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, May 13, 2022 at 9:00 a.m. at the Oasis Community Clubhouse, 171 NE 30th Road, Homestead, Florida 33033.

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Laurie Weil	Chairman
Raymond Harris	Vice Chairman
Saens Dorcely	Assistant Secretary
Stephen Walker	Assistant Secretary
Al Torres	Assistant Secretary

Also present were:

Luis Hernandez	District Manager
Ben Quesada	Governmental Management Services
Gregory George	District Counsel
Larry Roth	City Councilman
Donna Bonilla	CDD employee (via telecommunication)
Damien DeLaVega	BrightView
Susan Genther	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
Mr. Hernandez: Any audience comments? Mr. Councilman, is there anything you would like to address to the Board at this time?

Mr. Roth: Yes, thank you. Good morning. I am Councilman, Larry Roth, for the City of Homestead. I just stopped by to say hello, to encourage interaction between us and if you have any questions or concerns on things that maybe happening in the city that you may not understand, zoning issues and things like that. I am always available for anything you need for that. This is not what we consider my District, however, we run citywide. We make decisions that affect every District 1 through 6. I just wanted to stop by go. I have been going to Malibu Bay, I have been going to Waterstone CDD meetings, and I pick up some good information from being part of some of those meetings. I just wanted to come out and say hello, introduce myself, let you know I am here for you if you need anything. This is not an election year; this is not a campaign stop. That is all I really wanted to say if you have anything for me.
Mr. Harris: Good morning Councilman Roth. It is Ray Harris. I have been on the Board for a few years. Having moved down here years ago and seeing the population grow as it has, and certainly on Campbell Drive, the traffic to get onto the highway from Campbell has become impossible to the point where they have police stationed at the intersection of Campbell Drive and the access road to the highway trying to stop cars from speeding down whatever lane, cutting across trying to get into the traffic. It happened two days ago, I had to over to Lowes and it was about a quarter after 8 and as I turned left on 152nd and right on Mowry, all I could I see was a line of cars as far as I could see going back to almost where the old police station used to be, but when I get on, the Farm Life Road I guess is the road that comes in, nothing. When I came back onto Campbell Drive, nothing but all the traffic is backed up because when they constructed that road, and I said it to my wife at the time, you made one lane going into the highway and three lanes where you can turn left onto Campbell Drive. There wasn’t anybody going into downtown Homestead, everyone was going on the highway because that is where their jobs are. If you live in the area, I am sure you hear the sirens 24 hours a day with people who think that our various streets are part of the Homestead racetrack, which they are not. The short version is there is a huge traffic problem that is now spilling over onto 147th. With the gas station and the two or three businesses that have been there, people who stop and try to get onto Campbell from 147th to go to the highway, the

traffic is all backed up again. The road system is sorely out of sync with the traffic. I know it is a state issue, not a county issue, but it is bad.
Mr. Roth: Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I am very aware of a lot of the situations, in fact when I was getting ready to come over here this morning, I was thinking about Campbell Drive myself. I remember when Campbell Drive was nothing but a dirt road from the Turnpike out to 137th Avenue and how far we have come since those times. We are talking about just after Hurricane Andrew, nearly 30 years ago. Not to make excuses, traffic is a part of the growing pains that any city will have. Look at it this way, we live in an area that a lot of people are attracted to come to, we should be fortunate and blessed for that. Our property values have skyrocketed over the years regardless of the cost of insurance, regardless of traffic, regardless of expense of CDD, and all those different things that get put into the equation of quality of life in the area. We are blessed because of the property appreciation that we experience. The Turnpike entrance off of Campbell from Farm Life.
Mr. Harris: From 152nd, that is the one that is really the problem. Ms. Weil: Right here, Kingman.
Mr. Harris: Five names for every road.
Mr. Roth: We accelerated the process of adding that northbound entrance to the turnpike by about four years. I would have just been coming online now, so you can imagine what it would have been like today without that there having to go west on Campbell to get on the one entrance that was there. There is always going to be room for improvement and as you have said, it is state, not county or city thing. However, when we put pressure as a community on those organizations that control those things for us, it makes it easier to come together and put pressure on them to do those things. The perfect example of a community coming together, and pressuring county or state government is what happened at Waterstone. I don’t know if you all know what happened at Waterstone. The county owns a one-acre piece of property within the gated community, they wanted to put affordable housing on that piece of property. The community came together, we contacted the county officials and at this point that process has been stopped, but you can imagine if they would have put, and they were talking about modular homes on a one acre piece, inside of a gated community that is inside of a protected

