Good morning everyone. If you would please take your seat. >> Guess we don't have any day today. >> Welcome to the Barrier Islands Governmental Council. Today is February 25th, 2026. It's now 9:00 a.m. and I call this meeting to
order. Please uh rise and join me for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands nation for all. Yeah, definitely.
>> All right. So, we're going to start off with a roll call. Uh I'm going to go first. I'm filling in for uh Mayor Will, who is playing the hookie today. And um my name is Dave Gatis. I am the mayor of Bair Beach and the vice president of the
Big Sea. Uh let's follow going to my left. >> I am Ann Marie Brooks. I'm the mayor of MadiRaa Beach and the treasurer of the Big Sea. >> Good morning. All right. And uh if we'll just start on this side and go backwards. Start with a
catch box and uh pass it around and then we'll come back around on this side. >> Never used this before. Sorry. Uh my name is Josie Benwell. I'm with Penllis County Public Works and I'm here today to present on the flood vulnerability assessment.
>> Mike Twitty, Penelis County Property Appraiser. >> Good morning. Larry Shear, citizen of Indian Shores. Good morning. Charlie Justice, Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber. >> Jerry Sacka, San Key Civic Association.
>> Fred Irwin, San Key Civic Association. >> I love this thing. Gina Johnson, owner of 1440 Living. >> Tim Johnson, Waterfront Realy and Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber. >> Aita Longhan. with Jacobs Engineering and Flood Plane Management.
>> Sharon Wright with HDR um resilience practice lead. >> Good morning. Amy Davis with Penllis County. I'm the big city liaison for you. >> Good morning. I'm Harrison Nutern. I'm with Penelis County Public Works. >> Good morning. Camden Mills, public
services director for St. Pete Beach. >> Good morning. Christopher Holland, citizen. Good morning. Ken Grimes, Fire Chief, Penel Sun Coast Fire and Rescue District. We serve uh Indian Shores, uh Indian Rocks Beach, Beller Shore, Beller
Beach. >> Hi, Tina Porter, town of Indian Shores, town administrator. >> Hello everyone. Uh Kyle Reefer, city manager, city of Beller Beach. >> Good morning. Samantha Malay, district 8 to representative Burfield.
Christy Herig, uh, Readington Shores, Chair of the Planning and Zoning. >> Doug Harr, Commissioner, Readington Shores. >> Good morning. Larry Maynard, commissioner, Readington Shores. >> Good morning everyone. My name is Michael Ballard. I'm here with the
Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions. >> Good morning everyone. My name is Eddie McGee, Commissioner Madier Beach. >> Good morning. Sam Jenkins with SPC's Institute Proced Solutions. >> Good morning. Terresa Crane, Duke Energy.
Good morning. Bobby Shayley, City of Treasure Island. >> Ashley Oren, Penelis County Commissioner, Kathleen Peter's office. >> Good morning. Adriana Neves, town clerk, town of Readington Beach. >> Kathy Thornsberry, city clerk of city of
Beller Beach. >> Hi, Shannon Wilson, Duke Energy. Stephanie Barry, small business owner in John's Pass. >> Good morning. Barry Rubin, Penelis Beaches Chamber of Commerce. >> Ready? >> Good morning, Rick Drapsky,
Commissioner, North Readington Beach. >> Good morning, Eric Lamb, public works, North Readington Beach. >> Good morning, Mary Campbell, town clerk, North Readington Beach. >> All right, and we have one more that just walked in. >> Absolutely. Good morning. stuck with me
this morning. Bruce Rector couldn't be here. Mayor Clearwater say you got Mike. Pleasure. Sorry for my delay. >> All right, we'll go to this end. >> Tom, mayor of the city. >> Jay Super, mayor of North Readington
Beach. >> Denise Houseber, mayor of Indian Rocks Beach. >> Diane, mayor of Indian Shores. >> All right. All right. So, welcome everyone. I hope you enjoyed your breakfast. Uh now we are up to approval
of the minutes. Uh we did get a request from uh Mike Twitty uh for the opportunity to speak. Uh so I would entertain a motion to add Mike Twitty to uh just insert in between items eight and nine for a discussion.
