City Commission - Regular Meeting

good morning everyone welcome to the july 15th 2026 meeting of the public safety and neighborhood quality of life committee i'm alex fernandez the chair of the committee i'm joined by our vice chair and our vice mayor laura dominguez our our member commissioner monica matilda salinas and our alternate member commissioner tanya bod i'm going to pass the floor to our our liaison stephanie ray brooks for this morning's announcements

Thank you, Stephanie. So with that, the agenda will be followed as printed, as usual with this committee, for the benefit of the public so that everyone can follow the meeting. We always follow this agenda as it is publicly printed for the public's benefit. With that, we're going to open up the floor to the public forum. Citizens wishing to speak can approach the podium. You'll have two minutes to speak. If you are on Zoom, you're welcome to raise your hand on Zoom. So members of the public wishing to speak, you can approach the podium. For fairness, we grant all members of the public up to tw

Thank you so much. And what's the status of this item? Is this item before this committee? Is this item currently pending at another committee?

So I'm hearing it's currently pending where?

So the item is currently pending at Landuse. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you for your participation.

We're going to go to Zoom. Members of the public wishing to speak on Zoom, you're welcome to raise your hand. Robin Jacobs, welcome. You have two minutes to speak.

Thank you, Robin, and thank you for your service on the committee. I see Mitch Novick with his hand raised on Zoom. Good morning, Mitch. Welcome. You have two minutes to speak.

Thank you, Mitch. Thank you for your participation and your public comments. Michael Goldberg, good morning. If you unmute yourself, you have two minutes to speak.

Thank you. Bruce Gold, good morning. You have two minutes to speak.

Thank you. Michael, good morning. You have two minutes to speak.

Thank you, Mike. Are there any other members of the public wishing to speak in the Citizens Public Forum? Seeing none in person, none in Zoom with their hands raised, we can go ahead and close the public forum. With that, we'll go to... Sorry. Yes. Oh, I'm so sorry. No, no, no. Good morning. Good morning. Sorry for my tardiness. Please, have you said your name for the record? You have two minutes to speak.

Thank you, Kara. Thank you for your participation this morning. Good morning. Welcome. You can say your name for the record. Sure.

Thank you. And I think just for the public benefit, no one is suggesting that a developer be relieved of a public obligation or contractual public benefit. I don't believe any of my colleagues who have sponsored items regarding this have ever proposed anything like this. I just want to be clear that in any alternative, I do believe that the public expectation is for the public to, for the developer to deliver to the public what was promised to the public in a referendum and entered into through a development agreement. With that, we'll go to the next caller on Zoom. ending with number 5600. If

Thank you. Seeing no other members of the public wishing to speak at this time, We're going to close the public comment opportunity, and we're going to proceed to item number one.

Male Speaker 1 All right. Thank you, Stephanie. Good morning, David. I'm just going to quickly introduce this item. Ever since being elected, one of the recurring items that have come up to my office and I think to all of my colleagues has been the conditions of the Miami Beach Promenade that extends from 24th Street to 29th Street. It runs parallel just west of the beach walk. It's a beautiful promenade. behind the number of condominium buildings, but I would say it's one of these public areas in our city that probably has had very little investment as it relates to capital over the past 40 y

I think this is an important project that the residents of this area have been waiting many years for. And this committee deserves a proper presentation on which we can base our recommendation to the Commission. And so I am going to continue to the next item on the agenda, to wait to give time for the consultant to get here. But I need the administration to please, when we have these presentations, when we have these items on the agenda, it's for the benefit of the public that they know that this is the first item on the agenda. As you saw, we have members of the public calling in on this item

YES, MA'AM. SO LET ME JUST ASK YOU, SO THE Last year we had, or earlier this year, we had Dr. Solo-Gabriel from UM come and present to the committee on the sanitation efforts. And of course, as you mentioned, Amy, one of the key findings, as we well know in the report, is the elevated levels of the anthrocoxi on the untreated surfaces within the basin, the 80-acre basin. And part of those findings was that the cleaning of these surfaces reduce the fecal bacterial contamination that ultimately runs off into the canal. The level of cleaning that we are doing in the basin, is this consistent with

And I think it's also important to highlight that one of the key findings was that straight sweeping achieves a material basin scale reduction of these levels of bacteria. And so I just want to make sure that going into the next fiscal year, do we have funding in place to continue this level of sweeping that we need in order to control the bacteria that runs off into the canal.

Okay. Before we continue with the hydrodynamic separators, I'm going to recognize Vice Mayor Dominguez.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. Where else are these hydrodynamic separators being used?

And does it operate 24 hours a day or as needed?

And we're currently working, I know we're currently working on a procurement item to acquire these hydric dynamics separators. And how far out are we before having an item on the agenda to acquire these?

When you say disinfected, you mean with the hydrogen peroxide being proposed? Yes, sir. And one of the things I asked you last time, you know, is there a way that we can, you know, dilute this into the water that's being used with pressure cleaners and all that, and you expressed some challenges with that.

Is that the end of it? That's it. OK. And so, Amy, I just want to confirm, we've received state funding. I believe it was part of last year's budget, and we received close to $500,000 for the acquisition of this.

And we already have our Class II permits from Durham for their installation?

Okay, so I know we had anticipated earlier on a third quarter construction date of this year for these hydrodynamic separators. Obviously, we still haven't put out the procurement for them. So how far away do we anticipate being able to see the installation of this technology?

Okay. So you've confirmed for us that we have the required funding in the proposed budget. To maintain the enhanced level of sanitation going into the next fiscal year. Where are we with the nanobubble technology?

A couple of questions for you guys. Thank you for the update. I know not all the parts of the plan have been implemented yet, but a lot has changed since this all started when I first reported it as a resident on Parkview Island. Can you address, is there a sort of directional data that indicates improvement so far? Can you give an update? Because I know it is out in the community as a punching bag, if you will, that nothing changes, nothing's getting better. So, is there data that you can share that indicates that while it is not completely resolved, yes, things are getting better and are con

Thank you, Amy. And let me just ask you also, because I know dredging has been an important topic of conversation. Where are we with the permitting and with the process with dredging?

And I want to tie this together with nanobubbles, with the discussion about nanobubbles, because And one of the things I've learned in this is that with the installation of the nanobubbles, obviously you have improvement in the water quality, but it also, it could help make the dredging more efficient because of the more, it's not only, the microbial contaminants that the nano bubbles address, but it also addresses the physical cleanliness of the water. You can tell us a little bit about that.

This is not only addressing the harmful pathogens, but also, I guess, the algae growth in the water?

The hydrogen peroxide scrubbing, I know it's labor intensive. There's an opportunity maybe to do it at hot spots. You had mentioned that you wanted to rightly so study to make sure that it didn't affect deleteriously the water quality, which is ironic given the topic and the need for it. But if it's coming as a recommendation from UM, has that not already been confirmed that it would not be harmful?

