Our seat um and turn off our cell phone so we can call the Mummy Day Board of County Commissioners Recreation Tourism and Resiliency Committee meeting to order.

Mr.

Clerk, please um call call a roll and announce the presence of a quorum.

Yes, uh good morning, Commissioner Bastian.

Here commissioner McGee, Commissioner Regalado, Vice Chair Woman Steinberg.

Chairman Garcia.

Present.

We have a quorum.

Uh before we get started, we're gonna have uh Commissioner Bastien do uh a prayer and then followed with um Commissioner Regalado Pledge of Allegiance.

But uh folks, just remember uh we can keep um Margie that her mom passed away this uh weekend.

Um please keep her in her prayer and her prayers.

Uh she's an amazing human being, and she did a lot for her mother, so we can just remember that, and I appreciate that.

So, Commissioner uh Bastien, please.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

Dear Lord, guide us, protect us, illumine the lamps of our hearts, all of our hearts.

Give us the strength to continue to serve all the residents of Miami Dave County with love, courage, and compassion.

We ask this in your name, dear Lord, as we all say amen.

And to do for which one nation by God with liberty and justice did.

All right, folks, thank you.

Madam Attorney Morning, Mr.

Chair.

Now would be an appropriate time to extend to the reasonable opportunity for the public to be heard.

Okay, thank you.

Uh we have public testimony now.

Public hearing is now open.

I think we have Ms.

Holmes.

Welcome.

Thank you, Chairman.

I just wanted to put on the record my special request to you all in regards to the word resilience, which you all define.

Okay, Madam Renita Holmes that checked the clerk for the address.

Um I just wanted to give an awakening because I'll allude to something.

I'm hanging out with you guys today about resilience and how you define it.

Uh I'm creator and the founder of uh Wave of Women in Public Housing, as well as BBC's 2025, one of the great hundreds of women like us who are out there talking about being green and environmentally women work is a big big project for me.

It's proven.

But right now I'm talking about uh how resilience is defined by those of us and that live in the inner city community.

Those of us who think that when a kid's nose is running that he has some type of snotty nose when it just may be the allergies based on the products that are utilized by the homeowners and the developers that we have allergies for.

I've got 60.

It's a big issue when you're building when you're building, you must build safe and you must build healthy.

Just flowers.

That's what they tell me they are, but yet you have to carry a heppy pen.

It's just drywall, they say.

So we'll just or it's just a little bit of mold on the AC, so we'll just take a mop and clean it up.

Can only use Clorox.

So the lack of education, the lack of resilience, and how I have been able to balance it through these respiratory illnesses, non-contagious, of course, unless you're ignorant of it.

It will get you.

And these days, developing and housing don't reveal the truth.

So when you define resilience and we get so much funding and resilience, and we talk about building, we talk about the unforeseen disparity when it comes to the health of people like myself with disabilities and housing, then we need to start talking about high quality standards in housing, and your inspectors need to be taught.

Because quality housing is be healthy housing, which keeps us safe.

And I'll tell a little story later if you come to the housing meeting.

Because this is real and as deadly as it can be.

Thank you so much for listening.

Thank you so much for bringing that to our attention.

Really appreciate that, and it's true because resiliency can mean different things for different folks, and I appreciate you so much for bringing that to our attention.

But just for a matter, thank you, Senator.

Remember, you were my first commissioner that I ever spoke to, my first senator that ever spoke to in my entire life, and I've been here over 37 years.

Thank you for that.

Oh, thank you.

Appreciate you.