Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners - Regular

>> right the one we use this portion of the agenda to recognize people worthy of praise and sometimes to address our general feelings about things. Say this is important to the community. Today we have one presentation and it's for an organization that has been important in this community. Purpose has been to help us work together and stay together and I'm going to turn the microphone over to our mayor to present the presentation to the community relations board . >>mayor: thank you for putting this item on the agenda. I am a community relations board fan . We all are here today and I'm thinking 60 years. Turned 68 so pretty much my lifetime , humidity relations board has ben making a big difference in our community. Bringing the community together around challenging times, helping us deal with sometimes hard feelings, sometimes violence. >>chair: if you all could please take a seat and just be a little quieter while the mayor is speaking I would really appreciate it. Thank you MADAME Mayor. >>mayor: and we are joined by our wonderful commissioner marlene tran five and commissioner cohen higgins. So 60 years, community relations board has been making a difference in our community, preserving peace, helping with community relations, helping understand and prevent crime and violence . Bringing the faith community together, people directly affected by sad criminal events together. And certainly the majority of my lifetime since I was eight years old. I've had the great pleasure to work closely with the crb and as commissioner I was pleased to work on a memorandum of understanding between crb and the police department because I know working together community and law enforcement is the path to helping people to prevent, to deal with unfortunate incidents in the community . And the crb does much more than that. It brings the community together to be a positive force for change. Is that what you do, community relations board? I've had the privilege to work with many and I have the privilege to invite the executive director to the front . Come on down commissioner higgins. We need you to. It's really wonderful. This is a force that often works behind the scenes helping the community to cope with grief . As I said , bringing the community together but it's a tribute to the men and women who serve on the board and at the leadership of this lady shirley planton. Before we invite up all the supporters because especially our law enforcement is in the house . They know how important the crb is in helping them deal with crime , prevent crime . Let's have their interim director stephanie daniels up here . Is it time to invite everybody off? The chair says come on down . All our supporters, our law enforcement , our board members, come on down. Are you a board member ? I didn't even know that . Our public safety chief . And weren't you a chair? Reverend richardson was the longest serving member of te crb and former chair. awesome . This is a big group here. I'm going to let them say a few words. Amazing . It definitely takes a village. The village is here. Director , would you like to share a few words on this moment is occasion. Which director first? That director. >> I want to say I appreciate the relationship that the police department has with the crb and particularly the relationship I have with doctor planton . We understand the relationship we have makes our job much easier thank you for the collaboration, the partnership and we stand with you and collaboration . Congratulations on the mirrors . >> this will be short because I don't speak for the board but I did want to thank the commission for allowing us to do what we do. CHAIRMAN, it's been a privilege to work for and with your office. This body of work is difficult because it's not the sexy work . This isn't the stuff people want to share. Our mission is to mitigate community tension as quick as possible is what the ordinance says. And we do that around police involved incidents and a crime and anti-semitism. Anybody who lives in miami-dade they know that's tough work but we couldn't do that wrk without all the partners you see standing here so I am horrible to call the police department, the fdle, everyone that comes to our college, without you this doesn't work. I will let this be cair speak and on behalf of everyone and answering my calls early in the morning, take you so much MISTER Chair and MADAME Mayor . >> thank you to the chair for the proclamation and recognizing our 60th anniversary. MADAME Mayor , thank you and commissioners bank you for this honor . I am honored to receive this proclamation on behalf of the community relations board. Someone mentioned it's kind of hard to follow the good speeches that have been made but I'm sure that doctor ridges will do better but we have to consider that we've been serving the community sense we served the baby boomers and every generation. It's not easy . We faced new challenges since the tensions in the community were presented to us in different ways. so we need to constantly remember that. Thank GOD we've been able to forge a great relationship with officials and the community at large. Thank you for this and if you don't mind , MADAME Mayor, I am speaking too fast. MADAME Mayor , MISTER Chair, doctor richardson. Were good differences. Creative teaching . I came on the board in 1992. Right before hurricane andrew . And served until 2015 and it was my pleasure to serve as chair. I left the board only because I was asked to consider being part of the jackson system and that's why I left. I disobeyed a few rules and served a total of eight years, they changed it to 12 years and every time the time came up for me to recall off someone made an exception to the rules. What an honor to be here . I had a chance to meet most of the people that began this work 60 years ago . So with that I will give it up to the mayor. >>mayor: I want to add that crb is always there . When something happens in the community where a response is needed to work with the community, crb shows up . That's an amazing legacy. 60 years. We salute you. >>chair: everybody in life, there's always going to be storms . There's always going to be problems. Is a certainty . What is uncertain is how we get through it together. You are the mechanism that helps us get together. Or that we salute you and we proclaim this day the community relations board dy in miami-dade county. [Applause] I'm pretty sure we're going to back up and center this for the picture. It's all off picture engineering that's going to go on right now. ... >>chair: that concludes the presentation portion of our agenda. We will begin the county commission meeting shortly. ... Good morning to all, the office has received a notice commissioner garcia will be absent from today's meeting. [Rollcall] We have nine members present, we have a quorum. >>chair: sergeant , please sergeant please security check, close the doors. Everyone rise for an invocation and moments of silence. Before we know into moments of silence I am told young boy on his way to school was hit and killed by a car this morning. It reminds us time is filled with swift transition. So we're going to have a moment of silence for his family and move to invocation. GOD today we ask for your grace, guidance and love. We come saying thank you. Thank you for an opportunity to love and lead . Thank you for this wonderful community . Empower us and strengthen us , make us the people you would have us be as leaders. Amen. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under GOD indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> all right. Not an attorney, good morning. Welcome back. From the budget process we are here. Seems like an appropriate time to open up reasonable opportunity to be heard . I'm going to call the speakers when you approach give me your name and address and you have to minutes to speak. That's right, special presentations. Judge. And the public defender. There he is. Public defender martinez,, on down . >> that is item 1e2, citizens presentation . >> I am carlos martinez, miami dade county public attorney and also PRESIDENT Of the public defender association and I can come here to speak on the item that you all wanted to find out about is the circuit consolidation process . The review and assessment process going on right now before I begin I wanted to mention I have spoken to our state attorney catherine hernandez fernando . She made it very clear that she is against consolidation . She mentioned there is no basis for doing it and mentioned she has submitted a packet to the bcc to that effect . One of the things I need to mention is because I am on the supreme court judicial crcuit kind on consolidation committee I cannot express an opinion as to whether this is a good idea or bad idea because we are in the process right now of reviewing the data why all the judicial circuits to see if the committee is going to make any kind of recommendation about that. So the jc ac is a satewide, the chief justice was the one that did the appointments we have other judges, state attorneys, public defender and to members of the florida bar board of governors. What is our task? We would ask whether we should reduce or keep the same number of judicial circuit. To give you an idea what judicial circuits are about because I recognize that's pretty much inside baseball, we have 67 counties in the state of florida , 20 judicial circuits and the 20 judicial circuits as you can imagine , some of them are multicounty circuits . We are not a multicounty circuit. We are one of the because we are the hardest 2.8 million individuals and there are six districts courts of appeal in the state of florida. We are in the third district court of appeal which comprises miami-dade and monroe county but that's just for appeals . What triggered the community? Speaker renner sent a letter suggesting judicial circuits would generate substantial cost savings and increased public trust and confidence in the judiciary and uniformity. The florida supreme court gave us direct and to the committee . The committee, we can only consider consolidation of circuits that are contiguous to each other within a district court of appeal. >>chair: I appreciate this good and thorough explanation but I am aware you are sharing time with the chief judge who we do so love so I wanted to maybe just... >> shorten it a little bit . I will do that. I sent you an email detailing all the information on what the committee will do. We will review these things and to me the most important aspect of this thing is that the supreme court is going to, we're going to make recommendations to the board and the board will certify whether to do this or not. In order for them to certify it they will have to make a finding that the judicial process is adversely affected by circumstances that present a compelling need for the change in judicial circuit boundaries and the judicial process would be improved significantly. So judge safie is here. She can get an opinion I can't . >> one of the important things to note about speaker renner's letter, he noted the 11th judicial circuit was the largest in miami-dade . He noted the 16 circuit which is one of the larger is the smallest so that immediately signaled to the committee and us that potentially we would be if this happened we would be consolidated with the keys which is what we have been addressing because our business is here and what would happen if we were merged with the keys . I'm here with my trial court administrator and my team as well as the team in the keys that represent chief judge bonnie hounds have been working closely on this to give you data and facts . Our concerns are that our mission is to deliver justice to the people we serve and our mission is to do that better and more efficiently and through the pandemic and through remote technology we've been doing a good job of that what our limitations are. Our concerns are obviously continuing to be able to deliver not just the access that we do but better access. If we had a circuit that reached from here all the way to key west we are concerned about decreases in inefficiency and the fiscal impact. Geography is something not addressed in speaker renner letter . As you know the key is small, there are a lot of people there that it is geographically very large and very challenging to get from one end to another . This would mean the circuit judges in miami would be serving the keys, the keys circuit judges would be serving miami and it creates all trauma . Technologically thanks to the county commission and mayor, we have major projects in miami-dade with technology to support our courts . These major projects are underway ad I see you technology basically bring us keys in line with each other trying to ice is something in there is a certain level of trauma . The bottom line is there's no data to suggest consolidation will help. There is evidence to help a consolidation with us . >> I brought this item because the public defender did send a link be no and I thought we might want to about this process and carlos, it's kind of nice to finally have something where you can express an opinion I see today . But I think this need for consolidation, this idea consolidation is a matter friendly our courses in also be making sure the residents of this county are getting justice , health, assistance as quickly as possible makes me monroe county is in a stance against consolidation and I think we probably need to this day I just think it might be good for us to go on record with converging to the state saying we are very pleased to have the circuit in miami-dade county we would be against consolidation . >> one more thing I carlos, I be lucky to have carlos represent us, the only member of our circuit in the process for everyone to understand so that chief justice will ultimately make a recommendation for me to the florida supreme court is the ability to know is the addition of the things that you also as I class if you permit me I will make a motion to that this board will urge I guess the state legislature, is that the overrated body better? Or is report? it be the judicial circuit assessment committee. Also the supreme court chief justice and the legislature , the PRESIDENT And your . >>chair: we will just say all relevant entities. Is. So I'm going to go ahead and say this is public record . Okay, go ahead . >>commissioner regalado: thank all three of you for coming. For those of you following this I wanted a clarification for the board. First we always see cost cutting measures so the minute the state comes out with a financial projection that is the year the year prior, this always comes up . But in this particular case there was much ado about the partisan issues. I know it was first presented as a her partisan thing but my understanding