community, what problems that would have caused for that community. It would have been a real big problem. Hopefully we are working on that process to get the county to deed that to them so they can use it as a park. The roads, we are at the mercy of the county, we are at the mercy of the state, especially with the Turnpike Authority.
Mr. Walker: Another thing we could really use help with is we have an outdoor park, an exercise area, a huge amount of traffic goes down that road at a very high rate of speed and we have been trying for two or three years to get some type of a protective pedestrian crosswalk so that members of the community that come to cross that road to use the park won’t get run over.
Ms. Weil: The only crosswalks are here by the clubhouse or all the way over on 147th, so there is nothing in-between and there are curves right here by the outdoor gym. People race around it. We have police patrols, details periodically.
Mr. Roth: Is there a crosswalk there, but nobody adheres to it? Ms. Weil: No, they denied us for everything.
Mr. Roth: Who denied you?
Mr. Hernandez: The city was the one that we approached.
Mr. Roth: So development services denied the process of the CDD installing a crosswalk there, is that correct?
Mr. Hernandez: Yes.
Mr. Harris: And that is a county road and that is not a private road.
Mr. Hernandez: Correct. The reason why we were being told that we can’t do anything is that it would be affecting the traffic and, therefore, we cannot even touch it.
Mr. Roth: Someone email me your concerns.
Mr. Hernandez: Not a problem. I will make sure you get that.
Mr. Roth: I will dig into the public works department to find out. This is the best time to do it right now because it is election season for the county and state, so if we put a little bit of pressure on some people, we can get some stuff done. Once November goes by, it is going to be a couple of years before people ramp up and want help people. This would be the best time to start that process. I will be happy to help you and make as much noise as possible.

Mr. Harris: Leveraging off of what Steve said, Larry, I have personally witnessed people almost getting hit going across the road because a lot of times children are picked up on the opposite side of the street from the residents. Speed is always the issue. There are people that think this road is part of seeing how many g’s their car can go.
Mr. Walker: The curb also hides the visibility for oncoming cars and for the cars. If you could help, that would be great.
Mr. Roth: Somebody email me, and I will follow up and we will continue that conversation. I will come back out with Public Works, and we will look at what you are talking about. If there is anything I can do to solve problems or we will tell you we can’t solve the problem, we have to put a bridge over the road or whatever it is, we have to figure out how to make it work so it is safe. Safety is one of our biggest jobs as an elected official, keeping people safe. I will do whatever I can to help you.
Mr. Hernandez: I think it is appropriate for you to be aware that the Board has been paying special attention to stimulate the community to go and walk and to exercise, but at the time, that is being an incentive, the part that we are seeing as a downside is that, because of the speed now, we have concerns as to what could be the potential consequences. The CDD has been paying an off-duty police officer to assist us in an effort to show the community that the law is around. Sometimes they are just giving warnings to others if the situation gets to be presented and requires them to come out and give an actual ticket, but at the same time, we had the police come two meetings ago. At the time that the police officer left, a vehicle just passed him doing more than 40 in a 25 mph. It is the part that the situation is getting worse rather than getting better, so anything you can do to assist us would be greatly appreciated.
Mr. Roth: Yes, like I said, email me some of the information. I will get with the Public Works Department to start looking at that. As communities evolve, they may not have thought of that planning process. This community went up, I guess, back in early 2004 or 2005.
Mr. Hernandez: 2003 and 2004, yes.
Mr. Roth: Then it stopped for a number of years. Nothing happened. Then it came back again. I remember I did a radio interview with NPR Radio. They came down here. A lot of the area in Oasis was a desert. Although the infrastructure was in the ground, the