>> Make a motion. >> A motion. >> Second. >> Second. All right. Uh let's see. The first motion is Brooks and the second motion is uh Shear. All in favor? >> I.
>> Any opposed? All right. So, uh now we are on to approval of the treasurer's report. Take it away, Mayor Brooks. >> We have successfully transferred our account over to Valley Bank. And yes,
big clap happy. They are fantastic. Um, we had an opening balance on January 1st, a transferred opening balance of $5581. We had one expenditure, it was $1667 to digital L for our website, leaving us
as of January 31st with a balance of $54,1.34. >> All right. Thank you very much. Uh, I will entertain a motion to approve the treasurer's report. >> I'll move to approve the treasur. Motion is made by Mayor Shear. >> I'll second.
>> Second by Mayor Houseberg. All in favor? >> I. Any opposed? All right. The treasurer's report is rep is approved. Uh do we have any correspondence? I don't believe we do. All right. Uh any unfinished business?
No. All right. Well, let's just move right on to new business. Uh we have guest speakers today which are Josie Benwell uh Penllis County section manager public's works uh public works department and Sharon Wright HDR
resilience practice league. Uh they are here to uh uh give us a presentation on the vulnerability assessment results. >> Welcome. >> Thank you. Good morning everyone. Um well again my name is Josie Benwell.
I'm with Penllis County Public Works in the project management office and my team has been overseeing the development of the flood vulnerability assessment for unincorporated Penllis County as well as 10 additional municipalities which include the coastal communities
from Bair and then the barrier island from Belair shore down to Madiraa Beach. Sorry, I'm trying to get the notes screen up here. Is there a way I can see the notes screen? Sorry.
Oh, okay. Well, Sorry about that. >> No worries. >> Okay. So the flood vulnerability assessment um is essentially done to inform communities about the flood vulnerability of the public infrastructure and to prioritize
flooding related risks to that public infrastructure as well as to recommend adaptation planning strategies and ensure communities are eligible for the um resilience related grant funding especially the resilient Florida program.
Um, some of the topics we're going to talk about this morning are uh what a flood vulnerability assessment is and what that entails, some of the methods and approaches that were used in the assessment, as well as how uh we accomplished community engagement, some of the results and the next steps in the
process. So, flood vulnerability assessment is a study that evaluates the potential flooding impacts to critical public infrastructure now and into the future. Um we looked at the present year as well
as 20 240, 2070 and 2100. And this is to enhance understanding of the flood risks in the community as well as identify areas of improvement for flood mitigation. Um and we're focused on the impacts to public and regionally significant infrastructure as opposed to
residential homes and private businesses. Um, and this includes the the public assets owned and maintained by unincorporated county as well as the cities that are represented here. The infrastructure data was organized into four different categories as
predefined by the state of Florida resilient Florida program and that includes critical community emergency facilities. Uh, things like um the the fire stations, police stations, and other facilities of that sort. critical infrastructure such as the water utility
and distribution infrastructure, electrical um and telecommunications. And then we also have natural, cultural and historic resources um parks, wetlands, things of that nature, as well as the transportation um and evacuation
routes. This work was funded through the 2021 gaming compact between the semol tribe of Florida and the state of Florida which sets aside 100 million annually statewide to help communities guard
against um risks of flooding. And some of the example projects that have used this grant funding are down below. And the things like utility improvements, um improvements to major drainage channels and things of that nature.
Uh the community benefit the the first and and I I would say primary benefit of this is um to ensure that the communities are eligible to apply for Resilient Florida grant funding. um as it is a requirement in order to apply in the future for you to have gone through
this exercise of developing the flood vulnerability assessment report. Um and in addition to that uh we're able to map out the critical critical public infrastructure and what those potential flooding risks are going to be to those assets now and looking out into the
future in different storm scenarios. Uh we've conducted uh quite a bit of public engagement over the last few years starting with the countywide vulnerability assessment workshop which had um a variety of different municipalities as well as some of the local agencies including health um
organizations. And we also attended multiple events around the summer of 2024 where we went out into the community and attended things like hurricane expos um and other uh charitable events. the the World Oceans Day and some of the
other city events that occurred and spoke with over 600 people and got about a little over 500 responses in terms of the the surveys that we put out and got some really great feedback as to what was most important to the community.
