>> Good evening.
Good evening.
I can't hear it.
Is it on?
Good evening.
I don't think it's working.
Joe, it's not Working.
Oh, that's better.
Can you hear me?
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Welcome, welcome.
Calling the meeting to order.
The energy in here tonight is --
I think we wish every commission meeting started off like.
Welcome to Coconut Creek Commission meeting.
We are happy to have you here.
We have lots to celebrate at the beginning of this meeting
lots of great information.
Agenda item number 9 has been removed from tonight's agenda
and will not be heard.
City clerk, what -- well, we didn't really hear it because we
were all so excited about the meeting.
What was the that was playing in the background?
>> Mayor, the music selection for tonight was "Run
For The Podium" by Hans Zimmer.
I assure you, it's a wonderful song.
>> What was the meeting behind the song choice tonight?
>> The title is always do your best and achieve your highest
aspirations.
For the City Commission meeting on the 10th,
our wonderful city attorney will be making the selection.
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>> Clerk, can you please call the roll?
>> (Calling roll)
>> All right, so we are going to do the Pledge of Allegiance.
Do we have our three elementary principles -- principals here?
Come on down, because you are going to lead
the Pledge of Allegiance.
Surprise.
Show us how it's done.
[Applause]
Right there is cool.
Whatever you want.
You start.
>> I pledge 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.
>> Thank you.
We have lots to celebrate with them tonight,
so I figured it was only fitting.
City attorney?
>> Thank you, mayor.
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>> Thank you.
So we have lots to celebrate at the beginning of our meeting.
We are going to kick it off with some brand new police officers.
We are going to swear them in.
We are going to have a swearing in ceremony
for new police officers Tynasha Logan, Jerry Moore,
and Deshawn Warren.
And chief of police -- there he is.
Good evening -- he's going to do the presentation for us
.
>> Good evening.
Let me start By calling up -- come on up,
so they can stare at you instead of me.
All right, let's start with Officer Logan.
Officer Tynasha Logan is proud to say she was born and raised
in Miami, Florida.
Growing up there taught her the values
of strength, perseverance, and the importance of community.
She earned her bachelor's degree at Saint Thomas University
majoring in psychology, with a minor in Criminal Justice.
As she continues this journey, she
would like to express her heartfelt gratitude
to the city of Coconut Creek for this opportunity.
In addition, she would like to thank her family, friends,
and mentor for their unwavering support, encouragement,
and belief in her.
Officer Logan said she would not be where she is today
without them, and she is truly grateful
to have them by her side as she pursues her dream of serving
her community.
Officer Logan's goal is to become the best police
officer she can be.
She believes that law enforcement is more than just
a job.
It's a calling, and she wants to serve as a positive role model,
protect her community, and make a meaningful difference
in the lives of others.
Here to support Officer Logan are
her mother, father, siblings, mentor, and many friends.
Next is Officer Moore.
Officer Jerry Moore graduated from Deerfield Beach High School
with a 3.7 GPA.
After graduation, he enlisted in the US Army as an 11th Bravo,
which is Infantry.
Upon graduating from basic training,
he was stationed in Fort Hood, Texas,
where he was sent to South Korea as a temporary duty
station for nine months.
Upon leaving active duty, Officer Moore
served another two years in the National Guard.
Officer Moore then began his law enforcement career
as a police officer for the city of Fort Myers,
where he served from 2019 to 2025.
Upon his return home, he worked for the city
for a little over a year before being
hired by the City of Coconut Creek and calling it home.
Officer Moore looks forward to continuing his law enforcement
career with the city and serving his community.
Here to support him are his mother and his father.
And Officer Warren.
Office Deshawn Warren was born and raised
in Boca Raton, Florida.
In 2017, he earned his bachelor's degree
in business administration with a minor in Legal Studies.
On April 29th, 2026, officer Warren graduated from Miami Dade
College School of Justice.
He was selected as -- and received the Athletic Award.
Deshawn will always cherish these honors
because they represent the leadership, discipline
he strives to bring into every aspect of his life.
Officer Warren said it is truly an honor
to stand before you today as he begins
his career with the City of Coconut Creek Police Department.
First and foremost, he thanks God.
Without his guidance, strength, and grace,
Deshawn said he would not be standing here today.
He also wanted to thank his parents, his family, and friends
for believing in him, encouraging him, and reminding
him to keep pushing forward.
Deshawn advised becoming a police officer was once a dream,
but now it has been brought to reality.
He looks forward to serving others
with integrity, compassion, humility,
and being able to make a positive difference
in our community.
Here to support Officer Warren or his mother and father.
Round of applause for all three, please.
[Applause]
City Clerk, would you please administer the oath?
Would you please turn?
[Applause]
All right.
Officer Logan will be pinned by her father.
Can you please come up on stage?
Officer Moore will be pinned by his mother.
And Officer Warren will be pinned by his father.
Can you folks please come up?
You do have the badges I hope, right?
You're allowed two pokes, minimum -- at least two pokes.
Okay, you can pin your officers.
If you could just stay up there, let's
get one picture of all of you together.
And could the officers just stay up there
for a picture with the commissioners, and everybody
else could please come down?
Thank you.
And welcome to the family.
Welcome.
[Applause]
>> All right, Chief, stand back up --
a ceremonial recognizing the promotion of David Tablada
to Lieutenant and police officer Michael Giuttari to Sergeant.
Take it away.
>> This time I would like to Welcome Sergeant Giuttari
and Lieutenant Tablada.
All right, let's start with Sergeant Giuttari.
After graduating from high school in 2007,
he attended Valencia College in Orlando from 2007 to 2009,
where he studied criminal justice, demonstrating
early commitment to his career in public service,
he self-sponsored his way through the Valencia Criminal
Justice Institute Police Academy while also maintaining part time
employment.
Sergeant Giuttari officially joined the Coconut Creek Police
Department in January of 2010.
Throughout his tenure, he has served eight years on patrol,
establishing a foundation in community policing and emergency
response.
In 2012, he entered a position on the Swat team,
where he remains an active member today.
Throughout his career on Swat team,
he has held positions as operator, sniper, training
coordinator, sniper team leader.
He currently serves as one of the agency's two entry team
leaders.
In 2015, Sergeant Giuttari became a field training officer,
personally mentoring and training more than 20 officers
in fundamental tactics and procedures.
His commitment to training expanded in 2018,
when he selected -- when he was selected as full time training
officer within the Employee Development Unit.
In this capacity, he has become a certified instructor
in several critical disciplines including firearms, Taser,
defensive tactics, first aid, and emergency vehicle
operations.
Furthermore, as the agency armorer,
he is responsible for the inspection, servicing,
and operational readiness of all of the department-issued weapons
and firearms.
Sergeant Giuttari is also a veteran of the United States
Coast Guard Reserve.
He enlisted in 2016 and served as a Maritime enforcement
specialist.
Assigned to a port security unit,
he specialized in anti-terrorism and force protection
for high value assets.
In 2022, he deployed to Guantanamo Bay Cuba,
in support of Operation Freedom, Sentinel,
and assisted a joint service task force
in securing strategic American assets in the region.
He served concurrently as a full time police
officer and active reservist until his honorable discharge
in 2024.
Sergeant Giuttari motto is, true leadership isn't
about weathering the storm.
It's about leading others through it.
Sergeant Giuttari is joined this evening
by his mother, his fiancé, and his son.
[Applause]
Lieutenant Tablada -- Lieutenant David Tablada was born
in Nicaragua, and while very young,
his family and he moved to Florida where he has proudly
resided ever since.
David graduated from South Miami Senior High School
before attending Miami Dade College where
he earned his associate's degree in computer information Systems.
He's the proud father of a 21 year old son
and the proud father of a new baby
boy with the love of his life, Amanda.
Lieutenant Tablada professional journey
began in the aviation industry.
Through hard work, determination,
he advanced within the field and was eventually
given the opportunity to become a business owner.
Despite David's success in aviation,
he always maintained a strong passion
for serving and protecting others.
In 2012, Lieutenant Tablada attended and graduated
from the Miami Dade Police Academy
with the goal of building a career in law enforcement.
He began his career in law enforcement in 2013
and has since served in multiple roles,
including Road Patrol officer, Field Training officer, Criminal
Investigations section detective,
and as training officer in the Employee Development Unit.
David was later promoted to Sergeant,
serving as the supervisor of the Employee Development Unit,
and subsequently as Detective Sergeant
overseeing the Special Enforcement team.
In addition to his supervisory responsibilities,
Lieutenant Tablada currently serves
as an assistant team leader on our Swat team
and as a Swat team sniper.
Throughout his career, Lieutenant Tablada
has remained committed to leadership,
training, and protecting the community with integrity
and professionalism.
Here to support Lieutenant Tablada are the love of his
life, Amanda, at their newborn -- their newborn baby,
and family members.
[Applause]
So Sergeant Giuttari will be pinned by his son,
so come on up, and Lieutenant Tablada
will be pinned tonight by Amanda.
You can come on up.
And pin away, whenever you are ready -- a couple of pokes.
All right.
Can we get one picture with the family?
Hold on.
[Applause]
Okay, thank you.
Mike and Dave, you stay up there.
Commissioners?
[Applause]
All right , can we just get one more picture?
All uniformed personnel, join our lieutenant and Sergeant
on stage for a group picture, please.
[Music playing]
>> You got it!
That was for you.
That was for all of you, all right?
>> Oh, that's hysterical.
>> That was an impromptu, you know, musical selection.
All right.
Awesome, awesome, awesome.
Congratulations.
We really have the -- we have the best police force there is.
Commissioner Railey, I figured you were going to say something.
Do you want to?
You're more than welcome to.
All right, so now, we are going to transition --
a presentation recognizing three wonderful institutions,
part of our community, that had some great gains this year
for our students, for our community --
Coconut Creek K-8 Academy of Excellence,
Tradewinds elementary, and Winston Park Elementary
for achieving an A school grade for the 2025, 2026 school year.
And we are going to have government affairs manager
to conduct the presentation.
>> Thank you.
Good evening Mayor and Commissioners.
Tonight we have the pleasure of recognizing three of our Coconut
Creek schools that improved their grades from A B
to an A for the 2025, 2026 school year.
Achieving an A rating is an important accomplishment.
It reflects the work happening throughout the entire school,
from the leadership of the principal to the dedication
of the teachers and the staff, to the hard work of the students
and support of their families.
This is an incredible achievement,
and we are very pleased to recognize our three
principals and the school teams tonight for their hard work
and success.
We are also very pleased to have Broward County public School
superintendent dr. Howard Hepburn
and our new North Regional Superintendent here tonight,
and I would like to invite both of them
to come forward and join us for a photo
as we recognize our three schools with a certificate
of recognition from the city.
If you could join us?
[Applause]
Up on the dias, yes.
Thank you.
Our first school is Coconut Creek K-8 Academy of Excellence,
led by principal read.
If you are here with your team, if you could come on up.
And mayor and commission, if you want,
we could take individual pictures for the schools,
if you want to come up for a photo.
Before I lose the mayor and commission,
our next school is Tradewinds Elementary School,
led by Dr. Elie.
[Background conversation]
And our last and final school is Winston Park Elementary
led by Principal O'Neal.
>> All right, very cool.
Thank you so much for leading that.
Congratulations, again, to you guys.
It's really awesome.
Very cool.
Don't leave, though, because your boss is about to present.
So don't walk out.
Don't leave.
Don't worry, Dr. Hepburn.
I will take notes if I see anyone leaving.
Now we are going to transition into a presentation
from Superintendent Dr. Howard Hepburn, chief of staff John
Sullivan, to provide an update on the secure the Next
Generation referendum renewal.
Dr. Hepburn, the floor is yours.
>> Thank you, and good evening.
I see the, butterfly Capitol world knows how to have fun.
Absolutely.
Thank you for having us.
Thank you for giving us just a moment
to talk about the next generation referendum.
As I said earlier, I saw some of the commission earlier,
the mayor, and also nice to see you, vice-mayor,
and the rest of the Commission.
Thank you for your continued partnership and support
of our schools.
We appreciate all of that, and the continued partnership
is what it takes to make the magic happen.
We will talk about some of that magic and our accomplishment.
I'm here with our Chief of Staff, Mr. John Sullivan.
We will tag team on the presentation.
Also, to make our lawyers happy, I just
want to inform everybody that we are here to educate and inform
and not to advocate.
I want to make sure you understand
what we are using our dollars for currently
and also what we plan to use the dollars
for in the future, if the referendum is to surpass.
I definitely want to talk about some of our accomplishments
and just recognize some wonderful individuals behind me,
our educators, that make the magic happen in our classroom.
We are A-rated back to back to back three-peat school district.
No D and F rate in any of our schools.
Our traditional, district-operated high school --
alternative schools and also charter schools equates
to a 91.4% graduation rate.
What that means for the public --
we really challenge our kids with rigorous coursework,
college-level coursework and high school where kids are
earning college credit before they graduate,
which equates to a lot of scholarship dollars, as well.
In order to be prepared for that,
we are actually exposing our middle school students
to a lot of high school level courses, as well in.
There's one accomplishment that we
have for the 2025, 2026 school year,
and that's the Cambridge District
of the year for large district.
There's only one large district in the nation that earned that
recognition this year -- during the 2025, 2026 year,
and that was Broward County public schools.
We beat out every large school district in the nation.
Absolutely.
Always want to remind the public of our skill.
We are a very large school district, sixth largest school
district in the nation, second largest school
district in the state, Miami-Dade being
the first largest in the state.
We have about 236,000 students, about 180 of those students are
in our district-operated schools.
The others are in our charter schools.
We have about 325 schools, and we have about 86 charter
schools, 27,000 employees, in the class of 2026 earned $617
million worth of scholarships.
That's the result of challenging our students in high school
and exposing them to rigorous coursework and college level
coursework in our schools.
It equates to a lot of scholarship dollars.
That is actually $200 million higher than the class of 2025.
Looking forward to seeing what the class of 2027
does and beat out the class of 2026.
No pressure, class of 2027.
Again, triple A rating for the past three years.
If you look at the bottom row, about four years ago,
we had our share of B and F schools and C schools,
and comparable when it came to A and B schools.
We have since demolished all of our D and F schools.
We have reduced those by about 100% three years ago.
We have increased our a --
A by over 130%.
That happens because of these guys,
right here, our principals, assistant principals, teachers,
the folks that are not in the room,
are the custodians, bus drivers, the people in our admin
buildings and cubicles, the hundreds of thousands
of volunteers across Broward County
and partnerships with cities such as the city of Coconut
Creek and all of our other partners across the county.
It takes truly a village to have these accomplishments.
These are some of the grades for your local schools
here in the city of Coconut Creek.
Just to recognize your A-rated elementary schools and your K
through 8 Academy.
With that -- y'all got me excited.
I've got to transfer it over to Mr. Sullivan who's
going to talk about all the things we
do with the dollars we receive locally here in Broward County.
>> He gets to talk about the accomplishments,
and I get to talk about taxes.
A fun.
Good evening.
John Sullivan, chief of Staff.
Thank you so much for the opportunity not only
to brief the commission, but your residents, as well.
The residents are used to seeing this
on the primary ballot since 2018.
We go every four years.
But statute changed, so now it's in the November ballot.
That's why you didn't see it this primary.
They will see it on the November 3rd ballot when they were
deciding whether or not to support us.
Again, this is a renewal of our existing referendum.
It is not a new tax.
It is a tax that exists today.
I'm sure everyone here in the audience, commission,
myself included, got our notices.
This is already on it.
This is for four years.
It would be impacting the 2027 and 2028 school year.
The referendum -- the new one would generate about $358
million across all of our schools,
and that includes our charter schools.
It really funds three buckets within the referendum,
which is teacher and staff compensation supplements --
that is our frontline workers, so not only our teachers,
but our bus drivers, custodial workers, cafeteria workers,
everyone who has an impact on our students,
including our site leaders, as well.
The second bucket is our school safety personnel.
We know the cities, including your city, partner with us,
and it is a financial burden to the city,
so do we appreciate that partnership.
On the onset of the original referendum back in 2018,
that contribution rate was about $55,000,
with the continuation of the referendums,
we were able to increase it to a current $119,000.
We hope to continue having those conversations on how to continue
to increase it, because we know it's a burden to the city's.
But we do -- cities.
But we do appreciate the partnership
and keeping all our schools safe.
The third and final bucket is the mental health personnel.
Again, not a new tax -- existing.
It is a renewal.
Just want to point that out again.
These are some of the items that it funds.
So currently com at the referendum funds $173 million
in our compensation supplements for teachers and eligible staff.
It funds over 393 school safety personnel and also about $1.7
million in software, including our panic buttons --
all our staff members have a panic button on them now.
It's critical.
It saves the seconds and connects to law enforcement
if they press it a certain number of times.
So it will fund security measures such as that
through the current referendum.
And then we fund about 224 mental health personnel.
So I won't go too much into what is a bond and referendum.
