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, November 12, 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
Stephen Walker	Assistant Secretary
Saens Dorcely	Assistant Secretary (phone) Also present were:
Luis Hernandez	District Manager
Ben Quesada	Governmental Management Services
Gregory George	District Counsel
Al Torres	Resident
Jose Alvarez	Resident (via telecommunication)
Damien DelaVega	BrightView Landscape

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.  Pool Installation Request from Resident at 2250 NE 3rd Court
Mr. Hernandez: We did receive a request; a gentleman was trying to make an installation. If you go the agenda itself, it is being explained in an email what it is that the gentleman is trying to do. Basically, what is taking place is that in order for him to be able to install the pool, what he is asking is to get access through the back and be able to do

the pool. In his explaining, it is one day. Ben, is one day, what he needs to be able to  do, all that work, which is what he says in the email?
Mr. Quesada: Yes.
Mr. Hernandez: Are they going to be doing everything that they need to be doing in just one day?
Ms. Weil: I think that is just excavating to dig out the hole.
Mr. Hernandez: That is the part that I told Ben when he showed it to me. Let’s go to the Board because it is coming to be a more often than usual item. Rather than go ahead and define these on a particular case, if you do it for one you are just opening the door for everybody. The thought that I had was whatever is being done for one, needs to be done for everybody. My biggest issue is that if you allow for vendors or contractors to find an easy way to do it that are going to be doing that. The problem that I have is what damages are going to be to the CDD and who is going to be paying for those damages.
Ms. Genther: Which is specifically not addressed in the letter, which was going to the quote that I made.
Mr. Quesada: My experience with a pool, I have never seen a one-day job, just so you guys know. It usually takes a few weeks to a month of access to get everything done.
Ms. Genther: Ray, you were doing the drives when that house over in Baywinds put in the pool and they were a mess. This isn’t just an easy access; this is down and around the river and through the woods.
Mr. Harris: And one of the things that adds to the problems right now is supply availability. They could start and not have the supplies to do the job, so it is left unfinished for weeks or months.
Ms. Genther: If they were just going, say from the parking lot of the school straight into their backyard, I would not be as hesitant. I am concerned about the amount of space that they are talking about driving over. I am thinking about the weight of cement trucks.
Mr. Quesada: This is for excavation; they are going to bring in a backhoe. That equipment alone is going to tear up all the grass.
Mr. Harris: And a cement truck.
Mr. Hernandez: Are you going to do it through the back, or are you going to do it through the front? That is precisely my point. I have another District, so let me see if that

example helps me to illustrate what I am trying to indicate here. The particular case that we have in another community, they were having kind of a similar request. The Board said ok, but you if you are going to be removing or damaging anything, you are responsible for it. The Board even asked to have an amount of money being put in escrow in case anything happened. The homeowner found that it was so difficult, that he forced the vendor, no, you need to do it and now they found that they could do it through the front of the property instead of going all the way around. Sometimes the request is being made just because it is simplifying the process and not because it cannot be done. Bobcats are in different sizes so if you bring the smaller one, it is going to be taking longer, but if you bring the one, it is going to be faster, but at the same time there is always the concern of the damage that can be made. One of the issues that I have seen and is coming to be a problem today, which you were specifically indicating, is you start your construction and until you are physically ordering something that you are going to realize that is not available, it is going to be taking several weeks. The other part that I have concerns is how soon the dirt is going to be taking out of it. Part of the biggest issue and concern that I have with this particular property is that they are right next to the edge where the lake bank is, so if whatever they remove and they temporary put it on the District property, it is going to be damaging all that area.
Ms. Genther: No, they are at the edge of the school parking lot.
Mr. Hernandez: You are actually right; the lake is further. This property here, the one that you are seeing here, all that grass is very likely that they are going to be using it as a staging area.
Mr. Walker:  Luis, isn’t that another house?
Mr. Hernandez: Yes, there are three houses, this is the third house.
Mr. Walker: So, they are ruining these guys, they are messing them up.
Mr. Hernandez: They already have fencing here. This piece of property is the one that belongs to the CDD, and this is the school side. Right now you have a chain link fence, and right now what they are asking is for access to be coming all the way around.
Ms. Genther: Which is CDD property.

Mr. Hernandez: And this is CDD property as well. My concern is that nothing can be used in here as a staging area. As long as all those items are being met, I will have no issue.
All conversation all at once was inaudible at this time.
Mr. Hernandez: To explain also to this side, the part that I was explaining was that my concern is that all this is CDD property but knowing that here there is a fence and from here to the other fence, which is like 20 feet. It belongs to the CDD, people may abuse it and use it as a staging area. Part of what needs to be indicated is that he cannot use this as a staging area. I just want to remind Supervisors that we are still on the verbatim portion of the meeting. If everybody is talking at the same time, no one is going to be keeping any kind of minutes. If this is an item that the Board believes is better suited to be moved on to the workshop to discuss it and define what needs to be done, so be it.
Mr. Harris: Yes.
Mr. Hernandez: If you were to be the one who sent the letter, you will know that it has been presented. The Board is considering it. It will be done at the workshop as it is required to have interaction from different sides to define what would be the right direction to be given. With that being said, we are going to be moving the pool installation request to the workshop.  Al, anything to be saying?
Mr. Torres: No.
Mr. Hernandez: Thank you very much. Jose, anything for you to be presenting? While he is trying to connect, the only part that I want to let the Board know is finally we got the first shipment of the pipes, so construction is going to be starting Monday. As I was trying to define what the timetable will be, what I am being told is that they are going to be having a meeting with the City on Monday. At that point they will know with the person that is going to be following up on the construction what it is that he or she wants, and at that point the team will know exactly the timetable for what is being requested. The city could request to have everything inspected physically before they do any steps. If that is the case it is going to be taking forever. Not only that, one of the biggest issues and concerns is that the area that they are going to be going fifteen feet deep, so we are going to be having a hole that is going to be 15 feet, they want to whenever they open it, to be able to close it before the end of the day, so they are going to be working all that

with the City on Monday. As I get to be receiving specifics on that part, I will be letting you know.  Hearing nothing from Jose, I will just move on.