Um, and then we recently also held a virtual public meeting where uh we presented the draft results of the assessment and answered questions for the public. So, with the the survey that I mentioned over the the summer of 2024, um some of
the key takeaways are that obviously the flooding that we've experienced over recent years has been very disruptive. A lot of people have had to evacuate. And more than half of the respondents said that they consider flooding when deciding where to live, how to travel,
how to conduct their daily business. Um and the the highest levels of concern that uh we got from folks was in terms of roads, electricity, the the telecommunications and and buildings. And some of the major factors that the
respondents identified and what makes recovery from flooding difficult are um the the recurring flooding that we've seen and the fact that we have a lot of low-lying structures and facilities as well as the risk of pollution. And in addition to that, we have um you
know quite a few vulnerable populations like the elderly um and other social vulnerabilities uh people with disabilities and and things like that as well as the the wildlife and habitat risks.
Uh there was a steering committee that was put together for the communities represented here today as this is we essentially are delivering three projects to the state and one of the the projects is these coastal communities um that I mentioned before. We also have
Penllis Park and then the third is the unincorporated Panelis County assets. Um so these these folks here we really appreciate um their ongoing support and input into this process. And we also had some technical
stakeholders involved and um uh you know have multiple county departments staff involved as well as um many city staff involved and engaged in the the technical reviews for all of the deliverables uh as well as some of these
other agencies like um the Tampa Bay Estray program, the Climate Science Advisory Panel um and the Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council. And with that, I'm gonna hand it over to Sharon Wright with HDR, and she's been the consultant project manager for this
project on behalf of the county and the city is represented here today. >> All right. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Josie. And good morning, um, honorable mayors and elected officials here. Uh I appreciate the opportunity and the fortunate uh chance to work with
the county and these communities on these vulnerability assessments. So where we are now in the presentation and it's going to talk about the basic steps to doing a vulnerability assessment. Um this is can be very technical work. This is a very high level presentation but want to bring you into the fold and give you some examples and um each of you
will be getting detailed uh vulnerability assessments for your own community that talk about each of your assets as long as we had them in the data. And um so this will be a little bit high level but for vulnerability assessment steps like a lot of analysis data collection is an initial step. Um
Josie talked about the public engagement that actually contributed to data collection too. Both ways we were able to talk to um uh folks about the different pieces of infrastructure. You know of course everyone's worried about their house or their business first. So we went with the hurricane folks and the FEMA folks so they could talk to them
about those types of things. Um but then we would talk about the infrastructure that was in their communities and then they could also tell us what was important to them whether it's their local community center or library kind of just um get the buy in on what we're doing here to look at your infrastructure. So um data collection
that was sort of the public uh uh engagement piece but we also um use geographic information systems. Many of your communities have digital data on your assets. If you did not some smaller communities don't have a big uh digital enterprise like that. the county has some of your data and we were able to
fold that in. And then we also did a little desktop research looking at your community websites to see what amenities you have. You usually say if you have public works facilities or parks and that sort of thing and we would digitize those using mapping on a desktop and then a little bit of driving around to lay our eyes on it to make sure we were
kind of getting as much as we could. These are your first vulnerability assessments. If there's something missing, they have been pretty reviewed, but um you can keep adding to that um as you go. and the county has a very robust uh set which can supplement what you have as well. Um so that's data
collection. The next step is the exposure analysis and so exposure oh before I uh well I'll talk about it at the same time I guess for the exposure analysis what we basically did is took these flood scenarios. So flood scenarios were part of the data collection also the county as maybe most
of you know or maybe maybe not but um the county has been working on developing flood modeling for years now. So we have 21 flood scenarios we could look at with your assets. Um so the exposure step of that is to um overlay in a map. So it's a little bit two-dimensional um until you get to the
next step. But you overlay that. And in the exposure analysis if that flood um modeled overlay overlaid with your asset, we said it was impacted. So it's either impacted or it's not impacted. The flood modeling also talks about the depth at which that um asset is flooded.