I did just want to spell out that the bond is
for our facilities.
Obviously, I don't have to tell anyone in the room,
there's been some negative press in that bond.
But the superintendent has done a good job
of closing out that program with the work delays.
This is separate and apart.
The referendum does not fund our facilities program.
That is the bond.
The referendum has been audited since the original back in 2018.
It has been found to be spent appropriately, according
to the ballot language.
I won't read the ballot language entirely,
just wanted to point out that this is the ballot language that
the voters will see when they decide whether or not to support
it on that November 3rd ballot.
The board has taken a vote, officially,
to allocate if the referendum was successful.
90% would go towards our compensation and 10%
for safety and mental health.
The referendum is really the only mechanism
that the board has to generate additional funds outside
of our state allocation.
We know that's not enough.
We are not unique.
Almost half the districts in the state of Florida
have referendums.
They are experiencing the same shortfalls as we have.
But the board and the superintendent
have taken action on our general funds
because we know we have to react to the reality of our declining
enrollment.
With that said, the board reduced 1000 positions
from district level.
So we were intentionally not to impact our schools.
That generates about $54 million in annual savings.
We also restructured our health care to our employees,
saving another $46 million, and closing seven schools.
That has generated about $100 million
in savings this year and annually,
but that really is just to deal with the shortfall
of the decline in enrollment that we continue to experience.
We lost about another 11,000 this school year, alone.
That is not unique to Broward schools.
Our neighbors are experiencing declining enrollment
in large numbers, and really, across the country,
as relates to large urban school districts.
What does this mean for the average homeowner in terms
of what they are assessed?
These are averages.
Again, if your house is worth more or less,
it will be a little different.
The average is about $418 annually or about $35 per month.
Condominium owners, it's about $230 a year or $19 a month.
That generates $358 million annually
through the course of the four-year referendum every year.
So what happens if the referendum doesn't pass?
So we would not be able to go through our general funds
to fund these items.
We are very close to our 3% requirement from the state.
We go below that, there is state intervention.
So our level of services as it relates
to compensation supplements, safety and security,
and mental health will be impacted.
We will continue to keep our schools safe,
but there will be difficult decisions
that the board will have to make.
I know that was a lot of information.
There's a QR code if your residents want
to learn more information, and there's a website
with more information.
We will take some questions.
Don't ask too hard questions, because my boss
is right behind me.
>> Is there anybody on the dais that had a question
for the team, or a comment?
Commissioner Railey?
>> Good evening.
Thanks for being here.
This is so important, and these are difficult times.
I think it's important that we actually
educate our residents on what happens if this doesn't pass.
All this is fine and well to tell them what will happen --
what could happen -- but I think they need specific details.
I think that's what -- actual examples of what would happen
in the classroom, what would happen to the teachers,
what would happen to the students.
I think, because it's so important to keep these funds
for our teachers -- right now, our daughter is a special Ed
teacher in New York --
has been for 23 years.
She can't come here because of the wages.
They make three, four times as much in New York.
To keep our quality teachers, I think
we need to keep up with the times.
Cost of living is through the roof.
We need our teachers to keep up with that.
They are the most important people in our children's lives,
in our future.
And it's so important. [ Applause]
Thank you.
You are.
God bless you.
I saw it in the classroom with her for three minutes and --
I sat in the classroom with her for three minutes,
and I said, see you, honey.
It's very important that they actually
know what would happen if this doesn't pass.
And thank you for what you do.
>> As it relates to the supplements currently,
on average, our teachers receive about $10,000 supplement
annually.
We know we can never pay them enough,
but that does make a huge difference.
Our neighbors to the south and north of us
have referendums with similar funding items.
So if they were able to provide that supplement or not, we
would be at a disadvantage, it would impact our ability
to really retain and improve, because our employees
have options to work in the Tri-County area.
>> Thank you, Commissioner.
Commissioner Rydell?
>> Thank you, mayor.
We have a lot of ladies here in blue
that I think this entire dais supports and I
think our selfless and what they do every day in the classroom.
The question I have is a little more unique.
This is obviously something I support,
but I guess the question is -- and I'm asking a strategic
question, just cards on the table.
You are putting a ballot referendum on, where we have
a property tax reform item on, where there's going to be
a general climate of saying no, saying no to this,
saying no to --
and the media that you guys have engaged in isn't good.
You are making cuts.
I mean, the list came out the past week that three,
for Coconut Creek schools are borderline in terms of their --
three, four coconut Creek schools are borderline in terms
of their enrollment.
I guess the question I have, to educate --
because this is something I support.
Teachers to the north and south make
more than the average teacher in our county.
I don't agree with that.
I don't know if that's true or not.
I guess the question I have for you --
not trying to be difficult -- is,
what do you want us to say with that narrative?
And I say it in a public forum, not trying to put either of you
on the spot, because I will make my position very clear.
I support this.
I support this unequivocally in terms
of supporting our teachers.
But we are in a climate that doesn't support it.
The headlines coming out of the school board
are school closings.
You're already cutting mental health professionals.
There's already a debate with SROs in the cities
and this big back and forth match with it.
I'm asking for you to educate me on that.
How do I and how do we, as elected officials and people
in this room, educate our neighbors,
when we are seeing a very contrary narrative publicly
to why we need to support that?
Now, I agree with your Powerpoint,
but I'm asking a very candid question
with a lot of active people in this room of saying,
we need this.
Educate me better because the public narrative
doesn't support this.
So change my mind, even though I'm with you,
but I'm just saying I think --
I have a tremendous amount of respect for you.
We know each other in.
I say it, because much like our dais is struggling with
amendment 3 and what to do with it with, educate,
not advocate --
I'm totally with you on that.
There's narratives coming out of downtown.
How do we combat that, and how do we better educate
our constituents?
That's a terribly difficult question.
>> It is a good question.
A lot of narratives out there that
are difficult to control with this type of media today.
I will simply state that, in order for us to continue
to provide the high quality instruction that our teachers
provide day in and day out, in order
for cities to celebrate changes in their communities
through their schools, it is important to invest
in the education of the students that are writing
the bicycles through your neighborhoods, that are riding
the scooters through your neighborhood, that
are in your parks, that are going through our K
through 12 system, having excellent outcomes,
creating outcomes that are pulling in money for themselves
through scholarships for their post-secondary dreams,
to go to colleges, wherever it may be,
to come back and pay it forward to the community
that they grew up in, to the communities that they
have attended schools in.
The only ability for us to do that is to support additional
opportunities to bring in revenue through local efforts.
-- so we continue to recruit and retain high quality educators,
such as the ones you see in the room.
Without it, that quality diminishes.
Our ability to retain and recruit teachers
like the ones who made the magic happen in these schools today
diminishes.
And it will impact households, and it will impact --
>> I think something extraordinarily important is,
listen, we have some crown jewels of Broward County
on Coconut Creek Parkway, in terms of some of our vocational
schools, as well as our other schools in.
I think our city and this commission
is invested in our schools more so than other cities have,
in terms of things that we invest in,
partnerships that we have.
I think that's something this commission --
I speak for myself -- will always continue to do.
But I say it from a point of advice.
You need to figure out a really creative way
to go against the grain on some of this, the salmon
swimming against the grain a little bit,
because there's a bad narrative.
Social media -- you're right.
We deal with the same thing.
Listen, I support any efforts.
I will educate in any of your efforts.
Just a moment of clarity in a room full of people --
that's the hardest thing to come forward on some of these
narratives that you're going to have people in the ballot box
making the wrong decision for our community.
I'm happy to always be a partner with you.
I'm happy to always be a partner and advocate for our teachers.
But I think it starts -- and I love that we have 15 teachers
here.
It starts with them, too.
They need to educate and advocate -- educate --
the lawyers -- and I say it, and I commend you for the effort
of going to all these cities and engaging.
I'm not going to be a commissioner that's
going to yell at you, because it's wrong.
We have to invest in our future and.
I thank you for being here.
Thank you for your presentation, at least for me.
I want to speak for the whole commission.
This is real, and this is significant.
>> Commissioner Brodie?
>> There's a lot of things people don't know.
My mom was actually a teacher back
in San Diego, which sounds great,
unless you happen to be her son in her class.
The one year I didn't get away with anything.
So it's always a soft spot when we start talking about teachers,
and I'm going to tell you, for me,
the education system, the number one thing
we should be talking about besides the kids
is, what are we paying the teachers?
We could talk about all this great stuff,
but unless there is a real raise in the lap of these teachers,
to make sure that we are continuing to get these As
and continuing the top notch schools that we keep bragging
about, it's going to start with pay,
and it's going to end with pay.
We've got to make sure that that's what we're advocating
for, because all of us should be advocating -- every parent,
every teacher, every principal, everybody on this dais should be
saying, we need to make sure that they are getting paid to be
As, because they are turning out A situations.
We can talk about this presentation -- in fact,
I asked for a copy of it because I was impressed by the numbers.
But the reality of it is, let's make sure we pay our teachers.
That should be our number one thing.
[Applause]
>> Commissioner Welch?
>> I don't want to repeat what's already been said,
but I do think the devil is in the details,
and just like how we are tasked with educating on amendment 3,
I think the examples -- because you and I talked at lunch over
an example on amendment 3, of what would clearly make it
impressive to people.
If they call 911 and there has been
a reduction in our fire/rescue that
is going to delay time or the dispatchers delay time
in the responders getting there is
an example of what could happen if we pass amendment 3.
And I think that was a lightbulb to me.
I'm hoping that it resurrects some examples, like Commissioner
Railey said, that will make people snap and think
twice about voting this referendum down.
That's all I'm saying.
You came up with a great example for me.
I wish I could have come up with a great example for you.
But we love our teachers.
We love our schools.
And we are very proud of what they have done here.
So thank you.
Thank you for delivering the tough message.
>> No, I think what everybody says up here is so true.
Broward County is the largest employer in the county?
>> I think so.
>> Okay.
There's a lot more people than just teachers.
There's clerical.
There's cafeteria workers.
There's bus drivers.
There's custodians.
Those people are getting a piece of this, am I correct?
That, I think, also -- assistant principals, as well --
that's something that I think needs to be conveyed, as well.
Teachers obviously spend the most time with our students,
but there is such supporting characters around them
that make that building tick.
It always says, teachers and certain staff, or some staff.
I think people need to understand what that staff is.
It's everyone.
It's everybody that makes that school go round.
You've got my full support.
I will do what I can, always, to help you guys out.
I used to work for you.
I'm all in.
I appreciate you guys coming here and taking the time.
It seems like I spent all day with you now.
We had lunch together.
It was a great time.
But no, thanks for being here.
What I would like is, if possible,
maybe come back in the second semester and give us an update.
I think it's so important to have connection with you guys
and just, we'd love to have you come back again,
and maybe a second semester roundup
would be fun, if you guys are into it.
Commissioner Rydell?
>> I would just ask whatever educational materials,
I would ask you to share with our PIO,
so we have the ability --
I think that's an important aspect.
Whatever materials you are doing,
that's something educationally we have the ability to push out
as well, to educate, so I'd ask you --
so share with us any of that educational --
and we engage in an educational campaign with our partners.
>> Absolutely.
Thanks, gentlemen.
We really appreciate your time tonight.
[Applause]
And Bernadette, we can look for something
for the second semester?
You'll reach out to them?
Thank you so much.
We appreciate it.
All right, let's keep it moving.
We've got some more celebrating.
We have a presentation recognizing the 2026 Coconut
Creek Little League 12U All-Star Team.
[Applause]
For outstanding achievement and stellar representation
of the Coconut Creek community -- you guys have been patient.
You've been patient, and now the time is yours.
We'll have Enrique Castro, parks and rec superintendent,
Andrew Saint Remy, parks and rec supervisor,
who will conduct this presentation for us.
Congratulations, gentlemen.
It's all about you now.
Congratulations.
Let's see what they got for you.
>> Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, commissioners.
My name is Andrew Saint Remy.
I'm the park supervisor.
Tonight not only do we want to recognize the 12U Little League
all star team, but congratulate them on their tremendous
accomplishment.
The city of Coconut Creek proudly recognizes the 2026
Coconut Creek Little League 12U All Star team for its
outstanding achievement and exceptional representation
of our community.
The team has made history by advancing further in tournament
play than any Coconut Creek Little League team since 2018,
demonstrating dedication teamwork, perseverance,
and sportsmanship, led by manager Rick and coaches
Daniel, Roberto, the team's success
reflects years of hard work, player development,
and the unwavering support of families, volunteers,
and the Coconut Creek community.
The city of Coconut Creek congratulates this year's 12U
all star team on its historic tournament run and wishes
the players, coaches, and families continued success
as they proudly represent our community.
Great job, guys.
[Applause]
We ask you guys to come on down to be recognized.
>> All right.
More celebrating.
The crowd is getting smaller, you know?
All right.
But just because the crowd is getting smaller
doesn't mean the excitement is not going to still be here.
When we celebrate our third quarter employee milestone
anniversaries for the fiscal year of 2026,
I'm going to introduce our director Pam Kershaw who
will conduct our presentation.
What's up, Pam?
>> Good evening.
Good evening, everybody.
This is exciting.
I'm very honored to recognize a group of employees
who have celebrated milestone years of service
during the past quarter.
Several of them are here tonight.
If you are here, when I say your name,
if you would please hold up your sign,
stand up, wave so we can recognize you,
that would be awesome.
Our first group of employees has celebrated
five years of service.
Two of them are here, very near and dear to my heart,
from the Human Resource and Risk Management Department,
our benefits Program Manager Leticia and HR business partner
Frank. [
Applause]
The next few couldn't make it, but from resilient design
and development, Tamara, from finance, Eric,
from police department, Tara, and from utilities
and engineering, Ernest.
Those are our five year employees.
[Applause]
We have one employee celebrating ten years of service,
and he is here tonight, our special events planner Leo.
[Applause]
We have two employees who celebrated 15 years of service.
One of them is here tonight.
We have our public works superintendent, John.
[Applause]
And he could not be here tonight,
but police Sergeant Roger Hall.
[Applause]
We ahve -- have two employees who celebrated 20 years
of service --
Esther -- and we have police officer Josh Bailey.
[Applause]
Lastly, we had three employees celebrate 25 years of service.
One is actually a recent retiree,
but she did celebrate her 25 years,
and we will be celebrating her next month, I understand, here.
That was police Lieutenant Brandy Delvecchio.
And we have our deputy city manager, Scott.
And our facilities maintenance supervisor, John.
[Applause]
John is here with his beautiful wife and kids.
Look what a beautiful family they are right there.
If you guys could all come up with your years of service sign,
we'd love to take a picture, please.
[Applause]
From five years up to 25 years.
It's a good-looking group.
Thank you all for your years of service.
Super fun.
All right we are now going to transition
to a proclamation recognizing September 2026 as Hunger Action
Month.
And reading this tonight is our very own commissioner Welch.
She will read it into the record and present it --
from feeding South Florida.
Please tell me I said that right.
Commissioner, it's all you.
>> Thank you, and thank you for being here.
Where hunger affects nearly 1 million people in South Florida
and whereas ensuring that food is accessible
should not be an impossible challenge for our community,
and whereas a lack of access to enough nutritious food
can have serious consequences on community health and well-being,
and whereas, since 1981, Feeding South Florida has worked
to end hunger in Coconut Creek by providing
our community in need with immediate access
to nutritious food, and whereas Feeding South Florida leads
hunger and poverty advocacy efforts in our community,
while improving lives through programing and education
that provides economic growth and overall well-being,
and whereas the city of Coconut Creek
supports the efforts from feeding South
Florida, so that together,
we can achieve a hunger-free South Florida
where those in need transitioned from dependency
to self-sufficiency.
Therefore be it resolved that the city of Coconut Creek
hereby proclaim September 2026 as Hunger Action Month.
In the city of Coconut Creek to raise awareness of hunger
in South Florida and encourage the community to take action
to end hunger in our community.
It is signed by the mayor and the Commission
and attested by our City Clerk.
Thank you very much.
[Applause]
>> You are more than welcome to comment if you wanted to say
something -- you're good?
We are going to move on to our next proclamation,
a proclamation recognizing September 14th through the 20th
2026 as National Diaper Need Awareness Week.
Chosen to read this proclamation tonight was Commissioner Rydell.
He will read into the record and present
it to Angie from the Greater Fort Lauderdale Diaper Bank.
Where are you?
Hey.
>> I remembered last year, at City Hall, where I came in --
I'm surprised you're not reading the proclamation.
You had a car full of diapers, and you were driving down
to Fort Lauderdale.
I want to commend you for that personal donation.
If you want, I will let you read it.
I was surprised because I know you have a kid.
A lot of diapers.
I commend you for your diaper donation.
