City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome to the regular council meeting. Today is April 16, 2016. We can call to order at 630. Can we please rise for the invocation led by Councilwoman Tina Martinez and Pledge of Allegiance.

Okay. We thank you for the many blessings of all of our lives. We ask also that you guide us in the need of receiving your consent about your village business and keep us ever mindful of those that we represent who reside within the village. We ask also that you watch over our servicemen and women as they toil around the world and keep our first responders, our flight department EMTs, and the police department safe as they keep our community safe. We ask in your name, in the name of your Son, our Savior Jesus Christ, for this and more. Amen.

All right, Madam Clerk, can we take a roll call, please?

Steve, you might need to turn that one up a little bit. Okay.

Just in your microphone. Any questions for the auditor? No, sir.

Find the money. Keep the money. And make it all. Not a hard act. Come on. You've been doing it for what, forever?

They'll be here next week, the auditors, all week long, and I'll be meeting with them on Friday, as a matter of fact.

All right. On to citizens' comments. Do we have any citizens' comments? Announcements or amendments directed to the agenda? Nothing to report. We have the approval of the minutes. Do we have a motion on the floor for the regular council meeting that was held March 19, 2026? So moved. We have a motion by Councilman Arcee. Do we have a second?

We have a second by Councilman Turr. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Regular council meeting has been approved. On to Mayor's report. Mr. Mayor?

Yes, thank you, Council President. There's more to discuss coming up on the attorney's report about our last bid that we put out for our construction project, our stormwater project, so we'll discuss that more under the attorney's report. But FP&L, an update on the FP&L labs, met with our representative who's been overseeing the project. We met with him yesterday, the day before, this week. Oh, and today. So LABS will give us an update on that project. I was a little concerned. It's been like a skeleton throughout their last couple of business this week. And we have a project coming up, and th

The last thing I heard, they're not going to do away with it completely. It's a percentage. We don't know what's going to happen.

I mean, I talked to our state senator. First I heard that whatever the House passed, they're going to throw it out the door because they're not going to go anything with it. And then I hear they may work with them. Who knows? They may get a additional amount to the homestead, $200,000 to the homestead.

I don't know. Nobody knows. Your guess is blizzards. Exactly.

Well, we'll see. Either way, it's going to affect the city, depending on how you look at it, because if you've got homestead, for every homestead property, if you take away the taxes that they pay towards the village, you've got to make up for it somewhere else. So with that being said, I do have two more items I didn't forget to mention. Next Friday night, we're having a movie night. The movie's going to be sponsored by our commissioner. We don't have the flyer yet. Right, Macbeth? Did we get the flyer? Did the flyer come out yet? Okay, so next Friday, we'll start advertising I think it's how

He's like a clone. He's like two clones.

Well, just like our commissioner, though.

Yeah. Our commissioners, well, they're locked, they're tight because his chief of staff is her husband. Yeah.

So they're always, we wait to see the other everyone. It makes sense why they're both everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. Yes, Counselor?

We'll discuss that next week. Okay. Do you guys have a sidebar on that? Yeah, yeah. We'll discuss that next week. Anything else?

I don't think so. I will say one thing. We are going to move on. We are going to talk about FD&L, but the next phase is going to be from east of 59th Avenue, so year block. Year block, 57 plays, 58 plays, 58 court, 57 plays, that whole entire east section. If you go by there now, you'll see the stakes in the yards, and they're actually painting lines in the ground. Yeah. So that means they already have approval from the residents. We're looking for the transformers. And so that's what's coming up, the east side. The only thing they have left is pretty much 65th Avenue to the west after that. S

Well, I got a message. I got a text message or an email. I think wherever you're signed up through FP&L.

We had no control over that. I mean, that's not my thing. It just went out to my house, you know.

It was like a week in advance, and then like a day in advance leading up to it. No, I only got that one in the morning. There's going to be more power outages because they transfer over. They have to switch. At some point they have to.

Have they mentioned how they're going to, are they going to be cutting off the posts?

No. Because one of the utilities sued them, so they no longer cut down the posts at their level. They remove the transformers, they remove their lines, but the poles stay Yeah, I think it's AT&T, DirecTV, all those people use those poles. Usually they cut it down at the next utility. They're not doing that no more. They're keeping them up. So half of that pole is going to be exposed. That's everywhere. It's not just VT. It's throughout the whole, wherever they go. Okay, we can move on. I'm sorry.

I was going to ask you, what's the story with she?

Thank you so much. Thank you, Esther. Thank you. On to planning and zoning. The meeting for the month of April was canceled. We can move on to public safety. Chief? And while you're walking up, Chief, I would like to say thank you on behalf of our city attorney for providing him with barrier water, putting him on the list, along with our other councilmen. I was curious... Michael wanted to know where can he sign his name on the list?

Well, no way to provide him a Perrier. He's got the Magnum bottle of Perrier. So where do we get our order form? He got the fruity one.

I would like mine chilled, please. So where do we get the order form for the other members?

Just back up for a second. We found out yesterday, correct? We found out yesterday. Yeah, so that's why what we're going to talk about now is not on our agenda because we found out yesterday that Otero was going to be leaving. Is he okay?

Is he currently an SRO officer? Yes, he is. So he already has experience?

Okay, so we have a resident. He's a resident here in the village. He was on our beautification committee. He might have to resign. I don't know if he has to resign. Yeah, he has to resign. He has to resign. So you'll have to resign from the beautification committee. So the chief and I talked about this. My days are all messed up. Today.