Got it. Secondly, part of the frustration beyond just the fact that we have a contaminated canal is that it happened basically minutes after the kayak launch was installed, which is very frustrating. I happen to live when I, you know, back in 2020, I was living across from Bonita Drive, from that end of the street. And I know that it's, you know, just a few houses in from Indian Creek Canal, and it's a lot, it's easy to get out into the cleaner water without having to circumnavigate the island. Is there a possibility that of installing a temporary canal, temporary kayak launch on this street e

Okay. Could we – how do I do that? How do I make a referral to – I guess it has to go back to Commission to be referred back here to look into that? How do I –

In which location is this? Is this an area that's currently experiencing contamination, or we have achieved reduced levels of contamination?

So it's at the end, the Bonita Drive street end, which already is significantly lower because it's so close to the Indian Creek Canal, and it gets flushed out. So if you go out straight to the Indian Creek Canal,

um it you sort of circumnavigate all the contamination i just you and i want to hear from from amy if um i just want to make sure that you know we really I know there's times we have achieved a minimum of zero, but I know we've also achieved a maximum of the maximum that you can achieve. And the average is not that great. And so I just want to be mindful of that. If Amy feels that our numbers are there, to safely do it 100%. I'm for it because we want the community to have the amenity. They've been asking for it for a long time. I just want to remember a couple of years ago, this same conversa

different type of pathogen whatever existing there it does a water quality then deteriorate so I just you know I'm gonna be very deferential to no of course but this is just to have that conversation because this isn't something that I would want the team to answer on the fly here today I'd like you guys to go back take a look at it take a look at how long it would take to get permitted because you know if it's gonna be a year and a half will we do anticipate that the results will be good enough in a year and a half to reopen the permanent kayak launch? You know, like I want to I just want to

So again, out of deference to the rest of the agenda, I don't think this is the time and place to have a robust conversation. And I would like you guys to put some thought into it. And let's just come back and hear what you have to say and see if it makes sense. Or if it doesn't make sense, then that's fine.

Yeah, as far as the next quarterly presentation, if you want.

OK. No problem. Any other questions from the committee? Comments? Are there members of the public wishing to speak on this item? seeing none in person, none on Zoom with their hand raised. Amy, John, I want to thank you for how serious you all have dived into this issue. I'm so excited about the technology from the hydrodynamic separators to the nanobubbles that we're working on, the progress that we're making on the permitting with this, the funding that we have allocated with this. With Durham, we're just finalizing some minor things. It feels like we've been working on this for a year alrea

With that, we'll proceed to item... So items 3 and 4 are going to be heard after 10.30. Has a consultant arrived for... Okay, so the consultant's not here yet for item number one. So let's proceed to item number five.

Commissioner Dominguez, this is your item if you want to present.

Yes, so we've been hearing a lot about the progress. I'm very excited. I think July 28th is the topping off ceremony. I'm going to be out of town, so I will miss it. But with the anticipated opening date of December 2027, will that be before Art Basel, during? And please tell us any updates.

Thank you. Given how far along with this, I'd be fine to close this item out.

Okay. I still would like to keep it on committee because I do want to get a comprehensive update next month on the parking. I know you all are working on finalizing an agreement with 1691 Michigan Avenue.

It's been signed? Okay. So where are we with that?

How many parking spaces do you have secured for your employees?

Up to 50 monthly spaces and the ability to scale up to 350. Are you going to be able to scale up to those 350 spaces on a regular basis or is that depending on their capacity?

Okay. And for your employees, is that for your employees or are those for visitors to the facility?

And one of the questions that Commissioner Mattel-Salinas had brought up last night was relating to the cost. As we know, the parking oftentimes, providing for parking can be expensive. At what cost is, have you guys analyzed that yet, how much you're going to charge your staff for parking?

I'm so grateful for the progress that this team has been making in securing additional parking. I was very concerned on the impact that this was going to have on the surrounding parking garages because I do believe once all the new retail opens up on Lincoln Road, once the new hotels end up opening up along Collins Avenue. There's just going to be a lot of extra activity coming into the area, which is going to be great for our economy, but we also want to make sure that we don't end up with a greater parking deficit than that that we already experienced. And you all have taken seriously our co

Thank you. All right. With that, let's proceed to item number six.

Commissioner Dominguez, this is Madam Vice Mayor. This is your item. Welcome to introduce.

And those were not the Farber-Hulaniki projects?

And for that program, that includes Barbara Hulaniki? Yes, that's correct. Okay. I think we can close out this item, and then I'll meet with your team individually periodically to see for opportunities. I think maybe in the last meeting, Commissioner Fernandez even mentioned Lincoln Road section, the Ritz, and some of the other places as opportunities. But happy to meet with you individually in the coming months on other opportunities. Absolutely.

Thank you, and thank you, Commissioner Dominguez, for championing this. I have to say the product of this item that you've carried through has been great, and it's beautiful to see our pastel colors throughout our historic districts. So thank you for your leadership.

Well, it came from a previous commissioner, and I was happy to pick up the baton from her and continue it along with you.

Thank you. Thank you. With that, we can show this item closed. We can move on to item number seven.

Good morning, Vice Mayor. You're welcome to present your item.

this item was brought up because a few months back I was having a conversation with the city administration and they mentioned in passing that working on our committees takes up almost 50% of their workload at City Hall and that really struck me because that is a lot of time to spend on on an advisory committee taking away from them doing their jobs. So I've had conversations with the city clerk. I've also met with Maria Hernandez, our assistant city manager, and we've come up with some possibilities for us to discuss and move forward to the commissions for final decisions on how these things

How do you calculate that 20,000 number?

But not all of our committees achieve quorum. I'm sorry? Not all of our committees achieve quorum, and so I'm just trying to understand, you have how many committees?

And assuming they all meet 12 times a year, that's 576, you know, hours if they're each one hour. But, you know, let's assume each one meets, let's say, two hours. That's, you know, 1,100 hours. That's still a lot of extra work to get to 20,000 hours.

I think we need to go back and look at that number because I'm not sure when we say 20,000 hours, I'm not saying that the intent of the item is wrong and that we shouldn't do these efficiencies. It just seems a little bit exaggerated to me.

Thank you Commissioner Vice Mayor are there additional recommendations that you have besides those presented by staff?

I'm open to hearing what my colleagues suggest on the dais. And then Mayor Miner had a similar streamlining item that's going to commission. So I'd really like for this to go to commission next month or this month so that the two items can be heard and considered. But I think it's important that we do something and bring something forward to alleviate some of the extra work that's coming about from managing some of these committees.

