Village Commission - Regular Meeting

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Thank you.

Good evening, neighbors and friends. My name is Rachel Streifeld, and I'm calling to order the May 2026 meeting of the Northway Village Commission.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll? Commissioner Acosta. Present. Commissioner Cervoni. Present. Commissioner Darrell. Here. Vice Mayor Cook. Present. Mayor Streifeld.

Yes, I'm here as well. Let's all stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay. We're going to move on to the order of business. Does anyone have any additions to the agenda? Anything they'd like to move around and any deferrals?

Madam mayor. Yes. I'd like to pull item 11 D as in David from the consent agenda.

Okay.

And I'd like to add on their presentations. Joseph Sam is here from Representative Wasabi's office. He wants to do a legislative report.

Great. We will add the legislative update from Representative Wasabi's office as 3D legislative update. Does anyone else have anything that they would like to move around, pull, or add?

Madam Mayor, can we move the item up to the top of the agenda so we have an opportunity to discuss because I believe a lot of residents are here to discuss that item tonight.

This is item 14B. Yep. Absolutely, we can move that up to the top after we hear public comments. So for 14B, I think we'll do all four of our presentations, including the legislative update. We'll do our open forum and our reports, I think. And then we'll take 14B after that, before the consent agenda. Is that okay with everyone?

Yes.

That works.

Mayor, I'd like to pull item 11B and move it to June. You do want to move it to June? Move it to June. Okay.

11B as in boy? Yes. 11B. 11B as in boy. All right. But 11D, we're pulling just to discuss and vote on it separately, right? Okay. Okay. Estado? Okay, can I have a motion on the revised agenda and seconded by Commissioner Acosta? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed? Seeing no opposition, we have our order of business for the evening. And now we get to kick off our presentations. It's so nice to see so many people here. Thanks for joining us, everybody. We're going to kick off our presentations. This is the first of the evening. It is National Public Works Week, and as a vulnerable island community where public works are quite literally keeping us thriving here, our proclamation celebrating Public Works Week is very poignant and well understood. Who's receiving this? Roger, are you here? Tim?

Superintendent Tim.

Superintendent Tim. Just short Super Tim for short. Come on up, Tim Smith. Go ahead and hang out there. Yeah, face us. and we're gonna read this proclamation. This is for you and the amazing team that you work with. Whereas public works professionals focus on the infrastructure, facilities, and services that are of vital importance to sustainable and resilient communities, and to public health, high quality of life, and the well-being of the people of North Bay Village. And whereas North Bay Village would not have infrastructure facilities or services without the dedicated efforts of public works professionals who are hardworking people and valued neighbors, engineers, managers, and employees who are responsible for rebuilding, improving, and protecting our villages and our nation's flood protection, hurricane preparation, emergency response, roads, grounds, water supply, sanitary, sewer, and solid waste systems, public buildings, landscaping, removal of yard waste and bulk pickup, park maintenance, and other services essential for our residents. And whereas it is in the public interest for the citizens, civic leaders, and children of North Bay Village to gain knowledge of and maintain an ongoing interest and understanding of the importance of public works and public works programs in their community, And whereas North Bay Village residents have a deep and special appreciation for our public works team, which is the result of the dedication, kindness, care, hard work, friendliness, and seemingly constant presence of NBV public works officials in the village, and whereas the residents of North Bay Village regularly share their praise and gratitude for public works team members, and the work they do for our village is tremendously appreciated and valued. And whereas North Bay Village has an ambitious plan to protect our homes from sea level rise and to upgrade our long-neglected infrastructure to meet the challenges of the future, and the village's public works professionals are rising to the occasion and setting the village on a course for resilience against stronger storms, higher tides, and increased demands across all village systems. And whereas the year 2026 marks the 66th annual National Public Works Week sponsored by the American Public Works Association. And whereas I urge all residents to join with representatives of the American Public Works Association and government agencies in paying tribute to our public works professionals, engineers, managers, and employees, and to recognize the substantial contributions they make to protecting our villages and our nation's health, safety, and advancing quality of life. Now, therefore, I, Rachel Streifeld, Mayor of North Bay Village, and on behalf of the North Bay Village Commission, do hereby recognize and proclaim May 17th to the 23rd, 2026, as National Public Works Week, and in witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of North Bay Village to be affixed this 19th day of May, 2026. We tried to say literally everything that we could about how much we're so grateful for you. And so I think we kind of accomplished that.

Well, thank you, Madam Mayor, Commission, Village Manager Frank Roderson, and our Director Stephen Buckler for your continued support. You know, we as a team of individuals, we strive in keeping North Bay Village a great place to live, work, and play.

So thank you, guys. Thank you very much.

Tim, thank you so much. Felix, Tim, Howard, Noel. I don't know if they're here. We love you guys so much. Let's get public works up here. Let's take a picture with this proclamation.

Don't be shy, don't be shy. Is this it? We're now? Perfect. All right.

Ready? One, two, three. Should we go with this one?

Yeah. Okay, so I can't wait to see the Proclamation hanging in our new Public Works building, which is just over the bridge in Little River and is being renovated as we speak. It is going to be the home of our Public Works department, as well as some of our critical tools that we have. We have a vac truck, we've got generators there, All of the equipment that used to live in the parking lot over at Grove by the Bay has been relocated to our new facility. And so that was funded with stormwater bond money, and it is a critical facility for us as we continue to invest in infrastructure operations and maintenance. Let's move on to 3B, which is presentation of the... Okay, yeah, I guess we'll do this now. The presentation of the 2023-2024 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report.

We have Brandon Lopez with CBIS. We are external auditors. Hi, Brandon. Please go right ahead. Tough to follow up that, not as exciting. No, it's not going to go well for you. Thank you for having me. My name is Brandon Lopez. I'm the partner with CBCPA. We're your external auditors. And I'm here today to go through the September 30, 2024 issued ACFR. I'm going to go through some key areas and highlights. How long do you anticipate this presentation to be? I could go very high level, if you like.

Go as high level as you possibly can. And if there are questions from the dais, we'll get into them. But as high level as you can, because we're doing another audit right now.

Understood. So the most important thing, we're doing a financial statement audit and a compliance audit. The financial statement audit, we give an opinion on it, and that's on printed page one of this document. And the report, the opinion that we gave on this financial statement is what's called an unmodified, a clean opinion over the financial statements. And that's really the only opinion as a village and as a commission you want to be associated with. So I definitely want to make sure I mention that you received an unmodified, clean opinion on the financial statements, the numbers. When we do a financial statement audit under government auditing standards, we're doing also a compliance audit and taking a look at some of the processes. And we do have some recommendations that we have gone through with management that they're in the process of addressing as we roll into the 2025 audit. There's some key items that due to the transition and some of the delays that kind of rolled into this audit and also in 2025. And one thing I just mentioned, This is our first year as the auditors. We were awarded the contract back in July of 2025. So our goal is to help the village get caught up and get everything back in order and cleaned up as we move forward for the future years.

Thank you very, very much. Does anyone have any questions about our 23-24 audit? Our 24-25 audit is in process. And just so everyone on the dais is aware, I've asked Village staff to get me the draft audit before I leave for Alaska in June so that I can review it and redline it while I'm away. The 23-24 had some substance, not on your side of things, but on our side of the things, there were some really meaningful issues that need to be addressed in the next audit. So that's what we're doing for 24-25. questions comments from the days thank you thank you very much thank you so much yep okay chief noriega deputy chief behar the presentation of the village police department 2025 officer and civilian of the year i'm really glad that there are so many people here in the room tonight to to watch this presentation it's Thank you. Please.

Thank you, Mayor. Good evening. Good evening, Commissioners. And I am thrilled to be here. First of all, Carlos Noriega, for the record, Chief of Police. I'm thrilled to be here this evening to recognize some incredible individuals for the Police Department. I always say when I give these awards out, it's never an easy choice, easy decision, but the competition's fierce, the performances are fantastic, and the employees are just great representatives and ambassadors of this village. So I'm going to start today on this momentous occasion recognizing our Civilian of the Year, Marie Armand. Please come up. it is my honor and privilege to present records clerk marie armand as a winner of the 2025 north bay village police department civilian of the year marie has been an extremely loyal and dependable employee of a north bay village for the last 24 years 11 of which have been with the police department during that time marie has worn many different hats including working for the finance department the building department, public works, the village clerk, the front office reception area, and of course, the police department. Ms. Armand's talents and aptitude are understated, mainly due to the low key and even keeled demeanor she routinely displays. Marie has always provided consistently high quality work and has never failed to deliver on executing any of her assigned duties, nor any situation during her tenure with the North Bay Village Police Department. She is a consummate team player and a trusted employee. Anything having to do with police records, Marie is always on top of it. Marie Armand's responsibilities as record clerk include the management and storage of records, which involves processing, filing, maintaining, and retrieving police records and reports related to criminal offenses, incidents, traffic accidents, and supplemental reports. She is also responsible for handling public records requests in compliance with Florida state statutes. Maria consistently addresses all these matters in a timely and highly professional manner. Additionally, Ms. Armand's duties include distributing reports to law enforcement personnel, courts, state attorneys, victims, members of the public. Marie ensures the integrity and security of all our records by properly safeguarding confidential information and redacting sensitive data prior to releasing the documents. She consistently delivers exceptional performance in all aspects of her job. For all these reasons stated and many more, Ms. Marie Armand has been selected as a 2025 North Bay Village Civilian of the Year. Congratulations, Marie.

So, Marie, we have a certificate for you from the Northview Village Police Department. 2025 Civilian of the Year. Presented to the records clerk, Marie Armand, in recognition of your outstanding dedication, professionalism, and commitment to excellence. Your hard work, integrity, and exceptional service have made a lasting impact for law enforcement. Made it today, May 19th. Congratulations. Thank you.

Thank you, Commission and administrative guests. I accept this humbly, pleasantly surprised. This job is like therapy for me, and maybe that's why I do it so well. And I share this with my staff, my communication staff. If it wasn't for them, even though it is a one-person job, but they helped me out a lot. So I share this with all of them, previous ones and the current communications team. So thank you. Thank you.

Well-deserved, Marie. What a great employee. Next, we have our Officers of the Year, and I'd like to preface this by saying we had never selected two Officers of the Year for the same year, but we had such great work in both the areas of investigations and patrol that we had no choice. It was a dead heat, and after many hours of debating, we decided to do Co-Officers of the Year. So I'm going to ask Detective Corporal Hubert Molina to please come up. It is my honor and privilege to present Detective Corporal Hubert Molina as co-winner of the 2025 Napa Village Police Department Office of the Year. Detective Corporal Molina is recognized for outstanding all-around work and performance throughout the year as a member of the Criminal Investigations Unit. His extensive investigative work in 2025 includes two high-profile crimes that were either cleared by arrest or exceptionally cleared. The first involved a targeted armed robbery involving a coordinated effort between local and out-of-state subjects who targeted multiple victims at a driveway in the residence of Treasure Island. The crime resulted in a police pursuit where the subjects jumped off the West Causeway Bridge into the water. The body of one deceased subject was recovered from the water around Pelican Harbor Marina the following day and positively identified by the victim as a primary aggressor and perpetrator of the robbery. The stolen property worth thousands of dollars in jewelry was also recovered, and the case was exceptionally cleared. The perpetrator also became the subject of interest in many other cases around the state. And that case, I believe, is still being worked, not just from the state of Florida, but all the way across the country to, I believe, the Seattle, Oregon area. So great work on that. The second case involved an arson investigation with three vehicles. in a parking lot were set on fire along with the residents located just down the street, again on Treasure Island. The comprehensive follow-up investigation produced leads identifying a subject who resided in a nearby apartment building. The subject was subsequently located, arrested, and a full confession was obtained. Detective Corporal Molina was instrumental in clearing that case by arrest. For his work on both these cases, Detective Corporal Molina was nominated for prestigious Miami-Dade County Association of Chiefs of Police Officer of the Month twice, coming in as runner-up on those award selections. These results reflect much of the work done by Detective Corporal Molina throughout the year, which regularly produced successful outcomes, cleared cases, and completed background investigations for newly hired employees for the Village, especially the Police Department. For his superior investigative work last year, Hubert was also selected for the North Bay Village Police Department Officer of the Quarter Award, the Anthony DiMato Legacy Award by the Aventura Marketing Council, And he is also currently a finalist for the National U.S. Attorney General's Award for Investigative Excellence. Love to go visit the White House for that one. That would be great. During the same period, he was promoted to the rank of corporal for the Criminal Investigations Unit. For his outstanding performance in 2025, Detective Corporal Molina has been selected for this distinguished award. Congratulations, Corporal Molina.

