MINUTES OF MEETING EAST HOMESTEAD
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

A regular meeting of the Board of Supervisors of East Homestead Community Development District was held on Friday, July 9, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. at the Oasis Community Clubhouse, 171 NE 30th Road, Homestead, Florida 33033.

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Susan Genther	Chairman
Laurie Weil	Vice Chairman
Raymond Harris	Assistant Secretary
Stephan Walker	Assistant Secretary
Saens Dorcely	Assistant Secretary (phone) Also present were:
Luis Hernandez	District Manager
Ben Quesada	Governmental Management Services
Michael Pawelczyk	District Counsel
Al Torres	Resident
Jose Alvarez	Resident (via telecommunication)

Segment I:
FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS	Roll	Call	and	Pledge	of
Allegiance
Mr. Hernandez called the roll and stated we have a quorum and led the Pledge of Allegiance.

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS	Audience	Comments	–	As per
District’s rules, each speaker has 3 minutes to provide comments
A. Martinique HOA Easement Cleanup
Mr. Hernandez: As part of the first item that we need to be presenting, the good news to be given as part of the audience is the email that the District has received from a HOA, it is coming from the Martinique HOA. I am pleased to indicate that not only we have been trying to do our best, but it also seems and appears that some subdivisions are getting to be seeing the results. Once again, we are not perfect. When I say we, I

mean all those who are District staff but the part that I can ensure not only the Supervisors, but anyone who is interested in the community, we as the staff are doing our best.
Mr. Harris: Just a quick comment, it is nice to see somebody just as you said, everybody is very quick to criticize, and very seldom do you get complaints with things done, so it is nice to see. When I read it this morning in the wee hours, I was applauding and saying yes to you guys, so thank you.
Ms. Genther: I think particularly coming from this community, this community has been very active in keeping us informed of different things that go on in and around their community, so it was nice to see a complimentary email.
Mr. Hernandez: Certainly, that is exactly the case. Does any of the audience have any comments on your side? Jose, any comments on your side that needs to be presented to the Board?
Mr. Torres: No thank you sir.
Mr. Hernandez: With that being said we can move onto the next step.

Segment II – Workshop Section:
(At this time, the Board went into a workshop meeting to discuss the following items. No actions were taken)

Furniture Update and Consideration of Agreement with City Furniture - pending receipt of agreement
Traffic Improvements Update
Drainage Improvements Update
Update on Gym Construction Improvements
Discussion of the Minutes of May 24, 2021 and June 11, 2021 Meetings
Clubhouse Operation
Discussion of Proposed Budget
Update on Building Improvements and any Other Projects and Workshop Items

Segment III:

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS	Authorization	or	Approvals
Requiring Board Action for Items Discussed During Workshop
Approval of the Minutes of the May 24, 2021 and June 11, 2021 Meetings

Any Other Approvals
Mr. Hernandez: Coming back and as a result of the workshop, the first item that we have is consideration of the minutes for May 24, 2021. We changed page 2 and consideration of the minutes from June 11, 2021 with changes on page 13, 15, 20, 24, 25 and 26. With those indications, we made a motion to approve with the indicated changes would be in order.

On MOTION by Ms. Genther seconded by Ms. Weil with all in favor, the minutes of May 24, 2021 and June 11, 2021 meetings with indicated changes were approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The next item that I have is authorizing a not to exceed amount of $80,000 for discussion with Downrite for the traffic improvement project and within that motion authorizing Ray Harris as being the Supervisor that is going to be assisting in the process of the negotiation with Downrite.

On MOTION by Ms. Weil seconded by Ms. Genther with all in favor, a not to exceed amount of $80,000 for discussion with Downrite for the traffic improvement project as well as authorizing Ray Harris, Supervisor to assist in the negotiation process was approved.