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS	Consideration	of	Engagement
Letter with Carr, Riggs & Ingram to perform the Audit for Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2021
Mr. Hernandez: The next one that I have as part of the regular meeting is consideration of the engagement letter with Carr, Riggs & Ingram to perform the audit. I have reviewed the engagement letter. It is a typical document and the amount that they are accepting is the same one that we authorized not only by the Board, but also by the audit selection committee. For that reason, my recommendation and request of the Board is to move forward and accept the engagement letter and by accepting it, authorizing proper officials to execute it.

On MOTION by Ms. Genther seconded by Mr. Walker with all in favor, the engagement letter with Carr, Riggs & Ingram to perform the audit for fiscal year ending September 30, 2021 was approved.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Consideration	of	Resolution
#2022-01 Amending the Fiscal Year 2021 General Fund Budget
Mr. Hernandez: The next one, and the last one that we have is consideration of Resolution #2022-01. What this resolution does is make final adjustments and amendments to the District’s budget to indicate what the actual expenses and all the funds that were received. As you probably recall, the District has in general funds some of the amounts that was saved to terminate everything that has to do with the construction of the gym side. If you were to be seeing at the end of the day what the District ended up spending in excess of what it was in the initial budget, was $690,000. With that, unless anyone has any questions, I will be asking for a motion to adopt Resolution #2022-01.

On MOTION by Mr. Harris seconded by Ms. Weil with all in favor, Resolution #2022-01 amending the fiscal year 2021 general fund budget was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: With that being said now we can move to the workshop.

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

Tropical Plant and Pest Services – Report and Update
Furniture Update
Landscape Discussion and Update with BrightView
Drainage Improvements Update
Discussion of the Minutes of the October 8, 2021 Meeting
Update on Any Other Projects and Workshop Items

Segment III:

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Authorization	or	Approvals
Requiring Board Action for Items Discussed During Workshop
Approval of the Minutes of the October 8, 2021 Meeting
Any other Approvals
Mr. Hernandez: Coming back on the record as part of the approval of the minutes of October 8, 2021, the only change that we have is on page 14. With that change, I will ask for a motion to approve the minutes with that change.

On MOTION by Mr. Harris seconded by Ms. Weil with all in favor, the minutes of the October 8, 2021 with the indicated change was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The next one is to authorize the building of the pool and entering into an agreement with the house located at 2250 NE 3rd Court. Does the Board want to set any type of amount that needs to be set up in escrow or just an agreement indicating that the homeowner will be responsible for any fees, if not the District will be taking all the legal steps to be receiving payment for whatever damages are caused.

Mr. Walker: Do you think we should have an escrow, or do you think we just go with the latter?
Mr. Hernandez: Typically, the reason to have an escrow is to show the homeowner that there is an indication of price. The part that you don’t want to make it too high that you are going to be scaring the homeowner, so somewhere $250 to $500 for someone that is building a pool I found it to be reasonable. My suggestion would be to do exactly that. Put it at $500, that would help in escrow and once everything has been completed, we will give it back to the homeowner. But at the same time, it needs to be said in that document that they are responsible for any damages.
Ms. Weil: I think it depends on how far they have to travel. I mean if it is only a couple houses, then $250, but if they have to travel all the way around the CDD, then that is a much bigger area that is going to be potentially damaged.
Mr. Hernandez: Building a pool starts at around $12,000, so if the person doesn’t have $500 to be put in, and if you try to measure, that way people are going to be coming and nickel and diming. Why people like to make the cheapest I don’t know, but that is human nature.
Ms. Weil: Well, in my mind there is a difference between traveling with heavy equipment two house widths or ten house widths.
Mr. Hernandez: And if we have a person that is coming that is 20 houses, so now, we need to do it $1,000?
Ms. Weil: Yes.
Mr. Hernandez: Then every time that we do it, we will have to come to the Board to define it. What we are trying to do is create a document that is going to be consistent. Keep in mind if anyone gets to be creating more damages, then what we have in the escrow and the homeowner doesn’t pay it, the District has the ability to go ahead and collect. So that is the reason why I am indicating, and I am pretty sure that Gregory is going to help us with the document that it is going to attempt at assisting us with the process of collecting, if not, the District does have the powers despite the agreement or not.
Ms. Genther:  And that is being made clear in the agreement, in the document?

Mr. Hernandez: Correct. So, with that being said does the Board want to make an amount consistent or do you want to do it a case by case to be kind of reviewed?
Ms. Genther: I think consistency.
Mr. Harris: I agree. The consistency is the part and then you are able to assess the homeowner for any overages and reimbursed for anything that is less.
Mr. Hernandez: Yes.
Ms. Genther: I think $500 sounds good. Mr. Walker: It is nothing.
Mr. Hernandez: It is nothing, but it is something.
Mr. Walker: And we have the teeth for accounts receivable collection. Mr. Hernandez: Alright, a motion to approve that would be in order.