2025 Officer of the Year for Investigations, Detective Corporal Hubert Molina, in recognition of your outstanding dedication, professionalism, and commitment to excellence. Your hard work, integrity, and exceptional service have made a lasting impact on law enforcement. Today, May 19th, 2026, congratulations. Thank you.

Thank you, Chief. Appreciate for this honor.

Thank you.

I can't believe he's shy in front of the microphone. He's certainly not in the field, that's for sure. And we have a common love of boxers, dogs. And, you know, that makes him a great person, in my opinion, just on that alone. The next co-runner of the Officer of the Year is Corporal Marcel Ascanio. Please come up. Through exceptional performance in a variety of areas, Corporal Marcel Ascanio has delivered on the stellar year for the North Bay Village Police Department. Starting 2025 off as a patrol officer, Marcel subsequently developed a strong interest in being considered for appointment to corporal and being given an opportunity to evolve as a leader. As time went on, he backed up his request with a consistently strong performance and demonstrated the abilities necessary to receive serious consideration for that position. Eventually, Marcel was selected for the position and appointed to the rank of corporal. In that capacity, he hit the ground running and began to build on his leadership abilities in a highly transitional period for the police department. We've lost a lot of experience and gained a lot of new folks. Marcel was paired up with a newly promoted sergeant and applied his skill set to complement the development of his supervisor. Without any hesitation, he has routinely exemplified the willingness to lead from the front and take control of situations. Following his promotion, Corporal Escamillo continued to excel in many areas with a very strong focus on traffic enforcement. He led all officers in statistics, traffic enforcement, and he was just doing everything that needed to be done to help us control traffic, as everybody always realizes that it is a constant challenge. His exceptional work in that specific area produced remarkable results, which subsequently led to his selection to our award-winning traffic team. Throughout the year, Corporal Escanio was involved in many agency highlights and accomplishments to include arrest, life-saving events, and high-profile incidents. In one of the most tragic cases that Mercury Village has ever been associated with, Corporal Escanio was a key player in the prosecution of the subject responsible for the reckless homicides involving three of our residents in a horrific criminal vehicular accident. Marcel's involvement and passionate testimony with that incident, investigation, and trial was the main reason that that case concluded with a guilty verdict of 20 years for that subject. He delivered justice for the victims. He delivered justice for the family. Corporal Escondido's superior hands-on performance in all areas of his assignment and development as a leader have been instrumental in the overall success of the North Bay Village Police Department in 2025. Marcel's experience, influence, and superior accomplishments throughout that period have served to maintain the police department's continued momentum with ongoing development of its personnel. As a result of his outstanding achievements with patrol-related services, Our agency and our community have been well served. Congratulations on being selected as co-winner for the Officer of the Year 2025.

Congratulations.

2025 Officer of the Year for Patrol. Presented Corporal Marcel Ascanio in recognition of your outstanding dedication, professionalism, and commitment to excellence. Your hard work, integrity, and exceptional service have made a long-lasting impact for law enforcement. Congratulations again.

The Chiefs know how much I love to public speak. So I like to put them in these positions. I just want to say thank you guys for the support and the opportunities given. I'm truly grateful for it. Most importantly, I want to thank my wife and my babies back there. You know, the support is uncanny. And thank you guys for being with me throughout the schedules and all the changes that we'll be going through in life. Thank you, guys. And thank you, Chief, for the opportunity and the selection. Appreciate it.

What I would like to do photo-wise is like it's amazing to see our whole squad here to support you all. So let's get the entire PD who's here. Everybody come up front. Commissioners are going to stay back here. We're going to do it with everybody together. Okay. That's a good feeling. Yeah. We're staying here for the purposes of this photo. That way, right? Right? Can you see it? You can see us behind them, right, Christina? Yeah?

Okay.

Chief, step a little bit back. Get together like you work together. Like you're in the range and you've been in the dirt and the mud. Okay. Okay. Such a good vibe. We're gonna stand on chairs back here. All right, now let's do a couple with the winners. And the families. And the families, and the families, yeah. Yes. Yes. Congratulations. Oh, no. Congratulations. Congratulations. Hey, how's it going? Thank you so much. Thank you so much.

Ready?

Congratulations.

okay next up we're getting a legislative update we're going to find out what has been going on in tallahassee mr sams is here on behalf of representative basabe hi welcome good evening may commissioners city staff and residents my name is joseph sams and i'm here on behalf of state representative fabian basabe

I also want to say personally that watching Representative Basabe work has been eye-opening. Whether people agree with him politically or not, one thing becomes clear very quickly. He is accessible, he is engaged, and he's willing to have real conversations with anyone. Love him or debate him, there is no questioning his dedication to the people he represents or how deeply he cares about our community. I've seen people begin conversations with frustration and walk away finding far more common ground than they expected. In a time where politics often feel scripted or distant, he answers his phone, he responds directly to residents, and he engages with people from all perspectives. As someone becoming more involved in public affairs and soon to become a first-time voter, I can honestly say that watching Representative Basabe work has inspired me to become more informed and more engaged in how government actually impacts people's daily lives. Representative Basaves asked me to provide a brief legislative update on some of the work being done in Tallahassee that directly impacts communities throughout District 106. This legislative session has focused heavily on affordability, infrastructure, healthcare, public safety, education, resiliency, and quality of life issues affecting families all across Florida. On affordability, the legislature continued working on tax relief efforts, insurance reforms, housing policy, and infrastructure accountability as rising costs continue impacting residents statewide. Representative Basabe has also been outspoken about the importance of responsible growth management, emphasizing that growth must pay for growth, and that established coastal communities should not be forced to absorb overdevelopment without proper planning, resiliency protections, infrastructure capacity, and public input. North Bay Village has done an excellent job in balancing growth, investment, infrastructure, and neighborhood quality of life, while continuing to position themselves for the future. This session also included investment in environmental protection, flooding mitigation, water quality improvements, utility accountability, cybersecurity protections, and long-term resiliency planning because South Florida communities understand how important smart infrastructure planning truly is. There was also a significant focus this session on improving transparency in local government finances, strengthening cybersecurity protections for municipalities, modernizing infrastructure systems, and ensuring public resources are managed responsibly and efficiently. As Vice Chair of the Human Services Subcommittee, Representative Basabe remains heavily focused on healthcare oversight, mental health, elder care, disability services, homelessness, and accountability taxpayer-funded systems. He does this to make sure programs are properly managed and services actually reach residents. There is also continued support for seniors, healthcare access, law enforcement, and first responders all throughout Florida. Education also remained a major priority of this session, including support for teachers, expanded educational opportunities, accountability, and stronger student outcomes. Representative Basabe also continued supporting Florida's economy, tourism, arts, and creative industries, including legislation creating the Florida Film Legacy Specialty License Plate Initiative to support Florida's film and entertainment industry. Representative Basabe has also continued working closely with local leadership to help secure important funding priorities for North Bay Village. Both the North Bay Village Hall and Public Safety Complex Project and the North Bay Village Outfall Valves Upgrade Phase 2 Project remain in strong positions as the state budget process continues through conference negotiations. Representative Basabit has also asked me to thank the mayor, commission, and city staff for their continued partnership, communication, and public support throughout the legislative process. Residents should also know that their local leaders and state leaders work closely together and have been able to accomplish meaningful results for the community through that teamwork. Representative Wasabe looks forward to continue working together to make sure these state-level priorities are implemented effectively at the local level so residents can see meaningful results in their everyday lives. Most people may know Representative Wasabe and some may only know of him, but I highly encourage everyone to reach out directly, ask questions, stay engaged, and continue the conversation because accessibility and dialogue still matter. Representative Basabe's direct number is 305-907-2653. Does everybody get that? I can repeat that. 305-907-2653. Representative Basabe is grateful for the continued trust, support, and collaboration from residents, business owners, community leaders, and elective officials throughout District 106. Thank you all very much for your time. Have a wonderful rest of your evening.

Thank you, Mr. Sams. Wonderful update. My favorite part about that update was our two appropriations projects are in strong position to make it through budget conference. So we have two requests totaling $1 million. One is for $250,000 to complete the outfalls, our stormwater inlet outfalls, which are going to keep our streets dry during king tides. And the second appropriations request is for three quarters of a million dollars to help us complete our North Bay Village public safety complex, our village hall, police and fire station. So thank you again, Mr. Sams and Fabian. We love you. Thank you. Let's move on now to open forum. This is the part of the meeting where we listen to public comment. It is open to anyone if you have filled out a blue speaker card, if you have not filled out a blue speaker card. If you've got a speaker card, please come forward. I don't think we have a process for getting those to the clerk in advance. Come on up, Kevin. You can give it to the clerk. So we're going to hear from you all when it's your turn. You'll give us your name and address for the record. You'll have a couple of minutes. Typically the Commission does not respond to public comment. This is our opportunity to listen to hear what you have to say and more than likely will address your comments over the course of the meeting.

Yeah, we're going to do it all now.

Yeah. Okay. Madam Clerk, go ahead and call the first card.

Mr. Kevin Collins?

Well, you got up first, buddy. That's how it works.

Yeah. Mayor, and this is, he's talking about item 14B. Yeah. So we're going to take them all together? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Go ahead, sir.

Okay. Well, good evening, Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager, residents of Alexi, and fellow residents. Thank you for allowing me to speak tonight. I come before you not simply as a soccer parent, but as a resident who cares deeply about the future of North Bay Village, our community spaces, and the families who live here. This issue is bigger than soccer. It is about whether the interests and voices of NBV residents will continue to come first as larger outside entrants and significant money enter our community. Many residents supported the vision for these sports facilities because we believe that they were being developed primarily for MBP families, children, and residents. We supported the investment because we believe that this was about building community, creating opportunities for our youth, and strengthening the local recreational programs. However, many residents now have serious concerns regarding who will ultimately control and primarily benefit from these facilities. AFA appears to be marketing this complex as a home base for an international sports initiative and global project. If that is the direction being pursued, then residents deserve transparency and direct answers. What percentage of these facilities will actually remain available for MBV residents and local programs? Will the homegrown MBV soccer program, the very program that helped inspire and sustain interest in this project, eventually lose meaningful access to the fields? Why are MBV families being invited to celebrate this project if the primary long-term beneficiaries may ultimately be outside organizations? How will the village ensure equitable access for all MBV families and community programs? And how will the village address legitimate lighting and quality of life concerns impacting nearby residents? I also want to respectfully point out that another concern has caused uncertainty within the community. The MBV community soccer program director still has not had his updated contract ratified for more than four months. That delay sends a troubling message to the residents, coaches, parents, and children who helped build this local program long before outside organizations arrived. Stability, transparency, and timely decision-making matter when dealing with programs that directly impact our children and families. I'm going to skip a long part of this. and go to the ending. So this is not about division. It is not about attacking anyone. And it's about accountability, transparency, and ensuring that residents remain the priority when decisions are made involving public community resources. Our residents, families, and children should never feel like outsiders in facilities that were presented to this community as being built for them. I respectfully ask this government to ensure that the voices of MBB residents remain central in every major decision involving those facilities moving forward. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Kevin. Madam Clerk, who's next? Natalie Chang, or? Natalie?

Yes. Good afternoon, my name is Nathalie Cheniere. I reside at 7901 Crispringela Avenue. And I'd like to thank you for taking the time to hear my thoughts. Also following up on the AFA development, and I'm wanting to express my concerns specifically around the noise, traffic congestion, and parking overflow. Specifically, what protections will exist regarding the loudspeaker announcements, music, tournament activity, and extended hours of operation? I live facing that building and I can hear children at play during the day normally, so I have concerns about soccer fans and all the noise that happens when these types of events takes place. Will there be an enforceable noise limit and who will residents contact if these issues arise? concerned about increased activity affecting just the quiet essence of the neighborhood, which is why I mentioned the first phase. I'm curious to know if traffic studies have been completed for high attendance events. It looks a lot bigger when I'm looking at it from my balcony than it did in renderings and pictures of maps. How will the congestion be managed during peak activity hours? And I also have just concerns about safety backups and increased strain on the local roads. I'm anticipating and starting to be really concerned about just like a lot of outsider people just constantly navigating our streets. And then just a request for ongoing communication with us as residents as these operations continue to evolve and whether or not operational standards and community protections will be publicly available and enforceable. I thoroughly support the program, the project, the growth of our beautiful village, and just want to make sure that we continue to have transparency and protection to preserve the quality of life for all of us that are already here. So thank you again. Respectfully. Thank you, Natalie.

Thank you.

Madam Vice. Dan Massell.

