On May 6, 2026, the Hollywood City Commission held a regular meeting from 1:00 PM to approximately 6:15 PM. The meeting covered routine consent items, proclamations, awards, public hearings on comprehensive plan amendments to add residential units along transit corridors, a charter amendment for voter approval on city property sales, a call center contract award, and other administrative items. Commissioners also directed staff on public outreach for land use changes and discussed funding for a beach sports event.
All right, welcome everyone. Welcome to City Hall here in the city of Hollywood. Today is May 6th, 2026. We are here for a regular city commission meeting, but where there's always interesting information and items on the agenda, so it's never regular in the regular sense of that word, no pun intended. Um we start each meeting, of course, with a moment of silence, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. And uh before we rise for the pledge, I do want to uh extend a moment of privilege to Commissioner Quintana, who would like us uh to know about a special person who the community lost uh most recently. Commissioner Quintana. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, everyone. Actually, there's two people that I would like for us to take a moment to remember today. Today we remember Barbara Ann Scanlon Laufman. She was the mother of our very own Lori Laufman, who has worked closely with many of you here at the city of Hollywood. Barbara was a Hollywood resident for 50 years. She was well known to many in Hollywood, both for her significant presence as part of the Nativity Catholic Church Parish, and for the many high school students that she tutored in math from her Hollywood home. Barbara's legacy of love, faith, and compassion will live on, and all who knew her. So we will remember Barbara. And we honor her memory. A second person that we also remember is Alton Gandhi. He was better known as Red. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, but many people knew him from his nearly 30 years working at Best Appliance of Broward. As the small business owners in this area put on their first, second, and third party on the J. Best Appliance of Broward was owned by Irwin Alterman. But through most of the years that we worked together to form and grow the Johnson Street Business District. The article included a picture of Red, and the story told about how Mary Ann Churchill and her sister, Vera Vicaglio nearly lost a family treasure valued at $30,000. There were three diamond and two semi-precious rings left behind in the refrigerator that they had hauled away. The rings were family heirlooms. One piece had three diamonds from both her grandmother's engagement ring and her mother's wedding band. And he shared the money with seven employees, a truck driver, repairman, and some technicians. Red was not wealthy financially, but he was rich in character, integrity, and in his huge, generous heart. And today we honor the memory of our dear friend Red. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Commissioner Catana, for that wonderful tribute about Red and also about the Lori's mom, uh longtime resident of our city. Uh well let's think of them as we rise for the moment of silence, followed by the pledge. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States. One nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all. Thank you so much. Another important moment we take at our commission meetings is always to recognize veterans, active service personnel, and their families. So if you are a veteran of the U.S. Armed Forces, a uh active service member or a relative thereof, please rise. We'd like to recognize you. Thank you so much. Go ahead. Commissioner Quintana. Here. Commissioner Shoeham. Here. Commissioner Hernandez. Here. Vice Mayor Kallery. Here.