City Council - Regular Meeting

CALL THIS REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER AT 7 P.M. CALL THE ROLL, PLEASE.

MAYOR FAHED.

HERE.

VICE MAYOR LAMAS.

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COUNCILMAN SANTIN. HERE. COUNCILMAN DEON.

HERE.

COUNCILMAN PEREZ-CRESPO. HERE. THERE IS A QUORUM PRESENT.

OKAY. THANK YOU. PLEASE STAND FOR THE INVOCATION LED BY COUNCILMAN JOSEPH DEON.

GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. lord thank you for your many and abundant blessings thank you for the ability to be involved in this useful work and for the honor of bearing appropriate responsibilities today i pray for our mayor all levels of city officials in miami springs and in particular For our residents, I am asking that you would graciously grant us the wisdom to govern with the true needs of our residents. I ask all this in your name. Amen.

Okay, please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you. You may be seated. OK, agenda and order of business. We've got a few things here that we're going to propose. So first of all, 5A is going to be deferred. And then, gentlemen, I'd like to propose that we get 12A, 12C, and 13A, and move it up to awards and presentations.

SO MOVE.

ALL RIGHT. HOLD ON. WAIT. THERE'S MORE. THEN ALSO 7A AND B, APPROVAL OF COUNCIL MINUTES. I'D LIKE TO PUT THAT DOWN SO THAT IT HAPPENS SO THAT WE CAN PRIORITIZE VOTING ON THE MILLAGE AND ON THE BUDGET. SO WE SHOULD VOTE ON THAT BEFORE APPROVAL OF COUNCIL MINUTES. SO WE'LL MOVE 7A AND B. down there. And I think that covers everybody. Unless anyone has something on the consent agenda that you want to pull for discussion? Any other? MOVEMENT? NO? OKAY. IN THAT CASE, I'D LIKE TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA WITH ALL THOSE CHANGES THAT WE PROPOSED. SO MOVE. OKAY. WE HAVE A SECOND. OKAY. WE'LL DO THAT WITH A VOICE VOTE. ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE AGENDA AS STATED, SAY AYE. ALL AGAIN, SAY NO. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO WE MOVE ON TO AWARDS AND PRESENTATION. AND WE ARE GOING TO START WITH 12C. which is, I'll let you, if you'd like, Erica, do you want to read 12C for us?

Springs, Florida, co-designating the portion of Oakwood Drive between South Royal Poinciana Boulevard and Kenmore Drive, fronting the new Miami Realtors Global Headquarters, located at 1800 Oakwood Drive as Miami Realtors Way, providing for authorization and providing for an effective date.

Thank you, and we are delighted to be joined by Senator Ana Maria Rodriguez, who is going to speak for us. Thank you for coming.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council. It is truly an honor to be here this evening requesting this designation of Miami Realtors Way, which is a very small portion of Oakwood Drive. As you all know, we have made a significant investment in this city, not only with the investment of our new headquarters, our global headquarters, upwards of $30 million in the construction of the building, but also all the other projects we've championed here in the city including the Miami Springs letters, which I know have become an iconic feature here in the city, as well as the improvements to Reagan Park and so on. There's just so many ways that we've tried to be good stewards of the city, good partners, and this is just a small recognition of the investments and the economic significance that realtors have in our community. I also want to mention that our CEO, Teresa King-Kinney, of 33 years is retiring at the end of this year and why not uh designate this this portion uh in in tandem with her retirement so it all kind of comes together the realtors have been around our association has been around for 106 years now which is no small feat we are good partners of our neighbors we try to make a positive impact here in our community so with that i have i'm happy to answer any questions and ask for everyone's favorable support tonight

YOU HAVE OURS, AT LEAST MY SUPPORT, I CAN SPEAK FOR MYSELF, BUT THE MIAMI REALTORS HAVE BEEN UNBELIEVABLE PARTNERS IN THIS COMMUNITY AND WE'RE DELIGHTED TO HAVE YOU AND I THINK THAT AFTER 33 YEARS, IT WOULD BE GOOD FOR YOUR CEO TO BE SENT OFF WITH THAT HONOR. So I think that we should support this wholeheartedly. Now, then this goes to the county, correct, after that? Yes.

And just to clarify, the road will not be Teresa King County? Yes, yes, yes. It'll be Miami Realtors Way? Miami Realtors Way. And also Commissioner Melianne Orbis' office, I spoke to her today just to let her know this was on. Her staff is here. Angelo is here on her behalf, and he is taking copious notes. So I know that once you all, hopefully you approve it, the county will take it up very soon, and we should have it done by the end of this year.

That would be great. That would be fantastic. I open it up to my colleagues on the council. Do you guys...

I have to second what my colleague, what the mayor is saying. Definitely grateful for your investment in our city and for that beautiful building that you guys have put there. And you're continuing to stay involved with all of our city stuff and making sure you're supportive. So you could definitely count on my support as well.

Thank you, Councilman.

I think you guys have been great neighbors. Thank you for your great investment in the community and all the gifts you've given us. Thank you.

The residents deserve it. Thank you.

Absolutely. Sure.

Go ahead. As a member for over 30 years, and I think that people might forget that you guys have been in our community as an office for those years, for many of those years I've been.

So you were part of the external credit union was at the time there.

So to just make this type of investment in our community after a long tenure as a tenant, took a lot and I appreciate you guys having a lot of Thought in our future as well and to invest in an area that doesn't look that great So we appreciate it and you definitely have my support on this matter.

Thank you Through the chair. I just want to thank you for everything you've done for the community the beautiful building and I know that Miami Realtors is expanding and you've also merged with with Broward so Congratulations on that as well

Thank you. Thank you for that. And if I may, Mr. Mayor, this also comes on the heels of a historic merger with Our World, which is the local real estate board to our north, which puts us at about 93,000 members between Port St. Lucie, actually Martin County, Port St. Lucie, all the way down to Miami-Dade County. Thank you for recognizing that.

That's wonderful. All right. Well, thank you. You've got our support. So, Roger, we need to vote in order to approve that, right? And we were trying to avoid voting.

THE ACTUAL ITEM, THE RESOLUTION IS 12C. SO THAT WILL BE LATER DOWN TODAY. AND THAT WILL BE AN ACTION ITEM. AND WE CANNOT ADOPT AN ACTION ITEM UNTIL WE ADOPT AN ACTION BUDGET.

GOT YOU. OKAY.

THANK YOU. SO WE'LL PICK IT BACK UP.

BUT THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WE'LL GET TO WORK ON THIS.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

ALL RIGHTY. OKAY. So I'm assuming we probably need to do the same thing with 12A with FPNL. Can we have that discussion and then the vote afterwards?

We can certainly have a presentation, yeah.

Okay, all right. Okay, so in that case, we will move on to 12A. Erica, could you please read 12A for us from New Business?

Of course. A resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Miami Springs, Florida, approving an agreement with Florida Power and Light Company for the location of electric utility facilities on city-owned right-of-way alleys, providing for authorization, providing for implementation, and providing for an effective date.

Okay, thank you. And we are also delighted to have FP&L here. Thank you. Addis, please take it away.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, members of the council. I'm Addis Carrillo with Florida Power & Light, offices at 4200 West Flagler Street.

I'm delighted to be here tonight.