Good evening, everybody. My name is Dan Mazza. I work with Fortune International Development and Christie's. I'm sure you all know who Edgardo de Fortuna is. I am a builder. My partner and I, we are building two houses here in the community at 7516 Bounty and also at 7509 Buccaneer. I'm sure you're probably familiar with those two houses that are being put up right now. What I wanted to talk to the community about was regarding the two entrance and exit, the three entrance and exit points of that neighborhood. Is there a way, and I'm sure that this probably came up in discussion, that a petition can be started or a discussion can be started regarding possibly gating the community? There isn't.

I'm shaking my head. There is absolutely not, no.

Why not?

We can talk about it offline, but the attempts to gate Treasure Island go back to the 80s and 90s, sir, and it is completely going to fail. So thank you for your public comment, though.

Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Luis Nava.

Good evening.

Luis Navas, 7927 East Drive, owner of two East Drive apartment buildings for 11 years and three vacant lots for approximately three years. I'm here to speak about the land lease that we've undertaken with the village for our vacant property on East Drive by just telling you a little bit of history of our family's history. We are real estate developers, but we are also long-term neighbors, and my family intends to live in Arbor Island when our project is completed. Our family has always tried to help MDV because we love MDV. When Majestic Isle on East Drive was suddenly condemned, we offered free rent to two families, one that had a pregnant mother and another that had someone going through cancer treatment because we love MDV. When it became clear that MBB would benefit from marketing itself, we led the creation and financing of the Chamber of Commerce because we love MBB. When we were buying our TDRs in January 2025, the village manager advised me that he was concerned about construction staging for the new village hall. I told him that we wanted to help because we knew how important the new village hall with the new fire department was for NBB. And at that time we had owned the half acre lot on East Drive for about one year. We had owned the next door lot for 1.1 acres to the north for approximately 11 years. It's an expensive empty lot to carry at over $600,000 a year in expenses, mainly because in order to close the transaction, we had to accept seller financing. But we wanted to make it happen because I was specifically tired of seeing the empty lots on East Drive. We started to look for ways to generate revenues to offset those costs. And at that time, the village manager came back to me. He basically said that he did need staging a lot for the building of Village Hall, which we wanted to support. The village manager came back with his estimate that the land was likely worth about $15 per square foot or about $327,000 per year in rent, but that the village could not afford that. And I asked him if a 50% reduction would help. And he was thankful for that gesture. He also said he didn't need the land until summer 2025. And I said I would hold it until that time. And I said, no problem. You know, we will absorb that. We ended up holding the land for MBV for over a year since we were asked later to accept TDRs instead of cash, which we agreed if it was better for MBV. This time lapse did cost us funds, but we love MBV. We also offered MBV $100,000 in free brand new office trailers that had air conditioning, plumbing, and bathrooms to use during the construction period, but it just didn't work out in terms of timing for the village. We also have offered the land for free for community events, but it didn't work out in terms of security issues. At the last commission meeting, it was approved to allow two TDRs for 24 months, but I offered the village manager to do it for only one TDR for 20 months, which is what it should take for Village Hall to be built because I wanted to send a positive message to the commission that we care about MBV and we want to help because we do love MBV. In total, we saved MBV approximately $503,000 but with the trailers and the holding off the property, it's more. I know some of you would have liked me to have done it for free, but please understand we do have business expenses, we have business partners, and most importantly, as some of you know, I know Commissioner Dorough has come to see our facility in Fort Lauderdale, we do donate all of our profits to children with disabilities and adults with disabilities. So we look forward to continue to supporting NBV in any way that we can. And we seriously appreciate everything that this commission does because we do love NBV. And I think the future is extremely exciting. Thank you for everything you guys do.

Thanks, please. Madam Clerk, who's next? We don't have any additional.

Is there anyone in the room who did not fill out a card but would like to speak during public comment? Okay. I just want to remind our MBV soccer community that 14B is a discussion item. It's not a public hearing. So we're not going to do another round of public comment on the item. So if there's something that you'd like to share with us about the community center, the soccer facilities, Pickleball, Padel, AFA, I welcome you now to provide public comment.

okay public comment please yes we've got a taker come on up sir name and address for the record please my name is steven saul 7901 uh hispanola avenue uh i live in the lexi i'm a new resident i'm happy to be here it's exciting um i live on the south side of the building and um the lights into late at night after 1130 have been extremely strong with no communication as to why. Is this just a temporary thing because they're installing the field with the lights? Or is this going to be an ongoing problem? So communication would be very well welcome. I mean, I assume during games, I would like to know approximately what time the games are expected to take place and how frequently, because I have a large balcony on the south side, and it's lit up bright at night now. So it's just, I won't say it's unacceptable. It is what it is, but it's kind of, it's a very unhappy situation.

I understand completely. Okay.

So we'd like some information and we'd like, if it's just temporary, that's one thing. If it's an ongoing problem, that's an entirely different thing.

Yes, sir.

Okay. Thank you.

Thank you.

Madam Mayor, I have a question for you.

Yes.

We have some of the parents that are still finishing up their practice and they're maybe possibly still trying to arrive to this meeting. Would we allow them to have some type of ability to speak if they come?

I think what I'd like to do on that is I'd like to move the meeting forward and accomplish the business that we have. Like I spent an hour last week at the soccer fields communicating with our soccer parents and I'm happy to spend another hour and another hour and another hour answering questions. So we can do a community town hall. We can do a forum. We can get together on a Saturday morning, whatever makes sense. But we have these commission meetings once a month. We have a lot of business to get through and I want to keep things moving. Does anyone else want to make public comment for the record? We're here to listen. Going once, going twice. Okay. The open forum is closed. we're going to go ahead and approve the commission minutes. Can I have a motion for the April minutes?

We'll make a motion to approve.

And a second.

There is a correction on the minutes.

We need a correction. Do you want to second it and then share the correction?

I will second that and then share the correction.

Okay.

Uh, I've already spoken with the village clerk and she will be fixing it on page three. At the top of the page, the third line states that the vote was 4-0 with Mayor Streitfeld voting against it. It was a 4-1 vote, not a 4-0 vote.

That's right. I will make the correction. Okay. With the correction, we have a motion and a second. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Anyone opposed?

Aye.

Seeing none, we have the Resident Services Advisory Board report. Mr. Farahim, name and address for the record, please. Thank you for being here.

Thank you. My name is Farahim Alili, 1801 South Treasure Drive, 529. So I'm a member of the Resident Services Advisory Board, and I would like to give you a report on what we discussed. Or you would like to stretch your scholarship awards?

Are we presenting the scholarship awards tonight? No.

No.

No. I think as part of your report, you're making recommendations for the scholarship recipients?

Right. They have voted the recipients.

So they're awarding them, basically, by saying that.

No, they're not awarding them tonight, but they're informing the commission of who they selected.

Okay. Okay, we are recommending

Wait, wait, wait. Hang on a second. I don't recall that this is how we've done this in the past. If you guys are recommending the recipients of the scholarship awards, then that needs to happen on the back end to staff. Who's the liaison for the Resident Services Advisory Board?

Myself.

Can you step in, please? Help us out here?

Yeah, sure. I mean, I'm okay with us talking through the nominations.

Really? Why? We haven't been briefed on any of the applicants. We've never chosen the recipients before. Okay.

We can do it next month as well if you want to share the rest of the updates.

Just not to spoil it for the kids that could be watching, just to know who they are. Okay.

It makes it a little more special. We can push it.

But also the selection. We don't select the recipients of those awards.

It's done by the board.

Yeah. Okay. So I don't know that it needs to be shared at the commission in this way until we're ready to present the winners.

Okay. That's okay. It was shared on the board meeting.

Yeah, which is fine. But why have him come here and tell us if we're not presenting them? Let's organize the award presentation and present them with the awards.

We can push that to next month and do a formal presentation.

Thank you.

Well, wait. Was there other...

There was other 5K village, North Bay Village 5K event we discussed. Maybe possibly doing this with Miami Beach. But It's not still pending on this. Also board also discussed the community garden initiative presented by Kelsey, a resident who volunteered to help the run program. Village manager Frank suggested the newly acquired pump station property as a possible location for community garden. The garden will be garden will be, like, it can move. It can, so it will be portable. Other than that, we would discuss summer programs, neighborhood engagement, crime watch.

Okay. Thanks.

Thank you.

Those sound good. I want to ask staff for help guiding advisory boards toward recommendations, resolutions and recommendations. Okay. So the resident services advisory board, the community enhancement advisory board, the sustainability and resilience task force. These are all advisory boards. They exist to make recommendations to us, the commission. And so an action item from an advisory board should come in the form of a resolution of that advisory board, making a recommendation to the commission, whether it's on a specific program or an initiative, it should come in a legislative vehicle, which is a resolution with a recommendation. And we don't expect advisory board members to intuitively know these things. And so if you are a staff member or a commission liaison with your advisory board, let's try to enforce this and help process these recommendations in a little bit more efficient way. Like I just heard five great ideas from the resident services advisory board, but not one of them is coming in the form of an actual recommendation. So either the commission liaison needs to sponsor an item or the advisory board needs to make a recommendation in the form of a resolution and have the commission liaison sponsor that item. And if the commission liaison doesn't want to, like what happened last year with an initiative from the sustainability and resilience task force, where I didn't want to sponsor a thing that they voted on, find another member of the commission to come and bring it and put it on the agenda. So I just wanted to get that out there so that staff and the commission can just kind of do a better job moving things along. But great report. Thank you. Village Commission reports. Who would like to go first?

I can go first. I'd like to start by congratulating Pagani Residences on their groundbreaking ceremony this week. They are now joining the likes of Shoma Bay, Continuum, and Tula Residences. Now we have four major projects actively coming out of the ground. I see that as a major milestone for our city and the momentum for our future. I'd also like to congratulate the Lido on receiving its historical designation, preserving it as an important piece of our community and history. Secondly, I've been working closely with our public's director, Steve, as we're working to improve the north side of Vogel Park. This includes landscaping to the area, replacing a broken fence that is dangerous, and basically improving the overall appearance of the area, which will be used as the primary pedestrian path for our kayak launch. So I appreciate the team's efforts in getting this done and it will be a nice upgrade to Vogel Park and for our community. Third, I'd like to on that note request that we have more regular street cleanings of Harbor Island. I've recently seen an increase of garbage accumulating on the streets, most noticeably by the Bayshore Yacht Club. Additionally, many of the parking curbs, they're collecting large piles of fallen leaves and debris. I think this is an opportunity for beautification and easy maintenance to improve that could greatly enhance the appearance of our neighborhood. Last, I would like to report that the sidewalk initiative is finally entering its last stages of the design. This is a long-awaited infrastructure project for our residents, and I look forward to seeing visible progress on this as early as the next commission meeting. That is all.

Commissioner Dara, thanks so much. Okay, Commissioner Trevone.

Thank you. Commissioner Dara, stop reading my notes. The message I bring this month to the village is one I have shared with the mayor and my fellow commissioners. We have worked tirelessly in bringing development to the village and getting projects in the ground. But now it's time that our dreams, artwork, and promises come to fruition and we see these projects coming up from the ground. Pleased to report the Tula residents, Shoma Bay, Continuum West, and Pagani have all broken ground and are on the way off the ground and zooming to completion. Next on the radar for early 27 is Sunbeams Grove on the Bay, Urbanica, Grand Vita, Related Taupo, and Continuum East. There has been great interest in the village and potential new development is gearing up to be announced. Two upcoming events that I want to remind you about is a ribbon-cutting and grand opening of the Brent W. Latham Community Center that will take place on June 4th at 5 p.m. And on June 17th, we have the next event of North Bay Village Against Hate, which is an interfaith dialogue on hate and how to annihilate this hate. At present, we have invited to speak Father Salazar from St. Martha's, Father Villarro from Unity on the Bay, Imam Abdullah from Miami Beach Mosque, and our own Rabbi Dauphin from North Bay Village, Chabad. We look forward to your participation in these and all other activities taking place in our community. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Acosta.

