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 Monday, April 26, 2021 at 9:00 a.m. at the Oasis Community Clubhouse, 171 NE 301h Road, Homestead, Florida 33033.

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Susan Genther Laurie Weil Raymond Harris Stephan Walker

Also present were:

Luis Hernandez Vanessa Steinerts Alex Garcia
Al Torres

Segment I:

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS

Chairman
Vice Chairman Assistant Secretary Assistant Secretary

District Manager District Counsel
NFC Amenity Management Resident (via telecommunication)

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: As part of the audience comments I need to start by apologizing. It was originally my intent to include two items that for some reason did not make it to the agenda. The first one is to include on the public record what I have already been passing to District Supervisors being with it the exchange of emails that has been taking place with Mr. Steele about his concerns with the COD. The District has been able to answer all his

concerns. The only part that I do want, and it will be included as part of the record is that the part that I want everybody to be aware of is that despite of what is being said, despite of who gets to be blamed or who kind of gets to be put in front of the bus, all that matters is that it gets to be presented to the Board and will be passed to the Board. That is the part that I want everybody to be aware of. Second, is that unfortunately we cannot always please everybody. In this particular case the gentleman is asking for a request that cannot be obtained and presented as of yet. We don't know when this is going to be coming back to normal. We don't know when Covid-19 is going to be allowing us to come back to normal. With that being said does any other Supervisors have any statements to make? Let's start with the ladies.
Ms. Genther: Well, mine is kind of long. There seems to be some confusion where what this gentleman is understanding , and it is my understanding he is presenting it for the community at large. Ray, can you confirm that?  I have only seen one round of comments to somebody else's post, but he had said in one of his messages that he was going to go to a different venue or something like that. I took that to mean Next Door, but I could be wrong.
Mr. Hernandez: In his initial email he claimed that he was going to be suing us for return of his fees. He claims that the fees that is paying for the Club since he hasn't been able to enjoy it needs to be reimbursed.
Ms. Genther: I thought he was referring to fees for the time he was spending sending emails. I was confused for a minute. I have some things I want to say. I want to get these on the record in case anybody does want to check this. As of Saturday, and we will hopefully get more information later in the meeting, but as of Saturday in our zip code which is pertinent, because it is only zip code people who come to the Clubhouse, as of Saturday there were 10,254 cases within just our zip code. It is continuing to increase. It is going up, up, up. I thought let me research, so I started calling about the pools. I couldn't find anything in the County information specifically about the pools, so I called 311. I spoke to the nicest woman named Yolanda. She assured me that the County pools are closed even now with the latest resolution that was updated as of April - maybe last Friday. She said that the pools were closed however I did find one South Dade Park does have a pool. Their hours in the summertime which I am not sure when the summer hours actually begin, the hours that the pool will be open is from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m., no mornings or nights. That is in the

summer. In the non-summer months, Monday through Friday, it is 4:00 p.m. till 7:00 p.m. and then on Saturday and Sunday, it is open from 1:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. That is the County pool, the only one I could find. The City of Miami, this is not related to the Covid situation, but something that we need to be aware of, right now the City of Miami pools, no unaccompanied minors under the age of 18 will be granted entry unless they are accompanied by someone.  Nobody under 18 goes in the area if they are unaccompanied. I thought that was interesting. It has nothing to do with Covid, but I am just saying it is something of interest. However the City of Miami pool, the swim time is limited to 50 minutes per visit and there is no lingering on the pool deck allowed. The City of Homestead, the YMCA , that is a 1 ½ miles or 2 miles from here, it is closed, and I don't know why.    I don't what their plans are for reopening. It is not open at all. There is a City of Homestead park Robbie George Park their hours right now for their pool is Monday through Friday 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The capacity is limited to 50 people and they are only allowed to swim for 45 minutes per session. What we are doing with our pool here is actually more than what the City of Homestead, the City of Miami and the County are doing. We are open more hours.
Mr. Walker: Do you think it might be helpful if you sent a summary of your statstics to him?
Ms. Genther: He has been told.
Mr. Walker: I never heard it like you just put it together .
Ms. Genther: There is this nifty guidebook that the County has produced, and a lot of that information is in there. I didn't save the file but here is copy, maybe send it him.
Mr. Walker: That really gets to the core of his complaint. We are doing more., Mr. Hernandez: Let her finish and then we can do other comments.
Ms. Genther: The gyms, the County has said gyms can be open, so I thought , well in one of his emails he said he had to join a different gym because he couldn't come here because of restricted hours so he joined a 24-hour gym. I am not sure which one he did specifically join. The one that we have right up the street that is called 24-hour Fitness is not open 24 hours right now. Their hours are only from 6:30 a.m. until 11:00 p.m. which is only a little bit more than what we are open except we do have the restrictions during the mid-day hours. Right now they are not open. They do have a pool there however, it is

