LOS CAYOS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
DISTRICT

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY INITIAL LANDOWNERS’ MEETING AUGUST 16, 2023
9:45 A.M.

Special District Services, Inc.
2501A Burns Road
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410

www.loscayoscdd.org 561.630.4922 Telephone 877.SDS.4922 Toll Free 561.630.4923 Facsimile

AGENDA
LOS CAYOS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT INITIAL LANDOWNERS’ MEETING
LENNAR HOMES, LLC 5505 BLUE LAGOON DRIVE
MIAMI, FL 33126
August 16, 2023
9:45 A.M.

Call to Order
Proof of Publication	Page 1
Establish Quorum
Consider Adoption of Election Procedures	Page 3
Election of Chair for Landowners’ Meeting
Election of Secretary for Landowners Meeting
Election of Supervisors
Determine Number of Voting Units Represented or Assigned by Proxy	Page 6
Nomination of Candidates
Casting of Ballots	Page 7
Ballot Tabulations
Certification of the Results
Landowners’ Comments
Adjourn

MIAMI-DADE

STATE OF FLORIDA COUNTY OF MIAMI-DADE:

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NOTICE OF LANDOWNIRS' MEETING AND ELECTION AND ORGANIZATIONAL MEETINO OP THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE LOS CAYOS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
Notice is hereby given to· the public and all landowners within the Los Cayos Community Development District (the 'District'), the location of which is generally described as comprising 25.72 acres of land. The District is in the City of Homestead, Miami-Dade County, Florida (the 'City' and 'County', respectively), and is boun_ded by SW 172 Avenue on the west, State Road 821/ Homestead Extension of Florida's T4mpike on the
north, Theoretical SW 169 Court on the east, and SW 336 Street on the
south, advising that a meeting of landowners will be held for the purpose of electing five (5) persons to the District Board of Supervisors. Immediately following the landowners' meeting there will be convened a meeting of the Board for the purpose of considering certain matters of the Board to include appo_lntment of staff including, but not limited to, manager, attorney, engineer and others as deemed appropriate by the Board; election of officers of the District; setting the regular meeting schedule of the Board; designating the qualified public depository; obtaining general liability and
public officers insurance; arid any other such business which may property come before the Board.

DATE: TIME: PLACE:

August 16, 2023
9-ASa.m.
Lennar Homes, LLC 5505 Blue Lagoon Drive Miami, FL 33126

Each landowner may vote in person or by written proxy. Proxy forms may be obtained upon request at the office of the District Manager, c/o Special District Services, Inc., 2501A Bums Road, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida 33410, 561-630-4922 ("District Office'). At said meeting each landowner or his or her proxy shall be entitled to nominate persons for the position of
Supervisor and cast one vote per acre of land,.or fractional portion thereof, owned by him or her and located within the District for each person to be elected to the position of Supervisor. A fraction of an acre shall be treated as one acre, entitling the landowner to one vote with respect thereto.
Platted lots shall be counted individually and rounded up to the nearest whole acre. The acreage of platted lots shall not be aggregated for determining the number of voting units held by a landowner or a landowner's proxy. At the landowners' meeting the landowners shall select a person to serve as the meeting chair and who shall conduct the meeting.

The landowners' meeting and the Board of Supervisors meeting are open to the public and will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Florida law. One or both of the meetings may be continued to a date, time, and place to be specified on the record at such meeting. A copy of the agenda for these meetings may be obtained from the District Office. There may be an occasion where one or more supervisors will participate by speaker telephone.

Any person requiring special accommodations to participate in these meetings is asked to contact the District Office at least forty-eight (48) hours before the hearing. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the Florida Relay Service at 7-1-1 or (800) 955-8770 for aid in contacting the District Office.

A person who decides to appeal any decision made by the Board with respect to any matter considered at the meeting is advised that such person will need a record of the proceedings and that accordingly, the person ma-y need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, including the' testimony and evidence upo.wn hich theappeal is to be based.

Gloria Perez District Manager

LOS CAYOS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT
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SPECIAL DISTRICT (CDD) ELECTION PROCEDURES

Landowners’ Meeting
In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 190, Florida Statutes, it is required that an initial meeting of the Landowners of the District be held within ninety (90) days following the effective date of the rule or ordinance establishing the District and thereafter every two (2) years during the month of November for the purpose of electing Supervisors. The second election by landowners shall be held on the first Tuesday in November; thereafter, there shall be an election of supervisors every two (2) years in November on a date established by the Board of Supervisors. The assembled Landowners shall organize by electing a Chairperson, who shall preside over the meeting; and a Secretary shall also be elected for recording purposes.

Establishment of Quorum
Any Landowner(s) present or voting by proxy shall constitute a quorum at the meeting of the Landowners.

Nomination of Candidates
At the meeting, the Chairperson shall call for nominations from the floor for Candidates for the Board of Supervisors. When there are no further nominations, the Chairperson shall close the floor for nominations. The names of each Candidate and the spelling of their names shall be announced. Nominees need not be present to be nominated.

Voting
Each Landowner shall be entitled to cast one (1) vote for each acre (or lot parcel), or any fraction thereof, of land owned by him or her in the District, for each open position on the Board. (For example, if there are three (3) positions open, an owner of one (1) acre or less (or one lot parcel) may cast one (1) vote for each of the three (3) positions. An owner of two (2) acres (or two lot parcels) may cast two (2) votes for each of the three (3) positions.) Each Landowner shall be entitled to vote either in person or by a representative present with a lawful written proxy.

