The Regular City Commission Meeting of the City of Hollywood, Florida, was called to order by Mayor Josh Levy at 1:08 PM on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, in the City Commission Chambers. Vice Mayor Idelma Quintana was absent attending a conference. The meeting included consent agenda approvals, proclamations, presentations, regular agenda items, and citizen comments, concluding at 5:21 PM.
We got some more students coming in. We'll get going in just a minute. All right. Well, good mor good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to City Hall here in the city of Hollywood, everyone. It's great to see all of you in attendance, including and especially the eighth grade class from Browser uh Maimonides Academy. Welcome, welcome students. Uh at the start of each meeting, we begin with a moment of silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Today is, of course, May 21st, 2025. And this is a regular city commission meeting, but no meeting is ever regular. There's always important work uh and meaningful items on the agenda, and that includes today. So if you all please rise for the moment of silence, followed by the pledge. God bless America. And everywhere else. So at the start of each meeting, students, we take an important moment to recognize uh U.S. veterans, active service personnel, and their families. So if there's someone here who has a relative who's served or is serving, or if you're serving in the U.S. armed forces, please rise. We'd like to recognize you. Thank you. Clerk, roll call, please. Commissioner Beterman. Vice Mayor Quintana. Commissioner Shoeham. Commissioner Hernandez. Here. Commissioner Kallery. Here. Commissioner Gruber. Here. Mayor Levy. Here. All right. Thank you so much. Uh Commissioner Vice Mayor Quintana is away at WA conference. And so she does have a reason why she's not here. But we wish her a successful conference. Today's consent agenda includes items five through twenty-two on our agenda. These are items that don't usually require individual discussion. However, if we do have a comment card from anybody in the public, or if any member of the city commission wants to remove an item for specific discussion on that item and consideration, we are always happy to do so. Today, item 22, um, which is the repainting of the Garfield Garage on the beach, is withdrawn by the city manager because he wanted to ex bring it back with an expanded scope of service that will take care of some stucco work and other needs uh that were gonna be on a separate item, but it's better to bring them as two. And so that'll come back uh to us in the next commission meeting, and we look forward to that improvement. So item 22 is withdrawn. The remaining are items five through twenty-one. Clerk, are there any speaker cards on five through twenty-one? No cards. No cards. Any requests from the dais? Um Mayor, I'd like to pull an item number ten only for a brief discussion. Okay, item number ten.