Ms. Genther: I would like to say, I really appreciate Lennar stepping in and helping us a little bit with this, that they are helping to facilitate the situation with Downrite. I think it is very nice of them to do that for us.
Mr. Hernandez: They are committed not only with the City and the CDD, but they are committed with the community as well.
Ms. Genther: I just think it is very nice. Thank you, Lennar.
Mr. Hernandez: The next item that I have, and it is just direction from the Board, is the understanding that the gym will not be requiring any appointments as soon as it is possible, meaning with it, as soon as the seal for the entire gym improvement gets to be finalized.   The last one that I will be needing a motion will be to authorize the quartz to be installed in the kitchen in the amount not to exceed $3,750.

On MOTION by Mr. Walker seconded by Mr. Harris with all in favor, a not to exceed amount of $3,750 to install quartz in the kitchen was approved.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Staff Reports
Attorney
Mr. Pawelczyk: Since the last meeting I don’t have anything further to report that we certainly haven’t already discussed. I think Saens is the only one that hasn’t filed his Form 1, but I know that is on there as well in the managers’ report. Everybody else is good.
Mr. Harris: I said yeah Susan when I read it by the way. Ms. Genther: I am telling you, though I mailed it May 5. Mr. Harris: That happened the last time.
Ms. Genther: That is why I didn’t want to mess with it. I just sent it straight to Luis.
I said Luis, you take care of it.
Mr. Pawelczyk: I don’t know if the Board is going to meeting on July 26 which is your next scheduled meeting, if you are, Ginger is going to come because I will be out of town. She is prepared to come down and be entertained. I just wanted to let you know that.

Engineer
Mr. Hernandez: As to the engineer, he is not attending to the meeting not because he doesn’t want to attend, he has other business, but if we were to be having any particular questions for him, he is available via phone. He likes to attend. As a matter of fact he likes to know what is going on so that he can assist.
Ms. Genther: The only question is the Belize drainage?
Mr. Hernandez: Once again I will explain to you after the meeting the reason why I haven’t gotten further on that one.
Ms. Genther: You don’t have to explain. That would be my thing for the engineer.

Club Manager
Mr. Hernandez: As per the Club Manager, the part that needs to be said is you are being provided with the data as to the number of people coming. Once again, today

is the first day that East Homestead is paying the employees. Just for everybody to know it has been said that it will be direct deposit. We were successful in setting everything up. Last week we processed a dollar payment for each one of the employees to make sure that everything was working fine and today we just processed our first pay.
Ms. Genther: That is nice. That is exciting.
Mr. Hernandez: We are moving in the right direction.
Ms. Genther: I have two things with the Clubhouse. We had talked about extending or expanding the internet, the Wi-Fi out toward the lake area. Has that been done yet and if not, it is not a problem, I am just revisiting it? The other thing it is now July 9, are we going to have a back-to-school event? I will say that it was expressed to me on Sunday, oh I hope we have a back-to-school event, and in fact the couple that does a lot of donating for the different events, Loni and his wife, I can’t think of her name right now, they were here that day with all of their kids and he was like you have to have a back-to-school event.
Mr. Hernandez: The answer to the event yes, and further than that part of what I want to do is set it in a way that everything will be prepared in advance. Part of what was being done for the July 4 event was kind of the last minute. We are already working towards events. Number one, when people say event, they think that it needs to be something overwhelming and sometimes it could be as simple as let’s watch a movie, something of that nature could be an event. Number 2 is that work, being made with Mr. Hernandez was inaudible at this time.
Ms. Genther: I know at least from Loni’s perspective was the idea of being able to do the giveaways, the different school supplies, bookbags and things like that. I know that the last back-to-school event we also had representatives from Walmart who brought in a lot of stuff, and they were stuffing bags, plastic bags not bookbags.
Mr. Hernandez: You will be getting a package with what the plan is and how it is going to be set up.
Ms. Genther: Ok. I just wanted to make sure because it is close.
Mr. Dorcely: I am so sorry; I am going to have to go because something came up. Mr. Hernandez: Not a problem, we understand.
Mr. Dorcely: Thank you, we will talk later.

