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HomeMy WebLinkAboutSubmittal-Lovette McGill-Community Relations Board 2017 Annual ReportSubmitted into the pu c record for items) . on I"' City Clerk City of Miami COMMUNITY RELATIONS BOARD 2017 ANNUAL REPORT (PURSUANT TO CITY CODE SECTION 2-890) Mission Statement: The Community Relations Board's mission is to foster mutual understanding, open-mindedness, and respect of persons regardless of economic, social, religious, ethnicity, or sexual orientation by serving as advocates for both the City of Miami and its residents. The City of Miami Community Relations Board (CRB) was established in 1994 by Ordinance (No. 11742) and is committed to finding ways to foster mutual understanding, tolerance, and respect among all economic, social, religious, and ethnic groups with the City of Miami. The CRB serves in an advisory capacity to the City Commission and has the responsibility to recommend and provide educational and social programs, designed to eliminate discrimination in any form and to improve community relations by enlisting the support of civic leaders and citizens. The board consists of 13 members who are representative of the social, racial, religious, linguistic, gender, cultural, and economic characteristics of this city. Administrative support for the CRB is provided by the City Manager's staff and its liaison. The board meets monthly to review and discuss issues affecting our community's ability to work, play, learn, celebrate and engage in governance with good will toward our fellow residents. Responses to the following questions are as follows: 1. Has the board served the purpose, which it was created? Yes, the Community Relations Board has complied with its mission statement. 2. Is the board serving the community needs? Yes, the board is active participants in community needs. Each month the CRB meets in a different commission district as to address issues relative to each district. 3. Accomplishments for the year 2017: • Continued to host several local groups to speak at our monthly board meeting to identify issues in our community. • Special guest appearances at our monthly general meetings. • Kept open communication with the Mayor, City Manager's office, and all five Commissioners to discuss the CRB and our role in the community, when meeting in commission districts the sitting commissioner and support staff are invited to CoM���,�� �e\a�,o�> board '7,\-1A��nva` Submitted into the public recordf r it m(s) an City Clerk attend in order to give residents the opportunity to be up close and personal with their Commissioner. • Hosted community meetings along with the City of Miami Fire Department and Parks Department. We are currently working on restoring the Good Will Ambassador Program and keeping constant communication with Police Department, Deputy Chief of Police, and Commanders through our Board Liaison. • Kept open communication with our NET Administration, with regards to any issues in the community. • Continued a dialogue with community leaders to address their issues. 4. Whether there is any other board, either public or private, which would better serve the functions of the board. No. The board is composed of a group of citizens from all different districts in our city. This diverse blend of individuals is committed to assist citizens in addressing the needs of our community. S. Whether the ordinance creating the board should be amended to better enable the board to serve the purpose for which it was created. We have amended the by-laws to address absences and the result of such. We have had quorum at all meetings in 2017. We continue to communicate with Commission and Mayor's offices in order to fill their vacanies. 6. The cost, both direct and indirect, of maintaining the board. This year the board has an ad hoc committee to address the formation of a budget help the board to move forward and be able to address issues that will benefit our community. The committee uncovered that the board has $4,000 in funds. We are developing a resolution to request funding from the Commission. The CRB has been operated this year without the knowledge of funds. Respectfully Submitted Lovette E. McGill Chairperson Community Relations Board, Appointee of District Five Commissioner Keon Hardemon Submitted into the public record fr itf m(s) on �111 / N City Clerk City of Miami COMMUNITY RELATIONS BOARD 2018 ANNUAL REPORT (PURSUANT TO CITY CODE SECTION 2-890) Mission Statement: The Community Relations Board's mission is to foster mutual understanding, open-mindedness and respect of persons regardless of economic, social, religious, ethnicity, or sexual orientation by serving as advocates for both the City of Miami and its residents. The City of Miami Community Relations Board (CRB) was established in 1994 by Ordinance (No. 11742) and is committed to finding ways to foster mutual understanding, tolerance, and respect among all economic, social, religious, and ethnic groups with the City of Miami. The CRB serves in an advisory capacity to the City Commission and has the responsibility to recommend and provide educational and social programs, designed to eliminate discrimination in any form and to improve community relations by enlisting the support of civic leaders and citizens. The board consists of 13 members who are representative of the social, racial, religious, linguistic, gender, cultural, and economic characteristics of this city. Administrative support for the CRB is provided by the City Manager's staff and its liaison. The board meets monthly to review and discuss issues affecting our community's ability to work, play, learn, celebrate and engage in governance with good will toward our fellow residents. Responses to the following questions are as follows: 1. Has the board served the purpose, which it was created? Yes, the Community Relations Board has complied with its mission statement. 