The Boca Raton City Council held a workshop meeting on September 22, 2026, at 11:05 AM. The primary focus was conducting interviews for vacancies on several city boards and commissions, followed by public requests. No proclamations, city manager reports, or council member reports were presented. Appointments were deferred to the regular meeting later that day.
Welcome back, everybody. We are here now in our workshop meeting for the Boca Raton City Council. The day is still September twenty-second, twenty twenty-six. The time is about five minutes after eleven in the AM. Our first order of business is board interviews. Next up is civil service board, and we do have an applicant for that position. We have Miss Pamela John. Please, if you could, please, ma'am, step to the podium, state your name and address, why you're interested in serving, if you don't mind. Good morning, Mayor and Council. I am Pamela Gregory John, two six seven Southwest Second Street. Very close to the old city hall. Um, I'm a fifty-six-year resident of the city, and I was a twenty-eight, very happy year employee of the city of Boca. And I feel that I can give back my experience and understanding would be beneficial in this position. So I'm reapplying. Very good. Thank you, Miss John. Any questions for Ms. John? I would just like to say thank you for your service. Oh, you're wondering. Working for the city, and after. Oh, thank you very much. Here. I enjoyed my time here. Okay. Thank you, Ms. John. Appointments will be made a little bit later today. Thank you. Thank you. Next board for consideration is a community advisory panel. We have four applicants for two vacancies. I see some of them in the audience. But in my time here, I've learned Boca's an absolutely amazing city. But with everything, there's always room for improvements. For example, when I walked the class, I noticed the same group of homeless people living on 20th Street. Plus council staff concerns about amendment three on our budget, which can ultimately impact our quality of life as residents. I want to be a part of the solution, which is why I chose to adv uh apply for the community advisory panel. My experience at FAU makes me perfect for this board. In two years serving with FEU student government, I implemented numerous solutions to benefit the quality of each and every single student. These include implementing the first detailed SGA financial and operational audit, which identified numerous things that we needed to change. Helping bring automation to our nighttime safety escort programs, dispatching functions, which took out our old landline that never really worked. And then finally I worked with the SFRTA or trirail to bring commuter uh student passes. That way we didn't have to use expensive coach buses to give an airport shuttle to our students. If God willing, I'm appointed to this board today. I want to use my lessons learned at FEU to do the same thing for the city. That is to make meaningful recommendations and implement changes that ultimately benefit our quality of life for each and every resident. I'd like to touch on a quick example of recommendation I'd make. The downtown parking program that was mentioned by somebody back here. Um that's low-hanging fruit.