MINUTES OF MEETING SOUTH...QADE VENTURE
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

The  regular  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Supervisors  of  the  South-Dade  Venture Community Development District was held on Thursday, June 27, 2019 at 4:00 p.m., at the
Waterstone Bay Clubhouse, 1355 Waterstone Way, Homestead, Florida.

Present and constituting a quorum were:

Curtis Cooper Bradley Compton Miguel Aponte Sonia Castro Mike Lopez

Chairman
Vice Chairman Assistant Secretary Assistant Secretary Assistant Secretary

Also present was:

Paul Winkeljohn Scott Cochran Ben Quesada

District Manager District Attorney Clubhouse Director

FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS

Roll Call and Pledge of Allegiance

Mr. Cooper called the meeting to order, and the Pledge of Allegiance was recited by
all who attended the meeting.

SECOND ORDER OF BUSINESS

Approval	of  the  Minutes  of  the May 23, 2019 Meeting

Mr. Cooper:  Moving on to item No. 2, approval of the minutes of the May 23, 2019
meeting. I need a motion for approval.

THIRD ORDER OF BUSINESS

Staff Reports

Mr. Cooper:  Moving on to item No. 3, staff reports, Mr. Attorney?

On MOTION by Ms. Castro seconded by Mr. Compton with all in favor, the Minutes of the May 23, 2019 Meeting were approved.

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Mr. Cochran: Yes, a couple of things. First, you all approved at the last meeting the project for the sidewalk repairs so Ben sent me the proposal from a contractor and I prepared a small project agreement with them, so that's ready to go. The second item is Ben had spoken to me, one of the homeowners from Stonebrook?
Ms. Castro:  Yes, Stonebrook II.
Mr. Cochran: Stonebrook II was asking, I guess they want to install a pool in their backyard and the contractor, it would be a lot easier for them to get their equipment in if they're allowed access to our property behind the homeowner's house and go in that way.
Mr. Cooper:  The FPL easement? Ms. Castro:  No, tract H.
Mr. Cochran: On tract H, correct, rather than going in from the front, so what we've done in other Districts with this situation is, what we do is we prepare a temporary access easement agreement so we're basically giving them a temporary easement on the portion of the property if they need to do that, and only that portion of the property, and then there's like a time limit I think in the draft I prepared, it's like 180 days or something to complete the project, and then it expires. So, that's typically what we do for that and it has the provisions in there if they mess up anything and they have to replace it, and if they don't, then they have to pay us to replace it, and those kinds of things, and indemnity implements, etc.
Mr. Cooper:  Do they pay for your time for preparation of all that?
Mr. Cochran: That's not built into this one, but what we've also done in some other Districts where this has been a recurring issue, or something that we anticipate other homeowners will want to do, is we've actually done a resolution that kind of sets forth a process where they give the District manager certain things to show like the homeowners association approval of it, a proposal of what they're proposing to do, some kind of proof that they own the property, a sketch of the part of our property that they need to access to use it, and then a payment that will cover District's costs, mainly our time basically preparing the agreement and doing that kind of thing. So, we've done that in the past, and I've prepared a draft agreement based on conversations with Ben, and it doesn't have a provision for cost in there, if we want we can add something like that in there, so that will be up to the Board's decision but, I did prepare the draft agreement and like I said, you would do this way and then if you want to in the future, we can prepare a resolution to do
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that. I don't know how much demand there will be for that if that's worth doing here but, if it's something  you guys anticipate happening multiple times it might be something you want to look into.
Ms. Castro: Well, one person did it before and they messed up everything, they didn't ask, we caught him midway and that is why Stonebrook now, because the person was forthcoming, we directed them in this direction and if they are not going to get HOA approval until it's approved by the COD. So, we thank him for being up front, because the other person didn't want to do anything so we actually had to pursue them.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Yes I get it, and I'm just saying I don't how frequent it would be but my theory on it would be to go ahead and adopt this as our standard agreement and then maybe charge like a $200 or $250 per time, obviously you don't put all the cost on the first person because it's drafted for their need but you'd divide it out and eventually it coves our costs.
Ms. Castro:  I only have like 10 or 12 houses. Mr. Winkeljohn:  How much is the pool?
Ms. Castro:  I have no idea, let me get the paperwork. Mr. Lopez: At least $30,000.
Ms. Castro:  I don't think that they provided that information.
Mr. Cochran: One other thing I was going to mention, even though we fall in the easement in there we typically don't record these in the public records, we just kind of have them in case there is an entity and we've got something to go with.
Mr. Lopez:  So, this is not going to be a resolution, it's going to be our standard.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Yes, you would adopt it in this case and then as they come, we'll already have it in the file, we'll just have him brush it up each time.
Ms. Castro: There's no proposal, but this other guy did it, he messed up our stuff and after we went after him, he paid for everything.
Mr. Quesada:  He broke our gate.
Ms. Castro:  Yes, he broke the gate and because it had rained when he did it, he
messed up the sod, and there is nothing to mess up so I don't know if we should really charge him to access from the gate, four houses down.

(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to
hear any one conversation)
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Mr. Lopez:  So, what's the cost for review Scott, can you tell us that?  Do you know, is it $150, is it $100, what is it?
Mr. Cochran: I haven't calculated it.
Mr. Winkeljohn:	What I was saying is, whatever this cost, it will be recovered in
theory.
Mr. Lopez:  Can't we just do an even swap, whatever the cost was to the District to have that reviewed if we pass it on to that one homeowner, and that's it?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Well, the opposite is true then, if you use it again it only costs you
$100 in time, and you charge that person $250. Mr. Lopez:  Ok, I get what you're saying.

(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to hear any one conversation)

Mr. Lopez: What's a fair price?  Can you tell us that? Mr. Cooper:  I think Paul said $250.
Mr. Cochran:  I think in the other District it would be like $300 or something like that, so $250 or $300 somewhere in that ballpark is probably reasonable.
Mr. Cooper:  I would say $250 is fine with me.
Mr. Lopez:  That's fine with me, or why don't we make it easier, $200.
Mr. Compton:  Well, we're kind of just throwing out numbers here, my question is, Scott, what's the amount of time, what's the cost to the District for your time on this?
Mr. Cochran:   Well, I'd have to look back at what it was,  I tracked my time but I haven't added it up yet for that.
Ms. Castro:  So, when you come back with that, then we can set a price.
Mr. Cochran:  If I had to guess it would be somewhere between 1 and 2 hours, that I've sent emails about it and preparing the agreement and things like that.
Ms. Castro:  Ok.
Mr. Cooper:  So, if it's 2 hours, what's that? Mr. Winkeljohn:  About $300.
Mr. Cooper:  Ok.
Mr.  Lopez:	Alright,  so  it will  be $300,  do you want to wait,  I mean  it is your community, do you want to wait?

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Ms. Castro:  Yes, we need to.

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Mr. Cochran: And I would suggest, you can do two parts, I would suggest that you can approve this agreement for this particular thing, and you can do a separate motion adopting it as the policy.
Mr. Aponte: The mentality of it is, he's not paying for it, so this guy won't but they make it up as other people complain.
Ms. Castro:  He has been waiting since the 2nd of this month. Mr. Aponte:  I say we just move.
Mr. Lopez: So, let's try to get some consensus here so we don't stall this person's construction permit and make it more difficult for them to move forward. I mean, would we agree at a number that based off Scott's input is $300 that it's going to cost the District for this review?
Mr. Cochran:  I think that's a reasonable estimate yes. Mr. Lopez:  Does management agree with that as well? Mr. Winkeljohn:  That sounds good to me.
Mr. Lopez: Alright.  Does that sound ok with you Mr. Chairman?
Mr. Cooper:  $300, yes, we just need a motion.

(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to hear any one conversation)

Mr. Winkeljohn:
reimbursement.

So, a motion to authorize the easement with the addition of a

Mr. Compton:  I'll make the motion to approve the easement agreement as drafted by Mr. Cochran, subject to the homeowner paying the attorney's fees of $300.
Ms. Castro:  I thought that it was other owners, the first one was free and the other owners would pay?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Staff will take this as policy and carry on. Ms. Castro:  Ok.
Mr. Lopez: Right, carry on forward from there on. Mr. Winkeljohn:  Right.
Ms. Castro:  Ok, perfect.

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Mr. Cochran: That's all I have for my report. Well, actually one other thing, it's June 27th so July 1st is almost here, so just a reminder, and actually I think it's a separate item on the agenda, but I'll steal Paul's thunder again, so just a reminder on the financial disclosures to get your Form 1s in to the Supervisor of Elections.  That's all I have.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Are there any other questions for Scott? Alright, not hearing any we can move on.
Mr. Cooper: Alright, thank you Mr. Cochran.

