foreign Randolph from Inglewood Neighborhood Center which is the naval Center that I grew up in I just love the idea because growing up at the shop that I grew up in they gave me an opportunity so why not give back I always loved art like in any type of form if it's drawing tattoo graffiti haircuts anything so once I turned 16 I got involved with the program uh since then I've been working here at the barber shop and learning new things he comes in he helps out with a lot of just you know the basics from sweeping hair to standing behind somebody's chair asking questions and I think him seeing my actions and the way I move and how everything functions I think he picks up on a lot of that as well but the thing that I learned so far is the more customers you can gain in the barber industry by it's not just by cutting hair and like cutting good that's not what barbing is all about it's also having a connection with your clients and understanding them and they were just teaching us how to manage our money save it and just use it properly in the proper way from business owner to business owner if we can help and the more people get involved the better the chances are that these young men growing up and young women growing up you know they can change their life I want to be above them and I also want to have my own business and the barber industry as well [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] thoughts from bumpy path [Music] this is such a friendly neighborhood because people have been aggressively waving at me a lot today what is that sound I keep hearing behind me oh I'm dragging a child's kite how long have I been dragging that for and why didn't any of these nice people tell me [Music] please [Music] foreign [Music] I've been waiting for this for weeks I gotta tell you I am so ready to do this I even have the bed ready so when you get home we can get really dirty look at him hey here you go with all this compost we're gonna have the best plants in the neighborhood [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] trailing thoughts from airport Gap [Music] planes were like people would Jets be considered the jocks would they throw hanger parties when their parents were out of town if one plane said to the other I just flew in from the coast and boy are my arms tired would it be considered a joke or just normal conversation [Music] foreign people just say can you hold my hand [Music] and you just you make that difference [Music] and you're helping them get through a bad day [Music] all right [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign good afternoon and welcome to the March 20th 2023 meeting of the Orlando city council we're going to begin today's proceedings with the invocation and the Pledge of Allegiance today led by commissioner Stewart commissioner thank you mayor if you'll uh allow me a few moments to share this week has been designated to Mr Rogers week of kindness and I am so grateful to the team of people who continue to keep his memory alive um so said of a traditional prayer today I'd like to commit my invocation some thoughts from Mr Rogers himself so here's just a few as human beings our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really are and each of us has something that no one else has or ever will have and something that is unique all time it's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways to develop its expression the real issue in life is not how many blessings we have but what we do with our blessings some people have many blessings and hoard them some have very few and they give it away the media shows the tiniest percentage of what people do there are millions and millions of people doing wonderful things all over the world and they're generally not the ones being touted in the news when I was a boy I would see scary things on the news and my mother would say to me look for the helpers you will always find people who are willing to help and let me conclude with this prayer Mr Rogers was asked by a child how how to pray and his response was simply three words thank you God 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 for the Liberty it's called a meeting daughter Madam clerk would you call the role and make a determination of a quorum please commissioner gray here commissioner Ortiz here commissioner Stewart here commissioner Sheehan here commissioner Hill here commissioner Burns here mayor Dyer here mayor you have a quorum with all members present thank you madam clerk uh first item of business is consideration of minutes second from the agenda review and City Council meetings of February the 20th 2023 motion by commissioner Shin second by commissioner Hill all in favor of motion indicate so by saying aye aye those opposed and so the motion carries we have no words presentations and recognition so that brings us right to the mayor's update and uh last week we were fortunate to host what I think is one of the best spring sporting events in the entire country and that's March Madness we had eight teams that filled our downtown restaurants and hotels six games at the Amway Center a couple of them were really good games probably three of them I would say and when we endeavored on to the community venues projects in 2007 that's exactly what we were looking to bring to downtown Orlando things that make memorable events for our residents and then bringing lots of visitors so we want to thank our greater Orlando Sports commission our venues Economic Development Transportation teams and OPD and ofd for ensuring that this event was a success and was safe in our downtown um items of note from the agenda today um I would say one of the most successful programs that we've had in the last 15 years is our Main Street programs it's transformed commercial districts into thriving districts for residents and visitors alike I think it's actually been a little bit of a detriment to our downtown because everybody wants to go to our Main Street districts rather than come downtown and worry about parking but we love our main streets and we are have two additional agreements for our Paramore Main Street um Main Street and our website's Market Street so we consider those main streets an extension of our city and then they work closely with City staff and the district commissioner we've seen how successful they can be so we hope that those two districts will continue in that mode as well c24 is one known a plaza affordable housing agreement that's a vote on a development agreement with one Nona Plaza to commit 10 of its new family development to affordable housing congratulations commissioner gray that's great work out in that District when we look forward to other developers following suit uh D2 through five are as an effort to reduce crime there are so many different facets to fighting crime and the best way to fight crime is prevention rather than apprehending somebody after they've committed crime so we have launched our community violence Intervention Program a few months ago using arpa funds so that's funds that we got from the federal government the neighborhood change Associates are working to help young residents pivot away from gun violence and connect them with wraparound services to provide them with opportunities to thrive so we have agreements with the Florida rights restoration Coalition operation New Hope the Stono Institute for democracy Justice and security and no limit health and education and allow us to have additional neighborhood change Associates providing Workforce Development training and job placement and most importantly access to mental health and substance abuse treatment last thing I want to mention is our dto facade program update which I think is really important as we continue to look at different ways to enhance our downtown to preservation and revitalization of vacant and current buildings is important especially in those areas where we have a lot of foot traffic and people who are looking to come to our businesses so these incentives help businesses relocate and to stay in our downtown with that we're going to move on to the consent agenda the consent agenda is a number of items that are act upon through a single vote of council we give each of the members of the council an opportunity to comment on the consent agenda and to update you on very important things that are happening in their districts and we'll begin with commissioner Stewart today thank you let me take the next 45 minutes and talk about the great things are going on in District 3. I'm sorry I won't do that to you but I do want to share a couple of things I think are important um the week of kindness starts today some of y'all have let me say that earlier uh we uh worked with a group who is trying to um remember Fred Rogers the impact he had on our community here as a Rollins graduate and spent most of his time in Pittsburgh but spent about a fourth of his time down here and so uh he's had an incredible impact on the world 835 episodes of Mr Rogers neighborhood and uh so we're trying to empower our community to remember kindness It's this week if you need some more information just look up week of kindness or give me a call back at my office and contact me I'll get you in touch with somebody I want to say a special thanks to all those involved in Lou Gardens for our Lou Gardens plant sale I was great I don't know how many we had but I was told we have as many as 5 000 a day is that right I'm just it was just incredible um and uh I appreciate the work of course appreciate the interim leadership of Frank Billingsley and then Tracy and all the rest over there it was just great yesterday we had the official beginning of baseball at North Orlando Kiwanis a little league over uh in the Baldwin Park Audubon Park area I mentioned that for several reasons but one it's the one of the oldest little leagues that are in the state at 70 years old separate that's celebrated his 70th Anniversary this year so my father was instrumental in helping to start that years ago it's kind of nice to see that continue on uh some upcoming events just to give you a quick update the YMCA and packing district will be opened up this week they're having a community event on Saturday the 25th um the uh Tennis Center is on its way to being completed and we're looking forward to having that sometime in the next couple of months to get all that organized and as the mayor has said and we have said we're going to do it right and do it one time and do it right so we're going to get that done uh very soon the Rosemont Community is having a block party on April 1st the Sunday in the park in College Park is the 26th this Sunday next next Sunday and then the most important thing that we can do I get comments regularly during the summer about why don't we have more pools open and I will tell you it's a direct relationship to the number of lifeguards we have so if you know somebody who's a high school swimmer who already knows how to swim we can we've got a great job for the summer so please contact us um we name the year round but we can take them during the summer uh on the agenda mayor there's two I just want to mention uh c28 and 29 are small business facade grants I mentioned those because our city is invested into the community uh and one of the ways that we give back is to provide a grant for those who are doing small business facades in our community so those are two in College Park and then then one over in District six and a number item number 27. and the other is that we were putting some money into buying some Solid Waste trucks 11 trucks we have a great need over there it's been a challenge it will take us probably nine months to a year to get the trucks in but it's a good opportunity for us to to get good quality trucks and as well as bring our other trucks up to speed um we saw a significant challenge during Hurricane Ian with the amount of facilities that we have and so this is our chance to kind of cushion that a little bit I appreciate Corey and Alan the work that they've done so thank you very much and that's all I have mayor thank you thank you Commissioners commissioner well thank you mayor Dyer and uh first of all I need to declare a conflict on item C3 on the municipal planning board annexation 2022-10017 GMP 2023-1001 zoning 2023 one zero zero one due to pending litigation on my house so that's why I'm declaring that conflict and been a lot of news over the weekend unfortunately our beloved Lake Eola swans we had a little bit of a run-in over the weekend we went to see them on Friday they were the black neck pair had five babies which is amazing because they usually don't we usually don't have that many babies in captivity and black necks are really hard to get to to mate and we actually had three babies last year unfortunately over the weekend we got down to one um uh Derek I mean I'm sorry Kurt I keep calling there Kurt over at Lake Eola Park was it was a saint he helped me I jumped in the lake and got the one baby out and the family in there now in a safe place um and chief Smith I can't thank you enough for getting the video it was raccoons so it was four-legged Predators not two-legged Predators this time because we have had swans stolen from the park it's very very sad that it happened but um you know people are asking why didn't you take the swans out the family out to begin with well now we're going to have to reintegrate them to the park and they get into fights and stuff like that because they're territorial animals so I stand by what the parks department decided to do it's unfortunate what happened I love that everybody loves the swans as much as they do so if you really really love Lake Yola swans please bring them leafy greens or proper food don't bring them bread to feed them at Lake Eola park and if you see anything please call the Rangers I happen to see it tagged on Facebook and if I hadn't known I hadn't happened to be posting I wouldn't have known about got it to run over the park and take care of the situation but um but please please call Lake Eola Park Rangers if you see anything suspicious call 9-1-1 if you see anybody harming the animals it is baby season at Lake Eola Park and there's lots of cute little babies to look at but um you know I just want to thank the staff at Lake Eola Park who are equally heartbroken over the loss of these four babies but uh you know we're going to continue to go on we still have one left I think we're going to call her Miracle him or her they them yeah so we don't know who it is yet but uh but yeah it's sad and I know there's a lot of media attention to it and everything like that but um you know I'm glad everybody loves them as much as they do but you know nature sometimes this can be really ugly um on the agenda today um I'm delighted to see that we're on item B21 that we're we're changing the Aging air conditioning system at the Shakespeare Theater I'm glad to see that we're making a commitment to our venues to make sure that they're comfortable for our guests um item F3 the dueling dragons this is a great investment in the community item I4 the release of liability for Brick removal we're getting some bricks to restore our brick streets up from the Church Street Ballroom thank you thank you thank you I think that's public works that's really really smart to repurpose those I love it um items we're going to be doing some restroom improvements at Lake yellow that I'll have to see and also the Thornton Park Main Street agreement is one they do wonderful work in the community and I like to see what they're going to continue doing and that's all I had mayor thank you thank you commissioner moved to commissioner Hill uh thank you mayor Darren thank you commissioner Sheehan for being short and brief because I got a lot to talk about basically is that joke on this Council um also an account uh on the agenda as was previously mentioned by mayor Dyer um I'm celebrating the fact that the West Lakes uh Main Street and Paramore Main Street uh it's on the agenda to move forward uh thank you Justin Kinsey uh for uh what you're doing uh known last Saturday you partnered with myself um Wells Fargo city of Orlando our national Entrepreneur Center and the national black Association for Central Florida chapter in which we presented uh power up to help small businesses and also businesses that's looking to start up I attended all three hours and it was very informative and on April the 1st there will be another convening over at the Grand Avenue Community Center for small businesses and startups with the same group of great Community Partners and thank you Kim King for our your efforts what happened to lead that event um mayor Dyer mentioned something near and dear to all of us here is uh as he stated intervention but also for those youth that have lost their way making sure that we can get them back on the right track and with that the CVI the community change agents have done a phenomenal job with our partners and thank you Lisa early and eight Mars for all of your guidance and support in this effort and congratulations uh commissioner Stewart to this being transition over to the Rosemont area and hopefully the county can work with us to also bring this initiative mayor Dyer since uh November when this program was kicked off and passed by this Council I like to report that there has been a 45 reduction in shooting here in the city of Orlando and 38 percent of gun shot wounds here in the city of Orlando uh and 50 of Youth homicides and those are phenomenal numbers to show where this great program is really working thanks chief for you and your team for all that you're doing to support this initiative and working hand in hand with the community with this community effort what's more important as mayor Dyer stated is the mental health component I know this these efforts even with the reduction cannot happen if we do not triage and treat these youth that uh have generational trauma so this individual and group therapy component is going to be and it's in person is very important and I like to see more of that not just related to the CVI program but many of our community centers here in the west uh well not even West just the city of Orlando where we have some mental health components put in place for families and residents that might be suffering from some type of mental health issues also on the facade dto um great to see this coming downtown but it's even just as powerful because it's going to the Paramore care area also where the commercial business is there that really need a a hand up with some of the dilapidated historic buildings there being stabilized and renovated with this facade program not just the commercial component but staff in mayor Dyer has made sure that there's a residential component in there for home owners and oftentimes many of those are on fixed incomes are in that affordable bracket and can maintain a mortgage but can't do many of the residential facade components so this is really going to be a great addition to all the great revitalization that's going on there in that Paramore area from creative Village all the way down to the south side of Paramore with this facade program now not just with new development but sustaining and keeping those developments and housing that's been there for years and decades uh also I was a joy to um go out to the Orlando economic partnership barbecue over at our newly built luminary green there creative Village it was just amazing to see that green space transform into this community event where there was music fellowship and food and this beautiful Green Space and then to see the residents looking down just from their patios and the students that are UCF and Valencia students been able to just ensure that atmosphere well done uh Craig with the vision and Mary Dyer with the vision for Creative Village and all the partners that have supported those efforts here in the last 20 years but primarily the last five it is really coming together quite well and supporting those items on the CRA for the extension of the creative Village Development component as I stated you've done an amazing job over there for something that we can all be be proud of and then on 38 I joined our cr18 over in Paramore where we are almost finishing up eight homes that are affordable we had a standing room only it was over a hundred participants David that was there they were really excited about the transformation there in Paramore and wanted to be a part of it where the city is offering through our CRA and our housing on program up to a hundred and forty thousand dollars down payment on City Built Homes to maintain the affordability of them but also to create a mixed income Community where a portion of those homes will also be market rate so there is the equity and inclusion for all as we transform Paramore then we went over a little bit West from there on Friday the tent I partnered with Hannibal square a project that myself and commissioner Burns have been working on there in the orange Center corner for 30 affordable Town Homes started here I like your report commissioner gray that they're they're building them now all 30 homes are sold so uh I know it's a rough start but with staff support and mayor support we're well on our way um 60 of those who are the participation of minorities and then they did a job fair that following Saturday where there was great uh uh participation of job opportunities that will be on that construction site site huge thank you to the Orlando Magic who I joined that Saturday evening also with the DeVos Foundation that gave a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Jackson center community center there in Paramore to redesign the playground there something unique what they did was engage our kids there in the Paramore area from 5 to 18 to design that community park and it's just going to be something that's for all ages but primarily for 5-18 and just got to just say thank you to Orlando Magic for their continued commitment to Paramore and the City and Central Florida at whole but primarily in their uh neighborhood where they live and train and play they since day one since they came here in 1990 they have truly been committed to not just building in Paramore but building the people there and being committed to the youth and programs there's still a huge thank you that was their 30 for 30 program that they have and they chose a huge number to give to the Paramore residents I joined our sustainability team there in Paramore where mayor Dyer is creating city land into farmlands uh you know it's a food desert but what we're doing here and he's leading on is making Paramore a fresh food Oasis and with that being said we're converting until we develop the land in Paramore to farmlets and fresh fruits and vegetable gardens with Community Partners and there is a HKS sent some of their Fellowship those that are upcoming Architects to help design a quarter acre of land near in Paramore in a hydroponic container they all came out on that Friday morning about 30 students that think how that can incorporate it not just that space But the community at whole and engage them so I like to thank those students for coming out and giving their expertise but more so compassion there were some a great group of young folks that are committed to social justice as well as architectural design it was also a just overwhelmed by the basal command Academy which is extension from Amazon on Jeff Bezos Foundation that has came out to the Mercy Drive corner to create a Montessori program right there at our first affordable housing project that we did during Mercy Drive with ability housing these children will have a first class education starting from three I think to four years old Meredith um you know we have a housing first component for those that might need affordable housing those that are homeless to make sure that we give them quality and safe housing throughout the city of Orlando and that's housing first but we truly know in order for anyone to truly I would say change trajectory out of poverty is the foundation called education so to give these children a foundation and of Montessori School period is just I think it's going to be transformational and generational training so a huge thank you again for Ability Housing Partnership mayor Dyer's leadership with going out and purchasing in this council with purchasing those five units as we see over in uh what live for Orlando have they've transformed