City Commission Regular Meeting
Regular MeetingFort Lauderdale, FL · May 20, 2025
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Action Summary
Tuesday, May 20, 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
JOHN C. HERBST Vice Mayor - Commissioner - District 1
STEVEN GLASSMAN Commissioner - District 2
PAM BEASLEY-PITTMAN Commissioner - District 3
BEN SORENSEN Commissioner - District 4
RICKELLE WILLIAMS, City Manager
DAVID R. SOLOMAN, City Clerk
D'WAYNE M. SPENCE, Interim City Attorney
PATRICK REILLY, City Auditor
City Commission Regular Meeting Action Summary May 20, 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.
AUXILIARY AIDS AND SERVICES: If you desire auxiliary aids or services or both to assist
in viewing or hearing the City Commission meetings or reading the agenda and minutes for
the meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 954-828-5002 at a minimum of two
days prior to the meeting and arrangements will be made to provide these services to you.
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Pledge of Allegiance
ROLL CALL
Present: 4 - Commissioner Steven Glassman, Commissioner Pam
Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Ben Sorensen and Mayor Dean J.
Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor John C. Herbst
Approval of MINUTES and Agenda
25-0527 Minutes for April 1, 2025, Commission Conference Meeting -
(Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
APPROVED AS AMENDED - Agenda Amended
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
PRESENTATIONS
PRES- 25-0557 Mayor Trantalis to recognize Fort Lauderdale High School's Mock
1 Trial Team as the winners of the Florida Mock Trial State
Championship
PRESENTED
PRES- 25-0554 Recognition of Participants in the City of Fort Lauderdale's StartUp
2 FTL Entrepreneurial Program
PRESENTED
PRES- 25-0555 Florida City and County Management Association (FCCMA)
3 Recognition of the 100th Anniversary of the Commission-Manager
Form of Government in the City of Fort Lauderdale
PRESENTED
PRES- 25-0556 Commissioner Beasley-Pittman to present a Proclamation declaring
4 May 28, 2025, as Menstrual Hygiene Day in the City of Fort
Lauderdale
PRESENTED
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PRES- 25-0553 Commissioner Sorensen to present a Proclamation declaring May
5 18-24, 2025, as National Public Works Week in the City of Fort
Lauderdale
PRESENTED
CONSENT AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT
CONSENT AGENDA
Approval of the Consent Agenda
Approve the Consent Agenda
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
CONSENT MOTIONS
CM-1 25-0467 Motion Approving a License Application and an Agreement for the
Sale, Service, and Consumption of Food and Alcoholic Beverages on
the Public Beach - Jefast Pelican Grand I, LLC for The Pelican
Grand Beach Resort located at 2000 North Ocean Boulevard -
(Commission District 2)
APPROVED
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
CM-2 25-0113 Motion Approving an Amended and Restated Agreement between
Broward County and the City of Fort Lauderdale for SWIM Central
Water Safety Instruction and Education at Bass Park Pool, Carter
Park Pool, Croissant Park Pool, Lauderdale Manors Park Pool, and
Riverland Park Pool - (Commission Districts 3 and 4)
APPROVED
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
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CM-3 25-0413 Motion Approving an Agreement for the Fort Lauderdale Beach Park
Parking Lot Improvements - Sagaris Corp. - Additional 205 Days and
$69,101.50 - (Commission Districts 2 and 4)
APPROVED
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
CM-4 25-0532 Motion Authorizing the City Attorney’s Office to File a Small Claims
Action for the City of Fort Lauderdale v. Luis Carlos Lopez in the
amount of $6,837.23 in the County Court of the Seventeenth Judicial
Circuit in and for Broward County, Florida - (Commission Districts 1,
2, 3 and 4)
APPROVED
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
CONSENT PURCHASE
CP-1 25-0420 Motion Approving an Agreement for Marine Fuel - 90 Non-Ethanol
and Diesel - Marine Fuel Service & Supply Company - $116,537.76 -
(Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
APPROVED
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
MOTIONS
M-1 25-0427 Motion Approving a First Amendment and Five-Year Extension to the
Agreement with TMF Holdco, LLC for the Annual Three-Day Tortuga
Music Festival on Fort Lauderdale Beach - (Commission Districts 2
and 4)
APPROVED
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
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RESOLUTIONS
R-1 25-0533 Appointment of Board and Committee Members - (Commission
Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
ADOPTED
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
R-2 25-0548 Resolution Approving the Interlocal Agreement Between the City of
Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale Community Redevelopment Agency
and the Broward County Board of County Commissioners to Extend
the Northwest-Progresso-Flagler Heights Community Redevelopment
Area for ten (10) years with City Only Tax Increment Funding -
(Commission Districts 2 and 3)
ADOPTED
Yea: 3 - Commissioner Beasley-Pittman, Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor
Trantalis
Nay: 1 - Commissioner Glassman
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
ORDINANCE FIRST READING
OFR-1 25-0421 First Reading - Ordinance Amending Chapter 15 - Business Tax
Receipts and Miscellaneous Business Regulations, Article II - Local
Business Tax of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Fort
Lauderdale to Consolidate Business Tax Categories - (Commission
Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
PASSED FIRST READING
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
OFR-2 25-0459 First Reading - Ordinance Amending Chapter 27 of the Code of
Ordinances to Establish an Administrative Application Process,
Associated Fees, and Define Vehicle for Hire Services and
Operating Standards - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
REMOVED FROM AGENDA
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ORDINANCE SECOND READING
OSR-1 25-0545 Second Reading - Quasi-Judicial Ordinance Approving a Public
Purpose Use and Structure - 845 NW 3rd Avenue - City of Fort
Lauderdale - Progresso Village Stormwater Pump Station - Case No.