Whereas diaper need, the condition of not being
able to afford a sufficient supply of clean diapers,
can affect the health and well-being of children
and their families, and whereas national surveys and research
studies report that nearly 1 in 2 families
struggle with diaper need, 48% of families
delay changing a diaper to extend the available supply,
and whereas access to adequate daily
or weekly supply of diapers is often required
for babies and toddlers to attend
childcare programs and quality early education programs
and enable children to thrive, parents to work,
whereas parents coping with diaper
need report missing an average of five days
a month due to the lack of diapers,
impeding their ability to maintain steady employment,
and whereas diaper banks serve as a vital resource
for improving the health well-being,
strengthening family, economic security,
and to the well-being and productivity of our community,
and whereas last year, the Fort Lauderdale Diaper Bank served 52
Coconut Creek residents in case management delivery services
and provided diapers to approximately 43 residents
monthly in its distribution pantries and collaborated with
community partners, contributing 200,000 diapers to our community
alone, whereas the people of Coconut Creek recognized diaper
need as a public health issue, and addressing diaper need can
lead to economic opportunity for families, communities,
and improved health for children,
thus ensuring all children and families
have access to the basic necessities required to thrive
and reach their full potential.
Therefore, be it resolved that the City Commission
in the City of Coconut Creek proclaims
the week as national diaper need awareness.
The city of Coconut Creek, in gratitude to our area diaper
banks and their community partners
in their steadfast commitment to support children and families
in the community, signed by the mayor, the Vice mayor,
commission, and attested to by the city clerk.
I look forward to Angie coming up
so I can present it and ask that the mayor, whose donation was
significant last year, come and present.
>> On behalf of the greater Fort Lauderdale diaper bank,
I'm thrilled to accept this proclamation as we mark our 10th
year of serving our community.
The greater Fort Lauderdale Diaper Bank
holds monthly distributions for both infants and adults
on the first Thursday of each month.
We partner with various social service organizations
across different cities and communities
to help bridge the diaper gap.
I'm pleased to announce that this year we are excited to host
our second gala to celebrate and dedicate the 10th year
of service.
If anyone is interested in contributing, donating,
attending, participating, volunteering,
or learning more about these opportunities,
please check our website .
On behalf of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Diaper Bank,
thank you so much for the proclamation.
[Applause]
>> Commissioner, anything else to say?
No problem.
As noted at the beginning of the meeting, agenda item number
9 regarding the resilient Broward grant program
has been removed from tonight's agenda and will not be heard.
We are now going to transition to a presentation
by Greg Parks and Kevin Mullen regarding
updates on the school zone safety Enforcement program.
Greg Parks and Community Relations Vice President Kevin
Millan will make the presentation.
Good evening, gentlemen.
Microphone.
There you go.
All yours.
>> Good evening, mayor, commissioners, manager,
and our great police partners who are here.
Always enjoy coming here.
I do this around the country, and you guys definitely
have the most fun.
Appreciate that.
It is a great pleasure to be here.
We worked on this for a number of months now,
and we are pleased to say, already,
we are achieving the results we have
seen around the country and other communities
in South Florida.
We did a 60 day period, which is double the standard.
I congratulate you on that.
You had a very thorough public awareness campaign
--PSAs, fliers for the kids.
The word is out.
You guys have done a great job on that.
Since the Warning period, we've been operational about a month
with citations.
Already in that short period, violations are down 90%
from the test study that we did for your ordinance to establish
the height and safety risk.
68% of the violators are not residents of Coconut Creek.
They are people that are using your resources
and endangering your kids.
Their fine is actually going back in,
$12 of it, to the schools, interestingly enough,
as a segue of that.
The program is working.
Five of the school zones are completed.
The remaining ten are at Broward County for permitting.
Broward County is a little more methodical
in permitting than the city staff, but while I'm in town
I'm actually going to go over there tomorrow.
We've had plans in.
They've been going back and forth for comments.
Ever optimistic it will be resolved shortly.
Our team is working hard on it.
Once that is done, probably another 4 to 6 weeks
receiving the permits, because they are solar,
which we are proud of, as well.
The installation can be expedited.
It's been a while.
It's been a process.
We are pleased with the results.
We are very pleased with our partnership.
We appreciate you all.
I'm Greg Parks, senior Vice president of RedSpeed.
And Kevin Millan is actually your person on the ground here.
If you have any questions, we'd obviously
be pleased to answer those.
>> We will work our way down.
>> Greg, thank you for coming.
Just kind of a criticism --
I don't like getting something on the dais
that I haven't had before.
Not so cool, candidly.
He wants to address it.
I want you to address the subsections and categories
on page 3 and 4 in terms of your headers.
What you just handed me, I just want
you to address how you are sub-categorizing your top bar.
I would have had this information before,
but again, you just gave it to me.
I'm going to ask you to work through your categories.
I'm seeing an NOB category.
I could assume that, just because of what
I do for a living.
But I'd like you to work through your numbers
for the public, whoever's going to do it.
>> I'll take care of it.
Working violations -- you see the amount of violations that
are imported into the system.
The police review Q, which is -- queue,
which are violations that are going to go to the police
department to be reviewed.
Then you have dismissals, so if there's
something wrong with that violation,
it will be dismissed through that review process.
Then you have your actual notice of violations.
Those are actual good violations or enforcement actions
that are sent out, approved by the police department,
and mailed out to the violators.
Then you have the paid violations.
UTC-eligible, meaning they have not taken any action.
They come back into the queue, and they
are eligible to be issued a uniformed traffic citation.
And then you have your UTCs, which is your uniformed traffic
citations.
Those were the citations that were issued
for people that took no action.
>> I'm just going to take your numbers,
because I'm not a math guy.
I'm a lawyer.
You've got 436 working violations.
The police queued 16.
You dismissed 16.
You had 153 paid.
I'm doing ballpark math that you have over 200 outstanding,
and then you UTCed 86.
Mathematically speaking, I need to understand it.
You've got 200 missing.
Explain that to me.
>> This is always -- unfortunately,
the ball is always moving.
We've got a lot of violations out there
that people have not paid.
They have not come back to be UTC-eligible.
They may have requested a hearing, because that's not
reflected here, also.
>>That, to me, is a little troubling,
and I will tell you why.
If we are looking and doing our due diligence as a municipality,
I want the numbers to add up.
We just got budget.
The budget doesn't balance, we are not doing our jobs
on the city commission.
Your numbers don't add up.
That's a red flag to me, in general.
Now you just said, well, we don't show that.
And again, I'm looking at this --
I'd love for you to come back for a presentation.
I appreciate what you've done in the city
and I appreciate the concept of it.
I know our police department supports it.
But I'm looking at data right now that doesn't correlate.
Logically, to me, that's an issue, because like 50%
is out there.
I understood this when we approved your contract.
Pretty simple.
You have a working violation.
Clearly, our police department has dismissed 16
for one reason or another.
All good with that.
But you have 404 outstanding.
You have 153, your notice of violation --
you are shifting it to a UTC or traffic violation that will go
into the system.
But there's nothing there.
So are we missing it in terms of the time frame?
Because your notice of violation has a time frame on it, agreed?
If you don't pay the $100 or whatever it is -- it's $100.
I thought it was -- within a delineated time frame,
it will go to traffic violation.
Right?
>> That's a good question.
Can I address that?
Some of these could be as recently as yesterday.
The alleged violator has 30 days plus a grace period to pay.
You've only been live for 20 days.
None of these are due, even, yet.
>> If that's the answer, then I'm okay with that.
I'm good with that.
The lack of information is just something --
>> I do like coming here, and we will come after a larger sample
size, 90 days, 120 days.
>> Obviously I will defer to all of my colleagues.
Are you good coming back in, like, November?
>> You direct us to be here.
We'll be here.
>> That's what I'm good with.
Your preliminary data, what you are showing
is great, because it's about school safety,
although everyone on social media
thinks it's a lot more than that.
But I don't want to address social media.
>> The safety results are incontrovertible.
>> Listen, it's all good.
I have thick skin.
But complete data sets, and the next presentation we get,
understanding that it's due, I'd like
to see complete number data in terms
of accounting for everything.
I'm picking one school section.
If we are talking 436, give me the full working numbers
of the 436 to see where they're at.
That's all I'm asking for, understanding that we are
so quick, and we delayed this -- and we did it right.
You guys were good partners in terms of having a large Warning
period.
The police department, in conjunction with you,
did a great rollout.
We had a painstaking rollout of this.
I just want complete data.
I'd love to see you back in November.
That's all I have.
>> Thank you.
No, I totally agree.
I asked the city manager in my agenda review
that this must be presented to us before the meeting.
And I meant like a day or so before.
The headings -- I totally agree.
We are not police talk.
We are not RedSpeed violation talk.
They definitely need to be spelled out as to what they are
--
NOV, notice a violation -- it makes sense.
But it needs to be where anyone that is reading it
could understand what the numbers are below that.
I still need to understand -- you said that there were ten
permits still with the county.
But we have heard that for a while now.
Where are those locations that the permits are missing?
>> It's in their handout, which you just received --
County roads.
>> What school locations?
So it's Monarch and Lion's Creek?
>> I think it's Tradewinds elementary,
it's monarch high school, Winston Park elementary,
coconut Creek high school, and Dave Thomas educational center,
Atlantic technical College.
>> So which ones are active?
you have active at Tradewinds Elementary
School on Johnson Road.
You have Winston Park Elementary School on Northwest 39th Avenue.
And you have Coconut Creek High School on Northwest 15th Street,
which are all city roads.
>> And the rest are not live?
>> Right, because they are on the county right of way,
and they haven't approved the permits as of yet.
>> But if that's an ongoing issue,
is there a way to escalate that?
Are we able to help escalate that permitting process?
>> I know that our engineer had last contact with the county
on August 13th.
And we are due to have some answer from the county
by September 1st.
>> Because we thought the Warning periods were going to be
over before the end of last school year and then all live
beginning this school year.
That's what the communication has been.
>> To directly answer your question -- we appreciate it --
certainly if you are willing to call your colleague
at the county -- obviously, we are doing all we can.
Our interests are 100% aligned.
>> Greg, we have a colleague from the county here.
He's two rows behind you.
He's hiding.
But --
>> I don't think there's any need to hide.
They are good partners.
>> I mean, Commissioner?
>> Let's get back to what you presented here tonight.
You heard it loud and clear.
We wanted to see the data.
We've been waiting for the data.
But we would like to get it in enough time
to where we are not just reviewing it.
>> We absolutely understand, and we apologize.
>> I heard Commissioner Rydell suggest November.
I would hope that, by then, we have
permits in place and better identified data,
and look forward to that.
I mean, I like that at least some of the measures
have slowed some people down significantly,
even if they aren't live.
They think they're live.
That's a good thing, if it helps one person stay safe.
But we really want to see all of them live and the correct data
to identify the missing gaps in the numbers.
>> The data is correct.
We need to label it better and present it --
>> We don't know where the numbers that are missing are
right now.
Thank you.
>> Good evening.
Thanks for being here.
I just have a quick question about the dates.
So May 22nd -- and at the end of the school year,
the cameras went dark, right?
They weren't operating, correct?
>> They only operate on days that classes are in place.
>> So they were operating when there were only special classes?
>> Not in summer school, by statute,
but it is normal year and structural classes during
the school day.
>> So they were dark this summer?
Okay.
We are saying that, since school started, we've issued 436?
>> That's about ten a day, per camera.
>> Per camera --
I got you.
When you look at it that way, it doesn't seem so significant,
but it is.
436 violations in a very short time.
>> This is all at no taxpayer expense,
actually helping fund the schools, which I talked about.
>> I know, but we don't want the violations.
We want them slowing down.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Look forward to the next report.
>> All right, so I'm going to harp on a little bit what
Commissioner Welch said.
I'm not going to be as polite.
What are the issues that we are talking about at the county
level?
Because we get permits from the county all the time.
We pass this almost two years ago, now.
For two years to get permits for something so simple --
I'm at a loss to what was going on for us not to get the --
for you not to get those permits.
And why haven't you reached out to us for help?
You thought it was a county issue within the last 12 months.
I'm kind of at a loss.
What was the gap there in communication
of not contacting us to step in after almost two
years of being approved?
>> I appreciate the question.
The county -- they are good to work with,
and we're never going to blame anything on the county.
It's our responsibility.
But the rules have changed a number of times --
a license agreement which was brought in midstream.
There's been design change requirements, so many feet
inside.
There's been a number of changes that the county
has made that we've had to start over in doing the permits.
That's certainly their prerogative.
We're not complaining.
We're not blaming anybody.
But those are the facts of life.
Can we do better?
Of course.
>> Let me ask you something.
How many cities are you in in Broward County?
>> 5 or 6.
>> Those 5 or 6, are you having the same problems,
or it's just Coconut Creek having the problem?
>> It's the county.
>> I'm asking directly that question.
We are having this problem, or in general, you
are having the problem?
>> The process is not isolated to Coconut Creek.
>> That's what I'm asking.
In Deerfield, are they having the same problem
getting them installed as we are in Coconut Creek?
>> For county roads, that is the process.
>> So you're saying --
I'm just getting circles here.
>> That's not my intention.
I'll try to clarify.
>> 12 months to get a simple camera on a pole seems a little
bit -- a little long in the tooth for me to sit here and go,
well, understanding I built in this county --
I built in all the counties in Florida.
A year to get something so simple to be installed --
I'm just at a loss.
To be honest with you, I was hoping
that we would be full fledged by the time we started
this school year, since we missed last year's, then
at the end of the year, thinking we had 4 or 5 cameras rolling
that we would be in the better spot at the beginning
of this year when the chaos happens.
Yeah, I like the idea that we got 400 some odd tickets,
but you are sitting there saying it's dropped 90% by the survey.
How is that possible when ten of the cameras aren't even working?
So you were saying traffic has dropped 90% --
it doesn't make sense because not all the cameras are up.
How do you know that's a true statement?
>> We are using basic statistics, apples to apples,
the cameras that are active, where they were to where they
are now.
>> You're basing a 90% drop in tickets on four cameras?
>> Five.
>> So technically, that's not technically true.
You're probably a 30% down because the other cameras aren't
up.
>> The operational cameras.
>> That's probably something you need to put a better footnote
in of, the five cameras operational, in the five areas,
it's dropped 90%.
Is that what you're trying to say?
>> That is what I'm saying.
We thought that was an inference --
>> That's a little misleading.
>> I disagree with that.
What I was going to offer up is, for the next time
in the interim, we can document the county process, what
has changed, and what we have done to try to address it.
I appreciate that and --
>> I thought when you came here tonight you were going to have
the details of what happened to make this delayed.
I guess we will wait until November to get those details.
>> We can certainly provide that well in advance of November.
>> I appreciate that.
>> We loved this when it happened.
We were very excited about it.
The residents trust us to make the right decision.
When things aren't going as advertised,
they don't go to you.
They don't go to them.
They come to us.
We have to answer.
We have to say, we promised you this two years ago,
one year ago.
We said in August we were going to be fully functional.
And now, honestly, when these other cameras come up
and running, I feel like we need to do like another educational
campaign, because there's such a lapse and a gap between when we
have them operate, when they start operating, whatever,
because it's very --
yeah.
What were you going to say?
>> I was actually going to volunteer that.
You beat me to that.
It's a great idea.
We're more than willing to do that.
We think that's an excellent idea.
If we are directed, we will enthusiastically do that.
>> Cool.
I I think once everything is up and running,
hopefully we are to the races.
But there have been lots of hurdles and obstacles
in order to get there.
I don't know if it's --
I think the vice mayor was saying, is it the county?
Is it us?
Is it you?
>> It's not you all.
>> We appreciate that.
I didn't think it was, because we have
the best staff in the world.
I mean, that's a fact.
I'm just trying to understand when
we will be fully functional.
So are we going to say, we are going
to be fully functional in second semester January,
or are we going to be fully functional in August 2027?
What is your forecast?
>> Well in advance of the beginning of the second
semester.
>> You are thinking before Christmas and Hanukkah?
>> Absolutely.
>> All right.
I hope that that's accurate.
And I hope, as we are getting ready to roll out,
we communicate with these schools that it's going
to impact and those parents and everybody participating,
because we love -- we were very supportive of this idea.
We built a partnership.
We want to make sure that our residents aren't
going to be blindsided.
You know what I'm saying.
Commissioner Rydell?
>> With all due respect --
I hate saying that because it's kind
of like it starts as an insult. I'm not saying it like that.
He's not here in this role.
We have Senator Geller here.
He's a Broward County commissioner.
I know we have a land use lawyer who has worked on a Main Street
project that we've moved mountains
to get a traffic light pushed forward.
I would hope you engage us, because we have relationships,
not only as a city.
Our police department -- if there's an issue --
I know you're working with our chief,
and Lieutenant Dingus is here.
Use us, because we have very strong relationships
with Broward County.
If there is an issue, we have the ability
as a commission to advocate.
I'm not putting Steve on the spot who's behind you --
he's not here in that role.
But merit will help us move mountains on anything,
whether it's a traffic light, an engineering issue.
Please use us in that respect.
>> We hear you loud and clear.
We will.
>> Okay.
Anything else from the dais?
All right.
So when are they coming back?
