The City Commission of Miramar, Florida, held a regular meeting on November 14, 2022, beginning at 11:45 AM and concluding after 11:00 PM. The agenda included a wide range of topics: presentations on traffic safety, community events, departmental accreditations, a COVID-19 update; public comments; consent agenda items; policy discussions on affordable housing, park facilities, and airport safety; and quasi-judicial hearings for two affordable housing developments. The commission approved numerous resolutions, including funding allocations, contract awards, and land-use variances.
Note: The transcript did not include an agenda or minutes; all information is derived from the raw transcription of the meeting proceedings on November 14, 2022.
Are on the boulevard, you're under parkway, and we see three officers in a particular position. One has an instrument in their hand. What are they seeing? Okay. Well, we have we have two the different devices that we use. One is a radar. Okay. And the other one is a laser. Now, the one that our our unit uses is a laser. And the way we we work with those lasers is there is an actual like uh like a scope in it. You know, and it has little dot. Now that dot gets put on that car. So that that work information. Correct. That that that little dot, it's it and it's a laser beam. So it's an invisible laser beam, nobody can see it. You know, so it goes out and it gives us that information back. It tells you how far the car's going, how far away the car is. Okay. Um, and and it's specific to that car. So there, you know, so there's no specific that specific uh even at a at a thousand feet, the the spread of that laser beam is only two feet across your bumper. Wow. So think about two feet in front of your car at a thousand feet. Now at a thousand feet, you're not you're not gonna necessarily see us. Oh question. You are pulled over by a traffic officer under those circumstances. How does one proceed? How does one respond to the officer? Well, you know, and we've had a you know a numerous amount of of contacts out here, you know, throughout the years, and and the the best way is you know, if you're if you're calm, you know, you you you stop, you um you address the officer calmly, say, you know, this is my license, this is my registration, this is my insurance. Um, you know, and when when when it's when it's respectful both ways, I think that's traffic stop goes a whole lot better. Okay. Uh going to work one morning at five something in the morning, they two cars back didn't stop. So the one between us kind of made contact with my car. Okay. Okay. Um you're rushing to get to work at a particular time. How does one get a police report after an incident like that? Does it take 24 hours, 48 hours? Do you ask for it or it's automatically generated? Well, in in crashes, uh, we have a thing that's called a driver's exchange of information. So right on that spot when you report the accident and you're there on scene, you know, you're supposed to get one of these drivers exchange information. That's gonna give you access to who was driving each vehicle, uh, what insurance they have, what kind of car it was, and who was the officer who handled, you know, and plus the particulars of the case, case number and and state number. Uh that way when you call your insurance, you can handle that that day. Ah you know, now be you know, depending on how busy the officer is and how busy the department is, the records division. So uh generally speaking, uh to have a completed report it's about a week. Okay, but you do get information almost instantaneously before absolutely. And now we use uh a program called TRACS. Um, and in that program we can actually even email you that information. Ah okay, so you can actually have it on your device. Absolutely.