On MOTION by Ms. Weil seconded by Ms. Genther with all in favor, authorization to enter into an agreement to allow the pool installation at 2250 NE 3rd Court with a $500 deposit to be held in escrow was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The next item that we have, we were discussing, and there is no need to wait for a specific proposal for the painting of the inside of the building. It is being requested to authorize a not to exceed $30,000 for the painting and to approve and appoint one of the Supervisors as the person to confirm what is being spent in order to move forward.  Who would be the person the Supervisors would appoint?
Mr. Harris: Laurie.
Ms. Weil: What am I doing? Mr. Harris:  The painting.
Mr. Hernandez: So Laurie will be the contact for the painting approval. Ms. Weil: Sure.
Mr. Hernandez: I just need a motion.

On MOTION by Mr. Harris seconded by Mr. Walker with all in favor, a not to exceed amount of $30,000 for the painting of the interior of the building appointing Laurie Weil as the Supervisor to confirm the painting proposal was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The next one that we have for consideration would be a proposal from BrightView to do the Mowry Drive on the north side, Proposal #7644636 in the amount of $43,483.85.
Mr. Harris: Can we discuss the fact that they are going to investigate the peanut vine proposal?
Mr. Hernandez: Do you want to table that for the next meeting, which would be perfectly fine?
Mr. Harris: I don’t know if we want to postpone or not.
Mr. Hernandez: Right now they need to finish the flowers. They need to be finishing the mulch. They are not going to be doing anything until after Thanksgiving. The second of December we have a meeting, it is really up to you.
Ms. Genther: I was disappointed. I understand that he wasn’t here at the time, that Damien was not here at the time, but I was disappointed that as spokesperson for the company, he was taking no responsibility for the peanut vine and not only that, he was actually disputing the fact that BrightView was saying that they would be responsible for it.  I found that kind of disheartening.
Mr. Hernandez:  I think that nothing would be affected if it were to be tabled.
Mr. Harris: I think we ought to table it to get a clarification. Do you agree everybody?
Ms. Weil: Sure.
Ms. Genther: See what they come back with.
Mr. Hernandez: We have also a proposal that has been presented from the Fitness Solution to buy an elliptical in the amount $2,650, estimate #20907.

On MOTION by Ms. Genther seconded by Ms. Weil with all in favor, estimate #20907 in the amount of $2,650 from Fitness Solutions to purchase an elliptical was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The next one is I need you to approve that the holiday event is going to be taking place on December 18th. It is going to be the hours from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. A further description of what is going to be taking place, the main thing to be doing is coming to visit Santa and take a picture with him.

On MOTION by Mr. Harris seconded by Ms. Weil with all in favor, holding the holiday event on December 18, 2021 from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The last one is the Greyson Project. What I need to be getting from the Board is to accept that the District is going to be for December 2021, we are going to be assisting and moving forward getting decorations as part of the Greyson Project.

On MOTION by Mr. Harris seconded by Mr. Walker with all in favor, acceptance from the Board for the District in December 2021 to assist with decorations as part of the Greyson Project was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: That concludes everything from the workshop.

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Staff Reports
Attorney
Mr. George: Nothing to report from me. Mr. Hernandez: Excellent.

Engineer
Mr. Hernandez: There is nothing to presented at this time from the engineer.

Club Manager
Mr. Hernandez: Anything to be presented from the Club Manager?
Mr. Quesada: I think we covered most of it with the workshop, the event and the elliptical, so I will jump into the field.

Field Manager
Mr. Quesada: One of the big things I know we talked about at the last meeting is basically, it is going to come out to $22.50 per bench to do pressure washing.
Ms. Genther: $2,250? Mr. Quesada: $22.50.
Mr. Hernandez: Bring everybody up to speed what you are talking about.

Mr. Quesada: At the last meeting Steve mentioned that over by Fiji in particular, by the outdoor gym, you can see in my field report you have some bird feces, and somebody wrote something on one of your benches out there. The question is now, and I am trying to come to the Board with is now we put a price on it. They came up with their formula, how long it takes and costs them roughly $22.50 per bench. Correct me if I am wrong Luis, we have 12 or 16 benches out here.
Mr. Hernandez: We have 12.
Mr. Quesada: So, $22.50 times 12. In my opinion I have driven the District several times since our last meeting, the area that your benches looked the worst are over here by the outdoor gym. The other ones I know over by his community occasionally, but it is mainly litter. The bench itself is not too severe as far as needing pressure washing. I just wanted to come back to you all with that update that it will cost you $22.50 per bench.
Mr. Harris: How frequently?
Mr. Hernandez: Let me jump in. The $270 is to do the entire 12 every time that we do it. We were discussing that and once again, I apologize because I am not here every single day. There are some items that typically don’t get to be known. The point is that no one has touched this since the last meeting. When we do the cleanups, we will decide what works. The company that is doing it will come and they will pressure wash also those benches. Nothing has been done at either of the benches. Part of my point is that we don’t have anything in our budget for that type of maintenance. If we are going to be adding it, there are two parts that need to be kept in mind.	One  is that nothing will guarantee that if it’s being cleaned today, and an animal comes and sits and decides to leave a present, no one is going to be cleaning it until someone gets to be coming back.
Mr. Walker: Do you think the dark stuff on the back of the benches is from the ducks?
Mr. Hernandez: That one is because of the water. What you have is when the water is spilling, and no one comes to wash it off, you are going to be having that growing. If this is going to be the issue, the first suggestion that I have is that we have a cleanup right now, so let’s check three or four months from now and see if an additional cleaning is needed.  The part that I don’t want is to overdo it. It is $270 every time they do it.
Mr. Walker: You are saying $270 for all benches? That isn’t a lot of money.