Mr. Walker: It was nice to see you.
Mr. Hernandez: Saens, get in your Form 1 please. You need to be filing the Form
1. The events are to come back.
Mr. Dorcely: Yes, I am going to do it Monday. I already filled them out.
Mr. Hernandez: Ok perfect. Thank you very much. Please get me involved if you need to. The events are to come back in August. When we come back, everything will kind of be set so that we can provide specifics.
Mr. Walker: Do we know the first day of the Miami-Dade school? Ms. Genther: Steve, you are the one that has school age children.
Mr. Quesada: My guess it whatever that Monday is, either the 22nd or the 23rd of August.
Mr. Walker: Just so we have a target in mind. It has to be before that. Ms. Weil: It has to be advertised and stuff.
Mr. Walker: We are probably looking at mid-August.
Mr. Hernandez: Typically we plan it the week before. The Board is not going to be challenging what the event is going to be, so if anything needs to be done administratively, I will keep you posted.
Mr. Walker: Ok thank you.

Field Manager
Mr. Hernandez: If we move on then, Field Manager, Ben. I did include the last pictures after your report.
Mr. Quesada. We covered a lot of things in the field already. I was able to arrange from BrightView to get better access to the easement between Baywinds and Mirage. They were able to do a really good job, so take a good look at that picture in the report. It is the cleanest and the best it has ever looked since I started here. Moving forward, I wanted to bring to your attention regarding Lake #2 between Capri and Barbados, we continue to receive emails a resident there that has concerns about it. I just want you to know since our last meeting, which was two weeks ago, we have had the fountains serviced where it was cleaned out. We are going to be doing that as a recurring program at least once a year, clean out the baskets and whatnot with the filter just to make sure

that pressure remains as strong as possible. I was able to ask BrightView to give us hardware contract. I know that is something I know we can, at least management can work on. Once a month have the porter do a walk-through of the lake easement, pick up whatever they can from the shoreline, that was done. What you are seeing here is our lake contractor Eco-Blue, they drove around and did their first service treatment of the month and collected a lot of things that had been thrown into the lake. I understand where the complaints are coming from, but I also have to keep people’s expectations at a certain level. These get serviced once a month. There is stuff that does get trapped in the lake grass that we have there along the littoral shelf. There is not a whole lot we can do when the water has risen. I would go in there myself and pull it out, but they did a really good job and came out and collected as much as they could. I know we are doing what we can from our end. Based on our contracts, our contractors are doing what they are supposed to be doing out there. I just wanted to pass along that update to the Board. Outside of that, is there any questions regarding the field?
Ms. Genther: The memorial rock, it looks bad, and we have still yet to have any flowers around it. We even talked about getting silk flowers. It just looks shabby.
Mr. Quesada: In the meantime, what I am going to have done, it is going to be sprayed completely. It will kill any growth on there. We are expecting an annual change next week. You guys are getting coleus. While we are going through that transition, that is the time to take advantage. I will triple check that gets addressed.
Ms. Genther: For that we just want the white flowers. Mr. Quesada: Got it.
Mr. Harris: That has been promised to be cleaned for at least six months. Mr. Hernandez: Eight months since last year.
Ms. Genther: I think they cleaned it. Mr. Harris: They did a lousy job.
Mr. Hernandez: They cleaned it. They painted it. Then it was oh yeah, we forgot the sod. If continues to be a hiccup. I already wrote myself a note.
Ms. Weil: That is a pet peeve of mine.
Mr. Harris: It is a memorial, and it shows to me a lack of respect for the person who that memorial is for, to see it in the condition it is in. It is an embarrassment.

