COUNCIL MEETING

This meeting to order today is Wednesday September 11, 2024 the time is now 10:07 AM time. Clerk please call the roll [ ROLLCALL ] Thank you very much we will now rise for the pledge of allegiance led by councilman pinedo >>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. thank you before we go into our invocation which will be led by carmen colmenares from our faith based advisory board i'd like to ask for a moment of silence in memory of september eleventh two thousand and one thank you to all who joined us this morning in honoring those from september eleventh i will now ask carmen gomez to please come up and do the invocation good morning esteemed council members staff and fellow residents of the city of doral thank you all for being here today and for continuing your commitment to the grow and the well-being of the community today we have the opportunity to deflects of the event that occurred twenty three years ago on september eleven two thousand one a day that remind us of both the tragedy and the strain of this nation. We remember those who bravely and selflessly risks their life to save others, working as a team to restore the peace after the disaster. In honoring their legacy, I invite all council members to carry the same spirit of unity, understanding, empathy and compassion to ensure the well being of the community of Doral. Today, we also celebrate the joy and the privilege to be alive. Let us extend our gratitude to God for the lesson that emerged from that day. Though it was a time of immense loss and sorrow, it also reveals the strength and the resilience within us, the power, the compassion and bravery we are capable on the face of adversity. >> Please close your eyes and take a moment to find your center. Inhale. Be aware of your breath. Exhale. Let's do it again. Inhale. Exhale and relax. Father, allow us to hear your call. To clear our minds and perceive ourselves as your children. What we see in the world shows us what we carry within and reflects our confusion about who we truly are. Help us to see the false ideas we have placed upon ourselves that prevent us from seeing ourselves as your children. May we be witnesses of your glory and recognize our own light and the love that we are. Amen. Please open your eyes. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you. >> Thank you, Kadiban. Beautiful. All right, we're going to proceed to the agenda. Order of business. Is there any items that would be removed for. Deleted, starting with the city manager's office. >> Not from the city manager's office. >> Thank you, city attorney. >> No. >> Thank you, mayor. >> Through the mayor. Yes, I'm going to pull six d, six zero, six p north, as in Paul and six t, as in Tom. >> Can you please repeat that? >> 6D like David. 06:06 p, like Paul and six t, like Tom. >> Thank you. >> That's it for me. >> Okay. Vice mayor? >> No, thank you. >> Councilman Pinedo? >> No, ma'am. >> Councilwoman Cabral. Okay, I have. I don't have any items to pull at either. Yes, Madam City clerk. >> I know you, madam mayor. Item twelve a, which is the advisory board report from the Animal Welfare Advisory board, will need to be deferred to the October meeting as nobody from the board will be here to present. >> Okay. >> That'S twelve a. >> Yes. Thank you. All right. If that is all the agenda order of business, we'll move on to public comments. The public comments portion of this meeting is now open. You have three minutes to speak to this council in a respectful manner. Please approach the podium, say your name and address for the record. I will start with our comment cards that have been filled out. If you have not filled out a comment card, please make sure to do so by approaching the city clerk after you speak. We'll start with Louis Mar Zabetti Garza. >> Louis Mar Zabetti Garza homeless. You may have wondered why I've not been here for four months. I have been at Arizona attending the Maricopa County City hall meetings, and I will give you all a pass that is the most contemptibly corrupt county in the nation. And let me tell you, living there, you're living in the devil's butthole. But regardless from that, I'm looking at this agenda and there's a lot of contradiction regarding climate crisis and the monies that you're pouring into it, and yet you're buying vehicles that use gas. And I'm trying to figure out why you're still going towards buying vehicles that are made gas when you still have items. I'm sorry. That run on gas, when you still have items that need to be addressed on the electrical side. So kind of make up your mind. But knowing that I don't have too much time, I attended the military advisory board meeting, and it's interesting you should take away item t, which is honoring Laura Richardson day. It's very frustrating that I went to the military advisory board meeting on Monday, and because I made a simple question asking if there was a concerted effort being made to convert the city of Doral into a military base extending outward, and I would encourage many people to request the actual recording. I was attacked for apparently telling the truth. And it is my understanding, mayor, that you're going to be appointing somebody from the United States army garrison to be a member of the military advisory board. And if people don't know at Southern Command, you have Laura Richardson as the top army individual, like chief of staff, but she's got the top individuals from other four or five other. No, four other army branch or military branches. And I think that is a huge issue that the city of Dura residents should know about, because you're increasing more and more housing and taking public property, as indicated at the military advisory board meeting on Monday. You're taking public property and privatizing it. And they even said it took us 15 long years to do it. So under that criteria, I would strongly suggest that you remember the document that I made a big stink about in October 27, 2021, where you have an agreement with UnitaR, the United Nations International training and research that they can come into this building at any time, and you have converted our city of police cars into the masonic black and white colors. I would strongly suggest that all of you rethink your position regarding how you are letting the military take over the city of Doral. And we know who our commander, our real commander in chief, is at this moment. And finally, for all of you, remember, reminder. Resign. Resign. Resign. And your phones snitch on you 24/7 there shall be no mercy, no deals. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other public comments at this time, I have no more comment cards. Okay, if there are no more public comments, public comments is now closed, and we'll move on to our consent agenda. Madam Clerk, can you please read the. >> Items through the mayor? Sorry, I need to make a correction to the items I pulled, so I'm withdrawing if you guys are all okay with the items I pulled because I was looking at the old agenda, so they have different numbers. Okay? So here we go. I'm gonna pull six n as in Nancy, six o as an Oscar, and six s as in Sam. Apologies. >> Nos. >> Nos. Yep. Nos. Thank you. >> In addition to or new set. >> This is a new set. Yeah. >> Yes. >> There's no t. So it's only three? Yes. There's no till. >> So I'm sorry. Nos. Correct. So d is no longer pulled. >> Okay. >> All right. Madam clerk, can we please get a full read on what we're actually approving? >> Yes. All of the items on the consent agenda, which is item six, with the exception of 60, six NDe and six. >> S. >> Okay, I need a motion to approve. >> Motion. Motion. >> Motion to approve by councilman Pinedo. Second by Vice Mayor Queen Corvay. Madam clerk, please call the. I'm sorry. All in favor, say aye. >> Aye. >> Aye. I was still fixing my agenda. All right. Now I need a motion for the minutes. Motion to approve. Second motion to approve by council. Mon Cabral. Second by Councilman Pinedo. All in favor, say aye. A minutes have been approved. Now we'll move on to presentations. >> Item eight, a, keep draw a beautiful business award. >> Okay. >> Good morning, honorable mayor, vice mayor, members of the council, mister deputy manager, mister assistant manager, Mister attorney, Madam Clerk. Danny del Toro, assistant court compliance director. This month, we are pleased to recognize Graziano's Doral holdings for their outstanding commitment to keeping Doral beautiful. The property for which they are being recognized is located at 21 61 Northwest 97th Avenue. Graciano Doral holdings acquired this property one year and a half ago. The property is approximately 23,000 total square feet and the business has ten employees. This building serves as the administrative offices for Graziano's restaurants and mercados, which are located across south Florida, including one location here in the city of Doral. Some of the recent improvements include repainting the entire building and a rigid weekly landscape maintenance schedule. It is with great pleasure that we recognize graciano Doral holdings for the Keep Doral beautiful business award for their continued efforts to keep the row beautiful. Madam Mayor and council. Here to accept the award is Miss Cecilia Graziano. >> Yep. Come on up, Cecilia. Thank you so much. Would you like to say a couple words and then we'll take a photo. >> Thank you. >> You sure? We'll come on up for a photo very quickly. Thank you very much. Gracias for your delicious empanadas keep us all going. All right, we'll move on now to the next item. >> Discussion items Item nine a a resolution of the mayor and the City council city of Durham, Florida, approving a special event permit, the use of the city logo as a co sponsorship and an in kind sponsorship totaling $62,459.92 for police fees requested by Anna Marie Kodina Barlick as CEO of Kadena Partners on behalf of Dante Andrea Arts and Culture Foundation, Inc. To host a world Nutcracker from Saturday, November 30, 2020 through Friday, January 3, 2025, from 05:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. during weekdays and from 12:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. during weekends at 5252 Paseo Boulevard draw, Florida 33166 and providing for an effective date. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. All right, we'll turn this over to planning and zoning. >> Good morning, mayor and council. The applicant downtown Dura Arts and Cultural Foundation, Inc. Is requesting a special event permit for their World of Nutcracker event. The location will be at 5252 Paseo Boulevard from Saturday, November 30 to January 3, 2025. The days and times will stagger weekdays from five to 10:00 p.m. and weekends from noon to 10:00 p.m. the event is an immersive digital and live action, has various elements. Attendees will walk through various scenes of the Nutcracker. There will be an option to proceed to the park with a purchase ticket. There will be customized nutcracker kits and photos with Santa available as part of the application. The applicant is seeking an in kind sponsorship donation from the city in the sum of $62,459.92. The in kind sponsorship's goal is to cover the police services fees that they're also requesting. As part of the application, the applicant is also requesting use of the city logo as a co sponsor. They estimate approximately 3000 attendees during the week and a total of 15,000 attendees throughout the event. As I stated, hours during the weekdays are five to ten and then noon to ten on the weekends. The parking will be available at the Kodina Garage and setup will start occurring on November 15 with tear down on January 10. There are proposed road closures to occur throughout the event from 04:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily. These include south of Paseo Boulevard, the full street closure and north of Paseo Boulevard, half street closure. The applicant is working on an MoT plan which will be reviewed by your public works department and your police department. Other events hosted by the applicant have been the Spring and Foodie Festival, which had an estimated 600 attendees. The Merriam Bright Festival, which had an estimated 1500 attendees, and again the Merriam Bright Festival, a week after the original festival with approximately 1200 attendees. Again, for this specific event, they estimate 15,000 attendees. Planning and zoning department special events section requests that the mayor and council approved the proposed world of Nutcracker special event permit, use of city logo and an in kind sponsorship for police services totaling 62,400 and $5459 $0.92, subject to the condition set forth in the corresponding resolution. Mister Joe Jimenez is here today to address any questions on behalf of the applicant. Thank you. >> Thank you, Michelle. Mister Jimenez, twice in one week. Lucky me. >> Is that sarcastic? Thank you very much, Madam Mayor. Joe Jimenez, 2020 Salzato street. On behalf of the applicant, the foundation. One event that was not mentioned there, because it was a little while ago, was when we actually brought the Nutcracker here during COVID At the time we thought it'd be a great idea to do that, but I don't know if a lot of you remember that almost killed us. So this is a much more appropriate way of doing it. This is a much more. Obviously, the colina's construction of the pocket park, to add that extra level of recreational space. This activates that. And we just think it continues to bring downtown Doral to be a destination, which is the goal. It has always been La Codina's intent to not simply bring customers here, but show them Doral and the live work, play, learn everything that we've always talked about for all these years. This goes towards that goal. I am here to answer any questions. We appreciate the sponsorship. Obviously, the use of the city logo is to give you credit for what you're doing. And we are always proud to partner with the city of Toronto. >> Thank you, Mister Jimenez. Any questions from my colleagues through the mayor? Yes, Councilman Poros. >> Thank you for bringing these great events to our city and also being part of our city. My quick question is. I know that we are supporting the sponsorship for the police department budget. And I just wanted to. Because I know that during our conversations, we had a conversation about an exchange or some sort of gift for the city. And I just want to see if you can mention that just very little. >> And it's my understanding that that'll be brought to you at the first October meeting. I'm not going to be in the country out there, but I'm also joined by Adrian Gonzalez, the vice president of asset and property management with Colina so he'll be here. As I've spoken to you all over the years, there's a plan to redevelop the 23 acres that. >> Comprised the four remaining original buildings of what was the coger center before we tore down 27 of them and built downtown Doral in order to do