wiring had been done, the plumbing had been done, nothing was being built. They asked me how long do you think it is going to take for it to come back? I looked at him and I thought maybe 8 to 10 years, and sure enough, there it was. I think this community is totally built out now. Is that correct?
Mr. Hernandez: That is correct. Ms. Weil: There are a few lots.
Mr. Roth: Now as the community matures, you will start to see some of the things that need to be changed. The defects just in people moving around. The pedestrian part is very important, a safety issue. If you created a park for them which we lack on this side of the city, and you have created that atmosphere, we definitely want to make sure that those people can get there safely.
Ms. Weil: I have another issue that I just thought of. I know in my health in particular, and some of my neighbors in other buildings and whatnot, the plumbing is horrendous. They were built to code, which is fine, but between the size of the piping that was allowed and the sewer system, the suction and the new-fangled toilet system, it only allows so much water and so much pressure and all of that it doesn’t work well. Pipes get clogged, which causes the homeowner or the renter a lot more money to have somebody come and unclog it. There are other types of issues where if they are working on the water line somewhere else, we lose water pressure. I don’t have the answer, of course, and supposedly, public works has told me that they have turned up the suction as much as they can, but it still doesn’t work well. I don’t know where the disconnect is. I don’t know what can be done. Nobody is giving me a straight answer.
Mr. Roth: I know a little bit about plumbing and how stuff works. Obviously, water that comes into your house is pressurized through some sub-stations and pumps. Sewer is not, until it gets to a certain state so depending on the type of house you live in, single family, obviously, you are on your own. If you live in a townhouse or a condo, engineers are a funky kind of people. Hope there is not an engineer here, however, if you run it in a multi-family situation, everybody’s pipes run down into one centralized pipe. If the guy at the end of the line is clogging the drain, it is backing everybody else up. I have seen it happen in communities where it happens that one guy continues putting diapers down or whatever, getting caught in the main, then it backs everybody else up. Nobody knows

who to call. The first guy to call is the plumber. My understanding is if it is in that common pipe that is an HOA issue. It is a common pipe.
Mr. Walker: Is it water pressure or drainage? Ms. Weil: Both.
Mr. Roth: The water pressure is city issues. There is no suction that happens. If there was suction happening, it would be pulling water out of your toilet and your drains. It is more of a leverage thing. It kind of rolls down a pitch and a decline until it gets to the city portion and then it is pumped to wherever it goes. If it happens to you again, to call me. I have dealt with these things before. The City of Homestead, the Solid Waste Department, has been doing some stuff, I believe, at Villas at Carmel. Those are townhouses/condo situations where there have been some issues in there with the common plumbing. Call the city and see if they will help. You have my number. At least I can get somebody out there to look at it to tell you what the problem is. We may not be able to solve it because of liability issues, jurisdiction, all these different things.
Ms. Weil: I have two situations to compare because my townhouse was built in 2006. When I moved in with the older code toilets, I rarely had a clog, rarely had any problems, then I had Chinese drywall, so my house was gutted down to the PVC. It was rebuilt with the new code toilets with much more frequent problems. The neighbors that I talk to have occasional problems and I said you must have the old toilets. Oh yes, I have the original. One of the neighbors had to replace one of her toilets and she told me the same thing, that there is a difference between the old code and the new code.
Mr. Roth: Not only that, there is a difference in how they manufacture the toilets too now. I tell my wife, the next time my toilet backs up, I am getting on you and you’re going to unclog the drain because I tell hold the thing down a little bit longer so more water gets in there. Hold it down. The thing is designed to save water, which is not helping me with the backup in my house. It is designed to use less water. If you use less water, you are going to push less stuff down the drain. It accumulates there and finally, after I don’t know how many years, she does it. I haven’t had a back up since. It is because if you just push it down and let it do its thing.
Ms. Weil: I hold it 1,000, 2,000 and it starts to swirl and then it just stops because the new toilets are like timed almost. It is bizarre.

