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Committee reviews program updates and upcoming events including Oktoberfest, mental-health festival and veterans parade
Summary
The Special Needs Advisory Committee handled program updates — dance, animation, karate — and confirmed involvement and volunteer needs for upcoming events: Oktoberfest, a mental-health fall festival (Oct. 18), Veterans Day parade (Nov. 2) and a fashion show (Oct. 18).
Committee members provided routine program updates on classes and town events and recorded motions to reorder and add agenda items for upcoming events.
Program updates: Dance class costumes were ordered for a 25th-anniversary performance; animation classes are full with a pending small graduation; karate is back and parents reported positive responses; committee members discussed promoting openings and clarifying that many programs are for special needs participants only.
Events and logistics: The committee added Oktoberfest and a fall mental-health festival to old business and confirmed the mental-health fall festival is scheduled for Oct. 18. Committee members noted they do not have a booth/table for some events but planned to attend and wear committee polos. The committee also discussed a Hope for Autism fashion show and confirmed logistics are in progress.
Veterans Parade: The town's Veterans Parade is scheduled for Sunday, Nov. 2, and the committee was asked to supply adult volunteers; the committee discussed requesting a golf cart for committee members to participate and agreed to request one and to decorate it with patriotic or Miami Lakes themed items.
Other notes: The Mayor's Gala is set for Nov. 14; sponsorships and tickets were discussed. Committee members also noted the Abilities Expo (Oct. 17'19 in Fort Lauderdale) as a related external event and encouraged staff to circulate event details. Several routine procedural motions (reopening order of business, adding items) passed by voice vote earlier in the meeting; the transcript records voice votes but no roll-call tallies.