Ms. Weil: Speaking of memorials, we still have Tanya pending. Ms. Genther: We had talked about waiting until the fountain is here. Mr. Hernandez: We were planning on doing it in here.
Ms. Weil: Oh, in here, I thought we were going to do it by this lake.
Mr. Hernandez: What I understood was this spot because it was the closest. I have something in my mind, as soon as I find how to blog it and get the sketch out of it, I will be able to get a price for what is intended.
Ms. Genther: The other thing, when I parked, the new planting bed in the island in the parking lot, those plants are in trouble.
Mr. Quesada: Agreed. It has been brought to their attention. Their investigating. If you notice on the east side of the parking lot, it is the same annuals we planted basically the same day. There are no issues there, so there is some type of underlying issue that is going on in the center of the parking lot.
Ms. Genther: They weren’t planted the same day. There was quite a spacing between the ones on the east side and the ones in the center.
Ms. Weil: Like a week or so.
Mr. Quesada: Just so you know, it has been treated. I saw to it that it was given some insecticide, fungicide. It is not going to hurt because obviously they are not in great shape right now to see if they would rebound, if not, I am going to be working with the landscaper to see what they can do to rectify that.
Ms. Genther: Ok.
Mr. Quesada: My concern just based on my experience, but again I am waiting confirmation is you are getting heavy rains right now. Fungus becomes an issue, insects become an issue. That is my suspicion.
Ms. Genther: I just wanted to bring it to your attention. Mr. Quesada: Thanks, we are on it.
Mr. Hernandez: There is one item that is within the field that I want the Board to be aware of, lake #3 the fountain was off. It is the lake between Caribbean and Atlantis. The reason that it was not working is because the electrical boxes got to be vandalized. Keep in mind we are back in summer, and it is often that kids are going to be kids and doing crazy stuff. It has been fixed. Part of the problem is that in an effort to try to enclose it

with plants, it was being made so well that people can go back there, and no one can see them and what they are doing behind those bushes.
Mr. Walker: Are the boxes locked?
Mr. Hernandez: The box was locked but it was just broken into. At least it is taken care of.
Mr. Harris: Susie, do you remember on our drives awhile back many months ago that the electrical system at the entrance way of Capri had been vandalized a number of times. Not Capri, Atlantis. There were people that were messing around with the electrical system there.
Mr. Hernandez: Not only that, but it is also the same communities where we have one bench because someone was moving it even though it weighs like three tons. There was the time that they brought a pickup truck just to turn it down and make it go to the floor so that we needed to bring a lift to be able to raise it up.
Mr. Harris: In my simple analysis somebody that lives in the area that has nothing better to do then to try make life difficult for people, I guess.
Mr. Hernandez: For the most part I am giving the benefit to the community, we don’t have as many hiccups as other communities have. The fact that I am keeping the Board posted, I don’t want that to be misunderstood that we are having a particular issue. I think that we are trying to be as diligent so that everybody is going to be keeping their eyes open. One of the items that we have been taking is that part of that landscaping will be reshaped so that if anyone is getting behind that area is going to be seen and people will know who is that group or individuals going to that particular place.
Mr. Harris: Bougainvillea.
Mr. Hernandez: That sometimes helps, yes.
Ms. Genther: Maybe we need to go back, and we will start putting voodoo stuff out there because back when they had voodoo offerings at the entrance to that community, they didn’t have problems.
Mr. Hernandez: We will keep an eye on it. All we are doing is just keeping the Board informed. Unless anyone has any other questions on the field manager side I will move on then to the manager.

CDD Manager – Discussion of Financial Disclosure Report and Reminder to File Annual Form
Mr. Hernandez: As I was indicating, the only one that needs to do the Form 1 is Saens. I will make sure that he gets to get that portion done. Unless anyone has any questions for me?
Ms. Genther: If we could go back to the Clubhouse report, I just wanted to say the two reports for the pool usage and the gym usage, that new format where it is blocked the way it is with where we are closed on these hours, that really was nice. I like that. Thank you very much. It is just visually easier.
Mr. Hernandez: The problem is that the prior management company did not understand what the purpose of this information is for. They thought that quantity was better than quality and I would rather a summarized report that lets me know what my critical points are from the management side rather than the same blank pages. I will have to start counting them and it doesn’t make any sense. So that is now being used for management purposes.
Ms. Genther: At a glance, I could see that oh, it is on Sunday’s that the usage where it is. If I want to go the gym, don’t go on Sunday. It was nice. I wanted to say thank you for this report. It looks good.
Ms. Weil: I know that was the June calendar, but moving forward we are going to be fully open again, right?
Mr. Hernandez: By the August meeting I expect to be getting that portion taken care of. The only reason why we haven’t taken and moving forward with anything yet so everybody knows, it will not be until I get the other two individuals to be coming back that we will be able to become fully operational. We are getting there. At the same time, the number of people coming even at 9:00 p.m. is not that many, so if we are affecting someone, it is a small group compared to everything that is being kept open.
Ms. Genther: I am smiling again, the event on Sunday was such a success. It was so nice to see all the people here.
Mr. Quesada: I saw that picture and agree.
Mr. Hernandez: With that being said, the next item that we have will be the financial report.

