Art in Public Places Board - Regular Meeting

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I'm Larry Mele, owner of Pumarola, and we invite all our friends from Miami Eats to try our Neapolitan pizza. Welcome! The idea of Pumarola came because my grandmother used to have a pizza place in Naples, Italy, and she was known as the Signora Pumarola because of her car, which resemble a tomato. After many years, we're like, you know what? Why not open a pizzeria and call it Pumarola in honor of my grandmother? So me and my brothers we decided to open it and now in 2025 we have nine locations with two under construction. We want pizza to be Neapolitan style pizza which is very different from any other style and to be enjoyed by everyone. We try to give high quality with the most affordable price. To have a great pizza, we start from the equipment that you use. So we use a wood fire brick oven imported from Naples, Italy. We have a volcanic stone that reaches very high temperature, 900 degrees. So the mouth of the oven, it's very small, so all the heat stays inside. Mixer, also special from Naples, the spiral. And the ingredient needs to be of very high quality. And then the employees. On top of pizza, we want to offer what a classic Italian restaurant offers as well, pasta, but we want to do it in a different way. So for pasta, we use a high-quality product, but I can cook fast as well because, you know, people are always rushing and going out. In the kitchen, we're known for the eggplant parmigiana. It's the best thing you can have, you know, flash-fried eggplant, tomato sauce, mozzarella layers, fresh basil on top. Fantastico, buonissima. Pizza classes started in 2014 in our Carl Goebbels location. Loris, my brother, decides, hey, let's try to teach people how to make pizza so they can do it at their home. We just put something together for fun with some friends, and they start to make the dough. And so we're like, OK, now the dough needs to wait one day to be ready. So let's teach them how to cook it in a home oven. And we did that. I said, OK, what do they do now? Well, let's give them one of our dough. Let's teach how to stretch it and put ingredients. And today, it's just impressive how many pizza classes we do. This location in Midtown, we appreciate day one. You know, we do many events. We provide food to schools, elementary schools in downtown. So we try to be involved as much as we can, because that's what we are, right? It's all about, you know, be happy and be involved. with the community that we are, with the neighbors. As long as we can run each single location in a proper way and making customers happy, we'll keep opening, but slowly, a couple per year, so we can grow and everyone is happy and we'll keep our promise to our customers.

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We're celebrating that we're going to have a new dog park, so we're very excited for it since all the neighbors, they have little dogs, so it's exciting for us.

I live two blocks down, and I have these little ones, and they don't have any place to go, so I have to walk all the way to Coconut Grove on the other side to go to the park.

Very excited. It's just so amazing to be in Silver Bluff knowing that in a few months, residents and their pets will be able to enjoy a beautiful city of Miami dog park. Parks are so important. They are not only green spaces, they are gathering spaces where neighbors meet each other, understand what it means to live in community, and yeah, play with their pets.

We're on 22nd Avenue and Southwest 26th Street. We're here at the groundbreaking for the long awaited Silver Bluff Dog Park. There are tons of dog owners in the area. They've been asking for this for a really long time. And what this does is it gives them a place to take their doggies, but it also gives them a place to make new friends and meet their neighbors.

The whole area is about 5,000 square feet, plenty of trees, lighting. The ground cover is going to be artificial turf, which is going to be irrigated, toys for the dogs to play with, benches for the owners to be able to sit down, drinking fountains for the owners and for the pets as well. When we are able to start a project and get it straight into construction, for us, it's a celebration.

Today we are at our spring reactivation here at Lemon City for Ready, Set, Grow. We will be replenishing our garden beds with fresh pollinators, herbs, fruits and vegetables. And at the end of the season, we harvest everything and the parents and the families get to take home. But the most important part is that they get to experience their garden within their community and learn a thing or two about it. Events like this are important because it brings our community together. It also demonstrates to the younger generation how important it is to build and grow on sustainable initiatives just like Ready, Set, Grow.

This is a program of the City of Miami. These services are specifically for the individuals that live in this neighborhood, in this community. Not only are we offering high quality childcare services, this offers the opportunity to provide nutrition information, nutrition education, and just bring the parents and the children together to do an activity outside and enjoy nature.

So this project right here where we're standing, this is Northwest 4th Street between 30th and 32nd Avenue. So this project incorporated almost 1,000 feet of new drainage. So this area was prone to flooding and small rain events and what have you. We also added 27 new drainage structures. So we've got drainage structures all over the place spread out to be able to collect that water when it rains.

So we're really excited to be in the Citrus Grove neighborhood today. We've done a series of improvements. We've repaved the roads. We've added traffic calming in the form of speed humps. Wanted to make it safer for everybody around here. We fixed the sidewalks. We added ADA ramps. This place looks incredible. All these things really add up. And what they add up to is improving everybody's quality of life in the area.