2. Is the board serving the community needs? Yes, the board is actively participant in the needs of the community. Each month the CRB meets in a different commission district as to address issues relative to each district. The two meetings held in Wynwood (District Five) residents were very vocal with the concerns about the changing dynamic of the neighborhood. The CRB assisted the residents with reaching out to different entities to address their concerns as it related to traffic and grants for the area that they advised us was promised to the area by the City Commission. The proper research was done and persons from the entities where invited. (see attached minutes those meetings) The Overtown Community expressed concerns about the City of Miami historically designated Chapman House which is in a state of extreme disrepair. It was found that the property is owned by Dade County Public Schools subsequent to that contacts have been made with the Southeast Overtown CRA, and the Black Archives Submitted into the publi record fit m(s) L on ITIVIII City Clerk for the use of the Chapman House. A presentation was made by the CRB Chair in December to the City of Miami Historic and Environmental Preservation Board to address these concerns. Chapman House is pending on the HEPB agenda 3. Accomplishments for the year 2018: • Continue to hosted several local groups to speak at our monthly board meeting, to identify issues in our community. • Special guest appearances at our monthly general meetings. • Kept open communication with the Mayor, City Manager's office and all five Commissioners to discuss the CRB and our role in the community, when meeting in commission districts the sitting commissioner and support staff are invited to attend in order to give residents the opportunity to be up close and personal with their commissioner. • Kept open communication with Police Department, Deputy Chief of Police and Commanders through our Liaison. • Kept open communication with our NET Administration, with regards to any issues in the community. • Dialogue with community leaders to address their issues. 4. Whether there is any other board, either public or private, which would better serve the functions of the board. No. The board is composed of a group of citizens from all five districts in our city. This diverse blend of individuals is committed to assist citizens in addressing the needs of our community. 5. Whether the ordinance creating the board should be amended to better enable the board to serve the purpose for which it was created. No. We have amended the by-laws to address absences and the result of such. We have had quorum at all but one meeting in 2018. And continue to communicate with Commission and Mayor's offices in order to fill their vacancies. 6. The cost, both direct and indirect, of maintaining the board. This year the board has and ad hoc committee to address the formation of a budget help the board to move forward and be able to address issues that will benefit our community. The committee at the beginning of the 2017 fiscal year had $4.000. and with the purchase of shirts for the board members is now $3,200. The board has a goal to develop We are da resolution to request funding from the commission. Respectfully Submitted, Lovette E. McGill, Chairwoman Community Relations Board Meeting (CRB) Location: Roberto Clemente Park Community Room 101 NW 34 ST Miami, FL 33127 Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2018 Time: 6:12 pm — 7:29 pm Members Present: Lovette McGill, Chairwoman, District 5 Leslie Puzo, Mayor Members Absent: Jorge Vazquez, Vice Chairman, District 1 Virginia Akar, District 2 Manuel Hartman, District 4 Kiesha M. Moodie, District 5 Vacancies: District 1 (1), District 3 (1), District 2 (1) reT Msy 70M Indiana Sanchez, Parliamentarian, Mayor Aaron Gordon, District 3 Jason Manowitz, District 4 Staff Yariel Diaz, Acting NET Administrator/Board Liaison Cynthia Cruz, Acting NET Administrator Michelle Glenn, Administrative Services Manager Guest Invited: AGENDA I. Introduction/Welcome a. Gives background and role of the CRB b. Asks for the audience to introduce themselves, Yariel for Spanish translation. Ii. Guest Presentation: Discussion of community concerns to address c. Yoni Bornstein: Business owner a. Lighting, Security, and most importantly Code Enforcement. 1. Member Owens: a. Action Item — requests a list of proposed covenants and overlays for business owners and homeowners for the Board to support. That's the only way you could make people do something. Covenants and overlays, and then Code. b. Action Item — work with America Medina - Executive Director of the Wynwood HOA to obtain a proposed list of covenants and overlays for business owners and homeowners. e. Chairwoman McGill: a. Recommends a sidebar between Member Owens and America Medina of the Home Owner's Association. b. Requests Cynthia to express to the residents: the fact that people show up here is evidence enough to me that there are some issues that definitely need to be addressed. c® Businesses are not investing back into the community. The residents, especially the older ones, are being swallowed up by commercialism. Submitted into the public record411 it m(s) 01. on �)q City Clerk f. Arnold Melgar: a. Traffic - speeding on 5th Avenue. Need consistent enforcement of school zones. b. Realistically officers are in the area on the 1st and the 151h of the month. Requests officers give out tickets throughout the week instead of twice a month. c. Preservation of parks in the neighborhood. g. Chairwoman McGill: a. Action Item — create a letter to the School Board Representative for District 2 and Superintendent regarding speeding in the school zones, and request a meeting. Include the contact information of Arnold Melgar so the School Board Representative and the Superintendent can reach out to him. b. Requests the contact information for the Police Commander in the area to notify for next meeting h. Member Owens: a. School zone - traffic feeder patterns that surround the school zones. b. Action item - when there is quorum, offer a resolution by the Board for the City to petition the County to recalculate the engineering on the green time. c. Recommends audience to petition their city and county commissioners for the recalculation. Sometimes a bottle neck is needed for the enterprise — related to the impact fees. Inaudible name: 24:46 into recording a. 32nd