UDP-S24042 - (Commission District 2)
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: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
OSR-2 25-0544 Second Reading - Ordinance Amending Maximum Daily Penalties for
Code Violations to Align with Chapter 162 of the Florida State
Statutes - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
ADOPTED ON SECOND READING
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
OSR-3 25-0546 Second Reading - Ordinance Amending the City of Fort Lauderdale
Unified Land Development Regulations (ULDR) Section 47-13.20,
Section 47-13.50, and Section 47-28 to Permit Allocation of
Residential Dwelling Units from a Sending Site to a Receiving Site
Utilizing the Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Program - Case
No. UDP-T25006 - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
ADOPTED ON SECOND READING
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner Beasley-Pittman,
Commissioner Sorensen and Mayor Trantalis
Not Present: 1 - Vice Mayor Herbst
ADJOURNMENT
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Agenda
City of Fort Lauderdale
City Commission Regular Meeting
Agenda
Tuesday, May 20, 2025 - 6:00 PM
Broward Center for the Performing Arts - Mary N. Porter Riverview
Ballroom - 201 SW 5th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312
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FORT LAUDERDALE CITY COMMISSION
DEAN J. TRANTALIS Mayor
JOHN C. HERBST Vice Mayor - Commissioner - District I
STEVEN GLASSMAN Commissioner - District II
PAM BEASLEY-PITTMAN Commissioner - District III
BEN SORENSEN Commissioner - District IV
RICKELLE WILLIAMS, City Manager
DAVID R. SOLOMAN, City Clerk
D'WAYNE M. SPENCE, Interim City Attorney
PATRICK REILLY, City Auditor
City Commission Regular Meeting Agenda May 20, 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.
AUXILIARY AIDS AND SERVICES: If you desire auxiliary aids or services or both to assist
in viewing or hearing the City Commission meetings or reading the agenda and minutes for
the meeting, please contact the City Clerk’s Office at 954-828-5002 at a minimum of two
days prior to the meeting and arrangements will be made to provide these services to you.
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Pledge of Allegiance
ROLL CALL
Approval of MINUTES and Agenda
25-0527 Minutes for April 1, 2025, Commission Conference Meeting -
(Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Attachments: April 1, 2025 Commission Conference Meeting
PRESENTATIONS
PRES-1 25-0557 Mayor Trantalis to recognize Fort Lauderdale High School's Mock Trial
Team as the winners of the Florida Mock Trial State Championship
PRES-2 25-0554 Recognition of Participants in the City of Fort Lauderdale's StartUp FTL
Entrepreneurial Program
PRES-3 25-0555 Florida City and County Management Association (FCCMA) Recognition
of the 100th Anniversary of the Commission-Manager Form of Government
in the City of Fort Lauderdale
PRES-4 25-0556 Commissioner Beasley-Pittman to present a Proclamation declaring May
28, 2025, as Menstrual Hygiene Day in the City of Fort Lauderdale
PRES-5 25-0553 Commissioner Sorensen to present a Proclamation declaring May 18-24,
2025, as National Public Works Week in the City of Fort Lauderdale
CONSENT AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT
CONSENT AGENDA
Those matters included under the Consent Agenda are self-explanatory and are not
expected to require review or discussion. Items will be enacted by one motion on which
members of the public will be given three (3) minutes to speak prior to its approval. An
item may be removed from the Consent Agenda and considered separately if discussion
is desired by any City Commissioner or charter officer.