Registration for Casting Ballots
The registration process for the casting of ballots by Landowners or their representatives holding their proxies shall be as follows:

At the Landowners’ Meeting and prior to the commencement of the first casting of ballots for a Board of Supervisor position, each Landowner, or their representative if proxies are being submitted in lieu thereof, shall be directed to register their attendance and the total number of votes by acreage (or lot parcels) to which each claims to be entitled, with the elected Secretary of the meeting or the District’s Manager.

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At such registration, each Landowner, or their representative with a lawful proxy, shall be provided a numbered ballot for the Board of Supervisor position(s) open for election. A District representative will mark on the ballot the number of votes that such Landowner, or their representative, is registered to cast for each Board of Supervisor position open for election.

All Landowner proxies shall be collected at the time of registration and retained with the Official Records of the District for subsequent certification or verification, if required.

Casting of Ballots
Registration and the issuance of ballots shall cease once the Chairperson calls for the commencement of the casting of ballots for the election of a Board of Supervisor(s) and thereafter no additional ballots shall be issued.
The Chairperson will declare that the Landowners, or their representatives, be requested to cast their ballots for the Board of Supervisor(s). Once the ballots have been cast, the Chairperson will call for a collection of the ballots.
Counting of Ballots
Following the collection of ballots, the Secretary or District Manager shall be responsible for the tabulation of ballots in order to determine the total number of votes cast for each candidate that is seeking election.
At the second and subsequent landowner elections*, the two (2) candidates receiving the highest number of votes will be declared by the Chairperson as elected to the Board of Supervisors for four-year terms. The candidate receiving the next highest number of votes will fill the remaining open position on the Board of Supervisors for a two-year term, as declared by the Chairperson.
* At the final landowner election (after the 6th or 10th year), the candidate receiving the highest number of votes will be elected to the Board of Supervisors for a four-year term (two (2) supervisors are elected by General Election).
Contesting of Election Results
Following the election and announcement of the votes, the Chairperson shall ask the Landowners present, or those representatives holding proxies for Landowners, whether they wish to contest the election results. If no contests are received, said election results shall thereupon be certified.
If there is a contest, the contest must be addressed to the Chairperson and thereupon the individual casting a ballot that is being contested will be required to provide proof of ownership of the acreage (or lot parcels) for which they voted at the election within five (5) business days of the Landowners’ Meeting. The proof of ownership shall be submitted to the District Manager who will thereupon consult with the District’s General Counsel and together they will review the material provided and will determine the legality of the contested ballot(s). Once the contests are resolved, the Chairperson shall reconvene the Landowners’ Meeting and thereupon certify the election results.

Recessing of Annual Landowners’ Meeting
In the event there is a contest of a ballot or of the election, the Landowners’ Meeting shall be recessed to a future time, date and location, at which time the election findings on the contest shall be reported in accordance with the procedure above and the newly elected Supervisor(s) shall thereupon take their Oath of Office.

Miscellaneous Provisions
Each Landowner shall only be entitled to vote in person or by means of a representative attending in person and holding a lawful written proxy in order to cast said Landowner’s votes.

Proxies will not require that proof of acreage (or lot parcel) ownership be attached. Rather, proof of ownership must be provided timely by the holder of the proxy, if the proxy is contested in accordance with the procedure above.

LANDOWNER PROXY LOS CAYOS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT LANDOWNERS’ MEETING

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that the undersigned, the fee simple owner of the lands described herein, hereby constitutes and appoints 	(“Proxy Holder”) for and on behalf of the undersigned, to vote as proxy at the meeting of the landowners of the Los Cayos Community Development District to be held on August 16, 2023 at 9:45 a.m. at Lennar Homes LLC 5505 Blue Lagoon Drive Miami, FL 33126, and at any adjournments thereof, according to the number of acres of unplatted land and/or platted lots owned by the undersigned landowner which the undersigned would be entitled to vote if then personally present, upon any question, proposition, or resolution or any other matter or thing which may be considered at said meeting including, but not limited to the Board of Supervisors. Said Proxy Holder may vote in accordance with their discretion on all matters not known or determined at the time of solicitation of this proxy, which may be legally considered at said meeting.

This proxy is to continue in full force and effect from the hereof until the conclusion of the above noted landowners’ meeting and any adjournment or adjournments thereof, but may be revoked at any time by written notice of such revocation presented at the annual meeting prior to the Proxy Holder exercising the voting rights conferred herein.

Printed Name of Legal Owner

Signature of Legal Owner	Date

Parcel Description*	# of Acres

* Insert in the space above the street address of each parcel, the legal description of each parcel, or the tax identification number of each parcel. [If more space is needed, identification of Parcels owned may be incorporated by reference to an attachment hereto.]

Pursuant to section 190.006(2) (b), Florida Statutes (2023), a fraction of an acre is treated as one (1) acre entitling the landowner to one vote with respect thereto.

TOTAL NUMBER OF AUTHORIZED VOTES:    
Please note that each eligible acre of land or fraction thereof is entitled to only one vote, for example, a husband and wife are together entitled to only one vote per their residence if it is located on one acre or less of real property.
If the Legal Owner is not an individual, and is instead a corporation, limited liability company, limited partnership or other entity, evidence that the individual signing on behalf of the entity has the authority to do so should be attached hereto. (e.g. bylaws, corporate resolution, etc.)

BALLOT #		

BALLOT

LOS CAYOS
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT LANDOWNERS’ MEETING

ELECTION OF BOARD SUPERVISORS

AUGUST 16, 2023

The undersigned certifies that he/she is the owner ( ) or duly authorized representative of lawful proxy of an owner ( ) of land in the Los Cayos Community Development District, constituting 	acre(s) and hereby casts up to the corresponding number of his/her vote(s) for the following candidate/candidates to hold the above-named open position:

Name of Candidate	Number of Votes

Signature: 	

Printed Name: 	

Street Address or Tax Parcel Id Number for your Real Property: