City Commission - workshop

Father God. Father, we just want to say thank you for truly this is a day that you have made. Father God, we just ask you to continue to be with us. Continue to bless us, Father God. Father God, draw us near to you, cover us in your blood. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. The Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Sure. Go ahead. Thank you. I surprised that we have that good new, the city look very good. To me, this country, well, whatever changes that we have for, for next year. Or with the revenue that we're going to receive. I think they're going to cut a lot of things that, you know, come to the city. It's not yet, but that's what I say. He's talking about the property taxes.

Oh, okay. Well, I don't know that. I believe they're going to take over right away in January 1st, 2027. But if it's the 28th, it's fine.

Very clear. The tax, our budget for the 27 is going to be approved by October 1st, this year. We're going to be okay. We're going to have the amount that we need. Yes, sir. All right.

Okay. That I understand this is a workshop, and I received my workshop, you know, agenda today, like two hours, you know, before this meeting. But why that page is not including here in this book? Why? It is? It's here? Oh, but that's what you said. It's not here. But it's here, no?

But I want to be sure, because I heard from Commissioner Irving, and he said the page is not there here. Okay. But it's here. Page 27. Okay, thank you. I want to be sure that anything that we talk is here in this agenda.

Would the pages be the same number? The number would be correct?

I think what he's saying, what he has is separate from what we have. The format is different, but the amount and everything is the same, right? So, yeah, our book is different from his. It's the same book, but I just condensed it. We got you.

Okay. And we may not have said the mayor of the great city of Palac is here with us. I'm here. Thank you. Thank you.

I wanted him to say that. You wanted to say that we are out of debt.

I just wanted you to say it. What I see here, I mean, in 27, we're going to have less money than 2 million. Yeah, that's correct.

And the last meeting that we have, I think we touched a point about the school, the school's sum that we don't receive any revenue for them. No, we do have revenue for it.

Do you have other questions? All right. All right.

You know, I feel about the trade. I wanted to decrease it.

Mr. Mayor. Yes, I know. I know this is, you know, one of your ideas. about the million raise. We have another Cali that they, you know, can think and in the future, you know, giving the opinion about that. Seeing that we had two million less already, okay, reducing the millage rate is going to make a hole to us, okay? Now, I don't know how we're going to do it, but I think that we already passed our I'm not suggesting for that, no. That we are putting down the military, no? No.

Okay. All right. Leave it alone. Okay. Yeah, that's a decision that we're going to take, everybody.

We can go through the book, but I just want to say how I feel about it. I want to make sure our residents have relief. We still have the highest. We've reduced it, but... We can, I see you looking, I get it.

Okay. I don't think it's a good idea right now because we have to be waiting for, you know, what are we going to have for the next 28, in the 28 or whatever. Yeah, let's thinking about it, you know, to do the best that we can for the economy or the budget for the city. And plus, we have to go and look for other resources, okay, to get in revenue for the city.

out of the boyar that we have Madam Manager I was a little late for the party so we going department by department we just started and what he's doing now is doing an overview and then we'll go into the department how much longer on the overview before we can start the department we can start when you're ready if you want okay yes I was thinking the same thing let's talk about the department because the overview is yeah We can start with whoever you want to start with. I think the first on the list is City Commission. City Commission. Who's presenting that? What's that? 33? Page 19. No, no, no

Okay. Yeah, that's in case it is now pass. Yeah, we are we putting back like that we reduce the $2 million. Yeah.

No, it looks like majority of everything has stayed the same outside of the travel.

Oh, no, travel is the same. Travel is the same. Yes. Everything stayed the same.

It's the same. No, he said everything is the same. The only thing that he increased was the salaries for the commission. And just in case it passes, if it doesn't, then it goes back to wherever the commission says. Outside of that. The only other question.

Okay. Um. By curiosity, I want to ask you that question. Um. Days ago, we'd be talking about the 7200 dollars that we have to add it to the commissioner. Okay. Do you including that by casualty in the 27 budget?

Yeah, I remember the $7,200 and then, you know, like we want to add it to, I think that's for the commissioners. No, that was for a budget amendment. It's two different things.

It's not, you're not adding anything for? No.

Yeah, I understand. Yeah, we do that because we say that we need it for ending the 26th budget year. Yeah, but what about 27? 27, we're leaving it as is at $1,500. Yeah, and we don't make any decision about that. Okay.

thank you all right so it looks like everything when i see the footnotes are the same as far as the travel um office expenses membership fees and and everything like that and the monthly allowance so we can move on to the next item which is the city manager

And are we doing a lump sum payment or are we going to do it over a monthly payment? Monthly. Monthly, okay.

So so what was the regular that we needed? if we haven't gone that far as a million. It doesn't have to be exact, just roughly.

But you just said a million dollars. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

I remember everything that we're talking in that meeting that we have for us. And we've been talking about, you know, energy. Yes. Okay. A lot of expenses that we have in the cost to mobilize, you know, all the vehicles that we have for, you know, Police Department published work. I know that. What is the amount of gasoline that we are spending here a year for that number? Do you have that number here? We're not there yet. We're not. Oh, okay. We're not. Okay. That's in the equation.

Okay. And that's a slight increase over 2026 of $206,000. Wow. Okay.

Okay. The electricity. Well, all right. Let's see if we can go to solar energy to reduce us amount of money in the future. Okay.

Any other questions on the manager? I'm sorry. Non-departmental. All right. We can move on to the city clerk.

DOES IT STILL INCLUDE THREE AIDES TO THE COMMISSION?

And what do you see as why. That is a very and then be when you bring that.

Any other questions? Yes. Commissioner Santiago.

Let me be sure something that I see here in office supplies. This year, what we amended is stay the same team. 4,700. And now in 27, we're going to have 9,500. Yeah. Okay. You're asking about that.

You see, Mr. Mayor, you know, sometimes you have to ask him. Because it's something here that is not normally. Okay, from 47, now we have to 9,500. We're talking about close to $5,000 more. Okay, in that budget. And she explained it to us. It's not only for the city clerk's office. It's people that we use in things that we're not supposed to use. Let's be clear. Let's be very clear.

Thank you, Madam Clerk. Well, what I want to be sure, Mr. Mayor, okay, if we are supporting that item is the paper, yes, that we need. What the commissioner and the mayor need some paper for, okay, for events that we do yearly, the events, okay, some workshop that we make, something like that. But I don't want anything to be used for any personal items, okay, that we have. And I don't know if you're unclear or you don't understand where did I come from. But the only way that I be with this, $9,500 approved, is if they're going to be using it the right way. The right way. And the commissioner a

Got it. All right. Thank you, Madam Clerk, for the detailed explanation. Do we have any other questions or concerns for the clerk's budget? Hearing none, we can move on to the city attorney's budget.

