The Hollywood CRA Board held a regular meeting on May 7, 2025, addressing citizen concerns about beach flooding, approving consent items, receiving the fiscal year 2024 audit results, discussing stormwater basin inspection findings and FDOT coordination, and appointing a new Executive Director.
Are we good? Uh sound team. Um Arlene, can you check with uh Joanna's checking? Okay. All right, great. Well, thank you. Today is May 7th, 2025. We are here for a regular community redevelopment agency meeting, but as I say, the start of city commission meetings, the meetings are never regular, uh, because there's always important subject matter uh that is uh on the table uh for discussion as there is today. Uh so let's go ahead and please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. And to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. God bless America. All right. And everywhere else is how they say it of the chamber. Um let's go with roll call. Here. Vice Chair Kintana, here, member Biedeman. Board member Gruber here. Chair Levy. Here. All right. Uh let's go ahead with any conflict disclosures today. If hearing none, let's go ahead to 9 a.m. citizens' comments, if any. We have two cards. Let's start with Bob Wickman and then we'll end with Kathy De Bona. Followed by Lena Hershey. Bob, welcome. Good morning. Good morning, Bob Glickman, Hollywood Beach. Happy Wednesday. Uh I'd like to start my comments off with thanking former chief, but chief to me, Chief O'Brien. You know, uh I I come here a lot and I talk about the flooding that we have on the beach and the problems that we have, and I've been working with staff trying to get things done. And we had been working with previously with Gus, trying to get everybody together to do a site visit down at the uh along A1A Carter. Uh but when Gus left uh Chris O'Brien took over, and you know, he met with us, myself and Rich Shipesian, who's been here before, and he asked us, you know, what can I do to help? So we explained the situation, and I said, you know, the one thing that we always want to do is get a site visit. You know, it's one thing to talk about something, it's another thing to see something. So lo and behold, you know, a week or two weeks later, he got gathered everybody together, F dot, Mr. Morillo and his staff, the CRA and their staff and other people, the mayor attended. And we came out and we saw some of the problems. You know, I can talk about a dip in the road, but yet you saw the dip in the road. I can talk about water in the street basins just under the catch basin. And they you can see that. So by getting everybody together, which he did, and we want to thank them for that. They came up with a plan, a pilot program that they want to institute. I'm not gonna tell you what it is. But nonetheless, by getting everybody together, joining together, seeing what the problem actually is instead of listening to it, seeing it with your own eyes makes a big difference. So I just want to personally thank you, Chris O'Brien for just getting everybody together and getting them out there to see what the problem is. So kudos to Chris. The other thing I'd like to say is, you know, we have a lot of dead trees along A1A, we all know this. But if we can just remove some of these dead tree stumps that are there, or trunks, rather.