I sound kind of loud, right? I'm delighted to be here tonight. After many, many months, I would say possibly even a year of negotiating back and forth with these SSUP project. So we are here just to give a little bit of background. I know all of you know why we're here. but for the sake of the residents that are in the room. So our underground program, as you know, is bringing our overhead facilities to the underground, which helps with resiliency and storms and all these other projects. It's a great benefit for the residents. We have undergone this project. We started as a pilot in Miami Springs, which was wonderful. You're one of the first cities to embrace the project. and we delivered this project of the pilot phase to some of your alleys back in the day. Fast forward, we moved or transitioned from our pilot phase to a regular project and ongoing project, and it's been years that we've been doing it, and we have adopted some standard operating procedures, which include the undergrounding our facilities in the front of, because we realize that's the best benefit to do it, because most of our service territory is served by the front of where we underground, and then we put transformers on private easement. when we came for phase two of Miami Springs we had you know some residents which I recognize some facing some faces familiar faces here that basically came to the Commission meeting and said listen you guys had done this prior in the alleys and we want to move forward in that direction we will love to have your cooperation and not put them in the front of because they have beautiful landscapes and so on and so forth. So we decided to take it back and work with our leadership group and get it approved. And we did. So we got it approved and we want to put it in the alleys at the request of all you who advocated for your residents and the residents who showed up to a town hall meeting and asked us to do so. So in the spirit of partnership with the city, we went back, we redesigned the whole project, which is important to note because we already had designers, so we had to put additional funds into redesigning and doing outreach again. And so here we are. We have in front of you an agreement for the relocation of these buildings. So what this basically is, what we're asking is for your support with this agreement is because we're gonna agree to put our facilities in the alleys, but we wanna make sure that the alleys are maintained, they're properly kept, there's no closure of alleys where we're not familiar so that we're able to serve your residents. in a timely manner and in an efficient way. So we've negotiated with our city manager here and gone back and forth and we would love your support on this agreement to finally bring this to closure.

Thank you. And I think you're absolutely right. I believe that residents speaking up caused you guys to kind of rethink things and adjust course. And we appreciate that you guys were able to accommodate that because the first couple of phases worked great. having in the back was really important to residents. I know that we had to iron things out between the attorneys to get to this agreement, but it seems like this is an agreement that can finally allow this to move forward to the, I know a lot of people are looking forward to that. So I open it up for my colleagues, if you have any.

Through the Chair, I just, if we could defer to substantive discussion until we formally take on the item later. Yes. I just wanted to be very cognizant that Addis has made her way here and, you know, the millage and budget do need to be discussed substantively and adopted first though. Got it.

Okay. Okay.

All right. Thank you.

So thank you. I hope to get the support. You got it.

Thank you, Addis. Okay. So we moved up 13A, which is a request by Councilman Santine to present and discuss digital kiosks for public information, wayfinding, and advertising. Councilman Santine, tell us more.

thank you thank you mayor i brought this item forward i think it's a time that we continue to bring miami springs into the 21st century in a way to communicate to our residents and businesses and visitors so this company that will do a presentation a little bit our digital kiosks that give public information city announcements obviously advertising wayfounding local business information a bunch of stuff that obviously We can all benefit as residents or as visitors to this community. And the most important thing that I'm sure most people will question is, well, what's this gonna cost us? It's actually the opposite. This is something that if they felt that the community was feasible for them to do the investment, they would do it. At that point, we will still have to do something with the city attorneys and sign up a contract and so forth, but there's a revenue.

that they will share with our city so I guess I'll leave it to the presentation Erica are they ready I'm sorry are we doing the budget hearing before the presentation or is this my interpretation is this is just a presentation yes Anna Anna should be online who's going to be doing the presentation then

Hi, everyone. Are you able to hear me? I can't hear her.

Are you able to hear me now? Are they there?

Hi, I'm here.

I'm hearing a very nice.

I mean, is it another meeting we had? Remember that one? Other interesting meetings we've had in the past.

Yeah, no, this is not just a little feedback.

Let's not bring up that other online meeting, shall we? That one was interesting.

Let's hope not.

Can I ask Councilman Santin? Can I ask Councilman Santin something? Sure. George, how'd you know about this company?

Well, just, you know, I travel enough around the cities and communities, and I seem to, you know, Cora Gables has it, City of Miami. many other cities have used that as a, like I mentioned earlier, information kiosk for visitors to come to the community, for businesses to get their information across to potential patrons of their restaurants and retail shops. So I thought, well, I think we're headed in that direction of trying to continue to... ignite the food traffic that we have and and I think this is one way of you know, seeing that we're also making The strides to getting better and and especially considering there's no cost to us And there's a possibilities of revenue sharing. I Don't know the win-win but Sometime in the future will decide What we want to move forward with it, but I want the presentation so we can see exactly what this you know

hopefully are you able to hear me now by chance yes oh great well good evening everyone and thank you so much uh mayor vice mayor uh the council for allowing me to give this presentation i'll keep it brief um my name is anna behrman and i'm the vice president of development for ike smart city And in short, our kiosks are interactive digital wayfinding kiosks that are installed in the public right-of-way. We actually launched in 2015 in Denver, Colorado, in partnership with the local business improvement district there. They had static wayfinding signage with maps that were constantly outdated because, you know, with a printed map, as soon as you print it, it almost instantly becomes outdated. out of date, and it was also very costly for the bid to upkeep. And so they were looking for a digital solution that could be updated in real time and was a very granular look at all of the best things to do in downtown, really allowed them to push their narrative about what they wanted people to see that were coming to downtown. And so we did that in 2015. And since then, we have actually expanded to, it says 29 here, but now 30 cities where we're live nationwide. We just launched in Culver City. And we are in many cities in South Florida. So our South Florida footprint began in Coral Gables, where we were asked by the city as part of their streetscape improvement program to install several kiosk along the Miracle Mile. And that program was such a great success that we actually ended up expanding it off of the mile into other areas of Coral Gables. Shortly after, we were approached by the city of Miami and we received city commission approval to do 150 kiosks throughout the city of Miami on Brickell, Biscayne Boulevard, and Coconut Grove, Wynwood, all throughout the city. And it generates millions of dollars for the city of Miami. And then after that, we want an RFP in Miami Beach. We now have kiosks installed there. We are installed in Aventura in West Palm Beach, and we're actually, we've received city council approval in Fort Lauderdale as well. So quite a footprint in the South Florida area. Here are a few images of some of our kiosks that are installed in these cities. So here's Miami. Miami Beach, where we actually customized. We worked with the architect that designed the lifeguard stands in Miami Beach to create, Bill Lane, to create a unique kiosk for Miami Beach. Coral Gables, like I mentioned. Aventura. And then West Palm as well. And then here is just a rendering of Fort Lauderdale, since that should be coming soon.

So the way that the kiosk bunkers... We can't see the actual kiosk. We can't see them.

Oh, give me one second. Have you not been able to see my screen as I was sharing all the images?

Now we can.

