The Hollywood Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) Board convened its regular meeting on December 10, 2025, at 9:00 AM. The meeting covered an update on the downtown Harrison Street Streetscape project and a detailed presentation on the beach stormwater and sustainability analysis. Board members discussed flooding issues, directed staff on immediate mitigation strategies, and outlined a comprehensive approach for coordinating with FDOT.
All right. I know that uh board member Kalery will uh be here. She'll just be here late and we'll acknowledge her attendance as soon as she walks in. Any conflict disclosures today? Hearing none, let's go ahead to 9 a.m. citizen comments. I had a feeling that single card would be Bob Gwickman. Come on up, Bob. Good morning, everyone. Hope everybody is doing great. I see we have new reserve things on these benches here. Since I'm at all the meetings, I'm requesting to get one for myself in the back there, if that's possible. But anyway, I digress. Well, the candy cane parade was great. Some people said it was the best ever. Really appreciate what was done there this year. Uh a couple of items to take care of. There are some potholes on uh the Hollywood beach bridge. Okay, I've been trying to get somebody to fix these for a while. They're on both sides of the uh span of the drawbridge. I'm concerned about the metal getting bad in between, and we have the bridge closed down, so maybe somebody can fix that. Uh I'd like to talk to you about uh recently my my building uh applied for and got a grant for the uh Broadwalk Paint project that they had for the commercial businesses. So we finished a project, we submitted all the paperwork back in the end of September, beginning of October. We still don't have a check for that. Every time we speak to somebody, well, the processing the check. You get it in two weeks, you get it in two weeks. Now we're in the middle of almost December now. Would be nice if we can get that check before year end and close out our books as well. So I just want to bring it to your attention. I don't know where else to go with this. So just to let you know. Uh one thing that we've discussed at the beginning of the year, I hate to bring it up again, but flat gates, check valves, waypro valves, they need maintenance, they need need to be repaired, they need to be replaced. It's not being done. We still have flooding, and the the water is rushing in. We we can talk about sea level rise, we could talk about the water table rising. Nonetheless, these gates need to be fixed. Nothing is being done. Nobody is working on them. I was hoping that uh the Secretary from FDOT would be here today to uh address some of these problems that you've been talking about for months and months and years and years and years, because the underground A1A drainage system needs to be replay repaired and replaced also. That's not being done. So the pipes are cracked, everything is broken, water is just rushing in from all over. So, you know, we have we have problems that and I know it's not you, but you know, we need to bring this to the forefront. Everybody needs to know about it. You know, we need to keep bringing it up, moving forward with it. So, you know, that that's it for that. Hopefully, we don't have to go through this again next year. But lastly, and in closing, I just wanted to wish everybody here on the Dais in the audience at home. Happy holidays to everybody. Appreciate everything you're doing. Keep up the good work.