Good morning everybody. Good morning. It is now 9:00. I would like to call to order the Barrier Islands Government Council meeting for Wednesday, June 25th. Please stand for the pledge. To the flag of the United States of
America and to the stands nation, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. Okay, we will do the roll call starting with myself and going to my left. My name is David Will. I am the mayor of
Readington Beach. and Marie Brooks. I am the mayor of MadiRaa Beach. John, commissioner, Indian Rock Beach. Lauren Cornuk, city clerk of Indian Rocks Beach. Jan Wilson, vice mayor, Indian Rocks
Beach. Hillary Kane, commissioner, city of Indian Rocks Beach. Good morning. Sam Jenkins, SPC's Institute for Strategic Policy Solutions. Jim Buben, gave me effects. Rick Reinard, Express Employment Professionals. Good morning. Barry
Rubin, President, Penel Beaches Chamber of Commerce. Oh, no. Barry Burton, County Administrator. Good morning, Larry Shear, Indian Shores. Good morning, Nicholas Mencho, town councilman, Indian Shores.
Good morning, Tony Fabrizio, Penelis County Communications. Morning, Dave Connor, Penelis County Communications. Ashley Joe Vanetti, Penllis County Communications. Ashley Aya, Indian Shores. Tina Porter,
Indian Shores. Gina Johnson, Waterfront Realy. Carla Bowling, Indian Shores resident. and mortgage lender Bliss Huggin IRB resident
Christopher Holland St. Pete Beach citizen Michael Slatterie United States Geological Survey Francis Robastelli city manager St. Beach. John Bordite, deputy chief of Near Beach Fire Department.
Kathy Thornsberry, City of Beller Beach, City Clerk. Christy Herri, Readington Shores. Fred Irwin Sani, Civic Association. Mike Howard, Council Member, Town of Indian Shores.
Margaret Kerry, interimm town administrator, Readington Shores. Good morning. and CJ Hoy, Commissioner Readington Shores. And Larry Maynard, commissioner, Readington Shores. Good morning, Bobby Shay Lee. And today I'm acting city manager, Treasure
Island. Good morning, Jill Silverboard, Penelis County. Kelly Hammer Levy, Penllis County, public works director. Good morning, Brennan Clay, resident of Readington Beach. Hi, Ken Grimes, fire chief for Panelis
Sun Coast Fire District. Megan Blancher, Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council. Robin Gomez, City of Mader Beach. Taylor Davis, I am the permit and code compliance specialist.
Holden Pinker, Mader Beach Building Department. Oh, they can use the microphones. Jer, mayorington. Tom Kapper, mayor of Readington Shores. Good morning. I'm Diane The Sheer, mayor of Indian Shores. Denise Houseberg,
mayor of Indian Rocks Beach. Good morning. Dave Gatis, mayor of Bair Beach. All right. Is that everybody? One more. One more. One more. Okay. Hi, I'm Lindsay Johannes with the FMIT.
All right. Thank you. Thank you, Robin. Uh, can we get an approval of our agenda? Motion to approve. All in favor? I I agenda is approved. Can we get an approval of the minutes from our last meeting?
Second. All in favor? I I. Moving on to the treasurer's report. Mayor, for the month of May, we had a beginning balance of $98.91 and an ending balance of $98.91. All right. Can we get a move to approve?
Move to approve. All in favor? I treasures report is approved. Moving on to new business. We have our county administrator here. Two meetings in a row now to talk Barry Burton who's going to talk about beach renourishment.