And that transitions into the next step which is the sensitivity analysis. So using that flood depth we apply thresholds might be impacted at one inch it might be impacted at 10 feet. So in the sensitivity we say something is a low moderate high or extreme kind of
flood severity is that first step in the sensitivity analysis. Um and then and then there's some other factors in the sensitivity uh that are based on the criticality of the asset for example or if you own or maintain the asset it may have been considered a little more sensitive for you because you have
control to apply for funding and do a little bit more about it. doesn't mean all of all this is called critical infrastructure because they're all important but I will um maybe show an example here um doing that process you have your data collection your exposure and then your sensitivity we do use
numbers and we come up with some scores I don't like to focus on the scores we like to apply those with the thresholds to really give you a framework by which to plan by and that low kind of medium high when you get way up there you have a scenario that's a flood scenario that's very highly likely and you have a
very important asset that might be something you look at first. Um, and a couple of examples I put up here. There's the Bair Beach Community Center, and that's a little tidal flood overlay. It is hitting your park a little bit, but it's not hitting that public works building or the community center, which
is elevated. Um, so the park is very important. That might offer an opportunity to look at adaptation with multiple benefits for facilities. And then compare that to something like the uh something in public safety like the Sun Coast uh Sun Coast Rescue. Hi
um um you know that's going to be considered more critical than maybe the park next to the community center just for the purposes of planning. You have all of that initial data and you can use the different pieces. You know that our projects are complex with timing and funding. So you can use the pieces of of
that analysis to help you plan and invest in the improvements that you need um as you go. Is there anything else going to say on that one? Yeah. Well, and the other thing too is I think that Sun Coast Fire Rescue is at about what four four to five feet
elevation. So maybe the first floor can get flooded and that's okay, but maybe not. So maybe that's something you invest in and look at mitigation. May already have some pumping around there or something like that. So um that's sort of the process that data collection exposure and
sensitivity. So with those flood scenarios, we're going to get an overview of results. And these are just snapshots. Each each of your reports will have lots of mapping and probably more information than you want um for data. But here we're looking at the countywide view of some of these scenarios. This is tidal flooding, you
know, and that comes in with um uh that's your lowline coastal areas or near the inland shorelines um in Penllis County. So kind of obvious sometimes you have your king tide and your um high tides that cause a little coastal flooding. And then next is storm surge.
This is the what's called the 100year. It um has a pretty good impact and it's one of those kind of highly likely scen more more likely scenarios. Um and you can see it's got a pretty good coverage ac across Penllis County um except some of the higher middle areas. This is also
storm surge and it's a more extreme version called 500year but just to kind of get an idea of what these things look like across our our whole county. And then this was extreme rainfall that was modeled and that's a little different. It has a lot of coverage but it also has like pockets and we know that that
rainfall has been more extreme at times lately and it can overwhelm our storm water systems and still flood some of our buildings and things. And then there was also some groundwater data. So the groundwater with um interacting with some of these uh um factors that cause
flooding can cause the groundwater to breach the ground and damage foundations or um just uh be looking at that. So um each of those have planning horizons starting at a base year of 2018 going to 2040 2070. groundwater had a 2100 year
also, but most of what's required by the state right now that we are complying with is 2040 and 2070 and then that base year. So, what are some of the takeaways? Looking at the big picture countywide, as you saw, that storm surge type uh scenario, never mind when it's
compounded with other things. Um, here it was compounded with sea level rise uh has tends to have higher flood severity and more impacts to your assets. Um, the state also has us categorize regionally significant assets from those four categories that Josie talked about with whether it's parks or storm water
infrastructure. Um, there's things that are regionally significant that get a little bumped up in criticality, too. That's your evacuation routes, Gulf Boulevard. Um, and then of course the airport, our waste disposal complex. Um, and those all have pretty good impact showing. So, um, need to be looking at
investing in those. Um, and then, you know, like to have a little bright spot with all of the significant number of assets across the county being impacted. We looked at emergency shelters. There were minimal to no impacts to those. That's how we want them, right? That's what we're going. So, um, we're on the right track there.