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Financial Reports
Approval of Check Run Summary
Balance Sheet and Income Statement
Mr. Hernandez:	Unless anyone has any questions a motion to accept the financials will be in order.

On MOTION by Ms. Weil seconded by Mr. Walker with all in favor, the check run summary and the balance sheet and income statement were approved.

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Supervisors Requests
Mr. Hernandez: Any Supervisors requests at this time?
Ms. Weil: I haven’t received the police log from, we did three police details in the month of June. One of them had three verbal warnings and a citation. Another one just had a citation for failure to stop at a stop sign.
Mr. Walker: Were any of those speeding related?
Ms. Weil: The first one maybe, but I am not sure. I texted him to see if there were any speeders in the warnings or tickets and I haven’t heard back yet.
Mr. Harris: We are missing the times because the speeding hasn’t changed, I don’t

know

Ms. Weil: I try and encompass it in my calendar.
Mr. Harris: I have a comment. This past Tuesday the 6th of July, at approximately

7:15 p.m. I heard fireworks going off and after discovering where it was, there was a group of young people in the outside gym setting off rockets which are the ones that explode with colored lights. There was a toddler about 4 or 5 years old and a couple of kids, 10- to 12-year-old range, then an older person but it was hard to see who it was. They were literally running over this little toddler as they were lighting this thing and then running back, and the rockets were shooting up in the air. The first attempt I made was to call the Clubhouse. This was at 7:15 p.m. I called the Clubhouse’s number, their standard phone number, and I got a recording that says this number is not available at this time or something similar to that. At that point I proceeded to call Luis who followed up and called the police. Having not seen the police show up, I went over a second time as they were still firing those rockets off with the same kids running back and forth. The police did finally come. What the outcome of that was I don’t know because the rockets stopped.

There clearly was an illegal use of the facility and using illegal fireworks by minors in our outside gym. The first question I had was, well we have the security camera out there and why the security camera didn’t pick it up, by the time I went over there it was probably quarter to eight, so it was still daylight. That is question number one. Question number two was Wednesday the 7th I called the Clubhouse on that same number the night before that I got the recording on, and the person told me, well, we shut the phones off at 6:00
p.m. I said well the Clubhouse is open until 9:00 p.m. I called Luis who informed me that was going to be corrected. I trust those two issues to Luis. Where do we stand with our security system and do they record even when they are not reporting, because it is a sundown to sunup security system? They could have possibly recorded what was going on without having to report everything. Then if they find something, who do they report it to and how is that communicated to the Clubhouse personnel with the phone shut off?
Mr. Walker: Do we have speakers there? Mr. Hernandez: Yes, we do.
Mr. Quesada: I just want to go back to your earlier request about who to call. Luis brought that to my attention yesterday. I came here and I physically saw that they had already adjusted the settings on the phone. They will be answering the phone after 6:00
p.m. even if we are not taking gym reservations at that hour.
Mr. Harris: We are not taking gym reservations anymore anyway.
Mr. Hernandez: Just trying to give an explanation. It is when an instruction is being given and it’s been given to another extreme. The instruction was you will be taking phone call reservations from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and then what they were doing is shutting off physically the phone. I am like, what if you have fires or someone is calling you because there is fire, you are going to die. I understand that you are not going to be having enough personnel to be taking and making appointments, but you need to have the decency to be answering the phone. That part has already been resolved. It has been taken care of.
Mr. Walker: So when the Club is open, we answer the phone.
Mr. Hernandez: Yes. The part where it was a complete misunderstanding of what the instruction was, I have not received if it is being recorded. The part of what I can tell