Mr. Roth: You are correct. I bought the best toilets I could find, and I still had that problem until she held it down just a little bit longer.
Ms. Weil: It works a little bit better, but not great. My mom’s house that I grew up in is now 100 years old, old style. It used to have a septic tank, then they transferred it over to the city sewer. I can remember a handful of times that the toilet would get clogged. Literally through my life a handful. No problems.
Mr. Harris: You are talking New England versus Florida.
Mr. Roth: I understand. It is one of those ongoing situations. Feel free, you have my phone number. Call me at any time.
Ms. Weil: I am spending a fortune on plumbers.
Mr. Roth: It is getting more and more expensive. Their rates are not going down. If that is all, then I am going to let you all tend to your business, but you have my contact information. Please send me the emails about the pedestrian walkway thing. We will figure that stuff out.
Mr. Walker: Thanks for coming.
Mr. Roth: It was my pleasure. Is it always this day? Ms. Weil: The second Friday of each month.
Mr. Roth: I will stop by and say hello and if you have any questions for me, and I will report progress on whatever you guys send to me.
Mr. Hernandez: Thank you very much. I just want to indicate for the record, that Susan Genther has joined us. Susie, do you have any comments for the Board?
Ms. Genther: No.
Mr. Walker: Luis, I just wanted to mention that Larry called me about coming and Sal, who is on his way. I am not sure why Sal is coming.
Ms. Weil: Maybe about the speed bumps.
Mr. Walker: I think Larry’s visit potentially could be beneficial to some of our concerns.
Mr. Harris: We will wait and see.
Mr. Hernandez: The more political figures we get to be getting the request, the more likely that the District is going to be able to accomplish something.
Mr. Harris: Maybe we can get Patricia to attend.

Ms. Weil: School will be over soon so maybe she will be able to come.
Mr. Hernandez: Jose, anything that you need to be presenting to the Board?
Mr. Alvarez: The first thing I have to say is the drains after a massive rainstorm they are working great. So you were right about keeping them free of debris will make them work like an average drain that you would expect to drain. I have a video if you want, so you can see it in action.
Mr. Hernandez: Sure, if you could send that to me, that would be awesome. I would love to have that as part of the District records. Thank you for that.
Mr. Alvarez: The only other quick thing I wanted to mention is the last few times I have been to the pool, in the last 30 to 45 days, there seems to be a combination of people bringing objects to play as games that aren’t really pool safe. Two times I have had to call the attendants over to point them out. I am not sure how they are not able to see it as it is happening without me having to get involved and flag them down. As you know, my daughter got hit by a toy in the pool once. That was a toy train, and I wouldn’t want any other parent to have that, especially if it involves their eye.
Mr. Hernandez: Thank you for bringing that to the attention of the Board. Just for you to know, it is not to give an excuse, but we are still in the process of training the group that we have. We are trying to act as proactively as we can to minimize people from bringing their toys. We have signs. We encourage people not to bring those toys at the time that they are coming in, but just for you to know, last month alone we had almost 10,000 people coming to this facility. It is getting to be that people are coming back. Part of what we are going to be discussing as we get into the workshop is that the direction that we want to be getting from the Board is we don’t want to be making this to be perceived as a jail or a place that now everybody is discouraged from doing anything. We want to be following the direction of the Board for items that are going to make sense and make the entire process easier. Thank you very much for letting the people at the front desk be aware of anything that you are noticing and please continue to do so. Just for you to know, we are proactively acting on the management side to minimize the involvement of the other members and the actual staff personnel gets to be proactively resolving those issues as soon as possible.

Mr. Alvarez: I appreciate that. It is just one of those things that you want to go and have a good time, but you realize how quickly it could turn when it just takes one person to throw an object that is not meant to be in the pool, and it goes in the wrong direction.
Mr. Hernandez: We are in complete agreement with you, and I am 100% percent in acceptance of your statement, and I am a full complete believer that what you are asking is the least that needs to be done for the comfort of those who are coming to the facility.
Mr. Alvarez: Thank you. That is all.
Mr. Hernandez: Alright. With that part being done we will go into 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)

A.	Landscape Discussion and Update with BrightView
B.	Clubhouse and Field Services Update
C.	Discussion of Proposed Fiscal Year 2023 Budget
1)	Club Personnel
a)	Insurance and Benefits
b)	Events
c)	Summertime
D.	Consideration of the Minutes of the April 8, 2022 Meeting – Comments, Corrections and Additions
E.	Update on Any Other Projects and Workshop Items

Segment III:

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS	Authorization	or	Approvals
Requiring Board Action for Items Discussed During Workshop
A.	Approval of the Minutes of the April 8, 2022 Meeting
B.	Any Other Approvals
Mr. Hernandez: The first action that I need to be asking the Board to taking is approval of the minutes of the April 8, 2022, with no changes.

On MOTION by Ms. Weil seconded by Mr. Torres with all in favor, the Minutes of the April 8, 2022 Meeting were approved.