Please not getting out of it. You all don't want to hear from me. You want to hear from Kelly. Um and I understand that. So, um, we wanted to come out here and thank you for having us because, um, the the county commission took a pretty historic move, um, this last, um, week
when they approved, um, appropriating $130 million out of the TDC funds for beach nourishment. Now, the issue of beach nourishment predates me and going on seven years um goes back with Kelly and many of you where we've tried to
impact the core's policy that changed through an interpretation through a a literal interpretation of how they would look at these segments of the beach. um and whether or not you had to have 100% compliance with easements
that we've now going on seven years probably it's so it really predates me so longer than seven years we've tried to impact that policy without success I think that's the only thing in Washington that hasn't changed over the past six months um but it hasn't and
we've been completely unsuccessful um what we're proposing for you to here today and and I think it is I think I just congratulate the commission um because we need to do something and we've we've tried everything. Um we that policy really does need to change and
we've heard the residents in terms of their concerns with the especially with the easement language. Um and so we're going to continue that effort. Um Congressman um I'm sorry, Congresswoman Luna and and also uh Senator Scott have
been champions on this. um but it hasn't taken hold and we haven't been able to see that policy change or that policy interpretation back to the way it was for many many many years. And so um we're here today as a temporary solution. This is $130 million that's
not sustainable over time. Um simply because of the cost and the nourishment occurring every six years. Um and that's without storms, you know. So you have storms in between like we did a couple years ago where we put money down for dunes and things like that. Um that's
that's an expensive proposition. Um so we still want to fight the good fight. Um but a year ago we said we're going to try to impact this policy and but simultaneously Kelly took the initiative to fully design and permit um a doing it
alone. And so we were trying to go down two paths simultaneously. And we've come to that point where we had to make a decision because we keep hearing I mean it's like they keeps they they put out a little sliver of hope and so you're like okay do we pull the trigger and do it on your own or do you wait and and and hope
that that's going to occur. But the reality is is if we didn't take that action there wouldn't be but wouldn't be sand on the beach and give you a level protection for this fall. And so the commission didn't make that decision. um we're going full board um and and a
modified design I'm going to have Kelly speak to it that will get us some level of protection now um and then you know we'll continue to look at work at the policy level you know in the in the years to come. So why don't I let Kelly speak to it then we can answer any questions you know on things that you
have. Um we are we we want to explain this and so we're going to be holding some public meetings uh for people so we can get out in front and just explain what we're doing and what we're not doing. Uh we on July the 9th from 6:00 to 8 at Treasure Island City Hall and thank you for hosting us. Um we'll have
a public information meeting. On July 16th, it'll be an online one from 6:00 to 8. And then on August the 6, we'll have another one um from 6:00 to 8 at Bellair Beach. Okay. So, those will be the three uh public meetings to explain
the project to the public, let the public ask questions. Um, you know, and just trying to do a good job of of communicate, you know, kind of where we're at and the issues that we've been challenged with. Excuse me. Can we get that information to the the clerks so that we can put it out in all of our individual newsletters? We've got half
our communications team here. I see. And yeah, I see a lot of laptops. And by the way, I want to congratulate David Connor. He's our new director of communications for the county. And uh so um but he he he didn't come far. He just moved desk, you know, down the hall. And so he uh but he'll get that information to you, but we want to do a good job of
explaining to the public and because you know there there's an opportunity here. This is our project and I and I know Kelly's going to touch on this, but but I want to appeal to you because you know a lot of you have been champions in trying to help us with these easement issues. Um there's still an opportunity
for people to come forward and make this project better. Okay? We don't have an easement. We can't we can't put the sand on. But this is not the course easement. It's not going to have the language that says I can put a hot dog stand in your backyard. Okay? This is simply a temporary construction easement for us to do our work. This is not the same
thing. And and that that message needs to be heard by our residents because we have an opportunity. But and as Kelly's going to say, once they're past your error, they're not coming back. So we have a window of opportunity to improve it. We'll do everything we can. We implore you to help us with that. Um,
but you know, we we're you know, Kelly, I mean, she's she's going to go full bore on this thing and get Sam done, but there's only so much we can do. So, let's get her up here and then we'll answer any any questions that you have. So, good morning. Um, as Barry
mentioned, um, you know, with the board's approval of of that contract, I I just wanted to explain it a little bit more because you guys are I mean, you've been here for a while, you know what a beach nourishment project looks like. Typically, it's going to take anywhere
from 12 to 16 months to get done. We don't have that kind of time. Uh we are performing this beach nourishment project under an emergency authorization from the Army Corps of Engineers um that we exercised during hurricane Helen.