westlake's ability housing Blue Sky transforming uh the Mercy Drive coroner also our great Partners at creative Village transformed the north side of Paramore with affordable housing in meridara's Cradle to Career theme with the Paramore Kid Zone and millions going into that Cradle to career and now over in Mercy Drive it's for me to be someone that grew up in poor conditions to build part of this transformational leadership that you see on this diet and great Community Partners no matter what other issues we have just as really finding Solutions funding and resources and doing it together as a community for me is just so rewarding I just thank each and every one of you and with that that's all I have man thank you commissioner Hill we'll move on to commissioner Burns all right thank you uh mayor Dyer fellow Commissioners uh first I'd like to just start off by talking about I had a pleasure of Hosting our first district-wide town hall uh state of district 6 meeting uh which was a hybrid of an in-person and virtual attendance where I shed the vision for District Six talked about some of the uh progress that has been made in the district and within the city and gave the residents the opportunity to ask any questions that that they may have so I'd like to just give a few thank yous to uh Joseph Caesar and the entire Grand Avenue neighborhood team for their hospitality and housing the town hall it was a great great turnout we had over 70 residents in attendance also a major thanks to Jeremy Frisco in Frisco in the I.T department for helping us to pull together this hybrid component we had several presenters who shared information about their individual departments so I would like to thank k a broad and transportation and planning Corey Knight Public Works director Alan Morrison Solid Waste Cassie Bernard Housing and Community Development George Warden code enforcement as well as Chief Smith and Georgiana Butler from OPD Lisa early and her team Brenda March and Bobby Belton Bambi McDonald for sharing all of the wonderful things that are happening within our Parks and Rec creation Department also I had the opportunity to attend I sponsor the submission of the 49ers football banquet it was definitely an honor for me to be there and see all of the smiling faces of the youth their parents and the coaches and I was just amazed that the dedication of the parents but also the coaches who give so much of themselves to poor into these youth uh who are playing football so I had the opportunity to congratulate them present them with trophies for an incredible uh season also I attended the open house of fire station number seven in District six so thank you to Chief Salazar for leading this community event it was well attended we had a lot of fun food but it was also a great time for the community to meet and celebrate our five Personnel that oftentimes put themselves in home way for the safety of of our community also on March 6th uh myself with uh commissioner Hill participated in a Roundtable discussion with uh School Board member Vicki Felder at Carver Middle School and we came together to have some discussions and conversations about how can we combat the gun violence that uh is plaguing our communities uh the gang activity so there was a lot of discussion we're looking forward to continuing those discussions but not just discuss what put together some plans of action that we can all be proud of but also will curb this violent activity that we're experiencing also I would like to give a shout out to my team my City team for their efforts in securing over eight hundred thousand dollars in home repairs for homeowners mainly seniors in District six so again over eight hundred thousand dollars that has been secured uh for home uh repairs for uh District Six and our office assistant staff is led by uh Miss Carolyn Austin so I'd like to just say thank you thank you to Carolyn for her patience but also her diligence in helping our community members navigate this wonderful program and as we look to develop more housing uh more affordable housing more housing in general we have to make sure that we are taking up taking advantage of the opportunities to repair and bring up some of the existing housing stock uh that we have so again thank you to uh Oren Henry and his great team for assisting my staff with bringing those resources to District Six the mayor on the agenda today I would like to express my support for item B1 it's a contract with the homeless Services Network of Central Florida for the homeless management information system which will assist our community in tracking referring and better serving our community members who may be experiencing homelessness also item C15 the business assistance program agreement with the with the city and pow na Choppa Bakery Brazil LLC which is a small business bakery located in District Six on International Drive also c27 small business facade Grant facade site and adaptive reuse program agreement with the city in Delta Spa which is a small business in District Six providing Spa and Wellness services to the city and in the area around last but not least I'd like to express my support for items d 2 3 4 and 5. we've heard some discussion about the community violence intervention and these contracts will help to provide some of the wraparound services that were mentioned in mental health education services that we hope will continue to help us to again combat and prevent some of the violence that is happening in our community so that's all from me mayor thank you thank you commissioner Burns commissioner gray thank you mayor I'll be quick given the crowd we have but I want to give out a few thank yous first on February 28th I want to thank the folks at OPD for hosting the annual crime prevention awards for the neighborhood watch all the Commissioners were there and it's at a very important uh function that our neighbors serve in helping us keep an eye on neighborhoods so thanks to all of and congrats to all the award winners March 4th we had our district one Spring Festival thanks to ofd OPD Ola neighborhood relations um the sustainability group we had 30 small business vendors that were there we had over a thousand people show up and it was great good to have the community together I want to thank my team of Diane Wilhelm and and Paula Jimenez and Edgar Malave for helping to organize that it was a great success and I want to thank them on March 7th uh as commissioner Hill said I attended the barbecue in the park with oep I would encourage everybody it is a fabulous networking opportunity so next year it was a great venue I hope we have it there again but um I encourage everybody if you get a chance go to that get to meet a lot of folks in in the city and finally on the 15th last week attended the oep quarterly award ceremony it's just encouraging and and rewarding to see what our police officers do for the city and our residents some pretty Herculean efforts on the part of some of our officers so congrats to them on the agenda real quick uh B15 I want to thank staff for pushing that one through that is a joint use government center and library that we're going to do in Lake Nona it's you know we've had a lot of fast growth in Lake Nona in its time in the mayor and the staff agreed for us to stick us a stake in the ground in Lake Nona and and show those folks that we really are part of the city of Orlando and so we're going to do a government center and a library co-located and so this this contract will be for the design build so I support that 100 and mayor thank you for recognizing item c24 and the companion 31. it's great to have developers who certainly have their own private interests at stake but also recognize the need to do affordable housing and so I want to just thank them for not putting up a fight and saying yep it's the right thing to do we'll do it so with that um I'll pass it on to commissioner Ortiz commissioner Ortiz anchor mayor we have a big crowd waiting for us so I'm going to hold my comments and I'll just make a motion to accept the agenda motion by commissioner Ortiz second by commissioner Stewart all in favor indicate so by saying aye those opposed and so emotion curies okay I'm going to take about a 30 second recess so if you are here just for consent agenda and want to make your way out now would be a good time to do that mm-hmm ings wow we've got seats up front front of you that are along the back okay without objection we're going to recess the city council meeting and convene to see our a meeting David I think I can handle the first three number one is accepting CRA Advisory board minutes from January 25th is there a motion to accept motion by commissioner Sands second by commissioner Hill all in favor indicates so by saying aye aye those opposed motion curies number two is approving CRA minutes from January 23rd motion by commissary Hill second by commissioner Sheehan on favor indicates so by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries and number three is uh CRA minutes from February 6 motion by commissioner Hill second by commissioner Sheehan all in favor indicate so by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries okay now number four David so number four is a retail stimulus program grant for Eola nail and skin Care Bar you may recall the CRA initially created the retail stimulus program in 2010 and amended it several years later to make it more financially appropriate based on the realities of redeveloping and constructing businesses within the downtown core area you'll let scan a nail bar they are in 520 East Church Street so it's the 520 building owned by Camden in the South Eola area they're spending about four hundred and fifty thousand dollars building out their space which qualifies them for the full amount of the current incentive which is one hundred thousand dollars that is split seventy five thousand dollars to be matching funds towards uh improvements like Plumbing mechanical electrical HVAC and lighting and the remaining twenty five thousand dollars for first year rental abatement motion by commissioner Sheehan second by commissioner Hill discussion or questions hearing none all in favor of the motion indicate so by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries number five thank you mayor number five is an agreement between the CRA or a license agreement I should say between the CRA and the district gastrobar the CRA owns a small piece of property across the street from City View in the Paramore area it is just landscaped right now the district gastrobar approached us about utilizing a portion of that space for an outdoor cafe or dining area some of those plans have come to you before through the appearance review board and you may recall this actually allows them use of that land they do have to pay a license fee they're responsible for all the related costs of constructing that premises as well as the CRA has the ability to terminate that lease should things not uh work out appropriately with a 30-day out moves approved discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries okay number six thank you mayor number six this is uh the amendment to the downtown facade program that commissioner Hill referenced earlier as well uh as you mayor so we had a number of different uh recommendations that were recommending changing and ultimately enhancing that program some of the biggest ones are identifying uh kind of two Focus areas so we can really uh make sure the core areas of downtown and Paramore uh have the ability to access significant amounts so we can have impactful change in that area uh the downtown one is really throughout the CBD and Paramore along the main commercial Corridor properties within those focused districts would actually be eligible now for up to eighty percent matching funds currently they are 50 so they only have to supply 20 of funds required for uh the appropriate amount of improvements in addition Uh current funds are cap out depending on the type of building approximately around in the location about a hundred thousand dollars this would cap out at around three hundred thousand dollars in the CBD for historic buildings that are in the CRA and within that Focus area and then in Paramore potentially up to 340 000 offering an additional match for property owners who have amoeba businesses amoebas that have qualified and received funds from the cras minority and women's entrepreneur business assistance program motion by commissioner Hill second by commissioner Stewart discussion hearing an unfavorable election indicates commissioner Hill um that is the residential component in there also it also has a residential components okay yes sir move that proof all in favor indicate so by saying aye aye aye let's suppose motion carries number seven number seven is an amendment march to say Amendment one to the amended and restated open space agreement this is a companion item to C12 which was on the consent agenda you recall this an agreement that the city and the CRA utilize for the CRA to be able to to fund a number of parks and open space improvements that are within the CRA area this item is specifically for starting the work on the likiola master plan uh phase one so it's approximately four hundred thousand dollar approval to start the design of construction documents associated with the bathrooms that were part of the master plan as well as the area around those motion boxing machine second box commissioner Hill discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying aye those opposed motion carries number eight thank you mayor number eight is to approve the city district Inc funding agreement with the CRA um the CRA has uh passed over the past several years funded both the city district main street as well as the Thornton Park main street with approximately fifty thousand dollars of of funds um this agreement specifically allows for that fifty thousand dollars to be allowed to be uh so we can partner with City District the changes in the previous agreement are that previously there was two components of payment where we paid that fifty thousand dollars and two lump sums 25 000 and 25 000. uh this agreement differs as it allows the city district to submit emit uh request for that fifty thousand dollars to US individually uh uh based on the event or activities that they are ultimately seeking to have as long as those align uh with the CRA plan uh then they can be made which allows them some additional access immediate access to funding without have to wait for large sums move that proof motion by commercial Health second by commissioner Shin discussion hearing none on paper motion education by saying aye aye those opposed and so the city district funding passes their emotion on the Thornton Park District funding number nine motion about commissioner Sheehan second by commissioner Hill discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion okay so by saying aye aye those opposed and so the motion carries okay David any further business there is Nightmare there is nothing okay then we will adjourn the CRA meeting and we will reconvene the city council meeting we will go to take up hearings ordinances uh second read let's start number one ordinance number 2022-16 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida designating certain land generally located east of Narcoossee Road South of Falcon Park Boulevard and north of Central Florida Greenway State Road 417 and comprised of 67.28 acres of land more or less as planned development on the city's official zoning Maps providing a site plan and special Land Development regulations for the plan development providing for Amendment of the city's official zoning Maps providing preservability Correctional scrivener's error permanent disclaimer and effective date move to adopt sick motion bike commissioner gray second by commissioner Ortiz I have no requests from the public to speak on this item is there a discussion hearing none of them favor the motion indicate so by saying hi hi those opposed motion curies number two ordinance number 2022-69 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida annexing to the corporate limits of the city certainly and generally located east of Narcoossee Road South of a great place and west of Lake Whippoorwill and comprised of 7.3 acres of land more or less and amending the city's boundary description amending the city's growth management plan to designate the property as Urban Village and conservation on the city's official future land use maps amending the city's growth management plan to add future land use of the area policy s Point 40.14 designating the property as plan development zoning District on the city's official zoning Maps providing for special Land Development regulations providing for consent to the municipal Services taxing unit for Lake Whippoorwill providing for Amendment of the city's official zoning official future land use and Zoning Maps providing preservability Corrections Governors error permanent disclaimer and an effective date move to adopt motion by commissioner gray second by commissioner Ortiz I have no requests to speak on this matter is there a discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying aye aye those opposed motion curies and number three or that's number 2022-74 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida amending the Lake whipperwolf Cove plan development zoning ordinance to add approximately 3.85 acres of land to the plant development zoning District such land being generally located east of Narcoossee Road north of water Line Road and West of Lake Whippoorwill amending the special Land Development regulations providing a conforming legal description providing for separability collection of scrivener's error and an effective date move to adopt a second motion by commissioner gray second by commissioner Ortiz I have no request from the public to speak on this matter of discussion hearing on all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying hi those opposed motion carries number four ordinance number 2022-75 in ordinance of the city council of the city of Orlando Florida mending and restating the Land Development regulations of the Narcoossee Cove one and two plan development and renaming the plan development as Narcoossee Cove relating to certainly and generally located east of Narcoossee Road South of Kirby Smith Road and West of Lake Whippoorwill and comprised of approximately 48.78 acres of land providing for Amendment of the city's official zoning map providing for severability Corrections Governors error permit disclaimer and an effective date move to adopt second motion about you Mr Gray second Mark him with short T's I have no request do you speak on this matter of discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicate so by saying aye aye those opposed and so the motion carries number five ordinance number 2022-76 an ordinance in the city council the city of Orlando Florida amending the city's growth management plan to change the future land use map designation for certain land generally located west of Shadow Ridge Drive south of airport Lakes Park and north of McCoy Road comprised of 32.6 acres of land more or less from conservation to Urban activity center and from Metropolitan Activity Center to conservation creating a sub-area policy to establish development in Wetland maintenance standards changing the property zoning designation from the Metropolitan Activity Center Urban activity center and conservation zoning districts with the aircraft noise overlay District to the urban activity center and conservation zoning districts with the aircraft noise overlay District providing for Amendment of the city's official future land use and Zoning Maps providing fisherability Corrections Governor's error permanent disclaimer and effective date Ortiz second by commissioner Stewart I have no request to testify on this matter discussion hearing not all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying hi hi there's opposed the motion carries number six ordinance number 2023-1 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida relating to signs amending chapter 61 part two of The Land Development code entitled streets and Rite of play amending chapter 64 of the Land Development code entitled signs amending chapter 65 part 2 of The Land Development code entitled zoning applications and procedures amending chapter 66 of the Land Development code and title definitions providing legislative findings and for codification correction scrivener's error severability and effective date check question by commissioner Ortiz second by commissioner Stewart I have no request to speak on this matter discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying aye aye those opposed motion curies number seven ordinance number 2023-3 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida amending the city's growth management plan to establish to amend the future of land use map designation from public recreational and institutional to Industrial for certain land generally located at the northeast corner of Brewton Boulevard and LV McLeod Mcleod Road comprised approximately 9.1 acres of land providing for amendment of cities future land use maps providing for Amendment of the city's growth management plan providing for super ability correction scrivener's error and an effective date to adopt a motion by commissioner Burns second by commissioner Sheehan I have no request to testify on this matter discussion hearing the non all in favor motion indicate so by saying aye aye the opposed motion carries number eight ordinance number 2023-6 in ordinance of the city council of the city of Orlando Florida relating to the city's growth management plan providing the winter 2023 package of growth management amendments pursuant to the expedited State review process amending future land use policy s 5.4.12 future land use of area policies 38 and 40 amending the housing element to add policy at 5.1.4 and to amend policy 5.4.1 deleting future land use element policy 2.4.10 and amending figure lu-1 amending future land use sub-area policy as 0.12.7 and housing element goals objectives and policies as it relates to changes to affordable housing providing preservability correction Distributors error and an effective date commissioner Sheehan's second by commissioner Burns I have no request to testify on this matter discussion here not all in favor of the motion is saying hi hi those opposed motion carries number nine ordinance number 2023-10 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida rezonings are Inland generally located north of lb Mcleod Road East of Broome Boulevard and west of South John Young Parkway and comprised of approximately nine acres of land for medium intensity office residential to plan development providing framework plan and special and development regulations of the plan development District providing for super ability correction scrivener's error permanent disclaimer and an effective date move to adopt motion by commissioner Burns second by commissioner Hill I have no request for Testimony discussion hearing none all in favor of motion indicate so by saying aye aye as opposed so the motion carries Commissioners 10 and 11 I think we're going to be here for a little while on and I think we can knock out these first reads in about five minutes or less so why don't we if there's no objection I'll go ahead and do those ordinances first read number one ordinance number 2023-11 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida amending the city's adopted growth management plan to change the future land use map designation for approximately 9.9 acres of land generally located north of West Colonial Drive East of Mercy Drive south of WD judge drive and west of Ferguson Drive from residential low intensity in part to residential medium intensity and part and from conservation in part to residential medium intensity in part on the city's official future land use maps providing preservability Corrections Governor's error and an effective date second motion body commissioner Hill second body commissioner machine I have no requests for Testimony discussion here in none all in favor of the motion indicate so by saying aye aye those opposed so the motion carries number two [Music] [Applause] ordinance number 2023-12 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida annexing to the corporate limits of the