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restricted to only three people at a time who can be using the pool. There is no reservation system so somebody might show up, he might show up to use the pool and there are three other people already in there, and there is no time restriction so those people could stay in there for three or four hours. He would have to sit there and wait or come back.  There is no control on that other than limited to three people. It is a first come first serve thing. The other place that we have right near here is Planet Fitness. They are open 14 hours now. They are still doing you have to have the masks and things like that, the social distancing. They are in fact open. He might get more gym service at Planet Fitness. One last thing and it is not pertinent per se to us, but in his emails, he did say that well the whole County is back to business as normal. They are not. I heard on WPLG news yesterday morning and I confirmed it today on the County website that the public transportation is expanding their capacity from the limits that they had it but they are still very limited capacity on the buses, the Metrorail and the Metromover. Those things are not back to business as normal either. I just wanted it said I think we are doing a fine job plus the fact that we have the gym renovation going on, we have the issue with our gym anyway. I am not sure I understand really his complaint other than he is confused about what is going on out in the County. I am done, but I do have these things if anyone wants them.
Mr. Hernandez: Thank you very much.
Mr. Harris: To continue what you were saying, the State of Florida over the weekend got the dubious distinction of reaching 2.2 million total positive cases of Covid-19 in the State of Florida. On the 24th of April we had a total number of cases and some of these numbers vary a little bit when you get the CDC site and what the local news media show. I am going off the CDC site which says that on the 23rd of April there was 7,341 cases for that one day.
Ms. Weil: Those are new cases?
Mr. Harris: Yes, new positive cases. I had to go back to February to see where those cases had spiked. On that website it has a bar graph that shows the daily rates. It is a bar in yellow, so it is very distinct on a black background. It clearly shows it spiked significantly since Spring Break week. City of Homestead has historically shown 20 to 30% of the daily case rates are within our County. There was no update on it today for Homestead, but we are at 41% total positive cases for our City. On a 70,000, 41% of our population of 70,000 on the 2020 census has tested positive for Covid-19. When you have somebody who is

making comments and doesn't know the facts, when you understand the facts and Susan, thank you for going through and finding all of that data, but I don't need the data. If I am a responsible parent or resident, I am not going to go to any gathering that is going to expose me when we have those kinds of numbers going on. It is not going down in the variance that are coming of this virus. They are not certain as to how the vaccine is going to develop immunity for different strains. I say we are doing the right things, but one of the things that we had talked about at the last meeting, and I think Alex will probably be interested, is we were going to address the hours.
Mr. Hernandez:  Those were already addressed.  Those were increased.  The gym is open from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m.
Mr. Hernandez was inaudible at this time.
Mr. Harris: Weren't we going to put the sign boards out to notify people? Mr. Hernandez: They have been letting everybody know.
Mr. Hernandez was inaudible at this time.
Mr. Harris: Was I mistaken that they were going to put the sign boards out at the entrance?
Mr. Hernandez: Alex did you do any of that? Ms. Garcia: I am sorry.
Mr. Hernandez: Did you do any of the signs being posted to let the community know that the hours of operation of the gym had been expanded to the entire day and letting them know the revised hours for the pool and the definition of sunrise and sunset?
Mr. Walker: Also we should be letting people know that they can stay an extra hour if it is not busy.
Mr. Hernandez: That part was not part of the sign. That has already been passed onto each one of the employees. What they are doing is a few minutes before the end of the session since they already have the list of how many people are coming, they are just walking by and letting them know that if they choose to stay, and there is capacity, they can stay. It is my understanding that has been implemented. The other two changes, the intent from the Board, the request was to notify the community. Has anything been done besides what was being included by the entrance?

