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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 2020-04-23 MinutesCity of Miami City Hall 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 www.miamigov.com Meeting Minutes Thursday, April 23, 2020 9:00 AM City Commission Meeting City Hall City Commission Francis X. Suarez, Mayor Keon Hardemon, Chair, District Five Ken Russell, Vice Chair, District Two Alex Diaz de la Portilla, Commissioner, District One Joe Carollo, Commissioner, District Three Manolo Reyes, Commissioner, District Four Arthur Noriega, V, City Manager Victoria Mendez, City Attorney Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 9:00 AM INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Present: Chair Hardemon, Vice Chair Russell, Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla, Commissioner Carollo and Commissioner Reyes. On the 23rd day of April, 2020, the City Commission of the City of Miami, Florida, conducted and broadcasted a virtual meeting from its regular meeting place in City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive, Miami, Florida, in regular session. The Commission Meeting was called to order by Chair Hardemon at 9:22 a.m., and adjourned at 1:35 p.m. Note for the Record: Commissioner Carollo joined the virtual meeting at 9:33 a.m. ALSO PRESENT: Arthur Noriega, V, City Manager Victoria Mendez, City Attorney Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk ORDER OF THE DAY PART A - NON -PLANNING AND ZONING ITEM(S) Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair Hardemon, if you'd like to begin with your opening statement? Chair Hardemon: Pursuant to an executive order issued by the Office of Governor Ron DeSantis on March 20, 2020, municipalities may conduct meetings of their governing boards without having a quorum of its members present physically or at any specific location, and utilizing communications media, such as telephonic or video conversing technology, as provided by Section 120.545B(2) Florida Statutes. Procedures for the public will be explained by the City Attorney shortly. The members of the City Commission appearing remotely for this meeting will be Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, Joe Carollo, Manolo Reyes; Ken Russell, the Vice Chair; and me, Keon Hardemon, the Chair. The meeting will begin. Madam City Attorney, please state the procedures to be followed during this meeting. Barnaby Min (Deputy City Attorney): Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Any person who is a lobbyist, pursuant to Chapter 2, Article 6 of the City Code must register with the City Clerk and comply with related City requirements for lobbyists before appearing before the City Commission. A person may not lobby a City official, board member, or other staff member until registering. A copy of the Code section about lobbyists is available in the City Clerk's Office or online at municode.com. Any person making a presentation, formal request, or petition to the City Commission concerning real property must make the disclosures required by the City Code in writing. A copy of the City Code section is available at the Office of the City Clerk or online at municode.com. In accordance with Section 2-3302 and (g) of the City Code, the agenda material for each item on the agenda for this virtual meeting (INTERRUPTION IN VIDEO RECORDING) made available to the Mayor, members of the City Commission and the public at least five full business days in advance of the meeting. The material for each item on the agenda is available during business hours at the City Clerk's Office and only 24 hours a day at miamigov.com. Any person may be heard by the City Commission through the Chair and upon registering pursuant to published notice for not more than two minutes on any proposition before the City Commission unless modified by the Chair. Since this is a virtual meeting authorized by the Governor of the State of Florida, members of the public wishing to address the body City of Miami Page 1 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 may do so by visiting miamigov.com/virtualmeeting to upload their video comments or to submit their written comments via online comment form. Members of the public may also call 305-250-5353 to provide comments via the dedicated City of Miami public comment voicemail. Members of the public may also preregister to provide live public comment by phone during the meeting. You may, preregister by phone by calling 305- 250-5350 or online at miamigov.com/government/live-public-comment. All comments submitted will be included as part of the public record for the virtual meeting, and will be considered by the City Commission prior to any action taken. The City will accommodate any speakers desiring to appear in person, subject to all applicable emergency measures in place to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. Speakers who appear in person will be subject to screening for symptoms of COVID-19. Any persons exhibiting any symptoms of COVID-19 will not be permitted to enter City Hall. All interested parties are required to abide by all State, County, and local emergency orders, and are urged to remain at home and practice social distancing. If the proposition is being continued or rescheduled, the opportunity to be heard may be at such later date before the City Commission takes action on such proposition. When addressing the City Commission, the member of the public must first state his or her name, his or her address, and what item will be spoken about. When the City Commission takes action or votes on any proposition before it, it shall do so by a roll call vote, which shall be recorded by the Clerk and included in the record. Anyone wishing to appeal any decision made by the City Commission for any matter considered at this meeting may need a verbatim record of the item. A video of this meeting may be requested at the Office of Communications, or viewed online at miamigov.com. Please silence all cell phones and other noise -making devices. Any person with a disability requiring assistance or auxiliary aids and services for this meeting may notify the City Clerk. Please note, Commissioners have generally been briefed by City staff and the City Attorney on the items on the agenda today. The City of Miami is using Zoom to hold its April 23, 2020 virtual regular City Clerk meeting. Zoom is a cloud platform for video and audio conferencing collaboration, chat, and webinars across mobile devices, desktops, cellphones and room systems. In order to ensure that the public has the ability to view the meeting, the City Communications Department will broadcast this meeting through all usual channels and avenues that are provided when a City Commission meeting is held within Commission chambers at City Hall. The meeting can be viewed live on Miami TV at miamigov.com/TV or the City's Facebook page, through YouTube and through the City's Periscope page -- channel, or on Channel 77 of Comcast. The broadcast will also have closed captioning. Additionally, the City has not selected a virtual platform that requires the public to purchase or download any additional software or equipment to watch this meeting. Aside from the Zoom platform and that the participant would be appearing remotely, the public will have no discernible difference in their ability to watch the meeting. The City has developed new methods of ensuring public comment for virtual meetings. It has established four new options. The first new option allows the public to provide public comments via the dedicated City of Miami public comment voice mail by calling 305-250-5353, where the individual will be able to leave a two -minute message which will be played during the virtual Commission meeting. The second option allows for the public to submit a two -minute video to be played during the virtual Commission meeting. The third option allows the public to submit comments via the City's online comment form. The comments submitted through the comment form have been distributed to the elected officials and City Administration throughout the day so that the elected officials can consider the comments prior to taking any action. Additionally, the online comment form will remain open during the meeting to accept comments and distribute to the elected officials up until the Chairman closes public comment. The fourth option allows the public to pre -register to provide live public comment by phone during the virtual Commission meeting. For all of the aforementioned options, all the comments received will be included in the public record of the meeting. For these four new options, the City also created a simple set of instructions explaining how the public may submit their comments for either option. City of Miami Page 2 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Those instructions were provided in the notice to the public and published online at miamigov.com/virtualmeeting. Additionally, like any other City Commission (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the public may, provide public comment at City Hall. The City has set up a terminal in the event of members of the public travel to City Hall to provide public comment. However, due to COVID-19, all speakers desiring to appear in person will be subject to all applicable measures in place to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. Speakers who appear in person will be subject to screening for symptoms of COVID-19. Any person exhibiting any symptoms of COVID-19 will not be permitted to enter City Hall, but will be able to participate through the remote options described earlier. These five public comment options established and provided Jr,ofor the virtual regular City Commission meeting comply with Section 26.0114 and Section 120.54 of Florida Statutes. The City has published an agenda, as well as included the notice to the public, pursuant to our City Code, and the items and topics to be discussed through the virtual regular City Commission meeting. Additionally, the public has been given the opportunity to provide public comment during the meeting, and within reasonable proximity in time before the meeting via the public comment voicemail, online public comment form, the public comment video, and live public comment by phone. Moreover; Section 286.0114, Section 4, (6) of the Florida -- (c), I'm sorry -- of Florida Statute specifically authorizing the City to prescribe procedures or forums for an individual to use in order to inform the board or Commission of a desire to be heard to indicate his or her support, opposition or neutrality on a proposition. The City, through its five public comment options to provide five different procedures or forums to indicate among other things his or her support, opposition or neutrality on the item and topics to be discussed at the virtual Commission meeting. The City provided information on how to submit comments in the notice to the public on a dedicated web page and via social media channel. Commissioners, please confirm you are comfortable with the notice provisions set forth in these uniform rules and procedures we have established for this virtual meeting. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Mr. Min: Thank you. Chair Hardemon: Mr. Manager, do you have any items on the agenda that need to be continued or withdrawn, deferred? Art Noriega (City Manager): I do, Mr. Chair. Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice Chairman, Commissioners, Madam City Attorney, Mr. City Clerk. At this time, the Administration would like to defer and/or withdraw the following items: To be deferred to May 14, PH6, which is to approve the right-of-way access for Illumination Technologies; to be withdrawn, RE.2, which is a piggyback with the St. Louis RFP (Request for Proposals) for information and emergency kiosks; to be indefinitely deferred, RE.3, which is in relation to Melreese Golf Course; to be deferred to May 14, RE.5, pilot program, electric cargo bikes; to be indefinitely deferred, RE.6, which is to allocate API (Anti -Poverty Initiative) funds for Muce Educates Corp.; to be deferred to May 14, FR.1, which is to amend the Code of Chapter 62, the repeal of special area plan process; to be deferred to May 14, FR.2, which is to amend the Code, Chapter 38, Maurice A. Ferre Park Conservancy; to be deferred to May 14, FR.4, which is to amend the Code, Chapter 23, Historic Preservation. I also have some PZ (Planning and Zoning) items. PZ items to be deferred to 6 -- I'm sorry -- June 25, PZ.1, which is the HEP (Historic and Environmental Preservation) decision appeal, 2167 South Bayshore Drive; to be deferred to June 25, PZ.2, which is also a HEP decision appeal, 2167 South Bayshore Drive; to be deferred to May 14, PZ.3, which is Zoning text, marinas in CS, civic space; to be deferred to May 14, PZ.4, which is also a Zoning text, public storage facilities, district zones only; to be indefinitely deferred, PZ.5, which is a Zoning text, NCD (Neighborhood Conversation District) rewrite; and to be indefinitely deferred, PZ.6, Zoning text, auxiliary park. That concludes the items. City of Miami Page 3 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Chair Hardemon: Commissioners, are there any of you that want an item indefinitely deferred, withdrawn, or continued? Hearing none, is there a motion in accordance with what's been stated on the record? Vice Chair Russell: So moved. Commissioner Reyes: I move it -- second. Chair Hardemon: Been properly moved and seconded to defer, withdraw, and indefinitely defer the items that were spoken of on the record. All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Hardemon: All against? Motion carries. PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR ALL ITEM(S) 7397 DISCUSSION ITEM Office of the City Clerk PUBLIC COMMENTS SUBMITTED ONLINE BY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC FOR THE APRIL 23, 2020 VIRTUAL CITY COMMISSION MEETING. RESULT: PRESENTED Chair Hardemon: Mr. Mayor, do you want to be recognized? Mayor Francis Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to again commend the Administration for their exemplary work throughout this COVID-19 crisis. And I want to thank individually each and every Commissioner that have rallied around us to really come up with a unified strategy, and every single Commissioner has really differentiated themselves in different areas. And so, I just want to commend everyone again for unity and for continuing to put the people first. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you, Mayor. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? Mr. Chair? Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, sir. Commissioner Reyes: Could you please sit up a little bit? I only see the top of your head. Chair Hardemon: I'm short. Commissioner Reyes: No, it's not that. I think that you're too close to the -- And also, I also want to join the Mayor in recognizing the work that the Administration and every single Commissioner is doing. And we -- I think that everybody has stepped up to the plate, and it is an honor to serve with such a group of people that really put people first. I mean, I'm real proud to be part of this Commission, and having this great Administration that has been doing fantastic; doing a fantastic job. Congratulations, Art. Congratulations. City of Miami Page 4 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Chair Hardemon: Okay. Vice Chair Russell: Mr. Chairman? Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, sir. Vice Chair Russell: I apologize. I meant to mention during the order of the day, I would just like to be noted as a sponsor and/or co-sponsor on CA.4, PH.2, 3, 4, and 5, as well as PH10. Chair Hardemon: Okay. All right. So I'll open the floor for public comment at this time. IT (Information Technology), if there are any pre-recorded public comments, can you have them played now? Manuel Otero (Web Administrator): We have actually live comments, so phone operator one, you're live. Unidentified Speaker: Ma'am, you are now live with the City Commission. Kathy Suarez: Good morning. My name is Kathy Suarez, and I would like to speak on RE.7, the CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) for the West Grove. In January 2018 -- January 11, 2018, we had a unanimous plan where all the Commissioners agreed that the West Grove deserved and needed that; a big celebratory luncheon in Commissioner Russell's office to follow. We have not had any movement following that. It needed to go to the County. The City Manager had already done his job with finding of necessity. It took many months to get it assigned; April 2017, months, and months, and months. We finally get all that approved. We get a unanimous approval from the Commission and the City. January 11, 2018, what happened? Nobody took it to the County, and that wasn't anybody else's problem or job but Commissioner Russell's; instead, he was running for congress. This is important. Now we want to do a whole new CRA that'll take years, and years, and years to find the money. We have to stop over promising and under -delivering to this community. It is absurd. Thank you, and have a nice day. I hope everyone stays well. Mr. Otero: Phone operator 2, you're live. Unidentified Speaker: Mr. Cannon, you are on. Unidentified Speaker: Yes, I'm here. Unidentified Speaker: You are alive on Commission. Please speak. Unidentified Speaker: I'm sorry? Unidentified Speaker: You are on, sir. Go ahead and address the Commission. Unidentified Speaker: Okay, fine. Thank you. Edwin Pierre: Good morning. Thank you for your time, folks. My name is Edwin Pierre. I'm at 3631 Florida Avenue. There is an item on the agenda today that just captured my attention, and this relates to the beautification improvements on State Road 90. And the reason why it caught my attention is because I live in a community in the Grove, which is actually very close to the train station, very close to the downtown, and yet it seems (UNINTELLIGIBLE) miles away from the reality that is, that I see on a daily basis. What am I referring to? I'm referring to lack of infrastructure, the blatant lack of infrastructure that exists in the area where I live; it's the West Grove. Simple things such as street trash bins -- right? -- and streetlights. City of Miami Page 5 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 All these things are somewhat missing, which translates into the streets being dirty, which translates into increased crime -- right? -- because of the lack of lighting. And these are things that I've brought up to both the Commissioners' office and to -- City NET (Neighborhood Enhancement Team) I think this thing is called. I'm new to the area, so I'm trying to better understand what do I need to do to sort of help, I mean, or contribute to helping, I mean, with incorporating these things? I mean, I heard earlier a person dropped in and talked about the CRA, which I welcome. I also called the Commissioner's office -- or I sent an email to the Commissioner's office about this, as well, and welcomed this. But then again, I do not know what is happening. Appears to me as this is dying down, but this would be a welcome improvement, if you will. Thank you. Mr. Otero: Phone operator 4, you're live. Unidentified Speaker: Okay, caller, you're live with the City Commission. Michael Mach: Good morning. My name is Michael Mach. I live at 3543 Plaza Street in the West Grove. I'm here to ask for a deferral of Resolution 1 and Resolution 7. Resolution 1 regards a programmatic agreement with the State Historic Office. That's a bad idea, because that's going to remove standards for documents. It means that the Historic Department will not have to request surveys, and it will require less contact with property owners. That's decreasing the quality of our historic designations, so 1 do not approve of the changes that they made to the procedure for Resolution 1, the programmatic agreement. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Resolution 7, because 1 don't think we're ready for a new CRA, especially during a time of quarantine. 1 can't believe that was put on the agenda during a quarantine meeting. Please defer both RE. 1 and RE.7. Thank you. Unidentified Speaker: Phone operator 1, you're live. Unidentified Speaker: Hello, ma'am. Now you're live with the Commission. Go ahead. Jacqueline Indacochea: Good morning. My name is Jackie Indacochea, 3130 Elizabeth Street, and I am asking for a deferral of the new CRA, RE.7. I own several properties in the Grove since 1995, and I've been fighting some of these issues for some time now. As property owners, we have the right to be informed as to what changes have been proposed or made before that decision is made. Property owners have the right to be properly noticed, and to be heard by you, the Commissioners. I was not given proper notice for this virtual meeting. I heard it from a friend. There surely is never a problem notifying me when it's time to pay all the property taxes to the tax collector. There must be a check and balance. As property owners, we are always told by the powers that be that our best interests are considered. It is that same group who decide who gets what. And if you are one of the special chosen ones, you are in luck. There was an air conditioning give-away right after Hurricane Irma, intended for the elderly or those without ACs (air conditioning) or in need. One of my tenants used his -- my address and was given an air conditioning. Here's the problem: The property, which I own, has a great central AC system. And from what I am told, that AC was sold on the street. So, you see, not all our interests are being looked after; checks and balances. The fact that you are bringing back these extremely important items by virtual meeting during a time of a pandemic and quarantine is not only ridiculous, but flat out insulting. Please defer Item RE.7. I thank you for your time. Mr. Otero: Phone operator 1, you're live. Unidentified Speaker: Sir, you are now live with the Commission. Go ahead, sir. City of Miami Page 6 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Lyle Muhammad: Yes. My name is Lyle Muhammad; address, 7515 Northwest 14th Court, Miami, Florida. First, I would like to thank each of you for all of the work that you've done to keep our City and community safe dealing with this current world pandemic. We're grateful to have leadership in place that understands the value of that. My comment today is dealing with violence and crime. We've been meeting with officials from the City of Miami, Miami -Dade County, and the City of Miami Gardens over the past two years to put in place initiatives that could help combat gun violence and inner city violence particularly. And while we've been able to move ahead with actual programs and contracts with Miami -Dade County and actual program and contract with the City of Miami Gardens, we have not yet finalized that with the City, and it's causing a problem, because we know crime overlaps in many of these areas. As we're wishing the Chief of course, recovery from dealing with the coronavirus, we've also met in the past with the Chief and we know that the Police Department is onboard to work with us. And when I say, "us, "1 mean the Circle of Brotherhood, and the community outreach work that we're doing in this area. Right now, there's been a spike in a rash of shootings that have taken place in city limits that spill over into the County. And we're just not effective and able to deal with the situation, having a program in one place and not being in the other when they can sometimes be right across the street. Our work, our peacemakers program has proven to be effective, and we just hope that we can take a look at it, particularly since there's a rash of crimes that are taking place now, even under this pandemic, including an increase in shootings, as well. We just want to go on record to say that we'll make whatever information we need available to show our track record and our work, because we do want to see our streets to be safe and free of gun violence. That's my comment. Mr. Otero: Okay. We're ready for the podium. If there's anyone live at the podium, you're live. Edward Martos: Good morning, Commissioners. Thank you all for all your hard efforts. For the record, my name is Edward Martos; office at 2525 Ponce de Leon Boulevard. I'm here today to discuss -- well, first, to thank you for deferring RE.2, and second, to discuss PH9. Each of you and your respective offices have received letters from my client, Smart City Media, on three occasions now. At the last publicly -held meeting -- well, not publicly held, but the meeting here at the day -- when you were on the dais on March 12, on April 9, and again this week. The reason for our letters have been very frank. We can provide an offer that is superior to the offer that's been put before you, and if given the opportunity to present a All detailed presentation -- Pin prepared to do it today if you'd like to hear one. It will only take maybe five minutes, tops. We're prepared to match -- correction -- exceed the offers brought to you by IKE. Specifically, we provide better equipment. I'm just going to run through the first four bullet points, Commissioner Hardemon. The IKE offer currently is for 40 percent for the first five years of gross revenue. We are offering 42 percent for the first five years. In the subsequent six -- year six through 10. we would provide 45 percent gross revenue. IKE is only offering you 40 percent gross revenue. And then, in subsequent years, IKE hasn't specified what they would offer the City. We are willing to make the commitment right now that in years 11 through 20, we will offer the City 45 percent gross revenue. Furthermore, IKE has offered you 50 thou -- up to $50,000 in administrative costs of the City's. We will bear 75,000 in administrative costs that the City may have. And so, simply on financial terms alone, you can see in a time when you are looking at budget shortfalls because of this pandemic, we are offering you a superior financial offer. Commissioner Hardemon, Mr. Chair, if you will give me an additional two minutes, I will run through this PowerPoint so you can see some of the hardware and software features that my client can provide, and how they would exceed IKE's proposal. Can I have that allowance, sir, Commissioner? I'm going to proceed then. Can I have the next slide, please? IKE is throughout Florida. We provide kiosk services in Fort Lauderdale. We are -- Smart City Media is in Florida. We have -- we're very close to securing a contract in Orlando, as well, and we are in multiple City of Miami Page 7 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 other states -- 14, to be exact -- with 18 contracts, and over 2,000 kiosks. Next slide, please. Thank you. You know, this service we're providing is really about content. It's about ads. It's about servicing the community with information. Our content is unmatched. And one key point that I wanted to highlight for you is that IKE -- the bid that's been proposed, the offer that's been made to you currently, they have made a offer of small business ads during the pandemic for the period of the pandemic. Our company, we're proud to support small business throughout every city that we're in, and we provide free advertising 365 days a year. It's part of our business model. It's part of our giving back to the community. It's not something we do just during a pandemic. Next slide, please. You know, there's been talk about -- you know, I've heard from some people in the City about this concern that we haven't had an opportunity to see all the different place -making designs that we could provide, all the equipment that we could provide. Very frankly, the first that the public learned about IKE's proposal was on -- at the March 12 meeting -- or in the lead up to the March 12 meeting. And, of course, we've had a pandemic since. If given the opportunity through a proper RFP (Request for Proposals), we'll present to you all the various models that we could provide. One that's really got my attention, for example, is a brand-new technology that would allow some of these kiosks to serve as electronic vehicle charging stations. So if they're near the right-o f=way, near a parking space, an electronic vehicle could take advantage of that. Next slide, please. Yet another key point is that, you know, you've had offers recently for installation of 5G towers in your rights -of -way. Our company again has a solution for this problem. Our -- we have a design that provides unmatched Internet of Things connectivity, and that includes 5G internet service. So what you see on the slides, provides all the same information you might find that also has 5G -- has a 5G tower attached, and also serves for street lighting and cobra lighting. This is an outstanding solution to minimizing the amount of furniture that you have on your right-of-way, and really, it's just one more example of how Smart City Media's equipment and designs exceed IKE's. Next slide, please. Chair Hardemon: Sir. Mr. Martos: Yes. Chair Hardemon: Your additional time has expired. You've been speaking for more than four minutes now. Mr. Martos: Okay. Well -- Chair Hardemon: And we're going to move on with the public comment. If -- hear me out. If there's someone from the Commission that wants to hear from you further, during the time, especially when we may address the item, we will let you know. Mr. Martos: Okay. I understand. I appreciate that very much. And just to conclude, again, we're in a pandemic. You need this additional revenue. It's what the City needs. Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. Chair Hardemon: Thank you, sir. Mr. Otero: We're ready jbr the -- do we have any more live comments? You're muted. Alex Uribe: Can you hear me, Commissioners? Commissioner Reyes: Yes, I can hear you. Mr. Uribe: Good morning. Alex Uribe, with offices at 2525 Ponce de Leon Boulevard. I just wanted to quickly thank you and also express my support for PH 10. We have a lot of restaurants in this city who would love to participate in the voucher program as it's coming -- as it's being presented. And, of course, we -- they would love to do more City of Miami Page 8 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 if more is possible. 1 think you'll find that working with local businesses, small businesses, restaurants, you'll find that they are more than flexible, and more than willing to provide a great deal for the City of Miami in order to help ends meet with -- you know, get the -- both people who need to eat, fed, and local jobs here. I represent a bunch of them, but I'm here today, not on behalf of any one of them, but just as a resident here who sees these businesses are suffering. And I'm glad to see this. Thank you very much. Mr. Otero: Any more live comments? Unidentified Speaker: That's the end of them. Mr. Otero: Okay. We're ready for the recorded comments. Fabian Garcia Diaz: Fabian Garcia Diaz, 3121 Southwest 22nd Avenue, Miami, Florida 33133. This message is for Mayor and City officials to please defer the appeal to allow Carrolton School to change the zoning for Villa Woodbine. There are many reasons why this should not be allowed. Definitely, we need to be present in any public hearings and allow residents to be voiced. We are all concerned about the impact of traffic, the impact on the canopy, the tree canopy, the lifestyle that we have in our village, and also the tax, the real estate tax, money that is not going to be collected if the use is changed to a school. So please defer the appeal, and when the time comes to vote, please say, "no." Thank you. Zelalem Adefris: Hello. This is Zelalem Adefris. My address, 3000 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. And 1 am the vice president of policy and advocacy at Catalyst Miami, and I'm commenting on Item FR.1, the repeal of the special area plan process. At Catalyst Miami, we serve many communities across the City of Miami, in particular, low wealth communities in the City, and we've seen the adverse effects that special area plans can have on working class communities in Miami's most historic neighborhoods and beyond. So we ask that you support this repeal of special area plan processes, and at the same time, include more community benefits agreements, more community control and feedback over development in Miami, but as a first step, to support this measure would be incredible for our communities. Thank you so much. Bye. Steve Phillips: Good morning. My, name is Steve Phillips; address, 4020 Woodridge Road. Thank you for this opportunity to make some comments. I'm calling about Agenda Items PH2, 3, 4, 5, and 10, as well as PZ.1 and 2. As it relates to the PH (Public Hearing) items, I'd like to ask each Commissioner, as well as the City Manager. to ensure the City of Miami taxpayers that each and every agenda item include independent oversight to ensure that our tax dollars are being used properly, including the determination of any conflicts' of interest that may be quite obvious. We're dealing with a lot here. We need to be careful how we spend it given the potential financial crisis the City will face yet again. Be smart. Don't think we're stupid. Thank you very much. Francisco Diaz: Hello. My name is Francisco Diaz, and I'm a resident at 2965 Washington Street in Coconut Grove. I'm calling regarding the Villa Woodbine issue for tomorrow's Commission meeting. I am totally against approving the school for the Villa Woodbine site. It will just create more traffic on a road that is really, you know, a single -lane road going north and single lane coming south. And during school days, the traffic at around 3 p.m. and in the morning, it's unbearable. So you will make it even worse if you approve that and allow another school to go there. Okay? Thank you. City of Miami Page 9 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Kathy Parks Suarez: Good morning. My name is Kathy Parks Suarez. 1 live at 4035 Battersea Road, Miami 33133. I'm here to speak about Item PZ.5, and the NCD-2 and 3. I am here to ask for PZ.5, NCD-2 and 3 to be withdrawn. We already have NCDs (Neighborhood Conservation Districts) in the Miami 21. When we are able to enforce the current legislation successfully, we can review and/or discuss further changes. NCD-2 is specific to West Grove, was never -- and has never been executed; as a matter of fact, more demos and development and displacement. 