Thank you so much. Well, this past May 9th, I was very proud to be part of the bike rodeo here in North Village, actually right here outside of City Hall. Thanks to the work with our police department to help me put it together. They bring these events to our communities, part of their efforts to keep our children safe. And it was a wonderful event. We had a contribution from the. TPO, which came over to help us with many free helmets for both adults and children and helmet fitting. A lot of people are not aware, but helmets do expire. So it's great information provided to the kids. And also the officers rode along with the children. And it was just a wonderful experience we had. I want to thank Jessica Polanco for making it all happen. Also, Claudio Navas, who was our DJ and also a resident and a fireman. And again, the TPO Transportation Planning Organization. And I want to also thank JB Bike Shop right here in North Beach. They gave us a $100 gift card for one of the lucky winners and a helmet, which was wonderful. And I was happy to sponsor a brand new bike for another lucky winner. And it was a lovely little girl who won the bike. And again, we're trying to bring more people to feel safe on the roads. And you will see a lot more of these programs coming up here in North Bay Village. uh may 29th we're holding our first anniversary event for the north village chamber of commerce we have our representative right here dave and it's going to be a fabulous event we're almost sold out so i hope people log in and get their tickets and it's going to be a wonderful experience for all of us a combination of hard work for the first year you can log on to nbmbchamber.com to get your tickets and find more information about joining the local chamber of commerce We had also a wonderful cleanup event happening right here just on East Cheshire Drive. And this actually came along by So Fresh and So Clean, also members of the Chamber of Commerce. They gather up volunteers along Shark Gang. And it was around a group of 14 to 15 people that came around. help clean the whole area of East Treasure Drive. I was pleasantly surprised to see people coming in from Miami Lakes and Hallandale to help us. I did find, I would say, five or six tires left behind, and I want to bring that up to attention, on the corner of East Treasure and Galleon. I'm not sure why they're abandoned there. um we did pick up a lot of trash and the kids were very happy there were community service hours and anyone in the community who wants to put together works like this we not only encourage it but we will support it so i'm happy to provide any support available whether it's community service hours sponsorship my own time and so please don't forget to come up to us for that I also want to remind people that I am holding our Treasure Island internship program once again this summer. And that is for college students and high school students. And the applications will start soon. Please keep up with our emails and information provided for sign up. For that, I also was very happy to attend the little plaque reveal alongside our mayor. It was a wonderful event in community. This is a beautiful, beautiful MIMO building right here in North Bay Village. It's located at 7921 East Drive. It's a beautiful pink building. You cannot miss it. But it's a wonderful example of what community can do when they want to get together. They form what a... beautiful group of people who live there and enjoy living in our community. I want to remind everybody that I do hold a monthly Zoom, an agenda review prior to our agenda, normally the Thursday prior to every commission meeting. But if you do want to see me, meet me, please reach me. You can call me at 786-877-1745. And I do hold office hours every Wednesday from 12 to 1. So Thank you all for coming tonight. I'm very excited to see the YMCA here. They have amazing programs. We do have our summer camp starting, and they're doing fabulous. It was our first year last year. It had excellent reviews, and I'm really looking forward to working with you guys this year too.

Vice Mayor. My main topic of conversation tonight is the community center and soccer program. So in the interest of time to all of our residents here tonight, and thank you all for being here, I will waive my commission report.

I'm also waiving my commission report in the interest of time and the volume of discussion items that we have on our agenda tonight, which I have been discussing at length and ad nauseum for the last few weeks behind the scenes. So let's keep things moving. Village Attorney's Report.

I want to congratulate the village on Friday. We closed on the sale of TDRs. I sent you all an update on that, but today, Mr. Manager, you should have $2.4 million that have been transferred over to you.

I happily received it, and thank you for all the work.

Absolutely.

Thank you. I believe you have a substantive report.

Is there not another item that needs to be discussed? Not this evening, Mayor. Okay. Mr. Village Manager.

Good evening. Just a couple of things. One is I want to remind everybody that is in the official capacity that we're all under a cone of silence now that the bid package is out for the Village Hall. And So we need to adhere to that, and sometimes innocent conversations can be construed as violations of that cone. The bids are due back June 24th, and then the committee that was formed to make the down the field of the developers that are contractors that could bid on the project will then come together and they will rank the bids that we receive to come before the commission for an award at the July meeting.

Okay. So we'll award the bid in July.

That's the plan.

And then break ground in August?

In August.

Before the end of August. Before the end of August, we will be breaking ground on our new Village Hall public fire, public safety complex, fire station, police station.

Great. The other issue is I'd like Deputy Manager Rosado to come up and explain to you another program that we've been able to capture for the good works of the YMCA that we're going to have the benefit of, something that just sort of fell out of the sky, and we were able to capture it.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor and Commission. I am happy to report that we have been allocated $57,000 in Children's Trust funding through the YMCA, who is here tonight.

Thank you guys so much.

And that allocation will be towards the aftercare program that will be run out of our new community center beginning August. And that will be a year-round program for the kids during the school year, 180 days. um it will provide children uh 30 children the program will start at a capacity of 30 and john has assured me that if the program is successful that they will advocate for more funding for us from the trust so we are extremely happy we believe those 30 slots will be filled quickly and uh we're just excited about this uh opportunity

That's fantastic. And the fact that we have a beautiful community center to house that program is transformational. Thank you.

We'll provide after school care at a significantly reduced cost to our residents. So that's, I mean, we're looking at about $170 a month, which in this economy is unheard of. It's an incredible service to be able to provide. Super grateful for great partnership with the Y and excited about this.

Amazing.

Thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you guys. Absolutely.

That concludes my report, Mayor.

Okay. All right. Madam Village Clerk, do you have anything to report?

I provided my report in writing. Nothing else to add.

Okay, excellent. I want to circle back to the manager's report and get a report from Rory on the grand opening ceremony. I want to check in on how sponsorships are going and get an update on how that event is shaping up. Madam Director Torres.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners, good evening. I actually have the chair of the board here who's here to give a report.

I see her.

Madam Chair, welcome. Good evening, Indira Shakti, 1555 North Treasure Drive. so the community center grant opening report as you know it's going to be on june 4th from 5 to 8 p.m what we envision for this event is to introduce the residents to the community center's future programming we want to highlight the youth the family the senior wellness and recreational opportunities So we're envisioning having youth and family activities event throughout from 5 to 8 p.m., starting with the smaller kids at the beginning. So, for example, inviting the YMCA to have a kids activity zone, having an arts and craft creation stations, possibly inviting our local partners like KLA, having some face painting events. sports clinic and soccer drills, which would be provided by Coach Anthony and his staff, a tree planting activity, and a game corner for ping pong. We also would have teen and intergenerational activities. So there could be like a tech help station where we would get high school volunteers assisting seniors with their devices, with their iPhones or their computers. And we would have an interactive team engagement activity. That could be like a section where maybe somebody does tarot or a sewing station. And then an adult and senior wellness station. And we would invite, I can't remember who's right next to Cal. Conviva, you know, having something like a stretch zone or chair massages or Tai Chi demonstrations that could be done. So there's things happening all throughout as well as self-guided tours of the community center. And then, of course, our board was established to also hopefully get some sponsorships. We're happy to report that as of today, we have $21,250 in sponsorships that have been donated. And then in lieu of some recent feedback from our soccer community, Many parents are beginning to feel that this is no longer a celebratory event if there won't be access to the fields. So we wanted to include like a North Bay Village soccer story photo slideshow that would be running throughout the event that would highlight the soccer program and all of the team moments throughout the years.

Thanks so much, Indira, and thanks for all of the time that you're investing in chairing this committee. I really appreciate it. Really disappointed to hear that our soccer family is just saying that this is not going to be a celebratory event. That feels really off-base to me. Thanks.

You're welcome.

Okay. Let's move on to 14B and get into this then, shall we? 14B. Sorry. This is a discussion on the proposed PFL-AFA programming, scholarships, field schedules, summer programs, and kids soccer programs sponsored by the Vice Mayor and Commissioner Acosta. I'll let you guys go ahead and introduce this item. We obviously heard from representatives from our soccer community, lots of neighborhood stakeholders in the room. I've spent a lot of time talking to Coach Kreis, staff, stakeholders, residents, parents. So I think I'm pretty well briefed and I want to sort of see how this goes. So Commissioner Acosta, Vice Mayor Cook.

thank you mayor uh so the reason i put this item on the agenda is because i'm part of the soccer group chat with a lot of you that are here tonight and um i was reading through some of the concerns a lot of which we heard tonight by some of our residents like kevin here around around programming and around the soccer program and access to the fields and scholarships so Tonight, my goal with this item is to address all of those components of the program, of the community center, hopefully give all of you a lot of clarity and transparency about access and about the kids soccer program and make sure that we all understand how this is going to look once we have the grand opening, which we really hope it's going to be a celebratory event. This whole project was born out of our soccer program, our grassroots community-led soccer program. So it is my priority that that community soccer program continues to move forward with just much better amenities and fields. and um and access for for our kids and families because that's what the project is about it's about all of you it's about the kids and um and we're we're going to make sure that we have the right access for the soccer program the community uh and and more so uh with that we'll commission across anything else you wanted to add

I appreciate it. Thank you so much, Vice Mayor. The reason why we brought this up is because we want to make sure that the parents feel heard, but we also want to give some clear answers where we can, right? So I want to defer some of these questions actually to you, Frank. So if you don't mind, I feel like there's some points of clarification that the community has. They've sent several emails. We've all had individual conversations for the most part with the parents. You know, the efforts here are the goal. The good thing, like I always say to the parents and the community is we all here together want this program to not just be successful, but to stay here. So that is everybody here. It's on the side of that team. Right. We all are in complete support of the program. When people looked at, there was even some public record requests to see all the contracts and all the signatures, all the paperwork, which is very complicated to just read through from one day to the next. One of the papers that keeps coming up is our schedule of the use of the field. I just want to clarify that this is not a draft, that this is actually... documentation that we have to follow correct and we change this if we need to change it.

I wish the existing existing approved by the contracts schedule.

How far ago was this accepted. 4 years 4 years ago.

Yeah.

What are the... Is there any room for some of the changes? The reason why I'm asking this is because comparing this schedule to the actual schedule the kids have...

Understood. Understood. That's correct. It doesn't match the kids' schedule.

So... When this contract, it's actually a series of contracts that were negotiated with representatives from, we're using the term AFA, but Claudia Tapia is not involved in any of these conversations, neither is Miguel Messi. We're talking about private developers and an organization that has license rights to the AFA brand to run the AFA International Center here in Northwood Village, okay? PFL is our partner in this public-private partnership, also obviously with the school board, right? PFL is Project Football. The schedule was negotiated in 2022. Not a single person on this dais was involved in the negotiation of that schedule. I was on the commission at that time. Commissioners Darrow and Cook had just been elected. Commissioner Trevony also obviously was on the commission at that time, but not a single one of us were involved in the negotiations over the schedule. It was made very clear to us as the decision makers and the policy makers for the village. When this schedule came before us for a vote, we were told that this was the absolute best deal for North Bay Village that could have been negotiated. And why is that? Because North Bay Village 1 does not own the land where these fields are being built. We have never owned the land. It is not ours. It belongs to the Miami-Dade County School Board, which is a completely separate governing body, entity, agency owner, no relationship whatsoever to North Bay Village. The school board owns the land, so they control what happens on it. And PFL who is building the fields in partnership with us, this is why we have a public private partnership because we as North Bay Village had no ability to build the fields before PFL came into the picture. PFL has to make their money back from the investment that they have made in building these fields and helping us build this community center, which, for the record, is the first community center that has ever existed in North Bay Village, and it's over 80 years as a municipality. PFL needs to make money back off of this deal. And so they are monetizing the use of the fields, which is why the schedule is set the way that it is to ensure that both PFL can make their money back and the school board can get its bag. If you have questions about how much money the school board is making off this deal, submit a records request to the Miami-Dade County Public Schools or our school board member, Joe Geller. But it's not something that we can address up here. This is money. And what we are doing here is trying to work within this contractual arrangement can be made. And as I think many people in the audience know, your public servants up here are spending a lot of time trying to negotiate with our partners at PFL to modify this schedule slightly to accommodate the soccer program that has grown substantially since this contract was negotiated four years ago. So we have one field every single day after school, But I'm told that we need more than one field. And that makes sense to me. If we cannot get the schedule revised before the beginning of the new season, we are going to have to do what humans have been doing since the dawn of time. And that is evolve. adapt, adjust, and figure out a way to run our community soccer program within the framework of what we have available to us until those circumstances change. So we're gonna keep working on it. Manager and I met with our contact at PFL on Friday afternoon, and there will be more meetings on the schedule. But at this point in time, the schedule is what it is. And while I don't like to make promises that we can't keep, so I'm telling you it's not changing. And if it does change, your expectations will have been blown out of the water.

Thank you so much for that clarification. The other question I have is about the contract. What is the status with the contract? There's this expectation that the contract should have been signed a while back. Can you go into that?

I want to actually give it to the village attorney because she's the charter official who is reviewing this contract and helping our community engagement director with it.

You will have the contract, assuming all parties agree to the terms, on your agenda for next month.

It was supposed to be on the agenda this month.

It is not. And I will take the blame for that. It will be on your agenda next month.