Ms. Genther: So, this problem that is on the back of the benches is something that would be addressed normally in the yearly pressure washing, correct?
Mr. Hernandez: By the end of the month it will not be there.
Ms. Genther: But anytime we see graffiti that should be taken care. I don’t believe that they should charge us that much money just to remove some graffiti, they are not having to clean the entire bench.
Mr. Quesada: That is something our regular maintenance can do.
Mr. Hernandez: Whenever we have graffiti, not only the benches, but anywhere within the community, we always remove it right away.
Ms. Genther: Exactly. Here is the point that I am trying to lead to, also the complaint about the benches was not the graffiti, it was duck poop. The problem is $270 isn’t bad to clean off benches one time, but how often do the ducks poop on the benches?
Mr. Harris: As often as they like.
Mr. Quesada: Again, this is the area where you have the most ducks. You do have some over by Mirage. This is your hot spot over here.
Ms. Genther: I guess what I am trying to get at is I don’t know what the answer is, but I think that setting up a cleaning thing for the benches for duck poop is almost like spinning our wheels because within an hour the ducks will be back.
Mr. Walker:  There is no duck repellent is there?
Mr. Harris: The only duck repellent is to have them pick the ducks up. Didn’t you say that there is service that picks up the ducks when they get to be so many because they are an invasive species?
Mr. Walker: They charge so much per duck is my understanding.
Ms. Genther: They charge per duck and then you will have other ducks.
Mr. Hernandez: The ones that are picking them up, they are just making money out of it because you have no control, and the problem is that you have created this to be their habit. Right now, as I explained to you last time of the way how they are being fed, they cannot go back to wherever they came from.
Mr. Walker: To your point a minute ago, I have looked at the lake that I am on and with a crocodile being around, and I said to myself, we have very few ducks now.
Ms. Genther: Surprise.

Mr. Walker: It is out of hand. I know there is not a good solution to this. It is really out of hand.
Ms. Genther: I just read something. I don’t know if it would work for ducks, and I don’t know if we want to do something like this, but it was a home remedy for keeping mice and things out of your house. You take in this instance, it was like plastic 2-liter soda bottles, and you put holes in the top of them, fill them water halfway and then you put moth balls in them. The moth balls will not dissolve in the water, but the scent repels.  We could maybe come up a thing, but we could perhaps come up with something where that could be put underneath the benches, so you don’t see them as you are driving by. Perhaps the moth balls would keep the ducks away from the benches.
Mr. Hernandez: The only concern that I would have is putting anything that a child may get to and drink it.
Ms. Genther: That is true.
Mr. Hernandez: I think that if I am coming with a kid and I am sitting reading, I think that the environment around me is safe, and nothing indicates that there is something underneath, I would be extremely concerned. The part that I would suggest since no specific oversight in the way that it is being kept for the benches has been made, we don’t know that at the end of this month all of them are going to be cleaned. Why don’t you give us three months that we will be paying special attention to see how it goes and then we can report, and if needed, we can at least tell you how it is evolving in those months rather than start something that we don’t know how it is going to be resulting. If we believe after three months that it needs to be cleaned up, we do it at that point and then we get to be establishing what would be the responsible task for us to be undertaking.
Mr. Walker: Quarterly or monthly.
Mr. Hernandez: If the Board agrees that would be my suggestion. At this point, we are just throwing at a target in the dark.
Mr. Harris: Is that the only graffiti that has been on the bench for a while? Mr. Quesada: Yes, we went and looked at all the benches.
Mr. Harris: That has been there for a while, so somebody is not tagging it. You clean it, they tag it the next night.

Mr. Quesada: I don’t know, I don’t think you have an issue like that. You have the one incident over there on Mediterranean where somebody went and tagged up some of your street poles, but I haven’t seen any activity like that since.
Mr. Harris: So it is not a major issue at this point. Mr. Quesada: No, knock on wood.
Mr. Hernandez: So, unless the Board would be saying otherwise, that would be my suggestion. We will come back by February and have a report. Anything else you need to be presenting?
Ms. Genther: Another thing that might work if you could figure out a way to put it out there is cinnamon. That is another repellant. I don’t know if it works for ducks though.
Mr. Hernandez: We will define in the meantime if there is any safe measure that we can take. The part that I can say is you would be amazed when you drive around at 4:00 or 5:00 p.m. how many people are sitting feeding the ducks.
Mr. Walker: Yes, that is fun, and they don’t connect the dots on the long-term effects.
Mr. Hernandez: They bring the kids as if they are taking their kids to the zoo and the kid is throwing the bread. Now everybody is having a blast. We are kind of promoting it, at least some of the residents, and that is the part that we need to keep in mind.
Mr. Walker: We had somebody feeding chicken to the alligator in the Fiji lake about four years ago.
Mr. Hernandez: Wow. Do you have anything else? Mr. Quesada: No.