Street and 2nd Ave — requests a speedbump. East/ West bound of the intersection. Speed of cars getting worse, especially after midnight and weekends. j. Mr. Bornstein: a. May not actually put a speed bump on NW 2nd because it is a major street, but all of the side streets between 301h and 34th, 35th. Put speed bumps on NW 1st Ave or a 4 way stop. k. Chairwoman McGill: a. Requests the next meeting to have someone from the Commissioner's Office attend. I. Staff: Translate all English conversation into Spanish; obtains Spanish commentary m. Translation/ Concept: a. When the speaker first moved into the neighborhood, it was a forgotten neighborhood, nobody wanted to come to visit. Now it is a glorious neighborhood that everybody wants be in, but all the shops and everything that were brought in are not things that they could go to. Not affordable. Now they are constantly getting bombarded with cards by people asking them to sell their property. Harassment. Before it was a forgotten neighborhood but there were some things that they could do. What are they going to do at their age selling their property? Where are they going to go? b. The buyers are pressuring the property owners to sell. c. Someone who lived 50 years in their home should not feel pressured d. Police had to be called in the past on a couple of developers by the manner of which the homeowners are harassed. e. For old / poor folks in Wynwood there are not many options of things to do or places to go. The most important part is the fact that house prices go up and so do taxes. The feeling is guillotine hanging around their neck. At 83 years old these are not the conditions they wants to be living in. n. Mr. Bornstein: a. What someone does with their property is out of your control. You do not have the right to tell someone what they can do with their property the same way someone does not have the right to say what you could do with yours. o. Member Owens: Submitted into the pulljc record fo it m(s) on City Clerk a. You do have a right with covenants and overlays. Get a list together of covenants and overlays to give to the Board for support. p. Chairwoman McGill: a. Reminds everyone to leave their contact information and to bring more people. q. Carmen: Vice President of the Wynwood Historical Homeowners Association a. Tired of seeing little kids playing baseball with people around them selling drugs and smoking their weed. b. Park is making a mistake. The park ranger leaves the gate open to a point where people could put their head through the entrance. c. People and drive the wrong on a one way street. Chairwoman McGill: a. Action Item — request the Police Commander for the area and Parks attends the next meeting. b. Recommends Ms. Carmen to get the number of the city vehicle driving the wrong way down the street and report it. America Medina: Executive Director of the Wynwood HOA a. A recreational vehicle (RV) was parked on a local (3211) street. It took 4 weeks to get it out of there. Put information in the Mayor's twitter to get it out of there. The process they are supposed to be following is not working. b. Discriminatory behavior towards the community, not race, not culture, but the way it is provided services. The park does not have the program food distribution like in Liberty City and Little Haiti. c. Needs the City to invest money into the park. d. We do what we are told to, supposed to do, but we have to do it over and over, then get to a point to blast it somewhere before something gets done. t. Chairwoman McGill: a. This is not done by the City, it is done by the State representative for the area. b. Action Item — Request the new state representative for the area and someone from the mayor's office to attend the meeting next month. c. Recommends to put the budget issue in writing. Sometimes the mic gets bit intimidating and you may forget. d. Action item — staff, send a notice to all the Board members about the budget hearing. u. Staff: a. The first City Budget hearing is September 13 at 5pm, City Hall. b. Show up to address specific concerns that has to do with money. v. Member Puzo: a. Sometimes us Board members for the community want to get something done there is a lot of red tape. b. Recommends Ms. Medina to keep doing what you are doing and voicing your opinion here. Coming to these meetings is extremely important. It gives us one avenue. But there multiple avenues. Social media in this case it helped you out. If it works, it works. c. Commends Ms. Medina for her actions. w. Ms. Medina: a. The May 22 commission meeting approved a rezoning in the community. A deal was made for $1,010,000. $10,000 to the Liberty City softball team. The other $1M to the homeowners to help them with their repairs from 33rd and 34th Streets to 2"d and 3rd Avenue. b. Has not heard anything on how the funds will be allocated. c. Must develop some type of process where homeowners could apply. x. Staff: Submitted into the public record f items) 'SIL on '"��� City Clerk a. For people who need assistance with their roof — structural. b. It is still in the process. They have to determine how much each person will get. c. Recommends to ask the District 5 Commissioner when he comes. y. Staff translation: a. The rezoning: A lot of times we would not even be notified. The rezoning was a last minute notification. Started to gather signatures, go sick and couldn't finish. b. Look at the shops in Midtown and look at the shops Wynwood. There are no Wynwood kids working in those shops. Ms. Medina: a. Been a part of the Wynwood community since 1972. Resolutions are not followed through. Midtown - there was a resolution at least 10% of the people that live in the community to be hired. Never happened. Mr. Melgar: a. It did start that way. I remember being hired there. It's consistency. It's both ends. We could sit here and say the City isn't doing this, but a lot of times the residents don't follow through either. b. We're at a stage, a point where a lot of this progression is gonna happen if we like it or not. Instead of staying on what happened, we need to focus on what's going to happen. Do things to change now. c. Translates in Spanish b. Idania