I want to really make a point here. They're here because a lot of things are changing and they're changing really fast. And adding uncertainty on the crease contract has made life really difficult. for me personally, these last couple of weeks, but I think for all of us. And so we need our staff to support our staff, to support our invested residents. And beyond that, I think WhatsApp is probably one of the toxic places one can spend time, okay? And so I make a choice to not participate in the many, many WhatsApp chats that exist here in the community. But for whatever reason... There's a lot of energy and emotion and unfortunately a lot of misinformation. And one of the ways that misinformation can be corrected systemically is through consistent communication to our stakeholders. And I know that our community engagement director is actively working actively working on improving communication to you, our soccer stakeholders, and all of the other smaller constituencies within North Bay Village. Yes, we send emails every Friday with a really good rundown of what's going on in the village, and we spotlight, you know, a thing or two, and it's really just sort of a rundown on events. We're going to be sending you more comprehensive, substantive updates, particularly as the Parks and Recreation Department, which has never existed before, comes into existence, right? I mean, when I came onto this day six years ago, North Bay Village had no programming, none. And now we've got yoga twice a week. We've got Tai Chi here at City Hall once a week. We have paddle, and we're like... It is exponential, exponential, the improvement in offering services to our residents. But, you know, and yet people are so really, really mad. And I think that that's a communications gap. And it's a communications gap that I think staff understands. They certainly don't want to hear from me anymore about this. So it will be improved. And that is our commitment to you all. We know that things are changing. We know that it's confusing. We are so sorry that it is stressing you out because it's going to obviously control what your schedules are and what you're doing with your children and your kids' recreational opportunities. We totally get it. But we're going to keep working on it.

Okay, sorry. I have a couple more questions. We don't have to go into 100% detail into everything. But these are just points of clarification. Another question I have heard a lot is, when we have the Treasure Island Park, now that we have the ownership of it on North Treasure Drive, will that become the space for the coach to now have the soccer program in?

It shouldn't. I'm just going to put this out on the table because these are the conversations. So first of all, let me say this. The park on North Treasure Drive should have been graded and resodded by now. We have known for at least six months that we were going to get ownership of that field. We had a plan to bypass the permitting system, which was a terrible idea. And now we're going to actually go ahead and get permits. The field should have been done a month ago, but it's not, and it'll be done soon. If we want to run the soccer program out of that field, sure. But I think that would be actually really a shame since we invested all of this time and effort in building these beautiful new fields. So I would rather... get that situation sorted out so that nbv soccer can operate out of the nbv community center and leave that open field for anybody who wants to just play a pickup game of football or whatever on a wednesday afternoon the last two questions i have here you know people want to know the alpha scholarships so now that they're advertising programming they have a summer camp already in place they have uh

Apparently, there's even an outside league now that is renting the space, advertising already and taking applications from residents. Some of the parents have even sent me their screenshots of this application from that company and they don't have a discount for residents, which is, you know, it's their private, it's their own private program. um the question is would the would our kids be able to apply for the alpha scholarships is it going to be just like okay you're a resident therefore you have 25 spaces or do they have to do trials and it's up to alpha to select whether they accept a child or not in that room so at the meeting that the mayor and i had on friday that was on the agenda

And the individual that we met with after we went through the scheduling and talking about the lights had a meeting that he had to leave and get to, and he made it clear to us that he had to go. So I'm rescheduling that. And on that list are several items that need to be addressed. One is the program, how they're going to make selections, how do kids apply, what their rules are going to be for their program.

And is this an annual 25 scholarship or is it going to be including summer camps? We don't know that yet.

Commissioner, I don't know. All I know is that it's in the agreement and that there'll be 25 scholarships. How it works, how they plan on running it,

And the last question I have isn't just about something else. It's not even the parents asking. It's just my curiosity. For the FPL bill on running the lights and all of the systems, who's paying that bill? Is that separated from what they use in the fields versus what we use in the community center? Yes.

uh the areas that we have will divide stuff up by square footage the lighting that's on the field is is on the uh the school board or i'm sorry what no it's the school board so they're going to be getting the bills The meter is at our place, and it will be paid by PFL. They run those fields. They run the paddleball, pickleball courts, and that's how the program runs. They run them, and those expenses are theirs.

I appreciate answering all these questions.

Could you also please explain about why the lights have been on so late at night lately?

Okay. So there's two issues with the lights. The one is aiming of the lights so that they can be as they're required to be to play on a soccer field. That soccer field that we have there is now one of five in the state of Florida that is a FIFA qualified soccer field. And that's why it's in such demand by people that want to come and play and be able to rent that field and play soccer because there's only a few of them around. So that's number one. When they apply the artificial turf... there's a black underlayment that goes down first, and then the field is glued to that that comes across that. When they started with installing the field, the black was so hot that the glue was drying so fast that it wouldn't adhere, and they had to stop. So what they're doing now is they're out there at night when it's cooler, and a time when that black surface has had a chance to cool off from the daytime, and they're applying the turf to it. So there's not just a turf to the big field, but we got the four other fields that have to be applied. Now, the lights that are on the big field are official lighting for a professional soccer field. And it meets the FIFA standards, it meets soccer standards. The lights that will be on the four fields that are on the backside, the half fields that are for use and for rent and for our use also, are not of the intensity that the lights that are on the main field. It's expensive to run those lights. So I am assuming and not having direct information. But my assumption is, is that they're only going to turn them on when they're out there playing. They're not going to be running those lights and sucking up that electric bill. But we haven't had that discussion. PFO runs that operation. That's their operation. It's not North Bay Village.

So what Frank and I were told on Friday when we met with Mariano is that the lights are that bright. And that is not... an acceptable answer to me. And I'm really at a loss as to what we have the ability to do now, because I do recall being on this dais when we had community meetings about this facility. And I do recall being on this dais when we approved those agreements. The conversation about the lights was focused on ensuring that Beyond the fields, there would not be light pollution. And I mean, I don't live at the Lexi. I live at Iron Place, which is a half a block away. But when I am quite literally laying in my bed at night, looking out the window. I can see the glare. I can see the light coming from those fields. And I have a lot of empathy for residents who live at the Lexi, especially on that south side. It's not a treasure too. Right. I mean, people now need to invest in blackout shades. to be able to achieve like, oh, it's like nighttime now. So I'm really at a loss. And Madam Village Attorney, I would love some creative thinking on the part of your team. I don't know what the photo metrics plan for the site reflected when it was approved. I hope that the photo metrics plan indicated that there would not be light beyond, you know, you can measure a foot candle.

Yes.

Beyond the field. And I would be shocked if the foot candle measurements of the situation today are consistent with what they should have been when we approved the lighting. So can you comment on that, Madam Village Attorney, at this time? we will look into it and i'll circle back with the village manager and see what we can do okay thanks yeah this is i i really do have a lot of empathy for people who it it does it changes the entire feel of the island um and as someone who you know i've been living on treasure island for for almost a decade now and i don't have any plans to leave it's a different feeling um and it makes me really nervous about what the future looks like to be honest

Okay, so yeah, the lighting is a top concern for me too. I went out on the fields and I noticed that the lights are adjustable. I spoke to some of my colleagues in Miami Beach and they have night guards that they have in use at Flamingo Park and some of their other facilities. So I want us to look into that. I also heard that those lights can be set, the brightness can be adjusted on those. They're LED lights, so that can be adjusted. Some of them can be turned off. But we need to explore all of these things because it is important. I live at the Lexi and I've gone down to the sixth floor, the pool deck and checked out to see what it's like. And it is extremely bright. If you don't have night blackout shades, it's going to go into your room and you won't be able to sleep. What time is it?

They cut off 11.

It cuts off at 11. And here's the thing. I understand when you have a match, the lights need to be up to FIFA standards, but when you're practicing, they do not need to be. So that's another wiggle room point as well.

Definitely. It's going to be very rare that those lights or that field is going to need to be at FIFA standards. So this is an important point we have to look into.

We are looking into it, but I can tell you... that they intend to rent that field for teams to go out there and play.

Teams to go out there and play, practicing is different than matches. So for the matches, they need to be at full capacity. I can understand that. But during a practice session, I don't necessarily know that they need to be at full capacity. And even if they are, because again, I understand there's like a no shadow rule on the field, right? But the technology exists in 2026 to protect the night sky beyond the field itself.

Yes. Understood. Absolutely.

We're talking about matches and games. Let's be realistic. I don't ever recall having bleachers or any sitting capacity around the stadium.

There's none.

It's basically just the players playing in the stadium.

Right. No visitors. Understood. No walkers. Understood.

No, I agree with you. Well, but... Some residents believe that it's going to be noisy.

Bosses stopping by. They're going to be pulling in.

They're going to be screaming and hollering. No, there's no screaming and hollering for things. This is not a stadium. This is a practice facility. There's a difference. That's right.

I'd like to backtrack a little bit on the accommodations of our recreational soccer program here. So as the current program is twice a week, they have practice and then once on the weekends as well, correct?

Yes.

So when I look at the 11 by 11 field, if that's what's necessary, there is openings on the weekend. So right now I see the problem being during the week where we do have a 5v5 field available, but not the 11 fields.

Correct.

There is, however, a possibility that I think, so this is assuming that first AFA, I mean, it is written into the schedule that they're running Academy Monday through Friday. I would question that to see if that is first we can speak with AFA to see if they really are having Academy as drawn out five days a week. If not, there's also rental periods that North Bay Village could rent and include our program.

They already rented those fields. There's already a company that rented those fields. It's already advertising. It's already asking kids to sign up to it. Two academies. Two academies already.

I'll find one. So the rental field's on the other. So really we're looking, the issue is coming during the week to accommodate two weeknights on what we need as the 11, the 11. There's really no issue on the weekend. Yeah. There's really...

there's there's there is a weekend issue so so okay well i was just like a change of hours but not necessarily an issue like if we had it at noon instead of 10 it's really hot not only that the kids also their whole day is ruined you as a parent you want to be in and out eight in the morning 10 you're done your day can start at noon your day is done surface that's

We have to adapt to what we have.

And that's what I was going to suggest. So why don't we, we need to sit down with the parents, the staff, and understand what's the schedule like, understand the requirements of the program, what's the capacity that we have, the amount of kids that we have, and work around that. There is... plenty of opportunity to rent uh in the mornings at nights i i'm hearing that some of it's rented by other academies um we should have the first say on that i i would first of all i would say and then secondly um i i i'm sure we yeah i mean i'm sure we can we can find ways to fund an additional field if needed to host the whole capacity of the program So I think that's what needs to be done. We need to understand the requirements, where there's wiggle room from the program and the academy, and find a way to make it work.

So I have had what I think are productive conversations with Cleve and Kevin and Anthony. And again, I am not holding my breath to have this particular schedule modified. I'm not. I'm managing my expectations. I think that it would be a good idea for the soccer program, for us, to figure out a better way to stagger practices if that Tuesday-Thursday is an absolute... set in stone our soccer program has been running from like 530 to 730 on Tuesdays and Thursdays if it needs to be modified so that certain age groups play at 530 followed by another age group at 630 and another age group at 730 so that everybody can use Doris I understand but the world is not perfect and this is what I said at the beginning of my you know this item we have to do what every human being has done since the dawn of time which is adapt and be flexible and evolve So I understand that they are siblings, but we're going to have to work it out.

If we don't have the 11v11 field on the weekend in the morning, we do have both of the small 5v5 fields on the weekend. So, I mean, two 5v5 fields is a full field, essentially, right? Wow. There's two that are both four and all the fields, actually four of the fields, 5v5 fields are open on the weekend. So I don't see the weekends are an issue. The weekends are not an issue. There's only one field. NBVU's field one, two, three, and four, the 5v5. I'm not talking about the 11v11 field. I think all four of the small fields are open on the weekend. All right. So I'm starting at eight to noon. It doesn't have to be Saturday and Sunday is not a weekend. It's really trying to accommodate the weeknight.

The tough spot really is the weeknight attorney. But last we spoke about the actual agreements that are executed in place and that control this arrangement today. Is there a forthcoming edit, addendum? Are we making revisions to any of those agreements at any point? The only one that's being amended...

currently is the operations agreement for galleon okay for the community center correct the idea again being we didn't want to touch the operations at tides um however the operations agreement at tides does provide that the and and i'm guys i'm sharing this and i i agree with you on setting expectations and what our partners um have already agreed to and what the village has already agreed to. But I do want to be clear that the programming schedule is something that the agreement provides that the village MPFL along with the representative from the school board shall negotiate an update within 15 days prior to the beginning of each school year in the board. I don't know why it says in the board, prior to each school year. So I think that there is a way for us to revisit the schedule But to your point, our other partner needs to be in support of that.

The school board as well as PFL, right? Correct. So if the schedule is modified, we asked you this at the last meeting, you were going to confirm. If the schedule is modified, if we are able to accomplish a change, it still now has to go for approval at the school board?