CDD Manager
Mr. Hernandez: The only item that I have to be presenting is to let the Board know that the tenth amendment to the agreement to the landscape maintenance service, we were provided with a signed copy by BrightView. It is my understanding we have a copy here to be finalized by the District. I have not received it. If you can check with Damien when he left that one, I am just letting the Board know that Luis getting a copy is the moving part of today’s record. For that matter, I will be asking for a motion to ratify the tenth amendment to the agreement for landscape maintenance services with BrightView.

On MOTION by Ms. Weil seconded Mr. Harris with all in favor, ratification	of	the	tenth	amendment	to	the	landscape

agreement	for	landscape BrightView was approved.

maintenance	services

with

Ms. Genther: It is amazing that we are on a tenth amendment.
Mr. Hernandez: We have taken care of everything unless anyone has any questions for me.

SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Financial Reports
Approval of Check Run Summary
Balance Sheet and Income Statement
Mr. Hernandez: The next item that we have is financials. You will find them in Section 7, page 75.  Unless anyone has any questions?
Ms. Genther: I do. I saw on page 18 of the financials; it is page 78 of the actual report, Southern Plant & Pest Services. Did Rusty change the name of this company? Wasn’t he Tropical?
Mr. Quesada: I believe Southern Tropical.
Ms. Genther: It is listed here Southern Plant & Pest Services, but then I saw in the field manager report that it was Tropical.
Mr. Hernandez: I was the one who wrote Tropical when I did it last night. Ms. Weil: I have never heard of Southern Pest; I think that he is Tropical.
Ms. Genther: I haven’t either which is why I was asking if he had changed his name.  It is the same amount.
Mr. Harris: Unless he is billing us under two companies. Ms. Genther: But the contract is with one.
Mr. Harris: That was not a factual comment.
Mr. Hernandez: I am trying to find his contract. Just to answer your question, the entity that we paid is whomever we have on the contract. The name that gets to be presented here, sometimes you have a legal name. I don’t know if that comes to be the case.
Ms. Genther: It has always been Tropical before, that is why I picked up on it because it was not the same.  There was a change.

Ms. Weil: Good catch Susie.
Mr. Hernandez: In the email it says specifically Tropical Plant & Pest Services. Ms. Genther: That is why I was asking.
Mr. Hernandez: Why the check was being made to that other entity I don’t know, but I can get you the explanation and I will shoot you an email.
Ms. Genther: I just don’t want us paying someone else.
Mr. Quesada: More than likely, I am going to just hypothesize what Luis said, I deal with landscaping companies that they are known as this company, known as that company, because they have been bought out before so there are multiple names.
Ms. Genther: All I know is if you go back in the financials, previously it was Tropical. Mr. Hernandez: I don’t have the answer, but if the Board would be accepting the financials with the explanation that it will be passed on in an email to justify why this other
name is being used.
Ms. Genther: Then the question becomes, and I guess this would be for Gregory, if we are now paying them as Southern Pest & Plant.
Mr. Harris: I think that is an error in the budget, not in how it is being paid on the budget sheet.
Mr. Hernandez: Whoever worked it, they worked it to the wrong entity, but I will have to go back to see how the check is being done.
Ms. Genther: My question was going to be if this is the parent company doing business as, shouldn’t our contract reflect that?
Mr. George: Usually we would put the doing business as. I am not familiar with the agreement, but this is something they are going to have to look into.
Mr. Hernandez: When we are done with the meeting, I will be able to log in and see what the agreement says.
Ms. Genther: Yet I didn’t actually go back and look, but I don’t think there is a payment to Tropical. The amount is the same, that is why I was like well, wait a minute, what is this. I don’t remember seeing that they had the other payment. I think it was to them, but maybe an error was made in how the check was cut or how it was notated.
Mr. Hernandez: Let me go back and look at it. If the Board doesn’t have an issue, I will be asking for a motion to accept the financials and an explanation will be made.

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

EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Supervisors Requests
Mr. Hernandez:  Are there any Supervisors requests at this time?
Mr. Harris: I have two comments. The worst one first, and then the good one second. I don’t travel as much as I used to around for a number of reasons, but Friday morning a week ago the 5th, I was going out onto 147th from Pacific, and I turned right going towards Campbell Drive. I looked in my rearview mirror because I turned right on the red, and there were no cars coming and I saw this older black Infiniti Coupe coming down in the high-speed lane. I pulled in between two cars on the right to get out of his way. He was going at an incredible rate of speed. When he got to the intersection of Campbell and 152nd he went straight across the road through the red light. It had just turned red, at least 50 mph going onto the highway from the left-hand lane, not the right- hand lane.
Mr. Walker: He gets a good driver award.
Mr. Harris: Saturday morning my wife and I go out to lunch to the local Thai Bangkok cuisine restaurant which I highly recommend. It is not an advertisement, just a comment about them. Coming back, we come across Mowry going onto 152nd, turn right onto Pacific to come home. In front of us we saw a white late model Honda Coupe fly down the road, weave in between two cars at the intersection of the traffic light and shoot down the road. I have seen or heard I should say sirens, and I don’t know if you hear them Steve or Susie, or Laurie all hours of the day and night. The traffic that is coming down 152nd I can hear. There is a number of houses between me and 152nd. I can hear the cars accelerating from wherever they are coming from, from the Vineyard area on down towards Campbell Drive at incredible rates of speed all hours of the day and night. I am hearing sirens all the time now too. My only comment is I hope these police where they can hire enough policemen, I still would be a proponent to have some sort of outpost established for the police force in and around Isles of Oasis where they used to have a police station in the middle of Route 152.  They used to be where the police station was