Okay. I'm not sure why it stopped sharing. So there are two modes of operation on the kiosks. There's a passive mode and an engaged mode. So the passive mode is almost like a screensaver. It's looping through eight slides, each are 10 seconds long. And that screensaver mode contains city content. So the city is always guaranteed space in the advertising loop. And community content, we work with local artists, nonprofits to dedicate free time in the ad loop during unsold space. And then also commercial advertising, which is what allows the program to be free to the cities that we're in and also generate a stream of revenue for those cities. When you tap on the screen, it goes into what we call engaged mode. And so it opens up an interactive suite of applications. Is my screen changing now? Can you see the suite of applications? I think I can see that it does. And so our suite of applications has several different types of functionality. We have mobility applications, discovery applications, social equity applications, and entertainment. So for mobility, For example, we have real time arrival and departure information for all of the different forms of public transit in the area. We have the ability to get directions, multimodal trip planning and directions to get from point A to point B from the kiosk to a location that you're trying to find. And you can actually scan a QR code across all of our applications to transfer the information from the kiosk to your mobile device and take it on your way. So this is great because if you're not familiar with the public transit options in the city, and this pulls in not only things like rail or light rail or bus, but also micro mobility options like if there's a free trolley or if there are You know, bike share, scooters, all of that is consolidated into one application. And so someone that's not familiar with all of the options would have sort of an aggregated view of all of the different public transit in a given city. We also have directories. So think the best places to eat, drink, stay, and play. All of these applications are sorted based on proximity to the kiosk location. So unlike if you were looking for a coffee shop, for example, on your phone, and you were to Google coffee shop near me, Because Google's business model is search engine optimization, typically the company that can pay to be the most elevated listing is going to be the one that comes up first. So if you looked for a coffee, it would probably be Starbucks. We don't allow for elevated placement within our applications. Any local business is included free of charge just by way of existing, sorted based on proximity. So if you were to click eat and drink, you can sort by food type. You can filter by price point. You can look at reviews and then once you decide where you want to go, you can scroll photos. You can send details like a trip plan from the kiosk to your phone to be able to and then you can take that on your way and navigate to that location. And the directories are very intuitive. Similar to the functionality I just outlined for eat and drink, that goes for arts and culture, which will be all the museums and galleries in the area, parks and beaches, shop, stay, which is all of the hotels in the area, concerts and music, activities, and more. And then this, we also have a suite of applications or a category of applications that are our social equity suite. So this is relevant in some cities, not in others. For example, the city of Coral Gables elected to not have this functionality because it's just not something that they felt like was important to the city. Our software is very flexible and can be adjusted based on the city's needs. But these are things like social services, safe shelter, food support, civic resources, And again, the ability to transfer that information to your phone. And the kiosks actually provide a free Wi-Fi hotspot with a 250-foot radius around the kiosk itself. And so someone with a phone but no data plan could connect to the Wi-Fi, find something that they're interested in transferring to their phone and use that Wi-Fi to get that information from the kiosk to their phone. It's also great for international visitors as well. And then the kiosk software is highly customizable. We work with our city partners to build custom applications and to customize all of the functionality, including the branding on the kiosk to meet the city's needs. So for example, in Coral Gables, we created a custom application for Freebee, which is their free trolley. So you can hail a trolley from the kiosk. We have an event list that we can populate with events from all different organizations within the city. So if you have events a business improvement district and also the city wants to have their events showing, we can consolidate all of those events, sort them by date and have the ability to send information to your phone about that event and how to get there. We have a survey where the city can gauge public sentiment on any issue that you're interested in. So for example, some cities will gauge public sentiment on restaurant week. How did it go? Is there anything that you'd like to see improved? And the city doesn't only get the information on the kiosk, which you can see the answers once you answer the survey, but the backend information, the more granular information about what people were saying. We provide a login to all of the analytics that can be provided by the kiosk. And then there's also a photo booth that you can take a branded selfie, send it to your phone. We have a points of interest application as well. So in Miami Beach, for example, there's a lot of Art Deco buildings. We've built a custom walking tour so that someone can scan a QR code and then take a walking tour. And as they're walking past Art Deco buildings in Miami Beach, It pops up on your phone information and the history of that building. And that's something that we can do in any city. Sometimes cities will want to do it for all of their public murals. So there's a lot of opportunity to customize the kiosk that way. And then we have a community involvement team or community engagement team that their sole focus is identifying local artists, nonprofits, and other institutions that the city would like us to work with to provide free space on the kiosk to those types of organizations or artists to display their work or their information on the kiosk. And we actually even pay artists to curate artwork for our kiosks. And so this is something that we do nationwide and it's a big part of our mission. The kiosks have emergency functionality as well. So they can display real-time alerts from FEMA, the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System by FEMA. So think weather warnings, evacuation orders, amber alerts, active shooter, things of that nature. It automatically takes over the screen. There's nothing manual about it. And then this is optional functionality, but all of our South Florida cities have elected to use it, which is security cameras and an emergency call button that creates two-way communication with the local police. The kiosks are multilingual in over 100 languages, and they're also fully ADA compliant. We site them in the ground to be ADA compliant, and then the screen can shift down for a user in a wheelchair. We have a fully blind solution as well that's been endorsed by the National Federation of the Blind. And the kiosks are really built for the outdoor environment. We're in markets all across the country, ranging from Phoenix, Arizona, all the way to Minneapolis. So extreme heat, humidity, we handle all of the maintenance on the kiosks. There are no costs. to the city related to the program. It's completely turnkey. So the kiosks are not only very durable, but they also are being maintained five days a week, one weekend day by us, boots on the ground. And then we have 24-7 remote monitoring as well. The kiosks can be customized to fit the look and feel of the cities that we're in. And then I mentioned this already, we handle all maintenance and repairs. We did put together a financial proposal for the city just to give a better idea of what type of revenue the city could expect to receive from this type of program. We've been operating in South Florida since 2018, starting with Coral Gables. And we have a local ad sales team and a national ad sales team that has worked on selling those units for quite some time. And so we have a really good idea of You know what kind of rates we can get in the area and what the occupancy will be on the kiosk and things of that nature. So we feel pretty confident in our financial projections just because we're in so many cities in the area. We based our proposal. off of a piggyback contract. The city of Charlotte recently is actually the most recent RFP that we were awarded. And so we based this off of piggybacking the city of Charlotte's agreement. And so the way that it would work is we've tentatively identified eight kiosk locations that we think would be a good fit for the city in that they're in commercial areas with lots of pedestrian traffic and storefronts and things of that nature. So we would install those at no cost to the city. We would then share 30% of net revenues, the greater of 30% of net revenues or a minimum annual guarantee back with the city. And that minimum annual guarantee is $8,000 per kiosk in year one with 10% increases every five years after that. And so based on those eight kiosks and this revenue share, we anticipate that the city on average would receive about $140,000 annually from the program. If we were able to find additional kiosk locations, that number would of course go up. But we started with eight because we think that in a city the size of Miami Springs, that's probably what would be most feasible. And so with that, I'd love to answer any questions that you have.

Through the chair? Go ahead. Can she hear me? What are the power requirements for these kiosks?