I don't read this provision to require school board approval.

I don't read it that way. Okay. I hope you're right. Yeah. Yeah. Again, PFL was very insistent about the monetization of the fields for their ability to make back their investment. And I am also very, we are all very aware of the limited capacity taxpayer dollars that can be spent on more use of the field. So my kind of bottom line is if we want to rent more flats, We need to go out into the community and identify a sponsor for the soccer program. And so for all of you parents and stakeholders in the room, think about your networks and networks. maybe you can help us go out into the community and identify a sponsor because this budget season is going to be incredibly tight. Our staff knows it, our police department know it, and we're not going to be sitting up here authorizing another $200,000 expense for the use of more fields. So either we have a private sector sponsor who can help us rent these fields for different hours, or we're all going to need to be a little bit more flexible and work together to continue making sure that this program works for our residents and our stakeholders. The monetization is not an issue. Cleve, this is a commission meeting. I'm sorry. You can't just talk from the audience.

I'm sorry, what you're saying is false. Because there is opportunity to increase the monetization by increasing the rentable hours.

Cleve, please stop. Thank you. Thanks. Does anyone have any further questions?

Frank, what exactly is rented right now? You said that all the fields are rented. Where are we with that?

They have not provided to us what their private business operations are. They've just said to us that they have rented the fields.

Right. Well, we need to get ahead of it and understand what hours we need for the soccer program and rent those fields out.

Well, we know what hours that the parents are looking for. It's the same hours they have on here that they have their academy using the fields. And the same issue with 25 kids that will be from the school, the residents here, are going to be on that field under the academy from AFA. And that's when those parents want their kids to go, the same as when these parents want their kids to go.

I'm going to literally have you taken out of the room if you keep, like, coming up here and just saying that we're lying to the residents in the context of this meeting. Please stop. It's not for what you said.

We understand the frustrations. Like I said, we are here trying to not just fix the problem, but be realistic. And I do agree. It might not be the answer we want to hear, but at least we're trying to give answers. Whether it is the right answer or the wrong answer, at least we're trying. And nobody here is hiding. Everybody here is doing their best to try to make it happen. um i'm not happy but at least we're getting answers and trying to get us answers and that's that's really what we're trying to accomplish here yeah i i look like this is really tough i mean i walk the dog and have this conversation with him quite literally four mornings a week this is this is this is this is very intense you know

All right. There's one other issue that I want to cover, talking about privatizing public spaces. A local business owner who runs a gym over at the Grandview Palace has asked us if we would entertain leasing the third floor of the community center for a gym. I personally, when I met with her one on one, I said, absolutely not. I know several of you met with her, but the village has now decided to put this question out to the residents to ask if this is something that the residents want. And I know we did a poll. So really, I want to invite you back to just touch base and get some direction from the commission on the use of the third floor of the community center again.

Like you said, Mayor, I was just hoping on some direction on programming for the third floor. So over the summer, the idea is that the YMCA will be hosting their after-school program on the second floor of our community center, and it will be exclusively for the children, which means that all we would have left for adult and senior programming is the third floor. So I kind of just wanted an idea from you guys if you guys wanted to move forward with the gym or if you were interested in.

What was the result of the survey?

So on the survey that we sent out, we got 411 responses. 61% was, which is 252 people, were in favor of the multifunctional space for events and programming.

Yeah, that sounds about right. That sounds about right. We're really looking forward to having that space for all types of community events. So does anyone on the dais feel differently?

I have a question about this space for kids versus teens. Some of the parents were wondering, you know, when we talk about the teen programs versus the younger children programs on the second floor. Like, you remember last year when we had the kids that came in for the internship and their presentation? Yeah. Some of the things that they talked about was having that multi-use rooms for their studies, even for people who are doing business that want to have a meeting. Would that be something that that third floor will be also for teens or would it be just the second floor even for teens?

No, so I'm actually really excited about this. The teams will be on the second floor and they have their own designated space that will have a foosball table, a ping pong table, couches, TVs, and they will be completely separate from where the little toddlers will be because the toddlers will have their own area. And then we have three separate rooms that can also be used for children's programming at the same time that have two dividers. So this space that is blocked off with doors and windows can either be three separate rooms, one big one, or two-in-one.

Would parents be able to join their teens in some of these activities? Because there's times that you want to play ping pong with your kids or you want to help them in their studies. Would they have access to this area with their teen?

I can get back to you on that.

Okay.

I think it's going to be open for the public to come in and use these facilities. There'll be structured programs that go on by the Rye or whoever is putting these on. We may have some other events that are going on on the third floor with adults. But the idea is it's a place where the older children can come and hang out and play video games. And there's going to be screens and there's going to be activities they can do and just have a place where they can get together and hang out. you know, without being charged. Everything is not a charge. You can come and go to the community center.

Family's coming for Thanksgiving, bring the uncles, bring your family, play games, you know, get out of the house, that kind of good time, you know?

I want to make sure that Lily has absolute 100% clarity on the use of the third floor space of the community center. So can someone, I'll move to make the recommendation. that the third floor space on the community center remain open for flexible programming for all ages and very specifically not a gym.

Yes, a second.

That's the second motion.

Yeah, I agree.

Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?

Mayor Streiffel? Yes. Commissioner Acosta? Yes. Commissioner Cerboni?

Yes.

Commissioner Adaro? Yes. Vice Mayor Cook?

Yes.

It's unanimous. You have unanimous consent.

Thank you. Thank you. One more thing before I go. So we took the survey one step forward, and I put different recreational programs on the survey that people could choose in order of one being their favorite of what they want to see on the third floor, 11 being what they're not so interested in. Regarding the different programming programs, this should ideally start in june when we open the center are we going to charge for these recreational programs my reply

depending what the recreational program is. And is there an instructor required that we have to pay for? If we have to pay for the instructor, it gets spread evenly through the participants.

Yeah, we may even have seminars at the library. And they charge for seminars at the library. So it depends on what it is.

Are we going to have some type of resident access so that we know when someone walks into the building for a program that they're a resident? Are people going to be signing up for a profile on some... They are, which is why we got Civic Plus.

As soon as that agreement is executed, I can start messing with it and setting up our account. How are we doing on getting that executed, the agreement with Civic Plus?

Please expedite the finalization of that agreement. She cannot do her job until she has access to Civic Plus. Thank you.

Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

Oh, that was progress.

Okay. Let's take the consent agenda.

Motion to approve as requested, except item 11B, which will be on Zoom, and 11B that was pulled.

Okay, do we have a second? Second. Okay.

Madam Clerk, give it to whoever you want. Commissioner Cervone?

Yes.

Commissioner Acosta? Yes. Commissioner O'Donnell? Yes. Vice Mayor Cook? Yes. Mayor Streifel?

Yes.

I'm going to take 11B first. Zoom with Sheehan.

11B is deferred to next month. 11D is a resolution of the Commission of North Bay Village, Florida, approving an agreement with PFM Financial Advisors LLC for financial advisory services, waiving competitive bidding, providing for authorization, and providing for an effective date Village Manager rolls in.

The reason why I pulled this item is very simple. You're requesting here a potential second and third year addendum to this contract. I'm looking at it that this year we do need the assistance because our finance department is a little weak. We're in the process of getting a CFO. We're in the process of getting a controller. We're going to have a full financial team. We already have bond counsel. What's this other PFM bond person doing that we need requirement for second and third year?

All right. We do have bond counsel. However, we need to put together the package for doing the next drawdown and going out for bids with the banks to get the best bang for the buck we can on the rates and And bond council is not handling that. We need a firm that will, they put together the first tranche that we pulled down to 10 million. We're looking at least another 10 million pretty quickly because we've got that North Bay Island stormwater project that's going to be breaking ground. And they're going to have to be paid. And so we need to get another tranche. I do not want to do another three-year deal. It's too short a period of time before we've got to start paying back the principal. And you see the mess that we're in right now with that. So I'm looking at five, 10-year bond so that we've got a period of time that we can expend the money and a time that we can only have to pay The interests are not principal, and the situation we're in now is not good financially for the village.

For this year, I can see it, but are we going to be pulling trenches for the next three years that we require?

We may very well, if some of these projects that are being designed, we can start building them. I mean, I'm not looking to spend, or I hope we're not looking to spend $60 million just to get a bunch of drawings. We want to start to build some of this stuff. We're redoing how we're doing Treasure Island. We're moving forward with the next phase of Harbor Island with the work that's being done by Rubik. And eventually we're going to start doing work. So I'm looking to have this – in other words, if we don't use them, we're not paying. But I'm looking to have it in place so if it's timely and I need to pull another $5 million, I need to pull another $10 million. We've got a team that's out there that can do the hunt for us.

So if we don't use them that year, we do not have to pay anything on that contract?

I mean – I would say that is correct. I have not read it, but I don't think there's any monthly fee or anything like that. We pay for what we use. We've got somebody here from PFM. Why don't we bring them up and they can... Please, go right ahead. Hi, good afternoon, Commissioner Stubbs.

My name is Pete Verona with PFM. So to answer your question, there is no payment if there's not a bond actively being done. We don't have a retainer. So if there's no work that's done in a particular year, you don't owe us anything.

We're just kind of in the background. And then as you all need us, we are then paid on a transaction basis.

Thank you very much.

Thank you for that clarification. You're welcome.

Do you want to move it?

I'll move it.

Okay. We have a motion from Commissioner Turboni. Is there a second?

A second.

Okay. Is there any discussion or maybe there's a question from the village attorney?

Yeah. I just wanted to clarify that the term would be, the initial term is through the end of this fiscal year with three one-year renewals.

Two one-year renewals, right.

Two one-year renewals?

I believe.

I thought it was three, but I'll confirm whatever's in the memo. That's the motion? Yeah. Okay. And then I also wanted to clarify, as far as bond counsel, we prepared an RFP form. We work with PFM to finalize that RFP form that goes out to banks. So they, as any other financial advisor, they contribute to the discussion and the decision-making process. So I just wanted to clarify that point.

I understand, but I was looking at it. We're going to have a full financial department, our financial department carrying some of that load as well.

I understand.

We have a motion and a second. Madam Clerk.

Commissioner Cervoni.

Yes.

Commissioner Darrell. Yes. Commissioner Acosta. Yes. Vice Mayor Cook? Yes. Mayor Streifel?

Yes.

Motion carries.

Before we move on, a note on our finance department. There's a new CFO coming next month, and we'll have a controller. I'm really looking forward to having a new CFO. North Bay Village has the highest debt millage of any municipality in Miami-Dade County by 100%. Our debt millage is 1.1 compared to other municipalities that are a 0.17 or a 0.12. We are at 1.1. I've been the mayor for about 18 months. I've instituted some really meaningful changes as far as cover sheets and account numbers and current balances being requirements for all of the checks that I sign. And yet I'm still seeing errors and the state of the 2324 audit report from our finance department was riddled with inaccuracies, some substantive. some non-substantive, some really a big deal. And I am looking to the administration as you prepare the budget for next year to make our finance department less prone to human error, more efficient, leaner, and more professionalized. That is what I am looking for for the next fiscal year as reflected in our finance department's budget.

I'll give it to you.

That's why we're here.

Well, you have to realize, first of all, the 1.1 debt millage is going to increase this year. Of course. We're even going to be higher. Yeah. And our general budget millage has to increase as well. Even though we're leaner, we're finally going to have a financial department. Right now we have A CFO, we have no controller. We had a controller, we had no CFO. We were in a vacuum for two years. And I don't want to point the finger, but our acting manager at the time was very weak in finance.

Yeah, I don't want to point fingers. I'm trying to set very clear expectations for what the future holds.

But don't set expectations of lowering the millage because... No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

The expectation was not that we were going to lower the debt millage. I'm listening to the man as he's talking about pulling down another tranche of $10 million to pay for infrastructure. That's not what I'm saying. I'm talking about specifically within our finance department, tightening it up, making it leaner, less prone to human error, more professionalized and more efficient.

I think once you have all the positions filled, you'll have that, especially with the individuals that are coming in.

The senior positions?

Yeah.

Yes. Understood. Okay. All right, let's move along to 13A. These are public hearings. These are ordinances on second reading. We're going to talk about signs right now, signs in the First Amendment. This is 13A, an ordinance of the Mayor and Commission of North Bay Village, Florida, amending Chapter 11 signs, Chapter 15 form-based code, to address current legal requirements, to establish specific standards and regulations, and to consolidate all provisions related to signs, providing for severability, providing for codification, providing for conflicts on an effective date.

This is the second reading.

This is second reading on the sign code.