Ms. Garcia: No, and on top of that, when our members come in or call, we also inform them that there are additional time slots available. If they are looking to stay a little longer for an additional hour that slot will be available if the capacity has not been met.
Mr. Harris: Alex, you were supposed to put the signs outside on the center island and at the entrance where those A-frames are to notify people who are driving by, because not everybody who may want to use the facility is going to come and find out what is going on if they assume that things haven't changed. You are only notifying people who are currently coming versus people who may want to be coming.
Ms. Garcia: I am sorry, you are breaking up a lot and I really did not understand what you were asking me.
Mr. Hernandez: Don't worry. I will make sure that it gets to be posted.
Ms. Weil: I just have one follow-up comment to what Susie and Ray are talking about. As part of the responsible Board that we have been talking every month about the hours and the cleanliness and about keeping the community safe we have all been fully vaccinated, yet we sit in these meetings fully masked unless we are speaking and socially distanced.
Ms. Genther: In the County protocols and I think it also said with the gyms, it is in the County stuff where it says that the gyms should allow time for staff to adequately clean in between. I think they referred to classes, but I am going to expand it to that they need to be cleaning in the gyms regularly and that is something that we allow also which is another reason for having the appointments, to allow that time for the cleaning.
Mr. Hernandez: I think that the part that is important for the record to reflect is that the main portion that is being addressed is that the Board did not care. What gets to be proving not only by the different points that have been made, by the research that some of the Supervisors have made, it is that is being proven on the record that the Board does care, and I think that needs to be said. In regard to the point that you were saying to answer him back as you have seen all the different subjects he has presented, I think, and I speak for myself, I have been successful in maintaining everything in a positive way meaning with it that anything sour that has been said. I don't even touch base with it. If anything that is misinformation, I provide the information and at this point everything has been quantified and defined has already been told and said to the gentleman. Furthermore, it is important

to highlight that it was on April 12th that the curfew for Miami-Dade County was eliminated. Even if there were to be 24-hour gyms they have to close from I believe it is 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. for people who are not allowed to be out in the street.
Ms. Genther: Because of the curfew.
Mr. Hernandez: That is correct. Once again, the gentleman is making that statement, I don't think anything further needs to be done at this time unless he gets to be coming with another subject. Everything that he has addressed has been responded to and the bulk of the information has been provided.
Ms. Genther: I just wanted to say one other thing, and again, I believe that it is in that handbook. It is probably in the actual resolution which by the way is Order #33-20 of April 5th and it was extended on April 21st.   It says in one of the two places that what is set forth in the Executive Order is the minimum, and the companies or entities may impose stricter guidelines then what the County is suggesting. What the County is saying is the very minimum and so if we go above and beyond what the County is saying, we have over 10,000 cases in our zip code. If we go above and beyond, we are entitled to do that. That is something else that needs to be clarified . There seems to have been some confusion about how authority makes decisions.
Mr. Harris: To answer your question, 10,000 in our zip code and 28,000 plus in Homestead positive cases. The gentleman Mr. Steele, has he ever stated the time that he wanted to come to the facility and was unable to use our facility?
Mr. Hernandez: No. The complaint that he is suggesting is that it is extremely difficult for him to call and set up an appointment.
Ms. Genther: He cannot call anytime between the hours of 9 and 5.
Mr. Hernandez : That was the part that was stated. Once again, whenever negative statements are being given, I don't pay attention to those. The part that is important for the Supervisors to know is number one, that you have been kept informed. Number 2 is that based on those, I have personally come to see people who come to see and use the facility. I have been asking them how they feel. Contrary to what is being said, people are extremely happy with the steps that have been taken. Many people have expressed comfort and they feel safe in the way of all the decisions that have been made. The part that you were indicating early, every time we have a break for the pool or the gym, those five or ten minutes

that are being taken is so that the person can come and clean entirely the area that was being used. The District and District staff have been trying to do our best, and for the small research that I did for the people that were coming to the pool and they gym, the community appears to be seeing it, at least the ones that are coming appears to be comfortable with what is being done.
Mr. Harris: I think Luis has gone above and beyond to try to assist this gentleman informing him of what we are doing to protect the entire community and it is in the best interest of keeping informed information like you had received Susie and that I get with the virus infections in the community. I think we are being proactive and from what Luis has done in polling the people who are coming here that they are very satisfied, and we are being cautious in trying to protect the people in our community in this unprecedented time. So thank you Luis.
Mr. Hernandez: I like what I do. That is the only part that I can say.
Ms. Genther: I think that the community, they might not realize all that is involved. think that the community members that come to the Clubhouse have appreciated what has been done once they realize what we were doing and why. Ok, I am done.
Mr. Walker: Is there still a mandate in Miami-Dade that you have to wear a mask in public?
Mr. Hernandez: Yes.
Mr. Walker: That is what I read.
Mr. Hernandez: Not only that, the resolution that you referred to from Miami-Dade the one from April 5, Mr. Steele has been provided with a copy. He received a copy at the time that I replied back to him. He did have on that the webpage where it was obtained. The new one that she was referring, he will have access to go and see it if he wants to go ahead and obtain that information.
Ms. Genther: There is still a limit of the number of people in a gathering and that might pertain to our gym as well I am not sure. I realize that we wouldn't have, well we typically don't have ten people from one group show up to the gym but there is the limit of the number of people in gatherings.
Mr. Hernandez: Not only that, that was the part that I was explaining to the Club staff that when people are in the pool area, if they are gathering and they have 20 people because

