City Commission Regular Meeting on 2023-11-21 6:00 PM
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Fort Lauderdale City Commission
1h 26m
5 speakers
8 agenda items
transcribed 3 days ago
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What opening remarks and roll call set the stage for the meeting?
Welcome to the City Commission meeting this november twenty first, uh, twenty twenty three. Thank you for being here tonight. I see there are a few folks in the audience tonight. Um For those of you who are here for the first time Uh welcome and we appreciate your being here tonight. Uh we begin our meetings with the pledge and we do get through a uh a few uh housekeeping s uh uh issues. There are no presentations tonight, so that will certainly uh allow us to begin Yeah, I'm gonna I'm taking care of that. Um Um and uh there are certain housekeeping uh items that we'll take care of. But uh before we get into the evening meeting, uh we do need to to uh recess the evening meeting so we can go into the C R A board meeting and take care of a couple of items because there's something there that needs to be re uh addressed and uh and dealt with before we get into the evening meeting.
So I will um Um What's the what I'm thinking of? I will um recess the the what What's that? No, I don't want to do any of that. Yeah. So we recess the uh evening meeting so we can begin the uh CRA board meeting and if the clerk could please call the roll.
Commissioner Herbst. Present. Commissioner Glassman? Yeah. Vice Chair Beasley Pittman? Yeah. Mr. Stirman.
Here.
Chair Trentals.
Here. So um moving on to the uh agenda, I just want to make sure I'm on the right agenda here. Yeah. I'm on the wrong one here. Hold on. Here we are. Okay, we have um M one. Um motion approving the minutes for the November seventh, twenty twenty-three community redevelopment agency board meeting. Do I hear a motion to approve? Do I hear a move it's been moved and seconded? Please call the roll.
Commissioner Sturman? Yes. Commissioner Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glossman? Yes. Vice Chair Beasley Pittman? Yes. Chair Trentals.
Yes. And M one's approved. M two. This is a motion appropriating unspent remaining Northwest Progressive Flagle Heights Community Redevelopment Agency. uh funds uh fund from the uh twenty twenty three fund balance. Um do I hear a motion to approve.
Um Mr. Mayor? Yes. I'm sorry, um but just wanted to let you know and the Commission as well that we updated Um this uh uh item uh after receiving response or feedback from um certain members of the commission yesterday during our agenda review, um we we looked at the proposal and put forth a proposal that focuses on allowing us to do more affordable housing opportunities. And so what you will find is an updated commission action memo. that um funds um paying the the the debt down and so that um also would allow us to uh focus on housing projects um in this fiscal year. So just wanted to let you know about that modification. Okay. Um
any questions? I was gonna ask that um the city manager just explained um what the um new item is. If he could just go into a little bit more detail for us. Um I had a a conversation with the city uh manager regarding these funds and it was my intention to um have the the amount which was six million go to completely to affordable housing. But um if you can just explain um So we all will understand how the monies are being reallocated.
Sure. I would like to also ask Yvette to come by, um, if she's in the audience. Or part. to explain the the transactions. Essentially um since we heard um as the Vice Mayor said feedback about how can we uh promote or do more with uh housing, one of the opportunities that we had was with the unspent funds allocated um towards uh three things. Number one is um a qualified project Number two is something that was in the master plan or um Pay down debt. and or if not return the funding back to the um the agencies, the sponsoring agencies. And as a result, what we did is we looked at some of the projects that were on the pipeline that were yet to be approved. Um and there's one that will be coming up in the near future.
In order to accommodate for that project, what we did was we um we pursued uh instead of paying six million dollars and putting that towards Carter Park, which is a qualified project, we looked at um paying down the debt uh near four million dollars in order to afford us the opportunity to have an additional four million dollars available this fiscal year.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What opening remarks and roll call set the stage for the meeting?
0:00–13:31
2
How did the commission address the CRA board updates and affordable‑housing funding?
13:31–22:56
3
What motions were introduced and voted on regarding the CRA budget amendments?
22:56–30:53
4
How were the consent‑agenda items approved and what items were included?
30:53–37:39
5
What resolutions were adopted concerning easements for Florida Power & Light?
37:39–48:13
6
How was the ordinance amending the Public Beaches code presented and discussed?
48:13–1:01:39
7
What community events, recognitions, and upcoming projects were highlighted?
1:01:39–1:14:38
8
How did the meeting conclude and what final announcements were made?
1:14:38–1:26:01
Speakers
5 identified
Dean Trantalis 21 min
Steven Glassman 12 min
Pamela Beasley-Pittman 7 min
John Herbst 5 min
Adam Geller
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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