[Applause] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Are [Music] you [Music] feeling me? Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat up [Music] here. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Good afternoon and welcome to the March 24th, 2025 meeting of the Orlando City Council. Uh we're going to begin today's proceedings with the invocation of the pledge of allegiance uh led today by Commissioner Sheen. Thank you, Mayor Dyer. And and uh I am a Christian and I do I do I was raised in the Catholic faith and when I have difficult times, I do tend to turn to scripture. And there are several that I'd like to read today in light of current events. Pro Proverbs 14:31, "Those who oppress the poor insult their maker, but those who are kind to the needy honor him." And Proverbs 28:27, "Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse." Proverbs 19:17, "Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done." In Deuteronomy 15:11, for there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore, I command you, you shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy, and to the poor in your land. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, madame clerk, would you call the role and make determination of a quorum, please? Commissioner Gray here. Commissioner Ortiz here. Commissioner Stewart here. Commissioner Sheen here. Interim Commissioner Rose here. Commissioner Burns here. Mayor Dyer here. Mayor, you have a quorum with all members present. Thank you, Madam Clerk. First order of business is consideration of minutes from the workshop agenda and city council of meetings of February 24th, 2025. Motion by Commissioner Rose, second by Commissioner Sheen. All in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I. I. Those opposed. And so the motion carries unanimously. We have no awards, presentations, or recognitions today. So we will go into the mayor's update. And I have a short um update today. Commissioners, since our last meeting, we announced that the exploration of using the county's work release center on Kaye was not a viable option. But I want to thank each of you for your willingness to pursue bold strategies towards what is one of the more challenging issues that we face. Um, and that's the needs of our unsheltered population. Commissioner Sheen, I want to thank you for your leadership and listening to the concerns of the uh somewhat vocal residents in your district um as we evaluated that shelter. And although a permanent shelter is not on the board at this point, we are going to remain committed to working with our regional partners, businesses, community groups, and residents to find solutions to meet the needs for those experiencing homelessness because it turns out you can't just snap your fingers and they all go away. Um, even though some people believe that's the case. Uh toward that end, today we continue our investment in reducing homelessness and we're investing another $8 million directly tied to that commitment. We're amending our program year 2024 annual action plan to enable us to accept another million dollars in Rush funding from the federal government and this will be our third and largest allocation of Rush funds. Uh the bulk of which are anticipated to go towards rapid rehousing which we know is a strategy that works. We're providing $4 million for the development of affordable housing, rental housing for survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, stalking, and human trafficking. Um, this is an investment that ensure that our most vulnerable residents have a safe place to live independently after exiting an emergency shelter with on-site services provided by Harbor House. Michelle, thank you for being here. Also, I performed Michelle's wedding ceremony one year ago today. So, congratulations on your first anniversary. And thirdly, there's a new program that we are um entertaining today called 407 Connect, which is a partnership with the city, the CRA, and the Christian Service Center will be purchasing two custom fabricated buses that will provide safe overnight shelter for 40 individuals. Um they will also receive comprehensive care and case management services including connections to jobs and health care. With that we will move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda is a number of items are acted upon through a single vote of council. We give each of our council members the opportunity to comment on consent agenda items um and also important happenings in their districts. We rotate the order that we do that. Commissioner Sheen is first up, but I'll remind you that we removed the items related to the 4077 connect buses and we will hear that at a public or a new at new business um immediately following consent agenda. Okay, Commissioner Sheen. Thank you, Mayor Dyer. And I usually give a non-denominational prayer, but it's I've been going through a rough time lately and I kind of needed to pray in my own tradition. So, I hope that was not offensive to anyone. Um, I'd like to commend Commissioner Burns and Commissioner Stewart for the work they do outside of this outside of this committee, outside of this council, working with the homeless. Um, this has been a really hard time and I just want to say that I think we really need to do some work to humanize our neighbors that are homeless, that are unhoused, provide facts about the homeless population. There's been a lot of things said that were deeply troubling and hurtful and um I think that we need to correct that misinformation. I think we need to provide statistics on how providers efforts have successfully gotten people off of the streets and into productive lives again. And I think that we need to understand that many in our community are one paycheck or medical emergency away from homelessness. it is not our place to judge them or to other them or to try to teach treat them like they're subhuman. And uh it's been like I say, it's been a really tough time. I've been very disappointed in some folks that live in my district and people that I consider friends and how the behavior's been. Um usually I'm good for a fight, but um I just can't see this being anything but um but divisive unfortunately and uh and not a solution. But I do think we need to look to other solutions. Again, I applaud my colleagues on this council who worked on work in this day in people in the community in this audience that work with this population and work to help people day in day out. It is not easy and boy did I learn that the hard way in the last few months. So, I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing the right thing to help others. On the agenda today, I'm glad to see that we're fixing the uh Conroy Road LEDs. I know it's been a struggle for public works, but we finally figured out how to get up there and fix those things and get those light fixtures ch fixed. Um, I'm delighted to see on item 3B7 the downtown arts district cultural facilities grant for the courtyard. See Paul's here. Great job, Paul. Yes. Also, um, uh, Commissioner Stewart's district, but glad to see the Holocaust Museum site moving forward. and uh and even though it's on new business, also 407 connect that dignity bus to help folks get off the streets. And that's all I had. Mayor, thank you very much. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Rose. Thank you, mayor, commissioners. Uh thank you everyone for being here. Um as you all know, the month of March is Women's History Month, and I want to commend all the organizations around the community who are celebrating women this month. Um I joined Turner Construction and taking some work boots to Operation New Hope during women in construction week. um glad to say that we celebrated and we had a expungement clinic to help those with need second chance getting their lives back together. We saw over 80 people and we helped 30 people actually leave with applications. And so what's significant about that is that a lot of times you'll get individuals that'll show up to an expungement clinic and they may not qualify. So being able to qualify um almost half of the individuals who showed up is really good turnout. Um, the Orlando Magic and the Orlando Pride will have um, Women's History Month events as well. I want to give a special shout out and I want to thank the three main streets in District 5, City District, Paramore, and West Main Streets for their hard work of supporting small businesses. We will collaboratively be hosting a cleanup on April 27th in honor of Earth Month. Stay tuned for more details. This Wednesday, I will kick off what I call health is wealth campaign. Um there are there is a mobile medical bus that I'll bring bring into around the community to meet people where they are and be able to get examination. It's fully outfitted to allow individuals to get x-rays, blood work, etc. Um this is a way to make sure we're giving we're meeting the health needs of our community. Um this Thursday I will be joining United Against Poverty at Rollins College to discuss pathway to hope. Um ways that we can come together and talk about breaking the cycle of poverty. uh this week and Commissioner Burns will probably be joining. We'll be turning the city purple as the Omega Sci-Fi Fraternity Seven District will host their 88th district meeting and I will bring them greetings. Um this Friday we will be biking to work at 7 a.m. So hope you all can join us. Uh we're starting in Luminary Green at 7:00 a.m. This Friday, Lyft Orlando will be opening have an open house. They built a financial well-being center and they'll have open house this Friday starting at 5:00 pm. Um, on to the agenda, I want to congratulate Reverend Robert Spoony for celebrating his 13th anniversary at Mount Zioni Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church, but also he is being appointed to the downtown development board as a district 5 representative. Um, for several months, the city of Orlando, Orlando Housing Authority, and Lyft Orlando have been working to revitalize West Lakes and Lake Man corridor. I'm glad to see 3F3 on the agenda as we provide some financial assistance to continue the planning on this project. Um that will create a very positive impact in the district 5. I'm also excited to see 3B8 um as we will begin the overweighted restoration of Maxi Kroom's house. Um David and David can probably remember the days when I was in CRA and I was like, "Hey, what are we doing about Maxi Krms?" Um, so I think this is a really a great way to um, celebrate the late Thomas Chapman as we work to restore Maxi Crooms. We will begin talking about what we see inside and what our tenants look like. Um, for those who don't, please follow the District 5 on Facebook and Instagram to stay tuned with all of the activities that are happening in the district. And thank you. Thank you, Commissioner Burns. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. And good afternoon, uh, fellow commissioners and everyone in attendance. Um on March 6 I had the uh opportunity of doing a attending the grand opening for Villaale Orlando resort. It is a 80 acre resort in the heart of North Drive offering vacation home style accommodations. So if you're planning your um uh your family reunions and other big events, you don't have to go out I4 to Davenport and out there. We have accommodations, great accommodations right here in North I Drive. I believe it's about 564 uh individual units can accommodate from two to 26 uh individuals in a unit. So, please consider North Drive when you're looking to accommodate your family reunions and other big big events. Also um on March 17th uh had the opportunity of participating in the unveiling of Ebony Nutrition's consultants the fresh stop bus which is a mobile farmers market uh financially supported by Sprouts. Uh and this is a farmers market that goes throughout uh central Florida providing access to fresh fruits and vegetables to underserved communities. Uh, also Ebony Nutrition, uh, also celebrating 30 years, their 30-year anniversary providing nutritional and educational resources to the Central Florida community. Uh, and in honor of Women's History Month, I just like to give Miss Fabiola Gains and Miss Rice Weaver, the founders, a a huge shout out and say thank you for uh, all that they've been doing for our community over the last 30 years. Also, I just wanted to mention that uh summer camp is coming up. Registration uh online registration begins Saturday, April the 5th at 9:00 a.m. uh for city residents and um 1 p.m. for non city residents. I want to encourage everyone if you're interested in getting your kids or grandkids into the summer camp, please sign up as soon as possible because I believe we were full within a couple of hours uh last year. So please the demand is is high. Also um this uh the youth summer youth employment program will be opening up as well. So please contact my office. I believe the application deadline is April the 30th. So if you have um teenagers who are looking for summer employment, please uh have them to reach out to uh to us to start that application. Uh on the agenda, mayor, uh I'd just like to say for 3A1, thank you to our residents who've agreed to serve on the various cities citizens uh advisory committees, advisory boards. We wouldn't be able to do uh operate efficiently uh without your help. So, thank you again for allowing to serve in that capacity. Also on 3F1, uh I am supportive of the amendment to the action plan to add additional funding uh for the Rush Rapid Rehousing. Uh glad to see that we're getting an extra million dollars to be able to do that. Also for 3F2 the uh funding for the uh for the Grove, the nine town homes that will be built to um for survivors and children uh following domestic violence. Uh, and with that, Mayor, I'm uh that completes my talk. Thank you, Commissioner Commissioner Gray. Thank you, Mayor. Uh, a lot of thank yous real quick. Uh, March was a busy month, so I'll I'll go fast with those. But first of all, I wanted to start uh we had our annual spring festival back on March 3rd out at the Vista Lakes community. I want to thank both of the chiefs for coming out and being with us and and bringing the teams out. Uh but we had somewhere in the neighborhood of 1500 to 2,000 neighbors uh that uh were exposed to 70 of our small business uh groups and uh Commissioner Ortiz came out uh never saw anybody eat that much cotton candy in my life but he did. No, I'm kidding. He didn't really but uh we had a good time and so thanks to to my team um for putting that together. A great event. Um, following up with that, uh, we did a safe driving, uh, event out at Lake Nona, uh, at Neor's Hospital. Uh, thanks again to OPD and the team for coming out and sharing with our teenagers some of the the perils of, uh, of, uh, unsafe driving. And so that that was well received by the neighborhood. Um, we continued our meet the chief uh, uh, programs in in there. And again, thanks to OPD for bringing the team out and connecting with the neighbors. Uh it's a great program and wellreceived. So, thanks for that. Um also, um uh Lake Nona Chamber of Commerce, which is a real active uh chamber, had their festival on the 8th of March at the USA. So, uh well done by them and thanks to that. Uh a couple other things real quick and I'll get to the agenda. Um since we last met um I want to congratulate the Tavistock uh company and Lake Nona Holdings for uh holding the uh their annual impact forum uh which what they try to do is bring in uh select speakers from throughout not just the country the world to continue to expose uh the the medical and technology clusters that we're building in the Lake Nona area. uh and they bring some pretty certainly qualified and high credentialed speakers in the medical and technology world, but also some some folks that kind of put us on the map. This year's speaker, they had Iran Magic Johnson, the former MBA star came and spoke. Uh former President George W. Bush spoke and also Mark Cuban came and spoke. So, uh, it's a worldwide group and again, it's just a great exposure for the city of Orlando and and certainly the L Lake Nona area as they continue to to drive that that growth in in Lake Nona. Uh, and with that, the only thing I have on the the agenda, um, it's it's also what Commissioner Burns talked about, which was the item three of two, which is the home art program. Um, look, uh, and that's with OSO properties. My big issue with that is what we have with some other things and that is the continuing cost to provide affordable housing is just a real tough tough business and we got to figure out I think a a different way to do that. Um this is we're basically the the grant is $4 million to do nine town homes. Well, when you do the math that's $440,000 a unit for a two-bedroom, two bath town home. Certainly it's needed and we need to do it. We got to figure out a way to to kind of drive those costs down. I think we just did a senior housing project in in Commissioner Sheen's district. Again, much needed, but the cost was over a half a million dollars per unit. So, um, we I'm I'm not quite sure I know the answer, but I know we've we've got to drive that down because it's we we need to provide housing, but it's so expensive. Uh, there there's just got to be a better a better uh model for that. Um, so I support it because it's needed. Um, they do good work. um out there, but um it's just so expensive. So, we'll work on that. Uh and with that, mayor, that's that's all I've got. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Ortiz. Thank you, Mayor. You all ready? Because there's a long list of things. Just kidding. Just kidding. Early 26, I had the pleasure of attending the Elevate Orlando 2025 vision breakfast. This incredible nonfor-profit organization helps empower urban youth by providing educational opportunities and fostering long-term lifechanging uh mentorship that equips students with the tools they need to thrive. So, with the support of dedicated teachers and mentors, we need more of that. We need to prepare youth. We need to make sure that they're ready for what's to come, which as we can see, there's a lot of uh hurdles for us to jump in in the near future. Later that same day, I was allowed to attend the opening ceremony of the uh 2025 National Business Aviation Association Orlando Regional Forum. Our discussion center on the future of flight transportation in Central Florida, focusing on the strategic location of Orlando, Orlando's executive report, which will transform air travel, foster job creation, and drive economic growth in our community. It's all about technology now. and now is he's getting to aviation and so we need to jump on that one pretty quick. On the evening of February 27, the Englewood Center um hosted a memorable Black History Family Night. The event united families, friends, and neighborhoods uh to celebrate unity and culture. It was a lot of fun. Uh these kids are just superb. Um on March 1st, of course, I enjoy the uh spring festival. Thank you, Commissioner, for inviting me. I had a great time and I was not the one eating a lot of cotton candy. Uh so um but thank you. That was a lot of fun. The community definitely enjoyed that. They really come out and really engage. So congratulations. You have a great community too. The 2025 12week spring session of the government academy began on March 4th. Um I know it's a little late to enroll now, but I tell you what, there's over 30 students we have in a learning everything that has to do with government. Hopefully, they'll become ambassadors of the of um teaching uh that what true governance is, which is what we need to do in this day and age, especially with our youth. Make sure that they understand that it's not just what we hear in the news or it's not just what we hear out there. It's more than that. It's getting involved with the government. It's getting involved with with um boards out there to see how we can be uh better get um a quality of life for our constituency. March 10th, I had the incredible opportunity to witness the outstanding creativity of our team members at the City of Orlando Employee Art Show opening reception. The event was a vibrant showcase of artistic talent with nearly 30 employees presenting various works in different mediums. Uh seeing such a broad spectrum of creativity on this place was truly inspiring and we just don't know the talents we have at city hall. We do have plenty. So we should continue showcasing our people like that. Maybe taking them to another level. Maybe we should take them to the county and the state. Anyhow, tomorrow, Commissioner Stewart and I will be visiting Tallahassee to advocate for things that we need uh in our region more so housing, transportation, which are the big items, especially uh surrounding the the theme of homelessness and um and other subjects, but u we'll be coming back and report to you all what's going on over there. The other commissioners have covered some of the items at the agenda. So, with that, Mayor. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Stewart. Thank you, Mayor. Let me just share a couple things as well. Um uh and thank you first of all, Commissioner Burns for mentioning the summer camp. We have uh uh our our summer camp program in this city is is great uh and is in high demand. So those of you who want to get involved in summer camp, please please call. Commissioner Burns is right. It go it sells out in about two or three hours. So please be on the lookout for that information and get taken care of. And thank you, um, Commissioner Ortiz, about the part legislative days. Um, uh, it gives me a chance to remind everybody that if you'd like, I'm trying to do a weekly update of what's going on, at least how I see it from, uh, of Tallahassee. If you'd like to be involved in that, just shoot me an email. I'll put you on my list. Um, and we'll talk about some things. There are some bills that are going through that would have a significant um, uh, impact on our citizens and the city of Orlando. So, we're trying to keep our eyes on those and making sure they don't go through. A couple things I'd like to share with you about happened in the neighborhood. The red light red light celebrated their 20th anniversary. Uh, I went over to Baldwin Park to meet with uh Jason and Such Chin um about celebrating Osprey's 10th anniversary over there, which you can't believe it's been that quickly so much. Um, Blended Beastro uh we celebrated Saturday their fifth anniversary. Tamalei and Company opened up in College Park. Um and uh and we welcome Inside Out I the IV hydration and wellness center in Ivano Park. So a lot of things are happening. I'm got great to see these guys go back and uh and and some of these places that are vacant to come back in and we're excited about that. Special thanks to Jennifer Dhalander. Her entire staff out there at Lou Gardens had the plant sale a couple weeks back. Uh had a wonderful response. I don't know how many total, but I think the first count was somewhere about 15,000 people in two days. And so it's really really neat to see that happen. I got a chance to get out there, get a chance to meet some of the people over there and they were just thrilled about it and uh get a chance to see the park u see the blue gardens at no charge for a few days which is nice. Upcoming uh the wetlands visitor center is having a ribbon cutting on April 2nd. It's been a long time coming. Mayor looking forward to doing that. Uh and then the Manellum Museum is having their fabulous friends coming up on the 5th uh to help raise money for the Manellum Museum. So, we're excited about that. uh on the agenda today. Oh, and one other thing which I think is important now that I've got a uh granddaughter who's driving um on March 26th a teen safety summit I think if I'm up mistaken. Where's the chief? Is that I think it's 26th. It's on my Facebook and I think I mailed some things out but I think it's 26th. Please get a chance if you have young drivers please get a chance to go over and look at that. It is um one mistake um um one misjudgment can cost a kid a life and it just bothers me a great deal now that I've got a 16-year-old driving. Uh I'm really really careful to that. On the agenda today, let me mention just a couple of things. Um the um go 3H1 through 4, the law enforcement trust is put in $28,000 from the essentially confiscated funds to the Boy Scouts, Harbor House and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. excited about taking that and using that money there. Um and the 3B13 is a forward grant um resilient um walk resilient walkways and rethinking design I think is that what it is? So uh it's a forward grant that we talked about almost a million dollars to help us uh and design and implementation. Appreciate that. Um 3B18 and 19 are two pavilions that we'll be putting in Albert Park and Dartmouth Park. Uh we've done a lot of uh value engineering for those two parks. We hope to have those started in a few months, but uh as soon as we get some scheduling here, we'll be able to announce formal plans to the community. We've had gotten community input for the last three or four years, but now we'll be able to actually announce the plans and what we're starting. So, we're looking to have those things done by the end of the year, and I appreciate that. Uh and, uh, mayor, I think that's all that I have. So, with that, I'd like to go ahead and move the consent agenda. Motion by Commissioner Stewart, second by Commissioner Ortiz. All in favor of the motion indicate by saying so by saying I I those opposed and so the motion carries. Okay, let's move on then to new business and that will bring us to the funding agreement for the Christian Service Center 407 connect project. David, thank you mayor. Good afternoon commissioners. Uh if we could cue the presentation up that would be great. Is it in front of you all just yet? It is. Okay. No. No, got it now. All right, perfect. So, excited to talk a little bit more about our 407 uh connect project that we bring before you today. Really targeted at uh moving forward our services, especially in downtown uh to advance uh some of the homeless individuals and those experiencing homelessness um to housing situations and off the streets of our downtown. little bit of background that you all are very well informed of uh but was the uh very unique step that you took uh to allocate $58 million in federal funding which we referred to as Accelerate Orlando to invest in housing and homelessness initiatives. Uh there was an action plan uh and know demonstrated to really do three things. Reducing the presence of unsheltered persons in downtown or in the city holistically by 50% ensuring no child spends the night on the streets of Orlando. and then maintaining clean and safe streets uh for all of our users. Uh Accelerate Orlando uh again, as you know, has a unique focus on long-term solutions. Uh the this project, the 407 Connect project, we found uh being very specific in being able to provide an immediate impact uh to those experiencing homelessness in downtown. The concept of the program would utilize uh buses uh that comes out of a program known as the dignity bus project down in Vero Beach uh where charter style buses, these 45 uh foot buses, you may think of a Greyhound style bus would be retrofitted uh to house approximately 20 different sleeping pods. Uh it would have restrooms, storage compartments as well as security features uh with video surveillance onboard uh overnight security personnel. Uh so effectively uh by utilizing uh this initiative to purchase two buses and then operate those in partnership with the Christian service center uh immediately approximately 40 individuals uh we be able to have immediate housing and then through a series of services which I will talk about uh in the remainder of this presentation ultimately make an even larger impact uh in getting people uh housed and off the streets of our city. Uh some of you uh accompanied us to when we brought the dignity bus here uh to city hall. This is an image of it when it was parked uh in the loading dock. Um you can see there just the style of bus. This is the actually a specific bus that is in operation right now uh in Vero Beach. In fact, the day that it visited us uh it went home so to speak that night and housed people that that very same evening. Uh here's an image of some other uh municipalities who have already gone down the path of utilizing a similar housing solution. U you see this top component in Chicago, Illinois, they call it the night fort. Uh and then in wound socket, Rhode Island, it is called the dignity bus. A little image here of the interior of the bus. So uh it is was a little bit hard for me to kind of picture how you would convert one of these buses ultimately to a a shelter type situation. Uh I can tell you seeing was believing. Uh which is why we wanted to bring the bus here. Uh so that you all can tour it and some of the community members can tour it as well. Um you see here the various different sleeping pods. Um you'll notice that each has its own individual light. It has its own individual uh um privacy curtain. There's bedding. There's obviously a power that's there as well. You can't see it in this image, but each individual pod has its own outlet. So the individual in that uh specific pod can charge their their mobile phone or what have you overnight as well. So what makes this bus unique? Uh you kind of heard me mention before the difference between long-term uh as well as more of immediate type of services. Uh from the point of approval, the bus can be ready in about four to six weeks and to start making an impact uh in our homeless environment. Uh it's mobile, right? quite uh and simple. Uh the bus can move. It is an operational bus. Um you just turn the key and it can drive to wherever you see fit. and it's cost-effective and it's an innovative way that we can not only demonstrate how we can impact those who are experiencing homelessness in Orlando, but how we can take it uh on a road show of sorts and show other municipalities, especially in Central Florida, how they can take steps in their own communities, uh to a impact the homeless individuals that they have and hopefully prevent any additional growth of our homeless population here in downtown. I'll talk a little bit more about that um later. So, the proposal itself, uh, as the mayor noted in his opening remarks, it's a partnership, uh, between the city of Orlando, the community redevelopment agency, and the Christian service center. Uh, both the CRA and the and the city would provide both the funding from the city side to purchase the buses, uh, those two buses. It's approximately $350,000, and then the CRA would provide approximately $1 million in operational funding. Uh this was talked about a little bit before, but the Christian service center um has operated a program um called Rush or the rapid unsheltered survivor housing program uh which connected unsheltered paramore residents uh with housing. Uh and when you basically take that model uh of what the Christian Service Center was able to achieve uh which their initial goal when they set out on that first set of the program was to uh get 40 people off the streets of Paramore and and get them into uh housing. uh when you look at their first year's report, they're actually able to impact 257 people uh and that represented 111 households uh were ultimately housed. So when you take that uh success rate that they were able to have with that program and you uh kind of tag it on to the concept of having these approximately 40 beds with this 407 connect project, um you look at having an ex uh exponential impact on the homeless population. It gets you from 40 individuals per night to what we estimate uh as over 400 or 407 individuals that would be housed over the three-year course of this program. Um so with that just kind of an operational structure and how it would work. Uh uh basically at approximately 8:00 p.m. uh individuals would board uh the buses at the Christian Service Center. Uh at that point they would remain on those buses uh until the morning time uh where they would exit uh they would have breakfast and then ideally be connected uh with their place of work uh at either the links uh station that's here in downtown link central station or they may even be able to take a bus right from the Christian service center uh or they would have access to the services that are already on the Christian service center campus. Uh the cse would provide full case management there on campus. So individuals would not be uh additionally roaming around downtown or our paramore area. Uh and individuals that themselves would be a part of the program until they were ultimately placed in housing. Uh it's not a component where it's just 40 random individuals on any one given night. People would apply to be in the program. they would go through background check and then they would be in the program until either a they're connected with housing or b they chose to opt out for whatever reason they may have. Uh so when you go through that process of who is the uh what individuals when they apply are kind of the right fit for this program. It is not for everyone. uh the priority will first be given to those that the Christian service center has had some sort of background and exposure with and understand that they have income and can be successful in maintaining a permanent residence once they are ultimately placed that income doesn't necessarily have to be from a job though obviously uh those individuals who may uh have jobs that they just need to be upskilled for to make better money or they have a part-time job that they need to get to be full time uh would obviously be eligible as well. those receiving social security income would obviously be ideal candidates uh or or those who have family or loved ones in another city or state uh that just need to be ultimately contacted uh in order to be able to make that connection so they can be relocated and reunified with those loved ones uh would be ideal candidates for this service as well. Uh I mentioned this earlier, but packaged with the proposed comprehensive case management program that the Christian Service Center would provide, we anticipate uh that we can house 407 people over the three-year course of this program. Uh and one of why I think is the real u unique and appropriate opportunities uh that this program provides is what we call the road show. Uh so having other municipalities be able to invest in homeless services is very important. Uh we've had many conversations at this council uh of the the