they are having a game or whatever, just making something up, with the regulation from Miami-Dade County restricting it to not to exceed 10, even if several members of the community get to be coming to the pool at the same time, they still can only be in groups of no more than ten.
Ms. Genther: And they are not supposed to interact.
Mr. Hernandez: Correct, getting the distance of six feet. Moving on the last item that I did not include, and I apologize for that, I will be sending that email this afternoon. I did receive an email from Ray, and I am going to be working on getting the specifics to see how that can benefit the community.   For those of you to know there is a new way to describe or make art that is being done by utilizing the electric boxes throughout the community . What they do is they come and those are being painted. An artist will come and express themselves. Do you have a picture with you?
Mr. Harris: It is fish and lily pads and stuff.
The conversation was inaudible at this time.
Mr. Hernandez: The City of Weston has done the same.  They hired a company to do it. This is a little more creative because you can have artists from within the City expressing their work. As I get to be receiving specific information on how that can be applied to our particular situation, I will be keeping everybody posted.
Mr. Walker: Ray, I think pictures of Supervisors would be great.
Mr. Hernandez: The only concern that I have is this was being done in the City of Weston probably a year ago. They came, they painted them, and it looks magnificent. It is really beautiful. The part that I am afraid of is that since you are kind of giving an incentive to the artist, how are... Mr. Hernandez could not be understood at this time.
Mr. Harris: A lot of times they will do it for nothing because they get recognition. It is a win-win.
Mr. Hernandez: It creates the perfect environment for interaction between the City, artists, the COD and the community to be proactively involved in all that is taking place. see a lot of positives.

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS	Consideration	of	Resolution
#2021-06 Requesting Assistance from the City and County to Control High Speed of Vehicles on the District's Roads
Mr. Hernandez: Moving to the next item you have in your agenda, Resolution #2021-
Just bringing everybody up to speed, and once again trying to make and interact the concerns of the COD and the City and County, this is a resolution that is going to be passed to both the City and Miami-Dade County to let them be aware of the concerns of the COD and the need to implement some traffic calming devices within the COD area. With that being said, can you just help to understand what the purpose of the resolution is and what needs to be done?
Ms. Steinerts : The resolution is similar to the resolution that this Board adopted and sent to the Governors office. The exception here is that this would go to the City of Homestead to request some sort of traffic calming measures within the District. I did include the last incident from December with photos of the traffic accident. If you know of any other specific incidents that you think should be included, I can do that.
Mr. Harris: There is one on April 11 at approximately 9:00 p.m. on Monterrey Point which is another community which is just about 2 miles from us. It is on East Mowry Drive. Mowry Drive is on the backside of Barbados and Capri. Across the street is East Mowry Drive. In a gated community called Monterrey Point, a 4-year boy was killed by someone driving in the community. The boy was allegedly helping his mother take groceries out of her car. On the same day, earlier that day at approximately 12:30, I looked out my window in my home in Antillean inside of the community, and saw a white Dodge doing a burnout in front of my house. Now the burnout was being done going into the community where it is on a sharp curve that turns sharply into the community and going over a speed bump. The perpetrator was confronted by our HOA president who happens to be a City of Homestead policeman and the guy doing the burnout was an ex-policeman. He apologized profusely. He had just bought the vehicle and was showing off for his friend who was a neighbor but doing that in the community God forbid. There are lots of little kids that ride their bikes up and down the street around that corner which he couldn't see. If I had a video camera at the corner at the entrance to Antillean and other parts of this community, and saw the high