Mr. Hernandez: In any other matters what we are going to be doing is just direction provided by the Board. Just to be on the safe side, I will be asking for a motion to authorize that the administrative action that we are authorizing in the workshop for the District manager to be taking in the Club facility through the summer gets to be approved.

On MOTION by Mr. Harris seconded by Ms. Weil with all in favor, motion to authorize the administrative action for the District manager to be taking in the Clubhouse for the summer as discussed during the workshop was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: I don’t have anything else in that part that requires Board approval.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Discussion	of	Procedures	for
the General Election
Mr. Hernandez: We have a general election that is coming. As part of that and as for information for everybody, seat #1 is Laurie. In order to avoid any kind of conflicts and problems, what we are doing is we are providing and reminding each individual that seats will be for election to know exactly what the seat is. Part of what we are trying to avoid is that if anyone is interested in running for a seat and he or she doesn’t know which seat she is going to be running for, we may have two supervisors running one against the other. Saens you are in seat #2, which is up for election this year as well. Then Al you are in seat #4, that is for election. What reads and what is described at this point is that anyone who is interested in running for those seats needs to be go and register with Miami-Dade County Supervisor of Elections in a time that starts at noon on June 13 and closes at noon on June 17. Candidates need to go to Miami-Dade County and we are providing the address. Those that are in those seats, if you are interested to continue providing services, you need to go and register for those seats. Unless anyone has any questions in regard to that matter.
Mr. Walker: When is the next election? Two more years after this one? Mr. Hernandez: Yes, sir.

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Staff Reports
A.	Attorney
Mr. George: I apologize my report is going to be pretty lengthy, just kidding. No
report.
Mr. Harris: Thank you Gregory.

B.	Engineer
Mr. Hernandez: There is nothing to be presented as part of the engineer. He has been assisting us with the matters for the permits. He is working right now to be able to provide the report that needs to be given to the state and to the county before June 30th.

C.	Club Manager
1)	Monthly Report
2)	Ratification of Agreement with Little Swimmers
Mr. Harris: Having come back to the gym and seeing the changes in staff, I hear people seem to be motivated in keeping the place clean and set up properly. Thank you for the new dumbbells, the overall cleanliness and the people who are showing up on time to open up the facility. Donna, I was on the chin up machine against the wall that goes to the bathrooms, and I said wow, my wife must have used the new laundry detergent on my shirt, and I looked down and there were these air fresheners that had been put in all different parts of the facility.
Ms. Bonilla: It is very important to maintain fresh odors.
Mr. Harris: Yes, and I was very impressed, so thank you for all of that and the little touches to the plants. You had orchids out, you had little duck baskets out at Easter. It is really looking very taken care of and paying attention to details so thank you.
Ms. Bonilla: Thank you for acknowledging. The crew and I really want everyone to have an exceptional time and they want to actually make sure that everyone enjoys the new décor and some tasteful seasonal touches every now and then.
Mr. Harris: Thank you for that. I also want to acknowledge Ben. I called him on three different occasions for different things, from a beehive on the ground to a duck squashed in the street to a sidewalk handicap cap being destroyed, and Ben has responded very quickly by finding solutions to things and getting things done. I try not to call Luis all the time because you have 15 marbles in the air at the same time as does Ben, but Ben is around, and he sometimes can get to the property and see what is going

on. Thank you for that and I wanted to let him know and let you know that he has been very responsive.
Mr. Hernandez: Thank you for sharing that with everybody, but at the same time, we are here just to help. Just let us know how we can help. I am speaking not only on my behalf but from all those from GMS who are working for the District. We are here just to assist you in any way we can.
Mr. Harris: I appreciate it and the property is looking great. There are a lot of things being done, so thank you. I see they finally planted the flowers around the monument in the front, Alex’s monument. Could I request that the cover page for the monthly meeting gets to be updated instead of showing the dirty monument with the mold on it. Could you show the clean monument with the nice flowers around it?
Mr. Hernandez: Yes.

