Hey Ron, look at me doing my part by recycling.

Ruby, you just dumped everything in there.

Yeah.

So what's wrong with that?

Isn't everything recyclable now?

No.

Mixing everything slows a recycling process and costs more to sort out and separate.

So I should only recycle the acceptable items.

Thanks for helping me recycle right.

I'm recycled.

And I'm recycled ruby.

We're here to help you recycle right, Miramar.

Here.

Commissioner Barnes.

Here.

Commissioner Chambers.

Here.

Commissioner Colburn.

Here.

Vice Mayor Davis.

City Manager Dr.

Virgin.

Here.

City Attorney Powell.

Here.

Now at this time I'll turn the workshop over to City Manager Dr.

Roy Virgin for presentation.

Thank you very much, Mr.

Mayor.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioner.

Staff.

This workshop is to discuss, as you stated earlier, the Miami Day waste of energy facility, proposed facility at the Opalaco West Airport site.

And we'll have our deputy citemander Calvin Baker to do the presentation.

So Mr.

Beaker.

Thank you, Mr.

Manager.

Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, Commissioners, City Attorney, and City City City Clerk.

I want to thank you for affording us this opportunity to bring you up to date with uh with what's happening concerning the subject matter.

On May the 3rd 2022, the Miami Dade County Board of Commissioners approved a resolution directing the county manager to develop an issue solicitation for design a design criteria package for a new waste energy facility.

And again, we want to note back in 2022.

On February the 12th 2023, the Miami Dade County Resource Recovery Facility suffered a major fire, rendering it inoperable to mass incinerated solid waste.

On March 27, 2023, the Miami Dade County Board of Commissioners directed the county manager to analyze and to recommend citing alternative locations for a new waste energy facility.

And lastly, the Okeechobee road location, and that's approximately 68 acres.

And as you can see them in the in the diagram, you can see them in the in the in the diagram there.

You can somewhat see their their distance, how far apart the Okeechobee one is actually closer to the Opal Laka one and the and the uh the last the last location is is much much much further.

This this next slide uh clearly did click how close this Obalaka West Airport uh location is to our city limits.

Uh uh 0.8 miles.

Uh you can you can somewhat uh visualize it from the diagram here that there is a large body of water, and you have the the uh C9 C9 canal that somewhat runs on the side of it that uh that really separates the two the two counties.

But it's but it's pretty pretty close.

Another point that I want to make is our national treasure, which is the Everglades, uh the National Everglades uh conservation areas directly directly across the street.

That's you know uh habitat uh for a lot of uh protected protected uh species and and and so on and so forth.

Next, I want to just talk about possible possible health threats, and we were able to pull some information from some other sources that somewhat um confirms the statement.

A waste of energy facility have been known to emit pollutants that impact air quality, according to a recent report by Earth Justice and Florida Rising, issued uh June, June 1, 2023.

In that report, they highlight that standard air pollutant can contribute to numerous health issues, lung cancer, neurological and adverse birth outcomes, risk of mortality, cardiovascular mobility, and the list and the list goes on.

This this next uh shot I want to just show you just just to give you an ideal of how massive uh these facilities are uh and um and as you can note from the picture here that each of them have these stackers, and these stackers are used, that's where the emissions uh part of the whole burning process, that's where the emissions uh get actually enters into the enters into the airway, and they've been known to have an impact on the surrounding area for miles to come.

Nextly just provide you, we just did some research because many, and then uh some of the county reports, they boast about how efficient the Palm Beach County waste of energy facility is uh it is the newest uh waste of uh waste of energy facility in in Florida, roughly about 10 years old, but I must say it has come with some issues and some problems uh from the surrounding areas, from the surrounding communities.

So we don't want to be deceived into thinking that as advanced as these facilities can be, the the one that we have uh information on, the most advanced one that we have information on, has generated several issues.

The Palm Beach County Renewable Energy Facility came online July 2015, 161 incidents of emission equipment and malfunctions, uh 17 citizen complaints uh surrounding uh odor and gas.