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rates of speed that cars and motorcycles go through those curves, all the people who think they own race cars are going through those S curves at high rates of speed and it is blind as you come around those corners. Again, if you are walking across the street going to the outside gym and somebody is racing from 147th heading northwest you can see them. You can't see somebody walking across that street. I walked across the street in front of my house and literally listened to see if I could hear a car coming before I walk across the street. If there is a car coming from the corner, which is approximately 300 or 400 yards away, he is going to get me before I get across the street. There is no way they are going to stop. It is just out of control. We have talked about it over and over again. The accidents that you talked about, those two situations I am sure in that community, Monterrey Point they have speed limits in there too. The person who killed the little boy was a woman who had children.
Mr. Walker: Luis who has the authority to control the speed? Mr. Hernandez: Miami-Dade County.
Mr. Walker: What else can we do besides a resolution?
Mr. Hernandez: Nothing because the District has through the engineer, already asked if anything can be done and the initial response was that those are County roads and that we can do nothing with.
Mr. Walker:   Do we have a representative in Miami-Dade representing us?   We have a commissioner. Do we know who it is?
Mr. Hernandez: I don't know off the top of my head, but I can research and get you the name.
Mr. Walker: I think we ought to write a letter to the commissioner. Maybe that would help, an appeal to him as he represents us.
Mr. Hernandez: The intent of this document, keep in mind there are two types of
powers. The one that each one of you as a resident of the City of Homestead can have because you are going to be electing people from the City and the County, therefore, they will be presenting some interest. So each one of you individually will have that power. The intent of the document is that the document is going to be expressing as a COD Board what is your concerns. Now you are acting in representation of this community of all those 2,400 units that have seen this problem. The one item that I noticed when I was reading it is that initially I believe that the intent was to have not only the City, but the County as well. There

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are portions of the roads at 152nd for instance that are Miami-Dade County, 147th is Miami­ Dade County but there are portions that are City of Homestead, and then other portion comes back into Miami-Dade County.
Ms. Weil: Are those roads that are County roads are they within the District or are they outside the District?
Mr. Hernandez: In order for you to be able to come over here, you need to be using 152nd, Mediterranean it is my understanding that it is also part of Miami-Dade County.
Ms. Weil: That was something I wanted to know about whether, I thought the roads within the District were City of Homestead jurisdiction.
Mr. Hernandez : Give me just one second.
Ms. Weil: In terms of traffic enforcement, the County may own the roads, but the enforcement if you are within the City of Homestead would be the City of Homestead Police Department.
Mr. Hernandez: One of the incidents that we had on 152nd and Pacific there was an incident, a big accident approximately two months ago. Part of what I think that needs to be done is pictures showing how drastic the incident was, but what we need to be providing is a list of incidents that we are aware of. Supervisors can assist by letting you know the one that they have. I took note of a couple that I know so that she will be able to include those as part of the reason for the request. Once again 152nd I know for a fact that is Miami-Dade County and it is the only one that you can come to the community. The second way that you can come is through 147th and that one as well is Miami-Dade County.
Ms. Steinerts: I did write this in terms of the District boundaries. As the Board you are requesting traffic calming devices within the District.
Mr. Hernandez: Your point is that we can't put anything on 152nd and nothing on

147th.

Mr. Walker: Ray, the racetrack in front of your home, is that City of Homestead? Mr. Harris: Yes.
Mr. Walker: Honestly somebody is going to get killed. It is not if, it is when.
Mr. Harris: We have already seen it happen with that poor little boy. That was inside

a gated community. Monterrey Point is on the other side of Mowry Drive.
Mr. Walker: We have been working on this Luis for how long?

Mr. Harris: Years .
Mr. Walker: We are getting nowhere.  We are not getting anybody's attention.
Nobody is doing anything.
Mr. Hernandez: Sadly, and unfortunately, it is a common event throughout not only Miami-Dade County, but I would say throughout the entire state of Florida. The part that I have seen lately is that Miami Lakes, they have been starting to, even the City of Coral Gables, some attempts to provide calming devices. They have been putting additional roundabouts just to slow traffic down. The other option that has been offered in some of those cities is allowing more humps to be installed so that vehicle will have to slow down. Those humps are being utilized at the pedestrian crossway so that the person will know that they will be seeing the hump and that it is being made in the intent to minimize the speed. The other part that some cities are starting to use and allow, is the speed readers that will let you and remind you of your speed. So once again it is one of those activities that we need to be doing as many times as we can. I think that what you are doing does make sense in the sense that she is limiting it to exclusively to what we have control of. Let's start with something that is likely that we can achieve some results.
Mr. Harris: The thing that concerns me is as I ride up 152nd heading south over where the old sports complex used to be is there are hundreds and hundreds of condos being built and all that traffic has to come down to Campbell Drive to go wherever they are going and you know what is going to happen, people are going to try to start to cut through to go over to 147 th to go around it and come through Pacific. Steve, do you know how many units are being put up there in total?
Mr. Walker: I don't, but it is an enormous amount. It is a Lennar community, it is huge. Mr. Harris: There is three huge sections that are being built.
Mr. Hernandez: You are absolutely right. There are several projects that are in the process of being developed. The intent is that some of them will be coming yes to Campbell Drive, but the others are going to be coming through the Palm.
Mr. Harris: That makes no sense because you have to go all the way around. To go to the one on Palm Drive, you have to go all the way down past the Florida City Outlets onto Route 1 to get there.