is that now both sides are having issues with it so if you speak . >> if you look at the public hearings, there has been overwhelmingly, everyone regardless of party , regardless of where they fit into the system as and against . >> the first public hearing, the loudest voices we heard were from republican prosecutors republican public defenders. Because a lot of them are in the small rural areas and they felt that tey said was being lose their voice and essentially their vote in collecting local officials. >>commissioner regalado: thank you. >>commissioner hardemon: I appeared in munro court because of zones. I stepped out here late and it affects everyday people. How judges view punishment for crime is different in different places so in munro court, if you catch an undersized fish they will put you on probation for x months. They would charge you a fine, give you an order from their area for six months they will make you take a fish and wildlife course and give you a adjudication in miami-dade county , I just haven't seen punishment like that for something of that magnitude. Which their court I feel like that is an important issue. Can imagine a miami-dade county court judge looking at the criminal docket and saying dismiss or get out of my courtroom and there would become a culture war between what's happening in dane county and other circuits. Besides the fact that it obviously affects our professional personnel it also affects just the everyday people and how they have come to expect . >>chair: it's been moved and it's been seconded . All in favor of submitting the urging signify by saying aye. Show the review adopted . Did you want to say something? I would note she went to the miami school of law and graduated in the best year, 2000 . And she is my classmate. So it's always good to see you. >> can I make one comment. Commissioner higgins asked me an important comment which is what is the inefficiency they're trying to fix and right now we're looking to see what that is i can tell you the biggest inefficiency we have in miami-dade county, public defenders and state attorneys is we cannot hire enough attorneys to work in our office and there are so many leaving that that is what causes the inefficiency consolidation does not address that. >>chair: thank you. Public hearing is now open. Karen. Karen, approached the podium. You have 2 minutes to give me your name and address. Okay. You want to do this now? I guess because if they don't tell us how to use these I guess we will be blind. Come on up >>speaker: my name is doug roberts, ceo of frost science. I want to thank commissioner hardemon. I want to educate and give a quick update to the commissioners and also thank mayor cava for her support of the museum and get to know all commissioners better. There are two eclipses coming up that will be visible from miami-dade county I think is very interesting to make sure everybody's aware of. At this science we were getting off to a great summer where we posted an exhibition on mondays and had great public interest. Another exhibition we have on the north america premiere on sharks, OCTOBER 14. at the same day there is an amazing opportunity for everybody around miami-dade county to see an eclipse which happens very infrequently across north america . An eclipse happens when the moon gets in front of the sign so in some places on earth it will completely cover the sun . In other places it will partially cover the sun. A shadow of the left from the middle of that shadow you see a total or partial eclipse. In miami we are a bit off-line if you look at the circle in that area it's partial eclipse but it's still an amazing phenomenon to observe and I hope the residents of miami-dade county take some time . I passed around glasses and I think all the commissioners have them. To deliver a whole bunch of these eclipse glasses to make sure when you're looking at the sun from miami you look at these and you see the side in this critical way. The image on the left is how we see it from miami-dade . The moon will take a chunk out of the sun and that process will last about three hours. Is chunk will be taken out and a few hours later it will be gone . If you happen to be on a centerline where the sun and run up asphalt bull's-eye you'll see anyone eclipse. It is still even though the sun is mostly obscured by the, that is to damage your eyes so you still have to wear the glasses if you are lucky enough to be in centerline book 1 on the right is the total eclipse where you're in the three or four minutes the sun is covered by . You can view the sun with your native I and you will see a part of the sun all the corona which is an amazing thing to see what I have seen once in my life and is one of the most dramatic things I've ever seen . There are two eclipses coming up, one going from the visit northwest through corpus christi texas and that one will take about three hours and then here in miami-dade there's another one APRIL 8 of next year which will go through mexico through a lot of major cities in texas, austin, dallas fort worth and exist up through montrc . Here in miami-dade county middle seat is essentially on the 14th three hours where the parcel eclipses around noon and 1:30 half the sun is covered and then act 3:50 old thing is over and what you want to see is look out with your glasses to see the eclipse . The next event in APRIL will be a similar progression where it is a little bit later but 1:45 the eclipse starts and 2:45 the eclipse ends . We're going to be working with the irs art museum in miami, they have a second saturday where they will be doing art around the eclipse . We're going to have also experiences inside the museum. Live feeds of the annual eclipse from nasa telescopes on the fifth. I hope you take your glasses, give them to your friends or take them with you. Go watch the endless and save them and watch them again on APRIL 8 of last year. Reach out to me with questions and I will be happy to give you more information about the eclipse. >>chair: commissioner regalado, you wanted to be recognized? >>commissioner regalado: only if you will sing . >>chair: she wanted to play total eclipse of the heart. Do you want to hear at any and ivory ? >> if you MISS The performance you can find it on social media . >>chair: now we will finally get to public hearing. Karen , are you here ? You didn't walk up the first two times. That's the only name of the people who signed up so reasonable opportunity is now closed. Man is ready, you are now recognized. >>county attorney: we do have some preliminary matters, item 87 . That's 8l7 added to the pull list. 11a6 will be approved. 11a8, commissioner cabrera adds this item to the poll list. Item 11a10, commissioner bermudez adds this to the pull list . Do you want me to read the amendment now? Yes? The amendment of item 11 818 requires as part of the amendment that the miami community redevelopment agency beginning each year in 2425 fund the strategic miami area rapid transit plan project located within the boundary of the agency in an amount equal to 25 percent of the amount of the countywide tax increment financing deposited in the agency's trust fund. Copies will be filed with the clerk. 14a1, commissioner gonzalez is adding this to the pull list . I also have additional requests for cosponsorship, item 8g2, 8k2 and 804, also commissioner regalado. 9a1, commissioner bermudez . 11a6, commissioner bermudez. 