So we talked about him about a month ago. We were talking about bringing him on. So Jaime Ferreira. Good son.

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So, wait, wait, wait. What are we motioning now? For him to be the next... First, we need to make a motion to add this to the agenda.

Okay. I make a motion that we... Hold on, hold on.

Because when we go to additions and additions to the agenda... Well, we're going to add it now, so make your magic happen.

Do we have an order, a motion on the floor for that? Yes. We have a motion on the floor by Councilwoman Tina Martinez. We have a second by Councilwoman Conover. Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion to add this.

motion so do we have a motion to approve that will be in order to approve the hiring of i'm a fiero at the sro for blessed trinity do we have a motion on the floor i would like to make a motion we have a motion don't school you don't got to raise your hand oh that's okay i want everybody to see that you know i'm a proud pretend mom we have a motion on the floor by councilwoman martinez do we have a second second

Again, this all transpired literally, I think, yesterday. Not a big surprise that Arturo is leaving, but kind of was a surprise.

It's okay. We're good with the approval. We did everything we had to do.

Normally what happens is when we have somebody here we're recommending to hire, we don't have them in front of her or in front of the council. So now that he's been approved, do you want to bring him out? Yeah, sure.

We don't have to talk about that right now.

Was it Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger?

I don't know. Mandy had an afro back in the day, man.

Welcome aboard. Welcome aboard. You and I had a conversation for a little while, and I guess you already talked to the Chief Lieutenant and everything. In order? Yes. Welcome. Now, the only bad thing is your wife's got to see not only at home every day, but at work every day, too. Did you really think about this?

Got it. Okay. Good to know. Well, this is three blocks away, so we're good. Wait, wait, wait. Where's the side-by-side that we had here?

Bye. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. On to public works. That's amazing. Okay, let's go. Those are amazing. Thanks to LG.

And one thing he explained to us, they're not going to pay by the hour. They're going to pay by the job. So the sooner they come in, get things knocked out, the sooner they get paid too. Correct. So that's that. They get paid by the hour, and they might be out here for a year to finish up this job.

Two there and three, I think it is, on 66 by Boeing. Those holes there. So it's been about a year. It's taken about a year to get that project finally almost completed. So it's definitely a big difference with the lighting. I drove by there, I think it was Monday. Yeah, they've already knocked out. On 41? Yeah, they've already knocked out 41st. It was like every third pole before it had a light. And now every concrete pole, there's a light on every concrete pole except for two. That's great news. Yeah, it's good. You're doing a great job. Thanks to the mayor. It was good. Coming in to 66th Avenue, having that area lit up, too, right there in front of Boeing. Thank you very much, Flav. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. On to recreation. I don't think there's anything to report. No. Then we have a resolution. Mr. Attorney.

If you want, I can give you a little background that way. Sure. You're not in a hot seat over here. Sure. About, what, two weeks ago, three weeks ago, I was up here and Lads and I were talking. He goes, Mayor, I've got to show you something.

I got the plan. I got the spec seats. Labs got them. Engineers sent them out. Everything looked good. Everything's on the plans. Well, the spec seat left off the paving of 6-2 to 6-4 on 37th, 38th, 39th, and 40th Street. Four full blocks. Not only four full blocks, those are almost like double blocks because you have two blocks in between there. So I said, oh boy, that's a problem. And I was wondering why, because the paving came in at about $105,000. I said, damn, that's a lot of paving for $105,000. I never even put two and two together. So we're looking at it, looking at it, looking at the

A protest letter. A big protest. We got the attorney involved, and his recommendation was, you know, Don't receive any of the bids for three places. Send a message out right away, which we did to the contractors, and we'll meet tonight. And the recommendation is going to be to withdraw. That's where the attorney is going to pick it up now. So go ahead, and I'll let you know what the recommendation is.

It's actually a State of Florida appropriations That's where the money came from. BEP handles the contract for any water drainage projects for the state. So it's not federal money. It's directly from the state of Florida. So we've got to make sure, Laz, on the agreement and what we submit on the plan, it's just L-0362, not LPA-0362. And McBeth, too. So nothing says LPA. It's just L-0362. And...

Any questions? Do we have a motion? I'll make a motion. To approve LG1? Is it LG1? LG1, yes. We have a motion on the floor by Councilman Taylor Martinez. Do we have a second? Second.

We have a second by Councilman Turr. Any other discussion? Yeah, just for the record, some of the contractors asked for the price and what the bids came in at. They didn't receive a total amount. They didn't receive the line item amounts. So H&R, let's just say, asked for what everyone came in at. They received the total amount of $480,383.90 from on low, so on and so forth. When we do print it back out for bid, they won't have the specs of what everybody else bid on, each individual line item. If that makes any sense.

Any other discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Resolution 11G1 passed. Anything else Mr. Attorney?

Perfect. Thank you so much. On to old business, doesn't it report? New business, doesn't it report? I have one question. Yes. What is the letter to each of the contractors as well? On to Goodham Welfare. Does anyone have anything to report?

Thank you. Happy birthday George. Happy birthday.

Joy-La, happy birthday, where are you? Do we have a motion to adjourn?

We have a motion by Councilwoman Tina Martinez and a second by Councilwoman Conover. Any other discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion to adjourn at 7.10.