So I'll just chime in here a little bit. I'm fine with sunsetting the ad hoc iguana remediation advisory committee. I'm fine sunsetting the health advisory committee. Ralph, what policy do we have in place if committees are not meeting? If six months go by, if an entire year goes by, there's not a quorum or the committee is just simply not meeting, are we being notified of this? Because I do think, regardless of this, if a committee doesn't meet for a certain amount of time, if it cannot achieve a quorum, then just tell us and we can

certain period of time I think I think that that is important that perhaps we just adopt an overarching policy that committees that do not meet after a certain amount of time it gets brought to the City Commission for its sunset because I think it helps it would just create that efficiency that naturally occurring efficiency that you're that you're seeking With the 41st Street Committee, I'm going to be deferential to the mayor on this because this is the mayor's 41st Street Committee. I do think that there are a number of issues that 41st Street has relating to traffic, relating to safety, re

And I attend regularly, and I know that there's more than that that goes on.

Yeah. So, okay, so I would suggest that we keep the 41st Street Committee. Maria, tell me your thinking as it relates to the Convention Center Advisory Board and sunsetting that once the hotel is completed.

I have a couple thoughts on that one. Can that committee be rolled under, like maybe we approach the Chamber of Commerce and see if it's something that they can manage under their wing, or the GMCVB has different committees. If the Chamber does not want to manage that, maybe under the GMCVB, have it be one of their committees. Does that alleviate workload, or would that still be the same for the city?

so we could take that into consideration, but... And as you mentioned, I also have a lot of respect for the people that phoned in championing this committee. I know the work that they've done. I've attended the committee several times and do understand its importance. I want to ensure that we find a balance so if we could do some research between now and the next Commission meeting, that would be amazing.

Yeah, and I think that's great. I mean, I just want to point out, since 1997, we have had a Miami Beach Convention Center Advisory Board. And my challenge with this recommendation, and again, Maria, I respect you tremendously, and we've worked together for a long time, but if I'm looking at the Convention Center Advisory Board just from the optics of completing the hotel, then I get, I understand how the Convention Center Advisory Board might not be needed upon the completion of the hotel. But since 1997, the Miami Beach Convention Center Advisory Board has been the resident's voice on behalf

Yes, absolutely Commissioner Mattel Salinas Thank You mr.

Chair great item vice mayor Dominguez. I support these recommendations. I do have a couple more suggestions If it'd be okay with you vice mayor so the first Suggestion that I'd like to make is that the committee's can only do one event per year I know there are some committees that have multiple events per year and that takes up a lot of staff time to set up and break down and the speakers and the chairs and so I'd like to Propose that we limit the events that each of these committees have to just once per year I agree with that and I just have a question for our attorney. I WITH THE NEW DEI B

Okay, so then I'd like to make that suggestion that each of the committees do one event per year. And then I'd also like to suggest that I know some of our committees have more than seven members where we get to nominate two or three. I know one committee actually they self-reduced where they asked us to reduce them from 14 or six, however many there were, to seven members because they felt that they couldn't get enough done because so many members, they just, they felt like it was better and more efficient to reduce. So I'd like to look at having each of the committees, the resident committee

Yeah, I think that's great. Um, and I think there's more comments.

I'm sure about, um, a couple of questions. The transportation committee, I don't see that in here or am I missing it? It's likely that I'm missing it.

Okay, perfect. I would like to request my colleague's support to keep the North Beach CRA Advisory Committee intact.

I am very okay with it meeting quarterly unless there's something pending that needs to be addressed. But there is going to be an enormous amount of money coming into the CRA, and I think there is, a very vital role for this advisory committee to sort of screen the projects and be the voice of the neighborhood to funnel information up to the dais in order to best steer this influx of capital. Ten percent of it by law has to go to affordable housing, so that's good. We know where that ten percent is going, but there's going to be hundreds of millions of dollars coming into North Beach And we ne

And I completely agree with you, Commissioner Bond. In fact, one of the recent recommendations was the expansion of the commercial lease subsidy program that we have in South Beach to cover also areas in North Beach within the CRA. And we have an item coming. to next week's city commission meeting regarding that. And in addition to that, there's still gonna be a board of directors for the North Beach CRA, so all that we're going to be doing is we're going to be, if we sunset them, we're gonna be silencing the voice of the stakeholders But the board of directors, which is the city commission, i

So, Maria and Ralph, when you prepare this for next week, can you make that amendment, please?

I just have one clarification that I want to make very clear. When I suggested seven members only, I don't want anyone kicked off. I want it to be when their term ends, just like the Women's Commission did it. When their term ends, then there's no other seat that opens.

So perhaps identify those that it might be prudent to have some members instead of 14. The one thing I would also say, you know, and this is staff's recommendation, I don't think it came from the sponsor of the item, transferring the Committee on Homeless to the Police Citizens Relations Committee as a subcommittee. I want to be careful on that because oftentimes, you know, homeless individuals are perceived as being criminals. homeless individuals are not criminals oftentimes some may be criminals but i think if we now you know take a committee that is here to look at you know how do we addre

I'll share where that came from. I think initially when the Homeless Committee was formed years ago, it was an advocacy committee to help the homeless. A shift came when the camping ordinance was passed, and it no longer became the advocacy to help the homeless. It came with the element that you described. And since the police department has the homeless outreach expansive program, we thought housing it there made sense, but if you do not think that, I would recommend eliminating the committee altogether because it's no longer what the initial intent was.

I think we just have to find the right balance for it. I don't know that putting it directly under the Police-Citizens Relations Committee is the right solution. You know, so I don't know, it's food for thought. I would say it's food for thought. Maria, let me ask you, since you've done a lot of work into this, how many committees do we have?

48, okay. If you were to tell me which are the committees that take the bulk of staff's time, the percentage of staff time supporting committees, which, you know, because we have the land use boards and we have, um, yes.

Okay, so 44% of staff's time, that's the bulk. is spent on only on three committees.

On three committees, okay. And three committees, my staff was doing the numbers and Stephanie, I think you were looking at the numbers. So we have in general, I think between all the committees open out there about 150 referrals floating around between all the committees. Is that about right, Stephanie? Between the three, okay. So between the three committees, we in essence have the same amount of agenda items as a city commission meeting divided between three different committees. the staff has to attempt, and that that is the one, that is the group that actually takes up the most amount of s

If we are looking, if the goal is to be efficient, if the goal is to be efficient, and we're saying, okay, we are now you know, taking residents from meeting on a monthly basis and getting their feedback and their opportunity to participate in their local government from being on a monthly basis to a quarterly basis, I feel like we can't impose that on our residents, and then us, that we are generating the bulk of that work and not see how we can further streamline ourselves as well. And so I'm open to whether we just eliminate the committee structure, and we go to just two commission meetings

Uh, but that's very bold and I find it interesting. I think it's worthy of being included in the memo and moving this to the full commission so that all of us can weigh in on it. Yes. I'm sorry.

