The Miramar City Commission held its regular meeting on Wednesday, February 5, 2025, at 7:00 PM in the Commission Chambers. The meeting included proclamations, presentations, approval of a consent agenda, several resolutions, a first-reading budget ordinance, and commissioner reports. No members of the public registered to speak virtually, and none present in chambers offered comment on agenda items.
Meeting adjourned.
Good evening. The meeting of the Miramar City Commission is now called to order. An opportunity was given to the public to register to participate or email the city clerk twenty-four hours prior to the commission meeting with any questions, comments, concerns on items, we will hear on this evening's agenda. Any person may be heard by the city commission through the chair and upon registering pursuant to the published notice for not more than three minutes on any proposition before the city commission, unless modified by the chair.gov slash commission meeting and televised on Comcast Channel Seventy-eight and ATT Uverse Channel Ninety Nine for all Miramar subscribers. As of February 5th, 2025 at 4 30 p.m. No members from the public have registered to participate virtually in this meeting. If someone has registered later than this time and would like to speak, they can raise their hand and at the appropriate time, our IT staff will unmute their mic to allow them to speak. Please be sure to mention your name and address for the record prior to addressing the commission. All comments submitted will be included as part of the record for this meeting and will be considered by the city commission prior to any action taken. At this time, Madam Clerk, please call the role. Mayor Mason. Here. Commissioner Barnes. Here. Commissioner Chambers. Here. City Manager Dr. Virgin. Here. City Attorney Powell. Here. City Attorney Gary. Here. Let us all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. One nation under God. Indivisible liberty. At this time, we do have a commemoration list of bereaved City of Myanmar employees. First, starting with Deputy City Manager Kelvin Baker, Office of the City Manager, lost two aunts. Catherine Huck from Human Resources, Father. Noja Link, police department, grandfather, Don Pintado, Financial Services, husband, Nixon LeBron, Building, Planning, and Zoning, Uncle, Linda Hurtado, Building, Planning, and Zoning, Father. Jose Perez, Building, Planning, and Zoning, Mother. Robert Fradenberg, Office of Management and Budget, Father-in-law. Tyler Pintado, Public Works, Father. Brother and Uncle. Trevor McLeary, Public Works, Cousin. Roderick Clark, Public Works, Mother and Father. Let's keep our fellow colleagues and city staff and their families in our thoughts and our prayers, as well as those in our community and around the world who may be bereaved at this moment. Let's have a moment of silence. Before we proceed with presentations in our first proclamation, I would like to give a special Myanmar hello and welcome to delegation from the Commonwealth of Bahamas and I'm led by a member of Parliament, Mr. Leon Lundy, representing Andros, as well as members from the Commonwealth of Bahamas Royal Police Force that will participate tomorrow morning as the City of Myanmar will transfer public safety vehicles to our friends in the Commonwealth of Bahamas tomorrow. So welcome to our Commission meeting. At this time, I would like to invite Mr. Richard Thompson from Myanmar High School's entrepreneurial and small business program director to the dais to receive the proclamation and observance of national entrepreneurship week. Let's give them a round of applause. Whereas National Entrepreneurship Week is a nonpartisan congressionally chartered initiative founded in 2006 that takes place the third week of February annually. Whereas, according to the Department of Labor, most of the new jobs created throughout the United States in the past decade have come from the creative efforts of entrepreneurs and small businesses, which have been expanding and advancing technology and fueling the recent growth in the economy. And whereas entrepreneurs have been the source of economic innovation throughout the history of the nation and the entire society has improved because of the new ways of doing things that have been brought about by people who market their ideas. Whereas economically independent entrepreneurs are engaged citizens who work to improve the economic environment in their local communities, providing better opportunities for businesses to operate and a better environment for the human resources they need to advance their business dreams. And whereas 70% of high school students want to become entrepreneurs, and entrepreneurial skills will assist students in the future, regardless of whether they work in a business owned by others or run their own businesses. And whereas entrepreneurship education has shown to be especially effective in closing the achievement gap between minority students and others in public schools.