until they built the one over in the middle of downtown. People aren’t flying down in the middle of downtown or maybe they are. The problem is this traffic situation, how many houses have been built on 152nd from the other side of us meaning Isles of Oasis? How many homes have been built heading down towards the high school in the last year? 500? 800? I don’t know.
Mr. Walker: I would say over 1,000.
Mr. Harris: How many more cars are driving down that road at incredible rates of speed? Even if those two cars had anyone stop in front of them, somebody would have been seriously injured or killed, and I can guarantee the car would have been airborne because there is no way either one of those cars would have stopped.
Mr. Walker: To add to your point, I went to my Keller Williams office in Kendall. It was the middle of the day, and I was like the traffic is horrible, I am so glad I don’t live here. I came back, it was just as bad here. I am talking about coming up Campbell and then turning in and the congestion. If you see 152nd during the school release, it is just backed up way back.
Mr. Harris: In the mornings going out onto the highway in the imminent wisdom of the State when they built the new access road from 152nd onto the highway, they made that one lane and they made two lanes to turn left onto Campbell Drive, which doesn’t make any sense.
Mr. Walker: A lot of people take the right turn lane and go straight. Mr. Harris: Some use the left lane and go straight.
Ms. Weil: There is the two lanes leading up to it but then it splits. There is two left, the one that goes straight or left, and then there is the right lane to go right. Everybody  is cutting in.
Mr. Walker: I don’t know if there is a solution. Mr. Harris: I don’t know what it is.
Mr. Hernandez: I think it is time to repeat what I was kind of saying earlier and I have expressed in the past. The only thing that needs to be done is for the CDD to get closer to the city and the Commissioners from the city. We are discussing something that we are seeing that we don’t have any powers. We need to get closer to those Commissioners and start making as I was stating earlier, maybe we need to have an

additional police force, something internally needs to be done that the community gets to be working towards finding a solution rather than just commenting what may happen.
Mr. Harris: Does anybody have any contact with Patricia Fairclough?
Mr. Quesada: I don’t believe she is your councilwoman anymore. From what I understand, you have a new Vice Mayor.
Mr. Harris: She didn’t stay on as council?
Mr. Quesada:  From what I was told, I am pretty sure, I have to double check, but I don’t think she is part of the council anymore.
Mr. Harris: If we can find out who are council person is, and I think that is an excellent suggestion to at least get them to come.
Mr. Quesada: Invite them to a meeting? Mr. Harris: Yes.
Mr. Quesada: Ok.
Mr. Harris: Unless anybody has any objection to that.
Ms. Genther: Don’t they all represent the entire city even though they have specific areas?
Mr. Hernandez: You want the one who would be exclusive to your District. Once again, the one that you want to approach is the one that is living within your District.
Mr. Harris: Yes, that is the one that makes sense to have.
Ms. Genther: Yes, it does, but the more the merrier is all I am saying.
Mr. Harris: The only thing I have is I have the results of the Covid cases from the Florida Department of Health going back to August 27 through October 29. The new cases for Covid for the past period of time went from 129,864 weekly to 11,069 weekly. The graph is very dramatic in the numbers of cases that have declined as people have become vaccinated and or immune. This is for you Luis, if you want to do anything with that.
Mr. Hernandez: I always put as part of the record.
Mr. Harris: It is getting harder and harder to find the information. I used to use Channel 10. You have to hunt for the information and most of it is old. They are kind of making it a non-event, but it is still here.

Ms. Genther: Yes, I don’t even look anymore. They are saying on the news now  it doesn’t affect the southeast at this point, but what they are talking about is a possible fifth surge beginning to develop in upper mid-western states.
Mr. Quesada: Don’t let your guard down for the holidays.
Mr. Harris: That is the whole thing.       The holidays are going to present another
issue.
Ms. Genther: Well, it is scary.  The State of Colorado just issued an alert   saying
that the entire state is now considered a high-risk area to contract Covid.
Mr. Harris: Personally, I am vaccinated and also got a booster shot for Moderna and flu shot. Laurie is safe around me.
Mr. Hernandez: Saens? I think that he was saying that he was leaving. Mr. Harris: Bye Saens.
Ms. Weil: Anybody want the police report? For the month of October they really broke it down for me this time, three citations and two warnings for running the stop sign at 147th and Pacific. A citation for driving while license suspended without knowledge which is non-criminal, the same area. One warning issued for not updating new address on the driver’s license within ten days, same area. One citation and one warning issued for running the stop sign at 147th and Mediterranean. One warning issued for failure to display vehicle registration, same intersection. One warning issued for not updating new driver’s license, new address within days, same area. November 6th, we had two citations and two warnings for running the stop sign at 147th and Mediterranean and two verbal warnings for running the stop sign at 147th and Pacific.
Mr. Walker: The good thing about all of this is people see the police.
Ms. Genther: But they are not in the community. They are not dealing with the speeding on our roads which is what we are trying to get them to do.
Ms. Weil: They are driving around but they will stop and monitor areas that they know are high violations areas.
Ms. Genther: The whole reason we hired them is to monitor our high violation areas within the community.
Ms. Weil: But they are.