8. Engineer
Mr. Cooper:  Anything from the engineer Paul?
Mr. Winkeljohn: I don't have anything. Ben, did you have any correspondence or activity from Juan or the architect?
Mr. Quesada: Just briefly with Juan was, I checked on the PSI and we're good at 3,000 for the sidewalk, that was one of your questions, and that's why we went ahead and moved forward, we got everything drafted.
Mr. Cooper: Ok, perfect. I guess along the lines of the engineer, or maybe it comes later on but, a lot of the bricks on the roundabout are sinking in and they need to be raised up with the curb.
Mr. Quesada:  Ok, yes.
Mr. Cooper: And I guess if we do that, maybe to look at all the guardhouses.
Mr. Quesada: Yes, and we actually do that twice a year, usually at the beginning of hurricane season and right before Christmas.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  So, we'll tie that to the re-sanding schedule. Mr. Cooper:  Perfect.
Mr. Quesada:  We already did it here at the pool, we already started here.

C. Field Manager
Mr. Cooper: Alright, moving on to field manager, Mr. Quesada?

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On MOTION by Mr. Compton seconded by Mr. Lopez with all in favor, accepting the Easement Agreement as drafted by District Counsel subject to the homeowner  paying the attorney's fee of
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Mr. Quesada: Ok.   Going from my report, storm drain update, we already did the
storm drain cleaning so we were able to get it done between meetings, they did Portofino

Oaks, Portofino Pointe and Portofino Palms, I'm waiting for another update.

I did see

some city trucks by the way going through here, I guess checking our manholes so that's another service you guys are getting, so it's good that we're getting all this done at the same time. Just a couple of tree root issues in Portofino Pointe, there was only one area of concern and then in Portofino Oaks there was about four. I'm waiting on the proposals for that, I'm trying to pass that along and work with the property manager and see how they want to tackle that because it's related to trees in the common areas of the HOA, so I'll give you guys another update as they go more on the other communities.
Mr. Cooper: While I have you on the storm drains, is there a way we could look into, there's a couple of communities that have been calling fire rescue for ducks in the drain, they keep finding them in specific drains. Is there some type of screen to be able to put under it, the affected areas and I could probably get with you to let you know where those are, there's maybe 3 or 4 of them.
Mr. Quesada: Is that something in the District or is it the HOA because I know we have a maintenance fee we're going to clean them.
Mr. Aponte: The screens were there before and the roads were just completely full of water because remember you have all the landscaping in, so it's going to create flooding.
Mr. Winkeljohn: The other option is like a border that makes it less desirable to walk across it, for something small.
Mr. Cooper: Whichever way is best, it's not a lot, it's just a few.
Mr. Quesada: I'll look into it, we did remove 33 ducks right before summer, I just wanted you guys to know, so we did our part. It needs to be a joint effort when it comes to that if you really want to take a big bite out of the population.
Mr. Cooper: Alright, that's all I had.
Mr. Quesada: Your fish stocking will occur at the end of the month, another 15,000 in fish, so the guy that did those mosquito fish and everything added to it some carp, I believe they also put out there.
Mr. Cooper:  Ben, can you make a note to send out to all the residents request to go
on 311 and mention about mosquitoes?

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Mr. Quesada: Mr.  Cooper:
Facebook page also

South-Dade Venture CDD I believe we already did something but I'll follow up on that.
Ok, so just  a follow  up on that  and then we can  maybe for the
on the South-Dade Venture website to be able put reminders so that

we can get them to spray.
Mr. Quesada: Yes, and they did it at my house, and it's really easy and they come within 24 hours, it's great, we already did it for the clubhouse.
Mr. Cooper: Maybe you can put a link if there's a link on that, they could just click on
it.
Mr. Quesada: Ok. That's pretty much it for out in the field. I do have a proposal here for you guys from DML, I know we're talking about the guardhouse again, but I want to explain something that we found out. So, we got scanners for the guardhouses and they're fantastic, they scan all the new IDs, business cards, you name it, it's very efficient. We were just operating and this goes back to our previous vendor, a really old version of Easy Lobby, our software, we had hooked up with the licensing, it had been quite some time since it's been updated. Kevin was nice enough to deal with them, and he can get us about two versions behind, instead of 10 versions behind, and it's working a little better, but basically every 5 to 10 scans, depending on the traffic at the guardhouse, the program
keeps freezing, and we're not getting the support we're supposed to get from Easy Lobby

because you  have to pay for the  latest software,  and  it's good for 3 years.

So, this

proposal #420, is for 3 years of Easy Lobby upgrades including 24/7 custom repair from Easy Lobby. So again, if anything ever does pop up with this system, basically Kevin is not  charging  us,  it's  going  through  the  care  package  through  Easy  Lobby,  and  it's
$2,449.97 for 3 years.
Mr. Cooper:  Is that going to give us the latest coverage?
Mr. Quesada: It's the most up to date version of Easy Lobby and it comes in a care package and 24 supports so you won't have any software problems, and like I said these scanners are way better than we had before, I think we made a lot of progress there because there's way less parts involved, so it's a lot easier and more inexpensive to fix or replace or anything to repair.
Mr. Cooper:  Ok.
Mr. Aponte: So, for clarification purposes, when Kevin updated the software, did we pay him anything for that, or that was just a freebie?

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Mr. Quesada:

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No, that was a freebie,  I paid them to get us closer  up to date

information as best as he could.
Mr. Aponte:  Ok, I'm just making sure.
Mr. Quesada:  So, we're about three versions behind.
Mr. Lopez: And eventually that's it, they won't work anymore.
Mr. Quesada:  Well again, it's going to work which limits because it does get a lot of updates, and so as you start lagging behind it just freezes up.
Mr. Cooper:  Who's going to remind us about upgrading in 3 years?	How can we set that up to make that happen?
Mr. Quesada:  We can set a calendar, I can set a calendar with Kevin, and we can do that.
Mr. Cooper:  Ok, so we don't wind up 6 years down the road and all of a sudden we're out of date.
Mr. Quesada:  Yes, and I do feel like we get a lot more attention from Kevin so we'll keep up with that, don't worry.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Are we good on the Easy Lobby though? Ms. Castro:  Yes.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Is there a motion?

Mr. Cooper:	Ben, if you can just  maybe have them change this over here from Jennifer to you?
Mr. Quesada:  Yes, I know I noticed that also, I'll remind him, and it has to have our GMS address updated as well.
Mr. Cooper:  And we got the tax exempt, and all that good stuff. Ms. Castro:  The magnolias are going to be planted next week?
Mr. Quesada:  Yes, I know we were talking about those 3 utility poles after we had
described those plans, and we got a really good deal from BrightView, they're going to be installing some magnolia trees right along the street here just south of us. We had a lot of

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On MOTION by Ms. Castro seconded by Mr. Cooper with all in favor, accepting proposal #420 from DML for an Easy Lobby scanner software update in an amount not to exceed $2,449.97 was approved.

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ruts there from people U-turning into the school, so by the time school starts up again, and these are the grandiflora, they're not the sweetbay magnolias, so we've been monitoring the ones that they planted at the racetrack across the street and they're doing really well, Corrine is really happy with their progress. They have a much bigger leaf, much bigger flowers, it has beautiful aroma, it's like a gardenia, and you guys will get some nice eye candy out of that too because right now people can smell them when they walk by them.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  They're brown felt on the bottom, and then bright green on the top
leaf.
Mr. Quesada: And I just want you guys to know, they were very generous when it came to that day, they removed the price of irrigation, and they donated one of the five trees.
Mr. Cooper:  Along those lines, how much do we pay for the annual change out, for one annual change out?
Mr. Quesada:  I'd have to find out exactly how much but again it's factored into our contract, we get four annual changes.
Mr. Cooper: I know.
Mr. Quesada:  Ijust need to find out exactly how much we're spending on that.
Mr. Cooper: I don't know if you guys noticed our annuals, I don't know if you're too keen on what was done or if you guys don't care, but it just seems very non-Waterstone­ ish.
Mr. Lopez:  What do you mean by that?
Mr. Cooper: The look of it, like it's very bland, it's very dull.
Mr. Lopez:  But don't they flower eventually, do we get flowers with those? Mr. Cooper:  No.
Ms. Castro:  No, they just grow.
Mr. Lopez:   Excuse my ignorance, I don't know too much about this stuff. So isn't this like when you plant cotton, that you have to plant peanuts afterwards, or vice versa.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Crop rotation?
Mr. Lopez:  Right, like that, do you need to do something to the soil?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Usually the spec on annual replacement is a percentage of the soil as well.