So they actually can connect to just a standard 120 to 40 volt circuit. We do have to connect to underground power. We work very closely with Florida Power and Light and all of our other Florida cities. And so we're well-versed in that. And we actually do not need to have a fiber connection. So it's just power, but we do function off of cellular power. Oh, and the other piece of this too is that a lot of the areas where we think a kiosk could make sense, so Westward Drive being one of the main thoroughfares, is of course an FDOT route. But in many of our cities, including Miami, Miami Beach, Aventura, we have signed an agreement with FDOT that allows us to install on FDOT rights-of-way. And so that would be something that could be easily replicated here just because we have that form agreement that we've used in all of these other cities. Any other questions?

through the chair so it's pretty much not a question but i just want to affirm i think it's a great product it's not only a good way for us to get our message out as a as a city when we need things done providing wi-fi on and on all the different things that it provides but the greatest thing is the way you're supporting the small businesses in the city And I'm all about that. Any way that we could be able to support our businesses and get their name out there, it's great. So I'm on board.

through the chair. Go ahead. Thank you very much for this presentation. To me, it's been two interesting things about it. Obviously, no cost is always good. And then also, there's really more than just two or three, but there were possibilities of revenue for our community when, you know, who knows what the future entails. But I think it's also to show our community, especially, you know, it's very easy for us to keep asking businesses to come up and do a major investment in our downtown. And we got to do our part, you know, do everything that we can so we can do so to make sure they're successful. It's not just they opened up and good luck and hopefully, you know, it goes through. I think we got to show a way to. that we're doing our part and I think this is one of the ways and especially when it's something that's not costing us money and they feel enough confidence that we have you know the possibilities of something that's feasible for them if not they wouldn't even consider it so to me it's a win-win through the chair and a question for you though who is the person that or the team that handles the content and the advertising placement

So it's all, every single aspect of our operation is handled in-house. We don't use any third parties for anything. So we have an in-house advertising sales team. We have a national team and then also a local team based in the Miami area that would be responsible for selling the ads on the kiosk and getting them posted. And then in terms of the content that the city provides us to place in the advertising loop, we have a... content team that you would you know be providing that that information to and we would get it posted right away we also have an in-house creative team so to the extent that the city has a message that they want to push out um but that you don't have the you know creative collateral prepared you could just provide us with direction and our team can take care of putting together the the advertisement is a creative charge separately No. So everything comes free of cost to you all. So there is no, there is nothing, there are no hidden costs associated with the program. Every single part of it is free to the city.

Okay. So in the case of a nonprofit, everything is filtered through city administration.

Correct. So nonprofit, well, nonprofits, our community engagement teams has, you know, existing relationships and creates new relationships with local nonprofits and small, you know, mom and pop local businesses and artists. And they would be offering, you know, space in the outlet free of charge to those businesses. The only clients that would be paying anything are those, you know, larger advertisers like national advertisers. Think Apple, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, David Yerman, Amazon, you know, that are purchasing advertising in the ad loop, they would, of course, be paying to be placed in the ad loop. And that's how we're able to generate revenue from the program and provide it back with you all. But the city nonprofits artists are not paying to be displayed on the kiosk. Thank you.

Gentlemen, I'd like to propose that by consensus we authorize city staff to work with the kiosk company to kind of come up with the proposal that that works for the city and then that way that could be YOU KNOW, PRESENT IT AT ANOTHER MEETING. JUST IF WE CAN HAVE CONSENSUS ON THAT, YOU KNOW, THEN CITY STAFF CAN GET QUESTIONS ANSWERED AND WE CAN ALSO IN A BRIEFING BE ABLE TO TAKE THIS EVEN deeper but it seems like if i'm hearing you guys correctly we want to explore this further uh so can we authorize city staff to work with them on a proposal do we have consensus on that yes sir okay all right so then i think we can move on and thank you anna thank you so much have a great night thank you Okay, all right, so let's keep it moving then, because now we got people waiting. So we move on to 5B, which is a report by police on Miami Springs annual summary on speed zone cameras.

Thank you, come on up, Lieutenant Robert Castillo.

Good evening. How's everyone doing today? How you guys doing? Okay. Today I'll be presenting our red light camera and school speed zone camera summaries for the reporting period of July 1st, 2025 through June 30th, 2026 per mandated by the state. All right. I'll be starting with the red light camera program, which issued a total of 12,508 notices of violation of that 7,873 notices were paid. We had 30 contested violations, which resulted in 24 upheld and six dismissed. And of that 4,244 notices of violation resulted in uniform citations being issued. Now the program generated a total revenue of $1,394,625, of which $727,024.32 went to the Florida Department of Revenue, and the rest went to the city, $667,660.68, all of which was deposited into the city's general fund. And now I'll be presenting the school speed zone camera program. The same reporting year, July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026. The program issued 18,357 notices of violation. Of that, 12,994 violations were paid. 64 were contested, resulting in 49 upheld and 15 dismissed. 4,866 notices of violation were issued as uniform traffic citations. Total generated revenue for that program was $1,294,400, of which $504,816 went to the Public Safety Initiative. $258,880 went to the Florida Department of Revenue. $38,832 went to the Florida Law Enforcement Training. $155,328 went to the school district. sixty four thousand seven hundred twenty dollars went to the crossing guard program and two hundred seventy one thousand eight hundred twenty four dollars went to the vendor red speed our portion of that would be the public safety initiative 504 816 which was deposited into the school zone violation account i'm available um take any questions you guys got gentlemen any questions to the chair i have one question i've had uh some residents ask about the the uh speed camera on by the middle middle school yeah okay the speed camera by the middle school has been shut down as of june 30th it is no longer enforcing and it stopped enforcing violations as of the end of the school year The cameras were removed. You will see the pole with the solar panel, but that's no longer in effect or active. You do see the lights still. We're working with the school board to have them deactivated. All right.

Any other questions? Lieutenant, are there plans to put cameras at the other schools in the city, like AIE or?

As of right now, we're looking into East Drive and implementing the camera that was taken down there. And we are also trying to conduct a study at North Royal near the Miami Springs Elementary School.

Thank you.

Anyone else? Okay, thank you, Lieutenant.

You're welcome.

All right, we move on to 5C, a presentation of Yard of the Month. Then this month's Yard of the Month is 1001 Plover Avenue. Do we have Carlos Perdomo here? Come on up, guys.

Let's go.

How much work isn't working on that? One thousand one clover. Take a picture and then we invite residents to go by and see the fruits of their labor.

Okay, it seems we are done with awards and presentations.

We move on to open forum. Please remember that open forum is one-way communication. Any persons wanting to speak before the council are free to do so about anything dealing with council business. Again, we do not respond. You get three minutes. Please state your name and address for the record. and then if uh you know if in order for us to respond it would have to be at the end of the meeting but but if not if you have any concerns all of our business cards are up here you can we are available to anybody and also our city staff are available to answer any questions so come on up first we've got michael kobyakov

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Vice Mayor, Councilman, and City Manager. On August 28th, I'm a resident of Miami Springs, 907 Hunting Lodge Drive, Miami Springs, and I've been a resident here for over 45 years. On August 28th, I sent a letter to the city, to all you guys, requesting a revision of the policy that the city has toward historic buildings Cities like Miami Beach, Cora Gables, Surfside, Miami, all of them have a special policy toward historic preservation. Miami Spring is one of the only one cities that does not have a policy toward it. I went toward the historic board of Miami-Dade County and requested also a consideration with this matter. I own the 200 Azura Way building, which is called Osceola Apartment Hotel. In 2011, I bought the building. It was closed up. I gutted the building completely and built everything inside new. The taxes on that building have been going up year after year and year, and really nothing has been done about it. And right now I'm requesting if the city could Indicates the historic preservation board to look into this matter and see if this could be revised. There are a lot of historic buildings in Miami Springs, and I'm sure that all the owners will be benefited from it. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. All right. Next up, Nary Owens.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Nary Owens, 169 Coridan Drive. I've lived here since 1958, so I guess historically I'm getting old, so is my city. Thank you for the events of the 100-year celebration. You did a great job, Councilman Santine. My comment today is on item 10b, theatrical services agreement with the Pelican Playhouse. the agreement does not have exhibit one which was the production schedule and it also did not have exhibit two which was where to store the costumes and props in your agenda packet in addition there was an error on page fifteen The agreement has 18 pages. On page 15, it listed the city manager's email as alonzow at miamisprings-fl.gov. It should be Jimenez JC. So please correct that. And thank you very much for holding the millage where you have it. I hope you pass it tonight. Thank you.

Thank you, Mary. OK, next up.