CONSENT MOTIONS
CM-1 25-0467 Motion Approving a License Application and an Agreement for the Sale,
Service, and Consumption of Food and Alcoholic Beverages on the Public
Beach - Jefast Pelican Grand I, LLC for The Pelican Grand Beach Resort
located at 2000 North Ocean Boulevard - (Commission District 2)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo #25-0467
Exhibit 1 – Application Package
Exhibit 2 - License Agreement
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CM-2 25-0113 Motion Approving an Amended and Restated Agreement between
Broward County and the City of Fort Lauderdale for SWIM Central Water
Safety Instruction and Education at Bass Park Pool, Carter Park Pool,
Croissant Park Pool, Lauderdale Manors Park Pool, and Riverland Park
Pool - (Commission Districts 3 and 4)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo #25-0113
Exhibit 1 – Swim Central Agreement, 2016
Exhibit 2 - Amended and Restated Swim Central Agreement
CM-3 25-0413 Motion Approving an Agreement for the Fort Lauderdale Beach Park
Parking Lot Improvements - Sagaris Corp. - Additional 205 Days and
$69,101.50 - (Commission Districts 2 and 4)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo 25-0413
Exhibit 1 - CAM #23-0894
Exhibit 2 - Executed Agreement
Exhibit 3 - Change Order No. 1
Exhibit 4 – Agreement
CM-4 25-0532 Motion Authorizing the City Attorney’s Office to File a Small Claims Action
for the City of Fort Lauderdale v. Luis Carlos Lopez in the amount of
$6,837.23 in the County Court of the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit in and for
Broward County, Florida - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo 25-0532
CONSENT PURCHASE
CP-1 25-0420 Motion Approving an Agreement for Marine Fuel - 90 Non-Ethanol and
Diesel - Marine Fuel Service & Supply Company - $116,537.76 -
(Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo #25-0420
Exhibit 1 - Solicitation
Exhibit 2 - Bid Tabulation
Exhibit 3 - Best and Final Offer (BAFO)
Exhibit 4 - Agreement
MOTIONS
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M-1 25-0427 Motion Approving a First Amendment and Five-Year Extension to the
Agreement with TMF Holdco, LLC for the Annual Three-Day Tortuga Music
Festival on Fort Lauderdale Beach - (Commission Districts 2 and 4)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo #25-0427
Exhibit 1 – Current Agreement
Exhibit 2 – 2025 Letter of Intent to Renew
Exhibit 3 – Request for 2026 Dates
Exhibit 4 - Tortuga Music Festival Site Plan
Exhibit 5 - First Amendment and Extension to Agreement
RESOLUTIONS
R-1 25-0533 Appointment of Board and Committee Members - (Commission Districts
1, 2, 3 and 4)
Attachments: Resolution for Appointment 05.20.2025
R-2 25-0548 Resolution Approving the Interlocal Agreement Between the City of Fort
Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale Community Redevelopment Agency and the
Broward County Board of County Commissioners to Extend the
Northwest-Progresso-Flagler Heights Community Redevelopment Area for
ten (10) years with City Only Tax Increment Funding - (Commission
Districts 2 and 3)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo #25-0548
Exhibit 1 – Northwest-Progresso-Flagler Heights CRA Extension Interlocal Agreement
Exhibit 2 - Resolution
ORDINANCE FIRST READING
OFR-1 25-0421 First Reading - Ordinance Amending Chapter 15 - Business Tax Receipts
and Miscellaneous Business Regulations, Article II - Local Business Tax of
the Code of Ordinances of the City of Fort Lauderdale to Consolidate
Business Tax Categories - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo 25-0421
Exhibit 1 - Business Tax Analysis
Exhibit 2 - Business Impact Estimate
Exhibit 3 - Ordinance
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OFR-2 25-0459 First Reading - Ordinance Amending Chapter 27 of the Code of
Ordinances to Establish an Administrative Application Process,
Associated Fees, and Define Vehicle for Hire Services and Operating
Standards - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo 25-0459
Exhibit 1 - Ordinance
Exhibit 2 – Business Impact Estimate
ORDINANCE SECOND READING
OSR-1 25-0545 Second Reading - Quasi-Judicial Ordinance Approving a Public Purpose
Use and Structure - 845 NW 3rd Avenue - City of Fort Lauderdale -
Progresso Village Stormwater Pump Station - Case No. UDP-S24042 -
(Commission District 2)
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.
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo 25-0545
Exhibit 1 - Location Map
Exhibit 2 – Application, Project Narratives, and Plan Set
Exhibit 3 – DRC Case Comment Report with Applicant’s Responses
Exhibit 4 – February 19, 2025, PZB Staff Report
Exhibit 5 – February 19, 2025, PZB Meeting Minutes
Exhibit 6 - Ordinance
OSR-2 25-0544 Second Reading - Ordinance Amending Maximum Daily Penalties for
Code Violations to Align with Chapter 162 of the Florida State Statutes -
(Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo 25-0544
Exhibit 1 - Ordinance
OSR-3 25-0546 Second Reading - Ordinance Amending the City of Fort Lauderdale
Unified Land Development Regulations (ULDR) Section 47-13.20, Section
47-13.50, and Section 47-28 to Permit Allocation of Residential Dwelling
Units from a Sending Site to a Receiving Site Utilizing the Transfer of
Development Rights (TDR) Program - Case No. UDP-T25006 -
(Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo 25-0546
Exhibit 1 - April 16, 2025, PZB Staff Report
Exhibit 2 - April 16 2025 Draft Meeting Minutes
Exhibit 3 - Ordinance
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ADJOURNMENT
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