that. There's a lot of really great trees there, and there's no need to cut them all down, per se, in the county. It would be a bureaucratic nightmare to boot. So the goldenas had the idea of reaching out to different cities, starting with Doral. And after a walk through with Aaron's staff, and I. I think they've identified how many? 70. Around 70 plus trees. I know public works, when they became aware of it. There might be even more for the rights of way, but we're reaching out to you guys first. So you get pick of the litter, obviously. Hialeah, Miami beach, even the county, because we have 400 trees there that need to be. Some need to be cut down. Some just wouldn't survive a move, but most of would be relocated. Your code requires you to accept a donation over a certain value. We just can't give it to you. So we're happy to come. And I know the manager. I believe the manager is putting it on as an item. We've met with the manager and the deputy manager and staff and. Yeah, that's just. We'd love for you to take them and where there are plenty of takers. There are some cities whose tree canopy is not quite as successful as yours. They are lacking, and we were surprised at the number that they wanted. So once you identify them, we'll tag them. And I know we're going through the process of bidding out because it becomes very expensive to relocate them, which is what makes Doral even better, because we'd obviously bring them closer to where you would want them. So that item. I look forward to you hearing it. The first meeting in October, because you do have two meetings that month. >> Yes. >> Madam Mayor? >> Yes. >> One of the things that I believe. >> That we also discuss is not only. >> The donation of the trees, but you're going to prepare the trees and actually put them in. >> No, no. That they would be survived. Yes. And I'm glad to have the opportunity to speak to this because, like I said, I'm just going to be away. Usually when you do a tree relocation and the county allows you to do it, you have to be responsible for its survival, where it goes. Well, the only thing we are asking for is that you just put it as part of your maintenance plan. Wherever you put them there, it's not going to be the only tree somewhere. So it's a de minimis expense with a little extra water. But we would prepare them. That's what makes the relocation so expensive. You got to prep it, to put it on a truck. You got to cut it back. And that gets. It does get costly, but it's worth it because that's what enables it to survive. So you pre prune it first. You let it sit like that, and then you don't just yank it out of the ground and take it over to legacy. So. So, yeah, no, we would do all of that. That would be part of the contribution. What I would recommend is simply putting. Accepting a gift in excess of whatever your code is. Because I can't tell you what it's going to be. I can't tell you what it's going to be in a month. But, you know, I'm. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to this. Now, Adrian, you might not have to come, so. Yeah. And if there's any other questions, Adrienne will be here to answer them. >> Thank you, Mister Jimenez. Any other questions? >> Well, I just wanna say that. Thank you for bringing that up, Councilwoman Poros, because I was going to comment something about the in kind. Cause the amount of the ink kind really represents almost two full year salary of one of our full time employees in the park. So I was going to make a comment, but now that I know that you. Kodina's going to be doing the contribution to the city, then. Now. Then I will be flexible when it comes to the contribution that you're requesting. >> Thank you. >> And thank you for the trees. I know public works was super ecstatic about the trees, so I'm gonna trust them on this. So thank you. >> Thank you very much. Okay, we need a motion to approve motion. Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo, second by Vice Mayor Puig Corve. Madam Clerk, please call the roll motion tripo. >> May I advise Councilman Pinedo, second of Vice Mayor Puerto Corve. Councilman Pinedo. >> Yes. >> May I say Pukorve? >> Yes. >> Council Macaw. >> Yes. >> Councilman Porras. Mayor Fraga. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right, thank you very much. We look forward to the Nutcracker. >> Next item. Nine B. Request to waive court rental fees for pickleball tournament in support of helfo Venezuela Foundation. >> Councilman Porres, this is your item. >> Thank you. So, this is a request for the waiving the court rental fees for two pickleball tournaments in support of the Help for Venezuela foundation. We previously approved one earlier this year. And this great foundation would like our help again with two tournaments. One for Saturday, October 19, and the other one for November 23, the one for October 19. One of the organizers has sent out a flyer. It's going to be dedicated to women's history or women. And so the flyer, I think, has been circulated to Councilman Cabral and Mayor Fraga. I think you have seen it. So they're seeking approval to waive the fees that are about dollar 400, the use of our logo, and to approve the flyer as well. So I hope that you guys can support this, and thank you. >> All right, any questions? >> Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Councilman Pinedo. >> 2Nd. >> 2Nd by Vice Mayor Puig Corve. >> I may be speaking too low. >> Oh, sorry, I didn't hear her. I don't think the mic was on. >> Yeah, I was on. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Please call the roll. >> I have motion to approve by Councillor Pinedo, seconded by Councilman Cabral. Council Pinedo? >> Yes. >> Councilman Cabral? >> Yes. >> Councilman Porras? Yes. Mayor Fraga? >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right, we move on to item. >> C. Item c. Discussion, city participation in events and council initiated events. >> Councilwoman Cabral, this is your item? >> Yes. Thank you. So I think that it's. It just speaks by itself for us to be able to include and to define the role of the city council, supporting department led initiative at events and ensuring the participation and recognition is distributed fairly across all city office. I want. I mean, our city attorney worked with me within this item. I don't know if you would like to add something to the. >> Look forward to working with you. Perfect. >> No, thank you so much. So I think that this is just fairness and to be able to be. To ensure that the involvement will be for all city members and to have established clear guidance. So this will help also the Department of Public affairs for them to understand how is it the protocol has to be proceed. So I hope I will have support of my council members on this item. Is there any questions through the mayor? >> Yes, Councilman Porres, I'm fully supportive of this. May I suggest that in bringing something back, we provide some sort of protocol guidance agreement with whoever is asking to use our logo, do an event in partnership with the city. Because at the end of the day, they are representing us, the city, and I think that they should be able to follow the same protocol guidance that we have in place for our city events. I think that's a suggestion that I would make and also to, again, avoid a lot of confusion that comes with events that have our city logo and our city seal or anything, are using city facilities so that there's a uniform standard of procedure and protocol guidance. So again, I would suggest making it an agreement to go along with anytime someone requests to use the city facilities or logo. That's just my only suggestion. >> That would be fine. We can also add, we can amenda and add that part, too. That will be okay. >> And it'll be brought back, right? You'll bring it back? >> Yeah. Anything that is going to be worked on will come back in the form of a resolution. >> Okay. Motion to approve. >> Second. >> Okay, there's a motion to approve by councilwoman Cabral. I mean, I'm sorry. Councilwoman Porras, seconded by Vice mayor Puy Corvette. >> I have a motion to direct the city attorney to work on bringing back a policy on city staff participation in events may by council Vampora. Seconded. Bye, Vice Mayor Percorve. Councilman Porras. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Percorbe. Council Moncabran. >> Yes. >> Councilman Pinedo. >> Yes. >> Mayor Fraga. >> No. >> Motion passes. >> All right, we'll move on to mayor's report. >> Mayor, the discussion items that were pulled. >> Oh, that's right. We're going back to item 06:06. >> N six. >> No and s yes. >> Item six n a resolution of the mayor and the City Council of State of Florida authorizing the city manager to extend the service agreement with B Free, LLC, DBA freebie for a six month period with a one time optional six month extension to provide first and last mile door to door on demand transit service under the current terms, conditions and pricing in an amount not to exceed the Department of Budget of funds authorizing the city manager to extend the agreement and to expand budget of funds on behalf of the city with respect to the agreement approved herein, providing for implementation and an effective date. This was pulled by Councilman Porras. >> Okay. Councilman Porras. >> Yes. So the items I pulled. Nos. I just really want a presentation. I think it's good to have it on the record and to have the residents and the audience here what the data is and you know what all of this is. So for the next three items, that's what I'd like to hear. Thank you. >> All right, public works. Miss Carbonal, good morning. >> Can I have it? Pull up the presentation for NNO. I put them together so they kind of go hand in hand. So we have a little brief presentation on our on demand transit service that we have here in the city. So we're going to start with the general service and how we initiated that service that started back in April of 2019 as a pilot program for six months at a no cost to the city. They got sponsorships to offset the cost of that pilot program, it was very limited. It was only two vehicles, 40 hours a week, basically, in that area, just to kind of see how it was based on the success of it, we were able to extend it for one more month because we were able to get funding in that fiscal year. And we actually started in November of that year. So once we started it, November 2019, we actually entered into an agreement for a one year with a one year extension. We started with. We increased it to three vehicles, 70 hours a week, and have since then have increased the coverage area to what is there now. That was the latest that we had. The issue with the gen vehicle, which is kind of like the little golf cart vehicle, is that it could only travel on roads that are 35 mph or less. So what happens is we were kind of constrained to 79th and 87th. We couldn't really cross that area because we could cross over, but we couldn't traverse along it. So we were really constrained. So with that, we were talking to Freebie, and we were able to get the Model X vehicles, and so we were able to expand the areas to what is there now. Recently, we've actually expanded it to cover Miami Descartes fire headquarters, Miami Federal Reserve, West Coast University, and Showman Bazaar, and as well as the shopping center where Einstein Bagels is. And that current contract expires at the end of November of this year. So with that, I'm giving you a heat map of where the hotspots are. So this is provided by freebie. So you can see most of the area that we get the riderships from, to and from are in the more the condensed area, the downtown, but some of the other spots scattered along the areas, including the intercontinental, are kind of covered in there. So the ridership, we started again in April of 20 of 2019. So the ridership was very low the first year. Then what happens? Covid hit. So we saw that back in 2019 2020. So then we've increased increasingly have gone up, and that last figure is missing the month of September, which we're currently in. So once we get that data, it should be comparable to the previous year. So with that, wanted to give you kind of the wait times that we experienced. So these wait times are when we started the Model X, because we didn't want to include the model, the gem vehicle. So this is as of January 2024. So the average wait times is between 40, 40% is between ten minutes. So once you call, it gets about ten minutes, but it's a very small area. So we started the senior service, as you all know, recently, in April of this year with two models, we're sorry, with two model X vehicles. And we started initially, we identified 26 locations. So the trips either start in a resident and go to, like, a place of commerce or vice versa. Within the city. We started with 40 hours a week and have since expanded it to 28 locations based on requests from our seniors. And we actually, based on their request as well. We had a little bit money on our pilot program that we could play with an additional 10 hours because since this is know, tailored to them. So we actually increase a little bit on the weekdays till 04:00 p.m. and then we actually added Sunday service, and that contract expires in October. So again, the same heat map obviously covers the entire city. We see a lot of people being picked up, like in the overture area, which makes sense because that's, you know, the community and a lot in the section seven. So the northern part of the city where there's residents in there, we have completed. We wanted to give you rides. So what happens is the seniors are the ones that call. That call the service, but they take a lot of their grandkids and family members with them to doctors appointments and whatnot. So we wanted to give you who actually rides them, the actual rides, rather than the passengers. So we're starting to see those numbers increase. The only thing about this service, because the city is so big and it's so many riders, their wait time is very high. So over 50% are waiting between 20 to 30. Over 30 minutes, because, again, big area, small window of service. So. Oh, I wanted to tell you, I think we have 272 registered residents that are seniors in that program. We reached out with public affairs, Maggie and her team, and they provided us a breakdown. They've done a lot of outreach for the seniors. They've done six videos they do every two or three weeks. They're putting media blasts out there. They just recorded a new promo for our seniors that they're going to unveil that. And we've done some publications, obviously, on Doral TV and the print advertisement. And just wanted to tell you all that the public works department applied for a grant through FDOT for another year of service. So we actually applied for a grant that will be four vehicles for general service to increase that to another vehicle and the senior program for another. For another vehicle instead of two to three for the 50 hours a week we were actually shortlisted. So we're waiting to hear back. They're telling us that we're going to be awarded. It's a 50 50% match that we. They reimburse us 50%. So that was just a quick little summary. If you have any questions, I'm happy to entertain. >> Okay. Any questions for public works? >> Yeah. Through the mirror. Yes. >> Did we. >> Did we add. And I know I think we talked about adding all of the pharmacies to the senior freebie. >> So we've been adding. So sometimes what happens is when we first did the first dab, there was some oversight, but we've been adding things as requested. Yeah, we've been adding. And all the pharmacies that sometimes are like, Navarro's right. >> Navarro was the one that was. I kept getting asked for. >> Yeah. Yes, we have. >> Okay. Motion to approve. >> Second motion to approve by Councilman Pora. Second by Councilman Pinedo. Madam Clerk, please call the rule. >> Motion to approve made by council emporas. Seconded by council Empinedo. Council emporas, yes. Council Empinedo. >> Yes. >> Council Macawrad. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Picorbe. >> Yes. >> Mayor Fraga? >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Okay, we move on to six o. >> Item o, a resolution of the mayor and city council of the State of drought, Florida, authorizing the city manager to extend the service agreement with BF, LLC, Dba Freebie for a seven month period with a one time optional six month extension to provide first and last mile door to door, on demand transit service for cities and your citizens under the current terms, conditions and pricing in an amount not to exceed department budget funds. Authorizing the city manager to extend the agreement and to expand budgeted funds on behalf of the city for the respect approved herein, providing for implementation and an effective date. This was pulled by Councilman Porras. >> Council mom Porras. >> Yeah, we just heard the presentation on it, so I'll just do a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by Councilman Porras. Second by Vice Mayor puy Corbe. Madam clerk? >> Motion to approve by council member seconded by Vice Mayor Corvette. Council amporas. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Corve. >> Yes. >> Councilman Pinedo? >> Yes. >> Councilman Carrado? >> Yes. >> Air Fraga. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> All right, move on to item s. >> Item six s a resolution of Maryland City Council, State of Ford, authorizing the city manager to adopt the recommendations of the citywide integration sustainability plan, CISP, providing for implementation and an effective date. This was pulled by Councilman Porras. >> All right, thank you. >> We just want the. I just want the presentation. >> Morning, mayor. Council members, city manager, city attorney, city clerk, members of the council, Carlos Arroyo Polymers director. We have here Carmen Olazawal from EXp. >> She'S going to guide us in a presentation. Good morning, mayor, vice mayor and council members. >> I'm delighted to be here. >> To talk a little bit more about the community Integrated sustainability plan. And so we have the presentation. This presentation was the one that was used for the Doral environmental Advisory board, which Dulce Pantaleon presented. And it received support from the board. They were very excited about it. So I'll start with saying, you know, this is building on a really strong foundation. So Doral has being a leader in sustainability since 2003, starting with the City Green statement, followed by the US major's climate protection Agreement, the Green Mastery Plan, the Green element, the Climate Action Plan and implementation, which was in 2016, the greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, and then in 2022, where you did the capital improvements elements update. And so, as you can see there in the timeline, and you can see the gears, all these plants work together and they build this strong foundation. And we've used this strong foundation to basically create a sustainability roadmap. And so we started the process by consolidating all of these plants and organizing them by focus areas. And so we updated the information in each of them. Some of the initiatives have been done. We added some initiatives as appropriate. We also included performance metrics so the progress in the plan could be tracked. We also looked at how each of the initiatives align with the green elements so that we can see how we're working together and everything is in alignment. And we also identify potential grant opportunities that could help fund some of these initiatives. Here on this table, it's just a very high level table showing all of the focus areas and the main goals in each of the focus areas. And I'm going to go a little bit deeper on the next slides. So, starting with the transportation and mobility, you'll see that the goals, the main goals include reducing vehicle miles travel, enhancing public transportation, promoting active transportation, and electrifying. And so if you go, you know, for example, into more detail, into electrify, you'll see that some of the initiatives, very specific initiatives, include the transition of the city fleet, providing additional ev charging infrastructure so that supports that transition, and looking in alternate fuel vehicles. When it comes to energy generation and consumption, we're looking at energy optimization, energy conservation and renewable energy. When it comes to waste management, we're looking at reducing, reusing and recycling. We're also looking at adopting plastic free 305 policies and engaging the community in that, and then also encouraging a less wasteful community, the natural environment. We're focusing on enforcing the tree preservation on policies that already exist, and adopting a low impact development standard so less water is used in landscaping. The built environment has a lot of goals, but high level. One of them includes interconnecting the city while preserving the open green space, energy efficiency, promoting a green economy, and also looking at sustainable infrastructure as it relates to that built environment. I call this one all things water, water supplies, wastewater, storm water. And what we look in here is we look at water conservation, we look at stormwater maintenance, and we look at creating partnerships that is going to help us kind of engage the community. And lastly, but perhaps even more importantly, the last focus areas is the community engagement and enhancement. This one's really important because part of making this happen is engaging that community into becoming more sustainable. And so we do this by initiating education and outreach and programs that are going to incentivize that behavior, by increasing the involvement and the input of the community, and also by expanding the current programs that we have, like heap Doral, beautiful campaign, and expanding those. And so with that, the last slide is just kind of showing a little bit of snapshots of what the actual plan looks like. You can see that. Well, as I mentioned, the plan goes through all of the focus areas, then it goes through the goals, then it has specific initiatives, then those initiatives have performance metrics, and then also the alignment to the green element. And then you'll see that there's another section that ties that to grant that is potentially available so that we can fund the sustainable plan and make strides quicker. And so all