2025-06-11 SRC MinutesSUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCY COMMITTEE
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Council Chambers
10050 NE 2nd Avenue
6:30pm
Minutes
1. CALL TO ORDER – By Vice Chair Mr. Pluhar at 6:41pm
2. ROLL CALL:
Present:
Vice Chair Mr. Richard Pluhar
Ms. Lauren Rangel
Ms. Patricia Casey
Ms. Silvia Kang
Ms. Carol Eannace Respondek
Absent:
Ms. Nicola Meyer
Mr. Ed Lopez
Also present:
Mr. Delroy Peters, Public Works Director & Staff Liaison
Council member George Burch
Ms. Alice Burch
3. MINUTES: Minutes approved from Meeting of 5-14-25
4. PUBLIC COMMENTS:
Council member Mr. George Burch suggested that committee members read and
comment on the SFWMD latest report. Ms. Respondek offered to send a link to the new
report via Mr. Peters’ office to members. Additionally Mr. Burch relayed his opinion that
another option may exist for a salinity structure in North Miami, rather than the current
site which would negatively impact our Golf Course.
5. DISCUSSION and POSSIBLE ACTION:
5a. FIU Presentation – Mr. Ronald Dean McMurry Jr., Architect
Mr. McMurry reviewed the benefits and characteristics of the following types of
pervious products:
Pervious concrete
Permeable interlocking concrete pavers
Porous asphalt
Gravel stabilization grid
Grass pavers (turf reinforcement)
Some take-aways from Mr. McMurry’s presentation: these products have a life span of
about 20-25 years, with a need to vacuum sweep yearly to maintain. Most if not all are
not suitable as roads, but will be appropriate for driveways, parking lots, pathways, etc.
with less heavy usage.
5b. Update on Village website – deferred due to Ms. Meyer’s absence.
5c. Changes to Ordinance – All committee members have previously approved the
Ordinance as revised slightly by Ms. Casey. Based on the discussion, Ms. Casey will
revise possibly further and will send to committee members for approval in the next
two weeks. Mr. Peters will add this Ordinance to Council agenda of 15 July. Ms. Casey
will present to Council.
5d. Committee members availability for meeting in July & September –
Before discussing availability, members discussed who of the 4 members whose terms
are ending have reapplied. Ms. Kang, Ms. Casey and Ms. Respondek have reapplied.
Ms. Rangel has not reapplied. Of the committee members present that have reapplied,
all four are available for the July meeting.
6. BOARD MEMBER COMMENTS
Ms. Respondek asked Mr. Peters to check on the progress of our Tree Ordinance, which seems
to be on the “Legal” shelf. If there is an issue on bringing the Tree Ordinance forward to
Council, Mr. Peters will bring the Ordinance back to the committee for revision. It was also
discussed that one of the reasons to create a Tree Ordinance is that we’d like to become a Tree
City. One of the requirements for Tree City status, in addition to the Ordinance, is that we will
need to create a Tree Board. The committee suggested that the SRC can also be the Tree Board.
Ms. Kang asked if the architect presenter she hope to bring to the meeting could present
another time via zoom. Mr. Peters stated that would be possible with IT’s assistance. The
committee would like to hear from this expert also, at the next meeting if possible. Ms. Kang
will try to arrange this.
Additionally committee members expressed interest in getting all the relevant departments
together for a workshop – P&Z, Public Works and Buildings with SRC to further discuss the new
Ordinance in progress and the options for pervious solutions. Mr. McMurry could possibly
present again to the larger group. At this meeting or another, it would be useful to invite
residents to join in the discussion. This would make a good future workshop.
7. NEXT COMMITTEE MEETING – Wednesday, 9 July, 2025 at 6:30pm
8. ADJOURNMENT