Madam Village Attorney, do you want to summarize the changes between first and second reading? Yes, briefly. Thank you, Mayor. Between first and second reading, the most substantial change was to address the Commission's concerns regarding legal non-conforming signs. So if there are any questions on that, I know some of you took briefings, others didn't. may not have had briefings, but I know you all had an opportunity to read it. If you have questions, I'm happy to go over that. I think the biggest concern that was raised by the commission at first reading on legal non-conforming was phasing out legal non-conforming signs when there is a change in use or a new business. So we've added additional language to that effect as well as clarifying and making it clear when a legal non-conforming sign is needs to be removed. So if there are no questions on that, I'll move on. The other changes were on, give me one second. There was a discussion at the last meeting about the number of signs. And so on temporary signs, we had some discussion on how many signs someone can have in a single family residence. So what we've done is we've added some language and you'll see this in page 40 or 46 of exhibit A of the ordinance. um we've added clarification that there are temporary non-commercial signs that can be had all year round and we've gone back to what your code has today so there's no change there in other words the maximum number of signs that are allowed are per parcel as opposed to per frontage and speaking just about single family residences you have three year round that's what you have today, that's not changing. What we've added is adding temporary non-commercial signs before an election. So this is in addition to, we're expanding the speech that is allowed. And we've also added provisions for what we would commonly know as for sale or lease signs, as well as open house signs. So there's provisions on that to provide additional speech opportunities in those situations. Those were the two biggest changes. There are some smaller changes on some of the concerns about murals. Mayor, you had raised some concerns about the murals, so we've clarified that murals are still subject to when they are When they are commercial signs, and that's that they are conveying a commercial message as opposed to an artistic mural, they are treated as banned signs. However, even though they're treated as banned signs, they will still be subject to the provisions of a chart that's later in the ordinance, which allows for one per frontage, 1,500 square feet, etc., So those are the major changes between first and second reading.

You have problems? Okay, great. We'll talk about your problems in just a second. Let me ask a question. You said murals are limited to 1500 square feet. What is the mechanism whereby someone gets approval for a mural on the entire podium wall of a building?

To the extent that they cannot comply with these regulations, the sign code has its own variance process. And I know you had raised this as a concern during first reading. And let me flip over to that section. The variance process for signs does not require a hardship. And I don't want to misstate it. So if you allow me.

But it comes to the commission for approval?

It comes to... Allow me one moment.

Craig is saying yes. Craig says yes, it's non hardship based and it does come to the Commission and we have strict criteria to follow so that we're not approving or denying subjectively these murals.

Correct.

Yes, they do come to the commission. And in lieu of the hardship variance criteria from Chapter 7, there is criteria in the sign code, which requires that, in essence, the biggest thing is that there's no substantial detriment to the public good, and the benefits of any deviation outweigh any detriment.

Commissioner Schiavone, talk about your problems.

Section 11.7, temporary signs, political signs, campaign season, which already started. You're only allowed to have signs for 90 days. You're allowed three signs the whole year. After that, you're allowed to have as many signs as you can as long as it doesn't exceed nine square feet. two signs two by three which is a normal large political sign for instance if i would do a campaign sign the word is quite large unless it's very small lettering which doesn't It doesn't really help you. I'm not running for office. That's why I'm using my name. Okay.

Some of us are. You could help us out.

That's what I'm saying. Two signs, three by two or two by three already are the... the requirements with the three signs that's five signs 15 feet apart and you only have a 70 foot frontage you have to be very creative as to how you're going to put this one back here this one up in front you know and if you're on the water to create to create them to be able to put the What you have added is additional signage for campaigns. That's number one. Number two, political signs are only allowed on for 90 days. Qualifying takes place in July. Election takes place in November. That's more than 90 days.

My understanding is that it's 90 days tied to an event. So the event could be the primary. The event could be the qualifying date. The event could be the runoff. The event could be the election, right?

We have two different provisions. So there is additional signage prior to an election. And as Commissioner Schiavone stated, it is 90 days prior to an election affecting the parcel on which the signs are located. There is a separate provision providing for additional signage before an event, separate from elections. So we wanted to, this is, you've got your base, plus election, plus event, Plus open house, lease, for sale.

And you're going to go to a neighbor's house and say, can I put a sign up? Are they supposed to ask you how many square feet is a sign? Because you're only allowed X number of square feet for signage.

So are you recommending that the additional non-commercial signage before an election be increased right now? And I'll read it so that everybody understands the language. It's a property owner may place additional temporary non-commercial signs on totaling, so signs, plural, it can be one sign that's a total of nine square feet or multiple small signs, however you want to do the mix. So non-commercial signs totaling no more than nine square feet on the parcel for a period of 90 days prior to an election affecting the parcel on which the signs are located.

So the provision still limits the nine to nine square feet before an election?

This provision, yes. But again, if you want to increase it from nine square feet to some other number, you can do that.

I don't think we should be measuring square feet when we're talking about campaign signs. It's not a logical thing that people are measuring.

I also want to be clear. The signs do not have to be a campaign sign.

It's signage in general.

It is signage in general. We are simply allowing for additional speech before an election. How people choose to use their signage allotment is up to them.

And you're saying it could also be one huge sign versus three. That is correct. I don't know. Let's think about that.

Do you want to defer this again or are you ready to move it?

I'm not ready to move it because then... I want to know how is the homeowner expected to measure the square feet of the signage? They can be in violation by having either too many signs, that are over the limit of the square footage or one big sign and a little sign.

I think they just measure though, right? I mean, you can... Who's going to measure them?

You're going to have...

I'm more concerned about allowance of a huge sign.

Or the homeowner measuring signs.

I don't know if we should be having one large sign. So my understanding, and I am admittedly not the one who orders campaign signs. I leave that to you all. My understanding is that on... the standard for campaign signs is a three by three that may be different in different communities, but that seems to be the trend. That's not square feet.

Three by three? That's quite large.

If you put your picture, if you put your number, if you put your name... You take up space. Take space. And you don't want small print because then you can't read it. I've played literally never made one. Never made one.

Don't brag about it. So his issue is measuring. He doesn't want people to have to measure and he certainly doesn't want Orlando out there measuring things on people's yards, which I can understand.

I understand that as well. I also understand the opposite concern of how large do you want to allow the signs to be? Yeah.

So let's figure this out and bring it back in June. Right?

I'm fine with that. Bring it back. The other thing is, what are the fines for those people that are procrastinators and do not remove it within the seven days after the election, both locally and internationally? Outside. Because now we're going into federal and state elections. And people come around, they put signs up, and state and federal are not going to come around the night after to remove signs.

Of course. So I think that's something that we can address as part of either our election code or our qualifying packet. It's something that we can do at the local level. There are some communities that add regulations that the...

The owner is responsible.

Well, aside from the owner being responsible, some communities make it incumbent on the candidate, but it's local candidates over which you actually have some control because you are the, in our case, our clerk is the qualifying officer for this election. She is not the qualifying officer for a federal, state, judicial, et cetera.

But if we have a fine for a candidate in our books, And I'm talking about not state or federal. If it's passed, for argument's sake, I don't even have to make it that short in seven days. Say 30 days. There's lots of them that stay there for two and three months.

So you would, at this point, you would cite the property owner. If you want to cite.

Cite the property owner based on the 90 days. And I don't think the 90 days are enough. I mean, I need this worked up a little bit better, Heidi. If you want to, we can do a quick Zoom call and discussion.

Sure, I'm happy to do that. What I would like is just some... I mean, I can adjust this section however I see fit, but I would like to understand. I've heard from Commissioner Schiavone who thinks perhaps this is not sufficient signage in terms of the...

I don't want to over-regulate speech. I don't want to make it too complicated, and I don't want our Code Enforcement Director to be out there measuring things. Okay.

but you do want to set some sort of numerical limit?

You can put a limit on the, let's say for single family homes over four by four sign or three by three sign, I don't care. But then you put limits on, you can have three signs year round, you can have three more political signs, but remove the 15 feet apart from each other because you don't have the room. It's only 70 feet wide, the property.

I see your concern. Okay. Your concern is about the spacing because... it's spacing requirements equal over regulation of speech to me one in front one 15 feet apart and then 15 feet apart this you know okay so i think we can eliminate perhaps just something to think about for the next reading eliminating the minimum spacing requirement of 15 feet or reducing it do we care if there's spacing between temporary signs if you want to put all of your signs next to each other

You don't see the next one, but, you know, it's up to you where you place them. That's right. Okay.

And you don't care whether the sign is one large one or not. Like, you guys are all good with that.

No, there should be a limit for single-family homes, and there should be a limit because I remember Gabrielle and Ash Tesla having the four big signs.

Right now, your maximum sign area, and this is what's been in your code, is three square feet on a single-family home.

Three square feet is... Nothing.

More democracy. More signs.

Okay.

And we need more than 90 days. Yes.

Before an election.

I mean, let's be realistic. If somebody falls today and opens up a bank account and wants to create signs without getting the signatures and everything else, you're talking about now June, elections in November. You can do that. There's been times when people have done that.

Well, and you have the August primary. So three months before August puts us. Now. Now. Yep. It's now. So you could presumably have.

There's no requirement that you have to qualify to create a sign and put it up.

That's correct.

So there's no requirement. You can put the sign anytime you want to run for office. once you fill the proper paperwork.

And again, the additional signage that we're talking about does not need to be a campaign sign. I realize that that's where most people will utilize it, but I just want to be clear about that.

I think we're incredibly fortunate that we haven't had a fight about signs or flags here in our community, and I would like to keep it that way. I mean, I'm not going back to 1945. Neither am I.

Well, Landon and I have fights over signs.

Okay, well, that's more personal problems over there. All right, I'm going to move to defer the sign code on second reading to the June meeting. Who seconds? Commissioner Cervone seconded.

Madam Clerk? Commissioner Cervone?

Yes.

Commissioner Acosta? Yes. Commissioner Darrell? no vice mayor cook yes motion to refer passes or one 13b is an ordinance of the name what time is it we're losing it 13

is an ordinance of the Mayor and Commission of North Bay Village, Florida, amending chapter 150, boats, vessels, and houseboats of the village code of ordinances by creating section 150.22, overnight anchoring restrictions to regulate certain overnight anchoring of vessels within the waters of the village, amending section 153.04, schedule of fines and civil penalties to establish a penalty for violations providing for severability codification providing for conflicts on an effective date sponsored by mayor streitfeld and co-sponsored by commissioner acosta this is second reading commissioner trivoni i think you came back with some really um helpful insight on first reading and i believe the village attorney has made those revisions thank you for your contributions on that front i still have some questions of course you do let's go light it up first of all thank you for clarifying the ordinance it's much cleaner but

Schedule A, Section 2.3 says notification by mail. I am ignorant to this, and I admit it. But is mail delivered to a boat that's anchored at sea?

2.3. Well done.

What if there's no land address on this vessel and all is sea-related?

So you still have to have a registered...

It doesn't have to be registered. Somebody can bring it, or it's registered in Timbuktu, and they come here and they moor the vessel there. You have no address for them.

What you have just highlighted is actually a very, very meaningful issue for derelict vessel removal, for law enforcement on the bay. It's an FWC issue. Yeah. So getting vessel registration addresses and notifying owners of vessels based on their address is actually something that probably needs to be handled at the state level, I think.

Hopefully this will create database of that.

No, this is just a carve out of a statewide preemption.

By providing that exact issue. Are you creating the data of what we're having these problems?

it's not why we're having these problems it makes it makes enforcement on the bay very particularly challenging we don't have another option i'm totally ignorant to it yeah yeah so you can read you can register a vessel anywhere you can register a vessel in the bahamas in barbados in miami um and where that vessel is registered is where it's going to receive the notice right But there's also a posting of the property, which we are not doing.

Is that correct? We are delivering it to the vessel owner. We're delivering it to the vessel as well. If it's unoccupied.

If they receive it. And if there's somebody there to get it. Otherwise, you're pasting it on the vessel.

We are affixing it to the vessel. That's in there.

And it got wet and got lost.

I'm sure we have special vessel affixation.

I think the bottom line is we need to approve this tonight.

I'm not saying no, but these are questions that came up.

So these are questions that... Look, there's a law enforcement task force that is working on enforcement of these issues. Miami, Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, FWC, Carlos and Sam and Picovara, Kenny, they're all over it.

I'm not against it. I know. I have these issues.

They're very real issues.

And they also talk about the magistrate has a hearing in 10 days. Our magistrate has a meeting once a month, and if each side requests a continuance, it can take three months for it to be heard by our magistrate. Let's be realistic. In three months, the guilty party has absconded and moved elsewhere, and until it comes back into our waters... What can we do about it?

Well, the good thing is that they've left, which is accomplishing the whole point.