Artie Vizcaina, come on up.

Good evening, council members. As you know, let me start, 45 years living in Miami Springs, former FPL employee, former business owner of Miami Springs, former vice president of the Businessmen Association of Miami Springs. Here we are, a year later, taking the same can down the road with this FPL program. I thought that this had already been cemented and moving forward. I've seen multiple programs that we've done in Miami Springs, projects, some good, some not so good, but this is a good program. This is something that we need. I can't tell you how many residents have approached me in other areas of Miami Springs that are not part of this program, asking me, when do you think they're gonna do the program in that area? Funny thing is, on the way in to the council meeting tonight, someone that's here showed me a picture of a pole on fire in their backyard. The old-style power lines is outdated. All the new construction is underground. Virginia Gardens is basically almost done. Of course, they've done it in the front, but they don't have the drive-through alleyways that we have. We've done nothing to our alleys as far as I'm concerned that FPL has to worry about in the 100 years that we've been incorporated. So I can't see why we don't approve this unanimously as soon as we can to get this project started. Like I said, it's actually been a year. I'm surprised, like I mentioned, in the city, little city meeting that we had at the rec center that FPL has even decided to do this for us. I'm sure that their cost is, I mentioned at that time, was hundreds of thousands. I'm sure the cost now is in the millions for redesigning this, going back with attorneys to get this approved, the writing, the language. I think it's time, gentlemen. I think that this is what we need. And they've been wonderful with us, working with us, changing this program that I really don't think they were going to do. And as I mentioned, we need to unanimously approve this as soon as possible. So maybe by next hurricane season, we're underground. Thank you.

Thank you. Okay next up Carlos Lumpuy.

Yes we live in Miami Springs and we're proud of it. Sadly we're losing it one address at a time because our city government keeps allowing lot divisions. My name is Carlos Lumpuy 181 Hammond Drive.

I gave the clerk another handout with another picture of this problem we have.

Long-term quality of life should be the mantra of every city hall. Here we are celebrating Curtis and James Bright's 100th incorporation anniversary, yet ignoring their development concept of mostly small homes on large lots. The catty corner to my home at Hugh and Hammond was once a small, similar house, a once 1,990-foot-square-foot home on a 14,000-square-foot lot, leaving 15% for the building lot coverage and 85% of green grass. number two hue drive was torn down divided into two lots and worse allowed to construct two huge two-level mcmansions with 80 percent lot coverage and it doubled the density all by our failure to promulgate zoning and land use regulations preserving our quality of life the complete opposite of what Hammond and Bright conceived of a century ago. Want a two-story mansion? Go to the golf course or Poinciana Boulevard along the canal which Hammond and Bright provided for. Continuing to allow these two-story McMansions is a failure of government that thinks short-term as 14,000 residents on three square miles is gradually becoming 28,000 residents. one address at a time. Preserve our quality of life. Don't trade it in for the short-term farce of higher revenues which allow these horrendous lot divisions. The mantra of long-term quality of life trumps short-term thinking about our higher revenue any day of the week. Stop it. You have the power to do so. Do what's right for all of us. Promulgate these rules that do not allow for lot divisions and stop two-story McMansions that are not conducive to the rest of the block. Like parents who always say no to everything and never then wonder what happened to their kids and their families, this dais, gentlemen, must simply learn to say no. We live in Miami Springs and we're proud of it. Let's preserve our low density and our quality of life. Just simply rise to the occasion, gentlemen, and say no. I don't have enough time, but I want to congratulate Perdomo. He was a wonderful, dressed up like Mr. Hammond himself, and he built that plane himself. Thank you, Carlos. Thank you.

Okay, so we move on from open forum. We move the council minutes down. We have no reports from boards and commissions. We move on to public hearings. We got nine A and B.

A resolution of the mayor and the city council of the city of Miami Springs, Florida, adopting the proposed millage rate for fiscal year 2026-2027 in the amount of 6.8100 mills, which is 6.20% higher than the rollback rate of 6.4123 mills, to balance the general fund for fiscal year 2026-2027 and providing for an effective date. All right.

Okay, so this is, well, I'll kick it over to our city manager. You wanna just? Yes. Put a bow on it and summarize how we got here?

Absolutely. As you remember, as you recall, our budget workshop was held on August 17th. The budget that is before you is the same that was presented to you. There are some, a few modifications. It doesn't change the millage rate at all. But the differences that you'll notice is there was an increase in law enforcement,

Chris, about $40,000, was it?

$50,000. We are currently negotiating a one-year labor agreement. It's expiring now. I'm recommending a one-year agreement considering what's coming on November 3rd. We'll see where we are after that. So I had to make an adjustment there because I believe I'm reaching an agreement soon. The other way we made an adjustment to the senior center, increased cost there in catering and cleaning services there. That was about $30,000, no, $40,000. $43,000. And then we also put some money into our capital fund reserve. for projects such as the we have a grant for the pool deck and putting new shade structures there at the pool so we're saving some money for that the monies that that is coming from we had a reduction actually in our property and liability insurance about $90,000 so we made that adjustment as well and I don't think there's anything else

And the millage rate that's being proposed is the same, it is staying the same?

Correct.

Okay, so no increase in the millage rate. Gentlemen, do you have any comments? Let's focus on the millage rate first and then we'll move on to the budget.

And I remind you, this is a public hearing, so public comment for this item would be appropriate at this time. Yes.

Okay. Before, any questions? Sure. Open it up for public comment as a public hearing. Anybody wishing to speak on the millage rate, 9A, can do so now. Okay. Closed public comment. All right. Gentlemen. Anything on the millage?

I've had a chance to speak to colleagues in other cities and compare ours to them, and they tell us, you guys are just residential.

That's all you guys have.

So when you start comparing things with other mayors and other council people, you're like, okay, now I understand.

I MEAN, WE AS A CITY HAVE BEEN LOWERING THE MILLAGE RATE. IT'S BEEN A PRETTY STEADY TRAJECTORY. WE HAVEN'T RAISED IT SINCE I'VE BEEN ON THE COUNCIL. AND THEN CONSIDERING, YOU KNOW, THE UNCERTAINTY IN TERMS OF WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH NOVEMBER I think the fact that we can keep the millage rate the same as we hunker down, I mean, you know, the consequence of that, as we talked about, is that, you know, we're only thinking one year ahead because, again, there is a lot of uncertainty. But I think that it is a good thing that we maintain the millage rate as it is. as we see how things are going to shake out.

To the chair? Yeah, I appreciate that you were able to keep the millage rate the same, especially with the uncertainties and prioritizing public safety, and you added the extra program for the adult center. If anything, they're the ones that struggle the most sometimes with their set income to pay taxes and whatnot. So thank you for.

Okay. All right. If there's no further discussion, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve 9A.

So move.

Okay, so we have motion, and we have a second. All right, call the vote, please.

Vice Mayor Llamas?

Yes.

Councilman Santin? Yes. Councilman Dionne? Yes. Councilman Perez-Crespo? Yes. Mayor Fahed? Yes.

The motion carries. Okay, so we move on to 9B.

A resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Miami Springs, Florida adopting a tentative budget for the fiscal year commencing October 1st, 2026 and ending September 30th, 2027, confirming date of second public hearing and providing for an effective date.

