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Home My WebLink AboutSubmittal-Public Comments Submitted Online for the October 9, 2025 City Commission MeetingOnline Public Comments -Miami City Commission Meeting of October 9, 2025 Online Public Comment Report for October 9, 2025, Regular City Commission Meeting October 9, 2025 10:54 AM MDT Public Comment motero@miamigov.com Stree First Last t Agend Reco g Nam Nam Public Comment rded e e Addr a Item Date ess PZ. 1 #1818 This is a ridiculous infringement on our limited housing!!! Little Havana is a historic 1 Land community that deserves to be protected and rezoning this area to be allowed for Oct Use - commercial use for the car dealerships is a steady slope to destroying the neighborhood. 09 Caro Flore 625 601 They already use all of our parking spaces throughout the day and treat our streets like it's 2025 sw Tina z gth st SW 9 some sort of drag race to test their cars but now they want to take away and from 7:57 St and housing?! In this block alone there have been THREE houses destroyed for the ILLEGAL am 840 use of these car dealerships. Allowing this to happen is inhumane and unacceptable by the MDT SW 6 community. Ave RE. 3 #1810 Please no more deferring of this item. Since the last commission meeting Commissioner Oct 900 CaroLto has lost another appeal in his ongoing fight to overturn the results of a trial by his 08 1 Stop Mich FeuLi Bisca peers for his denial of First Amendment rights. The payments to his lawyers must stop 2025 Payme ael ng yne NOW. He has a PAC and let him pay for his legal bills. Please Commission King it is time 1:52 nt of Blvd for you to stop protecting Miami's most corrupt politician. Thank you Commissioner GabeLa pm Attorne for your determination to finally put a stop to this. MDT y Fees Meli SaLd 3505 CA. 5 Good morning, Commissioners, On September 22, 2024, at 12:28 a.m., a man broke into Oct ssa ana NW 2 #1827 my home by shattering my living -room window. I barricaded myself in my bedroom for 09 ST 8 almost thirty minutes until police arrived. I could hear him destroying my kitchen. He lived 2025 Miam Approv just one block away. He was Baker Acted that night but not arrested until February 27, 9:58 i, FL e - 2025—more than five months later. During that time, I lived in fear, taking time off work am 3312 Public and seeking therapy white trying to access victim services that should have been automatic. MDT 5 Health The decay was Later confirmed to stem from improper procedure by the responding officers. Center My Internal Affairs Case C24-225 was sustained, the investigation found that the allegation Suppor of Improper Procedure against Officer Orlando Garcia was sustained by a preponderance of t the evidence. During the investigation, additional policy violations were also identified involving both Sergeant LizLinda Bremer and Officer Garcia, and corrective action was taken in aLL instances. I want to thank Detective Osvaldo Toca and the Internal Affairs team for their professionalism and for upholding accountability. Their work shows that transparency and integrity are still possible within the City of Miami Police Department when the process is aLtowed to work. That brings me to today's item — Resolution CA.5, Fite #18278. This resolution urges Miami -Dade County to support the Miami Center for Mental Heatth and Recovery, a first -of -its -kind facility designed to improve public safety, reduce homelessness, and provide treatment instead of incarceration. White the resolution is symbolic, it is still necessary. The Center is Located in District 1 in the City of Miami. It bears our name. I urge you, as a body, to also put some skin in the game — to allocate money into this project and make the City of Miami an actual partner, not just a cheerleader. If the Center had been operational Last year, my case might have ended differently — with intervention instead of trauma, therapy, and jail bed expenses of almost $78,000, and counting. And as my mother wisely asked: 'Why don't all the municipalities within Miami -Dade contribute a smaLt percentage of their budgets toward funding the Mental Heatth Center, proportionate 18317 Submittal -Public Comments Submitted Online for the October 9, 2025 City Commission Meeting First Last Nam Nam e e Stree t Agend Addr a Item ess RE. 6 #1818 8 Approv e- Trackin 1270 g and Jam Fran 5 SW Operat es kin 114th ionaL Ave Resitie nce for Miami Storm I nitiativ e Public Comment to their usage of the corrections system?" It's a fair, data -driven way to share responsibility and ensure that public safety and compassion go hand in hand. Thank you for your time, and for moving this critical item forward. As a former hurricane researcher and forecaster at NHC, I am grateful for the resolution's support of NOAA and NWS funding. The president's budget proposal for FY26 would be catastrophic for the Nation's future ability to forecast hurricanes. NOAA Research benefits virtually all aspects of NHC's operations, from data gathering to analysis to modeling to forecasting to communicating risk. Here are five major NOAA Research contributions: First, when forecasters prepare Tropical Weather Outlooks, they'll consult satellite -based wind and moisture analyses prepared by a NOAA Institute. Other satellite tools help NHC estimate the strength and size of hurricanes outside of the range of reconnaissance aircraft. Second, when storms threaten Land NHC reties on instruments released from the NOAA G- IV jet that measure the currents that steer a storm from place to place. These data improve hurricane track forecasts by 10-20%. P-3 missions to collect Doppler radar data from the hurricane core improve some model forecasts by 30%. NOAA researchers staff these flights. Third, when estimating storm strength and size from aircraft data, forecasters use an algorithm developed at a NOAA Lab, and an instrument first tested on the P-3s but now installed throughout the hurricane hunter fleet. Fourth, when it's time to make the forecast, NHC's Hurricane Specialists wilt consult models either partly or completely developed by NOAA Research. You may have heard of some of them: SHIPS, LGEM, and HAFS. Or SHIPS -RI, the first tooLto successfully forecast rapid intensification. Fifth and Last, some may remember Max Mayfield warning us not to focus on the skinny black Line. Welt now we don't have to - because the Time of Arrival graphics help quantify and communicate risk to emergency managers and the general public. To repeat, all of these data and tools are available to forecasters because of NOAA Research. And there are so many others I could mention. So what happens at NHC if NOAA Research is shut down, as the current administration wants to do? • Right away, the Doppler radar missions would stop, along with the forecast improvement they bring. • Almost certainly by next year, some of the most important intensity models would fall out of service, degrading NHC's intensity forecasts. • Websites that provide forecasters with crucial satellite analyses would break. Intensity estimates for storms beyond aircraft range would be degraded. Formation forecasts for disturbances would Likely become Less accurate. • Longer term, I think track forecasts would continue to get better, but at a slower pace. Intensity forecasts, however, would Likely stagnate or even regress. In the Last 25 years, track errors have been cut in half and intensity errors have been cut by a third, much of that due to NOAA research. If we decide to give up our best chances for new observations, improved models, and better products and services, my fear is that we'll Look back 25 years from now and say - this is when that progress stopped. End of Report Reco rded Date Oct 08 2025 4:00 pm MDT