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The Climate Resilience Committee (CRC) held its regular meeting on October 19, 2026, starting at 10:15 AM. The agenda included a presentation on the Legion Park living shoreline design, a report on waterfront connectivity, discussion of a resolution to request a city appointment to the Biscayne Bay Watershed Management Advisory Board, and updates from the Office of Resilience and Sustainability. The committee voted unanimously to approve the September 21 regular minutes and October 6 agenda planning workshop minutes, and also unanimously approved three absence waivers for members who were ill (Avra, Alison, and Jenny Lee). Public comments addressed waterfront walkway protection and tree canopy resilience. The committee supported the waterfront connectivity report with emphasis on interim connectivity and FDOT partnerships, and passed a resolution requesting city commission action on a watershed board seat.
All right, we will start with our first item roll call from our right, please. Good evening, Grant Muster. Sarah Perez. Wayne Pathman, Pathman Law. Aaron DeMeo. Urella Baget. Silvio Frank Upo Casco. Nick Atkinson, Office of the City Attorney. Sonia Brewbaker, Chief Resilience Officer for the City of Miami. Miriam Flores, Office of Resilience Sustainability. Thank you. Now for while we're still in roll call, we do have three requests for an absence waiver tonight this evening, which are from Avra, Alison, and Jenny Lee, all for illness related absence. And to as they were all received today, we would I have to make a motion to hear an item to be able to vote on those waivers now, which will have to be a supermajority, meaning all of us. So do I have a second on hearing that motion? Second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any oppose or abstain. Okay, unanimously passes. And then Nick, um, we we spoke about this briefly at the last meeting, but we discussed this as a matter of um organization that perhaps the procedures guidance document can include the information related to the waiver procedure. Um, and then also perhaps we would review that and you could give us guidance as to what we may do related to the bylaws. Could you elaborate on that or let us know what a timeline might look like for seeing something like that, please? Uh yeah, I could I can prepare a draft um with some procedures. Um ultimately you all can you know we'll be the ones to decide how you want that to work. Um I think you have a lot of flexibility with certain things like maybe setting up some deadlines to request the waiver and things like that. Um, so I can kind of put it together a rough kind of structural outline of what that would look like, and then you guys can decide on on the details. Thank you. And again, the reason we're asking for that structure is it just kind of helps with the administration of these meetings so that we can all focus on the agenda and not like these mechanics. So it'll just kind of help us moving forward. Thank you very much for that. All right, so we'll move to item two, which is public comment. Anyone from the public would like to make a comment. Well, you uh you also have to take uh a vote to approve the waivers because you voted to hear the late item of the waivers. Oh, I didn't, so we need to do now. You have to do a supermajority vote to approve the waivers. Understood. And I think you would do, I guess you could do them all at once. I think that's probably fine. Okay, is that is that what we did? We did a moment.