CITY COMMISSION WORKSHOP on 2024-09-17 11:30 AM - Joint Workshop with Charter Revision Board

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What is the purpose of the City Commission Joint Workshop with the Charter Revision Board?

Dean Trantalis 0:00

Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the City Commission Joint Workshop with the Charter Revision Board. I'd like to thank you all for being here today. If all the members of the commission can please come to the dais. I understand there will be some absences and some appearing remotely and others are here in attendance. MR. CLERK, IF YOU COULD PLEASE CALL THE ROLL FOR THE CHARTER REVISION BOARD.

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CHAIR SERIN WILL NOT BE HERE. VICE CHAIR FERTIG? HERE. JACKIE SCOTT? HERE. MICHAEL ALBETTA? HERE. RICHARD WEISS?

Tom (Unknown) 0:45

HERE.

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AND FOR THE COMMISSION, COMMISSIONER HERBS? PRESENT. VICE MAYOR GLASMAN? HERE. COMMISSIONER BEASLEY-PITTMAN?

Pamela Beasley-Pittman 0:52

HERE.

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COMMISSIONER STERMAN? RISING. MAYOR TRUMP-TOLLS? HERE. Thank

Dean Trantalis 0:57

you so

Unknown 0:57

much.

Dean Trantalis 0:58

So we have a quorum on both the advisory board as well as the commission. So I want to thank you all for being here today. So Anthony, do you want to give us a heads up as to where we are now in the process?

Anthony Fajardo 1:36

Sorry about that. Um, good morning.

Pamela Beasley-Pittman 1:38

Uh,

Anthony Fajardo 1:38

Anthony Fajardo, assistant city manager. Uh, so, uh, mayor and vice mayor commission, uh, we put together a presentation to kind of walk us through some of the history behind the charter revision board, um, as well as some of the current efforts. Um, and then we wanted to kind of go through some of the things that we are looking forward to doing with the public to try and engage them better in the process. So, I thought it was important for the people that are watching, if they haven't been exposed to the charter language before, I know that everyone on the dais and probably a lot of people in the room know what it is, but a charter is basically a legal document that establishes a municipality's organization, powers, functions, and essential procedures.

Anthony Fajardo 2:22

So it's a very important document for a municipal government to be able to function under its own power. Our charter currently states the city of Fort Lauderdale is hereby created, which shall have all governmental corporate and proprietary powers to enable it to conduct municipal government, perform municipal functions and render municipal services and may exercise any power for municipal purposes, except as otherwise provided by law. The document itself is a very large complicated document. There are 91 sections organized under 11 articles. So looking at one section will often cause you to look at another section to make sure that those cross references are still correct and you're not moving the needle on one section without taking into consideration how it impacts other articles in the document.

Anthony Fajardo 3:06

So just to kind of recap a little bit of the previous efforts that were done as far as outreach, don't know what happened to my screen. So I'll look up here. Um, basically the charter review board is, is a public meeting. Uh, everyone from the public's welcome to attend. The council of Fort Lauderdale civic associations is presented there and the charter review board made recommendations and previous efforts to the city commission to get feedback on the proposed amendments, then to move them forward through the referendum process. And it's my understanding that at the time, what the city chose to do, uh, was educate the public on the backend because when they tried to, when the city tried to do outreach, there was very little engagement from the public.

Anthony Fajardo 3:47

So we're gonna try and re-engage the public and I'll get to that slide in just a minute with what those ideas are to get more people involved. So the current charter efforts were picked up again in February of 2023 with the last meeting being held October, 2018. The meetings include representation from the charter officers, um, the city manager's office, the attorney, the auditor and the clerk, as well as members of the council, Fort Lauderdale civic associations. And then we also have guest speakers depending on the topic being discussed so that we can get some, some expertise on the analysis. Um, again, the meetings are open to the public and can be viewed on the city's YouTube channel. There was a memo that was sent by the city attorney's office in February of 2023 that recommended five sections be looked at section 3.03, 3.12, 4.06, 7.16, 10.03, as well as all of article eight, which consists of another 21 sections.