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Mr. Lopez: So, I assume that they're doing this, BrightView, by putting these shrubs I guess they are?
Mr. Quesada:  No, they're annuals, they're coleus. Mr. Cooper:  They're coleus, they're annuals.
Mr. Lopez:  So, don't they regenerate the soil somehow and allow it to recuperate?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  It's not that smart, but then when they put the plant in, they bring in more soil and they remove some percentage of the old, so they do it mechanically.
Mr. Quesada:  And they till the soil and all that before they plant another one.
Mr. Lopez:   But I thought they were going to flower, if they're not going to flower, then yes they're dull and they look very dark.
Mr. Quesada:  They do flower, they have just been put in for 10 days, so they just fed them last week, and I'm sure in another week or so they'll start blooming.
Mr. Lopez:  So, they do flower. Ms. Castro:  I thought they didn't.
Mr. Cooper:  Well, can you explain a little bit what transpired with the locations and what they did and didn't do?
Mr. Quesada:  What do you mean, as far as annual change out? Mr. Cooper:  Yes.
Mr. Quesada: Ok. Well, we asked for two colors, we asked for vino which is a purple that you see there with the green outer rim, and then we asked about them, so it's like a 3 to 1 ratio on the vino to a lighter green which matches the outside of the vino and it has purple veins, so it's kind of like opposites that complement each other.
Mr. Lopez:  The biggest concern is that I guess we thought they didn't flower, am I correct?  You thought they didn't flower?
Ms. Castro: I thought they didn't.
Mr. Quesada:	Well, again they grow  little flowers,  and those flowers  eventually bloom into leaves, just like how you see at the base, they get taller.
Mr. Lopez:  They're not like the marigolds, like the ones we put in first, that's what you wanted to see more than this?
Ms. Castro: Well we approved this last year.
Mr. Quesada:  I'm just telling you, you guys have three options this time of the year because of the amount of heat and sun and rain you're getting.

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Mr. Lopez:  Ok, so there's a reason for it. Mr. Aponte: Absolutely.

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Mr. Quesada:  There's pentas, which I've heard from a lot of people they do so well. Ms. Castro:  They don't do well.
Mr. Quesada: They look good for a while but their lifespan is just so short, we fed them and everything but that's what we did last year, the white and the watermelon color, and two months in they had to start pulling them, and then the worst thing about them is their bulb plants, so they come back.
Mr. Cooper:  We just put azures before that.
Mr. Quesada: We did marigolds one time, and once again they didn't hold up very long, I mean we have tried and summer is very tricky because of our weather, and our
weather pattern.

(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to hear any one conversation)

Ms. Castro: I was there and I had the conversation with Vince, so that is what I wanted him to do and what he explained is, that because they are not the exact same plant, when they grow, they wouldn't grow at the same time. So, it would get lost and it wouldn't look good because they don't grow together. What I proposed was to put one green and then like two or three vinos around it, but he told me that it doesn't work well because they just grow at the same time.
Mr. Cooper: We've had this contract for 13 years and it should be on auto pilot as far as, we've had plants during the summer that worked, that looked good, that pop, that say hey, welcome to Waterstone.
Mr. Aponte: But keep in mind Curtis, the plants don't do great each year, so the problem we ran into, that's why we gave them different options because they're going to go based on what's riding in that season, so even though we may want colors, colors may not be available for that change of material.
Mr. Cooper:  How many colors did they have available for the coleus from Brads?
Mr. Quesada: Brads, they have like, I would say like a half dozen different colors that they had enough quantity of.

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Mr. Lopez: So, the reasoning behind using this plant was because of its what's growing, it's the summer, the elements that are involved in our location.
Mr. Quesada: Yes, and by the way we have four changes, we got an extra month out of our winter ones, so the idea behind this annual change right now and when we've talked about it already is sometime at the end of August, give or take, when we start doing those from peak summer, is to do another change out. So again, this is something where these do get rather tall,  at least at the monuments, there's  already a plan in place to replace the ones at the monuments because they get too tall, and again, there's ways of trimming it and stuff like that.
Mr. Aponte:  But we did those already.
Mr. Quesada: We have a little bit of flexibility as far as the change out, we don't have to have these for a full three months if they're not looking great.
Mr. Cooper:  You mean all of these have colors in them.
Mr. Lopez: So, we're going to have another change out before the Christmas tree event basically.
Mr. Quesada:  Of course. Mr. Aponte:  Yes.
Mr. Quesada:  I'm telling you guys 2 change outs before Christmas. Ms. Castro: This is just for a little bit, this is only for what, 2 months? Mr. Quesada:  This is to get us through the heavy rains basically.
Ms. Castro: Yes, and that's it, and then we'll get the purple and orange hues for October.
Mr. Quesada:  Yes.
Mr. Cooper: So I guess if we're going to go with this flower next year can we make sure that there's, or what I'd like to see, I don't know what the rest of you all want but, like something that has some type of color to it, outside of one color.
Mr. Quesada:  Ok, sure.  There are a lot of varieties out there. Mr. Aponte:  Yes, tons.
Mr. Cooper: To come up with some type of design because we have the circle, the roundabout, with the outside.
Mr. Quesada: Just give them a little bit more time to grow in and you guys are going
to see as it gets a little bigger you'll see some of the little details, it's mainly purple, it's

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vino, and when it does start to get more sun it does lighten up a little bit so it's not going to be as dark, and it has a green trim and then the other one is green and it has purple veins, so as those get bigger you'll start to see some of that. There's other varieties like the abbey road, and there's a bunch of them out there that have a little bit more pronounced color so it will be a thicker train, instead of thinner train.
Mr. Lopez:  There's more color.
Mr. Quesada:  Yes, so it will pop more.
Ms. Castro:  But everything will look the same.  I think what they tried to do was give us two different colors, I don't know, whatever.
Mr. Quesada:  Like I said, just give it a little more time to see how it really looks but again, we have a little window there where we can pull them out sooner if we need to.
Mr. Cooper: I mean if they were two months, I couldn't see in two that one is going to drastically be taller than the other within a two month timeframe from what Vince is saying.
Ms. Castro:  That is what he explained.
Mr. Cooper:  If we were leaving them for like 3 or 4 months, I could say that maybe that could be a potential but I mean at the rate that these grow.
Ms. Castro:	He sees plants every day,  I don't, so I don't know, but I asked the same question and this is what he explained so that was the rationale behind it.
Mr. Quesada:   We'll experiment, we can experiment with the colors, I'll show you some other varieties that are out there.
Mr. Cooper:  Ok.
Mr. Quesada:  That's it for the field report. Mr. Cooper:  What about the clubhouse?
Mr. Quesada:  Do you want to talk about the workshop that the master had?
Mr. Cooper:  Yes, I guess mention that and then we've got the functionality of those other things.
Mr. Quesada:  The server, you're talking about? Mr. Cooper:  Yes, the pool and all that stuff.
Mr. Quesada:  Ok. Well we passed our health inspection so we're good for another year on the operating permit for the pool.  We fixed a couple of lights, they're temporary
fixes for now and they'll come back and put some adapters when they can lower the water,

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and that's a 3 to 4 day thing because those have been lowered quite a bit, so we'll wait until we're done with the peak pool season and then we can fix some of those lights. The music server is having some issues, they initially thought it was connectivity in here, it's not connectivity, we verified all that again, we plugged in the wire that's connected to the server, something is going on there, they're coming Tuesday to give us a closer look from the sound system, A&R, so we'll find out a little more on Tuesday as far as what's going on with the sound system in the clubhouse.
Mr. Aponte:  Is there a way to set that on a timer? Mr. Quesada:  Like how, what do you mean?
Mr. Aponte:  It comes on when the pool opens and it turns off when the pool closes.
Mr. Quesada: That would be great, I'll find out. Then I don't know if you guys want to share because I wasn't at the master meeting about what happened with the master Board discussing the clubhouse.
Ms. Castro:  They are all on board.
Mr. Lopez:  The majority of the members were here right? Ms. Castro:  Yes.
Mr. Lopez:  So, the majority of Board members were here, they all agreed. Ms. Castro:  Yes.
Mr. Lopez: Did they ask any questions as to how much the taxes were going to increase or anything?
Mr. Aponte: Yes, their main concern is obviously the financing, some of them were ok with the very first estimated figure we came up with but, the consensus was finding longer term financing so that it makes it a little bit easier in the pocket for the residents, and then go back to the residents again and poll them as to whether they're still interested in moving forward after we know what the cost is involved on their taxes.
Mr. Lopez: In my opinion, I think, although we've had a master event already, which is great to get the input and the survey, that was good from what I can tell here, the online survey that was conducted we should also have a COD sponsored event as a group of five and then make the decision, I mean if we make it that night or not, it depends, but we should have one COD sponsored event at the very least.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Well, you're going to have your budget hearing in August.
Mr. Lopez: We could do it then?

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Mr. Lopez: And then I think at that moment we can make the decision and then just push everything forward, and then management would be instructed, I guess.
Mr. Aponte:	Well, even in August  we're still  13 or  14 months away from doing anything anyways because it will fall into the next year.
Mr. Lopez:  It will fall into the next cycle.
Mr. Aponte:  Right, so we still have plenty of time.

Mr. Winkeljohn:

You're  trying  to  gauge  a comfort  level  before you  really  start

investing in the preliminary.
Mr. Lopez:  Right. Mr. Aponte:  Correct.
Mr. Cooper: Because you have $18,000 to $20,000 that has to be invested in order to proceed.
Mr. Lopez:  Right, you need to push $20,000 to move it.
Mr. Aponte: Well, the $20,000, I think there was a little bit of confusion when it came to that, because they say, well let's do it, but they didn't realize that the $20,000 is not getting us the bank figures, $20,000 is just basically getting us to move forward with what we're going to get.
Mr. Cooper: But also, to get us to the City of Homestead to be able to verify their approval.
Mr. Aponte: Right, but as we were discussing it, they understood, ok wait a minute, why are we going to spend $30,000 or whatever it costs, if we don't even know how much it's going to cost yet.  So, at the end of the day we still have to come up with some type of a figure, and they know we're playing with the figures, $1.5 million, or $2 million or whatever the case may be, but we're playing with numbers because we don't know what the cost is going to be but they'll have an idea and what we're trying to do is, and I think Paul's been in contact with other banks, but we're not quite there yet with figures yet but, we just went and said, hey look, $1.5 million to $2.5 million just to have a ballpark, not that we're going to spend that much.
Mr. Lopez: And I think the $2.5 million or $3 million figure, I think it's still low to be honest with you.
Ms. Castro:  What?  Why?

