CITY COMMISSION WORKSHOP on 2025-08-19 11:30 AM - Joint Workshop with Budget Advisory Board - Aug 19, 2025

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What were the opening remarks and acknowledgments at the City Commission workshop?

Dean Trantalis 0:01

Good morning everybody and uh thank you for your patience. I was uh unexpected. First uh first appearance of the commission and the community together since our summer break. And I wanna thank you all. I hope you all had a great uh uh summer so far and uh And I know today we um have a lot to talk about and I wanna appreciate all the members of the budget advisory board for being here and uh for taking time out of your day and throughout the the year for making um the effort to try to come to to terms with the budget that we all try to um make sure that uh we all work in the best interest of the community. Um before we begin I just wanted to announce that Commissioner Herbst has indicated he will not be attending today's budget hearing, nor will he be attending today's conference meeting, nor will he be attending tonight's evening meeting.

Dean Trantalis 0:52

uh so he will not be uh here today to participate. Um so if I could please ask the clerk to please call the role with regard to the budget advisory board.

Unknown 1:05

Chair Brown, Vice Chair Milroy. Uh Norbert Bells. Ross Camarada. Uh Olivier Coll. Kelly. Rich D Girolamo. Desiree Giles Smith. Rob Buelling Hattel? Melinda Booker.

Dean Trantalis 1:31

Thank you. And would you please call the role of the Com City Commission? Commissioner Glassman? Here. Commissioner Beasley Pittman?

Pamela Beasley-Pittman 1:37

Yeah.

Dean Trantalis 1:37

Commissioner Sorensen? Here. Mayor Trentals. Here. So we have a uh quorum for the city commission. I believe we have a quorum for the budget advisory board and uh so I'll now turn it over to the budget advisory board. for a further presentation. Mr. Brown.

Unknown 1:55

Good morning, uh Mayor, Vice uh members of the Commission. Uh thank you for the opportunity to allow us to become come before you today. Uh before we get started though, I just wanted to w to inform The commission that we will have two members uh coming off the board. They're they're termed out. Say it isn't so. And I understand that there's a presentation that yes

Dean Trantalis 2:19

to be made. There is a presentation. I believe Ross Camarada and uh Mr. Patel are both uh t uh ending their term on the budget advisory board. Um Uh I can only say that I know that the work has been intense and I know that uh um that Um You know, you're we in the city commission and the k people of our community truly appreciate all the work that you've done. Um I understand that Mr. Camarado is not here today, so we do have a presentation we'd like to make for Mr. Patel. Mr. Patel, you wanna join me at the podium?

Adam Geller 3:05

I'm just sorry.

Dean Trantalis 3:09

You're fine, Mr. Zelensky. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. So um on behalf of the city commission and how many years did you serve on the board now? Six and a half. Six and a half. Okay. Couldn't make it to seven, huh? No, truly and honestly and from the bottom of our heart, we really wanna we really wanna say we truly appreciate all the work you've done on behalf of the budget advisory board. Um please don't be a stranger to our city meetings and to our city events and uh um and we have this um small gift of uh token of our appreciation that we'd like to give to you on behalf of the city of Fort Lauderdale. Thank you. Yeah. Open it up.

Adam Geller 3:51

Open it up, open it up.

Dean Trantalis 3:57

Is there anything in there? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Hermetically sealed. Oh wow, look at that. Okay. Hold on, hold on.

Adam Geller 4:16

Hello, hello.

Dean Trantalis 4:28

So I read for a bit. Um In recognition of your outstanding contribution and commitment to the City of Fort Lauderdale and the Budget Advisory Board from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty five. Oh, you took us through COVID. Absolutely. So thank you again. You wanna say a few words?

Unknown 4:47

Just want to say that it has been an honor and a privilege to be on the board for the last six and a half years. And one thing I wanted to mention is that before I joined the board All my adult life I was in corporate America. That's where I worked. But when I came to the city budget advisory board, I was amazed and stunned at the way the financial department conducted its affairs. I gotta tell you that you would put to shame many of the Fortune five hundred companies, the way you plan, the way you budget, and the extraordinary people you have in the city of Fort Lauderdale.