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City Commission Regular Meeting

May 20, 2025 ·6:00 PM Final

Broward Center for the Performing Arts - Mary N. Porter Riverview Ballroom - 201 SW 5th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33312

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Agenda — 42 items

  1. 1 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.
  2. 1 CALL TO ORDER
  3. 2 PAGE BREAK
  4. 3 Pledge of Allegiance
  5. 3 MOMENT OF SILENCE
  6. 4 ROLL CALL
  7. 4 EMPLOYEE RETIREMENTS
  8. 5 Approval of MINUTES and Agenda
  9. 6 Minutes for April 1, 2025, Commission Conference Meeting - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) 25-0527 APPROVED AS AMENDED Pass
  10. 6 COMMISSION QUORUM ESTABLISHED
  11. PRES PRESENTATIONS
  12. 7 AGENDA ANNOUNCEMENTSS
  13. PRES-1 Mayor Trantalis to recognize Fort Lauderdale High School's Mock Trial Team as the winners of the Florida Mock Trial State Championship 25-0557 PRESENTED
  14. PRES-2 Recognition of Participants in the City of Fort Lauderdale's StartUp FTL Entrepreneurial Program 25-0554 PRESENTED
  15. PRES-3 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 25-0555 PRESENTED
  16. PRES-4 Commissioner Beasley-Pittman to present a Proclamation declaring May 28, 2025, as Menstrual Hygiene Day in the City of Fort Lauderdale 25-0556 PRESENTED
  17. PRES-5 Commissioner Sorensen to present a Proclamation declaring May 18-24, 2025, as National Public Works Week in the City of Fort Lauderdale 25-0553 PRESENTED
  18. 13 CONSENT AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT
  19. 14 CONSENT AGENDA
  20. CM CONSENT MOTIONS
  21. CM-1 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) 25-0467 APPROVED Pass
  22. CM-2 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) 25-0113 APPROVED Pass
  23. CM-3 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) 25-0413 APPROVED Pass
  24. 18 Approval of the Consent Agenda APPROVED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA Pass
  25. CM-4 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) 25-0532 APPROVED Pass
  26. CP CONSENT PURCHASE
  27. CP-1 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) 25-0420 APPROVED Pass
  28. M MOTIONS
  29. M-1 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) 25-0427 APPROVED Pass
  30. R RESOLUTIONS
  31. R-1 Appointment of Board and Committee Members - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4) 25-0533 ADOPTED Pass
  32. R-2 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) 25-0548 ADOPTED Pass
  33. OFR ORDINANCE FIRST READING
  34. OFR-1 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) 25-0421 PASSED FIRST READING Pass
  35. OFR-2 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) 25-0459 REMOVED FROM AGENDA
  36. OSR ORDINANCE SECOND READING
  37. OSR-1 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. 25-0545 ADOPTED ON SECOND READING Pass
  38. OSR-2 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) 25-0544 ADOPTED ON SECOND READING Pass
  39. OSR-3 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) 25-0546 ADOPTED ON SECOND READING Pass
  40. 34 ADJOURNMENT
  41. 38 COMMISSION DISCUSSION
  42. 39 PAGE BREAK