City Commission Conference Meeting on 2024-01-23 1:30 PM
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Fort Lauderdale City Commission
2h 43m
5 speakers
8 agenda items
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What is the 2024‑2026 Federal Legislative Program and its priorities?
This is January 23rd, 2024. Oh my God, we're almost through with the first month of 2024. Anyway, thank you all for being here today. And we have a number of exciting presentations which we're going to hear today. And I guess first we'll start off with business one. This is a discussion of the 2024-2026 federal legislative program and who will be making that presentation.
That will be Daphne.
Daphne
Sainville?
Yes. Hello, Daphne. I beat you to the punch today. Okay. Good afternoon, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Commissioners. Daphne Sainville, Public Affairs Manager. Essentially, before you is the 2024-2026 Federal Legislative Program, just a draft. This is just to have a preliminary discussion before we have a workshop later on in February in order to fully flesh it out like we did with the State Legislative
Program.
So there are one, two, three, four, five, six areas that were in the original. We haven't had a program. What's important to note is that we haven't had a program officially adopted since 2020. We've been just working off of what the commission wanted and needed initially. a la carte in in commission meetings so the first is to improve water quality and wastewater management by supporting legislation and funding infrastructure enhancements by also supporting legislation and funding especially for transportation enhancements focused on innovative commuter rail intermodal facilities visibility options for mass transit and continued funding for fxc To support public safety initiatives, UASI funding, we are tied into Miami when it comes to the formula funded UASI, but also for public safety with fire rescue and our police department.
Strengthening neighborhoods, working on the CDBG grant, making sure that formulary is equitable to the city of Fort Lauderdale, and to support funding for capital projects and programs to promote healthy lifestyles, so essentially anything in the parks and rec area. We also are looking to address climate change and disaster resiliency. As we know, the April flood definitely changed our perspective and accelerated how we fortify and use resilience in Fort Lauderdale. So supporting the policies and funding for prevention, hazard mitigation, and enhancement revitalization resilience projects. And finally, to promote economic stability and business development. The city is marine tourist driven marine driven economy, but we want to support funding that assist in promoting the city's tourism and oppose policies that create unfunded mandates and decrease our revenue allocations to local governments.
So that is the gist of this preliminary discussion. So I wanted to see what were some of the priorities and policies that are not here that you would like to see here so we can further develop it to discuss at the workshop where we would have our federal lobbyist with us.
All right. So let me ask the members of the commission, uh, vice mayor, do you have any comments or responses?
Good afternoon. And, um, thank you, Daphne. and staff for presenting this information here. I'm liking the direction that we're going in, so right now at this point, I am satisfied, but am I open to share if we reach out in a few days with additional information?
absolutely and i can i'm also planning on scheduling one-on-ones with the department division directors and managers to get their input in what they want when it comes to federal funding in a couple of weeks we will receive invitations from our representatives with the new earmarks so discretionary funding the earmarks and and appropriations process is beginning shortly So this is perfect timing to develop our program in order to be on time with those requests. So it's basically putting everybody on notice that I will be bombarding their inboxes with requests and a short time frame to get everything together. All right. Thank you.
Great. Commissioner Herbst. Thank you, Mayor. So the only concern that I would like to kind of focus on, sort of more process-oriented, was that we're no longer retaining our other firm. And I just want to understand why, because I've always had a great working relationship
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Agenda
8 items
1
What is the 2024‑2026 Federal Legislative Program and its priorities?
0:00–18:09
2
How is the city planning the federal legislative workshop and stakeholder input?
18:09–33:57
3
What opportunities does the Good Jobs, Great Cities initiative bring to Fort Lauderdale?
33:57–53:01
4
How does Fort Lauderdale leverage grants to fund infrastructure and community projects?
53:01–1:12:23
5
What are the considerations for School Resource Officers in Fort Lauderdale schools?
1:12:23–1:45:59
6
How is public input integrated into the city’s budget planning process?
1:45:59–2:05:07
7
What strategies are being discussed to address homelessness and public safety?
2:05:07–2:22:08
8
What upcoming community events and initiatives are highlighted by the city?
2:22:08–2:43:24
Speakers
5 identified
Steven Glassman 21 min
Pamela Beasley-Pittman 19 min
Dean Trantalis 16 min
John Herbst 13 min
Adam Geller
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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