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Ms. Castro: Mr. Lopez:
amount.
Mr. Aponte: Ms. Castro: Mr. Aponte:
kind of outside  of

No, oh my.
It just  seems low, I think you're  looking at about a $5 million dollar

I don't think it's that much. I don't think so.
Though they were willing to actually invest even though it's going to be
the clubhouse area but they were  interested  in investing  in a park,

maybe on the side, where it's got covers so the kids can actually use the slide, so they were willing to do that.
Mr. Compton:  Well, something I was talking to Ben about as well, and certainly it's a great idea, and we had a lot of good information from it, somewhat surprising results to me honestly, but I think part of that would be, even though we don't have an exact number, even a real ballpark right now on cost, the question can still be posed, what are you willing to pay for this, zero to $100 a year, $100 to $300 a year, $300 to $500, something like that because if all of them say yes, we want a clubhouse five times the size, we want every amenity under the sun, we're only going to pay another $100 a year for it, hypothetically, we know you can't have both of those together, and so if our constituents overall are saying, we're not willing to pay for it, then there's really nowhere to go from that point. On the other hand, they may come back and say, yes, we're willing to pay more than what we originally were thinking about and that may play into how we design that before we go to the city with that $20,000.
Mr. Aponte:  Right.
Mr. Compton: So, I think a question like that is a very important question to get out to our constituents early on before we spend that $20,000 and move in that direction.
Mr. Aponte: Oh, absolutely, I completely agree.
Mr. Compton: Because really once we move in that direction, that's where we're going to get a little bit harder number on that because we're going to know more or less what our project is going to cost and then we can go to our financing options and say this is exactly what it's going to be with that but, I think we kind of need to have at least a range
of what our constituents are willing to pay early on right now.

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Mr. Cooper: The hard thing Brad, I hear you with that, but the hard thing with that is unless, like say for example, that Board is not there and you're saying ok, on that Board you've got written down $100 to $200, $200 to $300, $300 to $400, $400 to $500, and it's just on that Board and you don't see anything attached to that, they're just numbers. So, I don't have a visual of ok, this gets me $100 to $200, and this is what this looks like to me, this is what gets me $200 to $300.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Well, there's two columns in there also, the $300 to $500 is only for
a few years, whereas the $100 to $200 is 30 years.

Mr. Cooper: Mr. Aponte:
Mr. Cooper:

Right. Right.
But that other option as well, because then you have depending on

what we can get the timeframe for the loan, or bond, or whatever it winds up coming out to be, that also plays a role, so you could have a $500, say for example, a top of the line clubhouse, a $5 million dollar clubhouse that's going to cost $500 but we can get the one longer so it's only going to be $100 for 10 years.
Mr. Lopez: It's going to be either $450 to $500 for 5 years, or $200 or whatever for 15 years.
Mr. Aponte:  Right, 15 years or 20 years, or whatever you can finance.
Mr. Lopez: I think $3.1 million is about $450 per year for 5 years, or $200 per year for 15 years.
Mr. Aponte:  Right, and it's not looking anywhere near that.
Mr. Lopez: I think if you look at the way construction prices are and things, I think you're looking at easily $3 million, things will always happen, or things will show up, oh all of a sudden now there's rock here that we need to bring in specialized equipment for a break, that's $100,000 to bring this guy out here.
Ms. Castro: There was actually a construction expert at this meeting, and he said that the figure per square foot was about $250, so he calculated that $2 million was even a little excessive.
Mr. Lopez:  Ok.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Right, the cost of money is high because the way you'd have to finance it, so there's a lot of variables that may surprise us but generally I think that $2 million is pretty reasonable.  I looked at the construction costs as well, and I'm doing a lot

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of it right now and I tested those costs and we're high, which is what you want, something that could be 2 years away.
Ms. Castro: But we also have to be careful when you put out these surveys with costs associated because usually the tendency for people is to say yes, Iwant all that, how much are you willing to pay, zero.
Mr. Compton: Well, and conversely though, the problem with putting out a survey with no costs is, if you ask somebody, do you want the moon, they're going to tell you yes but, it doesn't mean they're going to be willing to pay for it.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Right, you need three pieces, you need a tangible sense of the new enhancements, you need the real costs to it, and then what the timeline would be too, those three pieces. If you don't have that, and human nature is exactly, nobody votes to increase their own taxes.
Mr. Lopez: So, can we sponsor a COO sponsored meeting for this discussion to vet, give the $20,000 to move it forward?
Ms. Castro:  But we need to know what availability for cash we have.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Yes, and the clubhouse could avoid to spend the money to do the

investigative  and the  preliminary  permit  zoning  requirements.

That  would  be  normal

business if you think you might want to do something, to take a risk and invest into it and say wow it didn't work out, we're not going to do it but we know now, and we didn't just start building or try to build. So that's not necessarily a bad business strategy, so what you've decided to do which is smarter is to test the water a little more thoroughly before you put that $20,000 or $30,000 out. Eventually, if you get a sense, which it sounds like you're getting, that people are yes leaning towards that, and saying yes, I would like more amenities in my clubhouse, that's what the survey seems to say.  Now we ask it again at our budget hearing for instance, we have our renderings, we have some costs, preliminaries, with two or three financing options where it's a short borrowing which is a bank loan, then a bond loan, which will be more expensive and you're going to pay double basically, if you do it that way but, it will be more palatable.
Mr. Aponte: Right, and the idea of the survey is really to see what people are interested in having in the actual clubhouse then you can actually set up a budget based on what they're answering and then you can come back to them and say, ok well this is
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move forward with it. So, this is just the beginning stages, with this survey I still wouldn't feel comfortable spending the $20,000 or $30,000 to move forward because we don't have enough information yet but, it was just a start just to get the feel of what the residents want.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  But what you didn't get was a big blow back. Mr. Aponte:  Right.
Mr. Winkeljohn: So that's step one. So you're just going to keep taking these steps until you get enough confidence that you all think this is in the best interest of this clubhouse membership and you're reinvesting into it which is good business, and it's just a question of palatability, but the other side of it is in your homes, and say it's $500 more and that's a little high, but say it's $300 more. So, $300, if you escrow, divided by 12 on your tax bill, that's going to show up to be what, $30, so what does that feel like? Does it scare you and then you get all the amenities, that's sort of the order of magnitude you're looking at, not the divided out so it looks small, but that's where you write the check, and would households be comfortable with that.
Mr. Aponte: And I think Ben got some feedback on that. You got some feedback on the people who were using the gym where you mentioned how much the membership costs.
Mr. Quesada:  Well, the new 24 Hour Fitness was like $40 a month. Ms. Castro:  It is amazing, no $48.99.
Mr. Quesada: But again, if you pose the question to people, hey if we can get you a 1,200 square foot gym and you get all these other amenities in you clubhouse would you be willing to cancel you membership there and it's costing you like Paul just said, maybe
$30 a month more in your escrow, and you're getting all these amenities at the clubhouse, that's another way to poll the residents.
Mr. Winkeljohn: So, that's the timing that you have in terms of you do have a budget public hearing planned, so you are raising it, so you're going to get the anxious characters who get the letter, and then it may seem weird but that actually might be really good timing, because you're giving yourself valid feedback. If you wanted to package a special meeting just for that discussion and then just invite the affected parties, I see a lot of logic to that too, and you could have a little more time to get things together for that. You  may not blur your other message  if you don't have both topics so you  have clear
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Mr. Aponte: Yes, I think with the increase already, I don't think they're going to be willing to listen anyways, and plus we're not ready. Again, we're so far away from making this type of a decision.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Well, does the master have an event or anything that we could tie it
to?
Mr. Aponte:  Yes, eventually.

Mr. Winkeljohn:

Because  you  don't  need  to  disrupt  the  whole  mood  of  your

community for just one half, the other side of the equation is, I finally found out whohas our account with Regions, and one of the topics I'm going to explore with them is re-racking the whole gate loan because that loan is small enough that there could be some really good benefits to re-shifting it. It's a really good rate but they might extend that rate to add the clubhouse cost and then we'd have to validate just an assessment and a new loan for this, and then we could package it maybe, and maybe even pay off a portion of everybody's to lower the cost, like there's some strategies there, because the clubhouse would take some of its operating money and pay down the gate loan, and then that might leverage you. I've got some ideas, we're working on it but, the textbook statement to a Board when you're considering this is, think of any other projects that are right on the edge of maybe we want that but, borrowing more money for a District is much more financially efficient. So, if you had a park, or you had a lake that you really wanted to change or something that's a long term cost, do it now and do it as one borrowing and that's a lot easier.
Ms. Castro:	So, could we tie in the project that we were thinking of, of the gym
equipment throughout the entire District for each lake?

