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, January 25, 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 Laurie Weil Raymond Harris Stephen Walker Saens Dorcely

Also present were:

Luis Hernandez Vanessa Steinerts George Graupera Ernie Abreu
Alex Garcia Jose Alvarez

Segment I:

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS

Chairman
Vice Chairman Assistant Secretary Assistant Secretary Assistant Secretary

District Manager
District Counsel (via telecommunication) District Engineer (via telecommunication) American Concrete Shell, Inc.
NFC Amenity Management Resident (via telecommunication)

Roll Call

Mr. Hernandez called the roll and stated we have a quorum. Mr. Hernandez led the Pledge of Allegiance.

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS	Audience	Comments	-	As	per
District's rules, each speaker has 3 minutes to provide comments
Mr. Hernandez: The first part that I have, and it is part of all the meetings is, does anyone from the audience have any kind of issues that they would like to present at this particular moment?
Mr. Alvarez: No sir, thank you.
Mr. Hernandez: Thank you very much. With that being said we can just jump 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)

Discussion on Possibility to Implement Direct Payment for Supervisors and Requirements
Traffic Improvements Update
Drainage Improvements Update
Update on Gym Construction Improvements
Update on Building Improvements
Updates on Status of Any Other Project and Workshop Items

Segment Ill:

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS	Authorization	or	Approvals
Requiring Board Action for Items Discussed During Workshop
Mr. Hernandez: Coming back on the regular portion of the meeting, the first action that I need for the Board to consider will be a motion to authorize the direct payment to the Supervisors.

On MOTION by Ms. Weil seconded by Ms. Genther with all in favor, a direct payment for the Supervisors was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The second action that I have for the Board to consider is to make the rubber floor for the gym improvement to be black on black.

On MOTION by Mr. Harris seconded by Mr. Walker with all in favor, the rubber floor for the gym improvement to be black on black was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The next one that we have for the Board's consideration is the presented change order #2 in the amount of $12,978 as part of the gym improvement.

On MOTION by Mr. Harris seconded by Ms. Weil with all in favor, Change Order #2 in the amount of $12,978 as part of the gym improvement was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The next one is a motion indicating that no acrylic wall will be installed, instead as described it will be just a regular wall that will be painted as per the direction of whomever gets appointed from the Board.

On MOTION by Mr. Walker seconded by Ms. Genther with all in favor, no acrylic wall will be installed; instead it will be a regular wall that will be painted by whoever the Board appoints was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The next one that I have is Downrite proposal for Pacific Boulevard and Mediterranean Avenue in the total amount of $314,000 to make all the drainage improvements as designed by Ford Engineers. By making the motion you are authorizing the District to enter into an agreement with Downrite. The agreement is going to be taking into consideration one agreement for both projects, the drainage improvement and the traffic improvement
Ms. Genther: The total amount is for both projects?
Mr. Hernandez: No, the $314,000 is only the drainage. The other one was presented the last time.
Ms. Genther: I make a motion; I would like to say I think George is right in that his numbers are outdated. It seems like the jump though, that is a 30% jump, but as Luis pointed out, what are we going to do. So yes, I make the motion to accept the proposal.

On    MOTION     by     Ms.     Genther    seconded      by Mr. Harris with all in favor, the proposal from Downrite in the amount of $314,000 for Pacific Boulevard and Mediterranean Avenue drainage improvements was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: Based on that the last action that I need to be asking the Board to consider would be a motion authorizing the proper officials to execute the permits and all related documents as per the drainage improvement project.

On MOTION by Mr. Harris seconded by Mr. Walker with all in favor, authorizing the proper officials to execute the permits and all related documents related to the drainage improvement project was approved.

Ms. Genther: I am curious, why did we need a motion for that?
Mr. Hernandez: Because the County and the City will be asking for the portion of the meeting where the Board has authorized me to sign the permit so by making a motion, I prove to them that the Board has allowed me to do that.
Ms. Genther: Ok perfect, thank you.
Mr. Hernandez: That covers everything that I have. With that being said we can move onto Supervisors requests.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Supervisors Requests
Mr. Harris: Thank you Luis. I just want to give an update as I do on every meeting on the Coronavirus pandemic and how it impacts not only Homestead but the East Homestead COD. When I reported about a month ago on December 9, a little more than a month ago, the Homestead Covid number was a total number of virus of 14,549.
Mr. Walker: Is that 33033?
Mr. Harris: No that is the City of Homestead. The City of Homestead has approximately 70,000 in the 2020 census that I saw online if that number is accurate. So that is about 20%. Now as of January 24which was yesterday, I got the numbers off the website from the State. We are at 21,019 infections. We are now at a 30% infection rate and 6,500 residents in 44 days have contracted this virus and the percentage has gone up 10% from 20 to 30%.
Ms. Weil: Can you repeat that last part?
Mr. Harris: 6,500 new cases in 44 days from 12/9 to 1/24. Mr. Walker: Which is a percentage increase?
Mr. Harris: I didn't even check the percentage increase. Let's put it this way, the virus is increasing at a, I would say geometric arithmetic progression which means there are more people getting infected in a shorter period of time to answer your question and reemphasizing the message that we sent to the Governor. We are number 5 of the

