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HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC 2019-10-10 MinutesCity of Miami City Hall 3500 Pan American Drive Miami, FL 33133 www.miamigov.com Meeting Minutes Thursday, October 10, 2019 9:00 AM Regular City Hall City Commission Francis Suarez, Mayor Ken Russell, Chair Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Vice Chair Joe Carollo, Commissioner, District Three Manolo Reyes, Commissioner, District Four Keon Hardemon, Commissioner, District Five Emilio T. Gonzalez, City Manager Victoria Mendez, City Attorney Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 9:00 AM INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Present: Chair Russell, Vice Chair Gort, Commissioner Carollo, Commissioner Reyes and Commissioner Hardemon. On the l oth day of October 2019, the City Commission of the City of Miami, Florida, met at 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 Russell at 9:09 a.m., recessed at 1: 06 p.m., reconvened at 1:31 p.m., and adjourned at 2:56 p.m. Note for the Record: Commissioner Hardemon entered the Commission chambers at 9:12 a.m., and Commissioner Carollo entered the Commission chambers at 9:47 a.m. ALSO PRESENT: Emilio T. Gonzalez, Ph.D., City Manager Victoria Mendez, City Attorney Todd B. Hannon, City Clerk Chair Russell: Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Welcome to the October 10, 2019 meeting of the City of Miami City Commission in these historic chambers. The members of the City Commission are Joe Carollo, Manolo Reyes, Keon Hardemon; Wifredo "Willy" Gort, the Vice Chair; and me, Ken Russell, your Chairman. Also on the dais are Emilio Gonzalez, the City Manager; Victoria Mendez, the City Attorney; and Todd Hannon, the City Clerk. The meeting will be opened with a prayer by Vice Chairman Gort, and the pledge of allegiance, led by Commissioner Reyes. Please stand. (Invocation and pledge of allegiance delivered) Chair Russell: Thank you very much. You may be seated. PART A - NON -PLANNING AND ZONING ITEM(S) PR - PRESENTATIONS AND PROCLAMATIONS PR.1 PROTOCOL ITEM 6594 Honoree Presenter Protocol Item Isabel Bucaram Mayor & Commissioner Gort Proclamation Christine Long Mayor Certificate of Merit Julio Balsera Mayor Moment of Silence RESU LT: PRESENTED 1) Mayor Suarez and Commissioners recognized and presented a Proclamation to Ms. Isabel Bucaram. Ms. Bucaram works in conjunction with CNN's (Cable News Network) corporate communications department, and CNN in Spanish, providing the latest, complete, and persuasive information on marketing, events, politics, international relations, advertising, City of Miami Page 1 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 presidential summits and entertainment news. Ms. Bucaram is the advisor to CNN's executive team for campaigning, research, and daily editorial planning. Ms. Bucaram is the main link between the channel and Turner Marketing Group, to ensure an important positioning in Hispanic media in the United States. Ms. Bucaram has been awarded numerous recognitions, including, being named Miami's most influential Latina woman in the book 100 Latinos Miami. The Elected Leadership paused in their deliberations of governance to pay tribute and celebrate the many accomplishments of Ms. Bucaram and thereby, proclaimed Thursday, October 10, 2019, as `Isabel Bucaram Day" in the City ofMiami. 2) Mayor Suarez and Commissioners recognized Ms. Christine Long presenting her with a Certificate of Merit. Ms. Long was recognized for her service in representing the best qualities of the City of Miami Human Services Department. Ms. Long has been a child care administrator for over 12 years and has exhibited hard work, ethics, and continued dedication. The City of Miami Elected Leadership paid tribute and commended Ms. Long and thanked her for elevating the quality of life in the City of Miami. 3) Mayor Suarez dedicated a Moment of Silence for the late Mr. Julio Balsera. Mr. Balsera, a Cuban activist was a dedicated businessman in the City of Miami. He was the founder of the Balsera School Bus Service, which served many kids in the City of Miami. Chair Russell: We'll now have our presentations and proclamations. Thank you. (Presentations and proclamations made) AM - APPROVING THE MINUTES OF THE FOLLOWING MEETINGS: AM.1 City Commission - Regular Meeting - Jul 11, 2019 9:00 AM ORDER OF THE DAY MOTION TO: Approve RESULT: APPROVED MOVER: Keon Hardemon, Commissioner SECONDER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Hardemon ABSENT: Carollo, Reyes Chair Russell: Can we get an approval of the minutes from July 11, 2019? Is there a motion for that? Moved by Commissioner Hardemon; seconded by the Vice Chair. Any further comments? All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. Chair Russell: If the City Attorney could read the procedures for the meeting, and we will prepare for the presentations and proclamations. Thank you. City ofMiami Page 2 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Barnaby Min (Deputy City Attorney): Thank you, Mr. Chair. 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 of cial, board member, or staff member until registering. A copy of the Code section about lobbyists is available at 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 appropriate 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. Pursuant to the City Charter, the Mayor may veto certain items approved by the City Commission within 10 calendar days following the Commission action. The material for each item on the agenda is available during business hours at the City Clerk's Office and online 24 hours a day at miamigov.com. Any person may be heard by the City Commission through the Chair for not more than two minutes on any proposition before the City Commission, unless modified by the Chair. 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. The Chairman will advise the public when the public may have the opportunity to address the City Commission during the public comment period, or at any other designated time. 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. A copy of the agenda item titles will be available at the City Clerk's Office and at the podium for your ease of reference. Anyone wishing to appeal any decision 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. No cell phones or other noise -making devices are permitted in the Commission chambers; please silence those devices now. No clapping, applauding, heckling, or verbal outburst in support or opposition to a speaker or his or her remarks shall be permitted. Any person making offensive remarks or who becomes unruly in Commission chambers will be barred from further attending Commission meetings and may be subject to arrest. No signs or placards shall be allowed in the Commission chambers. Any person with disability requiring assistance, auxiliary aids and services for this meeting may notify the City Clerk. The lunch recess will begin at the conclusion of the deliberation of the agenda item being considered at noon. The meeting will end either at the conclusion of the deliberation of the agenda item being considered at 10 p.m., or at the conclusion of the regularly scheduled agenda, whichever occurs first. This rule does not apply when the City Commission is engaged in ties -- in annual budget hearings. Please note, Commissioners have generally been briefed by City staff and the City Attorney on items on the agenda today. At this time -- Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chair Russell: Thank you. Later... Chair Russell: Let's move to the order of the day, Mr. Manager. Mayor Francis Suarez: Mr. Chair, if I may? Chair Russell: Yes, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: After the Manager. Emilio T. Gonzalez (City Manager): You want to --? Mayor Suarez: No, no, go ahead. City of Miami Page 3 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Mr. Gonzalez: Good morning, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Vice Chairman, Commissioners, Madam City Attorney, and Mr. Clerk. At this time, the Administration would like to defer and/or withdraw the following items: To be deferred to November 21, PH.2, which is the right-of-way access for Illumination Technologies; to be deferred, FR.5, Maurice A. Ferre Park Conservancy; and to be withdrawn -- Mayor Suarez: May Ion FR.5? Chair Russell: Do we have a date, please, for FR.5? Mayor Suarez: I've always -- so I have a question for the Clerk and maybe for the City Attorney. If we defer it, could we bring it back as a different item, or does it have to be withdrawn? Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): You mean you want to -- you would like to make changes to the item? Mayor Suarez: It might even come out as a different item, completely. Mr. Hannon: Probably best to withdraw it if there's going to be substantive changes. Mayor Suarez: Yeah. Okay. I think it's better to withdraw it. Chair Russell: There -- the other option would be, if I may suggest, an indefinite deferral, which leaves all options on the table. It could be brought back at any time before then; or a substitution. A new item could be brought, and this one could then be withdrawn. Mayor Suarez: Yeah, that's fine. Chair Russell: Yeah? Mayor Suarez: Indefinite deferral sounds fine. Chair Russell: That way, in case there's elements of this one you want to preserve or choose to go that direction -- Mayor Suarez: Sure. Mr. Gonzalez: Yes, sir. Chair Russell: -- at least -- Mayor Suarez: I just want to make sure that -- I know that the next agenda is loaded up, so, you know, we'll -- Chair Russell: I agree. Mayor Suarez: -- probably be bringing up -- Unidentified Speaker: Withdraw it. Mayor Suarez: -- something in the place of that. Chair Russell: Understood. The thing is, when you withdraw this item from this agenda, that sends a message -- City of Miami Page 4 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Mayor Suarez: That's fine. Chair Russell: -- that may be misinterpreted. Mayor Suarez: I'm fine. I'm fine with the indefinite -- Mr. Gonzalez: FR.5, indefinitely deferred; and to be withdrawn, DI. 4, discussion on the Office of Capital Improvements. That's all I had, Mr. Chairman. Chair Russell: DI.4 is to be withdrawn? Mr. Gonzalez: Withdrawn; yes, sir. Chair Russell: Okay. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? Chair Russell: Yes, Mr. -- Commissioner Reyes; microphone, please. Commissioner Reyes: I would like to ask you for the -- to defer CA.6, Historic Agreement, indefinite deferral. I was supposed to receive some information, and I never received it. And also, defer to November 21 meeting, PH.2. Chair Russell: PH (Public Hearing) -- that's already been mentioned; the 21 st. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: Yes. And so, your date for CA.6, you'd like? Commissioner Reyes: What? Chair Russell: CA.6, the Historic. Commissioner Reyes: Indefinite deferral. Chair Russell: Indefinite. Commissioner Reyes: Yes, sir. Chair Russell: Is there any time sensitivity on that issue from the Administration? Mr. Gonzalez: We're good, sir. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Thank you, Commissioner. Are there any other items that the Commission -- Commissioner Reyes: Also -- Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner. Commissioner Reyes: -- there is a -- I'll take this opportunity. I would like to co- sponsor RE. 6, (UNINTELLIGIBLE). It is the School Board legislative priority. Chair Russell: Is there a time sensitivity on that with regard to supporting it for the session? Mayor Suarez: No, I think we have time with the legislative session. City of Miami Page 5 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: I -- just being a teacher, I just want to be on the right side. Mayor Suarez: That's fine. Yeah, I think we have time with the legislative session. Chair Russell: He -- oh, did you say, "co-sponsor, " or you said, "defer"? Commissioner Reyes: Co-sponsor. Chair Russell: I apologize. Mayor Suarez: Oh, "co-sponsor." I'm sorry. I misunderstood. Commissioner Reyes: I'm sorry. It's that -- maybe I didn't do my exercises. Mayor Suarez: Who, me? I haven't had coffee in 50 days. Chair Russell: Got it; understood. Are there any other items that the Commissioners would like to defer? And if you'd like to co-sponsor any other items, this is a good time, actually, so the Clerk could just note all of them if there's any things the Commissioners would like to support. I will be sponsoring RE.3, RE.4, and RE.5. Mayor Suarez: I'll do that, as well. Chair Russell: Those are the environmental recommendations from the Sea Level Rise Committee that we'll be discussing today. Mayor Suarez: I'll do that, as well. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? Chair Russell: Yes, sir. Commissioner Reyes: I also want to inform that we have a pocket item that will be presented. Chair Russell: Thank you. Is it ready to be circulated? Commissioner Reyes: It is; it's ready to be circulated. Chair Russell: That's very helpful. At the beginning of the day, I need pocket items that could be circulated to the Clerk -- Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: -- and us, and also to the public, so the press can see it, as well. Commissioner Reyes: I got you. Chair Russell: So as soon as that's ready, if you could hand that out. Thank you. And we'll take that up in due time. Are there any other items that Commissioners would like to see withdrawn, deferred, or continued? Hearing none. Is there any comment from the public on this order of the day; simply, the deferrals of these items, on the timeliness item -- of these items? Seeing none, I'll close public comment. If there's no further discussion, all in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. City of Miami Page 6 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes for the order of the day. Thank you very much. Do we have a good goal of getting out by lunchtime? Mayor Suarez: Sure. Chair Russell: Knock on wood. All right. Thank you. Mayor Suarez: Yeah, exactly. Don't jinx it. PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR REGULAR ITEM(S) Chair Russell: Well, with that in mind, I'd like to encourage our body to work together in an orderly way; if you could speak through the Chair; and then, when we take on our own public comments, to try to limit our conversation a little bit, we can move things along quickly. Try not to repeat ourselves and stay focused, and I'll help try to guide us, but thank you. Mr. Mayor, would you like to address the body? Mayor Francis Suarez: Yes. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Miami's strength -- my message for today is Miami's strength rests on its diversity. When we celebrate that diversity, we become a stronger, richer, and more resilient community; in a phrase, Martin Luther King's beloved society. That is why I'm asking the Commission to approve CA.5, which endorses the HEP (Historic & Environmental Preservation Board) Board's historic recognition and preservation of the Black Police Precinct and Courthouse, as a significant and valued part of Miami's history and heritage of racial diversity; one that especially includes African Americans, Bahamian Americans, and all people of color who have contributed to our Magic City. Miami's diversity has also made it a global city, attracting new talent, new industries, and new high paying jobs. Miami now competes with New York, London, Hong Kong, for the new high paying jobs and new businesses from fintech to medical services to global education. To ensure that Miami remains competitive, I ask you to support SR.1, which renames and refocuses the Miami's International Council to the Mayor's Council on Global Competitiveness. This change will focus the council's work on attracting the new jobs and new talent to Miami while opening new markets and new investments for Miami's entrepreneurs. It will also affirm a key element of the original intent of the committee; to promote jobs, investments, and high -value industries. Building a more resilient Miami is both good policy for our residents, and good business for our entrepreneurs; that is why I'm asking the Commission to approve RE.3, 4, and 5, which the Chair and I have both co -sponsored, which encourages the Florida Public Service Commission to set meaningful energy -efficient goals; urges Congress to pass the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Tax -- Act -- of 2019, and instructs the City Manager to provide guidelines to encourage existing commercial and multi family buildings within the urban core of Miami to become more resilient. Energy efficiency means energy independence. And energy independence makes us more resilient and more secure in the face of mega storms and increasing flooding. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chair Russell: Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Can we take those items? Chair Russell: 3, 4, and 5? Mayor Suarez: All of them; it's CA.5, SR.1; and 3, 4, and 5, RE.3, 4, and 5. City of Miami Page 7 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: We can. I would need to open the floor for public comment on each of those items, if you'd like -- if you prefer to run them now, that's fine with me. Mayor Suarez: Yeah. Chair Russell: All right. Now we'll move to public comment. I apologize for those of you who have waited; appreciate the Vice Chairman catching the error. So anyone who'd like to speak on any of the remaining items on the agenda only, please. Please give us your name, the item you'd like to speak on. You do not need to give your address. You'll have two minutes. You'll hear a little beep at the 30- second point, which will be about the time to start wrapping it up. Juan Cuba: Great. Chair Russell: Good morning, Mr. Cuba. Mr. Cuba: Hello, Commissioners. My name is Juan Cuba, and I'm here to speak in opposition to SR. 6, which is lifetime pensions for politicians. Let me start by saying that I believe that the work that you all do is incredibly important, and that you should be well compensated for that work. And I believe, especially compared to other municipalities in South Florida, you are -- $100, 000 in salaries and benefits seems like a good compensation. I'm sure many would agree. But I'm really disturbed by this effort to vote to give yourselves lifetime pensions on -- annually, $50, 000 as a baseline, and some of you would even be making $80, 000 or more. People have to work their entire lives to save up for retirement, and some -- and many of them don't even make it, right? They're living off Social Security. They're taking part-time jobs to work at a grocery store to try to make ends meet. But you're -- what you're trying to do here is after seven years of what is -- after seven years of public service, you want to vote to give yourselves lifetime pensions. I think that's completely unfair. I think taxpayers would be very disturbed by that. I also think if you compare to how other cities and municipalities handle this in South Florida, they don't have such a sweet deal that you're trying to give yourselves here. They're paying into the FRS (Florida Retirement System) system, and they're contributing money. You're not contributing anything under the system that you want to implement right now. And the other disturbing part is that you won't -- you don't even have to complete two terms. You don't even have to make it to eight years. Why seven years? That seems to me incredibly unfair. I think taxpayers would be insulted if they really knew what was going on today. So I urge you all to vote this down. And if -- yeah, there are many other systems that you can do where you're contributing dollars into your retirement, like everyone else that works in the City of Miami. And so, thank you very much for your time. Chair Russell: Thank you for your comments. Morning, Mr. Fried. Jim Fried: Good morning. Good morning, Commissioners. Jim Fried, 555 Northeast 34th Street. Please vote "no" on SR.6. This item granting extremely large pension plans to elected officials needs more work. Many people complain about the incredible income disparity in Miami. This item forces City officials to increase taxes and fees on citizens while providing lottery -winning type benefits to elected officials. Please vote "no" on SR. 6. Thank you so much for your time today. Chair Russell: Thank you for your comment. Good morning, Ms. Holmes. Renita Holmes: Good morning. Good morning, Chairman and Commissioners. I'm Madam Renita Holmes, Executive Director of Wave of Women and several other programs located in District 5, and throughout the City of Miami, Miami - Dade County. I'm here in regards to three items, which are relative, believe it or City of Miami Page 8 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 not, but primarily to SR.2 and CA.3. It's my concern regarding the Camillus House. I'd like to thank you, first of all, for continuing that, and let you know that emergency beds are needed. But I wanted to really say that this effort will help us with what is continuing to be a spiraling increase in the number of women that are sexually assaulted, that are underreported in District 5 and in the City of Miami's inner city community. Working with the Dignity Florida Campaign under many of the other Senators which are within the same district, we're trying to deal with the formerly incarcerated women and girls. Unfortunately, what we're having is an epidemic that is now being observed and datarized [sic], of inmates, women that are arrested for fighting back from sexual assault, and girls. Primarily of interest are those of LGBQT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, questionable, transgender). And so, my question is on CA.3, out of those 75 beds -- which was a question a while back when they initiated it -- how many of those beds are really utilized for those persons of special needs or special categories of LGBQT? I say that, because then I reference to SR.2. And I asked you last meeting that I was here about changing things. And I got to give you great accolades -- and the City Manager, also -- for consolidating this, because there are those overlapping issues. I say this, because a number of us that are doing Dignity Florida and Reform Her, which is a great success now in 48 states that primarily have cities that have issues with women -- particularly, this Sister City -- with the way that we not deal with single women that are now the ones that are homeless. And consolidating all the wraparound services and department will help us discontinue some of the holes that we end up falling in, the increase in the number of inmates that are now being arrested, and the lack of relationship, as well as our issue of wondering why women are being jailed for fighting back and victims of rape and sexual assault are now being jailed, and why young LGBQT are now increasing. The number of arrests of those elderly lambda citizens and taxpayers, the number of those homeless youth that are LGBT is outstanding. And I refer you to Survivors Pathway, and those of us who have a partnership that are addressing this in response. So without, you know, getting into a lot of chatter, we do have that, but it's spiraling. It's almost spiraled about 200 percent since last month if you really want to know, and I'm just calling for help. So I got to thank you for doing that. And my question on SR.2 is, what will be the way that this committee reports? How often will it report on the impact and the plans, goals, and strategy to deal with this issue? We now are overlapping, but we have not overlapped with the County, and I'll close with that. We now know that while we're building housing, or we have a lack of affordable housing, we also do not have housing with social services wrapped around. And so, the holes get bigger for women who are victims and girls who are victims of sexual assault. Lotus House and other plans -- the HAC (Homeless Assistance Center) now -- to place families first leave a lot of women, veteran, LGBQT, and young out. And I'll tell you, I'm overridden with that. You can look in my face and see that I'm distressed with the workforce, because there's a lack of resources to respond for that. The last speaker spoke about how we respond. And how we respond should be fairly and proportionately to the -- Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Holmes: -- situation and epidemic. Thank you so much. Chair Russell: Thank you. I will ask the Administration when we take up SR.2 to give us the reporting schedule for that board -- Ms. Holmes: Thank you. Chair Russell: -- and I really appreciate your bringing attention to the homeless LGBTQ -- Ms. Holmes: Again, thank you all for -- City of Miami Page 9 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: -- youth issue. Ms. Holmes: -- not having pressing that default button in response to something that's been ongoing and that we need to deal with in our city. Thank you. Chair Russell: Yes. Unfortunately, I don't believe we can reserve beds by any sexual orientation, but I guarantee you, the number of homeless gay youth is going up and up, and hopefully, those beds will be utilized. Ms. Holmes: And I love that. Just in response, though, we do have emergency shelters and we are letting certain properties go, and there are service providers, such as ourselves that are collaborative; unfortunately, only with the churches to deal with -- Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Holmes: -- this specific issue. Chair Russell: Thank you very much, Madam Holmes. Ms. Holmes: I think on consent degree [sic] on the Homeless Trust and the rest with Pottinger would say that we do have to deal with -- Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Homes: -- the way we deal with people, we arrest more lesbian, gays, and young LGBQT than anyone else. Thank you, sir. Chair Russell: Thank you. I appreciate your comments. Good morning. William Arthur, IV: Good morning, Chair, Commission, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to speak regarding Consent Agenda Item 6. Chair Russell: Yes. Please go ahead. Mr. Arthur: Okay. My name's William Arthur, at 2920 Ponce de Leon Boulevard. I'm a architect, a -- with a historic preservation background. My office submits probably about 50 building permit applications to the City every year. The item is to extend a programmatic agreement with the State an additional five years. I don't think anyone is in opposition to that. What's really important to mention today is that there's a significant change in the wording of that agreement; specifically, that a survey, site plan, photos, elevations, and evidence of construction date are being omitted from the documentation standards. If you refer to Section 2, Part "C" of the previous agreement, these were all documentation that was required. My concern is, in having a unique perspective of being an architect working in Miami, is that that will have a significant downfall and unintended consequence, the likes of which the City's probably never have seen before. Chair Russell: Thank you for your comments. We have indefinitely deferred CA. 6, which means it'll come back in six months or earlier, if requested. But if any Commissioners are interested in the changes you've talked about, they can get briefed by the Administration. Mr. Arthur: Thank you. Chair Russell: I appreciate it. Good morning. City of Miami Page 10 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Gloria Romero Rosas: Good morning. My name is Gloria Romero Rosas. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. I'm a resident and a business owner here in the City of Miami, and I'd like to encourage you to please support a resolution favoring the ridership concept that was presented today by Transit Alliance Miami. As a resident, I wish to encourage that this resolution would actually provide more freedom for our residents and our business owners. As a business owner, I'm concerned that I don't always have staff that can afford to have a vehicle, and they rely on public transportation. As a taxpayer, I'm concerned to see that in the analysis done by Transit Alliance Miami in evaluating our current routes -- not just the bus, but also, the trolleys -- that there is a significant amount of duplication, so we could actually be better stewards of our existing taxpayer resources by having a proper alignment of trolleys to not be duplicative of bus lines, and that would, in essence, provide us greater service to the extent that it will allocate those resources accordingly. Urgency. You know, I think that there's a lot on the table. You all have a very full agenda. This is one very simple thing that you can do today that can be incredibly impactful for the coordination that we have to have for our residents and for our employees. So please do not defer this item. Please make your resolution favoring the ridership concept go to the County Commission so that we can continue on this path that was begun in October of last year for the purpose of creating a better bus system. Thank you so much. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Good morning, sir. Troy Taylor: Good morning, Commissioners and -- excuse me -- Mayor Suarez. My name is Troy Taylor. I am the President of the Riverfront Master Association. We have 1,500 condo units, and we represent about $15 million ofproperty taxes to the City of Miami on an annual basis, and we're only 50 percent built out. I'd be a - - it would be a dereliction of my duty if I did not come here this morning to voice our alarming concern with respect to the growing demand -- the growing homeless situation in and around the City of Miami, and specifically in our area. As a direct result of that, our residents have been subjected to physical attacks, up to and including infiltration into our parking garage where they were theft -- vandalism and theft of devices, up to and including a firearm. And in addition, we are also subject to having to navigate through biohazards in the form of human feces, urine, blood, and semen as we walk in and out of our neighborhood. We've liaised with the Chief of Police; we've liaised with the downtown neighborhood authorities, and we are seeing some success within our community, but as the old saying goes, "No man's an island" We need to see the same amount of vigilance and support in the surrounding areas. We need to -- a comprehensive solution. I understand that this situation is complex, and I appreciate that. But instead of the current situation where we're playing somewhat of a whack -a -mole in the sense that we're moving the homeless from one location to another location, depending on the loudest voice of a community or a business owner is not solving the issue, so I am in here supporting C3 [sic] and C4 [sic], but I would say that it's not enough. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. And that's half a million dollars going towards 75 beds and a day program. Thank you for your advocacy. Good morning, sir. Sergio Villalobos: Good morning. My name is Sergio Villalobos. I live in District 2, and I'm here to support the Transit Alliance's Better Bus Project ridership concept. As a lifelong Miami resident, living the last two years in Miami without a car, relying on the Metrorail, trolleys and car -sharing services, I'm in favor of redesigning the trolleys with the County bus system. I don't find the trolleys very useful today, because they don't arrive as often, and sometimes they don't run on weekends. I would like to see the more frequent service for the trolleys that are more direct. A realignment of the networks could fix this. The product has the City of Miami Page 11 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 potential to improve the life of Miamians by improving access to frequent and direct transit. I am glad to finally see the City and County redesigning the project together, rather than separately, and I ask that you support the Better Bus Project ridership concept. Thank you. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Morning, Mr. Kurland. You have some levity for us? Nathan Kurland: Absolutely, Commissioner. Nathan Kurland. Commissioners, students from Key Point, members of the public, I'd like to start by asking a question. What do you call someone with no nose and no body? And the answer is "Nobody knows." And I have other questions to put before you. Why do Commissioners feel that they have a right to a pension for a part-time job; not authorized by Section 37 of the Charter? Nobody knows. Why are Commissioners intending to create a pension based on twice their salary? Nobody knows. Why aren't Commissioners' pensions a referendum issue, letting the public decide? Nobody knows. Why are Commissioners even entertaining a pension after only six years in office? Nobody knows. Why are Commissioners who do not even show the public the courtesy of attending public comment even eligible for a pension? Nobody knows. And finally, after a year of giving away public land, conducting personal vendettas from the podium, and destructively dipping into each other's districts, what could possibly convince you that any member of the public believes your behavior should be rewarded with a lifetime gift? And the answer is, absolutely nobody knows. Thank you. Chair Russell: Thank you, Mr. Kurland. Good morning. Rebecca Pelham: Good morning. My name is Rebecca Pelham, and I am here to address SR.6. I serve as Executive Director of Engage Miami, and I am speaking here today for multiple members who are unable to attend due to school or work, regarding SR.6. Engage Miami, we are young people in Miami who believe in civic engagement, believe in getting involved, and want the best for our city. SR.6, it seems to raise some red flags as to the intent. I believe that a lot of young people really believe that we need to restore public trust in order to increase the civic engagement and the ability to interact effectively, and part of that is understanding that your public officials are being equitably compensated, which we are very much in support of. Equitable compensation means that public officials do not need to have their own wealth in order to serve, and that is incredibly important. However, a lifetime pension is different than that, especially after only seven years. Other City employees contribute to pension plans, and I wish everyone much longevity and good health, but this could mean that these lifetime pensions have huge payouts. And I also want to make sure that as we are thinking about future recessions, which might be quite close down the road, considering some of the economic tidings that are going on that we are setting our City up for financial longevity, as well. While I have a few minutes here, I also want to speak briefly to an item coming up relating to Illumination Technologies, and adding surveillance poles in Coral Way and Little Havana. I'm very concerned about the surveillance of our residents and visitors. There seems to be no restrictions on data use, and if they are willing to put in these poles for free, then it is very likely that they are profiting on the data of our residents, and that is very concerning. So thank you for your attention and for your service. Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. -- City of Miami Page 12 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: That item has been deferred until November 21. Commissioner Carollo, would you like to speak? Commissioner Carollo: Yes, Mr. Chairman. She mentioned seven years. That guy that was up here before that nobody knows said six years. Which is it; is it six years or seven years? Chair Russell: Let's take -- can we take it up during the item? Because we'll be -- I'm -- it sounds like we'll be dealing with it pretty early, because you wanted it -- Commissioner Carollo: It's a minor question. Mr. Manager, is it six years or seven years? Chair Russell: We'll defer to the City Attorney. Commissioner Carollo: Mr. Manager? Emilio T. Gonzalez (City Manager): It's actually both, depending on the situation, but we could -- I'll get you the detailed information. Commissioner Carollo: Actually both? Mr. Gonzalez: Six years or seven years. Chair Russell: With respect to the residents, I'd love to -- Unidentified Speaker: Depends on the -- Chair Russell: -- unless we have a clear answer very quickly, let's finish with -- Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Mr. Gonzalez: I'll get you that. Chair Russell: -- resident comment. Commissioner Carollo: -- he said -- Chair Russell: When the item comes up, we can address it deeply. Commissioner Carollo: -- it's both, so we'll take it when it comes up. Chair Russell: Got it. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Good morning. Allan Yepez: Good morning, everybody. My name is Allan Yepez. I'm the Property Manager for the Riverfront Master Association. For the past three months, I've been working with Miami City officials in regards to the homeless issue that we've been having. And so, I just want to make a comment that I'm here in support of CA.3 and CA.4, but I do not believe that it is enough to combat the issue that's been increasing over the past couple of years. And as mentioned by the President of the Master Association, we've had physical attacks on our property, burglary; I mean, it's just been increasing issues that have now subsided a little bit due to the fact that we partnered with the Commander of the Downtown NET (Neighborhood Enhancement Team), and they've created a watch order for our property. But after speaking with Camillus House and knowing that there is the ability to offer more resources for supporting, trying to help with the issues here, I just believe that we City of Miami Page 13 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 need to start focusing on maybe increasing or finding a way to creatively increase the funding, and hopefully get more help for these people on the street. Chair Russell: Thank you very much for your comments. Good morning. Allain McGaffie: Good morning. My name is Allain McGaffie. Chair Russell: Would you lift the microphone, please. Mr. McGaffie: Sorry. My name is Allain McGaffie. Basically, I'm here to actually try to beg Mr. Keon, basically, to actually start a beautification committee. Basically, recently, I spoke to him. I actually emailed him three month -- three weeks ago regarding the garbage that's in Little Haiti that's pretty much in every street. There's like a pile of garbage that's being dumped there. I actually met with him in person three weeks ago about that. I showed him the pictures and the streets where all the garbage are, and since then, nothing has been done. I actually took pictures of the garbage that's in that location; I emailed it to him. I even emailed it to the Mayor. And I -- they told me to contact Solid Waste Management; contacted them. They said they would actually con -- get in touch with me. Two weeks later, nothing -- it's that the garbage is actually still there. It's actually -- in almost every street that you turn to, there's a pile of garbage. Like if you want to -- like from 66th Street, this gar -- that's -- pretty much every time I drive around. I'm not sure if these people actually live in that location, but every street you turn, there's a pile of garbage. My main question is, what is being done for that area? Chair Russell: It's an illegal dumping situation, apparently. Mr. McGaffie: Exactly. Chair Russell: Is that an agenda item that you're addressing, specifically? Mr. McGaffie: No. Basically, when I actually ask a question about it, what they said is that they're currently working on it to fix it, and I've got answers such as, "It's happening everywhere in Miami," and -- which is not true, because I travel -- pretty much, the pictures you've seen here is me driving around and taking the pictures in every street. It's like graffiti is everywhere. There's garbage dumped everywhere. When I drive to other town near that location, it's not there. So why does it happen only in Little Haiti and not in the town -- neighborhood towns? Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. McGaffie: Why? Chair Russell: It's -- clearly, it's not everywhere, but it is in a lot of other parts of the City. We do have illegal dumping issues, and we are addressing them to the best we can at this moment. Mr. McGaffie: Understood. Chair Russell: Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. I'm going to tell you, first of all, it's happening in other areas outside of Little Haiti. It's happening in the poorer areas of the City of Miami, where residents, like in Little Havana, Little Haiti, in some cases don't have a good command of the English language, don't understand where they can go and complain, like residents here in Coconut Grove or the Roads section, for instance; in my district and other more wealthy areas of Miami. And so, to answer your first question, it's happening in other areas. It's happening in the poorer areas of our City ofMiami Page 14 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 City. Now, why do you take pictures like this and nobody does anything? The pictures that you're taking are pictures that we take every week in Little Havana, in my district. I send people out, and we have it in Little Havana, in my district. Where the Manager lives, in the Roads, you don't see that, because it's a wealthier area. If the Manager, members of this Administration would bother to go through Little Havana on a daily basis, Little Haiti, some of the other poor areas, and give a hoot, this wouldn't be happening. But because it's happening to people that either don't know how or don't have the ability to come and complain, you let it happen. And this is one of the biggest problems I'm having in this city and with this Administration. Mr. McGaffie: Exactly. Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. I'd like to move on. What I'd like to do is address you. I really appreciate your bringing this to our attention. It is a rampant problem throughout the City in all districts; some more than others, but we have an illegal dumping problem. Enforcement is very difficult; catching is very difficult. But what you're pointing out is the cleanup, when it's been noticed and addressed. And so, I'd really like to have the Solid Waste Department work with you on those very specific spots so we can get those knocked out immediately. And then -- Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chairman. Chair Russell: -- if they could work -- if you could work together with the Administration. Commissioner Reyes: -- through the Chair. Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes, of course. Commissioner Reyes: I agree with Commissioner Carollo. This is a City problem, and I have it in my district, and we are very -- I mean, very alert every time that we get all this dumping, and we try to get them to fix it. But we have addressed this issue before, and as I recall, we were going to start, Mr. Manager, a program, an educational program with the Solid Waste Department in order to let people know that what they're doing, because Commissioner Carollo has a good, valid point; some people, they don't know if it is legal, when to bring the trash out and when not to bring it. And that educational program, I haven't seen it started yet; not in my district, because we were going to go house to house and let people know what it was. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Our Solid Waste Director is meeting with the gentleman and will be able to start addressing those specific points. Vice Chairman, and then Commissioner Hardemon. Vice Chair Gort: I'd like to explain to the gentleman that it takes place everywhere. One of the things I've done, I've worked very closely with the department, Solid Waste Department, to get the Cleanup Miami Campaign, which began three years ago, where we have the notice to all the residents within the area. At the same time, we know where it takes place. Unfortunately, a lot of the times, it's -- dumping is being done by the residents that live there. If they work somewhere else, they bring the trash and they dump it in their neighborhood. And the thing is that we're so good in picking those things up that that's why it makes it so easy for them to. There's nothing like enforcement. Enforcement -- unless people have to pay a penalty for illegal dumping, then they continue to do so, because we clean them up right away. City of Miami Page 15 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Hardemon, and then I'd like to move on from the non -agenda items. Commissioner Hardemon: Thank you very much. Because the item is -- has been labeled as a Little Haiti problem, I just want to make a comment about it. It is not a Little Haiti problem. And, you know, when you see pictures, pictures show you that there's trash on the street, true, but the picture does not show you the -- necessarily the date that the trash was there, or the date that the trash was picked up. And so, the one thing I will say is that Solid Waste goes out each and every week, and they clear the City of trash in our community. Now, on the day they pick it up, more trash is put there. And to highlight what the Vice Chairman has said, I live in a neighborhood where there was a significant amount of dumping that was done on the swale that is next to my home. And what I found was that it was the individuals that lived across the street from me that was putting it there; that consistently put it there. And when I had conversation with them, what they told me was that that was the dump. And I tried to explain to them that anywhere you put trash on the swale, the good people in the City of Miami will pick it up, and that space is not a dump. And if they wanted to put something out, I told them the proper way to put it out and where to put it, which is on their swale. And so, you know, they -- so the dumping slowed dramatically, came to an end, and today I haven't had illegal dumping ever since. And so, I'm saying that to say the -- I think it certainly is an education issue, because a lot of people who live in areas where they don't have -- they don't see value in their neighborhood throw trash on the street. And many times, they throw bulk pieces of trash on the street on whatever day they choose to. And so, wherever you are, though, they -- I think the City of Miami goes and they pick those items up. I think there's just less frequency in the dumping in other areas. And so, is there also illegal dumping by people who see a benefit to putting their construction debris, et cetera, in our neighborhoods? Yes. Right? Because people who live in those sorts of neighborhoods are less likely to call for enforcement or police on people who are dumping. But I will tell you, if you are listening to my voice and you are a member of any of those communities, like I am, it is a felony for someone who has a business and dumps trash on your streets. And not only will they be arrested; not only will the trash be removed, but their vehicle will be impounded. And so, felonies tend to stop people who are trying to conduct business from committing crimes. And so, I just implore you to utilize that route if you're trying to make sure that your neighborhood is a beautiful place for you to live. Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. Mr. Gonzalez: Mr. Chairman. Chair Russell: Back to public -- yes, Mr. Manager. Mr. Gonzalez: Just to address a couple of quick issues, you know, one of the things -- and I have our Solid Waste Director here -- is illegal dumping is in all neighborhoods; it's even happened in front of my house, and I live in the Roads. But, you know, a two-edged -- Chair Russell: Can you stop doing it then? Mr. Gonzalez: Yeah, I -- no, no. I -- Chair Russell: I'm kidding. Mr. Gonzalez: -- and I drive around, and when I see illegal dumping anywhere in the City, I take a picture. I immediately send it to staff. But the fact is, we pick up - - and somebody said it -- garbage every week, so -- dumping every week. There are instances, and we have them, where people have come from out of the City and just City of Miami Page 16 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 dumped stuff in front of somebody's house, because they know it'll get picked up, because in their community, they don't pick it up every week. They pick it up maybe once a month or twice a year. So I'm not saying that's an excuse. What I'm saying is it's something that -- there are a lot of variables in here that we need to look at. Education, thanks to the Commission, we're going to buy 50 more cameras. Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Mr. Gonzalez: We're going to hire more inspectors. We have impounded cars before. Chair Russell: Thank you, Mr. Manager. Mr. Gonzalez: We have arrested people before. Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Mr. Gonzalez: But it is incumbent, I think, on all of us to let our community know that this is just plain wrong, and things will -- bad things will happen to people that do this. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. I'd like to -- Vice Chair Gort: Through -- Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair, I just want -- Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: -- to -- that the Sanitation Department is doing an excellent job, particular -- I know that they're trying very hard. And we have -- what we have to do, we have to enforce more; more enforcement, more cameras, and try -- once we catch them, we should fine them, you see. Give them a big fine. And if we fine somebody that comes from some other place -- I don't know, but sometime -- and I guess sometime before, they could lose the vehicle that transported the trash to our streets. Mr. Gonzalez: We've impounded vehicles, yes. Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. I'd like to move on, please, back to public comment. Ms. Solares, you'd like to address the body and the City. Grace Solares: Thank you, Commissioner. Good morning. Before I start, I'd like to ask -- or confirm. Was the conservancy issue -- I think it's SR (second reading) -- Chair Russell: Indefinitely deferred. Ms. Solares: Indefinitely. Chair Russell: So six months, and then working on different models that might work better that could be brought back for -- Ms. Solares: Okay. Thank you so much. I will not address that. Okay. Grace Solares, on behalf of Miami Neighborhoods United. I'd like to incorporate by reference my statements here on July 25, regarding the pension issues, and also City of Miami Page 17 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 incorporate by reference as being made part of this agreement, what I introduced into evidence at the time, which was a copy of your respective W-2 forms. You cannot give yourselves pension; it's not allowed by the Charter. Section "A," which is pension funds, tells you that the Commission shall establish a fund or funds for the relief or pensions for persons on a classified service of the City. So the Charter mandates you to give the employees of the City in the classified section pension. And then, on "B," it gives you the ability to give. It gives you the power -- not the obligation -- to give pensions to the unclassified section of the City; period, end of story. You do not have the power to grant yourselves pensions; you don't. And if you are -- I introduced the -- your W-2 forms the last time, because you have wages in the amount of -- in excess of a hundred thousand dollars. I want to read to you a copy of what we approved. This is what went on the ballot. That was the official ballot for the special municipal election of Tuesday, November 4. "Shall the Miami City Charter be amended to set the salary of the City Commissioners to 60 percent of the Mayor's salary in effect on July 16, 2003, which is $58,200, to be effective immediately?" That's what we voted on. We voted on you getting just a salary of $58,000. The fact that then somebody put in the Code that emolument would be part of it, it cannot be. You cannot circumvent the Charter of the City of Miami with verbiage on the Code. The Code has to follow the Charter. So therefore, I'm asking you not to approve the pension. It is not legal. It will probably give rise to unnecessary litigation. Of course, we have litigation, a lot of it, coming out of our ears, and we're the ones who pay for litigation; whether it's in the -- what we pay in settlements or paying the lawyers if we have to hire outside counsel. This is wrong. This is wrong. Victoria, this is wrong. Chair Russell: Thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Solares. Thank you. Is there anyone else here for public comment? Good morning. Joe Simmons, Jr.: Good morning, gentlemen. Joe Simmons, Jr., President of Sanitation Workers, AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees) Local 871. We're in support of SR.4, 5, and 6; think it's the right thing to do. When you look out at corporate America, when you see CEOs (Chief Executive Officers) that have multi -million -dollar settlements and thousands of workers are out of work, because one person had decided some time ago -- or a group of people decided to reward one individual for a specific performance -- what you do is commendable. I understand at your level, your lives are under a magndying glass at every area that most people are not. It's a sacrifice you take; there has to be some compensation; equal work for equal pay. We're in support of it, because when we look at -- you look at overall picture, do good unto others as you want done unto yourselves. And we think it's fair, because at a national level -- When you look at Social Security, Social Security was not established by corporate America; it was established by the government, and to give people some compensation that could no longer work, because of their physical or mental condition. This is just an extension of that; that many sacrifices that we make -- that you guys make in the course of doing what you do for your families. Your families sacrifice more than anything, and they deserve something. Thank you. Have a good day. Chair Russell: Thank you for your comments. Good morning. Javier Ortiz: Hi. Good morning. My name is Javier Ortiz. I'm the District Director of the Fraternal Order of Police. Also, I'm the Executive Board Member representing our Bargaining Unit for the Miami Police Department, Miami Fraternal Order of Police. I'm here to discuss two items; SR.6, DI.1. I have two others to defer time. This won't take long at all. To start off I have listened to some gripes that have been made about me, especially from Commissioner Reyes, so I just want to let you know that I'm going to do everything in my power to be City of Miami Page 18 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 professional and act with decorum. Hopefully, I'll get the same thing back. And if it's not addressed -- Chair Russell: If we -- if you speak through the Chair, and not directly -- Mr. Ortiz: Sure, no problem, Chair. Chair Russell: -- to Commissioners, that'll help. Mr. Ortiz: I'm sorry. Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Ortiz: Regarding SR.6, the position of the Miami Fraternal Order of Police, as well as District 6, we are in support of it. And if you don't -- if this is some item that needs to be discussed some more, I'm sure we can discuss it, regarding our terms and conditions of employment, and we would love to have you into the Fire and Police Pension Fund, which we run excellent with our brothers and sisters in Fire. The other issue that I'm here is regarding DI.1, which was time certain for 11 in the morning. This is serious, what I'm ready to say; it's not a laughing matter. I'm going to read this through the Chair in order to stay within time; and again, to stay within decorum: Commissioner Carollo has made disparaging statements, and is attempting to halt free speech. He may want to read the First Amendment. Speech on a matter of public concern done outside the workplace that cause no significant or material disruption to the department is protected speech, Mr. Carollo. Accepting awards as some type of war hero and threatening to disarm our Miami SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) Team is something the FOP (Fraternal Order of Police) views as a concern. Commissioner Carollo at the last meeting made comments and spoke about my decorum, when at the meeting before, he threatened me with physical violence. And I didn't hear exactly what he said, because I tune out people that scream, but there were plenty of employees and just people from the public that said, apparently, you wanted to take me to your office and beat me. So I thought that I would turn the negative into a positive. If each Commissioner throws down a hundred dollars to donate to the Police Athletic League, I'll be more than happy to have a charity boxing match with Commissioner Carollo. I know what you're ready to say -- I'm staying within decorum, sir -- or we can set it for another day. Chair Russell: The time is actually up. Mr. Ortiz: I'm sorry? Chair Russell: The time is actually up. Mr. Ortiz: I have two other people away. I'm almost done. Chair Russell: That are meeting -- have you put it on the record? Mr. Ortiz: Yes. Matthew Reyes, Vice President of Fraternal Order of Police, 710 Southwest 12th Avenue. Commissioner Carollo: Where is Matt Reyes? Mr. Ortiz: He's sitting right there. He's a real police officer. Commissioner Reyes, you asked for evidence that Joe Carollo is a racist. You're going to be provided with evidence that will be given to you in a moment. Commissioner Carollo has made statements that the Mayor hires people with a criminal past, and it got me thinking. I notice your Chief of Staff Jose Suarez is always frowning and trying to City ofMiami Page 19 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 look mean. The last meeting I was at, he balled up his fist and glared at the City Manager and the City Government. At Mayor Ferre's funeral, he was taking photographs of me, as if he was going to intimidate me or the FOP. So the FOP did a little bit of digging and we spent 30 cents, and got an arrest report. Mr. Carollo, you take pride in saying you're the only person that associates with people of strong will character. Maybe you don't even know who you're hanging out with. You're being handed a letter of concern that's being sent to the Super Bowl Committee that it appears your Chief of Staff was arrested for being involved in prostitution, and later went to the deferral program for treatment and to resolve this criminal case. It'd be great of you to take some action and protect the Super Bowl venue from those that take advantage of women, and take a real stance against human and sex trafficking. Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Chair Russell: That's the end of this -- your statement? Thank you very much. Is there anyone else here for public comment? I believe you've already spoken. Lari Ferrell: I spoke. I'm here -- I wanted to speak about the scooters. I didn't know it was -- it had to be at one time. Chair Russell: Yes, it's -- please feel free. Ms. Ferrell: Okay. So as a resident of 1425 -- Chair Russell: Your name again just for the record. Ms. Ferrell: I'm going to give my name. As a resident of 1425 Brickell Avenue -- my name is Lari Ferrell, and I've been asked to speak to the Commission on behalf of the 168 units in our building. Although very well -intended, the Scooter Program has caused incredible disarray around the building on Brickell Avenue, and the scooters are being left and littered, and sideways. There's no holding bike racks, so to speak, for them, and they're sprawled all over the street, like litter. And they're large pieces of litter; they're not small pieces of litter. And several times a day, many residents have complained to our manager that they have to move them out of the way; not to mention pedestrians don't have the right-of-way. They come upon elder pedestrians fast, me included. I know we haven't had an injury or a death, and it's been a great idea to have this program, but it's not working, and I think it's been a year. October 11, they passed the resolution for the Scooter Program, and I think that we would be against extending the program for another four months as you try to decide about the competitive bid process. It's extremely dangerous. There's been some closures in San Francisco and Calif -- and Los Angeles. I thought it was a great idea at the beginning. I mean, kids think they're cool. But now, I've seen more than one occupant on them, and they're just simply causing a problem on Brickell. As a District 2 resident, I live there. Chair Russell: Thank you. Ms. Ferrell: Thank you so much. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Are there any other comments from the public? Good morning. Frank Pichel: Good morning. Frank Pichel. I think you guys all know my address. Sorry I'm late, but I was watching the Commission meeting earlier, and you all were talking about illegal dumping. The -- Commissioner Hardemon was entirely correct about the illegal dumping and the penalties to be paid for the people that do City of Miami Page 20 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 that. When I was assigned to Wynwood, that was one of the major problems that we had there, and, in fact, when I ran that task force, one of the issues that we had in Wynwood was that everybody went there to dump all their junk. So what I did was that I assigned two of my undercover officers to monitor the areas that were used for illegal dumping, and mostly, it's people that are remodeling houses or buildings, or whatever; it doesn't matter. We did start making felonious arrests and confiscating cars. And back then, the penalty was either a thousand dollars for the vehicle to recover it, plus the towing charges, or we confiscated the car to the City of Miami. That was one of the major tools that we used. And dumping in the City of Miami in Wynwood went down to zero. And that's something that should be addressed completely and totally, because it's industrial dumping; it's bad. We had that Zika outbreak a couple years ago, so this is something that should be done. Now, a few months ago, you all talked about starting some kind of task force. Where is that at? Has it started? Did we just talk about it? Are you going to do it? What's going to happen? Because I see a lot of talking, but I see little action. So again, the idea is great, but the action is not forthcoming. Thank you. MV - MAYORAL VETO(ES) NO MAYORAL VETOES Chair Russell: Thank you for your comments. Is there anyone else here who would like to speak on an agenda item; anything that we are dealing with today in the business of the City? All right. Thank you. With that in mind, I will close public comment. Chair Russell: Are there any mayoral vetoes, Mr. Clerk? Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair, there are no mayoral vetoes. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. END OF MAYORAL VETO(ES) City of Miami Page 21 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 PA - PERSONAL APPEARANCES PA.1 PERSONAL APPEARANCE 6451 A PERSONAL APPEARANCE BY COMMISSIONER ESTEBAN BOVO JR. REGARDING A PRESENTATION ON THE 2020 CENSUS. RESULT: PRESENTED Chair Russell: I would like to take this moment to recognize Commissioner Esteban Bovo, from the County. If you'd like to address this body and our community, you are very, very welcome in this house. Miami -Dade County Commissioner Esteban Bovo, Jr.: Thank you. Mr. Chairman, Mayor, good morning. Manager, good morning. Commissioners, it's so good to see you. 2020, for multiple reasons, will be extremely important for our community. In 2020 -- specifically, on April 1 -- we will be conducting a census. And perhaps one of the most important civic responsibilities that we have as residents, as citizens of the United States is to participate in the census. The census goes back to biblical times. Our forefathers made sure that we conducted censuses every 10 years; 2020 is one of those years. Miami -Dade County is moving very aggressively on this front. I do not need to educate you on all of the parameters that come with census, and the money that flows through all formulas -- funding formulas -- that are tied to population counts. Beginning in April of last year -- of this year -- we have begun a process where a task force was created. We have been meeting monthly. We will be issuing a report at the end of next month and give our guideline, our roadmap for our County, and how we're going to pursue our ability to make sure everybody is counted. We know historically, there are a couple of communities that are hard to count; the migrant community, understandably, very fearful of government. We also know many in our community have come here because their experience with government where they live is not a positive one, and that also deters them from participating. And ironically, children under the age of five, parents are leaving them off of the census, and we want to make sure folks know that if you were born before or on April 1, you count; you should be reported in the census. Now, we're no longer dealing with the citizenship question, which we think alleviates a lot of the concern that many may have had in our community. Miami -Dade County in the past has shown a -- about a 74 percent participation rate. That means we are possibly leaving 26 percent of our residents in -- unaccounted for. But more importantly, my colleagues, we may be leaving millions of dollars on the table. We're here today not only to tell you what you already know, but encourage you strongly to start the process, if you have not already, of creating your committees, begin the dialogue in your community. One of the ways that we're approaching it is that we're trying to empower agents in our community -- the little league coach, the church pastor, the priest, the folks in our community that have built credibility over time that they could be agents for us to talk to the residents in our community on how important it is to participate in the census. We will start a strong drumbeat that will begin at the beginning of the year, and carry it forward until folks start receiving their prong; which, remember, this year, it will be by computer. The Census is encouraging folks to use the computers. That brings another challenge of folks that may not have access to a computer. We will be making computers available in our public libraries. The University of Miami, Miami Dade College, FIU (Florida International University) will all open up to allow for the use of computers, but we City of Miami Page 22 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 believe the City of Miami is, like other cities in our community, are more directly in touch with residents that can help us achieve the goal that we want to. While we've set a goal of 80 percent, I would tell you that we need to be more realistically reaching for 90 percent. And I'll leave you with this, and our approach of grass root has proven: I represent the northwest end of Miami -Dade; specifically, the City of Hialeah. Now, the City of Hialeah, for many reasons, have pushed back against census, and would not want to participate. And we were looking at numbers back in the '90s at, you know, sub-70 percent participation. Our approach of working with agents in the community and not having government officials ask folks to participate led us to numbers now in Hialeah at 80 and 82 percent the last two censuses. So our approach and our encouragement is: Let us not be the obstacle to making sure folks get counted. Let's empower many folks in our community, whether it's media partners, whether it's sports celebrities; whether it's, like I said, folks, leaders in our community. Allow them to be our agents, and I think we could achieve the count that we want. And use our school system. Our school system is an invaluable tool. And we encourage you, if you haven't already, create your committees. The Census webpage already has a lot of information that you could download. You could personalize your campaign, which we encourage you to do. And, you know, as far as we're concerned, this will be the biggest issue we have in 2020. The impact will go on for 10 years as far as the funding is concerned. I appreciate you all giving me a little bit of time to speak about this issue. Thank you. Chair Russell: Commissioner Gort. Emilio T. Gonzalez (City Manager): Mr. Chair -- oh. Vice Chair Gort: Thank you, Emilio. I think it's very important that we inform the individuals. So what I did -- I was in charge of the Census Bureau for the Federal Government in 1980, a long time ago. But we used the social services agencies, which is the one that need the most funds. A lot of times, they don't receive their funds, because the people that they serve are not being counted. So that's one of the suggestions that I have. And we've been working on it very -- I know everybody here understands the necessity of it. Thank you. Commissioner Bovo: Yeah. And let's just partner, work together, and make sure we get it done. Mr. Gonzalez: Mr. Chairman? Commissioner Bovo: Thank you. Chair Russell: Yes, Mr. Manager. Mr. Gonzalez: Yes. I'd like to thank the Commissioner. I know that you were very vocal about this at the League of City meetings. We have an internal committee. We will be doing our kickoff on Wednesday, which involves training, outreach, media. So we look forward to working with you, sir, and appreciate your leadership on this. You're right; this is a big deal. A lot of people don't recognize the importance of the census and what it means to communities, so we look forward to partnering with you and your colleagues in the County. Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Bovo: Thank you. Chair Russell: Mr. Mayor. City of Miami Page 23 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Mayor Francis Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I just want to thank the Commissioner for being and for participating in this process. It's embarrassing sometimes when people ask me, "What's the population of the City of Miami?" because I know it is significantly higher than what is counted on the census. I think - - our last count, I think it was like 460, which we know is a woeful undercounting of what's happening in the City of Miami; aside from all the, you know, influx of population of people that come in to work here on a daily basis. So I commend you, and I thank you for participating in this process, and you have our support. Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Bovo: Thank you. We'll get it done. Chair Russell: Commissioner, regarding the immigration status question, it's -- I'm glad it's being resolved, but the perception still lingers, and the fear is still there amongst the immigrant community. Obviously, as a city, it is not important to us what -- the status of whom we serve. We must provide police, fire, sanitation for all of our residents. We want to make sure they're counted so that we get the representation we need. How -- can you explain to the general public the current status of this immigration question? And once it's resolved, how can we educate the public, especially the immigrant community, not to have fear on this issue? Commissioner Bovo: So our task force has deliberated a lot on this specific issue in many of the meetings that we've had. What we've done, Chairman, is that we've had those that work on a daily basis with the immigrant community become our advocates. The immigrant that, for whatever reason, is in our community, and may be working in the farms down in Homestead have a daily interaction with members that advocate for them, and look out for their best interest. I cannot go into that community and create a trust factor with those individuals in a 24-hour period. We're relying on those advocates and those agents to be the voices for us. And we will go a step further and make sure that we provide them the tools they need to be able to fill out the census; and then, armed with Federal law; that the identity of those that are filling out the census is protected for 72 years. It has been tested, and the courts have upheld it; that it is sacred. Now, government is obviously interested in the data. And today, now, we are basically opening the envelope for those that participated in the census in the '50s. So we want to give them all the assurances, understanding and realizing that we have a lot of obstacles, because of the unfortunate toxic nature of our politics. But on this one, I could tell you, Democrats, Republicans, liberals, and conservatives were all onboard with this, and it's extremely important that we get them counted, (UNINTELLIGIBLE) as you said, they use our services. Chair Russell: So for the benefit of the public's understanding, you're saying the question is still on there, but it'll be kept confidential? Commissioner Bovo: There is no citizenship question -- Commissioner Reyes: There's no question. Commissioner Bovo: -- on the census questionnaire this year. There is no citizenship question. Chair Russell: That's what I wanted to hear clearly. Commissioner Bovo: You got it. Chair Russell: Thank you so much. Thank you for working with us. City of Miami Page 24 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: Just one second. Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner. Commissioner Reyes: Thank you -- Commissioner Bovo: Yes, sir. Commissioner Reyes: -- Commissioner Bovo, for being here. It's always a pleasure to have you around. I'm just going to make a suggestion, you see. Particularly, our community is very media -oriented, and media exerts a lot of influence on our community. And I advise -- and I suggest that we have a media campaign, and try to involve some of the -- I mean, people that are newscasters or people that are popular in our community involved, I mean, in this effort, because, as you well know, our community really is -- Commissioner Bovo: Yeah. Commissioner Reyes: -- believe that those people are telling the truth, and if I might suggest that we start that up. Commissioner Bovo: Thank you for the suggestion. In our task force, we've had meetings and we've had participation of the media, not only traditional media; social media, other kind of medias [sic]. I will tell you that Univision has probably been the biggest champion and partner. They have not only been hosting meetings already at their station, but they're all in with PSAs (Public Service Aides) and that availability for us to be able to communicate with our residents to let them know how important this is. Commissioner Reyes: Don't forget about radio and -- Commissioner Bovo: No, no, we never forget radio; of course not. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Commissioner Bovo: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Chair Russell: I'd like to also welcome a public appearance from the Transit Alliance. Unidentified Speaker: Good morning, and I think we have a presentation; I'm not sure if it's loaded up. Chair Russell: Okay. How much time do you need? Unidentified Speaker: Somewhere between five and seven minutes. Chair Russell: If you need time to load it up, I can move on to some other things while you prepare. Unidentified Speaker: Oh -- Chair Russell: Do you need some time? Unidentified Speaker: -- I assumed it would be loaded. Unidentified Speaker: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) so we don't know (UNINTELLIGIBLE). City of Miami Page 25 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Go ahead and give it a shot. Unidentified Speaker: Oh, no. Chair Russell: Is it -- are you --? Unidentified Speaker: If there's no clicker here, I assume it's not loaded yet. Chair Russell: All right. I'll let you work with IT (Innovation and Technology) while we do a couple of other administrative items, and we'll come back to you as soon as you know you've got exactly what you need. I'd like you -- Unidentified Speaker: That's good. Chair Russell: -- to have the full visuals that you'd like to present, so that's fine. Unidentified Speaker: Okay. Chair Russell: If IT could help out Transit Alliance, we'll make sure they've got their presentation prepared. PA.2 PERSONAL APPEARANCE 6520 A PERSONAL APPEARANCE BY TRANSIT ALLIANCE REGARDING THEIR PROPOSAL TO RE -ALIGN THE BUS AND TROLLEY SYSTEMS IN MIAMI. RESULT: PRESENTED Chair Russell: We'll now move on to the public comment portion of the public hearing for any item remaining on the agenda. If you're here to speak on anything that we are addressing today on our agenda, please approach either one of the lecterns. Commissioner Carollo: Can I ask the Chair for a point of special privilege? Can you open it up just to SR.5, so we could vote on this right away -- Chair Russell: I -- Commissioner Carollo: -- before we open it up to the rest of it? Chair Russell: On the pension item? Commissioner Carollo: Yes; SR.5. Chair Russell: I believe we'd like to take all of the pension items to -- Commissioner Carollo: It's for firefighters and police. Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Hardemon: There's -- I mean, there's not a lot of people that's here for public comment, so we can just open up for general -- generally then. City of Miami Page 26 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, if that's the will of the Commission. Chair Russell: It'd be my preference, as well, just to the respect of the residents who are here. So if you're here on any item -- Vice Chair Gort: How about the personal presentation? Chair Russell: Which personal --? Vice Chair Gort: The personal presentation. They've been sitting here. They're ready. Chair Russell: Goodness, I apologize. If you could give us just a moment, please. We have one last presentation the Vice Chairman reminded me of that we had an IT (Innovation and Technology) issue on, and now has been resolved. The Transit Alliance would like to address this body. Mr. Chougle, Ms. Viciedo, the floor is yours. Marta Viciedo: There we go. Okay. Good morning. Thank you for having us. Thank you, Commissioners. Thank you, Mr. Mayor and the Administration. So we are Transit Alliance. Transit Alliance is a nonprofit organization, and we advocate for better public transportation in Miami -Dade County. You will find us speaking to riders. You'll find us on the bus, on the trolleys, on the trains. You'll find us advocating for issues that matter to the future of our mobility on the street. And you'll find us in the halls of government, advocating for things like ensuring that our transportation budget isn't cut, and that transportation continues to improve in Miami -Dade County. Today we're here to talk to you about the Better Bus Project, which is in -- it's a partnership between Transit Alliance, ourselves; Miami -Dade County; the City of Miami; the City of Miami Beach, and a number of national and local private organizations and foundations. Transit Alliance is -- has worked very closely over the last few months with the County's Transportation Department -- sorry -- Department of Transportation and Public Works, some municipal transportation departments; and Jared Walker and Associates, who are national experts in redesigning successful bus networks. Some of the ones that are most notable, very similar to Miami -Dade County are Houston and San Jose, but they have a number of successes under their belt. Redesigning a bus network here means, of course, working with the County bus network, and integrating our trolley system, because we -- that is what gets us to more riders and less traffic. I want to be clear. A new network within Miami -Dade County, integrated with the City of Miami trolleys is transformative for the City of Miami; most specifically, for its residents. A new network that -- the network that we're working on improves prosperity, immeasurably increases access to jobs and services. It supports economic development. It supports resilience. As a matter of fact, this project is part of the Resilient 305 Plan, and it increases frequent service, which frequent service is, beyond all measure, the most important factor when you're thinking of what makes a service more useful, what makes it more likely for people to use public transit. And we hear this through a lot of public input. It's not just because we say so. We spend pretty much every day talking to transit riders. In the last few -- in the last month or so, I have personally visited six senior centers in the City of Miami to speak to seniors. We've spoken to transit riders of all backgrounds, and we've conducted a community survey, which is ongoing. So you will find us currently throughout the County and throughout the City of Miami talking to residents and transit riders. One of the most important outcomes so far -- and I do want to say our survey is ongoing; this is very preliminary, but 77 percent of the residents of Miami that have taken the survey agree that the trolleys should be integrated, designed to work very well with the County bus system. What we're at today with the project -- where we're at -- is that we have presented two network concepts, and you may have received those City of Miami Page 27 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 handouts; they're also available online. In November, these two concepts go to the County, the Board of County Commissioners, because what we're seeking at this point is direction on which way to go. Should we go towards one or the other? And they both represent different values. Throughout the month of October, we're asking cities, like the City of Miami, as well, to give us the recommendations for which direction to go. Now, the networks that you have in front of you -- there's three maps. One is our existing network that articulates, really clearly shows that we only have five County bus routes in the entire Miami -Dade County that provide 50-minute or better frequency. Frequency is the highest marker of a usable system. So five bus routes that provide this is very low for a metropolitan area of our size. The other two networks change frequency in different ways. But this isn't about specific routes right now; it's about understanding where we want to go as a community between these two concepts. I do want to drill down specifically on what the outcomes would be between these two different scenarios. So the average resident in Miami, in the City of Miami, if you went with the coverage concept would have access to 31 percent more jobs in 45 minutes than they do today. The average resident in Miami would have access to 42 percent more jobs under the ridership concept. That's how this is directly tied to prosperity. Now, when we're talking about frequent service, we often see people waiting at bus stops like this. Frequent service, again, is the highest marker of a usable system. The most useful system provides frequent service. Today, 37 percent of our residents are located near frequent transit, and I'm only picking out the City of Miami. Under the coverage concept, the results are transformative. 74 percent of our residents would be near frequent transit. Under the ridership concept, that number rises to 83 percent. When we're looking at seniors -- and we've done the study for a number of different groups with an area -- so we're looking at seniors. We have households in poverty; we have households without vehicles. But the last one I want to show to you today is, for seniors, the outcomes are very similar. 31 percent of our seniors today are near frequent transit. Under the coverage concept, that goes up to 68 percent. Under the ridership concept, that goes up to 77 percent. There's no other community in Miami -Dade County that is seeing these kinds of benefits. What we're asking -- what we're here to ask from you today is that the City of Miami also provide us direction on where we should go. Again, I -- this -- I can't stress enough, this isn't about individual routes. This is, "Should we go towards the coverage model? Should we go towards the ridership model?" The results for the City of Miami are pretty similar, whichever way you choose. And if you could take that position before the end of October, that would be very helpful for us, because, as I mentioned, we will be at the County in November. You can find more information about this project at betterbus.miami. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Is there a rule of thumb difference in budget going with the ridership model versus the coverage model? What are we looking at in difference in budget? Ms. Viciedo: The entire project -- Thank you for asking that. The entire project is budget neutral. We are only working within the resources that we have today, both at the County and at the City of Miami. And just to interject, I apologize. I jumped up here. I didn't introduce myself. I'm Marta Viciedo. I am the founder and Chair of Transit Alliance, and Azhar is the Executive Director of Transit Alliance. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Vice Chair Gort: Mr. Chairman? Chair Russell: Vice Chairman and then the Mayor. Vice Chair Gort: Can either of you explain the differences between the two concept City of Miami Page 28 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Ms. Viciedo: Sure. Vice Chair Gort: -- the ridership and the -- Chair Russell: Coverage. Ms. Viciedo: Sure. So I will explain it in the simplest way that it's organized in terms of resources, because this is a values proposition. This is understanding where we -- how we want to allocate our resources. Our current system allocates 70 percent of its resources to providing frequent service and 30 percent to providing coverage service, making sure that -- you know -- as many people have access as possible. The coverage model, the coverage concept tweaks that to be 80 percent frequent service and 20 percent coverage. The ridership concept does -- takes a step further and says 90 percent frequent service; 10 percent coverage. So what we're looking at today is a very logical framework to understand what the buses should be doing, what the trolleys should be doing, and providing very clear direction for right now and for the future in terms of how our transportation system should evolve. Chair Russell: So in laymen's terms, the difference would be either less routes with more trolleys and buses on them or more routes with less buses and trolleys on them; is that --? Ms. Viciedo: In the -- in -- well, in the City of Miami, nobody loses coverage. In -- when you're looking at Miami -Dade County, there are -- when you move very far towards the ridership model, to that extreme, there are areas that begin to emerge that have gaps. Chair Russell: But not the City? Ms. Viciedo: But within the City of Miami, when the City of Mia -- when, let's say, the trolleys are really well integrated with the County, your residents have access to frequent service on a grid, and they are able to move around much more efficiently throughout the City. Chair Russell: So it sounds like your recommendation, at least for the City of Miami, would be more the coverage model. Ms. Viciedo: Actually, I -- the Transit Alliance is not taking a position on the two models, and simply because it's not our place to say one or the other. It's really important that as a community, we come together and work, City of Miami, the County, and ensure that we can move this forward. Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Mayor? Mayor Suarez: Thank -- Commissioner, do you have something? Do you have something else? Chair Russell: Vice Chairman? Vice Chair Gort: Yeah. I'm looking at the -- we're talking about homeownership and people not being able to get homes, because a lot of times, they have to move further away from the employment center, and I think the frequence [sic], the shortest frequence [sic] is the best that we can select, because we all -- people want to go to -- they want to take public transportation, but they want to make sure they can make it to their job. Sometimes, they make, 30, 40 minutes late, and they can get fired. At the same time, sometimes, they don't get the service. I think this is where we really need to bring everyone together, which we've been saying that for a long City of Miami Page 29 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 time. Centralize it, the transportation, which the County has a lot to do with it, but they got to work with us quite a bit, too. Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a few thoughts, comments, and unfortunately, I wasn't able to sit through the entire presentation, because I had some questions when they were briefing me on it. I guess for me is, what I'd like to know -- and this is something when I first met with them before we had the meeting upstairs. I understand they're working on a concept of budget neutrality, and I appreciate that, because, obviously, it's always easier to make suggestions within our budget than things that are going to change the budget parameters. What I would like to know is, what are the costs associated with changing in terms of if -- because we've expanded this trolley system from when I got here, from when I -- we started it, about 300 percent. So we started with four routes. I think we're up to like 13 routes now, so we have expanded it significantly. Some of them have been expanded with significant community input, like the Liberty City trolley, which was very sort of hard fought by the community. I guess my perspective is, clearly, the 15- minute headways for many of the significant routes. Your data is very compelling on expanding job access opportunities for people in the City of Miami. And so, what I want to know is, sometimes have this "either/or" instead of "both" mentality, and that was kind of what I was trying to get at when we were getting together the first time, where I said, "Listen, I appreciate the fact that you're creating a budget -neutral strategy, but let's" -- I mean, the City of Miami grew last year by 10 and a half percent in tax base. And even though we've reduced taxes, our budget -- and our budget went down slightly -- we get a lot more revenue on an annual basis. So we've been growing the system. So there's nothing that says to us, for example, that we can't do both; sort of maintain the system, as is, and then start expanding in the -- I forget what model you call it -- the more intense model. Ms. Viciedo: The ridership. Mayor Suarez: The ridership model. In other words, start growing it in that way going forward, and I just don't know what the costs are so that we can't plan that out as to say, "Okay, well, next year, we're going to go to the ridership model, going forward"; like, from this point forward, as we expand the system, we're going to expand it along the ridership model, because of the data that we're getting, which proves that it's going to be much more beneficial, and the frequencies, et cetera. So I just need to know what the costs are from that, so we can plan that out. And that's just something that I'll probably want to meet with you guys again subsequent to this meeting, as well. Ms. Viciedo: So we can attempt to provide some of that information, and we've been working very closely with your professionals. I do want to say one thing, though, in terms of providing free service. So there's always this debate about providing free service versus paid -- right? -- and if trolleys are free, County bus is paid. One thing I just want to rise to the top is that first of all, when a service is free, it's really, really important that it's effective. Based on our research there are City of Miami trolleys that maybe have six or seven boardings per hour. That's not entire of them -- the entirety of them, but when you have a situation where you have trolleys that are -- that maybe have six or seven boardings per hour, that's costing the City and the taxpayer 7 to $8 per rider, which is a significant cost. And it's really important to understand how those trolley routes are really integrated into the County system, so they're providing that frequent service, and that frequent service is sustainable over time, because the last thing you want to do is expand a trolley system that's free, but then 2007 happens again, and there's a downturn. So you want to make sure that that service that you're providing is as cost-effective as possible. And then the last City of Miami Page 30 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 real quick note is, with the paid versus free, the people who need free service the most will get free service, because the County has the golden passport; they have the economically disadvantaged bus pass. So people that need free service will get it on the County or on the trolley. Mayor Suarez: Just one last thing. Chair Russell: Mr. Mayor, yes. Mayor Suarez: No, I -- look, I think that's all important. The one thing I also want to look at -- and this is more for our staff -- is I'd like to know the percentage of time right now currently in our system where we are either meeting or within five minutes of our predicted time at a stop, in other words, because it goes to predictability, right? I think headways is super important, but I think it's also important that there be predictability. If you, for example, want to get a trolley at 8:15 or 8:30 to go to work, and our advertisement says, "The trolley will be there at 8:30," but the trolley doesn't arrive till 9:10 or 9 o'clock; 30 minutes late. That's not something that you can rely on. So I'd like to know; are we hitting our target 95 percent of the time? Are we hitting our target 90 percent of the time? Are we hitting our target 80 percent of the time? Right? Because that, I think is another component, which is reliability. If we're going to say, "Hey, we want 15 minute headways," that's great, but we have to actually do it. Ms. Viciedo: Right. Mayor Suarez: Right? So that's the second part, which is, "Are we hitting our headways right now?" And I want to know. I don't have that information, so I definitely want to see how well we're doing there. Ms. Viciedo: Do you have anything to add? Okay. Mayor Suarez: Yeah. Well, good. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Ms. Viciedo: Wonderful. Chair Russell: The only recommendation I would make is to remember that you cannot do this in a political vacuum. The fact that two governments will have to work together to make this happen is very complicated. We have to trust each other, each other's governments; that the service -- If we are giving up a route, for example, on a trolley that's going to be covered by a bus, we need to know that it's going to be sufficient and convenient, and everything. Have you had meetings together with both governments' transit specialists; the Administrators together in one room; not County versus City? Azhar Chougle: Yes. From pretty much the beginning, both departments have been working together -- Chair Russell: Good. Mr. Chougle: -- and actually, these plans have been drawn completely collaboratively, which is the reason you're seeing such incredible opportunities for the City of Miami, is because the transportation professionals have collaborated from the beginning. City of Miami Page 31 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Got it. Would -- do you need anything further from us here today to move forward? Because, obviously, we would like to have more frequency, more routes, and not cost more. Can you do that, please? Ms. Viciedo: Right. What -- our ask is that this board presents a resolution or moves a formal resolution to take a position on the concepts. And I'm happy -- we've spoken to many of you. I'm happy to come back and speak to you again. But if you could provide a resolution of direction by October 24, that would be incredibly helpful to keep the process moving and keep the collaboration going, and understand exactly what our community needs. Vice Chair Gort: Mr. Chairman? Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Vice Chairman. Vice Chair Gort: My suggestion is you keep coming and talking to us, but most importantly, keep have meeting among all the professionals to make sure they come to an agreement. Ms. Viciedo: Mm-hmm. Vice Chair Gort: Okay. Thank you. Chair Russell: I'm glad to help make sure we bring something. Ms. Viciedo: Okay. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Thank you for your presentation. Ms. Viciedo: Okay. Chair Russell: Thank you. END OF PERSONAL APPEARANCES City of Miami Page 32 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 CA - CONSENT AGENDA The following item(s) was Adopted on the Consent Agenda MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon CA.1 RESOLUTION 6406 Department of Real Estate and Asset Management A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE MIAMI BRIDGE REVOCABLE LICENSE AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") AND MIAMI BRIDGE YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES, INC., A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION, IN ORDER TO DEFER THE MONTHLY USE FEE INTO A CAPITAL RESERVE FUND FOR THE PURPOSE OF UPKEEP AND MAINTENANCE OF THE CITY -OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2916 NORTHWEST SOUTH RIVER DRIVE, MIAMI, FLORIDA, AND THE STATE- OWNED LANDS LOCATED AT 2810 NORTHWEST SOUTH RIVER DRIVE AND 2910 NORTHWEST SOUTH RIVER DRIVE, MIAMI, FLORIDA. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0379 This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item CA.1, please see "End of Consent Agenda." CA.2 RESOLUTION 6395 Department of Human Services A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION ESTABLISHING A NEW SPECIAL REVENUE PROJECT TITLED "EARLY LEARNING COALITION PROGRAM" AND ACCEPTING AND APPROPRIATING SUBSIDIZED FUNDING IN AN ESTIMATED AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED EIGHTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($80,000.00) FROM THE EARLY LEARNING COALITION OF MIAMI-DADE/MONROE, INC., A FLORIDA NOT FOR -PROFIT CORPORATION, TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO DAY CARE PROGRAMS IN THE CITY OF MIAMI CONSISTENT WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA'S SCHOOL READINESS PROGRAM; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT AND APPROPRIATE SAID FUNDS; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AND ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING AN OPTION TO RENEW SUBJECT TO BUDGETARY APPROVAL AT THE TIME OF NEED, ALL IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, TO IMPLEMENT MEASURES FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS OF THE SUBSIDIZED FUNDING. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0380 City ofMiami Page 33 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 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 6407 Department of Human Services A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, BETWEEN CAMILLUS HOUSE, INC., A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ("CAMILLUS HOUSE"), AND THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") TO PROVIDE GRANT FUNDING FOR THE CAMILLUS HOUSE DAY SERVICES PROGRAM WHICH IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE MEANINGFUL AND ENGAGING ACTIVITIES FOR QUALIFYING PARTICIPANTS AND TO PROVIDE SAID PARTICIPANTS WITH HOT MEALS, SHOWERS, MAILBOXES AND IDENTIFICATION SERVICES TO ASSIST WITH RE-ESTABLISHING THEIR CORRESPONDENCE AND IDENTIFICATION, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A UNIQUE SERVICE PROVIDED SOLELY BY CAMILLUS HOUSE ("PROGRAM"), AT A TOTAL COST OF ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($100,000.00) WITH CONDITIONS AS STATED IN THE AGREEMENT, PAYABLE BY THE CITY TO CAMILLUS HOUSE IN TWELVE (12) MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS ("GRANT") COMMENCING DURING THE CITY'S 2019-2020 FISCAL YEAR FOR AN INITIAL PERIOD OF ONE (1) YEAR WITH THE OPTION TO RENEW FOR FIVE (5) ADDITIONAL ONE (1) YEAR PERIODS OF CITY SPONSORSHIP GRANT FUNDING UNDER THE SAME TERMS AND CONDITIONS IN THE AGREEMENT AND SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDING AND BUDGETARY APPROVAL; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE WITH CAMILLUS HOUSE ANY AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY DOCUMENTS, MODIFICATIONS, AND AMENDMENTS, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, TO COMPLETE AND FURTHER THE GRANT ALLOCATION AND APPROPRIATION. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0381 This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item CA.3, please see "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s)," and "End of Consent Agenda." City ofMiarni Page 34 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 CA.4 RESOLUTION 6408 Department of Human Services CA.5 6456 Department of Planning A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, WITH CAMILLUS HOUSE, INC., A FLORIDA NOT FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ("CAMILLUS HOUSE"), TO CONTINUE THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") SHELTER PROGRAM PROVIDING FOR THE PROVISION OF SEVENTY-FIVE (75) BEDS WITHIN THE CAMILLUS HOUSE NORWEGIAN CRUISE LINE CAMPUS FOR THE NIGHTLY USE OF HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS, WITH TEN (10) OF THOSE BEDS SERVING AS OVERNIGHT EMERGENCY SHELTER BEDS, ALONG WITH OTHER ASSOCIATED HOMELESS SERVICES INCLUDING CASE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, FOR A PERIOD OF ONE (1) YEAR, SUBJECT TO SAID BEDS BEING EXCLUSIVELY DESIGNATED FOR THE CITY'S HOMELESS POPULATION, AT A TOTAL COST OF $460,000.00, WITH CONDITIONS AS STATED IN THE AGREEMENT, PAYABLE IN TWELVE (12) MONTHLY INSTALLMENTS. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0382 This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item CA.4, please see "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s), " and "End of Consent Agenda." RESOLUTION Item Pulled from Consent A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), RECOMMENDING TO THE HISTORIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION BOARD ITS APPROVAL OF THE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE'S NOMINATION TO ADD THE BLACK POLICE PRECINCT AND COURTHOUSE TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES AS IT MEETS THE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA TO BE ADDED TO THE NATIONAL REGISTER; MAKING FINDINGS; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0378 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For additional minutes referencing Item CA.5, please see "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s)." Chair Russell: If you could be patient just for a moment to the Transit Alliance. Is there a motion on CA.5, RE.3, 4, and 5 -- which other one was it? Mayor Suarez: SR.1. City of Miami Page 35 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: And SR.1. Is there a motion on -- the Vice Chairman has moved CA.5, RE.3, 4, and 5, and SR.1; seconded by the Chair. I'll open the floor for public comment on any one of those items. And just to clarify for you, we're talking about the -- CA.5 is the National Register nomination for the Black Police Precinct and Courthouse. REs.3, 4, and 5 are with regard to the Environment Resilience recommendations from the City -- from the City's Sea Level Rise Committee. Anyone who'd like to comment on any of these items, please approach the lecterns. And the final one is SR. 1, Mayor's International Council renaming; so only those items. If you'd like to speak, please approach the lecterns. You'll have two minutes each to speak. Please just state your name, which item you're speaking on. You don't need to say your address. You'll have two minutes. You'll hear a small beep at about the 30-second mark; if you wouldn't mind trying to wrap it up at that point. Good morning, sir. John Van Leer: Good morning. I'm Dr. Van Leer, from the University of Miami, but I'm not here to represent their interests. I'm a property owner who achieved his dream house by getting a waterfront house in 1988. And I went to the Arctic as part of my scientific research, and discovered that the sea ice was melting from the bottom in 40 degrees below zero temperatures due to a hurricane -strength arctic storm. So I knew that my waterfront house was in peril long term, and the question was, "How soon would it be till sea level rise began to act on my house?" And the answer to that question is, "now." This morning when I left the house to drive down here, saltwater was coming up through the drains in my street. Sea level rise is not a joke. It turns out that there is legislation pending before the United States House of Representatives, H.R.763, which essentially reduces emissions of more than the Paris resolution has called for, and is pending in Congress. It creates jobs for the local community, it makes money for businesses in the local economy, and it reduces emissions dramatically. I encourage you guys to please support this resolution. Thank you. Chair Russell: Thank you, Mr. Van Leer. Yes; it could reduce 40 percent over 12 years. Good morning, sir. Matias Nieto: Good morning. My name is Matias Nieto, and I'm a 10th-grader at Belen Jesuit. I'd like to ask the City of Miami to pass the resolution to urge Congress to support the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. Recently, we set another record for carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; 415 parts per million, higher than it has been in millions of years. This summer, we had the hottest June ever recorded, and then July became the hottest July ever recorded. At the beginning of September, Hurricane Dorian stalled over the Bahamas, where it unleashed devastating damage. Here in Miami, we're experiencing the impacts of climate change, with sunny -day coastal flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise, which could increase by five feet by the end of this century. One year ago, the world's climate scientists said if we are to keep global temperatures from exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius, we'll essentially need to cut our use of fossil fuels in half by 2030; eliminate them altogether by 2050. If we don't slash carbon emissions, Miami and the rest of the world will be far worse in terms of sea level rise, health risk, economic damage, and climate refugees. You guys have witnessed devastating climate impacts and learned of scientific warnings. We are still not doing enough, nor moving fast enough to slow down greenhouse gas emissions to prevent climate catastrophe. Our generation will have to live with these consequences; that is why I ask you to pass the resolution supporting the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. This pending bill (UNINTELLIGIBLE) significantly greater emissions reductions than all current regulations. It would exceed the Paris Agreement's targets. A resolution from the City of Miami in support of H.R.763 will send a strong signal to our congressional delegation to back this legislation. In Pope Francis' encyclical, Laudato Si', he said that the climate is a common good, belonging to all City of Miami Page 36 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 and meant for all, and he calls on everyone to take swift and unified action to protect the Earth. Thank you. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Good morning. Gregory Koman: Good morning. My name is Greg Koman, and I live at 3122 Hibiscus Street. I'm here this morning to ask you to support Resolution 4, which is the resolution urging Congress to support the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, as recommended by the Sea Level Rise Committee. A recent Yale study showed that three out of every four people in Miami -Dade County believe that carbon dioxide should be regulated and support putting a price on it. In fact, this number jumps to 82 percent in support when they find out that the money will be given back to them in some way, like a revenue -neutral dividend, as proposed in this bill. According to the study, across the board, residents in Miami -Dade are more concerned about climate change and demand action at a greater rate than most other counties in the United States. In fact, with the exception of a few counties in Texas, no other county in the entire country has a higher percentage of residents who believe global warming will harm them personally than Miami -Dade. The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act is by far the best solution out there to address climate change, global warming, and sea level rise. Models show that passing this one bipartisan bill will do our country's part to keep the planet well under 2 degrees Celsius; this one bill. The demand is growing for action on climate change. We have sunny -day flooding in our streets and neighborhoods, and students skipping school on Fridays to protest, right out in front of this very building. I have a great appreciation for the work the Commissioners have done to address adapting to the effects of climate change, like passing the Miami Forever Bond, but adaptation is not enough. We must do something to actually mitigate the effects of climate change, or this adaptation will be for naught. As a resident of Miami, I ask that you please join other local cities, like Surfside, Coconut Creek, South Miami, and Palm Beach County, and support Resolution 4, urging Congress to pass the Energy Innovation Carbon Dividend Act. Chair Russell: Thank you very much -- Mr. Koman: Thank you. Chair Russell: -- for your comments. Good morning. Corbin Shouse: Good morning. My name is Corbin Shouse, and I am a resident of Brickell, and a student at the University of Miami. Thank you for considering offering the City of Miami's official support for this critical legislation. I would like to speak specifically about the benefits of the dividend that would be paid to every resident of the City of Miami under the Energy Innovation Act. As previously mentioned, all revenues collected under the carbon fee would be distributed into equal shares to each American taxpayer. The amount of this dividend would grow over time as the carbon fee rises, and 10 years after the law is implemented, it's projected to reach $3,300 a year for a family of four. Even after accounting for the increase in the cost of goods and services, as a result of the carbon fee, 66 percent of Miami residents would still come out ahead. Furthermore, the dividend would begin distribution in the month before the carbon fee takes effect, insulating consumers from the increased cost of living. We believe that the dividend is a critical part of this legislation for three reasons. First, it alleviates the burden on vulnerable communities that would result from a carbon fee; and furthermore, it empowers them to have more agency over their economic circumstances. Second, the dividend mechanism does not expand the size of government, and preserves consumer choice. Instead of (UNINTELLIGIBLE) down regulatory control, it would harness markets to cut carbon emissions in the most efficient manner possible. And third, it would City of Miami Page 37 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 stimulate economic activity by giving Miami consumers greater resources to spend with local businesses. The world's leading economists agree that the dividend mechanism provides the most efficient and beneficial and equitable means of using the considerable revenues that the carbon fee will provide. And evidence clearly shows that carbon dividends would offer a boost to consumers and businesses in the City of Miami, and across the country. Again, thank you for your time, and I hope that the City of Miami will lead the way in supporting this important legislation. Chair Russell: Thank you for your comments. Good morning. Sharon Van Smith: Good morning. My name is Sharon Van Smith, and I'm not a resident of Miami, but I'm a native of Miami, and I grew up in the Coconut Grove area. And my great -great grandparents settled in Miami years before it was incorporated in 1896. You might say my interest in Miami spans from the 19th Century all the way to the 22nd Century, when the impacts of climate change will be devastating to the City if immediate actions are not taken. Rising sea temperatures result in the following: Corals, which are already displaying higher rates of disease and suffering from coral bleaching will continue to decline. Fish and marine life will shift northward to cooler waters. Die -off of sponges and seagrass will accelerate. Already, the Tuttle Basin is referred to as an underwater dust bowl. Ocean water will be more acidic, and marine life will decline. 93 percent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gasses are stored in the ocean, not in the atmosphere. Sea levels are projected to rise by more than a foot by 2045, which will put a fifth of the City of Miami underwater at high tide. By 2100, the estimates range from two feet to seven feet of increase. The average elevation in your city is six feet above sea level. Miami has been called the poster child of a major city in trouble. The City of Miami moved aggressively in 2017, when your voters approved raising their property taxes to fund a $400 million bond issue to build resilience. I ask that you safeguard your City's investment by passing this resolution in support of H.R. 763. Thank you. Chair Russell: Thank you. Good morning. Kelly Dawson: Kelly Dawson, and I'm ceding my time to Greg Hamra; is that okay? Chair Russell: Yes, it is. Ms. Dawson: Thank you. Chair Russell: Four minutes, please. Greg Hamra: Thank you very much. Commissioner Russell and everybody else, my name is Greg Hamra. I work -- born in Miami, just a few steps away; one of the few people, Sharon and I are what we used to call "Miamah natives." And I'd like to call everybody's attention to a milestone. Tuesday, this week, marks one year on October 8 since the IPCC's (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) landmark special report shook the world. It indicated what is needed to keep our planet under 1.5 degrees "C" (Celsius) of warming, since preindustrial times. Amid the dire warnings and the catastrophic projections emerged one policy response; a policy response that experts the world over have long explained is critical to put us on track toward rapid de -carbonization. There's nothing novel about this. Details of our bill are unique in that it gives 100 percent of the money back to every citizen; you mean every taxpayer. But the principle of putting a price on pollution to make the price of fossil fuels honest is completely boilerplate economics 101. Make the price honest. When they say that it's critical, I'd like to explain what "critical" means. Not that it's a nice thing to have. Without it, we fail at fixing the climate; it doesn't happen. This is not a solution. Let me be very clear. We have no shortage of solutions. This fixes the economic problem, the market failure, and it creates the conditions for the City of Miami Page 38 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 solutions to scale up, while sending a market signal to market actors globally to shift capital. We should have begun this decades ago. We've known about this longer than any of us have been alive in this room. 31 years ago, when Dr. James Hansen, former Director of NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) famously testified before Congress, saying that global warming was real, serious, and we had to act on it, we didn't. Today you have a choice to decide whether the place we call ground zero -- Miami -- and the reason it's called ground zero is we have the greatest value of assets at risk in the world. We're Number 1. New York City is Number 3. Did you know that? We really are Number lin terms of value of assets at risk. The eyes of the world are focused on this city. Miami is the city that's cited when people talk about coastal cities that are going to be inundated. Others will be, as well, and even worse, but we have the greatest value of assets. This is your chance to take some leadership in supporting this monumental and critical policy. It is the first bipartisan climate bill in a decade. When it comes to adaptation resiliency, strategies to basically keep the water away, we're one of the leaders, among other cities in South Florida, but ironically, ground zero has so far taken a back seat when it comes to seriously addressing the global emissions challenge that has created and is deepening a crisis. It's time for a strategy that enshrines the principle that preventing tragedy should enjoy greater moral legitimacy than reacting to it. In other words, when your bathtub is overflowing, you don't reach for the towels first. You reach for the tap. Your endorsement today would add to the over 1,000 endorsements so far for this bill that include 450 businesses, nearly 80 faith groups; over 60 local governments from small mountain towns, like Moab, Utah and Aspen, Colorado to Pam Beach County, South Miami; which, by the way, was the first city in the United States to endorse this bill. And the place that is considered ground zero, I think it's high time that we show the world that we're leading on this, as well. If we don't get the conversation going now, we're not going to have something like this pass when we do have a government in place, a Federal Government in place that has the potential to pass this kind of bill. So in the remaining time, I don't know if this is appropriate. If you wanted to ask questions, I'm here for you. Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Hamra: Thank you for having me. Chair Russell: Time is up. Is there anyone else here who would like to speak on any of these items? Mr. Hamra: Thank you. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Lari Ferrell: Good afternoon -- good morning, I should say. I'd just like to say I am in support of this energy initiative. I think it's extremely important. It's an integrated issue. It's not just this bill itself. I think it's important that we respect our green spaces, especially our larger green spaces, because they absorb a lot of the flooding; they reduce the carbon footprint; they increase oxygen; trees increase oxygen levels. And finally, it's incredibly important in terms of the temperature. It's -- they keep the environment cooler, especially the larger green space is very important on the flooding issue. Thank you. Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair, if I could get the speaker's name. Chair Russell: Your name, please? Ms. Ferrell: Lari Ferrell. I live on Brickell Avenue. City of Miami Page 39 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Did you get it? Is there anyone else here who'd like to speak on just these items that have been moved so far? Seeing none, I'll close the public comment. Are there any comments from the dais? Good morning, Mr. -- Commissioner Carollo. What would you like to address? Commissioner Carollo: (UNINTELLIGIBLE.) Chair Russell: Is your microphone on, sir? Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. We will be taking in this vote CA.5, RE.3, RE.4, RE.5 -- Chair Russell: And SR. 1. Commissioner Carollo: -- and SR. 1. Chair Russell: Yes, sir. Commissioner Carollo: I'd like to take out separately RE.5. Chair Russell: Yes; for separate discussion? Commissioner Carollo: For separate discussion on it. Chair Russell: Okay. We can have that discussion right now if you'd like. This is the item asking for the Management to come back with recommendations over 180 days for how we can be more efficient in our design guidelines for buildings over 20,000 square feet, which affects mostly the urban core of downtown. Commissioner Carollo: Right. What you're asking for is to come back in 180 days - Chair Russell: With recommendations. Commissioner Carollo: -- with recommendations. Is this going to be citywide or --? Chair Russell: Yes; it is citywide for any buildings over 20,000 feet, but nothing will change -- Commissioner Carollo: Over 20,000 square feet? Chair Russell: Yes, correct. But nothing will be enacted unless we accept those recommendations, and we can alter them at that time. Commissioner Carollo: But that's obvious in that. What is the purpose behind this? What are we trying to accomplish or get information on? Chair Russell: I'll go -- Jane, if you'd like. Good morning. Jane Gilbert: Good morning. Jane Gilbert, Chief Resilience Officer, speaking on behalf of the Sea Level Rise Committee, soon to be Climate Resilience Committee. The intention of this resolution is really a concern that the existing buildings, particularly in our downtown urban core, it's critical to our economy that they are as resilient as possible, and can get back up and running in the case of a hurricane, other climatic events. So what the intention is, is to work with some professional services to ident fy guidelines and incentivize the large buildings to install measures for flood proofing, energy -hardening, wind -hardening, to make sure that they can be City of Miami Page 40 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 back up and running as soon as possible, and where necessary, to update our building codes. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Well, I want to make sure, Mr. Chairman, that this is not going to be something that will be done under the guise of resilience, and then be used as a back door to grandfather unpermitted renovations or construction in the City. If this is all that this is being done for, I can accept that, but I'm laying it right down in the record. If this is being done so that unpermitted renovations and constructions somehow can get through, through the back door, I'm going to fight it to the till. So understand that, because right now, I know that there's a lot of illegal construction in structures, 20, 000 feet or under, whether commercial or multi family, and this City's doing nothing about it; looking the other way. And so, I won't say that we're protecting them. Chair Russell: Understood. I don't believe this legislation addresses that, whatsoever. And so, when the recommendations come, we'll go through them with a fine tooth comb to make sure. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Mayor Suarez: Yeah. And I would suspect, Mr. Chair, that it's the opposite; that it's actually not to legalize anything that's unpermitted, but on the contrary, to make things stronger and make it more resilient, so I would agree with the Chair on that. Commissioner Carollo: I'm going on trust, but -- Mayor Suarez: Sure. Commissioner Carollo: -- I will confirm -- Mayor Suarez: Got it. Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Carollo: -- like Ronald Regan used to say. Mayor Suarez: Yes, he did. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Are there any other questions from the dais on these items? Thank you. And I'll just say, not to be lost, REs.3 and 5 were also asking the Public Service Commission to come up with efficiency standards and incentives to help low-income houses become more efficient. And then, also -- well, RE.5 we've already addressed. These three are very good pieces of legislation in my opinion. We don't usually pass resos urging other governments to do things unless it directly affects our residents. I don't like to waste our time or just, you know, stand for something. I want us to do something. But in this particular case, if these are passed at the State and Federal level, it will directly affect our residents and our future, and our finances. So I'm in favor, of course. Commissioner Carollo: If I may, Mr. Chairman -- Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: -- I would like to be added as a sponsor to CA.5, since this begun [sic] when I was Mayor; also, to RE. 3 and RE.4. City of Miami Page 41 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Noted, Mr. Clerk? All right. Any further discussion on the items? Yes, Commissioner Hardemon. Commissioner Hardemon: I understand that we're looking at structures above 20,000 feet, right? Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Hardemon: Is it -- what do you -- do you think there's any value in also studying existing homes, just normal homes in the City of Miami? Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Hardemon: And I ask that because, you know, if we're going to be dealing with flooding, the way that Miami floods, where it's coming upwards -- it's not necessarily coming necessarily from the bay -- that we start to build in ways that are resilient. So instead of -- I don't know what the cost would be, but say the cost is $15,000 to actually -- to build a home that is -- that stands taller than other homes, where it's resilient to storms or flooding. Is it possible that we --? I want to basically know, is it worth look -- researching that today so that we know in existing -- in future building codes, maybe through an amendment or so, that we say, "You know, maybe we should not build on ground level anymore. We should start to build higher, even for our single-family homes." Ms. Gilbert: Absolutely. This is looking at one building type. We actually need to be looking at all building types and locations throughout the City, and we've already, on our website, for climate ready, you can go there, and there's instructions for homeowners to assess their risk and how they can mitigate against that risk. We are working with the Planning Department to update those guidelines. Right now, a resident can already elevate their home to the base flood elevation plus one to five, without any impact on their height restrictions. So that was passed by the Commission last year, so that enables a lot more. One other thing that the Administration just submitted a grant request to do -- to help the property owners of multi family low-income housing to do audits of those properties and make recommendations for how they can bring their properties up to a more resilient standard from an energy flood and wind standard. Chair Russell: Thank you. Jane, would there be an amendment that would not negatively impact the rest of the legislation with regard to the 20,000 foot number that would be more inclusive of smaller homes, as well? Ms. Gilbert: That -- I'd welcome that. Chair Russell: All right. So the amendment would remove the 20,000, if I'm understanding you correctly, Commissioner, because right now, this is only directing them to study the 20,000 and above. But it sounds like your request or recommendation is to study all home types, all, and see what recommendations the City has when they come back in 180 days for us on how to. Commissioner Hardemon: For existing homes, but also for future built homes -- Chair Russell: Yes. Vice Chair Gort: Yes. Commissioner Hardemon: -- so it'll be known, right? City of Miami Page 42 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Carollo: Commissioner, can we do this in two parts? I think it would be more appropriate, since it's really going to be two types of studies. For smaller residential homes, it's a different type of study that they will have to do than for multi family or commercial properties, 20,000 or more square feet. Commissioner Hardemon: I don't mind how we get there; I just want to make sure that we have -- Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Well -- yeah, if we could just -- Commissioner Hardemon: -- the information. Commissioner Carollo: -- break it down into two separate resolutions. Chair Russell: Commissioner Gort. Vice Chair Gort: Yes. We looked at some of the houses that were built here in the '30s, '40s and '50. They're all about three and four feet. My house was built in 1938. It's about three feet above the level. So this is something that I'm pretty sure we're going to have in the Planning Board. It's something that's taking place in the Keys. Right now, in the Keys, you cannot build anything unless you're five or six feet above the ground. Chair Russell: So Commissioner Hardemon's suggesting potentially an amendment to expand. Commissioner Carollo would like to bring separate legislation to address. Is there a preference of the body? All right. So then we'll pass this, as is, and direct Administration to come back with something, also asking for a study on smaller residences and businesses, as well. Thank you very much, Jane. Ms. Gilbert: All right. Thank you. Chair Russell: Is there any further discussion from the dais? If not, please read SR.1 into the record, please. The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. All in favor of the items, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you very much. City ofMiami Page 43 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 CA.6 6457 Department of Planning RESOLUTION - Item Pulled from Consent 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. MOTION TO: Indefinitely Defer RESULT: INDEFINITELY DEFERRED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item CA.6, please see "Order of the Day," and "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s)." CA.7 RESOLUTION 6461 Department of Resilience and Public Works A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT NINE (9) RIGHT-OF-WAY DEEDS OF DEDICATION, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN EXHIBIT "A," ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED ("DEEDS"), FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES; APPROVING AND AUTHORIZING THE RECORDATION OF SAID DEEDS IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO RETAIN COPIES OF SAID DEEDS. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0383 This matter was ADOPTED on the Consent Agenda. Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item CA.7, please see "End of Consent Agenda." END OF CONSENT AGENDA Chair Russell: I would like to turn our attention to the remainder of the CA (consent agenda), PH (public hearing), and RE (resolution) agenda. Is there a motion? We can make amendments or discuss, but is there a motion to block vote those? Vice Chair Gort: Move CA. Commissioner Carollo: Hold on, hold on. Let's go easy, you know. City of Miami Page 44 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: So Commissioner -- Commissioner Carollo: Here, the CA, okay. Chair Russell: So just the CA -- Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Let's do -- Chair Russell: -- Vice Chairman? Vice Chair Gort: Yeah. Chair Russell: So we have a motion to move the remainder of the CA agenda, which is CA.1, 2, 3, 4, and 7. Is there a second? Commissioner Carollo: Second. Chair Russell: Seconded by Commissioner Carollo. Open for discussion. Commissioner Hardemon: I have some discussion. Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Hardemon: I pass by, probably along with the Vice Chairman, Camillus House almost daily. And, you know, I think we give a significant amount of resources to Camillus House, but I've said it many times before that Camillus House, to me, especially when I live within walking distance of there, was a bad neighbor. And they were a bad neighbor, because they have unruly house guests. And what I mean by that is you would think that the day program exists on the streets that are connected to Camillus House. And so, when you -- when anyone who visits the area, you'll see that people are camped out just outside of Camillus House every single day, every single night. And it perplexes me, because we've spent millions of dollars to provide a program to provide wonderful -- actually, exceptional living conditions -- better than many of our taxpayers, by the way -- for them to get services, for them who are camped out there to have healthcare provided for them, daily meals, et cetera. But instead, what we see in that area is a proliferation of lawlessness in the form of drug abuse, open sex, and blocking of the sideway -- sidewalks that allows people who live in the community -- that forces them to walk in the streets, et cetera. They not only are existing on the streets, but also on the avenues. So if you're walking north and south on 7th Avenue and you're passing Camillus House, going south or north, on both sides of the avenue, you'll see that there's a proliferation of these same individuals that are there. And I don't understand. How is that we can continue to give so much money to a community partner, but that partner does nothing to assist us in making sure that their house guests are not all over the street in that fashion? It's the gateway to Overtown. It's the gateway to Wynwood. Vice Chair Gort: Health District. Commissioner Hardemon: It is the gateway to the Health District. It is really a trifecta in that space. And you continue passing south, and it goes into like our Spanish community, as well. So I -- it puzzles me how we can continue to give them money -- and I support giving them money -- but that exists. Many of the things that they do, I guess, is -- it's just perplexing to me. Even something as simple as when I read -- you know, I was reading the item, and I think the item talks about -- they call it the -- within the Camillus House, "Norwegian Cruise Line Campus," right? It's -- that's what it's called. And it -- How much did Norwegian Cruise Line give to have the naming rights to that space and put their emblem on it? Because, I mean, I don't City ofMiami Page 45 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 know that number, but I would dare to think that it wasn't more than what the City of Miami or the redevelopment agencies gave to make that campus a reality. And so, here we are, even with the branding issue for that, you know. Norwegian Cruise Lines has this branding effect. We -- but we have -- which is a positive thing -- but we get the negative aspect, which is the proliferation of these individuals on the street, and causing this sort of havoc, and none of the positives. That's my two cents worth on the issue. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Are there any further comments on the CA agenda? Hearing none, all in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes for CAs.1, 2, 3, 4, and 7; 5 and 6 were already dealt with. City ofMiami Page 46 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 PH - PUBLIC HEARINGS PH.1 RESOLUTION 6450 Department of Police A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), BY A FOUR -FIFTHS (4/5THS) AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, PURSUANT TO SECTION 18-92 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"),AFTER AN ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING, RATIFYING, APPROVING AND CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S FINDING OF A SOLE SOURCE, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS EXHIBIT "A," WAIVING THE REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPETITIVE SEALED BIDDING PROCEDURES, AND APPROVING THE PROCUREMENT OF SOFTWARE, HARDWARE AND MAINTENANCE FROM PEN - LINK, LTD. CORP. ("PEN -LINK"); ALLOCATING FUNDS FROM CITY OF MIAMI POLICE ("MPD") GENERAL FUND, SUBJECT TO THE AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS AND BUDGETARY APPROVAL AT THE TIME OF NEED; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE CITY OF MIAMI'S ("CITY") ADDENDUM TO PEN- LINK'S QUOTE, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS, AND RENEWALS, SUBJECT TO ALLOCATIONS, APPROPRIATIONS, AND BUDGETARY APPROVAL HAVING BEEN PREVIOUSLY MADE, AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY CODE, INCLUDING THE CITY OF MIAMI'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 APPLICABLE REGULATIONS, AS MAY BE NECESSARY FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0384 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Chair Russell: Moving on to the RE (resolution) agenda. Is there a will to block - vote the RE agenda remaining? That is -- Commissioner Carollo: And we got RE.2, right? Chair Russell: -- PH (public hearing) and the REs. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Chair Russell: So it's PH.1 -- Commissioner Carollo: PH.1. Chair Russell: -- REs.1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9. City of Miami Page 47 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: Would you please repeat -- well, that's -- Chair Russell: Sure. PH -- Commissioner Reyes: -- the way you want it? Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Chair Russell: -- 1. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Reyes: PH.1. Hold on a second. I'm -- remember, I'm old. PH.1. Chair Russell: Yes. REs.1 and 2. Commissioner Reyes: RE.1 and 2. Chair Russell: And then REs.6, 7, 8, and 9. Commissioner Reyes: 6, 7 -- Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): For RE -- Commissioner Reyes: 7 and 9? Chair Russell: Yes; 7, 8, and 9. Commissioner Reyes: 7, 8, and 9. Ms. Mendez: For RE.1, there has to be something read into the record; some claratory [sic] -- clarifying language. Chair Russell: That's fine. Commissioner Reyes: As to RE.9, I would like to discuss it. Chair Russell: We can gladly discuss -- Commissioner Reyes: And vote it separately. Chair Russell: -- separately. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Vice Chair Gort: Yeah. Chair Russell: Fair enough. We'll remove RE.9 from this vote. Commissioner Carollo: I agree. Chair Russell: Is there a block vote on the remainder of the items? Is there a motion for "R" -- the PH and the REs, except for RE.9? Commissioner Carollo: Yes. On RE.8, I think there might have been a mistake here. This is deallocating 7,500 API (Anti -Poverty Initiative) funds, and reallocating 8,500 to Mayor's share of the API funds. That should be 7,500; it's the same, right? City of Miami Page 48 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: Both ways. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Chair Russell: We'll check if there's a numerical error there, or if there was an intention to give more. Commissioner Carollo: Can we find out? Because if you're taking from one and you're reallocating, it should be the same amount. Chair Russell: Yes. Good morning. Sandra Bridgeman: Sandy Bridgeman. Correction. It's 8,500. It's from three different organizations that did not produce the documents. And it -- the total of it is 8,500. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Chair Russell: But you only need to deallocate the 7 from the other one. Okay. So it is correct in the writing. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. All right. Vice Chair Gort: And you are? Chair Russell: I think -- Repeat your name, please. Thank you. Ms. Bridgeman: Sandy Bridgeman. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Vice Chair Gort: Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: All right. I'll make a motion and -- Commissioner Reyes: Hold on a second. I want to make a comment on RE. 7; just -- it's just a plain comment -- Chair Russell: Please go ahead. Commissioner Reyes: -- that I cannot go to bed if I don't say it. You see, it's ironic that after going after this man, Administration going after Charlie De Lucca, accusing him with body -- with threats that they were going to be run out of there and increasing his level of stress, and that -- I'm not saying that caused his demise, but I'm pretty sure that will -- that increased his demise, you see, that he died -- that now we are naming a street after him, proposed by the Administration. It is very ironic. I will vote in favor, because this man -- not because it was an institution there -- because he did a hell of a good job. He didn't deserve the treatment that he received, and I have to say that. He didn't receive [sic] the treatment that he received from our Administration and our Mayor. Chair Russell: Thank you. Vice Chair Gort: Let me add to that. Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner. City of Miami Page 49 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Vice Chair Gort: And I agree with Commissioner Reyes. I think the -- this is to recognize the labor that this gentleman and his family has done for the -- several individuals, that we have a program which serves quite a bit -- quite a few people, and that have helped a lot of young people come up today, and receive scholarships and all kind of benefits because of his services. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Vice Chair Gort: And that's why we're naming the street. Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Chair Russell: There's a motion by Commissioner Carollo; seconded by the Chair. Is there any further discussion on the remaining items? Commissioner Carollo: Yes. On RE.7, if I could be placed as a sponsor of that, also. Chair Russell: Yes. Madam City Attorney, do you need to read something on RE. 1 ? Ms. Mendez: Erica will. Thank you. Chair Russell: Hello. Erica Paschal (Director): Good morning, Commissioners. Erica Paschal, for the Finance Department. It must be read into the record that for the purpose of RE.1, which is a refunding of the 2010A Marlins parking revenue, the lender has consented to the City repurposing one or more of the parking garages now or any time in the future. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Ms. Paschal: You're welcome. Chair Russell: Noted for the record. Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): My apologies, Chair. Is that amending the legislation; or, Madam City Attorney, it's as is? Ms. Mendez: It's amended. Chair Russell: Thank you. Mr. Hannon: And Chair, I do apologize. It's my understanding this item needs to come back for the October 24 City Commission meeting. Chair Russell: RE.1 ? Mr. Hannon: Oh, my apologies. All right. Chair Russell: We're dealing with it now. Does the mover and the seconder accept the amendment as mentioned on the record? Vice Chair Gort: I do. City of Miami Page 50 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Yes. Thank you very much. And then -- All right. Is there any further comment for those items, PH.1, REs.1, 2, 6, 7, and 8? Seeing none, all in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you very much. PH.2 RESOLUTION 6505 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), BY A FOUR -FIFTHS (4/STHS) 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 AS NOT BEING PRACTICABLE OR ADVANTAGEOUS TO THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY"); APPROVING A RIGHT OF WAY ACCESS AND SERVICE AGREEMENT ("AGREEMENT"), IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT "B," WITH ILLUMINATION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC ("ILLUMINATION TECHNOLOGIES") TO ALLOW ILLUMINATION TECHNOLOGIES TO ACCESS CERTAIN RIGHTS OF WAY FOR THE INSTALLATION OF MULTIPURPOSE POLES TO PROVIDE, AMONG OTHER THINGS, A VIGILANCE SECURITY NETWORK INCLUDING A VIDEO VIGILANCE CAMERA NETWORK, FLOOD SENSORS, AND TAG READERS, ALL AT NO COST TO THE CITY, WHICH FURTHERS THE INTERESTS OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY AND GENERAL WELFARE; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE AGREEMENT, IN SUBSTANTIALLY FORM ATTACHED AS EXHIBIT "B," BETWEEN THE CITY AND ILLUMINATION TECHNOLOGIES, LLC; AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ANY AMENDMENTS AND EXTENSIONS THERETO, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, FOR SAID PURPOSE. MOTION TO: Continue RESULT: CONTINUED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: Item PH.2 was continued to the November 21, 2019, Regular Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item PH.2, please see "Order of the Day." END OF PUBLIC HEARINGS City of Miami Page 51 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 RE.1 6460 Department of Finance RE - RESOLUTIONS RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), RESCINDING RESOLUTION NO. 19-0123 PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED ON MARCH 28, 2019; PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED NINETY MILLION DOLLARS ($90,000,000.00) IN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF A CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY") TAXABLE SPECIAL OBLIGATION PARKING REVENUE REFUNDING NOTE, SERIES 2019 (MARLINS STADIUM PARKING FACILITIES PROJECT) ("NOTE") AND THE COSTS OF ISSUANCE THEREOF; APPROVING THE SELECTION OF THE PRIVATE PLACEMENT PROPOSAL FROM CAPITAL ONE PUBLIC FUNDING, LLC ("LENDER") AND PROVIDING FOR THE DIRECT LOAN FROM AND NEGOTIATED SALE OF SAID NOTE TO THE LENDER; SETTING CERTAIN BASIC PARAMETERS OF THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF A LOAN AGREEMENT AND THE NOTE AND AUTHORIZING THE NEGOTIATION, EXECUTION, AND DELIVERY, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY AND BOND COUNSEL, OF A LOAN AGREEMENT, THE NOTE, AND ANY AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY AGREEMENTS, DOCUMENTS, AND INSTRUMENTS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS AND DETERMINATIONS; AUTHORIZING ALL REQUIRED ACTIONS BY THE CITY MANAGER, CITY ATTORNEY, BOND COUNSEL, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, AND ALL OTHER CITY OFFICIALS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER, CITY ATTORNEY, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, BOND REGISTRAR, NOTE REGISTRAR, ESCROW AGENT, PAYING AGENT, AND ALL OTHER NECESSARY CITY OFFICIALS TO UNDERTAKE THE NECESSARY STEPS AND TO NEGOTIATE, EXECUTE, AND DELIVER, IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY AND BOND COUNSEL, ANY AND ALL NECESSARY ESCROW DEPOSIT AGREEMENTS, NOTICES, DOCUMENTS, AND INSTRUMENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DEFEASANCE AND REDEMPTION OF EIGHTY-FOUR MILLION FIVE HUNDRED FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($84,540,000.00) OF THE CITY'S OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF TAX- EXEMPT SPECIAL OBLIGATION PARKING REVENUE BONDS, SERIES 2010A (MARLINS STADIUM PROJECT) ("SERIES 2010A BONDS"); DELEGATING AUTHORITY TO THE CITY MANAGER TO SELECT AND APPOINT THE ESCROW AGENT AND THE VERIFICATION AGENT; RATIFYING, APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING CERTAIN NECESSARY ACTIONS BY THE CITY MANAGER AND DESIGNATED DEPARTMENTS IN ORDER TO UPDATE THE RELEVANT FINANCIAL CONTROLS AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH; AND PROVIDING APPLICABLE EFFECTIVE DATES. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0385 City ofMiarni Page 52 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 MOTION TO: Adopt with Modification(s) RESULT: ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATION(S) MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.1, please see Item PH.1. RE.2 RESOLUTION 6547 Office of Capital Improvements A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), ACCEPTING THE PROPOSALS RECEIVED ON MAY 29, 2019, PURSUANT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS ("RFP") NO. 18-19-001 FOR JOB ORDER CONTRACTING ("JOC") FOR HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICES CITYWIDE, THROUGH ELEVEN (11) AGREEMENTS FOR HORIZONTAL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES AND TWELVE (12) AGREEMENTS FOR VERTICAL CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, ON AN AS -NEEDED BASIS, FOR A PERIOD OF TWO (2) YEARS, WITH THE OPTION TO RENEW FOR TWO (2) ADDITIONAL ONE (1) YEAR PERIODS, FOR A TOTAL ANNUAL COMPENSATION LIMIT NOT -TO -EXCEED OF TWO MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($2,500,000.00) PER CONTRACT; ALLOCATING FUNDS FROM VARIOUS OFFICE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ("OCI") PROJECTS AND DEPARTMENTAL BUDGETS, SUBJECT TO BUDGETARY APPROVAL AT THE TIME OF NEED; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE CONTRACT DOCUMENTS, CONSISTING OF THE RFP DOCUMENTS AND ATTACHMENTS, IN SUBSTANTIALLY THE ATTACHED FORM, ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED AS EXHIBIT "B," WITH THE RESPONSIVE AND RESPONSIBLE CONTRACTORS IDENTIFIED IN EXHIBIT "A," ATTACHED AND INCORPORATED, FOR SAID PURPOSES; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS, INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS, RENEWALS, AND EXTENSIONS, SUBJECT TO ALLOCATIONS, APPROPRIATIONS, AND PRIOR BUDGETARY APPROVAL, AND IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE PROVISIONS OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), INCLUDING THE CITY OF MIAMI'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 RULES AND REGULATIONS, AS MAY BE DEEMED NECESSARY FOR SAID PURPOSE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0386 City ofMiami Page 53 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.2, please see Item PH.1. RE.3 RESOLUTION 6176 Sea Level Rise Committee A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION ENCOURAGING THE FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION ("PSC") TO SET MEANINGFUL ENERGY EFFICIENCY GOALS IN THE 2019 FLORIDA ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION ACT PROCEEDINGS, INCLUDING ESTABLISHING A STRONG ENERGY EFFICIENCY RESOURCE STANDARD FOR THE STATE OF FLORIDA, ADOPTING A STRONG DEMAND -SIDE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM THAT INCLUDES UTILITY REBATES, AND LEVERAGING FEDERAL WEATHERIZATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FUNDS TO PROVIDE GREATER ASSISTANCE TO LOW INCOME HOMEOWNERS; PROVIDING FOR TRANSMITTAL TO THE CHAIRPERSON AND CLERK OF THE PSC AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO FILE THE SAME IN RELEVANT PSC DOCKETS. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0375 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.3, please see "Order of the Day," "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s), " and Item CA.5. RE.4 RESOLUTION 6009 Sea Level Rise Committee A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, URGING THE 116TH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO SUPPORT HOUSE RESOLUTION 763, TITLED "THE ENERGY INNOVATION AND CARBON DIVIDEND ACT OF 2019"; DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE OFFICIALS NAMED HEREIN. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0376 City ofMiami Page 54 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.4, please see "Order of the Day," "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s), " and Item CA.5. RE.5 RESOLUTION 6175 Sea Level Rise Committee A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO RESEARCH AND DEVELOP GUIDELINES AND REGULATIONS FOR EXISTING COMMERCIAL AND MULTI -FAMILY BUILDINGS WITH 20,000 SQUARE FEET OR MORE OF FLOOR AREA, IN THE URBAN CORE TO ENSURE A MORE RESILIENT CITY AND REPORT BACK TO THE CITY COMMISSION WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY (180) DAYS. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0377 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.5, please see "Order of the Day," "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s), " and Item CA.5. RE.6 RESOLUTION 6574 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), URGING GOVERNOR RON DESANTIS AND THE MEMBERS OF THE FLORIDA LEGISLATURE TO SUPPORT THE ISSUES ADOPTED AS THE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES FOR THE SCHOOL BOARD OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA DURING THE 2020 LEGISLATIVE SESSION; DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE ELECTED OFFICIALS NAMED HEREIN. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0387 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.6, please see "Order of the Day," and Item PH.1. City of Miami Page 55 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 RE.7 RESOLUTION 6538 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION URGING AND SUPPORTING THE CO -DESIGNATION OF NORTHWEST 37TH AVENUE FROM NORTHWEST 14TH STREET TO THE CITY OF MIAMI'S NORTHERN LIMITS AT APPROXIMATELY TAMIAMI CANAL, MIAMI, FLORIDA AS "CHARLES DELUCCA JR. WAY" BY MIAMI-DADE COUNTY; FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY CLERK TO TRANSMIT A CERTIFIED COPY OF THIS RESOLUTION TO THE HEREIN DESIGNATED OFFICES. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0388 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.7, please see Item PH.1. RE.8 RESOLUTION 6587 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, DE - ALLOCATING ANTI -POVERTY INITIATIVE ("API") FUNDS AWARDED IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED TWO THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($2,500.00), PURSUANT TO RESOLUTION NO. R-18-0267 ADOPTED ON JUNE 28, 2018, AS SPECIFIED HEREIN; RESCINDING IN ITS ENTIRETY RESOLUTION NO. R-18-0414 ADOPTED ON SEPTEMBER 27, 2018, THEREBY DE -ALLOCATING API FUNDS IN THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5,000.00) THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY AWARDED; REALLOCATING EIGHT THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($8,500.00) TO THE MAYOR'S SHARE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI'S API FUNDS. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0389 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item RE.8, please see Item PH.1. City ofMiarni Page 56 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 RE.9 RESOLUTION 6591 Commissioners and Mayor A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, EXTENDING THE MOTORIZED SCOOTER PILOT PERMIT PROGRAM FOR AN ADDITIONAL FOUR (4) MONTHS FROM APPROXIMATELY JANUARY 1, 2020 TO MAY 1, 2020; FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO DEVELOP A COMPETITIVE SOLICITATION FORA PERMANENT MOTORIZED SCOOTER PROGRAM, SUBJECT TO REVIEW AND APPROVAL BY THE CITY COMMISSION PRIOR TO ISSUANCE, TO BE CONSIDERED FOR AWARD AT OR ABOUT THE CONCLUSION OF SAID EXTENSION. MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: MOTION DIED FOR LACK OF SECOND Note for the Record: A motion was made by Chair Russell to approve Item RE.9; however, motion died for lack of a second. For directive referencing item RE.9, please see item NA.2. For additional minutes referencing Item RE.9, please see Item PH.1. Chair Russell: RE.9, extension of the Scooter Program. If I could just say a word. My hope here is to buy us the time to make sure we can make the changes that are needed to make this program regulated, and as safe as possible. What I realized in the last vote on this item, we were not able to capture the amendments that I had read on the floor. So I would like to ask the body, just pass this to buy us the time. It's sim -- it's a resolution just extending the time, and then direct the Management to bring back an ordinance that will address the safety issues and the littering issues of the scooters, including the fines for parents who let their children use it; everything that was on the -- it was encapsulated in the record last time. But I need that ordinance, and there may be some more coming. I'll be dealing with some of the scooter companies to work on some of the different amendments. And I would also like to direct the Administration to begin crafting an RFP (Request for Proposals); work with my office and any other Commissioner who's interested so that if the will of this body is to issue that RFP, it will be ready in time by the end of the pilot, so there's no interruption of service. So that's the only request I have on RE.9. So is there a motion on RE.9? I can pass the gavel, but I need to know if I'm going to get a second; otherwise, we'll just let it go. I'll give it a shot. We're going to pass the gavel. Is there a motion? Commissioner Carollo: I thought you said before when you started the meeting, you know, we shouldn't be repetitious. Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: You said you needed to know. And then when -- Chair Russell: I know. Well, aft nobody spoke, so I'm going to go for it. Commissioner Carollo: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) you decided to pass the gavel. Chair Russell: Nobody spoke, so. City ofMiami Page 57 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Carollo: I'm just reminding you (UNINTELLIGIBLE) repetitious (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Vice Chair Gort: There's a motion. Chair Russell: Yes. I'd like to move -- Vice Chair Gort: Is there a second to the motion? Chair Russell: -- RE.9, please. Vice Chair Gort: Is there any second? Any second? Seeing no second, the motion is dead for -- Chair Russell: Thank you very much. So we have two months then. Commissioner Hardemon: Help me understand -- Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Hardemon: -- why this resolution is important, because we just extended it two months last time. Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Hardemon: And in that extension, you wanted six months. So this is an additional four months, which will make moot, basically, that deal. Chair Russell: You're bringing it back to the six. So we need -- and I -- what I should have asked you in that last -- the sec -- the ordinance that you brought -- well, no; it was a resolution that you brought. So when the ordinance was voted down, I was not able to bring in the amendments that are needed, and the amendments that I said on the floor are just the start, because several of the scooter companies have asked -- and you know what? I did forget. On this item, I did want an amendment, because I believe the financials are misstated in the way the resolution is written. This resolution, if passed as it were, would have charged the companies 50,000 apiece every time we extend, and that was not the spirit or intention. It was intended to be $50, 000 over the life of the six-month period. So in what we were able to pass in the last meeting, the ones who are involved are being charged, but that wasn't my intention in this extension; it's just to buy us the time to bring the safety ordinance, which we absolutely need, because a kid will get hurt if we don't start penalizing parents who violate the system. They are littering the sidewalks; and so, we need those hubs where we incentivize residents to leave the scooters and the companies to leave the scooters out of the right-of-way, or out of the way of folks in ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act). So I just don't know that the two -month is enough to bring the two readings of an ordinance without interrupting the program. It's definitely not enough time to get the RFP in place before the pilot would end. Commissioner Hardemon: And so -- Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? Chair Russell: Just a moment, Commissioner. Commissioner Hardemon. Commissioner Hardemon: Let him go. City of Miami Page 58 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair, it is obvious that there is a lot of rejection to the use of scooters. You just heard a lady that lives -- and I have a lot of other complaints that they have come to me. It is very dangerous. And I think that you are trying to buy time. And buy time -- I think that we would have to do -- and I'm willing to place -- I mean, a motion to kill this project right away; I mean, just to do away with it until we find a way to make it safe, because this is not safe, whatsoever. It litters our streets. The major streets in the United States and the world, they are buying this type of transportation, because it is dangerous. People, they act -- I mean, they don't follow any laws. Being in Coconut Grove with my wife, and that lady reminded me of it -- there was this guy -- it wasn't a kid. It was a young man. It was a -- well, I call it a young man, because anybody that is younger than me is a young man, and I am very old -- and was riding on the street, and my wife was talking to a friend on the streets, and he almost ran over her. And instead of saying, "Excuse me, "started [expletive] at my wife -- Vice Chair Gort: By the way -- Commissioner Reyes: -- for being on the street -- I mean, being on the sidewalk. I'm sorry. Vice Chair Gort: -- we're not older; we're better. Commissioner Carollo: Well, thank you. Commissioner Reyes: We have a lot of -- Chair Russell: One at a time, please. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you for calling me a young man. I appreciate it. Commissioner Reyes: You are a young man. But I think that from all that we have heard, all the experiences that we have had, I don't think that any of the other Commissioners -- I mean, I'm talking about myself. I don't want to see it in my district. And also, although it is banned on my district, I find scooters in my district, that they cross from Coral Gables, littering the sidewalks -- I mean obstructing the sidewalks, littering the streets, you see? And in Paris, when they outlaw it, it says that it was going to -- they have become a jungle, a jungle. That was -- and they outlaw it right off the bat; said, "We don't want it here anymore," see, because it was uncontrollable. And all these controls that you -- they want to add on, like, for example, let's fine the parents. How come you going to fine the parents and you don't -- I mean, you see the kids, that they are riding it, and what are you going to do? Are you going to stop them? Chair Russell: No. Commissioner Reyes: We haven't been stopped yet, and you see parents with a toddler in front of them, riding these scooters. I mean, it's incredible how people -- how these scooters, what they -- I mean, and the people that ride them, how they act; and people that they don't perceive the danger of one of these scooters hitting a kid or an old person and killing them, see? And this is an accident waiting to happen, and a fatality waiting to happen. I don't want that on my conscience, so -- Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. I'd just like to -- City of Miami Page 59 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: -- I am totally (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. I'd just like to respond. The amendment, just to make it clear, allows for a serial number on every scooter, and any photo or video of a child riding a scooter can be traced back directly to the user account. And the amendment that I was proposing would impose a hundred - dollar fine on the account user for letting someone else use their account; and that would include double -riding, as well. And so, we're addressing the safety problems, but the truth is, we've had -- of the two people that came to speak today, the people who aren't speaking are the 1 million riders in the last six months who have used this system successfully. We have had -- in the last six months, we've had fatalities by car, we've had fatalities by bike, we've had fatalities of pedestrians. We have not had a fatality, thank God, on scooters; nor have we had one single major accident. Commissioner Reyes: But you have to -- Chair Russell: This is -- please, I'm not finished. There -- this is an option for us, and I'm trying to bring more regulation to make it as safe as possible to see if it's successful. The usage is proving its potential for success. The regulations we bring in can prove the potential for safety. So that is my hope, and I just don't know that two months is enough time for us to create the ordinance or the RFP to bring in all the amendments that would need the right safety, but I'll give it a try. Vice Chair Gort: Mr. -- Chair Russell: Yes, Vice Chairman. Vice Chair Gort: -- Chairman, I don't have any problems expanding the two months that we approved before. But I'd also like to know how many times have we -- how many suits have we had so far? Ms. Mendez: We have about three claims. Vice Chair Gort: Three claims that we have already from the scooters. I'd like to see -- in the two months to see -- my understanding is that -- their responsibility -- for them to defend that. Ms. Mendez: The -- based on your multiple requests to make sure we had a robust indemnification, it has been that we just tender it over to the scooter company, and they handle it. Vice Chair Gort: So I want to see what their reaction is in two months. Commissioner Reyes: Through the Chair. Vice Chair Gort: I know I'm not going to be here, but just -- I want to make sure. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Commissioner Reyes: Through the Chair. Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Reyes: And we got two months. Let's see how much improvement we're going to have in two months. You see, it's plenty of time, plenty of time to correct or try to avoid the accidents that we're going to have. And I know -- well, City of Miami Page 60 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 there is -- they are -- I know a person that fell and broke an arm. I have a person that was run by -- I know persons that they live in Brickell Avenue and they -- when this guy -- I mean this person has a toddler, and when they go on the streets, he is always on the lookout for -- when they're trying to be with a carrier and his son and his wife just taking a stroll. You see, they have to be on the lookout constantly, but - - for people that are riding these scooters, and that they could really hurt them. Chair Russell: Understood. Mr. -- Commissioner Reyes: You got two months. Chair Russell: Commissioner Hardemon. Commissioner Hardemon: So I'm not sure if there's a user problem or if it's really a company problem. Chair Russell: A -- what problem? I couldn't hear the second part. Commissioner Hardemon: A user problem; like a user problem, someone -- when you see -- Chair Russell: The riders. Commissioner Hardemon: -- the riders, or it's the actual companies that are causing us more headache, but I know there's a problem. And I'll give you an example. Yesterday, I was in the Midtown area, which, of course, is a district that you and I -- we border each other on North Miami Avenue. And so, I took a picture, because there were six scooters that were along a pedestrian sidewalk. It's wide enough where -- and, you know, in the Midtown area, you can -- a lot of people can pass at one time; they have huge sidewalks. But the space that it was at -- and I have the picture to show it -- is the loading zone that is just near the Home Goods. And if you know that loading zone, there's a street that's just adjacent to it, where the cars pass by in one direction. And so, the problem that I found with all the scooters being lined up there is that you, by and large -- First of all, we know that it's very difficult for parking and transporting items in that area, so if you -- people, especially tourists coming in that area, and they buy large pieces of -- pieces, and they park on the street, they find that their cart is stopped -- right? -- they -- beyond a certain area, so they can't push their shopping cart out. And so, they're forced many times to carry these large items with -- by -- through manpower. And so, Home Goods, though, has that little space that they were smart enough to say, "Okay, well, let's use this space to allow people to park in that area," because you can't park there unless you are loading or unload -- well, loading or unloading, "and we'll put their items in their car." Well, with the scooters parked there, you can't even get past. You can't get to that spot. And so, the only way you're able to get to that car is if you walk into the street. You have to walk around the car on the corner. So once you're on the -- there's places on the corner; they're looking at traffic heading southbound and heading westbound at the same time. You're kind of walking around into that space to put the stuff into the car. That's just one situation. I -- so here, with this resolution, you know, with -- the thing that I'm worried about is this: Extending it, the amount of time that we just agreed that we were not going to extend it to, but moreover, I like the fact that we want to look towards an RFP. I don't know which way I would be on an RFP, but at least we'll be able to say -- instead of there being, say -- I don't know how many companies there are, but say there's seven companies. Chair Russell: Yeah. City ofMiami Page 61 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Hardemon: And that's what makes it seem like it's the Wild, Wild West. If there's one company that will come up -- rises out of all that, or two companies, at least then we'll know -- "Okay, we have a scooter problem. It's with this company"; not that, "Hey, there was a scooter that passed me. What color was it? I don't know. It was yellow, it was blue, it was going fast," you know. I think that's part of our issue. And I think having an RFP would kind of help drill it down, and I think -- and during that time, we could look at safety and all those other things that make it work. And so, that's where I am. It's like I'm -- I just want at least to be able to know who is who, what's what. And, you know, even seeing a serial number on a scooter, I mean, good luck. Good luck. I mean, you could barely see a tag number on a car. And so, those scooters are zipping past. You don't know where they are, or where to find it. It's like trying to read a serial number on a dirt bike. You know, it just -- it's -- I don't think it's going to really be effective. And so, that's where I am. So I -- you know, if we could give direction to start the process for the RFP so that in the two months we can make a decision about that, I think that'd be good. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Hardemon: If we're not there yet at that two -month period, you know, I'd be willing to extend for an additional two, you know, possibly, to see some sort of RFP come through, because I -- there are good parts to -- I almost got on a scooter this weekend. I was in Tallahassee -- I think it was this weekend or this past weekend. I was in Tallahassee, and, you know, Tallahassee is the highest (UNINTELLIGIBLE) hills, so they're very large hills. And my knee is kind of hurting me still, so I wanted to ride the scooter up, but I resisted, and I was sweaty by the end of it. But, you know, we have these tools at our fingertips. I didn't get on it, but at the same time, they were there. They were not as numerous, though, even on a college -- you know -- college campus -- as they are here in Miami. And I don't know if they're having any problems up there. But I'm still open to the idea of scooters being in Miami. But, you know, the way that they are right now under this pilot program, I'm just not satisfied with it. Chair Russell: Thank you. I understand, Commissioner -- Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Chair Russell: -- and I appreciate your willingness. Mr. Manager, I have a question for you. How much time would it take to put together an RFP? Or maybe Annie can help. Commissioner Carollo: Tomorrow he could have it for you. Emilio T. Gonzalez (City Manager): Let me -- Annie, go ahead. I -- okay. Annie Perez (Director, Purchasing): Good -- it's still morning. Good morning, Commissioners. We could as -- so as long as we get a scope of services, we can start drafting the RFP, and that could be done within two months. Where it gets tricky is actually going out and -- you know -- advertising and evaluating, and that's where the time is most spent. Chair Russell: So I think most important is getting that RFP right, so if you can bring us within the two months an RFP, we will be needing an extension, because at that point, then we go out for bids -- Ms. Perez: Exactly. City of Miami Page 62 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: -- then we have to award, and that's probably another few months? Ms. Perez: That's probably another -- it could take, you know, anywhere from three months, around three months. Chair Russell: So that would total five; that's why my objective of the six-month pilot extension was to get the RFP completely done and awarded by the end of the pilot so that we could then work with less companies, with more organization; and definitely, the safety rules. Now, thank you for that answer. But, Mr. Manager, my problem is the safety issue. Later... Chair Russell: Commissioner -- Vice Chairman Gort. Vice Chair Gort: Question: I know you're working on expediting the process, procurement process that we have. We've been working on it for a long time now, Why it will take three months or two months is because of State legislation or because City codes or zoning requirement? Annie Perez (Director, Purchasing): Well, if we want to get the RFP right -- Vice Chair Gort: Right. Ms. Perez: -- we want to make sure that there's a good scope, that we include everything that needs to be included in there, anything that's regarding safety. We want to make sure that it's a good, you know -- when we bring it to you, we want to make sure it's in the most -- best final draft that we can, so that's why -- We can do that within the two months. Vice Chair Gort: I understand that, because if you get all the input from us, the Commissioners, you can get a lot of the input that you're looking for. I mean, we stated before in the different meetings what they were looking for, and in each one in here make the statement, what they would like to see in that. Ms. Perez: Okay. Vice Chair Gort: Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair, clarify this. If we go for an RFP, we vote that we want you to bring an RFP, doesn't that implicitly means that we agreed on bringing them back and using them on the streets of Miami? Because we're asking people, I mean, to bid on their services. That means that, implicitly that we want to bring them and have them on our streets. So I will not be able to -- I mean, I don't think we should be voting on -- or bringing an RFP. And by the way, an RFP could be brought if we vote for it, right? Chair Russell: Correct. Commissioner Reyes: You see? And I'm not willing on voting for an RFP, because what we're doing now, it is just going around it, bringing an RFP, which will mean that we want these scooters on the streets of Miami. City ofMiami Page 63 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Reyes: I, for one, don't want them, you see? So I would be voting -- I think that we should bring this up if we're going to have an RFP or a vote. Am I right or wrong, Madam City Attorney? Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Are you voting -- I think the main question is, are you voting for her to proceed forward with an RFP? Commissioner Reyes: No, no. In order for her to bring an RFP, it requires a vote from the Commission. Chair Russell: No. Ms. Mendez: No. What requires a vote is for you to accept it and award it and -- Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Ms. Mendez: -- put in into place -- Commissioner Reyes: Okay. I stand corrected. Ms. Mendez: -- and not necessarily (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Reyes: I stand corrected, because I thought that in order for us to request an RFP for anything that we're going to do, it had -- the directive have to come from the Commission. Ms. Mendez: You are correct if it's City property. You're correct. Commissioner Reyes: Okay, if it is on City property? Ms. Mendez: Yes. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. And this is, which is general -- Ms. Mendez: In general, normally, the Administration works on RFP ideas, or you could direct RFP ideas if you have any. Commissioner Reyes: Okay, okay. Ms. Mendez: And then she works on it. Commissioner Reyes: I -- Ms. Mendez: She sends it to you and -- Commissioner Reyes: -- just want to make it clear, because if it is -- if it wasn't clear -- because I'm not voting for it anyways. Chair Russell: The award would need to be voted on. Vice Chairman. Vice Chair Gort: Also, we can -- as they meet with you, you can put your requirements; part of the RFP, you can take your district out of it. Commissioner Reyes: No. That's -- that is a fact. I just wanted to know that. City of Miami Page 64 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- Chair Russell: I think direction has been clear. Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. I finally got to put my two cents into this. I have looked throughout the United States, throughout other parts of the world that have these scooters. I have really looked into it, and there's only one way that we can make this safe, and that's the only way that you're going to get my vote. Chair Russell: What way is that, sir? Commissioner Carollo: Voting it down. That's the only way that you could make this program safe. If you keep allowing this program to go forward, we're going to have not only a lot of problems in the area of lawsuits and so on, but you're going to have serious injuries, and hopefully, not a death. Let me read this into the record. This is June 3, 2019. Eight deaths now tied to these scooters. "At least eight people in the U.S. (United States) have died while using a rentable scooter since the fall of 2017, Consumer Report has suggested. Earlier this year, a Consumer Report investigation, which tabulated injuries from 110 hospitals in 47 U.S. cities" -- that's only 110 hospitals, and it only covered 47 cities; not all the cities have scooters -- 'found that at least 1,500 riders have been injured since these scooters were introduced in late 2017." This other one is even more reason than this June 2019 report that I read. This is from the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom. It says, "It was here at Queen Circus, just south of the" -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in London, Battersea -- "that 35-year-old TV (television) presenter and YouTube star, Emily Hartridge, lost her life eight days ago." She's -- it said she had been in a collision with a lorry as she circled a roundabout while riding an e-scooter, bought for her by her boyfriend as a birthday present less than a week before. Gentlemen, the only way you can make this safe is by not approving it. This is worldwide; not just in Miami. And as I stated before, I am not going to have on my conscience if any young person or older person gets seriously hurt or gets killed, because we have let this program proceed. Chair Russell: But we're okay with bicycles, which are offering more fatalities nationwide and worldwide than scooters and automobiles and pedestrians? Commissioner Carollo: Well, maybe we should approve tanks; that we could, you know, put tanks in the streets -- Chair Russell: Operating -- Commissioner Carollo: -- with no live rounds. Chair Russell: There is inherent risk operating anything in our City -- in our streets, and I believe that we, as a city, have brought forth the safest program in the country, and that's why we are seeing less injuries than anywhere else in the country, and I'd like to make it safer. I don't think we're doing this carelessly. I think we've been very, very thorough about this. I know I will not have a consensus of this Commission, but I'm telling you, the million riders, of which some are using irresponsibly -- just like cars and bikes and everything else -- are making a difference in our City with regard to congestion and options for them not using cars. So I'll continue to seek your support, and I will continue to by to make it safer. And I -- Commissioner Carollo: Well -- City of Miami Page 65 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: -- appreciate that the Management has direction now to come back with something -- Commissioner Carollo: -- one -- Chair Russell: -- to achieve both. Commissioner Carollo: -- last statement I'd like to make on this. I have seen how many of these riders, maybe even a majority of these riders, have a total disregard for the safety of others in the sidewalk, in the streets. They don't care about traffic laws or any other kind of laws on the sidewalk. It's Dodge City, the Wild Wild West, in how they ride them. In my district, in areas extremely far from our boundary line in West Brickell and 1st Avenue, I've seen them riding them. Biscayne Boulevard, the main thoroughfare, the main boulevard, not just the City of Miami, but of all Miami -Dade County, in front of Bayfront Park, Ferre Park, Bayside, it looks like we have a secondhand bicycle -- scooter/bicycle lot. The only thing that's needed is just, you know, "For Sale." I mean, there are dozens and dozens and dozens just thrown anywhere. You go through -- it looks horrible. You go through Brickell and other parks, you find the same thing. So, you know, I cannot vote for this. And the only way that, no matter how you try to fix it that you could make this safe is by not approving it. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Moving on, SR.2. This is consolidating boards and committees. Commissioner Hardemon: Before you we move on, like I just want to make clear, if -- I think the RFP is a way that we can perfect maybe what the offer is, and that's why I'd be willing to be see the RFP, to decide if we want to, in fact, move forward with a program or not. So that's why I'm interested in seeing the -- at least that offer of what the City would make a request for, if we were going to move forward with the decision with the scooters. So I still think that you should move forward with that. I don't think you need direction for that. Chair Russell: Thank you. Please work closely with both offices, as it's going to be most policy decisions within that RFP that decide whether it's going to be successful or not; where, how many companies, what the caps are; everything we're learning from the pilot. All right. Thank you very much for a vigorous discussion on scooters. END OF RESOLUTIONS City ofMiami Page 66 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 SR - SECOND READING ORDINANCES SR.1 ORDINANCE Second Reading 6011 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION RENAMING Office of the City THE "MAYOR'S INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL" TO THE "MAYOR'S Clerk COUNCIL ON GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS" BY AMENDING CHAPTER 2/ARTICLE XI/DIVISION 2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), TITLED "ADMINISTRATION/BOARDS, COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS/STANDARDS FOR CREATION AND REVIEW OF BOARDS GENERALLY," MORE PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING SECTIONS 2-887(B) AND 2-892(4)(A)(1) TO CHANGE REFERENCES TO THE "MAYOR'S INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL" TO THE "MAYOR'S COUNCIL ON GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS"; AMENDING CHAPTER 2/ARTICLE XI/DIVISION 3 OF THE CITY CODE, TITLED "ADMINISTRATION/BOARDS, COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS/MAYOR'S INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL," TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE "MAYOR'S INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL" TO THE "MAYOR'S COUNCIL ON GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS"; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: 13863 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For additional minutes referencing Item SR.1, please see "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s), " and Item CA. S. City ofMiarni Page 67 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 SR.2 ORDINANCE Second Reading 6155 AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING Office of the City CHAPTER 2/ARTICLE XI OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, Clerk FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), TITLED "ADMINISTRATION/BOARD, COMMITTEES, COMMISSIONS," TO REALIGN THE MIAMI COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN, THE PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD, THE CITY OF MIAMI BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE, THE EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD, AND THE SENIOR CITIZENS' ADVISORY BOARD INTO THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE ("COMMITTEE"); MORE SPECIFICALLY BY ADDING DIVISION 6, SECTIONS 2-1011 TO 2-1019 TO CREATE THE COMMITTEE; REPEALING IN ITS ENTIRETY DIVISION 8, TITLED "MIAMI COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN;" REPEALING IN ITS ENTIRETY DIVISION 11, TITLED "PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD;" REPEALING IN ITS ENTIRETY DIVISION 13, TITLED "CITY OF MIAMI BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE;" REPEALING IN ITS ENTIRETY DIVISION 20, TITLED "EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD;" REPEALING IN ITS ENTIRETY DIVISION 23, TITLED "SENIOR CITIZENS' ADVISORY BOARD;" CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: 13864 MOTION TO: Adopt with Modification(s) RESULT: ADOPTED WITH MODIFICATION(S) MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: For additional minutes referencing Item SR.2, please see "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s)." Chair Russell: SR.2, if we could move on. Is there a motion for SR.2? Commissioner Carollo: Well, there could be a motion if we take out the Commission of [sic] Status of Women. I've spoken to Commissioner Higgins. She is opposed to the inclusion of the Status of Women in this new refining of these boards. I think she's right. I oppose that, so I -- if we could take that out. I don't mind including the others, but -- Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Carollo: -- I can't vote on it the way that it is. Chair Russell: Thank you. Vice Chairman. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? Oh. Chair Russell: Vice Chairman, and then Commissioner Reyes. Vice Chair Gort: Commissioner Carollo, I understand Commissioner Higgins' worry, but at the same time, if we look at the history of what the -- when we were here in the '90s, the Status -- the Commission of [sic] Women was a lot different, City of Miami Page 68 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 the labor that they were doing; what they're doing now. My understanding, I have people that I had appointed to that board that, after a while, being to several board meetings, they walked out. My understanding is, in talking to some of the people I have there right now, I think they appreciate being able to have input in all the other different committees they're going to be working with. Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Todd, please, could you please explain what effect it will have on Commission on the Status of Women? I mean, because -- as we -- we discussed this subject before, and you told me that they -- the Status of Women Committee, it was not going to be eliminated. Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): They will not; no, sir. Vice Chair Gort: Yeah. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Could you explain what are you doing? Mr. Hannon: Yes, sir. And I believe there was a previous member of the Commission on the Status of Women, Renita Holmes, who did make mention that she was in support, because currently, we have a large number of single subject boards. You could -- you can make the argument that it's not the board members' fault that they haven't been able to maybe do more than they have, because they're restricted by their scope. And by realigning the boards, not only will the City save over $600,000 in the first 10 years alone; the board will be empowered now to be able to look at many different areas where women are impacted. They will be -- have access to vast resources, more so than they do now, from the standpoint of bringing in the Parks Director, whether it be seniors, whether it be beautification, education. This board has not met quorum in September, nor did they establish quorum in October. And again, that's not a reflection on the board members. I think it's more a reflection on the fact that they're just limited now in what they can do. If you look at their agendas from previous meetings from the beginning of this year, they've looked at potentially bringing forth a bilingual center. And so, to me, if you empower the board now to be able to work with education and the parks, it seems as though it's a natural fit. Commissioner Reyes: What will be (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- I mean, how that board's going to be called? Mr. Hannon: We could -- if the Commission agrees, we could call this board the "Commission on the Status of Women and the Quality of Life Committee." Commissioner Reyes: So that the Status of Women will not be -- Mr. Hannon: It will not be (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Reyes: -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE). And what will happen to the ladies that are appointed at the present board? Mr. Hannon: Well, there haven't -- their attendance hasn't, you know, been the best, but they would need to approach their Commissioners to see if they can be appointed to this empowered board. Commissioner Reyes: To this group that will empower women more, and they will be able to do more than -- on the present status of the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) ? City of Miami Page 69 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Mr. Hannon: Yes, sir. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: Would you like to offer an amendment to the name of the board? Commissioner Reyes: Yes. I would love -- I mean, at that -- I want the board to be named just as you stated. Mr. Hannon: Understood, sir. Chair Russell: Would you like to make the motion? Commissioner Reyes: Yes. I make a motion. Chair Russell: All right. Seconded by the Chair. Further discussion? Commissioner Hardemon: I think that's a bad name. Chair Russell: A bad name? Commissioner Hardemon: Yeah. The name of it right now is the "Quality of Life and Human Rights Committee." Are we going to just say the Commission of -- the Commission -- Commissioner Reyes: The Status of Women -- Commissioner Hardemon: -- on the Status of Women/Quality of Life and Human Rights Committee? Mr. Hannon: Oh, no, no, no. It would be the "Commission on the Status of Women and the Quality of Life Committee." Commissioner Hardemon: So we think that the Commission on the Status of Women is one of the most important boards of all the boards that's being consolidated? Mr. Hannon: I think it just reflects the importance that this City places. Commissioner Hardemon: On women? Mr. Hannon: Yes, sir. Chair Russell: If we're honest, there's an optics issue here, because there can be said a position that we are (UNINTELLIGIBLE) board or diminishing the input of women, but this very board has made it known through their minutes -- Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Chair Russell: -- if I read correctly, that they are in support of this consolidation -- Vice Chair Gort: Right. Commissioner Reyes: Yeah. Chair Russell: -- that it would give them a broader scope. City of Miami Page 70 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Chair Russell: And now you would have women sitting on a broader committee that can weigh in on various subjects and be a part of those committees. So I do believe in bringing the name to be inclusive of women -- Commissioner Reyes: To be inclusive of women. Chair Russell: -- of the entire -- over the entire board. It's not saying one's more important than the other issue, but it's a consolidation; not a diminishment. Commissioner Hardemon: No, I understand. I mean -- Look, I appoint women to different positions, and not just necessarily the Commission on the Status of Women. All right? So I think women are important decision makers -- persons as decision maker. It is our -- I don't think that women will be as inclusive of men. I think there used to be a man on the Commission on the Status of Women. I think he qualifies to be on there, but he's no longer there, but that's neither here nor there. All I'm saying is that this is about consolidating the bodies. I think we took one organization out, and I want to make sure that organization's still out, and that's the Chair Russell: CRB (Community Relations Board). Commissioner Hardemon: -- CRB. So the CRB is removed from the ordinance. And so, we want to make that clear on the record, because what they were doing is a different purpose necessarily than what the other boards are doing. Thank you. Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): So just to be clear, what is this new title, the Commission of the Status of Women and the Quality of Life and Human Rights Committee? Mr. Hannon: Ma'am, it'll be the "Commission on the Status of Women and the Quality of Life Committee." Chair Russell: Thank you. Mover and seconder agree to the amendment. Any further discussion? All in favor, say "aye." Mr. Hannon: Chair, the title. Vice Chair Gort: Ordinance. Chair Russell: It's an ordinance. Thank you. Ms. Mendez: "An ordinance of the Miami City Commission amending Chapter 2/Article XI of the Code of the City of Miami, Florida, titled Administration/Boards, Committees, Commissions," to realign the Miami Commission on the Status of Women, the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, the City of Miami Beautification Committee, the Education Advisory Board, the Senior Citizens' Advisory Board into the Commission of the Status of Women" -- Chair Russell: "On the Status of Women." Ms. Mendez: -- "and Quality of Life Committee." Mr. Hannon: Commission "on" the Status of Women -- Commissioner Reyes: "On" the Status. City of Miami Page 71 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Ms. Mendez: Okay. Mr. Hannon: -- "and the Quality of Life." Ms. Mendez: As Todd has reflected on the record. "More specifically by adding Division 6, Sections 2-1011 to 2-1019 to create the committee; repealing in its entirety Division 8, titled `Miami Commission on the Status of Women; " repealing in its entirety Division 11, titled "Parks and Recreation Advisory Board;;" repealing in its entirety Division 13, titled "City of Miami Beautification Committee; " repealing in its entirety Division 20, titled "Education Advisory Board;;" repealing in its entirety Division 23, titled "Senior Citizens' Advisory Board;; " containing a severability clause; and providing for an effective date." Chair Russell: Thank you very much. All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Commissioner Carollo: "Aye" to the amendment. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Thank you. Motion passes. Ms. Mendez: As amended. Chair Russell: As amended. That's SR. 2. SR.3 ORDINANCE Second Reading 6257 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S), DESIGNATING A PORTION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI AS A "CLEAN ZONE", WHICH WILL PROVIDE FOR THE SAFE AND ORDERLY USE OF CITY STREETS AND SIDEWALKS BY SIDEWALK VENDORS, PEDDLERS, STREET TICKET SELLERS, AND PEDESTRIANS DURING THE 2020 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE SUPER BOWL AND MIAMI SUPER BOWL HOST COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES ("ACTIVITIES") IN THE CLEAN ZONE; ESTABLISHING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR THE ACTIVITIES IN ORDER TO REGULATE COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES DURING THE 2020 NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE SUPER BOWL -RELATED EVENTS IN THE CLEAN ZONE BEGINNING 12:01 A.M. ON SUNDAY, JANUARY 19, 2020 AND ENDING AT 11:59 P.M. ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2020; AND FURTHER PROHIBITING THE SALE, OFFER FOR SALE, OR DISTRIBUTION OF COUNTERFEIT GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDISE OF THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE OR THE MIAMI SUPER BOWL HOST COMMITTEE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: 13865 City of Miami Page 72 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Chair Russell: Moving on to SR.3 -- Commissioner Carollo: Move. Chair Russell: -- Super Bowl 2020. Commissioner Carollo: Move. Chair Russell: Motion by -- Commissioner Reyes: Second. Chair Russell: -- Commissioner Carollo -- Commissioner Reyes: Second. Chair Russell: -- seconded by Commissioner Reyes. Any further discussion? All in favor, say "aye." Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Title. The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney. Chair Russell: Thank you very much for reading that into the record. All in favor of SR.3, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. City of Miami Page 73 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 SR.4 ORDINANCE Second Reading 5434 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 40/ARTICLE IV/DIVISION 3 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), TITLED "PERSONNEL/PENSION AND RETIREMENT PLAN/CITY OF MIAMI GENERAL EMPLOYEES' SANITATION AND EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT TRUST;" MORE PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING SECTIONS 40-241, 40-254, AND 40-255, TITLED "DEFINITIONS," "PAYBACKS FOR MEMBERSHIP CREDIT," AND "BENEFITS," RESPECTIVELY, TO AMEND THE SERVICE RETIREMENT BENEFITS, PROVIDE FOR PURCHASE OF CREDIT FOR CERTAIN NONMEMBERSHIP SERVICE, AND THE DEFINITIONS OF AVERAGE FINAL COMPENSATION AND NORMAL RETIREMENT AGE; FURTHER AMENDING CHAPTER 40/ARTICLE IV/DIVISION 6 OF THE CITY CODE, TITLED "PERSONNEL/PENSION AND RETIREMENT PLAN/TRUST FUND FOR APPOINTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES IN EXECUTIVE SERVICE," MORE PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING SECTION 40- 351, TITLED "TRUST FUND FOR APPOINTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES IN EXECUTIVE SERVICE," TO ALLOW CERTAIN APPOINTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES TO ELECT TO PARTICIPATE IN EITHER THE TRUST FUND FOR APPOINTED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES IN EXECUTIVE SERVICE OR THE CITY OF MIAMI GENERAL EMPLOYEES' AND SANITATION EMPLOYEES' RETIREMENT TRUST AND PROVIDING FOR THE PURCHASE OF PRIOR SERVICE; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Continue RESULT: CONTINUED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Keon Hardemon, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Gort Note for the Record: Item SR.4 was continued to the November 21, 2019, Regular Commission Meeting. For additional minutes referencing Item SR.4, please see "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s). " Chair Russell: SR. 4. Commissioner Hardemon: Can I make some comments before -- about -- Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner. Commissioner Hardemon: -- the pension items? I want to say that I -- the pension items have been a point of -- Commissioner Carollo: I'll be back. City ofMiami Page 74 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Hardemon: I'm sure. The pension items is something that we've been talking about for some time. It's a constant discussion amongst the City employees; especially because, you know, our agreement only lasted them a certain amount of years, and then we're back into negotiations, et cetera. And it is probably one of the least favorable things, I think, as elected officials that we have to deal with, because -- in fact, it deals with not only our compensation, our good, but also the employees of the City of Miami, their compensation, and their family, and their decency. And, you know, there has been inequities in pension discussion, in who gets what, that are very clear that I think have existed for many years when you look at different professions; from firefighters to Police, from Police to GESE (General Employees and Sanitation Employees), et cetera; and, you know, it's interesting because there are tactics to how you go about establishing what the pension benefits can be, et cetera. And, you know, I wasn't here at the time that pension benefits were stripped away from GESE employees, from Fire employees, from Police employees, and from elected officials; I was not here, but Commissioner Gort, you probably were here during all of those times, and -- but I have an ability to talk to people who were here, from elected officials, Commissioners, to employees who suffered those cuts. My mother was one of those people who suffered cuts. And from the time that the cuts were (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- not only did my mother suffer cuts from pensions, from the pay in pensions, et cetera, but -- I mean, at one point, she was even removed from duty through an action that was considered to be a wrongdoing for women of color who were involved romantically with people who had previously served time in the City of Miami. Nonetheless, what that caused for our family was -- all those things taken together -- was a real serious moment of -- many years of unsettledness. And my mother, she refinanced her home, all kinds of things, to try to get back on her feet to make -- so she wouldn't lose her home and lose where she was in life, because she was not being paid by the City of Miami anymore. Anyway -- and so, when I think about this thing, I think GESE, Fire, Police have all done an awesome job at continuing on the discussion, which is restore -- restoration of pension benefits. No one can fault them for their continued advocacy for restoration of benefits. And as long as I've been Commissioner, it's been a -- it's -- we've always said that we wanted to restore the benefits that were taken away from all of us, and it -- and to get there, it's taken time. It wasn't something that we could just do in one year; we could just kind of hit the light switch and restore benefits to everyone. But what I find to be very peculiar about it all is that elected officials, although we were the -- we on this dais were the first ones to say, "We're going to remove the pension that was available," because there are elected officials who do have pensions, who have served; not served long in the past; had served just before others who are on this board right now that have these pensions. There are Commissioners who have pensions that are in excess -- greatly in excess of the pensions that they were expected to have, because of loopholes in language. In all those things, the City of Miami has agreed to -- and this board has agreed to fix, and we have. And so, when I think about the issue of pension benefits for everyone -- a restoration of benefits for everyone -- When the City of Miami Commission decided to remove its pension benefit in a show of good faith to its employees that they were also cutting at a time where people were cutting, I don't think it was applauded. I think it was one of those things that was like, "Okay. And?" Because at the end of the day, its employees -- the policemen, the firemen, the employees of GESE -- everyone was suffering these cuts, and there was nothing that this Commission could do that was going to really heal that pain, except restore their benefits. And so, when we look at this continuation from that event, what we see is that everyone is having all of their benefits restored except the elected officials, and we are not advocating necessarily for ourselves, and I understand why. It's really all political. And there's nothing that I can say that is going to convince individuals who's decided politically that they will not support a measure that restores benefits to elected officials that they voluntarily took away during a time of crisis. But I will say to you that benefits for elected officials, especially in a place like the City of Miami, are necessary. And the City of Miami Page 75 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 reason I say that they're necessary, the way that we've proposed them, is because the City of Miami Commission is probably one of the most toxic environments that I've ever participated in. And why I say that is not because of the individuals that are sitting up here; not because of how we interact with each other, but it's all the other things that come along with being -- as one of the representatives of the boards -- of the unions put it -- in this public light in the City of Miami. I found that the level with (UNINTELLIGIBLE) described as scrutiny. It's more than a scrutiny. You know, we were passed some documents today that were in regards to one of the Chiefs of Staffs [sic] of our Commissioners. And, you know, when I read through the documents, it was -- it's hard. I'm a criminal defense attorney, and I've seen people accused of many different types of crimes. I've seen -- I've been on the sentencing phase of people who stabbed women 90 times, slit their throat, left the knife in their head, and I have not seen them have to relive the sorts of -- types of embarrassment and pain that we on this dais have had to relive and those who are close to us. And so, like, for instance, when I saw that document, all I said to myself was, "Damn." For one moment in time in which someone succumbed to their human traits, we were going to continue to punish that person moving forward, as if it had something to do with the City business today. And he's an ancillary person to the person that they really want. The person that is always of concern is the person that sits in these seats. When I look at my predecessors before me -- Commissioner Michelle Spence - Jones, arrested and beat the charges, who was arrested -- she was arrested multiple times, just to make it -- to add -- you know, to add the insult to the injury; arrested multiple times when they previously knew of the things they wanted to arrest her for, just to make it more difficult, right? Because she was arrested, then she was re- elected by her constituency, and then arrested again on charges that eventually the State Attorney's Office dismissed; removed from office by -- removed from office summarily, because the Governor has that authority to remove you when you're accused of a crime, which is unfair, right? Because anybody can be accused of anything at any time and be arrested, and -- but you lose your livelihood, you lose what you've been working for, you lose your reputation, you lose all these things because of political authority, because of political will. So, you know, as a lawyer, there is nothing more that I've accomplished in my life that I fear most being taken away from me, besides my family, than my ability to practice law, because as a kid born and raised in Liberty City, where we didn't get a chance to live past the age of 18 -- When someone comes to me, like -- it's really incredible when people say, "Oh, this lifetime pension, this lifetime pension." Well, lifetime for a black man in Liberty City had to be 21. If you made it past 21, you were doing damn good on the street that I grew up in, on the neighborhood that I moved back into. And even as men, the black men who are sitting around in this room, especially if they're -- if they choose to live in an environment like I chose to live into, you don't live past 50, 55. It's not something that exists. That age -- your age of death is a little closer to youthfulness than those of our counterparts who are white and other. And so, when you think about these issues, and you think about the fact that not only was Michelle Spence - Jones summarily taken [sic] away from her office; you had a Commissioner by the name of Teele that many of you know and worked with that took his life because of the things that the paper wrote about him. You had a -- someone who deemed himself to be a writer that took a police report and basically republished it with Art, to put him in positions that tried to undermine not only his political authority, but his personal family life. His wife was called into a -- an interrogation room and shown copies of his annex bill to show that he was staying at hotels just to put into question and -- his marital relationship. His wife was tailed and followed. He was convicted of a crime, which was telling another person, "Don't you ever follow my wife ever again without announcing yourself as a police officer." Imagine a person following your wife, who has not announced himself as a person of authority, and your wife was trying to convince you that someone is following you [sic], and you think that she's wrong. You've called her insane, because no one would dare to follow you, and they do. And he stands up and he tells the next person, because that person want City of Miami Page 76 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 -- that person won't ident fy themselves -- that "The next time someone follows my wife, there's going to be a problem." These are all very human things, but this is what they did to him as a Commissioner, because of the authority that he had sitting in the seat that I'm sitting in. And so, what happened to him was that he ended up taking his life because of the stress of this seat that I'm sitting in. There are other people; Miller Dawkins, right? There are many parks and pools that are named after him; that we praise his wife. He trusted a man by the name of Howard Gary that was accused of a crime -- hold on -- that was found to have committed a crime; that decided that he want to be an informant for the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigations); that then tried to entangle Miller Dawkins and a number of other individuals that we all know -- right? -- inclusive of someone who's a Chief of Staff of one of the Commissioners that is related to me. One of the -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Chief of Staff who is related to me that is -- that -- he was the Chief of Staff of a Commissioner. And all -- I'm saying that to say is that these -- a lot of these individuals went out purposefully to try to entangle people in crimes. And although my family member was found not guilty of a crime, was -- in the Federal Courthouse, where 90 percent of the people who are accused of crimes are found guilty, because you don't have the ability to have discovery and all those things like that. And it helps to be innocent of things that people charge you of. However, what my point is in all of this is that there's so much -- When I saw the young lady from the -- she's a -- where -- Young People for Progress of Government, or whatever it may be. If you wanted to be a young person and sit in this seat in the City of Miami -- and I was elected just shy of maybe my 30th birthday, or something like that; running for County when I was 27. And Commissioner Carollo, you've been around, and you've been elected a lot younger than I was, but you're not a black man, born and raised in Liberty City. But if you want to be in this space, you have to understand that people will try to tear you apart. There's no future for you. I talked to one of my good friends, who work for Kamala Harris in California, when she was the "A" -- I think she was the AG (Attorney General) at the time. And he said something to me that I hadn't heard before, and it just touched me. He said, "What they do to people like you is kill you in the cradle." That means that if they see the potential that you could have some powerful political presence in a place like Miami or Miami -Dade County, not that you're harmful necessarily to them -- you could be or could not -- not that you're an evil person or that you do wrong things; you could be doing positive things, but whatever it is that you do, they don't want to see happen in the future. And so, they destroy you at a time where you're small enough where you can be destroyed and not defend yourself. And so, I think about all this, because I say to myself, at the end of the day -- well, first of all, the law doesn't allow me to, but neither do I want to be a lifetime elected official. You know, I struggle with if I really and truly want to be involved in partisan politics, because I have not liked the way that the term has been made. It's all about -- it's personal, and it shouldn't be there. It should always be about our community. And one thing I've loved about this board is that we've done a very good job of making the issues that we face about the people that live in our neighborhoods, the people live in our communities. But I will tell you that every day that I put on a suit and I take my daughter to school and I drive around this community, and I deal with people, I'm thinking about how it is that there is always this effort to undermine who you are and destroy the person that you've built to be. So when I look at the things that happen, they happen right here on this dais in front of everyone, on live -- live on television, right? They're destructible. And so, if a young person wants to be in this seat, then they're going to have to understand that their career could be taken away from them summarily by someone who's the Governor of the State of Florida, because someone decided to say something that could be untrue about you, and that decision, especially if you're a lawyer, could strip you of your ability to practice law, which strips you of your ability to earn an income, which puts all of your future at risk. And so, I think that the compensation that elected officials could receive because of these things is minuscule in restoring its -- in restoring -- when you're restoring the City of Miami Page 77 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 benefits back to them. I think it's worthy, because even still -- I remember, I used to think about -- even though when I look at the fact that all of these people who sat in this seat before me were arrested, or harm had been done to them, their families had been destroyed, and I saw witness -- I bear witness to my family being accused of things that they had not done, and being found not guilty of crimes; taken up all the way to the end, I don't know if you all know what it feels like, because you -- we talk about criminal justice reform, or things of that nature, and people don't want to discuss the issue unless -- people typically don't discuss the issue until they've -- or fight for the issue until they've gone through something; then you have some feel- gooders [sic] who will fight for it, but they don't really know what it's like to sit on a stand, and someone accuses you of a crime that you know you did not commit. And then, when someone -- a prosecutor looks at you and say, "Well, if you don't take this deal, I'm going to put you away for 25 years. But if you take this two-year deal, it's all good." You don't know what it feels like to be put in that position. And so, when you extrapolate that feeling, and you tie it to your political decision making, to the fact that someone decided to vote for a stadium deal, that they're put in a position to have to defend their livelihood, their reputation, and then become a footnote at the bottom of the page, but we have to deal with the paper forever, trying to breathe life into the accusations that were made of you, that's incredible. It's incredible that someone can't -- that it -- because that sort of thing limits where you're going to be. You know, when I think about the things that people say -- people who are not positive people, they say or they choose to write, and things like that, even about me, what bothers me the most, what hurts me the most is not what people say, "Oh, I like that." What I think about is what the Miami Today says. Why? Because generally, people think that what they read in the Miami Today is not opinionated information. This is a paper that's being circulated amongst our professional leadership; you know, those on Brickell, those in County hallways, those who have not had the opportunity to meet me, for instance, or people in a law firm. And what is it that when they read something there that when I go meet with them, they say, "Oh, no, no, no, no, no. You know, that's the kid that" -- 'you know, he's from Liberty City, and his parents" -- "or his uncle did 'X,' 'Y' and 'Z, "' and, you know -- Whereas, would I look differently if I were a white boy, born and raised in Miami, or even Spanish, Cuban? They would say, "Man, his grandmother gave birth to 15 kids. They was" -- "he was born and raised in public housing. He was in and around all things that are supposed to tear you down, and he didn't. He didn't get torn down. He earned a bachelor's, a master's, and a law degree from his sort of institution and from ours. He passed the bar on his first time. He worked as a public defender. What the [expletive] do you have to say about this kid? But they choose to; they choose to continue to tear you down. And so, for me, when I think about -- so I -- that's why I say, no matter what I say, I think that we're going to make our decisions because of how we choose to make our decisions. But for somebody like me, who've decided that I want to make my community a little bit better -- and I would dare to say that I've done that, and I hope the next person does that, as well; we continue to do that -- but people who are like me and will come after me, they deserve some sort of compensation that makes sense that -- for the trouble that this seat brings you in, and that other seats like to bring you in. I may be wrong, Commissioner Carollo. I may be wrong, right? But all I'm saying is that I'm willing to put my neck on the line to make that point. Thank you. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Commissioner Carollo. Please, sir -- Commissioner Carollo: No, no, no, no. Chair Russell: -- we're not open for public comment, please. Commissioner Carollo. Please, sir. Please, sir. Sir, your mike is not on; you're not being recognized. City of Miami Page 78 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Hardemon: We'll talk later. We'll talk later. Chair Russell: Please. Commissioner Hardemon: We'll talk later. Chair Russell: We can talk later off the dais, but this is not the time for public comment. Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. Commissioner Hardemon, I've heard you loud and clear. And before I follow on some of the things you stated that will, I think, complement what you stated, but bring it not in years' past, but to 2018 and 2019, let me say that this item that's up is not going to affect me at all, financially, whatsoever, not a penny more. Someone wrote something; that it would, but I don't know where they got that from. It's totally wrong. It would not affect me by one penny. And the Budget Director is here somewhere. He'll be first one to stand up and say so, if what I'm saying is not accurate. Having said that, I'm going to go public just with two different items that became a reality when I was Mayor; that from that day to this date, have brought the City somewhere in the neighborhood of $300 million; that if Joe Carollo hadn't been around in the past, this City would have received throughout those years some $300 million less; and each year, by the way, that goes up even more. In the private sector, anybody that comes up with an idea like that that nobody else has -- that would not have come up with -- and in my case, in one of those issues, if I hadn't been around to convince the Governor and other people in the State Legislature, it never would have passed. So it's even more than that. But in the private sector, anyone in the private sector that would bring to any corporation any such idea -- I don't know what you think might be a reasonable amount that they would receive as commission in compensation; 5 percent, maybe more, but, you know, a small amount -- 5 percent, that'd be $15 million. I never received a penny, nor did I expect to receive a penny or anything like that. All of you have been witness that since I've been here, I have saved or brought the City new dollars to the tune of several million dollars since I've been here. This is what we're supposed to do. And frankly, when people get all upset -- and I understand why they get upset -- what they don't know is what some of us up here have done and are doing; that if we weren't here, and someone with less capacity would be here, this City would not be receiving or protected for millions of dollars. Having said that, Commissioner, I'm certainly not a black man. I'm not going to pretend I'm Javier Ortiz; I'm not. And while I could try to understand what someone in your shoes has gone through in your life, I could never fully comprehend it, because, as you said, you know, I'm not a black man. I haven't been exposed to what any African American has in Miami or other parts of our country. Having said that, though, I can tell you that just having come back not quite two years, what I have had to endure, my family has had to endure, my wife; my mother, that we tried to keep her away from hearing the news anymore, or anything; other members of my family, members of my staff, I've never seen the likes ever, ever; not even when I bump heads with some of the most powerful organizations that you could imagine here. You talked about what Art Teele experienced with his wife, and I remember that. Well, let me tell you what I have experienced with my own wife recently. Not only has she been followed through our streets and in her car; she has come out rushing from our house when she's seen people taking video of our house, going against a one-way street, and when they saw her, they took off against a one-way street. But more so, recent, couple of months back, after my wife was parked on 8th Street, in meetings that she's doing for me for this City, for activities that we have in Little Havana and 8th Street, and after about an hour of her car being parked on 8th Street, she gets in her car and drives off to get into Southwest 7th Street from 8th Street to then, when she gets to Southwest 7th Street and Southwest 17th Avenue, make a left turn. Well, she made her left turn. She was very cautious in doing it. She's a very cautious driver; never has had a City of Miami Page 79 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 ticket in her life. She gets into the lane on 17th Avenue, where she made her left turn, to make another left turn to 8th Street so she could go home. We live a block away from that main part of 8th Street. As she stopped in the left turning lane, she sees that there's a police vehicle behind her. A young police officer, female, gets out and tells her to pull by the Burger King that's on 17th, and they tell her to block the lane. People are trying to get in and out; the police officer is screaming at them, "Go around." Within a few more minutes, another police officer comes, another female, screaming at her to lower her passenger window. My wife's not a criminal. This is a traffic stop, supposedly. She is told that when she made the left turn that there was a pedestrian in the crosswalk, and she didn't yield to him. My wife might not have the best sight, but she could certainly see if there was a pedestrian or not. She tells me there was no pedestrian anywhere. They come back and give her two tickets. One ticket is for not yielding to a pedestrian. They give her the ticket; not where it happened, but on Southwest 8th Street and 17th Avenue, west. There's no west on 17th; it'll be north and south. So if she would be going west, she would be going against traffic, if you go west. The other ticket was because the insurance card that she had showed it had been expired for a short time. We had insurance. It was no problem. I believe that my wife got stopped because, after a month earlier, when I got stopped -- and I'll go into that in a minute -- and they couldn't get me to say I'm Commissioner so and so, they figured, "Well, his wife's certainly going to get up and say, 'I'm Mrs. Carollo. I'm the Commissioner's wife." Well, she didn't do that either. We took it like regular residents of Miami. When I got home that evening -- we had a Commission meeting -- I looked at the ticket. She explained to me what had happened. She gave me three pamphlets they -- she had been given by the officer. I said, "What's this all about?" She says, "I don't know. She gave them to me." Three pamphlets on bicycle laws, which, you know, I didn't know what the heck it was all about; bicycles. So I decided to go on the Internet and see what statute she had been cited on for supposedly driving a motor vehicle and not yielding to a pedestrian. Well, my wife was given a ticket for riding a bicycle; riding a bicycle, and going against traffic on Southwest 8th Street. Now, I cannot believe that we have officers that have been so poorly trained and are so incompetent that if they felt that someone did something so outrageous that they didn't yield to a pedestrian when they were making a left turn, that they're going to stop them, and they don't know what statute to cite them on. So that, to me, was more indicative that my wife got stopped for the sole purpose because someone felt she was going to say, "I'm the Commissioner's wife." And then that was going to be all over the news media to try to hurt me, embarrass me, while they hurt my wife. She didn't do that. That's why you never saw that. We went to the courthouse to get a trial date, and I did this because of the incident that I'll tell you afterwards, when I'm done with this one, that happened to me. When we go there with both tickets, the one that is for riding a bicycle against traffic on 8th Street; she's got a car, and they give the ticket with her riding a car. And the other one is for the expired insurance card. When we get there, we're told, "It's only one ticket. You don't have two tickets." So they're going to give her, you know, a court date for one ticket. We had to insist and ask for a supervisor, and they spent time until they found the other ticket. It was put into the system four days later, four days later. Now, you know why that happened? I'm going to tell you why I believe that happened, because I can't believe that our officers are so poorly trained, they're so incompetent that that would happen, because if we went and we were told there was only one ticket, they figured we're going to think, well, because she did have insurance and it wasn't expired, they checked it out; that was thrown out. It was never put in. So if she asked for a court date, or pays the fine for one ticket; the other ticket, thinking that it didn't exist, sometime later, the State of Florida is going to suspend her driver's license, and then my wife is going to be stopped again on some other BS excuse; she's going to be arrested publicly for driving with a suspended driver's license, and they're going to parade her through all the television stations, just like this (UNINTELLIGIBLE) police captain, promoted for politics, was trying to do to me today, and has been City of Miami Page 80 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 trying to do to me for some time. This, Commissioner, is happening today to the wife of an elected official. And I submit to you that this is problematic in two ways. If they're going to swear to me that this is not targeting to try to harm me, then we have a more serious problem than any one of us can imagine, with a lack of training and incompetency in this Police Department. But let me go back quickly on me now. By the way, those two tickets on my wife, they were thrown out. Chair Russell: Commissioner, could we bring it back to pensions? Commissioner Carollo: No, no, no, no. I'm going back, because you let him speak a lot on this -- Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: -- and he had a right to; I'm going to speak also, and I'm speaking in the same line of thought that Commissioner Hardemon -- Chair Russell: Understood. Commissioner Carollo: -- was, and had all the right to. A month before my wife got stopped, I get stopped myself 12:10 at night. I'm going south on 17th Avenue. As I'm going to cross the intersection on 17th Avenue Southwest, and Coral Way, the light is turning yellow. I see that there is a police car. I only see one police car right there. As I'm going through, I look up to make sure that the light was still yellow. And I had all four of my wheels over; not two, like the law says; as long as you have two over the crosswalk, you don't run a yellow light. The car that I'm driving is about 12 feet in length. If you're going 30 miles an hour, you're going 44 feet per second. So it would have taken me one quarter of a second to have gotten all four tires across. Now, if you think that the human eye, unless you're looking straight like that, can pick that up, no way; only the old red light cameras maybe could pick it up, but not the human eye, if you were over or not. When I pass, I -- you know -- get the siren. I stop two blocks down, pull up to the right. The officer that's behind me that stops me doesn't get out of the car; obviously, he's running the tag to see who the vehicle belongs to. I started feeling for the first time in my life what a black man might feel when they get stopped. I put my hands on the wheel so that they could see it, because there was well -- there was good lighting, even though it was at night where I stopped. There was a light right there. A short time later-- I don't know if, you know, it was a minute or couple of minutes -- another police car arrives. Mind you, for those two blocks when the police car followed me, there was only one car that had the siren going after me. Within a minute or two later -- I don't know the exact time -- another police car stops there. As they're approaching the first squad car, the officer gets out in the most awkward way that I've ever seen anyone get out of the car, so that I couldn't see his face. When he got out, I spoke to the officer with his back towards me, and then when he got in again, so that I wouldn't see the face. I never identified myself, so that's why you didn't see me in any news cast. I took the ticket that I was given. I asked the officer -- because I have a clean driving record -- if I had to sign the ticket. They told me, "No." She also told me that she had it on her camcord [sic] that I ran the yellow light, she said at first. I said, "Well, ma'am, you said, yellow.' Then, you know, you could go through a yellow light." And she switched back and said, "Red." I wasn't going to get into it. The bottom line was that after I was there over 30 minutes, over 30 minutes -- In fact, I will say to you, before she even approached me, some 10 minutes at least had passed. You know what I did? I put both my hands out the car windows, because I was really concerned now. I had both of my hands out of the window so they could see that I had no weapon, whatsoever. So I'm not a black man, but that night, I started feeling what many African Americans might feel in this City, or other minorities. I took my ticket. I went to the courthouse, because I did not run a red City ofMiami Page 81 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 light, like I was cited. If I would have ran a red light, I'd take my medicine, and I would pay the fine. When I went to the courthouse to get a court hearing, I'm told to my utter shock that, "No. You have two tickets." I said, "Ma'am, you must be mistaken. Can you check again?" "You have two tickets." But they tell me, "Oh, but don't worry; you'll be able to throw them out easily, because it's in the same intersection. And one ticket says you were going south; the other ticket says you were going north, and obviously, you couldn't do both at the same time. And the other ticket said you ran a red light. The other ticket said you didn't stop for flashing lights," which you don't have on Coral Way and 17th Avenue at any time of the day or night. It's clear to me -- at least, this is how I feel -- that the other ticket that I was not given that night was so that if I either paid for one or asked for a court hearing like I did, it would be for one, not the other, and then the State would be suspending my driver's license on the other ticket, and I would get stopped for some phony stop, I would get arrested for having a suspended driver's license, and I would be parade through every television channel in Miami. So Commissioner, I understand -- believe me, I understand -- what you're saying. When individuals are throwing whatever amount of money they have to throw out to try to defame me and destroy me, because I'm doing what I was elected to do for my residents and the citizens of Miami; when we receive information from someone extremely close, as close as their bed, that one certain publication that's defaming me and attacking me on a monthly basis, that recently started; not the last year. This person that's close to the individual that owns that publication stated to someone extremely close to me that he received $5,000 for the first month, that they knew, for me to be attacked. When you see our criminal blogger, seven times convicted felon, that he's enjoying the good graces that he's receiving in attacking me, and I guess he's so happy that he puts a tweet out on a public records request that he's making on me, and sending it to the guy that's paying him to do it so that they can know he did it. I mean, my God; it's as clear as daylight why the guy's doing it. So all this, and so much more, including the whole charade on the Marine Corps that was orchestrated right up there in the second floor to defame me; frivolous lawsuits that are being filed, yeah, Commissioner, believe me, I understand what you're saying. No one, no one should have to go through that; and frankly, I don't know too many jobs in America that someone would have to go through the stress, their family, their acquaintance, their employees, that some of us up here have to go through, and there's no amount of money now or in the future, frankly, that can compensate for that. Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. We do not yet have a motion on the floor for SR.4, SR.5 and SR.6. We were discussing the issue. Vice Chair Gort: You got them one at a time. No? Commissioner Reyes: One at a time. Chair Russell: So SR.4. Commissioner Carollo: I want to say this: I've been trying to get different numbers, like I stated here earlier; even numbers that were given for me that I will not benefit one cent if this passes. There was erroneous information given, apparently, that I was going to receive -- I don't know -- $70, 000 if this passed. No. I'm not going to receive one penny more if this would pass. I need to get real numbers on this item so that when we bring it up again, I know exactly what I'm dealing with in numbers. Chair Russell: SR.6. Commissioner Carollo: I'm talking on the SR.4. For that matter, SR.6 is another one that I'm having the same problem with. SR.5 is more (UNINTELLIGIBLE), City of Miami Page 82 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 because it's part of what we agreed to with those two unions, and I'm not going to go against my word,• frankly, I think we're bound by it. Vice Chair Gort: I'm going to need -- Chair Russell: Vice Chairman Gort and Management, are you -- Vice Chair Gort: No. Chair Russell: -- prepared to address any questions on numbers for these items? Vice Chair Gort: I'm going to need five minutes. I've been sitting here since 8:30 this morning, so I need to -- Commissioner Carollo: Whatever you need -- Chair Russell: All right. Commissioner Carollo: Oh, you have to go. Okay. Vice Chair Gort: Be right back. Chair Russell: Mr. Manager, could you get whoever you need to address questions on numbers, so we have clarification? We're going to take a recess. Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Chair Russell: Just a recess for 10 minutes. Commissioner Carollo: -- the numbers that I've been looking for that I need and that I need to compare, they're not going to be able to get for me in five minutes or anything else. I need to sit with the Budget Director for a serious sitting. Chair Russell: That's for SR.4 and 6? Commissioner Carollo: Both. SR. 6, I -- also going to need the City Attorney, and frankly, I'd like to have her in SR.4 also for that. Chair Russell: All right. So is that a request for a deferral of these items? Commissioner Carollo: That's a request for a deferral of both of these items, so that I could have a full amount of how it's going to affect our budget now and into the future. Most of this, as I understand it, people have to be 55 years of age or more before they collect. Mr. Manager, how old do people have to be to start collecting in this new proposal? Emilio T. Gonzalez (City Manager): I have it right here. Elected officials who were first elected to office before October 22, 2009 -- Commissioner Carollo: I'm talking about age. Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Mr. Manager, he's not -- Commissioner Carollo: I'm talking age only. Ms. Mendez: -- asking about the -- City of Miami Page 83 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Carollo: I'm talking age -- Chair Russell: One at a time. One at a time, please. Mr. Gonzalez: -- shall be entitled upon separation from employment and reaching the age of 55 -- Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Mr. Gonzalez: -- with 10 or more years of service at age (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: So I'm correct in the 55. Now -- Commissioner Hardemon: There's also a 60. Mr. Gonzalez: And that's why earlier we mentioned that there were -- Commissioner Hardemon: I might need to be 60, 61; don't bet on it, but -- Commissioner Carollo: The question is, you know, with all this stress, the more than you want, are you going to make it? Chair Russell: All right. So there's a motion to defer those two items to -- Commissioner Carollo: The -- SR.6 is one that I really need to get into it also, because I am being told -- I don't know how accurate that is or not -- that a lot of other people are going to be able to get into this, the way it's written. Chair Russell: You have a date you'd like the deferral set to? Commissioner Carollo: Well, it's going to have to be either November, if we still have room; or if not, the first meeting in December. Maybe you might want to put it for the first meeting in December. I'm told that our next October meeting is completely full. I don't know how the November meeting is. Mr. Gonzalez: We'll put it on. Commissioner Hardemon: I -- Chair Russell: Commissioner Hardemon. Commissioner Hardemon: For the next agenda. Mr. Gonzalez: No, for November. Commissioner Hardemon: For the -- there's just one meeting in November? Mr. Gonzalez: Yes, sir. Commissioner Hardemon: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: Which I think is a mistake, but, you know, it is what it is. If need be, I think we're going to have to double up quicker in December for two meetings, if we need to; either that or make another meeting -- Well, the next meeting in November is what date? November -- Mr. Gonzalez: 21. City of Miami Page 84 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): November 21. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Maybe after Thanksgiving, we might want to look for another one, if need be; or if not, if we have to, another meeting in December. I don't know. Chair Russell: So the motion is to defer SRs.4 and 6 to the November meeting. Commissioner Carollo: Correct. If anybody wants to defer SR.5, it's fine. I don't need to defer it. Chair Russell: Is there a second to the motion? Commissioner Carollo: I mean, if you want to be fair all along, we could defer all three of them. I have no problem with that. Commissioner Hardemon: I will second that motion. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Chair Russell: All right. To the November meeting. Commissioner Carollo: There's a motion to defer SR.4 -- Chair Russell: SRs.4, 5, and 6 -- Commissioner Carollo: -- 5 and 6. Chair Russell: -- all the way to the November meeting. There's a motion by Commissioner Carollo, second by Commissioner Hardemon. Is there any further discussion? All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. Gentlemen, we have one, two, three, four items of action left on the agenda. We can take a 10-minute break and finish up, or we can break for lunch and come back. Commissioner Carollo: Is there anything that's going to require a lot of time or --? Chair Russell: I didn't think so earlier, but I misjudged that. Commissioner Hardemon: I don't so. 10-minute break. Chair Russell: We're going to take a 10-minute break, and we're going to come back and finish up the agenda, and then we'll be done for the day. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Chair Russell: See you all in 10 minutes. Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. City ofMiami Page 85 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 SR.5 ORDINANCE Second Reading 5435 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 40/ARTICLE IV/DIVISION 2 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TITLED "PERSONNEL/PENSION AND RETIREMENT PLAN/CITY OF MIAMI FIREFIGHTERS' AND POLICE OFFICERS' RETIREMENT TRUST;" MORE PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING SECTION 40- 203, TITLED "BENEFITS", TO REFLECT THE CHANGES MADE IN THE CURRENT COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Continue RESULT: CONTINUED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Keon Hardemon, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Gort Note for the Record: Item SR.5 was continued to the November 21, 2019, Regular Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item SR.5, please see "Public Comment Period for Regular Item (s), " Item CA. 5, and Item SR.4. SR.6 ORDINANCE Second Reading 5939 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 40/ARTICLE IV/DIVISION 4 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TITLED "PERSONNEL/PENSION AND RETIREMENT PLAN/CITY OF MIAMI ELECTED OFFICERS RETIREMENT TRUST;" MORE PARTICULARLY BY AMENDING SECTION 40-291, TITLED "DEFINITIONS", AND SECTION 40-296, TITLED "APPLICABLE BENEFITS"; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN IMMEDIATE EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Continue RESULT: CONTINUED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Keon Hardemon, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Gort Note for the Record: Item SR.6 was continued to the November 21, 2019, Regular Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item SR.6, please see "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s), " and Item SR.4. END OF SECOND READING ORDINANCES City of Miami Page 86 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 FR.1 6586 Commissioners and Mayor FR - FIRST READING ORDINANCES ORDINANCE First Reading AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA (WITH ATTACHMENTS), SUPPLEMENTING THAT CERTAIN ORDINANCE NO. 11693 ENACTED BY THE CITY COMMISSION ON AUGUST 14, 1998, AS FURTHER AMENDED AND SUPPLEMENTED; AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF NOT TO EXCEED SIXTY-TWO MILLION DOLLARS ($62,000,000.00) AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF ITS CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA ("CITY") PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS, TAX-EXEMPT SERIES 2019 ("SERIES 2019 BONDS") ON BEHALF OF THE CITY'S DEPARTMENT OF OFF-STREET PARKING A/K/A MIAMI PARKING AUTHORITY ("DEPARTMENT" AND "AUTHORITY"), FOR THE PURPOSE OF REFUNDING ALL OR A PORTION OF ITS OUTSTANDING PARKING SYSTEM REVENUE AND REVENUE REFUNDING BONDS, TAX-EXEMPT SERIES 2009 ("SERIES 2009 BONDS") PREVIOUSLY ISSUED ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT; PROVIDING FOR THE FUNDING OF THE RESERVE ACCOUNT, IF REQUIRED; PROVIDING FOR THE PAYMENT OF CERTAIN COSTS OF ISSUANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE ISSUANCE OF THE SERIES 2019 BONDS; MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS AND DETERMINATIONS; DELEGATING TO THE CITY MANAGER AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT THE DETERMINATION OF CERTAIN MATTERS AND DETAILS CONCERNING THE SERIES 2019 BONDS; APPROVING THE SENDING OF A CONDITIONAL NOTICE OF REDEMPTION; AUTHORIZING THE REFUNDING OF THE SERIES 2009 BONDS; RATIFYING, CONFIRMING AND APPROVING THE SELECTION OF THE UNDERWRITERS AND THE FINANCIAL ADVISOR BY THE FINANCE COMMITTEE AND THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE SERIES 2019 BONDS; AUTHORIZING A NEGOTIATED SALE OF THE SERIES 2019 BONDS; AUTHORIZING THE NEGOTIATION, EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A BOND PURCHASE AGREEMENT BY THE CITY MANAGER AND THE DIRECTOR OF THE DEPARTMENT ("DIRECTOR") IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, THE CITY'S CFO, THE FINANCIAL ADVISOR, THE CITY ATTORNEY, DISCLOSURE COUNSEL, AND BOND COUNSEL; APPROVING UNCERTIFICATED BOOK -ENTRY ONLY REGISTRATION OF THE SERIES 2019 BONDS; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND THE DIRECTOR TO DISTRIBUTE A PRELIMINARY OFFICIAL STATEMENT AND OFFICIAL STATEMENT IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY, DISCLOSURE COUNSEL, AND BOND COUNSEL; DESIGNATING A TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT AND BOND REGISTRAR; AUTHORIZING THE NEGOTIATION, EXECUTION AND DELIVERY BY THE CITY MANAGER AND THE DIRECTOR OF A TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT AND BOND REGISTRAR AGREEMENT IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY AND BOND COUNSEL; AUTHORIZING THE NEGOTIATION, EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A DISCLOSURE DISSEMINATION AGENT AGREEMENT BY THE CITY MANAGER AND THE DIRECTOR IN City ofMiami Page 87 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CITY ATTORNEY AND DISCLOSURE COUNSEL AND BOND COUNSEL, AND DESIGNATING DIGITAL ASSURANCE CERTIFICATION, L.L.C., AS DISSEMINATION AGENT THEREUNDER; AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND DIRECTOR TO OBTAIN A BOND INSURANCE POLICY AND/OR RESERVE PRODUCT AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER AND DIRECTOR TO NEGOTIATE, EXECUTE AND DELIVER ANY AND ALL AGREEMENTS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH IN A FORM ACCEPTABLE TO THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, THE CITY'S CFO, THE FINANCIAL ADVISOR, RISK MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR, THE CITY CLERK, THE CITY ATTORNEY, DISCLOSURE COUNSEL, AND BOND COUNSEL; AUTHORIZING CERTAIN OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY AND THE DEPARTMENT TO TAKE ALL ACTIONS DEEMED NECESSARY OR REQUIRED IN CONNECTION WITH THE NEGOTIATION, ISSUANCE, SALE AND DELIVERY OF THE SERIES 2019 BONDS AND THE REFUNDING OF THE SERIES 2009 BONDS IN CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY MANAGER, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF THE AUTHORITY, THE DIRECTOR, THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, THE CITY'S CFO, THE FINANCIAL ADVISOR, THE CITY ATTORNEY, DISCLOSURE COUNSEL, AND BOND COUNSEL; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Pass on First Reading with Modification(s) RESULT: PASSED ON FIRST READING WITH MODIFICATION(S) MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Chair Russell: So I'd like to bring your attention to FR.1. Commissioner Reyes: FR.1? Chair Russell: Yes. This is a supplement, amending Miami Parking System revenue refunding bond. Commissioner Carollo: Which one is this? Chair Russell: FR.1. Vice Chair Gort: FR.1. Chair Russell: We finished with all of the RE (resolution), PH (public hearing), and CA (consent agenda) agenda, as well as the SR (second reading). We just have four remaining FRs, first reading ordinances. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Move by Commissioner Reyes. I'll second it. Chair Russell: The item has been moved by Commissioner Reyes; seconded by Commissioner Carollo. Is there any further discussion? Vice Chair Gort: Yes. I'd like to ask a question. How much are we saving by doing this refunding? City of Miami Page 88 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: How much --? Vice Chair Gort: I understand the market went down little bit, so. Chair Russell: It's on. Arthur Noriega: A little over $13 million. Vice Chair Gort: Okay. Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Scott Simpson: Just one additional thing. We would ask that if -- Chair Russell: Please -- your name, please. Mr. Simpson: Oh, I'm sorry. Scott Simpson, Miami Parking Authority. We would ask if this item is approved today that the second reading of the ordinance be placed on the agenda for the 24th of October. Vice Chair Gort: All right. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Vice Chair Gort: The reason being, the market is very sensitive. Right now the market is in our favor, so we should make that decision; try to put it on the 24th. Commissioner Carollo: Yep. Vice Chair Gort: Okay. Commissioner Carollo: Agreed. Okay. Chair Russell: Madam City Attorney, for the 24th, if we've reached the limit of 60 items on the agenda, is there -- Vice Chair Gort: Take some off. Chair Russell: -- a way to bypass that? Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): No. Chair Russell: We would have to remove other items to put this one? Ms. Mendez: Right. Either some things have to be placed on the consent agenda -- Commissioner Carollo: Well, let's -- Chair Russell: So, yes. Commissioner Carollo: -- put the resolution that something would be taken out of that agenda by the City Manager that's not of dire importance -- Chair Russell: There are -- Commissioner Carollo: -- so we could put this item. City of Miami Page 89 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: -- other items, so we can use the consent agenda for certain items -- Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Chair Russell: -- in order to not be within 60. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Chair Russell: All right. Thank you very much. Mr. Simpson: Thank you very much. Chair Russell: So -- Commissioner Carollo: It's a motion. Chair Russell: -- there's -- Yes, we have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Commissioner Carollo: No. Chair Russell: All in -- no. This is first reading of FR.1. Commissioner Hardemon: Got it. Chair Russell: All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Title. Ms. Mendez: A very long ordinance. And there's a typo that needs to be fixed, as well, in the ordinance, to remove the word "its" so. The Ordinance was read by title into the public record by the City Attorney. Chair Russell: Thank you. All in favor of FR.1, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. City of Miami Page 90 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 FR.2 ORDINANCE First Reading 6554 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION AMENDING CHAPTER 22/ARTICLE I OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), TITLED "GARBAGE AND OTHER SOLID WASTE/IN GENERAL," BY AMENDING SECTIONS 22.1, TITLED "DEFINITIONS," AND SECTION 22-6, TITLED "LITTERING AND DUMPING PROHIBITED; DUMPING OR BURYING WASTE WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORIZATION; ILLEGAL DUMPING IN AREA BULKY WASTE TRANSFER STATIONS; ENGAGING IN BUSINESS OF SOLID WASTE COLLECTION WITHOUT A FRANCHISE; DECLARED PUBLIC NUISANCE; PRESUMPTION," TO DEFINE SUBCONTRACTOR AND WASTE BROKER, PROHIBIT FRANCHISEES FROM CONTRACTING, SUBCONTRACTING, UTILIZING EQUIPMENT, OR ENTERING INTO BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS WITH SOLID WASTE HAULERS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN AWARDED A FRANCHISE BY THE CITY OF MIAMI ("CITY", FOR PURPOSES OF PROVIDING SERVICES TO ADDRESSES/PROPERTIES WITHIN THE CITY; FURTHER AMENDING CHAPTER 22/ARTICLE II/SECTION 22-46 OF THE CITY CODE, TITLED "GARBAGE AND OTHER SOLID WASTE/REGULATION OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN COMMERCIAL WASTE COLLECTION/ENGAGING IN BUSINESS OF SOLID WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL; ISSUANCE OF FRANCHISE AGREEMENT TO PRIVATE SOLID WASTE COLLECTORS," FOR THE SAME PURPOSE; AMENDING SECTION 22-119 OF THE CITY CODE TO PROVIDE AN EXEMPTION DURING A DECLARED STATE OF EMERGENCY; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: Item FR.2 was deferred to the December 12, 2019, Regular Commission Meeting. Chair Russell: FR.2, please. Commissioner Hardemon: Mr. Chairman? Chair Russell: Yes, sir. Commissioner Hardemon: With SR -- FR.2, I've been the Solid Waste Advisory Committee Chairman for the past six years or so, and in that committee, we have all of the haulers who are a part of the industry, and we would meet -- I think at the time I became Chairman, we hadn't met in -- that organization hadn't met in years, and then we began to meet, and we met quite regularly in order to get the -- I forget what they -- what we call it, but to get prepared for our solid waste contract that we all end up executing, et cetera. And so, I'm asking that we continue this item so that I can call a meeting with the Solid Waste Advisory Committee to discuss -- City of Miami Page 91 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Carollo: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Hardemon: -- this particular thing. Commissioner Reyes: What I want you to know that we did -- I wanted you to know that we did it -- we did this -- I mean, we presented this resolution -- this ordinance, because we have gotten a lot of complaints of professional haulers that they get contract with us, and then they subcontract people that they don't -- that not so professional. Commissioner Hardemon: Well, that's why I want to make sure I have a meeting with -- Commissioner Reyes: Okay, fantastic. Commissioner Hardemon: -- the professionals to see what's happening. Commissioner Reyes: And also, we could, if you want to, bring some sort of criteria of how the City will franchise them or what will accept them. Okay? Because -- and I want to inform you, also that we worked with the Sanitation Department, and the Sanitation Department was very much in agreement with this. Commissioner Hardemon. Okay. So what I'll ask for is a deferral to the December meeting. Chair Russell: There is a motion to defer -- Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: -- to the December meeting. Commissioner Reyes: I (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: Second. Chair Russell: Is there a Second? Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, there is. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: Okay. Commissioner -- who is the second? Commissioner Carollo: I am. Chair Russell: Commissioner Carollo seconds. Any further discussion? All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Motion passes. Thank you very much. City of Miami Page 92 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 FR.3 ORDINANCE First Reading 6599 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE II, SECTION 2-33(C)(7) AND SECTION 2- 33(K) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TITLED "ADMINISTRATION/MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION/ORDER OF BUSINESS AND RULES OF PROCEDURE," TO CHANGE THE TIME AND MANNER WHEREBY THE CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS ARE ADJOURNED; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: RESULT: Withdraw by Sponsor WITHDRAWN BY SPONSOR Chair Russell: Now onto FR (First Reading) -- Vice Chair Gort: 3. Chair Russell: -- 3. Commissioner Reyes: FR.3. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Chair Russell: This is your -- Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): FR.3 and FR.4, I don't know if you want to have the discussion. Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Commissioner Carollo: -- we should, I think. Chair Russell: So -- all right. So here's what we're going to do: We're going to have a general discussion amongst the dais to see which way we want to go, because we have competing ordinances here. And so -- Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Chair Russell: -- let's come to a consensus amongst us -- Commissioner Carollo: -- let me -- Chair Russell: -- and then we'll go from there. Commissioner Carollo: -- begin by saying to my colleagues that we have two different ordinance [sic] here, or we could leave it the way that it is. That's the third option. I think maybe we, at least for the time being, should leave it the way that it is instead of getting into a long discussion here, and maybe might be changed again soon after anyway; I don't know. But the bottom line is that, look, any medical doctor will tell you that if you're going to be working 15-, 16-hour days straight that by the end of the day, your sense of comprehension has gone down tremendously. City of Miami Page 93 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. And, you know, we deal with so many important items here that, in some cases, affect for years, in big sums of money, the City of Miami, for us to be making decisions tired, late at night. Frankly, most governments, whether it's Tallahassee -- and certainly, Tallahassee -- our Congress or Senate, or other governments, usually when you get bad legislation, that's when it happens, late at night. So all that I'm saying is that, you know, this "midnight" is not good policy. I suggest we table this. You know, if we have to deal with it again, we deal it with another time, but, you know, that's just my opinion. Commissioner Reyes: Mr. -- Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: -- Commissioner -- You see, I do agree, and that's one of the main law -- economic laws of the law of diminishing returns, and I know that as time passes by, you lose the concentration -- Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Reyes: -- and all of that. But having said that, you see, the way it is now, particularly the part that has to be unanimous for people to continue, this could very well serve that if anybody, any Commissioner -- and I'm not accusing anybody - - but any Commissioner that doesn't want an item to be voted or to be heard could, at 10 o'clock, says, "This is it. We can" -- "we have to leave, because in order to continue, we will have to have unanimity." You see, it have to be unanimous. I -- the time of ending the Commission is not that important to me, but the fact that I would like to change that instead of being unanimous, that we have four -fifth majority of the people that are here. If there are only four, three have to vote in favor. Chair Russell: That's not a four -fifths. Commissioner Reyes: Well, there have to be supermajority. Commissioner Carollo: Well, what you're saying is that -- Commissioner Reyes: Supermajority. Okay? Commissioner Carollo: -- you don't mind leaving it at 10 -- Commissioner Reyes: But with a supermajority. Commissioner Carollo: -- as long as you get a four -fifth? Commissioner Reyes: A four -fifth or a supermajority. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Reyes: There are only four -- Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Now -- Commissioner Reyes: -- people here, supermajority. Commissioner Carollo: -- the -- would -- What happened the other day, frankly, is the sort of meeting that it was -- look, it was cut short. City of Miami Page 94 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: Excuse me. Commissioner Carollo: It was cut short. Commissioner Reyes: I'm not accusing anybody. Commissioner Carollo: No, no, no, no. Commissioner Reyes: I mean, because it could happen to me. If I feel sick -- Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Reyes: -- I will leave, you see? Commissioner Carollo: Yeah, but -- Commissioner Reyes: And then, if I leave, and it is 10 o'clock; and then, by me being absent, what's going to happen, they say, "Well, we cannot continue, " you see. Chair Russell: Yeah. Commissioner Reyes: What I want is to give this board -- Commissioner Carollo: What -- Commissioner Reyes: -- give them the alternative with supermajority to continue. Commissioner Carollo: -- I'm saying is, Commissioner, that when the Administration changed the meeting's time to 2 p.m. -- Commissioner Reyes: Yeah, and (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: -- on that day, they knew that with all the heavy items we had, there was no way that we would have finished by 10, by 12, or maybe even by 3 or 4 in the morning. Commissioner Reyes: Yeah, I know that. Commissioner Carollo: And, you know, we just cannot have meetings that have so much and to start at 2 p.m. One like this that wasn't heavy, yeah, you could do it, but not with the items we had the last meeting. Now, having said that, what I would suggest, also, that we leave open the possibility, if we need to, when we have a real heavy month, of having a third meeting in the month. This way, we don't have to be working until midnight or after midnight, and we could do the people's business with, you know, clear, not tired heads. Commissioner Reyes: Yeah. Commissioner Carollo: That's all. Commissioner Reyes: Well, I still would love for you guys to consider, you see, the alternative, which is to have a supermajority, because if somebody has to leave or wants to leave because of anything, you see, and some of us wants to take care of business -- the rest of the business, or a couple of other things, we will have the choice, the choice that said, "Okay, we" -- if we have a supermajority that -- I mean, we vote, and four vote 'Yes," then we continue. If there are four -- three -- I mean, if three vote 'Yes," then we will continue. City of Miami Page 95 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. Are there other comments? Commissioner Gort -- Vice Chairman. Vice Chair Gort: Look, I wanted a second amendment in my resolution being 10 o'clock, as long as we -- three of us can do it. Now, the one thing that always happen, any one Commissioner could request a defer of any items that they believe is going to be of very significant importance to be dealing later than that; they can always -- we have always respected any Commissioner's request to defer an item. Commissioner Carollo: Well, will you make that part of the motion, then? Vice Chair Gort: Sure. Commissioner Carollo: That -- Vice Chair Gort: I don't have any problem. We've done it always in the past. Chair Russell: So -- Commissioner Carollo: -- we're bringing it back to the 10 o'clock, except with a four -fifth, but if any Commissioner has to leave, that -- Vice Chair Gort: They can ask to -- Commissioner Carollo: -- items that he needs deferred will be deferred. Vice Chair Gort: Thank you. Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. That's very fair. Commissioner Gort: Okay. Commissioner Hardemon: But now -- Commissioner Carollo: And so, that'll be part of that motion. Commissioner Reyes: That'll be fair. Commissioner Carollo: That'll be part of the motion. Commissioner Hardemon: Mr. Chairman? Mr. Chairman? Chair Russell: Just a moment. Commissioner Hardemon. Commissioner Hardemon: I want to be clear that what Commissioner Carollo stated takes away our ability on the dais to decide -- it does the same thing, effectively. What you have to understand is this -- Commissioner Carollo: No, it doesn't. It doesn't. Chair Russell: Just a moment, please. Commissioner Hardemon: -- and I'll explain. If I understood you correctly, what you stated was that if there's a Commissioner there that wants to -- that needs to leave a meeting that the item that he wants to be continued will be continued. Commissioner Carollo: That's correct. City of Miami Page 96 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Hardemon: Exactly. So then, we don't have the ability -- we don't make that call as a -- on the dais about the continuance; that one Commissioner takes his stuff with him. Commissioner Carollo: But you could go with the rest of the items that are there. Commissioner Hardemon: But you can go with the rest of the items. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Hardemon: That's my point. Commissioner Carollo: That's the difference. Commissioner Hardemon: So I just want it to be known that -- so then, whatever items that Commissioner wants to move from that night will move. So if your concern as a board with "Oh, there are certain items you don't want to be heard" -- Commissioner Reyes: That's (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Hardemon: -- that motion will exacerbate that issue. Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Commissioner Hardemon: So I personally don't think that it's broken. I think that the rule is seldomly used. In our time, it's been used twice in this year, which is, you know -- everyone will have lost their money to think that it would have been bet -- that it would have been used twice. And so, it's just that there was so much going on with the meeting, but I think that the -- Commissioner Carollo: We started very late. That's the problem. Commissioner Hardemon: And we did. I think we did start very late. I think it was doomed from the beginning. It was doomed from the beginning. And it should have been done differently, but it was not. But my point here is that a 10 o'clock meeting time is like a failsafe to me, because we rarely do it, but when it is done, it's done, and it's according to the rule. Now, if we create a four -fifths or a supermajority sort of rule, what's going to happen is, whatever reason that that Commissioner that needed to leave, he -- whatever reason -- because he can choose to leave, if he likes, but if there's something pressing on there that he's saying, "Look, Commissioners, I'm going to end this meeting. I would really like to be here, but I can't be here, and all these issues are very, very important to me." So when he ends a meeting, it's not just for himself, he's ending it for everyone else. So I would believe that whatever that reason is, it is of such importance that we just should respect everything in that moment. Commissioner Carollo: What we're -- Commissioner Hardemon: And the problem I have with the supermajority is that if there is such a pressing reason for him to leave, he has to leave the business on the dais, because I'll tell you, there are some -- there's a -- for instance, there's obviously an item that I've been sponsoring that if I wanted -- the supermajority rule works for me, because I can push it, push it, push it, push it until I have a favorable dais, and then, you know, make a decision. All right? So I just think that -- but that undermines what we're here trying to accomplish together. And so, that's why I think the rule is not broken. I think that what happened last meeting was an City of Miami Page 97 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 anomaly, because of a number of different things, but I don't think that it was a -- I don't think that the rule was the problem. Chair Russell: So your opinion would be to leave as is? Commissioner Hardemon: I would leave it as it is -- Chair Russell: All right. So here is my -- Commissioner Hardemon: -- because you're going to tie your hands. Right now, it's our ability -- we can do all these different things. Chair Hardemon: Correct. Commissioner Hardemon: One thing I would hate for us to do is create more -- we have more restrictions for ourselves. Chair Russell: Now -- Thank you. And before we go on, I would like to get a clarification for Commissioner Reyes, either from the City Attorney or the Clerk, on the definition of "supermajority," because my understanding, if one person is missing from this dais, you need a unanimous vote. It doesn't go down to two out of three or three out of -- Commissioner Reyes: No, with the remaining. The remaining of -- Chair Russell: But a -- Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Chair Russell: -- supermajority -- Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: -- would still be four. A four -fifths would still be four. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: So -- Commissioner Reyes: You are absolutely right there. You're absolutely right there. But I -- what I want to do is to give the person -- I mean, the rest of the Commission the opportunity to deal with other issues that they are important. Take, for example, the Brito issue. You see, we had from the -- I mean, these people were here from early morning, and it was 10 o'clock, and we couldn't even hear the problem. There were children, there were teachers; there were a lot of people here that it was an important issue. It might not be important to some other people, but for them, it was extremely important, because they had to decide where are they going to teach those kids. Right now they are doing it out of a banquet hall, and then they have been, I mean, visited by Code -- by the Code Department and all of that. Commissioner Hardemon: Mr. Chairman? Commissioner Reyes: That is what I'm trying to avoid. Commissioner Hardemon: Mr. Chairman? City of Miami Page 98 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: I'm trying to avoid those issues that are important for the people that come here, to our residents, you see? And because somebody has the need to leave, then the meeting is over, and their issue is not heard, and they have to wait two other weeks or four more weeks. You see? Commissioner Hardemon: So -- Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Reyes: That's what I'm trying -- Commissioner Hardemon: So -- Chair Russell: Commissioner Hardemon. Commissioner Hardemon: -- I will tell you to that point that the way that we used to do our public hearing, our public comment was more problematic than what happened at our last meeting. We would literally have, say, an agenda that had, say, 60 items on it, and their item could have been number 60 or number 59, and we would call up each item, and every time we call each item, we opened the floor for public comment, and everyone had an opportunity -- everyone present had an opportunity to speak for two minutes. And so, effectively, what would happen is, you could never get to their issue, and their issue would be continued; or you get to it and they've been here since 9 o'clock in the morning, and it was 2 o'clock in the -- 9 o'clock in the morning, and it was, again, 2 o'clock in the morning. And so, that was more traumatic than the way that we've moved to. Well, now they have an opportunity to be heard, you know, at 9 in the morning, at 2 in the afternoon, but now the issue might not have been decided. Now, how we get through the business is another thing, but I would tell you, though, that last meeting, I still feel, was an anomaly. Right? There were times in our -- the way we used to do it, where had to continue the items, because we just couldn't go any further. Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Commissioner Hardemon: The 10 o'clock rule -- most of us almost always decide to work past 10 o'clock, except in this matter, this last meeting. We had a Commissioner that told us, "Hey, I can't move past 10 o'clock this time." Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Commissioner Hardemon: "I want to hear all these items. I know it's a disruption, but I'm going to have to exercise the rule." And I don't think that that was problem -- it affected people, certainly, but I don't think that it's problematic from a procedural standpoint. Chair Russell: So here's a hybrid suggestion, perhaps: Leave the rule as is with regard to needing unanimous consent, but moving it to midnight instead of 10. For my opinion, there are only two official days that we have to work. I know we do a lot more. But we must be here for these two days a month to conduct the business of the City. I'm willing to tough it out. Cuban coffee can get us there; at least till midnight, and I believe that's our responsibility to the residents who come and (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- they're willing to wait. I do not want to move to a third meeting a month. I will tell you this: If we leave the unanimous rule in place -- Commissioner Hardemon: But it's not (UNINTELLIGIBLE). City of Miami Page 99 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: -- if we leave it at 10 p.m., I, as the Chairman, will be running these meetings a lot tighter, because we need to get through the business of the people. Commissioner Hardemon: Mr. -- Chair Russell: We do a lot of talking, a lot of discussion amongst ourselves. We can do that, but after we knock out the business of the City. Commissioner Hardemon: But Mr. Chairman, the thing about -- Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Hardemon: And I'm sorry, Commissioner Gort. And I'll say this, and I'll let you speak. Vice Chair Gort: Go ahead. Commissioner Hardemon: The -- you can't just think about us on this dais when you think about that time. There's a lot of support that goes along with us continuing these meetings. So even when we decide to move past mid -- besides 10 o'clock, midnight, whenever we -- how long we want to continue working. There's lots of people that work, that have families, that they aren't able to go home, as well, because they're here with us doing this business. And so, it's just something that, you know -- and they -- their workday start at or earlier than 9 o'clock, as well. And so, you know -- and then they have to come to work that morning, as well. So it's a tough issue that's not just about us. I know people like to say, "Okay. Well, you know, the Commissioners" -- "officially, you only have to work these two days a month, but" -- I mean, it's hogwash compared to the type of commitment and preparation that you need to be effective on this dais. Chair Russell: Agreed. Commissioner Hardemon: And so, you know -- but just as much as we work, these guys who support us work that much and harder. Right? And so, I just say that that's why I think it is okay the way it is, but you know, I'm a parent now. I know what it is to pick up a child from day care or try to figure out who's going to pick up whom next, and it's troublesome. And so, this is a real job that gets -- it has weird hours at certain days, and I just want to be cognizant of that and those who this is affecting. Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Reyes: On that line of (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Chair Russell: Vice Chairman Gort. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Vice Chair Gort: Let me tell you, I don't have any problem with 10 o'clock, as long as we can go ahead and continue. For example, I had an issue that was allocating funds to put more cameras within certain area; not only for the police safety and for the crime -solving problems, but also for illegal dumping that is taking place. So those cameras, now they got to wait until the 24th, and that's something that is -- that -- and Commissioner had something to do with his district, which was the school; that was very important for them. So that's why I'm saying, we always respect, and the Commissioners can ask -- "I don't want to" -- "this case to be heard. I want to be heard next Commission meeting, when I'm here." City of Miami Page 100 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Reyes: Mr. Chair? Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: You see, I'm going to follow Commissioner Hardemon statement that it is, I think, part of a system, you see. The extensive public comments that we have, but that's -- I believe -- and we should think about this -- that is duplicity of public comments, because when we call the issue for discussions, we are going to hear the same comments that were made in the morning and the same people that came before the microphone and they stated their position on why the position was such, then we will hear the same person when the item is heard and that takes a lot of time, and you know that. You see, it is duplicity of comments. And I think that -- something that we should look into it. If -- either we change that public comments is -- they're going to be accepted when the item is called. Chair Russell: Well, that's procedural. We don't need (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Reyes: That's procedural. That is a suggestion for procedural. And also, you see, we have -- one problem that we had had, it is because the way that we do it -- we do business is that we ask for time certain, certain issues, and very seldom we are able to comply with the time certain that we have requested. Chair Russell: Well -- Commissioner Hardemon. Commissioner Hardemon: In the past, we had more time certain items than we had time, and I mean that. It was impossible to run a Commission meeting and have time certain items, and get done the regular business of the agenda. If there is such a spirit to change the rule, I would then -- what I would be agreeable to would be what Commissioner Gort put on the record, which was that if there is an item that strictly affected one district -- or items that strictly affected one district, and that district Commissioner wanted those items to be heard, then you could continue, maybe. I'm -- maybe -- Chair Russell: Describe "continue." Commissioner Hardemon: And the only -- Chair Russell: "Continue" is a legal term. What did you mean? Commissioner Hardemon: Continue hearing beyond -- Chair Russell: We would stay? Commissioner Hardemon: Right. And I -- you know, I -- it's touchy about that, because -- well, yeah, then we will stay. Now, that could possibly mean that the four who decide to stay could be here for another five hours. So I just kind of want to put that into perspective; that, you know, we look at things as far as items are concerned -- one item, two item; it's only this -- and maybe, certainly, there will be some items where you just call it and it passes, but there are other items that you call and we talk about for three hours, and then may only affect one district. So, you know, I'm -- that's the compromise that I think I can make, but I know that it's a -- it's still a huge compromise. Other than that, then I'd just like to see it the way it is. Chair Russell: So I'm open to leaving it as is, as well, but running a tighter meeting, and working together on that. Commissioner Reyes: Well. City of Miami Page 101 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Is there a willingness to either withdraw or defer anything in here to work further on? Commissioner Carollo: Hearing -- Commissioner Reyes: Listen -- Commissioner Carollo: -- that two of you are willing to leave it as is, I'll withdraw my FR.3. Commissioner Reyes: And -- I mean, if this is the consensus, fine, but what I want to do is I want to avoid the same situation that I -- we had with -- I mean, if that is in deference to our residents; that they come and they spend the whole day here, and then at 10 o'clock, because somebody -- I mean, one of us have the need or feel sick, or whatever it is, leaves, and since we don't have unanimous -- a unanimous vote on continuing, then those persons that spend -- I mean, those are working persons. These people are working. They spend the whole day here, and then at 10 o'clock, for whatever reason, for whatever reason, we said, "Okay, fine. Now it's 10 o'clock." Just like that old TV (television) ad, "You know where your children are?" You see? It's 11 o'clock. I mean, it's 10 o'clock, and then we're leaving, you see. We are leaving. Why? Because Commissioner so -- Manolo Reyes, he feels sick or he has to go to the airport and pick up his wife, or whatever it is, you see. And then those people that spend the whole day here listening to all the discussions so that we -- that we extend our conversations, and we talk and we talk and we talk and all of that, and then at 10 o'clock, you decided, "Okay, this is over," you see? I think that we owe that to our residents. We owe at least those people that were here for so long, for the whole day; they deserve to -- that the problems that they brought before us be solved. Chair Russell: Thank you. Just to clarify the existing ordinance, at 10 p.m., not everyone needs to stay. If somebody has to go, they can still give consent for the entire body to continue without them if (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Reyes: Well, if that's the case, I'm willing to -- Chair Russell: Leave it as is. Commissioner Reyes: -- leave it as it is. Under these conditions: We take a vote, and we vote unanimous (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Let's say that I have to leave. I say, "Listen, I have to leave. I'm going to defer this, this, and that." And we vote, and we vote unanimously that we want to continue, I will leave, and it will -- quorum will be considered, you see. Chair Russell: Got it. Commissioner Carollo: They'll still come to you. Chair Russell: Now, there's one catch -- Commissioner Carollo: Still come to you. Chair Russell: -- catch, if I could, because this came up in the last one. At the 10 p.m., when an item is done, the Clerk will take that vote. We're not able to defer things before that vote, and that's one thing we -- if there's a change -- Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. City of Miami Page 102 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: -- we might want to do that, because that person who's deciding whether or not to let the meeting go on without them wants the comfort that the items they care about are going to be continued or deferred, and they're leaving it in the trust of those after they've stepped off the dais. So that might be an amendment, and I'd recommend cooking this a little more and bringing it back. Commissioner Reyes: Absolutely. Let's do it. Chair Russell: I'm feeling a consensus, but I would say to withdraw the two items -- Commissioner Reyes: That's right. Chair Russell: -- and then I think we're moving somewhere. Commissioner Reyes: I'm willing to withdraw, as long as -- Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Commissioner Reyes: -- we bring this back and everybody thinks about it, and let's - - as you said, let's cook it, but we need some changes. Chair Russell: All right. But I will continue to push for less talk, more action, quicker meetings. In that way -- Commissioner Reyes: You mean that? Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Reyes: You're going to limit yourself? Chair Russell: I'll try to talk less, as well. Commissioner Reyes: My goodness. Chair Russell: Guilty. Commissioner Reyes: Hallelujah. Chair Russell: Do you need a vote to withdraw? Mr. Hannon: No. FR.4 is Commissioner Gort and Commissioner Reyes's item. So Commissioner Gort, are you fine with withdrawing the item, as well? Vice Chair Gort: I'm fine. Mr. Hannon: Understood. Withdrawn. Chair Russell: All right. No vote necessarily. Commissioner Carollo: All right. City of Miami Page 103 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 FR.4 ORDINANCE First Reading 6592 Commissioners and Mayor AN ORDINANCE OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, AMENDING CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE II, SECTION 2-33(C)(7) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED, TITLED "ADMINISTRATION/MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSION/ORDER OF BUSINESS AND RULES OF PROCEDURE," TO CHANGE THE TIME AND MANNER WHEREBY THE CITY COMMISSION MEETINGS ARE ADJOURNED; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. MOTION TO: RESULT: Withdraw by Sponsor WITHDRAWN BY SPONSOR Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item FR.4, please see Item FR.3. FR.5 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: Indefinitely Defer RESULT: INDEFINITELY DEFERRED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item FR.5, please see "Order of the Day." END OF FIRST READING ORDINANCES City of Miami Page 104 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.1 5544 Office of the City Clerk BC.2 5545 Office of the City Clerk BC - BOARDS AND COMMITTEES RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT COUNCIL FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL AS A MEMBER OF THE AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR A TERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: Rodney Sobelson ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0390 NOMINATED BY: Commissioner Keon Hardemon City of Miami Page 105 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Keon Hardemon, Commissioner SECONDER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: A motion was made by Commissioner Hardemon, seconded by Vice Chair Gort, and was passed unanimously, to appoint Rodney Sobelson as a member of the Audit Advisory Committee, further waiving the residency requirements of Section 2-884(a) by a four/fifths (4/5ths) vote of the members of the City Commission, as it relates to Rodney Sobelson as a member of the Audit Advisory Committee. Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC.2, the Audit Advisory Committee: Commissioner Hardemon will be appointing Rodney Sobelson, with a four -fifths residency waiver. Commissioner Reyes: Move it. Commissioner Hardemon: Excuse me for a second. Chair Russell: Just a -- Commissioner Reyes: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Ms. Ewan: Okay, we'll hold on that. Later... Chair Russell: We do have a full dais. Commissioner Hardemon: And then I'll -- Chair Russell: We can take up BC.2, as well. Commissioner Carollo: PZ (Planning and Zoning) -- Commissioner Hardemon: Is BC.2 mine? Right. Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Commissioner Hardemon: So I move that we accept the recommendation that was stated on the record previously. Vice Chair Gort: Second. Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Hardemon; seconded by the Vice Chair. All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Motion passes. Thank you very much. City of Miami Page 106 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.3 6582 Office of the City Clerk BC.4 6566 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION WAIVING THE RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT BY A FOUR -FIFTHS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, AS IT RELATES TO IGNACIO J. ABELLA AS A MEMBER OF THE AUDIT ADVISORY COMMITTEE. RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL AS A MEMBER OF THE BAYFRONT PARK MANAGEMENT TRUST FOR A TERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: NOMINATED BY: Alex Cardenas Commission -At -Large ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0391 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: A motion was made by Commissioner Carollo, seconded by Vice Chair Gort, and was passed unanimously, to appoint Alex Cardenas as a member of the Bayfront Park Management Trust; further waiving the term limits of Section 2-885(b) by a unanimous (5/5) vote of the members of the City Commission, as it relates to Alex Cardenas as a member of the Bayfront Park Management Trust. Nicole Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): For BC. 4, Bayfront Park Management Trust. Commissioner Carollo: Alex Cardenas. Ms. Ewan: Yes, to the at -large position, with a five -five term waiver, but Commissioner Hardemon just left. Commissioner Carollo: Motion for Alex Cardenas to be reappointed. Chair Russell: Thank you. And what was the remainder of the --? Ms. Ewan: We'll table it, because it requires a five -five term waiver, and Commissioner Hardemon just stepped away. Chair Russell: Thank you. We'll come back to that one. City of Miami Page 107 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.5 5441 Office of the City Clerk Later... Commissioner Carollo: If we could go back to BC.4, now that we have five people here; the reappointment of Alex Cardenas to the Bayfront Park Management Trust. Chair Russell: There's a motion to pass BC.4. Commissioner Carollo: Motion. Chair Russell: Is there a second? Commissioner Hardemon: Who's the person again? Commissioner Carollo: Alex Cardenas. Commissioner Hardemon: Okay. Vice Chair Gort: Second. Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Carollo; second by the Vice Chair. All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN City of Miami Page 108 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.6 6330 Office of the City Clerk BC.7 6567 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE CODE ENFORCEMENT BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: (Alternate Member) NOMINATED BY: Commissioner Ken Russell Commission -At -Large RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION CONFIRMING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL AS A MEMBER OF THE CITY OF MIAMI COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD FOR A TERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: NOMINATED BY: Brandon Alfred Commission -At -Large ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0392 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Keon Hardemon, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Gort, Carollo Chair Russell: Good afternoon; calling back to order. We're going to take up boards and commissions [sic] while we have three here. Boards and committees, I'm sorry. Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): Good afternoon, Chair. Thank you. BC.7, Community Advisory Board: The board is requesting confirmation of Brandon Alfred. Chair Russell: Is there a motion? Commissioner Reyes: Moved. City of Miami Page 109 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.8 5547 Office of the City Clerk Chair Russell: Moved; seconded by Commissioner Hardemon. All in favor, say aye. The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Motion passes. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commissioner Keon Hardemon RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN City of Miami Page 110 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.9 5839 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commissioner Keon Hardemon RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN City of Miami Page 111 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.10 5198 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE EDUCATION ADVISORY BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: (Voting Member) (Post -Secondary Education Representative) (School District Representative) (Children's Trust Representative) (Ex-Officio Non -Voting Member) (Ex-Officio Non -Voting Youth Member) NOMINATED BY: Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN City of Miami Page 112 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.11 5976 Office of the City Clerk BC.12 5662 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY ADVISORY BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commissioner Keon Hardemon IAFF FOP AFSCME 1907 AFSCME 871 RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL AS A MEMBER OF THE FINANCE COMMITTEE FOR A TERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: NOMINATED BY: Eric Zichella Commissioner Joe Carollo ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0393 City of Miami Page 113 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.13 1599 Office of the City Clerk MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Keon Hardemon, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Gort, Carollo Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC.12, Finance Committee: Commissioner Carollo will be reappointing Eric Zichella. Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Reyes; seconded by Commissioner Hardemon. All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE HEALTH FACILITIES AUTHORITY BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Manolo Reyes RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN City of Miami Page 114 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.14 5451 Office of the City Clerk BC.15 6576 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE MAYOR'S INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commission -At -Large RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE MIAMI COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Patricia Pino Commissioner Manolo Reyes Samuel Latimore Commissioner Keon Hardemon Jacqui Colyer City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0394 City of Miami Page 115 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Gort Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC.1 S, Miami Complete Count Committee: Commissioner Gort will be appointing Pat Gajardo, Commissioner Hardemon will be appointing Samuel Latimore, Commissioner Reyes will be appointing Patricia Pino, and the City Manager will be appointing Jacklyn Colyer -- Jacqui Colyer; excuse me. Chair Russell: Thank you. Does that complete that board? Ms. Ewan: That completes that board, correct. Chair Russell: Excellent. Let Commissioner Bovo know we've got our committee in place. Ms. Ewan: Will do. Chair Russell: Commissioner -- Vice Chairman, did you have something? Vice Chair Gort: I want to hold all my appointments, so whenever the new Commissioner comes in, he could go ahead and make them. Ms. Ewan: Fair enough. Vice Chair Gort: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Ms. Ewan: So we'll be removing Commissioner Gort's appointee from the Complete Count Committee. Chair Russell: Okay. We don't have a motion yet on that anyway. So would you read it again? Ms. Ewan: Yes. BC.15, Miami Complete Count Committee: Commissioner Hardemon will be appointing Samuel Latimore, Commissioner Reyes will be appointing Patricia Pino, City Manager will be appointing Jacqui Colyer. Chair Russell: Is there a motion? This is the Complete Count Committee for the census. Is there a motion? Commissioner Reyes: Move it. Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Reyes; seconded by Commissioner Carollo. All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. City of Miami Page 116 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.16 5199 Office of the City Clerk BC.17 6581 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE MIAMI FOREVER BOND PROGRAM CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commissioner Keon Hardemon RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION WAIVING THE EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS BY A FOUR -FIFTHS AFFIRMATIVE VOTE, AS IT RELATES TO RALPH ROSADO AS A MEMBER OF THE MIAMI FOREVER BOND PROGRAM CITIZENS' OVERSIGHT BOARD. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0395 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Ken Russell, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): BC.17, Miami Forever Bond Citizens Oversight Board: Ralph Rosado, a current incumbent on the board, he inquires a four -fifths residency waiver -- excuse me -- employment waiver. Chair Russell: Thank you. So you need a four -fifths on this, which would be a unanimous of those present. Ms. Ewan: Ralph Rosado, he was previously appointed by Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: I really (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Chair Russell: Is there a motion? Commissioner Carollo: There's a motion. Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner Carollo; seconded by the Chair. All in favor, say "aye." City of Miami Page 117 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.18 5039 Office of the City Clerk The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Commissioner Reyes: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Commissioner Reyes: (UNINTELLIGIBLE)? Chair Russell: It is for a employment waiver for Ralph Rosado to serve on the Bond Oversight Committee. Commissioner Hardemon: No problem; go ahead. Chair Russell: All right. All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE OVERTOWN ADVISORY BOARD/OVERTOWN COMMUNITY OVERSIGHT BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: (Youth Member) NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commissioner Keon Hardemon RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN City of Miami Page 118 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.19 5452 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN City of Miami Page 119 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.20 5043 Office of the City Clerk BC.21 3693 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE SENIOR CITIZENS' ADVISORY BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE STARS OF CALLE OCHO WALK OF FAME COMMITTEE FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Joe Carollo Commission -At -Large Commission -At -Large Commission -At -Large City of Miami Page 120 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.22 5453 Office of the City Clerk BC.23 5844 Office of the City Clerk RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD (UDRB) FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN NOMINATED BY: Commissioner Wifredo (Willy) Gort Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Manolo Reyes Commissioner Keon Hardemon Commissioner Keon Hardemon RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE VIRGINIA KEY ADVISORY BOARD FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Commission -At -Large City of Miami Page 121 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 BC.24 5550 Office of the City Clerk RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS AS MEMBERS OF THE VIRGINIA KEY BEACH PARK TRUST FOR TERMS AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEES: NOMINATED BY: Mayor Francis Suarez Commissioner Ken Russell Commissioner Joe Carollo Commissioner Keon Hardemon RESULT: NO ACTION TAKEN END OF BOARDS AND COMMITTEES City of Miami Page 122 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 DI - DISCUSSION ITEMS DI.1 DISCUSSION ITEM 6476 11:00 A.M. TIME CERTAIN Commissioners and Mayor A DISCUSSION REGARDING JUNE 13, 2019 AND JULY 30, 2019 AS WELL AS RESULTING ASSOCIATED EVENTS. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: Item DI.1 was deferred to the December 12, 2019, Regular Commission Meeting. For additional minutes referencing Item DI.1, please see "Public Comment Period for Regular Item(s)." Commissioner Carollo: I will say this so that you all could be relieved and the Colonel could be relieved: The items that I have that, again, you used to speak on -- let's see. Chair Russell: DI (discussion). Commissioner Carollo: DL1, DI2, and I'll even throw in DL3, so we could have a trifecta. Let's finish early today. I think we all have things to do; I certainly do. And let's bring this up in the first December meeting; that's a good month. Chair Russell: Commissioner, shall we consider DI.1 discussed? And DI.2 ? Commissioner Carollo: No, no, no. I have not discussed DI.1, because DI.1 is getting into these specific dates and a lot more. So DI.1, DL2, and DL3, I will make a motion to defer to the first meeting in December. Chair Russell: There's a motion. Is there a second? Seconded by Commissioner Reyes. Any further discussion? All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, Commissioner Carollo. City of Miami Page 123 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 DI.2 DISCUSSION ITEM 6477 11:00 A.M. TIME CERTAIN Commissioners and Mayor A DISCUSSION REGARDING THE CITY MANAGER, CODE, AND BUILDING PROCEDURES/ENFORCEMENT OR LACK THEREOF. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: Item DL2 was deferred to the December 12, 2019, Regular Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item DL2, please see Item DI.1. DI.3 DISCUSSION ITEM 6027 Commissioners and Mayor A DISCUSSION ITEM REGARDING KEYS TO THE CITY AND CITY PROCLAMATIONS. MOTION TO: Defer RESULT: DEFERRED MOVER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes, Hardemon Note for the Record: Item DL3 was deferred to the December 12, 2019, Regular Commission Meeting. For minutes referencing Item DI.3, please see Item DI.1. DI.4 DISCUSSION ITEM 6099 Commissioners and Mayor A DISCUSSION ITEM REGARDING THE OFFICE OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS. MOTION TO: Withdraw RESULT: WITHDRAWN MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Reyes, Hardemon ABSENT: Carollo Note for the Record: For minutes referencing Item DI.4, please see "Order of the Day." END OF DISCUSSION ITEMS City of Miami Page 124 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 D3 - DISTRICT 3 ITEM COMMISSIONER, DISTRICT THREE JOE CAROLLO D3.1 DISCUSSION ITEM 6575 Commissioners and Mayor A DISCUSSION ITEM REGARDING THE STATUS OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS INVESTIGATION OF FRANK PICHEL. RESULT: DISCUSSED Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): There is one item left, though; D3.1. Chair Russell: D3.1, do you need an action on that? It's a discussion item. Mr. Hannon: I believe -- Chair Russell: Madam City Attorney, Mr. Manager, you had a statement you wanted to make regarding D3.1 before we have this discussion. Emilio T. Gonzalez (City Manager): Yes, sir. I understand that this is a status on an Internal Affairs investigation. I've discussed this with the Chief of Police. The investigation is ongoing, and as a result, there's not much that I could contribute to this conversation. So I would ask that we allow this to play itself out. Our Police Department will issue a report, and then we'll be happy to discuss the contents of the report or any -- Chair Russell: As Chair, I need more clarification. "Are we able to have this discussion item without interfering with a legal process?" is my question. Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Well, the discussion item is this, giving us status. I believe that Commissioner Carollo -- there was a concern that was brought up. Commissioner Carollo at that last meeting wanted to -- Commissioner Carollo: That's right. Ms. Mendez: -- make sure that there was something done about it. I believe that now there is an Internal Affairs investigation, and there is also a CIP (Civilian Investigative Panel) investigation. Commissioner Carollo: That is correct. And let me say this also on the record. Look, I believe this firmly, that any employee that's accused of anything has every right to due process, so let's lay that out on the table. Any one of us would certainly expect to have that. Secondly, the area that caught my attention the most was that there indeed, from what I understand, was an arrest made. So that led to other allegations. Now, I've heard what the City Attorney has said. I heard what the Manager has said. This is what I believe Mr. Pichel had requested, and unless he has any statements to make to the actual arrest, then I think that it is more than not more appropriate to let this item go for the meantime, until we get anything back. And I have made my statements before on how I feel about our whole process here, and I stand by them, but I didn't have any other intentions but to let someone that is a City of Miami Page 125 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 resident of Miami that not only felt, but certainly, it appears that it was proven by an arrest that he was wronged, to have had his day. I'm glad the Manager acted upon this. Through the Chair, Mr. Pichel, is there any statement that you'd like to make that's limited --? Chair Russell: I do not believe it's appropriate for us to be taking anything of substance within this, as an investigation is ongoing; I simply do not. Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Frank Pichel: You know, every time I come up here -- Chair Russell: Just a moment, sir. Mr. Pichel: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Chair Russell: Just a moment, sir. Just a moment. I need clarification, because when you come up here, sometimes it's inappropriate. I'm happy to let you speak if it's appropriate and it's not going to affect an investigation. I need to understand from our City Attorney -- Ms. Mendez: Mr. Pichel -- Chair Russell: -- if it's appropriate to have this discussion. I want to honor the Commissioner's discussion item; he's brought it up, but we had been warned -- Commissioner Carollo: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) at least -- Chair Russell: -- and I'd like to follow through with that. Commissioner Carollo: -- I put it up -- Chair Russell: Yeah. Commissioner Carollo: -- so that someone could have the opportunity, but I'm not going to be discussing this. I don't know anything about it. Chair Russell: Understood. Madam City Attorney. Ms. Mendez: Mr. Pichel, based on your statement the last time, the City has acted; has been able to do both -- I believe, a CIP investigation is happening, along with also Internal Affairs. So the best thing -- Mr. Pichel: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Chair Russell: Well, you haven't been addressed yet. I'm asking -- you have not been addressed, sir. I'm talking to the City Attorney. Mr. Pichel: I'm talking to you. Chair Russell: You're not recognized at this moment. If the City Attorney believes that your statements will not be inappropriately interfering with an ongoing investigation, I will be glad to give you the floor. I am waiting to hear from my City Attorney. City of Miami Page 126 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Ms. Mendez: So my recommendation would be not to address this matter now, because it is under investigation. Let the proper channels be addressed, and then move forward. Chair Russell: All right. But she is our Attorney -- Ms. Mendez: That's my recommendation to the Commission. Chair Russell: -- and we are choosing to follow her recommendation, so that'll be the end of this discussion item. Mr. Pichel: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Chair Russell: This is not the forum. This is simply not the forum. You have an ongoing investigation, and there's a correct forum to address it. Mr. Pichel: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Chair Russell: I'm sorry; this is not an open public forum for anything anyone wants to say. Mr. Pichel: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Chair Russell: I'm sorry; you -- this is not the place for this. This is not the place for this. Mr. Pichel, this is not the place for this. Ms. Mendez: Mr. Pichel, do you also want us to forward it to FDLE (Federal Department of Law Enforcement)? We could do that, as well. Many Pichel: Oh, yeah. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) they want. Ms. Mendez: Okay. We can do that, as well, for you. Chair Russell: All right. Mr. Pichel: No, but I (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Ms. Mendez: No. Mr. Pichel: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Ms. Mendez: We can forward it, as well. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Ms. Mendez: Thank you. Chair Russell: I'll consider that the close of this discussion item. Is there any more business before the City? Seeing none, I will bring this meeting to an adjournment. Thank you very much, everyone. Commissioner Reyes: Thank you very much. END OF DISTRICT 3 ITEM City of Miami Page 127 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 NA.1 6652 City Commission NA - NON -AGENDA ITEM(S) DISCUSSION ITEM COMMISSIONER JOE CAROLLO ADDRESSED COMMENTS MADE DURING THE PUBLIC COMMENT PORTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION MEETING HELD ON OCTOBER 10, 2019. RESULT: DISCUSSED Chair Russell: Before we go to the discussion items, I would like to see if we can take up the CA (consent agenda), PH (public hearing), and remainder of the RE (resolution) agendas. Commissioner Carollo: Excuse me, Mr. Chairman. Chair Russell: Yes, Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: The public hearing section is closed, correct? Chair Russell: The section for public comment -- there is no one else here who would like to speak from the public; so, yes. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. So that is closed? Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: All right. Chair Russell: Thank you. Commissioner Carollo: So now is my turn. Chair Russell: Is there --? Well -- Commissioner Carollo: No, no, no. It's -- Chair Russell: -- I would like to try to get the business -- Commissioner Carollo: -- well, you -- Chair Russell: We're doing great. We're doing so well. Commissioner Carollo: We're doing great. Chair Russell: So -- Commissioner Carollo: But you know what? You still have someone making disparaging remarks against me -- Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Carollo: -- that are not true, and I have every right to defend myself whether you like it or not. This is not a one-way show. It's -- City of Miami Page 128 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Not at all; it's the will of the body, Mr. Commissioner. Commissioner Carollo: The Mayor can send his lapdog here to attack me -- Chair Russell: Mr. Commissioner -- Commissioner Carollo: -- and I can't speak? Chair Russell: You will have -- you will absolutely have your time. What I want to seek is -- Commissioner Carollo: No, no. I put -- I asked -- Chair Russell: Commissioner, please. Commissioner Carollo: -- if you don't want to give me the time, I'm going to ask -- Chair Russell: I am absolutely willing to give you the time, Commissioner, if you will wait one moment; it is to see the will of this body, how we're going to run the entire day. We have a very short agenda, and I definitely want to give you your time, and I want to give it to you as soon as possible. So the question for this body - Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Chair Russell: -- if we take this item up, it can be a lengthy item, and that's fine. But -- Commissioner Carollo: I don't think it will be. Chair Russell: Just a moment. But we'll run into the lunch hour; and so, I want to know if the will of this body is to go -- work through the lunch hour and just knock out the business of the day and be done for the day, or take up some of the business of the day first, and then take up the discussion item for as long as it would be. I'll go either way, but I want to know if the body wants to break at 12; that's the big question. Does the body wish to break at 12 o'clock? I'm willing to work through. Vice Chair Gort: I don't have any problem working through. Commissioner Hardemon: Yeah. I don't have a problem hearing from Commissioner Carollo. Chair Russell: No, no, of course. Commissioner Reyes: Me either. Chair Russell: That's not a dispute. I'm just asking whether the will is to work through lunch -- Commissioner Reyes: Yeah. Chair Russell: -- to finish the agenda early. All right. Commissioner Carollo, the floor is yours. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you very much, and thank you to my colleagues. I need to respond just to a few of the false statements that this individual has made, okay? Let me try to get closer. I'd like to respond to a few of the false statements City of Miami Page 129 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 that this individual has made, trying to defame me. Let's begin with this notion that he stated here in his (UNINTELLIGIBLE) attacking me, in violation of departmental rules and regulations that somehow, I said that I was going to disarm the SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics) Team. I've never made such a statement, because how could I disarm a SWAT Team? So I don't know where this individual has gotten that from, because that's a statement that I have not made. Secondly, that I accepted an award as some kind of war hero. Never have I accepted an award for being any kind of war hero. What was sent to my office that we will be dealing with in another hour was a salute where it was being planned by being -- that salute being sent to me for being in the Marine Reserve, and they didn't even put in active Reserve, like they should have, and they used an award for Commissioner Gort in being also in the Reserve, but no one ever challenged his time, or if he had an honorable discharge or a DD214, or a DD256. That award or salute was given to try to set up everything else that happened, including this man statements today. So I have never said to anyone that I was a war hero. Even he, himself, has stated in his attacks on me, nonstop, on Twitter, that I have never told anyone that I was even in the Marines in active Reserve, which is true. The only time that I mentioned it originally was about a year and a half ago, when the City Manager asked me and prodded me if I was ever in the military, and I said I was only in the inactive Marine Reserve, which he, as a Colonel, should know exactly what that means. And then the second time that I addressed it -- and this time, it was public -- was because the Colonel Manager put me in a position that I was forced to address it. After his office sent emails, they called my office. And then, he, himself, contacted my staff -- which has never happened in that fashion before -- for me to be present on July 31 of this year, when two flags for veterans and law enforcement were being unveiled at the MRC (Miami River Center). I figured even though I had a conflict half an hour later -- I had a groundbreaking -- I figured I'd better go, because I got the feeling I was being set up, so if I didn't go, I would be attacked that I didn't go. Boy, little did I know that what they were trying to set me up for was that the Colonel Manager got up and introduced me as a Marine Corps veteran, which I never said that to him in a private conversation; I've never said it anywhere, because I've never been one. To be a veteran, you would have had to have served 180 days in active duty, and I never did that; I never claimed that, whatsoever. So these are the only two times that I addressed that. It started as a private conversation when I was asked; not that I volunteered. And then to have to correct the Manager in public, when I told him that I was only in the inactive Marine Reserve, not active, so don't put me in the front lines. So I hope that that false statement by this gentleman is correct. Now, his statement, which is even more bizarre, that I threatened him to take him to my office and beat him up, and all kinds of stuff like that, the record is clear here. There's a video of that Commission meeting when the Chairman let him go and attack me. If this would have been someone saying this to him, he would have been jumping up and down, but that's okay. That was allowed to be done to me, when I cannot recollect any other time, except when the guy that gave him the information -- that's also false -- to attack me as a racist gave it to him since they couldn't get anybody else to come forward with it so that he could attack me on that. But on that occasion when he came, what I stated to him -- and the record shows, and is clear -- I stated, "You could go to my office." And what wasn't heard was the second part that I said: "So we could discuss anything you want, one-on-one, but don't bring your gun." At no time, nor can he show anything on that record that states that I threatened him, "Go to my office," beat him up, "We're going to fight," or anything to that effect. What is at play here is that this is an individual that, when he applied to be a Lieutenant, he claimed that he was a black man, non -Hispanic. And as you could see, that's not the case, unless he wants to bring a birth certificate that will show otherwise. And everything that's in his personal file, up until he took that Lieutenant's exam, stated that he was white Hispanic. And, gee, nobody did anything about it at the time. Then three weeks before the mayoral race, so that the present Mayor could have City of Miami Page 130 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 clean hands and claim that, "I had nothing to do with it, " they got the former Police Chief to promote him -- and he was the only one at the time -- to Captain. So he owes his being a Captain to the Mayor, whom the last meeting where he's claiming I said all this, he kept going up there to the dais, getting his instructions from the Manager, from the Mayor, including going into areas in this building that he should not have been there, because they're for the people that work here. He doesn't have carte blanche to be going around, like if he owns the place. Last, but not least, into my Chief of Staff. You know, this is how bad it's gotten. They can't find anything to hit me with anymore. They tried everything. Now they got to go and see what they could find on all my staff. The fact is that the individual that I have is someone that they haven't been able to buy off with bringing him to a higher position in the City, quote/unquote, like is the norm now -- it's never been done before in the City -- where people that work for a Commissioner, like Commissioner Reyes, they're being taken from his office by the Administration that can offer them whatever they want, because they run the City by Charter, and offer him twice as much as they're making in that position, and not even have the decency to contact any of us as to what they're going to do, and if -- you know -- we don't mind that they hire someone from our staf• not even that simple respect. The individual that works with me, I've had a conversation with him, and I will after this. I don't believe that what this gentleman here has stated is such at all; just like all this crap that he's throwing out at me. I had an individual about two, three months ago, a black man, an African American, very well known in our community, and I'm going to tell you what the conversation was about. He came to tell me that he had some people that are his buddies now from 8th Street -- not that any of them live there -- that had come to him to offer him money for activities that he had if he would attack me and call me a racist. And they came with the same baloney stuff that this guy is throwing out. And for the record, I have never in my life have done anything that could be construed as racist; least of all, passing out any pro planned stuff, like they're trying to say now. This is why I have a record that I'll match with any elected official here, or former elected official here that I have stood and put my neck on the line in fighting for the rights of African Americans in this community, and this is why all of you, yourselves, Commissioners -- Commissioner Hardemon, you've heard it here -- when Mrs. Gibson has stood out here and praised me for how I have been with her in the past; how I defended her when I was Mayor. This is why people like Athalie Range, Barbara Carey supported me in my election for Mayor citywide. This is why today, we can have Commissioner Hardemon up here, because I put my neck on the line when we were citywide, and for the first time, we didn't have an African American on the Commission. And going against many of my own supporters, I said, "We have to have a balanced Commission and guarantee that into the future." And I was the one that asked, with all the good and all the bad that it would bring, for district elections, so that we could forever guarantee that there will always be someone that looks like Hardemon, someone that looks like Russell, so that we could have the balance of this community we wanted. The only Mayor in the City's history that's ever had a Chief of Staff that's African American is Joe Carollo. The only time that in the City of Doral, a city that's 98 percent white Hispanic, the only time that they ever had an Assistant City Manager that was an African American was when I was City Manager there, and I hired. The Black Precinct, the African American Museum, that happened when I was Mayor. The Virginia Beach Trust, that happened when I was Mayor. The CIP (Civilian Investigative Panel) Board, that happened when I was Mayor, because I was seeing the kind of things that were happening in our community, and it was needed to protect African Americans in Miami, but frankly, all of Miami. So I could go on and on, but I don't think that I need to defend myself because the African American leadership in this community that has worked for me and has known me for years know better than that, and this is why this one individual that came to me that if I were to say his name -- but I don't have his permission -- every one of you would know him; came to me and said, "You know, I told him to get out of my City of Miami Page 131 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 NA.2 6654 City Commission NA.3 6650 Office of the City Clerk office; I was not going to do that." And, gee, who shows up with all the same little papers? The African American former Lieutenant that the Mayor made a Captain now. So that's all I have to say for now. DIRECTIVE DIRECTION FROM CHAIR RUSSELL TO THE CITY MANAGER TO BRING BACK AN ORDINANCE TO ADDRESS THE SAFETY ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH THE MOTORIZED SCOOTER PILOT PROGRAM. RESULT: DISCUSSED Chair Russell: The amendments I would like to bring in, which I stated on the floor in the last meeting, cannot go into effect, with my understanding, without an ordinance. And so, we are exposed until that -- those amendments can be brought in, even during the pilot program, to make it safer. I think we have a responsibility to make it safer. So I would like an ordinance brought back with those safety amendments only. It doesn't necessarily have to extend the time if the willingness of this body is not here to do that yet, but we must implement the safety. And it's not that you can read a serial number as they drive by. All you need to do is take a video when you see someone who's riding irresponsibly, or an under -aged, and it will capture that. The 4G cameras capture all that now, and the time stamp will show you exactly who was using that account, and we have that information. Mr. Manager. Mr. Gonzalez: Well, I just wanted to make clear that the 60-day period that Annie mentioned, all -- includes the circulation to the Commissioners to look at it before it goes out, so we could actually get this a little quicker if we get back the responses. Chair Russell: Thank you. And you've got the direction -- Mr. Gonzalez: Sure. Chair Russell: -- to bring back the ordinance with regard to the amendments. Mr. Gonzalez: Right. RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION APPOINTING A CERTAIN INDIVIDUAL AS A MEMBER OF THE CLIMATE RESILIENCE COMMITTEE FOR A TERM AS DESIGNATED HEREIN. APPOINTEE: NOMINATED BY: Robert Hevia City Manager Emilio T. Gonzalez ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0396 City of Miami Page 132 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Wifredo (Willy) Gort, Commissioner SECONDER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes ABSENT: Hardemon Nicole N. Ewan (Assistant City Clerk): And I do have the Climate Resilience Committee: City Manager Gonzalez will be appointing Assistant Fire Chief Robert Hevia to that board. Chair Russell: Is there a motion? Vice Chair Gort: Move it. Chair Russell: Moved by Commissioner Gort -- Vice Chairman Gort; seconded by Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Carollo: Who is the Manager appointing? Ms. Ewan: Assistant Fire Chief Robert Hevia to his seat. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Chair Russell: All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. Ms. Ewan: So we'll hold on Commission Hardemon's appointee and Commissioner Carollo's appointment. Chair Russell: Those were BC (Boards and Committees) -- Ms. Ewan: BC.2 and BC.4. Chair Russell: -- 2 and 4 we will come back to. In the meantime, we'll get back to the -- Commissioner Carollo: BC.12, reappointment of Eric Zichella. Chair Russell: That already got taken care of. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Is that --? Ms. Ewan: We did take that up, Commissioner. Commissioner Hardemon: FR.1. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Thank you. Ms. Ewan: You're welcome. Commissioner Hardemon: FR.1. City of Miami Page 133 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 NA.4 6655 Office of the City Clerk Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Thank you. DISCUSSION ITEM POLICE CHIEF JORGE COLINA ADDRESSED THE CITY COMMISSION REGARDING THE PROFESSIONALISM OF THE MIAMI POLICE DEPARTMENT. RESULT: DISCUSSED Chair Russell: Chief Colina would like to address the body. Chief Jorge Colina: Just quickly, a couple of quick points of clarification. Jorge Colina, Chief of Police, City of Miami Police Department. Preserving the integrity of the badge is very important to me. And so, any allegations of corruption, Mr. Chair, there are many forums to make those allegations; I don't believe this is one of them. And by the way, it doesn't matter how outrageous or narcissistic the allegation is, there are forums for that; this Commission is not that forum. That's just one point. The second point is we at the City of Miami Police Department have one of the absolutely finest training bureaus in the country; probably second to none. Just those two quick points. Thank you. Chair Russell: Thank you. Thank you, Chief. All right. As Commissioner Hardemon says, are all hearts and minds clear? Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): There's a -- Commissioner Carollo: Let me just say -- Mr. Hannon: -- two things. Commissioner Carollo: -- that as an elected member of this body, no one is going to come up here and tell me what forum I am allowed to speak on or not. I think he is referring to Internal Affairs, controlled by him and indirectly by the Manager, through him, where there had been complaints of the CIP already of -- before decisions were made -- complaints to the CIP that the Chief himself, with a former Internal Affairs Commander, were going to let an item ride so that the time would be expired, and they wouldn't have to take action against an officer. And guess who that officer was? The white Hispanic, now Captain that claimed that he was African American, not Hispanic, when he took the lieutenant's exam; Mr. Javier Ortiz, who was here before. So I now feel like many of our residents that to go to Internal Affairs -- Chair Russell: Thank you. Are you --? Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. City of Miami Page 134 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 NA.5 6658 City Commission RESOLUTION A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION ESTABLISHING A NEW POLICY TO CLARIFY HOW MATTERS MAY BE SPONSORED OR CO -SPONSORED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSIONERS AND TO REQUIRE THAT ANY SUCH SPONSORSHIPS OR CO -SPONSORSHIPS BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING TO THE AGENDA OFFICE AND FURTHER DIRECTING THE CITY ADMINISTRATION TO AMEND THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND RULES OF PROCEDURE OF THE CITY COMMISSION AGENDA, PURSUANT TO SECTION 2- 33(C)(1) OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF MIAMI, FLORIDA, AS AMENDED ("CITY CODE"), TO PROVIDE HOW MATTERS MAY BE SPONSORED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COMMISSIONERS AND TO REQUIRE THAT ANY SUCH SPONSORSHIPS BE SUBMITTED IN WRITING TO THE AGENDA OFFICE. ENACTMENT NUMBER: R-19-0397 MOTION TO: Adopt RESULT: ADOPTED MOVER: Manolo Reyes, Commissioner SECONDER: Joe Carollo, Commissioner AYES: Russell, Gort, Carollo, Reyes ABSENT: Hardemon Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes has a pocket item. Commissioner Reyes: Yes, I have, and you have it in front of you. It reads: A resolution of the Miami City Commission, establishing a new policy to clarify how matters might be sponsored or co -sponsored by the Mayor and City Commissioners, and to require that any such sponsorship or co-sponsorship be submitted in writing to the Agenda Office; and further directing the City Administration to amend the order of business and rules of procedure of the City Commission agenda, pursuant to Section 2-33(z) (1) of the Code of the City of Miami, Florida, as amended, City Code Commissioner Carollo: Second. Commissioner Reyes: -- provide how matters be sponsored by the Mayor and City Commission, and to require that any such sponsorship be submitted in writing to the Agenda Office by the Commissioner or his Chief of Staff. Chair Russell: Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Carollo: I very much welcome that, Commissioner. I second that motion. And I think this is going to put this type of action in perspective, so that people won't be claiming (UNINTELLIGIBLE) any of us to sponsor something when we didn't, so that Chiefs of Staffs [sic] from the Mayor's Office won't be coming to my office telling us that everybody else was sponsoring something when it appears that wasn't the case; trying to see if I'm just going to go along to get along. And, you know, when I sponsor something, or when I vote for something, whether I have a full majority or I'm alone, I'm going to do what I think is correct; not just because I'm going to go with a bunch. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Mr. City Attorney, I'd like to clarify. There is an emergency nature to a pocket reso. Does this fall under the --? City of Miami Page 135 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Unidentified Speaker: If you make the finding. Chair Russell: If you make the claim? Unidentified Speaker: Yeah, under 2-30 (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Commissioner Carollo: I do. Chair Russell: I can see the reason for it, because it's important at the next meeting this doesn't happen, and it affects how legislation is written, so it's (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Emilio T. Gonzalez (City Manager): Mr. Chairman, and we have no objection either, so. Chair Russell: Understood. I just want to make sure that we're compliant. I would like to make a -- there is a motion by Commissioner Reyes and a second. Vice Chair Gort: Call the question. Chair Russell: Yes. No, no. I'd like to offer an amendment, with direction to the Management to create better practices for co-sponsorship. I have a concern with regard to sunshine issue with how -- when someone sponsors -- let me put it this way: When someone sponsors, there is no way for a co-sponsor to work together with that sponsor out of the sunshine. And so, unless there was a sunshine meeting, or it was done on this dais, there's no way to coordinate. But the Agenda Office and the City Attorney's Office is stuck listening to two separate Commissioners who are co -sponsoring, not knowing who is the point person and one offers changes that the other hasn't approved, and then it comes before the agenda with whose version? So there are best practices in other municipalities that I've seen, where if there is a prime sponsor on an item, someone wants to co-sponsor, they're welcomed to, but the changes don't get into the legislation unless the prime sponsor agrees, until it gets to the floor; at which point, it can be amended. I would just like to see some better practices to make sure we're adhering to sunshine, and that what a sponsor intends in the written agenda is what shows up on the floor. Is that something we can work on? All right. Is that something you'd accept as a friendly amendment? Todd B. Hannon (City Clerk): Chair, so that's going to be included in the resolution? Chair Russell: Yes. Directing the Management to come back with procedures over the next -- can you do it in 60 days? Two months? Clarifying, because it's simply not spoken to in the Code; and so, for lack of it, there is unclarity [sic]. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: All right. Thank you very much. Unidentified Speaker: Where are we? Chair Russell: Mover and seconder, thank you very much. Unidentified Speaker: And Mr. Chair, we will add that language that you were talking about as a provision in the resolution. Chair Russell: Perfect. City of Miami Page 136 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Unidentified Speaker: A finding. Chair Russell: Thank you. Is there any further discussion? Commissioner Reyes: On this item? Chair Russell: Yes. Commissioner Reyes: No, sir. I have some questions that I have to direct to the Manager. Chair Russell: Afterward? Commissioner Reyes: Afterwards. And -- Chair Russell: All right. All in favor of the pocket item -- Mr. Hannon: Public hearing. Chair Russell: Ah, yes. Thank you. Is there anyone here from the public who'd like to speak on this resolution regarding sponsorship of items? Seeing none, I'll close public comment. Any further discussion from the dais? All in favor, say "aye." The Commission (Collectively): Aye. Chair Russell: Any opposed? Motion passes. Later... Chair Russell: Is there any further discussion or questions? Commissioner Hardemon. Commissioner Hardemon: This pocket item pass, I want to remind us that the only reason that we have a sponsorship -- this sponsorship language right now is because we decided to add a section to the agenda that people -- I don't want to say "rarely" - - I mean, almost never really use, which is the ability for them to make comments on future legislation for like 60 days; and to avoid the future legislation, we have to have a sponsorship. And so now, every time we spend our time here talking about who's sponsoring or who's co -sponsoring or who's back sponsoring, the best sponsor, and things like that. And so, this is kind of like a step in that same direction, and I expect some time in the future maybe to try to get rid of that future legislation thing, because I don't think it's necessary, and it will eradicate all of this sponsorship stuff because at the end of the day, it's a small dais. Maybe in the State of Florida, where you have hundreds of people, you know, voting on an issue, it's important about who's sponsoring it, and it gives them some sort of differentiating factor from their colleagues, but up here what differentiates you from the other is your vote. Chair Russell: Vice Chairman. Vice Chair Gort: Well, my understanding is, because of that rule -- Yes, we do sponsor a lot of event, but I think the only change in here is instead of saying, "Yes, I'll sponsor it," you write "I'll sponsor it," and that's it. Commissioner Reyes: It's in writing, so -- Chair Russell: Yes. City of Miami Page 137 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 NA.6 6661 City Commission Mayor Francis Suarez: Mr. Chair, if I may just -- Commissioner Reyes: The idea -- Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes and then the Mayor. Commissioner Reyes: -- of this, it is in order to avoid any confusion. Commissioner Hardemon: No. I know what this does. Commissioner Reyes: I mean, that is -- Commissioner Hardemon: This is fine. Commissioner Reyes: I mean -- Commissioner Hardemon: That's not what I'm talking about. Commissioner Reyes: -- as long as it is in writing, you see, not by hearsay, and somebody will come and will tell, "Well, I talked to Reyes, and he says he's going to co-sponsor," you see. And that could -- I mean, it is not because it is done on purpose, but avoid any confusion. DISCUSSION ITEM DISCUSSION BY COMMISSIONER REYES REGARDING THE STATUS OF A DIRECTIVE (RESOLUTION R-19-0117) ISSUED TO THE CITY MANAGER AT THE MARCH 14, 2019 CITY COMMISSION MEETING REGARDING THE LEASE NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND MIAMI FREEDOM PARK, LLC FOR CITY -OWNED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 1400 NORTHWEST 37TH AVENUE, MIAMI, FLORIDA 33125, COMMONLY KNOWN AS MELREESE COUNTRY CLUB. RESULT: DISCUSSED Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes, you'd like to address. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. Mr. Manager, if my memory doesn't betray me -- and you know that maybe, according to my age, I tend to forget things, or think that I have given -- we have given you a directive, and you -- when -- which we didn't, but I'm pretty sure that we gave you a directive to keep us informed on all the negotiations that were being made by you and the Mas family. I haven't received anything. And also, I'm asking you, are we -- as the directive was -- and this board here requested that we bring this to a vote, a contract to a vote on the last meeting in October. I'm asking you, are we going to have this issue ready for a vote on October, or we are going to keep on postponing and postponing until the election comes, and one favorable vote comes on board? Emilio T. Gonzalez (City Manager): Sir, we're not postponing anything, and there's nothing behind that. What we've done so far is we have retained the traffic firm, the environmental firm, the appraisers. We are going back and forth with the developer. I have been very, very clear that I will not bring back to this Commission something that is not favorable to the City. And not to get into City of Miami Page 138 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 negotiating strategies and tactics now, we are not there, so I cannot guarantee you that we will be back -- Commissioner Carollo: Hold on. Did I hear you correct, Mr. Manager, that you will not bring anything back to the Commission that's not favorable to the City? Mr. Gonzalez: Sir, that is true, and I've said that many times. Commissioner Carollo: Then why did you bring us a contract for $1,400,000 for Ultra when you knew that I had gotten $2 million out of them, and within 10 minutes right from up here, I've gotten back to those $2 million? Mr. Gonzalez: Sir, I was answering the Commissioner's comment -- okay? -- on -- Commissioner Carollo: Okay, I figured that. Mr. Gonzalez: -- the Melreese deal. Commissioner Carollo: That's fine, Mr. Manager. Mr. Gonzalez: So I will gladly -- Commissioner Carollo: I understand. Mr. Gonzalez: -- get you that information, if you so desire. But Commissioner, I want to be upfront and honest with you. Based on where we are now -- the attorney can opine, as well -- we are in a back -and -forth, redlining with contractual agreements, and I cannot promise you that we will have you something final on October 24. Commissioner Reyes: Sir -- Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: -- does the directive of the Commission has [sic] any power? Because we -- this was a directive given to you to avoid any political maneuvering; to avoid that the Commissioner from the district, which is Commissioner Gort, that it is -- his term is finishing, and he'll be out of here by November; to avoid that this gentleman could not vote, because it is known -- I mean, everybody knows his position, and everybody knows that it is the possibility that person that is going to be elected, it will be favorable, favorable of building and giving away the land, and building such a great development -- also huge development in that area. And I said it, and I stated it. I stated it since day one that this has to come before the November election, because -- Sir, you see, I have been around a little while, and I know how games are played, and this is a game that has been played very well, because what we're doing is, it is a simple -- I mean, it's just a land deal. I mean, this is a development deal. I mean, stadium doesn't mean a thing. Mr. Gonzalez: Commissioner? Commissioner Reyes: The stadium -- and you know it. Let me ask you something. Mr. Gonzalez: Commissioner? Commissioner Reyes: Let me tell you this. I haven't finished, Mr. Manager. You see, this is not the first time that I personal [sic] have given you directives, and they have been totally ignored, you see. And this is very personal to me, to City of Miami Page 139 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Gort, and to many people. You see? You're not following directives. And the directive was given -- the vote was taken -- a vote was taken that -- and correct me if I'm wrong -- a vote was taken that this was going to -- you were going to bring this last month; you didn't. You said, "We'll be ready for the last meeting in October." And even Commissioner Gort said, "That's fine." And now, "No, no, we are not ready. We are not ready. We are not ready." I mean -- Mr. Gonzalez: Sir, if I may? To be clear, there are no games being played here. What I'm trying to do is cut the very best deal for the taxpayers of this City. We're nowhere -- the attorneys are working as fast as they can on the contracts; our department directors that are involved. Nobody has been given instructions to slow down or drag their feet. We want the absolute best deal. Until we get a very, very good deal -- By the way, we're not even close to getting to the contract -- the final contract negotiations. There are some serious issues involved there. And I cannot in good conscience, tell you that on the 24th of October, I'm going to bring you a pristine contract for you gentlemen to vote on. It's just not going to happen. At least, as of today, it's not going to happen. Commissioner Reyes: I -- Mr. Gonzalez: So I -- with all due respect, nobody is slow -rolling this. You have fine City Attorneys that are working this, you have fine department directors that are working this, and they're doing this as fast as they possibly can. Commissioner Reyes: Sir, you know very well that you can go back and forth -- "Well, I wouldn't accept this. I'm going to accept that." -- and you can postpone this until two years if you want to, or if they want to. You see? What I'm saying is - Mr. Gonzalez: Sir, there is no intent. Commissioner Reyes: -- sir -- Chair Russell: One at a time. Commissioner Reyes: Hold on a second, sir, okay? Hold on a second. What I'm saying is that, I mean, about six months ago, we made it clear that we wanted to vote before the November election. Mr. Gonzalez: Yes, sir. Commissioner Reyes: And you complied with that. You said, "Yes." Okay? And another thing is that all the maneuvering, or whatever it is, you are not going to make me believe -- and it is not because there -- it is a plan to delay the vote. Yeah, nobody's going to make me believe. And you know what? Everybody outside -- out there, they knew it, and they were telling me, "Manolo, they're not going to vote." Mr. Gonzalez: Sir -- Commissioner Reyes: I mean, "It's not going to be ready." What really pisses me off, and it really irks me, is that when we give you directive -- a directive, you don't do it; not even the directive to bring a report, a weekly report on how the negotiations were going. You didn't do that. You didn't do that. I mean, it seems like -- sometimes, I feel like, when I give a directive, it's like I give a directive to the wall. City of Miami Page 140 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Mr. Gonzalez: Sir, many times we meet weekly; I'm not at all the meetings. There's a back and forth, documents are exchanged. There really isn't that much to report. But I'm not going to convince you of something you already believe. All I can tell you is, as of this moment, this City Administration, these attorneys, these department heads, all of our specialists, our outside counsel, are working as fast as they possibly can to bring a quality item back to this board for the benefit of our residents. Commissioner Reyes: Oh, yes, quality item. And I remember that when I was dealing with this, and I said, "I don't want to postpone this. I don't want to do this, because this is what's going to happen." A fellow Commissioner said, "Well, we vote. We're going to vote anyways." And that's what I want to do. Let's vote. Let's take a vote. And if we have to -- I mean, people that are in agreement will -- whatever, be in agreement, or let's vote to kill this negotiation, and that's it. Okay? Because we are being played. I mean, I'm being played, and I think the Commission is being played. That's what I believe, sir. Mr. Gonzalez: We'll agree to disagree. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: Thank you. Are there any further comments? Is there any other business of the City? Commissioner Carollo: Well, I was going to make a few more, but -- Commissioner Reyes: I'm going to give you another directive, sir. Place the contract in the agenda. Okay? Commissioner Carollo: He's not going to place any contract, because -- Commissioner Reyes: Well, then, we vote. Commissioner Carollo: -- you know -- Commissioner Reyes: Then we vote. Then we vote. Whatever -- we take any measure that we are -- have to take, even if it is getting rid of people that are impeding this to come to. Commissioner Carollo: You -- I'm just going to ask one minor question. Mr. Gonzalez: Sure. Commissioner Carollo: Okay? I don't want to prolong this. I could, but I'm not going to do it. Now, Mr. Manager, you made a statement that you've been negotiating this. What have you been negotiating now? Not in the past; I'm talking now. What negotiations have you done? Mr. Gonzalez: Sir, if you'll recall, we went through a period where we had to bring in outside counsel. Commissioner Carollo: I'm not talking way back. I'm talking -- Mr. Gonzalez: There are -- Commissioner Carollo: -- in the last six months. City of Miami Page 141 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Mr. Gonzalez: We have brought in, as has been requested, environmental engineers, transportation engineers, two appraisers. We're now in the process of defining the scope of work for the peer review. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Can -- Mr. Gonzalez: The attorneys have been looking and redlining documents back and forth. So this is where we are. Commissioner Carollo: All right. Can, you know, you bear with me a little more? You said, "We brought in all these people." Well, you didn't bring them in. It was this Commission, with my vote, to stop you from putting a firm that you wanted to put in, and only one firm, to go ahead with this. And it was this Commission that took that over from you and your Administration and we decided the process, how it was going to be, and decided what firms we were going to vote upon through a Requests for Proposal of sorts; that it was done out in the open, transparent. So it brings me back to the original question: What have you been doing in negotiating? Because you said you've been negotiating. I'd just like to know. Mr. Gonzalez: Sir, our staff has been meeting with the developers, the Beckham Mas people; our attorneys have been meeting with their attorneys. Commissioner Carollo: Who from staff? Commissioner Reyes: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Mr. Gonzalez: I can bring them all out here, if you like. Commissioner Carollo: But who from the staff has been meeting, and for what? But this is your staff now. You're saying you were negotiating. Mr. Gonzalez: No, sir. Commissioner Carollo: So you haven't been negotiating? It was -- Mr. Gonzalez: I -- Commissioner Carollo: You misspoke. Mr. Gonzalez: -- personally am not negotiating -- Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Mr. Gonzalez: -- detail by detail by detail. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. So you then misspoke, is what I'm trying to get at. Mr. Gonzalez: If you interpret it as that, yes, sir. Commissioner Carollo: Well, because you're telling me now -- Mr. Gonzalez: But what I'm saying -- Commissioner Carollo: -- you haven't negotiated. Mr. Gonzalez: What I'm telling you is we have staff, my Deputy City Manager, our attorneys. City of Miami Page 142 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Carollo: Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Mr. Gonzalez: We -- Commissioner Carollo: Deputy City Manager, let's get him up here and see what he's been negotiating. By the way, let me say this on the record. It concerns me greatly, greatly -- and this would be not just here, but if I would be in any other place -- that our top Administrators that are supposedly negotiating have been applying for jobs in other places, because it's never a good idea to have anyone get involved in negotiations, especially in such huge projects such as this, that are -- whatever final contract is agreed upon, it's going to have many, many years, and generations of Miamians are going to have to live with it. So -- Chair Russell: All right. I'm -- Commissioner Carollo: -- Deputy City Manager -- Chair Russell: Just a moment, please. Commissioner Carollo: -- what have you been negotiating? Chair Russell: So I'm going to allow this discussion, as long as it stays within the framework of the timeline of the contract, the lease negotiations. I don't want any personal back and forth. Commissioner Carollo: This is all that I'm doing, Commissioner. Chair Russell: I -- good, good. Commissioner Carollo: And if you have any other problems, we'll bring it to a vote of the whole Commission so that I could proceed. Chair Russell: Right, but we just want to keep it -- Commissioner Carollo: That's exactly what I am doing. Chair Russell: -- off the personal side. Thank you very much. Commissioner Carollo: I wish you would have done that with others that have come here as recently as earlier today. Chair Russell: Mr. Napoli. Commissioner Carollo: But when it comes to me, that never happens; does it? Mr. Napoli: Commissioners, we have been working -- as was discussed in the last Commission meeting, it was laid out that we were finalizing the scope of work for the environmental counsel -- outside counsel for the traffic engineer, counsel for -- most difficult was for the appraisers coming up with a scope, an agreed scope, and price for the appraisers. Commissioner Carollo: If I could say this: This, I think, is the most elementary and most important of the items that we need. The other stuff depending on what they come back on their numbers, on the environmental problems and costs, we could deal with if we need to -- Mr. Napoli: Right. City of Miami Page 143 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Carollo: -- because maybe their numbers might be very acceptable to us; I don't know. But the bottom line, the foundation of us to be able to put together a contract so that we could vote it up or down and see if they're wanting to agree to it is -- Mr. Napoli: The appraisal. Commissioner Carollo: -- the two appraisals -- Mr. Napoli: Right. Commissioner Carollo: -- of what -- based upon what we've agreed they could build there, how much is thatproperty worth. Mr. Napoli: Right. Yes, sir. Commissioner Carollo: And then, if we have a problem with those two appraisals, we're going to have a third one to wiggle the numbers and find out exactly what the final number will be. Mr. Napoli: Right. Commissioner Carollo: I don't know if we have to get there or not; we might; we might not. Chair Russell: Commissioner, what would you like to know of Mr. Napoli, specifically? Mr. Napoli: Yes, sir. Commissioner Carollo: He's proceeding. Mr. Napoli: So that was the most difficult portion. We are still working on -- we spoke last time of a peer review appraiser, as well, and we're still negotiating on exact terms of the peer review. Commissioner Carollo: Okay. But negotiating -- Mr. Napoli: The two appraisals -- Commissioner Carollo: Yeah. Mr. Napoli: -- are on board, and then the peer review is -- we're still working on. And then on the document, we've gotten -- their copy of the document was discussed last time. We did a significant red line on their document. When I say, "we," our outside attorneys, and our staff together, with our attorneys. And that has been given to them. Informally, they have told us we have significant -- there are significant issues on our red line, and that's what we're -- As a matter of fact, we have a negotiation session for tomorrow that we will probably be discussing that. But that's -- Chair Russell: Commissioner. Mr. Napoli: -- where we are, Commissioner. Commissioner Carollo: Have -- City of Miami Page 144 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Mr. Napoli: But the appraiser is getting the scope, and the appraiser's on board with the most (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: Okay. But (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- Chair Russell: Commissioner. Commissioner Carollo: -- clarify for me so I could better understand. What has been exactly what you have negotiated with, with them? Have you negotiated anything yet, or what exactly? Mr. Napoli: I can't say -- I -- to say -- a negotiation means that you've come to some agreement or (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: Well, it's the Manager that used those words, not me. Mr. Napoli: No, I understand. Commissioner Carollo: Your boss. Mr. Napoli: We were -- these are negotiations, but to -- you're asking me what we've negotiated. We've taken their document, did a significant red line on their document, and that's where we are right now, without getting into the specifics of the actual issues that (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: Okay. So what I'm hearing is we really haven't gotten to the point of negotiations. And I want to be perfectly clear. The final negotiations, no matter what is put down, is going to be done up here in this dais. Mr. Napoli: And as you stated earlier, the appraisal has a significant impact on what that final negotiation is. Chair Russell: Understood. Commissioner Carollo: That is correct, because we need to see what that's going to hold, and frankly, my vote is going to be very, very dependent on that. I, as I stated when this came to a vote, didn't believe that this was worth what they had offered. We let it get out of the gate -- maybe wrongly so -- knowing that what was being voted upon was, if it passed, for us to have it back, and then have the authority to negotiate it. And this is the only thing that was approved; the authority for this body to negotiate that. And this is why we made a decision of going about it the way we have, so that we could get real numbers. And I know that it didn't please the Administration, it didn't please the Beckman [sic] Group and others, but you know what? People better get used to dealing with the City of Miami from here on as a business entity, also -- Mr. Napoli: Commissioner -- Commissioner Carollo: -- because too many -- Mr. Napoli: -- I didn't say we weren't -- didn't agree with it. The only thing, as you reiterated last time, it did take time, and unfortunately, cut into the time that we had to negotiate this. Chair Russell: Vice Chairman. City of Miami Page 145 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Vice Chair Gort: Let me ask you a question. My understanding is the group came up with a proposal, what they think it should be, the contract. Our job is to create our own contract according what we believe is the greatest benefit to the City of Miami. Mr. Napoli: That's correct. Yes, sir. Vice Chair Gort: Am I correct? Mr. Napoli: Yes, sir. Vice Chair Gort: So we might come up with a contract, which they might disagree with it, but that's their problem; it's not ours. Mr. Napoli: That's correct. Vice Chair Gort: Okay. Thank you. Mr. Napoli: Yes, sir. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Later... Chair Russell: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Chair. And I just want to sort of elaborate a little bit as to why I said I would veto the item. I mean, there's a bunch of reasons why I would, but I think the first is the contracts -- or the set of contracts would have to be put in, if my -- I think the agenda deadline is tomorrow at 12, if I'm not mistaken, for the October 24 meeting, so they would have to be done by tomorrow at 12 for them to be put properly on the -- you know, without a five-day rule, without a -- five days of notice on the agenda. So that's our first problem. The second problem is -- it's probably more important than the first problem -- is that this Commission mandated that there be three outside studies done: an environmental, a traffic report, and an appraisal. None of those are completed. They will not be completed by tomorrow. So I don't understand what the purpose is of having a contract be put before this Commission which doesn't have a price for -- you know, fair market value for the land; doesn't have an analysis of the traffic, and what kind of obligations would be contained in that sort of a report, and gives you no information regarding to the environmental report of the property. I just think that would be basically a useless contract. But I'll go on further to say that there's a Charter amendment, which, as Commissioner Carollo correctly said, mandates that this Commission, or that this body, this City negotiate a contract. It doesn't say when it has to come before the Commission. It doesn't say it comes before this Commission before elections or after elections. It comes before this Commission when it's ready to come before this Commission. Okay? So that's one I will -- as the Chief Executive of this City, when I present a budget, that's when I will bring a contract to this Commission; when it's ready. Now, that could be -- I don't know when it's going to be. It's going to be when it's ready, when it's ready, but it's not going to be ready on October 24; I can tell you that right now. Chair Russell: All right. Commissioner Reyes -- Commissioner Carollo: Maybe -- Chair Russell: -- would you like to be recognized? City of Miami Page 146 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Carollo: -- we should name it -- Chair Russell: Just a minute. Just a minute. Commissioner Carollo: -- the Ultra Freedom Park. Chair Russell: Please. Commissioner Reyes: You know -- Commissioner Carollo: It'll be like this. Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: Yes. We know that -- I know that this has been -- we requested, you see, that certain measures were taken. And at the same time, there was a vote of this Commission that it should be before this Commission at a certain date, you see? I think it was -- it is -- was the role of the Administration to let the appraisers and everybody know that it was imminent that they provide the information within certain time. That's -- having said that, you see, it is obvious by all the things that had happened -- and I said it before, and I wasn't fooled -- that they're going to delay this as much as they can, until they can get the four votes. You guys, you are in cahoots with them, and I know they are. You see? They want to get -- make sure that they have the four votes. At this moment, at this moment, if they present it now, there's the probability that somebody else besides me will vote against it. You see? And it is not convenience -- it's not convenient to bring it before an election takes place, and people that vote in favor of it will have any political consequences or people that vote against it will have political consequences, or there is a person elected that is favorable to this. I mean -- and that's what, really, everybody is thinking, and it is obvious that there is some strategy there. I don't blame them. I don't blame them. That's a strategy that should be placed -- I mean, played if you want to achieve a certain goal. You see? Chair Russell: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Commissioner Carollo: You forgot a couple other strategies. Chair Russell: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Right. So I think it's bewildering to me when this Commission decided to choose its lawyers, which is fine, took a long period of time to select the lawyers and to engage the lawyers; then took away from the Administration the right to select the independent contractors that were going to work on this, and they said that the lawyers had to pick them. Those have all been picked through a process that the Commission mandated. Those consultants have not finalized their work. That's a fact. That wasn't done to slow it down. That wasn't done -- you can't blame the Administration for that; you just can't, because the Administration, months prior, sel -- you know, recommended an attorney. This Commission decided not to accept that attorney. The Commission -- the Administration, months prior, recommended a company, which by the way, had been used successfully in another negotiations [sicJ, and this Commission decided they didn't want to use that company, either. So, you know, I don't know what else to tell you. It's going to take the time that it's going to take. Commissioner Reyes: Just -- City of Miami Page 147 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: -- I'm just going to -- Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes. Commissioner Reyes: -- tell you this. You see, the Administration was in agreement when we voted, and this Commission voted for a specific date that have to be brought up. There was not -- at the time, there was no objection. There was nothing at the time. No objection at the time. Mayor Suarez: Commissioner -- Commissioner Reyes: And it is -- and listen, I've been in business, also. If you need a report by certain date, you make sure that the person that you're hiring -- and I have -- I was a consultant -- that -- and when the report was needed, they will ask me, "I need this before the 24th, because I have to present this; that your findings is going to be part of the report," okay? I mean, that is -- Mayor Suarez: Mr. Chair? Commissioner Reyes: -- a fact. Chair Russell: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Thank you. I don't know -- I think we're going to kind of go around in circles. But the consultants that were hired by the lawyers, chosen by the Commission, were hired the week of the last Commission meeting. I told you at the last Commission meeting that it is very unlikely that they will have their reports finished in two weeks, because appraisals don't take that long; environmental reports don't take that long. Commissioner Reyes: What took you so long to hire them? And if he knew a long time ago -- Mayor Suarez: It didn't take -- Commissioner Reyes: The directive was given -- Mayor Suarez: -- it didn't take -- Commissioner Reyes: -- a long time ago, about three months ago, and what took you so long -- Mayor Suarez: -- us long. It didn't take us long. Commissioner Reyes: -- to hire a consultant? Chair Russell: Please, one at a time, one at a time. Commissioner Reyes. Mayor Suarez: It took the lawyers that you hired and that you directed to hire them a long time to hire them. That's fine. We -- I'm okay with that. I mean, it is what it is. You know, we're doing what we have to do. So right now, what there is, is they provided a set of documents, we provided a counter set of documents, and now we're going to get together to talk about how to reconcile those set of documents. And then, in addition to that, we have to wait for these reports, incorporate the City of Miami Page 148 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 information from those reports in the document, and once that's all done, it'll come to the next available Commission meeting; whenever that is. Commissioner Reyes: Very convenient. Commissioner Carollo: Well -- Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Commissioner Reyes: Very convenient. Commissioner Carollo: -- ifI could? Chair Russell: Commissioner Carollo. Commissioner Carollo: Thank you. Well, I'm very happy you two are getting along a lot better today. He's calling you "Mayor." You're happy. You're calling him "Commissioner." That's the way I like to see -- Commissioner Reyes: Yeah, (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: -- you two get along. The statement that you made that the Commission took away from the Administration the right to select, frankly, the Administration never had that right. The Administration took it upon itself to select before getting instructions from this Commission; that's the one that has the authority to select; that's why we selected. But going back, I think you've forgotten at least 10 minutes of evidence that I introduced in a prior meeting. The real reason that this has been delayed was not after the fact, when we took hold of our rights to do this in the proper way that we've done it; that the Administration never had any intentions of doing it that way. They were just naming one firm, period. It's taken this long because prior to that, the Administration dragged its feet for months, and nothing was done. If we would have had those additional month [sic], we certainly would have been done with this by now so that we could have taken a vote; not next meeting, but at least a month or two back. So I just want to point that out. Yes, we've taken more time now, because we're doing it the right way, the way that the Administration should have done it from the beginning. It should not have to have come from this Commission to explain to the Administration, the Manager, how it should have been done. We've done it -- and I hate using this word, because every time that it's usually used is to hide something -- we truly did it in a transparent way, with two firms; a third to check on those two firms, and what they came up with if we need it, and then going to any of our -- environmental firm to confirm what they're giving us, besides the traffic study, and we never got that from the Administration. We were only told this one firm. It wasn't done through a transparent manner. We did it transparently by putting a Request for Proposal for the law firm, and then bringing in all these firms that the Administration never said a word to us about. Chair Russell: Thank you very much. Commissioner Reyes: I still -- my directive to the City Attorney still stands; bring a contract. The Mayor will -- if it doesn't pass, he will veto it; that's his right. Thank you very much. Mayor Suarez: Mr. Chair, ifI may? Ms. Mendez: There'll be a -- City of Miami Page 149 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Yes, Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: So just to be clear, by tomorrow at 12, you have to submit, based on the Commissioner's direction and -- the Commission's direction, some sort of a contract, which I'm not so sure what you're going to submit, but -- Commissioner Reyes: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). I mean, play your game, man. Play it. Mayor Suarez: It's not a game. This is not a game to me; that's the problem. That's the difference between you and me. It's not a game. Commissioner Reyes: It is. Mayor Suarez: It's not a game. Commissioner Reyes: Let's keep it civil -- Mayor Suarez: It's not a game. Commissioner Reyes: -- as of now, okay? Let's keep -- Mayor Suarez: Fine. Commissioner Reyes: -- it civil. Okay? Mayor Suarez: It should be civil. It should always be civil. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. Chair Russell: All right. Let's bring this to a close. Ms. Mendez: I just wanted to make sure that I understand. We will place something on the agenda. I will tell you that it will be probably a draft and will have to be substituted, because it won't all be done by tomorrow. Commissioner Carollo: Well, if that's -- Ms. Mendez: But we will have something for you to look at for October 24. Commissioner Carollo: -- going to be placed on the agenda then, then you need to place a second item on the agenda, and that is that in case the contract is voted down -- if it comes to a vote -- then we should have a second item that would be a Request for Proposal on the whole site, with the exception of leaving out an area for a soccer stadium, but the whole rest of the site to be put out to a referendum for the best and highest use that anyone can come up with. Commissioner Reyes: And with -- Commissioner Carollo: So it'll be the second item. Commissioner Reyes: -- certain suggestions, also, coming from the Commission. Mayor Suarez: So -- Commissioner Carollo: That could be done here once they bring it. City of Miami Page 150 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Chair Russell: Mr. Mayor. Mayor Suarez: -- let me see if I understand this. I don't understand the second item, but I -- To put what up for RFP (Request for Proposal)? Commissioner Carollo: Well, let me call you "Lord Mayor" so you get even happier -- Mayor Suarez: Listen, be respectful. Commissioner Carollo: -- and you could understand it. Mayor Suarez: Be respectful. Commissioner Carollo: I am being respectful. Mayor Suarez: No, you're not being respectful. Commissioner Carollo: That's from -- (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Mayor Suarez: You're not being respectful. Chair Russell: All right. Mayor Suarez: Be respec ful. Chair Russell: I'm about to bring this meeting to a close. Mayor Suarez: Be respec ful. Commissioner Carollo: Then you know what? Mayor Suarez: Be respectful. Commissioner Carollo: Then you should -- Mayor Suarez: Be respectful. Commissioner Carollo: You know what you need to do? Mayor Suarez: Be respectful. Commissioner Carollo: Well, I am. Chair Russell: Gentlemen -- Commissioner Carollo: I am. Mayor Suarez: Be respectful. Chair Russell: -- gentlemen -- Commissioner Carollo: Don't yell at me. Mayor Suarez: That's it. Chair Russell: -- I'm trying to lead -- City of Miami Page 151 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 Commissioner Carollo: Calm down, calm down. Mayor Suarez: Be respectful. Chair Russell: Gentlemen -- Commissioner Carollo: Don't yell at me. Mayor Suarez: Be respectful. I'm fine. Commissioner Carollo: Don't yell at me. Mayor Suarez: You're going to be respec ful. Chair Russell: Gentlemen? Gentlemen, one at a time. Mayor Suarez: You're going to be respec ful. Commissioner Carollo: You talk about being respectful -- Mayor Suarez: You're going to be respec ful. Commissioner Carollo: -- from all that you've been doing to me. Mayor Suarez: You're going to be respec ful. Commissioner Carollo: Well, you are, too. Mayor Suarez: You're going to be respec ful. Commissioner Carollo: You are, too. Mayor Suarez: You're going to be respec ful. Commissioner Carollo: You are, too. Just -- Chair Russell: All right. Mayor Suarez: You are going to be respectful. Commissioner Carollo: -- like you're respectful, right? Mayor Suarez: You are going to be respectful. Commissioner Carollo: No. Mayor Suarez: Oh, yes, you are. Chair Russell: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) a quorum, and then we are done. Mayor Suarez: Yes, you are. Be respectful. Chair Russell: I'm invoking the 3 p.m. rule. Commissioner Carollo: You forget; you're not a strong Mayor. You lost 65 percent. City of Miami Page 152 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 NA.7 6662 City Commission Mayor Suarez: That's got nothing to do with it. Commissioner Carollo: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Mayor Suarez: It's got nothing to do with it, and that's why (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Commissioner Carollo: You lost the strong Mayor. Mayor Suarez: That's fine. Commissioner Carollo: You lost the strong Mayor. Mayor Suarez: (UNINTELLIGIBLE). Chair Russell: This Commission meeting is coming to a close. Mayor Suarez: Not because of you, my friend. Commissioner Carollo: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) strong Mayor. Mayor Suarez: Not because of you. Not because of you; trust me. Chair Russell: All right. Mayor Suarez: Yeah. Chair Russell: Thank you, everyone -- Mayor Suarez: Goodnight. Chair Russell: -- for your advocacy and your service. Commissioner Carollo: Have a good day -- Chair Russell: We'll bring this Commission meeting to a close. Commissioner Carollo: -- Mr. Mayor. Chair Russell: We are finished. DIRECTIVE DIRECTION BY COMMISSIONER REYES AND COMMISSIONER CAROLLO TO THE CITY ATTORNEY TO PLACE A RESOLUTION ON THE OCTOBER 24, 2019 CITY COMMISSION AGENDA REGARDING THE LEASE AGREEMENT NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE CITY OF MIAMI AND MIAMI FREEDOM PARK, LLC. RESULT: DISCUSSED Commissioner Reyes: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) -- Chair Russell: Commissioner Reyes. City of Miami Page 153 Printed on 1/08/2020 City Commission Meeting Minutes October 10, 2019 ADJOURNMENT Commissioner Reyes: -- following on Mr. Gort's -- Commissioner Gort comments, I don't know if I can do this, but I would love -- I would like to give a directive to the City Attorney to place a contract on the next Commission meeting that has been made by us, or a contract to be voted up and down. Victoria Mendez (City Attorney): Obviously, Commissioner, you can make whatever directive, and we'll have to comply with that. Mayor Francis Suarez: And just to be clear, Mr. Chair, I will veto that if the Commission passes that. Commissioner Reyes: You are welcome to do it, sir. Mayor Suarez: Sure. Commissioner Reyes: It is -- you're the Mayor; it is your prerogative. Mayor Suarez: Thank you. Commissioner Reyes: Okay. That's it. Chair Russell: Thank you. The meeting adjourned at 2: 56 p.m. City of Miami Page 154 Printed on 1/08/2020