Ms. Genther: Don't forget that they are supposedly opening an access to the Turnpike somewhere around Farmlife Road. That will help mitigate that traffic. It is already backing up there at Campbell Drive.
Mr. Walker: Since we are unable to get the police patrol due to the Covid situation, is it legal or a consideration to hire some private security, or is that not possible?
Mr. Hernandez: Private security cannot enforce anything related to traffic. Mr. Walker: Could they help us to slow things down or not?
Mr. Hernandez: Other than tell us the license plate of the vehicle that passes by. We know that the license plate of which we cannot get legally any other information than the license plate and it is not going to be taking us anywhere.
Mr. Walker: Did the police give you a feeling for when they might be able to resume? Ms. Weil: All he has said is as soon as possible.
Mr. Hernandez : The only proactive idea that I can come up with and keep in mind I'm just thinking out loud you already have internet so technically if we install a camera to be looking at vehicles that are coming in and going out now the cameras can determine what the state of the vehicles are. We would be able to obtain that as to what is going on. What would make sense for us rather than buy new cameras is to rent it and install it. The same way we measure the speed there are engineering firms that can provide and make that study for us. If the Board wants, I can check how much that would cost.
Mr. Harris: What about the one at the entrance when you come to the Clubhouse for security, is that the same way?
Mr. Hernandez : That one doesn't tell how fast, it is just a perception.   The part that we need to have is a camera that would allow to know what is the speed that the vehicle is going.
Mr. Harris: Does that record sound?
Mr. Hernandez: I don't know. The camera that we have at the Club they record the sound, whatever is going on outside and at the same time you can talk to them. I can check with traffic engineering firms to see what they have because the only part that I need to be having at this point would be to have access so that they can take the recording, save it somewhere else, put the camera in a place where no one is going to be stealing it. What

we need to be doing basically is renting equipment and paying for the installation and the data that is obtained.
Ms. Genther: Did you say that we have internet access at the outdoor gym? Is there wi-fi there? I could go sit at the benches by the lake and play?
Mr. Hernandez: I don't know that it is open to the public but for the cameras we would have internet.
Ms. Genther: In all seriousness if there was wi-fi over there, that would be pretty cool but then the other statement is you had said something about getting traffic studies from some firm or another, we talked about that several years ago in our process of trying to come up with a solution for this and if I am recalling, those traffic studies were in the neighborhood of $10,000 to $15,000. I am just mentioning that. I don't know even if you want to take your time right now to look into that. I would suggest maybe not.
Mr. Hernandez: You can make all the legal steps to define and see that yes there is a problem. If the City doesn't pay attention, that is why we were first starting with the resolution.
Ms. Steinerts: If you go forward with cameras and record speed there is nothing the District can do with that.  It is not really expert purpose.  You are not traffic enforcement. We can't cite people. We have no police powers in that regard. It is something that you really need to leave to City.
Ms. Genther: It is just evidentiary, so that we have more leverage.
Ms. Steinerts: It is, but we would have to look to see if that is really stretching the District authority, you are not traffic monitors.
Mr. Hernandez: Good point. Once again, one of the items that needs to come back again is the concern is that we all feel that something bad may happen what can we proactively do to prevent it. That is a big concern. Although it is being raised by Vanessa that the District cannot use public funds and do what we are describing unless the City were to be requesting that from the COD, we will be taking it to a grey area to define and sustain why the District is incurring those types of expenses.
Mr. Walker: Who is our counsel person in the City of Homestead who represents us? Mr. Harris: Patricia Fairclough.
Mr. Walker: Can we send her a copy of this and ask for her help?