So you're suggesting that we, that our committees only meet quarterly or listen, I, if it were me, I would say, you know, let's just have two commission meetings a month. Let's just have two commission meetings a month because right now, YOU KNOW, THREE MEETINGS, THREE MEETINGS A MONTH, IN ADDITION TO THE CITY COMMISSIONING, YOU HAVE TO HAVE ASSISTANT CITY MANAGERS, YOU HAVE DIRECTORS HERE. HOW MANY DIRECTORS DO WE HAVE IN THE ROOM? IF THE DIRECTORS COULD RAISE THEIR HANDS. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. 12 directors in the room and two assistant city managers, the city clerk. Oh, thre

AND NOW THIS IS NEIGHBORHOODS. THIS IS NEIGHBORHOODS. THE SAME THING FOR LAND USE. THE SAME THING FOR FINANCE. AND I THINK WE HAVE TO SEE, AND BY THE WAY, THAT'S NOT COUNTING THE ONES, THE DIRECTORS THAT WE HAVE PARTICIPATING ON ZOOM ALSO. And so I feel that if we're gonna be pushing for efficiency and we're asking our residents to be efficient with staff's time, well, I think we need to lead. We need to lead the way on that. And so I would love for us to pass along to our colleagues two options. Let's just do away with the committees and have two commission meetings month as the city of Miami

Did they have committees? I know committees existed, but they did not exist the way that they exist today. they would discuss issues high level. And you'll remember, Maria, when you started in the city back in 2010, when 2010? Yes. That's a good memory, you see. Back in 2010 when you started, how many items would we have in a commission committee agenda? Like maybe 10, 11?

From my perspective, I'd much rather see us as individual commissioners work with staff closely on an item place that item on the agenda as an action item that then gets discussed at the Commission agenda, then continuing to put these referrals on the agenda. Because what I've learned with these referrals is that oftentimes we put referrals on the agenda to have a discussion about something, but we have a discussion that oftentimes might give us an update. It's the same, we can solve the same thing by reaching out to staff and having a meeting with staff, having a conversation. with Sam and I

So, thank you. I'd like to make a motion then to move this item with a favorable recommendation to the commission, including our comments about everything that we discussed up here, the sunsetting and the events and the members, and then also include, if you two are okay with it, eliminating the commission committees, the three commission committees. I support that.

And I'm fine with that. I would love feedback from my colleague, Commissioner Bott, on that.

Yeah. Back when I was on the board of Miami Beach United, we advocated for a different way to conduct commission meetings. Part of it was driven by the desire to get residents more involved, so the idea was potentially to start later so that more people would not have to take time off of a workday. I know some municipalities do it that way, but the other part of it was to sort of lessen the impact of what was at the time 12 hours plus for a single commission meeting. I mean, we don't have that anymore, but that means that we don't get through our items. So I'm very open to discussing really ov

And thank you for those comments, Commissioner Bond. In addition to that, unlike in the past, now we're also going to have a regularly scheduled, I guess, what's it called, the new thing that we approved?

Workshop. A regularly scheduled workshop where we all get together with the administration, with the city attorney's office to discuss issues. the issues of importance. And so I think now that we're introducing that workshop, you know, perhaps it is a good time to pass along this item that it also proposes. I would say if you're open to amending your motion, Commissioner Matos-Salinas, you know, let's propose the elimination of the committees. It seems like Commissioner Vaughn was in favor of it. I didn't, it seems like Commissioner Dominguez. Okay. So are you happy to amend your item to propose that?

I think I said it. It was in there. To eliminate the committees, the three commission committees. Yeah. Let's get more work done better.

Okay. All right. So with that, we're going to keep Geobonds. Not Geobonds. We're going to keep the 41st Street committee. We're not going to sunset that. We're going to keep the North Beach CRA committee. we're going to keep the Convention Center Advisory Committee We're not going to sunset those. They'll meet quarterly instead. And they're still thought to be given on the Committee of Homeless, but I'm going to be deferential to the item sponsor. We're going to merge the Ad Hoc Advisory Nightlife Committee into the Small Business Advisory Committee, cancel the meetings in August, and have a m

And also look at which committees can be reduced to seven members. Seven members, correct.

Yeah, so you have one agenda per month is how the county, for example, the county, they have a county commission meeting. And when they don't reach all the items on the agenda, then they have their carryover meeting. And that way we have sufficient time to discuss the items at length without having to rush them. But we're giving ourselves two days to get through that agenda.

Well, but we are eliminating what we're going to be eliminating.

And the workshop will be a short agenda.

Right. But but to Ralph's point to the chair, if I may, the clerk's office does the follow up, the minutes, the after action. So now instead of doing that for one long meeting, There will be two meetings plus the workshop. So it's something that we can work through.

One final comment. I think maybe we need to define the events. I know that the sister cities committee has an event during our puzzle. We had an event with the Jaguars as part of FIFA and there are other meaningful events that take place. I would hate to cap them. when the whole point of that particular committee is our relationships with out-of-town sister cities. We have an event on Sunday, a cleanup with Sophie Rangel, so I wouldn't want to limit it to one just yet until we define more what an event means.

Okay, we'll work on it. Okay. As long as a bunch of staff time isn't, you know, like the Hispanic Affairs, there's just so many departments that all throw that together, and there's a cost to it, but it sounds like Sister Cities is different, their events.

But what I would like to see, though, is one overarching policy that applies to all the committees, because otherwise, you know, if we're going to say one policy applies to one committee, then we're going to be getting phone calls from the other committees, because to them, that's important. For example, unfortunately, we have a change in state law with DEI issues, but the LGBTQ Advisory Committee, they have multiple events throughout the year as well. So I think we just have to make sure that if we say that this is the policy, it is a policy that applies fairly across all the committees.

And it will. We'll define events and how those are clarified. Okay.

All right. I'm going to open up the floor to public comment. Anyone wishing to speak on this item, feel free to approach the podium. Members attending via Zoom, feel free to raise your hand. I see Johan Moore with his hand raised. Good morning, Johan. You have two minutes to speak.

Thank you. Mitch Novick. Good morning. You have two minutes to speak.

Thank you, Mitch. Any other members of the public wishing to speak on this item? Seeing none in Zoom and none in person, we can show this item adopted unanimously. Thank you, Maria, and thank you, Ralph, and to all the staff liaisons. I do want to highlight, and I would be remiss if I did not thank each and every one of the employees of the City of Miami Beach who take on the extra responsibility, because not all the employees have assigned a committee that they are there to assist, but a select few volunteer to take on that extra responsibility. And Maria, how much extra money do they get pai

Okay. Welcome back, David. Good morning, Mr. Chair. So why don't we proceed with the presentation on the master plan and the concepts that we have before us.

So which are the sub-consultant disciplines that have been engaged as part of your feasibility and your master planning?

And these sub-consultant disciplines, in addition to the public voting that showed three to one, I think it was 75 percent support for the organic path, these sub-disciplines have also endorsed the organic path? Tell me, you know, drainage is a big issue in this area today. You know, there is some storm flooding there. Explain to me, you know, what is the improvement that the organic path offers as opposed to the linear path?

David, let me just ask you because there's a number of items that MB&A sent over to us. We've included it as a supplement so that it travels with the item as part of the record. But some of the issues, just so that we know at what point these issues get addressed, such as the street end drop-offs and access points, Particularly those at 23rd and 29th, but also 24th 25th 26, 27, at what point do these access points get addressed?

