County Commission on 2025-12-09 10:00 AM - Dec 09, 2025

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What opening formalities and recognitions are performed at the start of the meeting?

Mark Bogen 7:47

All right, you guys ready? Let's rock and roll.

Mark Bogen 8:00

You guys ready? Let's let's rock and roll.

Scott/County Attorney (Unknown) 8:04

You can see.

Mark Bogen 8:05

I don't know. Let's rock and roll. Where did where's the Oh, there she is. Good morning everybody. Monica, can you Oh there it is, I can hear it now. Good morning everyone. Can you grab a seat? Good morning everybody. Uh welcome to the Brower County Commission meeting. Today is Tuesday, December ninth, and ask everybody to first please rise for a pledge of allegiance and please remain standing afterwards. And in the eleven years I've been here, I've never asked I've seen someone lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Uh Drew Myers, why don't you lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance?

Mark Bogen 8:54

Yeah. Indivisible. Just raw. Please remain standing. It's customary that we observe a moment of silence in honor of notable persons from our community who have recently passed. So I'm gonna go around call ask colleagues uh to identify anybody if they have anyone. Please.

Hazelle Rogers 9:15

Good morning everyone. Notable. Burial Dolores Warren, also known as Annaby, Miss Burial passed on november twenty third. She's survived by her five children. Twelve grandchildren. For great grand, she was a light of the community. She will be miss and I just want to acknowledge Aisha Gordon from the city of Oakland Park who asked me to mention this person from Oakland Park. Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

Scott/County Attorney (Unknown) 9:46

Vision.

Mark Bogen 9:50

Okay.

Nan Rich 9:56

Yeah. Um I would like to recognize a special person who passed away. She lived in Weston. I attended a celebration of life for her. Uh last week she's a beloved member of the community. Michelle? Requel Richelle Koenig's life was a testament to love, service and unwavering commitment To enriching the lives of others. She shared nearly seventy remarkable years of marriage with her beloved husband Paul. And together they built a loving family. And a legacy of contributions to the arts and beyond in the city she loved and all of South Florida. Her motto was helping others. And that's been a way of life for her, she said. It is important to give back to the community by developing programs, culture, activities, and needed services for many organizations which make a difference in the lives of our South Florida community.

Nan Rich 10:51

She was involved with many, many things. However Her passion was the arts. And arts development. Shone the brightest. Uh she was The organizer of the Weston Philharmonic, now known as the Western Music Society. She brought world class enrichment programs to Western schools. And a d in addition to That, as a founding member and president of the Arts Council of Greater Weston, she also created the Art Walk. and the foreign film si series. Among her many honors, Rochelle was inducted into the Broward County Senior Hall of Fame received the twenty five year service award from the Jewish Federation of Broward County. and named one of the one hundred outstanding women of Broward County for her decades of volunteer work, and was named Woman of Style and Substance by the Philharmonic Orchestra Society for her many contributions to the arts.

Nan Rich 11:47

Just would like us all to keep her. Um and her legacy an important one in our memory. Thank you.

Alexandra Davis 11:58

Thank you. I just want to uh give my condolences to Payola Isaacs on the person of her husband. Thank you.

Mark Bogen 12:08

Let us also honor all the brave men and women who have served and continue to serve in our armed forces, both here and abroad, and thank them for our service. Let's pause for a moment of silence.

Mark Bogen 12:25

Please take your seats. Thank you.

Michael Udine 12:31

You have a proper

Mark Bogen 12:31

mention? Yeah. So welcome everybody to the meeting today. Uh we have our employee recognition, but before we do that, I believe we have one uh proclamation. Uh it's World's AIDS Day and our Vice Mayor Robert Mackenzie will be uh We'll be uh presenting that to Doctor uh Berkeley of the HIV Planning Council.

Scott/County Attorney (Unknown) 12:55

Get a red tape.

Mark Bogen 12:59

Go to it.

Scott/County Attorney (Unknown) 13:13

Good morning. And

Mark Bogen 13:15

happy holidays to everyone in attendance today. It is an honor for me to come here today and do this for the third time since I've been a broad county commission, but for thirty something years.

Scott/County Attorney (Unknown) 13:28

The HIV community and the awareness has been a part of my personal life.