11a7, commissioner regalado and bermudez. 11a13, vice chair garcia. 11a15, commissioner mcghee. Items to be considered will be those listed in the printed final agenda with withdrawals scriveners errors noted for the items mentioned. Commission will always by a single vote unless those for first reading, public hearings, item 6a1 and its supplements, ordinances set for second reading, items 8a4, 8a5 , commercial service contracts which will be voted on separately and are not on your pull list and your calling pull list items. 6a1 its supplements. 8l7, 8p5. 11a6 was released so 11a8, 11a17. With the setting of the agenda that would be approved as amended and 14a2 is a first reading item. Motion to set the agenda is in order. >>commissioner regalado: second . >>chair: second by commissioner cohen higgins . All those in favor signify by saying aye . Show the agenda set . >>county attorney: do you want to take the seven aviation items separately now? >>chair: moved by commissioner higgins. All those in favor sgnify by saying aye. Moved by commissioner cohen higgins, second by the vice chair. All those opposed, show it adopted . It's been moved by commissioner cohen higgins . All those in favor signify by saying aye. Show it adopted. It's been moved by commissioner cohen higgins, second by the vice chair, all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> 8a9. >>chair: all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> 8p2 . >>chair: moved by commissioner cohen higgins. All those in favor signify by saying aye . >> last one is 8p4's . >>chair: all those in favor signify by saying aye. Show it adopted. Can we do this next time? Move by everybody in agreement and if nobody says no, we will let it ride? >>county attorney: we you are saying if everybody agrees? Then we can take them one at a time, we can do that . >>chair: that would have been great set of items ago . It felt like seven. now that we've gotten those out of the way. What is next. >>county attorney: would you like to do the first readings. First is ordinance rlated to real estate items amending 41 of the code, updating septic tank system in certain real estate transactions to require additional disclosure reading relating to the septic tank system, providing inclusion in the code and effective date. Disposition of application number cgmp 018 generally located between southwest 272 and east of southwest 162 avenue filed by lennar holmes, providing severability explosion in code and an effective date. And 1482 , ordinance relating to building better communities citizensc/b?B= advisory committee (C/b?B=bond committeec/b?B=); amending section 2-1803 of the code of miami-dade county; providing that the board MAY waive, by a two-thirds vote of board members present, the requirement that the bond committee consider and advise the board on the use of surplus funds or unspent allocations from the building better communities general obligation bond program (C/b?B=bond programc/b?B=); making technical amendments; approving, following public hearing, deletion of bond program project no. 329 c/b?B=improvements to the florida grand opera theaterc/b?B= and addition of new bond program project no. 388 c/b?B= c/b?B=north dade cultural arts centerc/b?B= using $5,000,000.00 of surplus funds from deleted project no. 329; waiving, by a two-thirds vote of board members present, bond committee review to approve new project no. 388; providing severability, inclusion in and exclusion from the code, and an effective date. Those are your first reading items. >>chair: we have all the items. Anybody wishing to for kate anything? If not, call the role it's moved, seconded by commissioner regalado. >>. [Roll call vote] Motion passes unanimously. >>county attorney: public hearings. >> five a designates jorge arias way , 5b is a resolution approving issuance by arizona industrial development authority, of its revenue bonds in one or more series in amount not to exceed $13,000,000.00 for the benefit of true north classical academy, inc. To fund a plan of finance which includes capital projects located in miami-dade county for purposes of section 147(F) Of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended. 5c is a ordinance amending ordinance no. 99-97, relating to natoma manors roving patrol security guard special taxing district, located in miami-dade county, florida, within the boundaries of the city of miami, generally bounded on the north by harriet tubman highway / us 1, on the east by alatka street, on the south by south bayshore drive, and on the west by sw 17 avenue; increasing the level of service and amending the boundaries to include one additional property; and providing for exclusion from the code and an effective date. 5d is a resolution calling special election in the natoma manors roving patrol security guard special taxing district located entirely within the boundaries of the city of miami, and bounded on the north by harriet tubman highway / us 1, on the east by alatka street, on the south by south bayshore drive, and on the west by sw 17 avenue for the purpose of submitting to qualified electors residing in the special taxing district the question of whether ordinance no. 99-97 shall be amended to increase the level of service and amend the boundaries to include an additional property . 5e is a ordinance creating and establishing a special taxing district in miami-dade county, florida, generally bounded on the north by theoretical sw 252 lane, on the east by theoretical sw 133 path, on the south by theoretical sw 253 street, and on the west by sw 134 avenue, known and described as modern house multipurpose maintenance and street lighting special taxing district; identifying services to be provided; authorizing and directing the cunty mayor or county mayor... >>chair: while she's reading or your listening you are talking and it's pretty loud at this point so please stop. And if you are not a uniform personnel that means that people who don't have uniforms are sworn law enforcement officers. You can have a seat or leave the chambers but you cannot stand in the back of the room. Sergeant at arms escort the non-law enforcement officers out of the back of the room. Please continue. >> 5e is a ordinance creating and establishing a special taxing district in miami-dade county, florida, generally bounded on the north by theoretical sw 252 lane, on the east by theoretical sw 133 path, on the south by theoretical sw 253 street, and on the west by sw 134 avenue, known and described as modern house multipurpose maintenance and street lighting special taxing district; identifying services to be provided; authorizing and directing the county mayor or county mayor designee to cause to be maintained and operated various public improvements and to provide for the installation of streetlights; approving a street lighting agreement with florida power and light and authorizing the county mayor or county mayorc/b?B=s designee to execute the agreement; waiving provisions of resolution no. R-130-06; and providing for exclusion from the code and an effective date 5 e1 is a resolution approving a preliminary assessment for the district. 