Is there a way that we could include the conversation regarding the shower locations as part of this The showers do directly abut this promenade. And I do believe, you know, when you look at the feedback that we received from the public, their priority is safety. And tied to that, you know, you see, you know, it's mostly used when early in the morning and in the evening. And so, of course, safety is very important. And so people are concerned about people loitering and the use of the showers and all that. It's something that we'd like us to see. Is that something that we can address? Because t

Regarding, and it's a point that Commissioner Bond brought up in our last public meeting, SEPTED, police, you know, review of these plans. Where are we? Has police, has the consultant spoken with police? Have you shown them these sites? Have you been receiving feedback?

And it is part of the process for all of our projects that they get SEPTED reviews. And my last question, bollards and vehicular access. At what point do we start defining the type of bollard and the type of vehicular access?

Yeah, I'm very excited to see this come to life. I just want to, I know that septet is always a part of the procedure. I get that. But we're working so hard to make sure that we don't have homeless encampments in the dunes. I don't want them thinking that this is a cute new place to upgrade their neighborhood with a beautiful sort of wavy path. So let's make sure we just have a really good eye to that when you do go through that process. Thank you.

Thank you. So I look for the committee to entertain a motion to recommend to the commission approving concept one and directing staff to complete the master plan using this concept. I'm not able to make a motion, but if I make that motion all right, it's been moved. It's been seconded Okay, and any opposition we can show this adopted unanimously.

And that was one of the questions that came up in the last.

That was one of the questions that came up in, in one of the meetings, David, if you wanna respond to that.

really it's an operational and a policy decision that'll be part of the creation of the project once the commission decides to establish the project and fund it we'll establish how it gets maintained and and from my perspective this is you know a capital improvement and with every capital improvement something of this nature it's almost like when you're designing a park in essence that that's kind of what this feels like you're almost designing a park so you need to budget for capital renewal and replacement you need to budget for operations Management and from my perspective once you have a p

So since we had deferred items three and four to later in the meeting, why don't we go back to those two items?

Vice Mayor Dominguez, if you want to introduce your item.

Okay. So the pedestrian bridge on over Fifth Street was something that was brought forward by the late Commissioner Mark Samulin, and I was proud to take this up and continue on the vision and legacy and public benefit that he had proposed in order for – Five Park and Canopy Park and the Bay Walk in the back to be part of a consideration. So this is something that's personally very important to me and I know that we've run into some hiccups with the location of the utility and my latest briefing, in my latest briefing I was told that the developer was hiring an independent consultant to review

So for number three, I'd like to move it until September to get an opportunity to hear from the independent consultant of where the utilities can be moved.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd support that. I'll second that. I just want to make sure that the developer, is that a fair and safe timeline for the developer, or is it going to be in September? He goes, oh, I need six more months.

Okay. Obviously, you know, there was a commitment that was made to the public. And all efforts must be exhausted to determine whether we can deliver that commitment. So I completely agree with you, Commissioner Dominguez. Let's give the time so we can determine that. What I don't want is for this to keep on extending beyond September, because I don't want this to be death by a thousand cuts when it comes to this project. I'm going to throw a little curveball that came to me this morning that I haven't spoken with staff about. I hate doing this. Throwing something out there without speaking to

Yeah, because they kind of converge. When you look at the map, they converge towards the middle.

Take a look at that for me. And that's not to say that we still wouldn't consider doing the overwater floating docks. if the original option doesn't work out, but I would love for us to consider that as well. Or see if it's even worth considering. And my apologies for this. I had that comment to me this morning. All right. Are there, Commissioner Matos-Solinas? Okay, so we're gonna continue this item, both items three and four to September?

I see we have members of the public wishing to speak on this item. If you're attending in person, feel free to approach the podium. Jane Newman, you've had your hand up for a while. Good morning. You have two minutes to speak.

Thank you, Jay. And I, you know, I do want the record to reflect that FPL did do a significant amount of work in the area in bringing in a new feeder line into the city. This is a major feeder line that electrifies a significant portion of our city and any potential impact to that feeder line would represent a significant public safety threat. and impact to the economy of our city. So it is, I hear everything that the speaker mentioned and he's not wrong because a public benefit was promised and a public benefit of this nature must be delivered. There's no going around the commitment that was

Yeah, and I think with Southgate, our attorney's office had sent them documents to review, and they have, and I think they may have just sent it back to our attorney's office, so now the ball is in the city's court, but let's talk offline about that one.

Thank you, Tim. Thank you. What is the penalty to the property upon which, you know, there is this connectivity, but they're not opening it up?

That doesn't sound to me to be, you know, enough of a penalty. A code compliance violation for something like that is a slap on the hand. You know, I get that, like, okay, you're not maintaining your property the way that it should be maintained. Here you are depriving your neighbors and the rest of the taxpayers who own that property, who have a right to that property, you're depriving the rest of the taxpayers from access to this infrastructure. And no one person or entity should be depriving their neighbors or the other taxpayers of the areas that they're entitled to. I want to see what str

Thank you, David. Amy Litos, good morning. You have two minutes to speak.

Thank you. Thank you, Amy. With that, I see no other members of the public wishing to speak. We'll close with public comments. We'll show this item, continued items three and four to September. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Okay. I have a hard stop at 12 because I'm doing something with Deborah Noe and Pell. And there are two items that will be very quick. And I was wondering if we could take those two items out of order 10 and 14 if we were going to be running the meeting after noon. Because the other ones can be finished without me even though I'm on it.

Let's call, and please in the future, just let us know. I'd like to take the agenda for the benefit of the public in the order in which it is printed. And I kindly just ask the committee for that deference.

So I'm going to be closing out this item, but just real quickly, I have had several discussions with Will McDonald and his team, and it's not really feasible in the lots that we presently have because of flooding and where they're located, but I do know that you are looking at future opportunities to bring more EV to North Beach, and then if you could quickly mention them, and then we'll close out this item.

That's wonderful. So the purpose of this item was to bring awareness of the lack of EV up there. I appreciate how you and your team have embraced looking for opportunities to expand. And with that, I'll close the item.

Thank you so much. Let me ask you this. We had adopted an item level three charging stations, the 2660 Collins Avenue lot was one of them, but we have many other lots throughout the city. Where are we with all the other lots throughout the city? We had one south of Fifth, we had one identified in North Beach, and my understanding was that we've been delayed by a device that is needed for the charger because you're running high voltage electricity into this equipment, and so it needs to be above the flood elevation. And they were getting rights, or securing rights, patents, on a lift for these

I only speak in layman's version anyway, so that's all good.

you know as it is we don't have enough electric charging stations in the city and the majority of the ones that we have they tend to be in private locations and the whole idea of this of this partnership that we passed with florida power and light was to identify public parking lots to test them uh and so as of what i'm hearing now is that our challenge is coming from the building department that the building department hasn't been able to approve this yet or to review this yet. I see we have Alex from the building department approaching the podium. If you could just shed some insights for us.