130-plus units have happened under Ken Russell's watch. Thank you. Have a good day. Stay well. Bye. Barbara Mills: Hi. My name is Barbara Mills, and 1 live at 3637 Florida Avenue, and 1 also own a small business in West Grove. I'm here to speak on the RE. 7 West Grove CRA creation to let you know that we need your help. We need your help. Each and every one of you on the CRA Board as a member, we need your help. This was passed and agreed upon to help us at the City level for the City Commissioners, and we waited Jrothe County Commissioners to give us a meeting, which never materialized. Meanwhile, nothing has happened. Everything seems to be at a standstill. So I'm here to let you know. And if you can possibly have compassion in your heart, because God have placed you in a position where, as he said, "The poor will be with us always." But he also said, "Help ye one another," the ones that are in need. That's us. We need your help. We used to have multiple three-story buildings. They're all gone. The developers have come in here and they have purchased up the properties, residential and commercial, and have raised rents so high for both places till it's unbearable, and unbelievable, and unaffordable. Can you believe that they would want to conie in, take over our community that our forefathers built from the ground up? That's what's happening, and that's what has happened, and it will continue happening unless we're able to do something. I'm only asking that you help us to help ourselves so that we can put a stop to a lot of things that's going on here, build houses where people can afford to live, and build back up this community, which is a Bahamian -cultivated community. So I'm asking you, have compassion in your heart. Help us. We need your help. We desperately need your help. Thank you for listening, and I hope you heard and listened to every word that I said. Have a blessed one. Bye-bye. Richard Tardanico: Richard Tardanico. I'm a professor of sociology at FIU (Florida International University). I'm calling to comment on Item 5131 in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. SAPs (special area plans) have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. Their adverse effects can be devastating for working class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods. The SAP process is deeply flawed in all kinds of fundamental ways. SAPs have become a tool for investors to speculate rather than to develop the community for the best of its residents. Developers are not proposing SAPs for the benefit they can produce for the City, but rather to boost their speculative profits, especially in this current COVID-19 crisis. We need to protect the affordability, the living standards of the masses of people in our cities. Thank you. Carolyn Donaldson: Good evening. This is Carolyn Donaldson, a board member with Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church, located at 3515 South Douglas Road. And I am calling on behalf of Macedonia, and would like to start by saying I thank the City of Miami Commission for your unanimous acceptance of approving and adopting Resolution Number 180010 back on January 11, 2018. We, the members of Macedonia, support the Agenda Item RE.7, which is the resolution to direct the City Manager to take any and all necessary steps to advance the process of creating a CRA, which is the Community Redevelopment Agency within the West Grove neighborhood. We also further authorize the City of Miami to execute any and all necessary documents and submit those documents to the Miami -Dade County Board of Commissioners for review, approval and acceptance. These are things that we have discussed in the past, and we're looking forward to advance this process without any City of Miami Page 10 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 additional necessary. delay. 1 want to thank you this evening for your consideration. And again, this is Carolyn Donaldson. Reynold Martin: My name is Reynold Martin. I own property in the City of Miami in Coconut Grove at 3325 Percival Avenue. I'm calling to -- in support of Item Number RE.7, sponsored by Commissioner Ken Russell. As representative of the Community Action Human Services (UNINTELLIGIBLE), the executive board of the Coconut Grove Community Advisory Committee, otherwise known as the CAC, hereby gives its support of the resolution for the creation of a Community Redevelopment Agency for Coconut Grove Village West, as is stated in Agenda Item (UNINTELLIGIBLE). The Miami City Commission, who also represent the Omni CRA Board voted on April 9 to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) did not provide an alternative or substitute proposal, and certainly had no (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Please note, the Miami City Commission voted two years ago in January 2018 for Omni CRA expansion, and subsequently adopted the findings of necessity study that was conducted, and met all criteria for the adoption. Now that we've learned that the West Grove CRA will be formed, we will again state our expectations in this proposal, and urge the following assurances: The creation of the Coconut Grove Village West CRA in that valuable time has lapsed to the detriment of our community the methods to proceed with the Coconut Grove Village West CRA establishment would be given top priority. The establishment (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and the advisory board will include members of the residential, business or community organizations or the selection of an executive director will include endorsements from trustworthy community members. 5: That it be made clear our intent and understanding for the preservation of a community that is not only deserving, but required in order to sustain stakeholders and their families. 6: The adoption of the Coconut Grove Village West CRA not be overtaken by foreign or domestic developers with the interest of negotiating for their priorities as it relates to attainable affordable housing projects and/or overdevelopment. Nathaniel Robinson: Good evening. This is Reverend Robinson from Greater St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church. I'm the senior pastor. The address is 3680 Thomas Avenue. On behalf of Greater St. Paul AME (African Methodist Episcopal) Church, I would like to thank the City of Miami Commission for unanimously accepting, approving, and adopting Resolution Number 18-0010 on January 11, 2018. Greater St. Paul supports Agenda Item RE.7, which is the resolution to direct the City Manager to take any and all necessary steps to advance the process of creating a Community Redevelopment Agency in the West Grove neighborhood, and further authorizing the City Manager to execute any and all documents, and submit all necessary documents to the Miami -Dade County Board of County Commissioners for review, approval, and acceptance. Thank you for your consideration. Ruth Ewing: My name is Ruth Ewing; address, 3620 Percival, City of Miami. I'm a resident of West Grove. I'm calling in regards to Agenda Item 7E -- RE.7. I'm calling in support of Item RE.7, the -- and also as the president of the Elizabeth Virrick Park Committee. I am concerned that more attention needs to be paid to the needs of the residents of West Grove. The Commission already has approved and accepted a findings of necessity study that was conducted earlier in the West Grove a few years ago, and established that there were areas of blight in this area, and that there was a need for urban renewal, and had approved this, and found this to be true. Now it is time for the City of Miami and the Commission, the Miami City Commission to stand up and actually support, and make difference, and change, and accept, and do a CRA for West Grove. Thank you. Brax Tinkler: Hi. My name is Brax Tinkler, at 631 Northeast 72nd Terrace, Unit 1, Miami, Florida 33138. I'm calling to comment on Item 5131, in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. The Item 5131 and repeal of SAPs from Miami 21 should be both brought together. I don't think the SAPs City of Miami Page 11 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 have served our communities; instead, they threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. There's adverse effects that SAPs can have on working class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods, and it's impossible to ignore at this point. The SAP process is greatly flawed due to minimal or nonexistent requirements and ensuring for preservation. There's lack of meaningful processes to gather public input and negotiate community benefits. There's lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements, and there's lack of study on the impact to the surrounding neighborhoods, such as traffic displacement. I don't think developers are proposing SAPs for the benefits they can produce for the City. They do it because they can see opportunity for enormous gain. And this is just really an issue in Miami -Dade County as I've been living here since the '80s, and the cost of living and rent is just getting worse, and people are being pushed out. Please, please, please take this comment seriously, and repeal the Item 151 -- or the -- repeal SAP and reference to special area plans. So thank you. Bye. Adele Tallman: My name is Adele Talhnan; 1906 Tigertail Avenue, 33133. I'd like to have the Carrollton Woodbine issue deferred. Thank you very much. Laura (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Aguirre: Hi. My name is Laura (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Aguirre. I live at 121 Northwest 97th Avenue, Apartment 31, Miami, Florida 33132, and I am calling in support of Agenda Item 5131 to repeal references, special area plans in our City of Miami Code. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and affordability of our City. The SAP process is unacceptable, because it doesn't include meaningful processes for public input and negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community, but for private gain, and unfortunately, have been approved although they've only met the minimum legal requirements. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they've become tools for speculation by investors distorting our housing and real estate markets and deepening our affordability crisis. It's particularly important we fight the crisis even given the economic crisis we're entering, and thus, must repeal SAPs. Thank you. Anthony Vinciguerra: Good afternoon. My name is Anthony Vinciguerra. I reside at 3325 Charles Avenue in Coconut Grove. I'm leaving this message today just to encourage the Commission to support RE.7, to move ahead on the creation of a CRA for the West Grove. As I'm sure you all know, the West Grove has an incredible history, with the first Bahamian immigrants in the West Grove helping build not only the Grove, but really the creation of the City of Miami. Unfortunately, as I'm sure you also know, the West Grove has experienced severe segregation historically. The segregation wall is just 700 feet from my house. And that marginalization of the West Grove has been seen throughout history, and its legacy is still seen today in the lack of infrastructure investment in the West Grove, and the need for affordable housing due to the historic marginalization of its residents. And so, again, I'd just like to encourage the City Commission to move ahead with the creation of a CRA for the West Grove. We were sad to see the West Grove taken out of the Omni CRA, but hope that the creation of a CRA specifically for the West Grove can help support this amazing community, and particularly its low-income and historic residents so that they're able to stay in the West Grove, so that there can become affordable housing available in the West Grove, and that it can retain its amazing character, and the support that this community needs. So thank you again, and -- Anthony Vinciguerra from 3325 Charles Avenue. Danielle Goodman: Good evening. My name is Danielle Goodman; 43 Northwest 85th Street, Miami, Florida. I'm calling to comment on Item 5131, to support the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. This 5131 and also the repeal of SAPS from Miami 21 should both be brought together, because it's a City of Miami Page 12 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 racial justice issue. The adverse effects SAPs can have on working-class communities of color in Miami in our historic neighborhoods is becoming impossible to ignore because the process is deeply flawed. There are minimal requirements to ensure neighborhood preservation. There's a lack of meaningful processes to gather public input and negotiate community benefits, a lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements, a lack of study of environmental and displacement impact. Instead, SAPs are a tool for investors to speculate instead of developing the community for the best of all City of Miami residents. They distort the land and real estate market, they inflate housing costs, and do not add to our affordable housing stock. Since we are in an economic crisis, protecting the affordability of our City and the ability of our residents to stay in communities and to make sure that development serve its resident is even more repeal special area plans. Thank you. Unidentified Speaker: (UNINTELLIGIBLE), 1800 North Bayshore Drive, Miami 33132. My comment is regarding unemployment. I don't know who else to reach out to. The Governor's office isn't doing anything. DEO (Department of Economic Opportunity) doesn't pick up the phone. We're not getting paid. Specifically, I would like information on the federal 600 weekly dollars. We're now in the fourth week of this funding, and not one penny has been sent out. That's $2,400. That could make a real impact on my financial situation. Please get the federal monies out to the unemployed people. This is completely unfair that they can't figure out the system. This is not the Wild, Wild West. We have technology. Yes, I'm very angry, even most angry of the fact that there is no transparency. There's no one to ask questions to. We're not getting any information. All we're asked is to be patient, and accept an apology. 1 don't want an apology. 1 want to feed my children. This situation needs to be corrected. They keep saying they're working on it. They're obviously not working on it hard enough. I'm sorry, it's not that difficult of a concept. Get our $600 that's accumulating week after week to us. People are desperate. I think you guys can figure this out. Please stop continuing to hold the federal money. If you need help figuring this out, give me a call. I'm sure I could give you some good ideas. And it's shameful that all the emails and telephone calls that I have sent to Governor, local representatives, Mayors, the Senators, the congressmen. No one in (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Justin Pinn: Hi. My name is Justin Pinn. I live at 329 Northeast 76th Street, Miami, Florida 33138, calling in support of Agenda Item FR. 1 to appeal references to special area plan in our City of Miami Code. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and instead threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The SAP process is unacceptable, because it doesn't include meaningful processes for public input and negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community, but for private gain, and unfortunately, have been approved although they've only met the minimum legal requirements. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusion zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they become tools for speculation by investors, distorting our housing and real estate markets and deepening our affordability crisis. It's particularly important we fight this crisis, given the economic crisis we're entering, given COVID-19, and thus, we must repeal SAPs. Alexander Moskovitz: Good morning, Chairman Hardemon and Commissioners of the City of Miami. My name is Alexander Moskovitz; 2185 South Bayshore Drive, adjacent to the Villa Woodbine property, sharing 144 feet of property line. I will be adversely impacted more significantly than the general public by the proposed development under consideration, and therefore, request formal recognition of my intervenor status by the City of Miami. Please note, this request is not a last ditch effort. Instead, I've been truing to get my status ,formally recognized since August 2019, more than eight months ago. I first tried at the HEP (Historic and Environmental Preservation) Board, and was told only the City Commission could City of Miami Page 13 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 grant it to me. 1 then tried with counsel to get it done at the City Commission, and was told it would only be heard contemporaneously with the underlying natter today. I won't delve more into the detail and history. Instead, I'm going to offer 'bur very real direct reasons why intervenor status should be granted to me. Number one, my property has 144 shared feet. Number two, the proposed exit from the school onto Bayshore Drive would add a real safety harm that has not yet been studied on my own single family residence's entrance and exit onto South Bayshore Drive. Number three, the significant massing of the auditorium and pool structures proposed would add significant water runoff; erosion, and potential intrusion onto my property, or the foundation of the wall between our properties. Number four, the main building, comprising over 30,000 square feet will add additional water runoff that will enter my property throughout my western edge. Therefore, I implore the Commission to do the following two actions: Number one, grant me intervenor status in this matter as it relates to the property referred to as Villa Woodbine. And two, either deny Carrollton's appeal outright or at a minimum, defer this action until a later date -- September -- by which time I hope to be allowed to engage directly with my own experts. In the alternative, I should be allowed to participate in today's hearing. Thank you. Norma (UNINTELLIGIBLE): Hi. My name is Norma (UNINTELLIGIBLE). I live at 444 Northeast 130th Street, North Miami, Florida 33161. I'm calling to comment on Item FR.1, in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code, because special area plans haven't served your City or our residents and they threaten communities and the affordability of your City. The adverse effects some special area plans can have on working-class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods is becoming impossible to ignore. The SAP process is deeply flawed due to minimal and nonexistent requirements in ensuring neighborhood preservation, the lack of meaningful processes to gather public input and negotiate community benefits, the lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements; lack of study on the impact to the surrounding neighborhoods, such as on traffic, the environment, displacement. They've also become a tool for investors to speculate rather than actually develop the community for the best of its existing residents, distorting the land and real estate market, and inflating housing costs. Developers are not proposing special area plans for the benefit they can produce to the City. They're doing it because they see an opportunity for enormous gain in a political and legal environment that favors developers, and because they are rarely held to a standard that is higher than the bare minimum requirements under the law. Given that we have entered an economic crisis, protecting the affordability of our City and the ability of our residents to stay in their communities, as well as ensuring that development (UNINTELLIGIBLE) serves its residents is even more important, and we have to repeal special area plans. Thank you. Jennifer Mesidor:• Hi. Good afternoon. My name is Jennifer Mesidor. I currently live at the residence of 9835 Northwest 13th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33147. I'm calling today to represent and talk about the 5131, in support of the repeal of reference to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. The adverse effects they can have on working-class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods is becoming impossible to ignore. SAPs have become a tool for investors to speculate rather than develop a community for the best of its residents. Distorting the land and real estate market (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and do not add to our affordable housing stock. Given that we've entered into an economic crisis (UNINTELLIGIBLE) our City and the ability of our residents to stay in their communities, as well as ensuring that development in this City (UNINTELLIGIBLE) residents is even more important, and thus, we must repeal special area plan. Unidentified Speaker: Hi. M_y name is (UNINTELLIGIBLE). I live in 3815 Southwest 18th Avenue, Miami, Florida 33155. I'm calling to comment on Item 5131 in support City of Miami Page 14 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 of the repeal of references to special area plan in the City of Miami. The special area plans have not served the City or the community and the affordability of the City. 1 request that the City (UNINTELLIGIBLE), and 1-- you know, 1 have worked there, and I have a lot of folks who live around there, and I know that, you know, these plans are not positively impacting the working-class community, the community there in those neighborhoods. There's minimal to nonexistent requirements to ensure neighborhood preservation, you know, to ensure that the dignity of the neighborhood is preserved. There's a total lack of process to gather public input and negotiate community benefits. You know, the community that lives there, their opinion and their thoughts matter, and not enough is being done to consider those thoughts and feelings. There's a lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements. You know, there's a lot of working- class and poor people that live in that area of Miami. You know, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) people to be able to put up with paying higher rent, the least we can do is, you know, at least raise the minimum wage and pay them more, but that's not being done, so it's not, you know, logical. And there's a total lack of study on the impact to the surrounding neighborhoods as on the traffic, or the environment or displacement. You know, the special area plans are just a tool for investors to speculate on and it isn't actually helping the community for the benefit of its residents. It's just become a tactic for profit. The land is getting distorted and the real estate market, the -- like it's the cost of the real estate of the market is inflating, and it doesn't add to the affordable housing stock in the area at all. Anthony Witherspoon: Good morning. My name is Anthony Witherspoon. I reside at 3629 Grand Avenue, Coconut Grove 33133. I am voicing my support for the RE.7 resolution directing the City Manager to move forward with the establishment of a West Grove CRA. I would like to know, what is your plan going forth regarding the West Grove receiving CRA support? Why haven't this matter received the full attention it deserves? This community is not going away regarding this issue, and it cannot be swept under the carpet like it's never been brought to recognition. It has been politically overlooked and underserved. I'd like to thank all the Commissioners who are in support of this resolution, and I hope all Commissioners do the right thing regarding West Grove. Thank you, and may God keep everyone safe during this time that we are experiencing. Steve Dutton: Hello. I'm Steve Dutton, founder of Avenue 3 Miami, an urban initiative that aims to be a catalyzes for downtown's transformation, beginning with the two - block street of Northeast 3rd Avenue photographed behind me. Our three objectives are street beautification, homeless outreach, and crime prevention. Today we're proud to announce that launch of 1,000 Miami Stories. Did you know that in Miami there are over 1,000 unsheltered homeless people? They all have human stories nobody knows about. With this initiative, we want to help the Citv's homeless, and with more support, it could be expanded to all neighborhoods. A short video was taken voluntarily of persons living on our streets who wish to participate. Their story explains briefly how they became homeless and what they want those persons who watch it to know about them. Connecting the rest of us to their very, different stories might encourage good Samaritans to offer financial and other kinds of assistance. Knowing that nobody chooses that their life's journey will include a period of extreme poverty and homelessness, their story might just result in a helping hand from someone who realizes that could have been them. Please meet Kevin. Alana Greer: My name is Alana Greer, and I live at 2462 Southwest 20th Street in Miami, and I'm calling today about FR.1, the agenda regarding special area plans. For years we worked with communities that are most vulnerable to displacement from Little Haiti to West Coconut Grove to Allapattah. And what we've seen over and over again is that special area plan has been an unfortunate catalysts of displacement. This body has considered impact of displacement before the financial crisis we are entering into, and we worry that that will only get worse. We know it's necessary to repeal City of Miami Page 15 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 special area plans and require real meaning (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in exchange for upzoning that enriches developers while putting our community in more vulnerable positions. We've got to make sure that our communities thrive even in these difficult times, and that requires taking steps like repealing the special area plans. I ask that you consider this Agenda Item FR.1 not only today, but consider it alongside its companion agenda item that fully repeals SAPs and pass those together. Thank you for your time and commitment to our community. We really hope you all continue to keep this as a priority as we move through this crisis. Elvis Cruz: Hello. This is Elvis Cruz, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Street. I'm speaking about Item FR.1, which is the special area plans. That seems to be only half of the equation. There should also be an item repealing special area plans in their entirety from Miami 21, and those should be brought together before the Commission. I don't have to tell you how many times I've spoken to the Commission and the PZAB (Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board) about how terrible special area plans are, how they encourage massive overdevelopment (UNINTELLIGIBLE) out of scale developments. And the City is already over zoned to allow eight times more housing than counted in the 2010 census. So please do the right thing. Appeal special area. Thank you. Maria Gonzalez: Hi. My name is Maria Gonzalez, and my address is 436 Northeast 77th Street Road. I'm calling to comment on Item 5131, in support of the repeal of references to special area plan in the City of Miami; this Item 5131 and repeal of SAPS from Miami 21 should be both brought together. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and threaten our communities, and the affordability of our City. It has grave adverse effects, and is (UNINTELLIGIBLE) for our community and the benefits, and people cannot afford what happens through these SAPs. So, please, again, thank you very much. Bye. Rachel Cardello: Rachel Cardello, and reside at 2175 Tigertail Ave., adjacent to Villa Woodbine. I'll be adversely affected more significantly than those of the general public. My financial interests and property rights will be negatively impacted by the project, and therefore request intervenor status. A hundred and sixteen of the 173 mature trees are planned for removal. Villa Woodbine is an environmental preservation District 60, and the Code recognizes these sites as needing, quote, "preservation and protection because of their environmental importance to the welfare of the general public," and says, quote, "They provide important environmental functions to the community which include setting soil, preventing erosion, giving shade and cooling, protecting (UNINTELLIGIBLE) increasing property value and add to the beauty of the City. Allowing the decimation of an existing canopy and (UNINTELLIGIBLE) will negatively impact my financial interest and livability of my home. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) erosion and runoff will (INAUDIBLE) retention (INAUDIBLE) intrusion to my home. The canopy provides protection from (UNINTELLIGIBLE) winds, and it removes' (UNINTELLIGIBLE) general wind speed to my property increase, wind tunnels created at the proposed wide-open drive lanes, (UNINTELLIGIBLE). I'm at risk for higher utility and cooling costs, insurance premiums, property damage and reduced property value as a result of these environmental issues. The removal of the tree canopy (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Tigertail Avenue, and is not in compliance with the intent of NCD-3. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) each of those features will be preserved, protected and remain in place. Property values remain consistent when there is consistency of a neighborhood character. This loss of character will certainly result in reduced real estate marketability and home value. My property rights are in jeopardy if this project proceeds. Thank you. Gilbert (UNINTELLIGIBLE): Hi. My name is Gilbert (UNINTELLIGIBLE). I live at 600 Northeast 36th Street, and I am calling in support of Agenda Item 5131 which references to special area plan and our City of Miami Code. SAPs do not improve our City and our residents, and our communities, and the affordability of our City. The City of Miami Page 16 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 SAP process (UNINTELLIGIBLE) public input and the negotiation of community benefits. These projects that are being proposed aren't being proposed for the good of the community, but for private gain. And unfortunately, they've been approved even though they've only met the minimum legal requirements and haven't actually been something for the good of the public. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they've become tools for speculation by investors (UNINTELLIGIBLE). It's particularly important we (UNINTELLIGIBLE) this crisis given the economic crisis we are (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the coronavirus, and thus (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Thank you. Deborah Dolson: My name is Deborah Dolson. 4205 Lennox Drive. I'm here on RE.7, which is the creation of a CRA in West Coconut Grove. I would like to urge you to vote "yes" on RE.7, to create the Community Redevelopment Agency (UNINTELLIGIBLE). The need for the CRA was proven (UNINTELLIGIBLE) finding of necessity study completed in October 2017. That's almost three years ago. In January 2018, the Commission unanimously approved the findings of the study (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to advance the process creating this West Grove CRA. Now, over two years later we are again revisiting this issue. It's time to create a West Grove CRA and (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Coral Gables residents. Vote 'yes" on RE.7. Renee Schafer: Renee Schafer, 1698 Tigertail Avenue. 1 would like the discussion of Carrollton School delayed until we can physically meet in person. I don't believe this is the correct way to handle it. Most items have been postponed. Thank you. Unidentified Speaker: (UNINTELLIGIBLE), and 1 am calling in support of Agenda Item FR.1 to repeal references to special area plans in our City of Miami Code. SAPs have not served our City residents, and instead threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The SAP process isn't acceptable, because it doesn't include meaningful processes for public input and the negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community, but for private gain, and unfortunately, have been approved although they've only met the minimum legal requirements. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they've been tools for speculation by investors, distorting our housing and real estate markets, and deepening our affordability crisis. It's particularly important we fight this crisis, given the economic crisis we are entering. Thus you must vote (UNINTELLIGIBLE) for SAPs. Thank you. Stacy Cheryl: Hi. My name is Stacy Cheryl. I live in Miami Florida, 33133, District 2, and I am sending this message so that you understand that I am extremely, unhappy with the idea that the CRA is not going to expand to West Grove. I currently run a business out of Virrick Park, which offers gymnastics programming for the kids in the community. We're doing that at no cost or low cost to children that are there at risk. We've seen our program in the last two years grow to the point where the Grove is integrating, and the people are coming into a park that normally would not get serviced. Without the funds that you're trying to take away by not expanding the CRA, we are going to be limiting the opportunities that we can give to these families that are in need that need services, that need help, that need money to be able to repair their neighborhood. I think it's a huge disservice to continue to support other at -risk neighborhoods, but we're continuing to no longer support West Grove. The CRA expansion needs to happen. It is a priority for these families to be able to have opportunities like what we're offering at the park, and it's really, really sad to think that if this money is not expanded that our program may actually close, because we will not have a facility or an opportunity to be able to continue offering the programming. I really sincerely hope that you will listen to our pleas, and know that City of Miami Page 17 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 we need to have the CRA expansion and the monies that were promised to us two years ago to continue to follow through. Thankyou. Cvndee Levy Angulo: Hi. My name is Cyndee Levy Angulo. I am at 3096 Blaine Street, Coconut Grove, 33133. And I am calling in regards to the Agenda Item P2.2 [sic], 69828-BPB, the Villa Woodbine property being converted to another school. I would love you Commissioners to vote "no." We have too many schools. We have way, way, way, way, way too much traffic, and I will be impacted by that on Tigertail and on Bayshore. It's just too (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to put another school. It's just wrong. We don't need it. No one -- most people don't want it. And already, with all the new high-rises that have gone up, the tax base, I would say, has increased considerably, as has the traffic. So please consider my opinion and my "no" vote on anything that is concerning that (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Woodbine School. Thankyou. Unidentified Speaker: Hi. My name is (UNINTELLIGIBLE). I am member of (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Miami, which is located at 7000 Northeast 2nd Avenue. I'm calling to support Agenda Item F-5131, to repeal references to the special area plans in our City of Miami Code. It's so obvious that, especially for us young people, SAPs have not served our City, our residents, and instead, actually threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The SAP process is unacceptable, because it doesn't include meaningful processes for public input and the negotiation of community benefits (UNINTELLIGIBLE). (UNINTELLIGIBLE) projects for the good of the community private gain, and unfortunately have been approved although they've only met the minimal legal requirements. Given our affordable housing crisis, this process could not be approved without (UNINTELLIGIBLE) exclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they've become tools for speculation by investors, distorting our housing and real estate markets, and deepening our affordability crisis. It's particularly important we fight this crisis given the economic crisis we are entering, and thus, we must repeal SAPs. Thank you so much, and hopefully, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) of these people living here. Have a great rest of the day. Good-bye. Joseph Martinez: This is Joseph Martinez at 520 (UNINTELLIGIBLE) 82nd Street, Miami, Florida 33138. I'm calling to comment on Item FR.1, 5131, in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. This Item FR.1, 5131, and the repeal of SAPs from Miami 21 should be brought together. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threatened our communities and the affordability of our City. The adverse effect SAPs can have on working-class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods is becoming impossible to ignore. The SAP process is deeply flawed due to minimal to nonexistent requirements in ensuring neighborhood preservation, lack of meaningful processes to gather public input and negotiate community benefits, lack of ixclusionary affordable housing requirements, lack of study on the impact to the surrounding neighborhood, such as on traffic, the environment, or displacement. SAPs have become a tool for investors to speculate rather than develop the community for the best of its residents, distorting the land and real estate market, creating housing problems, and do not add to the affordable housing stock. Developers are not proposing SAPs for the benefit they can produce to the City. They are doing it because they see opportunity for enormous gain in a political and legal environment that favors developers, and because they are rarely held to a standard that is higher than the bare minimum requirements under the law. Given that we have entered an economic crisis, protecting the affordability of our City and the ability of our residents to stay in their communities, as well as ensuring that development in the City serves its residents is even more important. And so, we must repeal the special area plan. Thelma Gibson: This is Thelma Anderson Gibson. I live at 3661 Franklin Avenue in Coconut Grove. All my early life childhood and early life was -- adult life was spent at City of Miami Page 18 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 3382 Charles Avenue, so Coconut Grove is my hometown, and 1 love this place. And so, this afternoon, 1 just want to say to say good afternoon to Commissioner -- Chairperson, Commissioner Hardemon, members of the Commission, City Manager, Mr. Mayor, and my former Mayor who I worked with back from 1997, Commissioner Carollo. I call him "Mr. Mayor." So I'm here asking you -- I'm speaking in favor of Resolution RE.7, about (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the creation of a CRA for West Coconut Grove. It's so much needed. Commissioners, you don't know. I'd like to bring all of you down here one day just to see what it's like in West Coconut Grove; an area founded by the Bahamians, and, of course, you know 11111 a descent. And so, it's the love for me to want to continue to save something for us here in this area. I think (UNINTELLIGIBLE) for us at this time. I know other areas would love to have a CRA, but West Grove has been neglected for so long, and I just believe it's so important at this time all of you Commissioners there on the Commission to vote for this resolution. It was passed two years ago to ask the City Manager to do whatever it is he could to help us get this; to work with the County, and help us get this done. I'd like to have (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in the Grove. I'd like to show you what it is, the lands are, because Christ Episcopal Church is (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Affordable housing (UNINTELLIGIBLE) wanted to do some affordable housing. The Thelma Gibson (UNINTELLIGIBLE) has land that we'd like to buy, purchase, because it's so important that we continue to have something. And you could just see for yourselves. Macedonia Baptist Church has a property (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Ken Barnes: My name is Ken Barnes, and I live at 1111 Biscayne Boulevard, Apartment 1804, Miami 33181. 1 am calling to comment on Item 5131 on the agenda tomorrow evening. I want to register that I support the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code with Item 5131 and the repeal of SAPs from Miami 21 (UNINTELLIGIBLE). SAPs threaten the very existence of our communities and the affordability of our City. Do not ensure neighborhood preservation, as promised, and negatively impact the working class, especially communities of color. This process is flawed from the beginning due to minimal -- to non-existent environments (UNINTELLIGIBLE). It's lack of accountability to those in communities it purports to serve. It's lack of community process where needed community benefits can be negotiated, such as affordable housing (UNINTELLIGIBLE), the Brooking Institute Innovation Districts, like Magic City and Eastside Ridge don't have to have destructive impacts on poor residents. Its 2017 report suggests we need to flip the switch, but not focusing on who might get squeezed out by the innovation economy, but rather on how greater numbers can connect in. A University of Texas study says some studies that implemented the right of return policy that focused on residents who have been displaced or current residents most at risk. This allows us to pay particular attention to the racial and ethnic groups most (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Economic decline and (UNINTELLIGIBLE). There are places in the United States, such as Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Baltimore where innovation just created with the inclusion of participation of nearby distressed neighborhoods. What has been seen are regeneration of neighborhoods, truly affordable housing, creation of jobs, and employment development for low-income residents. (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Special area plans must be repealed. Thank you. Hill Blackett: Hi. My name is Hill Blackcett. I live at 5824 Northwest 5th Court, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Miami, Florida 33127. I am here to -- I'm calling to comment on Item 5131, in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. So the SAPs have been a big problem. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) development requiring them to provide any affordable housing. They have a big negative impact, particularly as they are spreading into the working-class neighborhoods of Miami and can -- you know -- throwing gentrification into hyper drive. So please review the SAPs and replace them, you know, with a system that actually is -- actually works, and can provide housing that regular people in Miami can actually afford. Thank you. City of Miami Page 19 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Jasmine Louis: My name is Jasmine Louis. The address is 126 Northwest 73rd in Miami. 1 am calling to comment on Item 5131 in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code; this Item 5131, and repeal of SAP from Miami 21 should be both brought together. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and instead threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The adverse effects SAPs can have on working-class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods is becoming impossible to ignore. The SAP process is deeply flawed due to minimal to non-existent requirements in ensuring neighborhood preservation; lack of meaningful processes to get both input and negotiated community benefits; lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements; lack of study on impacts to the surrounding neighborhoods, such as on traffic, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) speculate rather than develop the community Jrothe best of its (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and real estate market and inflating housing costs, and do not ask (UNINTELLIGIBLE) benefits they can produce to the City. They are doing it because they see opportunity for enormous gain, and a political and legal environment that favors developers, and because (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to a standard that is higher than the bare minimum requirements under the law. Given that we have entered in this economic crisis, protecting the affordability of our City and the ability of our residents to stay in their communities, as well as ensuring that development in the City serves its residents it is even more important. And thus, we must repeal special area plans. Thank you. Unidentified Speaker: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). I mean, I'm living in the same emotional moment every. day. It's knowing that 1 have an opiate addiction, and knowing that I have done what I've done to my family as far as financially, as far as emotionally. I've put everybody through something that they didn't have a choice over. I chose initially to be homeless. I chose it because I wanted to experience life, and 1 wanted to see what was out there. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) use it as a crutch and an excuse to go back and what became later a drug problem. I wish that when you see me, you would just show the same love that you would show anybody else, and not look at me as somebody that's, you know, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) or an eyesore. Lena (UNINTELLIGIBLE): Hi. My name is Lena (UNINTELLIGIBLE), and I live at 6630 Southwest 57th Street in Miami. And I'm calling (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Item (UNINTELLIGIBLE) repeal references to SAPs in the City of Miami Code. SAPs haven't hasn't served the City and the residents, and instead threaten our communities and the affordability of our city, something that I care deeply about as a college student. And the process is (UNINTELLIGIBLE) historic neighborhoods. Its nonexistent requirements deter neighborhood preservation. There's a lack of meaningful initiatives to gather public input, and a lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements. SAPs have also become a tool for investors to speculate rather than develop the community for the best of its residents; distorting the land and real estate market and inflating housing cost and do not add to our affordable housing stock. Given that we've also entered an economic crisis with the situation going on, protecting the affordability of our City and the ability for residents to stay in their communities, as well as ensuring that the development in the City (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to serve residents, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) must repeal special area plans. Thank you. Anthony Witherspoon: Good morning. My name is Anthony Witherspoon. I reside at 3629 Grand Avenue, Coconut Grove, Florida 33133. I'm calling in reference to voice my support for RE.7 resolution directing the City Manager to move forward with the establishment of the West Grove CRA. I would like to ask, what is your plan going forth regarding the West Grove receiving CRA support? Why hasn't this matter received the full attention it deserves? The community is not going away regarding this issue, and it cannot be swept under the carpet like it's never been brought to recognition how this community has been (UNINTELLIGIBLE) misunderstood many, many, years. I would like to thank all of the Commissioners in support of this resolution, and hope all Commissioners do the right thing regarding the West Grove City of Miami Page 20 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 CRA. Thank you, and may God keep everyone safe during this time that we are experiencing. Morgan (UNINTELLIGIBLE): Hello. My name is Morgan (UNINTELLIGIBLE). I'm at 5811 Southwest 58th Terrace. I'm calling to comment on Item 5131, in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. The special area plans do not serve our City or its residents and they threaten our communities and the affordability of housing in the City. They have adverse effects on working-class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods, and it's becoming impossible to ignore. The process is flawed. The special area plan process is flawed in that there's minimal to nonexistent requirements in ensuring neighborhood preservation. There's lack of a meaningful process to gather public input and negotiate community benefits. There's lack of affordable housing requirements. There is no study of the impact to surrounding neighborhoods or communities how development projects are going to affect traffic, the environment, or displace people. It's pushing people out of their communities and it's -- you know -- exacerbating the lack of affordable housing, and it's really just serving as speculation in the real estate market. Developers are not proposing special area plans for benefit that they can produce for the City. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) because they see opportunity for gain in political and a legal environment that favors the developers, and they basically are (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to develop any standards above the bare minimum requirements under the law. Given that we're in an economic crisis, protecting the affordability of our City and the ability (UNINTELLIGIBLE) communities, as well as ensuring that development in the City serves its residents is more important now than ever. And so, 1 ani putting my public comment in favor of (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the special area plan and having a more just process that includes the communities being affected by these development projects. Thank you. Isaac Kodsi: Hello. My name is Isaac Kodsi. I reside at 2131 South Bayshore Drive. The purpose of this video is to request for intervenor status against at petition filed by (UNINTELLIGIBLE) School of Carrollton (UNINTELLIGIBLE) pertaining to Villa Woodbine and requesting the permission to build an elementary school for 350 kids. Clearly, I'm looking to object. First of all, I share 400 -- if you can see behind me -- 478 feet with this property. This property will affect perhaps the most important thing in the Grove, and that is its landscaping, lush landscaping, and protecting this community and the fabric of this community. So, again, I find this project to be completely incompatible with the area. My, home, which is behind me here, is 110 years old. It was built by John Peacock, a founder of Coconut Grove. Villa Woodbine is also a historical home. And it was never the intent for this property, which is a residential property, which was given commercial usage for the purpose of a private -- to turn into a private club, and now that they're going to try to use this as an exception to build a school. This school is unnecessary at this time. It is in the wrong location. It does not serve the actual immediate community. Very few children from the Grove will be attending this school, and the price we're paying for this school is actually unfair from the sense of what it's going to do to the community, the traffic impact it's going to create, but more importantly, the environmental impact that it's going to create. All of those trees that you see behind me -- okay? -- are just going to be torn down, and whatever cost of mitigation is not going to replicate the amount of trees, the shading, the protection that I receive and the community receives from (INAUDIBLE). Unidentified Speaker: Hello, City of Miami Commission. My name is (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Gabriel, and this is son, Terrance (UNINTELLIGIBLE). We're calling on behalf of PH.7, FOCAL (Foundation of Community Assistance and Leadership) Moore Park Learning Center. My son has been attending FOCAL since the age of five. This program is a great help for working parents like myself Terrance has help with homework. He is given a balanced dinner while learning the necessary things he needs to get ahead in life. FOCAL takes our kids places they may never get City of Miami Page 21 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 to experience, such as college tours, space camps, Key West, et cetera. In all, FOCAL has been a huge help to myself family, and community, and 1 hope that you keep supporting PH.7. Thank you. Megan (UNINTELLIGIBLE): Hi. My name is Megan (UNINTELLIGIBLE). My address is 275 Northeast 18th Street, Apartment 708, Miami, Florida. And I am calling to speak on Item FR.1. I'm calling in support of the Agenda Item FR.1 to repeal references to special area plans in our City of Miami Code. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability' of our City. This process is unacceptable, because it doesn't include meaningfid processes for public input or the negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of communities, but rather for the good of a select private few. Given our current affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being the good of the community, they become tools for speculation for investors that have definitely distorted our housing and real estate market, and deepened our affordability, crisis. It is particularly important we fight this crisis given the current economic crisis we are entering. And thus, we must repeal SAPs. Thank you so much, and have a good day. Jessica St. Fleur: My name is Jessica St. Fleur. I live at 155 Northwest 64th Street. I'm talking on Agenda Item FR.1, in support of the repeal of SAPS. It's no secret that SAPs are -- like the process of SAPS are deeply flawed. We are talking about a process that has minimal to no input from the community. We want more inclusionary affordable housing and lack -- it continuously [sic] to lack all of these things. We need more impact studies, a meaningful process to getting our development needs. And SAPs are now a tool for developers to come into our communities and just take everything, and build luxury condos. These -- more affordable housing should be for the community, by the community, and we need to have that conversation. Thank you. Carolina Ruiz: Hi. My name is Carolina Ruiz, and I live at 11895 Southwest 6th Street, Miami, Florida 33184. I'm calling to comment on Item 5131, in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. This Item 5131 and the repeal of SAPS from Miami 21 should be both brought together. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The adverse effects SAPs could have on working-class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods is becoming impossible to ignore. The SAP process is deeply flawed due to minimal to nonexistent requirements in ensuring neighborhood preservation, lack of meaningful processes to gather public input, and negotiate community benefits, lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements; lack of study on the impact of the surrounding neighborhoods, such as traffic, the environment and displacement. SAPs have become a tool for investors to speculate, rather than development the community for the benefit of its residents, distorting the land and real estate market, and inflating housing costs, and do not add to our affordable housing stock. Developers are not proposing SAPs for the benefit they could produce to the City. They are doing it because they see opportunity for enormous gain in political and legal environments that favors developers, and because they are rarely held to a standard that is higher than the bare minimum requirements for the law. Given that we have entered an economic crisis, protecting the affordability of our City and the ability of our residents to stay in the communities, as well as ensuring that development in the City serves its residents is more important, and thus, we must repeal special area plans. Please care about your community. Please care about the people here. Please care about the blacks, the browns, the indigenous, the poor, the queer; everybody that is not rich white Cubans in Miami. We need to protect our culture. We need to protect our communities. We need to protect our people. That's all we ask, and that's all we need, and that's all we deserve -- respect. City of Miami Page 22 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Catherine Madrid: Good evening. My name is Catherine Madrid, and I'm here with my son -- with one of my kids, my oldest -- Elijah Oliver, and he's going to express to you the importance of FOCAL, and what does FOCAL means to him, and the reason why we are supporting PH 7. Elijah Madrigal: Hello. I'm supporting PH 7, because we need this program. We work hard, and we play hard, and that's what it's all about. We work hard. We have some -- we have tutors, which is like our personal teachers that help us with writing, and math, and for the high-schoolers on the SATs (Scholastic Aptitude Test), and all type of stuff that like we need help to like improving in school. So we need that. They provide us food. So like if -- let's say you're not like finance there. It's like -- that's like a little help -- Ms. Madrid: Financially stable. Mr. Madrid: -- financially stabled. Eating that dinner is help, because its like -- Ms. Madrid: It's a blessing. Mr. Madrid: It's a blessing, because not everybody gets that every -- after -school. It's beneficial for me and my mom, because it works for -- with her job schedule, and they stay with your kids for like until your parents come. And they take you on fun trips to like -- I went to Alabama for space -- it was a space camp trip. And 1 went to Rapids and Disney. And it's just very fun, and you can tell they really love their kids. They always tell us that. Ms. Madrid: They encourage you. Mr. Madrid: They encourage us. Ms. Madrid: They even ask -- I'm going to reiterate the fact that they really love our kids, and they really show it, because not only do they get rewarded with the field trips, but they also care about their grades. Like Ms. Jamila don't play that. She wants to see report cards. Right, Elijah? Mr. Madrid: Yeah. Ms. Madrid: And this program is very -- it's -- I mean, it's a blessing. Like I don't even know what else to say, because it's just -- like we need this program. Unidentified Speaker: I'm (UNINTELLIGIBLE), a member of Engage Miami, 7000 Northwest 2nd Avenue. I'm calling in support of Agenda Item 5R.1 [sic], to repeal references to special area plans in our City's Code. They haven't served our City's residents; instead, they threaten the affordability of our City. The SAP process is unacceptable. It doesn't include meaningful processes for public input and negotiation of community benefits. These projects have been proposed and approved for private gain rather than the good of the community. Although they've been -- they've only met the minimum legal requirements. We have an affordable housing crisis, and these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning. Instead of being for the good of the community, they've become tools for speculation by investors, distorting our housing and real estate markets, and deepening our affordability crisis. It's important we fight this crisis given the economic crisis we are entering right now, so we must repeal SAPs. Thank you. Unidentified Speaker: Hi. My name is (UNINTELLIGIBLE), and I live at 1600 Northeast 1st Avenue, Miami, Florida 33132. I'm calling in support of Agenda Item FR.1 to repeal references to special area plans in our City of Miami Code. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and instead threaten our communities and City of Miami Page 23 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 affordability of our City. The SAP process is unacceptable, because it doesn't include meaningful process for public input and the negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community, but for private gain, and unfortunately have been approved, although they've only met the minimum legal requirements. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't he approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they've become tools for speculation by investors, distorting our housing and real estate markets, and deepening our affordability crisis. It's particularly important we fight this crisis given the economic crisis we're entering, and thus, we must repeal SAPs. Thank you. Julia Florentine: My name is Julia Florentine. I'm calling from Engage Miami; address, 7000 Northwest loth Avenue. I'm calling to comment on Agenda Item FR.1, in support of the repeal of the special area plans in the City of Miami Code. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and they do threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The adverse effects SAPs can have on working-class communities are countless, and it is becoming impossible to ignore. The SAP process is deeply flawed due to minimal to nonexistent requirements in ensuring neighborhood preservation, and a lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements in these plans. There is also a lack of study on the impact of the surrounding neighborhoods, such as on traffic, the environment, or displacement of people that have lived in the community for a number of years. SAPs are also particularly dangerous given our economic crisis. Protecting the affordability of our City, and the ability of our residents to stay in their communities and in their homes is becoming even more crucial than it already is. Thank you so much for allowing me the time to speak, and have a wonderful day, and stay healthy. Jihad Rashid: My name is Jihad Rashid. I live in Coconut Grove. I am a community developer. I've worked in Coconut Grove for more than 30 years. I've built successfully affordable housing, and contributed immeasurably to economic development. Most of what has been accomplished has been accomplished by the private sector, and I'm at this time urging this Commission, and imploring this Commission to move forward with the approval for a CRA for Coconut Grove Village West, also known as the West Grove. We found many reasons not to take the initiatives that were at hand. This is an opportunity to provide foundation for us to successfully turn the tide against the disinvestment and neglect that has plagued this community for over five decades. Do not not support this unless you have something here and now. The people has voted for this. This is government for the people, by the people. We ask for this. We appoint you to do our bidding. We want you to do what we ask you to do. We are the citizenry. We don't want you to think too much about it. And frankly, we want you to do what we ask you to do. Pass this measure, and let's build upon it. If there's something that you don't feel comfortable about, about this measure, let's pass it and let's tweak it, but do not let this meeting go by without its approval. Thank you. Unidentified Speaker: My name is (UNINTELLIGIBLE). And live at 100 Northeast 84th Street, Miami, Florida. And I'm calling in support of Agenda Item 5131, to repeal references to special area plans in our City of Miami Code. SAPs have not served our City and our residents; and instead, threatened our community and affordability of our City. The SAP process is unacceptable, because it does not include meaningful processes for public input and the negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community, but for private gain, and unfortunately have been approved although they have met the minimum legal requirements. The affordable housing crisis. These projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they have become tools of speculation by investors, distorting our housing and real estate markets, and deepening our affordability crisis. It is City of Miami Page 24 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 particularly important that we fight this crisis given the economic crisis we are entering, and thus, we must repeal SAPs. Ms. Jean: Hi. My name is (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Jean. I live in 1115 Northwest 129th Street, Miami, Florida, and I'm calling in support of Agenda 5131, to repeal references to special area plans in our City of Miami Code. SAPs have been -- have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The SAP process is unacceptable, because it doesn't include meaningful processes for public input and the negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community, but for private gains, and unfortunately have been approved although they have been -- only met the minimal legal requirements. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they have become tools for speculation by investors, distorting our housing and real estate markets, and deepening our affordability crisis. It's particularly important we fight this crisis given the economic crisis we are entering, and thus, we must repeal SAPs. We want the SAPs to be repealed. Thank you. Suzy (UNINTELLIGIBLE): Hi. My name is Suzy (UNINTELLIGIBLE), of 100 Northeast 84th Street, Miami, Florida. I am calling to comment on Item 5131, FR- 5131, in support of the repeal of references to the special area plans in the City of Miami Code. This item and the repeal of SAPS from Miami 21 should both be brought together. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The adverse effects that SAPs can have on the working-class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods is becoming impossible to ignore. The SAP process is deeply flawed due to the minimal nonexistent requirements in ensuring neighborhood preservation, lack of meaningful processes to gather together public input and negotiate community benefits, lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements; lack of study on impacts to the surrounding neighborhoods such as traffic, the environment, or displacement. SAPs have become a tool for investors to speculate, rather than to development the community for the best of its residents, distorting the land and real estate market, and inflating housing costs, and do not add to our affordable housing stock. Thank you. Courtney Berrien: My name is Courtney Berrien. I'm sending this video to talk about the proposed CRA for the West Grove. I live at 3325 Charles Avenue in the West Grove. Since the West Grove was removed from the Omni CRA, it's incredibly important that the Commission continues to protect this community. We all know this is a historic community and the families that call this area home, and that have for about 100 years; in particular, have been subject to the discriminatory practices promoted by the City at one time, including redlining and lack of loans, lack of infrastructure; other evils, really, that plagued the West Grove black community during the time of segregation. Today you can still see the fallout from that history, and it's really up to the City Commission to make things right by helping to provide the small business owners, homesteading families, renters, the fragile community that still exists here and is trying to hold on as the developers try to harass some residents, and in other cases, not harass, but, you know, offer incentives for people to leave, offers that they can't refuse, and there isn't a protection for those residents to stay in homes that they struggled to keep as they were struggling to help build Miami as a new city. So I think it's very important that the government invests in the infrastructure that will allow small businesses to stay here, that will attract small businesses on Grand Avenue, and allow some of the historic black communities to have businesses on Main Highway and other areas that historically were niore prosperous. And that won't happen if residents can't keep their homes, if there aren't good schools here, if there aren't good roads, and so forth. So I strongly urge you to promote a CRA for the West Grove. Thank you. City of Miami Page 25 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Marianne (UNINTELLIGIBLE): Hi. My name is Marianne (UNINTELLIGIBLE). 1 live at 154 Northwest 54th Street, and I am calling in support of Agenda Item 5131, to repeal references to special area plans in our City of Miami Code. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The SAP process is unacceptable, because it doesn't include meaningful processes for public input and negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community, but for private gain, and unfortunately, have been approved although they've only met the minimum legal requirement. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they've become tools for speculation by investors, distorting our housing and real estate market, and deepening our affordability crisis. It's particularly important that we fight this crisis given the economic crisis we are entering, and thus, we must repeal SAPs. Thank you for listening. Truly Burton: Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and City Commissioners. This is Truly Burton, executive vice president with the Builders Association of South Florida, with offices at 111 Northwest 183rd Street, in Miami Gardens, Florida 33169. I'm leaving messages today, comments regarding FR.3. It should be coming before you today, regarding seawalls and flood controls. BASF (Builders Association of South Florida) is pleased to support this item. It is important to ensure that, you know, properties are protected properly. And your Public Works and Resilience Director Alan Dodd came to speak to our legislative committee last month. He explained the ordinance in detail, and just wanted to let you all know that we endorse this ordinance for ensuring safekeeping of property and to reduce impacts from sea level rise. Thanks so much. Bye-bye. Linda Williams: Good afternoon. I'm Linda Williams, first vice president of HOTA, Homeowners and Tenants Association, Village West. My message or statement: The executive board of the Coconut Grove Village West Homeowners and Tenants Association (UNINTELLIGIBLE) of a CRA for West Grove, sponsored by Commissioner Ken Russell. The Miami City Commission voted in its April 9 meeting to terminate all negotiations to expand the Omni CRA into the West Grove. This action was carried out in the absence of an alternative substitute proposal. Please remember that the Commission voted unanimously two years ago for the Omni expansion and adopted the findings of necessity study that (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and met all criteria. We urge the following assurances: The creation of the Coconut Grove Village West CRA (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to the detriment of our community and the mechanics to proceed with the CRA establishment to be given top priority; the composition of the board and advisory board includes members of the community from the residential and business sectors; selection of an executive director includes endorsements from such worthy community members; the community be given periodic updates on the CRA's projects and their status; that the adoption of the West Grove CRA not be overtaken by foreign or domestic developers with the intent of negotiating for their priorities as it relates to attainable affordable housing. Coconut Grove Village West is still awaiting for fulfillment of long overdue promises for attainable affordable housing, economic viability, and overall community revitalization. Let the passage of this resolution be the driving force that could steer our community from further neglect and decline, and on to the road of pro.sperity. Again, I'm Linda Williams, 3517 Hibiscus Street. Thank you. Our president, Clarice Cooper of Coconut Grove Village West Homeowners and Tenants Association and its entire executive board. John Cardello: My name is John Cardello, and I live at 2175 Tigertail Avenue, adjacent to Villa Woodbine. My financial interests and property rights will be negatively impacted by this application, and therefore, I request denial. Villa Woodbine and the single-family homes at 2180 and 2190 Tigertail are consistent with the scale of the single-family neighborhood as it currently is. The intent of Miami 21 City of Miami Page 26 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 NCD-3 is to protect the unique single-family neighborhood that comprises Coconut Grove. NCD further states in Section 3.6: "The single family residential districts intended to protect the low density residential and prevent the intrusion of additional density, uses and height." The school development lacks compatibility with the existing neighborhood and height massing use. Tigertail Avenue is treated as secondary frontage with an 18 foot 9 setback. Tigertail Avenue is a principal frontage for all other properties facing Tigertail Avenue, and requires a 30-foot setback, therefore creating a disadvantage to the neighborhood. The design drawings and configuration are not permitted by Miami 21, are not permissible by other property owners, placing me at a further disadvantage. The building's eaves are at 28 feet while Miami 21 NCD allows a maximum of 25 feet. The driveway is 24 feet while two-way (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Tigertail Avenue drive is not indicative (UNINTELLIGIBLE) regardless. 