City Commission Regular Meeting on 2025-04-15 6:00 PM - Apr 15, 2025

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What is the purpose of the opening pledge and moment of silence?

Dean Trantalis 0:00

Welcome to the City Commission meeting this April fifteenth, twenty twenty five. Shh shh sh um I want to thank you all for being here. It's it's a lovely day. Everyone wants to be outside, so hopefully we'll have an early meeting tonight. I want to thank you all f again for being here. And uh for those of you who are who are here for the first time, welcome. And uh uh our format is that we begin with a pledge of allegiance and um Then we share a moment of silence and then we go into presentations in which we recognize individual events or organizations that uh that are important and significant to the people of our community. So letting me first ask you all to please rise and join Carly Boynton and myself, who's a fifth grade student at North Andrews Garden Elementary.

Dean Trantalis 0:46

And um, Carly, if you can please join me at the podium. So we can uh recite the pledge together.

Dean Trantalis 1:02

Put your your hand on your heart. Go ahead.

Unknown 1:07

I pledge of 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.

Dean Trantalis 1:21

Very nice. Thank you so much.

Unknown 1:27

Thank you so much, Carly. We appreciate it. Can we take our picture together? Come on. You wanna bring your mom and your family up here? Come on. Come on up here. Come on, you go all come up. Sure. Are they with my mom and tell them to come on up here? Mm-hmm.

Dean Trantalis 1:54

She's shy.

Adam Geller 2:08

Very nice, thank you. Very nice to meet you all. Thank you for your welcome.

Pamela Beasley-Pittman 2:14

Yeah.

Dean Trantalis 2:26

Now I'd like you all to uh join me in in in having this moment of silence and also I'd like to acknowledge the uh of a very important friend of our community, Richard Ellis, who recently passed away.

Dean Trantalis 2:52

Thank you everybody. Just like to depart a little bit and uh announce some recent retirements of people who have worked with our city. These are long term employees. Uh there are five folks tonight. Todd Hill, who's with our police department for twenty nine years. Thank you for your service, Todd. Mm. Also Raphael Boyet, also a police officer with us twenty two years. Uh Uh Somar Lopikas, uh an an us another police officer who's been with us sixteen years. Sebastian Tuff, who's a driver engineer with our fire department, thirty eight years. Amazing, thank you. Started in nineteen eighty six. Wow. And uh uh and Mark Cayata, who's the captain with our fire department, been with us thirty one years. Thank you all for your service, everybody.

Dean Trantalis 3:59

All right. So Mr. Clerk, please call the roll. Vice

Unknown 4:03

Mayor Herbst. Commissioner Glassman? Here. Commissioner Beasley Pittman? Here. Commissioner Sorensen? Here. Mayor Trentals.

Dean Trantalis 4:09

Here we have uh complete attendance. A couple of agenda announcements. Um CM nine is being removed from the agenda for now, and we have a walk on uh motion uh regarding uh the Panther request to uh co sponsor the um uh co sponsor the Florida Panthers twenty twenty five playoff Baptist Health Iceplex uh Iceplex events and the her giving her the authority to approve uh in her discretion the uh the uh putting up of banners in our s in our uh in our city streets. Okay, now uh having said that, do I hear a motion to approve the agenda? Moved, second. As amended. Very good. As amended. Yep. Please call the roll.

Unknown 4:56

Vice Mayor Herbst? Yes. Commissioner Glossman? Yes. Commissioner Beasley Pittman? Yes. Commissioner Swordson? Yes. Mayor Trentals?

Dean Trantalis 5:01

Yes. Don't we have any minutes to approve? Not today. Not yet. Oh. Has uh Commissioner Glassman not reviewed them yet? I wanted to give him a week off. Okay. That's

Steven Glassman 5:11

right, fine.

Dean Trantalis 5:12

Thank you, I appreciate it. Good. Thank you. So let us begin with our presentations. Our first presentation tonight Uh I would like uh it reg is to be recognizing New River Middle School Eco Sharks, Eco Sharks in Action, Magical Mangroves Presentation. It's to be presented by Eleonora Morini, uh Pilar Laverte, Micah Adderley, and Nate Buck, who's gonna be uh orchestrating that from the city.

Adam Geller 5:41

Mm.

Dean Trantalis 5:43

You folks want to come up, come on up. Tell us a little tell us a little bit about what EcoSharks in action is about. You need to push the yeah, Dan Yeah.

Unknown 5:58

Good ne good evening.