But let me ask you something, because, you know, lifting these devices, eight feet or eight feet plus one?

I know I've understood, but it's pretty heavy duty electrical components. And, and so, and so if the requirement is, you know, for these electrical components would be eight feet above, we're not going to end up with any electric chargers throughout the city. And that's that. And so, and so we need to go back and see, okay, what, What can be worked as a solution? Because it is a challenge. We're going to say, I mean, these are pretty much like transformers that now imagine that taller than a human, you're going to have to put a lift taller than a human. And then on top of that lift, then you'r

What hasn't been contemplated is the fact that we are about to open 150 parking spots in the Deauville Garage on Friday. That is 150 spots that will be permanently managed by the city. That is a built parking garage, and I would imagine that there's an opportunity to put on the second or third floor some charging stations.

But you have a transformer you actually have to put there. That's... THAT'S PART OF THE CHALLENGE, ISN'T IT?

BUT IN THE PARKING LOTS IT'S EASIER BECAUSE YOU CAN DO THE DRIVING AND YOU CAN RUN THE UTILITY EASIER THAN THROUGH

And so I like Commissioner Bott's idea. I think we need to take a look at that. But we had P55, 401 Alton Road, where we had identified and we had passed legislation to partner with FPL. I was very proud to sponsor that legislation to get these EV charging stations there, P10 at 14th and Michigan, had identified that one as well uh obviously along the collins condo corridor uh 26 and collins at least that one is moving forward but you know if we need to sit down with the building department see what we can do um to address um to address the heights of these of these uh chargers because we need

All right. All right, so with that, let me, are there members of the public wishing to speak on this item? Seeing none in person or in Zoom, we can show this item closed. Yes, please. Okay. And then the next item is item number 14? 15. 15. Well, you also have item number 14, but. Oh, Sarah. I'm happy to call the item clear if you want Sarah here for it, but, okay. Item number 15.

Thank you. So I have been meeting regularly with Kristi Vada and also included some members of the community that had expressed ideas and interest in our procurement process. And what worried me was that we have these major projects that come up in our city or opportunities for vendors to bid on and then we get one bidder. and sometimes it's the same bidder. And I wanted to do a deep dive on why that was happening. And part of the case is we did have some extra restrictions which people or vendors wouldn't necessarily be able to apply for because their businesses didn't qualify. But another th

So you're saying rather than bringing the draft RFPs to commission, you guys would put those out? Correct.

And the county and the city of Miami, neither one of their bodies approve the draft RFP before it goes out. Correct. But let me ask you that. Let me just ask you about that. You know, the draft RFP is the draft RFP. I don't recall us really ever like changing the draft RFP, how would that affect the issue of there only being one respondent?

Okay, I see. All right. Yeah, because that can add easily an extra month or two, potentially three into the process of getting a solicitation. Absolutely. All right. Absolutely.

And in essence allows us to pay faster? Correct, yes.

So if you guys are in agreement, I make the motion to move this to the full commission for further discussion.

So let me just ask the city attorney in the past on certain issues where as I Living wage is very important, you know, and prevailing wages is important as well, especially in our procurement contracts. And at times we get preempted by the state on things, but I don't know, sometimes there's a preemption that may happen, but you don't necessarily change your law. because you're necessarily preempted. Because sometimes a preemption may cease to exist. And now you've changed the law or a preemption may eventually get challenged and you want to preserve what you instituted. Give me a little bit o

relate to prevailing wages for people who work in our construction projects. We're talking about fringe benefits for these employees. I think, you know, as, as it is, we can't apply these ordinances, correct? Correct. So we have first, we can't, we can't apply it.

Does the state law have a sense of provision, that state statute? No.

Because, I mean, you know, if... legislators come and go, sessions, and every session, sometimes new sessions come in and fix sometimes the bad deeds. of the previous session. And so then I would hate for us to see repeal something about these employees, that they must get a living wage. And these are the employees who do janitorial services, landscaping, the parking attendants, the security officers, the temporary labor and trash collection and all that. And these are individuals who do deserve, in my opinion, a fair wage, minimum wage, and I want to be hopeful that someday the state might co

Oh, of course, of course. Yes, let's defer it to September. Okay. Yeah, if you don't mind.

Yeah, yeah. So let's show this item deferred to September so that we can study this more and maybe also gives time to the county. to consider the outcomes of their committee.

And even though Sarah left, if you said it was okay to do 14.

Yes, let's call item 14. I suspect this might be quick.

So we participated in the Miami Beach pet parade. I think it was a couple years ago we allocated $5,000 and Commissioner Buck, Commissioner Fernandez and I were all judges of the dogs and cats that were there. It really was a fun time. The more we can do events that are healthy and beautiful for our community, I think it's a great idea and wanted to find out more from the Parks Department what that would entail moving forward if we were to do it again in the future.

FOR PURPOSES OF TIME, WHAT IS THE FISCAL IMPACT? $5,000, SAME AS IT WAS LAST YEAR. I'M HAPPY TO SUPPORT THIS ITEM, SO I'M WILLING TO MAKE A MOTION.

I'LL MAKE A MOTION AND SEND IT TO THE FULL COMMISSION FOR CONSIDERATION.

OKAY, ADOPTED BY ACCLIMATION. COULD WE TRY TO DO SOME FAST ITEMS? COMMISSIONER DOMINGUEZ, SINCE YOU'RE STILL HERE AND WE CALLED THREE OF YOUR ITEMS, MAYBE WE CAN CALL A FOURTH OF YOUR ITEM. OKAY. ITEM NUMBER EIGHT.

CHAIRMAN BRYANT. Commissioner Dominguez, you sponsored this item about the connectivity. What was your idea?

So as the trolley has really taken off, particularly down at Morris Good Park, and it's been very popular, people have been confused on where to find the bus and where to go next and how to get to the last bus stop. next step in their process of getting to where they need to be. When I had my briefing and speaking with the director, He gave me some excellent news in that the trolley is going to add a stop on Purdy Avenue so people don't have to navigate and try to figure out how to get to the trolleys at Publix. And if any of you have taken the trolley in that area, the Publix is also where th

And that's the map that we have on page 316 of our agenda that shows the stop right there, right off of the trolley exit, the water taxi exit. Thank you for bringing the item. Is there anything, any other feedback that you want to provide to the administration? No, no.

And my co-sponsor, Commissioner Bott, thank you for that. And I think this will be great for the residents.

Commissioner Bott? Anyone to add to this?

You can get a freebie right there. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you, Jose. Thank you. Item number nine.

And I place this item on the agenda because during the construction phase, of this project, which, David, I believe is supposed to start in January? Yes. In January, local businesses may experience reduced visibility and accessibility, and so I wanted to share with the 41st Street Committee the signage, got their feedback. We were able to go there, present to them. I think they were very happy. I believe so, yes. And we got some good feedback from them regarding the integration of branding from the 41st Street bid. Yes, we did. Have we received that feedback?