2,000 -- our home is 2,800 square feet, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) square feet, 10 times the size of my home directly across the street. The school proposed by Covenant of the Sacred Heart (UNINTELLIGIBLE) the fabric of the single family neighborhood and puts my personal commitment to my community, financial investments and livability in my neighborhood at risk. I thank you for your time, and I hope that you deny this application. Mariana (UNINTELLIGIBLE): Hi. My name is Mariana (UNINTELLIGIBLE), and I'm a member of Engage Miami, with the office located at 7000 Northwest 2nd Avenue, in Miami. I'm calling in support of Agenda Item 5131, to repeal references to special area plans in our City of Miami Code. SAPs have not served our City or our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. In fact, this repeal is extremely important to me, because it allows developers and developments like MCID to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) off our community and (UNINTELLIGIBLE), and offer no affordable housing option or community benefits. These developments should not continue to happen in our communities without our say-so. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community, but for private gain, and unfortunately, have been approved, although they've only met the minimum legal requirements. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects should not be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning for instance. Instead of being for the good of the community, they've become tools for speculation by investors, distorting our housing and real estate market, and deepening our affordability crisis. It's particularly important we fight this crisis given the economic crisis we are entering, especially given the pandemic, and thus, we must repeal SAPs. Thank you. Rebecca Pellam: Hi. My name is Rebecca Pellam, address is 7000 Northwest 2nd Avenue, 33150. And I am speaking on Item 5131, regarding special area plans. I believe strongly that special area plans do not serve residents of the City of Miami. They prevent public comment. They prevent community -based housing that really works for the needs of the City of Miami residents. We're a community that is one of the most cost -burdened in the entire nation and SAPs really are a loophole to get around the Miami 21 area plan. They do not serve our community. They do not serve our city, and I hope that the Commission moves to end SAPs. Thank you. Lauren Fernandez: My name is Lauren Fernandez. I live at 16255 Northwest 64th Avenue, in Miami Lakes, Florida 33014. I am calling to comment on Item 5131, in support of the appeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. This Item 5131 and the repeal of special area plans from Miami should be both brought together. The special area plans are not serving the City, particularly in black communities and communities of color and low-income communities. It is affecting the rate of affordable housing in our community as well. So I believe that there's a lot of deep flaws. There's a lack of inclusion of thinking about affordable housing requirements. There's also an environmental impact thinking about what would happen with housing that doesn't consider what it's doing to the environment. So I am leaving that message and I hope that you will consider what I have to say. Thank you. City of Miami Page 27 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Susanna Munoz: Hi. My name is Susanna Munoz, and these are my children, Jada, Kimberly, and (UNINTELLIGIBLE). And we've been part of the FOCAL program for the last six years. And here are some things that my kids really enjoy about FOCAL. Unidentified Speaker: What I enjoy about FOCAL is the people there having helped me improve my grades. Unidentified Speaker: What I enjoy about FOCAL is whenever I need help with my homework, I always get it. Unidentified Speaker: What I like about FOCAL are the fun activities and the educational field trips. Ms. Munoz: FOCAL really helps us, and the community, and the students with a lot of different things. I'm thankful for FOCAL. Because of them, I could go to work, and I am at ease that I know that after school, my kids have a fun and safe place to go to. Pin thankful for the staff. I'm thankful that they even offer dinner. I'm grateful for the fact that every summer, they go on fun field trips, and they go on educational field trips, as well. If it wasn't for FOCAL, different things, like going to Key West, and going snorkeling, or going to Disney trips wouldn't come as easy to families like us. So we really are asking fbr you to please help and support PH.7 so many families could benefit; the fun facts about FOCAL, like education, and fun things, and just emotional support. So again, we ask that you please support PH.7. Thank you. Catherine Brennan: Hi. My name is Catherine Brennan. 1 live at 774 Northeast 20th Street, Miami 33138. I'm calling on Item 5131. I'm calling in support of Agenda Item FR.1, to repeal references to special area plans in our City of Miami. SAPs haven't served our City and our residents; instead threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The SAP process is unacceptable, because it doesn't include meaningful processes for public input and the negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community, but for private gain, and unfortunately, have been approved although they've only met the minimum legal requirements. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning. Instead of being for the good of the community, they become tools for speculation by investors shorting our housing and real estate markets and deepening our affordability crisis. It's important that we fight this crisis given the economic crisis we are entering. Thus, we must repeal SAPs. Thank you for your consideration. Brianna La Fortat: Hi. My name is Brianna La Fortat. I live at 1444 Northwest 14th Avenue, Miami, Florida. I'm calling in support of Agenda Item FR.1, 5131, to repeal references to special area plans in our City of Miami Code. SAPs haven 't served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our city. The SAP process is unacceptable, because it neither includes meaningful processes for public input, nor the negotiation of community benefits. These projects haven't been proposed for the good of the community but for private gain. Given our affordable housing crisis, these projects shouldn't be approved without mandatory inclusionary zoning, for instance. It's particularly important we fight this crisis given the economic crisis we're entering, and thus, we must repeal SAPs. Thank you. Manny Castillo: Hi. I'm Manny Castillo, and I reside at 1053 Northwest 30th Street, Miami, Florida 33127. I'm calling to comment on Item 5131, in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. This Item 5131 (INAUDIBLE) repeal of (INAUDIBLE) froni -- SAPs froni Miami 21 should be both brought together. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. The adverse effects SAPs can have on working class communities of color in Miami (INAUDIBLE) is becoming City of Miami Page 28 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 impossible to ignore. SAPs are deeply flawed due to minimal to nonexistent requirements (INAUDIBLE) neighborhood preservation, lack of meaningful processes to gather public input and negotiate community benefits, lack of study on the impact to the surrounding neighborhood, such as upon traffic (INAUDIBLE) environment or displacement. SAPs have become a tool for investors to speculate rather than develop the community for the benefits of its residents (INAUDIBLE) land and real estate market and inflating housing costs, and do not add to our affordable housing (INAUDIBLE). Developers are not proposing SAPs for the benefit (INAUDIBLE). They are doing it because they see an opportunity for enormous gain in a political and legal environment that favors developers, and because they are barely held to a standard that is higher than the bare minimum requirements under the law. Given that we have entered an economic crisis (INAUDIBLE) affordability of our City and the ability of our residents (INAUDIBLE) as well as ensuring that the development (INAUDIBLE) and the City serve its residents is even more important, and thus, we must repeal special area plans. David Winker: This is David Winker and I live at 2222 Southwest 17th Street. Pm commenting on item FR.1 and in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. I know that FR.1 references a nonexistent sister item regarding the repeal of SAPs from the Miami 21 Zoning Code. Hopefully, this item is postponed until both items can be heard together, because this is a critical issue for our community. And the current economic crisis brought on by the COVJD-19 pandemic makes protecting the affordability of our City and the ability of our residents to stay in their communities more critical than ever. SAPs have not served our City and our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our housing. While poor neighborhoods need and want the revitalization that new private investment brings, existing residents must be able to have a meaningful voice to promote participatory development instead of predatory development. This is the foundation of building equitable and inclusive communities that respond to the needs of all residents. The Miami 21 Zoning Code and the Comprehensive Neighborhood Plan which govern the planning of the City of Miami both explicitly include language aimed at ensuring that all residents have a place in the future of the City. This language is not purely aspirational; it is the law. We must empower residents to be able to express their desires for what happens in their neighborhoods to build a Miami for everyone. (INAUDIBLE) Bromba: (INAUDIBLE) Bromba, 3000 Biscayne Boulevard. I'm calling to comment on FR.1, in support of the repeal of reference to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. This item and repeals of SAPs from Miami 21 should both be brought together. SAPs have not served our City or our residents, and instead, threaten our communities and the affordability of our City. SAPs have become a tool for investors to speculate rather than develop the community for the best of its residents with distorting the land and real estate markets, and inflated housing costs. (INAUDIBLE) do not add to our housing stock. Developers are not proposing SAPs for the benefit that they can produce to the City. They're doing it because they see an opportunity for enormous financial gain in a political and legal environment that favors developers, and because they are rarely held to a standard that is higher than the bare minimum requirements under the law. The SAP is deeply flawed due to its minimal to nonexistent requirements in ensuring neighborhood preservation, their lack of a meaningful process to gather public input and negotiate community benefits, their lack of inclusionary affordable housing requirements and the lack of study on the impact to the surrounding area, such as traffic, environment or displacement. The adverse effects of SAPs can have on the working community -- working class communities of color in Miami's historic neighborhoods is becoming impossible to ignore. Given that we've entered an economic crisis protecting the affordability of our City and the ability of our residents to stay in their communities, as well as ensuring City of Miami Page 29 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 the development in the City serves its residents, (INAUDIBLE) and thus, must repeal special area plans. Thank you. Brianna Pelazolo (phonetic): Hello. My name is Brianna Pelazolo. I'm a member of the organization, Engage Miami; address, 700 Southwest 2nd Ave. I'm calling to express my support for Agenda Item FR.1 that has to do with repealing special area plans. I believe that special area plans have antagonized working class areas, predominately areas of color, by enabling these mass development projects that only serve to further entrench us in an affordability crisis. Preserving our neighborhood affordability should flat out be of paramount importance, and SAPs have failed the people in more ways than one. They lack inclusionary affordable housing requirements. They fail to garner public input, and they exclude a meaningful process that would allow for community negotiation for true real community benefits; the type that would actually help real working-class people. So SAPs not only fail to recognize the growing affordability crisis, but they plunge us further into it, and that is why I believe they need to repealed. Again, my name is Brianna Pelazolo and I support Agenda Item FR.1. Thank you. Jean Lucas (UNINTELLIGIBLE): Jean Lucas (UNINTELLIGIBLE), 3000 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami. I'm calling to comment on Item FR.1. I am in support of the repeal of references to special area plans in the City of Miami Code. This item and repeal of SAPs from Miami 21 should both be brought together and both be approved. SAPs have not served Miami or her residents, and instead, threaten communities and the affordability of the City. Most importantly, SAPs have not proven to add to the City's affordable housing stock. On the contrary, SAPs don't have substantial requirements to preserve neighborhoods. SAPs don't have meaningful processes to gather public input, and negotiate community benefits. SAPs don't have inclusionary affordable housing requirements. SAPs have not produced adequate studies on the impact to the surrounding neighborhood, the environment or displacement. For those reasons and many, more, SAPs should be repealed. Thank you. Samantha Walker: Hello, City of Miami Commission. My name is Samantha Walker. I'm calling in support of PH 7 for FOCAL Moore Park Learning Center. This program has been great to my family, my kids, my community for many years. My kids have been a part of this program for years now. They've always helped my kids with homework, taking them on special field trips. They also give them a great dinner every day. My daughter, she's one of the middle school students. She was taken to Key West for a special water adventure field trip. They also have been to Orlando to Magic Kingdom, many different (INAUDIBLE), as well. I would love for this program to continue to stay around, because it is a great program for the community. I would also refer this program to family members, neighbors and anybody else that is in need of help, because this program is very good for helping families out, especially parents that have to work that's not able to always come home and go straight to doing homework with their kids. This program helps with all of that. Yasmine Wilkerson -Young: Good afternoon. My name is Yasmine Wilkerson -Young. I am the parent of three children: My son, Christopher Young, Cyrus Young and Neveah Young. My son, Christopher Young, has been at the park for the past nine years. FOCAL Moore Park has really helped me out as a parent. When I'm at work, my children goes to aftercare. And also, in the summer, they have a place to go for the summer. So it really is a safe haven for me as a mother, and for my children as my children. Please support FOCAL Moore Park. Christopher Young: My name is Christopher Young. I done been there for nine plus years. FOCAL Moore Park help me with my homework. They give out free dinner, and they also -- anything you need -- if you need to go to the staff to talk about City of Miami Page 30 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 personal things or whatever going on, they will talk to you, no problem. So please support PH. 7, District 11, FOCAL Moore Park. Thank you. Ms. Young: Thank you. Have a great day. Bye-bye. Chair Hardemon: Seeing that there are no further public comments, I'm going to close the public comment section at this time. It's a bit more difficult, because, of course, we had a bunch of continuances, and a lot of the public comment was referencing the continuances but (INAUDIBLE) they were just best just to, you know, see right through to ensure that we didn't lose anyone and their public comments, because we anticipated these -- this discussion about the continue -- about the -- for instance, the -- what was it? -- Item Number RE (Resolution) -- FR.1 to be continued, so -- but either way, here we are. So I'll close the public comment at this time. Later... Chair Hardemon: Let's do public comment now. Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): I believe there may be no public comment. Let me confirm that nothing else has come in. IT (Information Technology), can you confirm, please? Manuel Otero (Web Administrator): Nothing here. Ms. Mendez: Okay, thank you. And I wanted to confirm, also, Chairman, for the record that in addition to the videos, the real-time calls, you also received all the email comments that are also part of the record that you've been receiving throughout, so thank you. Chair Hardemon: Thank you very much. MV - MAYORAL VETO(ES) NO MAYORAL VETO(ES) (Pursuant to Section 4(g)(5) of the Charter of Miami, Florida, Item(s) vetoed by the Mayor shall be placed by the City Clerk as the first substantive item(s) for City Commission consideration.) END OF MAYORAL VETO(ES) AM - APPROVING THE MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING MEETINGS: Chair Hardemon: Mr. City Clerk, are there any minutes to be approved? Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair, there are no minutes to be approved, and there are no mayoral vetoes. Chair Hardemon: Thank you very much. City of Miami Page 31 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 CA - CONSENT AGENDA The following item(s) was Adopted on the Consent Agenda MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Carollo, Reyes CA.1 RESOLUTION 7280 Department of Procurement A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), ACCEPTING THE PROPOSALS RECEIVED APRIL 29, 2019 PURSUANT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ("RFP") NO. 702383 FROM ASHBRITT, INC., A FLORIDA PROFIT CORPORATION, CERES ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, INC., A FOREIGN PROFIT CORPORATION AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, CROWDER-GULF JOINT VENTURE, INC., A FLORIDA PROFIT CORPORATION, D. & J., ENTERPRISES, INC., A FOREIGN PROFIT CORPORATION AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, DRC EMERGENCY SERVICES, LLC, A FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA, AND T.F.R. ENTERPRISES, INC., A FOREIGN PROFIT CORPORATION AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY DEBRIS AND DISASTER RECOVERY SERVICES FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ("CITY") DEPARTMENTS OF SOLID WASTE, PARKS AND RECREATION, AND RESILIENCE AND PUBLIC WORKS FOR AN INITIAL PERIOD OF FIVE (5) YEARS WITH AN OPTION TO RENEW FOR THREE (3) ADDITIONAL TWO (2) YEAR PERIODS ON AN AS -NEEDED CONTRACTUAL BASIS; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A NEGOTIATED PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT ("PSA") WITH EACH OF THE QUALIFIED PROPOSERS, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, AND EXTENSIONS AND TO ADD ADDITIONAL QUALIFIED PROPOSER(S) TO THE CONTRACT WHEN DEEMED IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CITY, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RFP, SUBJECT TO ALL ALLOCATIONS, APPROPRIATIONS, PRIOR BUDGETARY APPROVALS, COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), INCLUDING THE CITY'S PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE, ANTI -DEFICIENCY ACT, AND FINANCIAL INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES, ALL AS SET FORTH IN CHAPTER 18 OF THE CITY CODE, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS AS MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY FOR SAID PURPOSE. City of Miami Page 32 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: Item CA.1 was deferred to the May 14, 2020, City Commission Meeting. Commissioner Carollo: Let's take a deferment, and then we'll come back to the rest of the CA (Consent Agenda) agenda. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay. Chair Hardemon: It's been properly moved to defer Item CA.1. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So I would move that we defer CA.1 to the next Commission meeting. Commissioner Reyes: And I would second that. Chair Hardemon: Is there any discussion on the motion on the floor? Hearing none, all in favor of the motion, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Hardemon: All against? Later... Chair Hardemon: Is there a motion on the CA agenda? Commissioner Carollo: Motion. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Commissioner Carollo, I think, had the motion to accept the CA agenda, CA.2, CA.3 and CA.4; if not, I'll move it -- I'll second it. Chair Hardemon: It's been properly moved by Commissioner Joe Carollo; seconded by Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Any discussion? Commissioner Reyes: Nope. Chair Hardemon: Hearing none, all in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Hardemon: All against? Mr. Hannon: Chair, just for the record, Mayor Suarez would like to cosponsor CA.4. Chair Hardemon: Okay. City of Miami Page 33 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 CA.2 RESOLUTION 7296 Department of Resilience and Public Works A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE PERPETUAL SIDEWALK EASEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, FROM RIVER LANDING DEVELOPMENT, LLC, A FLORIDA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY, FOR PUBLIC PEDESTRIAN ACCESS TO PORTIONS OF SIDEWALK CONSTRUCTED ON NORTHWEST NORTH RIVER DRIVE; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS RELATED TO THE PERPETUAL SIDEWALK EASEMENT, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO RECORD SAID INSTRUMENT IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0116 This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item CA.2, please see "End of Consent Agenda." CA.3 RESOLUTION 7299 Department of Resilience and Public Works A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A MAINTENANCE MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT ("MMOA") BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") AND THE STATE OF FLORIDA'S DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ("DEPARTMENT") FOR BEAUTIFICATION IMPROVEMENTS ON STATE ROAD 90 ("SR-90"), SOUTHWEST 8TH STREET (EASTBOUND PAIR) AND SOUTHWEST 7TH STREET (WESTBOUND PAIR). ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0117 This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item CA.3, please see "End of Consent Agenda." City of Miami Page 34 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 CA.4 RESOLUTION 7305 Office of Resilience and Sustainability A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING ("MOU"), IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") AND NATURAL RESOURCE DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., A NEW YORK NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ("NRDC"), FOR THE CITY ENERGY PROJECT ("CEP"), A JOINT PROJECT OF THE NRDC AND THE INSTITUTE FOR MARKET TRANSFORMATION THAT PROVIDES FOR RESEARCH, GUIDELINES, AND ASSISTANCE WITH COMMUNITY OUTREACH TO AID THE OFFICE OF RESILIENCE AND SUSTAINABILITY IN CREATING WATER AND ENERGY EFFICIENCY BENCHMARKING REGULATIONS FOR LARGE EXISTING BUILDINGS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE ANY AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY AMENDMENTS, EXTENSIONS, AND MODIFICATIONS, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSES. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0118 This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item CA.4, please see "Public Comments for all Items" and "End of Consent Agenda." END OF CONSENT AGENDA Chair Hardemon: What I'd like to do is ask for a motion to approve some agenda items. If there's anything that you want to make any modifications to, you can do that within the motion. If there's any item that you wish to be pulled from the -- what's being considered for consideration individually, if you want to vote "no" on something, you can also do that. But the Chair will request of what's left on the agenda to approve the CA (Consent Agenda) agenda, the PH (Public Hearing) agenda, and the RE (Resolution) agenda. Commissioner Carollo: Chair, if we could go by groups, because you've thrown there around 20 items or more. So I want to be sure that I'm not missing anything. That's a lot of items. So if you could go with the CA, then go with the PH and then go with the RE. Chair Hardemon: Is that your motion, to approve the CA agenda? Commissioner Carollo: Excuse me? Chair Hardemon: Is that your motion to approve the CA agenda? Commissioner Carollo: I believe so. Commissioner Reyes: I second it. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: You know, well -- City of Miami Page 35 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Chair Hardemon: It's been properly moved and seconded that we approve the CA agenda. Is there any discussion? Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Mr. Chairman, for the record, Mayor Suarez Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I have discussion. Mr. Hannon: -- would like to cosponsor -- Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you. I'd like to take out CA.1. 1 have some concerns that I haven't really done my complete due diligence on the six companies that are getting this emergency debris and disaster recovery contracts. I'd like to go through the companies that get these contracts and make sure that they're good companies, in good standing. We saw what happened after Hurricane Maria and Hurricane Irma. A lot of these companies were leaving -- I don't know if these particular companies -- other companies were leaving the State of Florida to go to Georgia, to go to other sites. I want to make sure that we get it right. I know hurricane season is upon us and we have an urgency to this, but we can maybe defer it as a courtesy to me till the next meeting and we can -- Commissioner Carollo: 1 have no problem. Commissioner Reyes: I have no problem, either. As a matter of fact, let me add, during my -- the agenda prep, 1 had some questions about it. In particular, Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla, if these people, they were capable or they had the proper equipment to recover all those debris, because I know with the experience we had with Irma, there were some of them that they got contracts, and when the time came to pick up the trash, they didn't have the equipment here. They had to bring it up -- I mean, bring it from other states and other areas, and sometimes they were not available. And some of them left other states -- I mean, South Florida -- and that's why, as you remember, we had so much debris on the streets of Miami for such a long time. That's a good idea. Let's vet them. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So maybe I can move to defer that item now. I think we all have had bad memories of what happened in 2016 and '17, and those years and I think it's better just to get it right this time. Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I would move the -- Commissioner Carollo: If could do this then; if I could withdraw my motion. City of Miami Page 36 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PH - PUBLIC HEARINGS PH.1 RESOLUTION 7328 Department of Housing and Community Development A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENTS, APPROVING THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ("CITY") FIVE (5) YEAR PUBLIC HOUSING AGENCY ("PHA") PLAN FOR FISCAL YEARS 2020-2024; FURTHER APPROVING THE ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN IN CONNECTION WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE CITY'S SECTION 8 HOUSING CHOICE VOUCHER AND MODERATE REHABILITATION PROGRAMS ("ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN"); AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT THE FIVE (5) YEAR PHA PLAN, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE PLAN, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ("U.S. HUD") FOR THE CITY'S CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN SAID PROGRAMS; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS AND CERTIFICATIONS, ALL IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSES. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0120 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item PH.1, please see "End of Public Hearings." PH.2 RESOLUTION 7364 Department of Housing and Community Development A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), APPROVING THE BUSINESS CONTINUITY MICRO -ENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A," ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, FOR ELIGIBLE BUSINESSES IN THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") IN RESPONSE TO ECONOMIC INJURIES CAUSED AS A RESULT OF THE CORONAVIRUS ("COVID-19"); AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING AMENDMENTS, EXTENSIONS, AND MODIFICATIONS, ALL IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0121 City of Miami Page 37 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 MOTION TO: Adopt with Modification(s) RESULT: ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATION(S) MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item PH.2, please see "Public Comments for all Items" and "End of Public Hearings." PH.3 RESOLUTION 7376 Department of Housing and Community Development A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), APPROVING THE SMALL BUSINESS EMERGENCY LOAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A," ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, FOR ELIGIBLE BUSINESSES IN THE CITY OF MIAMI IN RESPONSE TO THE ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FACED BY SAID BUSINESSES AS A RESULT OF THE CORONAVIRUS ("COVID-19"); AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING AMENDMENTS, EXTENSIONS, AND MODIFICATIONS, ALL IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0122 MOTION TO: Adopt with Modification(s) RESULT: ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATION(S) MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item PH.3, please see "Public Comments for all Items" and "End of Public Hearings." PH.4 RESOLUTION 7377 Department of Housing and Community Development A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT SPECIAL GRANT FUNDS IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF $6,598,623 FOR THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS IN THE FOLLOWING AMOUNTS: (1) $3,281,526.00 TO THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM, (2) $1,633,034.00 TO THE EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANTS PROGRAM, AND (3) $1,684,063.00 TO THE HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PERSONS WITH AIDS PROGRAM, ALL FOR FISCAL YEAR 2020 FOR ELIGIBLE ACTIVITIES UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF AND ECONOMIC SECURITY ACT ("CARES ACT"); FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS INCLUDING AMENDMENTS, EXTENSIONS, AND MODIFICATIONS, ALL IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSES, SUBJECT TO ALL FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAWS THAT REGULATE THE USE OF SUCH FUNDS. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0123 City of Miami Page 38 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item PH.4, please see "Public Comments for all Items" and "End of Public Hearings." PH.5 RESOLUTION 7378 Department of Housing and Community Development A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND ENTER INTO A CONTRACT OR CONTRACTS WITH THE ORGANIZATIONS SET FORTH IN EXHIBIT "A," ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, FOR THE PROVISION OF EMERGENCY TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO SMALL BUSINESSES IN THE CITY OF MIAMI IN ORDER TO ENABLE THEM TO APPLY FOR ALL PROGRAMS AVAILABLE TO SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS UNDER THE CORONAVIRUS AID, RELIEF, AND ECONOMIC SECURITY ACT ("CARES ACT") AND THE SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ("SBA"), SUBJECT TO THE APPROVAL BY CITY COMMISSION OF THE PROGRAM BEING FUNDED WITH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FUNDS AT A FUTURE CITY COMMISSION MEETING; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING AMENDMENTS, EXTENSIONS, AND MODIFICATIONS, ALL IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0124 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record:• For minutes referencing Item PH.5, please see "Public Comments for all Items" and "End of Public Hearings." City of Miami Page 39 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PH.6 6505 Commissioners and Mayor RESOLUTION MAY BE DEFERRED A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENTS, BY A FOUR -FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING, CONFIRMING, AND APPROVING THE CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION AND WRITTEN FINDINGS, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS EXHIBIT "A," PURSUANT TO SECTION 18- 85(A) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED; WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDDING METHODS AND PROCEDURES AS NOT BEING PRACTICABLE OR ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY"); AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A RIGHT OF WAY ACCESS AND SERVICE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT"), IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS EXHIBIT "B," WITH ILLUMINATION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, A FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY REGISTERED TO CONDUCT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA ("ILLUMINATION TECHNOLOGIES"), INCLUSIVE OF BONDING AND INSURANCE APPROVED BY THE CITY'S RISK MANAGER, TO ALLOW ILLUMINATION TECHNOLOGIES ACCESS TO CERTAIN RIGHTS OF WAY FOR THE INSTALLATION OF MULTIPURPOSE POLES FOR THE PROVISION, AMONGST OTHER THINGS, OF A VIGILANCE SECURITY NETWORK, INCLUDING A VIGILANCE VIDEO CAMERA NETWORK, FLOOD SENSORS, AND TAG READERS, ALL AT NO COST TO THE CITY, FURTHERING THE INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC'S HEALTH, SAFETY, AND GENERAL WELFARE; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL AMENDMENTS AND EXTENSIONS THERETO, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: Item PH.6 was deferred to the May 14, 2020, City Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item PH.6, please see "Order of the Day." City of Miami Page 40 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PH.7 RESOLUTION 7363 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENTS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-85(A) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY A FOUR FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING, APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDINGS, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS EXHIBIT "B," THAT COMPETITIVE NEGOTIATION METHODS AND PROCEDURES ARE NOT PRACTICABLE OR ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") AND WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SAID PROCEDURES; AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE DISTRICT 5 COMMISSIONER'S SHARE OF THE CITY'S ANTI -POVERTY INITIATIVE ("API") IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($250,000.00) TO FOUNDATION OF COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE AND LEADERSHIP, INC., A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ("GRANTEE"), IN SUPPORT OF THE GRANTEE'S FOCAL MOORE PARK AFTERSCHOOL AND SUMMER LEARNING PROGRAM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL DOCUMENTS NECESSARY, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0125 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item PH.7, please see "Public Comments for all Items" and "End of Public Hearings." City of Miami Page 41 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PH.8 RESOLUTION 7373 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENTS, PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-85(A) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, BY A FOUR FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING, APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDINGS, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS EXHIBIT "B," THAT COMPETITIVE NEGOTIATION METHODS AND PROCEDURES ARE NOT PRACTICABLE OR ADVANTAGEOUS FOR THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") AND WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR SAID PROCEDURES; AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE DISTRICT 5 COMMISSIONER'S SHARE OF THE CITY'S ANTI -POVERTY INITIATIVE ("API") IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($135,000.00) TO MARTIN LUTHER KING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ("GRANTEE"), IN SUPPORT OF THE GRANTEE'S MLK WHEELS TO WORK PROGRAM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL DOCUMENTS NECESSARY, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0126 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item PH.8, please see "End of Public Hearings." City of Miami Page 42 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PH.9 RESOLUTION 7392 Department of Resilience and Public Works A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), BY A FOUR -FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING, CONFIRMING, AND APPROVING THE CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATION AND WRITTEN FINDINGS, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS EXHIBIT "A", PURSUANT TO SECTION 18- 85(A) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"); WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDDING METHODS AS NOT BEING PRACTICABLE OR ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") FOR THE PROVISION OF INFORMATION AND EMERGENCY KIOSKS WITH IKE SMART CITY, LLC, A FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA ("IKE"); AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND IKE, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, AND EXTENSIONS, SUBJECT TO ALL ALLOCATIONS, APPROPRIATIONS, PRIOR BUDGETARY APPROVALS, COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY CODE, INCLUDING THE CITY'S PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE, ANTI -DEFICIENCY ACT, AND FINANCIAL INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES, ALL AS SET FORTH IN CHAPTER 18 OF THE CITY CODE, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS AS MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0119 MOTION TO: Adopt with Modification(s) RESULT: ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATION(S) MOVER: Alex Diaz de Ia Portilla, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de Ia Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For additional minutes referencing Item PH.9, please see "Public Comments for all Items." Chair Hardemon: Mr. Clerk, do we have a motion already on the floor? Commissioner Carollo: If I could give some input on that. Chair Hardemon: You're muted, Mr. -- Commissioner Carollo: I think it's a good amendment. Chair Hardemon: Commissioner -- Commissioner Carollo: I'd like to withdraw something from this particular item. We had a list of agencies that were going to get 25 percent. I'd like to withdraw Bayfront Park from that and let me explain to you all why. When I originally started having conversations with the owners of this firm -- and it was some time ago -- they City of Miami Page 43 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 were looking at the land that Bayfront Park manages, and it was going to be a separate deal that we were going to he bringing up to the City Commission. Somehow, a lot of things have changed since then. 1 don't want to get into it all. 1 think the Manager's done a good job in making a better deal from what was presented to us at the last meeting. But I want to withdraw Bayfront Park from that and have it as a standalone that I can bring it back later, and let me explain to my colleagues why, and I'd like to get some input. Unlike CRAs (Community Redevelopment Agencies), unlike BIDs (Business Improvements Districts), unlike the DDA (Downtown Development Authority) that doesn't manage any of its own land, doesn't have its land that they're putting these kiosks in there, Bayfront Park does. And Bayfront Park, from now in the fixture to whoever's chairman, should be able to keep, like it always has, the activities that it has done in Bayfront Park. The only deviation that came throughout the years was Ultra, and that was for other reasons. But outside of that, that's how Bayfront Park is able to provide the services to that huge area of property that it manages without -- not requiring one penny from the City. On the contrary, with me as Chairman, for the first time, we gave $3 million back to the City. So what I'd like to do -- and I want for all of you to know what my intentions are, so you could speak on it if you so wish -- is to take this out. I will negotiate with this firm or other firms for the best deal possible, and bring this back to you with some additional projects that I would like to negotiate so that the money will stay in Bayfront Park. Now if Bayfront Park doesn't use that money after a reasonable amount of time, and we have, you know, an overabundance of monies -- which is not going to happen any time soon with everything that's happened -- obviously, 1, as long as I'm there -- and I hope that whoever follows me as Chair will do the same -- would return that money to the general fund. And that's a (INAUDIBLE) that I've had not just for Bayfront Park but for any of our lands that are City -owned but have been put in trusts. So if my colleagues would be okay with that, then I would like to withdraw Bayfront Park from the overall contract that we have before us, and come back to you at a future date with this, and maybe some additional items. Chair Hardemon: Okay. Before we move forward -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Mr. Chair? Chair Hardemon: -- Mr. Clerk, is there a motion on the floor? I thought there was a motion for the approval of the PH (Public Hearing) agenda, and now we're making changes. Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): No, sir. Chair Hardemon: Okay, there's' no motion. Great. Okay, Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla and then Commissioner Ken Russell. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you. Then I would like to move that we change the breakdown of the terms to seven, seven -- seven years, seven years and six years ,and that we exclude Bayfront Trust -- Management Trust Fund out of the agreement, and we leave the other organizations in so that would incorporate Mr. Carollo's -- Commissioner Carollo's idea and my idea together into one motion, and that would be my motion. Thank you. Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla, I just also wanted to remind everyone that this was -- this is nonexclusive, so it's a nonexclusive contract. So the -- all the issues that came up in public comments and now the fact that Commissioner Carollo's bringing up that he can negotiate with others, that that is allowed, because this is nonexclusive, and I wanted to make sure that that was very clear for the record. City of Miami Page 44 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Clear. So that's my motion. Chair Hardemon: All right. It's been properly moved. Is there a second? Commissioner Reyes: Yes, I second it. Chair Hardemon: Second by Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Russell. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I just wanted to clam if carving Bayfront Park Trust out of this agreement is -- would that give the existing -- the remaining -- the kiosks that do go into Bayfront Park Trust into the DDA portion, or would it be actually a carveout so that Commissioner Carollo and the Bayfront Park Trust can work directly with that vendor and/or other vendors, because 1 think it should be clamed a bit. If it's just withdrawing Bayfront Park Trust from this current legislation, it would then be encompassed by the DDA. Commissioner Carollo: I -- Vice Chair Russell: I just wanted to understand where you're going. Commissioner Carollo: I appreciate that, Commissioner, because I think we do need to clam that. Obviously, it's a carveout so that anything that is managed or in front of Bayfront Park Trust is carved out for Bayfront Park Trust. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, sir. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Mr. Carollo, you mean that any kiosk that it is placed, as they said, in whole Bayfront Park, which is -- also is inside the DDA -- that the DDA will not receive a single penny out of it? Commissioner Carollo: That's correct. Bayfront Park Trust was given that land to manage it, and to do whatever it could there as long as it did not receive any monies from the City of Miami to be run. If we now are going to start carving out different items that will be the only ones that Bayfront Park Trust can bring money in, then Bayfront Park is going to reach the point -- it certainly will be there now if we can't have any gatherings -- where it won't be able to maintain itself any longer, and that's the difference between DDA, CRAs, BIDs and Bayfront Park Trust. We actually have land that this could go on in. All the other City agencies, you're using the City's land to get that 25 percent. And just like we've done in other things inside the park property and has not been carved out for DDA for any other organization, that's all that I'm asking; to keep status quo like it's been. Commissioner Reyes: Well -- Chair Hardemon: Right, Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Correct. And this would only -- Commissioner Reyes, maybe to assuage some of your concerns, this is only for the land that's Bayfront Trust Management land. This is not the rest of Downtown Miami so -- Commissioner Carollo: No. That's -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- you'll still have a majority. The DDA will still have a majority of those kiosks throughout downtown will be placed under the DDA's carve -- percentage. City of Miami Page 45 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Reyes: But how many kiosks are going to go in that land on Bayfront Park? I mean -- Commissioner Carollo: I can't imagine that there would be more than eight (INAUDIBLE) -- Commissioner Reyes: (INAUDIBLE) every single Commissioner is going to provide -- I mean is going to generate very -- it cannot be eight, because we have a distance, a separation to -- there is a separation on -- that they have to be -- I don't know, a hundred -- 500 feet or something. Commissioner Carollo: Well, whatever it is on the separation in the clause, that has to be abided to. Commissioner Reyes: It have to be abided to. But I know that you are a very, very hard negotiator, but so am I. I would like to share some of those funds with you for DDA in certain aspects, because when you have your activities in Bayfront Park, you see, it's all kept by Bayfront Park. And we have a lot of work to do at DDA, and we have to work together. And by the way, Commissioner Carollo, I mean, this comes to my mind now. And now that we have a new Chairman of the Omni CRA, have they paid the $2 million that they owe you? Commissioner Carollo: This is not a discussion, now and I'm sure that (INAUDIBLE) -- Commissioner Reyes: I'm just asking. It's just for my information. Commissioner Carollo: The -- it's more than $2 million, Commissioner. Commissioner Reyes. Oh, okay, okay. No, no, I just wanted to know. Commissioner Carollo: That's not a discussion now, and I'm not looking for a tit for tat on this one. Commissioner Reyes: No, sir. I'm not looking for a tit for at that time, also. It's just a question that is a valid question, because I am concerned about your finances. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah but -- Commissioner Reyes: And this is -- I don't know, it's, you know, keeping them -- not only now -- keeping the funds away, not only from DDA, but from the federal -- I mean, from the general fund, it is also a concern of mine, because we are keeping only 25 percent of the revenues that generates for these institutions. But the rest goes to the general fund and our general fund has been depleted. And as I understand, we're going to have -- we are up to, I guess, 19 million or 20-some million dollars in deficit. And keeping it in Bayfront Park, or DDA, or anybody keeping all the revenues without sharing with the general And is a concern that I have. Commissioner Carollo: Look, Commissioner, let me explain this to you. The (INAUDIBLE) can only generate funds by either the activities that it has there, which for the foreseeable future, probably for the next two years, we're not looking to make any money; maybe longer with the way this is going, because we're not going to be able to have the type of concerts and activities that we had there once before for at least two years, maybe more. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. City of Miami Page 46 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Carollo: This is a reality. Maybe nobody wants to hear it, but this is a fact of life that we're moving forward with Coronavirus. Now, if that was the bulk of the activities that the park would generate funds from, 90, 90 plus percent of its fund -- and where you -- instead of you using -- all of us using general fund monies to keep that park going and maintain it, then we have to be able to use the park like it always has been, or with those dollars. I have some additional things that I'm going to bring forward. This is why I want to make this clear. And I've stated already that if we have surpluses for any reason, I will return that money. No chairman ever of Bayfront Park has ever given a penny back to the City of Miami. I did; 3 million to the general fiend. Now your other question on monies from the Omni CRA, let me say this to you: That that money can only be used in the Ferre Park, and only for new projects; not for any of the repair, any of the upkeep that we have to do there. Commissioner Reyes: Maintenance and anything. I have a suggestion. Maybe you - Chair Hardemon: Well, before you respond, Commissioner Reyes, Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla has his finger up, so I want to recognize him. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. I just wanted to make a suggestion, that's all. It's very simple. Can we do -- can 1 suggest that we do a trial for the next three years and that you -- at Bayfront Park, or we could revisit this -- I mean, this exception every four years -- three, four years and see how are we doing and if it is needed to continue the way it is because Bayfront Park is not generating any revenues and then we can share revenues from the kiosk? Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Mr. Chair? Chair Hardemon: Yeah, you're recognized, sir. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Well, let's keep it in perspective, okay? We're talking about 150 kiosks. Commissioner Carollo, I think that you said eight. I think it's not even that many; it'll probably be six. Commissioner Carollo: I'm not sure. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But -- well, because of the distance requirements between them. So I don't see it more than eight out of 150. But you're correct that Bayfront Park has -- will lose a lot of -- has a lost and will continue to lose a lot of its activities. COVID-19 is a reality for many months, maybe a year, and people having events and revenue generators for the park. So I think it's a fair compromise that you're offering. I think Bayfront Park is unique in its nature. It's different than these organizations. It owns land. And I think it's only a small percentage of downtown, Commissioner Reyes. I don't think it's taking away from where the majority of the kiosks are going to be throughout downtown, because people are going to be looking for information. Once they get to Bayfront Park, they know more or less where to go. But downtown is where they're going to be using the kiosks to go to the different Metrorail stations, and different businesses, and everything else. So you're going to have probably the majority, -- I can't speak for them, but I will guess just, you know, it makes sense that the majority of these kiosks will be outside the area of the park, and I think that you'll be okay. I like the agreement the way it is, because I think it's been negotiated very strongly by our Manager. We discussed it at our last meeting. I reviewed it with the Manager. I think he takes it from 20 percent to 40 percent every year; first in year two. So I think it's a great revenue generator for our City. And more importantly, what happens is that we have to understand the tremendous revenue impact that COVID-19 is going to have on our City of Miami Page 47 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 City; not so much felt in the next four or five months, but next year's budget, and the following year's budget, and we have to account for that. And we have to begin to think like a business. How do we generate dollars for our City? How do we generate more dollars to fill those holes that we're going to have down the line? So I think Commissioner Carollo's request is reasonable. It's not a big bite. It's a really small bite, and a deserved bite, I think, because only -- it's a park that's owned by the Front -- by the Trust, and I think it's important that we just move this item forward, and not go back and forth with something that we've been going back and forth now for -- Commissioner Reyes: I do agree with -- through the Chair. And 1 do agree with you that we have to move this item forward, and now more than ever because of the state that we are. But I mean, I also want to state my concern about revenues to the general And, and also DDA and -- which I'm the Chair and I'm concerned with the revenues that they're going to receive. And I think that Commissioner Carollo has -- his point is well taken. And in the future, the way that I foresee Bayfront Park, and given the amount of residents that are going to be moving over there, and you know that we are going to have -- many of them are going to pull back on any concerts, or any activities that is going to happen there. We might be losing that income also. The part that -- I want a commitment that has to be not only his word, because it's going to be there until, I mean, maybe four more years or five more years he's going to be Chair. But whoever comes after him should be committed, also; that any additional revenues -- and if it is a surplus that that will be given, as you did before, Commissioner Carollo, should be returned to the general fund. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Well, I think we can probably -- Mr. Chair, if I may. Commissioner Reyes: Sure. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: We could probably just incorporate that into my motion that any surplus revenues would go -- and Commissioner Carollo, you're okay with that? You already stated it anyway for the record -- Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- any surplus dollars will be returned and I'll make that part of the motion -- of my motion. Commissioner Reyes: And I accept that as your seconder. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you, sir. Ms. Mendez: Commissioners, I need to clarify a question since we're removing the Bayfront portion. I need to clan* if the kiosk that abuts Bayfront and -- Commissioner Carollo: This is what it means, because you can't have kiosks in -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Inside the park, of course. Commissioner Carollo: -- inside the park and also have them in the sidewalk. It includes both, those -- and that's why I said parkland or land in front of the park, which means the sidewalks. Ms. Mendez: Okay. So I just wanted to clarify that then it'll be amended to include the abutting sidewalk. City of Miami Page 48 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Immediately in front. Commissioner Reyes: (INAUDIBLE). Immediately in front; not across the street from (MULTIPLE PARTIES SPEAKING IN UNISON) Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yeah. Immediately in front of Bayfront Park. Commissioner Carollo: Immediately in front. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: 1 got you, Commissioner Reyes. 1 understand. Immediately in front of the park. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. And by the way, Commissioner Reyes, there is a portion where Bayside is -- Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir. Commissioner Carollo: -- that is not managed by -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: That's true. Commissioner Carollo: -- Bayfront Park that DDA would get monies for that, also. Commissioner Reyes: Yes, I was thinking about that, yes. Okay, Commissioner. Chair Hardemon: Okay, so we understand the modification that has been made to Item PH.9. The motion is inclusive of the rest of the PH agenda as well; is that correct? Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: That's correct. And I move -- yes, inclusive of the rest of the PH items that we had -- I want to add to the motion that we also approve all remaining PH items. Ms. Mendez.: We need to make a few amendments. I'm sorry. I apologize but -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay, then we won't do that. What we'll do then is -- Chair Hardemon: Well, you could make -- you could still make -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: (INAUDIBLE) PH.9 -- let's do this: Let's move PH.9, and then well do the other ones with anything else that -- Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Hardemon: I understand. You can -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I move -- the motion is actually just for PH.9 Chair Hardemon: All right. It's been properly, moved. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: (INAUDIBLE) I think by Commissioner Reyes. City of Miami Page 49 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Chair Hardemon: Is there a second on PH.9? Commissioner Reyes: Yes, 1 did. Chair Hardemon: It's been properly moved and seconded that we approve PH.9. Any further discussion? Hearing none, all in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Ms. Mendez: As amended. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: As amended. Thank you. Mr. Hannon: Chair, I have that vote as 5-0, as amended. Chair Hardemon: Correct. The motion carries -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you. Chair Hardemon: -- with modifications. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. City of Miami Page 50 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PH.10 7391 City Manager's Office RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), BY A FOUR -FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING, CONFIRMING, AND APPROVING THE CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDATIONS AND WRITTEN FINDINGS, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS EXHIBIT "A", PURSUANT TO SECTIONS 18-85 AND 18- 121 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"); WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDDING METHODS AS NOT BEING PRACTICABLE OR ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") FOR THE PROVISION, ESTABLISHMENT, AND IMPLEMENTATION OF CITY EMERGENCY MEALS PROGRAMS ON A DISTRICT BY DISTRICT BASIS AS SET FORTH BELOW IN A TOTAL NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF TWO MILLION DOLLARS ($2,000,000.00) (COLLECTIVELY, "EMERGENCY MEALS PROGRAMS") DUE TO THE CORONAVIRUS COVID-2019 PANDEMIC ("COVID-19 PANDEMIC") FOR AN INITIAL TWO (2) MONTH PERIOD HAVING COMMENCED ON APRIL 6, 2020 AND ENDING ON SUCH EARLIER OR LATER DATE DETERMINED IN ACCORDANCE WITH MULTIPLE FEDERAL AND STATE OF FLORIDA ("STATE") ENDING DATE(S) FOR DECLARATIONS OF DISASTERS AND EMERGENCIES; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE SUCH NECESSARY ADDITIONAL DECLARATIONS, FINDINGS, AND UNDERTAKINGS FROM TIME TO TIME FOR SUCH EMERGENCY MEALS PROGRAMS TO COMPLY, IF POSSIBLE, WITH SPECIFIC FEDERAL AND STATE FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR REIMBURSEMENTS OF CITY FUNDS EXPENDED; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, SUCH EMERGENCY MEALS PROGRAMS SERVICES AGREEMENTS WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS ON A DISTRICT BY DISTRICT BASIS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO EMERGENCY MEALS PROGRAMS GUIDELINES AND ANY AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, MODIFICATIONS, SUPPLEMENTS, SUBSTITUTIONS, AND EXTENSIONS, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, SUBJECT TO PRIOR BUDGETARY APPROVALS, ALLOCATIONS, AND APPROPRIATIONS, IN COMPLIANCE WITH PROVISIONS OF THE CITY CODE, INCLUDING THE CITY'S PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE, ANTI -DEFICIENCY ACT, FINANCIAL INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES, AND FINANCIAL AUDIT STANDARDS AND BEST PRACTICES, ALL AS SET FORTH IN CHAPTER 18 OF THE CITY CODE, AND COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS AS MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY FOR SAID PURPOSE; ALLOCATING FUNDS FROM A FUND AND ACCOUNT City of Miami Page 51 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 CODE NO. TO BE DESIGNATED BELOW AND HEREBY AMENDING THE CITY'S FISCAL YEAR 2019-2020 OPERATING BUDGET ACCORDINGLY TO UNDERTAKE THESE EMERGENCY SERVICES ON AN EXPEDITED BASIS. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0127 MOTION TO: Adopt with Modification(s) RESULT: ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATION(S) MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item PH10, please see "Public Comments for all Items" and "End of Public Hearings." END OF PUBLIC HEARINGS Chair Hardemon: Is there a motion to approve the PH (Public Hearing) agenda? Commissioner Reyes: 1 have a question on the PH agenda, and I want to make clear what my opinion is. On the Microenterprise Assistance Program, we are hiring three companies; that they are the ones that are going to process the loans. And 1 want -- first of all, I want to make sure that the total amount that they are going to receive is $50,000. It is not 50,000 for the loan, or 450,000 for the loan or 600, 000. And also, given the economic problem that we have now and trying to protect our employees, I was -- I am in favor that instead of hiring outside consultants that we do it in-house. I think that we have the ability, the capability of doing it. For example, at DDA (Downtown Development Authority), we have a very well -trained, I mean, group of employees and people that they have donated their time, you see, they are volunteers, that they were ready to help our businesses when the federal stimulus package came out. And we -- as a matter of fact, we did and they were willing to help, because if you -- and this is not going to be more than probably 50, 60 applications, and why we have to pay 50,000. And that's what I heard, that it was 50,000. But the way that I read it -- I mean, it confuses me, because it seems that it is 50,000 for the 400,000 micro loans and for businesses that they have five or less employees, and 50,000 for the 600,000 -- I mean, for the other loans, that it is up to 20,000 for -- I mean, yes, that is for people that have businesses that they have up to 20 employees. And it is kind of confusing, and I believe that now that we might, given the shortage that we have in our general fund, that we might contemplate the probability of either leaving people out, or furloughing, or taking time; that we can very well do this in house, and use those funds in other activities that we can do. That is my only concern about this. I agree with the loans. I agree with the concept. I congratulate you for the concept. But it's a question that I have in my mind. Chair Hardemon: Commissioner Ken Russell. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Commissioner Reyes. I think these three items are being conflated in what Commissioner Reyes is discussing. There's three separate programs, and he's talking about the microentefprise assistance but then talking about the three $50,000 assistance programs. They're completely separate. I do agree about keeping some in-house work. So my recommendation on these -- and I believe that the City Attorney's City of Miami Page 52 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Office has already given the same to Mensah's department -- is to not have an outside committee doing the selection process hut do that in-house, do that within the department. But for Item PH.5, I am in support of it, as written, to do the emergency technical assistance for small businesses through these third -party companies that -- and not -for profits that specialize in this, that already have set up an outreach in the community. Commissioner Reyes: Well, what I was referring to PH.5, that is going to be assisting the businesses on PH.2 and 3, you see. I mean, it's allocating -- or assisting businesses that are going to -- Vice Chair Russell: But -- Commissioner Reyes: -- that assistance is the one that -- I agree with both PH.2 and 3. But on PH.5, what I -- my opinion is my very honest opinion and I always speak my mind. It is that in -- I mean, we have a deficit that -- and there's a budget deficit, and that is going to affect our employees. And I think that we should keep this in-house and use our employees in -- as the ones that are going -- as assisting. Vice Chair Russell: Sorry, Mr. Chairman, I wasn't finished. Commissioner Reyes: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. Vice Chair Russell: Just want to clam. PH.5 is not technical assistance to PH.2 and 3. They're completely separate items. PH.5 is to help small businesses apply to the federal programs and such, and everything that's available to them. PH.2 and 3 is meant to fill the gap where the federal programs -- Commissioner Reyes: No, no, no. No, no. Vice Chair Russell: And Mr. Mensah can probably clarify. Commissioner Reyes: No, no. According to what we have here, there are three companies that they're going to assist the businesses. If you go to Exhibit "A" of -- and you have three companies that I don't know who they are. I mean, let me tell you, I don't know who they are, and I don't know where they come from. I never heard of them. And I don't have any companies that I want to -- I mean, recommend on anything. We have three companies that they are going to have 50,000, 50,000, 50,000 and 150,000 to assist in the application of -- Vice Chair Russell: But not for PH.2 and 3, the application for the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act. Commissioner Reyes: Well, then I have to be -- that have to be clarified. Mr. City Manager, am I right or wrong? Because we discussed this the day before yesterday. Arthur Noriega (City Manager): We did. And remember that I said the programs that they are going to assist with go beyond our own internal programs. They are for federal and state programs, as well, so they're providing a number of -- or playing a number of roles in terms of small business assistance, and it goes beyond just those two grants that are -- Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir, but -- Mr. Noriega: -- in the prior items. It is for the overall package -- City of Miami Page 53 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Reyes: -- you said go beyond -- Mr. Noriega: -- to provide assistance to (INAUDIBLE). Commissioner Reyes: Sir, through the Chair. Chair Hardemon: Only one person can speak (INAUDIBLE). Mr. Noriega: I lost you for a minute there. Commissioner Reyes: Through the Chair. You said it will go beyond. And what Commissioner Russell is saying, that they are not going to assist in these loans; I mean, the businesses to obtain these loans; that there is going to be only for federal. 1 mean -- and according to you now, what you're saying is that they are going to be assisting within the loans that we are proposing from the City of Miami. And in addition, they are going to also provide assistance with federal loans, okay? I mean, that's what you're saying, and that's totally different than what Commissioner Russell is saying. Vice Chair Russell: You know, the title is clear i f ;you read the title of PH 5. It says very clearly what they are assisting with application for. "All programs available to small business owners under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act and the Small Business Administration, subject to the approval by City Commission." So it seems very clear that PH.5 is for application to the CARES Act. PH.2 and 3 is our own internal program that will be helping small business and micro business with our CDBG (Community Development Block Grant) funds. So it Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Mr. Noriega: But remember that those -- Vice Chair Russell: That would be from our City employees. Commissioner Reyes: That is funded through the CARE. Let me tell you -- let me ask you something and that's what I need clarification, because I asked for that clarification on Tuesday, and I was informed that our internal loans, the loans that come from the City of Miami, they are -- the businesses are going to be assisted by these three companies, and they are the ones that are going to fill out the applications and by doing -- I mean, for doing that, they are going to receive $50, 000 each, which they told me it was total, not per loan. And probably I misunderstood, but to me it was very clear that these three companies are going to assist. Later on, I received a communication that says that they going to be assisting beyond the three -- the two loans that we are -- the two types' of loans that we are offering. Then they're going to be assisting on federal loans also. And they went even beyond that into assisting on business practices, blah, blah, blah, blah, okay? But what I understood when I had it, it was -- it is PH.2, 3, 4 and 5, it is -- are going to be assisted by these three companies. Mr. Noriega: May I, Mr. Chair? Chair Hardemon: Yes, please. Mr. Noriega: Okay. So -- and Tin going to ask that the host actually put -- tap George Mensah onto the meeting. So let me try to frame it in a smaller way. 2 and 3, so that you're -- so everybody's crystal clear -- is actually money we received as part -- City of Miami Page 54 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Mr. Noriega: -- of the CARES Act. Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Mr. Noriega: Okay? So that money is available. Beyond that money, there is the additional programming that we're accepting approval of now -- right? -- which is PH.4 -- right? -- of which we're having a special meeting next week -- right? -- to actually allocate how that money gets spent. All of that is one pool. In addition to that, small businesses are eligible to apply for money at the federal level and the state level that are separate from the allocations we received. These companies are going to assist with all of those various -- Commissioner Reyes: Thank you. Mr. Noriega: -- opportunities. It is not just the PZ (Planning and Zoning) items we have in -- on this agenda. It goes beyond that; that is the reason why we've engaged these companies. It is for a much more global process, and we have a number of small businesses in the community that don't have the internal expertise, or the understanding, or depth of understanding to be able to submit fbr these programs without some assistance, and that's what these three non profits are going to engage in. Commissioner Reyes: Thank you. They are all. Mr. Noriega: Yes. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Mr. Noriega: And it is $50, 000 per entity. It does not go beyond that. Commissioner Reyes: It doesn't go beyond -- Mr. Noriega: Not by -- 50,000 by program. It is $50, 000 -- Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Mr. Noriega: -- in totality. Commissioner Reyes: I got that. Chair Hardemon: Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you, Mr. Chair. With -- and I'm risking having a debate. We're trying to get on the individual PH items, but I think it's important to point out in my -- our meeting with -- my meeting with the City Manager, and Ms. Bridgeman and the City staff,' we discussed PH.2 and PH -- we discussed them all, but in reference to PH.2 and PH.3, we talked about -- Ms. Bridgeman said it was first come, first served. And my concern with that was that these programs probably should be merit -based and not first come, first served. So have we talked -- have we done anything with that? Have we reached a conclusion on how we're going to, you know, dispense these dollars or disperse these dollars? Mr. Noriega: Can we patch George in? George Mensah (Director, Community Development): Yes. City of Miami Page 55 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Mr. Noriega: George is on now. George, could you jump in? Mr. Mensah: Yes. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Can you answer the question? Mr. Mensah: Yes. This is George Mensah, Department Director for Department of Housing and Community Development. There are two programs. On the business side, the small business side, it's by merit. It's not just by -- because we are -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Oh, okay. Mr. Mensah: -- required by HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) to do underwriting. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: That's what I thought. Mr. Mensah: So, yes. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But it was originally told to us that it was first come, first served, okay. And the other one? Mr. Mensah: The other one is a little different. The other one is a grant. And the other one, we are not required to do underwriting because of the low income. That is the one that we are doing by first come, first served. So it should be by merit, also, because if don't qualify, you obviously will not get it. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Of course. You have to be under a certain income and all that. Mr. Mensah: Yes, yes, yes, yes. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay. Okay, that's all. I just wanted clarification. I'm okay with the rest of the items, except -- Mr. Chair, if I may just take the opportunity -- I have the floor. I'm okay, also, with PH.9. That's been the subject of some conversations. I just have a very tiny amendment. (MULTIPLE PARTIES SPEAKING IN UNISON) Chair Hardemon: Mute your -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: If I may. Chair Hardemon: Mr. Mensah, thank you. You're recognized, Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Mr. Chairman, on PH.9, I have a slight amendment. I discussed it with our City Manager a little while ago, and I think he's okay with that. He's negotiated a very good contract, I think. I think the Mayor agrees that we're in a good place with this contract. We've been working on it for a while. But I have a slight amendment on PH.9, so if we could take it out of order, if we could take up PH.9. It's just an amendment on the timeframe. Instead of being two 10-year -- a 10 year -- Chair Hardemon: You can propose the amendment now. City of Miami Page 56 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Diaz de la Fonda- Okay. So instead of a 10-year and 10-year, I want to do a seven-year, a seven-year and a six -year. They still get their 20 but -- for the financing purpose, their financing purpose, but the seven -- first of all, technology is quickly outdated. The seven gives us more time, and also gives some of us an opportunity to revisit this contract instead of having all of us being gone in ten years, and then having no institutional memory as to the new process. At least the seven years, it gives some of us an opportunity to look at this contract, their performance, what they've done, and whether they merit, you know, an additional seven years. So it -- all it does is instead of making it ten with an option for ten, it makes it seven, seven and six. Commissioner Reyes: Is that a motion? Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: That's a motion. Later... Chair Hardemon: What amendments do you need to make to any other items on the PH (Public Hearing) agenda? Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Okay, so, sir, PH 10 -- for PH 10 in the title, Commissioner Carollo wants an amendment to clarify the dates on which the meals program is working on. So the amendment will be for an initial two -month period, having commenced on April 6, or whenever after each district commences its program, and extending or ending such earlier or later dates as determined in accordance with the multiple federal or state ending dates for the declarations of disasters and emergencies, as notified in writing by the City Manager to the City Commission. The clarification is because some of the districts have started earlier or later than others. And also, some of the districts will be more frugal with the use of their monies, and will last longer. So that's why it encompasses that the two - month period can be longer or shorter, depending on the emergency date of declarations, and based on the date that each district starts. So that is the change for PH 10 that was requested by Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Reyes: I move it. Sandra Bridgeman (Assistant City Manager): There are other substitutions if you would indulge me. Chair Hardemon: Please. Ms. Bridgeman: For Exhibit "A," under Section 3, just to make sure, District 1 will get an amount not to exceed $382,000 for the services to the particular categories of eligible recipients, and with the service providers as set forth in Exhibit "B." District 2 will have -- not to exceed $311,000 for the services to the particular categories of eligible recipients, and with the service providers as set forth in Exhibit "C." District 3 will have an amount not to exceed 399,000 for the services to the particular categories of eligible recipients, with the service providers as set forth in Exhibit "D." District 4 will get an amount not to exceed 441,000 for the services to the particular categories of eligible recipients, and with the service providers as set forth in Exhibit "E." And District 5 will not exceed 467,000 for the services for the particular categories of eligible recipients, and with the service providers as set forth in Exhibit "F." In Section 6, this program will be paid under the general fund, and it's, again, for $2 million, allocated from the emergency contingency reserve in the non -departmental account, Account Code 00019800089 (INAUDIBLE) for the fiscal year 2019/2020. Exhibit "B, "for District 1. District 1 has identified persons who are in need. for senior meals, as well as vendors and City of Miami Page 57 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 restaurants for the voucher program. The district will continue to identify new (INAUDIBLE) as the crisis continues. (INAUDIBLE) may change from time to time to accomplish the goal of feeding eligible individuals as per the program guidelines. Currently, District 1 (INAUDIBLE) food distribution, meal delivery and the proposed voucher program with the intent to increase the number of partnerships to provide further assistance. District 2 has identified so far approximately 300 residents with food insecurity caused by the COVID-19 crisis. As in other programs, the number of residents will increase. In order to help fill gaps, the district will work with vendors to provide a combination of prepared meals and groceries to residents in need. Food will be distributed via pickup and/or delivery via partnerships with community organizations. District 2 is utilizing ILS Food d/b/a Classic Caterers, Inc. for meal and deliveries. The office has identified the following vendors, but they may change based on the need throughout the life of the program. You have Milam's Market -- Chair Hardemon: Ms. Bridgeman, it's not necessary that you go through each and every program. I mean, those are not changes that we're looking -- I mean, whatever it is you've included for attachments is fine, and we can see it. You don't have to go through it and amend everything. I do have a question I want our board members to consider. The -- I have the meal coupon program and this latest rendition of documents that the City wants us to ,fill out, they include where there's a signature for a person that the person has to actually sign for. We had, of course, collected all of their information as far as their name, their address, their phone number, the email address and things of that nature. But this additional line for a signature for the head of the household is problematic, because it encourages that of -- now we have to actually interact with every single person that is getting a meal coupon versus the plan that we had, which was to gather their information, to make sure they're available for them to pick it up, and they could pick it up. And so, I was wondering if we could make an adjustment where we do not have to get a person's actual signature for them to participate. Ms. Bridgeman: Point well taken. The information that's required is the important thing itself Chair Hardemon: Okay. Ms. Bridgeman: The name of the person, the address and where the person is identifiable. Chair Hardemon: Okay. Ms. Bridgeman: So we can make that (INAUDIBLE) -- Chair Hardemon: Now, Commissioner Russell, I saw you had your hand up. Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla, you had your hand up. Vice Chair Russell: Yes, thank you. On PH 10, Commissioner Carollo's amendment gives more flexibility with regard to the dates, but I'm a little worried that it actually would limit us, because we don't know when these emergency orders are going to be lifted. And as we go into phase one, two or three of reopening, that may happen sooner than expected. I just want to make sure we have the flexibility to spend this as needed for the next few months. I don't know if two months is -- if we should be at a race to exhaust it all within two months, or if we want to give ourselves the freedom to give it a little more time as we identify people and people have need. So I definitely appreciate the opening up of the dates, but I think we should open it up even more. City of Miami Page 58 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Ms. Mendez: You mean past; you want it past the time that the emergency orders are lifted? Vice Chair Russell: Yes, because it's not related to how many infections are happening. It's really related to job loss and senior needs -- Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Vice Chair Russell: -- which will continue beyond. Chair Hardemon: I want to recognize our City Manager. I know he has something to say; then Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Mr. Noriega: So for purposes of clarification, that's absolutely acceptable, because we're using general fund money to allocate this, not bound by any other HUD regulations or guidelines. So we have a lot of flexibility with this money, much more so than we would if we were doing anything else, since it is general And money. Ms. Mendez: So then there will be no end time basically is what you're asking? Commissioner Carollo: No end time. Vice Chair Russell.. Okay. So Commissioner Carollo amended his amendment, if I understand correctly. Commissioner Carollo: Right. Chair Hardemon: Okay. Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I agree. I agree with Commissioner Russell; very astute observation, Commissioner. And I think we have no deadline on it, and we simply spend it when we think our community -- we know our districts better than anyone else, any Administration member. So I think it's important that we have that flexibility that you talked about, Commissioner Russell; that we have more time to allocate the dollars in the places that we think they need to be allocated at the timeframe they need to be allocated in, and during. So I agree with you and I agree with Commissioner -- I think Commissioner Carollo has accepted that amendment to the motion. Vice Chair Russell: Mr. Chair? Commissioner Reyes: Chair? Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, Commissioner Russell; then Commissioner Reyes. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. And furthermore, if' the Administration could help us -- and I believe I mentioned this before -- in identifying any criteria that might allow us to be reimbursed for these funds, whether from the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) or others, that would be helpful in guiding us as we craft these programs. I believe we're pretty much set on how we want to do them, but if there are ways we can get this money reimbursed into our general fund, you know, it'll be helpful down the road. Ms. Bridgeman: (INAUDIBLE) this is why we provided guidelines. The minimum requirements that we can possibly gather under these programs. City of Miami Page 59 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? Chair Hardemon: You're recognized. Commissioner Reyes: I do agree that we should have an open-ended program until the money lasts because as Commissioner Russell said that this doesn't -- shouldn't end with the emergency which is based -- state of emergency, it is based with the amount of new cases of how many people have been infected. The economic recovery of the area is going to take time. There's a lot of people that have lost their jobs and being the way that our economy is -- 1 mean, our economy is an economy based on services. And heaven knows when are we going to keep on -- start receiving the influx of tourism and the different activities that we have here. So it is important that we have this program in place to assist those people that have not been part of the recovery. I think the economic recovery -- I think it is an excellent idea. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Chair? Ms. Bridgeman: May I add one more thing please? Chair Hardemon: All right. Yes. Ms. Bridgeman: So, the vote that you all got to take is for the -- all the documents that you've received today, the substitution that was made today on these documents. The original one did not have all the numbers. Commissioner Reyes: Yes, and also I want to include -- is that we have a lot of people that work in hotels and restaurants and particular hotels and those people are out of work, out of a job, and we have to be very supportive of them and try to help them as much as we can. And I commend Commissioner Carollo and Commissioner Russell for the observations that they have done. Chair Hardemon: Question. And that does include the nominal amount for advances. Like if a company needs some money to get started, they're giving products away. I think it's like $5, 000 that we've included. Ms. Bridgeman: That's correct. Chair Hardemon: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. Look, I'm fine with opening up for additional time, which is my -- that was my intention to begin with. And the way that I am looking at this, any which way we cut it, we're going to be under a lot of these emergency orders for some time. Miami -- Greater Miami as a whole is very tourist -dependent. We're going to be taking a hit for quite some time, because I don't care if you could open up hotels tomorrow, open up (INAUDIBLE) tomorrow, they're going to be empty. A lot of our restaurants that were dependent on tourists, they're not going to have those tourists, which means that they're going to have to provide better food, better service and cheaper food, not at prices for tourists, if they're going to want to survive now, because they're going to be dependent on us, the locals. So I have no problem with that, because we're going to have to extend this as far as we can, because the need is going to be tremendous. Hotels and a lot of the people that work in hotels are going to be -- even once they open -- at minimal occupancy. A lot of the restaurants that were tourist -oriented at tourist prices, they're not coming back, unfortunately. You know, I mean, any of you don't think that what I'm saying is correct, then I'll tell you what, how many of you would like to get a free airplane ticket for yourselves and spouse or partner to New York, City of Miami Page 60 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 to Paris, to Madrid, to Milano, Italy? I don't think there's going to be any takers. And this is going to be going on for some time. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: People are petrified to fly, and it's not going to change in a month or two. It might take a year and a half two years, and frankly, until there is a vaccine, either -- Commissioner Reyes: Or a cure. Commissioner Carollo: -- or not that comes into the market. And I'm going to tell you even more from what I've been researching, according to one of the studies that 1 was reading, that study shows that there's 31 -- as of when the study ended last week -- variations -- in other words, mutations -- for the Coronavirus. In the east coast, we've been hit mainly by the European variations. The west coast has been hit by the Asiatic variations, which means that even once they come up with a vaccine, you might not be able to have a vaccine for all. You might have to have different vaccines for different variations and mutations. So we're going to be living with this for some time, and this is not going to be in a few months we're back to normal. It's going to be a long, long time before we're fully back to normal as we were used to. Commissioner Reyes: Yeah, the economic recovery, Commissioner, is going to take a long time. It's going to take a long time. Commissioner Carollo: It will. Commissioner Reyes: But particularly, in our economy -- an economy like ours, which is -- it is service -oriented. It's -- Commissioner Carollo: Well, it's service/tourist oriented. Commissioner Reyes: Tourist -oriented, but you service the tourists, and I mean service -- you know, restaurants, the people that work in hotels making beds, or bartenders, and all of that, that service. Commissioner Carollo: This is going to be worldwide -- Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: -- for many of the cities, economies that are tourist - dependent. Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir. Commissioner Carollo: And that in itself is going to create other bigger problems that I don't even want to get into or consider right now. So we better, you know, brace ourselves, because it's going to be a very rocky road ahead. Chair Hardenion: Okay, gentlemen. So what I want to do is I want to make sure that we move forward. So the motion has been captured on the floor that includes all the changes to PH 10. Commissioner Carollo: One last question that I have for staff Chair Hardemon: And it's for the -- it's the entirety of the PH agenda, as well. City of Miami Page 61 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Carollo: Right. But 1 have one more question for staff. Ms. Mendez: And there's one more change, also. Chair Hardemon: Okay, let's get it on the record. Commissioner Carollo: All right. The question that I have to staff is, this allows each district to spend those dollars in the different ways that we think will be best within our district? In other words, this is not going to be one -size -fits -all. Ms. Bridgeman: You're correct, sir. The flexibility exists; that's why the exhibits are different for each district, correct. Commissioner Reyes: Okay, okay. Chair Hardemon: Madam City Attorney. Ms. Mendez: Yes. Thank you, Chairman. There's also changes to PH.2 and PH3, which is that HCD (Department of Housing and Community Development) is going to be the reviewer of the applications for those programs, for PH 2 and PH 3. Chair Hardemon: Any other changes? Seeing none, any further discussion? All in favor of the motion, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Hardemon: All against? Motion passes. City of Miami Page 62 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 RE - RESOLUTIONS RE.1 RESOLUTION 6457 Department of Planning A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO A PROGRAMMATIC AGREEMENT FOR AN ADDITIONAL FIVE (5) YEARS, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH THE FLORIDA STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE, THE ADVISORY COUNCIL ON HISTORIC PRESERVATION, AND ANY OTHER AGENCY, AS REQUIRED, TO EXPEDITE THE CITY OF MIAMI'S FULFILLMENT OF ITS HISTORIC PRESERVATION RESPONSIBILITIES, AS A RECIPIENT AND ADMINISTRATOR OF FEDERAL FUNDS UNDER SECTION 106 OF THE NATIONAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION ACT. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0129 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.1, please see "Public Comments for all Items" and "End of Resolutions." City of Miami Page 63 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 RE.2 RESOLUTION 6827 Department of Resilience and Public Works A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-111 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), AUTHORIZING THE ACCESSING OF THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI'S ("ST. LOUIS") REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS NO. 2018.08.27 FOR INFORMATION AND EMERGENCY KIOSKS ("KIOSKS") WITH IKE SMART CITY, LLC, A FOREIGN LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY AUTHORIZED TO CONDUCT BUSINESS IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA ("ISC"), UTILIZING THE COMPETITIVELY SOLICITED AND EXISTING CONTRACT WITH ST. LOUIS, SUBJECT TO ANY AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, EXTENSIONS, NEW, OR REPLACEMENT CONTRACTS; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, WITH ISC; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, AND EXTENSIONS SUBJECT TO ALL ALLOCATIONS, APPROPRIATIONS, AND PRIOR BUDGETARY APPROVALS AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY CODE, INCLUDING THE CITY'S PROCUREMENT ORDINANCE, ANTI -DEFICIENCY ACT, AND FINANCIAL INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES, ALL AS SET FORTH IN CHAPTER 18 OF THE CITY CODE, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE LAWS, RULES, AND REGULATIONS AS MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY FOR SAID PURPOSE. MOTION TO: Withdraw RESULT: WITHDRAWN MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.2, please see "Order of the Day" and "Public Comments for all ltems. " City of Miami Page 64 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 RE.3 RESOLUTION 5757 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER, CITY ATTORNEY, AND INDEPENDENT AUDITOR TO TAKE ANY AND ALL ACTIONS NECESSARY REGARDING ANY IMPROPER OCCUPANCY OR USE OF ANY CITY OF MIAMI OWNED PREMISES BY UNAUTHORIZED BUSINESS ENTITIES INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE MELREESE GOLF COURSE LOCATED AT 1802 NORTHWEST 37 AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA. MOTION TO: Indefinitely Defer RESULT: INDEFINITELY DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.3, please see "Order of the Day." RE.4 RESOLUTION 7277 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, AFTER A DULY NOTICED PUBLIC HEARING, AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO INSTALL TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES IN CERTAIN ENUMERATED LOCATIONS IN DISTRICT 4; FURTHER AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO TAKE ANY AND ALL ACTIONS NECESSARY TO EXPEDITIOUSLY INSTALL TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED HEREIN, WITH FUNDING TO BE MADE AVAILABLE FROM THE IDENTIFIED OFFICE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS PROJECTS AS DESCRIBED HEREIN; DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE DIRECTOR OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY'S DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND PUBLIC WORKS. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0130 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.4, please see "End of Resolutions." City of Miami Page 65 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 RE.5 7265 Commissioners and Mayor RESOLUTION MAY BE DEFERRED A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), ESTABLISHING A ONE (1) YEAR PILOT PROGRAM FOR THE USE OF ELECTRIC CARGO BICYCLES ("E- CARGO BIKES") FOR DELIVERY PURPOSES AS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY AND CONGESTION -REDUCING ALTERNATIVE TO LARGE DELIVERY TRUCKS IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA, BRICKELL AREA, AND CORAL WAY AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A", ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED; FURTHER PROVIDING MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR PILOT PROGRAM PARTICIPATION, INCLUDING OBTAINING A CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") BUSINESS TAX RECEIPT, INSURANCE, AND FURNISHING A SIGNED AND NOTARIZED HOLD HARMLESS FORM TO THE CITY. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: Item RE.5 was deferred to the May 14, 2020, City Commission Meeting. RE.6 RESOLUTION 7367 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-72 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE DISTRICT 5 COMMISSIONER'S SHARE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ANTI- POVERTY INITIATIVE ("API") IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($20,000.00) TO MUCE EDUCATES CORP., A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ("GRANTEE"), IN SUPPORT OF THE GRANTEES "MUCE EDUCATES WITH TOOLS FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM"; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0128 City of Miami Page 66 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 MOTION TO: Indefinitely Defer RESULT: INDEFINITELY DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo RE.6 RESOLUTION 7367 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-72 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE DISTRICT 5 COMMISSIONER'S SHARE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ANTI- POVERTY INITIATIVE ("API") IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($20,000.00) TO MUCE EDUCATES CORP., A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ("GRANTEE"), IN SUPPORT OF THE GRANTEE'S "MUCE EDUCATES WITH TOOLS FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM"; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0128 MOTION TO: Reconsider RESULT: RECONSIDERED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Keon Hardemon, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo City of Miami Page 67 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 RE.6 RESOLUTION 7367 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-72 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE DISTRICT 5 COMMISSIONER'S SHARE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ANTI- POVERTY INITIATIVE ("API") IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($20,000.00) TO MUCE EDUCATES CORP., A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ("GRANTEE"), IN SUPPORT OF THE GRANTEE'S "MUCE EDUCATES WITH TOOLS FOR THE ARTS PROGRAM"; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0128 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For additional minutes referencing Item RE.6, please see "Order of the Day" and "End of Resolutions." Chair Hardemon: Board members, there was a mistake in the Order of the Day. There was an Item Number RE.6 that was indefinitely deferred. I'd like to request that this board hear RE.6 today. Is there a motion in accordance with that? So instead of being indefinitely deferred, we hear it today. Commissioner Reyes: So move. Chair Hardemon: Been moved; seconded by the Chair. No discussion? Seeing none, all in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Hardemon: Against? Motion passes. Okay. So -- Victoria Mendez (City Attorne)): I apologize. Todd, did you take -- were you able to accurately capture that without a roll call vote? Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Yes. I have 4-0, absent Commissioner Carollo, and that was to reconsider the indefinite deferral. And so ifI could -- Chair Hardemon: Todd, isn't it possible to have the item heard today? So the motion will be for the item to be heard today, because it was indefinitely deferred to another day, so now we're putting it back on today. Mr. Hannon: Yes. You're just reconsidering the vote on that particular item. And then now it's in play. Chair Hardemon: Right, okay. Great. City of Miami Page 68 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Do we have to --? I have a question. Do we have to now move that it be heard today? We just moved to reconsider it, right? It's a question. Chair Hardemon: It's already on the agenda, so we haven 't addressed the item yet. We will address the item, though, but not right now. We're going to do the agenda. Mr. Hannon: And I think through unanimous consent, as well, the Commission has agreed through the reconsideration that they're now going to hear it today. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay. Ms. Mendez: Thank you. Chair Hardemon: Thank you very much. RE.7 RESOLUTION 7382 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO TAKE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY STEPS TO ADVANCE THE PROCESS OF CREATING A COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY WITHIN THE WEST GROVE NEIGHBORHOOD ("WEST GROVE C.R.A.") PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ACT OF 1969 AS NECESSARY AND IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY, MORALS, AND WELFARE OF THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI AND MIAMI-DADE COUNTY; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO A REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR THE WEST GROVE C.R.A., IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSES; AND FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO SUBMIT ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING A COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FOR REVIEW, APPROVAL, AND ACCEPTANCE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0131 MOTION TO: Adopt with Modification(s) RESULT: ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATION(S) MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.7, please see "Public Comments for all Items" and "End of Resolutions." City of Miami Page 69 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 RE.8 RESOLUTION 7393 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-72 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, AUTHORIZING THE ALLOCATION OF GRANT FUNDS FROM THE MAYOR'S SHARE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ANTI -POVERTY INITIATIVE IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED FORTY ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS ($41,425.00) TO AGAPE 4 ORPHANS INTERNATIONAL, INC., A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION, IN SUPPORT OF THE AGAPE ENRICHMENT SUMMER ACADEMY 2020; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0132 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.8, please see "End of Resolutions." END OF RESOLUTIONS Chair Hardemon: Is there a motion to approve the RE (Resolution) agenda? Commissioner Carollo: There's a motion. Commissioner Reyes: Second. Chair Hardemon: It's been properly moved and seconded to approve the RE agenda. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: There is -- Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you, Mr. Chair. On RE.7, I have some language that captures both the ratification and adoption of the CRA (Community Redevelopment Agency) Resolution Number 20-003 from the April 9 meeting, specifying the removal of the expansion of the Omni CRA's boundaries to the West Grove, and direct City Manager to proceed with the necessary actions to advance the process of creating the West Grove CRA on its own. So it decouples the Omni CRA from West Grove, and it also moves that we adopt the West Grove CRA as a stand-alone entity. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? City of Miami Page 70 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Everybody knows that -- how I feel about extending CRAs. But creating new CRAs and the process, I agree with it. And I'm a person that always been in favor offollowing the processes, and this is to start the process to create a CRA in the West Grove. And I don't have anything against it. Now extending, that's another thing. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And I want to commend Commissioner Russell. 