Mr. Winkeljohn:

No, you would  have to segregate the projects, but the cost of

issuance is blind to that, the underwriting, the legal opinions and the methodologies, we look at that all the time, saying this area is only getting this benefit, that's their assessment, but the clubhouse people are getting this benefit, that's their  assessments, but it's one borrowing so the 3% or 1.5% of the whole borrowing that it costs you to do, that's easier. It's divided by more people.
Ms. Castro:  Ok.

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Mr. Winkeljohn: But you don't want to force a decision because of this but if there was an actual project sitting out there you would definitely want to really consider rolling them together.
Mr. Cooper: So basically, the project list that we have we could go ahead and start adding that thing out there.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Right, and if you want to scratch your heads on that and see if while it would be good to get this off our plate, and I can't remember if there's anythin,g, but we're talking hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Mr. Cooper: Right, the lighting was $150,000 to $200,000 to do that, and we want to do any type of fountains, knock out 4 or 5 fountains.
Mr. Winkeljohn:   Right, and fountains are not that expensive but, you do have a lot

of lakes too.

I was thinking more of half a million dollars worth  of projects type, as a

minimum, if you had that.	I'm not encouraging that type of project, I'm just saying that's
the right financial advice to you is to say, hey bite it all off.

(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to hear any one conversation)

Mr. Cooper:  The asphalt, or the re-milling the asphalt, that type of stuff?
Mr. Winkeljohn:	Yes.	I think we talked ourselves  into maybe not doing it at the budget hearing.
Mr. Aponte:  Yes, that's a great idea.
Mr. Winkeljohn:	Ok, so let's look at it, that's something for the District clubhouse portion of the community.
Mr. Aponte:  Yes.
Mr. Cooper:  Do you want to set it up at another master meeting, or do you want to do it a different day from the master meeting?
Mr. Aponte:  It doesn't matter.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Just think about it and let me know. Mr. Aponte:  We have some time.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  You don't need it to be a District meeting, you just invite Ben and I
and we'll have the professional staff that we need here.

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Mr. Cooper:  I was thinking maybe we can look at the schedule now and then this way you could post whatever.
Mr. Winkeljohn:	I wouldn't get too close to your other budget process because that
letter is going out in a couple of weeks, so I'd like to keep those discreet from each other.

Mr. Cooper: Ms. Castro: Mr. Aponte: Mr. Cooper:
September?

Ok, so we don't want to have it for July then, correct? No.
No.
We don't want  it for August,  do we want to set up something for

Ms. Castro:  Maybe when they forget, like in 2 or 3 months.
Mr. Cooper: Well mind you, like once we do this then they have to go ahead and it's going to take like a few months for the plans and all that stuff to work itself out, then we have to get ourselves on the docket for the City of Homestead, so in March, April, we're going to be starting to get closer to where we would need to pull the trigger, so I don't want to have us on a time crunch where we could have at least made the next step to proceed with moving forward with the $20,000 if everybody decides that.
Mr. Winkeljohn: You can finance a year into it easily, and get the money faster than you need it, so don't worry about time, you're on a pace where you're not going to be late with anything, you can adjust with the financing to match the assessment process.
Mr. Cooper:  Ok.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Anything else for field manager?
Mr. Quesada:  Our next meeting is going to be July 25 right? Mr. Winkeljohn:  Yes.
Mr. Quesada:  Ok, Iwon't be able to come. Mr. Winkeljohn:  Where are you going?
Mr. Quesada:  Ecuador with my wife and family.
Mr. Cooper: Do we want to see about maybe changing it to the week prior, or does that not accomplish anything?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  That wouldn't be a good week for me, it's really busy.
Mr. Quesada:	I'll still be here right before the meeting so if you guys want I could
submit a report, and give you guys some updates on whatever it is, and Myra can always take notes, and I can follow up when I get back, I'll only be gone a week.

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Mr. Winkeljohn: You can be excused from my standpoint, we can handle it.
Mr. Cooper: Perfect.

Manager
Number of Registered Voters in the District - 3,975
Discussion of Financial Disclosure Report form the Commission on Ethics

Mr. Winkeljohn:

Under  manager's  report, the  statutory  information  on your

registered voters, is there. That seems high doesn't it?
Mr. Aponte: It does, yes.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Scott already mentioned your Form 1s are due, anybody have any problems or didn't get one?
Mr. Lopez:  Is there a link we can go on?  I sent an email out to them and it says there's a link that we can use?
Mr. Winkeljohn: Yes, it's on their website.
Mr. Lopez: Iwent on there, I couldn't find anything. Mr. Winkeljohn: There's an email, I'll look for it.
Mr. Lopez:  I just sent them an email asking is there a link I can tag on to just to fill this out, but I guess I'll wait for a reply.
Mr. Aponte: Yes, you can scan it into an email.

Mr. Winkeljohn:

Yes, you have to email back, it's not an auto system but, by

January they should have the auto system set up where you actually input online and push
"submit".

(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to hear any one conversation)

FOURTH ORDER OF BUSINESS
A. Approval of Check Run Summary

Financial Reports

B. Balance Sheet and Income Statement

Mr. Winkeljohn:

Moving on to the check run summary and balance sheet and

income statement. Is there a motion to approve, unless there are any questions?

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FIFTH ORDER OF BUSINESS

Supervisors  Requests  and Audience Comments

Mr.  Cooper:

Supervisors  requests  and  audience  comments?	Anybody  in  the

audience have any questions?  Not hearing any, Mr. Lopez?
Mr. Lopez: Did you guys hear about some guy running around yesterday hitting people with paintballs?
Mr. Aponte:  Yes, I heard about that. Ms. Castro:  What?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Here? Mr. Quesada:  Yes.
Mr. Lopez:  So, I couldn't access the cameras to see but it's a red Honda. Mr. Winkeljohn:  He was shooting out of his car?
Mr. Lopez: They were having, I think it was a paintball fight or they were retaliating against one of them, it was weird type of deal. So, they were shooting at each other, they shot some ladies dog up, it looked really bad.
Mr. Aponte: Yes, I got that.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Were the police involved?
Mr. Lopez:  I'm not sure if the cops were called or not.
Mr. Quesada: I know Jesus communicated with the neighborhood, well the division, the people you met at the town hall meeting, so I know he spoke them with regarding the
incident.

Mr.  Lopez:

I sent them  an email yesterday,  but I'm still  pending the  reply, they

haven't replied to me, so I was wondering, I can't see it from my phone, the camera system, so is there a way we could try to hone in on the time and get a vehicle tag?
Mr. Quesada:  Sure, when I have open time I'll take a look at it.
Mr. Lopez: It was a red Honda and it came up towards gate #1, so I'd like for us to take a look at that one. If we have any roving police officers, although I did call at the last meeting for them to get through and really cancel and eliminate it, but if 25% is available, I
would like for us to destine that 25% towards that region, that's a patchy area I guess.

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Mr. Winkeljohn:  Did you find any updates as far as what you're looking into?
Mr. Lopez:  The Fraternal Order of Police, I think I had spoken to Brad about, we don't know who's in charge of the Homestead division, there's several FOPs. Either they don't want to tell me who's the one that's dealing with this or not, I'm close. I spoke this week to another person who's going to try to help me with FHP, and I guess at the next meeting I'll have more, but we're working on it.
Mr. Cooper:  Thank you Mr. Lopez.
Mr. Lopez: I think we had spoken about, or we had discussed I think it was this year we could try to be active and see who it is. One last thing, the golf cart, I've been storing it at Floridian Bay Estates and so I sent Ben an email, our Board is interested in purchasing it for the security detail. We had it analyzed, it needs two new tires, for some unknown reason the brake system on it now went out, it's making like a squeaking sound. The whole brake system is completely fried, so it needs a new brake system, and that's going to be a pretty intense project.  Iwould hate for us to sell it to a third party, and maybe if they could get it for a price and then not have it available to us to use at events. I spoke to the Board about it and they said they're willing to loan it out to the District for events, like the Christmas tree event, although now we have a driver.
Ms. Castro:  You don't have to convince us, we can sell it to you.
Mr. Lopez: Ok, because my Board was thorough on it, they had guys looking under it, and they had the guy that fixes the golf carts over at Stonebrook, he came over and the best part is the batteries are very good.
Mr. Cooper:  They're brand new.

Mr.  Lopez:

Oh, the  batteries were  perfect,  but the  brake system was  shot,  the

steering column is worn, and you know it's old, so it needs a little bit of tender care.

Mr. Aponte:
Mr. Lopez:

Right, it's an old golf cart.
So, I don't know if you guys thought about a price, a fair market value

price.

Ms. Castro:

$1,000.

Mr. Lopez:  Ok, does everyone agree, we'll give you guys $1,000 for it? Ms. Castro:  Does $1,000 sound good?
Mr. Lopez:  I'll have the check cut like right now.
Mr. Cooper:  Where did you get that amount from?