5b is a resolution approving the plat of waste management seaboard site. >>chair: public hearing is now open. Anyone wishing to be heard give us your name and you have 2 minutes to speak. Public hearing is now closed. Does anybody, we can move all these items at once. You've got to come up. >>speaker: we are here for the tacoma taxing district association. Yolanda valencia, 1661 my canopy avenue coconut grove. >>speaker: thank you. >>chair: if we have questions ... We can move on. I need a motion on the items, seconded by commissioner tran five call the role. >>. [Roll call vote] Motion passes unanimously. Attorney: seven a is an ordinance relating to rules of procedures of the board of county commissioners and amending the provisions relating to renaming miami day county facilities to require due diligence, purchasing naming rights to county owned facilities making technical and conforming changes and providing ever ability inclusion in the code and an effective date. 7b is a ordinance pertaining to zoning in the unincorporated area of miami-dade county; amending sections 33-1, 33-223.1, 33-223.6, 33-238, 33-259, 33-264, and 33-284.30 of the code of miami-dade county, florida; requiring that adult day care centers be spaced a certain distance from one another in certain commercial, industrial, and mixed-use zoning districts; making technical and reorganizational changes; providing severability, inclusion in the code, and an effective date. 7d is a ordinance relating to environmental protection; amending section 24-43.4 of the code of miami-dade county, florida revising standards for calculating feasible distance to connect to public sanitary sewers and public water mains for subdivision and building permit applications under certain conditions; providing exceptions from connection requirements for building permits for certain repairs, including repairs required as part of a building recertification; providing severability, inclusion in the code, and an effective date 7e is a ordinance relating to noise regulation; amending section 21-28 of the code of miami-dade county, florida; clarifying that certain noise regulations apply to noise emitted from a vessel or floating structure; clarifying that engine or exhaust noise from vessels MAY be enforced as provided in section 7-26.1 of the code and section 327.65, florida statutes; providing severability, inclusion in the code, and an effective date. 7f is a ordinance relating to aircraft noise abatement advisory bard for miami international airport amending sections 2-2033 and 22036.1 of the code of miami-dade county, florida; revising number of naab members; authorizing the county mayor to appoint one naab member; removing term limits for naab members; extending the naab sunset date until OCTOBER 7, 2028; and providing for severability, inclusion in the code, and an effective date. Those are your second readings. >>chair: all right. Motion. It was bifurcated. Moved. It's been seconded. Role. >>. [Roll call vote] Motion passes unanimously. >>county attorney: you are on the pull list, first item is 6a1 . >>chair: the ballot isn't ready . We can talk about it but te ballot isn't ready . Let's go to the next one. >> next item CHAIRMAN Is 8l7. >>chair: commissioner regalado, you are recognized. >>commissioner regalado: thank you MISTER Chair. I have a quick question to staff . authority . As many of you know, these grants are really important and I want to make sure the board is kept abreast of everything happening in particular if we have an issue with the matching funds I want to make sure it comes back to us before a decision is made not to return the funds so what's the process for that because it just says have the mayor execute everything with the application . I want to make sure since not all of it is budgeted that the board has input should there be a decision that we don't have the match. >> lisa, our director of division of economic and environmental resource management is approaching. >> lisa, derm director. On the items for derm we have match for all of them. Three years of capital improvements for storm water and one is from the biscayne bay trust fund. >>commissioner regalado: that's what I was saying about pro because there's a few that are not matched. We would prefer to see it where it is in the budget for future reference so that we know but for the ones in prose that do not have a match, I general in general on the item what happens if we get to the point where we don't have the match? >> I don't know if you are referring to a particular grant to fairchild which is not in this item . >>commissioner regalado: it's referenced in it but yes . >> as to the general item of course we would discuss it with the district which we need to continue speaking about the item . >>commissioner regalado: to be clear on the designation, it doesn't come back to us if there is not a match. >> when we put these forward it's because we have budgeted and earmarked a match that you approved in SEPTEMBER so this is just effectuating the authority to sign and do all the due diligence. That's what this is for . There should not be an issue with the match frankly . >>commissioner regalado: thank you, we will follow up . >>chair: I need a motion on the item . Moved by commissioner regalado, seconded by commissioner tran five. 8p5 is your next item. I pulled this item. I am going to move the item and support it. Our police department needs it right now and we should do it this is one of those things that I think is almost $9 million. we need it so we're going to do it now but I want us to articulate this and it's to be sent to the board but also the community. Those things when you start getting big ticket items we have to be mindful because there is no requirement to keep the systems we put in place. This is money that we might end up spending again but I am done . It's been moved ad seconded. Show it adopted . >> next item is 11a8 . >>chair: commissioner cabrera . >>commissioner cabrera: this is the original implementing item so I wanted to say I am proud to sponsor this one as well. >> I would like to think about it. >>chair: you sounded like the vice CHAIRMAN. [Laughter] Mi hermano, we are good . It's been seconded by commissioner cohen higgins. Those opposed. Show it adopted. What is next? >> 11a10 . >> that is me. I have a couple of questions. Of the administration. What county facility is not accepted at this time if anybody knows. >> through the chair I want to clarify. The question is wich county facilities do not accept cash. We do not have a requirement to accept cash. But we have internal services department here. Alex noon is to address the commission, thank you. >> through the chair, so we've surveyed some of our facilities in anticipation of the item. So far the ones that provide service do accept it. >> I am not against whoever wants to move this but the question to me was if we do accept cash I am a little confused about is there a company that provides this or am I missing something here? >>chair: before we get into this first the sponsor is not here. >> I do have that question . >>chair: just looking at the title and I support the item it says all county facilities where cash is not accepted . Does that mean where all are not accepted by the county , but our airport is like a facility and that my place this where cash is not accepted. So the question is do we accept cash but I don't know whether it's going to be and this is not my item so commissioner regalado . >>commissioner regalado: the maker was at committee and my understanding is it's just a study but clearly one of the things that came up is the past and ordinance telling everyone that they have to have cash which is not easy for everyone because some people don't