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A pothole is basically formed from sitting water. Wherever the water may sit, it will make a pothole. It will deteriorate the asphalt. Today we will be showing you how to repair. We're gonna cut it out. We're gonna go ahead and remove the old asphalt and we're gonna replace it with new asphalt. We're going to cut out around the pothole, remove the old asphalt. We're going to put some tack oil around that. This is giving it a safe and sticky base. It's like glue. It will bind our asphalt together to make sure if water do sit back on that spot, it will not deteriorate that asphalt. Once the pothole is repaired, we will actually tamp it down. Depending on the size of the hole, you can use a hand tamper or you can use a heavy tamper to go ahead and press the asphalt down. If you guys happen to come across a pothole, please dial 311, give that location, give your name, and it will take approximately two to four weeks to repair that pothole.

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Sorry. Board member Maria Annapolis. Here. Board member Gary Feinberg. Board member Juan Valadez. Board member Jacqueline Roach. Board Member Odalis Deyuri. Board Member Dr. Denise Wallace. Board Member Olga Granda.

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Board Member Patricio Suarez. We do not have Chrome.

Is there anything, Indra, that you would like to report to us that you feel that we need to know? Yes.

We have items to approve that require the board's vote, including expenditures and shortlisted artists.

Right, those are items that we can't vote on. But is there anything else that you feel that we should?

Yes, we're very excited to announce that we did have our kickoff meeting for our public art master plan. So this is the plan for the entire city. And so we anticipate getting that started over the next month. And then we'll have a schedule. We'll meet with commissioners to go over the schedule. There will be a steering committee as well. So one member from the board, one member from the PAC, one person from each district. The master plan is for the entire city. So it's not. And then we do have some specialty neighborhoods that were called out specific. to that so we're very excited to be working with DPZ and Barbara Goldstein's company out of California on creating a master plan for the whole city.

And how will the board be involved?

So we'll have one person on the steering committee and then additionally of course you'll have to approve the master plan for the whole city and then within that will also be additional program guidelines. They're still working through kind of the schedule and what all the outreach will look like. So there'll be more details to come.

Okay. I think, yeah, providing updates on that as it goes forward will be great for us. So we can then also give feedback.

And then we also, we have not met yet again on the MFP master plan, the site-specific master plan, but we have been continuously kind of engaging with that consultant and sending them information. So as we get more, as we get a more... Concrete schedule will make sure that everybody is aware of the community meetings that are included in that as well as Whoever is going to be on the steering committee. There's been no steering committee formed at this point Is there a deadline for that? the deadline is We had six months from the time that we know sorry eight months from the time that the contract was signed which was in March Yes, in March. And then, but as long as we're working in good faith, it can kind of continue over. But we hope to get through the bulk of it this summer. And then for the master plan for the whole city, that does include a community outreach meeting for each individual district as well. So there'll be multiple chances to also be part of that community outreach, and there will be multiple meetings.

So you'll come back to us with a schedule and when those meetings are, particularly for us that are appointed by the commissioner.

So we've been making progress on both of those items, which I think is very exciting, but nothing concrete to show you yet, but we're getting there.

Great. Anything else, Indra?

Nothing else. Thank you for reminding me. So we can't even move to adjourn.

I have a quick question, if I can. Is there any way that we could like explore maybe kind of like what we did in the last meeting to get another date for this month to maybe move something that's, you know, so that we can try to, yeah, like a special meeting to try again, but in the month?

The board can request a special meeting.

Would we want to do that? Well, can we without quorum?

You may request it at this time. We can.

I mean, if you have time-sensitive items, then I think you need to come back to us and tell us, just like you did last time. So that we can... And reach out to us. I mean, I know I'm not going to be here in July for our July meeting. So, well, what day is our July meeting, actually? I was actually thinking about that, because I think July...

But can we change the date in July so you can be in?

Well, let's see what day it is. I think the issue is these chambers and availability. If it's the 20th, is it the 20th or is it the 13th? Yeah, so I'm not in time.

Would you like for us to look at moving it up to the 6th?

It would have to be maybe the January, the June 30th? The Monday is the 29th. The 29th.

I could do that. We'll look at a special meeting for you guys toward the end of June.

Right, to get these approved, because if not, we're looking until September.

And then I will also like to say that we, on August 19th, and you'll get an invite for this, we recessed during the month of August. This year we are doing something special for our boards and commission. our boards and committees and that we on August 19th we're having a training day so you know typically you have your ethics training and then your art in public places training that's just kind of a refresher on the code and the program guidelines and those types of things so this year we are doing that during a training day and so we'll make sure that you get save the dates and invitations for that it'll be most likely at Jose Marti Park There'll be lunch. There is more swag. There will be breakfast. There'll be a day to ask questions specifically about public art. You can learn about Miami 21. There's some other cultural resource management that we do within the city. And then also an opportunity to do your yearly ethics refresher as well. So it's not mandatory, but we hope that it's a little bit different and a way to engage a little bit differently too in some of the training that we do.

Thank you. Okay. Anything else from any other members? Questions? Okay. Well, then hopefully we'll see each other again in a month or less.

Thank you, everybody.