On May 28, 2025, the Hollywood City Commission held a special meeting at City Hall (2600 Hollywood Blvd) from 6:10 PM to 9:39 PM to appoint members to numerous advisory boards and committees, and to discuss the process for selecting a new City Attorney. All appointments were made by unanimous votes except where noted due to recusals. Mayor Josh Levy presided with all seven commissioners present.
All right. All right. Thank you, everyone. Welcome to City Hall here in the city of Hollywood. Today is Wednesday, May twenty eighth, twenty twenty five. We are here for a special city commission meeting, our annual meeting where we have the opportunity to appoint uh citizens to serve on our advisory boards. And so uh welcome to all of you. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Commissioner Shoeham. Here. Commissioner Hernandez. Here. Commissioner Callary. Here. Commissioner Gruber? Here. Commissioner Biederman. Here. Mayor Levy. Here. All right. Thank you all. Uh again, thank you to everyone who is here to speak on uh on your request and uh application to be uh appointed to a advisory board, as we say, uh at these meetings each year. We have more applicants, and we're thankful to have more applicants than we do positions. Uh and it's a really difficult uh predicament that we're in oftentimes when there is only, for example, uh one uh o open uh opportunity for an appointment with multiple people who we know are more than qualified and are interested, uh, that are vying and are interested for that that one position. And so uh the commission has to, of course, uh, in the end, choose someone. Uh and sometimes it's uncomfortable, but uh, we do nonetheless appreciate everybody's application uh and your willingness and desire to offer yourselves to volunteer to be on a advisory board. Uh a hundred years of the city of Hollywood, and since day one, this city depended on uh ordinary citizens, as we all are, who volunteer their time uh for the betterment of the city. And so all of you share that spirit of volunteers going a hundred years back. And so I just thank you for your willingness and for being here today. Uh, we're gonna go forward with uh the agenda in the order, of course, in which it is presented. Uh and we'll go ahead and if you are here to speak, of course, Pat, if you wave your hand, that's our city clerk, you might know. Uh, if you'd like to speak, and we really encourage you uh to speak because otherwise we don't have an opportunity to uh to hear from you. Uh, make sure to fill out a speaker card with the uh clerk there so we can call on you uh when the relevant board that you applied for is called. Does anyone have uh a need to go and fill out a speaker card? If you do, please go up right now. We'll wait a minute while you guys do that. So we have just an order here. So if you didn't fill out a card, we really encourage you to do so. And Pat, do they need to write down the name of the board that they're applying for? Write down the name also of the board that you're or multiple boards that you're requesting an appointment to do. So if you filled one out before and you applied for two boards, come on up and fill out a second card for the second board. All right. Thank you all. That was a useful recess. So let's go ahead with uh the resolution of the city commission appointing four members to the city's civil service board. Um looks like there are four categories. Tammy, is there an addition? Greetings, yes, there is. We, as you know, the Civil Service Board has five specific seats with very specific criteria for members to be in that seat.