city certain land generally located east of Narcoossee Road South of Lee Vista Boulevard and north of the beach Line Expressway State Road 528 and comprised of 4.99 acres of land more Alas and amending the city's boundary description amending the city's growth management plan to designate the property as airport support District medium intensity and conservation of the city's official future land use maps providing for amendment of cities official future land use maps providing preservability correction scrivener's error permanent disclaimer and effective date move to approve second motion by commissioner gray second by commissioner Ortiz I have no request for Testimony discussion hearing none all in favor of motion indicator by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries number three ordinance number 2023-14 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida rezonings are Inland generally located north of West Colonial Drive East of Mercy Drive south of WD judge Drive in west of Ferguson Drive and comprised of 9.9 acres of land more or less from one to two family residential with the Wekiva overlay District in part in conservation with the Wekiva overly District in part to plan development with the Wekiva overlay District providing a development plan in special Land Development regulations of the plan development District providing preservability correction Distributors error permanent disclaimer and effective date motion back to Mr Hill second by commissioner Sheehan I have no requests for Testimony to discussion hearing on all in favor of the motion indicate so by saying aye aye those opposed motion carries and number four or December 2023-15 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida annexing to the corporate limits of the city certain land located north of Rush Avenue East of Lake Baldwin Lane West of Jim Angel Boulevard and South of the Katie way Trail and comprised of 1.65 acres of land more or less than amending the city's boundary description amending the city's growth management plan to designate the property as office low intensity on the city's official future land use maps providing for Amendment of the city's official future land use maps providing preservability Corrections Governors air Perma disclaimer and an effective date so move second motion by commissioner Stewart second by commission Ortiz I have no requests for Testimony discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying aye aye opposed motion carries okay let's go back to Second reads and number 10 and 11 which are ordinance is 22-78 and 23 Dash eight um relate to the nightclub moratorium ordinance and the alcohol sales ordinance and they're closely related ddb and OPD are going to give a presentation that are related to both and we're going to accept public comment one time and you can speak to one or the other or both of the ordinances how you ever want to do it I think most people are signed up for the alcohol sales ordinance in any event so Madam clerk what I'd like to do is go ahead and have you read both ordinances so that the presentation and the testimony will relate to both of the ordinances and then after we're done taking testimony I'll add you have you read them individually so we can vote individually on those ordinances so if you'll read both ordinances ordinance number 2022-78 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida relating to nightclubs in the downtown Orlando community redevelopment area imposing a temporary moratorium for six months on the acceptance processing and consideration of applications for development orders development permits building permits and Zoning approvals for nightclubs in the downtown Orlando community redevelopment area adopting findings of fact providing for possible extension or early termination of the temporary moratorium providing legislative findings and for correction of scrivener's error severability and effective date ordinance number 2023-8 ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida amending chapter 5 Orlando city code by amending section 5.06 powers of the code enforcement board amending chapter 33 Orlando city code alcoholic beverages by amending section 33.03 hours of service sale and conception providing preservability codification Corrections Governor's error and an effective date all right Commissioners so you know we're here for communities made a lot of significant investments in our downtown over the last really couple of decades from the Performing Arts Center to other venues to Bringing SunRail downtown to incentivizing residential and Retail development and we've really created a thriving neighborhood and economic Hub but the foundation of having anything in our downtown is the safety of our residents that live downtown or that come downtown to recreate and we have to balance the uses that we have as well as make sure that every resident feels safe no matter what time of day they were in our downtown so we spent a lot of time thinking about how to make our downtown safer and it's especially in the wake of some tragic incidents we had last year at our meeting on the 23rd of January we unanimously passed on first read the two proposed code changes we directed as counsel the staff to work with business owners and stakeholders to see what modifications we might make to lessen any Financial impact that there is to businesses we gave a lot of lead time into this meeting today I can report that there have been a number of meetings one-on-one and large presentations as well we've made several changes to the after midnight alcohol sales ordinance and we're going to hear a presentation on how we got here and what the proposed changes are from the ddb as well as OPD so David you want to start us off and then we have plenty of testimony absolutely thank you mayor all right I don't know if we're up yet but I'll start talking while we get going and hopefully it will show up so good afternoon Council we know each other for anyone here that doesn't know me my name is David Barilla I'm the assistant director of The Downtown Development board and community redevelopment agency as a quick overview of what we'll cover uh here over the next several minutes I'll start by just going over the evolution of downtown to a large extent mayor which you described that's happened over the past 10 15 and to some extent even 20 years an Outreach recap really from what uh how we came together with stakeholders since the last meeting in January in January some public feedback that we've received since that point on the con I sent those meetings on that context then the chief will discuss violent crime and the police resources dedicated to downtown at night Alex Carden Chief City attorney will cover the nightclub more equatorium and then specifically the after midnight permit on the three specific areas that as we worked with stakeholders and business owners precisely on these that we heard from them as being areas of concern uh those being extra Duty policing and the cost associated with that the weapons detection system requirements and then the structure of the permit itself finally I will be back just to talk about the resources that we've also been able to make available to help with those items and some other downtown initiatives that are on the way or immediately on the horizon so over the past several years together we've accomplished a lot of things the mayor really underscored these but downtown Orlando uh was not left out of reorganization by any means we saw our population in downtown uh more than double we have over 20 000 people living in downtown at night a downtown period hopefully they're there at night if they live there uh and in that context has obviously changed and created so many opportunities not only for businesses to serve those people who live here uh but also for those people to patronize uh the businesses that we have we've added world-class Community venues so we play outside of our league in the community venues that we have we're so fortunate to have the Dr Phillips Center the Amway Center uh the exploria stadium and the Camping World fully reconstructed Camping World stadium so we can host things like the mayor mentioned March Madness which transformed this weekend and parts of last week or Wicked at Dr Phillips which if you saw in January but so many different types of people to come and enjoy downtown we've added Green Space commissioner Graham mentioned the oep event that was just I think last week or maybe the week before that was that luminary green and just being able to showcase the amount of changes in additions to downtown Constitution green which was added and obviously Lake Eola Park which we had some initial funding just improved on approved today uh and finally in this context obviously welcoming UCF and Valencia College to downtown uh that is one immense achievement that I know we all know but that has really transformed the type and style of of patrons that we have in downtown both day and night and continuing to make sure that they can Thrive and continue to grow here not only uh through their college Years but also through their career years is obviously uh of continual concern uh mayor you mentioned the term foundation and I and I think that really points to the core of what we're talking about because we've built an exceptionally strong Foundation but I think many people even those in this room would concur that we have more work that we need to do these next several slides are from Project dto 2.0 which though that presentation you'll recall we had several members of of both City staff as well as the project team before you uh late last year uh and I wanted to go through just a couple of them uh um because as I was looking at them it became very apparent how the specific things that we're talking about today tie into the very big pictures of the next transformation of downtown that we're working on so downtown as you may recalls we mentioned there is the Heart of the City and the region when you look at downtowns across the country uh or look at regions I should say across the country uh you find very strong downtowns at their Center these are places that we compete against uh when we're looking to bring in corporations or even having people to live in the new economy that we have where you have so much remote work and if downtown is going to continue to be the Heart of the City and the region it has to thrive without a thriving downtown all the successes that our region has had potentially could not be as successful as they have been in the future and this is kind of what was that enlightening moment for me when I went through it um is because for downtown Orlando's long-term success we must prioritize our future as a thriving downtown a vibrant walkable economically viable cultural destination for Orlando ones so normally when I give this presentation I'm talking about uh really getting people excited about the big picture changes that are coming forward with project dto 2.0 uh the fully reconstruction of our our right-of-ways not only in the mobility component but also in our sidewalks getting people excited about the new Gateway on the south side of downtown and you start talking about the growing pains that going through those big large construction components can be painstaking but you look into the future and you see those great visuals coming to reality and you know it's worth it the things that we're talking about today they're part of those Growing Pains as well it's part of as I say setting the table uh for kind of the next evolution of downtown to come where we can have a thriving residential district work well with a thriving commercial district and all those things that come in between so as the last side in the project dto components I wanted to just go through high level some of the big picture items that that are going along with that plan uh because they obviously as I just mentioned play in large scale to what we're talking about today downtown should be a place for all people we talked a lot about that acknowledging ways for people of all means uh to be able to be a part of downtown which ultimately comes entail with acknowledging what they have to offer some of that is financial people can make investments in downtown and that's needed other components it's acknowledging the talent they have maybe for starting a business or maybe the creativity the art that they can contribute to the community and finding ways for them to have a place here and call Downtown home downtown should be personified by a vital Street system and Transit Network we all talked about at length on what a two-way system means for downtown ultimately when it comes down to me is access a downtown that is not accessible is a downtown uh that is not able to thrive in a business that doesn't have access or show me a business that doesn't have access and I'll show you a business that probably won't be there very long so on undertaking the large-scale transformation of our Mobility system is at the heart of things that we're talking about downtown should be an ex downtown should be exceptional every day and I'll add every night to that that should be those big uh nights like we had this weekend with March Madness or Wicked like I mentioned or even city council Monday should should be an exceptional day that you can have in downtown Orlando Downtown should be a neighborhood of diverse district and corridors you heard me mention reorganization but acknowledging that downtown has changed it is a neighborhood of districts now that people want to live here and are looking for uh more and different types of of businesses to be able to allow that to continually flourish and as the mayor mentioned have that right mix of uses so both things can cohesively exist in the right amount uh and then finally downtown should be the cultural Hub of the region uh with the types of amenities and cultural Investments that we've made we are that and we need to continually be that we've said throughout this process that not every night is a Dr Phillips night in downtown and for some of us uh we're fortunate enough to go there multiple times a year but some people that may only be once a year or once every other year but we're looking at ways to make downtown exceptional every night that's things so that you can have just unexpected experiences positive experiences I should say new art galleries new things that make downtown the destination just by happenstance not by planning so if you don't have safety uh all of those things that I just covered uh really are not feasible safety is painted with a very broad brush no one often says well I don't feel safe in downtown between 12 p.m and 3 A.M they say I don't feel safe in downtown period and that starts to affect a number of different things it starts to affect a the viability of businesses at those period of time it also starts to affect our ability to recruit businesses to be here and then ultimately potentially in people being willing and excited to live here since as the mayor mentioned the very unfortunate tragedy we're veteran Joseph Torres was murdered in downtown Orlando we have been working tirelessly I can tell you our CRA staff as well as the economic development teams and OPD have been meeting weekly and we've tried a number of different things over that period of time to really make impacts on safety at night I've listed some of them on the screen coordinated entry is one of them that we actually uh activated just this past week for St Patrick's Day that involves using weapons detection canines uh to basically operate downtown as an event uh so people coming to downtown are kind of greeted the same way they would very similarly I should say to the way they would to a large event at Amway Center or somewhere similarly there's also additional OPD uh that's present as well and additional security guards to enhance the level of safety uh We've enhanced our code enforcement uh team that is specifically focused on downtown and specifically at night uh that team several years ago uh we didn't have a specifically designated team quite frankly now that team is up to five people it's four Enforcement Officers as well as a manager or supervisor we spent millions of millions over a million dollars on lighting enhancements in our downtown core in the surrounding area changing out the sodium lights to LED lights so we have the appropriate amount of lighting to create a safe environment we work hand in hand with OPD to enhance the level of OPD officers that have been available to dedicate time and energy working the streets in downtown at night and we've made grants available specifically safe grants that we offer to partner with our businesses so they can enhance their weapons detection systems their ID detection systems and add cameras to their establishments as well and then Sidewalk Cafe Grant so they can improve the exterior of the businesses and what people ultimately see when they're visiting downtown we've also partnered with OPD enhancing their camera system throughout downtown as well so as you mentioned mayor in January you asked us after going through the initial proposal of these ordinance he asked us to kind of roll up our sleeves work with stakeholders and see what changes could be made to address the concerns that they shared since that time we've had a number of different meetings we had meetings that discovered downtown which is our information center on Church in Orange you see that on January 25th and 26th we had approximately 15 stakeholders show up to those meetings where we got to sit down with them one-on-one and talk about their concerns and also their ideas uh for ways to to come at this potentially different way we had General stakeholder meetings those were all held here in City Hall you see the dates I'll go over them a little bit more detail in a minute on January 17th January 26 February 23rd and March 8th we had a downtown Towers meeting so our stakeholders are not just businesses they're the people who I've mentioned that live here in downtown and experience this either as a patron to some of our establishments or obviously being a resident here day and night that was on March 1st we met with the Orlando hospitality it's on February 7th and we had countless one-on-one meetings and emails with members of the city team and OPD working with stakeholders to to understand and attempt to address some of their concerns uh so I'll go through these rather quickly but on January 17th you'll see a lot of familiar faces in these photos and the people in this room today uh we got to kind of really discuss the original ordinance that we discussed in late January with stakeholders uh to let them know exactly what we intended to propose to you all on the 23rd to address the safety concerns uh that we were working on within downtown on January 26th this was the meeting that I mentioned um on the 23rd that we had already scheduled uh uh we had a chance then to kind of sit down with stakeholders again and start that conversation that you asked us to have uh which was identifying what areas we're of the most concern uh but also listen to them as to the other ideas and Concepts that they had researched or thought of and proposed for other ways to potentially address the issues that we were discussing which primarily safety on February 23rd uh um we had the opportunity then to really focus in on the ordinance in and of itself focusing on those uh actually uh commissioner Hill came to one of the first meeting I think we at and really kind of encourage everyone to focus specifically on the ordinance and we did that on February 23rd rolling up our sleeves talking about the specifics of the ordinance and what areas we thought they had the most opportunity uh to change in order to address their concerns and then finally on March 8th uh uh to share uh um what the result of all those conversations were and ultimately The Proposal that we have uh for your consideration today also intertwined in there uh was March 1st this is a photo of the Abbey where we had a community event if you look closely you see commissioner Sheehan up there kind of on the right side of the stage we met with a number of different residents in all of our downtown Towers who were very interested into the conversations that are being had and obviously are concerned about the challenges not only that they personally see as being a resident of downtown but also as I mentioned as a patron we heard of these establishments so finally on this component you may recall when I was before you in January I I showed a series of social media comments uh really uh disheartening social media comments because they transcend our city lines they transcend our state lines they they transcend our country lines um sharing about people uh and their experiences in downtown some who had businesses here uh and who are no longer here due to what they uh determined as you know just an out of control environment at night others who experience theft or or just unfortunate situations and how they didn't want to come back and obviously we don't want to show those but there's been another kind of wave of feedback that I know most of us have seen about downtown focusing on safety uh and these components again they transcend the lines of our city they transcend the lines of our state uh and they're very trying to hear about downtown you can read the majority of them yourself some of them show uh the results of some of the meetings that we had just downtown bar owners in a better place after changes to Orlando's proposed after midnight permit but some show the reality I think of of what a number of us have have unfortunately had to grow to acknowledge the majority of people feel unsafe in downtown late night uh and that needs to change and there's no one more suited to talk about safety in my opinion especially in downtown uh than our chief of police Eric Smith thank you David chief thank you David good afternoon mayor commissioners the Orlando Police Department is focused on reducing black crime within the downtown entertainment area to provide a safer more welcoming environment I'm also looking long term at reducing the high demand on police resources as you will see in the upcoming slides we dedicate a lot of on duty and often resources to our downtown the cost is not sustainable the Fallen slides reflect the crime stats we've been making you aware of as it relates to the permit 25 percent of all violent crime downtown happens between 2 and 3 A.M here's a slide of the violent crime without downtown entertainment area as you can see the four hours between 12 and 4 account for 40 percent of all violent crime downtown the two hours of 2 A.M to 3 A.M account for 20 of all violent crime downtown here's comparison from 8 pm to midnight and the midnight to 4 a.m as you can see the crime almost doubles as we get into the later hours the crimes that are included in this graft include aggravated assault aggravated battery armed robbery battery and Law Enforcement Officers sea ordinance violations criminal mischief drug violations persons robberies resisting arrest without violence sexual batteries shooting vehicle burglary warrant arrest and weapons violations here are those shootings in downtown in 2021 from the hours of eight to midnight we had four shootings in the same year from 12 to 4 o'clock in the morning we had 13 shootings the shootings were reduced in 2022 from 8 to midnight we had one shooting but from Midnight to 4 a.m We had eight shootings a substantial increase our guns recovered in downtown area they increased from 2021 to 2022. as you can see in 2022 from Midnight from from 8 pm to midnight we seized 56 guns from Midnight to 4 a.m We was we seized 127 guns this last causing a surge of officers after midnight so October we started our surge operation that ran from October to December and still going today this caused a 70 percent decrease in the amount of crime downtown the search hour was not sustainable here's the on duty units that OPD provides downtown we provide two bike squads Tony cost about twenty five thousand dollars two tax squads on Friday and Saturday night and one tax squad on Sunday night that tows about twenty five thousand dollars a special enforcement division which is a Drug Squad you'll see that's about twelve thousand dollars a weekend all right one slide's missing all right so our total on duty resources is about 