infection rates in Southeastern Florida behind Miami, Hialeah, Fort Lauderdale and Hollywood. Then its Homestead. They have all large numbers of tourism and other venues for tourism as well as population and we are number 5 in that list.
Ms. Weil: Because we all travel there to work and whatnot. Mr. Harris: And apparently people are not social distancing. Mr. Hernandez: Miami is the highest.
Mr. Harris: The City of Miami, Hialeah in Miami-Dade then Fort Lauderdale, Hollywood in Broward and then number 5 is Homestead.
Mr. Walker: Hollywood and Fort Lauderdale are big beach tourism.
Mr. Harris: And so is Miami. I am not so sure what Hialeah is, but Miami is. Mr. Walker: What Hialeah has is Latino family gatherings.
Ms. Weil: A lot of multi-generational households. It is all built up and very compact in the city.
Mr. Harris: It just reemphasizes our letter to the Governor that he has to be responsive and looking at different areas of the State and how it is impacted by this virus versus if I lived in the panhandle of Florida versus in Miami-Dade or Broward. These are highly populated, high tourism areas.
Ms. Genther: I saw this on the news yesterday. I am not sure where this was but there was a clip where the numbers in this particular city had gone down a little bit, so they reopened restaurants and I thought there you go.
Mr. Walker: That will take care of that problem.
Mr. Harris: The one other item I want to mention is to compliment Brightview on finally trimming the trees on Mediterranean Boulevard that were hitting the tall trucks that were going through the neighborhood. They finally trimmed those trees after an inspection of that site between Luis and me. After our last meeting within days the trees were trimmed. So, thank you Brightview.
Ms. Genther: Speaking of Brightview I am not taking the Tuesday drives right now because of the virus. The numbers have gone up so much that I just decided that I don't know who is in those trucks.
Mr. Harris: You had one scare.

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Ms. Genther: Actually, two not just the time when we did the wagon train but also the woman who is Vince's assistant, Antonia, now had gotten sick and she was tested. That was kind of scary.
Mr. Hernandez: Luckily, she didn't test positive, but it was a concern.
Ms. Genther: And I was in the vehicle with her. I am even more concerned about who else uses the vehicle. It is a company truck and I don't know who is in it and what kind of precautions they are using and things like that. I have never gone in there with wipes to wipe down any place that I would be but the point is, I have not gone on the drives in a few weeks, but I spoke with Vince last Tuesday and we talked about the flowers, the annuals because we are due for a change. What they are going to do is the multi-color. I said we have to do tutti-frutti for Ray.
Ms. Weil: Now they replaced the white ones and the white ones look nice.
Ms. Genther: They will leave those. Those will not be affected by the change out, but the colors will go from the people and orange to the softer springtime colors.
Mr. Walker: We you able to look at the vine on 147?
Mr. Hernandez: I was able to look at them. I have a meeting with them today. It will be resolved this week.
Ms. Genther: I also wanted to say about the colors, we are going to get three colors because our competitor up the road Waterstone had decided to go with four. I said to Vince, we don't want to copy them. Let's just go with three colors. That is what we are doing. It is three colors for you Ray.
Mr. Harris: Thank you. There is one other item that just popped into my head. Over between Antillean and the lake which faces the outside, there is a dead tree behind 3029 S.E. 4th Drive that they took down but there is also a tree that is growing and uprooting the gentleman's fence that is there but they were supposed to take that tree down and he would repair the fence. It still has not been done so if you are going to meet with them, if you contact me, I will tell him what you tell me.
Ms. Genther: We are going to take a tree down because somebody's fence is being affected by it?
Mr. Hernandez:   No. The problem that we have is that there is a COD tree that
has been overgrown and it is entering into private property.  Now based on what he is

telling me it appears that a portion of that tree has been growing to be now a tree. So, let me see what we are facing, and we will be acting accordingly because I would have thought when they did the root pruning, they took care of all those items.
Ms. Genther: That is what I was going to ask about. What about root pruning? Ok.
Mr. Harris: He is not asking to have the fence repaired. He is going to repair his own fence.
Mr. Hernandez: Anything else from the Supervisors? Alex, would you mind explaining to us what was the request from Belize and what are the items that we want the Board to be aware of?
Ms. Garcia: Hi everyone. We received an email about a week or two ago,
Mr. Walker: Alex, you do not have to uncover your face to talk. You don't have to take your mask off to talk. We can hear you.
Ms. Garcia: Sorry.
Mr. Walker: That is ok. It seems to be a habit that people do. Ms. Garcia: I guess because we sound so muffled.
Mr. Harris: I did the same thing. Ms. Genther: I did it.
Ms. Garcia: Alton Madison sent a request for the parking lot to be used for dates of January 25to the 27. Then you have the 28 to the 30 of January and then February 1 to the 3. As you see the parking lot is sectioned off. That one area will be just for Club members. We have twenty parking lots that are available just for Club members and then 51 that will be available for Belize residents to come and use once the treatment is being done in their community.
Mr. Walter: Those Belize people are difficult. Ms. Genther: I know always up to something.
Mr. Hernandez: The reason of the concern is that number one it has been noticed that even though the work has not started there is already vehicles being parked.
Ms. Genther: It is starting today.
Mr. Hernandez: The way it was being requested is that they will be starting to use it overnight tonight. Early this morning we already get to be seeing vehicles coming. The problem that we have is that and it was requested and explained to the homeowners,