When did you say, November?
Let's do the Halloween meeting, because we are all
going to be dressed up, right?
>> I would suggest we ask Mr. Parks to do a presentation
on the second Thursday of November.
That would be my --
>> It will be our only November meeting.
But that's not that one.
It's the first meeting in November.
>> I'm asking for the second Thursday, our only --
second Thursday of November.
>> Right, our first meeting of the month.
Thanks, gentlemen.
>> Thank you all.
Appreciate it.
>> All right.
So we will now have input from the public on Nonagenda
or consent agenda items.
I remind everyone wishing to speak that all comments must
pertain to city business.
Respect and proper decorum will be maintained.
Behavior that disrupts the orderly conduct of this meeting,
such as clapping, shouting, booing, and cheering,
is not permitted.
Any person who violates the rules will be subject to removal
from the commission chambers.
As a reminder, all comments must pertain to city business.
When you come forward to speak, please unmute the microphone
and state your name and address clearly for the record,
and mute the microphone when you are done speaking.
City clerk, who have we got tonight?
>> No one has signed in to speak on our public input this
evening, mayor.
>> Thank you, sir.
All right, is there anyone who would
like to provide input on nonagenda or consent agenda
items?
Hello, sir.
Come on down.
Come on down, and please state your name, your address.
>> Joe, 2401 Antigua Circle, Whitmore.
I wasn't planning on coming up here.
It's my first time really sitting in.
Really a lot of wonderful ideas.
I like the way you guys work.
Thank you all -- and neighbors.
I wear hearing aids, so maybe I missed something.
But you were talking about education and the problem --
my wife happens to be a retired teacher.
I know pay was an issue.
Maybe you guys are already doing this, but I grew up in Philly,
and we had a work program.
So in high school, if you were majoring
in auto mechanics or accounting or whatever it was,
you could take half the day, a certain amount of time
three days a week, get a job, not get paid, but get a credit.
Just an idea.
It's not why I came here, but listening to everything,
I thought it might be appropriate.
>> Thank you so much.
We appreciate it.
I wish you would have been here when the superintendent --
said that to the superintendent.
>> Well, it wasn't --
>> No problem.
Thank you for coming.
All right, come on down.
>> I thought I would respond just briefly on the school
stuff.
>> Name and address, please.
>> I'm Broward County Commissioner Steve Geller --
I'm Senator Steve Geller, currently Broward County
commissioner, and I'm speaking now only in response
to the issue that you raised, so I'm
wearing my county commissioner hat now,
which is why I'm speaking now instead of later on this.
I was the sponsor at Broward County of the ordinance that
created the school cameras.
I agree with you all.
It indicated to us also that we were
supposed to have everything up and running
by the time school started.
I had heard no complaints.
I know I drive either Sheridan Street or Nob Hill every day
on my way to work.
I will check.
Nobody has contacted me.
I will check and report back, I guess, to you, Mr. Mayor,
or through your city manager.
I will check tomorrow.
But I will tell you, wearing my other hat, as a zoning and land
use lawyer, I'm frequently frustrated
by how long it takes to get permits
through cities and counties.
I've instructed the county -- it's one of the biggest
complaints that I get as an elected official since the 1980s
has always been, it takes too long to get anything through
government.
I know you have heard the same thing.
I have heard the same thing.
I have instructed our county staff to try and expedite them.
I guarantee you that you have done the same thing here
in the city.
And it still frustrates people how long
it takes to get permits.
If there's any questions, I'm happy to answer them.
If not, you will see me again in 15 minutes
wearing a different hat.
Anything?
>> Thank you, sir.
15 minutes is ambitious.
>> I was hopeful.
>> But we will see.
We'll see.
All right, is there anybody else who
would like to provide input on Nonagenda or consent items?
Thank you.
Consent agenda items 11 through 14,
a motion to cancel the November 2006 and December regular City
Commission meetings.
12, resolution 2026-122, resolution accepting the Florida
Department of Transportation Fiscal Year 2026,
2027 pedestrian and bicycle safety high visibility education
and Enforcement campaign sub grant in the amount of $5,000
and authorizing the City Manager to execute the sub grant
agreement with the Institute of Police Technology and Management
for Pedestrian and Bicycle Safety Education
and Enforcement, resolution 2026-123,
resolution authorizing the City manager or designee to execute
amendment number one to the agreement with Florida Tours LLC
for the Charter Bus Transportation Services
to approve a fuel charge adjustment to the contracted
hourly rate pursuant to IFB 11 --
a resolution authorizing the City manager or designee
to approve a change ordering the amount of $22,083.76 to kilowatt
electric company for additional electrical work for the City
Hall Lighting improvement project.
Are there any items the Commission wishes to pull?
>> Pull 11.
>> Pull 14.
>> We are pulling 11 --
>> And move consent without those items.
>> We are pulling 11 and 14, and we are having a motion
and second by Commissioner Rydell and Commissioner Welch
to approve the remaining consent items 12 and 13.
Clerk, please call the role for 12 and 13.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Okay, we are now going to hear from Commissioner Rydell
on pulling number 11.
>> I have no problem canceling the meetings,
but this is one of those, based on how our charter reads,
meetings traditionally fall in Thanksgiving week and Christmas
week.
I would direct our city manager that if there are any
outstanding items or issues that need to be addressed before
the end of the year --
I know in previous years, we had an item that we had to have
a special meeting for -- obviously,
I know we all support it.
We will say it if there needs to be
a special meeting the first week of December
or the third week of November regarding
outstanding fiscal year items, I'm available for any of that.
That's the only thing I wanted to say.
Thank you, mayor.
>> Super.
I think the whole commission is on board with that.
Whenever you need to meet with us, we will be there.
Number 14, to Commissioner Welch?
Motion to second number 11?
Now number 14?
Call the roll for 11.
Thank you.
>> (Calling roll)
>> All right, Commissioner Welch, what you got?
Oh, you pulled it.
I'm sorry.
Apologies.
>> No worries.
>> Commissioner Railey?
>> I'm sorry, city manager, would you please explain why
there is a work change order, when we are talking about
adjusting the lights that are too bright?
I was under the impression that, when I read the original
contract, that they would be here to --
I'm sorry -- that it was in their hands.
They are the professionals.
They know exactly what we needed,
what the lighting situation is.
It seems that this work change order
is because the lights are too bright, and we need dimmers now.
>> We did not do an initial photometric study to determine
the exact wattage of the bulbs, what we were going to do in.
That's a very expensive option.
We did a direct replacement is what we did.
As fixtures degrade, they also lose a little bit
of their brightness.
When we installed the new LED fixtures,
they are a little brighter.
There's some settings on them.
Some can be adjusted.
Also, in some parts of the open office area,
some people actually kept their lights off.
We did an in-house study with Kilowatt.
We did not hire an engineering firm
to do this because it was a lot cheaper.
We were able to survey the existing lights.
Along the windows, because of the daylight coming in calm
at the average light is a little too bright
than what's recommended for those tasks.
Those are the areas we are installing the dimmers.
There was also a request from the staff --
because we replaced lights in their current location .
There was one storage space, and they requested some more
lightings, because the (Indiscernible),
depending on their position, they block lights.
They're very tall.
That, we didn't know about ahead of time,
so that's one of the changes.
There's another dimmer issue compatibility --
the greeting area, the main entrance where you go in.
We are having to change out and put a dimmer there in.
>> So the original price reflected that?
>> The original price was just based on a direct replacement.
We actually budgeted a lot more for this job.
I think we budgeted $110,000.
So going in a step fashion, if we need to make changes,
we still come out ahead.
>> Thank you.
That answers my questions.
>> Ready to move this?
>> Move it.
>> Second.
>> Please call the role for 14.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Okay, to our regular agenda.
Resolution 2026-138, resolution authorizing the mayor
or designee to execute the first agreement with 47 Johnson Road
LLC, located at 47 Johnson Road suite eight,
Coconut Creek Florida, within the Lyons Tech.
Finance Department,
>> Good evening everyone.
This is the First Amendment to the city's lease for the fire,
rescue Administration office is located at 4701 Johnson Road.
As you may recall comment the city
has occupied this space since 2022 as a temporary office
space for the fire Rescue Administration
while we move forward with building the new fire
station 113.
The current lease expires September 30th of 2027,
and it does include an option for an additional five year
term.
As part of the negotiations with the landlord,
we were able to extend the term from 60 months to 64 months with
the first four months of the extension provided at --
the extension would therefore run from October 1st 2027
through January of -- while we anticipate fire administration
moving into the new fire facility before the end
of the term, the additional time provides flexibility
for the city as we move forward with the police department
improvements.
During those planned improvements,
we anticipate using this space temporarily
for the police department and for any staff accommodations.
Maintaining the space provides an important part
of that transition, it helps us minimize disruption
while renovations for both projects are underway.
Frank, the commercial real estate
broker who assisted with this lease,
had hoped to attend tonight, but unfortunately
was unable to do so, so he does send his regards.
We also looked at --
I'm sorry, we looked at the comparable office leases
within the area and found that the proposed
lease rate that we have is consistent with the market.
So staff does recommend approving this First Amendment,
and I'm happy to answer any questions you have.
Thank you.
>> Doesn't look like we have any questions.
City Clerk, is there any members of the public
that have signed up to speak?
>> Not at this time.
>> Is there anyone else who is present who would like to speak?
Okay.
If there are no further questions or comments,
please call the roll for item 15.
>> Move it.
>> Second.
>> We already did the motion and the second.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Thank you.
A resolution approving the Martinique Village II-C
Condominium association application
for matching grant funds from the Neighborhood Enhancement
Grant program.
Is there a motion to second?
>> Second.
>> You heard that, city manager?
Yes, Commissioner, you have something?
>> Yes.
Because of my relationship with the Wynmoor community Council,
I would like to recuse myself from the next three items,
actually.
>> Okay, super.
>> You won't forget me outside, right?
>> No, we will not.
You could just -- all right.
>> Good evening.
Dan Nelson, grants administrator.
This resolution is associated with the Martinique II-C.
The Association is requesting for a security enhancement
project.
The applicant has committed to maintain the security system.
This program satisfies the program guidelines.
I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.
>> Nothing?
Okay.
Any from the public who would like to speak on this item?
>> None at this time, Mayor.
>> Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Resolution 2026 -- congratulations.
They're here.
There we are.
Usually Commissioner Rydell -- he always says, hey,
who's here from this?
But you didn't today.
Interesting.
Resolution 2026-134, a resolution approving
the Condominium Association application for matching grant
funds from the Neighborhood Enhancement Grant program
for security enhancement.
And they are here?
All right.
Is there a motion and a second to approve?
Commissioner Welch and seconded by Vice Mayor Brodie.
>> Total cost of that project is --
Joe, the building director, is here.
If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them.
>> We don't have any questions, but he wants to say something.
Just tap the button.
There you go.
>> I just like to say, thank you all.
I don't have the proper etiquette
to do this public speaking, but I'd just
like to say, thank you, because we'd like to improve
and keep our community safe.
If you guys make it happen by approving it,
then we are chipping in, painting, all kinds of work
over there.
We would like to see the values go up
and pay some taxes because I really
think that the city of Coconut Creek is on the upward trend.
I lived in Boca before I retired,
and I worked my whole life to come to Coconut Creek.
I really enjoy living here.
I enjoy Wynmoor.
I've been in South Florida for 30 years,
so this is where I've worked my whole life to be.
Thank you.
Thank you for making it nice.
>> You got it.
You hear that?
He said Wynmoor is great.
>> I hope she heard that.
She knows it.
>> All right.
Let's call the roll, please.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Resolution 2026-135, a resolution approving --
congratulations.
Congratulations.
You got it -- a resolution improving the Martinique II-E --
is there a motion and a second?
>> Move it.
>> Moved by Commissioner Welch, seconded by vice mayor Brodie.
Are you here today?
I didn't know.
I didn't know who was.
Cool.
Dan?
>> Thank you.
The association is requesting $8,978 for a security
enhancement project.
This project is eligible and satisfies all the requirements
established in the program guidelines.
I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
>> Just briefly, at the end of the three items,
could you just tell us, assuming this item passes,
can you give us the remaining balance in the community
Enhancement Grant fund, please?
>> Absolutely.
If this passes, there will be about $51,000 remaining.
And there are two applications on my desk that will be
presented on the September 10th City Commission meeting.
One is for tall trees, and the other is for Caymen.
Cayman is a lighting enhancement project, energy efficiency.
Tall trees it's a landscaping enhancement
which will improve the landscape buffer.
>> Hypothetically, assuming those items pass,
what are the --
I'm just wondering what our budget
is going to end with that, because I think
this is the first year we've actually kind of got there,
which is exciting.
Just put that on for me, please.
>> If the next two neighborhood enhancement grants are approved,
there will be about $40,000 remaining in the budget.
We will have spent about $155,000 this year
on neighborhood enhancements.
>> Okay, thank you.
I appreciate it.
We talk about this budget --
I think it's an important part, that we
continue to keep up with it.
>> Thank you, Commissioner.
Is there anybody from the public who would
like to speak on this item?
All right.
Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Congratulations.
You are very welcome.
We need to retrieve Commissioner Railey.
Here we go.
We are now -- agenda items 19 through 21.
We are now going to consider several Quasi-judicial items.
Will the City Attorney please explain the city's
quasi judicial procedures?
>> First I want to remind everyone to please silence
your mobile devices.
Florida courts have determined that there
are certain types of matters, including
agenda items 19, 20, and 21 on tonight's agenda
that are to be treated differently than other items
considered by the Commission.
These quasi judicial applications,
the Commission is applying existing rules and policies
to a factual situation and is therefore
acting like a judge and jury doing
a trial held in the courtroom.
In such cases, the courts have decided
that due process and fundamental fairness
require that more formal procedures be followed.
Planning and zoning board recommendation
must be presented at the public hearing, and the deliberations
of the City Commission.
The quasi judicial procedures require that the Commission
consider the evidence presented to it
and base their decision on the applicable law
and primarily on credible evidence presented,
whether by staff, the applicant, or members of the public.
In a quasi judicial proceeding, the Commission
is not allowed to take into consideration public sentiment
or the popularity of a particular development
proposal or application.
The City Commission may only consider substantial evidence.
This means testimony or other evidence
that a reasonable mind would accept as credible and adequate
to support a conclusion.
Florida courts have made it clear
that mere generalized statements of opposition
are to be disregarded, but fact based testimony
may be considered substantial evidence.
This can include eyewitness observation, testimony
about relevant facts and documentary evidence,
including photographs, aerials, and maps.
People who want to participate in a quasi judicial hearing can
testify as to factual matters in any element of the case that --
their testimony will be given -- their Testimony will be
considered in, provided their testimony is backed up
by established facts, studies, or evidence and is not
conjecture.
The quasi judicial hearing process
is not a popularity contest.
The strict rules of evidence do not
apply during the public hearing, but any comments
must be relevant to the agenda item.
Proper decorum is required and will be maintained at all times.
Please refrain from vocal, cheering, or applause.
Everyone who seeks to speak on an item
will be given an opportunity to speak.
If you intend to provide testimony
as to any of the applications to be considered tonight,
you will be sworn in before your testimony is taken.
Please no, if you speak, you may be -- know, if you speak,
you may be subject to cross-examination.
If you refuse to either be cross-examined or to be sworn,
your testimony will be considered in the context
and given its due weight.
The general public will not be permitted
to cross-examine witnesses, but may
request that the Commission direct questions
on their behalf to the applicant or staff.
Will the clerk please confirm compliance
with the notice requirements?
>> The city has satisfied the legally required public notice
for the public hearings for agenda items 19, 20, and 21.
>> And will you please swear in the witnesses?
>> Will anyone wishing to speak on any of the quasi judicial
items please stand and raise your right hand?
Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth,
nothing but the truth?
When you come forward to speak, will you state your name
and address clearly for the record and state
whether or not you have been sworn in
and whether or not you understand
the rules of the proceedings?
Thank you.
>> Okay.
So we are going to now -- we will now hear agenda number 19.
After I read the resolution, I will ask for a motion
and a second to the item -- a resolution approving the special
land use application requested by Juan Basto to establish
a pharmacy within the existing medical office located at 3850
Coconut Creek Parkway, as legally described in exhibit
A attached hereto and made a part hereof.
Is there a motion and a second?
>> Move it.
>> Moved by Commissioner Welch, seconded by Commissioner Railey.
City attorney?
>> Thank you, mayor.
Are there any disclosures comments
such as outside communications or site
visits on behalf of the Commission for item number 19?
>> Yes.
I did visit the location.
>> Thank you.
>> I also went to the site, but I think in some maybe passing
way I talked to Senator Geller.
I don't think we touched on the substance.
I think he advised me he was retained on the matter.
That would be the only disclosure.
>> I went to the site.
I did not go in.
I did have a conversation with Senator Geller.
>> All right.
So we are back.
All right.
City staff will now make a presentation on item number 19.
>> Thank you mayor.