61 000 per weekend for on Duty Officers our total of off-duty resources about forty thousand dollars per weekend this equates to more than 5.2 million dollars of op resources alone that are used in downtown next up is our City's Chief assistant City attorney Alex Carden mayor commissioners so we have two ordinants before the commission today uh before the council today we have first the night club moratorium this is a temporary six-month moratorium which would go into effect today if passed this would prohibit the new opening of any nightclubs within the CRA so this is CRA wide and it would be in fact for six months at the end of six months it will come back to council and council could then extend it for another six months if it was deemed necessary so it would go into effect today if passed it'll be a six month temporary moratorium this is just a temporary time to study the effects of having any new nightclubs within the CRA the other ordinance before the council today is the after midnight alcohol sales permit ordinance the goal of this of course is to curtail violent crime within the downtown entertainment area so this is of a smaller scope this is only in the DEA not cea CRA wide and it's really designed to balance the high demand of the police resources which are being disproportionately allocated to this one area of the city at a cost that you heard from the chief is unsustainable look in the state of Florida statute 562.14 prohibits the sale of alcohol beverages anytime between the hours of midnight and 7 A.M the following day so that is the default within the State of Florida is that alcohol sales stop at midnight State specifically grants cities and counties the ability to alter those times by ordinance we've done that in section 3303 of the city code and at now at present all alcohol sales are allowed to proceed between 2 A.M are allowed to see between 7 A.M and 2 A.M Monday through Saturday and 9 A.M to 2 A.M on Sundays what this ordinance proposes to do is to change the hours of sale downtown to allow a midnight cut off unless you have the after midnight alcohol sales permit in which case any establishment that has that permit could continue to sell until 2 A.M so the permit really has just a few things to it it has an application and application fee that fees passed by resolution today at 250 dollars it has the public safety measures which we'll talk about in detail in just a moment and it has the ability to suspend or revoke a permit for multiple continued violations of that permit all right so for the application all you have to do is have that basic information including alcohol license type maximum occupancy hours of occupation for the establishment it's a very simple application their team's been working diligently on making available the public safety measures I think are of course what we're going to talk about the most today the biggest one of course is the police protection additionally to that we have a weapons detection system so metal detectors along with that we have a private security component if walk through metal detection is required and we'll talk about that in just a moment and then of course identification scanners and occupancy load monitoring requirements so initially the proposal was that all full liquor establishments with an occupancy of 150 or more were required to provide extra Duty Officers within the downtown entertainment area notably so any establishment with 150 to 399 would have one to two officers required 400 to 649 persons of occupancy would have two to four 650 to 1150 three to six and anyone that has an occupancy of 11.50 and up would be required to provide four to eight officers we heard from the establishments that was a uncertainty with that range that was something that was not um comfortable and so we really addressed that we've also looked at capping the number of officers downtown so we'll talk about that in just a moment but we've lowered the requirement to make sure that it's more evenly distributed so now any full wicker establishment with an occupancy of 125 persons or more would be required to provide that extra Duty Officers downtown anyone with that range of 125 to 374 would have one officer required 375 to 624 two officers required and anyone with 625 members of occupancy are up would be required to provide three officers of extra Duty the original proposal state that those officers would Patrol anywhere within the downtown entertainment area under the new proposal of this operating procedure one of those officers if your establishment is required to provide three or more officers so that's all establishment 625 or greater one officer will be stationed outside of that establishment in addition the original proposal had an unlimited cap of the number of officers we have now capped that at 30 officers per night so that burden of providing those officers will be rotated through those establishments based upon their occupancy so that no more than 30 officers per night are required to be downtown under this permit Additionally the original proposal was from Friday Saturday and Sunday night from 10 pm to 4 a.m for establishments to provide officers that's a six hour requirement we've reduced that time to five hours so they're only required to be there from 10 30 pm to 3 30 a.m any additional needs or costs that the police chief would need would be absorbed by the city previously the average cost per officer per weekend night per establishment was approximately five hundred and forty dollars per officer so if you had more officers that could go up but the per officer per cost night was 540 with the new system the new proposal that goes down on average to 265 dollars per officer per weekend night so that's a drastic reduction for those establishments in addition we've also made tweaks to the weapons detection system proposal previously all establishments with 50 persons of occupancy are greater a walk through weapons detection system was required establishment of an occupancy of 49 or lower would be able to use hand wanding we've heard concerns from the establishments based on that full uh walk through magnetometers and so what we've done now is another new proposal is to make it so that if you have 50 persons or more and a full liquor establishment wanding would be required so you wouldn't have to have that walk through requirement hand wanding of metal detection would be permissible if you have less than 49 or 49 persons or less of occupancy then you would not be required to have any sort of winding or detection system unless there was a violation on your permit that state license security component has also been reduced as it was originally for those walk through magnetometers it was required then now only if you have a walk-through metal detection system required so that's none of the establishments at the beginning of this procedure at this permit would be required to have state licensed security guards only if they were later required four violations to have a walk-through magnetometer would that state license security component be required there have been no changes to the original proposal for identification scanners that's going to be at all establishments that sell full liquor they must use that identification scanner from 10 pm till closing seven days a week those identification scanners must be able to detect altered fraudulent or duplicate IDs they must be able to communicate with other ID scanners at The Establishment and they must have a way to distinguish between patrons over 21 and under 21 if under 21 individuals are allowed in the establishment after 10 pm this is something that's commonly done by most establishments in the form of wristbanding but some sort of identification for those patrons under 21 would be required occupancy load monitoring there has been no change to this since the original proposal this applies to all establishment types they must keep an accurate count of the individuals within their establishment between 10 pm and closing this count must be provided to City officials upon request this is a really big important component of this so that we make sure that those occupancy that the fire department has really gone through and made sure that they're all up to date is not being exceeded the last thing we want is in the case of an emergency individuals not being able to get out in a timely fashion because there's overcrowding and an establishment one of the other big changes that we have to this uh ordinance is the reduction in the number of violations and really focusing in on those that relate directly to Public Safety so instead of having six code violations protections before we're down to two we previously had this laundry list of for the statutes that violations could prove to be a suspension or revocation of the permit that is now down to just the most serious ones that should not be going on at any establishment in addition to reducing the overall list of violations we've also added in knowledge components to most of those violations so not only do you have to have a violation we have to prove for most of these violations that the establishment its staff or its promoters knowingly recklessly or with gross negligence or in other cases with negligence allowed this to occur at their establishment so that's really a big component so now they can't say well how you know I'm not supposed to know that my you know patrons were going to do XYZ they need to prevent that unless it's going to be done negligently or knowingly recklessly or with gross negligence so that component is really a big change to make sure that we're holding and accountable when they should be accountable and not for something that they couldn't predict in addition to that one of the big changes we have is that suspensions instead of being 90 days which we heard or to 270 days which we heard would shut them down entirely suspensions are now for 30 days and in addition to that there's going to be a hearing instead of just before the code enforcement manager to a hearing official appointed by the city there will always be notice and opportunity to be heard at that hearing by the hearing officer appointed by the city for that purpose so there was no suspensions or revocations that are going to be hurt that are going to happen without an opportunity for that establishment to be heard in addition before the only possible appeal was to the code enforcement board but now before suspension or after a suspension an establishment can submit a plan to the city that cures the violation for instance if someone if an establishment was allowing individuals in without wanding if that establishment identified the issue terminated the employee and put in you know for example a secondary employee to monitor to make sure that it's not one employee Rogue allowing people to violate the terms of the permit again that's something that might cure that violation and if they do that violation and they cure that before the suspension hearing the suspension would not take effect so there wouldn't even be suspended as long as they're able to cure because the goal is compliance with the permit it's not trying to shut any businesses down it's compliance with the permit and to make sure that we're providing for a safe environment for all of our patrons and residents in the downtown area revocation used to be six or more violations within a consecutive 12-month period now for revocation your permit must be suspended three times within a consecutive 12-month period so not only is that those three times you have to have those multiple chances for it to be suspended twice priorly that also means that it was not cured prior to a suspension going into effect so unless a establishment is truly a bad actor revocation is not something that is very likely finally the timeline for this of course if this would go into effect today if passed on May 1st sorry the more time goes into effect today if passed the permit ordinance the alcohol the after midnight alcohol sales permit will go into effect May 1st the safe program of course bonus incentive is through May 1st at six months the moratorium would expire on September 20th which could be extended by Council for an additional six months if required on March 20th that six-month extension would run out if it was approved by Council and then in September of 2024 the standard operating procedure under the alcohol sales permit will come back for Council review with that I'm going to turn it back over to David Barilla thanks Alex so now just to close I wanted to uh remind everyone of the opportunities we have to come alongside our businesses and absorb a significant amount of the cost associated with the items uh that this permit uh could ultimately require as you may recall I mentioned it in the earlier on component in January of 2022 you uh Council approved the safe program which allowed the CRA to ultimately fund 50 of the cost associated with venues and buildings in downtown to undertake uh metal detection systems ID scanners as well as camera enhancements in January this Council approved enhancing that so those changes are in effect right now today uh we're still awaiting that first business to take advantage of them but right now based on the enhancements we have changed that from ten thousand dollars of funding that was available per business we've doubled it to twenty thousand dollars of funding that is available per business until uh the requirement ultimate would come into effect in addition to that we've changed the match or you all approved changing the match from 50 percent to eighty percent uh so assuming that all the costs associated with coming to compliance uh were less uh than twenty thousand dollars uh the CRA could fund eighty percent of those costs for those items after that may first date uh the 80 match would remain uh but the available funding uh would just decrease to the initial ten thousand dollars per business I also just wanted to take a minute to highlight a number of the other initiatives that uh your staff is working on right now in in downtown as I know that came up during the last meeting um so just today uh there was a fairly extensive amendment to our facade program uh so I'm happy to say that now uh at least our historic buildings and our core areas and our other buildings and our core areas are available uh to receive up to 200 or even 300 000 in funding from the CRA to really start to make large improvements of the air areas that we all call Essential to our downtown just on the 10th of this month so 10 days ago we launched the new Ambassador team in dto so they're out in the streets and in blue shirts with extensive amount of training as you'll recall they're all now cross-trained and we're looking at an opportunity to move them right into the core of the Church Street area to a more focal space at 54 West Church Street we continue to clean up downtown if you've walked downtown recently you've probably noticed that the tree Hoops that are around all our trees are gone providing a lot more of a clean and Sleek look we had a pressure washing team going throughout downtown pressure washing extensively pressure washing the core and you may have also noticed some new tree plantings along Pine and court and under construction right now is some new sidewalks right on Pine to match the ones that we installed last year we continue to identify areas within downtown to activate so if you're out on our St Patrick's Day you saw some muralists or a mural is painting in downtown right near the corner of 30 South Orange that vacant lot uh we'll have to be excited as to what mural will ultimately be there but excited to unveil that in the near future we continue to look at opportunities to partner with venues and Dr Phillips and Fringe for high traffic events as you may recall on March 4th we had one of those unique opportunities where every venue in downtown was activated and we had the opportunity to activate SunRail that day through the ddb and we saw more than 11 000 people ride SunRail uh on that day alone which was exciting to see the energy in downtown and you might have people taking public transit and we continue to build events to benefit residents of the Orlando region at all hours of the day one of these events that I'm excited to talk about is our family game night coming up on 407 day so make sure to take note and join us down at Lake Eola for that um so additionally to that some things that are kind of in the hopper right now our amendments to the retail stimulus program though a agreement was approved today we're looking looking at ways to even enhance that program similar to the way that our facade program was enhanced so we continue can continue to attract more quality retail restaurants and destination-based Retail to downtown in that context we're focusing our recruitment efforts on those destination oriented experiences that really will drive foot traffic to downtown or all hours of the day kind of like Orlando clued up which hosts Family Style scavenger hunts in downtown right now we're looking at amending the special events program that's a program that we have to encourage special events in downtown and conventions to come to downtown and enhance that to really get more National and potentially International style conventions within the downtown area working with our property owners at leasing ground floor spaces uh with things that are opening up like the new lobster roll right on the corner of central across the street from the the Taco Bell Central and orange uh and uh and what I'm excited to talk about is a parking and valet program that the ddb will actually be considering later this week that will make accessing downtown that much easier for people who want to patronize downtown during those early evening hours so what that would look like is people who want to patronize restaurants somewhere between 5 30 and 9 pm would potentially be able to get complimentary valet as long as they patronize one of our restaurants enhancing the accessibility of those patrons to downtown's establishments and making those businesses more viable in addition to having parking codes similar the way we had in covid where you can come downtown put in a special code in our meters and have that parking be complementary to either patronize some of the parks or other business establishments that we have and obviously uh project ETO 2.0 uh which is a fully revamp of our downtown's public space Not only creating exemplarly gateways especially on our Southern and Northern end but also redefining the right-of-way space and sidewalks that we have the way we access our businesses and the transportation of Mobility options that we have in downtown so we cut it a lot so just in summary I wanted to highlight some of the major changes that Alex spoke to and these kind of Target in three specific areas that I started with that we heard from businesses as were their areas of highest concern first of which the extra Duty law enforcement requirement uh the changes that Alex highlighted had an approximately 50 percent reduction in the cost structure the weapons detection component uh going from wand well going from the stationary wands down to WAND Styles and then finally finally the permit structure with focus on permit violations and reduce those by approximately 55 percent focusing on safety creative a tiered violation system simplified the suspension structure which he mentioned as well as created the opportunity to cure violations and added the third party hearing officer review and that's all I have man thank you David okay I'll open it up for questions not for discussion or debate but just if you have questions of David or chief or Alex commissioner Sheehan thank you mayor I had a couple of questions for Alex um under the suspension or revocation of permit I noticed that kidnapping custody human trafficking and related offenses was removed as well as prostitution and that actually was a concern that some of my neighborhood people did bring up that they're I mean they're getting approached I mean these are ladies these aren't even they didn't approach a prostitute but they're being approached for prostitution and they're concerned that that's part of human trafficking I was wondering why we took that out when that's been a concern that I've heard from people who used to frequent downtown who actually are constituents of mine so I'm wondering why we took that out because I think that prostitution and human trafficking are a big deal sure so we took it out specifically so anyone who's trying to take someone for human trafficking committing assault or battery on them would still be covered under that assault or battery and we also left in the sexual battery violations so with those violations still in there we didn't want to have things that were surplusage so those additional violations should be covered by the conduct being committed being an assault battery or sexual battery but if there's prostitution occurring at an at an event at a venue that doesn't that would not trip an offense that would not necessarily trip an offense if there was prostitution committing that's not something we've seen being a specific problem at these venues downtown um so we wanted to narrow the focus to be the to identify the problems that we have seen downtown um if that was a problem that's something that could always be added in later but we have not seen that so we wanted to narrowly focus on the things that we've seen to be a problem downtown well as a woman and who has friends who are women who have been approached for prostitution in downtown I do think it's a problem so I think that's something that we need might need to look to add sure thank you okay commissioner gray thank you Mr Burns on commissioner Hill yeah Al what maybe David can handle this one just a quick question about the economics um if I'm looking at the two charts the original cost just talking security only um and I think we have four different levels originally what do we know what the breakdown of the levels are the number of clubs I think we've all kind of agreed it's plus or minus 100 clubs how many of those are level one two three do we know Alex actually may have that information sure of the highest level the levels levels five establishments there's two establishments at the level two requirement and all the other establishments in here would be the level one requirements that's about 40 establishments roughly thank you well you're there you can probably so here's the question the original cost and let's stay with level one because they're the ones that are hurt the most because they have less patrons we originally said one officer for 265 dollars would be the cost to The Establishment is that the screen you put up so that's the new cost under the current proposal oh okay approximately 265 per nut per weekend night you're right originally it was 5 40. but let's take that at 265 at a minimum if they had 125 folks which would be the the most onerous right if they have more it's cheaper if I'm doing the math right that's a little over two dollars a patron they're they're contributing towards security sure so is that I just I want to make sure I'm reading the the chart right so it would be about two dollars um and I don't have the math on that so I would trust your math in that commission 265 divided by 125 is two dollars and twelve cents sure give or take yep so I trust your mouth on that commissioner but I mean and I guess because of the focus groups you had they felt like the original cost which again for a guy that did the math three dollars and fifty cents a person was too much so we went down to 212. sure so we went down we looked at the numbers looked at where we could draw those on the lines and how we could reduce it by going from six hours to five hours and that's where it came out too okay hardly seems onerous but perhaps it is okay that's all I had but mayor thank you okay commissioner Burns yes thank you mayor a question for uh Chief you mentioned that there were um On Any Given night 64 on duty police officers correct with those those three teams that you that you mentioned so there's um you're talking about just Dion Duty before the off duty before the afternoon yeah Ford off duties there's only there's probably 30 officers who were on duty you have two but two bike squads and then you have attack use the attack squad one or two squads depending on what night it is and then the drug units there so probably about 40 to 50 officers okay and that's excluding the uh the supervision and everything you're just talking about the officers the officers yes right and so and now we're moving so previous to this ordinance we had a an additional 40 is that correct and now we're you have 30 officers who are downtown off duty and that's what the ordinance is looking at the 30 officers they're separate from the origin from the officers who are just on duty these are officers that come in and basically work the off-duty and they basically handle all the street corners in front of the clubs all that kind of stuff to pre-fill our officers to do proactive work okay all right all right thank you and my next question uh is for attorney uh Cardin When you mention the the um the process for submitting a cure for any violation who makes that determination that that cure is adequate and and you know it moves that process forward yeah so initially the hearing officer should make that determination so the idea would be for the establishment to submit that prior to their hearing and the hearing officer would make that determination a hearing okay commissioner Michelle thank you mayor I guess peace might be uh for chief I have a few questions so you mentioned the 5 million plus now when I recalled uh previously uh prior meetings it was stated that the CRA is spending 3 million is that correct and that's what we're trying to remedy just it's about 2.1 million at the CRA right now about forty thousand dollars a weekend in costs correct so basically OPD is spending 3 million and that's what's budgeted through our general budget Chief or your general budget yes ma'am so okay so it's that's what we're trying to remember I guess the other component with the officers especially large establishments um that will have a officer specifically to their establishment right they will be there inside with the other off-duty officers and security of where would they be located officers are not inside they're in front of the establishment so they'll be in front of the establishment the ones that's going to be part of this but I was more so speaking to the one that you say was specifically go to those establishments with I think three three officers the rest of the officers like the club for example has four officers one officer stays at The Establishment outside front they're not inside the the club or bar whatever it is the other officers are assigned to the corner near it like at Washington and orange Central and orange Pine and orange on Garland where we shut down the road they're the officers there that basically control the roadway you know to keep anything from happening there and they're they're the corner offices they respond to all the things that happen in between between the streets so they'll will they be parallel and perpendicular or just Orange Avenue specifically Orange Avenue Magnolia we do control some of Garland coming into downtown so basically it's just a pretty much a square so you go from Magnolia down to um to Orange Avenue then down to Garland so we pretty much control the whole area so they'll be on Corners they're on Corners there are main Corners intersections that are leading into downtown and no disrespect how would that assist some of the club Owners that are paying for officers that aren't don't have Corner locations so that if something happened they'll run down to the establishment or are they going to be in in between versus four or five on one corner are they going to be roaming or no basically how we do we have multiple officers downtown so let's say Washington North there's two officers at Washington Lawrence they handle everything on the corner their vehicles are also used to stop for vehicle boarding taxes shut down the road people from driving into downtown there's other officers that are that basically walk between the the intersections and the corners so if you're saying Washington North the next major intersection is like wall and orange and then you have Central and orange so you have officers who walk back and forth looking for things happening in between you have fights that break out yeah they have Growers these 30 will be roamers because you already got 30. that's part of your general fund these 30 will basically take care of the roads and the Roman their officers that are down they're like bike officers so they'll respond to let's say there's a fight that's called out by the History Center the bike officers respond to those kind of calls so the two squads on bikes they handle everything in between there's a fight in the parking garage there's somebody who maybe said have a gun on Magnolia they respond to that because they get there quicker so they're handling everything that happens downtown Sam's attacking some drug units they respond all that downtown plus being proactive these 30 off that are in this permit are basically the ones that control the intersections they walk between the the corners they move around to where the nightclubs and bars are but if something goes on like somebody calls in a huge fight somewhere that's a little bit off where we are the bite cops go to that and they handle that because they have the quick response time to get to that okay thank you the other question I guess was um uh chapter 893 that's the drug chapter yes yes sir uh it seemed like I mean what can a are we going to penalize them for not reporting or for a bad character to come in that might want have some drugs or marijuana or whatever and want to light up or sell I mean they're not trained to be officers to arrest inside the establishments and how can we really charge them for folks coming I see the firearms because they are responsible for waving and make sure Firearms coming in somebody drunk or just see someone they don't like and they want to get into a fight I mean how are are just basic disorderly conduct I mean you know with yourself just cursing that's disorderly right uh or I've smelled marijuana throughout the community even unfortunately in some of our venues and you have too how can they stop that and so basically is that going to be at your discretion if I can see if they're letting this occur and they're not reporting okay yeah so basically how it works for most of the time we get these these calls for people smoking weed or cannabis someone calls in and says hey there's three people in this club they're smoking marijuana or cannabis we get us a call for service and we respond to it which is illegal you can't smoke inside a bar club and they respond they cost for service we don't walk around the bar like oh this person all that kind of stuff but we will respond to those kind of calls and that's how we would have no no I was more so talking about the the owners it's their duty to report but why are we gonna penalize them after they report seeing these things happening because that you can't stop an individual for coming in and making a poor choice but it is their responsibility to report it so once they report it are we dinging them so commissioner no we specifically heard that concern so we added in language to the ordinance where if they call and report it because we have to show that they're being negligence so if they call in and report it that's going to be a prima facial evidence that they were not negligent so that really goes to show now theoretically they could be negligent in some way if they were you know doing whatever is possible if they call and report it it's Prime official evidence that they were not negligent okay okay that was that's my only concern all right thank you thank you mayor Alex while you're there enforcement is a concern of mine um we we don't have a very good history of enforcing code enforcement for people who have vacation rentals so I how when you look at enforcement step me through the steps of somebody who's got an enforcement because it appears that there's a moment in time when they go to an appeal and there's an opportunity for continued violations that occur in this appeal time much like and today with somebody gets turned in from for a you know Airbnb it doesn't get to code enforcement for what could be almost two months and now there's two months of opportunity for them to continue to violate the ordinance until makes an action so help me out with the process to make sure that we have a a fair way to enforce quickly yeah so that was certainly a concern of ours we want to make sure that we enforce quickly but we want to make sure that they have an opportunity to be heard as well for that due process component so if our you know police officers or code enforcement officers are our fire marshal sees it action that constitutes a violation and those constant violations add up to enough violations to constitute suspension then our code enforcement manager will give them notice they will have seven days notice for a hearing in front of the code enforcement I'm sorry in front of the hearing officer appointed by the city it used to be the code enforcement manager we've changed that to a hearing officer so they'll have that seven days notice and then yes they would be able to operate for that seven days but then after that seven days if the hearing officer finds that they are in violation that permit would be suspended at that time so it's not something that's going to drag on for 6 12 or two months or whatever the case is it's going to have a meaningful opportunity to be heard in front of a hearing officer but it will be swift to make sure that establishments that are not acting in good faith have their permit suspended in due order and so the permit is suspended while they're in an effective way in appeal right so if they were to appeal it would be suspended during that course of the appeal to the code enforcement board um so they would stay it would not stay the suspension now during that time they could still submit a plan to cure the violation because right the goal of course is compliance and safety but it would not stay why they appealed to the code enforcement board I guess my concern is this is around noise yeah so you you have a noise ordinance and their remedy is I promise I won't do it again and then there's seven days of having a chance of doing noise at the same time I mean it seems to me there ought to be some kind of onerous um P.O honors on this process for those who are intentionally trying to violate sure so so it is important to balance of course but now all of those violations that occurred they committed three more violations that would be theoretically another suspension and if they did three more violation rates at seven days they did six additional violations within that time period Then they could be suspended once suspended twice suspended three times and that third suspension is a revocation and that would shut them down for a year after midnight another permit so there is still teeth to it during those seven days it's not like oh you have a seven day free period those suspensions or those violations would still count against them but we do want to make sure there is an opportunity to be heard for that due process requirement yeah I mean challenge I have is that when somebody comes in with a uh who intends to commit a crime yes then there's probably not a lot you can do except to prove that the guy was wanted or wasn't wanted whether that may be but noise is a little different kind of concern because noise is one of those things where I you know you you're in violation you turn it down they turn it back up again you're in violation turned it back down again and all of a sudden that that continues to go on then we effectively have not made a major change in terms of the impact of noise in the downtown sure and of course not only would the establishment now bear this potential liability under a suspension or revocation of their permit are other codes still of course apply so the individual who's creating that noise would be subject to all the other penalties for those violations under the city code so this isn't saying that this replaces those other violations of the city code so those other individuals would still be cited and still have those codes enforced against them thank you thank you commissioner yeah I had one more I had a couple follow-ups um so David you said under the safe funding that no one has applied yet we've had pre-app meetings which is the first step we do not have any full formal applications to share okay so so nobody's being proactive in terms of taking advantage of the processes that we're trying to help them to make the venue safer I think they're trying to find out more information uh commissioner but we don't have any full takers uh just yet from that from that community and how long has this been offered January of 2022. wow okay I'm just I was curious about that and uh I don't know if this is for you or for Alex but noise is is again a huge concern in my district and you know because people live there and the difficulty is measuring and um you know what's an ambient base and you know if it's already really noisy and it's not noisy enough and it's not for long enough I mean it's kind of ridiculous because it seems like the residents have to continually call and it's not it's not noisy enough yet you know you drive by and it's like deafening so I don't understand why there's this inconsistency in the in the in the um in the measurement of the noise because I mean I can hear it when I'm you know coming down do Thornton Park you know and and they're having issues and problems so I guess my concern is that we're writing a noise ordinance but are we going to um are we going to enforce it and a lot of them are the rooftop bars and they don't seem to have any interest in you know in complying um I just want to make sure that we're actually dealing with the noise because I think the noise and the mean preachers and this you know screaming at people when they come to downtown I think that just starts to set the tone to lawlessness and again Broken Window Theory when you allow something one thing to happen something else is going to happen so I just want to make sure that we're being consistent in the way that we measure these problems and the way you know and that the residents of the Waverly or the residents you know throughout downtown they get so frustrated because nothing ever gets done the residents at the Solaire they get very frustrated because it seems like nothing's getting done and I want to figure out a way that we can enforce it and help them because it is a problem so the simple answer to that question is yes commissioner which you may have recalled me mentioning initially up until very recently there was no dedicated officers from a code enforcement specifically to downtown that unit is now up to five now that took some time to build obviously with the Staffing challenges that we face as long with with you know many other businesses out there but code is actively out there downtown specifically at night now they're submitting reports on what businesses that they're they're visiting the results of those and having everyone trained on uh the the you're referring to the different ways you can get b and then C types of sound that can ultimately get read and how that gets done so code has been very proactive and he has already out there but also standing by at the ready uh two ultimately enforce the components of this ordinance should it get approved Ortiz and commissioner Hill thank you sir God bless everybody it's awesome to see you all here which every time we have something you know minor and see the whole Community here because this is we're going to solve this together anyhow um our downtown is a jewel and our jewel is being a little bit has a little bit of dirt of it we have to clean it up so let's work on this um I have quite a few questions David let's start with the officer's cost clarify something for me is my understanding we're going to be paying the 90 plus the nine dollar fee which is 99 an hour right I can't read that to the chief chief it's a 90 rate I believe the fees associated with that additional administration fee so it's 99. yeah that's correct okay thank you so and officers will be working five hours each right yes okay so one officer should cost approximately 495 dollars for one night correct okay so why do we have here this says 265 dollars so one of the other components of that was mentioned is there's a cap on officers so in the initial proposal um it as the chief mentioned he has he was usually utilizing 30 officers in downtown at night the original proposal did not have a cap on the amount of officers that could be required so as you may recall there was different tiers and then there was ranges of officers that would ultimately be required one of the things that the stakeholders or the businesses I should say brought up was that that could add up to more than the 30 officers that the chief was requiring which was accurate so in the new proposal there is a cap on the officers required at 30. so what happens in that math is that though if you did it a specific component you heard Alex mentioned before there's about 40 in the lowest tier and then several above that um primarily get one night that you're not paying for because you wind up hitting the cap of officers that are required so that's how the cost effectively went from the 540 or one of the components that went from 540 to the 265. we are replacing 30 officers as a CRA right now is paying for correct so that's approximately a 99 an officer five hours a night 30 officers for three days for 52 weeks is approximately two point three hundred and sixteen thousand six hundred dollars two million three hundred sixteen thousand six hundred dollars all right so what you're explaining there I don't I don't see how we dropped from 495 to um to 265 with a cap or not with a cap because you still have you're gonna have 30 officers a night correct a 99 an hour ninety dollars an hour for the rate of the officer plus the administration fee that you're mentioned again so this doesn't make any sense this doesn't commissions with the rotation how many bars are there total about 47 and then there were some that have three so correct you get to what sixty I'm gonna get to that okay I just want to take the commissioner if if you use the Straight formula there would be 60 or 65 officers but we're only going to have 30 so that means on some nights every bar will rotate through and not have to pay for an officer but that's what I'm getting at because when I talk to the staff we talk about 30 officers we didn't talk about anything else so either the information has been given to us is wrong or you guys are making decisions without letting us know what's going on and we need to go ahead and get to the nitty-gritty on this it's a 30 officers or is it more than 30 officers that we're going to have a nine it's 30 officers okay those of you that don't know me I used to be an accountant and a police officer on top of that so and I I'm not a I'm not very fond of of a bars and clubs I'd rather see restaurants cafes and Retail but we need to be ethical and transparent and we're going to do so so I'm figuring out first of all that the other the other thing I want to talk about is we are including only 47 places out of the 80 that we have on the list because the other 33 don't pass a threshold of 125 is my understanding however I asked for a report from the police department in terms of incidents and we have quite a few of these places that have under 125 that are creating more issues than the ones that are over pretty far so how do we account for that how we handle that so for right now we responded like you said there are some places that are below the threshold of what we were using and we do respond to those places with our bike officers on a routine basis good but what I find and thank you Chief I appreciate that um what I don't find fair is that there's places that have huge capacity compared to these are the ones that have one incident and and this is just for one year I haven't even I should have asked for for for records up to five years to see if there was a consistency in the name on the number of incidents where I'm getting at is I think every stakeholder the 80 stakeholders we have should participate on this even if the smaller ones just pay a portion of a police officer we can do it by figuring this out based on capacity which I came up with a way of doing it and that way everybody is a real stakeholder of this issue we have not just 47 and 33 out besides if something happens with those that have less capacity the ones that are paying for they weren't paying for for the service I don't think it's that that's right but we're going to solve this uh scanners what time do we open up the plugs what time we open open up clubs or restaurants or bars or whatnot I mean every establishment opens at their own time commissioner during lunch but the scanner specifically starts at 10 pm per the ordinance so that's why we ended up so if anyone opens before 10 they would they could start using these scanners before right you know you start using you don't have to use them until 10 o'clock at night but they could they could if they wanted to correct yeah because somebody can sneak up a weapon put in a bathroom you've seen that Godfather movie you know so anyhow um bring a little bit of laughs so let's talk about the violations hey what happens if somebody doesn't care for another club and one of the clubs start calling violations from somebody else how we handle that just kidding I know we're ready for all of us so that's not going to happen um so so I was reading and somebody as it was funny I found it kind of funny that um uh one of our stakeholders asked a question about assaults because assault in the northern part of an assault is is a battery but here an assault is just a threat verbal threat it could be I'm going to kick your you know so I found it a little bit um challenging that um if you have two assaults within three months it gets in trouble if it's negligent then we want to change that a little bit to make it more realistic because I can you know how many people just commit assaults on each other so we want to make sure that the establishments are monitoring because no one should have to go to an establishment and be assaulted or be battered so we want to make sure that these establishments are guarding against this and when they look at it and to co combat a argument of negligence if the establishment calls the police when they see this conduct that would be Prima facial case that they are not acting negligently so when that establishment sees two individuals you know in an argument if one of them commits an assault and they call our officers to come down before it escalates into a battery or an aggravated battery or something worse you know that would be something that would be not held against them because it'd be private evidence that they were not actually negligent negligently when they called our officers okay they're simple assaults you know those so we're going to go that hard okay so so my question about the money is the cost has not been answered and um and the way we're spreading this is not I don't think it's efficiently you know efficient enough I don't feel we have all the information we need in order to establish to make an educated decision I truly don't I would like to explore a bit further since we have not been provided on Vital Information data I like to see up to five years to see the consistency on some of these issues because one year doesn't tell me you know some of these guys with high records and uh in a low capacity may not be yet is that you may have just been a coincidence because of the pandemic maybe things are a little bit different but anyhow I also like to explore the options to include all the stakeholders in decision making here explore the possibility of a block by block deployment based on the location of all these establishments um so I don't know how well accepted this is going to be but I much rather and I don't know if we can separate the permit from the SOP but I think we still needs to work we still need to work with this sop because I don't think this is going to saute issue and it's not going to be fair for everybody so thank you commissioner Hill thank you mayor okay well clearly uh with the Matrix that Chief Smith provided that the surge is working um started in October did it what I'm looking at it started in October yes it did man yeah so so clearly with the data you provided today the surge is working and it's working well like crime and all the things that entail with what we're trying to fix is going down so it it's needed but I guess my my concern mayor and staff is the 18 month revisit uh David can you come up so we we see it's working most moratoriums are different uh studies that we do just like the um ninth the club six month moratorium and you're gonna revisit it and some of them seem like some of the council has some questions of course we always said we're going to revisit and tweak it is there a mayor maybe you can answer that to where we can pass this today but revisit it in six to 12 months as it is to retweek it and see how the Surge and this particular or ordinance is is going how would that be done mayor versus not voting on this today when we need some type of safety mechanism in place to where we can versus extend it all the way out to 18 months if I can provide you some context commissioner to answer your question on where the 18 months came from mayor can address those components but yes the chief had asked for 24 months to allow time to make uh the appropriate shift in the environment in downtown the industry asked for 12 months uh they referred to it as a pilot program of sorts the 18 months seem to be the appropriate Middle Ground uh in the both of those but that is specifically to the sop it is not directly tied to the ordinance because it seems like from October to March it's working and we see some numbers so why do we have to wait 18 more months to see it work because it's working clearly the chief just came and told us that it's working instead of just throwing a random number out there in Middle Ground let's follow for lack of better words protocol what we've always done six to 12 months because that will also probably help with some of the financial hardship that some of the smaller and larger clubs are talking about if we revisit it and if we need more officers let's bring on more officers but if we don't need more officers and this is clearly working so we're going to review the moratorium in six months yeah because that expires I don't have a problem taking a look at it after a year on the other one yeah thank you man so there's a compromise by the way okay I don't see any other requests to for questions from the speakers so we do have um a few people that want to testify and I will mention that I want to thank the Orlando Hospitality Alliance for a little data and research they did and David I think had the headlines from that particular survey that ended up in the media saying that a majority of people think that downtown is unsafe after the hours of midnight and that's extremely unfortunate whether it's true or simply whether that's what the reputation of our downtown is but I don't know what the who was surveyed but that at least bears that out but the other thing that stood out to me in that survey was the fact that the those surveyed thought that the city the bar owners and the patrons all had a role to play in fitziness and that's what we're all about so I think we've been pretty fair in listening and trying to come up with something that wasn't what was proposed originally but has helped out with some of the financial concerns but we're here to listen to comments um from anybody that cares to let us know what their opinion is of the work product that we've come up with over the course of the last two months okay so if you would come to the podium and state your name and your address and if you have an affiliation with an organization that you would like to mention please do that you'll have three minutes I'm going to call three names at a time so you can be in the queue ready to go Jill Von Gavin Jill Von Tim Giuliani Gavin Lewis are the first three thank you Jill Vaughn 333 South Garland Avenue Orlando Florida good afternoon mayor Dyer and the city council commissioners thank you for your strong advocacy for the Improvement of safety in downtown Orlando I am Jill Vaughn the president and CEO of the downtown Orlando partnership the downtown Orlando partnership is committed to collaboratively working together with the Orlando city council Community leaders key stakeholders and downtown businesses for the overall betterment and economic growth of downtown Orlando founded in 1961 the dop offers more than 225 corporate members a single point of access to connect collaborate and contribute to the growth of our downtown Orlando Business community businesses are essential to the vibrancy and vitality of Central Florida and the dop is dedicated to helping Advance positive change in downtown from February 22nd to March 8 2023 and under the direction of the dop board of directors the downtown Orlando partnership released a comprehensive business assessment the goal of the survey was to collect meaningful holistic data from our business Community to be used as a guide for strategic private and public partnership and policy over 300 stakeholders participated in the dop business assessment 34 percent of the participants in the survey were business owners and 18 percent were Executives presidents CEOs svps EVPs VPS and principals the majority of participants were businesses employees who are downtown Orlando from 6 a.m to 6 pm on weekdays the dop business assessment survey results show that 70 percent of the respondents support a temporary moratorium a new nightclub and bar licenses Orlando city council ordinance 202278 and 72 percent of the respondents support the implementation of the after midnight alcohol sales permit Orlando city council ordinance 20238 this data reflects a strong desire by the business Community to increase Safety and Security in our downtown area both during the day and at night the proposed moratorium is an important step to improving safety in downtown and promoting a more diverse business mix the dop encourages the Orlando city council to take action and Implement measures to help create a safer environment and a more vibrant economy for all based on the dop business assessment results we urge the Orlando city council to take action to impose a temporary moratorium a new nightclub and bar licenses in downtown Orlando and also a vote to implement the afternoon midnight alcohol sales permit on behalf of the dop we appreciate all that you do for our downtown Orlando Community we fully support the implementation of both of these proposed ordinances today thank you for your time okay Tim Giuliani then Gavin Lewis and then Dominique Greco thank you mayor good afternoon my name is Tim juliannia the honor of serving as president and CEO of the Orlando economic partnership and we're charged with growing the diversity of the economy and driving investment into our entire region I'm here to speak in support of the ordinances today we all know the vibrancy of downtown is critical to our Region's Economic Development as it serves as a engine and an identity for us and the Partnerships also proud to have our offices just a few blocks away right in the Heart of the City however in the work to bring in companies developers and workers back to downtown Orlando it's become abundantly clear that a lack of retail and dining options and safety have been impediments to growth we've heard people don't feel safe in downtown after the sun goes down city data indicates that these fears are Justified as incidents of violent crime downtown are concentrated at night primarily as we've heard between midnight and 4. and people should feel safe as they congregate no matter what time of day it is the recent surge in crime has depressed the viability of our downtown as a safe and inviting community I can attest to you firsthand as the partnership tries to drive investment into downtown in the form of new developments company headquarters businesses are hesitate to relocate downtown we believe in the power of Partnerships and working together to a common goal and we believe there's an ideal mix where nightlife can act as a catalyst for economic growth but that is not the current state of downtown and I want to thank the staff for working with the community stakeholders over the previous months to arrive at a solution that's being presented today and I'm confident that these steps will help ensure downtown is safer it's more vibrant neighborhood that's going to support all types of small businesses and it's going to attract that young and skilled Workforce we need for more companies to call Downtown home thank you thank you Gavin Lewis Dominique Greco Greg Reynolds I'm Gavin Lewis 150 Robinson Street I would like to say that I am nervous to speak but I love Orlando I don't have greed or other skin in the game I was encouraged to speak by Lieutenant Holmes the OPD Watch Commander on March 11th around 11 pm he said downtown Orlando by this hour is chaotic and not policeable he was aware the loud outdoor parking lot Club on Washington Street was exploiting the noise ordinance law and agreed it creates safety concerns with people just loitering industried outside these but he said police hands were tied legal loopholes in downtown Orlando unlike other areas of Orlando or other cities requires code reinforcement to be involved the ordinances Commissioners passed have loopholes are not being enforced to which then creates a Snowball Effect the midnight ordinance should pass with some modifications to better hold the bad actor nightclubs more accountable so that other ones don't have to be dragged down with them most of the bars we have are not bad actors nightlife as an option is cool it's just unfortunately about the only option in the dto neighborhood the nightclubs who are not following the intent of the outdoor noise ordinances and the Florida responsible vendor alcohol laws should be revoked and make space for new options downtown the ordinance passed today should require City attorneys to close legal loopholes on compliance we're not just a nightclub Entertainment District anymore I can't think of any thriving downtown in the world with nightclubs as the only core this Council approved thousands more residences and a University downtown but it's a university who warns incoming students about the noise and violence right outside its stores and dto that's embarrassing I get that people made the choice to live downtown but they did not choose to have the streets closed for lawlessness which later get opened up for street racing I'd also like to point out that all you made a choice all of you to serve the community to make Orlando this city beautiful and continue to make it beautiful and not just one sector of it thank you in advance for Action to evoke Orlando's downtown to a fun sustainable livable and diversity one that doesn't come with warnings thank you thank you Dominique Greco Greg Reynolds Leo Alvarez good afternoon everyone Dominique Greco the Orlando Hospitality Alliance 100 East Pine Street downtown Orlando mayor Dyer and City commissioners I want to first thank you for your attention your time and your appreciation to what businesses OHA members residents and other downtown stakeholders have had to say on this topic as I will continue to reiterate nightlife is an asset not a liability it is a critical part of every Urban community's ecosystem and it is not exclusive to night light use nightlife users but but to all of us here today downtown Orlando nightlife industry injects 480 million dollars into our local economy annually supports nearly 6 000 jobs and pays out over 200 million dollars in employee compensation this is an industry that pays its fair share of taxes and is one of the most regulated Industries in our country more so nightlife is a critical component to our downtown community past present and future please let me remind you this is an industry which was the first to lean into doing its part offering solutions to City staff for many years buying through me and also independently we've never wavered from asking how and offering two make downtown more safe and welcoming to our millions of visitors and residents what you are about to vote on today is a direct result of your community organizing and asking the tough questions offering Solutions briefing Commissioners participating in surveys attending public meetings and having a watchful eye on the media tune in while many elements of the after midnight alcohol sales permit have been updated over the last eight weeks I want to point out three key areas that still need your attention first while the ordinance is touted as a short-term solution the city should make a clear Declaration on their role in the next steps of finding and supporting a long-term safety solution for the downtown entertainment area whether that be a surtax or the development of a business improvement district we as a community in tax paying and law-abiding residents and business owners need to know where the city stands on truly delivering a sustainable long-term and economically viable plan that removes full financial responsibility away from a select group of small business owners after all public safety is government's primary function secondly the city needs to create or hire an independent body to audit the audit and report on the established Sops their outcomes in progress as it relates to the ordinance as it's written today the Orlando Police Department and economic development office would not only be tasked with creating and executing this plan but also would be the ones responsible for reporting on the results of their own work this simply does not allow for objectivity objectivity oversight or accountability lastly the current standard operating procedures presented today still needs more refinement and additional review including expert input and supporting data I'd like to request this Council make a motion today at this time of at this time of voting to separate the SOP from the ordinance so that it can be refined for better implementation and require the review and Analysis to be conducted at both the 6th 12 and 18 month marks with a third party expert thank you for your time and consideration I look forward to continuing to work with you all appreciate it Greg Reynolds Leo Alvarez and Alana friscus thank you Commissioners mayor dyer for this opportunity to speak in support of this important issue that affects all that live downtown I moved here downtown and oh my name is Greg Reynolds I live at 322 East Central Boulevard I've moved to downtown in 2004 from college park because I love the energy of living working and playing downtown Orlando I appreciate that the city is stepping up to say that the current security plan is not sustainable and that changes need to occur I appreciate that bar owners understand that Safety and Security is important the city needs to move away from taxpayers paying the huge influx of OPD in the downtown Entertainment District taxpayers deserve the same treatment whether they live in the outskirts of the city or the city center OPD should be spread somewhat the same across all taxpayers when extra security is needed whoever is causing that influx should pay for that extra coverage I manage a downtown property and we invited a community Forum of the downtown to talk about Safety and Security commissioner Sheehan attended that and I appreciate her attendance I would like to say she got an earful about how people feel unsafe about walking and running downtown I applaud that the city is taking past proactive security measures I applaud that the city is making proactive recommendations moving forward with continued enhanced security measures this is all about security of our downtown neighborhood from my perspective as a city resident and it is a taxpayer proposed city code passed is a common sense test this is I truly believe the city is doing their best to establish a good city code I would hope that it would be modified through time if it is found to be a high burden on the downtown establishments establishes establishes establishments need to be proactive yet they need to make money I support the proposed code and hope that it goes into effect I think that you know if you guys um move this along that you know forty thousand dollars a weekend is gets expensive so I think I would hope that you guys enact something soon evaluate it and then make changes to it if needed thank you I appreciate your invite but because of the sunshine and I made sure commissioner see him was there at her district and I left myself out the door I appreciate that thank you very much thank you okay okay Leo Alvarez a lot of friskets and Jeff deary thank you mayor Dyer city city council members Leo Alvarez 390 North Orange Avenue I have the honor to serve as the 2023 board chair for the downtown Orlando partnership also known as dop the downturnal in the partnership is governed by 26 member volunteer board of directors for a group of leaders who are passionate about supporting the business Community to further the economic health and vitality of downtown Orlando our board is comprised of key stakeholders in downtown Orlando and including the following businesses admin health Blue Wave Resource Partners Career Source Central Florida cogent Bank Dr Phillips Center Fairwinds Grand Bohemian greater Orlando Sports Commission HKS architects JPMorgan Chase Lloyd commercial advisors Orlando city and Orlando Pride Orlando Health Orlando Magic Orlando Museum of Art Orlando Utilities Commission Prismatic stocks muscular development visit Orlando United Arts on behalf of the downtown Orlando partnership board of directors we support the proposed or the proposed ordinance for after midnight alcohol sales permit increased safety in downtown will have a positive impact on Economic Development and Tourism and the proposed ordinance will contribute to creating a safer environment for residents visitors and business as a whole thank you thank you Alana good afternoon Alana friscus 54 West Church Street Unit 201 mayor Dyer Commissioners I come before you today to speak of the city of Orlando's plan to improve late night safety measures in our downtown core I am the executive director of a non-profit theater downtown called Fringe Art Space which opened January of this year we are excited and proud to establish ourselves on Church Street we are a 32 year old organization with a core audience of 75 000 people annually who come to our Festival each May in Lockhaven Park a little north of downtown now we have the challenge of convincing our loyal audiences to venture downtown at night we hear it's not safe downtown so I'm not coming or who can walk me to my car after the show while doing what we can to quell safety fears about downtown after dark many of our audiences are still nervous in response to these fears we are utilizing the new and improved downtown ambassador program thank you so much we've brought on extra volunteer and staff positions to wayfind and walk audiences to their cars and we have avoided programming shows that end past 11 pm however the stunts our growth and puts stress on our labor costs more could and should be done the perception of downtown safety is as valid as the reality putting in safety measures is a huge step towards showing the public that the city acknowledges what's happening downtown and that you are taking active measures to improve nightlife safety we appreciate the mayor and Commissioners leadership in working diligently through these details and addressing these issues thank you for your time and all that you do Jeff Theory Jeff borsowitz and Bosco LASIK mayor Dyer and Commissioners Jeff Deery I'm an attorney my business address is 329 North Park Avenue in Winter Park Florida and I'm here on behalf of smk properties downtown property owner that operates a number of establishments selling bacon and eggs after midnight is one of the Core Business principles of Waffle House it's it's what they do likewise for downtown establishment owners selling alcohol between midnight and 2 is a essential part of their business and you've heard that from the workshops you've heard that from from the people that are boots on the ground I'm concerned and I raised the issue that that if the ordinance passes as proposed the after midnight ordinance uh that the establishment owners will have no choice but to challenge the ordinance on a constitutional basis I've provided a letter to Madam clerk earlier today that I believe each of you have setting out some constitutional concerns about the ordinance as proposed let me go through those briefly there are a number of equal protection problems with the ordinance as drafted from a macro standpoint you're requiring um you're requiring establishments that choose to sell alcohol between midnight and two you're imposing burdens on them significant financial burdens that are not imposed on similarly situated Other Bar and business owners even within the uh even within the the DEA there are issues with equal protection for instance one of the exceptions is the soccer venue Amway Center Dr Phillips Center none of those key point years downtown none of those venues that drive traffic to downtown none of those venues that bring the crowds in that create crowded streets are in any way being asked to share the burden for the uh for the cost of the police Surge and police protection I believe that's fundamentally unfair and I believe it violates the equal protection clause in addition it's something fundamentally flawed about requiring an establishment owner to pay for a police person on their own sidewalk with the understanding then that that police officer can be deployed anywhere within the downtown area at the discretion of the of the chief of police that sounds to me as something that's fundamentally unfair and treats similarly situated business owners differently commissioner Ortiz eloquently made an equal protection argument this morning uh talking about the the differences between how business owners are treated under the statute I believe there's also a due process problems there's no right to appeal a violation and the violations are fundamental to establishing what what amounts to a suspension and there's no there's no built-in procedure for appealing those there is strict liability there is site of sight of violations where if an establishment is a site of a crime regardless of the compliance by that owner they're subject to violation and potential suspension I would urge you to take more time do this correctly not quickly thank you thank you Jeff of other Jeff yes Corona Justin Bosco lazak and then Frank handy good afternoon I'm Jeff vorswitz I'm the owner of Corona Cigar Company and first I want to thank thank the police officers in the city for the surge in officers downtown um some of you know that crime has been an issue I've sent emails to the city council and the mayor whenever we've had most of our issues which actually been from aggressive panhandling in the homeless that have uh yeah you know assaulted our staff and customers and things like that so you're familiar with some of the problems that we've had um but uh the city council and downtown survey shows that people want retail downtown and there's only two establishments on Orange Avenue here retail establishments that's Corona cigar and LaBelle first and we've been able to survive as an anchor tenant in the plaza for 15 years we uh I put a lot of faith in downtown when uh Cameron Coons hello is this working all right when Cameron was developing downtown and you know approached me by putting on a store there cost a lot of money we did it I took a risk on the city but I gotta tell you crimes a problem crime is a problem I'm glad you guys put out the survey so you could see what keeps the customers from coming downtown they don't like being a aggressively panhelled walking to their car they don't want to worry about getting shot when they get off work or when they leave a a nightclub this is a problem and again I want to thank the police officers you guys put your life at risk at what you do and I really appreciate the officers that do that however I don't I don't think the way you're going about this right now we're caught in this Dragnet and we're not part of this problem right now it's going to cost us forty two thousand dollars a year for the privilege to stay open two extra hours on Friday and Saturday now I'll be totally honest with you you guys can use me as an open book or a case study how to survive downtown I mean right now Walgreens is going out of business 7-Eleven behind me has gone out of business that place is still dark there's only two tenants in the plaza that have state it's been through Sushi and me I look across the street I got taped up Windows where it used to be sack Comedy Club I got taped up Windows across the street I got Urban Flats that's out of business we had Wahlburgers failed listen if a multinational company like Walgreens and 7-Eleven couldn't make it it's pretty damn hard to stay in business downtown all right now this is going to cost me forty two thousand dollars if we want to stay open from 12 to 2. we do a 10 net profit okay that's four hundred and twenty thousand dollars in sales we'd have to do to cover a forty two thousand dollar expense so what I'm asking the city you said you want retail we know we're not product problem you can look on that chart the cops aren't coming to our place matter of fact we're the diverse community meeting place where people get to sit around talk men and women act like grown adults and actually can have differences of opinions without threatening to pull out guns all right my time's up listen I think you should get an amendment for anybody has 51 or more retail they should not be covered under this or have the fire department look at the space look at how much space you've got for retail versus uh bar and come up with a solution here because we shouldn't be part of this thank you thank you Pascal Isaac Frank Hamby Dennis Wells Mr Mayor Commissioners my name is Bosco Lasik I'm part of the Wall Street group we own four restaurants and bars on the south side of Wall Street fiction uh Wall Street Cantina waitiki and Monkey Bar as an entrepreneur you're always fearful of government regulations um and when I first read this I was a little bit concerned um I think it's just a gene that every entrepreneur has where you just are slightly nervous anytime you read any government regulation but as I engage with City officials with Mr Barilla and Mr arnott I realized that this could be actually a pretty good solution uh pragmatic one if you will um it is not perfect uh but I think their components in this that will make our downtown safer our places in downtown are restaurants and the Wall Street uh in general just started turning a corner I think you're aware of every time anything happens downtown Wall Street sign is always part of it this happened on near or at Wall Street and we usually don't have anything to do with it which is unfortunate you know our restaurant that we opened up in September opened up six weeks after uh six people got shot right in front of our venue so as an entrepreneur you never you always kind of assess the risks and you try to figure out what is the best way to succeed and you can never plant for six people getting shot at for every place before you open up but fortunately enough you know after eight months or so we're turning the corner you know our our branches are great you know people love coming downtown a little more a little easier during the day still at night it's still a battle where we're trying to get people down to our dinners our uh concerts on the street actually all the last concert we almost broke even which is a huge success if you know how bad our first concert was so um we're moving in the right direction for sure at the same time there's many there's a lot of concerning data out there and uh from the chief and letting us know how many guns had been confiscated every weekend which is on average at least 10 guns every weekend it's a problem that is not solved yet and we cannot take a foot off the pedal uh uh we probably need to make sure that we actually speed things up a little bit if another thing another shooting happens that would be an existential threat for my business I don't think we could survive it it's uh we fought hard we invested a lot of marketing dollars to Bringing people back and after eight months could take up another 30 seconds we need to do something we can't afford to do nothing so I do a I I do approve with these two ordinances thank you okay Frank Hamby Dennis Wells John San Felipe a good afternoon mayor and Commissioners my name is Frank Hamby a 907 old England Avenue my wife and I own property in downtown Orlando which includes the beach and theater over the last few years I've gone to dozens of meetings with stakeholders and City staff and I've never heard of anyone that wasn't supportive of the city's goals to increase safety downtown in fact many of the details in the ordinance originated from conversation City staff and OPD had with my tenants for 20 years they have been using wet weapon detection systems scanners ID scanning and they've installed video surveillance systems their security staff has specifically trained for nighttime venues and they've been paying off-duty officers for over 25 years so that is one reason they haven't applied for the grant for for weapons detection systems and scanners they already have them in total they spend over 2.5 million dollars a year annually on security which now includes equipment and a full-time employee to monitor monitor their sound as I said they've been paying for off-duty for for since 1995. since the first reading of the ordinance there have been two stakeholder meetings the meetings were well attended and there were a lot of good ideas that were offered the stakeholder meetings and a recent and the recent modifications have made the ordinance and the procedures better but there are still numerous issues that should be addressed before it's voted on I support a public-private partnership that helps pay for the extra OPD in fact probably for the last 10 years me and my tenants have offered to pay for extra off due duty to work on the streets but we need to come up with look at how the calculation for police protection is is going to be paid for and why are some establishments excluded from paying something that benefits everyone why are certain establishments that sell alcohol excluded from paying for for OPD why are only establishments that sell alcohol paying for police protection even though other businesses are generating Revenue in downtown and then why aren't why are venues that already paying for off-duty not given credit for those those off duties right now the way this is structured my tenants will have to pay for 10 off-duty officers that's approximately 750 000 a year and only one of those officers will be located on their site normally they have four so to get the extra three so that they have four on their site they would be paying over a million dollars a year now even if you discount that at some maybe one less day you're still talking about seven hundred thousand dollars a year in extra costs we're all on the same team and we all want a safe and prosperous downtown with a little more effort and input from the stakeholders we can get a process that is actually fair and will work for everyone thank you Dennis Wills John San Felipe George [Music] hey afternoon Mr Mayor my name is Dennis Wells I'm a lawyer representing The Beacham Entertainment Group one of the stakeholders in this process I just need to point out something I've heard a little bit earlier and I'm not sure it's a mistake or not you've referred to the term people testifying and giving testimony by my understanding this is not a quasi-judicial proceeding it is certainly not being done under the requirements thank you I appreciate your opinion God I appreciate that clears it up thank you um commissioner Hill pointed out a question if crime is going down in this area the question becomes why is this ordinance necessary at this point if this is such a good ordinance why is it not being applied Citywide frankly what's going on here I can submit to the to the council is that this is an overreach or to sort of describe it it's kind of like using a previously in the original proposed one using a sledgehammer to take care of something minor now Mr Carton and I've talked a lot and appreciate his um submitting changes but it's still a large hammer for a situation that isn't we submit is not necessary at this point you have tools already in place and I sent each of you a letter describing those under the law to enforce and protect people on the streets of Orlando even during the late hours you can use all the law that's permitted by the state of Florida for the officers to enforce and protect the citizens but this ordinance is going to put the burden on the club Owners to be insurers of anything that happens in their Club even if they don't know now frankly this may lead to a legal challenge hope not I'm asking you to consider today tabling the ordinance and if you need a subsidy for the police department which frankly as Mr commissioner greatest point now if it doesn't cost much heck make every Club in the city of Orlando pay an extra two dollars per Patron okay and we can have more police don't pass this ordinance today if you need a subsidy for the city of Orlando let's go back and take a look at how the SOP or the resolution can be put in place so that all the clubs can equally participate in the cost to help defray these costs for the city now eventually it sounds like the city wants to get rid of Clubs in downtown Orlando if that's the case and that's what you're trying to do here then do it the right way go out and buy the clubs you can Market it you can sell it to all the restaurants that want to come downtown all the movie theaters don't do something that essentially is penalizing these club Owners at this point for something that is not taking place in their clubs if it's crime on the streets take care of it there thank you okay Dennis Wells Johnson San Felipe and George pizzas good afternoon mayor Dyer and city council my name is John Sanfilippo owner of The Beacham group 46 North Orange Avenue I'm up here today to let you know that I am in support of the spirit of the after midnight permit I do have concerns about how and why the off-duty expenses and standards are being implemented the last time we were here a few Commissioners asked us to come back with one voice and solutions we have been giving solutions for years and will continue to do so my company is one of the first ones to implement security cameras wanting devices and ID scanners unfortunately we've been doing it for many years and we do not qualify for the safe program if you'd like to change that I'd be more than happy to re submit my invoices but the way the ordinance is written today has kind of put us in three different groups with three different agendas and we no longer have one voice because of that there is no wanting or off-duty charge for a bar with a capacity of 49 and under you've heard there's no off-duty charge for a bar with a capacity of 124 and under businesses with a capacity of 125 must want and pay for all the off-duty that's not a bad idea however what is confusing is we still have not been given any statistical reason or data that shows how or why these categories were set up and the way that they are going to be determined maybe one of you Commissioners could do us a favor and get a reason based on statistics and not just that they kind of marked out where they felt was a good spot to be I have one liquor license for my business which is Under One Roof at one location we're an entertainment complex the Orlando fire department and building for life safety requirements requires our life safety systems and our procedures to operate as one business however the way this ordinance is written it does not recognize us as one business which is conflicting therefore we could be responsible for up to 10 officers per night and we'd only get one of those officers back we could pay up to seven hundred fifty thousand dollars per year that's 30 percent of the off-duty being scheduled and I do not represent 30 percent of the capacity of downtown however bars with a capacity of under 124 people collectively represent 21 percent of the capacity in downtown Orlando and they are not required to pay for any off-duty not long ago sorry to bring up an unfortunate incident we had two situations that guns were involved in downtown one in a bar and one in a restaurant both of these businesses have a capacity of less than 49 people under this current ordinance the way it is written these same businesses with a bad history would be exempt from any and all security measures in this ordinance that does not make sense to me I love and truly believe we have a great downtown we have been here for over 28 years if we are going to do this then everyone should follow the same standards and everyone should help pay and offset the cost in closing I do support what's going on here today I support more security and better business practices but we need to have everyone participate not just a few please spread out these expenses and security requirements to a hundred percent of everybody open after midnight not just 79 percent of us thank you very much George batesos Devo Heller Steve Garrity foreign Commissioners my name is George maltesos The Beacham Entertainment Group 46 North Orange Avenue and I'm going to go fast I would say this ordinance has gotten worse with the city trying to appease people instead of looking at the reality safety is everyone's problem not just the few that are carved out in this latest draft the ordinance only taxes half of the businesses for police services but arbitrarily exempting businesses with 124 capacity and under these businesses do not participate in the police fees these are 40 facilities 46 percent of downtown do not pay the fees leaving 47 facilities 54 percent paying all the permit fees for police services it is even worse with the missed opportunity the missed opportunity of saying we are a gun-free area in our downtown facilities staff and attorneys decided to take out the metal detection or searches of facilities under 49 capacity many facilities will go unscanned um can one of you please just ask the question on why they made that decision because we lost the message of telling people we are a gun-free area and I think that was important while it was in there um there are business models contributing to hanging out other than businesses that you are about to regulate I.E liquor stores and convenience stores selling alcohol to go parking lots allowing people to congregate and restaurants open after 2 A.M waiting for our customers they should be open and they should pay for police services as well with all the carve outs and inactions for some instead of bringing a community together to solve a problem with good Solutions you have instead caused a breakup businesses are going after their own interests instead of working together with hopes of improving safety my group has been a leader in using all the proposed requirements in this ordinance for many years we are committed to Safe positive fair and comprehensive practices this ordinance falls short of that is not fair it's not comprehensive and not consistent enough in leaving some businesses out you were were expecting me to be totally against this ordinance today I support the city trying to help businesses improve their security measures however I oppose the ordinance as is written because it is inconsistent vague gives too much power to City over private Enterprises and it's not going to be equally applied to all those who have obtained a 12 a.m and 2 A.M permit I ask you to hold this ordinance back however ways you do it I don't know the how you do it with the Sops and all that stuff but I ask you to give us another 30 to 60 days to really work it out where it could be sustainable for all and work correctly the way we want it to work because right now I don't think it would the ordinance is not ready for your vote thank you very much Devo Heller Steve Garrity Robert to Zillow to zeli Doug Keller speaking virtually from 155 South Court Avenue where I reside I'm speaking today in support of the midnight sales permit ordinance 2023-8 as I say I reside at the at the solare and while I'm on the board I'm I speak as an individual the solare is at the heart of downtown lying between court and Magnolia and Pine and church so you can see that these issues are not just in our neighborhood they are our doorstep I was at the March 1 Towers meeting that David Barilla and Greg put together maybe the charts presented today were presented there they're persuasive you've also seen that the actions take a new days have worked you know the present method of funding is not viable long term from the discussion you can see that this ordinance may not be perfect and I'm well aware has to quote the tribute to Valero Voltaire that we can't let the perfect become the enemy of the good or be good enough as it sometimes phrased by politicians but this is an ordinance that's a result of compromise and based on the data collected here all the audio I'd like to say let's not delay the adoption in an effort to make it perfect you can still work on other ordinances to address other aspects of this issue primarily noise and aggressive paneling pen handling I think you also need to be ready to revisit this ordinance if it doesn't fully accomplish its goals or if it has unintended consequences such as putting the corona Cigar Bar in the position that it seems to me thank you very much that's all I have to say thank you Steve Garrity Robert to Zillow to Z live Barbara Hartley good afternoon mayor good afternoon everyone thank you so much for your time uh I'm Steve Garrity at 201 East Pine Street in downtown Orlando and as a VP of Highwoods properties um just briefly Highwood zone is about 30 percent of the Class A Office Buildings in downtown Orlando where long-term real estate holders and we have a beautiful city that we continue to see mature and it's nice to see some progress that's occurring so it's very healthy dialogue that's occurring and I appreciate everybody's efforts in getting us here I do think that there's been as we all know an increase in after midnight activities that have been negatively affecting the downtown safety and brand which affects the city's Investments such as Deepak as well as future developments so Highwoods and I support the ordinance as proposed thank you thank you Robert Hartley and Kate claudefilter good afternoon mayor Commissioners my name is Rob tazioli I'm the owner of doveco restaurant which is located at 390 North Orange Avenue it's in the old Bank of America building now called City National right across the street from the courthouse we are a fine dining restaurant that also does a lot of events weddings corporate Christmas parties birthday parties Etc well I bought the restaurant five years ago really with the goal to partner with the city and bringing what I think downtown Orlando needs and I think one of the Commissioners mentioned it earlier you know more fine dining options that really you know brings in upscale environment I was born and raised in Chicago been here for 20 years but I spent 28 years in Chicago living in the downtown Loop in Lincoln Park and was raised in a suburb so I understand very well what it's like to live in a city that people will drive 20 miles from around the city to spend a night on the town and it always starts with a great meal and then they'll go to the ball game or the club or whatever there is and there's an energy that you see particularly Friday Saturday and Sunday because there's cards cars flooding into the city I was shocked when I got here expecting because we had four young children and obviously everyone knows Orlando for for Disney but I thought for certain given the tourism uh you know poll that you'd see much more of a vibrant downtown with more restaurants you know an upscale and you know I came to learn that boy when people are going to spend the night on the town more often than not they're going to Winter Park Park Avenue or they're going to Lake Mary or they're going to Disney Springs and I wasn't accustomed to that at all big reason why I was retired and I bought Dove coat you know to bring to the city something that I think will help with that and the number one reason because I've asked that question a lot why people don't do it is crime so I'm here to speak fully supportive of both of these measures and they need to be enforced thank you thank you Barbara Hartley Kate clodfelter miles Moraine okay hello can you hear me good afternoon mayor and Commissioners I'm Barbara Hartley my address is 39 South Magnolia Avenue and I'm the executive director of the downtown Arts District we manage and operate city arts Orlando which is on Pine and Magnolia in downtown and the reason I wanted to address you always one to thank you for having the conversation and to thank the bar owners nightlife has always been a vital part of economic development in downtown and I've been part of those committee conversations and security and safety over the years and as someone said earlier perception is reality so even though we're not open past 12 o'clock we often hear that people don't feel safe or they don't want to come downtown because of security issues or they heard something on the news so there is a need for change I've actually had employees also not feel comfortable coming downtown but the same token we don't want it downtown without restaurants and without bars The Nightlife is critical to the energy and vitality of our downtown and I just encourage everyone to continue the conversation and to have that win-win mentality you know during the pandemic with a lot of bars closed that causes other issues you know so it's not going to be a solution to get rid of the bars so let's work together let's make it safe so we can have more art activations in downtown and so the artists feels safe you know because at times they haven't felt safe and we want to continue to grow that as well so thank you for your time thank you for your due diligence and thank you all for having the conversation and coming up with the solution together thank you Barbara Kate claudefelter and then miles Moraine afternoon my name is Kate clodfelter I'm at 46 North Arnett Orange Avenue I am the director of live music for foundation presents going on five years as a small local business Foundation presents puts on hundreds of shows a year at our venues The Beacham and the social and outside our walls at House of Blues Hard Rock Dr Phillips Center St Augustine Amphitheater in Moore I recently read a great article in the New York Times about the first nightlife Czar in New York City a woman named Ariel patease she started in 2018 and spent her time trying to to reordinate the way the city looks at those who come alive at night she argues that nightlife is not just about the economic ecosystem it creates nightlife also quote Fosters creativity it cultivates identity and strengthens social ties before she arrived she said the city's approach to nightlife was always reactive enforcement intended to be restrictive without any recognition for what the industry contributes to culture and the identity of the city she worked hard to develop a working partnership between the city and the nighttime economy I know Orlando is not the first city to deal with the issues we're facing now but like New York City Austin London and other great cities we too should look for Innovative and collaborative solutions to our problems rather than reactive ones for example I've noticed groups of people come from the parking lots around 2 A.M just to hang out on the streets since everything else is already closed I've read cities have required their parking lots to only allow cars to exit after 1am I'm sorry 1 30. the cities felt this would keep Bad actors from coming downtown to cause problems after the bars have already closed it seems if we implemented something like this it could have a real positive effect I also feel there's a missed opportunity in driving the messaging that downtown is a gun-free area by making all bars and venues downtown search for patrons before entering regardless of their capacity it's so important that we collectively have a united front against gun violence in downtown Orlando I also hope that there are continued plans and programs in place to support our houseless population as an Orlando native I have a deep love for our city in the diverse Community we've built I want our downtown to be the best and the safest that it can be I believe we can achieve this by venues and the city working as partners rather than