1 know this is something he's been working on for years I think (INAUDIBLE) city and his district but our city, because it impacts our entire city. Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It needs its own CRA, and its own development, and its own drive to get the people that live there in a better place. So I want to commend you, Commissioner Russell, jrowhat you've done for that community; not only your district, for the entire city in creating the CRA. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you very much, Commissioners. Chair Hardemon: Absolutely. Seeing no further discussion -- well, I'm sorry. Has it been -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: We have to accept the amendment to FR (First Reading) -- to RE.7. Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): It was moved by Commissioner Carollo; seconded by Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes.. Yes. Chair Hardemon: Right. Mr. Hannon: Do you accept the amendment to RE.7? Commissioner Carollo: Yes. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Mr. Hannon: It's good to go. Chair Hardemon: Any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor of it, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Hardemon: All against? Motion carries. Mr. Hannon: And that was for RE.1, 4, 6, 7 and 8. Chair Hardemon: Correct. City of Miami Page 71 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 FR - FIRST READING ORDINANCES FR.1 ORDINANCE First Reading 5131 Department of Planning AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 62 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TITLED "PLANNING AND ZONING", SPECIFICALLY BY AMENDING ARTICLE III, SECTION 62-17, TITLED "PLANNING, ZONING AND APPEALS BOARD/PROCEEDINGS OF PLANNING, ZONING AND APPEALS BOARD"; AMENDING ARTICLE VI, SECTION 62-22, TITLED "ZONING AND PLANNING FEES/SCHEDULE OF FEES"; AND REMOVING ARTICLE VI, SECTION 62-24, TITLED "ZONING AND PLANNING FEES/FEE PAYMENT DEFERRED", TO REMOVE REFERENCES TO SPECIAL AREA PLANS; MAKING FINDINGS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: Item FR.1 was deferred to the May 14, 2020, City Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item FR.1, please see "Order of the Day" and "Public Comments for all Items." City of Miami Page 72 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 FR.2 ORDINANCE First Reading 6588 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 38 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, ENTITLED "PARKS AND RECREATION" MORE PARTICULARLY BY ADDING A NEW ARTICLE VII ENTITLED, "MAURICE A. FERRE PARK CONSERVANCY", PROVIDING FOR POWERS, DUTIES, AND SCOPE OF A CONSERVANCY FOR THE MAURICE A. FERRE PARK FOR THE PRESERVATION, MAINTENANCE, AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE MAURICE A. FERRE PARK; CONTAINING A REPEALER PROVISION AND A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: item FR.2 was deferred to the May 14, 2020, City Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item FR.2, please see "Order of the Day." City of Miami Page 73 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 FR.3 ORDINANCE First Reading 7338 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 20 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), TITLED "FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION;" MORE PARTICULARLY, BY AMENDING SECTIONS 20-1, TITLED "DEFINITIONS," SECTION 20-3, TITLED "DEVELOPMENT IN EITHER SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREAS, OR NONSPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREAS," AND SECTION 20-4, TITLED "DEVELOPMENT WITHIN SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREAS", TO CODIFY THE NORTH AMERICAN VERTICAL DATUM OF 1988 ("NAVD 88") AS THE APPLICABLE VERTICAL DATUM FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADMINISTERING THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ("CITY") FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION REGULATIONS; FURTHER AMENDING CHAPTER 29 OF THE CITY CODE, TITLED "LANDFILLS AND WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENTS;" MORE PARTICULARLY, BY AMENDING SECTION 29-81, TITLED "DEFINITIONS," SECTION 29-82, TITLED "PURPOSE OF ARTICLE," SECTION 29-83, TITLED "PERMITS FOR WATERFRONT IMPROVEMENTS —REQUIRED," SECTION 29-84, TITLED "SAME —APPLICATION", SECTION 29-89, TITLED "DESIGN," SECTION 29-91, TITLED "CONSTRUCTION," SECTION 29-92, TITLED "MATERIALS," SECTION 29-93, TITLED "REVIEW OF PLANS; DUTY TO INSPECT," SECTION 29-94, TITLED "PROCEDURE FOR INSPECTIONS," AND SECTION 29-95, TITLED "MAINTENANCE," TO ESTABLISH NEW STANDARDS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION, RECONSTRUCTION, AND REPAIR OF SEAWALLS AND BULKHEADS; ESTABLISHING A NEW MINIMUM HEIGHT OF SIX FEET (6") NAVD 88 FOR NEW AND RECONSTRUCTED SEAWALLS AND BULKHEADS CITYWIDE; PROVIDING FOR A DEFINITION AND PERMITTING CONSTRUCTION OF LIVING SHORELINES; IMPOSING A DUTY ON PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS TO MAINTAIN SEAWALLS AND BULKHEADS IN GOOD REPAIR AND TO PREVENT TIDAL WATERS FROM FLOWING OVER OR THROUGH SUBSTANDARD OR DAMAGED SEAWALLS OR BULKHEADS TO ADJACENT PROPERTIES AND PUBLIC RIGHTS -OF -WAY; PROVIDING FOR ENHANCED PENALTIES FOR PROPERTY OWNERS THAT FAIL TO DO THE SAME; PROVIDING FOR COMPLETE MITIGATION OF CODE COMPLIANCE FINES FOR PROPERTY OWNERS WITH SUBSTANDARD OR DAMAGED SEAWALLS OR BULKHEADS FOUND TO BE IN VIOLATION THAT UNDERTAKE STEPS TO CORRECT THOSE VIOLATIONS WITHIN THE TIMEFRAME FOUND HEREIN; CREATING A NEW SUBSTANTIAL REPAIR THRESHOLD THAT PROVIDES FOR SEAWALLS AND BULKHEADS TO BE RECONSTRUCTED TO PRESENT SPECIFICATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF RESILIENCE AND PUBLIC WORKS UNDER CERTAIN QUALIFYING CIRCUMSTANCES; MODIFYING THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND INFORMATION REQUIRED FOR PERMITS IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONSTRUCTION, REPAIR, AND RECONSTRUCTION OF SEAWALLS AND BULKHEADS; AND PROVIDING FOR THE COMPLETE MITIGATION OF FINES FOR VIOLATIONS RELATED TO THE DISREPAIR OF SUCH IMPROVEMENTS UPON ADHERENCE TO CERTAIN PRESCRIBED TIMEFRAMES; FURTHER AMENDING CHAPTER 54/SECTION 54-46 OF THE CITY CODE, TITLED "STREETS AND City of Miami Page 74 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 SIDEWALKS/AGREEMENT AND BOND AS TO PAVING AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS BY PERSONS SUBMITTING PLATS, REPLATS, ETC., TO COMMISSION," TO ESTABLISH A NEW MINIMUM HEIGHT OF SIX FEET (6") NAVD 88 FOR NEW AND RECONSTRUCTED SEAWALLS AND BULKHEADS FOR APPLICABLE PROPERTIES SUBMITTED TO THE CITY'S EXISTING PLATTING PROCESS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Pass on First Reading RESULT: PASSED ON FIRST READING MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Note for the Record: For additional minutes referencing Item FR.3, please see "Public Comments for all Items." Chair Hardemon: We have ,first reading ordinances, FR.3. Madam City Attorney, can we have it read into the record, please? Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): FR.3, correct? Chair Hardemon: Correct. Ms. Mendez: Chairman? FR.3. Chair Hardemon: Correct. The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney. Vice Chair Russell: So moved. Chair Hardemon: It's been properly moved -- Commissioner Reyes: I second. Chair Hardemon: -- and seconded. Any discussion on the item? You're recognized, Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I have -- maybe for Commissioner Russell is a question. You talk about seawalls at six feet, but they can be modified to meet standards for 2070 -- right? -- within the language here, so they have to be -- they're actually more expensive to build. I think it's about $1,500 a linear foot for a seawall. What's the difference in cost between the modified -- the ones that are going to be modified to higher than six feet versus just a six-foot seawall? Vice Chair Russell: I'll defer to Director Dodd. He's got the very specifics on the differences. Alan Dodd: Good morning -- or good afternoon, Commissioners. Alan Dodd, Director of Department of Resilience and Public Works. In order to build the seawall stronger so that it can support that two -foot cap on top, they have to City of Miami Page 75 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 basically strengthen the structural support in it, so it would add probably 5 to 10 percent to the cost of the seawall per linear foot. For a $1,500 per foot seawall, we're probably looking around 1,650 to $1, 700 per foot. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay. And my, concern about that is the cost to the homeowner, the cost to the person who buys a condo. You know the developers are not going to swallow these costs, right? They're going to pass these costs on. So why the need to have a more expensive seawall if the only recommendation is that we're to do six feet? Why the additional cost per linear foot? Mr. Dodd: Commissioner, we did it based on the Southeast Florida Climate Compact projections -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Correct. Mr. Dodd: -- which show that we're going to have somewhere between 21 and 40 inches of sea level rise between now and 2070, 50 years from now, which is the natural lifespan -- or expected lifespan of a seawall. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Correct. Mr. Dodd: If we construct to that lower 21 inches, then with king tides and a little buffer for surge, that gets us up to the six foot level. If for some reason as we're moving along higher on that curve closer to the 40 inches of sea level rise, that is when we would need to put a (INAUDIBLE) and raise it up to the eight foot NABD (National Association of Builders and Developers) elevation. So it's (INAUDIBLE) - Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Correct. Mr. Dodd: -- flexibility to adapt to the future. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Correct. It's built flexibility to the future, 2070, and it's also built additional costs to the people that are buying land -- buying condos or buying property in 2020. Mr. Dodd: Yes. That is true, Commissioner. Commissioner Reyes: But that's oceanfront. That's oceanfront. That's waterfront. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Of course, it's waterfront but it's something -- Commissioner Reyes: No, no, no. Yes, yes but what I want to make sure is -- but do they have to -- now this is for new buildings. That's your main concern, Commissioner? The new construction is the one that they have to comply with it right away. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's not only new construction. It's also if they remodel 50 percent or (INAUDIBLE) correct, Mr. Dodd? Commissioner Reyes: Okay, that's right. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: If they remodel 50 percent of the house, or the condo (INAUDIBLE), or whatever, then they have to build this new seawall and then -- this modifiable seawall that you can add two more feet by 2070 -- assuming the projections are correct -- it's going to add to the cost of that homeowner, or the condo owner. And we know that the way the economy's suffering now that we don't City of Miami Page 76 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 want to he in the business today of adding an additional $10 or $15 per square foot to every condo or more perhaps that people purchase, because we know the developer's not going to pay for it. We know developers are going to pass on the cost. So now the property that that person's buying, or the condo that persons buying, or the home the person's buying will cost more. And do we really want -- and I understand the importance of building a six-foot seawall. I've advocated for it for years. But the idea that we now have to make it even more expensive so we can modify it by -- in 2070 to eight feet on a projection that's made in 2020 at a cost that's going to be felt now, people that are hurting -- and by the way, it also applies to people who rent, because the person renting that builds the condo building is going to rent it and they're going to make sure they cover all their costs. So all additional expenses the developer has in meeting a Code that -- an idea of what it's going to be in 2070 to eight feet, that just concerns me that we're just putting additional burdens on homeowners and homeownership, which concerns me. Commissioner Carollo: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Reyes: Let me ask you something. Chair Hardemon: You're recognized. Commissioner Reyes: This is -- I know that the main concern that we have now is that we have witnessed during king tide, we have witnessed what's happening on Brickell Avenue, what is happening in other streets, even 7th Avenue Northwest, by the river. During king tide, we have water coming over into the streets, and that is my main concern now. Now, what can we do is we can stage this in a way that it goes -- I mean, we solve the problem that we have now, and the future problem as it arises is going to be solved. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And the reality -- if I may, Mr. Chair -- is that a ten -foot seawall is not going to stop a king tide. So the height of a seawall doesn't impact king tide at all. So I don't want to get into an environmental argument here but I -- Commissioner Reyes: I don't know about that, because I am not an engineer. I'm an economist. And you have a great point. Your point is very well taken. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But I'm big on the cost, and, you know, imposing additional costs on homeownership, even on renters, actually, frankly, when we add all these additional burdens that have to be met and government adds these burdens. And then on top of that, we say, "Well, in 2070, it's going to be eight feet so let's build it in now," because the person that's going to pay for it is not going to pay for it in 2070. They're going to pay for it in 2020, and that's just my concern. Chair Hardemon: So I'm going to recognize our City Manager. Arthur Noriega (City Manager): Alan, can you point out -- for purposes of this particular aspect of the discussion -- what goads the decision to expand to the eight feet? What kind of criteria's established? When is that expected to happen? And talk a little more about that so that the Commissioner understands the "when" and "how" that happens versus -- because right now you're setting a minimum standard with the capability of going to eight feet. How do you make -- when do you make that determination, and how is that determination made to go to eight feet? Explain that. City of Miami Page 77 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Mr. Dodd: Yes. And right now we -- as 1 said, we are planning on 21 to 40 inches of sea level rise. And so, we are setting a minimum standard based on the lower end of that. As we move -- we will see gradual sea level rise. Right now we're seeing -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I know that. Mr. Dodd: -- it occurring every year. Well see whether we're trending more towards that higher end. And probably in 25 to 30 years is when we'll know if it's going to be at the point where it will be overtopping or threatening a six -foot -high wall, and we can start talking with developers or with the property owners about the need to cap. The way we have the ordinance written, they would not need to bring it up to the higher standard unless we have them overtopping the seawalls where it's flooding properties or flooding the right-of-way. Otherwise, they would be able to maintain the standard that they have right now. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So I have a question for Mr. Dodd, if I may. Chair Hardemon: Please. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: So when you build it at six feet, do you add additional reinforcement and additional expense to make -- eventually make it eight feet? Does it cost more -- you said 10 to 15 percent -- than if you just build it at six feet and leave it as is? Mr. Dodd: It is 5 to 10 percent more to build it stronger- so that you can put the cap on top, which is an additional weight of the concrete (INAUDIBLE) -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Of course. Mr. Dodd: -- (INAUDIBLE) also the ability to withstand the force (INAUDIBLE). Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: But the cost is incurred today because you have to build it a certain way so you could put the additional two feet 50 years from now or 40 years from now or 35 years from now. So the -- it's an additional 5 to 10 percent of the actual linear foot cost today. Mr. Dodd: That is correct. And then if they do put the cost on, it would be in the range of 100 to $l50 per foot to put a cap on it versus at that point they would need to completely replace it if it's not designed to be able to be raised. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Okay. Commissioner Reyes: A hundred and sixty dollars per foot. How many linear feet are there in front of -- let's say, in a standard building, you know. There are how many? 40? Mr. Dodd: A typical waterfront property lot is maybe a hundred feet wide. When you get to some of these developments, you're talking three, 400 or longer, but those are typically Pr the large high-rise buildings. Single-family properties are more along the range of a hundred feet. Commissioner Reyes: At a hundred feet. And that's going to be another $1,500 -- I mean, $50, 000. Nzeribe Ihekwaba (Chief of Operations/Assistant City Manager): Commissioners, good afternoon. This is Zerry Ihekwaba. An additional advantage to this ordinance is that you're going to at least have to increase the property values (INAUDIBLE) City of Miami Page 78 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 has been improved. And also, it's going to reduce damage to abutting property owners that have a higher seawall already; and for those that have adjacent seawalls that are lower, the discharging storm surge, storm water runoff onto the adjacent properties creating damage to their property. So you are having a wholesome full-fledged rehab of the City's shoreline. And, of course, the insurance rate by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is going to be reduced, because you've already enhanced your properties. So there are additional benefits to the property owners. And keep in mind, the City is not going to go out willy-nilly imposing these new regulations. Like I have stated during our briefings, the majority of the property owners that need these additional enhancements will kick in when they have to reconstruct over and beyond the 50 percent threshold. So folks are not going to go out today and be required to increase the height of their seawalls unless you're doing improvements, as authorized by the Code. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: If I may, Mr. Chairman? Chair Hardemon: Please. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I'm always very concerned whenever we have discussions about private property rights and about imposing restrictions on private property rights, no matter Ors a dollar or a million dollars. That always concerns me when government steps in and says (INAUDIBLE). I understand that government has the responsibility to say, "We need to have a six-foot seawall, because it's" -- you know, it's happening and it's a reality. That 1 understand. Government has to protect the City, and its land, and its people. But when we come in and say, "Oh, and by the way, there's an additional" -- 'you have to do this on top of that, because in 2070 this is going to happen, " and you're a private property owner and you want - - and you don't want to do it, and government says you have to do it. That's why you purchased your property. That's why you invested a substantial amount -- Pm talking about just individual property owners now -- in your property. You have to have a right to that property to do things that you want in that private property. That's the only concern. Whenever people tell me about limiting property rights, I always get concerned. Vice Chair Russell: Mr. Chair. Chair Hardemon: Yes, please. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you. It's a question for Zerry or Director Dodd. When these improvements do take place on the private property, have we studied what the impact on savings to their insurance or their insurability will be that can offset this investment? Is there any knowledge of that? Mr. Ihekwaba: Yes. We don't have a study per se. The City has not conducted a comprehensive study on the reduction of insurance rates. However, it's a known fact that if your seawall height is below the mandate and the regulations that your insurance is usually one of those high ones. So what the City has tried to do actually in terms of studies is to align with the Army Corps of Engineers. They're doing -- as we speak, they're doing what we call a back base study on the entire shorelines of the City of Miami, as well as the map of Miami River. This is a wholesome (INAUDIBLE) approach that the federal government is taking to find a more proficient and effective way to protect downtown Miami, because it's the financial hub of South Florida. Vice Chair Russell: So -- but I do recognize that when one property in Brickell changed their seawall, it changed the insurance rates for an entire area around them based on a change from VE to AE listing in the floodplain map. So I was wondering City of Miami Page 79 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 if there's been any studies on how that -- or not studies, per se, but if there's been any analysis of how that is affected on a private -- or like a smaller private property when they do that and how that affects. I'm very cognizant and want to be sensitive to what Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla is saying about private property rights, and we want to make sure on that. So I'm happy to study this further if we could pass it on first reading and work on this to see what triggers that additional two feet, what additional cost that may, you know, bear, what benefits it brings for them and whether it's something we should be doing or not. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair. Chair Hardemon: Commissioner Reyes. And then Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Another thing that I agree that property rights have to be protected. And since my first day on the dais I've been protecting that and fighting for property rights. But this is a problem that is going to -- we have at this moment that we have to protect downtown Miami, we have to protect Brickell Avenue, and we have to protect other the properties. And that's not only, as I stated before, you know, and the river and properties along the river, when king tides come in, they have been flooded. And we have to protect them. But I am thinking about what Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla had said. This will bring a cost, and it's a monetary cost, and we are imposing a monetary cost on a property -- on the owners. But we can also be able to provide some assistance by not charging impact fees or permits in order for them to build those walls. Since we are mandating it, then I think that we should also be part of the solution and by to help them in waiving certain permits, and costs, and impact fees, so they can -- they wouldn't be so economically affected. It's an idea and I think that I'm throwing out for you guys to consider. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And Commissioner Reyes and Commissioners, I'm talking -- a lot of people are thinking that we're talking about luxury oceanfront, you know, bayfront property here. There's a lot of property along the Miami River that's not luxury that people have to have seawalls. I represent the biggest part of the Miami River here in the City of Miami. So that concerns me that (INAUDIBLE) 40, 50 years and now have to build not only a six-foot seawall or river wall, but make it better -- make it possible for it to be eight feet in 50 years from now. And I think people have the ability to determine -- and I'm also a big believer not only in private property rights but individual responsibility, individual determination -- that people have the ability for themselves to determine how their property value is going to increase, whether they want to invest now or invest later. It's their property. It's their right to do with it what they want. And for government to come in and (INAUDIBLE) do this and do it this way, and then in 50 years, this may happen or we think it's going to happen, but so -- make it ready so what's going to happen in 50 years, to me, that's just an intrusion on private property rights, an unnecessary intrusion. The six feet, I understand. Remember that property values are also dictated by views and the higher you put the seawall, the worse the view. So at the end of the day there's a number of factors that go into the determination of the value of a property. And Zerry was correct; there is no study. And on the flood insurance issue, well, yeah, people -- these individual owner can make his or her decision as to whether they're going to save on their insurance or not save on their insurance based on whether they do it or don't do it. That's why we live in a free country; for them to make a decision, not for government to come in and say, "Oh, this is your property. Now you've got to build a six-foot wall and then make it ready for eight feet in 50 years from now." And then on top that, we do this. On top of that, we do that. I'm not a big believer philosophically in doing that, but, you know, that's just me. I'm just one vote here. City of Miami Page 80 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Mr. Ihekwaha: So if I may,1 think we need to get a proper perspective. 1 don't think the Department is proposing a six -foot -high seawall. We're proposing an adjustment of the base (INAUDIBLE) reference to the seawalls. That's what he's proposing to you. So Alan, if you want, expatiate on that, please. Mr. Dodd: Yes. And really, there's two criteria that would cause the six-foot elevation to come into play. The first one is if a property owner was replacing their seawall in due course. They're coming in, it's in disrepair; it needs to be replaced. And they would normally be spending this money anyway, and they would have to come into compliance with the new standard. The second one is if they hit a trigger where it's causing flooding on the public right-of-way, or they're impacting their neighbors with flooding, which then it becomes a Code Compliance issue and they would have to come up to the new standard. The six-foot minimum provides us the protection from the sea level rise that would be incrementally phased in throughout the City, hopefully, as people are replacing seawalls; not because we are directing them to do it right now. And there is no mandatory date that they have to come into compliance with the higher standard. It would occur, like I said, as they're replacing in due course, or were starting to have those negative impacts. Some seawalls may not ever have to come up to that six-foot standard if they're up on the Miami River and they're not having any flooding impacts. Commissioner Reyes: I have a question. I have a question. Chair Hardemon: You're recognized. Commissioner Reyes: IfI have -- I mean, Pm living along the coast and my neighbor has a lower seawall than mine. And when the tide comes in, his backyard is getting flooded, and it floods mine. That will be the trigger to make them raise their seawall, right? That would be the trigger. If that is not happening, they don't have to raise the seawall. Mr. Dodd: Yes. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. That's what -- because if it comes -- I mean, if it's -- I mean, the size of -- the height of the seawall, I mean, allows seawater to come into his yard, and then it will be flooding my yard, too. That is not only his problem; it is my problem too. It's a social problem, and it affects the community. And in that case, I see that we could mandate that, listen, you have to raise your seawall, because you're affecting the whole neighborhood. And that's the only way that I could see that we can mandate this. Chair Hardemon: Okay. So it's been properly moved and seconded to approve this item. Any further discussion on it? Commissioner Reyes: This is going to be first reading. And from now on we were going to do all of the analyses that was requested, and all the studies that Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla requested? I mean, we can continue, and on second reading, and we can either vote for it on second reading, we can -- after we analyze it and reanalyze it, we can either vote for it or not. And I mean, try to make it better or whatever and -- or we can approve it with all the different adjustments that have been made. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I have a question for Commissioner Russell. Commissioner, will you commit to working with us to sort of try -- obviously, through the Manager -- maybe try to address some of these concerns that we have between --? City of Miami Page 81 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely. I really would like to understand which properties this could affect in a negative way from a financial perspective to see how much they're at risk, how they affect their neighbors, and I'll be very flexible on it. I'm backing the director on his intention here for updating our Code and improving our resilience towards storm surge and sea level rise. We got to do it in a smart way. So I'm very happy to work together to make sure we do it right. Commissioner Reyes: Because we have to take -- but we have to take into consideration also the economic impact that it's going to -- Vice Chair Russell: Absolutely, agreed. Commissioner Reyes: -- that this is going to create and also why --1 mean, who are -- we have to define who has to raise their walls or not has to be decided and what will be the effect of -- long-term effect of it. Chair Hardemon: All right. All in favor of the motion, say 'a The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Hardemon: All against? Motion carries. Commissioner Reyes: Okay, thank you. Vice Chair Russell.: Mr. Chairman? Commissioner Reyes: First reading. City of Miami Page 82 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 FR.4 ORDINANCE First Reading 7185 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 23/ARTICLE I OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TITLED "HISTORIC PRESERVATION/HISTORIC PRESERVATION"; MORE SPECIFICALLY, BY AMENDING SECTION 23-4, TITLED "DESIGNATION OF HISTORIC RESOURCES, HISTORIC DISTRICTS, MULTIPLE PROPERTY DESIGNATIONS, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND ZONES", SECTION 23-6, TITLED "TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS AND DENSITY FOR HISTORIC RESOURCES; PROVISION FOR A DETERMINATION OF ELIGIBILITY PROCESS, AND SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR RESOURCES WITHIN THE MIAMI MODERN (MIMO)/BISCAYNE BOULEVARD HISTORIC DISTRICT; PROHIBITING CERTAIN USES; AND ESTABLISHING A 35-FOOT HEIGHT LIMIT", AND SECTION 23-6.2, TITLED "CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS", TO PROVIDE THAT PROPOSALS FOR DESIGNATION MADE BY THE MIAMI-DADE COUNTY HISTORIC PRESERVATION BOARD, THE CITY COMMISSION, THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ("CITY") HISTORIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION BOARD ("HEPB"), THE CITY'S PLANNING, ZONING, AND APPEALS BOARD ("PZAB"), AND ANY ORGANIZATION THAT HAS BEEN A REGISTERED NON-PROFIT CORPORATION IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA FOR AT LEAST FIVE (5) YEARS WITH A RECOGNIZED INTEREST IN HISTORIC PRESERVATION WILL REQUIRE A SUPERMAJORITY VOTE; TO MODIFY THE TIME TO APPEAL DECISIONS REGARDING HISTORIC DESIGNATIONS TO THE CITY COMMISSION TO SIXTY (60) DAYS; TO MODIFY THE TIMING OF NOTICE; TO PROVIDE THAT THE NOTIFICATION TO OWNERS OF PROPERTIES DESIGNATED AS HISTORIC WILL CLEARLY ADVISE THE OWNERS OF THEIR RIGHT TO APPEAL TO THE CITY COMMISSION; TO PROVIDE TIMING FOR SCHEDULING APPEALS; TO REQUIRE ADDITIONAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR SPECIAL CERTIFICATES OF APPROPRIATENESS; TO PROVIDE UPDATES; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: Item FR.4 was deferred to the May 14, 2020, City Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item FR.4, please see "Order of the Day." END OF FIRST READING ORDINANCES City of Miami Page 83 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 BU.1 6741 Office of Management and Budget BU - BUDGET DISCUSSION ITEM MONTHLY REPORT I SECTION 2-497 OF THE CITY CODE OF ORDINANCES (RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DIRECTOR OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET) II SECTION 18-502 (CITY'S ANTI -DEFICIENCY ACT) III SECTION 18-542 (FINANCIAL INTEGRITY PRINCIPLES) RESULT: DISCUSSED Chair Hardemon: All right. So let's move on then to the next item. So we have BU.1. Commissioner Carollo: Don't we have two pocket items left; yours and mine? Chair Hardemon: Right. I think we were allowing a little bit -- well, I guess -- can we take public comment now? Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): If -- I believe Mr. Rose can do his budget presentation just to give a little more time and then we could take public comment after. Chair Hardemon: Okay. Ms. Mendez: Thank you. Christopher Rose: Good afternoon, Commissioners. My name is Chris Rose. I'm the Budget Director for the City of Miami. The projections sent to your office this morning are very similar to the ones that were presented to you two weeks ago. They're based on data from the month of March this time instead of February. And during the month of March, around half of the month was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. It still presumes a two -month reduction in revenues, roughly halfway through March to halfway through May, but it also presumes that revenues are going to increase after that timeframe. And as I said last time, that really is anyone's guess. And I've heard the discussion earlier today about how it is likely not but that is the presumption that we have in the projections at this time. I should also point out that hard data regarding revenues is lagging right now. Folks are -- revenues normally come in a little later, whereas expenses are much more real time. But the data is even a little later than normal right now. So just a vet), few revenues have been updated since the last time. And I will tell you right now, we're still projecting a deficit at the moment of $19.7 million in the City's general fund and internal service funds, combined. As you discussed at the last meeting, we are looking for savings associated with COVID-19, but they are few and far between right now. So we're watching for that, but it's not materializing at the time that we're looking. So you can see the detailed reports that were attached to the email sent to your offices this morning, and (INAUDIBLE) any questions that you may have. Commissioner Reyes: Well, Mr. Chair? City of Miami Page 84 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, sir. Commissioner Reyes: I just received it, Chris, and I haven't been able to look at it. You will have my comments as soon as I can read it. And I think we have to tighten our belts, and I know that hard times is coming. I know that. Chair Hardemon: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: Chris, once 1 read it, 1 will speak to the Manager on it. If I have any further questions, 1 will give you a call so you could explain them or have the Manager do it. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. END OF BUDGET City of Miami Page 85 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PART B: PZ - PLANNING AND ZONING ITEM(S) PZ.1 RESOLUTION 6981 MAY BE DEFERRED Department of A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION Planning GRANTING/DENYING THE APPEAL FILED BY THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART OF MIAMI, INC. AND REVERSING/AFFIRMING/MODIFYING THE DECISION OF THE MIAMI HISTORIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION BOARD'S DENIAL PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 17, ARTICLE II OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, OF THE APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROVAL FOR DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACT TO SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES ON A PROPERTY LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 2167 SOUTH BAYSHORE DRIVE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, WITHIN THE ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION DISTRICT— 60 AND THE SOUTH BAYSHORE DRIVE SCENIC TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: Item PZ.1 was deferred to the June 25, 2020, City Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item PZ.1, please see "Order of the Day" and "Public Comments for all Items." City of Miami Page 86 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PZ.2 6982 RESOLUTION MAY BE DEFERRED Department of A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION Planning GRANTING/DENYING THE APPEAL FILED BY THE CONVENT OF THE SACRED HEART OF MIAMI, INC. ("APPELLANT") AND REVERSING/AFFIRMING/MODIFYING THE DECISION OF THE MIAMI HISTORIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION BOARD'S DENIAL, PURSUANT TO SECTION 23-6.2(B)(4) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, OF THE APPELLANT'S APPLICATION FOR A SPECIAL CERTIFICATE OF APPROPRIATENESS FOR THE DEMOLITION, RESTORATION, ALTERATION, AND NEW CONSTRUCTION OF A PROPERTY LOCATED AT APPROXIMATELY 2167 SOUTH BAYSHORE DRIVE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, A LOCALLY DESIGNATED HISTORIC SITE KNOWN AS VILLA WOODBINE WITH FOLIO NUMBER 01-4115-010- 0111. PZ.3 6797 MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: Item PZ.2 was deferred to the June 25, 2020, City Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item PZ.2, please see "Order of the Day" and "Public Comments for all Items." ORDINANCE MAY BE DEFERRED Second Reading Commissioners AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING and Mayor- PZ ORDINANCE NO. 13114, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED; MORE SPECIFICALLY BY AMENDING ARTICLE 4, TABLE 3, TITLED "BUILDING FUNCTION: USES", TO REQUIRE AN EXCEPTION FOR MARINA USES IN "CS", CIVIC SPACE TRANSECT ZONES; MAKING FINDINGS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: Item PZ.3 was deferred to the May 14, 2020, City Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item PZ.3, please see "Order of the Day." City of Miami Page 87 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PZ.4 6930 ORDINANCE MAY BE DEFERRED Second Reading Department of AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING Planning ORDINANCE NO. 13114, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED; MORE SPECIFICALLY, BY AMENDING ARTICLE 6, TABLE 13, TITLED "SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS," TO DISALLOW PUBLIC STORAGE FACILITIES IN A "T5," URBAN CENTER ZONE, AND "T6," URBAN CORE ZONE; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. PZ.5 MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: Item PZ.4 was deferred to the May 14, 2020, City Commission Meeting. ORDINANCE First Reading 3001 MAY BE WITHDRAWN Commissioners AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING and Mayor- PZ ORDINANCE NO. 13114, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, SPECIFICALLY BY AMENDING APPENDIX A, TITLED "NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION DISTRICTS", BY REPLACING SECTION A-2: "VILLAGE WEST ISLAND DISTRICT AND CHARLES AVENUE (NCD-2)" AND SECTION A-3: "COCONUT GROVE NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION DISTRICT (NCD-3)" WITH NEW REGULATIONS, STANDARDS, AND GUIDELINES FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE COCONUT GROVE NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION DISTRICTS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Indefinitely Defer RESULT: INDEFINITELY DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item PZ.5, please see "Order of the Day" and "Public Comments for all Items." City of Miami Page 88 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 PZ.6 ORDINANCE First Reading 4237 MAY BE WITHDRAWN Commissioners AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING and Mayor - PZ ORDINANCE NO. 13114, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("MIAMI 21 CODE"); MORE SPECIFICALLY BY AMENDING ARTICLE 3, SECTION 3.6, TITLED "OFF-STREET PARKING AND LOADING STANDARDS", TO ALLOW PARKING FACILITIES THAT ARE INCIDENTAL AND SUBORDINATE TO A PRINCIPAL USE IN CERTAIN T5, "URBAN CENTER ZONE," OR T6, "URBAN CORE ZONE," TO BE PROVIDED ON AN ABUTTING PROPERTY IN A T3, "SUB -URBAN ZONE," IF THE PARKING FACILITIES ARE LOCATED IN AN AUXILIARY PARKING AREA AND SATISFY OTHER SPECIFIC CONDITIONS FOR AREAS ON CORAL WAY, BETWEEN SOUTHWEST 27TH AVENUE AND SOUTHWEST 17TH AVENUE BY PROCESS OF EXCEPTION; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Indefinitely Defer RESULT: INDEFINITELY DEFERRED MOVER: Ken Russell, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Reyes ABSENT: Carollo END OF PLANNING AND ZONING ITEM(S) City of Miami Page 89 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 NA.1 7405 City Commission NA - NON -AGENDA ITEM(S) DISCUSSION ITEM DISCUSSION BY VICE CHAIR RUSSELL REGARDING MIAMI-DADE COUNTY'S PROPOSED RESOLUTION WHICH DIRECTS THE COUNTY MAYOR OR COUNTY MAYOR'S DESIGNEE TO SEND ALL REGISTERED MIAMI-DADE COUNTY VOTERS WHO HAVE NOT REQUESTED VOTE -BY -MAIL BALLOTS FOR THE 2020 PRIMARY AND GENERAL ELECTIONS. RESULT: DISCUSSED Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, Commissioner Russell. Vice Chair Russell: I have a pocket item whenever you believe it's the appropriate time. Commissioner Carollo: I do have one also, Chair. Chair Hardemon: Okay. Can you -- can we all read the pocket item titles into the record? Vice Chair Russell: Yes. Shall I go first? Chair Hardemon: Yes. Vice Chair Russell: Mine's been emailed around by the City Attorney, so you should have a copy of it. It just needs a little bit of an adjustment on a date. Basically, the County is considering on May 5 a resolution urging the County Mayor to issue vote - by -mail request forms to every resident; not actually register every resident, but simply mail out a postcard on the County's dime to every resident to allow them to choose to vote by mail, and that's on their May 5 agenda. So my resolution would be just in support -- us being in support of the County doing that. And so, to read it for you, it says -- The Resolution was read by title into the public record by Vice Chair Russell. Later... Chair Hardemon: Is there a motion for all the items? Commissioner Reyes: I have a question to Mr. Russell. Chair Hardemon: Yes. Oh, additionally, we're going to have public comment on the items, so what we're going to do is now that they're all in -- for everyone to discuss, we're going to move on with the agenda and allow people to call and comment if they need to. But you're recognized, Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: Chair, yes, I have a question for Russell's pocket item. Mr. Russell, this -- you are referring to an action that is going to be taken by the County, but it has not happened yet? City of Miami Page 90 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Vice Chair Russell: It has already passed at the committee level and it's on an agenda for the (INAUDIBLE) -- Commissioner Reyes: Committee level but -- and then -- but it hasn 't come to the floor yet and it has not been voted. Vice Chair Russell: Correct. It was to urge (INAUDIBLE) yes. Commissioner Reyes: What we are (INAUDIBLE) -- Vice Chair Russell: To support the item was my hope. And 1 do understand that it should have bipartisan support throughout. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Vice Chair Russell: But I obviously don't know specifics. Commissioner Reyes: I really hope that we have bipartisan support, but that is not -- I mean, trying to get -- and you're referring to registered voters, right? Vice Chair Russell: Yes. So it would be -- Commissioner Reyes: Just registered voters not everybody? Vice Chair Russell: Correct. Commissioner Reyes: Because I heard you say that it's sent absentee ballot request to everybody. Vice Chair Russell: It's not a voter registration drive. It is meant to send a postcard offering someone to register for vote by mail -- Commissioner Reyes: That's right. It is absentee ballot voting. Vice Chair Russell: -- if they're not already done -- if they've not already done so. Commissioner Reyes: If they're not already done. Vice Chair Russell: Correct. Commissioner Reyes: And my only concern also is that we are getting our nose in County business, and we don't want County to get their nose in our business. And we are telling them, "You do this on your dime. You have to spend money doing this," and when we don't -- I don't like them to get their nose in our (INAUDIBLE). Vice Chair Russell .• Of course. Commissioner Reyes: You see. Vice Chair Russell: It would affect our election, as well, and that -- and I also believe Commissioner Reyes: It's not the matter of it's affecting our election. It's -- this is a County -- I mean, it's our -- we telling them, "You got to do this, " you see? And, I mean, I don't know. I'd rather wait until it passes and then we'll support it, or you want us to support it now before it goes to the full board, the County board? City of Miami Page 91 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Vice Chair Russell: Yes. I'd like to give them the hacking and some momentum that we would be in support of them doing this if they choose to go this direction. It's not trying to impose something they haven't thought about. It's something that's already passed at their committee, and so just chiming in to say, yes, there are elections and may -- people going to the polls, they -- obviously there's concerns and who knows where this goes down the road. But I think them sending out a postcard just offering voters to vote by mail is a good thing. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I have a question. Vice Chair Russell: And just to follow up, I believe in the last CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) package, there is also money from the Federal government being brought down to the State to encourage vote by mail; and so, they should be able to tap into that, which should be helpfui. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I have a question, Commissioner. What was the vote in that committee? Do you remember? Vice Chair Russell: I don't. I can find out. Later... Vice Chair Russell.: 1 don't have it (INAUDIBLE), Commissioner, I'm sorry, about what the vote was at their committee level. Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): We're trying to look for it, as well. Commissioner Carollo: Well, I believe -- Chair, if I could speak? Chair Hardemon: Yes, of course. Commissioner Carollo: I believe Commissioner Russell said that this would affect our elections, also. We don't have elections until November 2021 that I know of so I don't know what elections he's talking about in the City of Miami. Vice Chair Russell: The presidential election, sir. Commissioner Carollo: Well, president -- well, actually before the November presidential elections, you have the statewide, and County and judicial elections. Vice Chair Russell: Yes. If I misspoke, I meant elections that will be taking place in the City of Miami, where City of Miami residents will be going to the polls. Commissioner Carollo: My only thought is -- and especially a time like this -- why should any government be spending money in sending something out that every campaign is going to do and is going to cover? Commissioner Reyes: Yeah. Commissioner Carollo: Why should we be spending additional dollars that could be spent in other productive things that are so badly needed now when every campaign that you could think of is going to be doing that now? That's the only thing that I'd like to say. Chair Hardemon: Commissioner Alex Diaz de la Portilla. City of Miami Page 92 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And 1 share the same concern. And I don't think government should be in the business of elections. I think campaigns are for campaigning and the individual campaigns can do their own absentee ballot requests. I don't think the taxpayers should be paying for a massive government participation in an electoral process other than holding the election sites and, you know, or the election, itself. So, to me, for a government to get involved and especially government to be mandating -- that's why I asked you what the vote was on that particular committee. Vice Chair Russell: It was an 8-0 unanimous vote. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: 8-0, okay. So they saw -- in their wisdom, they think that that's something that government should be doing. They want to spend taxpayer dollars in that way, especially to me -- and I'll go back to anything that we spend taxpayer dollars on today that are not impacting or helping the people that really need it either with meals, or employment assistance, or business, employment assistance or business assistance. To me, that's just not money, well spent. That's just my thoughts. Commissioner Reyes: Yeah, I agree with both of you, Commissioners, that the campaigns and as -- I mean, we all know, we've all been in campaigns and we have been elected. And it is our role to try to send and request absentee ballots and people -- request people to vote absentee. And that's --1 mean, that happens in every single campaign. And correct me if I'm wrong, Mr. Senator; that you have more experience than 1 do. But every single campaign engages in an absentee ballot request. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Every single winning campaign engages in -- Commissioner Reyes: No, no. Well, those are the ones that convince the people more, but every single campaign has an absentee ballot -- I mean, activities in the campaign. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Because -- if I may, Mr. Chair? Chair Hardemon: Yes. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: What would the cost be? How many registered voters do we have in Miami -Dade County? What would just the mail cost alone and postage alone? What would that cost be to taxpayers if you know, hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people will be getting --? I think in postage alone, we'd be paying like $300,000 or something like that. Commissioner Reyes: Maybe more. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Or maybe more. I think, you know, but, you know, they get a discounted rate, Pin sure, and all that. But it's -- between printing and mailing, I mean, it's got to be close to halfa million dollars. And to me, I would love to have that half a million dollars spent on people that really need it right now; not spent on sending people, you know, applications to vote by mail. That's their responsibility to vote, and to seek ways to vote, and they have many different ways of voting, and access to information. They could request it online. They can -- campaigns will mail it to them; multiple campaigns at the same time, especially if we have a number of campaigns. I think we have like seven people running for Mayor. We have -- I don't know how many County Commission candidates. So, I mean, they have probably two dozen campaigns, and then all the judicial campaigns on top of that. I mean, you're probably talking about 40 or 50 campaigns taking place in Dade City of Miami Page 93 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 NA.2 7403 City Commission County in August and November, and 1 just don't -- I think it's a bad message to send during these times. Try to save those dollars for people that really need it. Commissioner Carollo: And you're looking at -- I believe it's 1,300,000 voters, and that's going to be no less than halfa million dollars. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I did the calculation. I'm pretty good at these kind of calculations, on mailing costs and all this stuff, so I kind of do it off the top of my head. But, yes; you got it right, Commissioner. About half a million dollars is what it would cost to hit 1.3 million voters; something around there. Vice Chair Russell: Well, my math's not that good, but my math's good enough to count to three. So if I don't have the support here 1'd rather just withdraw the item than see it voted down, because 1 certainly don't want to affect them in a negative way if they do have momentum currently for it. Maybe you're right, Commissioner Reyes. We just don't weigh in at all. It's their decision to make. I do believe in it. I do believe it's a good idea to have as much vote by mail as possible, especially this year. I think -- I don't want to discourage people from voting, and I want to make it as easy as possible, but I understand your concerns. So if I'm hearing correctly -- I see three votes that probably would not be in support of this at this time, so I'll withdraw the item. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION URGING THE MAYOR OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY TO TAKE ANY AND ALL APPROPRIATE ACTIONS WITH REGARD TO PROTECTING THE RESIDENTS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY BY ASSURING THAT ALL ARRIVING PASSENGERS AT MIAMI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT ARE SCREENED FOR THE NOVEL CORONAVIRUS ("COVID-19") TO CONTROL THE FURTHER SPREAD OF COVID-19 INTO OUR COMMUNITIES; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A CERTIFIED COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE OFFICIALS NAMED HEREIN. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0134 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Chair Hardemon: Okay. Can -- Commissioner Joe Carollo, can you read yours into the record, please? Commissioner Carollo: Yes. This is a follow-up to the resolution that we all approved at the last meeting asking the Governor to send the National Guard to screen at the airport. Since then, I've done a little research, and I'd like to inform all of you what I have found. While Greater Miami -Dade County -- all of Miami -Dade County -- has only 12 and a half percent of the population of the state of Florida -- State of Florida has 22 million people. Miami -Dade County has approximately 2,750,000. That's 12 and a half percent of the population. However, we have 36 percent, 3 to 1, of the overall State cases of Coronavirus. And let me give you some City of Miami Page 94 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 additional information. As of April 13, some 10 days ago, out of all the cases that have been reported statewide of people acquiring Coronavirus, based on the information that I have been provided, there's at least 900 of those individuals that acquired Coronavirus after they had been or came from New York, the State of New York. Almost 200 acquired it after they had been or came from the State of New Jersey. There are other significant numbers also for other international countries that are out there. But 1 think if you combine the 3-to-1 ratio that we have, we have 12 and a half percent of the State's population, but we have 36 percent of the cases. And you have a very significant number, I think, of cases that clearly point to New York and New Jersey, and others outside of the country. I think you could see that there's a direct correlation to the airport. And up to this date, we keep getting information that plane loads of people are coming and no one is being checked or screened at the airport. Just a few days ago, Univision did another report that was televised. In this case, one of their own reporters that works for the international chain of Univision flew from New York to Miami, and he wasn't checked in New York, he wasn't check in Miami, nor was anyone else in the airplane. So I think that while this is not a hundred percent proof it's very indicative that the problem that we're having here is the airport. And no matter what we do, if we keep having an open door into our community where people will be coming in and flying in, where no one is checking them, we're never going to be able to gain hold of this situation until some kind of oral or injection is found. So my resolution is thefollowing: The Resolution was read by title into the public record by Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Miami -Dade County, as we've been told, is the entity, the governmental entity in charge and responsible for the airport. While the State is figuring out what, if anything they're going to do or can do, it is the responsibility of Miami -Dade County to take action there. And this is affecting all of us. This is not something that we could decide upon ourselves; if we could've, this would have been done already. But we are dependent on Miami -Dade County. And again, I think we all expressed the willingness to assist with that in manpower, but they run the airport, they are responsible for it, and we need something to be done, because, if not, we're going to be seeing this spread into our communities; City of Miami and all throughout Miami -Dade County, even more so. Vice Chair Russell: Mr. Chair (INAUDIBLE). Later... Chair Hardemon: Okay. Is there a motion to approve the remaining two pocket items that were (INAUDIBLE)? Commissioner Carollo: So moved. Commissioner Reyes: Second. Chair Hardemon: It's been properly moved and seconded. Seeing no further discussion, all in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Hardemon: All against? The motion carries. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Clerk, can you make sure that this is sent out at least to the County; if not today, at the very least, tomorrow? City of Miami Page 95 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 NA.3 7406 City Commission Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Yes, sir. As soon as it's in the system and approved through its normal process, I'll be able to send it out immediately. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, but I don't know about the system approved or anything else. I'm talking about if you could send it at the latest tomorrow. Mr. Hannon: Yes, sir. I'll work with the City Attorney's Office to make sure we can get that done. Commissioner Carollo: Obviously, you could speak to the Mayor to make sure there's not going to be any vetoes, and I don't think there will be. Mr. Hannon: Understood. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE EXTENSION OF TIME TO THE ARK OF THE CITY, INCORPORATED, A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION, TO COMPLETE THE REHABILITATION AND COMMENCE THE JOB TRAINING PROGRAM AT THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1302 NORTHWEST 54 STREET, MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A," ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, AND TO COMMENCE THE JOB TRAINING PROGRAM AT THE PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 551 NORTHWEST 71 STREET AND 7142 AND 7148 NORTHWEST 5 COURT, MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "B," ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED (COLLECTIVELY, "PROPERTIES") FOR TWENTY-FOUR (24) ADDITIONAL MONTHS; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO GRANT FURTHER EXTENSIONS OF TIME, IF NECESSARY, WITHOUT FURTHER CITY COMMISSION APPROVAL IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THE PURPOSES STATED HEREIN; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING AMENDMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND EXTENSIONS, ALL IN FORMS ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE(S), SUBJECT TO ALL FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAWS THAT REGULATE THE USE OF SUCH FUNDS. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-20-0133 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Hardemon, Russell, Diaz de la Portilla, Carollo, Reyes Chair Hardemon: Are there any other items? I have one item that I want to read into the record. The Resolution was read by title into the public record by Chairman Hardemon. City of Miami Page 96 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 NA.4 7407 City Commission Chair Hardemon: Basically, this is just a resolution that is extending for an additional year the opportunity that we've already previously granted one of our not - for -profits to provide job training. We have to make some renovations to the space and then provide the job training, so this is making sure they have the time to do it. That's all. Later... Chair Hardemon: And -- Vice Chair Russell: Madam City Attorney, are you able to help with that? Chair Hardemon: -- our City Attorney wrote me it was supposed to be an additional - - not 12 months but 24 months in what 1 read into the record into the title. Later... Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Chairman, I wanted to clarify something for the record for your pocket on the addresses. You read 551 Northwest 71st Street, 7142 and 7140 Northwest 5th Court, and you also read 1302 Northwest 54th Street. Because there's all -- these are all the properties involved with Arc of the Covenant and the training program, so 1 wanted to clarify all those addresses for the record. Chair Hardemon: Thank you. DISCUSSION ITEM DISCUSSION BY THE CITY COMMISSION REGARDING UPCOMING FOOD DISTRIBUTION EVENTS IN ADDITION TO ESTABLISHING FOOD DISTRIBUTION EVENTS THAT CAN ACCOMMODATE INDIVIDUALS WHO DO NOT HAVE CARS. RESULT: DISCUSSED Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I would like (INAUDIBLE) -- Chair Hardemon: You know, there's still one more item that we have on the PZ (Planning and Zoning) agenda. Commissioner Reyes: What? No, I thought that all of them were deferred. Chair Hardemon: PZ.3. Was PZ.3 deferred? Did I miss that? Arthur Noriega (City Manager): (INAUDIBLE) all of the entire PZ agenda is deferred. Chair Hardemon: Okay, so it was deferred. Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Yes. Chair Hardemon: All right. Is there any other business? Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I would like -- Mr. Chair? City of Miami Page 97 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Chair Hardemon: You're recognized, Commissioner. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I would like to say I have a food drive tomorrow at 10 a.m. (INAUDIBLE) if any Commissioner wants to join me or the Mayor wants to join me. Commissioner Reyes: Where is that going to be at? Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Corpus Cristi Church on 7th. Commissioner Reyes: Oh, Corpus Cristi. Oh, yes, yes, okay. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: On 7th Avenue tomorrow. It's right at the border of your Commission -- with your district, Commissioner Hardemon. If you want to pass by tomorrow, you're more than welcome. Obviously, every Commissioner is welcome. Commissioner Reyes: With Father Menendez, right? Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Father Menendez. And Commissioner Reyes, you can get some sun. I need some sun, as you told me. Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: We could both get a little bit of sun and get some color. We've been indoors. Commissioner Reyes: We're too white, man. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: It's a great opportunity to do good, and get sun at the same time. Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Commissioner Carollo: (INAUDIBLE) for the residents that might be able to get this information, we have one on Saturday, at 9 a.m., at Jose Marti Park. Well be providing some 800 boxes of fruit and vegetables, 20-pound boxes. So any residents that can hear this can come. And obviously, if the Mayor would like to join or any of my colleagues, you're certainly more than welcome. Commissioner Reyes: I want to make some clarifications. This is going to be drive - through, right? Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Mine is drive -through. Commissioner Carollo: This will be drive -through. But frankly -- Commissioner Reyes: No, because I want people to know, because sometimes, they come walking and -- Commissioner Carollo: This will be drive -through but we're planning -- and I want to share this with you. In keeping distances, we're planning to see how we can come up with food lines that people can come and walk up and get food where we don't have to give it to them. We could place it for them in a place. They get it -- Commissioner Reyes: Okay. City of Miami Page 98 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Carollo: -- they go. The area of Little Havana is just too condensed of people, and many people don't have vehicles. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: So that's the only way that you could get food to the most needy. We're trying to figure out a way of doing that. But for Saturday, it will be through the car -- Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Commissioner Carollo: -- and well put it in the trunk. Commissioner Reyes: Whenever you figure it out, please let me know, okay, because I have the same problem in certain areas in my city -- I mean, in my district that there are people that don't own automobiles; they are being left out. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And I have the same issue. I discussed it with our City Manager also -- we figure out working obviously with the police and figure out a way that we can do it, because we all have -- in all our districts -- Commissioner Carollo: Sure. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- we have people that don't have automobiles and are probably the neediest people that we have. Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. You're absolutely right. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And those are the ones that -- we had a situation in my food drive that people -- drive -through that people walk up, because they're in the building next door. And so we want to address that issue, and I plan to do one as soon as possible, also, in the district that I represent, and maybe everybody can do the same thing as we put a plan together through our Manager that could actually hand out directly to people by standing six feet apart. Maybe putting -- it's kind of like how I get my FedEx packages from my building. They put them there and they walk away and then I walk up and pick them up and walk out, you know. And something like that that could work and keep the six-foot distance. Commissioner Carollo: I need -- I think we need to come up with a plan -- Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I agree. Commissioner Carollo: -- for all of our districts that we could do maybe one mass mail -out if we know dates ahead of time that we could do so that maybe within that mail -out, there will be some kind of coupon that people from our districts from the City can come in and get food, because the main responsibility we have with the money that we're spending from the City of Miami is our residents. And I'm concerned that the more we advertise, the more we're doing, because I don't think any of us could just (INAUDIBLE) with our own dollars. We're going to be having people from all over other parts of the County come in, and it's going to take away from our own residents. So I'm -- Mr. Manager, maybe if you could speak to each of us, the Mayor, so that we could all give you input maybe on how to do this, because as much as we might want to help others outside of the City of Miami, we don't even have enough to take care of everyone in the City of Miami. City of Miami Page 99 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And that's a great point. And maybe, perhaps, Manager, you can come up with some allocations, some dollars to help us inform people. They could come in with a coupon. That's a great idea, Commissioner Carollo. So we serve first and foremost -- it's a shame kind of doing it the way we're doing it but that's their responsibility. But I think that we're doing it so effectively -- every Commissioner here has had these drives. What I've seen in mine is that people from Hialeah and people from other parts of the -- Commissioner Reyes: Hallandale. I have people from Hallandale. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yeah, 1 had people from Broward County come to nine. Commissioner Reyes: Broward County coming. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: And sometimes, people come in very expensive cars, you know, so we -- Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: -- have that going on too. So I think the needs of our residents are the ones that need it. So 1 think a direct mail campaign may be a good idea to kind of tell them, "Hey, you know, you bring a coupon," and we know where it goes to. It goes to our neediest people, particularly in our low-income buildings and particularly for the walk-through event. And I think we'll really be talking to people that really -- and helping people that really need the help. Commissioner Reyes: And what time is going to be yours, Mr. Diaz de la Portilla? Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: At 10 a.m. tomorrow morning at Corpus Cristi. It's drive -through. In conjunction with Farm Share, we're feeding 600 (INAUDIBLE). Commissioner Reyes: I have a meeting, a DDA (Downtown Development Authority) meeting. As soon as I finish, I will drop by and (INAUDIBLE). Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: I would love to have every Commissioner there; come tomorrow and spend some time and (INAUDIBLE). Commissioner Reyes: Yes. And Commissioner Carollo, at what time is yours Saturday? Commissioner Carollo: It will begin at 9 a.m. Commissioner Reyes: 9 a.m., okay. Okay, I think I'm going to get some sunshine with you guys. Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: You're going to get a lot of sun this weekend. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. I have one -- I'm scheduling one for next week, okay. Chair Hardemon: We're going to adjourn. Thank you very much for all your time. All hearts and all minds clear? Commissioner Diaz de la Portilla: Yes, sir. Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir. City of Miami Page 100 Printed on 9/17/2021 City Commission Meeting Minutes April 23, 2020 ADJOURNMENT Chair Hardemon: The meeting is adjourned. Commissioner Reyes: Okay, guys. Be safe. Vice Chair Russell: Thank you, everyone. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Bye. Thank you. The meeting adjourned at 1:35 p.m. City of Miami Page 101 Printed on 9/17/2021