I'll do a brief update on where we stand on this,
then I believe the applicant is going
to be providing a similar update on their clarifications.
As you recall, at the August 13th 2026 meeting,
the City Commission voted to table consideration
of the Special Land Use application in the public
hearing to this meeting.
Since then, city staff has met with the applicant
to further discuss the pharmacy's proposed security
measures, at the delivery service comment the signage,
and the hours of operation.
We also discussed this application
and some of the issues that were brought up
at the last meeting with Coconut Creek Police Department
and our Chief of Police and Staff on the DRC.
Based on the applicant's representations
and the additional information, it is important to point out
that -- no objection to the proposed security measures,
however they do have one request that will be a part
of the conditions of approval that the applicant maintain
current contact information for the pharmacy owner and/or
the designated responsible representatives law enforcement
can verify a delivery driver's affiliation with the pharmacy.
I will just summarize some of the issues that were discussed.
We discussed medication delivery.
There are a number of -- there were a number of questions
at the last meeting about medication delivery,
just some points to point out and for clarification,
since we are here again, at the pharmacy anticipates utilizing
approximately two delivery drivers per day.
They will be operating in unmarked vehicles
to deliver medications to customers.
The applicant also pointed out there are about ten pharmacies
in the city of Coconut Creek.
These are the corporate pharmacies such as Walgreens,
CVS, Publix, Walmart.
The applicant stated that they have delivery service.
I also personally looked on those websites, as well,
and they all have on their websites
and identify medication delivery as a service they offer.
Another point that the applicant and staff discussed was
the degree of the pharmacy versus the main,
in person pharmacy that they have
and versus the medication delivery service.
It is important to point out that the medication delivery
service is considered ancillary to their principal business
as a pharmacy.
It is not intended to function as a pharmacy delivery service
only.
So the principal use of this location
is a pharmacy and not solely just
a medication distribution business.
That was the discussion we had.
Finally, on medication delivery, as we
were discussing this application with the chief of police,
he did point out that there are code of federal regulations
that regulate delivery of controlled substances,
and if it ever comes to that, there
are regulations relating to selection, markings, tracking,
and signature requirements.
Based on the federal oversight already in place
and the fact that other pharmacies currently
offer their service in the city without any adverse sight
or public safety impacts, staff, including the police department,
at this time, do not recommend any additional additions related
to delivery of medication.
For the pharmacy sign, there were
some questions related to the sign
and where it would be placed and the size of the sign.
There are regulations by the Florida Department
of Health on some minimum sizes for a pharmacy sign.
Minimum size of letters must be one inch,
and it must be visibly located at the pharmacy itself.
The applicant provided a graphic in the backup materials
of the west facade of the pharmacy, which
is the front door, which faces the interior
of the lot and the parking lot.
They propose to place the sign in the area which
is marked as red, in a red box.
In that location, this sign, if posted
on the windows or the doors, would essentially
be similar to a window sign or a door sign.
That would state the name of the pharmacy, most likely,
hours of operation, and things like that.
We also looked at the hours of operation and questions
relating to, what are the hours of operation?
The medical clinic that currently exists on the site
operates from 8:30 to 5:00, and to disclose Saturday and Sunday.
The pharmacy has agreed that they will operate
during those same hours.
Staff recommends a condition memorializing tthose hours of --
those hours of operation, and those are in the backup
materials.
There are some additional conditions of approval.
They relate to hours of operation.
The second one relates to maximum pharmacy area.
As stated in the application, the maximum size of the pharmacy
is approximately 510ft².
And they have provided a floor plan
and the condition requires that it substantially
be depicted as it is on the floor plan in the application.
Third condition -- exterior signage.
Exterior signage for the pharmacy shall
be limited to the west side of the building,
as I said, facing the parking lot,
and substantially in the location
as it is graphically described in the backup materials.
Of course, it would need to comply
with any signage regulations that we have.
The last one -- this relates to the police department's request
for the pharmacy to keep them updated on contact information
about the current pharmacy owner and any designated responsible
representative who could verify the affiliation of any
of the delivery drivers.
And that concludes staff's recommendation
and our presentation.
Our recommendation is for approval
with these additional conditions of approval.
>> Thank you.
The applicant will now make its presentation.
>> Thank you.
I'm going to have a little bit of a problem here,
just because I don't know how to work the computer, because old.
First, I would like to ask a question of staff.
Your attorney will tell you that your staff recommendation
is competence substantial evidence.
I just want to verify that your recommendation was for approval.
>> Yes, it is.
>> And additionally, you had requested a list
of recommendations for conditions.
Did my client agree to each and every one
of your recommendations?
>> Yes, they have.
>> Thank That concludes my questions of staff.
I could make this a much longer presentation --
I'm sure that at this hour of the night
you would really appreciate that.
But I'm only -- if I can figure out how to do this.
I'm pressing which button?
Ah, okay.
I was pressing the wrong button.
I'm only going to address the differences for the questions
that were raised.
If you want additional questions that we went over last time,
I'm happy to address them.
But in the interest of speed, I won't.
There are questions about hours.
Again, the pharmacy is only open while the clinic is open.
It will never be open outside of operating hours.
We have agreed that there will not be any expansion.
I want to remind you, as you heard at the last meeting,
this building was built to house that pharmacy.
That's on the original building plans.
They just never did it.
But we're moving in to the existing space.
We've agreed it's not ever going to be expanded.
I will show you the signage in a moment,
but when I show you the signage, you will laugh and say,
we made a big deal over this?
In terms of delivery safety, I do
want to remind you about all of the other pharmacies.
Every other pharmacy in Coconut Creek
is currently doing deliveries.
But we are going to go above and beyond what they are doing,
as I will explain when I reach that slide.
See that little red circle there?
That's where we are going to put the sign.
And the sign -- and if you wish, I have ten copies --
is going to say substantially this.
It's going to say, direct meds of Florida pharmacy,
and it's going to have their hours and.
That's it.
If you'd like copies -- you don't really need them.
That's all that the sign is going to say.
The sign is going to be approximately 30 --
I'm sorry.
Okay, I'm sorry, it's 20 by 24 inches.
1 inch letters.
You have to be standing directly at the door to read this sign,
which is only going to say, yes, we are open from 8:30 to 5:00
PM.
That's all the sign is going to say.
So it's not exactly going to be something that people are going
to say, oh my god, they are still in controlled substances
they're.
Let's break in.
It's almost -- controlled substances there.
Let's break in.
It's almost silly on that.
It's not going to take up all the space inside the red box.
It will just take up a portion of that space.
We primarily are serving the clinic's own patients, although,
just as an example, if you have somebody that goes there,
and that's their pharmacy, and they go to a dentist,
and they are going to say, I'm going to have dental surgery,
so we will prescribe an anti-anxiety medicine before you
do that, even though that's not --
as long as it's a prescription, they will service it there
because it is a full service pharmacy.
Although, as we told you last time,
you're not going to be able to wander through aisles.
You go up, hand in your prescription,
and they will fill it, or they will deliver it.
In terms of the delivery --
I think that's later -- every pharmacy in Coconut Creek
delivers, but not every pharmacy in Coconut Creek is going to be
using their own people.
For example, right now you have Instacart.
You've got Uber.
As far as I know -- and I'm not an expert --
they don't require the Instacart drivers to pass drug
and background checks.
This pharmacy has already said that they
are going to require their drivers to pass
drug and background checks.
There's a lot more insecurity that we have agreed we are not
-- in security that we have agreed we are not discussing
because of state and federal law on security.
There will be those schedule II deliveries.
If it's an anti-anxiety medication or if it's
a prescription dental medication,
yeah, they'll be delivering those.
There will not be any schedule II deliveries.
There will be no narcotic deliveries, no painkiller
deliveries.
It's going to be normal healthcare.
And again, we have agreed, as one
of the conditions, that the police will have,
at all times, people to contact to verify that with the driver.
There was a question the last time about trips.
This actually will be taking trips off the road.
It is a negligible amount of deliveries.
We are expecting 20 per day.
And that's a negligible amount.
But every delivery that they are making
is taking cars off the road.
So that's not an issue.
There was a lot of question about pharmacies --
that this would be a new model.
It's not.
In fact, throughout Broward County --
I checked specifically.
For example, I know -- it may be relatively new here in Coconut
Creek, but just as one example, I looked up Chen medical
Centers, which has offices similar to this.
It's a clinic which has its own pharmacy
inside in plantation, Oakland Park, Margate,
Walter Hill, and Deerfield.
Margate has more than one.
This is a very, very common model.
These are examples of pharmacies inside clinics
or inside hospitals right here.
We were requested four conditions of approval to limit
it to the hours that the clinic is open,
which we planned on doing anyhow,
but we have agreed to put that as a condition,
to limit the exterior signage, as we have shown,
to have the maximum pharmacy area of --
we are already planning on doing that, but happy to do that.
The police contact for deliveries --
everything that the city asked, we agreed to do,
as you have heard testimony.
I could go on and on, and I typically do,
but I won't tonight.
I'd be happy to answer any questions,
but we think we have answered all of your questions.
I'm done.
>> Commissioner Rydell?
>> Does the city staff have any questions of the applicant
at this time?
I'll now open the hearing.
Are there any members of the public who would like
to speak on agenda item 19?
Once called upon, please come forward to the lectern,
unmute the microphone, identify yourself,
state whether you have been sworn in
and whether you understand the conditions of the proceedings.
When you are done speaking, mute the microphone.
Public hearing closed.
Does the applicant or staff wish to cross-examine
any of the witnesses?
The public Hearing is now closed.
We will now hear closing remarks.
Do either of you have closing remarks?
>> No, sir.
Thank you.
>> Good project.
We recommend approval.
>> Commissioner Rydell?
>> I'll be brief.
I'm very supportive of the project.
I'm very supportive of the service he's providing.
My issues were the development and DRC,
how we got here, in terms of things that I don't think
were addressed.
I'm going to ask the -- with all due respect,
I'm going to ask my police chief to come up.
I'm going to ask him some questions,
then I'm going to turn to my staff
and ask them some questions.
Chief, before I get to you, I want to turn to Justin and Liz.
Obviously, we can all agree that there were things addressed
in our public hearing last time that may not
have came up in DRC and staff.
Is that fair?
>> Yes.
>> In regarding that, do you guys feel that the applicant has
met all those requirements?
>> Yes, we do.
>> Because I know there wasn't a lot addressed in terms
of delivery services.
There wasn't a lot addressed in some of these things that were
unknowns to us that wasn't necessarily addressed
to the backup, nor candidly addressed to --
I'm going to turn to my chief now and say call my chief,
you had people that were sitting on DRC
and obviously on committee on this.
Do you feel -- three easy questions.
Do you feel you reengaged in terms of from two weeks ago
to today in regarding the prospective project?
>> Absolutely.
Originally Sergeant Hendrix was the representative
for the police department.
As a result of the meeting last time,
I personally looked over the applicant's responses
and we fully support the project.
>> You have zero concerns from what you do in regarding some
of the discussions from two weeks ago to today,
you have zero concerns on this project?
>> That's correct.
>> I just want to put that on record.
Thank you for addressing it.
I don't want to get into this specific --
our city attorney is starting to make eyes at me.
I'm not asking anything specific in regarding DEA requirements
or anything with pharmacies.
Thank you, chief.
I turned to our city attorney, and asked these questions.
Justin, you listed four conditions of approval.
Senator Geller has acquiesced or offered or agreed
to the four conditions.
Senator, are you there?
I can't see you.
Humor me.
Stand up.
I never get to say that.
I'm always in front of you.
Those four conditions of approval, you agree with.
>> We agreed to everything they asked for.
>> Are these conditions of approval that we need to make
a motion to amend on the application?
That's a really long pause.
>> Yes, you need to make a motion to amend to add them
as a condition of approval.
It's not part of the recommendations by staff.
So the answer is yes.
>> So the answer is this, and I will say this, Senator Geller,
I appreciate your advocacy on this.
I appreciate the information I have
received from staff on this.
I am supportive of the project this evening
in terms of the global component of it.
After my colleagues say what they want to question and things
like this, I'm advising all of you,
I am prepared to make a motion to add
the conditions of approval before conditions, specifically
the hours of operation, at the maximum size of the pharmacy,
the exterior sign, as well as obviously working
with the police department.
I'm prepared to make a motion to amend for those.
But I'm not making the motion, because I don't want
to stifle any conversation.
That's all I have.
>> Good evening.
Here we are.
I totally agree that I think there
were more questions than answers at the first meeting.
As a result, getting some information
does make things a little clearer,
because at the last meeting, the size of the letters
did matter because it said they would be a minimum of one inch.
It didn't say --
I'm imagining a large sign flashing.
Humor me.
Let's not make too much ado about the size of the letter.
I would even entertain having the condition
that the letters are one inch in size
on the notation on the wall.
But about the delivery -- the hours of operation
for the clinic and the pharmacy are suggested to be the same,
8:30 to 5:00, Monday through Friday.
What about the delivery?
Would they stay within those hours, as well?
>> The dispatches would be made within those hours.
>> But what if something arises?
You see where I'm going with this?
What if something arises?
The reason I say that is, what happens with that, if items
aren't able to be delivered?
In part of the backup, it said, the majority
of the time, signatures will be required.
Are they left if there is no signature?
And then if no one is there to receive it --
let's say it is a gated community and they can't get
in the gate.
I don't know.
I'm just making this stuff up, the scenario.
But what happens?
What if they have to take it back?
They don't drive around with it.
I'm just trying to say, if the deliveries were
within the same hours of the clinic and the pharmacy,
within that time frame, then you are ensured that you've
got a closed loop of the dispensing,
no matter whether it's in person or whether it's by vehicle,
to be in a protected situation.
>> Just to throw it out there --
>> I'm talking.
>> I'm asking a question, because I think it's very
relevant.
Hypothetically, if there is a dispatch at 4:00,
and they have ten deliveries to make, are you addressing,
are they making deliveries after they close at 5:00?
>> yeah.
>> I didn't mean to interrupt, Commissioner.
I'm just trying to understand question.
>> It is, because things happen.
There is no perfect scenario.
>> I'm happy to respond to that.
The dispatch will be made during hours.
If there's a dispatch, as commissioner Rydell just said,
if there is a dispatch at 4:30, and the clinic closes at 5:00,
and because of traffic, because there's a long line at the gate,
at the delivery is not made until 5:30 or 6:00,
that's still going to be acceptable.
Every other pharmacy in Coconut Creek
will be delivering probably later than that.
But all of the dispatches will be made during the hours.
I can't tell you what traffic is going to be like.
>> I'm not talking about traffic.
I'm talking about if it's undeliverable.
What happens with the package?
>> I'm going to ask you to identify yourself again.
>> Diana Greenberg.
Hello again.
We have two deliveries a day.
The one that goes out at 4:00 -- it's usually emergencies.
It's usually antibiotics or something that
has to be delivered that day.
If not, it's going to go out the next day.
The pharmacy dispatcher calls to make sure
that somebody is going to be there to receive it.
If not, they don't go out.
The driver has the phone number to call.
>> I was just worried about what would happen --
because the hours are similar, and what happens with the driver
in that situation?
So you've answered that.
I appreciate the follow up and all the information that was
given and the oversight from the police department about some
of the other concerns in that regard .
You must understand, Senator Geller,
I've never approved pharmacy hours or pharmacy deliveries
since I've been on commission.
To my knowledge, we don't have a clinic
that has an in-house pharmacy to dispense medications
to their patients.
I think it is a value.
I remember this was a model that was used years
ago in doctor's offices.
They dispensed their own medicine.
I'm not opposed to it.
I'm just saying, it's a different model.
I had a lot of questions.
I asked a lot of questions.
Just trying to do my job.
I, too, am ready to approve it, but with the conditions --
and I do want to add the --
>> One-inch letters.
However, if I could ask, on the 510ft²,
we said approximately in case it's 510.6.
I would just ask that you say that the letters be
approximately one inch, because I don't know if it's 32 point
type or whatever, if that makes it 0.95in or 1.02 inches.
>> You need some more coffee, Senator.
>> I'd ask that you say approximately one inches.
>> I appreciate it, and I also was very interested
in the special land use, how it rolled over,
if the property owners changed, either in the building
or in the pharmacy.
So I'm assuming this is, same conditions
would apply to whoever the owner would be of the doctor's
group or the pharmacy.
>> Yes, the same conditions apply to whoever at any time
owns this pharmacy.
>> All right.
>> As we lawyers say, they would run with the land.
>> Good evening.
Good seeing you again.
Thank you for the information.
That did clarify a lot of our questions from the last meeting.
And I'm glad you had the opportunity to come back
and to work with our staff.
Thank you.
I do have one question, because I did go inside to the facility,
and I also saw that, when you enter,
there is a reception area, and then to the right,
as you are facing the reception area, to the right,
there was a facility there that looked like that
could be the pharmacy.
Is that the existing area that's going to be?
Okay, thank you.