Ms. Genther: Who has been stopped for speeding in our community? None of those were for speeding.
Ms. Weil: No, because aren’t speeding when they see the cops.
Mr. Harris: They are not speeding when they are parked out in front of the stop signs at Mediterranean and Pacific or whatever.
Ms. Genther: They are still speeding through the community. That report to me is not addressing the reason we contracted with them in the first place. We hadn’t asked them to get people running stop signs, we asked them to deal with the speeding.
Mr. Walker: Yes, but their presence helps us.
Ms. Genther: It is not though.  Don’t you hear the speeding?
Mr. Walker: Well, it is better than if they weren’t there in my opinion. Ms. Genther: I don’t know that it is.
Mr. Hernandez: You can only request what can be done but you cannot ask a police officer to try and go ahead and prevent speeding in a road that he doesn’t have an area to park. They have maintaining only three areas that they can stop and park a vehicle and start enforcing whatever they can. That is on 147th, the other end of Mediterranean, and 152nd. Anywhere else they don’t have an area to go ahead and put their vehicles so they would not be able to see and wait for someone to be coming and then giving a ticket. The part that people get to seeing is whenever you are getting to an area that at the entrance of that community you are going to be seeing a cop, they are going to be slowing down. It is being reminded that speeding is a matter of concern.
Ms. Weil: And just so you remember they have already told us that where it is curvy, they can’t get a good reading on the radar because the radar is a direct beam. For them to sit over here at the lake or whatever, they can’t get a good directional for speeders coming around both curves.
Ms. Genther: I understand, but they could give a warning. To me it is not rocket science that there are people speeding in here. We hear them all the time. As far as not having a place to park, they could park in our parking lot, and they can hear them speed up to the roundabout right here. Then they slow down on the roundabout and then speed up. You can hear it. Also, we have easements with the entrances to most of the communities, they could park in the entrance of a community.

Mr. Hernandez was inaudible at this time. There is no area that they can comfortable park their vehicle.
Ms. Genther: I am talking about the actual entrances like in and out of Belize it is two lanes in and two lanes out.  They could park in one of those lanes.
Mr. Hernandez: They would be blocking. If someone comes and hits them, they are blocking the lane. You cannot be parking there. That is precisely what I mean. When I go to Leeward II, what I do is I try to get as close as I can to the outside part, and I park my vehicle as close as I can to grass, and I put on my flashers to go around and check and come back. In reality if anyone comes and hits me, I am parking in an area that is unauthorized for parking. We cannot ask an officer that is enforcing the law to be doing something that is not admitted as per the law.
Ms. Genther: Ok.
Mr. Hernandez: The part that we could do is we can ask them if there is anything that can be done to increase monitoring those areas other than what we are doing right now.
Ms. Genther: They are slowing down there, but they are not slowing down on Mediterranean by the Clubhouse.
Mr. Hernandez: I personally believe that they do because when I get to be hearing someone speeding, it is because there is no police around.
Ms. Genther: In fairness, I don’t know when the police are here versus when I am hearing the people speeding inside the community, but based on their report, there is not one in there of someone speeding. That is concerning to me since that was the whole point of hiring them.
Mr. Hernandez: The other part that I do want to remind Supervisors is that we don’t have none of those powers. The Board can’t enforce none of those powers. The main reason the Board asked to have the police officers is because we want to improve the safety of the community in general. We cannot be asking for something that we don’t have any powers to.  The is the part that needs to be kept in mind.
Ms. Weil: I have asked them about can you reemphasize the focus on speeding, and he came back that the officers that are doing the patrols have not experienced a lot of speeding.  Occasionally warnings, but not the speeding.

Mr. Harris: I hear it day and night. I am waiting for the car to come over the hedge line in front of my house doing the “S” curve especially now that the road is in disrepair waiting for the new drainage system, because part of the pavement that is there now is gone. The top level of that pavement on one of the “s” curves past my house, just before you get to Leeward II is all torn up. You know what will slow them down on Mediterranean, I am sorry it won’t help you all on Pacific, is when they dig the road up to do the utility lines, they won’t be speeding through there then.
Ms. Genther: They are going to dig up for the drainage. Mr. Harris: Not near your house Susie.
Ms. Genther: Yes, right outside Bimini and Belize.
Mr. Harris: Oh, that drain there to, ok and the same thing for going into the other side where Capri and Atlantis are. They will have to slow down there too because that will all be torn up. We will have temporary relief from speeding while the road is under construction.
Ms. Genther: I am just concerned that we are spending money. I understand the value of police presence in here is a deterrent, but however to me what we are spending the money on is not what I understood we were going to be receiving.
Ms. Weil: But if they don’t see it or hear it, they can’t catch it.
Ms. Genther: But they are not going to see it or hear it if they are not where it is happening.
Ms. Weil: I haven’t been given information that ok, I hear ten cars between these hours that I know are speeding that are getting in accidents, which are doing whatever.
Ms. Genther: I hear speeding on Pacific going up to the roundabout and they could park in the parking lot right here.  There I just gave you information.
Mr. Harris: If you want the times, it is any time after 3:00 p.m. on a weekday and anytime after noon on the weekend.
Ms. Weil: I always try to schedule, usually I don’t want to give away my timing secrets, my technique, but the two out of the three I try to schedule.
Mr. Hernandez: Whatever timing anyone gets to be finding that is a concern, let me know and I will make sure that it gets to be passed.
Mr. Harris: I will add two things and I will thank Laurie for all the help she does.