Valentin: President of the Wynwood Historical Association a. Member of a family with 4 generations to live in Wynwood — At one time, 6 generations. b. Strong history of going to meetings: HOA, with mayor, commissioners, there are pictures of the commissioners in their home. The ball keeps on falling. Because we don't have the money other people have, it doesn't go anywhere. c. Wants people to know we are still here, we know things are going to change. We are not ignorant d. Wants commissioners to know we are still here. Appreciate that the Board came into their home to listen to their problems, and made it a lot easier for us. e. It's hard to get everyone in a car. Some are sick, some are disabled aa. Chairwoman McGill: a. Asks everyone to come to the next meeting and bring someone. bb. Member Owens: a. Requests City Commission Mayor and to do something to reaffirm that they care about the human condition in this area, this community. b. It's almost as if its property vs. human beings. cc. Chairwoman McGill: a. Recommends group to get press involved in their plight, especially the Spanish radio stations b. Thanks everyone for coming. We will see you in 2 weeks. c. Reminds everyone to leave contact information. d. Recaps with staff. Requests attendance from District 2 School Board, District 5 Commissioner, Commander Kerr, Parks Director, the next State Rep, and Mayor's office. III. New Business: None IV. Old Business: None V. Date of Next Meeting: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 6:OOPM Location: Roberto Clemente Park VI. Adjourn Motion: No Motion to Adjourn. Meeting ended 7:29PM. Submitted into the public record fo it m(s) � � . on `ICity Clerk Community Relations Board Meeting (CRB) Location: Roberto Clemente Park Community Room 101 NW 34 ST Miami, FL 33127 Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 Time: 6:01 pm — 7:59 pm Members Present: Lovette McGill, Chairwoman, District 5 Leslie Puzo, Mayor Aaron Gordon, District 3 Kiesha M. Moodie, District 5 Members Absent: Indiana Sanchez, Parliamentarian, Mayor Manuel Hartman, District 4 Vacancies: District 1 (1), District 2 (2), District 3 (1) Staff: Juan C. Perez, Assistant City Attorney vonCarol Kinchens, Director David Rosemond, Assistant Director Brian Harris, Sanitation Inspector Michelle Glenn, Administrative Services Manager Guest Invited: Jorge Vazquez, Vice Chairman, District 1 Patrick Owens, Mayor Jason Manowitz, District 4 Keith Carswell Office of Mayor Suarez Mark Stallworth Office of Commissioner Hardemon Lazaro-Daniel Orta, Chief Compliance Department Lara de Souza, Zhaoming Guan, Jose Moran - Parks Hugo Llamas, Samael Estevez - Miami Dade County Public Works & Transportation Engineering I. Introduction/Welcome a. Asks the Board members and staff to introduce themselves. David Rosemond for the Spanish Translation b. Asks City and County staff, any invited guest to address the concern the citizens may have to introduce themselves c. Asks the Audience to introduce themselves II. Guest Presentation a. Chairwoman McGill: Submitted into the publ' record f r it m(s) , on City Clerk a. Last meeting the resident brought number of issues that the residents brought to the Board. b. City officials and officials were invited who have to do with things that they addressed. c. Goes to Mr. Carsell as he represents the Mayor and the Mayor is over the entire city. Invites America Medina to mention the issues she want him to hear. What you guys said you were promised d. Objective — for Mr. Carswell to transmit it to the mayor in this report of tonight. e. The young lady from 32"d talked about the home improvements and promised the development of Wynwood f. They were promised certain things and the city has failed on that g. Very specific from the minutes. Meeting on May 22„ d - some kind of concession made to the residents for an amount of funding. b. America Medina: a. The donation was for $1,010,000 to be allocated to the baseball team in Liberty City. b. $1,000,000 to repairs for the homeowners. Specifically in Wynwood. c. Chairwoman McGill: a. To Mr. Carswell — A program was supposed to be set up in this development b. Not quite sure where the City is getting those funds from, but I'm sure the meeting is public record c. Action Item — Mr. Carswell get with Ms. Medina to find out where the meeting was held because they have not been given the opportunity d. District 5, there was an opportunity for people to get houses painter d. Mr. Carswell: a. Community Development has a program that repairs homes. b. Sounds like something different. Sometimes when there is a development, people pay into a fund or a service. Asks the name of the development or location c. Action Item — will follow up and work with the Commission Chairman's office e. Ms. Medina: a. It was a rezoning. The $1,010,000. $1M for home repairs in Wynwood, b. $ 10K to the baseball team f. Chairwoman McGill: a. If the program exists the residents are not aware of it b. Asks Mr. Rosemond (to translate to the audience) to address any issues overall that we already discussed. c. Wants the audience to feel free to address issues. Asks Mr. Vice Chair opinion g. Jorge Vazquez: a. I think we should hear any additional concerns that is not included in the notes h. Chairwoman McGill: a. The reason why we have these individuals here is to address previous concerns, and they are included in the minutes you guys have i. Unknown: a. I do not know if I heard correctly. The city does not know about the $1M j. Mr. Carswell: a. I am not aware Submitted into the public recordfor m(s) on City Clerk k. Chairwoman McGill: a. He might not have been around. b. We're here for solutions not for problems, we already got the problems c. I promised you people that I would bring these people in here tonight so you could get the answers that you need cause I don't have 'em I. Yoni Bornstein: a. Asks America to please restate the question. Maybe I could answer it b. She is correct. $10k - given to Liberty City the football foundation. c. As for the Million dollars - legalities that the City attorney's office and our legal team to resolve some language. d. It should be resolved in the next 10 