And then looking more at the collaborative communities takeaways in a on a uh on a high level. um take away tidal flooding um by nature impacts some of the coastal communities more than it impacts some of the inland communities.
Um and then um for the communities included in this uh it was 10 to 40% of the area for any of the scenarios between 2018 and um storm surge that one we kind of I keep bringing up that is a little more um extreme. each of the mis
municipalities were looked at um with your whole area, your city limit, any SW storm surge scenario we're looking at at least covers in some way your entire community area. So that can be used with the state to build that story on increasing the criticality of everything. Not only is your asset
flooded, but your whole community is flooded in some of these scenarios. So you want to build that case to um apply for funding if you can. Um couple of differences. Belair is a little higher and was included in this. So it it's a little uh showing more impacts from extreme rainfall say than some of the
title stuff that the coastal communities are um right along the edge. And then Penllis Park um they will uh have their own public meeting but uh just uh to get your arms to help get your thoughts around what this flooding is like. You know they're more inland so they're a little more rainfall and storm surge
too. So the next few slides just give you a little bit of flavor of um all of the types of information or not all but some of the information that will be in your reports. It will be quite a bit. So this is an example of title flooding when you're looking at your areas. So for
title actually that one on the left and I'm sorry this is a little far away. There's little tiny hash red hashtags on there. Those represent bridges in the data and so you can sort of you'll see some information about the percent of bridges that may be impacted. um title seem to be kind of minor for Gulf, I
guess in between that um inter coastal and coastal area, but local roads, as you can see to the right, those tinier red lines, um those have a little more impact with that tidal flooding. And I noticed on a couple of these examples, some of the title um um you can tell me
if it's true on the ground, but the modeling shows that it kind of pushes in because you have the beaches and the dunes protecting you a lot from that side, but it pushes into that inner coastal and starts to hit your seaw walls and um assets on the inter coastal side. Going back to that storm surge base
here, this has already happened 100% of Gulf Boulevard. Um I just learned that um Teresa is working with Duke to underground. That's a good thing. Um but that may offer some other opportunities in your adaptation planning. Um it is a DOT road, but what can we be doing in our communities when we take advantage
of um improvements along that way? Um and then your reports will have lots of detailed tables. This is a little bit oversimplified to just give you that idea. um looking at that storm surge 20 240 sort of near-term. You can see the coverage on that map, but we'll show you the number of assets impacted and the
percentage of imp uh assets impacted for each of those asset categories. Local government facil facilities falls under that um critical community facilities category that Josie talked about and parks is in that natural category. But um in addition to those four categories, we try to get asset types in there too.
Just give you more detail to work with. Similarly for tidal flooding but a little less percentage of impact and there there you can see what I was talking about on the right hand side is that Beller Beach example. Yeah. Um some of those
facilities and seaw walls along the right. Now, for most of these, just like your whole communities are covered in storm surge, the um you have man-made and natural shorelines mapped um from the county data, and those pretty much show almost 100% impact as well in most
of these scenarios. Then we're here in Madiraa Beach. We got your storm water infrastructure up there um and some local government facilities. So, storm water conveyance system showing a pretty high percentage of impact, but that is at ground level. Hopefully some of that
infrastructure is actually designed to be submerged. So we are using basically ground level. We know we have some elevation. We know we have some pump stations. But the conservative way of turning these assets into the state just means if you want funding for that you will the shape the the state will look
at their information and say oh yes they included this as potentially impacted. So they qualify for funding um in that way at least depending on the project. So those were a few examples. Got a couple other um map examples here. Where are we now and what are the next steps?