amount of both time and resources that the city of Orlando pours into homelessness in the central Florida area and we really look for the municipalities around us to step up uh and provide services to their residents as well. uh during the day, so to speak, uh um these buses would serve as an opportunity where we would accompany the Christian service center to go to targeted municipalities and showcase the innovative uh and lowcost solution uh that could ultimately start to impact homelessness uh in Central Florida, but not specifically in the city of Orlando. Uh uh Eric Gray will come up later and we're already experiencing some positive outlook uh on this very specific item. Uh when you look at by the numbers, wanted to just show this slide. Um um there's really two things happening in the funding agreement. The first of which is the uh funding needed to uh purchase the buses themselves. Uh that would be proposed to come from our Accelerate Orlando funding. Uh it's approximately 300 for it is $350,000 in order to do that. U the remainder of the funds are for the operational components of the buses. Uh but the reason that that one line is highlighted in yellow, which is movein cost, is a third of the amount of that funding, which is approximately a million dollars a year, is for that movein cost specifically to get people potentially that first month's rent that they need in order to be able to sign a lease in a unit. Uh or it might be for the security deposit. But whatever barrier they have to get off the streets and into housing and be able to maintain it, as I mentioned earlier, is a significant component of that funding. When you look at the overall cost structure of what this works out to on a kind of per bed per night uh situation, uh when you take all the costs, that means the cost of both acquiring the buses, housing individuals, uh as well as having that case management, uh it comes out to uh just about $78 a night. So under $80 a night, which and Eric can speak more about this, but when you look at the broad spectrum of what the general accepted rate is for a bed per night component in a situation uh like this, it's about 100. So it's a lowc cost solution. Uh when you take that one step further and you actually remove some of the costs that aren't traditionally calculated in that, that's the cost to let's say acquire the buses or which would traditionally be a hard shelter. We all know what how significant those costs can be as well as some of the wraparound services cares. uh our cost goes down to about $40 a night uh which is a vast reduction over uh the traditional rate that this may cost. Uh just a quick uh component on community outreach. So we presented the 407 connect project uh to the Paramore Community Engagement Council on on two different occasions. Uh one of them was in January, you see on the 14th, another one was on February 11th. Uh those images actually there on the right uh is actually of one of the meetings. Um if you look closely you'll see all uh most of the members of the PCEC there in attendance as well as Eric Gray Samantha Lavine on our staff as well as some of the dignity bus staff and myself. Uh we had a very robust conversation as to what this meant uh not only for the city but also uh for Paramore. Uh that second picture below was we actually took the bus that same night and brought it to that meeting uh to give them all an opportunity to view the bus as well. We invited several other groups. Uh the Christian Service Center board, members of that came, the Homeless Services Network came, Coalition for the Homeless, Salvation Army, Orlando Rescue Mission, the Callahan Neighborhood Association, the Terry Town Homes, then the Lake Dot Neighborhood Association were also, uh invited. Um so, as I mentioned, uh the funding agreement itself, uh provides for $350,000 of funding from Accelerate Orlando for the cost of purchasing the buses. And then you see there the year 1, year two and year three funding uh that is proposed from the CRA for the operational component of the buses. Uh ultimately that would we hope to yield housing more than 407 people over the course of that term. Uh um before we u get to any questions from us I would like to call up Eric Gray with the Christian Service Center um just to provide a little bit more context on the operations uh as our operational provider. Thank you David. Eric, thank you. Thank you so much. Um, appreciate even the consideration of the project. Um, there's a lot that I could talk to. David covered everything really well, so I won't take too much time. I'm just here to answer questions. I am excited about the possibility of introducing some innovative solutions to a community that doesn't seem really ready to embrace the idea of emergency shelter. And part of the reason we you know really agreed to to consider doing this is that we can take the buses during the day along with the mobile unit from Ebne Nutrition and the salt mobile units and coalition's mobile units and others to Sanford and to St. Cloud and to CMI and to, you know, Bifflow and try to encourage a positive conversation, positive town hall meetings at their city halls with their um not only their representatives and the staff, but also to the community at large because somehow we've got to encourage this type of conversation in a more robust way in the other 35 municipalities in Central Florida. uh because right now, as far as I know, the only two municipalities in Central Florida that are investing anything as it relates to homelessness would be the city of Sanford and then of course the city of Orlando. So um this is part of the project that I feel um most excited about um except for one, which is the idea that we have people that are uh sleeping out outside every single night. And I know that 40 more beds is not going to solve our particular problem here. But any you know one person we can get off the streets for any one night is always worth it in my opinion. But um you know I'm I'm a little my my point of view is a little bit skewed and I'll be honest about that because of what we do every day. So that I'm happy to answer any questions you might have. Questions for Eric or David? Commissioner Burns and Commissioner Ortiz. All right. Uh how you doing Eric? Thank you for um all the work that you all do in our community. Uh and it's great to be able to partner uh with you all. I do have a a few questions. Um the the the target population for this initiative, describe who that target population is. It's actually easier to describe who the population wouldn't be. So, there are a few uh types of individuals that wouldn't be appropriate for the bus. people who are having um violent mental health issues would not be appropriate and we'd need to get them into some type of different type of solution as you know better than anyone with your work. There'd also be people who are in serious level addiction problems would not be appropriate for this in which case we would work to get them into treatment. Those are things we do now. Um the the easy way to explain who goes on the bus is people who are working. But it's a little more complicated than that because we are looking to triage the people who are most vulnerable but ones that have income at some level even if it's social security disability income that we can get into permanent housing. So the idea here is to uh at minimum get at least 136 adults and children into permanent housing each year that the program is is going. I think we can do much more than that. Um there's another element coming up in front of the council today about the HUD rush funding. Um the that project when it was done back in 2023 was I believe about $700,000 total. Um of which the Christian Service Center um spent about 600,000 of that to house 257 people. I think because of the success of that project two years ago, it's one of the reasons why the city of Orlando got among the largest awards after the last two hurricanes is because we had so much success in that partnership. And I expect we'll do the same with this and we'll exceed those goals. Right. Al also um when we talk about who will be available to get on this bus, I understand that you all operate programs in Winter Park and O'Coy. Uh will this uh 47 connect be limited to your current population at the Christian Service Center downtown? I I believe it would be. it would be very difficult for any of the clients that that operate in any other part of the community to participate in the in the program particularly in Akoi. Um, we have since closed down our Winter Park location um about a year and a half ago, but the project in Akoi I think will be addressed because I believe the the county is in active conversations to do these same projects on buses um out in East Orange County and West Orange County and I think they'll have similar conversations with city of Winter Garden, city of AOE, city of Apka and and Orange County at large. Now the current um your current population that you care for, do they are they receiving case management now? So we see about 400 people per day at the the Paramore campus will see uh well last year we saw about 11,000 unique people. We ultimately um we call it rescues. So people that we've we've kept from becoming homeless or uh helped exit homelessness was 1,236. U we case managed last year at some level or another. Um, that's how we determined the 11,000 people. They weren't necessarily all fully case managed in terms of a long-term issue, but they worked with us such they were entered into the HMIS system. In terms of case management, we have, I believe it's now nine case managers that all work on different projects like the Veterans uh administration project that we have and they have different case loads everywhere from 20, you know, cases they work on to over 120 that they might work on given their project. So each of these people that come to the campus are likely folks that we have case managers where we have not been able to find another solution for them. So for example, today we had a young man who was just released from one of our local behavioral hospitals and he came to us this morning and he'll be on a bus this afternoon to Raleigh, North Carolina so he can stay with his sister. Um people who come to us that we are able to reunify with their family. It usually happens the same day or next day. The people that are going to be participating in the 407 connect project are likely people that are going to take more than a couple of days for us to be able to house somewhere. In our case, we've been very conservative in our budgeting, anticipating that each person would be on the bus for 90 days. I expect it'll be quite a bit less than that, which is why I'm pretty confident we'll exceed some of these numbers. Uh but just be to be safe that 90 days is what is typically uh normal for shelters in the United States right now. Um I think we'll we'll have uh some different numbers uh you know a couple months into the project we'll be able to learn a lot more. Right. Also Eric the um the line item for move in cost sustainable housing the 331200. talk to talk to me about what's what's the use of that is will that be to pay uh rent for individuals for a certain number of months and how would that be determined or limited? Um because if you're going to if you're going to move 407 over 3 years, we're talking about 135 uh a year, which comes out roughly to about $2,400 a piece that can come from from that. So, I was just curious cuz initially when I saw that, I thought it was primarily for paying rents to get them to the point of, you know, moving out into to stable housing and then them taking over the uh payments themselves. But this that doesn't seem that that's enough money to pay any rent. So, this is um you're right, 331,200 divided by 136, it works out to be $2,435 per case, which is about the average of what we spend right now on move in assistance for people. Sometimes that project is called rapid rehousing. Sometimes it's referred to as diversion movein assistance. Just depends on your perspective, but typically what it includes is the security deposit and first month's rent for that person. We don't place people in $3,000 a month apartments. We're trying to find things that are closer between $1,000 and $1,400. So about $1,200 average. $1,200* 2 is $2,400 time 136 is $331,000. Yeah. And my last question uh council, well maybe my last question uh when I'm looking at the budget, I see in the first year personnel accounts for about uh 43% and then year two and three is more of about 60% of the of the entire budget. Uh and I see that there are um se I think two case managers, there's a intake full-time intake coordinator, full-time program manager and uh as well as the drivers. Do we because I I as I understand there's some case management that's currently happening. Do you think that that we may be uh administratively heavy? Because I do see you have a 10% administrative cost. Um because when we look at a housing program and 60% of the budget going to personnel, that that concerns me because the the idea is housing, getting people in into housing. So having 60% of the budget going to personnel uh is kind of concerning. So can you just talk about that breakdown and how you view that 60%. Yeah. So in the first year the the reason the percent is different is because the upfront cost to purchase course, right? And it's lower in the first year. And this is this project effectively has you know five people that will serve as attendants security attendants and drivers for the buses because it's a 7-day a week operation. So they'll be operating on a 4 day uh three-day work week each each and every other week. Mhm. Then in terms of case management, because we are working to um effectively case manage not just 136 clients, but probably significantly more because we're not going to be 100% effective with every person who gets on the bus. You're talking about each case manager is now going to be managing about 75 cases uh a year, which is at least one to two people that they're going to be getting housed every single week. So that's why we we require two case managers and it's a 7-day a week operation. So, we have to be addressing this population of people seven days a week because some of them will only be on the bus for two or three days at a time, some two or three weeks and some two or three months. But the if anything, the staffing's low um because this is we we did not put together a a scenario where it's um some type of dream scenario. This is a very solid Goldilocks level budget. This is, you know, not not too much, not too little. This is what we feel is just right. And we have put in dollar amounts here where I'd certainly like to pay these people more. But as you know better than anybody up here, you know, we just we limited on what we can spend. But in this case, if you imagine running any 40 bed shelter wherever it's going to be seven days a week, you're going to need, you know, somebody who's physically there all the time just to provide security and management. In this case, they're providing security and sanitation and driving the bus. You're going to need at least a couple of people that are going to help house these folks. And then you have to have at least one or two people that are there to actually check them in, get them registered, go through the assessment process, and make sure that they qualify for the program. So, it's actually a pretty small staffing program. I I can see from looking at a perspective this way, but that's one of the reasons why the cost of the bus program works out to be only about $39.60 per bed per night is because it's a it's not a brick-and-mortar type of program. all the wraparound services that you might see at the coalition of the Salvation Army like meals, clothing, showers, laundry. So, we're, you know, we're eating all those costs ourselves. That's just part of what we do. That's and we're happy to do it. So, there's a lot that goes into that process. The administrative cost in terms of um how we do this. For example, the the rapid unsheltered survivor housing. When the city got $700,000 for that project two years ago, they took 10% off the top and then the remainder went to us to help fund people. The 10% administrative rate is pretty typical as again you know better than anybody. But the idea here is that it's um it's not extra. We have people that have to write these checks, have to process with the landlords, have to actually manage the individual cases from a financial standpoint. And that is is uh pretty significant. When this last year we you know rescued over,200 people we expect that that number will continue to increase again and again. We've now had to hire a second uh fiscal administrator just to manage the number of um rental agreements we have master leases and so on. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for the questions. Commissioner Ortiz. Thank you mayor. Uh, thank you Eric for this and I know you work really hard with our community and I'm a big admire of yours. Um, but I have some questions here in terms of u the three samples you guys gave us here socket uh Chicago Illinois and are those the only places in the nation that have this program? Those are the only places that have used the same nonprofit that we're working with called the source. There are other programs around the United States. Um we have focused on this program because its headquarters is so close in Vero Beach. Do we have some uh rate of success statistics? Do we have some statistics about the rate of success on this? Yeah. So the rate of success at the other programs is similar to what we've uh estimated here about 85% success rate in terms of getting people from the bus housed and that's that's similar to what's done in the other markets. It's also relatively similar to what's done at shelters across the United States. um we will lose some people because they will choose just after the first night just not their thing and they're they'll leave and we won't see them again. Others might do the same thing after a couple of days or weeks. Um but for the most part getting people housed is really just a question of the money. You know, for us in in Central Florida, we're a little more challenged because it's also a question of the availability of the housing. So, um you know, the money and the demand for housing at the same time are the two two-headed challenge that we face. But we've we've done pretty well so far. So, I feel pretty good about our our ability to do it again. By any chance, do you know how many buses Chicago, Illinois has? I believe they just have the one uh bus in that that community. And I think Rhode Island um just has the one bus. Yeah. And um then there's another plan right now for I I don't want to I don't know if I'm speaking out of turn. There's another nonprofit in our community that's planning on doing three of these buses over in Bvard County. And then Orange County has been actively talking about doing a bus in East Orange County and West Orange County as well. Chicago, you know, has a population of over two million people. Yes. One bus just for them. And then um they have a rapidly decreasing population though, which means they have a lower per capita rate of homelessness than Orlando does. But they also have a number of other shelters. There's they have thousands of shelter beds in the city of Chicago, whereas we only have about 900. About Vera Beach. Ver Beach has no emergency shelter in their community at all. this is this program is the only thing interesting fact and I'm glad that we brought that up because they have a population of about 17,000 something and uh nationwide the average of homelessness is 0.2 too. I think I mentioned that before. And uh so they have more beds than the uh that it would be required per capita per population. Uh that you know if we were to use the those statistics um um something that I'm really concerned about and I didn't get a chance to talk to you, I'm sorry. I know you call me. um is about the co-ed concept u having males and females in the same bus especially when you have families you have kids and I'm glad that you guys are going to scrutinize this each one of these persons that are going to be going in so you'll have a record of each one of these persons so right well it's still a concept that that concerns me because of the privacy issues especially for mothers with children um I suggested that we possibly divide them and Then if if it they get packed then we see other considerations but that we divide them and have the females in one side or families in one side and then the gentleman's in the other. I don't disagree with you. I think what we're trying to do is make sure that we eliminate as many barriers as we can for those reason why some people aren't at the coalition or the Salvation Army or the Rescue Mission. All phenomenally well-run facilities but sometimes the family unit together um just doesn't want to be split up and that's you know the way they won't be split. It's perfectly reasonable for us to try what you're suggesting. And then if it doesn't work, we can make adjustments so we can we can start one way and switch to the other. The goal here is to make sure that we're getting as many people off the streets every night as we can. But I share your concern. I mean, safety is always going to be the number one concern. And in tight quarters like this, and a program like this, it's always going to be a concern. But that's one of the reasons why there's funding in here for a security system and the attendants who will be awake for, you know, the entire time they're on the bus and have to do 20 minute every 20-minut shift walk. That's what I meant when when families including the father not dividing them. Um, let me ask you about the concept because it's there's uh 19 beds or 20 beds per bus. So, the buses can accommodate 20 beds, but we're depending on which buses are available for us to purchase because there's it's not like there's a lot of them out there. Um, we might be able to convert one of them into an ADA accessible bus. And because of the population of people we serve now being so infirm, making it up those four steps might be an issue. If we did that, that would probably drop two of the bus, two of the beds out of one of the buses. So, the number might go from 40 to 38. But that's a decision we would actually make in partnership with the city because as the funer, if you have children where the kids occupy one bed, one bed each, okay, there's certainly some exceptions to that. if there's an infant, but we very very rarely see infants. Most of the children who we see are homeless are usually over the age of six and under the age of 16. Okay, one last question. Have we gotten some police feedback? I would like to hear what the police department has to say about this because the guys are always in contact with our homeless population. They're the ones out there, you know, what they think about the whole concept. I have not actually spoken to OPD about this project. We work with OPD every day um but not on this specific project. We we have a lot of additional work to do before this is actually implemented. And while the buses can be constructed and put into use relatively quickly, the four to six weeks sounds aggressive to me, but I'm I'm hopeful this will be up and running by June. So maybe more like 8 to 10 weeks, but that's what they promised. So we should be able to do it. Actually, for for that matter, OPD and OFD also, does OFD come in contact with these families? I was just going to say that because we have fire rescue out um a couple times a week, but it's not for the reasons you might think. Um I think people would expect that there's a lot of drug overdose and things of that nature. It's usually for heart attack, stroke, respiratory issues. The same reason you have see people get sick at m millennia and just because people have been sleeping outside. So fire rescue's been great. OPD's been great. I hate what they're having to do right now. I know they hate it, too. They don't like the state law and I I really feel for them and having to do what they're doing. and they're doing a fantastic job of trying to work within the the spirit of the law. Um, and I I think that this is one more way to try to alleviate some of that pressure because it's it's not just 40 more people off the street. At minimum, it would be another 160 people off the street every year. And that's if we turn the buses over every 3 months. I suspect it'll be quite a bit more than that. This has been a a um big concern with the community in terms of the monies that we're allocating to this 3 million $3.5 million. Um and comparatively when you compare what would be the cost of building a home or whatnot or maybe implementing a shelter uh how this figures this figures that we're utilizing how how this compares. This is significantly less expensive but it comes with another cost and that's it's not permanent. So the project that the coalition for the homeless is right now raising money for which is a phenomenal concept and I wish them all the best because they they're really the leader in this area that project will last for 100 years. These buses will not last for 100 years. So while they are significantly less expensive and the cost per bed per night and the upfront cost compared to a bricks and mortar project, these buses might not last us more than about a dozen years before we'd have to start the project over again. But all things considered, it's still less expensive than a bricks and mortar project. This is not going to solve homelessness from a standpoint of 40 more people being off the streets. The reason that I, you know, I thought this would be a great idea for us to do that excites me more than anything else is actually started at the meeting that you've set up for the Tri County League of Cities. And that meeting that the Commissioner Ortiz set up a year ago, two two years ago, I can't remember now. There's a lot of frustration in the room where people just didn't really understand their responsibility for housing homeless adults. There was a sort of this interest of saying, well, CM is sending all their homeless adults to to Orlando and then Orlando is saying, well, but Sanford is sending all their homeless adults to CMI and it was back and forth to everybody, which none of it's true because most of the people who are experiencing homelessness in any community, 90% of the time they were last housed in that community. So, we I suspect that the real gem or silver lining for this project is going to be the road show. Um, we're really counting on trying to use that. Um, and a lot of that came actually from Mayor Dyer when this body talked about the uh renovation project, the accelerator lander renovation project in December 23. He said at the end of the meeting, I remember it very well. We need to get these other communities invested just like we're investing. This is I want to say mine. This is our effort to really give it our our best shot to do it positively because at some point this might have to be done negatively. And I'd really at least like to say that we've gone out of our way to try to take positive options to our neighboring communities before things have to get really serious and we say you got to you got to invest in this or else because that's what's happening in California right now. there's people you have cities suing counties, counties suing cities, cities suing the states, and we really need to find a positive outcome to this before it gets to that point. Well, I truly believe that just like the legislature passed that that legislation where we have to now deal with the the homeless if we get complaints about it, you know, as as a mandate. I think they should have also passed a legislation where they would say based on the on the stats that I just gave the point 2, maybe every city should have at least 0.25 25 equivalent of beds per population. And I I hope we can we can push this to Tallahassee so then we will share the the the issue in terms of how to solve and I hope you run for governor so you can make that happen. Yeah, we'll work together. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Rose. Um so Eric, you and I spoke about this on several occasions. So Paramore has bared the burden and has supported social services, homelessness um for decades. There was a moratorum on additional services expansion but that was changed in 2022. One of the things that I have several questions. My first question is will this bus necessarily stay here every night or are there other opportunities to look for it to move around? No, that decision hasn't been made. It would be made in partnership with the funer, in this case the CRA and the city, as well as the community at large, which we've already been engaging in the conversation. We've had a couple churches that have already expressed their willingness to allow us to park and those are outside of the Paramore area. The only thing that we would need to do in the Paramore area is pick people up, you know, for about an hour or so and then drop them back off. The dropping them off, actually, Commissioner Sheen had asked me that question last week was was a good one in that um most of the people that will be on the bus will be getting on another bus to go to work. Those that aren't because they're not employed can actually just stay at the Christian Service Center. So, they're not out wandering around or anything like that. They're actually going to be able to get services so we can get them employed because we have a staffing company at the campus. But no, there's no plan for exactly where the buses are going to be parked. I had a conversation with one of our church partners just before coming over here. They knew that this meeting was happening and you know, he was willing to to share that they had met last night in anticipation of this meeting saying they would absolutely love for us to consider bringing one out there even if it's just one night a week. We'll have to install 50 amp plugins anywhere we decide to put it, which is probably a $500 to $1,000 cost depending on the the building and and how it's done. But I think having multiple places where they could be parked at night is actually not such a bad idea because it has to run every day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. So you kind of have to have backup plans for your backup plan. Um, so I think some of the fear and concerns are new individuals coming into our community to be able to use this service. What's the overall intake process look like and who ideally will we be serving? So the intake process is called intake and enrollment and effectively what we do is we follow best practice set up by housing and urban development and managed locally by the homeless services network. So we use the same exact process that uh the Orange Boston family health would use or uh the the coalition for the homeless. We're doing not only the name and information gathering but you're doing a full assessment. And a lot of times what we'll do is if it if it appears that it's warranted, we do what's called a vulnerability assessment. Uh the acronym is actually VIP SPEAT and it's is used all over the country. The VIP spedat roughly works out to be a score of 0 to 20. If you and I were to take the test, we would score a zero or one. Um, but when you see somebody that scores a 19 or a 20 on the vulnerability assessment, then you know that they're actually a really good candidate for permanent supportive housing for which we have 1,600 beds throughout apartments in the community. The only reason that those become available, unfortunately, is when someone passes away. But the average length of time of this permanent housing is 12 years because most of these people are very ill. So, if we assess somebody and they are extremely ill and we think they're highly qualified to to permanent supportive housing, they can go on the bus temporarily until we get them into permanent supportive housing. We don't think that'll be the majority, but that is an option. Um, the the the program um I know one of the concerns is uh about having this program in Paramore. Um given that there's been a lot of concern that all homeless services are related in Paramore, I don't disagree with that. Um, I I would put it in a slightly different context um that I'm not sure everybody would agree with, but I used to work at another wonderful nonprofit called Give Kids the World and they are out of CMI and for me to drive from my home to there every day was an hour and 10 minutes one way. And one day I went into a human resources officer and I was like, "God, I'm really dying with this to commute." You know, it was just kind of, you know, complaining and venting. And her comment was, "Eric, I can't move the village." And that's kind of where we're at, too. I can't move the Christian Service Center. We're we're we are where we are. And so what we're trying to do is the best we can to address the issue as creatively and as innovatively as we possibly can. If the community prefers not to have us do that, I totally respect that. I'm I don't have any issue with that. We just all we can do is what we can do. And we will probably end up doing the same type of project. If the city of Okoi allows us to do it, we'll probably do it out there as well. And if we can find a community like Winter Park in the city of Winter Park that wants to support this type of project, that would be our next stop. But there's no real long-term plan for us to go and spread these around ourselves. I don't really have any uh appetite for that. The the goal here is to get some other nonprofits in Leburg, you know, and into land to to get involved and be able to use the budgets and the best practice and the documents say, "Here you go. You know, you good luck. We'll we take calls when you have them." But the the goal here of the road show is not for me to go and do more of these. I I don't have that interest. The idea is to get some of the pressure off of downtown Orlando and Paramore in particular. And a couple more questions. Based on the funding model, is the goal for the Christian Service Center to raise the funds beyond year three? Yeah. So the funds would be a little bit different after the third year in part because we would have spend the next three years not only building up the philanthropic base to support it, which we've done with other programs over the last couple of years, but we also would be able to build up some of the other grants that could support people getting housed that are on the bus, which we can actually do now. So the the the funding for this project is is limited to the people that are using the bus to get housed, but I have I have some other sources, they're small, that I might be able to use to get certain people housed. So, if I have a veteran, for example, that ends up getting on one of the buses, they're likely to not be there more than a couple days because of the SSVF program. We'd be able to get them housed relatively quickly. Um, but that that's that would be that I think I hope I answered your question. Yep. And so, I just have to make a statement. So, for someone who's experienced homelessness in my past, I think the opportunity to have and provide dignity, which is what we're trying to do with this bus, and I want everyone in the audience to realize that there are people who get up every day who have to go to work and they're sleeping on the streets. This is an opportunity for someone to sleep in a bed and have some sort of dignity when they wake up in the morning time to get to work, as well as moms and dads who are experiencing homelessness who are sleeping on the streets. This is an opportunity for families, individuals in the community to be able to sleep. While I am a Pmore resident, you know, we talk about and I said I mentioned it the the oversaturation of social services within our community. This is an opportunity for us to be able to show the region how we can collectively come up with solutions that don't mean multi-million dollar um homeless shelters. So, I want everyone in the audience to really take a moment and realize that there are people who are one paycheck away from being on the streets. And it could be any one of us that is sitting in this room, someone who's experienced it. To be able to say I had a bed to sleep at at night and not on the streets would have made a world of a difference. So I just want to commend you for this idea and for us collectively exploring this opportunity. Thank you. Thank you, Commissioner. Commissioner Stewart. Um thank you, Eric. I'm not going to rehash everybody else. They've you've done a great job with that. Um I've done a couple little bit of research. Wanka is getting ready to put their third and fourth bus. I didn't know that. Um I think they've announced that in January. Um and they announced in their first bus that they in little old Waket Rhode Island uh had placed 86 people in permanent housing. So now I know you've talked to them in Vero Beach and I'm assuming Chicago. Um where are the where are the challenges that they had that we can learn from them to make this work? I think I think a lot of it has really to do with the the smaller logistics of the day-to-day operation of the buses. So, for example, when Vero Beach first started doing this, they were actually loading people onto the buses at a program very similar to ours that they operate and then driving it to a truck stop and they were running the generators every night at the truck stop. uh the costs to that became really problematic and they had people that were getting off at the truck stop to go inside and use the restrooms or take showers and it made a lot of sense to them. But over time what they realized is it it was it was more problems than it was worth. And so that's they developed the rule that once you're on the bus after check-in you do not leave the bus until the next morning. You certainly can get off. They're not going to hold them there against their will but if you get off you're not following the rules then you're out of the program. So it's been simple things like that. the security mechanisms, um how to manage the this the simple cleaning types of issues. You're dealing with lots of different people coming from lots of different backgrounds. That's why, you know, we have set in here the the linens the way we did. It works out to be about $60 per set of linens because you're having to do different type of linens for, you know, moisture types of stuff. And and so there's a lot of those little daytoday type of things that we've learned. Um, but we're actually the plan would be that if the city approves this, our next step is actually going down to Vero Beach with a good portion of our staff and I think some of the city staff where we sit down and just have a a new conversation with them about all right, this is real. Let's let's talk about it again. Let's go through let's start from, you know, scratch and go through the whole process one more time. I think though, I don't want to speak with too much hubris, but I I think that we will probably, like we've done a lot of things, have the opportunity for other people to learn from us. And I think that's what's probably the most likely scenario mostly here in Central Florida. I mean, that's what we're really counting on. And I think that's one of the major benefits of the project. One of the challenges I've shared with you and I've shared with this council as well is the lack of the amount of effort outside of the city limits um that's been done. We've we've seen continue challenges throughout other municipalities in the county. We've seen the county um not move forward on larger stuff. They we in a sense I probably speak out of turn and get in trouble, but we see that they think that what Orlando is doing is what the county's doing. And you've got 1.2 million people in a county that needs help. Um, and we're doing all we can for 350,000. Um, so I I I I'm concerned that that they're not this is this is an avenue that they're not taking advantage of. At the same time, I've heard the county talk about a lot of things that they would like to do and nothing ever seems to get actually done. I'm excited about this project and that we actually can kind of put a bow around it and say this is what the cost is now. Now go to Okoi now. You know, if you want to help Winter Park, you help Winter Park. I mean, um, and and I'd like to see them start using some of the city of Orlando money we give them in places that work. Um, and uh, so I I'm I'm concerned about that, but I think that this is a good temporary um, uh, solution that I've had that conversation with uh, uh, with Mayor Dimmings that I think I think he's open to it. We just have to figure out how do we make it work. This is a good example to have them see that. Um, but I also think that we we have to be more creative in what we're doing. And this is one of those ways of being creative and innovative. Um, at the same time, not relying on any particular community to take care of the entire burden, even inside the city of Orlando. Um, back to your budget figure, the roughly about 300,000 is money that's actually gone on moving forward on behalf of the clients. Okay. And then the balance of that really is the cost of the equipment, operation of the equipment or direct staff that you've got there. Um I'm a little bit familiar with the organization. Yeah, that one. This is your shirt. I think that's my shirt, right? Um but I I think that the object of that with so many case managers you have coming with funding coming from so many different sources, it's not just this source that'll help them. You'll have other sources like you mentioned with veterans and other stuff that's coming from United Way. Um and and I I believe that figure will be very quick. I'd like to hear as you move forward and I know you're good at this. I'd like to kind of see how they're moving, how rapidly they're coming in. Like to see like a 90-day report and to say, "Okay, look what's happening in 90 days. I mean, we thought they'd be there for 90 days. They're there for about 26 days. that means we can do this because I think there may be some like you said some additional funding to help them um to get post. So no welcome the opportunity and you can run maybe you could run for governor along with commissioner Ortiz. Maybe he could be my lieutenant governor. Okay, Commissioner Sheen. Thank you. What are you looking for? this commissioner. Oh, you you did. Okay. I wasn't sure. I was just freaked out by that whole thing and I'm like, what is going on? What what what what universe am I in right now? Okay. Um the one thing that I did hear uh in in in these meetings was, you know, that we did have over the last 90 days was that people did want Orange County and other municipalities to step up. So, if this is a way to encourage that, that would be great. I'm glad we had the conversation about what would happen be happening during the day because you know again if we just provide beds at night without providing a way for people to get services or get to work or all those other things. So thank you for for answering that. I know I know I have a kind of a random question but what's the population of wound socket? I don't remember it being that large. I've been to Rhode Island before. I actually have to look to Commissioner Stewart because I don't know what's Yeah, I don't have my phone so I couldn't look it up. I mean in the midfield I mean Rhode Island's as big as us but but in the municipality area it's about 26,000 and I think it's pretty close for 26,000 people. I mean that's pretty remarkable. Well can I can I go back to actually you make that point. Commissioner Ortiz says something earlier that I hope everybody didn't miss and that's that roughly in any community in the country about 02% of the population is going to be experiencing homeless on any given given night. And I actually had a conversation with Mayor Dyer when we were on the bus where I was talking about the city of Apka. Steve Popka has about 55,000 residents, which would mean roughly that you might have about a 100 people on any given night experiencing homelessness. That tracks with the last point in time count where we counted about 45 people experiencing homelessness, but we know half of people that are homeless are doing so in their cars and they're almost impossible to count. So, it would work out. What we don't talk about is that roughly 2% of the residents of the city of Apakka will experience homelessness this year. So that changes the number a little bit. It's closer to a thousand people. And so I think when you start talking about this, and I said this to the Apaka City Council a little over a year ago, I don't know what the threshold is, but at some point you reach a certain percentage of your community that is not have a residence. That's not a homelessness problem anymore. That's a domestic refugee crisis. And I don't know what that level is, but at some point we're going to cross that level. So 43,000 43 43,000 Wow. Okay. All right. Fun fact for everybody to go home with the population of wounds island. Okay. Thank you, Eric. I think we'll move on to public testimony. Can I just announce one quick thing? Absolutely. I just want to thank the city for addressing the the issue of homelessness in in such an aggressive way as they have. Mayor Dyer's talked about this being one of the more difficult challenges of of your time. And um I just particularly wanted to single out Orin Henry and Sonia Carnival in housing and community development, Lisa Portelli in the mayor's office, David Burrill, Samantha Lavine and the CRA and downtown development board that you have more people with experience that on the issue of homelessness than any other community in the area combined. And um on top of that, uh I'm not sure if everybody's familiar with this, but this city council has about as much experience with the issue of homelessness as any city council anywhere in the United States. You've got two people who've worked in the in the issue professionally. You've got two people who've actually experienced homelessness, and I won't say because that's up to them. You got people who've worked in law enforcement in this community and people who've been in development in this community, know all about the housing industry. So, this is about as good as it gets in terms of expertise. And I I think if people wonder why is Orlando addressing this as aggressively as it is, they just need to look at your resumes and that's that's what's that's why it's happening. I really appreciate everything you guys are doing. So, thank you. Thank you, Eric. And we appreciate what you're doing as well. Okay, David, I'm going to go to public testimony. Come here. Okay. I have the list of everybody that signed up at agenda review. Some were not present there, but I'm going to go ahead and uh read everybody's name and give everybody that was on that list the opportunity to address council. The rules are the same as um everything else. State your name and your address. You'll have three minutes. Eric Lewis. You said name and address. Do I need to be specific? Eric, Orange County. Um, I'll be quick. My name is Eric. I Eric, talk towards the mic there so we can hear. Oh, apologies. My name's Eric. I'm the co-director of change, a organization in Florida that works closely with the unhoused population across the region. Um, I oversee communications and grants for the organization. But I've been working, we've been working with the unhoused population for well over three, four, five years now. Um, it's varying across my my other co-directors, but um, aside from introductions, I do want to read a quote from the Stop Sodto campaign. Um, they said, and I quote, "Winter Park and Winter Garden have a booming and bustling downtown with lots of businesses, families, restaurants with outdoor seating, all because they do not tolerate crime. Sodto and downtown Orlando could be that nice. All it would take is some political will. The things vagrants do are already crimes. It's a crime to litter, to aggressively panhandle, to camp on a public and private property, to go out near private school while being a registered sex offender, and to go to the bathroom in public. Mayor Buddy Dyer and Patty Shehan, act like the vagrants are their constituents. No, we, the residents of Sodto, are the constituents, and we value our safety above all other policy. The homeless services network published their findings in a uh point of network study for the year 2023 I think it was. Um so between 20 23 and 2024 there was a 105% increase in homelessness. This was across the tri county so seol orange and oyola. I also want to make um I also want to state that uh February of 2024, the Coalition for the Homeless uh experienced a fire that displaced 237 247 shelter residents. Um and then shortly a couple months after they welcomed back 150 residents. Um, it is also my understanding that the Orlando Health Hospital or entity institution campaigned against this proposed brick and mortar shelter. Um, they have a $160 million investment that is supposed to house a a list a slew of pediatric services. Um, and I guess that kind of wasn't appealing to them. Um, and obviously a lot of us, I'm I'm sure in here are familiar with the House Bill 1365 that took effect at the top of the year, essentially criminalizing homelessness or not allowing people to sleep or to occupy public spaces. Um, so when I I wanted to read the direct quote just to establish context of what kind of rhetoric the unhoused population and folk who are in support of the unhoused population were up against and what I feel like the city bent the need to. I also mentioned the Orlando Health's initiative or their That's it on your time. Thank you. Okay. Randy Ross and then Octavian Canilli. Thank you, Mayor and Council. I've had the pleasure over the last 32 years to work with some of you some of you on different projects. I got to take a little break here because of the downness of this conversation and just remind Mayor Buddy Dyer that I will always remember launching walk a mile in her shoes and watching him tear up a pair of heels to get from the courthouse down to uh down to the Wall Street. You know, I I I look at this a little bit differently. I kind of thought our work was done um with the stop shelter uh effort. Um, and I kind of then started watching the Orlando Sentinel publish editorial after editorial, not on our side of this situation, but certainly publishing almost a reinvigoration of looking at the Sodto shelter. Again, as even yesterday, I believe there were two opeds that came out regarding that side of the story. Um, and I will also suggest to you that um, I want to remind you that the stop sodto shelter people, our team, many of them here, they're not heartless people. Um, I know for a fact they cared deeply about the homeless population. What they were concerned about, and I think it was a rightful concern, was that we simply didn't believe that location was going to provide the wraparound services that we felt were necessary. The dignity buses are not dignity, Commissioner Rose. They are that it's not a way I would want to sleep every night. Um, I I don't know what the right answer is, and I I lived here so long that I know we've been talking about homelessness forever. There are some people that really want to be homeless. In our first set of arrests, there was a lady um that was arrested that knew exactly where she could go to for a resource bip. She chose to sleep under I4. So, I invite you to think about something. After nine years, this council helped produce the Pulse Memorial Task Force and now we have a memorial getting ready to be built. I invite you to table this and create a task force where it's not just this community, but put the communities together and let them help you come up with a solution that we can all buy into. It won't be perfect and it won't be easy and it will be painful. But I remind you, I think the stop ser shelter team and everybody that you know we one of the things I want to remind you is I never thought in a million years I would be working on potentially on the project with Alana Gellzler and here we are one side one side of the interstate um and and one side of I4 working together. We really want to be part of the solution. So I certainly invite you mayor and council to consider tableabling this and give us an opportunity to work with you on better solution. Thank you. Octavian Cantelli Peter Fox, and remember to state your name and address. Uh, Octavian Kentilli, 443, Page Street, uh, 32806. So over the past four months, I've met hundreds of my neighbors from Lake Holton to Paramore. Young neighbors um and those young in heart. Neighbors with kids and without. Liberal and conservative neighbors, neighbors living in $300,000 homes and a few in $3 million homes. I read over a thousand personal stories about concerns regarding our city's homeless pop policy. Um, I also remember reading how uh the city's senior adviser on homelessness acknowledged how the best ideas sometimes come out during community engagement. However, over the past four months, only Commissioner Ortiz has made time to engage with our communities in a in a productive manner and the city hasn't hosted a single homeless policy event. Um, mayor, why um are you so hesitant to conduct and participate in community engagement? Why is transparency and community engagement not priorities when formulating solutions uh for our homeless population? Why do you think why do you think constituents who blindly support your policy while ridiculing those who express legitimate concerns? Why is this unpopular policy up for vote without having a detailed answer to many of your constituents concerns? You know very well that this new state law banning um camping is not new. The truth is Orlando has had an ordinance against camping since 1980 um which has been enforced under your watch. 14 years ago, a homeless man sued the city of Orlando for enforcing uh its camping ban ordinance, and the city litigated the enforcement of this ordinance all the way to the 11th Circuit Court of of Appeals, which uh um which ruled that the law was constitutional in 2021. Yet, I keep hearing you say that this new state law is new and it criminalizes homelessness. No, mayor. You know very well all it does is give residents a way to hold their municipalities accountable for not enforcing laws that have been in the books for decades while also providing a temporary solution. Instead of an ultraexpensive disaster bus idea, why don't you explore the truly bold idea of opening, for example, micro shelters dispersed among all municipalities um approved all at the same time? Or how about buying land for use as a secure adult-tononly single sex detox encampment with wraparound services? Or my favorite, exploring multi uh modern construction techniques where you could build 400 foot hurricane rated homes for under $15,000 at scale. The short answer would be that you've come to this issue in the last three months. You never once thought about it prior to us looking at that Kaye site. I've been at this for 20 years. The first task force I set up, speaking of task forces, was one on homelessness in the city of Orlando. It was chaired by Commissioner Stewart and my then wife who is deceased now. That led to a task force that was more regional in nature, which led to the Central Florida Commission on Homelessness. So, we have been at this work for a long time. It's not easy. I appreciate you now paying attention to this work in the last three months, but if you are serious about this, you could have been on this truck for a long lot longer time than that. Thank you for your ideas. My name is Peter Fox. First, uh, mayor and commissioner, thank you for allowing me to be here. and mayor, if I go over by 30 seconds. I've been a resident at 950 Lancaster Drive for over 35 years, and I'd like to at least finish what I wrote. First of all, you all need to know that I personally have a heart for the homeless and feel it is our obligation to help them. But like other difficult social problems that need solving, we must study the impacts on our community. I do not believe that the city of Orlando has adequately done that. At least I have not seen any studies to that effect. I am here to ask you all to respectfully consider postponing the dignity bus funding. Here is what I would like you all to think about before you rubber stamp this spending. Why does our homeless population within the downtown core area continue to grow, especially in Paramore, which already is overrun with the homeless and provides more than their fair share of beds? Why is the answer always to build more? The fact is that given current trends, by itself, Orlando will never have enough beds. Adding more beds only exasperates the problem. You can't put 20 pounds of sugar in a 10 pound bag. When I recently asked Orange County and Orange County Commissioner how many beds the county provides outside of Orlando, the answer was, "We don't have homeless shelters. We fund other shelters in the city of Orlando." In other words, they provide little to no beds, just funny to keep the homeless in downtown Orlando. No wonder our numbers keep growing. On July 18th, 2022, the city held a public workshop in regard to the allocation of the American Rescue Act for government services fund. The city approved that. According to your records, you approved the spending of that money on government services which were allocated to the city salaries of 4 million plus and 53 almost 54 million was added to uh city salaries. That's a total of 58 million and change. Then came the Accelerate Orlando fund where the pot of federal rescue bunny plan money was placed. Since October of 2021 to July 24, the city recovery plan for the use of these funds has changed three times. According to the city's website, the city has already spent 43 million of the 58 million pot to preserve housing options for residents of all income levels in their effort to tackling two of your of Orlando's most daunting challenges, homeless and affordable housing. Now, today on your consent agenda, you want to approve another 3,400,000. Here's what I you all might consider do doing. Postpone the decision until you have done a new study not on the cost of things but the suitability of adding more homeless beds in the city of Orlando to better understand the effects on our neighborhoods and our businesses especially in Paramore, an area that is already feeling the negative impacts of housing too many of the homeless. Meet with Orange County. meet with Orange County officials and find a long-term solution, not a band-aid. Share the results of those meetings with us. Orange County has more money and more land than we do. And most importantly, currently, they are not materially helping us with the nightly unhoused homeless that wander our streets and neighborhoods. Find better locations other than within the city limits of Orlando. Be the leaders that your constituents count on. Remember that Orlando is the city beautiful. And our strength is not only in how we treat others, including the homeless, but also in the safety and sanctity of our neighborhoods. In the end, that's what makes our land beautiful. Thank you. Okay, Commissioner Hill. Thank you. And good afternoon, uh, mayor and commission. Um, I'm not, uh, uh, saying I'm not in support of this initiative. Actually, mayor and councel, this initiative was birthed in my office. I had Lisa Portelli, Eric Gray, city staff, uh, go after me doing research on these dignity buses. Um but what we did discuss uh prior to my uh me leave having to leave office was that it wouldn't be housed in Paramore. Another component I want to be uh clear on is that uh in 2022 uh I I didn't resend the mortorium in Paramore. It was only to expand the women and children's shelter. So here we are uh with this uh initiative. Uh my ask today mayor and council is that we do consider not housing the buses in the paramore area. As you know we have about six other shelters there. It's heavily concentrated with homelessness. What I saw was a dissension because of the concentration of homelessness. Businesses going out of business. Uh the residents are now uh calling. We was not notified. I know it was stated in the presentation that some of the HOAs was notified, but they were presidents. It wasn't the coalition of the community that was notified, nor had the we found out on the news uh on Saturday morning about the location. Uh so that's what I uh the people are really concerned about along with the mortorium. I know that ship has passed. We wasn't notified that a mortorium uh for shelters and paramore and other services had been lifted until this weekend. Um so so you know for for us it's it's very sad uh what's going on in district 5 because of lack of accountability and transparency. We just want engagement. We want to be a part of the dialogue and conversation. And it was promised that no more shelters. I know this isn't brick and mortar, but it is a emergency shelter in the text of it, though it's on wheels. So, uh, mayor, if the council and yourself can consider the placement and location of these buses, we the people of district 5 and especially paramore that is, you know, I I I know Eric Gray has done great work, but it's still a major problem even in front of his uh uh Christian service center where people aren't going in to get those services. We gave $2 million for first up uh uh uh uh staffing that was located right inside of the building. They don't go in to seek the services. They don't go in to get case management. They're hanging out around the on on the steps of the building. There's no security. So, mayor, I think we do need to not look at this further. I support this. As I said, I am the surrogate of this initiative, but it has not been thought through fully on how we're going to implement it and where. Thank you for Thank you, Commissioner L. Lameia Mukadam. You can pronounce your name better than I did, I think. Probably. Absolutely. Y uh so my name is Lemi Moadm. Uh I am also a co-founder of Change Harm Reduction. We are the first queer trans bipok uh harm reduction organization in the state of Florida. Uh and I do just want to quickly say before before I get into this that a lot of you do know me um from from various disruptions and for the fight for a free Palestine. Uh and so I hope that that does not provide any bias to what I am trying to say and advocate for. Um because that will always you know that that is my identity and that will always be at the forefront. um free Palestine. Uh but I I want to talk about also my work in community because a lot of times all you all see me as is the whatever the person yelling on the mic. Um but I have been serving at Christian service center for the past four years uh via HIV testing when I worked for the LGBT plus center Orlando. I was the outreach manager. Um, I helped neighborhood fridge get a partnership with the Christian Service Center where we now uh distribute 300 meals every single week. Um, doing harm reduction services. I was in charge of the only string exchange program in in Central Florida in Orange County. Um, and now with our work with uh with Change Florida, we are continuing to serve our community uh primarily off of Mercy Drive uh in these unhoused encampments. these these people that you all uh don't get the numbers for uh as far as homelessness because they they are hidden. They are our invisible community. Um to say that I I have been working with the most marginalized communities for years uh and in coming up with solutions moving forward including things like food sovereignty where uh in in district 5 we've just launched uh at the South Street Garden a a garden with collaboration with neighborhood fridge and and putting that produce directly into the fridge. So just to say I I am somebody who has put in actionable effort uh and solutions that have been successful and have been working with this community and the one thing that I have not seen is this community having a voice in any of this. Um we want to talk about this bus and and we are not here to oppose the bus because something is better than nothing. Um but we are here to oppose the hate group that is stop shelter. Their talking points are racist. They are classist. They are inept. They want to protect their properties, their businesses, all of which they are hoarding. Uh, and they speak about our houseless community as though they are not part of our community. They speak of themselves as they are the residents and our houseless people are vagrants. This is racist. This is hate speech. And after speaking to our house's community, they have been in these communities longer than all of us. They have been established for decades. uh and really just want to say that in the language that we use when we speak about our community that it is our community. It is not othering them. Uh I I don't remember I I I highly doubt any of you all have looked somebody who's unhoused in the face uh in the eyes probably ever. Uh we did look into some of you all. You you own uh businesses. You're all primarily white cis men, wealthy. Um, you should not be the voice and you should not be the violent people that are pushing uh that are pushing our community members toward death. Okay? Because no housing leads to death. Shame on y'all. Moana [Applause] Gellzer. And then farra al jalad Lana Gellzer 815 Hill Street. Who is Lana Gellzer? My family moved to Paramore in 1971, but we've owned the property since 1948. Lana Gelza family has owned a business at Paramore for 45 years. Lana Gelza family was not just business owners, but Lana Gellza has found a way to get federal funds from Hersa, CDC, the National Council of Agent, and even the EPA. Lana Gellza moved back to Parmore about two and a half years ago. Lana Gellza can't serve on any committees for the city or anybody else. So, the voice of Paramore has not been heard. Those are just some of my qualifications. So, you had a meeting on February the 11th, but what you failed to say about the Paramore Council is only four members of that council reside in Parore. And I was here February 10th fighting against a six-story facility for children, women and children. I didn't say we didn't need it. I just said Paramore has been burdened. Most of the people that fought for the policies have moved on to glory, including my mother and my father. You have rescended it every time you wanted to do something in Pairmore. So why am I here? If you build it right, it will work. You're not building it right. You don't know the impact. And I've come here and said I've had to add actual cameras, security, and everything to make sure I'm safe in the pair more. A feasibility study, you don't know how to do one evidently because feasibility will show you that you're building the wrong things. We've given you solutions over and over again, but this right here, you did exactly what you always do. You didn't include the community because you didn't want to hear what we had to say. Sometime difficult conversations come up with the best of plans. That's all I've ever come to this council and said, include us in. We know what's best for us. We're not against you, but stop thinking you know what's best for us. So if that's the case, stop charging me property taxes because you won't fix my roads. You won't do a whole lot of things. But in the end, I just want to say to everybody, this is bad. But one thing a lot of people fail to understand about Paramore, 1.4 square miles, 33% is owned by the city of Orlando. When I was in Selma, I went to 10 home modular homes under $100,000 to be built. There are solutions, but sometime you got the wrong people at the table. That's why we've created our table. And we invite you to come and meet with us regularly cuz we have solutions. We're not bitter. We're just fed up with the process and how we've been treated over the years. So, I've been coming for over 20some years to talk about what's going on in my community because I care and I believe in the people. Thank you. Farra Al Gelad for Al Galad Rich Black and then Elizabeth Rea. Good afternoon, Mayor, Council, all concerned. I'm Rich Black, located at 2201 Lake Sunset Drive, Orlando, Florida, president of the Lake Sunset Neighborhood Association. I'm here this morning. I'm Patty Sheen. I sort of kind of know what you faced when folks show up at your house and say, "What are you going to do about this?" Because this is happening. You really know don't know anything of what they're talking about. Um, I'm faced with a situation that the buses, I know Eric, I know our commissioner Shan Rose, no one has brought this to the community. So, what happens when that doesn't take place? People start filling in the board. Other individuals start hijacking the process and negative information is set out. Um, what we would like to do and what I've been asked to do as the president of Lake Sunset is that is ask that this be put on hold until we have a meeting with the HOAs in West Lakes and in District 5 that we can talk about how the buses would work, the impact, and what we can really bring together to deal with the issue of the homeless population in District 5. Um, I've never in my life may have thought that I would agree with Lana Gelza, but I will agree today that there needs to be a conversation. Um, Commissioner Rose, um, I know you said that you visited with the HOAs. I only saw one HOA that was there, which was Lake Dot. Um, we had no clue this was happening. And when we're not communicating, um, we are creating division. So, if we can sort of kind of table this, have a quick discussion, share with others, I would have you to know I think that it is a great process to maybe have these buses that would work to house them in um district 5. I don't know if that's the route to go. I think that there are other communities. what if perception is reality. It's perceived in the community that if things um things didn't work in so we're back to the drawing board with district 5 um with the mor moratorum being moved my concern is how far will we continue to build to accommodate the issue of homelessness in central Florida. Um hopefully someone can answer me that hopefully that has not been rescended to the point that we would just take advantage of that and district 5 become a dumping ground if we don't have the leadership of the mayor who's sensitive what's going on. New leadership administration comes about and they take advantage of the situation. So we're very concerned as homeowners as business owners we're concerned about where we've invested our monies and our families of growing up in. So, thank you, Elizabeth Reena. Followed by Tracy Anderson. Hello, my name is Jalisbeizabeth Reena. I'm a resident of Orange County, Florida. I'm here today as a concerned member of our community. I'm here because leadership is not about avoiding hard choices, is about making them. even when they may seem unpopular. I understand that plans to build a shelter for unhoused people were dropped after push back. We all know why the shelter was proposed. Homelessness is rising, people are suffering, and yet when push back came, the plan was dropped. There will always be push back to doing the right thing. But leadership means standing firm, especially when the most vulnerable among among us are counting on us. I also don't believe anyone should be con conceding to the demands of people who call their own community members dehumanizing names such as and I quote vagrants. That is a disgusting and extremely upsetting way to talk about the most vulnerable members of our community. This language is used by the people in opposition to the shelter should be enough to understand the actions they are asking you to take matches their tone of dehumanization and negligence. Please stand your ground against this. Additionally, these additionally, these people aren't advocating for solutions or a fair distributions of shel of shelters, but instead are fighting to stop this one. That's not advocacy. It's deflection. Without the South Downtown Shelter, homelessness will not disappear. It will become more visible and chaotic. What they're really saying is, and I quote, "Poor people should stay where we don't have to see them." as members of the council and as our mayor that you you say that you believe every resident deserves safety, dignity, and a place to sleep. So why abandon this shelter now? If we let fear and stigma dictate policy, what does that say about who we are as a city? This shelter isn't just a building, it's a lifeline, and right now it's the bare minimum. We need affordable housing, mental health services, real solutions. But this this is the first step, and you are on the right path. So I'm asking you, don't back down. Revisit this decision. Show the courage your your title demands. History doesn't remember leaders who folded under pressure. It remembers those who stood firm when it mattered. The people sleeping on our streets tonight don't need excuses. They need action. Do the right thing. Recommmit to the shelter plan and with it rebuild hope. Thank you. Thank you, Tracy Anderson, Rashawn Moore, Chelsea Kent Tilly. Good afternoon. I'm Tracy Anderson. I live at 2801 Lake Sunset Drive. My concern is that the homeless homeless situation is not fully being addressed. The buses sound really great. I hope it does work. But there has to be a better solution to get these people out of homelessness and and re reunite them with the um the society. I want to see these people get a real chance, a real shot. The bus, again, I say the bus sounds good and I agree with Lana. I also agree with Rich and Regina as well. But the problem is is that the community is not being engaged. They're not being told what's going on. We all have solutions that might be helpful if we could sit down at a table at some point and talk about what's really going on and how this can help each other. The homeless people should also have a representative that talks about what's going on with them in the as a homeless. I never been homeless, so I don't know what that's like, but it has to be a solution that works for everybody because if it don't work for anybody, it's not going to work for everybody. It's not going to work for anybody. So please, when you decide to do these things, look at everything that's on the table. The people that's going to be affected, the homeless people that are still trying to figure out where they're going to sleep tonight or where they're going to get something to eat cuz they're out there. I've been out with some friends of mine to take out soup and pass out sandwich to people and this homeless situation is bad and we really, really, really got to do something about it. If we don't, it's going to destroy us all. Also, the landlords need to consider how much they're charging for these rents. These rents need to be brought brought back into control. The people are renting. They're not buying. You can never get to to build your own dream or see your own things come to fruition if you're paying all this high money in rent. Please, let's get together and walk work on this all of us so that we can get this thing taken care of. Thank you. Thank you, Rashawn Moore. and then Chelsea Canilli. Good afternoon, Mayor and the commissioners. So glad to be here. I just want to um I wrote something here, but I'm going to kind of go off strip right now. Um I just want y'all to know that I have personally experienced homelessness. So I'm not here today to go against homelessness. I want you guys to also know that I wear three hats today. I am the president of Macfall Neighborhood Association. I also sit on the board at the Christian Service Center and I am also an advocate for the homeless. So, I want you to know I know homeless people and I know them by name and I want you to know this is not about the homeless people. This is about having the bus inside of the Paramore district added to the community without the input of the community. So, I want to say to Commissioner Rose, it is very important. We had a task force before, as mayor um stated, and that task force was very um it it was it was great because it allow everyone in the community to um the leaders in the community especially to come together and talk about what it is that we're trying to do in our homeless community. And I just ask that you actually start that task force back up as well as make sure the community has an input in what's going on in our community because they heard this stuff on the news and so they gave calls, people start talking and stuff like that. So I am not opposed to the bus. I think it's a great thing, but the community has spoken. Macfall residents have spoken. We don't want it to reside just in Paramore. We have other districts that are represented here, commissioners, that that bus can go sit in your communities. Um, we want to see that Orange County also takes um responsibility in this. We want it to be community um community um county and the commissioners that sit and make help us to get a resolution. So, that's all I'm going to say. I didn't go off of this, but I just want to thank you guys. Um, please know that this is not about not having the dignity bus. It is about the transparency we need to see in our district 5. And that we need to see our leader, you Rose, please bring us to the table and have these conversations even with everything in our community. Um, and especially when it comes to our homeless population because we do not want it to continue to grow in our community only. Chelsea Canilli and then Brian Posawa Chelsea Cantelli 443 Page Street um Roman playwright Terrence said nothing human is alien to me and um there's nothing dehumanizing about talking about normal Unfortunately, all across the globe, all across history, human behavior such as crime, you can be a violent felon, unfit to be around children, and still be human. In excuse me, if I'm going to be heckled, I like more time. I appreciate you spending your time. Everybody was respectful when you had your opportunity. Okay. Okay. Just chill. Could I please have my time back? All right, everybody be respectful of everybody else. Okay. Thank you. You can have your three minutes. Thank you, sir. Um, in 3286 and 3281, 28% of registered sex offenders have addresses listed as transient or temporary. And I counted those numbers myself and I urge everyone to check my work. Go on the sex offenders registry and count them. In addition, I understand Mr. Grace says that most unhoused people recently resided in um Orange County, but if you look them up, you can see where they were sentenced for their felonies for offenses, for example, uh for children under age 12. I only counted two that were sentenced in Orange County. All the rest come from the rest of America, other places in Florida. They come here because we have good weather and we have very generous homeless services. Now, to pick on Winter Park specifically because they recently received a grant to combat homelessness and they're using it to fund two full-time police officers to quote lend a ride to local facilities. And on their homeless services website, the facilities with beds listed are all in downtown Orlando. So, their grant is to put people in the back of police cruisers, drive them to my neighborhood, and drop them off. That's not fair. We have more than done our share. We would like to ask for this mayor and this council to protect us and take a stand and push back for the entire tri county area leeching off of our homeless services picking everybody up and bringing them so that then they can spend their tax money on their, you know, gifted programs and their schools and their roads and leave us to mop everything up. We don't mind taking care of our people, but if you continue opening up more services, then everybody else is going to do nothing. But if you push back and protect us, you know, like a like a medieval baron protecting his village from invaders, you should protect us. I mean it. Um we deserve to spend our tax money on our people, not on everybody else in the tri county area. So we don't want this bus. We want to put a stop to this and say we've done enough. We've done more than enough. Let someone else pick up their share. And when someone from Cassumi, Maitland, Winter Park, Winter Garden, Lake Nona tries to drive their homeless people and drop them off here so they can forget about them, we would like to see some push back. Um, thank you very much, Brian. Good afternoon. Brian Posttoate, uh 726 Albertson Place, Orlando. Um I am also uh the chief operating officer of Homeless Services Network. Uh good afternoon, Mayor Dyer, commissioners. Um, I also am a I also am a resident and neighbor in south south downtown neighborhood and have been active in some of the conversations with uh my neighbors. uh HSN's a lead agency for the continuum of care and so uh we've been one of the most successful in the nation in bringing more dollars into this community as a result of the collaboration and conversations that have been happening in our community over the past few years. No one doubts that homelessness is not a difficult and challenging is not a it's not a challenging dilemma. But this community has been working very hard together for many years under the leadership of Mayor Dyer commissioners who care very much for the about this. It's very hard to sit up here and hear misinformation um about homelessness. very difficult and I for many of you to sit here and to listen to uh um uh people talk about what we're not doing and because I know we're all working hard. We know that there's much more to be done um together. Um people are literally dying on our streets. We have more unsheltered persons in our community than we did five years ago. Twice as many as we did five years ago. Any place you go and try to talk about another homeless shelter being added in the neighborhood is is up in up in arms. And so what are we going to do? We're going to try to do these innovative kind of things. I got to admit, I was initially against the idea of a bus shelter. Um but uh uh the way that they have designed this is really ingenious. Shelter at its best is a process. It is a pathway to housing and healing. And the Christian Service Center has proved itself for the last few years and moving many many people as quickly as possible into housing. The Coalition for the Homeless is doing that. Everyone in our community is doing that. We have homelessness. Sure, we got homeless across the community, but we really need to begin working on innovative solutions. This is one. This is an opportunity for 47 people to move from homelessness to housing. We got to do something. We got to keep pushing. And we need everyone in the conversation talking about how we're going to do something, how we're going to continue to make move this forward. Not just today, not just because this is going to be successful, but in order for us to be successful, we've got to build more housing. And yes, we need shelter as an opportunity for people to get services so they can move into housing also. Thank you. Thank you, Brian. Okay, that's all the requests for public comment that I have. Do we have a motion? Second. Motion by Commissioner Rose, second by Commissioner Sheen. Discussion, Commissioner Burns. Yeah. Yeah. Uh fellow commissioners, I you know I think we are as we continue to uh you know grapple with homelessness. Uh I do want to just say thank you for uh the approach that we have taken. You know I've heard a couple of people say that the city is not doing anything. I've been I grew up here have been in this homeless fight for over 21 years as the CEO of the healthcare center for the homeless and so I know what the city the city has done and I just want to say thank you. Thank you, mayor, for for your leadership. Uh when we talk about this dignity bus, and I'll I'll be open that when I first heard about it. Um I wasn't excited about it. I said we don't we need true solutions, not a gimmick. And I may even have shared that with uh with Martha R. Uh but then I thought back to my time when I became the CEO of the health center and I proposed rolling out a mobile medical unit and then a mobile dental unit. People told me that I was crazy. Uh fast forward now we have six seven of those units who are out in the community providing uh providing services. So I'm all about uh a innovative innovative approach. And so for for that I will be supporting uh the dignity bus. But I also want to make sure that we understand that uh as I understand the individuals on this bus who will be eligible to ride on this or sleep on this bus are already at the Christian Service Center every day. All right. They're at the Christian Service Center every day. To be eligible for this, you have to be engaged with the Christian Service Center. have some type of income, some type of employment. So, I I'm I don't see where this dignity bus will be bringing more individuals experiencing homelessness into par more. Uh so, I I don't think that that will happen. I'm interested to see I am I was concerned about the price tag. Uh it's probably not the most cost effective approach. um because after the 3 years we will have to see how the operational funding is um is raised. Uh so I I stand uh committed to supporting this but also uh we have to look at truly true solutions to homelessness because nothing ends homelessness but housing and I think we have to be as a council uh more aggressive in our approach in leading those those uh permanent housing uh solutions. Uh Commissioner Gray mentioned what can be done to lower the cost of development. Uh, Commissioner GR, I have a I have a idea. What what I really think needs to happen is that the city needs to revisit how we uh build how we fund, build, and operate affordable housing. I think that we have an opportunity within the city to be more aggressive and looking at, you know, how can we fund these these initiatives, looking at um uh mortgage mortgage bonds, you know, you really leveraging the full credit of the city to get some bonds that will be can be uh dedicated to affordable housing, but also that in itself won't reduce the cost. But if we look at who are we bringing on board to develop these uh these projects, if you look at a project, we have a project going up in my district, 97 units, senior units. That's going to be a $30 million project. $38,000 per unit. All right. I'm excited about this. Uh but when we look at it, my question is where's the profit margin? you know, it's probably roughly up to a 20 25% profit margin that goes into that. So, what the city could do, we could hire a GC to coordinate the development of these types of properties. Uh, so then that we won't be tasked with that uh that 20% profit. It's not about making a profit, but about making sure that we have a a solution in our community. So, those are some just to answer your question, Commissioner Gray, uh, uh, you know, some of the ideas, and I think that's what we need to start looking at because if I look at the $58 million that we received, um, for Accelerate Orlando through the um, the American Rescue Plan, we've committed 23 million of those, 40% of that. Right now, we have 34 million uh, or 60% still left to be allocated. And I think we need to truly be strategic in how we plan to use those additional 34 million. And can we leverage that 34 million uh with some bonds or with something that will give us the resources that we need to truly build housing that's truly affordable for for our community. So So I think that that's what we what we need to do because if we continue to, you know, we're going to have some projects that will continue to come before us. uh and we will be considering them. But I think we need to have a coordinated strategic approach to how do we leverage this addition this 34 million that's still left with all the uh all the other leveraging opportunities that we have within the city. Uh and so that again I will be supporting this uh project and look forward to uh continue to work on homelessness together. Thank you Commissioner. Commissioner Rose. So I've heard from everyone in the audience. I will be meeting with staff to consider um how do we reinvamp the homeless task force and so we will reach out um if you all do not please email my office and we will work on creating a task force and allowing you all to seat at the table so that we could talk about this comprehensively. I would like for us while we're talking about affordable housing and Commissioner Burns brought it up. There are five of there are four other districts in this city that we need to explore how do we build affordable housing within those communities. we continue to build in five and six and so homelessness and low income is not just in district five. So I want us as we're talking about solutions and opportunities when we're exploring to say that what what else can be built in other communities. People are all over this city and they're they're having um homeless issues. I also would like for us to look at I know that the county is doing a utilization study. I would like for us to review that as a as a city council to see what uh facilities and buildings are within the city limits that we can look at and we could collaboratively work on to address homelessness and housing outside of district 5. So again um thank you. Anybody else? So I will invite the county and any of the other municipalities to join us in addressing the issue of homelessness. I'd be very happy to have some of them do that. However, Orlando is a compassionate city and we're not going to wait on them. If stuff needs to be done, we're always the point of the spear and we're not going to stop doing that. If there are people that need to be helped, if the county is not going to help us help them, we'll do it ourselves. So, the argument that we should pressure them into doing something, we shouldn't do anything else. for the people that are living under the highway. I don't buy into that. Um we're going to continue doing what we do and that's helping the least fortunate among us. All in favor of the vote, all in favor of the motion indicates so saying I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Okay, let's um recess the city council meeting. David, would you like to move to the CRA? Yes, ma'am. Thank you. And those of you who are just for that, we'll take 30 seconds. If there are people that would like to leave the meeting before we start the CRA meeting, you're free to do that. Yep. Commissioner Okay, David, let's start CRA meeting. Thank you, mayor. So, item one under the CRA is an amendment to our focus area map. That's in relation to our DTO retail and restaurant program. As you will remember, in 2023, uh we we created and kind of redefined these programs in order to target more retail as well as restaurants and more recently food halls into downtown Orlando. Our focus areas are those areas where we're also strategically investing with other CRA resources and are really seeking to gain more traction and uh more excitement for places to people to visit and patronize. Uh the amendment specifically looks to expand our focus area um really going from Magnolia which is currently eastern boundary over to Rosland. Uh as you know we are currently embarking on significant investments along Lake Eola and then ultimately with the DTO action plan along Rosland as well. Um so this would extend those focus areas from the Livingston on the northern side um all the way down to Pine Street on the southern side again out to Roslin. It is approximately um 25 acres of additional area into that focus area map. Motion by Commissioner Sheen, second by Commissioner Stewart. Discussion hearing none in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Okay. 4B. Uh so this uh mayor is again is the funding agreement for the Christian Service Center for this 407 connect project. This is specifically for the CRA's investment. Uh again it is approximately $1 million annually in operating funds for three years and I'm happy to address any additional questions. Motion by Commissioner Rose, second by Commissioner Sheen. Discussion hearing none. All in favor the motion indicates so by saying I. Those opposed motion carries. David, any further business to come before the CRA? That is all mayor. Then we will stand adjourned and we will reconvene the city council meeting. Okay, that brings us to hearings. Madame clerk, would you read the hearing related to the special assessment area decorative street lighting project? Final assessment resolution and nonadvelorum assessment role of the Ottoman place special assessment area decorative street lighting project. A final assessment resolution of the city council of the city of Orlando, Florida, authorizing and adopting the non-AD Valorum assessment within the Ottabon Place special assessment area for the purpose of paying all or a portion of the cost of the decorative street lighting project, paying other project financing and collection costs related there too, making certain findings and determinations of special benefit and the logical relationship between the decorative street lighting project and the benefit received. Specifying the estimated capital cost of the decorative street lighting project to be assessed and the total amount to be levied against each benefited parcel. Specifying the unit of measurement for and the estimated maximum annual amount of said assessment to be levied against each benefited property within the described area. Specifying the numbers of years said assessment is to be levied. Providing for the prepayment and acceleration of the special assessment. Providing for adjustments to the amount of the assessment. Adopting the non-advelorum assessment rule subject to adjustment as provided for herein confirming the approvals authorizations delegations specifications findings and determinations contained in the initial assessment resolution for the Ottoman place special assessment area adopted by city council on February 24th 2025 stating the effect of the final assessment resolution providing for certain other actions authorizations approvals and delegations of authority in relation thereto providing for severability and an effective date. So move. Okay. On February 24th, 2025, city council adopted the initial assessment resolution for the Ottabon Place special assessment area. The final assessment resolution finally approves and authorizes the levy collection enforcement of a non-adform assessment with the Ottabon Place special assessment area. The revenues from such assessment will be used to pay one half of the cap capital cost of the purchase and installation of decorative street lights along Ottabon Place from Reading to Edgewater Court and for other financing and collection costs related there too. The total amount of the assessment without interest is $22,5353 which constitutes $2,487 per parcel. Pursuant to the city's decorative street lighting policy, the other one half of the cost of the purchase and installation of decorative street lights will be paid by the city. City staff recommends approval and adoption of the proposed final assessment resolution and notice of hearing was duly advertised in the Orlando Sentinel. Um we have a motion by Commissioner Stewart, second by Commissioner RDTS to adopt the proposed final assessment resolution and nonadalorum assessment role. I do not have any requests from the public to testify. So we will open and close the public hearing. Is there discussion hearing? None. None. All in favor of the motion indicate so by saying I. I. Those opposed. And so the motion carries. Madame clerk. Would you read the second resolution? Resolution of intent to use the uniform method for collection of special assessments for the Ottoman Place special assessment area decorative street lighting project. A resolution of the city council of the city of Orlando, Florida, expressing its intent to use a uniform method for collection of non-advelor special assessments in the Ottoman place special assessment area for a period greater than one year, stating the need for the levy of such non-advelor special assessments, providing a legal description of the real property subject to the levy, and providing for the mailing of this resolution by the statutory deadline. So moved. Second. Okay. On February 24th, 2025, the city council adopted an initial assessment resolution for the imposition of a special assessment upon benefited properties located with the within the Ottabon Place special assessment area from Reading Drive to Edgewater Court for the payment of certain costs associated with decorative street lighting. Pursuant to section 197.3632 Florida statutes, the city's authorized to have the levying collection of the nonadalorum assessment administered by the Orange County property appraiser and tax collector provided the city meets certain notice requirements and adopts a resolution expressing its intent to use the uniform method of collection for such non-advelorum assessment. The city has complied with the notice requirements must now consider adoption of the attached resolution of intent. Upon adoption, the city will provide the required copies of the resolution of intent to the Orange County Property Appraiser, the Orange County Tax Collector, and the Florida Department of Revenue. Um, Commissioner Stewart um made a motion to adopt the proposed resolution of intent, seconded by Commissioner Ortiz. We have no requests for public testimony. So I will open and close the public hearing and ask if there's discussion. Seeing no discussion, all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I. I. Those opposed. And so the motion carries. Okay. Madame clerk, let's see. That brings us to hearings, ordinances, first reading. Ordinance number 2025-12, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Orlando, Florida, relating to zoning districts and uses, amending provisions of the land development code to clarify location requirements for freestanding emergency rooms, permitted uses in the public use zoning district, and amending definitions providing legislative findings and for severability, codification, correction of scrier's error, and an effective date. Second motion by Commissioner Sheen, second by Commissioner Stewart. Sorry, Commissioner. That was your ordinance, wasn't it? Commissioner Stewart. Yep. It's all It's for It's for the whole city. Go ahead. You make the motion. I'll second. Okay. I make the motion. Okay. Show the motion being made by Commissioner Stewart and the second by Commissioner Sheen. I have no request for public testimony discussion. Hearing none. All in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Commissioner, this ordinance requires a public hearing after 5:00 unless we vote by a supermajority to hold the second public hearing at our normal city council meeting time. Staff recommends that we hold the second public hearing at the next available regularly scheduled city council meeting beginning at 2:00. Do I hear such a motion? Motion by the entire council but showed us by commissioner Stewart. Second by Commissioner Ortiz. Um discussion hearing. None. I'll fay the motion in case so by saying I I those opposed and so the motion carries. Okay, let's move on to hearings. Ordinances on second reading 12A. Madame Clerk, ordinance number 2024-54, an ordinance of the city council of 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 north of East Concord Street, east of North Mills Avenue, south of Hillrest Street, and west of Shine Avenue, comprised of 0.75 acres of land, more or less, from office low inensity to community activity center in part changing the property zoning designation from lowintensity office residential with a traditional city overlay to community activity center with a traditional city overlay in part providing for amendment of the city's official future land use and zoning maps providing for serverability correction of scrier's errors permit disclaimer and an effective date second motion by commissioner Sheen second by commissioner Rose I do not have any request for public input discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I those opposed motion carries uh 12B ordinance Ordinance number 2025-6, an ordinance of the city council of the city of Orlando, Florida vacating closing and abandoning a portion of Rockmont Court, generally located east of Edgewater Drive and west of Fairway Lane between 3707 Edgewater Drive and 926 Rockmont Court, as described in the Edgewater Court plat as recorded in plat book S, page 92 of the public records of Orange County, Florida, and comprised of 0.41 41 acres of land more or less providing for conditions of abandonment providing for the execution of affecting documents severability correction scrier's error and effective date move motion by commissioner Stewart who was commissioner Rose second by commissioner Rose I don't have any request for public comment discussion hearing none all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I those opposed motion carries 12c ordinance number 2025-7 an ordinance of the city council of City of Orlando, Florida. Amending the boundaries of the Bishop Morland Development Zoning District. Such land being generally located east of Edgewater Drive, west of Greens Avenue, and north of Dow Avenue. Amending the special land development regulations and development plan, providing a conforming legal description, providing for servability, corruption of scrier's error, and an effective date. So move. Motion by Commissioner Stewart, second by Commissioner Rose. Again, I have no request for public input, discussion, hearing. None. All in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I I those opposed motion carries and 12D ordinance number 2025-8 an ordinance of the city council of the city of of Orlando Florida amending chapter 2 of the code of the city of Orlando entitled administration to change certain provisions in section 2.44 2.59 and 2.60 6 regarding public meetings and providing for severability, codification, correction of scrier's error and an effective date. Motion by Commissioner Rose, second by Commissioner Stewart. I have no requests for public input. Discussion hearing none. All in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I. I. Those opposed. Motion carries. Okay. Ordinances on first read 13A. Madam clerk, ordinance number 2025-9, an ordinance of the city of Orlando, Florida, annexing to the corporate limits of the city certain land generally located south of Arthur Avenue, west of Edgewater Drive and east of Grant Boulevard and a portion of Arthur Avenue generally located to the east of Grant Boulevard and to the westerly portion of Edgewater Drive and comprised of 0.65 65 acres of land, more or less, and amending the city's boundary description. Amending the city's adopted growth management plan to designate the property as mixed use corridor medium intensity and resource protection on the city's official future land use maps designating the property as medium intensity mixeduse corridor with the Waka resource protection and appearance review overlays on the city's official zoning maps providing for amendment of the city's official future land use and zoning maps providing for serability correction of scrimmers errors permit disclaimer and an effective date. So moved. Second. Motion by Commissioner Stewart, second by Commissioner Sheen. And I have no requests for public comment, discussion. Hearing none, all in favor of the motion indicates so by saying I. I. Those opposed. And so the motion carries. That is all of the official agenda business today. Ed, would you get us ready for public comment? [Music] [Music] [Music]