The City of Fort Lauderdale City Commission held a conference meeting on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 1:05 PM in the Fort Lauderdale Police Department Community Room. The meeting included commission reports, a presentation from the Children's Services Council, an update on the proposed movie studio at the Wingate site, and two presentations related to floodplain management and the Community Rating System (CRS). No formal votes were taken, but several directives were issued for future action.
We now move on to the conference meeting this afternoon. And there's no communications, so I guess we'll begin with City Commission Reports. Commissioner Herbst. Thank you. Commissioner Beasley Pittman. Yes, thank you, Mayor. You're welcome. Again, thank you, Mayor. For this opportunity to share what we have been just blessed to take part in these last days. It seemed like we've been here like seven days this week. I don't know if I could continuation. I love this space, don't get me wrong, but I'm just like, we are here. We are truly here in this building. Want to start with on Wednesday, September 9th. It's official, yes. 1300 West Briar Boulevard Police Headquarters is open. We had the ribbon cutting. Yes, yes, yes. The pleasure to stand alongside a police chief in the diasp in its entirety to cut the ribbon to begin to utilize this beautiful space that we have here. Our neighbors that were here. And overall, the attendees, and so was I, truly impressed and excited by the tours that was offered. So thank you to all of those who organized and put this great opportunity together for the ribbon cutting. Also, um our chaplain was here. Um he blessed this building, blessed the first responders for decades to come, you know, just affirming that this space is a safe haven and that it'll be a space for great um protectivity and great engagement for the community. So we're here, 1300 West Brown Boulevard. Yes. Yes. Also on Thursday, September the 11th, we attended to remembrance ceremonies that were held here in the city, um, 911 ceremonies attending alongside um the commission. We were first at the um Fort Lauderdale Fire Museum. They also were the organizer organizers of the event. Again, a beautiful um ceremony that was put together where we were able to reflect and be encouraged after the 25 years of what um most of us in this room, all of us in this room actually live through. And um the mayor um made a a point, hadn't even thought about, you know, we have a it's so many millions of people at this point that weren't alive on that day. They have no true connection, they hear the the stories as we share it, but we have a responsibility to share the story in a way that it's understood and that it would never be forgotten that we are a nation of resilience. So it was a great opportunity um to be together and reflect. Also, we from there we went on to the um NSU Art or Art Uh Museum, another great opportunity for celebration. Thank you to the museum for everything that um that they offered. They offered a free exhibit also photo exhibit of um 911 um things, pictures that were captured through that day, and then also through um rebuilding of the city on Saturday the 12th. I had the honor of attending and presenting an expression of expression of sympathy for uh Mr. Floyd T. Johnson. Um, as you know, Mr. Floyd um T. Johnson, he was at one point um Broward County administrator as well as city manager here for the city of Fort Lauderdale. Um also um learning his his long resume of the things he touched in this city and this county overall. Um his memorial service was at the main library downtown. So I had the privilege of going and presenting that expression on behalf of our city commission. On the 13th, the mayor, the mayor and I attended the centennial celebration for the anniversary of St. Andrew's Catholic School. Oh, excuse me, St. Anthony's.