Right? So we have six months. So this is going to be a 24-hour operation, seven days a week. Right now the current plan is for Weeks Marine. That is the contractor. They have subcontracted out part of the dred part of the beach nourishment to Gator
Dredging. You may be familiar with that name. They dredged P they did Pasigril beach last year and also did all the sand post post Helen processing and and placement of that sand and Pasil and Sunset Beach. So you may be familiar
with that company. So right now um they are finalizing their schedule but their current current guidance is that they plan on Sand Key to start go from north to south with gator dredging going from south to north and they're going to meet in the middle. Um sand that will be
placed on Sand Key is going to come from the offshore borrow area that we're we typically use the Eggmont Scholes um that is just kind of south um south uh west of of Fort Dotto. So it'll be it's pumped up pumped up to S key and then
the sand sources for um for Uppam Sunset Beach and Sunshine Beach are largely going to come from John's Pass and Blind Pass borrow areas. We will still need because there was so much sand loss, we are going to need more sand on those
southern beaches than we typically have placed in the past. So we will need some supplemental sand from Eggmont Shaw to complete those projects. So, that's generally um the direction um that they're going in. We're we're still finalizing everything. Um obviously,
we're in the middle of sea turtle nesting season and that is that's created some challenges that we're navigating with um FWC and and Clearwater Marine Aquarium. Um it may require some sea turtle nest relocation. Um but we we're working through that. Um
as well as some of the shorebird monitoring uh requirements. Um so all of that pre construction work has already started. We started that you know once the board um moved forward with the contract. So we we had pre pre got ahead
of that um that work. Um, as Barry mentioned, um, you know, as as we start moving, you know, I had a really great meeting, um, on on Junth with, um, the San Key Civic Association and a lot of the condos there and talked to them, you
know, about the project and dunes and, you know, how to restore them and, you know, we got a lot of a lot of things out on the table that I think there was a lot of misunderstanding on. Um, they have solid easements up in that area. We don't have that everywhere. We do not
have that specifically in Indian Rocks, Indian Shores, and Readington Shores. And it's going to create what we call a saw to effect where in some areas where we have a long stretch, we can come all the way up and we can fully nourish that area, but then we're going to have to
come out, taper out to the erosion control line, stay west of the erosion control line, and then come back in where we can. I don't like doing that. It's going to create low areas between the public portion of the beach and and the person if they have a seaw wall or a
bulkhead or the edge of their yard. It's going to create a gully area. It could be inches, it could be a couple feet. Um so this is the opportunity. Now we're we're proposing to have another signing event and our communications team is
working um to coordinate another event to get folks out. We are at 70.5% coverage of easements. 70.5. That dashboard is online. You can go and you can see exactly where we have them,
where we don't have them. If it's red, we don't have an easement. And I encourage the cities to talk to those residents. I encourage neighbors to talk to their to their neighbors um to really talk about that because we cannot place a grain of sand on private property
without the rights, the necessary rights. Um Barry mentioned the Army Corps policy and I I passed that out to you. I I want you to have a copy of that. We received that on Friday and um
I as Barry said we've been working very hard and I was led to believe that there were going to be some positive changes that came out of that with that policy but that was not the case. Um, while Congress did allocate funding to not
only Penllis County, but a number of of of projects around the state that were damaged by storms. Um, receiving that funding is conditioned upon signing an agreement with the core that we will obtain 100% public access
and use easements over the entire project limits. So that's what you have a copy of and we're gonna I brought some additional copies if anybody any member of the public wants a copy of it and we're going to post it on our website because I know that there's been a lot of criticism of the county of not trying
and not fighting hard enough and we have been fighting very hard and working towards trying to find some sort of middle ground with the core and we're just we landed nowhere. Um, we are exactly where we were in 2015 when they first mentioned this to us.