Okay. And so for confirmation, we're going to have the logos of the businesses on these signs. So we're going to have fronting 41st Street.

Okay. And we're going to be making it clear that 41st Street is open to business during the construction phase. Correct. Going block by block, first one side, whether the north side or the south side. That's correct. The schedule is one block at a time, one half or north half and south half or south half and north half, however the contractor wants to do that. Okay. Do you need official action from the committee?

Second. I'm going to show this adopted by acclamation. Thank you, David. Thank you very much. Item number 11.

So I'll let Jose do the heavy lifting on this, but we have all kinds of traffic issues up in North Beach specifically, but not exclusively. The intersection from Indian Creek to 71st Street and then north to Dickens and then also some of the side streets just south of that going from east to west. It can take 20 minutes going from the Carillon to Indian Creek. And so we have all hands on deck. trying to find resources and solutions to ameliorate that, not just for North Beach, but also what we can learn and institute there could potentially be implemented throughout the rest of the city where

I'd like to correct the record. It's not very affectionately called that at all. We call it that, but it's not affectionate.

When do we anticipate that data is going to be available?

Let me ask you something. How often are we resynchronizing the lights in the area?

Every three years. Three, it's supposed to. But the challenge is, so the challenge is that, I think, you know, the real challenge is that, obviously, you know, when you're going to cross the street, you need to push the button, and when you push the button, you know, you're I don't know how it works. I'm just a lay person, but it seems to me you trigger the light to stop. And then when you trigger the light to stop, then all of a sudden, it's easy. When you do it so many times, I would imagine they lose synchronization. And then on top of that, to help manage traffic flow, either you have publ

So I guess, but I guess my question to you, Jose, to address the issue of the traffic that Commissioner Bond is leading to address. how often are we going out there and checking, are these lights still synchronized the way that they should be? How often are we policing that?

I would venture to say like on a monthly basis, you know, high end, high volume intersections, high volume intersections and corridors like this area in North Beach or like, you know, Mid Beach on 41st Street, areas of Collins Avenue. We just have to make sure on a regular basis that somehow we go out there and we check, okay, is this still synchronized? Yes, it is. Okay, fine. It's not synchronized. We need to reach out to DLT. We need to reach out to the county because this is, you know, it's great to have the plan, I think that's great. We have this timing plan, but we need to make sure tha

How can we, so what's that method? Like how do we go out there and check to see whether the lights are still synchronized or not?

Or construction work like what you're having in Town Center. We know that this happens. And, in fact, there was a big discussion about this at the county a number of years ago I think involving Miami Beach because of the time, the amount of construction that was happening in the city, the detection loops, the detection loops were breaking. And that was affecting the lighting, the lights. And so whose responsibility is it to replace those detection loops?

Okay. For our September meeting, I'd like to, as part of this item, get an update on that because that is concerning, but I think we also need to make sure, like in areas where we know we have heavy construction, we're monitoring that.

And if I can add on that, if they're being damaged or broken irreparably by construction, shouldn't it be the responsibility of whoever's doing the construction? The contractor. so that if it's, you know, and it's not the hotel, I'm just saying, for example, if the Grand Hyatt had broken some, wouldn't it be incumbent on them to replace it, thereby circumnavigating the county backlog? That's correct. There are so many issues that I hear, you know, we want to get the green backlit signs that, you know, saying what the street numbers are replaced because there are plenty of them all over the cit

Yeah. So when we come back in September, it'd be great, Jose, if you could kind of bring us a list of those detection loops that might be damaged. Let me ask you, because recently I've been receiving complaints about 69th Street. 69th Street, that area, you know, kind of between from Harding to Indian Creek. And I've experienced that area. that traffic myself, especially when you're going southbound on Harding and you're going southbound on Abbott, and it all becomes a cluster right there. In fact, people even trying to go westbound on the eastbound lanes. Let me ask you this. Is it feasible t

But through the chair, if I might. Yes, of course. So we're looking at working with University of Texas at Austin to do a sort of holistic reimagining of how all those streets converge and what the behavior is and how we can make them more passable. So as part of that, could we not incorporate investigating that as well? So once we get that ironed out, because I think there's an FDOT grant to cover, or a federal grant, actually, to cover... that cost from UT Austin, once they come on board, we can make sure that that is covered as part of the scope.

MR. That would be great. Anything else with this item for today? Should we continue this item to September?

MS. Does the police have an update on anything at this point, or parking, or is it just transportation? No? Okay. No police. And Will is gone, I think. So, okay. I guess we can continue for now. Yeah.

MR. Okay. Perfect. And thank you. especially with all the growth happening, all the growth that we didn't approve.

Well, and I will say it's not just for North Beach because people circumnavigate the whole city going from north to south and get stuck there and so it backs up to Alton down 63rd, it backs up to Collins at 41st, so it's a whole drama citywide.

All right, let's proceed to item number 12. I'm sorry, were there members of the public wishing to speak on item number 11? I see none in person, none in Zoom, so we'll proceed to item number 12.

All right, Commissioner Salinas, this is your item.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. So, I did a walkthrough recently with some of the residents south of fifth and they, um, you know, have expressed concerns about the safety and the lack of lighting in south point park and also near Smith and Walensky. So I put this item on the agenda to discuss, uh, what can we do to improve the lighting in that area? And I have some thoughts about some tree, right? Tree lighting, tree wraps, and also some of the extending the bollard lighting that is on, um, the beach walk extending that west on the cut walk. So, John, I'll let you take it away and explain what you have

So the tree ramps are affected by the turtle lights? Yes, we turn them off in Loomis Park during turtle season.

Is this to me, you know... To me, just adding the lighting makes sense. It's having to go in and do an audit, almost like a study. I guess you have someone, a consultant, come in.

How much does it, so the tree wraps, even though it's affected by the turtle ordinance, we're going to be proceeding with that? I proceed with getting a cost for that.

And is there an opportunity to do amber lighting on the tree wraps so that we have the wrapping, we have the lighting, but it's, you know, a different hue of light? Typically we have our chief resiliency officer.

Well, I want to just add real quickly that so the tree lights that are wrapped that will be next to Smith & Walensky wouldn't be visible from the beach.

Commissioner Salinas, I mean, from what I gather, this is the area west, just west of Smith and Walensky? Yes. Just east. East of Smith and Walensky. East of Smith and Walensky. I mean, that's not visible.

So just to clarify, even the amber lights are too illuminated? Even the amber lights have to be covered?

Yeah, because I went out there also in the same area looking at different things for that park. And it seemed like, and clearly I'm not the expert, but it seemed like the vast majority of it was not visible from the beach. So hopefully that's what you'll find as well. Right.

Okay. Anything? Commissioner Meadows, Salinas, this is your item. You can guide us in the direction. Sure.