have access to cash and then we get an item that says it's going to charge people to get them the cash. There's a lot there but this is just a report. This isn't the action item so it would be a report that would come back to us, not necessarily an action item but we had the same concerns and obviously the airport came up and we talked about other areas that MAY be owned by the colony . One of the things we are concerned about , we talked about the small businesses and how they MAY not be able to comply. >> I have that question because even though I know it's not the action item, I want to let you know I would like answers before anything comes back so we know what is what because it was a little bit baffling to me to have you know, these contradictory... We talked about this before to make sure people that don't have the money to have these cards have cash. If we could have an understanding of what is what. Some of these businesses don't accept it I'd like to know and secondly I'd like to know what companies currently do . >> we will provide cash and the other items but what I was answering is our big services, the property appraiser, parks department to facilitate it we will provide the details. >>commissioner bermudez: I am glad moving it forward, I just want those details. >>chair: all those in favor signify by saying aye. >> item 11a17 . >>chair: who is the pulling... Commissioner regalado and higgins . >>commissioner regalado: I have questions for namida about the process. >> through the chair, good morning this is namida. >>commissioner regalado: thank you. So piggyback, sole-source. This one is a hybrid of that because we are taking an existing contract but negotiating the price so it's not what I would consider the back. Established price. This one is different . My question is have we had interest from other companies on this ? Is there a particular reason why we would go down this route? >> commissioner, in the committee meeting there was someone who spoke and presented but there are other providers there and we did get a letter from another company about their system and how they are servicing other entities. >>commissioner regalado: I guess, who's going to answer the questions about how this will work ? Is it transit or public works ? Because I know fdot has an issue implementing borders yet and not going to be done until DECEMBER under whose department will this go under is the question. This would fall under you. >> commissioner , this will be a system effectuated and run by pd but we will manufacture . >>commissioner regalado: but your department is working on the lights. >> we will install the traffic devices, yes. >> can the police answer to how they will work with you because I have questions from the school board on how they will be involved with this. >> carla denise edwards. >> as you remember we had a lively discussion about the committee . There are concerns if we were to give this contract immediately to one vendor we could have integration issues so from an itd perspective as well as and mpd perspective we do need to make sure whatever we acquire integrates with existing cameras . This would not be the only time we've done this. This technology we would like to advance because we love the concept it needs to integrate with what we have to reduce cost and actually expedite the ability to put them into implementation. >>commissioner regalado: thank you. >> yes MISTER Chair . This item worries me because it sets a precedent where one of us can pick a winner . And it makes me uncomfortable so I will be a no on this item. >>chair: vice CHAIRMAN . >>vice chair: I've listened to some of the concerns of the members of the committee. Unless any of my other questions, I will keep it brief from my understanding what I've spoken to this company they do integrate in this item I am asking the administration to negotiate with them based on this back from georgia. And should it not integrate then I am asking them come back with a report as to why you weren't able to complete that negotiation . This is something I've said before . Cost is zero and in fact it would generate revenue. It's a zero termination clause so if it doesn't work out we could tell them goodbye ad it has no expense. One last thing before I moved the item. The reason I mention georgia is because georgia is the one that shadows florida law that was just past . These are 6 rfps that I can pass around if need be . This was competitively bid six times and all six times this company one the bids. To expedite this, this is for safety of our children and with that unless somebody has questions I can remove this item . >> I think it's important for public safety. But also just with regard to procurement , I'm comfortable with piggybacking if the law allows us to piggyback . I am more comfortable with piggybacking than when the administration does these purchases. I would find it extraordinary that anybody in procurement would have a problem with this because our procurement department has become masters of the expedited purchase process I don't have a problem piggybacking under something competitively bid and one in other jurisdictions as florida law allows it. Commissioner cohen higgins. >>commissioner cohen higgins: I want to thank the CHAIRMAN For bringing this item because we designate items wthout much discussion or any means toward concerns and here we are doing something that promotes the safety of our children where many of us that have young children particularly at schools are constantly interested in ways we can protect our children more . And here we have an opportunity to implement something where in the last 12 months our miami dade police department has issued 3200 citations for people feeding through our school zones. So we could either do our procurement, tended out for 12 months and wait for a contest and bid objections to come forward or we could have this done in 30 days with a company that has 160 procurements rather recently . When you ask our administration how often do we do access contracts the list is exceptionally long. Not only in our miami police department bar but also for goods and services . We constantly piggyback with the florida sheriffs association . One has $92 million . The list is pages long when we do this . This is not picking winners . This is a practice we engaged in regularly . The only exception is that it focuses on the cd of our children so I am fully in support of the item . >>chair: commissioner bermudez you are recognized . >>commissioner bermudez: first of all, let me say I am not a big fan of piggybacking things that in my opinion could be competitive. And this is a little bit different. Even though I share the CHAIRMAN's feelings and also commissioner cohen higgins on some of these other items that come in front of us . Some of them are substantial as commissioner cohen higgins mentioned. Having said that I also think that the process of awarding some of these contracts takes so long that when it comes to safety of our children and I had a chance to meet ladies here today who remembered something that happened when I was mayor. And I don't think that in this case looking at some of these county contracts and this is one of my pet peeves. I'll repeat it again. The length and the time it takes to award these contracts when one lobbyist comes is practically unbearable and it really defeats the purpose sometimes of the original rfp that went out. So I do