Got it. Any questions to the city attorneys? Okay, moving on to human resources.

I mean, we redo the cost for that department when we hide in the in-house position.

Yes. Okay. I think the cost of, you know, money for us, you know, now we have inside. Yes. Okay. The cost now for getting inside is less, no? Than what we paid before?

Okay. I'm not complaining about that because I think that I see the department in the last six months working very, very, very perfect. Okay. That's my point of view. I'm not complaining. I'm only asking questions. But the department is running the right way.

I just got one question. You can give me the 30 second response. I see helping hands. What is that? I'm sure it's a recognition for employees because that's what it's listed under. I just want to know the words.

On the detail sheet. Page 58. It's an employee recognition. I'm not against it. I'm sure that's for the employees.

Mr. Mayor, just, okay. I'm looking at where it says other professional services and there's no dollar amount. We're not, what is, explain it to me.

All right. Any other questions for HR? All right. Moving on to finance.

All right. The only question that I do have about the finance department, we answered both of them, which is Markham and Caballero. But in case the, what's the thing we're doing now? The efficiency audit. Efficiency audit is not completed by October 1. Are we prepared to take on an additional cost? I don't want to say reflect it. Or do we anticipate them to be done? You anticipate to be done prior to October 1? Okay. All right. Got it. That's my only question. I didn't see it reflected, but thank you.

All right, we can move on to community development.

Yeah, I see that there was a mandate. We moved that under social services.

Their budget reduced. And the historical grant, we moved that to social services too? That's done? That's completed? Okay. Okay.

question. Community Development, that's the other part of the Mr. Gates running? Yeah. How many employment that we have there? Five?

You have a director, the secretary, economic development, city planner, and a zoning official.

And that's enough employment for that department to make that department, you know, running and be more efficiency with all the projects that we have in the city to creating more revenue, like, you know, impact fee. I think that's, you know, his department and all that, because I know there's a lot of, you know, Well, comments, you know, around that we take so long, you know, to do things out there.

It's filled now. He needs to fill it out. It's filled. It's filled. Yes. Does that mean they're going to make that department better in the future? More efficient? Okay. If it does, it's okay. No, it's fine. What I say is it's going to make that department to be better. They should run more efficient. More efficient, yes. Yes, okay. They're good, but I say more efficient to try to, because I know they generated a lot of revenue if they had the power to go through with the plans that they have. Okay. No more questions.

My favorite one is next. Housing and social services.

So the grants that we're rolling out this year will be the same. So it's the The residence assistance and the HOPE fund. Yes, sir. Those are the only two. Correct. And what about the business facade that's coming up on the island?

Because it was removed from Mr. Gay's budget.

Oh, it funded these two grants. Correct. But what about the business community? We don't have something for them.

I would say not right now for that because like you said, we don't know where this is going. So I guess we can revisit that later.

um residents and business owners through other entities and we can we can definitely look at that too which is good because we're doing other professional services so contracting with another agency to help um you know with that process the chamber the small business you know the people the bank that we the credit union yeah yeah he has been working with those other entities yes okay that's I'm happy. You happy?

I love that. She said don't touch her budget.

Well, I don't know where the question is coming from. Go ahead. Yeah, present him first.

Oh, man, I am, but when I ask you a question, what, why. The other part, I mean, you to make it for, why not to for the. No, I only ask you for the inspector. So.

Thank you. Let me find out. Okay. Are you asking you why? Okay. You're talking about the need for the inspector that we have. Okay. But I know that we have some outside inspectors. Outside that we, that we are hiding the encounter that for another city.

What happened with all this vehicle that we have before, even they. Auto service, they are more there because I see PublixWork fill a lot of vehicles. They are parking all the time. What are we going to do with that? We can fix it. We can put it in service again.

And when we purchase any vehicle for any major dealer, they don't come in with a warranty, you know, to fix anything? No, they come with a warranty. Yes. They come with a warranty. Yes.

Yeah, I know. Well, yeah. Hey, when we purchase, you know, cars for the police department, for public work, okay, any dealers and any company, they know that they're going to be using for a public service in the city. I mean, they're going to have miles. They're going to have, and by the future, whatever purchases that we do, less thinking about to get some kind of a warranty that they added miles, okay, because we use it for work, you know, for the public. But that's in the future. Okay, right now, okay, whatever we have there, I don't know what they're going to do, but they don't do anything

Yeah, thank you. And another big question that I have for that department for building a license. And I've been talking to Mr. Gay about that before. And Mr. Gay said, no, the one that's in charge is Maryland. We have a new law in the state that's affecting us a lot. Okay, with the $7,500,000 work, that anybody for the residential, we're talking about residential, I don't think that applies to any business, but residential, that's going to affect a lot that department. Okay, if they don't need to come here and get a permit.

Yeah. I mean, we have to be, you know, careful with that to see if we can, you know, keep on going. And if that love is not affecting, yes, hey, let's try to get any revenue that we can get before that thing hit to everybody and we lose money.

Okay. Yeah, we have to be sure that we can move out of that department the quickest we can. Thank you. No more questions.

All right. Favorite department, the police department. Yeah, that's a good one. Chief looking like, don't come over here.

11 new vehicles in the police. In this year or the next one?

Okay, so I only have two, one statement, one question. Madam Manager, to Commissioner Irvin's point, I think maybe we need to... The police body cams and radios, let that be one of our appropriation requests. Because we know that Tallahassee has an appetite for police departments. And usually when we put that through, it comes through.

Keep it here because you said it's $150 over the next five years. $150,000, yeah. Yeah, so I'm just saying keep it here, but just...

OK, that's necessary to have that money officer.

Now, what I was looking for, Madam Manager, is my education grant scholarships for police officers. We took that out. We graduated three officers in this. The academy. The academy. That's the FBI academy. Okay. Is it employee recognition?

It's not here, unless I'm missing it, but I don't see it.

So I guess my next question, are we fully staffed with the police department?

Because the purpose of that piece was to fill, to help fill the vacancy.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We wasn't getting people to work.

Got it. All right. All right. So we just want one short. All right.