Mr. Hernandez: She is aware. Once again, the intent with this resolution is to pass on something to not only her, but to all the commissioners and allowing the Board that if anything does happen, at least we can come back and say we told you.
Ms. Genther: If I am not mistaken, Patricia was instrumental in getting the four-way stop there at Mediterranean and 147th. She may have some pull. The other thing I was going to say was talking about we all believe something will happen . I think that is true. One of the police officers who came to one of our meetings he said he was talking about a stop sign on 137th Avenue going to the power plant or maybe a stop light where it took a long time and several really bad accidents before they were able to get anybody's attention. apologize, I can't remember his name right now.
Ms. Weil: I will give you a personal example not from here but in Massachusetts how city government is slow. There was an area that was a very main street busy street , one lane each way, but it was very busy. It is was right out in front of those large senior housing buildings. One night I was coming home driving down that street going about 25 mph, the speed limit was 30, it was misting out and somebody ran across the street dressed all in black. He almost died. I nailed him. He had a lot of damage.
Ms. Genther: That must have been very scary for you.
Ms. Weil: Yes , very scary. It wasn't until then that they decided to repaint after some ten or fifteen years the walk right in front of the building across that street so that it glows.
Mr. Harris: Wow.
Ms. Weil: I just hope that something like that doesn't happen here before the City
acts.
Mr. Hernandez: I think at this point what proactively can be done looking for getting
that response that we need from the City is to start with the resolution that you have in front of you. Once again, if we get to be listing and have a case that we are going to be winning, the fact that this document even gets to be approved by the Board is the copy we send to the City and to the commissioners, even Supervisors can individually start talking to those commissioners that are part of this area, those commissioners that can be part of that solution that we are working on.

Mr. Harris: I think it is a great start and right direction. If you don't make them part of the solution, unfortunately though the only thing that will get their attention is if something bad happens.
Mr. Hernandez: I think that is part of what we need to be listing and again making them aware that there have been incidents where something bad has happened that luckily for us, the lady who had the incident in December, we are lucky that nothing major happened. If you get to be seeing the pictures, it was scary. We were extremely lucky no one was walking.
Mr. Harris: What about the one that took out the light pole? She wasn't even injured. She was sitting on the bench. She literally took out one of those tall light poles right off the base in concrete and she wasn't injured.
Ms. Genther: That is the engineering of her car or there before the light post she would have been in the lake, then what would have happened?
Mr. Harris: Right.
Ms. Genther: It doesn't take long to get past littoral shelf that is right there at the lake edge to go to where it drops down to what sixteen feet or something?
Mr. Harris: The only thing that saved her was we put curbing around the whole community.
Ms. Genther: She is lucky she hit the light post, strange as that sounds. I think the resolution is an excellent idea and as we have said in the past, I am just glad we are trying to move forward with it. We will see if we can get their attention with that. If not, then we figure something else out. We can organize a big protest, seriously at the roundabout,   Luis I am serious. We organize this thing. We have all these people, signs and everything, and we call the news media to come.
Mr. Harris: Susie that is great but the only thing that is going to get their attention is something bad has to happen or somebody gets seriously injured or worse. I have seen that happen in other places. Sad.
Ms. Weil: Yes, just to paint a road.
Mr. Hernandez: I am a strong believer in positive actions. If you get to be at least one of the City Commissioners to be taking under his or her wing this type of project, then that is going to be happening. Usually and typically, politicians, they will be trying to be as

far from any political event unless it is election time. With all that being said, I think that once again, the resolution is a rationale way to try to get and highlight and raise a red flag to the City of the concern that the Board has.
Ms. Genther: Did you just see how fast that car just came flying through here in the parking lot?
Mr. Walker: Well, I just sent a text to Patricia Fairclough who I believe is our City of Homestead rep and I said hope all is well with you. In Isles of Oasis we have a significant speeding problem. No one in the City or the County (those two entities control our streets) has reached out to help with speed control. What could we do in your opinion to get speed bumps, police patrols (we could pay) and electronic speed monitors? Lets us know your thoughts. Thanks, Steve. Maybe it will bring it to her attention.
Ms. Genther: That is really good. That is a good start. Thank you, Steve. Mr. Walker: Then she will see this resolution.
Ms. Genther: We mean business.
Mr. Hernandez: Coming back to business, at this point based on the discussion that we are having, it would be appropriate for the Board to adopt Resolution #2021-06 with the understanding that a list of significant events will be added.

On MOTION by Ms. Genther seconded by Ms. Weil with all in favor, Resolution #2021-06 requesting assistance from the City and County to control high speed of vehicles on the District's roads was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: Anything else that we need with that resolution? Ms. Steinerts: Just the list of incidents.
Mr. Hernandez: We will provide that to you.
Ms. Genther: Isn't that easily obtained like call the City?
Mr. Hernandez: It depends if there are police reports or not.  There are many times that if the parties decide the problem and there are no police reports, it will not show.
Ms. Genther: Ok.