So, I'm not exactly sure what more we can do. We are going to continue dialogue. We're going to continue trying to move the needle there while we're getting this project underway. But, as Barry said, we can't afford $130 million every five or six years. So, we're really going to need our community to
come together on this. So, I just wanted to put that out there as a plea to all of you, to the residents. We need your help. If we want this project constructed every five or six years, we have to do it together because fight we've we've been fighting
this battle and and we're losing. Um, I think that's about all I all I have to say at this moment, unless you have questions, but I just wanted to get you the general, you know, the general project, how we're going to start it. We
our permit expires on March 6th. So we absolutely have to be out of the everywhere by March 6th. Um and that's that's what the contractor's prepared to do. So it is going to be fast and furious as Barry mentioned. Um
I hope everyone can um show us a little grace. Yes, we're going to disrupt your lives for a little bit and then we're going to go then we're going to be gone. But um we're going to need patience and we're going to need folks to work with us. And please, if you're reconsidering that that easement, contact us
signforandpanelis.gov. We will get it over to you for your consideration. I had a gentleman last night in Indian Rocks Beach reach out to me at 7 o'clock at night. I logged into my computer. I've got the easement. I sent it over to him. I'm whatever it takes, morning, night, Saturday, Sunday.
I'm I'm trying to help everyone get this done. And so we just need everyone to to work with us. Thank you. Sure. I'm sure the council has questions. Yes, I I have a question. Um, first you uh just I believe you just
told us that you are providing sand in areas where there's no easement and you're you're basically using the erosion control line as the don't go past this line with sand. Um, the reason why I bring this up is because uh, any
rocks beach and Bair Beach have been in a an unfortunate set of circumstances with Bair Shore uh, throughout the entire project. Uh, Bair Shore has not received any sand because they have no
public property that they can u donate or or or provide public parking spaces with. However, whenever the project was uh first created, an erosion control line was established for Bair Shore.
It's just that the Army Corps skipped over them because uh they had nothing to give basically uh because they're it it really has nothing to do with them being a private community or anything like that. They just don't have any land to
to donate for um for parking. Uh, so my question is is since you're unable to get easements on certain property, yet you're placing sand in front of those particular pieces of property anyway,
wouldn't it make more sense and be uh uh more cost effective uh to protect uh Bair Beach and Indian Rocks Beach by going ahead and putting sand in that mile stretch between the two communities?
because that's the very first place that we lose sand. The first storm that comes along, everything washes into Bair Shore and then nobody has sand in that area. Uh so I am I'm I'm not asking I'm
actually begging to please consider nourishing Bair Shore for this one time. I truly believe that that is the best way to get the most bang for buck uh for your investment into uh beach nourishment.
All right, so a couple things. Um when the erosion control line was set, it required that the initial construction be completed within two years of it being set and that didn't happen. Um so I'm not sure that the erosion control line is legally valid anymore. So,
that's the first piece of it. Um, the the second piece is our permits don't allow us to nourish in there because we're using essentially what we're doing is we've taken the Army Corps's plans their template and we're constructing it and because it excludes
Bair Shore, I'm not sure we could even get a permit modification to fill it. I have I'm happy to ask the question. Yeah, I'm happy to ask the question, but I just wanted you to know that it may be that the state of Florida doesn't acknowledge that erosion control line anymore. And if that's the case, that
would be an impediment that we couldn't get past. Yeah. And it's it's very unfortunate that it's it's the way that it is because it's it, like I said, it's an unfortunate set of circumstances, something that was put in place way before beach nourishment was even
conceived. And uh unfortunately u we are right behind Bair Shore. Half of our community is unprotected. 100% unprotected because Bair Shores never receive sand. And Indian Rocks Beach and the north side of Bair Beach, they like
I said, they're the first ones to lose sand. And it always seems like such a waste because we lose our sand immediately with the first storm. So, I appreciate you checking into it and uh and thank you for your time. Also, thank you for all of your efforts.