No, I had to wait for the green light from you. Okay. I know that you say before, yes, wait for a week, come to Polish work. Okay. To talking about something, but that's regarded to our police department. What I see for the next fiscal year, okay, for me it's not too much what they're going to need in comparison for last year. Because the police department, one of the departments that we had, they worked 24 hours. All day in the road, seven days a week, 365 days. Service the public, made the city safe. But we can get, you know, some way to, you know, to reduce the spencer in that police depart

Only one? Yes. Only one. Okay. Yeah, I'm going to have some questions with you and the police chief, okay, between me, you, and the police chief about the department, okay? Now, when we get to police work, I know, and I'm asking for that number, and I don't have that number yet with me, okay? And I need to know what is the experience that we have in the police units, not police work, the police units, okay? Okay. That's police unit. They be using it to go home, okay, to do what we call in... The extra hours, what we call it?

Off-duty, okay? They use the police cars, let's be honest. And I like to bring a point. Okay, when I have the number for the gas that we are spending in that car, repairs, it's not only the gas, the repair, the maintenance and everything for these units, okay? I noticed something when I asked a question to the chief. OK, chief, I see something, you know, very unusual every day. OK, when I see, you know, cars for your police department parking. OK, in the lunch break. Any break that they take in the car, they own. They out of the car eating, but the car is they own outside on. Why the police do

Yeah. I don't know why, but I see that all the time. And I say, what are the countries doing? Let me tell you what happened with this. We put in a lot of hours in that engine, okay, doing anything. That's one. And we're ruining the car because the car is standing and on, on the AC, on everything. That's something that I see, and I see it a lot of times all over the city.

Good. But how is it too long to make something work properly? Because that's inside of the city, inside of your department. They have to come through us.

When the chief say the policies, the manager, okay, my question is, okay, they prepared a team with the city attorney for what? You know, that's between you. That team had to come to us, to the commissioner?

My question again is, OK, that's going to be bringing to the commissioner chamber. No, it doesn't have to go to the commission, but we need legal to review. That's between inside, okay, nothing to do with us. That's my question. If it's necessary to bring a resolution about that, I bring it. But what I say, that's what I see, and that costs a lot of money to your department.

Good. Now, another thing is, okay, why we had to let people take the car home. Because I see cars sometimes all the way down, you know, fall out of there or whatever, you know, and I say, what are they doing here?

Yeah, because if we calculated, I believe my manager, all that thing that we're doing right now, out of the order that we need to do, it costs a lot of money to the city. A lot of money. Probably we're going to save a lot of money for that department if we do that thing right. I love the police department, but any department here has to go by the rules. Especially now that a lot of things are going to be cut. And I don't want that, you know, affecting our police department. It's going to be so unaffecting. And we have to be prepared for it. Thank you.

Let me say that. This is not what we're talking about before. Okay, if they are working and they are in an emergency, in an accident, whatever, and they have to be there under the investigation of what's going on, and they have their lights on, it's fine to have the car on because they're working. But what I'm talking about is I saw cars, the people, they're sitting, eating an hour, eating, okay, and the car is on outside, okay? That's not an emergency. This is nothing to do, okay? They use the car to be sitting, you know, 24 hours in the 24-hour club. That's what we're calling up there. Okay,

Emergency, that's emergency, Chief. Work is work. But when they're not working, they're eating, they have an hour. That's you giving an hour lunch?

Okay. Thank you. All right. Madam Manager, Chief, don't leave. really quick so i would like we know that open locker is a logistical hub and i talked about the commercial unit so i don't see that reflected in the budget and the other thing i'm gonna give you all of it at one time um we talk about we need to bring in more um funding the pal program is a non-profit that most police department has as their non-profit arm that's not reflected in the budget So that's another easy low-hanging fruit grab, but we should start that up. And another one, forfeitures and seizures. It's not here. Forfeitur

Okay, so I guess Madam Attorney and Madam Manager, can we work to bring that forward? Because we've been talking about PAL program for like over a year now.

Madam Chief. Okay. That's a good point. Okay. The area that you need to, you know, to make that, you know, work. Do you be thinking about that area and 135th Street? Because that's the mobile places that we have, you know, heavy duty truck pass by and all the way. And we're spending a lot of money in that beautiful road that we have there in Cairo Lane and 135th and 127th. And I love to see that be in place as soon as we can because we don't want to lose that road again. And now, listen to me. I'm sorry, Mr. Mayor. I know this is coming up. Also, are we going to have revenue soon for the parki

Where is that funding going to the general fund to help any department?

Mr. Mayor, I have a quick question. Do we have the equipment necessary for the heavy trucks?

What that looks like, the budget for that? If you can, if not, it's okay.

Okay, I respect that. And another question would be, do you think we will be able to bring in enough revenue to cover it?

Okay, because... I agree with everything you just said as it relates to the revenue, bringing in the revenue. So my thoughts will be maybe later on that we, I don't care if it's a loan or credit or whatever, to be able to get that equipment once it could pay for itself, plus having a profit.

Thank you. The last one is the forfeitures and seizures. I've been asking about that for forever, too, because it bothers me that the county comes in, assists us with a bus. We'll go with a bus. And then what we collect, they take. But it happened in Opa-locka.

Wait, one second. She asked first. Yeah, yeah, no problem. So go ahead. I just have to go.

Yeah, let's close it out. Okay, Madam Manager, in the future, we're going to be together, okay, to discuss about the projects for the chief of police, for waiting for the trucks. Okay, that's going to come on a very good idea. They probably, you know, we don't have to go and get a lot of money, you know, to be paying and all that. But we're going to come with something great, okay, for the city to create revenue free, okay, to us. Now, we don't have to, you know, probably, you know, pay for it. Okay, but we're going to come in with that. Okay, that's one of the things. And for now, yeah, we're

All right, moving on, close, moving on to the next department, which is in recreation. Oh, it's called Comply.

Oh, oh, oh, we're not there. Oh, yeah. Sorry. That's a very rich department.

I'm sorry, just so I understood correctly, you said parks, radios to be in communication with the police department. Oh, because I thought it was the same radio.

All right. Okay. All right. Cool. My mistake. We're not there yet.

All right. So body cams and and coder and radios. Yes.

But that's including in the cost before that we're talking about the police department. Okay.

Anything else you want to highlight or any other major changes?

Got it. Okay. So then I guess my last question for Cole, you said the positions are staying the same. Are we fully, we're fully? Just fully staffed.

And that is inclusive of the borrowed CRA officer? Yes. Okay. All right. I'm good. All right. We can move on to the next one, which is Parks and Rec. We have another budget hearing, right?