days. e. Action item - Reach out to Keon's office to see how it will be dispersed m. Chairwoman McGill: a. Mr. Bornstein - issues: lighting, security and the enforcement n. Yoni Bornstein: a. Drove around the neighborhood with former Commander of the area. b. Had meetings and substantial discussion on enforcement. c. Absentee landlords - People bought property in this neighborhood thinking the land will increase in value overtime. d. They're not willing to spend any money to keep the property up to keep It up to what should be a community standard - grass being cut, fence being broken, windows being broken. e. Trying to put a group together to understand the community to differentiate 1. Those whos property needs maintenance and they can't physically afford to do the work and 2. An absentee landlord that is unwilling to invest any money. Inviting crime into the neighborhood. f. Commissions a neighborhood study - rent vs own. Initial meeting with major stakeholders. g. Starting the Wynwood Neighborhood Enhancement Association — purpose for everyone to join, give feedback, anything to bring together h. 11t organize a neighborhood clean-up effort i. The more we give back to the community, the more the community will respect the grounds. Invites to drive around to express each other's concerns j. Lighting - the streets light are dim or non-existent o. Mr. Carswell: a. Wants to clarify on the point on the $1M10K. b. Once it's approved, - not a check for $1M. Though it was 2M, 1 for Liberty City, 1 for here. It's not, it's a total of $1M10. c. Once the covenant is approved by the city and you close, it's a half million. That could be a 2 year process that has not been done. p. Mr. Bornstein: a. It's a half million at that time, then 2 other milestones. $250k for the permit and $250k at completion q. Ms. Medina: a. In commission meeting they said, construction could not begin until that was done Submitted into the public record for ite s) ��_ °n City Clerk Mayor's Office Counsel: a. The property in order to be constructed there needed to be changes to the Zoning . b. A document needed to be submitted so they wouldn't go too high — declaration of restricted covenants. c. As soon as the document is signed, which is being negotiated with the City now, that 15` 500k goes to the redevelopment trust. At that point it's out of our (the City's) hands, and it goes to a city entity. The commissioners get involved and talk about investing in the neighborhood Spanish translation s. Ms. Medina: a. On video, At the commission meeting that day our commissioner said it would be upgraded t. Chairwoman McGill: u. Staff: a. Everyone understands how that's going to happen. We know its red tape. No body leave. Some of these things overlap b.The traffic and speeding was supposed to be for police and nobody responded to make it tonight right? a. No response from enforcement, has someone from traffic engineering to talk about the calculation of how this process takes place. v. Chairwoman McGill: a. The traffic on NW 5`h. Now that NW 2"d is so lively and people are always if you are trying to get home from work can't get through there. b. The person from the school board is not here so we're going to move on in reference to that c. Police, I really need them here. d. Action Item - For the Mayor's office and the commissioner's office to transmit to the concerns that the residents have 1) in the Policing in that area. e. They had every opportunity to be here, no I'm not ok with that. There was a lot of weed smoking in my notes. Who spoke about that? w. Audience Member: Smoking Weed in the police's face, during baseball. Kids with backpacks at the end of the parks because there are benches there. They are dealing drugs in your face. Drugs in the park it has to stop. That's something we shouldn't have to deal with. Its already in the streets, it shouldn't have to come to the park x. Chairwoman McGill: a. You are the park manager over here? Have you witnessed any of that? [Yeah] And the police are doing nothing? Apparently they're not. And I know they can't watch it 24 hours a day, but they have the means and the resources. b. Action Item - Mayor and Commissioner's office please make that #1 c. Let them know that no police, even though they were invited to come here showed up. I have a problem Audience Member: a. Another concern. This weekend she was crossing the street b. The car sped up as it approached the stop sign. Nearly hit her S»htnitted into the public record for itqm(s) on / 1( / 1 R City Clerk c. Requests - Are you going to change the speed zone? We have a 30 mph speed zone and 50 mph driving through z. Chairwoman McGill: a. Talk speed bumps. We have other children crossing too. b. Would that be under your governance? How do we get that going? aa. Hugo Llamas: Section he works with is the signals. bb. Ms. Medina: a. response time when complaints is called in to department of transportation recreational vehicle *that's * cc. Chairwoman McGill: Calls on member Owens — school zone traffic feeder patterns around schools and recalculation of the light dd. Hugo Llamas: asks for a particular intersection ee. Chairwoman McGill: a. St 29th and 5th by the school ff. Mr. Llamas: a. In order to calculate the green time for any specific movement, it's a methodology, a process, a bunch of calculations just to get to the base numbers. b. We already have those numbers. What we do is adjusts them based on the citizens — I am going north bound, the red is too long, whatever reason. c. 1) Do a field review to see what's going on; 2) goes 2 or 3 times during peak hour, analyze how the intersections behaving; 3) if there is any opportunity to increase green time, we do it. d. If anyone has an issue with timing of the light, the best you can do is call 311. Service Requests on a daily basis. e. Citizens that call they give information of what's going on, where they are experiencing, we go to the intersection or the area. If there is opportunity for improvement then yes. f. Translates the process into Spanish gg. Rosana Mohica: a. Concern. What is the green light on 2"d avenue flashing? b. A stop sign was there. People don't respect that. c. Yesterday