Okay. All right, let's go ahead. We've already had a little bit of discussion on that, but we'll open this up for public comment as well. So anybody wishing to speak on 9B or tentative budget for the next fiscal year can do so now. Anybody wishing to speak on that? Okay, we'll close public comment. Open it up to you guys. I mean, we already discussed all the machinations we've had to go through. I appreciate the efforts of staff. I think we see on the horizon that the belt is gonna have to continue to be tightened. But I'm convinced that the city is cutting and getting as lean as possible and thinking as innovatively as possible of how we can continue to increase our revenues to offset what may be coming in terms of taxes. So, members of the council, any questions, comments regarding the budget?

I'd like to just thank all the departments for making the cuts necessary. Police, every other department. Really appreciate everybody working with us. Keeping the millage rate the same and trying to fund the same budget continues to be hard, but thank you for everyone.

In regards to the Pelican Playhouse, I'm biased. My daughter is a member and I love how she enjoys going and they really don't ask for much. I speak with George Khalil regularly and they just want the community to be involved and they want to promote the arts. So I'm in full support. Were we able to make those adjustments to the issues that Ms. Owens saw?

Yeah, we'll be able to make those adjustments. Absolutely.

Thank you, thank you. Through the chair. Go ahead. I want to mention, you know, the senior center, right? I'm aware that some of the art class have to be cut in the music class. I think Tammy's trying to find creative solutions to compensate for that by maybe bringing in volunteers, so I'm trying to help her with that. Yes. But I go to the senior center a lot, and, you know, I talked to a lot of the residents over there.

Yeah, the issue with the senior center is more complex because there, what you saw there, those cuts, the reduction in some of the classes, As you know, this past legislative session, our funding that we received from the state, and I'm not knocking it. I mean, we're just thankful for what we get, right? Yeah, we have to be lucky we got that. But it went from $750,000 down to about $300,000. And so you see an adjustment. And be thankful for it. Because there's a lot of other cities up there asking for their senior centers. So that is what you saw there, and that's a reflection of that. And that goes into effect. That went into effect already on July 1st. That's why you saw those reductions there.

Yeah, I think we should definitely find every way possible to help our senior residents. It's unacceptable if they're struggling, having a hard time. I've talked to people there that that's their only meal. So whatever we have to do to try to help them, and hopefully after the tax relief bill, or I don't want to give it that, Name per se but the amendment if it doesn't go through we could come back to The drawing board and figure something out to help out our senior citizen residents and attacks Sure

thank you of course for staff and everyone to try to get this together and make sense of it considering the challenges but obviously the senior is going to continue to be a a challenge not even even if we if this doesn't go through in november it's a continue challenge because obviously we get the monies from the state and the state pulls back it's a huge you know situation for us because we obviously have to take care of it so I think we need to start really considering a contingency plan and how we're gonna be able to offset those shortfalls because they're coming they've been showing us signs of this every year. So to us to expect that it's gonna go away, it's not. So I don't know, we need to start hammering down ideas and alternatives to see how we can offset it because obviously we're not gonna take away the service from the seniors.

So definitely we need to start considering. Just an idea, maybe a program like the digital science with that extra revenue that something like that will bring, we could add that to the senior center or something. Just an idea. Okay.

You guys don't do any thinking about how you can move, you know.

No, that's all we've been talking about for the better part of a year.

I know, I know. We, for years, JC and I talked about, you know, the like, hey, a lot of the things that we're providing at the senior centers on soft money and, and if that gets taken away. And as you mentioned, JC, there were municipalities that got a lot more cuts to money for the senior centers. So yeah, we are tightening our belt. I know in our conversation, my conversations with staff, I know that there are very few ideas that haven't already been uh kind of discussed uh for what we can do so all right if there's no further discussion i'd like to entertain a motion to approve 9b our tentative budget for next fiscal year

Motion to approve 9B. Okay, do I have a second?

Second. Okay, call the vote.

Vice Mayor Llamas? Yes. Councilman Santin? Yes. Councilman DeJuan? Yes. Councilman Perez-Crespo? Yes. Mayor, go ahead. Yes. Motion carried.

Okay, so now back to the future. We've got approval of council minutes. We've got 7A and B, the August 17th and 24th meeting minutes. I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the council minutes.

Make the motion.

Okay, do we have a second? Second. Okay, we have a first and second. Call that vote, please.

Vice Mayor Llamas? Yes. Councilman Santine? Yes. Councilman Dionne? Yes. Councilman Perez-Crespo? Yes. Mayor Fahed? Yes. The motion carries.

Okay. Can we approve... 10B, CONTINGENT ON GETTING THE ATTACHMENTS INTO THE BACKUP AND MAKING SURE THAT IT HAS THE RIGHT CITY MANAGER'S NAME, SHOULD WE SEPARATE IT THEN, 10B?

NO, THE APPROVALS FOR THESE AGREEMENTS ARE ALWAYS IN SUBSTANTIAL FORM AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, EMIT CERTAIN EXHIBITS THAT ARE LARGE. OKAY. AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. BUT THE FINAL AGREEMENT WILL ABSOLUTELY HAVE THOSE CORRECTIONS MADE.

All right, so then I'd like to entertain a motion to approve 10 A, B, and C. So move. Okay, do I have a second? Second. Okay, call the vote please.

Vice Mayor Llamas? Yes. Councilman Santine? Yes. Councilman Dionne? Yes. Councilman Perez-Grespo? Yes. Mayor Fahet?

Yes. The motion carries. Okay, we have no previous or unfinished business, but we do have new business. So going back to FP&L, we've heard from residents, we've heard from FP&L. Any comments before we call for a motion?

To the chair mm-hmm. I mean I've been privy to a lot of these negotiations with FPNL with our attorney and our city manager and Although it's taking a while. There's reasons behind that all the time You know our attorneys as well as staff have to be concerned with the overall picture of this agreement. It's not just, well, we want it this way and that's it. Obviously, FP&L has their point of view on how things need to be handled. And of course, our attorneys also have to be considerate of our situation. obviously stuff like identification clauses whose responsibility is this if we decide to move it who pays for this someone gets injured like just a lot of legal stuff that needs to go into effect on this type of stuff it's not just a real basic contract and some people have mentioned well they what they had before before for a or b reasons they didn't have a contract so uh doesn't mean that they can continue that way obviously whether it was some oversight or not the point is they're aware that they need to have a contract an agreement so just to take light on the reality of these type of agreements yes they take long but we also been trying to make sure that this is the best situation for our town moving forward so you know to our attorneys and our staff for having our back as well so it's not just one-sided we love it in the back we do but language and whose agreements and how this affects us in the long term is important

If I may just to clarify so we didn't have a contract before because it was part of a pilot program and then we Standardize our project and that's why we went to the front since it's at the request We need to make sure that we have some assurances with the alleys not being you know closed off and not being impediments for our Vehicles to be able to access them, you know properly So that's a lot of the stuff that and along with that comes the indemnification and all the other stuff you mentioned So I just want to put it out there and on the record that that's you know We have an agreement now because it was out of our norm and that's why we're doing it this way Would you say that this has gone in phases but now that we're

have we gotten to the point with this agreement in place that maybe the projects can move more quickly in terms of moving forward because you've got an agreement like this in place?

Right, because moving forward, most of the, I would say, well, I don't know because we haven't designed all of them, but where there is an alley, because there's some areas in Miami Springs that don't have alleys, but where there is an alley, the idea is to put them in the alley. And so then this agreement will contemplate that. The other homes that don't have alleys, then we don't need an agreement for. So yes, we will move forward from now on.

Thank you, Chair. I just have one concern, and thank you for everything that you've done, going back to the drawing board and making sure that you could accommodate this for us. It's my understanding that there's some cost that we could end up with if there's some type of catastrophic event or something along that nature. I've talked with the city attorney about this, if you could explain that.