of those elements in focus areas together is what makes the community wide integrated sustainable plan, which we affectionately call the CISP. And so I'm here if you have any further questions, and we're really excited about this project. >> Thank you very much. >> Any questions through the mayor? Yes, councilmember, just to confirm. So we're going to integrate the study that we just approved recently on transportation alternatives, the green policies that we've adopted here in the council. Everything's just going to be incorporated in here. >> Right. So the CIS mentions all those initiatives and finishing those and then integrating those initiatives into the plan. Yes. >> Okay. Motion to approve. >> Motion to approve by council Empora, second by Vice Mayor Puyt Corve. Madam clerk? >> Motion to approve Councilman Porras. Seconded by Vice President Pukorve. Councilman Porras. >> Yes. >> Vice may picorbe. >> Yes. >> Councilman Pinedo. >> Yes. >> Councilman Cabral. >> Yes. >> Mayor Faraga. >> Yes. Motion passes. >> Okay, thank you. >> Yes, thank you. >> Mayor's report. >> We've now exhausted all of our discussion items. We'll move on to the mayor's report very quickly. Just wanted to thank Parks and recreation department for their very job well done with the Jarl Central park opening I know there was running around with the change of date due to the weather, but it turned out to be great. And thank you to everyone who came out and made that a possibility, as well as the manager's office and everybody who participated. So just wanted to recognize you all for that. I wanted to also bring to our attention for the month of October last year, we lit up the building pink and purple for domestic violence and breast cancer. So I was going to ask if we could please organize to do that again. I don't think it should be a problem, but so we can do that once again. And then I also wanted to mention yesterday I was at the county commission for the infrastructure committee meeting where the proposal was brought to that committee for the fourth site regarding the waste energy facility. We were accompanied by several residents, so I want to share my gratitude to those residents that were there accompanied us. I presented the resolution that this council approved at the special council meeting last week to the members of the committee and to our knowledge at this point, it will be moved to the September 17 BCC meeting. I encourage us all to be there and support our community and continue to advocate for our position. It seems like there may be a request to ask for a special BCC meeting just for that of the county commission, which I think would be prudent and important as it's a very extensive and complicated subject that I think needs full attention. So we'll see what happens on the 17th and I hope that you all will join us in participating in that meeting. With that being said, I have no more mayor's comments at this time. We can move on to council comments through the menu. Yes? >> Yeah, I want to comment from co compliance, the collaboration that they have with the city of Homestead as they establish their own code compliance department. I think it's important for us to collaborate with other cities and congratulations for that. It's great to see joint inspections happening with Miami Dade fire in our city, which is. I think it's really good. Congratulations to the following doral PD personnel who received commendations in July. Officer Austin Valer, Detective Christina Pacheco. Officer Aaron Perez. Ranier Fernandez, CSI. Detective Kelsey Bienvenue. Did I say it right? Sergeant Edward Portal, Detective Andy Dorado. Detective Antonio Roman. Detective Danny Villar. >> Chow. >> And thanks to HR for being instrumental in winning the Aedna 2024 leading the way workplace well being awarded at the platinum level. Congratulations and thank you. That's all. >> Yes. I also wanted to express my gratitude to the Dora Police Department for their continued active presence in our schools, ensuring the safety for our community during this challenging time, especially following the recent tragedy in Appalachia High School. Your continued effort is really appreciated. Okay. Thank you, Councilman. Yes. Councilman Pinedo. >> Thank you, Mayor. I also want to take this opportunity to commend the parks department for the hard work to make Doral Central Park a reality. Now we have a park, and I want to say thank you. I know a lot of people have put a lot of times an effort. La Sarona, thank you so much, sir, and Erin and everybody that was involved, and certainly to our police department as well, because they have been part of this process when it comes to safety and the opening of the park. And speaking on that, I would like to suggest to have maybe a park ranger on site, but on full time instead of rotating the park rangers, because obviously this is a park that since it opened, especially during the weekends, you have a large turnout of families, kids, and sometimes you don't. Certainly you don't see the presence of any park rangers or. I know police officers are in the area, but it has been something that I have been listening from. Right. Since that had the chance to go to the park. I also want to commend the police department because I know they continue to conduct the traffic enforcement details citywide, something that residents are happy to see. Believe it or not, they get excited when they see the officers giving tickets. So. And I think sometimes a good way for residents to. And drivers that come through our city to learn to about that. We don't play around when it comes to enforcing the law. So I want to thanks and commend the police department for continuing doing that. And. And finally, I look forward to the five K, September 28. I'm assuming maybe one of my colleagues are going to participate, right, the vice mayor? I'm sure he will. So I look forward to participate on the five K on September 28 and encourage everyone that hasn't registered to please go ahead and register, including Eduardo. >> Right? >> Sure. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. You're not here. >> Oh, you're not here. >> I'm in Japan next time. Thank you, councilman. Any other council comments? >> I'll just echo what my colleagues said. Thank you all for the great work and continue to do great things. Thank you. >> All right, that exhausts our council comments, and our advisory board comments were deferred to the following months. So we'll move on to the city manager's report. >> I'll keep it brief. Much of what I would have said was said by you, also, just echoing my appreciation to the staff for all the hard work, citywide, everything you guys bring every day makes our job easier. As far as further request for the city building with the mutual colors, I'll check with public work staff to confirm that those two colors are pre programmed. If not, we'll have to select one or the other. I don't know if there's a preference over pink or purple, but they kind. >> Of look the same. >> Okay. >> Whatever we did last year, I'll confirm. >> With Carlos and we'll go that route. Thank you. >> Thank you. We'll move on to the city attorney's report. >> Thank you, madam mayor. I'll be also brief. One thing is, I'm going to have to ask for an executive session. It doesn't have to happen anytime soon, but just in the next month on matter 20, 1924 83 CA zero one. Also echoing the comments that was made by the mayor next week, we are also getting prepared, as we are also will be participating in the commission meeting. We have reached out to John Truitt. John Schwitt is of the firm of Gray Robinson. The introduction was made by Gary Carmen, who all of you are very familiar with him. And I just want to put a couple things about John Chuitt. I'm very excited about working with him. He was formerly a director for the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. He is based out of Tallahassee. He has over 28 years of experience working with the DEP. He's going to be working with us, if you will allow him to work with us, in coming up with a strategy to make sure that the city's interests are protected and are defended. He's coming at a retainer, reduced retainer of 275 an hour, which I think is outstanding for someone of this caliber. So, with the permission of this council, I'd like to be able to formally be able to retain him, put him as part of our team, and get ready for next week. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Thank you, Lorenzo. I think this is an absolutely important decision and prudent that we are prepared and that he, will he be participating in the meeting on the 17th with us? >> That's my understanding, yes. >> Perfect. >> He's gonna be coming. >> Yeah. I think it's gonna be important for the city to have representation there to put on the record our position and also an argument to our favor, should we need to proceed. >> Absolutely. >> All right. I think you have consensus. Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Awesome. All right, we'll move on to the city clerks report. >> I'm sorry. Based on what the attorney said, I do want to also add that staff has been working with a consultant to bring in as a subject matter expert. His name is Tom Erickson. We do have him with us here today. I want to just recognize him and thank him for attending the meeting, and we look forward to working with him and bringing something forward in the future. As far as a formal agreement, I'll pass it over to Fernando, as he may have some additional information on this individual. >> Can he be identified? >> Mister Ericsson, if you could just raise your hand. >> Oh, okay. >> So Tom has an enormous amount of experience working in the waste to energy industry. Actually experience working in the Covanta plant before it burnt. >> It burnt down. Experience in Dublin's waste to energy facility as well. >> And he's a doral resident. >> Yep. Okay, so we'll also be joining us at the 17th meeting to make a statement on behalf of the council. >> We've already coordinated that, so. >> Perfect. Great. All right, we can move on now to a full report from the city clerk's office. >> The report is attached as it is every month. I just want to remind you that you all have an executive session at 04:00 today. >> All right? Very efficient. Thank you. And now we will need a motion to recess for our 06:00 p.m. motion to recess by Vice Mayor Puy Corbet, second by councilman Pinedo. On favor, say aye. We'll see you back here at 06:00 thank you. >> Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our evening session for our regular scheduled council meeting. Today is Wednesday, September 11, 2024. The time is 6:14 pm. This meeting is now in order, and. Just give me 1 second. Let's rise for the. I'm sorry, Madam Clerk, please call the roll call. [ CALLING ROLL ] >> Mayor you have quorum. >> Thank you. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance led by Councilwoman Cabral. >> 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. >> Thank you, everyone. Agenda, order of business. Is there any additions or deletions to this agenda? >> No, ma'am. >> No. Okay, we'll move on to public comments. The public comments portion of this meeting is now open. If you would like to speak, please come up to the podium. State your name and address for the record. You have three minutes to speak in a respectful manner towards this council. I will start with our common cards. If you would like to speak and have not filled out a comment card, please make sure to visit the clerk so that you can fill one out after. We'll start with Louis Mars Betty Garcia. >> Louis Mars Betty Garza homeless part two. Regarding the appointment of USAG, which is the United States army general, to the military advisory board, I cannot emphasize enough to everybody here and listening that this memorandum of understanding that we have from October 27, 2021, does permit the United nations to train freely within the city of Doral and the building. And I highly recommend that you get a copy of it from our city clerk. And in it this is an opinion, so I stand my ground on my First Amendment rights. It is a well known fact, or well known militarily, that the most contemptibly corrupt military branch is the army. And since we have southern command being led by a army general, Laura Richard Essun, and you are wishing mayor to appoint somebody from the United States army garrison. Let me read to everybody what army garrison means or a garrison means and how it relates to Doral being taken over by the enemy. In military terms, a garrison is a military outpost or a post where troops are stationed to protect an area. A garrison can be a military camp, fort, or base. It can also be a fortified place with troops and guns. The word garrison comes from the french word garrison, which comes from the verb garnier, meaning to equip. And I will say to you, large garrisons were considered vital to prevent rebellions or uprising. And I would like to know from which side the military or from we, the people. You work for us. I remind you once again that you have permitted people to come into our city to take over. And soon enough. And I sent you all a very detailed email earlier this afternoon, and it is quite lengthy. I have already published it on my facebook, Louis Margarza. And I'm hoping that each one of you will take it seriously. Thank you. >> Thank you. Would anyone else like to speak at this time? This would be your opportunity to address this council on anything on the agenda or anything germane to our body being none. Public comments is now closed and we will move on to presentations. We have a presentation from parks and police for Kids foundation. >> Item 21 a parks and police for Kids foundation annual report. >> Hello, If you can, please put the report up on the screen. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, vice mayor, council Wehrman and council main for the opportunity to show us the memorial quent, as we call it, Spanish for 2024 for park and politically for kids here on my side. >> Presenting yourself, mayor council. David city manager. My name is Josh Reels. I'm part of the board of directors of the Parks and police for Kids. >> My name is Sego Martinez. I'm a vp for park and poly four kids. So. Well, it's too small here, but I can talk a little bit about what is our main mission. In our case, the Piker police four Kids is a nonprofit organization. Each one of the members for Piker Poly four kids is a representation of a the council members of the city of Doral. We basically focus on providing help for kids and needs in our city. Okay. We work in conjunction with the park and recreations and also the police of the city of Doral. One of the programs and services actually we provide, it's after school program. We finished the 23 24 in the Renaissance school. We went with 17 students that actually was doing after school activities like, I don't know, after school