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Ms. Castro:  Well we got it for $6,000.
Mr. Lopez:  I don't think we got it for $6,000.
Ms. Castro: Yes, it was between $6,000 and $8,000.

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Mr. Lopez:	My Board gave me instructions, and $1,000 is very good, it's going cost about another $1,200 to fix everything on it.
Ms. Castro: We were going to scrap it, and $1,000 sounds good. Mr. Cooper:  Who was going to scrap it?
Ms. Castro: We were.
Mr. Cooper:  No, we weren't, we were going to sell it. Ms. Castro: Well, we are selling it.
Mr. Lopez:  No, if you want, you can put it on the website or whatever.
Ms. Castro:· I don't think we're going to get much more than $1,000 for that. Mr. Quesada:  Ithink Floridian Bay is trying to do us a favor here.

to

Mr. Lopez: I mean they were really thorough with it, trust me, and they actually had
estimated the price lower and I'm actually here saying, $1,000 is very reasonable price.

(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to hear any one conversation)

Mr. Aponte: My thinking with the golf cart was using it for the areas where we don't want to use the new one and destroy it but, I told Ben if there's a way to get a small tiny trailer made for the new one, and if it's going to cost $1,000 to get it done, then there you go, just flip that money and get us a little trailer, they can use the golf cart for better use and then we can get a small trailer.
Mr. Lopez:  So, Brad do you agree with that?
Mr. Compton: Mike, I don't like throwing numbers out without have some basis for it, I'd get a price, that's what we're doing, but if you have somebody to do it for $1,200 that's fine, but I would like to know a little bit more about what's actual fair market value type of thing, then we can look at that.
Mr. Lopez: That's true too, we could look at that.
Mr. Quesada: I'm going to tell you, it's going to be tricky because that's an Eagle brand, it's made in China, so it's not a GEM, it's similar to a GEM but it's not.

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(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to
hear any one conversation)

Mr. Cooper:  Ben, do we have the name of the website for the golf cart?
Mr. Quesada:   It's something with Eagle, and I found the site recently when I was trying to find parts for it, It's www.eagle-ez.com and everything is made in China, there's
no US anything so it's very difficult to gauge the parts.

(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to
hear any one conversation)

Mr. Lopez:  What's the fair market value?
Mr. Quesada: It's very difficult to gauge, to be honest with you but I'll check, but I can tell you they're just like GEMs, as far as their look, appearances, the Chinese version of them.
Mr. Aponte: So, to compare a fair market value on that thing there's really no way to do it.
Mr. Lopez: So, moving along, that's all I had for the Board, so you guys can let me know, I have a budget approved for it already.
Mr. Quesada: Ok, so I found a new one from the factory direct, it's $11,995 for basically the same golf cart we have, the new version.
Mr. Lopez:  Of this one?
Mr. Quesada: Yes, of this one.

(At this point there was too much cross-talking among the Board members to hear any one conversation)

Mr. Aponte: So, we'll take the $1,000. Ms. Castro:  Listen $1,000 is good.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Is there a motion?

Mr. Cooper: Mr. Lopez, anything else?

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Mr. Lopez: I'm done.
Mr. Cooper:  Perfect. Mr. Compton? Mr. Compton:  Lake clean up?
Mr. Quesada:  I was out there that morning
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too when they went out there to make

Mr. Compton: Mr. Quesada:
Mr. Compton:

And Iwas out there that evening and there's still a fair amount there. Ok, and he was picking up everything that morning.
Ok, and it wasn't that the homeowners were throwing anything there,

or debris, it was general stuff that had gotten away, and it blows it right towards the corner.
Mr. Quesada:  Ok.
Mr. Compton: I think that's it for me.
Mr. Cooper: Alright, Ms. Castro what do you have for us?
Ms. Castro: Security company, guards, they are doing a horrible job. Yesterday I was coming in, not yesterday, the day before, at 7:00 at night, there were like 3 cars in front of me, and the guard was sitting there just with his finger on the button, letting everybody in.
Mr. Cooper: Which guardhouse?
Ms. Castro:  Guardhouse #2 and today I was in guardhouse #1, the sticker didn't open for me, the girl didn't bother to come out and check.
Mr. Quesada:  It was at night you said?
Ms. Castro:  At 7:00 o'clock at night it was a male guard and today at guardhouse
#1, it's a girl, but it's not Jasmine, it's a new girl, I have never seen her, and it's nobody that I have seen before, and she just hit the button without coming out to check anything, and emails have been sent, they are doing the trainings, and the guards are just not caring. We have a selected few people that are doing their job, but lately the morale of our people who are veterans essentially, the morale is so low because these new guards are not doing their job appropriately and nothing is happening to them, they are falling back and not really performing like they should, or they have in the past, and that concerns me.
Mr. Lopez: At guardhouse #2 we have Tommy, we have Joseph.
Ms. Castro: Well we have Joseph Henry now at the Boulevard, I don't know why. Mr. Quesada:  Because they requested that post, so we gave them that post.
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Ms. Castro:  Well, he is the one that I'm saying has lost morale. Mr. Lopez: What happened to Sergio on the Boulevard?
Ms. Castro:  Sergio is also on the Boulevard, and Chris is on the Boulevard.
Mr.	Cooper:	No problems with them,  everybody  is good, so everybody  on the Boulevard is good right?
Ms. Castro: No Joseph Henry is the one that is kind of despondent and not doing his job, like going out and checking like he used to before, so he has lost is morale, he's just hitting the button and letting people in.
Mr. Lopez:  So, he's with Sergio and Chris.
Mr. Cooper:	We could send  him back to guardhouse #2 and we'll see how his morale goes.
Mr. Lopez:  Why don't we try that?
Ms. Castro:  I think the problem is a little bigger than that.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  What you're saying is that the overall supervision has changed the atmosphere and normal performers are not performing.
Ms. Castro:  There is no supervision.
Mr. Cooper:  So, what's going on now is we have the guards, the way it's structured, the road captains come like once a month, so we need to address either with them saying
that they need to come out once a shift, and specifically in the evening times?

Ms. Castro: Mr. Cooper:
Mr. Aponte:

No, they told us they were not going to do that.
But we're going to need to change that to put that in there.
My opinion is Allied's supervision is nowhere to be seen.  One of the

last emails that were sent out was really concerning when you hear them say we sat with these 12 people, we trained them all over again, and then you come on the weekend and then you run into the same issues that they trained with and then, in closing they say, we will attempt to do this on a monthly basis, so what kind of supervision is that, we're going to try our best to do what they're supposed to do. So, I've lost confidence with Allied at this point.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  I think they bought 30,000 employees in the last 3 months, they've
been acquiring companies, rather than get new clients, they're in a growth factored that way, so their supervision was lost.  The only thing I can suggest is to have the community

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supervisor and the regional supervisor and have a meeting and say the tone of our Board is one meeting away from a vote.
Mr. Lopez: When is the contract up? Are we under a contract with them? Mr. Winkeljohn:  It's an annual but the termination clause is 30 to 60 days.
Ms. Castro: But we have an issue really with their incident reports, I came here to the clubhouse, the guardhouse was hit, and I went with Myra to the guardhouse and asked the girl why she hadn't contacted the police, or why she didn't take pictures, and she gave me attitude, I think she didn't know that I'm part of the Board, and she was like, I didn't write the report, it's right there.
Mr. Lopez: It doesn't matter if you're somebody on the Board or not, attitude is not acceptable, to a homeowner, or to anyone.
Ms. Castro:   I understand but, the fact of the matter is that they are not using the

phone.

I told  her, ok so you say there was no damage  done, but what if the person

damages the car elsewhere and then blames us, you didn't take a picture, you didn't write

the  report,  you  allowed  the  person to  leave.

There was  another  incident where  the

guardhouse was hit, the person actually stopped and the guard just told them to go and didn't call the police.
Mr. Lopez: Actually, I called guardhouse #2 a couple of nights ago because in my mindset sometimes of not sleeping with a newborn, and worrying, I went to Publix, I didn't have an ID on me, and I'm in sandles, and a shirt, I got to the guardhouse, and he didn't
open the gate for me, he didn't come out, and I told him, I live here, and I wanted to see

their attitude of how he handles the understand,  and I said, look I went
understand sir, and I'm going to write

gates,  and  he was  actually  nice, and  he said, to  Publix  and  I have  a  newborn,  and  he said
down  your tag number, and he didn't give me an

attitude like other times, and he said I'm going to write down you tag number, and I said perfect, write down my tag number, no big deal, and he said have a good evening sir.
Mr. Aponte:  He's hit or miss, but I know exactly who you're talking about.
Mr. Lopez: The way he approached me was very, I said this guy knew how to do it. If they had a little bit more training then you can start teaching them a little bit more of watching for certain aspects of this, and you'll know where this is taking you, and I actually called the guardhouse and I said, hey that's how you approach those scenarios, you're
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talked to the Floridian Bay Estates guard, I always tell him, you can see when someone is walking whether they're walking with purpose, or not. If there's a guy on the sidewalk who's shuffling his feet, something is not right, now if he's with purpose, he's going somewhere, if he's not, you watch that guy, that's how they caught the millennium bomber.
Those are cue's we can teach our guards.

