And uh we actually partnered with the Division of Emergency Management and the evening.

This meeting is being streamed live at Myanmar FL.gov slash commission meeting and televised on Comcast Channel 76 and ATT U versus Channel 99 for CD of Myanmar subscriber.

The meeting of the Myanmar City Commission workshop is now called to order.

The purpose of the Myanmar City Commission workshop is on the following the historic Myanmar Innovation and Technology Village Innovation and Technology Center Feasibility Study.

This meeting is open to the public, and at this time, Madam Clerk, please call the role.

Mayor Massum.

Here.

Commissioner Chambers.

Commissioner Colburn.

Vice Mayor Davis.

Here.

City Manager Dr.

Virgin.

Here.

City Attorney Powell.

Here.

City Attorney Jordan.

Here.

Now at this time, we'll have a workshop presentation by City Manager Dr.

Virgin and staff.

And after the presentation, we'll field any questions from the City Commission.

Mr.

Manager.

Mr.

Mayor, good evening.

Vice Mayor, Commissioner's staff.

This workshop is to provide a comprehensive overview of historic memoir innovation and technology village and innovation technology center.

We secured the services of a consultant who did extensive work.

And this presentation will show where we have gotten to and to provide some direction as to where we want to go and so also to solicit some feedback from the commission.

At this time, I'm gonna ask the Deputy City Manager, Catherine Baker, to proceed with the presentation.

Lisi and Baker.

Thank you, Dr.

Virgin, City Manager.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners, City Managers, City Attorney, and the City Clerk.

Okay.

As a manager mentioned, we are uh here to uh provide the uh findings of the study, the feasibility study for the innovation and technology village, uh, innovation technology center.

Just want to provide some real brief uh background uh comments and then we'll hear directly from our from our consultant.

Uh in May 2019, the city held a community vision meeting, which presented redevelopment opportunities for historic Myanmar.

Uh these opportunities included affordable and workforce housing, uh, commercial redevelopment, as well as parks, roadways, traffic, and drainage improvements in the noted area.

Uh this vision would enhance the quality of life for the residents, for the businesses.

It would attract uh visitors that would add to the overall redevelopment of historic Miramar.

This effort would include foster improvements in education, health, uh, safety, infrastructure, and economic development.

As a as a key component to the overall vision, the City of Miramar desires to establish an innovation innovation and technology center in historic Myanmar Innovation and Technology Village.

The overall purpose of the innovation and technology center is to create a physical presence in the community to provide an environment that is that is conducive for act uh activities, an environment that is conducive to actively support businesses and workforce development as well as retention.

Some key components and deliverables to participate for participants include a business incubator, access to network opportunities with Fortune 1000 organizations, and education and training opportunities to support Miramar businesses, industries such as aviation, commerce, and technology.

The center services will identify business education training, workforce development, needs for grade-level school students as well as adult.

Additionally, it will identify residential employment and support needed to teleprograms and services available to the community.

Just some further uh some further background uh concerning our research.

Uh the city administration and key staff members had the great opportunity to uh visit the innovation and technology facilities to explore uh existing programs and services available to entrepreneurs and and students, and this was a very eye-opening experience, eye-opening opportunity to get a get a glimpse at uh some of the initiatives and some of the ideas and some of the uh the plans that many small businesses and entrepreneurs are uh are developing to eventually launch into society.

Uh we went through a whole land use uh plan amendment process uh in order to facilitate this historic Myanmar redevelopment efforts.

City staff began the land use plan amendment process to designate the area as the Miramar Innovation and Technology Activity Center.

Commission funded the design and uh the service components of the innovation and technology center.

However, it was determined that a feasibility study would be a good tool uh to roll out as we would uh begin to move in that uh direction.

Doing the feasibility uh study plan, commission reallocated these funds to uh complete the HD Perry Education Center Park Improvement Project in one phase rather than doing the uh project in multiple phases, which we somewhat concluded would cost us even much more as the economy uh took a shift.

The city uh proceeded with a feasibility study, and we uh uh conducted that was conducted by uh Mark Long of Lone Performance Advisors to determine the best plan of action to establish the innovation and technology center.

The study included input from more than 25 101 interviews with Dr.

Long, which included uh most of our elected officials, residents that participated in it, uh our Miramar Global and Local Academy, local entrepreneurs, uh, business owners, and additionally, the CD launched a target public information campaign which requested input from historic Miramar Advisory Board and Residents.

At this time, Mayor, Vice Mayor and Commission, uh, without further ado, is my pleasure to introduce to you Dr.

Mark Long, the president of Loan Performance Advisors, who will present the findings of the innovation and technology center feasibility study.