>> I'm sorry, when you ask a question,
she needs to answer with the mice.
-- mic.
>> Yes, when you walk into the clinic, on the right,
you see three counters.
That's the pharmacy area.
>> And that's the size it's going to be?
You're not expanding?
>> We're not expanding at all.
>> Approximately 510ft.
>> You want to do your condition of approval?
I do, but the only, I guess, caveat to that
is, Commissioner Welch added something,
and I want to be a little clear with what her caveat is.
Her caveat was a fifth condition of approval was like a one inch
sign, but I guess the question I have, Senator --
>> A sign with one inch letters, approximately.
>> The statement I will make is this.
I'm happy to do that, if that is the will of the commission.
I heard from the rest of the commission on that.
I guess the reality is this.
Are you okay with a condition of approval for no marquee sign?
>> Yes.
>> I turned to Commissioner Welch,
and I only say it because, if this is a placard sign
on a window, I take different issue with that than a marquee
sign.
I think all of us last time were --
I think -- your applicant, Steve --
she didn't support marquee sign.
I think to me, the distinguishing characteristic
is, is this a marquee sign?
You don't want that.
I know your applicant doesn't want that.
>> That's a condition of approval 3, which is,
exterior signage shall be limited to the west facade
facing the parking lot, substantially in the location
depicted, which I have showed you that.
>> Agreed.
But I guess my question is, because that wasn't one
of Justin's approval conditions --
>> It is.
>> I know you say that, but in terms of the 1, 2, 3, 4 I got --
madam city Attorney, if I am prepared to make a motion
in terms of hours of operation, maximum size of the pharmacy,
in terms of the exterior signage,
do I have to be specific in terms of the adoption
of the exterior signage, then obviously the police department?
I guess I'm asking you in terms of sub 3, what
the motion exactly needs to be to meet
the conditions of Commissioner Welch and the applicant.
That's what I'm asking you, and I'm
going to make the motion thereafter.
>> If you are reiterating what is listed,
you don't have to specify that as an additional condition
of approval.
It's already specified here.
You just vote on it.
What you are doing is modifying that in some way -- for example,
the way that Commissioner Welch mentioned approximately one inch
instead of, for example, 2 or 3 --
because I know the state requirements are at least one
inch.
You want to specify approximately one inch,
so that way there's no question that what you really
intend is that it be limited, then that way
there's no modification.
>> Hold on, Commissioner.
>> I apologize.
I thought you wanted me to make a motion.
>> But then I wanted to say something.
I think the nickel and dime-Ing of this inch --
I'm a little confused.
I'm blown away that we're talking about it like this.
You showed the window.
You showed the space of the window.
I'm in full support of you using that little window
to advertise and push the hours of this pharmacy.
I think what we are doing here is something that we are always
told not to do -- design from the dais, in a way --
but it's really --
I just can't understand this nickel and dime-ing of the inch.
They've already limited to their window.
They're not putting a sign on the road.
They're not putting a massive thing.
You have a business to run.
Now I kind of feel like we are affecting your business,
in a way, or what could be of your business.
I'm not going to support a one inch -- if you have the three,
you have the three.
But I'm not going to sit up here and support a one inch dictation
of letters on a window.
I'm just not.
>> Can I turn to our staff and say, in terms of sub 3,
what is the condition as you have the exterior signage
language?
>> Our intent is --
>> Just give me the language, because I think that may pacify
-- it may or may not.
I'm just curious the language you want because I think
the mayor's sentiments are --
I get it.
I just want to know what your sub 3 is.
>> I've asked staff to distribute --
that may not be one inch letters.
I'd like something --
>> I'm not yelling about one inch.
I just want to see what Justin's third is to see --
that's just me.
>> I'm going to read you the sign condition.
Exterior identification signage for the pharmacy shall be
limited to the west facade of the building,
facing the parking lot, substantially in the location
depicted in the backup materials -- that's the red box --
submitted by the applicant.
All signage shall comply with the city's applicable sign
regulations.
Can I just say, I think the point of our --
our point in this condition is to limit the signage to that red
box.
So whether it's a minimum one inch or whatever it is,
it won't go outside of that red box.
That's your limitation on that.
>> Thank you for the clarification.
Here's my motion.
My motion is to amend item -- what item is it?
>> 19.
>> We've been here for a minute.
I move to amend item 19 to include conditions 1, regarding
stipulated hours of operation, to include item 2, regarding
the maximum size of the pharmacy,
to include item 3, as read, the exterior sign requirement,
and to add sub 4, the connectivity with the police
department, as read previously and stipulated
to by the applicant.
I move to amend the item to include those four items.
>> Second.
>> Just to clarify -- we've passed this out --
this is substantially similar to what the sign will be.
>> Listen, I voted yes last time.
I'm not the one you've got to talk to.
>> As I look at this, I realize it can't be one inch letters
because --
>> The red box, Steve.
[Overlapping speech]
>> The hour is getting long in the tooth.
>> I appreciate the -- acknowledging the red box.
What do we have to do for the -- what's our next step?
>> You vote on the amendment, then you vote on the overall
item.
>> Please call roll on the amendment.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Now we will -- we have to have a motion and approve
for number 19, right?
>> I move the item as amended for approval.
>> Second.
>> Moved by Commissioner Rydell, as amended,
and seconded by Vice Mayor Brodie.
Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Thank you.
Congratulations.
>> Thank you, Mr. Mayor, vice mayor,
and members of the Commission.
>> Let's get those county approvals, Senator.
>> Okay, does anybody need a water break or anything?
You're good?
Agenda item number 20 -- we will now hear agenda item 20.
As I read the resolution title, I
will ask for a motion and a second to move the item.
A resolution approving a site plan application requested
by Jacquie Pedevillano on behalf of Walmart Stores East LP
for a 5932 square foot addition to the existing Walmart store
generally located at 5571 West Hillsboro Boulevard .
Is there a motion and a second?
Moved by Commissioner Rydell, seconded by vice mayor Brodie.
I don't know.
Everybody's cool?
We are calm, cool calm -- cool, collected?
Good.
Why wasn't the school put up first?
They have school tomorrow.
We'll get to you soon.
City attorney, are there any disclosures?
>> Does anyone have any disclosures for item 20?
>> City staff will now make a presentation.
>> Good evening mayor vice mayor commissioners, and staff.
For the record comment the Assistant Director
of the Resilient Design and Development Department.
As you mentioned, this is agenda item number 20, a site plan
application for the existing Walmart store located at 5571
West Hillsboro Boulevard.
The applicant, from Bowman consulting,
is seeking the site plan approval .
This addition supports Walmart's online pickup operations.
I, myself, have never used this type of service,
but it is definitely mainstream and providing the service
is something that more and more we see at many many stores.
This will allow, of course, the customers
to place orders online and pick up their groceries
or other items at a designated area
without even having to enter into the store.
The applicant is not just proposing this expansion.
They are also proposing to spruce up the site.
They are going to be increasing designated pickup
spaces from 26 to 31.
They are going to be improving the existing drive aisles,
the existing landscape islands out there that could definitely
use a refresh, some minor grading improvements, as well,
to improve our ADA parking spaces will also be part
of the site plan improvement -- new sidewalks, new striping,
new crosswalk areas, updated pavement markings,
and of course, they are going to be refreshing all
of the signage, not just on the building.
The applicant did hold, of course,
at their community outreach meeting back on April 30th,
2026, at the city's complex, where they presented
the project.
No one from the public attended their meeting.
Overall, staff finds that the site plan complies
with our comprehensive plan, the city's land development code,
and the minimum site plan review requirements
of the Land Development Code.
As a reminder, the Planning and Zoning Board
did recommend approval of this agenda item
in its regularly scheduled meeting.
This concludes staff's presentation.
Do you have anything to add call me -- to add, Justin?
We have representatives here this evening
to also make a presentation.
>> The applicant will now make its presentation.
>> Hello.
My name is Jacquie Pedevillano.
I think staff did a great job on presenting,
so I will not add further on the actual scope.
However, I did hear that there were a couple of questions,
so I did want to clarify before we go into the questions
themselves.
The store is open seven days a week.
The operating hours are 6:00 to 11:00,
with the liquor store being 9:00 AM.
Additionally, with the expansion,
we are revising some of the drive aisles.
So we have confirmed that the fire trucks are still
accessible within the area, and no life safety impacts
are proposed, aside from adding a door for the expansion.
The store operation itself is not proposed to be impacted,
nor are the entrances for the store
or the liquor box within the scope of area.
Within the scope of work, we are proposing LED lighting
in the expansion area itself.
This has been reviewed and approved within the DRC review,
in addition to, we are proposing surveillance within the area.
We are proposing also to convert 26 of the existing
spaces to 31 pickup spaces.
>> Does the staff have any questions of the applicant
or the applicant's witnesses?
>> Not at this time.
>> Does the applicant have any questions of staff?
I will now open the public hearing.
Are there any members of the public who would like
to speak on agenda item 20?
Public hearing is now closed.
Are there any closing remarks from either the city staff
or the applicant?
>> Not at this time.
>> Okay.
Members of the commission, any questions?
Brodie, too soon.
Commissioner Railey?
Oh, you sure?
Commissioner Welch?
>> You talked about the lighting in the expanded pickup spaces
there at the north end of the parking lot.
I was just curious -- you are adding additional lighting
there, in that spot, in that expanded area for pickup?
>> Correct.
1 or 2 light poles are proposed.
>> Okay, because it is dark there in the evening,
but you've already taken care of that.
And the surveillance cameras will
be on the driver's, as well as those persons coming to pick up?
>> Correct.
>> Well, I look forward to it.
It looks like one of your competitors that I won't name
does a very robust business for that kind of service.
I used one today for my first time.
It's very convenient, I have to say.
So you say you've taken care of the radius turning for the fire
trucks?
>> Correct.
That has been accounted for.
>> All right.
I look forward to seeing what happens.
Thank you.
>> Commissioner Railey?
>> Good evening.
Just one question, and I wasn't clear on this --
will you be able to order alcohol, as well,
pre -order alcohol?
And if so, verification of age?
>> Within this pickup operation, I do not believe so.
I believe it would be a separate operation.
It is not part of this scope.
>> Thank you.
>> Commissioner Rydell?
>> As the person whose district this sits in, totally supportive
of it.
Right now, you are running a project --
a little shotgun approach.
I think it's great.
I love this proposal.
I fully support this proposal.
You entered -- answered Commissioner Railey's question
about alcohol and.
They have dedicated spaces for the liquor store.
They do verify ID.
I think this is great.
I think adding lights I don't think is necessary,
but I love it, only because I know the area very well.
I think this is something that is going
to really add to the area.
I think the traffic pattern is terrible.
But I didn't sit up here and approve it.
I can qualm on that a little bit.
I thought you did?
Okay.
All right.
You give a dig, I give a dig.
I think what you were trying to do there is really good.
If you haven't got Walmart -- maybe you want to give it a try.
I support the project.
>> Sorry, I had to chuckle.
Any other questions from the dais?
All righty.
Now for comments and deliberation by the Commission
comment the Walmart store expansion site --
a motion and second to approve agenda item 20,
the Walmart store expansion site plan application?
>> Move it.
>> Moved by Commissioner Railey.
Thank you for that.
And seconded by the Vice Mayor.
Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Congratulations.
Oh, there you are.
Awesome.
>> Thank you all.
>> Thank you.
We will now hear agenda item 21.
After I read the resolution title,
I will ask for a motion and a second to move the item.
On a school night -- a resolution to approve the site
plan -- no, but the head of school has got to be there
tomorrow -- the resolution to approve the site plan
application requested by Christina on behalf of North
Broward Preparatory School for an approximately 56,500 square
foot addition to the existing school campus for additional
instructional and performance space for the property generally
located at 7600 Lyons Road comet legally --
legally described in exhibit A. Is there a motion and a second?
>> Are there any disclosures for this item?
>> Yes, we did meet with Christina and went through
a presentation.
>> Likewise.
And I was in the traffic headed -- yes,
southbound yesterday in the rainstorm.
I got a clear picture of what the traffic is.
>> I don't think it's required, but my wife is a teacher.
>> Thank you.
>> And I saw through the -- sat through the presentation, too.
>> And I sat through a presentation, too.
The city will now make a presentation on item 21.
>> Thank you.
This is a site plan application for approximately 56,400ft²
of additional instructional and performance space located
at 7600 Lyons Road.
The applicant -- I believe Scott Bachman is here tonight from
the same law firm representing --
is requesting site plan approval on behalf of the North Broward
Preparatory School.
This site plan is made up of three new buildings,
and those new buildings are going to be --
let's call them centrally southernly located in the site,
but not too far south.
I'll show you that later in. -- later.
It is proposed to be built in phases.
The first building, which is the 7700 square foot
building, building 1000, is the first phase.
That will function as a STEAM instruction and lab space.
The applicant has a presentation with a lot more of those details
I won't go into.
I will just be briefly describing.
The second building is building 1100,
which is proposed to be 26,500ft², approximately,
and that will function as a performing arts venue.
And building 1200 is proposed to be about 22,000ft²,
and it is designated for pre-K and kindergarten students,
but it has some additional, ancillary features to it typical
for a school --
a kitchen, a dining area, with a mix of regular classroom spaces.
It also includes an outdoor play space
on the south side of that building.
As you know, this is a very large campus, 70 acres,
approximately, and it has a zoning designation
of community facility F and a future land use designation
of residential estate 1.
Just as a very important point, because the applicant is
building this on undeveloped land of the property,
and this property has a number of environmental protections
and conservation lands -- these buildings are proposed to be
constructed outside of those conservation easements.
The plan does include enhanced setbacks and buffering.
It includes additional permanent parking spaces,
a new dedicated drop off lane.
As you know, capacity and storage of vehicles on the site
is an important issue.
As I said, a new outdoor learning and play area.
Like I just said, the traffic study review in this application
was a crucial component.
Staff and the applicant devoted a substantial amount
of time reviewing that and reviewing
all of the various options and even making
numerous conditions of approval related
to traffic enhancements and circulation,
not only on site, but even off site in the public right of way.
Those are listed as the conditions.
The city's transportation manager led that effort.
He's also here tonight for any questions
and for assistance with questions related to our review.
I know the traffic engineer is here tonight, as well.
The preserve along Northwest 74th will be cleaned up,
and just like with all the other applications that we have
in these large sites, when there's undeveloped land
and there's trees and a preserve, there's usually --
most likely here, as well -- exotic and invasive species.
When construction occurs -- you see that happening in Main
Street -- they will go in, as required by Broward County,
they have to clear out those exotic invasives.
That allows the native species to grow in.
With respect to Northwest 74th Avenue,
there's a condition to even enhance the remaining landscape
buffer between the roadway and the southern play area
and buildings of the school to ensure that we just maintain
that rural character of 74th Street in that neighborhood
and to maintain that buffer and to even beef it up a little bit
after they clear it out and they install their chain link fence.
And new trees will be planted in there.
There's a condition related to that.
The applicant did hold a community meeting.
That was back in February.
It was at the school.
They did have numerous members of the community attend,
as well.
That summary and the presentation materials
for that meeting are in the backup.
Planning and Zoning Board had a public hearing on July 8th
on the same application.
That was approved unanimously.
Staff's findings are that the site plan complies
with the city's Land Development Code, the minimum site plan
review requirements in the Land Development Code,
the Esthetic design review requirements, and the city's
Comprehensive Plan.
That concludes staff's presentation.
Thank you.
>> Thank you.
The applicant will now make their presentation.
>> Good evening.
For the record, Christina -- it's a pleasure to be here
before you this evening on behalf of North Broward
Preparatory School.
I think everybody is probably very
familiar with the location of North Broward Preparatory
School.
It's on the north end of the city,
on the east side of Lyons Road.
It is roughly 70 acres, and it has
been operating as a preparatory school, a private school,
for several decades at this point.
The area -- I just realized my presentation
wasn't on the screen -- are you -- oh, perfect.
Thank you.
So the area we are seeking to develop with this application
is identified by the green box on the aerial.
I think it was referenced as centrally and southernly
located, which I think is very appropriate.
It's on the south side of the access road that's
looping internally to campus.
It is flagged by two conservation easements.
There's existing conservation easements
that were put in place in 2000 and 2004.
Those are identified by the blue dashed lines.
Those conservation easements are not changing.
There is one that is almost immediately adjacent
to the development area.
We have been coordinating with Broward County already related
to the proposed development plan's construction activities,
to ensure that this project isn't going to negatively impact
that conservation easement area.
In addition, it's about 300ft from the east property line,
and the buildings will be located at least 100ft from
the south property line along 74.
So this is a version of kind of the master plan.
We've been showing a master plan with various applications
over the last probably 15 or so years,
starting with when we came through with the rezoning, then
the Global Wellness Center, and more recently,
the residential village, always kind
of intending to ensure the city is
aware of what's on the horizon for the school.
They are obviously continuing to invest in their students,
in their school, and in their programing.
So this essentially shows the various locations
of the buildings and their intended use.