Ms. Genther: Yes, Laurie this is not about you.
Mr. Harris: Here is the one thing that I will comment is the people that are going through the stop signs are a lot more likely to get someone involved in an accident then going too quickly through our community with nobody in front them, so at least stopping the people from not obeying the traffic signs is a help because you know some of these streets have had some significant accidents as to why they put those stop signs in, if there is a positive after all of that.
Mr. Hernandez: There is always positive. Any other matters to discuss?
Mr. Walker: What did we say about behind the guardhouse on the Capri side on helping on the speeding back there?  I brought it up and we talked about it.
Mr. Hernandez: They have not provided us. We asked them and you were going to be getting from them what is the plan that they have. It is a private area so as long as they get to be describing what it is that they are planning on doing when they obtain permits. I don’t think that the Board will have any objections to what they are doing. They need to be getting in mind that there is a project that sometime in December hopefully to be done by the end of that road that is going to be by Barbados and Atlantis, and that is going to be done by Downrite. I have not received any specifics, so I don’t what it is that they have done or not.
Mr. Walker: So, what you would like is a written plan of what they would like to accomplish?
Mr. Hernandez: Sure, because part of what I am doing, part of what I think it would be best for the community and the reason to be calling someone is that other cities have been starting to implement mechanisms to slow people down. So, in many communities the City of Sunrise for instance, what they did is the bump tables. The difference of the bump table and the bump is that this one is a little bit wider, so it is a hump rather than a bump. What is allows you is that it doesn’t affect as much the vehicle, it gives the problem if someone is coming too fast, but it is not going to be hard on the vehicle. Others like the City of Sweetwater, they have been putting rubber bumps throughout the city to slow people down. The City of Miami Lakes, what they have done is they put in signs to read how fast you are going. What is the right answer for this community I don’t know, but the part that I know is that is when we have made attempts to correct anything that we do

have the power, being that Atlantis and Mediterranean, we have been told that we can do nothing? The part that I believe the city needs to do something is to at least allow us to put two tables in each one of those sides, then people would not be able to go as fast as they are doing today, just because of those humps that they are going to be placing. Right now we don’t have any of that. That is what I believe is going to be the answer. Coming back to the question that you have, is if the city allows that to be done on their side, I think that we have a fair case to come and say why we cannot do it on our side as well.
Mr. Walker: So it could be a benefit to us.
Mr. Hernandez: Certainly. What we are asking that we never received from the Master Association, they did put some bumps at the entrances of both areas of 147th and 152nd. As of yet, we have not received neither the copy of the permit or how that was being done. I have no idea but the truth being said is that even the City of Homestead is coming and getting to be seeing them, that they are driving through those bumps, and they don’t seem to have a problem. It may be that we just need to come and do it. I don’t know, I don’t have the answer, but the part is that something needs to be done. Something can be done. My biggest issue we are asking recommending coming and walk, and right now speed could be a really bad formula if you have people walking on the sidewalks and cars going extremely fast.
Ms. Genther: I think it would be interesting to find out, I am going to put something else on your table, on your plate, to find out what it would cost to put even just one speed bump, wait, two on Mediterranean and one on each side.
Mr. Hernandez: We already have a quote.
Ms. Genther: Let me finish. Go ahead and put them there and see if anything comes up with the city and if it doesn’t, we are good, and if they say oh no, you have to remove them, what would be the cost of removing them?
Mr. Hernandez: We are a governmental entity; we cannot go and do something that we know that we don’t have the powers to do. In other words, we cannot go and break the law. We cannot install something that we don’t have the permits for. What you are asking, the Board cannot approve.
Ms. Genther: Well we will turn over all the roads to the Master and let the Master do it because they did it already.

Mr. Hernandez: You can ask the private entity, and if private entity decides and we just look to the other side, if they want to put them so be it, but we as a governmental entity, we cannot authorize.
Mr. Quesada: If we can get the councilwoman here, maybe that is something we can discuss.
Mr. Hernandez: That is part of what I am saying. The point that it needs to be having someone from within the city saying yes, not only that as soon as we get to be doing in here, guess what, South Venture has exactly the same problem.
Ms. Genther:  I would imagine Baywinds.
Mr. Hernandez: It is even worse because now you have traffic of people that are going to the racetrack. They are coming and they see it and they get all excited.
Ms. Weil: If we could get Patricia here, I can try and get either the Captain or the Lieutenant who does most of the details and bring them together.
Mr. Harris: If you would coordinate that.
Mr. Quesada: I can promise you December, especially the second week. Mr. Harris: After the first of the year.
Ms. Weil: Work with me and let me know when she can come. Mr. Quesada: Ok.
Ms. Genther: Speaking of which, that was one of the things I was going to mention. Ms. Weil:  We haven’t adjourned yet.
Ms. Genther: Do we have to adjourn to have that conversation? Mr. Harris: I thought we would not talk about that.
Ms. Genther: I guess I am being given a signal not to discuss this at this time. Then I have one quick thing I would like to discuss; Ray, I apologize, belated Happy Birthday.
Mr. Harris: Thank you and yesterday was Veteran’s Day too. Ms. Weil: Happy Birthday and Happy Veteran’s Day.
Mr. Quesada: Happy Birthday and Veteran’s Day to you.
Mr. Harris: Thank you. I appreciate that. My wife left for Rhode Island on my birthday. She went for four days. She spent 12 hours getting there and 12 hours getting back and that was flying, not driving in a car.

November 12, 2021	East Homestead CDD

Ms. Weil: I could have driven her faster.
Mr. Hernandez: Any other subjects to discuss? If not, a motion to adjourn would be in order.

NINTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Adjournment

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

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