We late. Can we just put it, even if we have to cancel, at least it would be there?

That's not what I was asking. I was asking because you have here the events and I know there's going to be a long drawn out conversation. So I wanted to make sure that we don't, you know, cause I know it has to go before August, but I just wanted to make sure that we don't as a commission belabor this time on this. Cause we have a tendency to do that.

That's what I'm asking. So go through it and then we'll skim through it real quick because we got a lot to get through.

Are we fully staffed with parks now? Or we still have vacancies? I think they have one or two vacancies. And the part-time? Yes. Oh, lifeguards. Oh, the two lifeguards. Okay. All right, the two lifeguards. All right, and then I see that, okay, the summer is the same, so nothing else has changed. All right, so the part that we like real quick, which is the events. We left that the same. We didn't change it. Everything is the same.

We finished with the swimming pool already?

No, he said they put money into going forward that we are doing maintenance on the swimming pool. Right now, yes. But this is for next year. But he's asking, what about the swimming pool now?

Madam manager, okay, yeah, I heard your concern, okay, about it. But my concern is why we have to begging that company to go in and maintenance output in the park.

We're not begging the company. It's the inspector.

Department of Health. Department of Health. Oh, okay, but that's not a company that they are, okay. That's the department, okay.

Yeah, I hope that don't happen in the future again.

All right. So looking at all of the events, you said everything is the same. The only thing, Madam Manager, we talked about moving money for the businesses. You have the $284,000 for the Arabian Nights and Citi's birthday. So staff put everything the same, but we would like for you all to go through it. There's no challenge. I was going to say, can we reduce that? No, no, no. That's what I'm asking.

Okay, so we went big because it was the 100. I know we want to continue the Arabian Nights Festival, but without the donations, where did we land today?

We would have went over. Yeah. So did we do the $250,000 or we went a little under? We spent the entire budget. We spent the entire budget. So can we remove the $20,000? No, sorry. That's not $20,000. That's $30,000. And just make it the $250,000? So that'll give you $30,000 right there. I knew you was going to make us do this. That's why... I think our biggest expense, well, bingo is a 22, but, you know, we can't. What is this, 4th of July? Did we, 4th of July? Did we use everything?

Alright. Question. I don't see where you can cut other than an Arabian Nights and 50th birthday. the toy drive six down to lighten someone in one. Easter 25 Juneteenth. Labor Day.

The gun buyback, we didn't do this here. So, and normally that's through the police department, but I asked it to be an event. Actually, we haven't done it in two, three years, three years. So I guess we can move that. Also the mayor's business luncheon or next, the new one wants to do it. So that right there is 2,500. You also have the 5K run bike. walk unless urban is going to take it or okay we can leave that then you have so that right there my manager you have um so far 30 to 500. uh anything else that you you you you pay you make the payment so any other events that you think we can actu

If I may, Madam Manager, please be frank with us.

And I think we talked last year this time about including that number within the the proposed budget for EVAN.

May I ask you a question before we continue to asking to the manager? To the finance department, Madam Manager. Oh, I see. For the fiscal year 2027, we budgeted money again for Arabia 9. That's what we were talking about before? Correct. It's me. I see Arabian Nights is going to have a game. Christmas, at every night, we're going to have $280,000 again.

Good. Okay, that's my question. I know that we already passed through that, Mr. Mayor. But let me say that, okay. I believe that the amount of money that we use this year is because we have the anniversary of the city of 100 years to celebrate it together.

I don't think that we need that type of money for the next year to celebrate that again. We have to go down and reduce that amount because what we can use is try to do it with private entities that they want to come and cooperate with us and celebrate something for the whole community, for everybody. My recommendation, $280,000 again for that type of event at Evian Night, not good. I want to reduce it to $50,000.

Oh, yes. Let's get it. Let me tell you something. I believe by January 1st, 2027, That event right there is not in the list for the event, okay, that the federal governor or the state government, they want to all celebrating. Like, Mayor, like, 4th of July is an event that is going to be covered. Yeah, because 4th of July, that's a national day. Okay, but Arabian night is not a national day. I'm very sorry for that. It's not a national day.

Okay, Madam Manager, I hear you, Commissioner Santiago.

Mr. Mayor... Right now we are in a position that we need money for other problems that we have in the city. I think that we spent a lot of money in that week out here. And the next celebration, you know, for the Arabian night or the 101 years for the city, okay, we're supposed to, you know, reduce it and celebrating locally here in the city. I'm not happy to bring another festival like that for $180,000. No way. Commissioner Irvin?

The problem that we had, even when we were begging because we were last minute, and even now, most people are doing their budgets. So if we're going to seek donations, it would have to be now. We should be sending out letters, which we've tried to start already. sending out letters to everybody to say, put us in your budget, because everybody's doing this process. But the problem, we're a little behind the eight ball, which is why I say that we're going to cut just the $30,000, which was for the birthday part of it, take that back. But the $250,000, I think, should remain. And like Commissione

That's what we were doing before you went back to it. We started off with $30,000, then we found $2,500, and we were going through it.

Mr. Mayor and my colleagues, let me ask you, Madam Manager, what kind of benefits or profits do we do in the last pass of celebration or... Arabian night. Yeah. What positive we have that we receive that donation that we're talking about? You don't know the number exactly? $55,000. Okay. Is that me? What kind of help is that for the city? Because even you reduce $55,000, okay, that we receive, we are still spending like $230,000 in that night. He's not helping us.

Commissioner Santiago, I think we all understand what you're saying, but Arabian Nights is our culture. We wanted it back.

Arabian Nights is your culture? No, it's not your culture. It's a culture for everybody here in the great city of Guadalajara. Let me tell you this, okay? If we're going to talk about, you know, culturally, I believe culturally is the month that we're celebrating that is being approved for the federal government, okay, the Afro-American month, okay? The Black History Month. Okay, that's one. Okay. Arabian night is something that we do here in Opalaca.

Yes, the city's culture. Okay. We celebrate the city's history.

But we can't celebrate it, you know, when that cost is too much money, sir. And let me tell you loud and clear. Okay. I really know that this year we're going to have changes, okay? I don't know what kind of changes, but we're going to have changes here in this chamber. And that's going to be the responsibility for whoever take over, okay, that seat there that you're sitting right now, okay? And it's going to be in the... And the charter of that person, okay, all the expenses that we're going to have next year. Okay, that's your responsibility.