Thank you. Okay, so first I'd like to thank you for coming at us. It's been a while and you've been absolutely a pleasure to work with throughout it. I know it's been very intense negotiations, but still wanna mention it's always easier when the other side is willing to be there at the table. As it relates to relocation costs, there are some, circumstances council member where a relocation would be on FPL to pay for and that's when it they want to move because of their own operational considerations when it comes to movements due to conflicts or interference in the alleyways for multitude of reasons those costs would be borne by the city so

It was my understanding that you guys mentioned something about if there's some type of catastrophic event, what would...

Emergency conditions that create conflicts with the current utility or with the utilities to be installed in the alleyways. If FPL would have to remedy that emergency condition, it would be on the city to cover that relocation cost. What would an emergency condition... Think it's intentionally broad on purpose because the realm of emergencies that can happen it varies But they're emergency hazardous conditions

We've beat the horse to death.

And they do extend beyond hurricanes. You know, we never can anticipate what an emergency is.

Now, I will say, if there's a landscaping issue or something that they bring to our attention, we do get, we can go out there and clean it and clear it up and let them through, give them the access. The whole point is, maintain the alleyways so they can actually access their facilities and do what they need to do, which is what we're committing to.

And these lines are underground. So they're really underground, and then they connect to a transformer on private property. So the way we design and install our facilities, they're meant to stay there forever. It's not intentional that we would move it, but if there's a drainage project, we have to anticipate certain things. If there's a drainage project, if there's I mean, we can't account for everything because, you know, we don't know. But I guess in the reality of it, right, we try to contemplate for everything that we can possibly think of. But our intent is to put it there and never have to touch it again. It's, you know, we don't want to do that. We want to move on to the next project so we can get everybody underground. So that's the intent, so.

Thank you.

So, you know, the disagreement, the one that you had before you, is much better, in our opinion, than the first version that we received. They have been cooperative in working with that. There is, in the backup memo, the concern really is the liability, the indemnification. You know, it is what it is. At this point, it's a business decision. what comforts me is knowing that there's precedent they have already an area that's underground and we haven't had any issues really with them plus they've been in business for a while a minute you know and they kind of know what they're doing as far as undergrounding but that as your city manager and your attorney and he's your attorney obviously that's something that we just needed to make sure that you guys go into this eyes wide open

And that's why I appreciate the residents showing up and speaking. It helps with the decision a lot more. So thank you for speaking up.

Through the chair.

Addis, I remember I ran into you at the airport.

Yes. It was taking so long. But it had to take this long. And so if I remember when you were here with your team of engineers, I really got the impression that the engineers were like, no, it has to be this way because that's what we know how to do. And sure, but they need to be open to new ways of doing things, better ways of working. Every city is different. And we pride ourselves by having our alleys. We can guarantee the alleys will be kept unobstructed. That's our job, to make sure the residents are cutting back things, they're not putting things in the alleys. But it just always seemed to me that you look down an alleyway, it's just power lines. It's like a straight shot. It's like easier than dealing with the front yard of a house that may want to put a driveway. I'm just looking at it practically. I know it wasn't what the engineers envisioned, but again, every city is different. And thank you again for wanting to work with our unique differences.

Thank you. No, it's just that most cities don't have alleys. So it's, you know, our standard, and that's what we, you know, we try to standardize our process so it's easier. We serve a large territory. It's not just, you know, Miami-Dade County. We're up the East Coast, Panhandle. So, you know, we have to kind of standardize things to be able to be more efficient. But we did hear your concerns. We did take it back. We worked with our leadership and, you know, We had to put money into it, and at the end of the day, you know how that is, right? But we got it. We're here. We, I guess, negotiated this, and I think we're in a good place to move forward and continue. And thank you. And your team has been wonderful. They've been my daily or weekly calls with your manager and your attorney, and they've been wonderful to work with as well.

As Councilman Santin said, the devil's in the details. Yes.

Okay. All right. Thank you, Addis.

And Mr. Santin, too. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

I'd like to entertain a motion to approve 12A. So move. Okay. Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Okay. We have a motion, second?

Vice Mayor Llamas? Yes. Councilman Santine? Yes. Councilman Dionne? Yes. Councilman Perez-Crespo? Yes. Mayor Fahed? Yes. The motion carries.

Okay, we move on to 12B, an ordinance on first reading.

In ordinance of the City of Miami Springs, Florida, creating Article 18 impact fees of Chapter 150 of the City's Code of Ordinances to adopt, collect, and administer impact fees for one, general government, two, law enforcement, and three, parks and recreation, providing for conflicts, providing for severability, providing for codification, and providing for an effective date.

Thank you.

well mayor this is a project that started quite a quite a while ago it's finally coming to to completion impact fees the reason why first of all the reason why it took so long is it required an incredible amount of information that wasn't necessarily readily available and we had to kind of track that that down So what you have before you is a proposal to implement impact fees for parks and recreation, general government facilities, and police. The proposal or the fees that are in the report are the maximum allowable to be set based on the information that we provided them. my recommendation and again i put i i'm recommending 50 i'm okay to adjust wherever you want but the reason why i wanted at 50 is impact fees normally obviously you there is to offset the impact of new development but at the same time if you set them too high in a city that kind of struggling for development right now on 36th street especially we may discourage development. So I wanted to get our foot in the door, set it at 50%, and then a couple of years, see how well it does. Hopefully 36th Street starts taking some shape, whether it's hotels or whatever. And in a couple of years, readdress it again and take a look at it. And if we have to increase it, we increase. That was my strategy. Again, that was my logic behind it.

uh through the chair yeah this has been long coming uh like the manager said unfortunately because our you know our city is antiquated to say the least in certain things it took that while to get information that you would normally have from every department we did not have it and it took this long here we are with the language that we have in front of us because of the time also i personally you know in reference to a reduction on their recommendation i don't i think that what's driving lack of investment to our area is of something else and it's not because we're going to possibly put impact fees to me they know this is the regular course of business so to me to give any discount to the developer i'm not in favor So to me, 50% is probably a little bit more than I would be considering. But we know that we have to do something. And so we're here, and I'm glad we're here. It seems like it's been almost two years. since our former council implemented the initiative. So no, I think that there's something else not driving investment to this community, and it's not the possibilities or the concerns of impact fees. I think they've been lucky for an enormous amount of years that we are one of the few that don't have it. So I'm not as much in favor of the 50%.

That's okay. Again, you're not going to hurt my feelings at all. You just, if you say, hey, that's a little too low, we'll set it at the maximum that they said. It's fine with me. It's either here or there.

Through the chair. I think it's great the 50% is good. We need to encourage some type of development, right, but not some of the stuff we don't want. But I think the biggest issue is, and I agree with Councilman Centine on this, it's not going to be this. There's crime on 36th Street. Most people, when they think of Miami Springs, they don't really think of 36th Street. And we want to make find a way to help promote for that area to represent the rest of the city without losing our small town feel obviously I feel like it's just a mantra we've been saying and having impact fees is not going to be what's going to stop us from doing that.

Okay.

I was just I've said it before I didn't know how we didn't have impact fees so credit to you and your team for looking at these issues in the city and wondering why don't we have this or you know why is this not in place so thank you to Roger and your team for coming up with the numbers you've come up with I think I was really surprised we never

We've never had impact fees, so shocking, it's a big loss. We've had in the past, so much needed.

