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PUBLIC APPEARANCES BEFORE THE CITY COMMISSION: If any person wishes to address the City Commission, the person shall sign up in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts - Abdo New River Room. A member of the City Clerk's Office Staff will be there to assist. Speaker Cards are given to the Mayor. After being recognized by the Mayor, the speaker should approach the podium, identify the agenda item in question, indicate support, opposition, or neutrality on the agenda item, and then proceed to succinctly state the speaker's position or present information. If an attorney, or any other person appears before the Commission in a representative capacity, the attorney, or other representative shall also sign up in the Broward Center for the Performing Arts - Abdo New River Room. A member of the City Clerk's Office Staff will be there to assist. After being recognized by the Mayor, the speaker should approach the podium, identify the client(s) being represented, and identify the agenda item in question. The speaker shall then indicate the client's support, opposition, or neutrality on the agenda item and then proceed to succinctly state the client's position or present information on behalf of the client(s). Pursuant to Section 3.13 of the Charter of the City of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, the Mayor shall maintain order at all meetings, and the Police Department, upon instructions of the Mayor, shall expel any person from the meeting who refuses to obey the order of the Mayor in relation to preserving order at the meetings. Any person who interrupts or disturbs a City Commission meeting, or who willfully enters or remains in a City Commission meeting having been warned by the Mayor to depart and who refuses to do so, may be subject to arrest. AUXILIARY AIDS AND SERVICES: If you desire auxiliary aids or services or both to assist in viewing or hearing the City Commission meetings or reading the agenda and minutes for the meeting, please contact the City Clerk's Office at 954-828-5002 at a minimum of two days prior to the meeting and arrangements will be made to provide these services to you. NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC: If a person decides to appeal any decision made by the board, agency, or commission with respect to any matter considered at such meeting or hearing, the person will need a record of the proceedings, and that, for such purpose, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, which record includes the testimony and evidence upon which the appeal is to be based.

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Pledge of Allegiance

ROLL CALL

Approval of MINUTES and Agenda

24-0165 Minutes for December 19, 2023, Commission Regular Meeting and January 9, 2024, Commission Conference Meeting - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)

PRES PRESENTATIONS

PRES-1 24-0212 Vice Mayor Beasley-Pittman to present a Proclamation declaring February 6, 2024, as MacKinley Smith Day in the City of Fort Lauderdale

CONSENT AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT

CONSENT AGENDA

CM CONSENT MOTION

CM-1 24-0027 Motion Authorizing Execution of a Special Construction Agreement with BellSouth Telecommunications, LLC d/b/a AT&T Southeast for the New Fort Lauderdale Police Headquarters Building Project, Relocation of the Existing 5-G Communication Tower Located along West Broward Boulevard - $150,087.03 - (Commission District 2)

CM-2 24-0032 Motion Accepting FY2023 Department of Justice - Office of Community Oriented Policing Services - COPS Hiring Program Award - $750,000 - (Commission Districts 1, 2, 3 and 4)

CM-3 24-0033 Motion Accepting FY2023 Department of Justice - Office of Community Oriented Policing Services - Community Policing Development Program Award - $257,405.30 - (Commission Districts 1, 2 ,3 and 4)

CM-4 24-0078 Motion Approving and Authorizing the Execution of 1) A Revocable License Agreement Between Fairfield OFP LLC, Broward County and the City of Fort Lauderdale for the Installation and Maintenance of Improvements on SE 3rd Avenue in Association with the "One Financial Plaza Phase III Development" Project Located at 150 SE 3rd Avenue; and 2) An Agreement Ancillary to Revocable License Agreement, Between Fairfield OFP LLC and the City of Fort Lauderdale - (Commission District 4)