Mr.  Cooper:

So, from  what  everybody  said  the  majority  of the  incidents  are

occurring at nighttime outside of them not reporting it.

Ms. Castro: Mr. Cooper: Ms. Castro: Mr. Cooper:
Ms. Castro:

No, it's happening throughout the day.
But the majority of them are happening at nighttime. No, I come in throughout the day, not at night.
You just said 7:00 o'clock at night for one of them, correct?
That was two days ago only, but I usually come in during the day.

Mr. Cooper:  Ok.
Ms. Castro:  Like for the meeting here, I came in at 3:30.
Mr. Lopez:  So, what do you want to do Sonia?  Do you want fire them, do you want them to be trained?
Mr. Cooper:  We have options, we either find another company, we go with Envera, where you scan your ID in there, and then they open it up.
Ms. Castro: No, I don't agree with that.
Mr. Lopez: Well, is that the system at Oasis? Mr. Cooper:  Yes.
Mr. Lopez:  I heard it's horrible. Ms. Castro:  It is horrible.
Mr. Cooper:  I'm just saying the options are, finding another company. Mr. Lopez:  Envera is an unmanned system.
Mr. Cooper:  Correct.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  It's remotely managed.

Mr.  Cooper:

Remote, so somebody  is in an office somewhere,  or a couple of

people,  and  they  basically  say  hi, but that was  over  there  because you  have to  get permission to get it in.
Mr. Lopez: Well, it takes some intelligent portion to function.
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Mr. Aponte: Yes, it doesn't make sense, there's too many people. Ms. Castro:  We can't use that.
Mr. Cooper: And typically, where I was just at over there on 248th Street, I had to put my card in, and once I did that somebody then talked to me and said, hey where are you going, and then they had to call that person, we don't have that function of doing that. Really it's the scanning and the ID, hopping out and opening up the gate, and letting people in.
Ms. Castro:  I don't think it will work here, I don't agree with that system.
Mr. Lopez:	Ok, so what are the options?  We can either train the guards a little
better.
Mr. Cooper: We would need to have the captains, the roving captains or whatever come on a daily basis to verify, and I was trying to get like a timeframe if it was more of the
night crew, or they alternate coming in at different times.

Ms. Castro: Mr. Aponte:
Ms. Castro:

That is not part of our contract.
Right, I remember that in our meeting. They said it real clearly here.

Mr. Cooper:  I know, we would need to revamp.

Mr. Compton:

I don't care what the contract  says, part of it was  maintaining a

certain level of professionalism. If they're not maintaining the service, they're not meeting their contractual obligations, and that means if they send somebody out here once a week, once a month, once a day, whatever it takes, so if they can meet their contractual obligations, the fact that the contract said they have to be out here once a month, doesn't mean they can't come out here once a day if that's what it takes to meet the rest of their obligations and I think that's the issue we have now.
Mr. Cooper:  Which is what Iwould rather look at.
Mr. Aponte: Right, I hear you but I remember this conversation clearly and ever since we had that meeting with them, I was completely disappointed and I'm still kicking myself for voting for them because they were very clear and said, if you want somebody out here the whole entire time, it's going to cost you an additional $40,000 or $45,000 for us to do that, we're not going to do it, and so we've been complaining and complaining, and nothing has changed.
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Mr. Aponte:	Right, but they told us that and so that's what I'm saying we've been going at it with them every other month, the same issues, and they come here and feed us
all kinds of nonsense and nothing changes.

Mr. Cooper:

So we can keep going back and forth,  but we're  looking for  more

supervision right now without us paying for that for them to get these guys doing what they should be doing, and then they can go ahead and start scaling down as time permits later on, but to get everybody going so we have the services, I think that's pretty much what everybody wants.
Mr. Compton:  Yes.
Mr. Quesada: I mean if you guys saw the email I circulated to the Board, you see it there, at least they're taking some steps, they had a training on Saturday, I met with one of their managers here onsite, I was told again that I would get emails every time a road captain comes through, and it's been a week and I haven't gotten an email yet about a road captain, so it's just been a week but again, they did do a training this Saturday for several hours with staff, they went over customer service, incident reporting, used the Trac Force forms, and again, I'm doing what I can to pressure them and get as much as I can at the management level.
Mr. Cooper:  And they said they would be doing that like on a month to month basis
right?
Mr. Quesada: As far as doing more training, yes, they want to do that on a month to month basis so that something we can follow up with them on.
Mr. Aponte:  They will try. Mr. Quesada: Yes.
Mr. Aponte: If you read the notes, it says they will try, when I read that, it means they don't care.
Mr. Quesada:   We met with their VP, with their GM, and all the powers that be, I
started getting a few emails and then it dissipated. So again, we had another meeting the day of the town hall meeting, where he could reiterate a lot of that stuff.

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Well, we can call another meeting later, and put them on notice on.   In the meantime, if it can't turn, then you have to go out and

Ms. Castro: Mr. Cooper: Ms. Castro:
Mr. Cooper:

I told you we were going to be here a year after signing that dotted line. Go ahead Sonia, anything else?
Ithink that that was my main concern.
Ok.

Mr. Lopez:  So, in 30 days we'll talk about that again, I guess. Ms. Castro:  We'll see.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  I'm sure we'll be talking about it. Mr. Lopez:  That's fine.
Mr. Cooper:  Mr. Aponte?
Mr. Aponte: I have some similar security but it's more for the clubhouse itself. The Board members in the last meeting we had when we discussed the changes to the clubhouse, or the possible improvements, they mentioned bringing in a different type of service, rather than a security guard in here, like maybe some type of a front desk person, or someone that's a little bit more familiar with a clubhouse and at the same  time, someone who is familiar with the system, and I talked to Jesus about it, and I talked to Miriam a little bit about it, not much, and she's going to call me back and see what's available, but one of the ideas that I like is that since they're familiar with the system they can actually issue pool cards, here maybe we can even train them to do functionality, and also happen to do passes, the E-Passes and things like that because they're familiar with the system so it's not a guard, it's actually going to be somebody that we can train to use these systems that are available.
Mr. Cooper: And clean the bathrooms?
Mr. Aponte: I don't know about that, if we want to do that we can hire somebody to clean the bathrooms.
Ms. Castro:  We have somebody to clean the bathrooms.
Mr. Cooper: Well no, once a day doesn't constitute as somebody taking care of the bathroom especially with all the extra traffic.
Ms. Castro:  Well, we can amend that if we need it two times a day, we can amend
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Mr. Winkeljohn:  Yes, I think some of them will usually add a little more.
Mr.  Cooper:	Typically,  don't  you  guys  have  people that  are there  all the  time cleaning bathrooms at clubhouse #1?
Mr. Lopez:	I mean I'm not on the master, but I think they have a set schedule
where they have to go every one hour to do checks and if they're dirty they have to clean them.
Mr. Cooper:  But they're there physically, they don't just come from their house.
Mr. Compton:	Right, there's two,  I'm assuming  it's the same way it used to be,

there  used to  be two  different  people,  now there's  only one.

Number one, we  had a

service that their job was to come in and clean, and then number two, we have the staff, like Mike said, they do periodic checks.
Mr. Lopez: There's two girls that do that all day long, they take rounds, one does outside rounds, and one does the inside rounds, and if the bathrooms are dirty, they have to clean them, and they get cleaned by a service.
Ms. Castro:  But you know that costs money.
Mr. Lopez:  It does cost money, just like everything.
Ms. Castro: So, you didn't want the $100 increase, we had to barter here with you to give me $70 and try to get a happy medium.
Mr. Aponte:  They're different budgets.
Mr. Lopez: But wait, we have a lady that cleans the guardhouses, and cleans here too, and she does a really good job.
Ms. Castro:  But she doesn't do the weekends.
Mr. Winkeljohn: With the exception of high volume weekends, this place is never a problem.
Mr. Aponte:   Right, so if you're saying  pick up a napkin that's on the floor,  I can
understand that.
Mr. Lopez: I'll tell you what I did, the guard that we have there, we made him also our porter, we give him an extra amount of cash a month, and while he's doing his rounds, his deggy, he sees a can, he puts it in a bag and dumps it when he's done.
Mr. Cooper:  Do we have the two staff now here?
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Mr. Lopez: That's also an option and we give our guard extra cash, and he's happy, and he's already in the community anyways, and the homeowners know, if the guard finds trash anywhere on the street in the common_ area, he's going to put it in a bag, a blue bag so we know it's him, it's his trash and he puts it in one of their trash cans, but weekends is another deal though.
Mr. Cooper: I agree, that's continuation of the basic concierge level of service, you have somebody here that wears multiple different hats and do that, how do we take care of the extra person that we would need for the weekends?
Mr. Aponte:  That's something I'm still discussing with Miriam, she understands that

the  schedule  needs to  be a different.

