2:12•Mary Estimé-Irvin

Sure, madam vice mayor and my colleagues um good evening everyone i am just so excited and so proud of our very youth council but believe it or not i will give it i would let i would like for our liaison our director of our library paul basil to come and to go ahead and either do a roll call for the youth or to present the youth before us before this discussion thank you all right well

8:18 – 9:24•Kassandra Timothe, MPA

I know this is a discussion item, but I first would like to congratulate youth council member liberty for a well thought out presentation that you brought before the youth council. You all are here in quorum as opposed to us up here. I know sometimes it's hard getting quorum, but I want to congratulate you all for being here and being present. And I want to say this is probably the first time since I've been elected that a board or a. advisory board brought an item for consideration because every board that we have here in the city of north miami can bring forth a discussion like you're doing

10:37 – 11:49•Mary Estimé-Irvin

Youth Council Councilwoman Liberté, thank you for representing your colleagues well. Thank you for a presentation. Well done. I'm just so very proud of you. As you've heard from my colleagues, this is a discussion item. So you've presented this before us. We're going to then speak to our city manager and our city attorney and figure out how we can implement this. So I just want to thank you all for your leadership. All of you that are here, all of the youth council, I am so proud of you and you represent us well. So thank you, thank you, thank you and continue to work hard and are you graduati

12:14•Mary Estimé-Irvin

Yeah, so those are all my comments for tonight. Thank you. Thank you, guys. So proud.

12:19•Kassandra Timothe, MPA

Thank you, Councilman. Did you have something else? Yes.

12:53•Mary Estimé-Irvin

Actually, I'd like to come with all of my colleagues because I don't do this alone. So without them, I won't be able to do anything. So let's go up.

15:18 – 15:54•Kassandra Timothe, MPA

so at this time we'll make recommendations um councilman i know you made your recommendation of adding the north miami commission for women also and looking at the board as well maybe include the north miami cra and the affordable housing and i would also like to give direction to the city attorney if there's a possibility that they can vote on the board you can let us know i know some of them are chartered boards and they probably can't vote But if we could maybe look at the possibility of which boards that we can have them as the actual voting member would be the recommendation that I've mad

15:59•Kassandra Timothe, MPA

No, this is your board. I just want to make my my notation.

16:10 – 16:34•Kassandra Timothe, MPA

Okay, all right, thank you next on the agenda is citizen form. Seeing then I know we don't have Council reports because we'll do that at the next meeting but Councilman do you have any they have any counsel. Oh yeah, what acts the you counted the youth Council do you have any Council reports. I know you guys just did a presentation. All righty can I get a motion to adjourn second.

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