So the most northern building is intended for STEAM, science,
tech, engineering, art, math.
This is really kind of an innovative use for the school
programing.
It's intended for aviation.
It's intended for robotics -- really innovative technical
elements and programing that will be available to students.
Towards the center is their performance space,
an arts space.
It's not just kind of intended for various performances.
It does have classroom facilities,
areas for set building, areas for music classes,
dance studios, things along those lines.
It also does include a performance area
that can be used for various functions with about 300 seats.
So whether it's a grade-level performance, maybe a small dance
performance, something along those lines,
there is a facility that can accommodate that on campus
with this proposal.
And then on the south end, there's
the Early Childhood Center.
That's intended for pre-K and kindergarten.
So here is a more detailed view of that site plan.
Again, building 1 is your STEAM building.
Your performance building is building 2, about 26,000ft².
Then on the southern end, there's the Early Childhood
Center, which is about 25,000ft².
In addition, you can see, on the south end, along 74th,
there is that 100 foot setback.
Then there's a minimum 50 foot native species buffer.
This is what Mr. Profit was alluding to a previously.
We are committing to maintain 50ft of that natural preserve
area.
As we know, sometimes when exotics and invasives
are removed, it can look more sparse than what
was there previously.
And so our team has prepared plans to replant that area with
additional native species, so in line with kind of what you are
seeing out there currently that would survive in the kind
of understory areas and with the trees that are there and then
plant in the sparse areas, as well,
to really maintain that buffer and that character along 74th.
So this is showing kind of an isometric graphic
of the buildings.
On the left hand side of the screen,
that's your STEAM building.
The center is your performing arts space, towards the right
is the Early Childhood Center.
You can see, we kept the scale low towards the ends to keep it
in line with the campus so that views are protected from 74th.
The taller portions of the building, where they are housing
mainly set design areas, things that
need more space, that's kind of flanked in the middle, where it
is screened internal to campus.
And then our architectural team looked at various case studies
at other schools that are successful in terms
of really innovative kind of construction methods.
Being a school that is in Operation,
it is important to create as little disruption to campus
as possible with construction activities.
The lower school is located just across to the west a little bit.
So we want to try and avoid having large concrete trucks
on campus and things of that nature that take more time,
and again, cause more disruption to the classes and activities
that are going on on campus.
Our team looked at innovative ways to do that,
and Metal Buildings was kind of the option
that they found to be successful in other schools.
Here are some case studies as to how
that's been implemented in award winning ways.
So using this inspiration, our team came up with these graphics
to play with various elements in terms of the roofing,
in terms of textures, setbacks, things along those lines
that really create interest in the design.
And here's another graphic of what that STEAM building would
look like.
And then in terms of the arts building,
we thought it actually allows for really innovative
opportunity for some sort of mural
that perhaps students would be able to participate
in designing.
This shows you an option that could be incorporated
into that building.
I think that's really exciting for the students that
are focused on arts programing at the campus.
This just shows some compatibility
with the existing buildings on campus.
And then in terms of traffic, Mr. Profit touched upon this,
as well -- we spent much time going over potential traffic
improvements that can help the situation on Lyons Road.
I understand Tuesday with the lightning storm
and delayed dismissal, it was a little bit more of an impact
than on other days.
But we have identified a handful of improvements
that the school is committed to making, subject, obviously,
to approval and permitting by Broward County,
and in one instance, Palm Beach County, as well.
As you are going from the north, moving south into campus,
this is the main access at 75th, so the more southern access
into campus.
There is an existing turn lane there.
We have identified the ability to add about 200ft of storage
into that turn lane, so we can expand that and are including
that as a condition of approval that the school is agreeable
to doing.
Similarly, on the northern entry into campus,
there is an existing turn lane that
stops well before the canal.
That turn lane is very limited right now.
And we had our team discuss internally double our traffic
engineers with their bridge consultants and structural
engineers -- to ensure that the turn lane expansion would be
feasible across a bridge such as this one.
They looked at it and determined that,
it is feasible to add 350ft of storage in this location,
which is very sizable.
That will help, again, get vehicles coming to campus
from the north into those turn lanes and into campus
and have less impacts to Lyons Road itself.
On the southern portion of Lyons Road,
going north towards campus, there
are three different intersections
that we have identified that can have kind of do not
block signage proposed.
Again, that is just ensure that people living
in those communities can safely get through the intersections,
aren't constantly blocked by the traffic,
and allow for that free movement a little bit better.
And then again, the team at North Broward Preparatory School
is always looking at kind of internal circulation,
and we've been discussing this , as well.
This shows you the various loops for drop
off within campus itself.
It's quite a bit of storage within campus.
The Early Childhood Center would add an additional loop,
and that is identified kind of by the orange dashed line
as to where those students would be dropped off,
separate from the lower school.
Then we also have the drop off and pickup times
in the table at the top right hand corner.
The lower school typically starts a little bit earlier,
gets out a little bit earlier, and then the middle and high
school students are staggered a little bit later in the day.
And that concludes my presentation.
Our whole team is here to answer any questions you may have,
whether it be traffic, architecture, school operations,
landscaping.
We are all available and appreciate your time
this evening.
>> City staff, any questions of the applicant?
Applicant, any questions of city staff?
I want to open the public hearing.
Are there any members of the public who would like
to speak on agenda item 21?
Once called upon, please come forward to the lectern,
unmute the microphone, identify yourself.
When you are done speaking, please mute the microphone.
We do have Ms. Gainsbourg.
Come on down.
>> Hi.
I affirm my name is Bella Gainsbourg.
If you look at the first photo that they had put up --
>> I can move it back on the screen,
but IT will actually move the slide.
Tag team effort.
>> My home is located right outside the yellow line
on the south entrance of the school.
I also have a school in Coconut Creek.
I love the growth that I have seen
since I have been here, 1993.
However, this has made my life and my family's life miserable.
We have to get out every morning to go to our school,
and sometimes it could take ten minutes for each
of our cars to get out.
We have five cars leaving in the morning.
I also -- I am part of a volunteer ambulance,
and even with my lights and sirens,
sometimes I can knock it out of my property.
I have spoken to Scott Bachman, with, so far, no results
and no way of improving that.
So as much I've been in Coconut Creek and vicinity for a long
time --
I love it.
I love the quiet.
For the past probably month, I've
been waking up to construction, going to sleep to construction.
My whole backyard is -- there's a big blue wall or something
right in the back.
We hear it all day and all night.
I think something should be done, as I am a direct neighbor,
for this construction.
>> Is there -- the construction she is talking about is not
a part of this.
>> There is construction going on there now.
>> Where is the --
>> Directly in the back of my house.
I'm on Lyons Road.
>> You are just south of the first yellow line
by the baseball field?
>> Correct.
>> Okay.
Justin, do we know if there's construction happening there?
>> I don't know if you're looking at an aerial photograph,
but if you move over to the east a little bit,
there are old single family homes that were bought
by the school years ago.
This area is used for parking.
What I assume the resident is talking about
is the demolition of those structures.
That is directly east and behind this property.
>> does that work have a time, like it can only start at 6:00
-- does it have that for them?
>> Construction activity has to comply with our code.
I believe it is 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM.
>> So 7:00 AM -- so if it's happening before 7:00 or after
6:00, you need to let us know.
All right?
That's what I would say to that.
I don't know -- because the construction for this
doesn't affect -- it's not really by your home.
But if there's current things happening,
and it's before 7:00 or after 6:00,
then we need to do something about it.
>> And we will confirm the time exactly.
I do know it's 7:00 in the morning,
nothing earlier than that.
But if there's construction activities operating outside
those hours, code enforcement -- you can call code enforcement,
and we will send someone out.
>> And what could be done that I could get out of my property?
>> Well, we are not going to address that right now.
We are going to move on with the hearing.
But we've taken notes.
We can certainly -- city manager, can you respond?
>> I think what I'm hearing is that your other significant
concern is accessing Lyons Road from your property
because of the traffic backup.
I believe -- would like to address that,
or their traffic engineer.
>> I'm happy to comment if now is the appropriate time.
We did speak with Ms. Gainsbourg on a couple
of different occasions.
We have regrouped with our team, with our traffic engineer
to figure out what options may be available.
We are looking into the potential
to put some do not block signage by her property.
She has some smaller signs already existing out there,
but something more substantial that the county could approve.
It would be subject to Broward County approval,
but we are happy to have that discussion with them
and look into that option.
>> Okay, thank you.
Anybody else like to speak on this item?
Okay.
Public hearing is now closed.
We will now hear closing remarks.
Do city staff or applicant have any closing remarks?
>> I'll just clarify the exact hours.
You cannot be having construction outside
of the hours of anytime before 7:00 AM or after 7:00 PM Monday
through Friday -- there's some other things in there.
Like I said, if there's things happening outside
of those hours, we have code enforcement,
and we would be glad to send someone out and investigate.
>> And Ms. Gainsbourg, you do have code enforcement's number?
Thank you.
Do any members of the commission have any questions?
I'm sure we all do.
We will start with the Commissioner at the end.
>> Thank you.
Christina, bring up the slide please.
There are a couple of different things.
Obviously I was at the community meeting.
I think I was the only one at the community meeting.
I'm not saying it like that.
I met with some of the other neighbors on 39th Street about
this and their concerns.
I will say this.
Their concerns are relevant for traffic.
They are not relevant for project.
So I think it's an important distinction.
The project that the school wants to do
is an upgrade to the school that, in terms of trips,
doesn't tremendously impact the project.
I will say, at the community meeting,
when something's came up with traffic,
the school was extraordinarily receptive.
Tall trees had some issues.
I think it speaks volumes that some of the HOA members
that have been very vocal are not here.
I will just voice to all of you come out
they had concerns because people are getting picked up
and dropped off in tall trees community.
The school proactively, even before this project,
hired an additional officer that was actually going there and not
allowing some of the Uber pick ups and drop offs.
They also changed the exterior of Tall Trees --
just so you know, people were pulling into Tall Trees
and going into North Broward.
The officers at the school did, they made it left to right.
You can't do that anymore.
The police officers disapproved at our --
we just approved at our at our last meeting -- to not do that.
I think that's a significant thing.
In regarding this, I was able to advocate --
I say it again, it's my district.
We were able to advocate at 71st.
There is a don't block the box that exists right now in.
If we are looking at the rightmost slide, that exists.
We advocated for it.
This is something about 18 months ago -- two years ago,
we advocated?
You helped me with that.
We actually started the process on 74th in regard to don't block
the box, as well, because of Preston Creek and some
of the other issues.
Regardless of whatever it is, I just want to let you know that
I've been advocating to the mayor in regarding the 74th
don't block the box.
Don't know anything about the 75th.
But if that's something you want me to advocate for,
I'm happy to advocate for it.
Regarding the comments, I think her house is actually
zoned as a community facility.
You have certain county zoning.
I don't to speak to that or debate that.
I fully support whatever she needs to move people along,
but again, what I notice with Tall Trees in terms
of addressing their issues, it was more traffic-related
that had nothing to do with the upgraded project.
That's my comments to that.
I met with the community, some of the stresses
from the North Broward community.
I'm not talking about the school.
I'm talking about the community --
was Tall Trees's positioned in terms of not having people
picked up and dropped off .
I will say to one of the other neighbors --
I give -- where is he?
He's over here in.
There was a neighbor that -- where any of you
CC'd on the emails about some of the issues?
There were construction issues in terms of power loss.
There were some issues in terms of the construction
that I have been very on.
If Sheila has, I don't know if she shared it with you.
I give the school credit because I
think the school did everything they could do fiscally
to help one of the neighbors.
Cristina, could you pull up the slide, at the aerial that Ms.
Was --
Ms. Gainsbourg was referencing?
You see that corner?
No, not there -- up, up.
Yeah, right there.
One of those houses, the school did all they can do.
I will say the construction is actually completed.
Construction was there, and now that plat is done.
I had a site visit with the team, and it was all done.
I think the school is doing all they
can do for the purposes of making accommodations
for the neighbors.
I support the project, in general.
I think the school brings an aspect to Coconut Creek that --
it brings people in.
That's what I will say.
I appreciate their willingness to continue to work.
I will want to talk about the berm real quick,
because I spoke to some of the neighbors Regarding --
and again, some of the neighbors I spoke to --
it is unincorporated Broward County,
so these are people that are technically not residents
of Coconut Creek.
However, they are within the constitutional boundaries
of Coconut Creek.
I will say --
I don't know the answer to this --
regarding the prospective berm, I know that we have this weird
thing with invasive trees versus not invasive trees.
I know whatever that is, I think --
I would like a robust berm.
What I don't want is us demoing something,
making them plant a brand new things, where there
is robust tree and vegetation life there,
understanding our code.
I think that's kind of a waste, and I
think it's detrimental to the neighborhood.
I don't know what I need to do to kind of get around that.
I'm not trying to suggest getting around it.
What I'm suggesting is very robust vegetation there.
Maybe it's invasive.
Maybe it's not.
I don't know the answer to that.
I hate tearing down a very robust berm and then saying,
hey call my plant a bunch of new things,
and we don't have the barrier that is necessarily needed.
That's my suggestions.
Those are my comments regarding that.
I'm very cognizant that the school, like all schools --
lion's --
Lyons Creek -- totally cognizant of that.
I think the neighbors have the right to have an issue.
As long as there is a response to the issue,
we can find a solution to the issue.
I give the school credit because they are adding
an officer that is handling it.
That's my position.
I'm open to any discussion or comments.
Thank you.
>> Thank you very much.
Can you go back to --
I got all of my questions answered
at the presentation, both before, with staff,
and then when you and all of the team came.
I have to point out some of the things
that I thought really went above and beyond,
at least what I was able to experience.
I was asking particularly about the neighbors, those
that were abutting where the construction would
be taking place.
Can you highlight the one mitigation that
was done, the one neighbor?
>> Yes.
I think you're referring to the same neighbor
that commissioner Rydell was referencing with the FPL issue.
I think we have in the back -- so the particular neighbor
that's being referenced is just on the south side of the yellow
line here, this home right here.
So when the two homes were demolished,
the plan was approved for a temporary parking
lot in that facility.
With respect to all of these projects, with the school,
parking is incredibly important.
We don't want to lose spaces.
It is a little bit of kind of chess moves
to find parking on campus.
When those two homes were demolished,
we were able to put temporary parking lots in this area.
The neighbor to the south, they had reached out to us --
actually, they were at the community meeting, as well --
and inquired as to what was going to be happening behind
their property.
We had multiple meetings with them
over the last several months in terms of their concerns
over the water quality of the canal,
over drainage running off into there.
We regraded the area.
We added additional landscaping.
More recently, we were proposing, I think at the time,
just kind of a chain link fence consistent with some
of the other fencing around campus.
And through those conversations, we actually
upgraded it to a shadow box wood fence, which is certainly more
appealing to them, as well.
They were very happy about those changes.
This shows some of those landscaping --
the additional landscaping in that area, as well.
But we worked very closely with them.
I thought perhaps I had a picture of the shadow box fence,
but I do not see that.
>> That's okay.
I think it was just poignant that, taking into consideration
the neighbors, the project for the temporary lot,
as well as what is being proposed.
When I ask about the enrollment, current and then what it would
cap at, it was 2,400, taking into account the new
construction and the traffic for Lyons.
I really like the idea of extending the turn lane,
because I didn't really appreciate it until I was in it,
and I was coming from Boca headed south on Lyons.
At 18th, once the light changed, I was in the left lane.
Then I was in the left lane.
Then I was in the left lane until I
realized what was happening.
I can truly appreciate how the stacking would definitely
help alleviate that situation.
Then coming from the south headed north,
traffic was almost to Hillsborough.
This was about 2:30 in the afternoon.
I did see it, and I can justify the "do not block
the intersections," because I was trying to get
into Hillsborough Plaza at their north entrance.
Most of the drivers are very courteous and let you in or out,
but I'm hoping that those true delineations ensure
that people are reminded to give others space.
The additional entrance into the North entry
and the staggering of the times that you are suggesting
for each one of the different levels, I think,
will help significantly.
I mean, it's definitely an improvement
over what is already there.
What's there looks stellar, of course.
I'm sure that this --
I was just surprised at the metal architect,
but you explained why it was going
to that type of construction rather
than typical construction that is around most of the campus
now.
One other thing, but I don't remember what it is.
Can you talk about the one condition of approval again,
Justin?
>> Which one?
>> Can you just reiterate them?
>> There's numerous conditions of approval.
I will give you the theme of some of them.
So the first one is a limitation on the number
of students, a maximum.
The second one deals with an annual evaluation of operational
circulation, the traffic circulation --
very important one.
That came out of all of the conclusions and recommendations
from the traffic study and the review.
A third one deals with the "do not block,"
the review agencies and their approvals of the extensions
of those turn lanes, as you just mentioned.
The fourth one is another one related to traffic improvements
and enhancements in the right of way.