No, I don't respond to messiness and pettiness, but I will say this. I'm still the mayor now. I know. So, yeah, there will be changes, but we have a fiduciary responsibility right now to pass a balanced budget. I know. So that's what we're doing now. So we're not talking about what's going to happen, the changes that are coming down the pipe, but we're here now. So if you have a suggestion, you have a suggestion to decrease it, we've heard it. We've heard it, and we're listening to it.

Okay. All right, Fifi. That's the way that you say it. I only tried to tell you what is the reality of that. $280,000 is too much money.

We heard you loud and clear. We all agree. Hence why we're trying to figure out how can we remove some of this money.

Okay. Thank you, sir. I'm sorry, Fifi. That's it.

Mr. Mayor? Ma'am, sorry. I didn't do it, ma'am.

I mean, Madam Clerk, how much do you normally use?

We have funding to the side there. We have it. So the mayor's business luncheon is $1,000. The buyback program is $1,500. So that right there is $2,500. You think that's good enough for us right now?

Okay, so you also was asking for a recommendation as it relates to the events. So whatever you decide, Madam Manager, I think the budget, I like what Commissioner Irvin said, I'd rather have it and don't need it than need to don't have it. But I would not mind you taking the $30,000 away and just making it like it was before for the last two years, the $250,000. And then that'll free that up.

That's what I was saying. Take away the city's birthday celebration. I mean, the $30,000, just take it away.

Yeah, that's why I said take the $30,000 and we can do something else.

Like a one-day event instead of a weekend.

Yeah. Question madam. In the maintenance that we have in police work. that we don't have a professional electric person certified for the city? How are we fixing the problem that we have in all the buildings that we have?

The FPNL issue, whatever they do there, it's affecting our building. It's only burned the swimming pool system. What about the rest of the building? It's not affecting because of that? No, it did not affect it.

All right. Mr. Mayor, I just have a quick question since we're still in parks and I know my colleagues probably not will not agree with this, but I'm just wondering why is it that we're paying for uniforms for so many activities? And does any of the cost go towards the parents?

and mr griffin yeah i'm just curious because my grandson pays and we play he plays but we paid so i just want to know i'm not saying not to help our community but i wanted to know if this is partial or we're taking on the whole brunt of um uniforms and because everything look as if the city's paying for it so i just want to know i understand your question um

to the stalker uniform cheerleaders uniforms um basketball uniforms i i just think that we're taking on a bit much again i'm not saying not to help but i'm thinking we can pull from this i mean if they can't afford the whole practice uniform if we do half yeah but i think this is a bit much because if you really want something you'll work for it and you'll get it because

Yeah, but we can't- No, no, no, no, no. We got to raise the bar.

I understand that. And thank you for the clarification, because I assume that, you know, we purchase and we just give it out. Oh, no, ma'am. We purchase and we keep.

But it's budgeted. If the partner pays it, okay, where does the money go after the partner pays that? Back to Parking Recreation or to the general fund? No, they just said that there's two sets. And now the new one for the 27 is going to be $1,605,649. That's the cost that we have every year to run in Parking Recreation, Madam Manager? Yes.

That's the money that we're spending in parking recreation. That's not only Chabandi. We're talking about Helen Miller, Ingram Park. What about the Butterfly Park? That's part of us? What are you talking about?

Uh-huh. No, I don't know. That's another part of the city parks. And I have a lot of complaints about that little part. Okay. It's only a question. What are they talking about? What are we spending in parking recreation every year? And salary and everything is $1,605,000 we're going to have.

Yeah. Yeah. And that million something dollars is including the $280,000.

I see we have like $1,000 here for golf cart repair.

Okay, so we're moving on. Vacation. Vacation.

Got it. And Madam Manager, I know that we had a... And we can move on. Just a quick question about the... Oh, God. He said the... What was the first thing he said? Landscaping. We had an issue with the dumping. What was it? The pickup of excess... Oh, God. What did people do to the alleys? Oh, yes. In their agreement, yes.

But I'm saying, is this budget inclusive of that number? Because I'm...

Okay, that's my only question. Any other questions about building and maintenance? Yes. Beautification, I'm sorry.

Yeah, we're in the beautification. And budget, very important because the city have to maintain, you know, clean all over the realm as a manager. And he touched something about the alleyways. Okay, about the alleyway. What are we talking about there? You know, the maintenance and the alleyway.

Very good point. Where is all that items coming from when they found what you're talking about, you know, furniture that they're throwing from where? It's illegal dumping. And what are they finding in the middle of the alley? Yes. In the middle of the alley? Yes.

Well, I believe if they are in the middle of the alley, somebody had to, you know, see a co-enforcement, you know, like probably they coming from the back yard for somebody out there that they throwing out. Let's go after them because the other day we sighting somebody, okay, that he has some kind of boxers. in his front of the garage, that it match with the same boxes that the other guy have across the street. Yes or no, co-enforcement lady? Yeah, and we found out what is the situation is. With this type of problem that we have in the alley, if I found anything behind my house, it have to com

In the alley, yeah, but that had to come from that. And what are we going to do about it? Public Works is going to take care of that?

How are we going to know that they say the truth? Are we going to have proof that they pick it out or whatever?

And it's not there anymore. Hey, not there anymore.

That's a good one. That's a good one. Let's be careful with that. And Who do the medias?

The same contractor. But what is that median? It's only, I think that's a portion of 27th Avenue?

Yes, sir. Okay. Okay. Under that contract, Madam Manager, I want to see, oh, really, you know, the maintenance doing right for that two rows in the city because that's one of the main interests that we have. And I see Mr. Ong, okay, like, I don't know, but I don't see it as good maintenance and clean out these two areas. And I need to see more action out there. What about Shadassar?

Okay. Yeah, that's part of the beautification of the city. I'm going to be on top of that. Especially in Charizard that I see all this apartment now abandoned. Do you see that? Yeah, it's bad. It looks very bad, that area right there. Yeah, we'll pick it up too. Yeah, let's pick it up and let's sign it and let's get, you know, see whatever we have to do to collect some revenue for them.

Any other questions about that part? Moving on to public works.

Can you repeat that again, please? Oh, when you permit. Go ahead, sir. Thank you. We have removed $115,000. We will remove $150,000, mean less. They're going to have less budget? Yes.

And why we, why we reduce that or what we're taking from there?