She also  says there's  a way  to also  man the

guardhouses if we wanted to do that as well, and bring somebody that's experienced in the condo field that deals with residents on a daily basis and you're going to get an actual customer service based person, rather than a security guard. So, they may offer that as well, now it's tricky because we're talking about three guardhouses and three different shifts, but it was just mentioned briefly, and this is just something to look at.
Mr. Cooper:   But they have that, Allied has that set up like downtown, like a lot of their downtown buildings.
Ms. Castro:  But we don't pay what they pay.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Why don't you let staff solve it, you give us the need and we'll come up with the most effective solution, whether it's an Allied person, or a First Service person, and I don't think that's the issue, I think with the right skill set, the feedback though is better skills.
Mr. Cooper:  Correct.
Mr. Winkeljohn: Different skills.
Mr. Lopez:  Thinking of this real quickly, I hadn't analyzed it in that perspective, but First Service might even come out to cheaper than the insurance.
Mr. Aponte: I have no idea.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Well, we're really confident in the lack of supervision right now with Allied so I'm leaning towards somebody else.
Mr. Aponte:  And the only reason I'm bringing them up is they had their new District
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were  ma9 and she didn't have anything  negative to say,  but she didn't  have anything

positive to say.

So, she's the one that kind of brought  it up and said,  hey there are

services available when you come in, you feel welcomed.
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Right.
Mr. Lopez: And the term changes if it's no longer a guard, it's a concierge.
Mr. Winkeljohn: And they do that to eliminate the need for a security license, but in the inpustry what's been happening is the HOA companies, like his, and  the  guard services are grappling over, you don't really need a security guard at a gate, it could be a concierge person, so it gets them into that business.
Mr. Aponte:  That's it, that's all I had.
Mr. Cooper: Great. I have a few things, so anything with the police with the Deggy system update?
Mr. Quesada: Yes, I got a new phone, I'm waiting to hear back from Trac Force just to get it implemented, like on the tour system with the RFID, and once that's done it's ready to go.
Mr. Cooper: Ok. I have something time sensitive here, I know it's a little bit early but I saw it online, it's for the Christmas event that we have, possibly a location where we can, instead of having a chair for Santa, having him be able to sit in a sleigh. It's sort of like an antique but it's actually really cool, I'll show you a picture of it so you guys can see it, and then we can decide whether or not we're going to do that and Ben said we can potentially get people eventually to possible donate money towards it.
Mr. Quesada: Well, we're going to sponsor it, but we're working on a list of expenses right now, so I'm almost done with that and we're just going to need a few more rental expenses, and we can pretty much do like the pricing that we did last year for the sponsors.
Mr. Cooper: So it's going to be a little bit more because we'd have to figure out getting it here, and then if we wanted to repurpose it color-wise or whatnot but I think it would be a good investment that we could utilize for years here in the District, it actually looks like it's good quality.
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Mr. Cooper:  The shed.  I think we need to address these two sheds over here, and get them organized and whatnot and then I think we were talking about possibly a third
shed.

Mr. Quesada: Ms.  Castro:
organized.
Mr. Quesada: organized.

That's what the master association is considering?
Miguel,  Jessica  and  I cleaned  that  out for  the  master,  it's  pretty

The golf cart takes up the whole center of the space but it's pretty

Ms. Castro: Mr. Cooper:
Ms. Castro:

But we cannot fold this and put it on a shelf. No.
It needs its own area.

Mr. Quesada:  We definitely need another shed to be able to store that.
Mr. Aponte:  How much is a shed, $10,000?  I think it's a better idea just not do it.
Mr. Quesada:   I don't know the figure about that shed but our other option is to talk to CDI and see what they can come up with.
Ms. Castro:  And see if they can maybe store it for us? Mr. Cooper:  That actually might not be a bad idea.
Mr. Quesada:	It wouldn't hurt to ask, and if not, they're going to probably want to
sell us a decoration that they can store.

Mr. Aponte: Mr. Cooper: Mr. Aponte:
Mr. Cooper:

If they can make the same shed for $750, we'll take it. No, they're not going to be able to make another one. Of course not.
But we kind of have to make a decision at this meeting whether or not

so I can let this person know what the Board thinks to go or not.
Mr. Lopez:   So, what is the logistics, does one of us have to go get it, is it being brought down here?
Mr. Cooper: It's $600, she'll hold it for me to go pick it up, I don't mind picking it up. Mr. Lopez: Where's it located?
Mr. Cooper:  New York.
Mr. Lopez:  New York City? Mr. Cooper:  Rochester.
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So, you'd drive?
I can drive there and pick it up and bring it back.

Mr. Lopez: You'd drive all the way to the State of New York to pick up a sleigh? Mr. Cooper:  Yes, I've driven down to Key West to go pick up other things.
Mr. Lopez:  That's like a 24 hour drive.
Mr. Cooper:	Or there's services that we could look into, but honestly,  I've never done that before, so we would just have to find out.
Mr. Lopez:  I'll drive up with you.
Mr. Cooper:   So, there you go.   So, logistics-wise we can figure out how to get it here, it's just a matter of if you guys see the same value in it.
Ms. Castro:  I'm just worried about the storage, where would we keep it for an entire
year?
Mr. Cooper:  Well, I think we can probably get it, we give them $140,000, I'm sure maybe we could get them to store it.
Ms. Castro:  But we were trying to call Joe this morning and he wasn't answering. Mr. Quesada: Right, I haven't been able to reach him, he's been kind of busy.
Mr. Aponte: Paul, can the District rent an actual storage shed if we wanted to?
Mr. Winkeljohn:  Yes, and I was going to say, Mike you could get a tarp for it, you could park it at ValleyCrest, or BrightView's property maybe.
Mr. Quesada: They will tell me this because they tell me this all the time, they don't mind storing stuff for us in the yard, but they don't want to be responsible for it if anything happens.
Mr. Cooper:  Do we know how much a storage shed is worth? Mr. Winkeljohn:  Half that size is $5,000.
Mr. Cooper:  So, you're looking at $40 a month to store it, or spending $750 to get a
shed.
Mr. Aponte: Right, and then tying it down or whatever.
Mr.  Lopez:	So, what do you need from  us now?	Do you need $750 for us to approve it and then we go up to get it, is that what we need?
Mr. Cooper:  Yes.
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Mr. Cooper:  Not me, like if we drove up, I would say it's either going to be $500 or
$600 to ship it, or for us to drive up there.
Mr. Lopez:  It's cheaper to drive up, are we going to rent a truck, are we going to go in your car?
Mr. Cooper: Well, we have a $1,000 trailer now.
Mr. Lopez:	So, let's work out the logistics, so what do you need us to do now?
What do we have to do?
Mr. Cooper:  We just need to approve a budget amount. Mr. Lopez:  How much?
Mr. Cooper:  Well, it's $750 and then plus another $600.
Mr. Lopez:  Alright.  I would say we go up a little bit higher in case of anything. Mr. Cooper:  And I'm not going to go over it, whatever it is, it is.
Mr. Aponte:  Just contact them, get the measurements, and ask them how much it would cost to ship it down here.
Mr. Cooper:  If it's going to be cheaper to ship it, we'll go with shipping it, if it's going
to be cheaper to go the other route, we'll do that.

Mr. Aponte:

It costs $1,000 to bring a car from up there,  it's not going to cost

$1,000 to bring a sleigh from over there, it's probably going to be like $300 or $400.
Mr. Cooper: I'm game but we can go with if it works out cheaper to do it that way, then we do it that way.
Mr. Lopez: So, then how much do you need? Does everybody agree with this, or do you not agree with the sleigh?
Ms. Castro: I'm just worried about the storage. Can that person give us like a day or two to try to find Joe tomorrow and see if they agree with the storage?
Mr. Cooper: If you guys give me a go ahead, this way I have the ability to go through with it, and if it doesn't work out, with storage or whatever then we'll come up with another idea for some type of storage.
Mr. Lopez:  I mean but do you like the idea of buying the sleigh? Ms. Castro:  I like how it looks.
Mr. Lopez: So, you like the sleigh. Mr. Aponte: Yes, I like the sleigh.
Ms. Castro: I like it.

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Mr.  Cooper:
donations.

And  I think  Ben  is  going  to  look  into  it to  be able  to  get  some

Mr. Lopez:  Alright, so I'll call for a motion to buy a sleigh for whatever the amount of
money is on that.

Mr. Aponte:
Mr. Cooper:

Plus shipping.
Right, plus shipping, so not to exceed just do $1,400.

Ms. Castro:

I just have a concern because he doesn't have all sides of the sleigh

picture here, just make sure it doesn't have any rust.
Mr. Cooper:  Yes, I'll make sure.
Mr. Lopez:  Alright, Mr. Chairman anything else you need us to consider for you? Mr. Cooper:  There was one other thing, I can't remember right now.
Mr. Lopez:  You can bring it back to us in 30 days.
Mr. Cooper: That's all I have I guess for now.

SIXTH ORDER OF BUSINESS

Adjournment

Mr. Cooper:  We just need a motion to adjourn?

Secretary I Assistant Secretary

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On MOTION by Ms. Castro seconded by Mr. Compton with all in favor, the Meeting was adjourned.

On MOTION by Mr. Lopez seconded by Mr. Aponte with all in favor, authorizing to buy a sleigh, plus shipping for the Christmas event not to exceed $1,400 was approved.