is what the agreement says. Surveillance of the camera is being done at that particular time to sunset.
Mr. Harris: Meaning you are going to have to say the outside gym.
Mr. Hernandez: Yes. Thank you for the clarification since we are on public record. For the other gym, the surveillance takes affect from sunset to sunrise. Since what was taking place there was no surveillance from them, it doesn’t mean the cameras are not on all the time, but no one is paying attention to it. Even if anyone were to be doing anything illegal, the part that I need to find out is the answer as to if it is being recorded and for how long that is being kept which is the part that I don’t have the answer yet. Although the part that can be said, if there is any recording for whatever given time that they are going to be keeping that recording, no one is going to that recording and seeing what took place. The only time that could be used is if anything happened and it is still within the period that I stated, then that recording could be requested as part of the public record request. I am talking the vendor right now to understand what can be done with proof. The only part that I can think of is that I am going to talk to the police from Homestead because it astonishes me that they drive by, and they are not aware that there is another gym park. They didn’t know where the other gym park is number one. Number two is what needs to be done so that we can proactively take action when someone is doing something that is out of the use for that particular area.
Mr. Harris: I don’t mean to pick on the Homestead police, however there was a Homestead police car parked in a driveway as a resident in Leeward II while this was going on. That police car pulled out and left while this was going on. They were closer to that event then I was, and they didn’t know there was illegal fireworks being fired off. Tuesday, two days after the Fourth of July, literally illegal fireworks being fired off and by kids. My only thing, thank God is that little toddler was not injured in this reckless use of illegal fireworks.
Ms. Genther: People lose fingers every year, hands and eyes.
Mr. Hernandez: Another incident that took place in California, 20 people got injured.
Ms. Genther: I was at an event one year, actually it was Miami Herald that was sponsoring it, anyway, it was in downtown Miami at the park there and one of the fireworks

misfired and went across and one of the fireballs was aimed right at me and I will tell you what, I just got chills, it was scary. No one was hurt, but they did shut down the fireworks display. I do have a couple of questions or comments. Fireworks started going off the night before the Fourth of July and they did go on until at least until Tuesday and it was oh, please come on.
Mr. Harris: It started the Tuesday before.
Ms. Genther: Then they are happier in your neighborhood. On the Fourth of July they were still going off at 3:30 in the morning. It was like, come on people. Two questions, if there is an incident going on at the outdoor gym, is the Clubhouse the place to call? Why would we call the Clubhouse? Does the Clubhouse have any oversight?
Mr. Quesada: Number one, that is a police matter so typically, I would try to coach and teach residents to just contact them immediately, because the response time would be a lot quicker. However, that is the reason why we should be having the phones available. Luis and I have already addressed that with the staff. These are the types of situations that as the staff we can help guide people in the right direction. We are working on a list right now of phone numbers like Homestead non-emergency that you can use to contact should they call in.
Ms. Genther: But why would we call the Clubhouse?
Ms. Weil: Because people look at is as ok, this is Oasis, this is an extension of the
gym.
Ms. Genther: I am just checking.
Mr. Harris: You want my answer? I didn’t want to give them my name and my
address. They wanted an address. When I told them it was the outside gym at Isles of Oasis which is across from the back of the Clubhouse, they asked me well, where is it? I said it is on Mediterranean Avenue. Well, what is the intersection, I need a crossroad. I said it is across the street from Leeward II subdivision. I don’t know the street name. Well, I can’t do anything until you give me address so I had to give them my address.
Ms. Genther: You didn’t have to give them your address. Mr. Harris: Then they wouldn’t have come.
Ms. Genther: You could have given the Clubhouse address. I get it, you are upset about something, and I get it. The part that gets me is that they had no idea where it was.