a guy almost hit me and today too d.There are school zones hh. Mr. Llamas: a. There is a drainage project. I will contact the contractor. ii. Chairwoman McGill: a. Action Item — Asks Hugo to be her 311 and Michelle to follow up. 29th and 5th, 36th and 5th, 46th and 7th they are starting to go around the people in the turning lane. b. Overtown tell the Mayor to bring back Team Metro Director Kinchens: a. We use 311 constantly. There are 11 NET offices throughout the City of Miami. Call your NET office and we will answer the phone for you Submitted into the public record fo it s) on r��\r� . City Clerk kk. Mr. Bernstein: a. 4 way stop placed on 29th and 2nd *that's b/c of the construction there* b. Is that going to be permanent? It's asking for an accident Member Owens: the woman in the front seat - issue is more about enforcement not traffic. a. Enforcement - support signage for the people to regulate themselves. mm. Arnold Melgar: a. Lot of the signage in the neighborhood is hit (or hidden) the signs are there. People are still getting hit. nn. Chairwoman McGill: a. The RV, tell them about that. Is it still there* no*. Then tell them the breakdown behind that oo. America: a. Response Time - an RV recreational vehicle was parked on 32nd street. Person did not live in the community. b. Reported for 4 weeks and also the mayor, before it was removed. The person who owns it was holding a night party in there selling drugs, taking women in. c.. Took pictures, video, pictures of the license plate. Response time - no one came out to do anything about it. Reported to the NET office and the Police dept. pp. Lazaro Orta: a. Asks if inside or outside the property *outside* b. That could be 2 fold. 1, we don't have the authority to tow the vehicle away. We would have to put a notice on it and police would have to get involved. Offers his card. qq. Member Manowitz: a. D-4 similar issues with boats, tractor trailer in residential neighborhoods, occasions where his driveway and neighbors is blocked — partially or fully b. My mother is partially handicapped and if I'm out of town or she needs to go to the hospital, she can't get out of my driveway. c. There's a fundamental disconnect if I call the police non-emergency—the police can't be as responsive as I hope they'd be. If I call NET then they have to post 24 hour notice. d. At the point of taking one of my trucks and dragging it down the street. Frustrated. No one has the right to block my driveway e. Suggests communications plan through Next Door, the Net offices, through these meetings, that people are aware of their rights. f. What they can do if someone blocks their driveway or parks improperly in front of their homes or on their neighborhood. g. This invites RVs, drug use, tractor trailer, and people to park whatever they want wherever they want. People block driveways, then everyone will block driveways. Just thinks it's not clear what the homeowners can do about it. rr. Mr. Orta: Again I don't want to throw it on police because they are not here to give their 2 cents The blocking of the driveway is a police issue. The driveway cannot be blocked at all. If the car is in operating condition and has a valid registration we cannot do anything Commercial vehicle — tractor trailer, school busses some people say oh no, this only happened here. Based on the general make-up of the neighborhood. It's not that one area is getting better treatment Submitted into the public record fof it m(s) � �1 , �_ on City Clerk d. Another problem — how the code is written. If parked in a residential area, puts a notice on it. If they move a block down, a new notice is put on it. e. A time frame obligated by before taking action to call and the NRO to say come to tow this. Have 24 hour coverage, night coverage. Helps with some issues. Commercial vehicles — the majority would be after 6 - 7pm. Before had to rearrange a schedule for that day, then monitor that for a few days. Change of operation hours able to address after hours better and faster. ss. Member Manowitz: a. More concerned about blocking driveways. Folk park around the corner so you can't drive down the street. No painted lines on the street. People think they can park wherever they want. b. Causes a problem, a problem all over the city. Part of it is there are no painted lines on the street. People think they could par wherever they want. City spent millions of dollars on new curbs that are being destroyed. c. Take care of the swale, somebody the parks on the swale. Fundamental disconnect between behavior and what the rules are. Does see responsiveness regarding commercial vehicles. Thanks tt. Jorge Vasquez: a. District 1 — (talking to Yori Bornstein) mentioned studies within the neighborhood. b.1) Where did you pull the information from? c. 2) Is it a specific area, or the neighborhood in general — when the whole Wynwood area or different streets? d.3) Are you looking for landlord based things, Is it lots, commercial buildings itself? e. 4) In Allapattah a lot of the buildings that were abandoned by the landlord were torn down by the City, an empty lot. What can enforcement do with the visual aspect? uu. Mr. Bornstein: a. Area is between 291h & 36`h St and North Miami and NW 6`hAvenue b. Residential component. People are cutting the grass. Fence of an abandoned lot vandalized illegal units on almost all of the properties. c. Research: Ownership is less that 15 — 20%. Neighborhood shows that. Tennant is not going to maintain a property that is not theirs. Does not have ownership pride. d. Action Item - find fine line between helping someone in the community and an absentee landlord that's just buying time. e. Suggests Absentee landlords get fined and have fines accrue vv. Ms. Medina: a. Issue is a 10 years problem. Flippers buy the property sell it for more, leave it abandoned. Garbage goes in it. b. Residents and homeowners blamed for the garbage. A big problem. ww. Mr. Bornstein: a. This Wynwood Neighborhood Enhancement is about. To hold public officials accountable, show accomplishments and give the neighborhood more voice. b. Action Item — Yori follow up with and/ or NET office with something noteworthy