For us, immediately, but we have pushed the issue on another city. That's not the whole point. The whole point is solving the issue, not pushing it onto someone else.

Okay. So let's be realistic here. Okay. So we are adopting this ordinance because Miami Beach has adopted it and Miami has adopted it.

Dump it on us.

And we are protecting our coastline and working collaboratively with those jurisdictions to help us enforce, right?

So what is the function of it?

Stopping the issue is not a reality. People are still going to try to live on boats at zero expense and not pay taxes and not pay for an anchoring area. That's just going to happen. Now at least we have a way to enforce it and to get them out of here. It's not my job to protect Bay Harbor Islands, but I'm here for them. You know, we've got coastal mayors. We talk to them about this. I've encouraged Isaac. I love Fane-Losman. I was not here. I read about the Fane-Losman years. I had the true pleasure of meeting Fane-Losman in the first week of living here. It was honestly one of the most hilarious encounters I've ever had in my whole life.

Yeah, Mayor and to Commissioner Schiavone's point about the once a month code enforcement hearings or code compliance hearings. To the extent we need to have a special set hearing, we can always do that. We can adjust and we can add a meeting. So if there's a sense of urgency, I'm sure we can adjust operationally to get that hearing scheduled. It's not going to, to your other point, There's still going to be time. We still have to have due process. We still have to have notice and opportunity for an appeal, all of that. But do we need to wait for the next meeting that is a month away or 60 days away or whatever the case may be? That does not need to be the case.

Can I move to approve? You want to move it, move it. I'm going to move it to approve. Okay.

We have a motion. Is there a second?

I'd give it a second.

Thank you. Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner Acosta. Yes. Commissioner O'Donnell.

Yes.

Commissioner Cervone.

No.

Vice Mayor Cook is out of the day as Mayor Streifeld. Yes. Motion carries. Thank you.

13C, an ordinance of the Mayor and Commissioner of North Bay Village, Florida, amending section 8.11, use exceptions of the Unified Land Development Code to provide for temporary use setback modifications, providing for severability, providing for codification conflicts on an effective date. This is second reading. My understanding is that the Planning and Zoning Board did approve this at its meeting earlier this month. And we obviously approved it on first reading. This is Craig. This is you.

Yes, Madam Mayor.

Have there been any changes since first reading?

No changes.

Were there any recommendations from the Planning and Zoning Board that we should be aware of?

The Planning and Zoning Board's recommendations really focused on mitigation of nuisances. And it was discussed that that can be done administratively.

Yeah, I agree with that. Commissioner Darrow mentioned this during his commission report. The curb, sidewalks, parking spaces at the Coletta lot property where construction staging is happening for Tula, are just the state of the sidewalk and the street is really ratchet. So we need help from our private sector partners, as well as staff to really just, just clean it up. Yeah. Yeah. And I think we also, if possible, you know, the, the guys who run the Marina and the Iron March, If Orlando could do some one-on-one outreach to those two business operators to maybe install more trash cans, make them more visible, help us with signage about pollution. You've got people coming off... The boats at the marina, they've been day drinking. People at the halal mart or the island mart just sort of tossing their trash. Folks who are working construction and maintenance just tossing their trash. I'm really looking forward to that lot being developed, but that's not happening for another couple of years and it's really gross.

We used to have an off-duty police officer there on weekends when it was really busy to control the littering and the noise and the issues of people being drunk coming off those boats between the Allen Mart and the, I think it's Gator property. Next one. We used to have a police car there on weekends. Off duty.

Not a bad idea, especially since there's so much speeding on that street too.

Just whatever the pocket can bear. But an off-duty officer.

Or one of our on-duty officers, right? I'm not going to intervene in how they run their squads, right? But that is community policing.

I got the note for on-duty, not for off-duty.

I believe the marina was being charged for the off-duty in those days.

I don't know that we can legally require them to pay for off-duty police. I don't recall that.

Do you remember that?

Ah, here we go. Historical.

Chief Noriega, good evening.

Good evening again, Mayor, Commission. There was an off-duty detail there. It was the county, the sheriff's office now. There was a Regulating, if you will, controlling parking, controlling traffic onto the marina. I don't know if they still have it in place or not, but we can certainly create a detail.

We had our own officer there.

Well, we had, we assigned an officer to help the county and certainly the backup of traffic that was being created by all the cars and boats coming in. It was creating a backlog onto the Westbridge and also creating a backlog into our, almost our, at the time it was, well, it is still. basically the entrance on the west side of the city. So the person that normally did that was Norman Benitez, who's now a lieutenant, and he was assigned to help and assist to get cars turning safely into the parking lot. Assisting that officer was assigned from the county. So we can certainly create a detail again as needed. And of course, if it's on-duty resources, as long as we have somebody available that's on the call, we can certainly help out.

I would be interested in seeing what type of enforcement happens over the course of this upcoming weekend, too.

Yeah. So we have a Memorial Day weekend action plan that we submit every year. We'll have one ready to go for the manager probably tomorrow. We have extra staff. We certainly are addressing concerns with what we expect to happen at Palm Tree Club.

I was going to say, we asked the Palm Tree to provide that kind of service and added security. Why is it that we cannot do the same for other businesses that are also bringing traffic into the area?

Palm Tree Club is getting special event permits because they don't have the appropriate certificate of use for what they're operating in that space. And so because they have special event permits, that is the requirement for off-duty police officers. If they had a valid certificate of use to run a club there, they wouldn't have to have off-duty officers. My understanding is the marina is perfectly compliant with the zoning. Okay.

Another component just, you know, of the Memorial Day weekend plan is assisting Miami Beach, who's asked to do an MOU and request for assistance with Memorial Day activities, and they call it Urban Beach Week. We're assisting with traffic, and we're also assisting with the air and sea show with our Marine Patrol. So we're spread a little thin, but we're making sure that we have all areas of concern addressed as part of our multifaceted action plan.

We're helping out with traffic and the air and sea show on the beach.

Yeah, we assign one of our motor officer actually assist their motor unit. And we have the boat that goes out there for a segment of the day to assist with the air and sea show.

and then does the boat come back to us to ensure that all is well here yeah okay i just want to i mean i love that our resources are being spread throughout the community because it's you know givers game right right um but i do want to make sure that we can respond to issues here over the course of the weekend always do we are expecting the weather report is it's going to be rough so we're actually assigning two officers to the boat

during the weekend, and that's one officer. Like rainy rough? The sea is expected to be rough. That's a report I got today. So we're signing two for officer safety, but they will be coming back and forth as needed. we are going to prioritize anything that we need here but if it is going to be rough we should see less activity um here in our city so uh just for the record we do this every year we also do it for the nc show in fort lauderdale we have a mutual aid agreement with them but uh it's one of the few times that we assist our neighboring agency because they do help us out quite a bit when we need them yeah absolutely it's a good practice yep

Yes. Your point is well taken, and the chief and I had a discussion today about taking care of home first. Okay. So it's a balance.

Yeah. Okay, so this is 13C. Is this use exceptions for temporary uses? I'm going to move it. Does anyone want to second it? I'll second. Seconded by Commissioner Cervoni. Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mayor Schreiber? Yes. Commissioner Cervoni? Yes. Commissioner Acosta? Yes. Commissioner Darrow?

Yes. vice mayor cook yes it's true anonymous all right a resolution of the mayor and commission of north bay village florida approving an application by pacific norian properties llc to permit a temporary sales center trailer at the property located at 7918 west drive with a front setback of zero feet where 25 feet are required and the side setback of zero feet where 15 feet is required providing for findings conditions and an effective date Staff recommends approval of the use exception. This is on second reading. Planning and Zoning Board voted to recommend approval. Anything else you want to add?

Excuse me, Mayor, sorry.

No, I'm also having personal problems, yeah. Quasar judicial disclosures, and if we're going to have any witnesses, if the clerk can swear them in at this point.

Okay, let's do disclosures first and then swear in our witnesses. Starting to my right. Any disclosures? No. No. No. No. Nobody's lobbying us. Love that. Let's do the swearing in of the witnesses. Are there any witnesses? Yeah, you guys are here. You're here. Get sworn in.

To other individuals testifying, do you affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Thank you.

Okay. Do you need to read rules about quasi-judicial? No. Okay. Great.

I know we normally do when we have a development agreement and a site plan, and I don't think it's needed.

I don't think so either. But I see that there's a bunch of land use attorneys here, and I want to make sure that they dance for their money. So do you guys want to present?

And everything that we normally say is noted on the agenda. That's helpful. Thanks.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners, Lauren Kahn, and Susan Sundberg. Address 1450 Brickell Avenue. I'm joined by my colleague, Brian Adler. I'm also joined by Vivian Diamond, Anna Long, and Brian Bittner, all with a developer. I have a full presentation, but I'm also happy to rest on staff's recommendation and zoning board's recommendations. recommendation for approval below and the full agenda packet, all of which is substantial competent evidence.

I'm okay with a condensed version of the presentation.

Does anyone have any questions of the applicant or staff?

No.

No questions. Okay. I haven't moved this yet. I'm going to move it.

Okay, second.

I was ready with you.

Public hearing.

Let's open a public hearing. Would anyone in the public like to speak?

We're going to close the public hearing. And I want to make sure Mr. Pinder's staff report was submitted.

That is correct.

All right. We've got a motion and a second. We did a public hearing. We've got competent, substantial evidence. Let's vote.

Mayor Schreiber.

Yes.

Vice Mayor Cook. Yes. Commissioner Acosta. Yes. Commissioner Cervone. Yes. Commissioner Adaro. Yes. It's unanimous. Go forth. Go for it.

Sell those units, guys. Good luck. We're sending you all the vibes. Thank you. All right. 13E, a resolution of the Mayor and Commission of North Bay Village approving an application by 7940 MBB Partners LLC to permit a temporary sales center trailer at the property located at 7938 and 7940 West Drive with a rear setback of 15 feet where 25 is required. Second side setback of 0 feet where 48 feet is required. That's a really big setback for Providing for findings, providing for conditions in an effective date. Staff recommends approval of the use exception. Mr. Penn is here. Craig Pinder, do you have anything to add on this item?

Yes, Madam Mayor. Excuse me. Sorry, my voice today.

I have a deja vu.

Thank you. I would just like to point out that the Planning and Zoning Board voted to recommend approval with the subject to a modification to staff's condition number five to allow a time frame of approval through May 14, 2028, where the applicant would have been limited to just one more year for their sales center to 2027, May 14. Thank you.

No problem.

Mr. Penn, would you like to present? Before we do that, same process as for the last hearing, any quasi-judicial ex parte disclosures?

All five of us were present at the groundbreaking for this development. Yeah, I made remarks, were photographed through sand, through a shovel, shouted out the police department. Yes. It was great. So I don't know if there were substantive conversations about whether or not this use exception would be approved. I think it was generally assumed that we were going to approve this use exception.

So there was no conversation.

I don't know if anybody wants to challenge what's happening here. I think we're fine. Anything else? Can we just move it? I had a similar conversation.

Mr. Penn. Evening, everyone. Graham Penn, 200 South. You weren't there. I couldn't. I was scheduled to be there and I couldn't.

I thought it was a little awkward for you not to be there.

Usually I'm not invited to those. And the one I get invited to, I can't go to the. i'm going to refrain from giving you a presentation as well i just wanted to echo what mr pinder said and ask for any emotion to support the pnz's recommendation of giving us a maximum of additional two years for the sales center or the earlier of two years or the cessation of sales once we're done with sales we will remove it so with that we would ask for your support of this tonight

Do you need a modified motion, or is the recommendation from the Planning and Zoning Board sufficient for your time frame?

No, I'm looking at the recommendation. I'm sure it's right.

Yeah, I mean, did you review the resolution before you?

Yes, I did. I'm sure you did.

I'm trying to call you on it.

I got so distracted by all that soccer talk, I just couldn't.

If you have any feedback, we'd love to hear it.

Yes, the proposed condition is what we need. Thank you so much.

I'll make a motion to approve it.

And we'll update that on the red zone.

We'll do.

We're fighting the second. The motion is made by Commissioner Darrow and seconded by Commissioner Cervoni. Madam Clerk, will you call the roll?

Commissioner Darrow.

Yes.

Commissioner Cervoni.

Yes.

Commissioner Acosta. Yes. Vice Mayor Cook.

Yes.

Mayor Streiffel. Yes. It's unanimous. Thank you so much.

See you later.

okay have a great night yes what time is it it's an early one for you it's an early one for all of us frankly it's 8 45 okay yeah no we're not ready for us at happies yet um so i don't have a phone up here today i normally have my My phone is at home. I walked out the door with my phone on the charger.

Kind of nice. No, I'm fine. I let you hold it. It makes you feel better.