Mr. Harris: You know where they sent them, in your subdivision. They ended up in Belize. When I spoke to the female cop who came over, a nice person, she said, well I heard the fireworks, they had sent me to Belize. That is why she didn’t show up quickly.
Mr. Walker: As far as their monitoring activity one, one personal report, I was in the outdoor gym with my son, we were trying out the equipment and it went from dusk to dark and he said I thought this was closed after dark. I said well, we have cameras. I think we have speakers, and no one was talking to us so don’t worry about it. We finished. He wanted to see how each thing worked. On that particular date and time whenever it was, they were not watching the cameras. I wonder if they are watching the cameras? We are paying them to watch the cameras.
Mr. Hernandez: The one that is watching you is not an individual; it is a computer. Then a monitor for that live person gets to be showing what is going on although with that being said, at the time that we were finishing construction there, there was a couple of days where the internet was being shut off and we had some internet connection problems. I want to say two weeks ago approximately, so if what you were describing took place within that period of time, it may have been because there was no internet. The internet goes from this building all the way straight forward to the other gym. As that is being said to Susie’s comment, I think that it doesn’t hurt the Club being the point of contact. On the contrary, I believe that it is beneficial to be able to provide the community a common point. Part of what I perceive is to be seeing, we don’t need to be working for the HOA’s, but at least is to be able to proactively help and assist individuals knowing how to contact their HOA’s, Master Association and so on and so forth. It doesn’t get to affect at all the fact of being a public entity that is trying to help the community.
Ms. Genther: I have another question. So the Clubhouse closes and there is nobody here to answer the phone if somebody sees something at the outdoor gym and they call the Clubhouse, now there is nobody to answer the phone, are the phones forwarded during closed hours to a point person?
Mr. Hernandez: No, they have a recording. Now what they did is that they have an answering machine and what they have done is that they have set it to be turned off completely which is not the part that I agree with. The part that they need to be having is

a phone that is on all the time and if anyone were to be calling at 11:00 p.m., someone should be the next day listening to the person and assisting and calling them back.
Ms. Genther: Is it possible to have a message for those off hours that says, oh please leave message, but if you have an emergency, please call this number, and give the Homestead police number?
Mr. Hernandez: Certainly, I don’t see anything wrong with that. Mr. Harris: Or 911.
Ms. Genther: 911 doesn’t always work for us because you have to tell them you are in Homestead and then they have to transfer you to Homestead.
Ms. Weil: It goes to Miami-Dade County. It goes to the County first.
Ms. Genther: Ray, if you ever have an emergency, you can call 911, but it is better to have the Homestead direct line.
Mr. Hernandez: Unless it is an actual emergency, typically, you get a better response just by calling the non-emergency number.
Ms. Genther: Even if it is an actual emergency, if you are living here in Homestead, if you call 911, it goes to the County and then you are delayed because they have to figure out that you are in Homestead, and then oh, here let me transfer you.
Mr. Hernandez: What I will do is I will be revising what the message says and making sure that the proper numbers are being provided.
Ms. Genther: I realize we have fire alarms and detectors and everything, but they could call in and say, oh, hey by the way.
Mr. Hernandez: I think revising the message.
Ms. Genther: I think that sometimes the fact that we talk, and it is not all strictly business, we get ideas that come up because I wouldn’t have thought of that unless Ray had told that story.
Mr. Harris: I didn’t either.
Ms. Genther: We all work well together. Mr. Hernandez: Anything else?
Mr. Harris: No sir.
Mr. Hernandez: Steve, anything else that you need to be presenting to the Board at this time?

July 9, 2021	East Homestead COD

Mr. Walker: No.
Ms. Weil: No.
Ms. Genther: I am good, thank you.
Mr. Hernandez: Anything else you need to be addressing? With that being said, unless anyone has any other District business to discuss, a motion to adjourn would be in order.
SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Adjournment

On MOTION by Ms. Weil seconded by Mr. Harris with all in favor, the meeting was adjourned.