Um the immediate next step is we have done we've had we've done memos for that exposure piece. We've done memos for that sensitivity piece and that steering committee was able to review those, provide comments. So now we've combined all of that into draft vulnerability assessments. Some of your community staff have them. We're working through
it. You should have all of them delivered this week and you'll have a couple of weeks to review those. Um, and really what you want to look for is um, we we've done the data collection and um, we can't add too many more assets, but is there a story we want to tell? Is there something in a capital plan or in
a collaboration of an improvement um, that is that is in there and um, or that you want us to write up and focus on? You know, anything that you want kind of called out in the near future for funding purposes too. So that's uh, the immediate next step. Um, those have uh, draft discussion about focus areas.
focus areas can be uh as small as as these communities are kind of the whole area. Um the county is working with another consultant to do adaptation planning and so this will lead them into what to do. What we've tried to do on the draft BAS is sprinkle a little bit
of variety in some focus areas so that when they come and do the adaptation plans, you'll all have access to all of them and have different concepts possibly for different things. Golf Boulevard is an obvious one to work with you on, but you can see like even the town of Belair on the left there, they might have a geographic focus area
because that southwest piece is where they're more impacted up in that high bluff area. Um so that will continue um into adaptation planning through about September, probably through about August so that they can turn in that information to the state in September or
uh yeah September. So draft VAS adaptation planning. There is one more public meeting with the county March 19th. All are welcome. Um and then we're after that we're going to be submitting the final. We're going to incorporate the comments to the draft, submit the
final to the state. Hopefully get that accepted and we'll all be compliant. Um and then they'll continue with adaptation planning with the county and turn those adaptation plans in in September. Before, during, and after, we're always doing our funding strategies and looking out for where we can get other alternative funding
sources. So that's always the next step. >> All right, >> just your main contact. Thank you. >> Thank you, Sharon. Uh any any questions from the council? >> Questions, comments? No. All right. Thank you for being here. A very detailed report and uh if you don't
mind, could we get a copy of this? >> You have it. >> We have it. All right. Great. Great. Uh we have one question here. >> Yes. I'm curious. how that >> um I think Joseph is going to mention too. So the county is leading those
because of the smaller communities. The state asked the county to to lead some of these but just because these are the ones in this most communities if not all communities are doing those. Treasure Island is doing one. St. Pete Beach is doing one. They just weren't included in this particular grant work plan. But
there is planning grant money paying pretty much 100% of this plan effort of which I'll also note once you qualify for grant funds that is for your projects. You see this infrastructure that's impacted there is a 50% match for
that but um I mean they're funding things anywhere from three million to 20 million to $40 million across the state with that implementation dollar. So this qualifies you to apply. you will have to find a 50% match but most communities is there anyone not doing one all
communities um are approaching doing them in in their own way a little larger with staff these communities have have limited staff and the state said we want everybody in so county is helping with that y um I don't know who's who's uh in treasure island now Katherine
>> no I know Stacy went to the county but Stacy was working on it before that Okay. >> Okay. Okay. >> We have one more question in the back. >> Hi, Catherine.
Katherine said that Treasure Islands was adopted or close to it um last summer. >> All right. Anyone else? All right, Sharon, I appreciate you being here. Uh thank you for the detailed report and uh I look forward to
hearing the final uh the final report. Thank you. All right. Ne up next is uh Mike Twitty. Welcome everybody. >> Uh just wanted to give you guys a quick update. I actually spoke at uh city of
St. Pete Beach last night. The vice mayor was there. Thank you for having me in. Um, so much of this, what I'm going to say is going to be very short and sweet, but if anybody wants to tune in and know more, um, tuning in to their meeting from last night. Um, I was at
the top of the hour for their their, um, their meeting last night at 6 and was able to do a a presentation and so there was a slide deck and all of that if people want to know more. But, uh, first of all, I want to let everybody know March 2nd is right around the corner here and that's the homestead deadline.
