The Broward County Commission met on November 19, 2024, in a session that convened at 10:22 AM, recessed at 12:00 PM, reconvened at 12:25 PM, and adjourned at 12:28 PM. The meeting included the swearing-in of commissioners, the State of the County address, the election of the Mayor and Vice-Mayor, approval of the consent agenda, and non-agenda items.
The meeting of the Broward County Commission is about to begin. Will all audience members please silence your cell phones? For those viewing from home or on mobile devices, thank you for watching. To stay informed about Broward County government, please visit Broward. County Commission meetings are open to the public. Ladies and gentlemen. You're getting good at it. Yeah, right. There we go. We got the last thing. Yeah. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Good morning, madam mayor. Thank you. Thank you. The seat, as you can see, for District 7 on this dais uh is vacant, and the commissioner elect for this district is seated in our audience, right in the front row, and we will be swearing her in shortly. I'd like to ask everyone to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance, and I'd like to ask my three aides, Harrison, Virginia, and Sabrina to come up and lead us in the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I'd like uh to ask everyone to remain standing, please. It is customary, thank you. It is customary that we observe a moment of silence in honor of notable persons from our community who have recently passed. Colleagues, does anyone have someone you wish to remember during this moment of silence? I'll start with uh Commissioner Bogan. Yeah, I'd like to take a minute and uh recognize someone I've known for 30 years. Uh his name is Bob Love. Uh Bob has been an inspiration to so many people. Uh most people knew him as one of the leading scorers in the history of the Chicago Bulls before Michael Jordan. And uh, however, Bob was an inspiration to people with a speech impediment. Um, as the leading scorer of an NBA team, he was rarely interviewed. Actually, practically never interviewed, and it's because people thought he couldn't speak. And he had such a bad speech impediment. He left the NBA to go work for Nordstrom's, everyone knows the stores Nordstrom's. He went to work at the headquarters in Seattle. And that's where the owners, the Nordstrom brothers, taught him uh with the speech pathologist how to speak. After learning to speak, he came back to Chicago and spoke a hundred speeches a year for the Chicago Bulls, and um then came to Florida. He visited here many times. Some of you got to meet him and know him, and all he did was volunteer his time to help people. He lived up to his last name, love, because he loved everybody. And so I'd like to extend my condolences to his family and his wife Emily, and he'll be missed. Thank you. Thank you. No. Okay. Let us also honor all the men and women who have served and continue to serve in our armed forces, both here and abroad, and thank them for their service. We'll pause for a moment of silence. Thank you. You may be seated. Um actually, before I um introduce special guests in the audience, uh, I will um I would like to have a special presentation, and I would like to ask uh our county administrator and our vice mayor to uh come on to the president. Just wanted to say we neglected one certificate of appreciation last week.