So, John, can we bifurcate and move forward the $24,000 into, you know, move that to the commission so that way we can get started on the tree lights west of Smith and Walensky and then bifurcate the lighting that would go east of Smith and Walensky and then bifurcate the other lighting that would go closer to the ground on the cut walk. Can we bifurcate those items and pass...

I'd love for staff to just further explore it because we already have the lighting, the small bollard lightings that are all along the beach walk. And I just want to extend that. to West now heading towards Smith and Walensky and see what the price would be to do that.

But I'm happy to second your motion bifurcating the lights east of Smith and Walensky and sending that to Commissioner perhaps so we can find funding in the current year budget for them. Can we show that adopted by Acclamation? Okay, great. Any members of the public wishing to speak on this item? No one on Zoom and no one in person. So we can move on to item number 13.

So this is a long-standing item. There's good news. There's slightly less good news. But overall, it's better than we had anticipated, which is happy-making. There had been a reforestation effort, and there is one ongoing. And we've learned a lot. We've tested a few things. And I think we have a direction in which we can proceed. So with that, Lindsay, I'll let you do all the heavy lifting. Thank you.

Am I completely making this up? Did we talk at one point about extending the warranty to two years? And if we did, where are we on that?

And I think that that should become the standard with all of our capital improvement projects and with all of our general procurement of landscaping, a two-year warranty on this. Anything else with this item? All right, great. Thank you. We can show this item close? Yep.

I want to say, though, however, I think the prudent way to proceed going forward is to fold this into the reimagining of the West Lots into a full blown park where part of the scope would be to improve micromobility and alternate access. But one might take less time than the other. I would just want to make sure that whatever we do for the alley does not become something that can't be reused as we reimagine the park. So let's hear this item, then we can discuss it on the other side.

And what is the amount that has been granted?

Let me ask you this. And how long does it take to do a feasibility study? Okay, but then we have to wait until July at least to get started. And then once you get that feasibility study, what are the next steps?

I'm going to defer to the sponsor. I mean, from my perspective, I don't see why we can't start working on this, lowering the speed of the alleyway. I don't know what's the speed of the alleyway now, if there is a speed, but finding ways whether to lower the speed or put ways to lower the speed there now. repave the word, place mirrors and markings at the intersections, and branding it for bicyclists and micromobility.

You're saying without the feasible study, just make this improvement.

It's like everything with government is study after study. Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I totally get that. And it's like, I think when we go there and you see it's like common sense, like it makes sense. The bicyclists should be using this as opposed to being with thousands of cars, you know, going at high speed on Collins Avenue. we just need to make the area more conducive. And I have a feeling like if we all get together, like we know what we have to do to the alleyway rather than spending, you know, and I'm gonna defer to your leadership on this, but I think we kind of know probably what the stu

Hopefully, in next week's meeting, the mayor will call an item that's been on the agenda. This will be the third month to approve Savino Miller as the landscape architect who will start the process of imagining what the West Lots could be as a park. That is going to be a time-consuming task. project, even if we get the green light next week. I think it will probably dovetail a little bit. So I do like this idea of let's at least get mirrors in there and signage because that's inexpensive. I'm not even sure. I was just up there looking at some parking issues. I'm not even sure that we need to r

Okay, so let's maybe take a quick look up there and see what we can do in-house with our sort of repairing tools that are in our toolkit and buying a handful of mirrors and getting those installed. as we go down the path.

Yeah, and taking the paths, the signs that we've used on the beach walk and putting that up there as well to make sure people are looking left and right. And we can have a conversation about that. At the same time, going forward with the feasibility study for the bicycle boulevard in conjunction with what Savino Miller will look at holistically with the park. I think that it has to be one big conversation. But I do like this idea of doing some quick fixes. Short term. Yeah, that won't be expensive and will make it much more useful in the future.

It's kind of like what we're doing with Alton Court. With Alton Court, we put aside funding to repave Alton Court. And Matthew, you were a part of that discussion, you know, to repave Alton Court and seeing how can we make the intersection safer, which I I hope what we're doing, well, I don't want to mix one topic with the other, but it's kind of like the same idea. The infrastructure's there, you know, at least low-hanging fruit that we can do to make it safer.

So we will, I mean, we're overdue for a micromobility task force meeting anyhow, so let's try and get one in before the end of the month, before people go on vacation, and let's talk about what we need to do and how we can get it done sooner rather than later.

Would you like to make a motion for the short-term improvements of the court?

Does that even need to happen legislatively or can we just do it through administration? Depends how much it costs, I guess.

Right, but can we pull that together as sort of an administrative task force or do we need it to be convened legislatively? I think we need to just do it as a... Task force, right?

I'm happy to make a motion supporting the concept of doing these short-term improvements. Delegating to you, Commissioner Bob, for you to, this is your item, you know, to work with the administration on this. And in the event that you need to take this to commission, Because it rises to that threshold. I'm happy for the committee to give you a motion supporting this concept. Thank you. Because I do think these are low-hanging fruits, improvements that we can do to make things safer so that people don't rely on going on Collins Avenue and being with the traffic there. And also just help beautify the area a little bit more.

And I'll second that. And members of the public wishing to speak, Matthew.

Thank you. Any other members of the public wishing to speak on this item? SEEING NO ONE ON ZOOM AND NO ONE IN PERSON, WE CAN CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE CAN SHOW THIS ITEM ADOPTED BY ACCLAIMATION. DO YOU WANT TO BRING THE OTHER PART OF THIS ITEM BACK TO COMMITTEE OR DO YOU WANT TO SHOW THIS ITEM CLOSED?

I GUESS WHY DON'T WE COME BACK WHEN YOU KNOW IF YOU'VE GOT MORE FUNDING FOR THE GRANT. No, you said you were going to ask if we can get additional funds. Yeah, and maybe give us an update whenever that is.

Okay. By when would you anticipate it? I think by September. September? Yeah. Okay, so we'll try to get this on the September agenda. And since we're all together, are there any items that U.S. committee members want to ensure that we do get placed on the September agenda? And as you'll see, I tried to not put more than a certain amount of items because I don't want the public to think that an item is going to be heard and yet we can't reach it. If there's anything in specific that you want to prioritize to make sure it makes it on the next agenda. So Commissioner Matel Salinas wants item numb

Yeah, that's fine. If we could just let Stephanie know so that I can prioritize the item. I think generally today we were able to get through 15 items. So generally we get through about 12 to 15 items. So I try to be mindful of that. You know, times when items are in place on the agenda is because of that. But yes, just try to get to Stephanie. What do you like for September? Number 58. Commissioner Matos-Solinas wants item number 58 on the agenda.

And item number 26. And then I'll get back to you with...

Item number 26. Okay. All right. And any other items that you want to prioritize, feel free to just connect with Stephanie It's all of our committee, so for as long as we have the committees, I'm happy to prioritize your items. All right, guys. Thank you so much. Thank you to everyone who participated. Have a good day.