And it's also the deadline for other personal exemptions filings within our office. Most people can do those online on our website or they can obviously come into any of our four locations and do so. U many of your citizens also
received a survey from us. those that we had as flood impacted, um those that had not already pulled permits. And you know, we sent them a a quick kind of down and dirty survey just trying to get a feel of where they stood condition,
where their property condition stood as of uh January 1. January one is always our magic effective date of valuation. So, we're always trying to get that snapshot in time. So, we sent that survey out. We've been getting those back and getting some good information. It's it's helping us to know whether
people are re planning to repair those homes, tear them down, rebuild, uh, you know, sell them asis, you know, those types of things. So, um, it's important because it also helps us with the FEMA letter valuations on the structures because if we know that they've already returned to pre-storm condition as of
January 1, then we can restore that that structure value and it doesn't impact their taxes because they're still under the Save Our Homes cap. So, um, just want to let people know that's still out there. And we did have a a March I think 1 deadline technically on that. Just trying to encourage people to uh shoot
those back in. And another tool we did roll roll out, you know, I love building tools for our citizens um and and our elected officials, but um we built what is called a calamity calculator. So there is the calamity provision. Many of you have heard me speak on that in years
past. And that is a great benefit to those that have been impacted where they can rebuild their homes up to historically it's been 110% of their original square footage. Now, as of June of last year, uh the legislature passed
a new law and increased it to 130% of your original square footage for homesteaders. So, there are different different rules of the road now for non-homesteaders versus homesteaders. I went over it in detail in that presentation last night. So, encourage people to tune into that. It's also on
our website. There's a lot of information there related to it. But, we've built a Calamity calculator tool. So, those that are working with their builders that that are going to rebuild and they have to elevate, whether they're jacking up an existing home or building new, this is a great tool. So
they can go in there, enter their square footage that they plan to build and for their living area, their porch area and their atgrade area below base flood, and it will tell them if there's any increase in in their real estate taxes as a as a result of that. So it's a
great tool where people can run scenarios and kind of test that out. And in most cases, they're they're not as long as they don't go too crazy with their square footage, they're not going to see um any impact. but it's a a great tool for when they're in that planning phase. So, just want to let them know
that's out there and active on our site. And that's uh pretty much all I have for you today. >> Great. Uh I will uh say that you and your team have been instrumental in helping our communities. Um honestly, a round of applause.
Thank you. Have any questions for Mike? Yes. >> Thank you, chair. Not a question. Just wanted to kind of allude to the very same thing and thank Mr. Twitty uh for your your leadership and your team's leadership. You were gifted uh two two massive hurricanes and now this
uncertainty surrounding uh property tax and you and your team has been >> I haven't heard about that. >> Yeah. Well, we're trying to keep it a secret. We don't want anybody to know. But, uh no, you you you and your team have been great, very accessible. Uh and these tools that you're rolling out and calculators have been a huge help for
our team. So, thank you so much. Great. Thank you. I appreciate that. >> So, I would like to say that a lot of times in government, we are looking for we have a solution that's looking for a problem and you had a lot of problems
and your office has really gone above and beyond to try to find solutions to assist not only the local government but the residents. So, thank you. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate what you all do and what you've had to persevere. So, thank you for being great partners and working with our team
really well. I'm fortunate to have great staff that um you know, helps me tackle these crazy ideas on, you know, I'm always throwing new challenges out to them and they they respond very well. So, thank you. Thank you for having me and thank you for fitting me in. >> No problem. Uh anyone else? No. All
right. Thank you, Mike. >> All right. Uh do we have any discussion items? Anything uh anyone would like to bring up? Everyone's pretty quiet this morning. All right. Uh, do we have any legislative updates?