The fifth one deals with the 15 foot right of way dedication
along 74th Avenue.
The other ones are just related to landscaping
and the DRC review conditions that remain
and the wood fence that you were discussing.
>> Anyway, I don't have any more questions.
I think you have gone to a great deal of effort and energy
to make the improvements on the campus with the least impact.
I know that you said the construction phases would
be during the time when school is not in session,
so it has the least impact to the academic efforts that
take place there, as well.
Is that right?
>> Some construction activities will need to occur during
the year, but the good thing about the metal buildings is,
a lot of it is constructed off campus and brought on.
So it expedites the construction process.
>> Thank you, Christina.
>> Thank you.
>> Hello again.
How are you?
I do have a couple of questions.
The staggered hours -- are they being initiated now?
>> Currently there are staggered drop off and pickup times.
It's something that the school is constantly evaluating.
They may continue to change for next year and into the future.
The school is certainly wanting to ensure
the operations are efficient.
>> So we are utilizing them now.
So the traffic is a reflection of staggered hours now?
>> Correct.
The high school starts at a different time
than the lower school.
>> I think it's great that you are advancing, progressing.
However -- and I mentioned it briefly, I think,
during our first discussion --
I would love to have seen a more permanent-looking building.
I get the vibe, looking at the pictures
of the drawings, the renderings, that it's almost temporary.
>> Perhaps I can go back to kind of those case studies we were
looking at.
Obviously when we have renderings, it does kind of look
a little bit more like that.
But here are some photographs of actual examples
of where these types of buildings were used.
I think, in these pictures, they do not look as temporary
as some of those renderings.
>> So there will be siding on it?
It won't just be facade?
>> Some of it is metal.
It's got different applications and different elements to it.
There is one area where I indicated
the intent would be to have students participate
in the creation of a mural that could go there that
would be for their art space.
There's variations in textures, in kind
of the undulation of the building,
in the gable roof, that kind of thing, to add character.
>> More usage of glass and more lighting inside -- great.
For the entertainment part of the arts building,
will there be sound barriers, panels within the interior
to kind of mute the sound from expanding?
>> Yes.
We have an acoustical consultant that has been reviewing it
for sound.
You want to ensure the acoustics inside
are captured the right way, as well, for those performances.
We have looked at that to ensure it is properly rated.
>> So that it doesn't escape the walls, either, right?
Okay.
And your time frame -- what are we looking at?
>> For construction? building 1, we are looking to get permits
within the next couple of weeks and get started on that.
The intent would be to get that open for the next school year.
Building 2, I believe -- or 2 and 3 --
we would be permitting maybe ten months or so from now.
That construction would follow basically
immediately thereafter.
>> Okay, thank you.
>> Good evening.
Thank you.
Great presentation.
I think this is a great project for the school.
I kind of like the idea that you threw out there about going
to the county and saying -- maybe see if they'll allow some
signs that are more legal-looking for not blocking
the driveway and things like that.
But I'm going to honestly say, it's the county's road.
If they say no, there's nothing really we can do.
But I think it's a good idea at least
to attempt to see if they can help out, alleviate,
so you can get in and out.
Once again, it's going to be the county that's
going to be able to make that decision.
It's not our road.
But I do like that idea.
I think it's at least something to offer up to the county
to see if they will buy off on it,
just to ease your in and out of your own home.
I'm in agreement with that.
If we can make that part of the --
I can't really be -- because the county is going to have to make
a decision on it.
I think that we want to make that part of it,
but understanding that, if it comes back and says
it's a no go, it is a no go.
But at least let's make an attempt.
>> We are happy to do that.
>> I just have --
I think it's great.
This is not going to be -- you're not going to have
the early childhood for a couple of years -- two years?
>> Two years, August of 2028.
>> August of 2028.
I'm debating if I want to bring this up right now.
If you can go to the picture with the driving loops --
thank you.
So we don't have a time for that yet,
so we don't have a time for the ECC yet?
>> In terms of drop off and pick up times?
Not yet.
I would guess it would be pretty similar to the lower school.
>> How many students would we be expecting in the ECC?
About 120?
So we'll say 120 cars.
Maybe they have siblings who go there, as well.
My concern here and what I was talking to you
guys in our meeting is the use of where the busses are queued
as an exit for the ECC carpool.
I don't know if this is the time to talk about this,
because you did say it's August 2028, but I do know --
I do feel that this whole mish --
when you get to this mishmash where the purple meets
the yellow meets the red meets the orange,
and the orange is now going to circle back through the car loop
to get back into the mishmash, it's a lot of stress
on the staff who's working the parking lot and doing the whole
thing.
I know we spoke about it in the meeting.
My thought process is letting that --
and this could alleviate some of that pressure onto Lyons --
is that orange carpool line now exits out that blue line onto
74th, right?
And then discussing how that would be -- that's just my take.
It just feels that you are in this point
here where you are now building new buildings,
and we are kind of at kind of a reset,
a refresh to now kind of analyze the traffic
patterns of the school, the carpool,
and kind of see what could be done.
My take is --
I don't think this is determinant on anything --
but I would like to see that orange turn onto that blue,
and the exit onto 74th, they make a left,
they go to Hillsborough.
That's my take.
Turning right, you will get back on Lyons.
It might be okay.
This whole thing --
Commissioner Rydell, he drives through on a daily basis.
I don't have experience with the car line.
I used to have experience with the camp line
when I worked there.
That's not make or break for me.
I'm just trying to come up with a solution of a problem you're
going to have.
We talked about it.
You kind of agreed with me when we spoke.
Commissioner Rydell, do you have any insight on that?
You're not speaking?
Okay.
>> What I can say to that is there's currently a declaration
of restrictive covenant in space that restricts any kind
of vehicular access to and from the school,
except for emergency vehicles.
That was a condition of approval as part of our rezoning
application that was --
>> How long ago?
>> About 11 years ago.
I think it was 2013, 2014.
Maybe a little bit longer than that, 12 years ago,
13 years ago.
There is that legal document that prevents the school
from using access there.
>> I don't know if there's a pulse for it,
but if there was a pulse for it, that document would need to be
rescinded, or what would be the process for that,
just for education?
>> That document was approved as part of the rezoning in 2015.
It's a recorded document.
It would be subject to the City Commission's purview
for rescinding any particular provisions of it.
>> Okay.
It is a couple years down the road, so I don't know --
and these traffic patterns aren't locked in place.
So if --
>> And we are meeting on an annual basis with the city
to evaluate traffic.
We will --
>> I'll put it on the back burner,
and I'll bring it up as we get closer.
I'd like to bring it up maybe for a discussion
with the commission.
Right now, I will -- all right.
Any other comments?
All right.
>> I would just ask Christina --
I know there's been concerns in the past comment you have
directed the majority of those concerns to I think you're head
of operations --
I'm drawing a blank on his name right now --
I think Tall Trees has had a good relationship
with that individual when there's been problems.
I think as a point of contact, reference point is some
of the surrounding neighbors, if there's issue,
just to make sure that contact is out there --
I think the school has been very good in terms
of their director of operations dealing with that.
I appreciate that.
We will make sure all of those affected neighbors
have that information, as well.
Thank you for that.
I would ask to continue with that through the construction
process.
>> Just for the record, it's Stu --
we're happy to provide his contact information for anyone
who needs it.
>> A motion and a second to approve agenda item 21,
North Broward preparatory site -- please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Thank you.
>> Thank you very much for your time this evening.
>> Is there a motion and a second to approve agenda item
22?
Resilient design development staff will make their report.
>> After read the title.
Sorry.
Ordinance 2020 six-29, an ordinance
of the City Commission of the City of Coconut Creek
Florida amending the city's Code of Ordinances
by amending chapter one, general provisions, section
one-a, general penalty for violation of code continuing
violation and other remedies and administrative fees
to correct section references and clarify applicability
of fines providing for conflicts,
providing for severability, providing for codification,
and providing an effective date.
>> Really, this is a cleanup ordinance.
One of the important things we need to make sure we do
in our ordinances when they cross reference each other,
especially ordinances that involve enforcement and relate
to fines -- and this relates to refuse and solid waste.
It's actually one of our top ten fines.
We have to make sure that those cross-references are accurate.
One of the things we have found was,
this reference was not consistent between the two
ordinances.
The purpose of this ordinance tonight
is to make sure that those are consistent
and we can properly enforce those fines, especially when we
go to the special magistrate.
Thank you.
>> Any questions, comments from the Commission?
Any members of the public?
>> Not at this time.
>> No further questions, no public.
Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> An ordinance of the city Commission of the city
of Coconut Creek Florida amending the city's code
of ordinances to repeal and replace the names of Community
development combat development services,
and Department of Sustainable Development with resilient
design and development throughout the code in order
to provide for housekeeping cleanup of City's Code
of Ordinances, providing for conflicts,
providing for severability, providing for codification,
and providing an effective date.
>> Motion and second?
Moved by Commissioner Railey, seconded by Commissioner Welch.
>> Thank you.
You used our new nickname.
The Sustainable Development Department
is now called the Resilient Design and Development
Department.
We have changed our name.
When you do that, there are many references
to the old name in there.
Actually, the old name, two department names before.
This is truly a cleanup all throughout the code
of ordinances.
This will direct our company that maintains our ordinances
to go through the entire document
and clean it up and correct the name.
>> Any questions or comments from the City Commission?
Anyone from the public who would like to speak?
Anybody over here?
All right.
Okay, well, you lost your chance.
Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Ordinance -- please read the title.
>> An ordinance authorizing the mayor or designee to execute
the Second Amendment to the lease agreement by in between
the city of Coconut Creek and T Mobile South LLC,
which provides for the modification of equipment
on the city's telecommunications tower at the community center,
providing for conflicts, providing for severability,
and providing an effective date.
This item is before you at this time for first reading.
>> Move it.
>> Public works comment what's --
Public works, what's up?
>> The proposed equipment were not increased tower loading
or ground space -- not result in a change (Inaudible).
Elizabeth is also here.
>> Are there any questions or comments from the City
Commission?
>> It's not a question.
It's a comment.
We were giving an allowance for the school,
putting them so late on the agenda.
Look at our staff, here to the very end
for three hours on this agenda.
I'm just saying.
>> They don't have work tomorrow.
[Laughter]
Vice Mayor?
>> Listen, I don't have any comments on this other than,
Elizabeth, I am so sorry that you missed the wireless happy
hour at the beach.
I'm sorry you had to sit through this whole thing
and missed the one event of the year.
That's all I've got to say.
I'm sorry.
>> All right.
I don't know what he's talking about.
It's like some telecommunications happy hour?
(Laughs).
Any further questions or comments from the commission?
Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Ordinance 2026-036 -- please read it, city attorney.
>> An ordinance of the city Commission of the city
of Coconut Creek Florida authorizing the mayor
or designee to execute the Second Amendment to the lease
agreement by and between the city of Coconut Creek and Cell
Partnership DVA Verizon wireless to clarify modify the easement
of the city's telecommunication tower at Sabal Pines Park.
This item is before you at this time for a first reading.
>> Move it.
>> Sir?
>> Good evening.
As stated in the title, this amendment only
clarifies the utility easement.
There is no changes in equipment or ground space on the tower,
and therefore, no change --
>> Any comments from the City Commission,
from the Telecommunication Master?
All right.
Any members of the public?
>> Yes.
Oh, I thought we were voting.
>> Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Everybody getting a little delusional at the late hour
of the night, the witching hour.
Ordinance 2026-037, please read the title, city attorney.
>> An ordinance of the City Commission of the City
of Coconut Creek Florida authorizing the mayor
or designee to execute a lease agreement by and between
the city of Coconut Creek and Selco partnership Verizon
wireless to lease ground space and tower space
on the city's telecommunications tower at the Government Center,
providing for Recordation, providing for conflicts,
providing for severability, and providing an effective date.
This item is before you for the first reading.
>> Move it.
>> Moved by Commissioner Welch, seconded by Commissioner Railey.
Staff , what you got?
>> Verizon Wireless has held a lease since 2004,
and their lease is ending.
Their compound is not expanding.
They will change around some of their equipment on the tower.
There is an increase in rent.
>> Thank you.
Any questions from the Commission?
From the public?
Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> Ordinance -- last ordinance.
Here we go --
2026-038.
>> An ordinance of the city Commission of the city
of Coconut Creek amending the city's code of ordinances
by amending chapter 12, garbage and refuse, article two,
collection and Disposal, sections 12-21, definitions,
12-23, franchise agreement.
Required to provide collection service franchise fee,
and amending article three, recyclable waste,
by creating a new division one residentially zoned area,
enacting section 12-50, definitions,
and creating a new division two, non residentially zoned areas,
in action section 12-60, definitions 12-62,
use of exclusive franchise fee for construction or demolition
debris required in nonresidential zoned areas
of the city, exceptions 12-63, contamination prohibited, 12-64,
duties of non-exclusive commercial recycling franchise
holders, and 1165, revocation of non-exclusive franchise
registration, to provide for updates to reflect
the city's policy decision to return to curbside recycling,
providing for conflicts, providing for severability,
providing for codification, and providing an effective date.
This item is before you at this time for a first reading.
>> Move it.
>> Moved by Commissioner Welch, seconded by Commissioner Rydell.
>> When recycling was discontinued in the city,
subsequently the ordinances related to that were struck from
the ordinance.
This essentially places them back into the ordinance.
I would point out that we did also add an additional fine
for developers that do not use the exclusive franchisee
in the city, as that does take away from the franchise fees
that the city does receive.
>> Anything from the commission?
The public?
Please call the roll.
>> (Calling roll)
>> No report.
>> No report, thank you.
>> Commissioner Rydell?
Do you have a report to make?
>> The hour is late.
The tooth is long.
The only report I will give is this, the exciting news
from earlier this month is the Solid Waste Authority actually
was created.
It was approved.
All the cities approved before the deadline.
The RFPs are are going to go out.
It's super exciting.
Big shout out.
Seriously, Mike, I mean it.
My report is going to be limited to the fact that it's something
that a lot of -- something that a lot of people spend a lot
of time on is moving forward.
That's the only report I will give
because it's late, way late.
I will see everybody on Saturday at the Republic Barbecue.
It's so exciting that Republic gave us trucks, little toy
trucks.
I want to give a big shout out to the deputy fire
chief that chose to sit here for the entire meeting in Manny's
absence.
>> He drew the short straw this time, I'm telling you.
Just a big shout out to Mike for his endurance
and everyone else that was involved.
A great job today.
It was the best one ever, he and Bernadette.
>> Thank you.
Just want to say that I know Florida League of Cities -- no,
I'm sorry, Broward League of Cities --
is putting in a brochure regarding amendment 3.
I think it would be great for us to utilize it, as well.
That's about it.
Good night, everybody.
>> I will try to be brief.
So I took my grandson to the splash pad
in the north rec center.
My family was amazed -- beautiful park,
beautiful splash pad.
Amazing.
We don't have little kids, so it's
the first time we've really been over there in a long time.
It was really nice.
Everybody enjoyed it.
Shout out to the --
Splash pad was great.
I won't be at the barbecue on Saturday.
I will be on the honor flight taking my veterans to DC.
That's pretty awesome.
The scary note on that is, actually qualify now
to be the guy in the chair, as of January.
Not looking forward to that realization.
Number three, real quick, got my test results back.
Those that don't know, there's no cancer in my bone,
there's no cancer in my bone marrow,
and none of my lymph nodes had a cancerous cluster, which
meant they couldn't find it.
Outside of it being in my blood cell,
pretty much got to wait it out to see what happens
in the next 10 to 15 years.
That's great news.
Thank you.
I can finally sleep at night and not be so grouchy,
except for that last thing.
But thank you very much.
I'll see you guys later.
>> You should be grouchy about that.
I would be.
Just two things, very brief.
Just want to say how proud I am to be part of this city.
Our staff is so thorough.
You are so incredible.
The vitriol and the things I see on social media
when they talk about the city as a whole,
they don't understand the people who help run this city,
the people who really pour their heart and soul into their job,
and the real care that you take with the steps you take
and the job you do.
I will always fight for you on that social media platform
because there are people who don't understand.
There's a lot of misinformation.
The vitriol that is out there is not okay.
I want to let the staff know, our police know, our fire know,
I am proud to represent you.
I'm proud to be here with you, with this commission, as well.
There is just some stuff that is just unacceptable.
Until people listen to our meetings,
until people get to know what we really do,
we have to try to right the ship.
I try to do that.
I do want to mention one thing also about social media.
There was a post the other day from Dolly Parton --
it was bizarre, indeed.
One thing that happens is, when the city posts stuff,
they don't reach out to the city staff.
They reach out to us, as the people who represent this city.
And I felt the post to be totally unacceptable,
and I would like --
I know we talked about this briefly,
but whoever is controlling the social media account,
whoever is controlling the Facebook,
I do think it needs an extra layer of check before something
is posted, whether it be from you or designee,
like Scott or somebody, because I found it to be --
like, that's not our job, to post something like that.
That is all I will say.