Okay. Um, well, we in public work, I think it's a lot of things to, you know, to review. Okay. Um, regarding about the water storm, no, that's the water that we had to push out from the sewer, um, by the manager, um, that we have published work to, um,

Thank you, Mr. Austin. I'm sorry, Madam Manager. Madam Manager, I can ask a question free. Okay. Tell me a little bit about all over around the city. And what I see, okay, when all the pump stations that we have, that's part of this program for the water storm.

Okay. Madam Manager, something that I see the other day, okay, in one of the areas that we have by the west side of Lejeune Avenue, I see there we still have some project going on, incredible, for so many years. And they told me that they already finished with that. But I see something that I don't understand. How can we still have there two pumps that we're renting? And that's part of your budget for Polish work. Two pumps that we're renting out there and they told me that that costs like $35,000 a month.

I don't know if that's 16, but it's behind Romo. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry. It's nothing to do with Mr. They told me that's probably work.

That's probably, yeah, it's like in a little... Yeah, it's in the corner of 43rd and 133rd. Now that you're there, you know, I believe that's, you know, part of the published works items. But let me say that, okay, when they're going to finish that project?

Okay, the reconstruction. Yeah, okay, thank you, Adelina. Madam Manny, I want to leave that, you know, out of the conversation right now because I think that we're going to have a conversation regarding about that, okay, between me and you because I have some kind of information, okay, coming from the people out there and from the company that I prefer to discuss with you. Okay, thank you, Adelina. Thank you. Thank you. Let's continue with published work, okay? I'm sorry, Mr. Austin. I believe that's your project, okay? But it's not. um no we're gonna keep you know going because now it's going

Yes. Like... I asked him for that number before, and they said to me, just wait when we came to this part for public work. Okay, I'd like to know, okay, what is the expenses that we have in maintenance for all the equipment that we have in public work? That's including the police cars that the officers use every day.

And that's including also, you know, some cut for the police department. Okay. You want to wait when we get there? Yes.

that's for the street lights citywide okay yeah i heard about that before the expansion that we have but do we receive any uh uh what are we calling by the manager uh franchise from fpnl yes we do and that franchise that we receive is not covered all that amount of money in the

Remember something? The F. P. And now they they're giving the power to the whole city residential and commercial that we don't receive anything for that for them for the state or whatever.

$1.5 million. Okay. And that's not covered up on that money that we receive for them, you know, to discount the electricity or power that we use in the city and buildings. And you told me that we had to pay for the light, the street light. Yes.

for that department. For all, everybody, the whole city, okay? Well, that's something to thinking in the future to see how can we reduce, you know, the cost or the power that we use in the city. And I think we'll be talking about one of these day to come in when I plans to only make the city operating four days a week. One day a week, we're going to be saving a lot of money in costs to operation in the city.

Well, yeah. Commissioner question is we're talking about side sidewalks. Your department repair the sidewalk. Because I think Adelina had a problem when the Grimes before, no? Does public work?

How are we doing in the personnel in Polish? Do we have enough people to do the work that we really need in the city?

Yeah, that's good to know. You still have more vacancies. a position there for work, for workers, you know, to publish work. I hope we can fill it out because that's, okay, part of the system that is going to help the city to look better as a manager. Therefore, we have the right personnel there in that department. Publish work for me is an important department because it's the maintenance of the city everywhere. Street, road, sidewalks, bomb stations, stormwater. Thank you, Madam Manager.

Accident repair? Yes, sir. Oh, question. In the type of item, Madam Manager, that we don't have no insurance to cover up all these cars? That we don't have to put it out for now packets?

Yeah. What is that deductible that we have right now?

$1,500. Well, not bad. Not bad, because in my commercial policy that I have for my business, the money that I have to pay for that is $2,500. But it's good. $1,500, I don't think it's bad. But we have a policy that covers repairs, accident repairs in automobiles.

Yeah, they cover that also, you know, like total loss. Total loss in our vehicles? Yes, sir. Okay, that's good to know. Okay, that's not a problem with that. Okay, let's keep on going down to maintenance. Okay, did I ask you what is the money that we added to the new budget coming up in 27? Because what I see here in this year, we are spending... 815 and for the next year it's going to be 826 no well close to 20 to yeah to 8 probably to 827

All right. Okay. That's okay. Now we're coming with that. Okay. In the vehicle repairs and expenses that we have, you know, gas. Okay. For both departments, for all the departments. Okay. Police department, police work, parking recreation, because parking recreation have cars too, no? No. Assigning for what? What do you mean?

Okay. The vans. That's included in the budget. All city vehicles. What is the amount that we are spending in that, in repairs, maintenance, and gas?

After today. Okay. And how can we redo that cause Mr. Austin, you have any idea in place or

Yeah, Madam Manager, that's what we're talking about, okay, that if we come with something soon, okay, and our police department and your department also, okay, like to not let, okay, that car be used out of the hours that they're using it for public safety or for public work here in the city. That means not take that car home 50, 70, 100 miles from here and left the car on the whole day. When you eating, that's another one. I think that we can reduce that probably half of the cost the police will have.

No. Well, I believe, yes. If we made the rules and we made, you know, to be done, okay, whatever we need to do in it, we're going to save money there. And that repairs tires, everything. Every day.

It's a lot of cars. A lot of cars too, yeah. And how are we doing in the repair? Do we have the personnel, the mechanic that they can fix in the cars? They are AC, you know, transmission, whatever. Why do we have to go out and bring the car out? Why?

External services is out. Yes. Not in. Other contracted services, yes. Contractors, yeah. That's separate of this.

Yeah. It is more comfortable, more easy, less expensive when we're doing it outside than doing it in-house?

Wow. Incredible. Because I see you have a very good shop there. Mechanic shop, probably what you don't have is the people to do in the job.

No. Okay. If we have the certified mechanics that they cost us a salary every week, they're supposed to, you know, take care of the whole fleet. That's what we call it. Okay. In the city, because that's the reason why we have it there. That's the reason why he have there. If we have mechanic, why did I have to send out my car to change oil? Why did I have to send my car out?

Yeah, but what about the rest? I'm talking probably not the part of the, what do we call it, collisions, or body shot repair because we don't have it. Mechanical, that's what I'm talking about. If we have three mechanics, I think that's a lot of mechanics. That's enough mechanics to take care of our cars.

I'm sorry, that would be my question. And I'm thinking they are certified. It's just that we don't have what they need to perform the jobs.

Correct. Well, we have it for it if we don't have the equipment.

