Pompano Beach Highlands Civic Improvement Assn.

09/29/2026

Supporting our school community!

Norcrest Elementary and Norcrest PTA invites you to be part of their Trunk or Treat 2026, an event filled with costumes, candy, and community spirit. We need your generous support to decorate trunks, donate candy, or sponsor this major school event. Your help makes the magic happen!

📌 Event Details
• Date: Friday, October 16th, 2026
• Time: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
• Location: 3951 NE 16th Ave / Main parking lot
• Activities: car decorating contest, raffle, games and craft, food trucks, and plenty of family fun.
🦇 How can you help?
• Decorate a trunk: Bring your creatively decorated car and hand out candy safely.
• Donate candy or supplies: Help us by contributing bags of treats or event materials.
• Business/Family Sponsorship: Contribute toward prizes and event logistics.

We’d love to have you join us!
Please confirm your participation or register your vehicle.
Anyone who would like to participate, please sign up using the QR code.


Norcrest PTA
Norcrest Elementary and Norcrest PTA: support our school community - Trunk or Treat 2026 event

09/11/2026

TAKE CARE OF COMMUNITY CATS IS POSSIBLE IN THE City of Pompano Beach

If you are a compassionate person who loves animals and enjoys caring for the free-roaming cats in your community, know that you can do so. Familiarize yourself with the guidelines we share below (links included), and you can even register as a caregiver. Visit the City of Pompano Beach webpage for full details and to learn more about the free resources available for the care of these animals. The brochure is also posted FYI.

CITY OF POMPANO BEACH: Providing Care for Community Cats (guidelines) - Link: https://www.pompanobeachfl.gov/government/public-works/animal-control/community-cats

The City of Pompano beach Ordinance Section 90.22 provides guidelines for care of Community Cats. The ordinance provides a pathway for private practice of TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) activities. TNR remains a controversial practice and the City’s role is manager of these activities, not participant.

The ordinance is a balanced framework providing for adequate care of community cats and response to complaints. Too often TNR and RTF (Return to Field) programs do not adequately provide care of the cats that are relegated to a life outdoors nor are they responsive to the complaints that arise due to their continued presence.

The ordinance promotes community-wide participation in reducing the overpopulation of outdoor cats and providing better care, resulting in reduced need for permanent removal. The community is encouraged to play a small role at home as “backyard sanctuary caregivers”. If many assume a small responsibility for providing sterilization and care for just one, two or three cats around their own home, according to these guidelines, then both our animal and human residents will experience a much better quality of life and the population should decrease.

Leaving cats in place and allowing registered caregivers the opportunity to resolve complaints and conflicts before any city provided removal response is initiated is the City’s first preference. The Animal Control Division will inform registered caregivers who desire to be notified of community cat hot spots and complaints and allow at least 21 days for the caregiver community to provide response and resolution of the complaint.

If resolution of complaints is not accomplished, the City may order to cease feeding and/or initiate permanent removal but still gives registered caregivers the opportunity to take possession of permanently removed cats to provide a disposition that does not include return to the streets of Pompano Beach.

Individuals who provide care on the property of others and/or for more than three cats must register as a Community Cat Caregiver by submitting the one page registration form. The registration must be supplemented with a Care Location Permission form for each location where care is provided.

Residents who provide care on their private property at their permanent residence (not including communal areas) to three or less cats do not need to register.

Care is not permitted on public property including roads, swales, parks and beaches.

COMMUNITY CAT CAREGIVER REGISTRATION FORM LINK:
cdn.pompanobeachfl.gov/city/pages/animal_control/Registration%20Form.pdf

Ordinance Section 90.22 Link:�cdn.pompanobeachfl.gov/city/pages/public_works/90.22.pdf


Brandi Zabadal for Pompano Beach Commissioner District 2 .22 #90.22 .22

09/05/2026

PURRR
PURRR is extending FREE spay/neuter services for TNR and community cats throughout September! Each appointment includes:

🐾 Spay or neuter
🐾 Rabies vaccine
🐾 FVRCP vaccine
🐾 Ear tip

TNR is one of the most effective and humane ways to reduce the number of cats born outdoors while helping existing community cats live healthier lives. Every cat fixed creates a lasting impact - and together, we can reach even more.

Appointments are available on Wednesdays, Saturdays and select Mondays. book today!

📞 (954) 745-0801
📧 mailto:[email protected]
🌐 purrr.org/spay-neuter

09/02/2026

PBHCIA Community Meeting - September 1st, 2026

We spent a fantastic evening with Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar, alongside Margi Hedelund and her children from Responding 2 Autism.

We also appreciate the continued attendance of our recurring speakers, including representatives from the City of Pompano Beach Code Compliance and the Pompano Beach BSO.

We want to thank Broward County Property Appraiser Marty Kiar for attending our community meeting. He shared invaluable insights regarding Amendment 3 on the upcoming November ballot. If you would like to learn more, please contact his office; his staff is incredibly kind and ready to assist you.

We were delighted to host Responding2Autism and want to thank them for sharing such valuable insights with our community. Their dedication to community engagement is truly impressive as they continue to educate both individuals and organizations about autism.

Responding 2 Autism is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bridging the gap between autism and emergency response through education, awareness, and lived experience. As a family with deep ties to both autism and law enforcement, we are committed to helping first responders, educators, and communities recognize, understand, and appropriately support individuals with autism.

Our mission is to create safer, more compassionate interactions and better outcomes for individuals with autism and those who serve them, because the more we know, the better we do.

Responding 2 Autism was created for our sons, and for every individual with autism who deserves to be safe, understood, and respected. As a family raising two boys on the autism spectrum and with deep roots in law enforcement, we saw a critical need to bridge the gap between autism and emergency response. By combining lived experience with professional service, we work to equip first responders and communities with the knowledge and tools to create safer, more compassionate interactions. Because when knowledge meets compassion, lives change.


MARTY KIAR - Broward County Property Appraiser Community Meeting
Responding 2 Autism

08/31/2026

MARTY KIAR
Broward County Property Appraiser Community Meeting

🗓️Tuesday, September 1st, 2026
⏰7:00 PM
📍Highlands Recreation Center
1650 NE 50th Ct, Pompano Beach, FL 33064

Join us for a Community Conversation to learn more about Florida Amendment 3, Homestead Tax Exemptions, Property Assessments, and Spending Restrictions Amendment (2026).

Applications for property tax exemptions may be processed.


MARTY KIAR - Broward County Property Appraiser Community Meeting

07/23/2026

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By Diane Emeott-Korzen | New Pelican Writer Pompano Beach – Sheriff Gregory Tony and his top Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO) brass paid a visit to the commission chambers July 14, as commissioners approved a three-year re-negotiated contract with the law enforcement agency. After a presentation b...

07/15/2026

Decide your FUTURE!
General Elections: November 3, 2026

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Nationwide Midterm General Elections�Pompano Beach Commission Elections�November 3, 2026