The City Council held a workshop on Monday, April 21, 2025, beginning at 2:15 PM and adjourning at 4:50 PM. The agenda included public requests, updates on the government campus redevelopment partnership, a recreation master plan presentation, the annual comprehensive financial report, the compliance and long‑range financial plans, and council discussions on the city flag and administrative support staffing.
Good afternoon and welcome to a workshop meeting of the Boca Raton City Council. It is Monday, April 21st, 2025. The time is 2.15. We have no proclamations or presentations today. We have no board interviews, so we'll open the floor to public requests. I do have two cards, first from Judy Morrow and then Bill Trinka, and then anyone else who wishes to speak on any city matters. Please come forward, give your name and address, and you'll put the three minutes. Ms. Morrow. Hello, everybody. And my name is Judy Morrow, 1305 Northeast Fifth Avenue. And my priority is always to stand up for Boca Ratone Tennis Center. And thank you for saying that good news is gonna come. Can't wait to hear it. But in the meantime, I remember Scott Singer said, instead of when you look it up, it says the City of Boca has 99,000 people. And Scott Singer said, we have a hundred and three thousand residents. So we have more people, we're growing. So we need more tennis because Florida is considered by most people to be the tennis capital of the world. So Boca Ratone, instead of I mean, we need housing, don't get me wrong. But we need to be known for other things, such as we have beautiful parks, we have 49 or however many you all say. But we need to be known as like Boca Raton Tennis Center received an award in 1992 for being an outstanding tennis court. And I would hope that this year or next year, whenever you build more tennis courts, clay tennis courts, new ones on the 30 acres, that we receive that kind of award again. Because the financial department, they have a very good record as being very transparent, the city of Boca. So we don't want to just be known maybe for having a lot of parks. We want to be known for having the best recreational services, programs, clinics, children's programs, uh things for all income people, and it would be very nice. So thank you. And we're waiting for the good news. Mr. Trinken. Good afternoon. Bill Trinka, 4097 Northwest Fifth Avenue. I'm talking about the 28th Street closing. I have been asking for months for some documentation of where that requirement that one be closed or three be closed, and was negotiated down. I filed a foyer at Crest in January, and after months, the only thing I got back from them was that the city would be filing an application with Florida Department of Transportation. I went to Florida Department of Transportation, found one sheet, 1457.012 that lists closing to open one as a consideration, not a requirement. It was two and a half months later when I finally got a response from the city manager. He sent me the same thing that I had sent him, showing that it was a consideration. No requirement anywhere. I fired a second FOIA request at the end of March. After a couple of weeks, I get an invoice for 425.94 cents for them to provide me with that documentation. I still have nothing. I'm out 425, but then I look at the agenda and I see there's a proclamation coming up tomorrow that's going to set this whole thing into motion. So I'm requesting that you table that motion for tomorrow. Don't vote on it. Let it sit back until the information comes to me that I bought and paid for, and I will gladly share it with all you. Either way it goes. If it shows that it's documented and it has to be closed, I'll go away happy. Well, I'll go away unhappy, but I'll go away satisfied that at least somebody listened to me and heard. Where is this coming from? It's ridiculous.