xx. Mr. Orta: a. Understand all the comments. Started in Allapattah, worked in Wynwood before Midtown came in. It was all residential. b. Fines accruing — one of the biggest problems the Department faces is public perception. People will see an abandoned property and blame. Submitted into the public record for it (S) __%) on City Clerk c. When called, it's a guy from some other place who doesn't care. Holding onto a big payday d. Limited in how far we could go. Once we fine a property, take a property to court there and fines start running, there is nothing we could do. e. Unsafe structure issue. That's Building department - their own rules. They actually have to pay for it in the end. f. There are some properties with super high grasses. g. If it is lot is locked and has a fence, cannot break the lock and go into the lot and cut it. Lots that were cut are open and had no fences. yy. Mr. Bornstein: a. Been on both sides of the fence. b. Bought property with over $100K in fines for cutting the grass 3 years ago. c. Fines all go away or minimal. Agrees with limitations. We've got to at least try zz. Professor Samuel Lattimore: a. President of the Hadley Park Neighborhood Association. b. This gentleman hit on the real problem in the City of Miami, especially neighborhoods like ours. c. It is not Code Enforcement — gets a lot of heat for things they have no control over. d. Followed up online with the properties that were citied. e. Finds properties were cited a number of times. f. A property on 7th Ave and 62nd Street had no roof on it for 25 years. Trees were growing through the top of the roof. g. Code cited, nothing could be done. Went to unsafe structure meeting. h. Problem is the City is not enforcing what the unsafe departments say aaa. Chairwoman McGill: a. Action Item — Mr. Carswell, zone in on what Mr. Lattimore is saying. Speak afterwards. b. Been behind the Mayor's Office ever since I've been this seat. Mr. Carswell is first person to come and I really appreciate that. c. He needs to know this Board is serious about the work that we committed as volunteers to do. d. Requests more cooperation from the office of the Mayor and Commissioners. e. Bogged down process that nothing gets done here f. Action Item - Asks Member Owens to speak with the Attorney Resolution on Ordnance to petition the city and county commissioners to recalculate the engineering on the green time for streets around school zones bbb. Member Owens: two separate issues 1) enforcement and 2) traffic engineering. ccc. Samael Estevez: Hugo is the better person to talk about it ddd. Mr. Llamas: a. Speed bumps are under the purview of the city, capital improvements. eee.Chairwoman McGill: Mr. Bornstein spoke about the speedbumps. Wants the citizens to be able to navigate the city entities and the county entities that address their concerns. Things need to be happening between meetings Action Item - Mr. Llamas Mr. Bornstein sidebar fff. Member Manowitz: Submitted into the public record for it m(s) �K . b on `1/ 11 � S 1 , City Clerk a. Traffic mitigation -volume and speed in the Shanendoah Silver Bluff area. b. Each thing solves a certain problem but also has a side effect. c. Speed bumps cause more traffic /noise. Causes people to speed between speed bumps. d. Circles smooth traffic flows not decrease traffic flow. People speed around them. e. Suggestion Ask the commissioner to create a study for the area in question to get buy in from the whole community and educate of what each does. f. Otherwise the whole project goes awry. One half of the neighborhood is fighting with the other half with no understanding of what each device is supposed to do. ggg. Mr. Estevez or Mr. Llamas: a. In terms of fixing by one section and the other section being affected, the City is changing the way it does that. Holistic throughout the City. hhh. Wilfred Vasquez: a. Asks if the meeting covers Wynwood or something else. Just came from a meeting to 75 Wynwood BID office. b. Lived 52 years here. 2751 N Miami Ave. c. supposedly Wynwood - separates from 201H - 291h d. Suggests separate meeting days to be more efficient; Tuesday, Thursday e. *Corrected* That's the BID office. Only covers 29th —36 1h St iii. Chairwoman McGill: a. Covers all of Wynwood. Standing meeting date is the 2nd Tuesday of the month. Does not change unless urgent. Needs to be noticed by the City. b. There's a process. Won't always be in Wynwood. 2nd meeting here. Last meeting was very informative to us from the residents and we carne back with the entities that needed to hear them out. c. We don't get to solve it, it's on you. We brought people to help you d. We excelled. Acknowledges Ms. Glenn, be it on my behalf for coordinating all the people here tonight. She deserves all the credit. jjj. Mr. Vasquez: a. Already addressed problems of the garbage, grass being cut. Areas like 151 Avenue and 3455 Street is a nightmare. b. Money was spent on rehab2 years ago. Was a beautiful place. Now a nightmare. c. Doesn't know who is responsible for upkeep. It's a Public Housing? d. It's in our community. It affects all of us. e. Gave Misty Brown all the concerns. Hopes to take her for a drive and show the hotspots kkk. Chairwoman McGill: a. Public Works? That's the County — responsible for people Miami -Dade Housing Suggestion — talk to County Commissioner — Audrey Edmonson. b. Asked for the resident's information to personally follow up with Commissioner Edmonson III. Brian Harris: a. Offers to handle anything Solid Waste — *Corrected* it's the County mmm. Ms. Medina: a. Improvements to the parks. Saw a commission meeting - money was requested by commissioner for other park. Money requested for other parks but not Clemente nnn. Zhaoming Guan: Submitted into the publi record for ite (s) R. 3 on City Clerk a. We request money for some of the upgrades to all our facilities throughout the city including Clemente baseball field, fencing. b. Needs approval from the City Budget to provide funding to make those improvements 000. Lara de Souza: a. 2 Public Hearings, 1 on the 13" one two weeks later on the 26`h b. Starts at 5:05pm for public a process. If there are strong feelings about the park, improvements, there