The Hollywood CRA Board met on October 9, 2025, at 9:00 AM in City Hall. The meeting covered the consent agenda, public comments, a presentation on the Lead with Love mosaic mural for the Beach Theater, updates on the Coastal Resiliency Phase IV and FDOT pump station projects, the FY2026 media advertising buy, and several board-directed initiatives. Key decisions included directing the 360-degree wrap of the mural, requesting a map of all pump station coverage, and agreeing to hear from Cinema Paradiso's new operator before finalizing the advertising allocation.
Thank you for being here. Our clerk will let us know as soon as we're ready to go. All right, welcome, welcome to City Hall here in Hollywood. Uh today is Thursday, October 9th, 2025. I hope everybody's been enjoying uh the holidays that are celebrating. All right, welcome everyone. Welcome to City Hall here in the city of Hollywood. Uh today is a regular community redevelopment agency meeting. Today is October 9th, 2025. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. And to the Republic for which it stands. God bless America. Uh roll call, please. Board member Shoe Ham. Vice Chair Kentana, board member Biedeman. Board Member Groupar. Chair Levy. Here. All right, thank you. Uh any conflict disclosures today? If not, let's go ahead with nine AM Citizens Comments. If you're here to speak on any issue regarding the CRA, please fill out a card. There's our clerk, and she will be happy to bring it by. Let's begin with none other than Bob Wickman. And he'll be followed by Andre Brown. I just came out here today to give you an observation of what's happened during the f recent kink tides. Since a couple of months ago you we installed the uh way pro valves in the storm drain basins on the beach side streets. So on the streets that I live on where it was installed, they work. However, the water the storm drain system is not interconnected. So they're like in four street segments. So even though they're working on our streets, if you go a block down, it's coming up through that street, going down the gutter along A1A and then coming back into the street. It's also coming up through the manhole covers on A1A as well. So I'm sure that you're all aware of this. However, if we want to continue with the pilot program, perhaps one of the things to do is to do a four street segment where we're putting them into the storm street basins on the side streets and all of this and see if it will actually stop it. I still believe we have a problem with the flap gates on the intercoastal where water is still coming in. Okay. But in a normal rain where we would have flooding on the streets, we're no longer having flooding. That's the main reason I came out here today, and I'm glad to see there's so many people from staff here as well. I I know that they come try to come out, and I know I've spoken to them in the in the time in between, but they can't be there all the time. But those of us that live there, we can observe this and we can report it. So when you're making a decision and they're making a decision to do something, you know, you can take the facts into consideration. I did send an email with some pictures to some of you and to some staff members just to show them exactly what's happening. But uh I think it's important to for the residents to come out and tell you when you're doing these programs, whether they're working or not, and and and possibly how they could be improved. And that was my intent here today to tell you yes, it did work, but yes, it can be improved. And I'm not an engineer, but I would think that if you would do the others adjoining streets, it would stop the water from from flowing up. We're not gonna stop it coming up from the manhole covers. And we need to fix the flapgate so they're properly sealed, and we need to fix the drainage system so there's no breaks or cracks or anything else in that. So the program is working. I just wanted to come out and let you know that it is, and you know.