I want to be realistic, Commissioner. I want to be realistic. Let's not take it so much, but we can sit down individually with the manager and come up with an idea. But listen to me, Mr. Austin and Madam Manager. I have a lot of experience in what is the industry for cars, repair, and all that, because that's my life. And let me tell you, okay, for chain and transmission, for sure, okay, the only thing that you need is a jack to put it down the transmission, and the jack costs like $500, $800. Okay, that's like an example, okay? Equipment, they're not dispenser. Okay, we have company that they

Well, okay, we're going to make a review of that. Let's leave it there now. But I want to go with my manager, okay, out there with the person that is in charge in the city, and we're going to be talking there, okay, to see what's going on. All right, but I try to reduce whatever expenses that we have in the city because... It's coming years that we more have to know where we're going to get money to keep and pay everybody here in the great city of Palau.

Just quickly, how many, if you don't know the exact number, it's fine. But how many automobiles these three mechanics are servicing on whatever level? It doesn't matter how many.

I'm just curious. I want to know how many cars that we have in our fleet that they are servicing. Servicing, that they're running in the street.

Thank you. And also, my colleague said to the manager, mother manager, we had to see and do an inventory out there for whatever that we don't need no more. We discussed them yes, we're going to do a surplus we're going to be bringing that to the committee, yes, yes, OK, you know I see to see if we can get you know OK. We go home.

Okay. What did we have? Why we don't touch that?

131 and the details on page 130. cip that's the department the uh the leaner running a part of it yes sir okay um my manager um all the projects that we have in that department is in the general fund safe neighborhood right this is under safe neighborhood yes No, I'm talking in general, whatever we do with CIP. CIP, yeah. Because before I know that we work, sometimes we're grand that we receive to do that.

Well, you know, what I see for that department, they do a lot of things around the city and they make a lot of Improvement, right? That project that we have there in 127, I see that great, you know, what happened there. And the last time that you say that we're going to be ending like December, but they finished before. That's something good. I hope that we have the funding to finish whatever we have there. I hope.

Rental. Revenue. Well, we receive that money, the city, for rental. Yes. From the school that we have there for many days. Do we have any rental for the county, for the office that you're using out there?

Long time ago. Yes. Okay, well, that's a good way to get revenue. You know, with the city, we can change it. Why not? Okay, that's one. Keeping going, what are you talking about? You know, that and...

And what are we going to use that money for by the manager?

Okay. Um, Something that I heard from public, my colleague too, okay, is the complaints, okay, for the service that we have in the elevators. Okay, I know that elevator, how old that building is here, like 30 years old? That for 2008, 18 years? Okay, I mean, that's elevator serving for 18 years already. I think it's time for the manager to see if we can do something about it because it's every day they broke down. And, you know, people scared to get stuck. That changing that we have any plan to or in the $150,000 is including that project for the elevator.

But when they're coming in the new fiscal year, can we have any funds for that? Because I think that's something that is very important to do. Oh, Mr. Owen, yes.

Do we already have something in place? Yes.

I prefer Madam Manager, which is coming back, okay, and my colleagues. I prefer, you know, to come with a plan to replace, okay, from brand new elevator, okay, to not keeping, you know, spending money to general repair.

Yeah, yeah, that's very important. You know, that's part of the maintenance, you know, the facility that we have. And I don't know in the future if we can come, I'm the manager too, to make, what are we calling it, a cargo, a service elevator.

Yeah, I understand that. But right now we have the city's moving and have more police coming to the building from before. Before we don't have that traffic that we have today. And that two elevator, we really need it. only for private, you know, using it, not for cargo. Because they put heavy stuff there or whatever, they damage, you know, the capacity of the elevator. That we have, it's not have to be now, but can we come also like when a project to see if we can build in the other side, a cargo elevator, a service elevator. When you move furniture, when you move, you know, things,

OK. Remember that we had a situation when we tried to bring, you know, the metal detector. We have it. Downstairs. Okay.

Yeah, but how we maintain, how we cleaning the... The sewer system. Yes. We're pumping water. Distribution and everything.

Yeah, okay. We're talking about when a pipe is broke in the city, where is the one go there and repair? We don't hide in any company for that, no?

How many divisions we have there for the same place? We have a lot, sir. Is that necessary, Madam Manager, to have all the divisions out there?

And this is including here the repair of the bomb station and everything.

Page 163. Page 163? Yes, sir. Okay. Yeah, I have a couple of questions. Go ahead, sir. The water meters. The water meter. That's a very good point that we have here. Who is in charge, Madam Manager, to installing, you know, the installation and maintaining for the water meter? I want to know if this is us or is the county.

Okay. And who paid for the repair that you do?

That's, my colleague said before, why, you know, we had to give everything, you know, to Dade County. Okay. The responsibility of the water, they collect in the morning. They, you know, they do whatever they want. They sending high bills. They every day is complain. It's not us. Okay. They billing to, you know, to the public. Okay. And we had to go. And when we have any situation. Like one situation that we have a couple of months ago when one of the people, Lazaro, okay, nobody know who is responsible, you know, who break the meter, who going to fix it. Thank the administration of my manager,

Already. And we're keeping, you know, under the rules. And I hope we can get revenue for the rents for the place that they're using here in the building soon. And that repair, we're going to talk about it, Madam Manager, okay? We're not responsible for that. No more questions.

All right, so we're moving on to the next item.

We have the stormwater CIP and we have water and sewer CIP.

We're talking about now the water pumps, huh? The pumps that we repair, the pumps that we have in the city. That's what we'll be talking now? Water and sewer, no?

Okay. Question. Thank you. Madam Manager. I know CRP is another department, you know, separate for public work. but it's the city and everything that we spend is coming from the general fund or whatever fund is that we have. A question to Mr. Austin through the manager, Mr. Austin. Okay. Let me ask you a question. In public work, I see a lot of equipment that you have there, you know, under the big roof. Does the city own any pump for pumping water out or to

This is the similar. Bombs that we have in station 16.

Yeah, a million dollars. Yeah, well. This is funded through ARPAD. If they belong to them, they're not spending the money because that pump, to run in that two pumps that they have there a year, it costs like $840,000 a year. They're doing that even though we're free.

Not only asking because for the future, it's nothing that we can do now because they are there. But in the future, if we have that, you know, equipment or machine that we can use, it's going to save a lot of money to us. A million dollars for me is a lot of money saving.

Okay. What do we have that pump for if we don't need it?

All right. That's what I want to know. Thank you.

Are we going to stormwater? Stormwater operations fund and stormwater CIP, you can just roll right into it. No question.

Okay, any questions on stormwater? All right.

