Here are the key formal actions the Homestead City Council took on Nov. 19, 2025.

- Tab 17 (Children's Trust subcontract awards): Approved. Motion carried by roll call; mayor recorded a no vote. Staff to implement subrecipient agreements and provide audit reports to council.

- Tabs 4, 5, 6 (site-plan amendment, junkyard and recycling/transfer special exceptions at 175 SW 14th Ave): Deferred to January for re-advertisement to allow staff and the applicant to refine conditions and enforcement language. Motion carried.

- Tabs 7, 8, 9 (The Palace phase 2: site plan amendment, variance, special exception for 240-bed skilled nursing): Deferred to December pending a comprehensive traffic study and right-of-way analysis; applicant proffered to construct mitigation if feasible.

- Tabs 10, 11, 12 (Kingston 3 28 neighborhood center with gas station): Deferred due to revised plans that required re-advertising and further review.

- Tab 13 (Ordinance amending mural approval process): Passed first reading; council directed staff to return with an overlay approach for specified downtown corridors for second reading.

- Tabs 14 and 15 (budget amendments): First readings approved to roll over prior-year funds and reallocate within the general fund.

- Tab 16 (Proposed purchase of 406 Washington): Council voted to extend due diligence through Feb. 27, 2026, conditioned on seller executing an addendum; staff will commission phase-2 environmental testing if needed and a third appraisal. Companion CRA item to allocate a $1,000,000 down payment was deferred.

- Tabs 18'23 (procurements, CAPER, police-equipement trade-in, solid waste franchise awards, transportation fund consolidation, employee health-clinic funding): Council approved the continuing A/E contracts (Tab 18), CAPER (Tab 19), trade-in for police firearms credit (Tab 20), solid-waste franchise awards (Tab 21), transportation fair-share fund consolidation (Tab 22) and establishment of an employee health-clinic budget using insurer rebates and credits (Tab 23).

For details on each item, council staff will post the updated agenda packet and revised resolutions once deliverables (traffic studies, ESAs, appraisals) arrive and items are re-noticed for public hearing.