City Commission Conference Meeting on 2025-03-04 1:30 PM

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Fort Lauderdale City Commission 4h 40m 2 speakers 6 agenda items transcribed 5 days ago official recording ↗

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Dean Trantalis 0:01

GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY, AND WELCOME TO THE CITY COMMISSION CONFERENCE MEETING THIS MARCH 4TH, 2025. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE TODAY. WE HAVE A LOT OF EXCITING THINGS TO DISCUSS AND MIGHT AS WELL GET STARTED. WE CAN BEGIN WITH COMMUNICATIONS, BUT I DON'T HAVE MY COMPUTER TO KNOW WHAT THE COMMUNICATIONS ARE, SO I'M SORRY. Okay, but I don't know what they were because I don't have my computer just yet. So maybe, Mr. Clerk, you can recite to me what the communication is. Okay, so for charter, number one, are we working towards some sort of deadline that they have in mind as to when our work will be done? And two, would they like all of our work to be presented at one time, or would they like us to present one or more sections and incremental progress reports as we get through?

Dean Trantalis 0:58

Okay. Well, I'll let everyone on the commission respond if they want to, but I think the first question clearly is, you know, since these have to be voted on by the public, the next public vote is not going to be until 2020. Six. 2026 for the midterms. So I think what we need to do, Mayor, is have David figure out working his way backwards with the supervisor of elections, when it needs to be to them, and then a couple of months for us to kind of thrash it out and work on it. Right. So that would probably be the answer. But the sooner the better, because making a presentation to the commission and then having to go back in the community and the back and the forth before we finally agree on final wording and final elements, I think that the first round that was presented to the city commission last time, there were –

Dean Trantalis 1:48

A NUMBER OF NONCONTROVERSIAL ITEMS THAT WE COULD PROBABLY RE-OFFER THIS TIME AROUND. THERE WAS SOME CLEANUP PROVISIONS AND THERE WERE SOME OTHER PROVISIONS REGARDING PARKS AND SO FORTH THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO AGREE ON WITHOUT MUCH CONTROVERSY. AND THEN THERE WERE OTHER PROVISIONS THAT I THINK THE COMMISSION DURING ITS GOAL SETTING SESSION HAD INDICATED THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE CHARTER REVISION BOARD consider and then present again back to the Commission. So again, to Commissioner Herbst's point, we can work ourselves backwards, see what the deadline is, and that would be the, we try to get ahead of that number so that we at least have something to put on the next ballot, which would be March of 2026.

Dean Trantalis 2:37

Mayor, can I offer another suggestion as well? So one of the problems we ran into last time, as you all probably recall, was we got a fairly large batch of items to review. And it proved to be probably too much for us to digest all at once. So you know the old expression about how you eat an elephant, it's one bite at a time. So my suggestion is we go along with the idea OF HAVING THE COMMITTEE BRING IT TO US AS THEY DISCUSS ONE AND COME TO A CONSENSUS ON IT, WHEN THEY DO THEIR COMMUNICATIONS TO THE COMMISSION, THEY CAN SAY, OKAY, AT OUR LAST MEETING, WE THOUGHT THIS ONE WAS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO BRING FORWARD TO YOU. they can bring it to us, we can discuss it in this format and say yay, nay, or modify it or whatever.

Dean Trantalis 3:20

But I think if we, over the course of the next 12 months, are looking at these one at a time, it'll be an easier conversation for us to have and I think it would give more direction TO CHARTER REVISION BECAUSE I'VE BEEN TALKING WITH MY APPOINTEE MR. WEISS ABOUT THIS AND THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE EXECUTING ON OUR DIRECTION AND DON'T WANT TO GO THROUGH ALL THAT AGAIN TO HAVE EVERYTHING SUMMARILY REJECTED AT THE END. SO IN ORDER FOR US TO KEEP EVERYBODY ENGAGED, I THINK ONGOING FEEDBACK ON A CONSISTENT AND REGULAR BASIS WILL BE MORE VALUABLE FOR THEM. SO DO YOU THINK THAT SHOULD COME IN THE FORM OF JUST A COMMUNICATION OR MAYBE DO QUARTERLY WORKSHOPS OR BOTH? Well, I think, you know, I certainly, I'm always open to both, but I think, as I said, if they have a meeting and they take a vote on something and they want to communicate that to us, that gives us an opportunity to sit down at our next workshop and, I'm sorry, next conference meeting.