COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD
Regular MeetingFort Lauderdale, FL · May 3, 2022
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Action Summary
Tuesday, May 3, 2022
2:30 PM
City Hall - City Commission Chambers
OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE
100 North Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD
FORT LAUDERDALE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS
DEAN J. TRANTALIS - Chair
BEN SORENSEN - Vice Chair
HEATHER MORAITIS - Commissioner - District I
STEVEN GLASSMAN - Commissioner - District II
ROBERT L. McKINZIE -Commissioner - District III
CHRIS LAGERBLOOM, Executive Director
DAVID R. SOLOMAN, Secretary
ALAIN E. BOILEAU, General Counsel
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT Action Summary May 3, 2022
AGENCY BOARD
PUBLIC APPEARANCES BEFORE THE CRA BOARD:
If any person wishes to address the Board, the person shall sign up in the City Hall lobby. A
member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. Speaker Cards are given to
the Chair. After being recognized by the Chair, the speaker should 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 Board in a representative capacity,
the attorney, or other representative the person shall sign up in the City Hall lobby. A
member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. After being recognized by the
Chair, the speaker should 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 Chair
shall maintain order at all meetings, and the Police Department, upon instructions of the
Chair, shall expel any person from the meeting who refuses to obey the order of the Chair
in relation to preserving order at the meetings. Any person who interrupts or disturbs a City
Board meeting, or who willfully enters or remains in a City Board meeting having been
warned by the Chair 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 Board 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.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC: If a person decides to appeal any decision made
by the board, agency, or commission with respect to any matter considered at such
meeting or hearing, the person will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such
purpose, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made,
which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.
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COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT Action Summary May 3, 2022
AGENCY BOARD
ROLL CALL
Present 5 - Commissioner Steven Glassman, Commissioner Robert L. McKinzie,
Vice Chair Ben Sorensen, Commissioner Heather Moraitis, and Chair
Dean J. Trantalis
MOTIONS
M-1 22-0446 Motion Approving Minutes for April 5, 2022 Community
Redevelopment Agency Board Meeting and April 19, 2022
Community Redevelopment Agency Board Meeting - (Commission
Districts 2 and 3)
APPROVED
Yea: 4 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner McKinzie, Vice Chair
Sorensen and Commissioner Moraitis
Not Present: 1 - Chair Trantalis
M-2 22-0038 Motion Approving a Property and Business Improvement Program
Incentive Forgivable Loan in the Amount of $125,000 and a
Non-Residential Façade Program Incentive Forgivable Loan in the
Amount of $75,000 to Rhythms 2.0, LLC for Rhythms 2.0, a Soul
Food and Seafood Restaurant Proposed at 733-735 Sistrunk
Boulevard - (Commission District 2)
APPROVED
Yea: 5 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner McKinzie, Vice Chair
Sorensen, Commissioner Moraitis and Chair Trantalis
M-3 22-0434 Motion Approving $355,000 for Finally Friday on Sistrunk Series -
(Commission District 3)
APPROVED
Yea: 5 - Commissioner Glassman, Commissioner McKinzie, Vice Chair
Sorensen, Commissioner Moraitis and Chair Trantalis
ADJOURNMENT
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Agenda
City of Fort Lauderdale
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD
Agenda
City Hall - City Commission Chambers
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 - 2:30 PM
OR AS SOON THEREAFTER AS POSSIBLE
100 North Andrews Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
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
FORT LAUDERDALE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD OF
COMMISSIONERS
DEAN J. TRANTALIS - Chair
BEN SORENSEN - Vice Chair
HEATHER MORAITIS - Commissioner - District I
STEVEN GLASSMAN - Commissioner - District II
ROBERT L. McKINZIE -Commissioner - District III
CHRIS LAGERBLOOM, Executive Director
DAVID R. SOLOMAN, Secretary
ALAIN E. BOILEAU, General Counsel
COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT Agenda May 3, 2022
AGENCY BOARD
PUBLIC APPEARANCES BEFORE THE CRA BOARD:
If any person wishes to address the Board, the person shall sign up in the City Hall lobby. A
member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. Speaker Cards are given to
the Chair. After being recognized by the Chair, the speaker should 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 Board in a representative capacity,
the attorney, or other representative the person shall sign up in the City Hall lobby. A
member of the City Clerk’s Office Staff will be there to assist. After being recognized by the
Chair, the speaker should 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 Chair
shall maintain order at all meetings, and the Police Department, upon instructions of the
Chair, shall expel any person from the meeting who refuses to obey the order of the Chair
in relation to preserving order at the meetings. Any person who interrupts or disturbs a City
Board meeting, or who willfully enters or remains in a City Board meeting having been
warned by the Chair 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 Board 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.
NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC: If a person decides to appeal any decision made
by the board, agency, or commission with respect to any matter considered at such
meeting or hearing, the person will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such
purpose, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is
made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be
based.
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COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT Agenda May 3, 2022
AGENCY BOARD
ROLL CALL
MOTIONS
M-1 22-0446 Motion Approving Minutes for April 5, 2022 Community Redevelopment
Agency Board Meeting and April 19, 2022 Community Redevelopment
Agency Board Meeting - (Commission Districts 2 and 3)
Attachments: April 5, 2022 Community Redevelopment Agency Board Meeting Minutes
April 19, 2022 Community Redevelopment Agency Board Meeting Minutes
M-2 22-0038 Motion Approving a Property and Business Improvement Program
Incentive Forgivable Loan in the Amount of $125,000 and a
Non-Residential Façade Program Incentive Forgivable Loan in the Amount
of $75,000 to Rhythms 2.0, LLC for Rhythms 2.0, a Soul Food and
Seafood Restaurant Proposed at 733-735 Sistrunk Boulevard -
(Commission District 2)
Attachments: CRA Board Memo 22-0038
Exhibit 1 - Location Map
Exhibit 2 - Broward County Property Appraiser Information
Exhibit 3 - Architectural Plan
Exhibit 4 - Cost/Funding Breakdown
Exhibit 5 - CRA Funding Application/Business Plan
Exhibit 6 - NPF CRA Advisory Board Approved Minutes of May 11, 2021
Exhibit 7 - Property and Business Improvement Program (PBIP) Agreement
Exhibit 8 - Non-Residential Façade Program Agreement
M-3 22-0434 Motion Approving $355,000 for Finally Friday on Sistrunk Series -
(Commission District 3)
Attachments: Commission Agenda Memo 22-0434
ADJOURNMENT
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