Okay, if there's no further discussion, I'd like to entertain a motion to approve 12B on first reading.

Motion to approve 12B on first reading.

Okay, do we have a second?

Second that motion.

Okay, call the vote.

Vice Mayor Llamas? Yes. Councilman Santin? Yes. Councilman Dion? Yes. Councilman Perez-Crespo? Yes. Mayor Fahad? Yes. The motion carries.

Okay. So we move on to 12C, which we've already discussed.

You want to read that for us, please, Erica? Okay.

A resolution of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Miami Springs, Florida, co-designating the portion of Oakwood Drive between South Royal Point Siena Boulevard and Kenmore Drive, fronting the new Miami Realtors Global Headquarters, located at 1800 Oakwood Drive as Miami Realtors Way, providing for authorization and providing for an effective date.

I'd like to entertain a motion to approve 12C. So move. Okay. Second. I have a motion and a second. Please call the vote.

Vice Mayor Llamas? Yes. Councilman Santin? Yes. Councilman Dion? Yes. Councilman Perez-Crespo? Yes. Mayor Fahad? Yes. The motion carries.

Okay, well we already took care of 13A, so we move on to reports and recommendations. We start with our esteemed city attorney.

Take it away, Roger. Good evening, Mayor, members of the council. I think I've spoken enough tonight, and it's been a busy night, so no report. All right, city manager.

Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to say September 5th was my third year anniversary year. So I continue to count my blessings to be a part of this community and work with such amazing people and talented in council and vice mayor, mayor and vice mayor and council that truly care for their city. And it's a real blessing. So I appreciate that.

All right, thank you. Assistant city manager?

Nothing to report. Okay, all right. City clerk?

Nothing to report tonight.

All right, keep it going, guys.

City council, we'll start with you, Fabian. Thank you, Mayor.

Monday Night Football just kicked off, no pressure.

Really quick, I just want to acknowledge Mr. Kobyakov's letter to us. I've been at Historic Preservation Board meetings. This has been talked about somehow. So I'm going to address this with the Historic Board and see what we can do for that. To Carlos Umpoy, I know you've given this to us before. I have questions, okay? I think Mikey's excited over something over there. Again, I have questions like, when you're saying double density, modest home, what is modest? You said we've climbed to 28,000 residents. have questions I just want to mention that so but what I want to start with today is I want to encourage everyone to thank you for the Pelican Playhouse for if you got to see we all went to see the performance I thought it was one of the better performances of community theater so but I encourage everyone to support local community theater it was sold out Saturday night and Sunday was sold out every show should be sold out right councilman dion every show should be sold out so get out there and support your community theater they're doing incredible work uh tomorrow night activate 36th street right community session at the eb hotel let's get people out there here's your chance here's your chance so um get out there and let's have a discussion let's have a conversation about what 36th street is um tomorrow night friday night women's club has a spaghetti for cause dinner from 5 to 7 p.m. Adults are 15, kids are 12, and proceeds fund their backpack program for food and secure children. That's Friday night. And then Saturday, the Lions Club has Oktoberfest from 4 to 8 p.m. as they raise funds for pediatric cancer. That's all for me. Thank you, Mayor.

Okay. Vice Mayor.

Congratulations, JC. Thanks for everything you do. Great play. And please everybody show up tomorrow so we can get all your opinions on everything on 36th Street. Thank you.

All right, Councilman Dion.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for the awesome proclamation you did for Sam yesterday. It was just very heartwarming, and the community came together around the arts. He's put a lot of time into this community, and he had even mentioned that he was down here at a hotel for the weekend just to do the play, because he's already moved up. just a great guy and congratulations JC on your three years and I hope to see the community come out there tomorrow so they could express their views if there's one thing that and I'd like to focus on what we we come together around this subject is we want to see change on 36th Street How that change, we might see it in different ways, but if you don't ask the questions, get the answers, be receptive, then the change will never come.

So, thank you guys.

Councilman Santino? Also, the Pelican. That was a playhouse, closed line, great. I really enjoyed it so much. I think I didn't stop sending Instagram posts to get people to go there. At least George said that maybe it would help because it was sold out the whole weekend. But it was great. It's another testament to this beautiful community that we live in, one of our other treasures that we need to continue to support. As well, tomorrow we do have an important meeting. Hopefully that message got across, not just from us, but you saw it somewhere. Maybe the future kiosk will help get this information out there to the public when we have important agenda items and meetings. The last thing I wanted to talk about a little bit, maybe our chief can speak up real quick on this, was this conversation about the delineators on our circle. Contrary to many we are constantly working a lot of times behind the scenes trying to do the best we can for safety to improve our community and between the chief Castillo a year ago or maybe a little bit less than a year ago and to our new chief we've had meetings with the county about the roads the circle as much as people don't want anything to change the reality is our police have already made notice that there is a problem we've had accidents in there we're seeing a lot more pedestrian traffic you're seeing the kids up the you know young families with the strollers so we have a concern area and of course we're having conversations but in particularly why those things got brought up it wasn't even something that we suggested it's just the county has a mind of their own and sometimes uh and unfortunately if you want to say something too about it chief i would appreciate it but We've been working on it because there's some concerns There are concerns there and you should not be from that right lane from westward. You should not go straight into that circle That's just the bottom line.

Yeah, so it's it's an ongoing thing and as a councilman mentioned it's it's been ongoing conversations and We are doing everything we can to try to alleviate the situation at the circle without taking away from the actual look of the circle As you know, those delineators are not the best looking aesthetically for the city. So We're weighing a ton of options. They were placed again overnight by the county We realized that they weren't doing what we wanted them to do. So they were quickly removed and But other than that, we are listening to comments and we're open to any suggestions, but we are working on trying to alleviate the traffic situation and some of the concerns that the residents have.

Chief and the county actually apologize to you.

Yes, they did. The county, again, this was something that was a work order was placed prior to me even being in this position. And like you said, the county has a mind of their own. They went ahead and overnight they put these things up there and they weren't. We gave it about a two-week trial. I guess you could call it a trial. And it didn't work out. So that's why they're no longer there. But we are continuing to look at other options.

What about the arrow?

Yeah, that was another issue. Instead of shaving away, if they were going to come out and do what they did, instead of shaving away the left turn, they shaved off the one that goes straight. That caused a little bit of confusion there as well. Again, it wasn't our fault. It wasn't our doing.

Can you explain a little bit that sometimes these roads that we want to do things because you obviously would know better, our police department knows better. Unfortunately, we don't have the right.

Yes. So some roads, obviously, they do not belong to us. They're not a local road. So again, it's a county road. And again, they decide to do things on their own account. And I don't blame them because they are trying their best to try to, you know, alleviate the situation, but sometimes it's not in the best interest of the city or aesthetically it's not the best looking thing either, so.

Thank you.

Thank you, Chief.

Ben?

Just before you continue, Mayor, I had just one thing. Going back to the budget, just in case, I know we're covered, it's in the resolution, but know how trim notices are and trim regulations are um the second budget hearing is on september 28th at 7 p.m here in the council meeting so i wanted to make that announcement all right all right okay and again we invite everyone to come out tomorrow night to the eb hotel uh for uh there's gonna be i believe hors d'oeuvres

SERVED ALWAYS LIKE THAT BUT DEFINITELY HAVE SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT WHAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS WITH ACTIVATE SOUTHEAST SPRINGS SO COME ON OUT AND GET INFORMED OKAY ALL RIGHT THAT BEING SAID WE ADJOURN THIS MEETING AT 8 35 THANK YOU

Thank you.