Planning Council Meeting - Jan 29, 2026

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What is the purpose and opening of the January 29, 2026 Planning Council meeting?

Meeting announcer (Opening webcast narrator) - Unknown 0:48

welcome to the broward county planning council monthly meeting webcast live from the broward county government center located in downtown fort lauderdale florida the fundamental role of the council is to promote coordinated comprehensive long-range planning throughout broward county through the joint cooperation and participation of local governments public officials and private citizens and now the monthly meeting of the broward county planning council

Staff/producer (online coordination) - Unknown 1:18

Everybody online will be starting in about one or two minutes.

Thomas DiGiorgio 1:31

Thank you.

Staff/producer (online coordination) - Unknown 1:46

What are you doing? I'm going to tell you. Who are you with? I'm going to tell you. I'm going to tell you.

Staff/producer (online coordination) - Unknown 2:33

Good morning.

Barbara Blake-Boy (Executive Director / Ms. Blake-Boye) 2:51

If you're online, we are getting ready to start the meeting. Thank you.

Dr. Moretti Fernandez (present) / Commissioner Lamar P. Fisher (nominated?) 3:00

Thank you so much, Barbara.

Staff/producer (online coordination) - Unknown 3:10

All right.

Thomas DiGiorgio 3:38

Good morning, everyone. We are going to call the January 29, 2026 Planning Council meeting to order. I hope everybody had a great holiday. Welcome. It's great to see you all. With that, if we can stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. And Dr. Zeman, could you lead us, please?

Allen Zeman 3:58

Hi, sir. 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.

Thomas DiGiorgio 4:10

Thank you, sir. Karen, please call the roll.

Who is present and how is quorum and roll call established at the meeting?

Karen (meeting clerk - called the roll) 4:16

Ms. Jessica Abramson. Here. Mayor Felicia Brunson. Here. Mayor Angelo Castillo. Dr. Moretti Fernandez.

Dr. Moretti Fernandez (present) / Commissioner Lamar P. Fisher (nominated?) 4:29

Present.

Karen (meeting clerk - called the roll) 4:31

Commissioner Lamar P. Fisher.

Dr. Moretti Fernandez (present) / Commissioner Lamar P. Fisher (nominated?) 4:33

Here.

Karen (meeting clerk - called the roll) 4:36

Mr. Adam M. Geller.

4:37

Here.

Karen (meeting clerk - called the roll) 4:39

Mayor Michelle J. Gomez. Ms. Ryan Greenberg. Mayor Rex Hardin. Council member Denise Appleby-Horland. Mayor Josh Levy.

Allen Zeman 4:57

Here.

Karen (meeting clerk - called the roll) 4:59

Commissioner Letitia Newbold. Thank you. Mayor Jackie Raley. Mr. David Rosenoff?

Michael Ryan 5:12

Here.

Karen (meeting clerk - called the roll) 5:14

Mayor Michael J. Ryan? Present. School Board Member Alan Zeman? Here. Mr. Thomas H. DiGiorgio, Jr.?

Thomas DiGiorgio 5:23

I am here, and let the record show that Mayor Hardin just walked in.

Karen (meeting clerk - called the roll) 5:27

Thank you.

Thomas DiGiorgio 5:28

All right. We have a quorum. Fantastic. A little light on the dais, but we're all here. So a couple reappointments. I want to congratulate Commissioner Fisher and school board member Dr. Zeman for your reappointments. Congratulations, and glad you're both staying on board for another year. That's awesome.

Dr. Moretti Fernandez (present) / Commissioner Lamar P. Fisher (nominated?) 5:47

Thank you.

Thomas DiGiorgio 5:49

All right, we're going to go right into the election of officers. I'll entertain nominations. Right now, the officers, if you could, tell us who the officers are, Barb.

Barbara Blake-Boy (Executive Director / Ms. Blake-Boye) 5:57

The chair is Tommy DiGiorgio. The vice chair is Mayor Angelo Castillo, and the secretary is Mayor Michelle Gomez.

Thomas DiGiorgio 6:05

Excellent. Open the floor for nominations.

Dr. Moretti Fernandez (present) / Commissioner Lamar P. Fisher (nominated?) 6:10

Chair, I'd like to go ahead and nominate the current slate without objection. Second.

Thomas DiGiorgio 6:19

Second. We have a motion to keep the slate that is existing right now by Mayor Hardin, second by Commissioner Fischer. Further nominations? Nominations are closed. We'll go right into a vote since there's the only folks there. All those that favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye.

How were officers nominated and what was the outcome of the election of officers?

Thomas DiGiorgio 6:39

Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much, folks, for your trust in us. We appreciate it. We appreciate the work. Thank you all. Consent agenda. Ms. Blake-Boye.

Barbara Blake-Boy (Executive Director / Ms. Blake-Boye) 6:52

First, the nominations to the executive committee. Oh, there we go, executive committee, sorry. The membership are the three officers, and currently the other members, the at-large members, are Mayor Brunson, Councilmember Horland, Mayor Levy, and School Board Member Zeman.

Allen Zeman 7:07

Okay. Motion to continue the existing membership.

Thomas DiGiorgio 7:11

Second. We have a motion from Mayor Levy, second from Mayor Hardin. Further nominations? Nomination to close. All those in favor with that slate, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Again, thank you. Okay, Ms.

Barbara Blake-Boy (Executive Director / Ms. Blake-Boye) 7:31

Blake-Boy. Thank you. The consent agenda this morning, I just want to go through the excused absence request because Member Newbold did make it online, and she had asked for an excused absence. So that leaves us with Vice Chair Castillo, Mr. Geller, Mayor Gomez, Ms. Greenberg, Council Member Horland, and Mayor Raley for excused absence requests.

Thomas DiGiorgio 7:54

Okay. Anything else?

Barbara Blake-Boy (Executive Director / Ms. Blake-Boye) 7:57

That's all for the consent agenda.

Thomas DiGiorgio 7:59

I'll attend a motion on the consent agenda. We have a motion from Dr. Seaman, second by Mayor Hardin.