agree with the vice chair that this is important enough so I'm going to be supportive of the item but I want to be clear that I think one of the things that drives me here is if we can make it competitive and make a decision in three months that would be wonderful but we all know there is a letter sent by someone that we're going to be stuck talking about this for three years so I'm going to support the item but I am going to be clear on the record what my preference is . I know some of these piggybacks our police cars but some of these directors or some of the things that have been brought up by administration I think sometimes we need to question that . I'll be supportive of the item but I want to be clear on the record that we need serious reform. You've heard me say this before. I am concerned every time there is a letter sent by one group or the other we go back. It takes years and months and I don't think we can support it so I am going to be supportive . >>commissioner hardemon: the first thing I would like to point out is piggybacking is competitive. The process has been stated many times to make it feel as if it is a non-competitive process but it is competitive because someone had a process where many different companies have competed, many of the same companies are competing these other jurisdictions and they lost so your piggybacking off the competitive process most of the players have competed for that particular bid, then there has been a competitive process we are benefiting from. So we don't have to take as much time in our resources to address whatever the need is that we have so that's the first misnomer. The second thing, the designated purchase is non-competitive . Designated purchase is when you feel bids are not necessarily advantageous so you go through soul service or source purchases or ask for services where you do not have any competition for that particular thing. It's important we clarify the designated purchase that we have all the time is noncompetitive. When our companies describe $90 million of a designated purchase, that is shocking . But things are reasonable depending on the circumstances . Here I don't find anything reasonable about this request so therefore I will be participating in favor of it. >>chair: moved the item. I will second the item . >>commissioner regalado: i wanted to say a few things. There's a difference between a straight piggyback where we all agree on a price and an item where you send the administration to negotiate a price. That's a hybrid . Putting procurement aside, iam the only person on this dais that served on the school board and I live two blocks from a school that has a school speed zone and we spent a lot of time yelling wth this issue and obviously it's all multi jurisdictional issue because the police are involved. The school board police cannot give tickets and sometimes that creates conflict . However you decide to allocate this, I would ask you to talk to the schools where you're going to place these devices because more often than not the issue with speeding around cool is on the opposite side of the. You draw and pick up and that's where you have traffic not moving on the opposite side of the queue is where you have it . If you put this on the opposite side of the q what you have is paralysis of movements on certain streets and that's why transit should be involved . This shouldn't be something police into transit about the impact this will have on certain neighborhoods . I'm not going to support it because I think there is a better way to do this. We all want to keep our children safe but that doesn't mean we take a series of other leaps . If we're going to do this many schools and provide this many devices, it should be done with the school board having a seat at the table. It should be a joint conversation where transit is only impacting people's ability to come in our school and drop off also tell you to include bike and walk safe. They are stakeholders who should be involved. >>chair: all those in favor signify by saying aye show it to class next , 14a1. >>chair: who is the pulling commissioner. Commissioner higgins . >>commissioner higgins: I think I have questions for namida the state , obviously we had a discussion about a year ago where we wanted to procure our federal lobbying contracts . My understanding is the state ones have been resolved is that my memory ? >> we have proposals for federal lobby . >>commissioner higgins: and those were submitted several months ago? In JULY. so AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, all three or four months we convened the selection committee on this? >> you are working to convene the election committee on this see 15 juices, is that the selection committee process ? So we still don't have federal lobbies. You and I are on the agreement , the county team in my opinion is terrible they'll contact any of the cmmissioners . They have no idea what we care about I certainly when I go to washington to work on transit or washington or other things the provision would never imagine calling the people we currently have as federal lobbyists because quite frankly I have no idea who they are and they have no idea who I a either so I'm looking forward to getting it of lobbyists that can do the job. There are some bolts that help me at no cost , thank you for that . So hopefully we end up with a selection of a being on the winning side of things since they advocate for the other than the people we write checks to . So super supportive getting lobbying teams are more responsive to the county's needs understand all of this as commissioners understand our strengths . like all of us can make an impact , sometimes with different teams in dc. This item similar to the previous one makes me very uncomfortable to have one person picking a procurement winter and loser so I understand every year there is a unique issue where we MAY want to have a subcontractor that is for specialized but I do think it should come back to the board for approval and quite frankly I think you make choices it sticks with what I said before . We are beginning to set a precedent where each commissioner and vendors on our own and that worries me if it comes back to the board and the us but respectfully I will be no on this item . >>chair: one of the reasons we're doing it this way is because sometimes we faster and it allows you know this is the first of several changes I will bring the board in regards to our intergovernmental affairs. I'm not what is the how good or bad any of the lobbyists are. We need to become more asphalt board that our lobbyists. That is going to be paying our lobbyists more. Part of that will be paying our lobbyists more. There used to be a time that being who we were was such an honor that people would be oh yeah. We have situations when there is conflict between us and other parties and wants to let us know because they are ultimately in business and they say this retainer is this and these people are this we are competitive. This isn't something that power that necessarily I want to be , it's something that's done in consultation with our lobbyists in dc ad people who lead our efforts in the county attorney's office. We need to know who the people are and get us in the room with people making decisions about us because we have been shown in extraordinary ways since I've been on the board is that we are not necessarily weighing. We're not waiting. So this