133rd street project is that so the 133rd street project. Yeah, sorry. 131st. Um, is that just for the just for the, the plans right? Or something? Was that the actual start of the project?

So that's going to start this fiscal year.

Okay. The only other question I have, let's refer to Adelina. 147th Street, I thought we were done. We're not.

Okay, so this is from 147 street side or what drains to 27th Avenue?

I guess my next question is off, but Madam Manager, I know that the county is doing road work on 22nd Avenue and they're coming up to Opelika. Have we renewed that MOU that when they dig, we can work? We had one with them before, that when they dig and they're doing work for infrastructure, that the city can also work down there before they cover it back up. Yeah, but I thought we had an MOU, so we don't have one.

So maybe we should push one through. So when they come up that 22nd Avenue corridor, because I remember 27th Avenue, they did it. They did 27th Avenue now, but now they're coming up 22nd. I don't know what's in that area, but if we need to do work, then it's open and less expense. All right, moving on to the next one, which is ARPA.

Okay. And the what we incurred for the interest was that going to the general fund? We're using it for other stuff. As it relates to opera or. Yes, it is an opera. Got it. Okay.

We're moving on to I.T. I.T. And for me, risk management, risk management, we're very diverse.

There's no time for it in my book. It goes, it goes straight to, um, you know, my next step is information, mind and technology, internal services for 196. So you want to go back to 193? Okay.

Okay. I was like, no, that was it. All right. I'll change it in my phone. So the next one is risk management. And it's those, it's the.

Okay. All right. Okay. Our subject matter manager. I know the one meeting that we have in August will be for insurance. What does that look like? Have they gave us numbers yet?

Okay. All right. Any questions on risk management? Yeah. All right.

Got it. Any questions for the IT? All right, moving on. Go ahead, Commissioner.

Shot spotter is still covered through the federal government or we're actually paying for it now?

We're paying for it? All right. We might want to put that in appropriation for the federal government. Thank you.

We have the special law enforcement fund as well as the... The ETF? Yeah.

Okay. No, I figured that much. I was just wondering why it wasn't with the police budget itself.

The manager already knows how I feel about the military. But I hear you.

I think you're right. And whoever made my book, they really don't like me because the last page was all just...

Alright, so the next one is the we talked about the discussion item, which is the military. And your proposal is can't bring it down.

Got you. All right. All right, the next discussion item you wanted to discuss was the special events, which we somewhat did, but we want to... We actually did not go into these special events.

Okay, I guess my question, Madam Manager, because the hour is far spent, what's your recommendation?

The fact that y'all know about her is a problem. She said it, 97. All right. So that would mean the only national holidays would be, we have Christmas, the Fourth of July, Easter, Juneteenth, Labor. Oh, right. That one, two, there's a fourth column? Just those events?

Yeah. Yes, those are. Just those events. Oh, and to include Black history. All right. Well, Commissioner Irvin already said the pool party can go. Well, she's moving that somewhere.

So the Christmas tree lighting. We didn't spend all of that money. We barely did with the Christmas tree lighting because it's somewhere else, isn't it?

We did because it was so late in the year. Okay, so if we get rid of

phone calls with everybody and you provide the recommendation with your staff and say, this is what it is now. And this is what we're recommending.

Well, all my items, which is 5K, you can... The Mayor's Luncheon, the gun buyback... I had the Christmas tree lighting, but we had combined that with... We didn't spend any money for the Christmas tree. Now that I think about it, because we didn't even have food. We gave away cookies or something.

We didn't spend nowhere near it. Um... The Baby Shop belongs to Bass. Chess and Dominoes is Santiago. Carrier Keep belongs to Commissioner Irvin. The Bookbag Giveaway I did.

Yeah, but I had... That's not what I'm saying. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Um...

Yeah, so maybe we can do it different. That's what the city bought. So that's one we can cut because I'm sure we're going to get sponsors.

And then if you, the Arabian nights, if we do 200,000, That'll be 80. You got 80 right there. So from the first column, let's start over.

No, but- We're going to have to work with that. We're actually right on time now. If we get those sponsorship letters out, Ashley, and get it to who we got to go to. Right. I think we're right on time, but we got to get it out like ASAP. So there you go. So right now, if you take away the $80,000, then you have the $1,000 for the book bag giveaway. We'll delete the 5K, the baby shower I'm not touching. Bingo is still here. Chess and dominoes, the gum-bobbing program, we'll eliminate. Karaoke is reduced to $5,000. The mayor's business luncheon, we're eliminating. Down to the toy drive. um yeah

If you don't get rid of them $800... Get out of Nevada, Joe.

What is this? The MLK walk, that's Vice McKellie's. The turkey giveaway is $3,600. We have sponsors this year. We didn't spend that.

But it wasn't $3,600 worth of fixings and if this year we can't do the fixings then we won't do fixings. Remember last year we only did...

We need the money other places. So I'd say they're bringing down to $1,500. $1,500.

1,500. 1,500. And then you got Veterans Day. That's Commissioner Bass. I'm going to touch that. Black History. That's yours. It's whose? Yours. No. It's the Parks. Why is it here? Because it's their budget. This is the Parks. Oh, they're dumb.

No, we had a workshop or something through HR. Yeah, with staff. We did it through HR. Well, I feel like I'll advertise it to the community.

Take it out of commission. Take it out. Because HR can do that. Earth Day.

That's the only thing I'm going to comment on, the Earth Day, because I don't, us buying plants to give them away. I think there's a lot of conservation organizations where we can ask them to donate. And maybe we can work with Dr. Bass on that. But that's the only, because even this year, we were begging people to take the stuff. Haitian Heritage is Vice Mayor's. Halloween, that's the parks and yours. National Day of Prayer, Vice Mayor. Women's History Month, oh, that was mine. But we also, in this year, we did one and then y'all did one. So let's scratch out Women's History because you did on

All right. So, outside of that, I might as well be good because it is 3 o'clock and I haven't had lunch. Shut up. I did not. So... That's why you got to go back to work.

So this is coming to us to pass on Wednesday, but you need two hearings, two readings. Two readings and one reading. Just one for the state. Just one to send it to the state. All right, to the state. So I guess once you figure out what this part looks like, you're going to have individual meetings with everybody that's remaining, and then we can go from there. But I got a lot of money now, so you're welcome. And I'm going to beg to say that Madam Manager, you might be able to cut another 25 from Arabian Nights. And that's going to be squeezing. I know pushing at 175. That's what I said, might.

That's all I have to say. This meeting is adjourned.