>> Hi. >> Good morning, mayor. Good morning, everyone. Uh, the Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber last week went to Tallahassee and visited with our legislators pushing for our local priorities. And I wanted to make people aware of one thing. The Senate has a substantial amount of money
in their proposed budget for beach nourishment projects throughout the state which Penelis would be eligible for a significant portion of. The House does not have that same level of funding. And so I would encourage you as you're talking to our local representatives to share our encouragement to join the senators in
funding that fully. So just wanted to bring that to your attention. >> All right. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. All right. Anyone else? Any other legislative updates? Nope. Uh, anyone from the county? No. All right. Uh, well, let's just move
right over to city events. We'll start right down here on this end. >> Sure. Thank you. >> Doesn't sound like it's on. >> Oh. Oh, there we go. There we go. >> Magic. All right. So, uh, in St. Pete Beach, we have several, uh, events coming up. There will be a St. Patrick's
Day celebration on Corey Avenue. And then the uh um spring concert series will start the first uh first Friday in March in Haran Park with a uh 70s style Casey in the Sunshine tribute band.
>> All right. Next. >> Thank you, Chair. Didn't uh necessarily come prepared with a list of events for the city of Clearwater. Do have a a lot going on. And uh spring training baseball is obviously back in our communities and that means so much to uh
to so many of us. This Saturday is the mayor's cup challenge. City of Deneden and the Toronto Blue Jays uh in the Phillies. Uh Mayor Mo Freeny and Bruce Rector will be wrestling the trophy from each other on the field. I think uh Clear Waters beat them up the last six years, so they're probably due. But
split squad game, so it should be exciting. Uh Seab Boo Blues Festival is another big one uh coming up in our our beautiful uh Coachman Park. Um and that uh that gets attended by 10 to 12,000 people. Other than that, uh Stixs is
playing at the Sound. I don't know if there's any Sticks fans out there, but a great great music band. I think Twitty was stage diving on there last time they were here last year, but uh Stixs is here this Friday. Should be a great show as Coachman Park always rolls out some amazing shows. But uh thank you for
having me and I apologize for being a little tardy. There's a couple lights on the way here from Clear Water >> in Madiraa Beach. Today we have our Wednesday market. So before you leave, walk over to um Madira Way and do a little shopping. Friday is Village
Friday and I believe if I'm not mistaken the theme is Martyra, so go down and have a good time. And then on March the 7th from 8 to 10 is the trash pirates cleanup. They will start 8 o'clock in
the morning at Archabald and down at John's Pass, but at Archabald they will have Jason Adams with Metro ABC and he will be broadcasting live. So come out and say hello and pick up some trash.
>> All right. Uh well, I'm proud to say that I have tickets to the Sticks concert. So, if anyone's going, I'll see you there. Uh, in Bair Beach, we are having our, uh, health and wellness fair on March
the 7th from 10:30 to 1:30 p.m. Yeah, actually, we're having an event. So, there you go. >> Indian Shur's annual St. Patrick's Day festival on March 14th. We'll have a lot
of fun there. uh as well as a uh another great book sale which helps support our library. But there'll be uh Irish music and dancers and a bag piper and lots of vendors. So please all come to our municipal center. It's focused around
the municipal center. Uh that's March 14th and it starts at 9:00 a.m. and ends around 2 o'clock. Uh we also are having a ribbon cutting on our new public safety facility on March 27th and so everybody's welcome to come and join us
for that. And we also have the continuing Sunday morning market in front of our municipal center. So it's been quite successful this year on the good days since we had uh few and far between at
the beginning of the market. But please come and uh we have a lot of really nice vendors there and that's it. Great. >> So on Indian Rocks Beach when we're not fighting over elections, we get together
and we do Rotary runs the beach on the 14th at 8 a.m. in the morning. We'll meet at 17th Avenue. You can run walk the one mile or you can run walk the 5K. We normally have a lot of vendors there. It's a lot of fun. and Krabby Bills is
the sponsor. It's a discounted breakfast afterwards. Thank you. >> All is quiet in North Readington Beach. >> Nothing to report for Readington Shores. >> All right. So, our next meeting is
Wednesday, March the 25th, uh here again and it's hosted by the town of Readington Beach. And uh that's all we have for today. Uh this meeting is adjourned.