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The Boca Raton City Council held a workshop on Monday, October 26, 2026. The agenda listed a 3:30 p.m. start; the transcript states the time as 3:26 p.m., and the meeting adjourned at 4:00 p.m. The workshop covered interviews for several city boards, a Boca Raton Garden Club presentation, one public request, and council and staff discussion of beach parking, an MPO vacancy, and the holiday parade.
All right, it's workshop time. We're back. This is the Booker Tone City Council Workshop meeting. The date is Monday, October 26, 2026. The time is 326 in the PM. First order of businesses board interviews, and we have several. The first of which is the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee. That one actually doesn't have any applicants, so if you're interested in applying for that one, come check us out. But the next one does, it's the Boca Ratone Housing Authority. So anyone wishing to interview to be appointed to the Book Ratone Housing Authority, please step forward, state your name and address, and you will have three minutes. I see somebody moving to the podium, that being George Brown. Good afternoon, Mayor and Council members. Uh my name is George Brown. I live at 641 Northwest Eighth Avenue in Boca Raton. I've lived here since January first, nineteen seventy-six, and I was employed by the city for 42 of the years between seven nineteen seventy-seven and twenty twenty-six, the last twenty-seven of them in continuous service. When the Bocertone Housing Authority was established in nineteen seventy-eight, it contracted with the city for staffing and operations pursuant to an interlocal agreement. And during my years of service to the city between nineteen ninety-four and two thousand three, I had departmental responsibility for management of the authorities' operations and staff, and I regularly attended the authorities' board meetings. In 2003, the Authority and the City mutually terminated that agreement and the city was no longer responsible for staffing and operations. But from that time until October of 2025, I was a city's principal liaison to the Authority and its staff. Thanks. Thank you, Mr. Brown. Great to see you. Welcome back. Do we have any questions from Mr. Brown? No. All right. Thank you, sir. Appointments will be made tomorrow evening. Who else would like to interview? Oh, we have several. Go ahead, ma'am. Yes, good afternoon. My name is Sharon Lovett. Um I live at 460 Northwest 20th Street. Apartment 102, Boca Ratone, Florida, 33431. I'd like to apologize for my cell phone, first of all. They kept going off. I'm here today because I am new to the Boca community, but I've lived in Palm Beach County for 20 some years. I came here from Miami, Florida. I had most of my experiences working with the community in Dade County, with uh Raul Mons Vidal uh Congressman Carrie Meek. I worked with uh University Department of Psychiatry when the Mario refugees came to Dade County. I worked with them as a part of community mental health. We basically um helped every ethnic group of people, including Haitians, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, and um anybody else that came into the country. Most of my experiences were after the different hurricanes I volunteered to assist them in housing, basic needs like food stamps, health care, things like that. Um background basically, I have a degree of arts, performing arts.