what is being requested to the residents from Belize is to get in and get out from walking areas not getting through the grass. Right now, what people are doing is any opening that we have in the back part, being the northeast side of the parking people are just using it to cross and pass instead of walking around. What I think that needs to be done and part of the reason why I asked Alex to bring this up is that it is going to be a little bit over the week and by people walking back and forth we are going to be getting our sod destroyed. What we need to do is use the fencing type that they use for construction so that people will not be able to go and cross over so that we at least protect that area. By doing so we force them to walk and choose the regular means to get in and out of the facility.
Ms. Genther: The people started parking there this morning maybe because they were going off to work. I don't know transportation or something but where they would not be coming back until the evening time and would not be able to get their cars.
Mr. Hernandez: One of the items that we are seeing that appears to be occurring and has happened before is that in the past it was greater being used at night. Part of what we are discussing right now and is the reason why when we are discussing this, I am making it to be keeping an area exclusively for the Club so that the members don't get to be affected. Once the vehicles are being parked, we cannot move it. Part of what we are going to be putting restrictions, Belize has offered that they are going to be having security. If a vehicle gets to be staying without being moved for two or three days, we are going to be requesting that vehicle to be taken out. People tend to, well I have three cars let me put two over there and then they have one to go back and forth and now we are the ones kind of providing them an option that is being abused. Prior to taking any actions, what I ask since in the past the Board has allowed for that to take place, it doesn't need to be said. The part that I would like from the Board is that I think that those fences need to be installed provisionally until they finish what they are doing an then we can remove them.
Ms. Genther: Are you going to leave the one walkway area open?
Mr. Hernandez: Yes.
Ms. Garcia: The one that has the gap?
Ms. Genther: Yes. You are going to leave that open right?

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Ms. Garcia: Isn't that the one we are discussing to cover?
Mr. Hernandez: We want to cover everything. We want it to be walking to the sidewalk and walk around .
Ms. Genther: Ok.
Mr. Harris: So, they don't kill the vegetation.
Mr. Hernandez: If I leave any openings it means that people will go over and then we will be replacing the sod. I wanted to physically see that there is no other option then the walkway.
Ms. Genther: There are still people who come to the gym that use that. That is all I am saying but ok.
Ms. Weil: What about, are we leaving the chains open and security knows that people can come and park, but it has a quick entrance or exit?
Mr. Hernandez: The COD took two steps for you to be aware of. One is the portion that the COD controls. The company controlling the cameras, the company controlling the patrolling, all of them have been informed. Services basically have been stopped from January 151 and February 3. The part that Belize is doing is while they are in construction, they have offered that they will be having a security car on site to ensure that people are doing things properly and convenient. The gates will be fully open , and people will be coming and parking in here. My biggest issue and concern are that we are not going to be having a full parking lot as it was used to be in the past. Right now, we due to the pandemic we don't that much. We hope that will be enough based on the numbers that we have early in the morning and as the day goes by people will be pulling their vehicles out so that there won't be any inconvenience for the Club members.
Ms. Weil: I think as long as they are going to be providing an overnight security person on site which is great I love that and that security person will have access to if somebody is leaving their car in the needed club spots versus the Belize designated spots.
Mr. Hernandez: We have someone to blame and someone to work with. I th ink
that in the future that is probably what the District is going to be requiring to whomever the Homeowner Association as part of the benefit you need to be paying for that service.
Ms. Weil: I think it makes perfect sense.

Ms. Genther: I am sorry that they aren't offering the golf cart service that they did before when they did the street surfacing a few years ago they had a golf cart.
Mr. Hernandez: Going back and forth?
Ms. Genther: Yes, which was nice, but they are not doing that now, I guess.
Mr. Hernandez: The thing is that who wants to get on golf cart with people that you don't know.
Ms. Genther: Well that is true. That may have been the consideration, I don't know.
Mr. Hernandez: The world has changed to the point that items that we used to do in the past they are not being done anymore . Thinking about it, that would be my reason to say no. Anything else? Thank you.
Mr. Walker: Thanks Alex.
Mr. Hernandez: Does the Board have anything that they would like to discuss? If nothing, then I will be asking for a motion to adjourn.

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Adjournment

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

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