D.	Field Manager
E.	CDD Manager
Mr. Harris: One minor thing it doesn’t look like the porters are spending as much time going around cleaning around the benches. There are people who sit there and have their coffee or water or whatever and they are throwing debris on either side, so they have to go in and actually look in front of the benches instead of racing down the sidewalk.
Mr. Quesada: That was addressed recently.
Mr. Hernandez: Not only that, I would like the Board to know exactly what is going on. Whenever they find someone that is a good employee, then they get to be pulled from that to somewhere else. It is always kind of the newest person that they have that they throw into that service. At the same time, depending on how many people they actually have for services, sometimes they get to be used for other services. That is one item that Ben and I have been paying attention to. For instance, yesterday don’t get me wrong, the lady was helping by cleaning the weeds that was around some of the plants at one of the monuments, but we are not paying her to do that. When I was driving with Ben, I mentioned it to him and instead they should be going to the benches and keeping what is meant for that individual. I do appreciate the fact that the person cares about the

community to go and do that labor, but I want to take advantage of using it just exclusively for what is being meant to be in the contract.
Mr. Harris: I had mentioned the damage to the handicapped yellow. Mr. Hernandez: We are working on it.
Mr. Harris: Well, my thing is, I don’t know if that was caused by a piece of equipment, but we have these two or three boys that have been around in this community and one of them drives a yellow bike and he rides down the middle of the street stopping traffic going down Mediterranean specifically. I don’t know which community he is in.
Mr. Hernandez: I can tell it is five kids. Mr. Harris: He is the ringleader.
Mr. Quesada: They have wide tires on their bikes right?
Mr. Harris: They get a joy out of stopping people driving. If you are coming around these curves on Mediterranean.
Ms. Weil: They go Pacific too.
Mr. Hernandez: Specifically, for that part of the handicap ramps, number one, those have already been ordered but as everybody knows, it is taking forever to get anything. Part of my question when I was talking to the vendor was: can you explain why this is happening?
Mr. Harris: Oh, it has happened in more than one? Mr. Hernandez: Oh, yes.
Mr. Harris: I only see the one.
Mr. Hernandez: It is more than one place and what he was explaining to me is that the ones that we have in many places are not the ones that you can screw into the concrete. They get to be installing them at the same time that they are pouring the concrete and it gets to be tied up with the concrete. The one that is affecting us the most is the porter vehicle that is using those ramps to be going in and out. Since this is something that wears off now, what is going against the concrete, it has movement. When you have the movement it can break anywhere. The problem that you have with those ones is that you cannot tie them to the concrete. You need to remove them and install new ones. The new ones are coming with screws that eliminate that movement.
Mr. Harris: I was thinking it was rubber: I thought it was hard plastic, but it is rubber.

Mr. Hernandez: And it wears off by the vehicle going in and out. It’s a work in progress that we haven’t finished.
Mr. Harris: I just happened to see one and I figured I would mention it. I mentioned it to Ben, and he said that you guys were on it. Another point for Ben.
Mr. Hernandez: We included, for information, on the club side what was being discussed last time on the fees. Once again, the Board has already given us direction and authority. If anyone sees anything that you have any questions on, please let us know, but those are the fees that were authorized. We have not allowed anyone to rent this facility because City Furniture has not finished it, passing it all to us. The reason that we have not rented it is we don’t want anyone to come use the facility and then City Furniture comes back and says that it is your problem, because someone did it, it wasn’t us. We want to finish everything with them before we allow anyone to rent the facility. If everything goes well, that is supposed to be next week. As soon as we get to that point, I will be letting the Board know so that you can come and provide me your comments if you have any before we get to be declaring this to be complete.
Mr. Harris: And they replaced the blinds in the gym too. Mr. Walker: You said we will be able to rent next week?
Mr. Hernandez: The only part that we have right now is the tables that I am aware of. Just bringing the Board to be aware of this one can be separated easily so we will be able to move everything to one room.
Mr. Harris: So that can be moved?
Mr. Hernandez: Yes, you can separate it easily. The only ones who are going to be allowed to move it is District staff. We are not going to be letting members move anything. Part of the reason of the fee is that they are going to be finding an empty room. We are even discussing taking that big credenza because our biggest issue is, if we leave it, people are going to be using it as a table and then we are going to be suffering the consequences. Right now it is empty but the part that I am trying to define what would the right tools to be able to move it out and get it back in with security that nothing gets to be damaged.
Mr. Walker: My question is when are we going to start renting it?

Mr. Hernandez: As soon as we get the ok, that City Furniture has finished. What we have been doing so far is anyone who has expressed an interest in renting it. We are taking the names and numbers and as soon as we know that it is done, we are going to start calling them to let them know that they can come and rent it.
Mr. Harris: So hopefully by June 1st. Mr. Hernandez: Yes.
Mr. Walker: What is not done?
Mr. Hernandez: The only part that we are missing is the tables and the mobile birds. That one is going to be installed if everything goes in the way that I think it will be next Wednesday. They are coming to install that.
Mr. Walker: The tables you are referring to?
Mr. Hernandez: All those tables are round. They are not strong enough, so City Furniture, when they saw them, they agreed that they are going to replace them. Initially, the intent was to be delivered yesterday but they are having problems that they did not have enough stock. I was promised last night that next week they are bringing those tables.
Ms. Bonilla: In addition, Luis, if you don’t mind me sharing when they come to install the flying birds, we will have an alternative entrance to the facility. We will be using the side entrance to avoid any mishaps or liabilities or anything like that.
Ms. Weil: Thank you Donna.
Mr. Hernandez: The only last thing that I have before I let you go is we have replaced one set of the dumbbells. The second set has already been ordered but in the meantime, we have received a request, from the City of Miami.
Ms. Weil: The City of Miami Police Department has their own gym and they have requested the donation of our old dumbbells.
Mr. Hernandez: It will be another governmental entity; it will be providing the benefit that we will know who are the ones using it and it will be provided for good use. Unless the Board has anything different to say, I we will be asking for a motion declaring the old dumbbells as excess inventory. After 15 years of use, we need to get rid of them and the benefit is that it will be passed to a governmental entity.

On MOTION by Mr. Walker seconded by Ms. Weil with all in favor, a motion declaring the old dumbbells as excess inventory was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: Moving onto financial reports.

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Financial Reports
A.	Approval of Check Run Summary
B.	Balance Sheet and Income Statement
Mr. Hernandez: You will find in Tab A the check run summary. Tab B is the balance sheet and income statement. Unless anyone has any questions, a motion to accept the financials would be in order.

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

SEVENTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Supervisors Requests
Mr. Hernandez: Are there any Supervisors requests at this time? Mr. Torres: I read someplace the lake #9 is the one by Mirage? Mr. Hernandez: Yes.
Mr. Torres: That is the one they are going to do today, the garbage. Mr. Quesada: They already put a post with a garbage receptacle.
Mr. Hernandez: The sign I already saw the one for “Don’t feed the birds” or something like that.
Mr. Quesada: Don’t feed the animals, yes. He already put it in? Mr. Hernandez: Yes.
Mr. Quesada: As of Monday, we were still waiting on the sign but the rest of it was installed.
Mr. Hernandez: It came yesterday afternoon.
Mr. Torres: And the garbage can they are going to do today too? Mr. Hernandez: The garbage can was already installed.
Mr. Torres: When?
Mr. Hernandez: The day before yesterday I believe.

Mr. Torres: I walked the dog yesterday over there and I didn’t see any garbage. Mr. Hernandez: My understanding was that it was installed this past Wednesday,
but after the meeting we can go and check.
Mr. Torres: I didn’t see anything. They are going to put it by the bench?
Mr. Quesada: Yes. We did a similar setup where you have the tax dollars at work at the outdoor gym. They added a sign about the children since we were worried about crossing the street. The same idea and same concept, but I believe the work was done a day apart.
Mr. Torres: I didn’t see anything yesterday. Mr. Quesada: Ok, let me follow up.
Mr. Torres: The other thing back there by the lake. Also on this section here the plants there, they look like they are dying, and they show a palm tree there that is going to be replaced?
Mr. Hernandez: Let’s do this. As soon as we are done, let’s go to that area and let’s identify what is missing and we can explain to you what the plan is.
Mr. Torres: Ok.
Mr. Quesada: If you look at Rusty’s report there is plants like that, and it is listed in the report that they were recently treated.
Mr. Hernandez: That one is dead. If he is treating that one we are in trouble.
Ms. Bonilla: Excuse me ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you so much. I have to go now and attend to my other responsibilities. Have a great day and I will see you guys periodically during the week.
Mr. Hernandez: Thank you Donna. Ms. Bonilla: Bye everyone.

May 13, 2022	East Homestead CDD

EIGHTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Adjournment
Mr. Hernandez: Unless anyone has any other District business to discuss, a motion to adjourn would be in order.

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