adversaries because only then can we truly evolve thank you for your time thank you miles Moraine do you leave okay Madam Court that's all do you have any more yes we have one more via Zoom Susan buttery hi there my name is Susan buttery and I uh my business is at 2413 East South Street I just wanted to speak today on behalf of all the bar owners and night club Owners and restaurant owners in downtown Orlando um I recently sent a pretty long email to all the City commissioners mayor Dyer and the chief of police regarding my 15 years being a restaurant and bar owner in downtown Orlando from 1995 to 2010 where we didn't have this problem we didn't have shootings uh going on downtown and I always felt safe riding my bike home at 3am after I closed my bar um I do appreciate all the recent safety enhancement that have gone on in downtown and I appreciate that the city council members have tried to get work with the stakeholders on trying to come up with an appropriate solution to this issue but you know the biggest thing we look at you know kind of like the old age adage we don't know which came first the chicken or the egg but we do know what came first in downtown Orlando when I opened my restaurant in 1995 it was pretty much a ghost town and most of the retail was on Church Street station and when City Walk opened up in 1999 Church Street Station pretty much the retail left and one city council member mentions today that he'd rather just see more restaurants well you know that's taking a dig at all the bars and nightclubs that have been thriving and creating a very cool downtown Orlando environment um my email really addressed the issues that I had and other businesses had with off-duty OPD and I know a very good friend and business owner who recently sold his two places the woods and The Lodge downtown when he was asking when he was trying to get off-duty cops you know have you guys even thought about that insurance companies won't insure a small business when they have OPD outside off duty with weapons so is that something that's even been addressed with off-duty cops with businesses not being able to be insured and will city of Orlando take full responsibility for any actions via the city of Orlando providing insurance for those businesses that now have to hire the off-duty cops and then I'd also like to ask how do you propose to get more retail downtown we all know that Walgreens has left the 7-Eleven was pretty much demolished at Roslyn and uh Central Boulevard another 7-Eleven has gone dark and like the cigar gentleman said you know there's only two retail places down there and you guys can't control rent when I sold my bar in downtown Orlando I fortunately had a super long lease and was only paying 4 500 a month while my neighbor Casey and Other Bar owners in the same building were paying nine grand and that was 13 years ago so you can say it's all like oh we can get more retail downtown but you really can't so I don't think this ordinance should be passed today that's all I'd like to say thank you thank you madam report to you we have one more yes one more Jennifer Evans thank you and good evening mayor and commissioner my name is Jennifer Evans I'm here for two reasons one to speak as a resident of the city of Orlando at 520 East Church Street apartment 636. I moved to Orlando 20 months ago and I intentionally chose to live in our downtown I walked to the Amway Center and I walk home from the Amway Center I walk and play tennis at the cities Tennis Center I know that's moving but I enjoy recreating downtown I go to City soccer and I worship at St Luke's cathedral downtown um I love our city but my friends are are afraid for me they say you walk home from the Amway Center and I said yes I do because I feel so confident here because I love our city and I don't want people to be afraid and I hope by walking around and being part of our City's nightlife that I can help others feel confident to be in our city but there is a perception by my family and my friends that I'm not safe here and anything that you can do to create Safe Streets and safe places so that people believe that I'm safe as a resident of our city I also come to you as as the president and CEO of United Arts of Central Florida there are 14 cultural assets in the downtown business district and we are here every day our purpose is to invest and enrich our communities in art science and history and we work every day to build audiences for those 14 assets that are in our downtown and if people believe that it's not safe to come downtown to enjoy our incredible cultural assets than they won't and so I urge you most importantly to consider the moratorium to really study best practices there are great cities nearby in Miami that have created wonderful wonderful ways to make their city street late at night and great cities like Nashville and Austin Pittsburgh that have Dynamic Arts centers in the hearts of their downtown where people feel safe so thank you most importantly for hearing me as a resident of our downtown in making our our community safe in a place that we're proud of thank you commissioner Hill awkward staff about in this and it was the uh what does having all the incentive programs with the cre regarding safety it was a concern of mine also with the Juan for under 49 especially when it's having some issues with violence and gangs about my fears someone sit inside one of the restaurants the bars waiting for their target to come out I know you know it might not be an issue today but at some point can we look at that uh to where if we have that incentive program at least go and use that to get a wand that's the least we could do for all patrons coming down town to feel safe yeah commissioner I think we'll end up tweaking this for sure but we've been out this far yeah nine months I think that we've been working on it and just you know we changed a lot of how we responded to the killings the staff and the chief and I met every either Monday or Tuesday after every weekend for I don't know 10 or 15 weekends till we decided that surge would be the best thing to try to get things under control and We Know by the stats that the surge has worked and we know that it is costing a lot of money it's taking officers from other parts of the city or that could be in other places to be in our downtown and I think it's only fair that the people that are benefiting economically from being open and attracting all the people down town after 12 o'clock should help share in keeping the downtown safe and I think we've come up with a decent compromise related to that is it perfect no it's not perfect but I stopped listening to anybody that's came up here and said we need to defer this and study it for another two or three months at some point we have to take some type of action commissioner gray let's not get into debate and I wasn't trying to do that I shouldn't have done that but how about unless you have a question I'd like to do the moratorium one and then get into discussion and debate okay Madam clerk would you read the um 22-78 and we'll take that up first ordinance number 2022-78 the ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida relating to nightclubs in the downtown Orlando community redevelopment area imposing a temporary moratorium for six months on the acceptance processing and consideration of applications for development orders development permits building permits and Zoning approvals for nightclubs in the downtown area community redevelopment area adopting findings a fact providing for a possible extension of early termination of the temporary moratorium providing legislative findings and for Corrections Governors errors severability in an effective date motion by commissioner Hill second by commissioner Sheehan and this is a six-month moratorium with the ability to extend it for additional six months and I think the last speaker or second to last speaker talked about us needing to figure out how we're going to get more retail in a mix of things downtown and that gives us at least six months and maybe a year to try to figure that out before the Walgreens space becomes a nightclub overnight okay is there further discussion you've done all in favor of the motion indicate so by saying hi all right those opposed so the motion carries okay 2308 ordinance number 2023-8 an ordinance of the city council the city of Orlando Florida amending chapter 5 Orlando city code by amending section 5.06 powers of the code enforcement board amending chapter 33 Orlando city code alcoholic beverages by amending section 33.03 hours of service sale and consumption providing preservability codification Corrections Governor's errors and an effective date some of musher by commissioner Sheehan second by commissioner Burns okay discussion yes mayor are we going to include that 12th month um first to 18 months to place the 12 months um revisit on that revision compromise is is that actually in the ordinance right where those components are vested so it's on the record that we'll look at it in 12 months okay one more hold on commissioner gray is up first commissioner gray then commissioner Ortiz thank you mayor um and I want to say thanks to everybody that's taking the time to come in and share the reviews I know everybody's put a lot of time in this I'd like to share my views on these nighttime entertainment ordinances and as I've suggested in the past any rules we put in place today should go towards achieving our future goals for downtown and while nighttime activities are a component of our downtown experience I suggest it's a minor component and certainly not going to define the future of our downtown in my view our main focus should be on energizing downtown for all ages and providing a safe environment for residents workers and visitors getting these Office Buildings occupied enhancing property values of the downtown residential towers as well as attracting large employers to relocate to downtown is a tough but important challenge to our City's future why do I think we need to repurpose downtown I think there's many reasons but I'll give you four first one higher paying jobs we often talk about the need to create higher paying jobs and unfortunately the nighttime economy doesn't accomplish this corporate jobs do people making higher wages is what's going to energize and support our investments in venues create a village and the residential high-rises that have been built we will never get a diversified group of good restaurants hotels museums and Retail options without creating a demand for these offerings entrepreneurs that consider making these Investments are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and need to attract customers and a motivated Workforce case in point item 14 we talked about today we approved a facade grant that entrepreneur is doing a 2300 square foot brewery and restaurant and is spending six hundred thousand dollars on improvements the average restaurant is plus or minus 5 000 square feet so if you're going to do a restaurant high-end in downtown Orlando you've got to be prepared to spend about a million bucks and I'm looking at my friend here and he's shaking his head it's just the reality and my point is much of this demand will come from daytime office workers early evening visitors to the venues and from our downtown residents it doesn't come from the 10 to 2 A.M crowd I've never said we should get rid of ours we just don't need so many of them we've got to diversify workers visitors and residents have choices and there needs to be solid reasons that they will patronize downtown instead of the suburbs things like good restaurants retail options hotels and safe and walkable streets will help us compete with the lake nonas the Baldwin Parks the packing District Winter Park and Sand Lake Road offerings I know a few cities that are able to attract large employers to relocate their offices to downtown because it has a good group of bars companies and their employees want a downtown with a diverse mix of uses but it's hard to convince these types of businesses to invest their capital and open up establishments in downtown given the current environment number two and I'll try to be quick higher tax revenues let's face it folks as the value of the office and residential building increases tax revenues increase our downtown CRA is about an a 30 million dollar Revenue Source from taxing the downtown owners the CRA Revenue funds many of our our Capital Improvements and assisted Pro programs that we offer our residents we're now facing the first substantial economic headwinds in the last 10 years we must work hard to protect and grow this Revenue Source in order to serve current and future downtown needs third reason as mentioned earlier our city brand right now we're in the news for all the wrong reasons an unruly nighttime atmosphere and too many homeless on the streets the folks sitting here with oep that we heard earlier have already shared their concerns companies looking to relocate to Florida currently do not have a favorable outlook on our downtown in many of our current downtown employees aren't walking endorsements to their friends and co-workers in other parts of the country couple data points we heard some from Chief Smith earlier code enforcement over the last 12 months this is from them not my my numbers code enforcements received 1207 noise complaints or requests to join to check noise levels and of those 1200 complaints we've written very few noise citations we've given plenty of warnings but we haven't written very many noise violations OPD this is the last six months between the hours of 10 and 5 OPD responded to 3 900 calls in the downtown Entertainment District of those calls we arrested 325 people confiscated over 120 guns and 11 of those were carried by convicted felons I don't know how we can think downtown is safe so that brings me to reason number four why we're cleaning up downtown is important let's remember how we got here I know this doesn't feel good to some of you but it's the reality from my view because the operators of the Entertainment District did nothing to police their own it's been a free-for-all until this Council finally stepped in and said enough many people say hire more police officers but we know police officers don't want to work the nighttime detail for 90 bucks an hour it doesn't interest them in fact they have to be ordered to work downtown why because they know it's dangerous ask the two officers that got hit in the head with a brick a couple months ago they'll tell you how dangerous it is even for police officers you know I'm sometimes amused at folks that say hire more police to clean things up look Public Safety people aren't superhumans they're specially trained individuals that are willing to Step In Harm's Way if necessary but they don't seek it out nor should we expect them to they are normal people with families just like us how can we expect them to try and control thousands of inebriated Partiers with a crew of 30 officers I don't know the numbers downtown but at a minimum it would be 3 000 Partiers and we got 30 police officers that's up one percent that's not going to do it they can't do it uh and I um as a public safety employees are just like the rest of us and I'm not prepared sitting here on the council to order any employee of which the police officers are employed by the city of Orlando to work and what we know is an unsafe environment we don't ask Public Works to do it we don't ask Park and Recs to do it and we shouldn't ask our police officers and firefighters to go into Harm's Way without with with the knowledge we have of what's going on downtown so where do we go from here and how do we address the proposed ordinance my answer while harmful to some is pretty simple we need to take divisive and correction action immediately in my opinion these modifications to the original ordinances only serve to yet again Kick the Can down the road we got to make a choice challenges and obstacles will always be in front of us the question is are we going to demonstrate to our residents and business owners that this council is prepared to address our challenges in a Swift and decisive manner are we going to keep putting Band-Aids on our problems um so I'll finish by this if if we're happy and with the experience you have in downtown today then let's keep following the same strategy with the non-compliant bar owners I recognize these sticker rules may cause some operators to go out of business but I would challenge you do what all business owners do you've got to be able to adapt to the circumstances and if you don't believe me ask all the bankers in the country right now with a couple of bank failures they had nothing to do with they've got to change their entire business models to keep their depositors comfortable so they don't have a run on the bank that's part of being in business you got to adapt and so um I would say this this is exactly what Daytona Beach did several years ago with the spring break crowd remember those who live around they said enough is enough we this is not a good image for our city so they changed the rules and the Spring Breakers went elsewhere and I'm sure that's going to hurt some down down businesses there but I haven't heard Daytona Beach going back to their old policies and listening to the events of this weekend down in South Beach in Miami I think they're going to be arriving at the same decision pretty soon um after what two shootings downtown South Beach so they put a curfew on so um you got to deal with them it's it's unfortunate so it's my position we should not adopt any of these proposed modifications to the ordinance allowing multiple violations cure periods or hearings before the code board everyone knows the rules you should manage your establishment and staff to abide there by them or suffer the consequences my first reaction nobody's surprised on this Council was Zero Tolerance you know the rules if you violate them you're out but I've decided maybe one violation is good maybe we give everybody one second chance but after that you suffer the consequences it's just we just have got to clean up an issue that we all have some blame in it no sense playing the blame game we just got to look forward and how we're going to figure this out and I don't think by lacks on the rules it's going to fix it so thank you mayor for giving me the time okay commissioner Ortiz mayor I don't even know if it's worth saying what I'm about to say what I'm going to throw it out there anymore because I'm so upset I'm upset at us because we allow for this to happen we're just as guilty as you guys are okay because at one point in time we got greedy and we wanted more for downtown so we allowed we opened the doors of Hell to let everything happen in downtown so here we are here's what we got now and now we have to sell the issue and instead of asking you guys coming to you guys asking you help us out we didn't we impose on you that's how we do things and that is wrong so I apologize I'll I apologize for that I still am not clear about this way we're going to be paying for you guys are going to be paying for this and that is sad I hope it doesn't become chaotic for you I understand some of you are going to end up closing because of their circumstances what I would have loved to see is that we work with you guys and we would have come up with an answer on how to solve the issue that we have at hand that's government we're here to represent you we're not here to dictate and imposing you yes we have a nation but when we are happy when we're working together we can we can solve the problem because everybody's eager to work together when somebody's been posting on me I'm not going to be happy to work with anybody I don't find it fair that only 47 of you are paying for this and the only 33 are now paying for this I think everybody should be paying I don't know how we got to that equation because I sat down on my house and I figure it out I came up and I can tell you you know I came up with a capacity of everybody I had it all together figure out which one was everybody's capacity divided came up with a dividend came up with a quotient that came up with a percentage then multiplied by the uh by the amount of money that we have to pay in police officers and that's how I came up with it with the amount of money that some some of the clubs are so small that they will pay almost nothing but they will pay something there will be part of part of the team that it's working towards better in our community that bothers me mayor when I asked for us to to postpone the vote the particular on the SOP or to bring it back is because I want this stakeholders here to have a say in this the other thing that bothers me a lot is that the information I gather I have to gather in a in a hurry during this past week because the staff has now been telling us exactly what's happening around here and I've been almost 16 years and enough is enough are we Commissioners or are you the commissioners when are we going to put a stop to this are we representing the community or are we are we representing staff the staff is here to to support the community and if they're doing something wrong we're here to correct them and help them out sit down at the table come up with decisions together that's what government is all about we dictators now I apologize because I'm frustrated with this I'm apologize because this is not a decision where you guys are partaking on it and with that being said Thank You mayor [Applause] anybody else okay then I will close this up commissioner gray this isn't perfect you know Miami they're going to go ahead and take it back to midnight maybe I suspect that might be your idea as well that we just go ahead and close everybody at midnight so that was one of my thoughts for a while as well when we were in the midst of all that but I didn't think that was exactly fair to people who and had invested um a lot of money and I do think it is fair to everybody that we figure out how to make this city safe commissioner Ortiz I don't know what to say about your comments because we've been at this for well I am going to say something because I'm going to defend staff we have been at this for nine months we have invited the stakeholders in time and time again and what I heard was the vast majority of people and stakeholders want us to do something they want to have a safe downtown they don't want to kick the can down the road is this the perfect formula I don't know maybe the the bar that serves 10 people a night ought to pay the same as somebody that has 700 people in maybe that's fair I don't think it is I think what we have arrived at well not perfect is the best we can do for now we have the ability to to make modifications to this if we need to but I think our citizens deserve this Council to vote to make our downtown safer and the only way that has occurred is through the surge that the taxpayers of the whole city are paying for with the additional police that are there on Thursday Friday Saturday and Sunday and I think it's unfair for the entire population of our city to be paying for those additional officers that we're putting on the street it's fair for those who are making money between 12 and 2 o'clock to bear that burden and that's what this ordinance does I'm AI two points first one I'm not saying that this is not the way the right way of doing this that's fine what I'm saying is that either we get everybody on board or we don't get anybody Commissioners you know I don't interrupt you the second part is our staff is supposed to keep us abreast of this on a weekly basis this is an important matter I don't want to hear we just they just gave us this book today am I supposed to in 50 minutes figure out what's going on here is this the way we're being informed I remember the days of commissioner Lionel and commissioner Wyman when they were used to complain about this and we're continuing the same way of doing things when are we going to stop this well commissioner we had a whole meeting on this and have made modifications so you've had information at least since January if not before that okay further comment all in favor educate so by saying aye aye those opposed no no okay I got that 5-2 medical so the motion carries all right that was all of the official business for the city today Ed would you get us in position so that we can um have General appearance thank you [Music] thank you foreign