is the opportunity to express your concern. c. Every year we go through a list of all the parks that needs capital improvements. d. Bond for repair and maintenance approved last year. Clemente isn't the only one that needs improvement. ppp. Ms. Medina: a. Confused. When a Commissioner requests money for a particular park why can't it be done for Wynwood. b. Question for the commissioner. Do you believe pocket items excludes the community from the public participation process? c. Invited invite Commissioner Hardemon to a meeting with - he sent a representative qqq. Chairwoman McGill: a. Suggestion — Commissioner's Aide and Ms. Medina to connect. America to go to the budget meeting. Speak to him and have a meeting with Commissioner Hardemon. b. Tell your boss how serious it is I need to talk to Francis. rrr. Mr. Rosemond: a. Receives participant's info in Spanish. b. From the time that she's been here, heard a lot money is coming to Wynwood. c. Money is never realized. d. Now that they are participating and showing more interest they should do more sss. Audience Member: a. Promises are made for activity in Wynwood - doesn't happen. b. We see whats happening in the East, in the North East but not the original Wynwood. What happened to us? ttt. Chairwoman McGill: a. Thanks everyone for coming. We cannot solve this for you, but your presence here is enough. We go to 5 places and have 5 people of no people. Reminds them to sign in b. Board Member don't leave, attorney don't leave. c. Excuse the audience to go outside to handle Board business III. New Business Approval of minutes Report from Subcommittee Meeting on Goals Member Items IV. Old Business a. Update on Shirts b. Approval of the Minutes: June 12`h and August 28th Meeting a. Chairwoman McGill: i. Entertain a motion to accept the June 12 minutes with necessary corrections if there any ii. Motion by: Member Moody Second: Member Manowitz iii. Entertain a motion to accept/ approve the August 28th minutes iv. Motion by: Member Moody Second: Member Manowitz Submitted into the public Q record for it m(s) F fl , on 9)\k/ q City Clerk c. Member Puzo: a. Subcommittee — Met on June 26. Recommendations i. The Board used to have a websites when it had an office with staff. ii. Look for past newsletters. Past Program - Read to Me (read to children). iii. Former Board member's idea to get school computers. $200 per Dell computer. iv. Select a school in need - Pilot program. Request a budget. v. Compstat —Police Meeting once a month to discuss crime — we have to be invited. d. Juan Chavez: a. Previous month is discussed to see how adjustments can be made b. At the police station. Reach out to the police chief to be invited. c. What happens in there stays in there d. Board will not participate, only watch e. Actual Crimes are reported i.e. thefts of airbags f. Requires a letter to express the Boards desire to attend a Compstat meeting e. Member Manowitz: a. Asks if the Board as a whole go and watch b. Crimes that are committed or all reports? f. Chairwoman McGill: a. Action Item - Michelle to send a request to the Chief of Police - Jorge Colina g. Member Puzo: a. Toy Drive — Board Sponsored to pick a school or an area h. Attorney Chavez: a. Toy drive requires fundraising. Oftentimes Commissioners have funds their own toy drive. b. May want to help the commissioner or co-sponsor i. Chairwoman McGill: a. Action Item - Michelle to send a message to all the commissioners and express interest to co-sponsor. Y'all have to do your own district. b. Needs a schedule j. Member Manowitz: a. Asks if Communications could advertise the event k. Member: a. lives in District 2, will reach out to her commissioner I. Attorney Chavez: a. reminder the Board cannot talk about Board business outside of this meeting b. Want to stay on the same page and not forget a month from now c. Funds acquired by the commissioner m. Member: a. Suggests the NET offices to collect toys n. o. Member: a. Works with Commissioner Gort and a church that runs the event. Twice a year Easter & Christmas. Funds are acquired. b. Commissioner decides what vender to work with or toys are donated. Submitted into the public record f6f ite (s) on City Clerk c. Church & another organization is responsible for every toy to go to a child. Not parent or family. d. Commissioner may already have it planned out or organization to partner with. p. Attorney Chavez: a. Funding is involved. Maybe go to a commissioner's office and volunteer to wrap toys. b. May get in trouble by calling and asking for toys q. Member Moody: a. Committee asked Yariel for copies of previous newsletters. The Board used to hold community forums on equity, race, and economic issues. b. May be a good reference point for actions moving forward with historical data c. Action Item — Michelle to find 3 or 4 copies of old newsletters r. Chairwoman McGill: a. Mr. McQueen (Chief of Staff, District 5) asks to have a meeting, but it has to be noticed right? Can s. Attorney Chavez: a. Any official action from the Board must be noticed t. Member Manowitz: a. Suggests only 1 person go — the Chair u. Chairwoman McGill: a. Idea to have the Commissioner notice the meeting b. Asks Member Puzo to type the report to be a part of the record c. Asks Member Owen about resolution presented in the last meeting v. Attorney Chavez: a. County regulates traffic signals. Signs by FDOT or County. There is a process for the city to address the county to conduct a traffic study. b. City has online link to request traffic calming. To get more aggressive. Pass a resolution to present to the commissioner of the area c. Commissioners could pass a resolution to the County d. First they need to do a traffic study w. Aaron Gordon: a. Location: NET office on 12`h AVE and 13`h ST x. Member Manowitz: a. Suggests meeting in District 3 or 4 might get FDOT to explain the Calle Ocho. effect on residents, businesses and pedestrians. b. How will Chief Resiliency Office prepare the City for Hurricane with the new Bond went through? V. Date of Next Meeting: Tuesday, October 9, 2018 6:OOPM Location: Little Havana NET VI. Adjourn a. Motion by: Member Gordon, Second: Member Moody 7:59 pm