is an item designed to help us win more or at least not lose much because losing is having the plantation bill will officer shut down. Not losing as much is enough mdx and gmx. The things that aren't getting in the paper, we are losing a lot . I would just refer to those a lot less we are losing I would like you guys gonzalez . >>commissioner gonzalez: I don't know . >>commissioner higgins: I think they are in words . For a long time that he maintained the status quo . It's important that we be flexible with the times because it is true that recently need to win more and I think this item will allow for that process . The way I understand the is that the actual lobbyists will be selected through a process. However if there is the option to input subcontractors improved by the CHAIRMAN Rather than a lobbyists themselves, is that an accurate representation ? >> we use an example , who is my primary lobbyists . Ron finds said we need to bring some in the sheriff issue especially . They actually hire person now we find ourselves in a recession if we want to hire somebody we have to get an item on the agenda so it takes a bit of time when we do our this isn't going to change . We do our procurement , they should bring their primaries and their sons . This addresses times when we need to supplement so we ae still paying our team but there are the times we ned to supplement the capacity we have to those teams this addresses that. >> I share some of my colleagues sentiments and I think they shared should have more say and more power but I am reticent to a position that it should be smething that doesn't come back to the board if it's something that's important. Having said that you made an argument that time is of the essence with some of these issues. There are constitutional positions that have been created and my question would be when we asked for , would we be able to get a report deal detailing who are the subcontractors and how much they are getting paid because that would be something that would only my concerns as to what. >>chair: absolutely and so you know I don't have great knowledge of the this has to come from the people in dc . I know necessarily who is on and who is not that we would be getting the report that everything will come back to see the review . >>commissioner bermudez: I would use mdx as an example this is something that came last minute and if we could have benefited from using somebody I would have been supported. That was my question . >>chair: regalado . >>commissioner regalado: i understand your point of constitutional officers, was brewing for a long time and the prior board on it for two months . When we got to we were kind of the last moment. I think that this item works if it was during the legislative session in the . During the legislative session is a different animal. APRIL all this stuff asked us there's a train calls you and says what happened to the ? I think the federal level is a different result as many issues, we usually have more time and to commissioner again!, they'll utilize us at the federal level . I don't know what's going on either. You and having to call people you know in order to get you a meeting and a call. Our team here can schedule stuff but that stuff just takes a long time . I think that part is good. But in terms of the legislative process and last minute stuff we are not impacted by the closing of government . I don't think it's that different . Definitely I think during tallahassee , during session 100 percent . even though it's different than what we are used to doing , that is a tool you should have asked our chairperson and that is something that we should approve. I don't think it should be all year 24 seven so I don't know if you're open to amending it and having it be only for the legislative session. I would because the rest of the stuff, we can navigate during session, I think this an important power for you to have . >>chair: vice CHAIRMAN, you are recognized contract lobbyists that would put it up makes this decision and hires a subcontractor, sub lobbyists and at some point we don't think it's the right decision for this county, we would have a say obviously or we could bring another item. So we have recourses . Actually I liked the avenue or the street of which commissioner regalado was going down the problem is with tallahassee I know how it works and the last thing I want this county to suffer , I'm talking generic terms is for one of our contracted lobbyists to sob out another lobbyist only for session. And then it almost would be worse because if we let them go right when session ends that would be realistic. Realistically people would get offended. I hope not retribution, that's a little far-fetched but it could be. We are not today like most counties in the state. I do have my reservations with tying the hands of those that we as a county selected to make these decisions and defend our stand up in tallahassee and it gives me comfort that should we not agree we can always change it. >>chair: I hope to have your support. If we're just going to speak directly , we need lobbyists who can actually on very specific issues get us in the room and effect a decision . We need to be double. Yes I can bring it back to commission as soon as we do it but this is something that needs to happen . We live in this world where we have the ideas about how stuff could run and it's divorced from the way things are actually running we need to be able to bring these people on quick. There representation of us can be more important. That's my whole goal for it and this is just me systematically going through looking at ways we can be more effective in everything that reports to the chair. This is one of those things and if this doesn't work we will change the process and I will bring it back so we know who hired them but this is something that I understand we all have relationships in tallahassee and in washington. We hire people to do something let's give them the tools to do it . And that's what this is about. So I think we have amended the item to include the provision . If it looks like it's going to be problems with doing it just in session, I am okay with ringing it back , I don't know that's going to be an issue right now but that is something that I talked to the legislative folks that anticipated if it's going the issue I hope to have yours. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Show the item passing. >> your last item... >>chair: moved by me, seconded by sub CHAIRMAN . This is the ballot. All right. Let me just express my sincerest director on this. You can do whatever you want to do . But I think women's hall of fame, we should have created a process that didn't involve the commission on women. We should have created a process that didn't involve that when names were submitted . The committee came back and nominated themselves to some respect. That's what I wasn't comfortable with , that's why I changed the list but I put that on the list based on my knowledge of people. I am open to doing whatever it, an interesting thing that we don't know who to honor or how to honor. It's long overdue but we did not do it well. We did not implement this well. I do feel comfortable with everyone who's on this list that they definitely belong in the hall of fame. There are names that aren't on this list that could be. The mayor of miami data county could be on this list but it's a mving target so that's whe