homework. And they basically work with the police. They improved their own. How can I say that? Their own responsibility to the community. They usually are students that the parents are at work, they do many things and the kids are alone. So when you have a kid alone home, there is many opportunities to get in drugs, to get in trouble. So basically we took those name kids and we put in the afterschool program. We have also summer camps. We have the opportunity to provide two summer camps in this summer with the help of the city police. It was. It was really good. The feedback for the kids was amazing. They want to do like another with more so we don't have the opportunity to do that, but we planning to do in the 2024. Also, we do a community education and workshops. Something for example, like sexting, texting, cyber bullying. We bring to the community this type of presentation that actually they, the police of city of Doral, help us to bring that type of topics like schooling, safety measures, things like that. So we do also the roman and walk clinic exercise with the many running teams that we have here in our city. And it was very well received. Also our most famous, we can see is the participation for Parka police is the national back to school that with the help of you guys, we deliver more than 1000 school bags. School packs back schools with many supplies inside of those book bags. So every kid that usually some Doral residents, they receive a book bag and they were happy with the things that actually they find in it. No, we receive a funding from the Miami City. Actually, we get that fund and use it to do something that we call the mobile traffic park. It's something that is mobile. We can present into the community in every different parts that we have in our community. And basically the main structure that we do with that part is teaching the kids traffic rules. So it's something that it was very well received. We provide scooters, we provide things so the kids can have a lot of fun with that. What else? One of the things that actually we do in 2023, 2024 was the Florida international funding. We provide that amount. Do you want to talk a little bit? >> I'll talk a little bit about that. Thank you. Through the help of Pete Garcia from FIU, we were able to get from last year $35,000 matching grant, two to one. So, meaning if PP 4K is able to give $35,000 to FIU, they match it two to one. So up to $105,000 for first generation students who live in Doral who will be attending FIU. And another thing that we would like to ask council, either for this fiscal year or the fiscal year coming up, whatever is more feasible, is for that same $35,000 donation to PP 4K. So we may be able to distribute that to FIU to help these very much, these residents that were in this program and they were part of this program, and they saw how much this program helped them out, and they're becoming the next generation of our country and of our city. So we're also asking for that $35,000 donation for the first generation program. >> Okay. Jose, to compliment, we need more than that. Okay. This is only for donations. That we do with Florida International University, but there is a lot of things that actually we plan to do. Okay. There is many things that we have many ideas that we can put in place, and for sure, we need more resources. So I don't know any questions that you can have from us. >> I have a comment through the mayor. Thank you. Thank you so much for the presentation and really great job that you guys are doing and wishing you much continued success. I just want to mention that we did approve the 35,000 in the last. In the first hearing. So you have in the first budget hearing. So you have that in the budget already. Thanks to my colleagues who join me in approving it. And we also. You're going to get a call eventually as well to see how else we can help. So thank you guys for the great work. We really appreciate you engaging with our community, with our kids and our police and parks. >> Thank you. Thank you for your time. >> Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you. Okay, we move on to our public hearings. >> Mayor, may I please swear in all the witnesses. If you will be presenting testimony in any of the public hearings, please stand up, raise your hand and repeat after me. [ SWEARING IN ] >> Thank you very much. Item 22 a, a resolution of the mayor in the city council of the city of trial, Florida, approving the site plan for MIA, 102 Avenue hospitality for the property located at 10234 North West 19th Street, Doral, Florida, pursuant to section 53 184 f of the city's land development code and providing for an effective date. >> Okay, thank you very much. We're going to hear from staff. Okay, we're going to hear public hearing first on this item. So we'll open up public comments for item 24 5841. If anyone would like to speak on this item and this item alone, please approach the podium at this time. Okay, beeing. None. We'll close public comments and we'll now hear from staff first. >> Good evening, Mayor and counsel Michelle Lopez with your planning and zoning department. The applicant, MI 102nd Avenue Hospitality, proposes a site plan at 10234 Northwest 19th street. The property is a 3.29 acre parcel which is partially developed and owned by Ewe Hotel, LLC. The subject area for the proposed site plan of a six story hotel is the vacant 1.30 acre portion of land which the applicant has a long term lease, and that's on the eastern side of the property. The western portion of the parcel is developed with a six story hotel which includes 135 rooms, which is a residence inn by Marriott. The future land use category and the zoning are industrial. They're both consistent with one another. The project, as I mentioned, is a six story hotel totaling 89,101 sqft. It's going to include 124 hotel rooms and featuring amenities such as a pool, breakfast buffet, lounge area, fitness center including retail space with a restaurant and pub. A zoning workshop was held on April 17, 2024. There were no objections heard at the workshop. The zoning and land uses are industrial to the north, south and east and then to the west. We also have industrial zoning and land use with hotel and warehouses to the north, south and east. We only have the warehouse use. Some aerial depictions and street view depictions are shown at the property location, the southwest view from northwest 19th street and 102nd Avenue, the southern View and the southeast view elevations. Exterior elevations depicting the project are up on the screen showing the northeast, south and west elevations and also the landscaping plan which is very well thought out with buffering and landscaping and meets all minimum code requirements. There's a complete elevation of the hotel rendering. The site plan is consistent with the comprehensive plan. It promotes better site design. There's integration of the project in a more effectively introducing their surrounding environment. The project will enhance property values, its harmonious relationship amongst buildings, uses and visitors. It protects public health, safety, welfare for our residents and our visitors. All traffic concerns have been addressed and again consistent with the standards and or regulations of the approved master development agreements, pattern books and conceptual site plans associated with the CMU, DMU, TND and PUD. So all that means is consistency with your ldrs and your comp plan. The