City Commission Regular Meeting

City of Fort Lauderdale https://fortlauderdale.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx www.fortlauderdale.gov/fltv www.youtube.com/cityoffortlauderdale Cable Television - Comcast Channel 78 and AT&T U-verse Channel 99 Action Summary Tuesday, February 4, 2025 6:00 PM Broward Center for the Performing Arts - Mary N. Porter Riverview Ballroom - 201 SW 5th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312 City Commission Regular Meeting FORT LAUDERDALE CITY COMMISSION DEAN J. TRANTALIS Mayor STEVEN GLASSMAN Vice Mayor - Commissioner - District II JOHN C. HERBST Commissioner - District I PAM BEASLEY-PITTMAN Commissioner - District III BEN SORENSEN Commissioner - District IV SUSAN GRANT, Acting City Manager DAVID R. SOLOMAN, City Clerk D'WAYNE M. SPENCE, Interim City Attorney PATRICK REILLY, City Auditor City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary February 4, 2025 PUBLIC APPEARANCES BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION: If any person wishes to address the City Commission, the person shall sign up in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts - Mary N Porter Riverview Ballroom lobby. A member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. Speaker Cards are given to the Mayor. After being recognized by the Mayor, the speaker should approach the podium, identify the agenda item in question, indicate support, opposition, or neutrality on the agenda item, and then proceed to succinctly state the speaker’s position or present information. If an attorney, or any other person appears before the Commission in a representative capacity, the attorney, or other representative shall also sign up in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts - Mary N Porter Riverview Ballroom lobby. A member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. After being recognized by the Mayor, the speaker should approach the podium, identify the client(s) being represented, and identify the agenda item in question. The speaker shall then indicate the client’s support, opposition, or neutrality on the agenda item and then proceed to succinctly state the client’s position or present information on behalf of the client(s). Pursuant to Section 3.13 of the Charter of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Mayor shall maintain order at all meetings, and the Police Department, upon instructions of the Mayor, shall expel any person from the meeting who refuses to obey the order of the Mayor in relation to preserving order at the meetings. Any person who interrupts or disturbs a City Commission meeting, or who willfully enters or remains in a City Commission meeting having been warned by the Mayor to depart and who refuses to do so, may be subject to arrest. 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City of Fort Lauderdale Page 1 Printed on 2/4/2025 City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary February 4, 2025 Pledge of Allegiance ROLL CALL Present: 5 - Commissioner Pam Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Ben Sorensen, Commissioner John C. Herbst, Vice Mayor Steven Glassman and Mayor Dean J. Trantalis Approval of MINUTES and Agenda 25-0134 Minutes for January 7, 2025, Commission Conference Meeting and January 7, 2025, Commission Regular Meeting - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) APPROVED AS AMENDED - Minutes and Agenda as Amended Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis PRESENTATIONS PRES- 25-0165 Mayor Trantalis to present a proclamation declaring February 2025, 1 as Black History Month in the City of Fort Lauderdale PRESENTED CONSENT AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT CONSENT AGENDA Approval of the Consent Agenda Approve the Consent Agenda Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CONSENT MOTION CM-1 25-0055 Motion Approving an Outdoor Event Agreement with Dolphins Cycling Challenge, Inc. for Dolphins Cancer Challenge XV - (Commission Districts 2 and 4) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis City of Fort Lauderdale Page 2 Printed on 2/4/2025 City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary February 4, 2025 CM-2 25-0149 Motion Approving an Outdoor Event Agreement and Road Closure Requests with Howard Alan Events, Inc. for the North Beach Shoppes Arts & Crafts Festival (February 2025) - (Commission District 1) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CM-3 25-0146 Motion Approving a Temporary Beach License, Outdoor Event Agreement and Request for Extended Road Closures Beyond 10:00am on the Barrier Island with AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Inc. for the 2025 Florida AIDS Walk & Music Festival - (Commission District 2) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CM-4 25-0105 Motion Approving the Commissioning of Lifeguard Tower Artwork - (Commission District 2) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CM-5 25-0099 Motion Approving Grant Application - Broward County Enhanced Marine Law Enforcement - $155,088 - (Commission Districts 1, 2 ,3 and 4) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CM-7 25-0103 Motion Approving Change Order No. 3 to Task Order No.19 for Construction Engineering and Inspection Services for the City Hall Parking Garage Emergency Repairs - Kittelson & Associates, Inc. - $86,888 - (Commission District 4) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis City of Fort Lauderdale Page 3 Printed on 2/4/2025 City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary February 4, 2025 CM-8 25-0106 Motion Rejecting All Bids for the South Side Cultural Arts Center - Manual Transfer Switch - Invitation to Bid (ITB) Event No. 291 - (Commission District 4) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CM-9 25-0157 Motion Approving a Triparty Lien Settlement Agreement Between Barbara Cohen, Aval Assets, LLC, and the City of Fort Lauderdale - (Commission District 1) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CM-10 25-0090 Motion Approving a Retroactive Agreement for the Design Criteria Package for the 17th Street Causeway Large Watermain Replacement - Chen Moore and Associates, Inc. - 743-Day Extension and $39,529.75 - (Commission District 4) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CONSENT RESOLUTION CR-1 25-0068 Resolution Approving a Landscape Maintenance Memorandum of Agreement for State Road 5 (North Federal Highway/US-1) with the Florida Department of Transportation for Landscape Improvements within the Right-of-Way of State Road 5 and Assumption of Liability and Hold Harmless Agreement with Jim Moran Foundation, Inc. - (Commission District 1) ADOPTED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CR-2 25-0091 Resolution Approving the Consolidated Budget Amendment to Fiscal Year 2025 - Appropriation - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) ADOPTED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis City of Fort Lauderdale Page 4 Printed on 2/4/2025 City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary February 4, 2025 CONSENT PURCHASE CP-1 25-0022 Motion Approving Agreement for Turf Grass Maintenance NE - Juniper Landscaping of Florida, LLC - $775,470 - (Commission Districts 1 and 2) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CP-2 25-0023 Motion Approving Agreement for Turf Grass Maintenance NW - VisualScape, Inc. - $489,624.30 - (Commission Districts 1, 2, and 3) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CP-3 25-0024 Motion Approving Agreement for Turf Grass Maintenance SE - Juniper Landscaping of Florida, LLC - $523,255 - (Commission Districts 2 and 4) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CP-4 25-0025 Motion Approving Agreement for Turf Grass Maintenance SW - VisualScape, Inc. - $464,334.70 - (Commission Districts 2, 3 and 4) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS PULLED FOR DISCUSSION CM-6 25-0100 Motion Approving a License Application and Agreement for the Sale, Service, and Consumption of Food and Alcoholic Beverages on the Public Beach for Rahn Bahia Mar, LLC d/b/a Bahia Mar Beach Resort - (Commission District 2) APPROVED Yea: 4 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis Abstain: 1 - Commissioner Herbst City of Fort Lauderdale Page 5 Printed on 2/4/2025 City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary February 4, 2025 MOTIONS M-1 25-0048 Motion Approving an Agreement for the Progresso Village Stormwater Improvements - Man-Con, Incorporated - $39,579,918 - (Commission District 2) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis M-2 25-0061 Motion Selecting a City Manager Finalist, and Naming a City Official or Staff Member to Conduct Discussions with the Selected Finalist for the Purpose of Presenting Terms for a Proposed Employment Contract to the City Commission for Consideration - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) APPROVED - City Manager Finalist - Rickelle Williams Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis APPROVED - Mayor Dean J. Trantalis - City Official to Present Terms for a Proposed Employment Contract Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis M-3 25-0123 Motion Approving an Agreement for Design Services for Fire Rescue Station No. 13 and Emergency Medical Substation No. 88 - H2M Architects & Engineers, Inc. - $1,096,299.07- (Commission Districts 2 and 4) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis M-4 25-0170 Motion Approving Change Order No. 4 to Task Order No. 6 for Consultant Services for New Police Headquarters - AECOM Technical Services, Inc. - $946,915.78 - (Commission District 2) APPROVED Yea: 4 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis Nay: 1 - Commissioner Herbst City of Fort Lauderdale Page 6 Printed on 2/4/2025 City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary February 4, 2025 25-0195 WALK-ON Motion Approving an Outdoor Event Agreement and Request for Music Exemption with 1134 L.L.C. for Smitty’s Super Bowl Sunday Watch Party - (Commission District 3) APPROVED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis RESOLUTIONS R-1 25-0152 Appointment of Board and Committee Members - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) ADOPTED AS AMENDED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis R-2 25-0075 Quasi-Judicial Resolution - Approving the Vacation of Utility Easements - Located at 2750 NW 19th Street - City of Fort Lauderdale - Case No. UDP- EV24005 - (Commission District 3) Anyone wishing to speak must be sworn in. The Commission will announce any site visits, communications or expert opinions received and make them part of the record. ADOPTED Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis ORDINANCE FIRST READING OFR-1 25-0088 First Reading - An Ordinance of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, to create a dependent special district pursuit to Section 189.02, Florida Statutes, to be known as Fort Lauderdale Emergency Medical Services District and providing for the codification of the same through the amendment of Chapter 13 - Fire Prevention and Protection of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by specifically creating Article VI of the Code of Ordinances to be entitled the “Fort Lauderdale Emergency Medical Services (EMS) District - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) REMOVED FROM AGENDA City of Fort Lauderdale Page 7 Printed on 2/4/2025 City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary February 4, 2025 OFR-2 25-0030 First Reading - Ordinance Amending Section 26-161 of the Code of Ordinances to Establish a Fee Structure for Permanent and Temporary Parking Removal for On-Street Parking - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) PASSED FIRST READING Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis ORDINANCE SECOND READING OSR-1 25-0066 Second Reading - An Ordinance Amending Chapter 28 - Water, Wastewater, And Stormwater, Sections 28-203, 28-223, 28-231; Creating a New Section 28-251 - Cease and Desist Order and Re-Codifying Sections 25-252 through 28-254 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Fort Lauderdale - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) ADOPTED ON SECOND READING Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis OSR-2 25-0154 Second Reading - An Ordinance Amending the Classification Table of the Pay Plan of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, as Amended, by Changing the Pay Grade of One Classification and Creating One New Classification - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) ADOPTED ON SECOND READING Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis OSR-3 25-0138 Second Reading - Quasi-Judicial Ordinance Approving a Rezoning from Intense Manufacturing and Industrial (M-3, Broward County) District to Uptown Urban Village Southeast (UUV-SE) District - City of Fort Lauderdale - 200 W Cypress Creek Road - 200 W Cypress Creek Holdings - Case No. UDP-Z24012 - (Commission District 1) Anyone wishing to speak must be sworn in. The Commission will announce any site visits, communications or expert opinions received and make them part of the record. ADOPTED ON SECOND READING Yea: 5 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen, Commissioner Herbst, Vice Mayor Glassman and Mayor Trantalis City of Fort Lauderdale Page 8 Printed on 2/4/2025 City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary February 4, 2025 CITY COMMISSIONER REPORTS MAYOR REPORT CITY MANAGER REPORT MGR-1 25-0173 City Commission Follow up Action Items - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) ADJOURNMENT City of Fort Lauderdale Page 9 Printed on 2/4/2025