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Approval	of	Agreement	with
Downrite
Mr. Hernandez: The next item that we have on the agenda will be approval of the agreement with Downrite. The portion that I need to be explaining to the Board is that after further review by District staff, the District is not ready to present those agreements. Number one, we will not be able to hire Downrite to be doing both the traffic improvement and the drainage improvements because the total cost will exceed the threshold.
Ms. Steinerts: Or you could go out to bid.
Mr. Hernandez: You would have to go through the seal bid process making sure that we define who the lowest qualified bidder will be is the part that concerns me the most. Right now there is a significant number of new companies that are claiming and just looking to this type of events just to go ahead to complicate that. Rather than wasting time on that particular issue since each one of them separately will not exceed the District has been taking some steps to get a proposal from another reputable company to be doing drainage improvements with the time frame and a price.
Ms. Genther: I just wanted to say considering how long we have been trying to get this done, Jose is not here today, but he doesn't want to hear from us again that it is delayed again, because now we are going to do a sealed bid and it will be another two or three months.
Mr. Hernandez : Once we get to the workshop part of what I am going to be presenting to the Board is precisely what I think needs to be done prior to that irrigation system taking place. Let's move onto the workshop section.

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

Furniture Options Update - Representative from City Furniture
Landscape Improvements Update
Traffic Improvements Update
Drainage Improvements Update
Update on Gym Construction Improvements
Pavers, Problem and Solutions

Update on Building Improvements and any Other Projects and Workshop Items

Segment Ill:

FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS

Authorization	or Requiring		Board Items	Discussed Workshop

Approvals Action	for During

Mr. Hernandez:

Out of the workshop, the only two items that

need to be

presenting from the Board, the only item that will be requiring an action from the Board is the Shenandoah proposals totaling $54,920, meaning that it will be performed to all the indicated subdivisions. For the record, those are going to be Leeward, Leeward 2, Martinique, Mirage, Fiji, Atlantis and Windward.

On MOTION by Mr. Walker seconded by Mr. Harris with all in favor, the proposal from Shenandoah in the amount of
$54,920 for work to be performed at sub-divisions, Leeward, Leeward 2, Martinique, Mirage, Fiji, Atlantis and Winward was approved.

Mr. Hernandez: The next part and just for the record I just want to indicate that finally the Board has agreed to be using the color being the one described as Cortona Gris, being the part FRBE060021 . I will be moving on this and getting that done as soon as I can. The last part that needs to be indicated is that as part of the discussions, there were several items that we had in the workshop. It was being that once again notification to the HOA's about the concerns of keeping all the drainage areas exclusively for drainage nothing else. That will be passed on again. With that being said before we move on, do we still have Al? Al, any comments that you have for the Board, I skipped it without that being my intention the audience comments.  Do you have anything to present or report to the Board at this time?
Mr. Torres: I don't have nothing, thank you.
Mr. Hernandez: Excellent report. Thank you very much sir.

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS	Supervisors Requests
Mr. Hernandez: Are there any Supervisor's requests at this time? Ms. Genther: Did you want to mention the letter on the record?

Mr. Hernandez: I do have it; I will be coming back to it.
Ms. Genther: I think I have talked myself out. I think I have covered everything.
Mr. Hernandez: Perfect. Thank you very much for that. Any other Supervisor's have any other comments? The part that she was indicating and just to have it on our District record , to bring everything up to speed the Board recalls that HUD has presented a claim from a resident that was claiming to have been discriminated because their minor kid, 12 years old at the time was denied access to be coming to use the pool. After all the study that has been done by HUD, they determined that there is no reasonable cause. The case will just die. It is important for everybody to know that the legal cost from the COD was being covered by the District insurance company. There is nothing coming out the District's pocket. With that being said does anyone have any other matters to be discussed?
Ms. Genther: Would the insurance company turn around and try to get those funds from the people? We have nothing to do with that ok.
Mr. Hernandez: The District doesn't have any control. Certainly any insurance company is in the business of making money. I would assume but it is an assumption by myself that they will do diligently any kind of action they can legally take. It is not in the interest of the District, nor the District will be benefiting or affected if they were to be successful in any claim they could make.
Ms. Genther: Ok.
Mr. Hernandez: Does anyone else have anything else to be said? If not a motion to adjourn will be in order.

SEVENTH ORD ER OF BUSINESS	Adjournment

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

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