Um, everyone here appreciates what you do. Any other questions, board? Nobody. I do. Uh, well, thank you for everything. I know we've been dealing with this for a long time. Um, all the meetings at Indian Shores when the Army
Corps was there and basically said no for three hours. Um so this project is being funded by the county touris development right so and because of that u the easement requirement is different
than the army cor's requirement so it's a little less stringent but an easement is still needed for the private property right so is it possible in your communications to make that you know bullet points as simplistic as possible because uh as you you mentioned earlier
misinformation education is always the key. There's a lot of crazy things going out there and people if we could just have facts that this easement is just for working at that time and then they're gone. Yeah. We and um we've been working with communications. We're going
to get out um a bunch of flyers to share with the communities within the project limit so you can have them at your city hall. You can email them out to your residents and they are they're just bulleted facts. Um we've got unfortunately we're going to have a few gaps no matter what we do because we
have a number of parcels property owners that don't want nourishment at all and we have um a parcel that's in litigation and no one can sign an easement. So there are, you know, hopefully we can get past some of the folks who are, you know, they still think it's, you know,
the army cory'smen and we can get past that, but we're still going to have some gaps where um folks have just told us flat out, no, I don't we don't want the sand. Well, I I understand that, but with the the education that this easement is completely different, selfunded from the county, thank you for
the county for being our own savior. Uh and hopefully that will bring some more people on board. And we're I 100% agree with you, mayor. We do need to make that simplistic, you know, and to the point for people um and and also explain we've got this window in time, you know, uh to be able to make this happen.
We're going to do that and that's the reason we did those three public meetings, but but you heard all the other things that they're going to do and anything you think if you if you think of something, say it, you know, and we'll be glad to help, okay? In any way we can. So, that's one thing. The
second thing is, you know, we these gaps are are are the things that keep you and and me and Kelly and everybody up at night because you know it's like the the drawbridge down though the moat doesn't really help you know right and so now we know we're going to go forward on this
but we know we need to solve this you know over the next several years and and so we're going to look at congressional stuff but we're going to look at every option available to us because we have to solve it I mean if we really care about our residents and and what happened last year and nobody knows
what would have happened had we had but it certainly would have been less impact would have been less and so you know we we really have to solve that one way or another and so we need to look at all of our options and study those. Um, the easiest thing would be to can get a congressional fix, but there's there's other these these other gaps and stuff
still need to be solved for and and so we need to look at all of our options and hopefully with this the education um and you put out your communications that we can all have something to point to when there's misinformation flying around. I can point to here are the facts. Here is what the easement what is
required of that easement and maybe that will like say turn some more people or educate the ones who are just so adamant that there really is nothing to be concerned about rather than you're getting some extra sand. I mean, if you if you think about it, and I'm not saying anything to anybody, but that we don't know, but when we did the
nourishment a couple years ago, you know, I I walked with Gator and um you know, they're putting in this nice, you know, the BMS and everything and then you got one property owner. I mean, and it's like, well, you know, where the water's going, so the rest of the
neighborhood is entirely at risk here, you know, and that property owner is, you know, probably has five houses and you couldn't find the person. and it it doesn't matter when the storm hits, right? You know, those are the things we have to solve for somehow if we really want to provide a level of protection
for our residents. Um, and those are the details that matter. So, we're going to do this. We're going to do the best we can, but we got more work to do, you know, and I think that's the message for today. But, you know, we we really really can make this project better if we get to as many residents as possible.
Well, thank you for uh finding other solutions. And we are, you know, we've been sending out certified mail um to people that haven't connected with us in one way, shape, or form. I mean, most everybody out there is at least at least
said no. All right. It wasn't the answer we wanted, but we got an answer. But we have a whole bunch that we they're the the first class certified mail is coming back. Um we're talking to the neighbors. The neighbors are saying, "Oh, that's a short-term rental. We don't really know
who owns it." Then we're like going down this rabbit hole and we are finding the maintenance person and the maint I'm like do you know who owns this parcel? Can you connect us with them? It's like no, you know, so it, you know, we're any anything that y'all can do to help us find who actually owns these properties?
Because I would think a short-term rental owner wants the beach out front of that property, but if we don't know how to reach them, you know, short of hiring a private investigator, um, we haven't been able to find some folks. And that would be if you all know the short-term rentals in your area, that
would be incredibly helpful as well. Have another question, of course. Um, at the last TDC meeting, Barry, I uh suggested possibly tapping into some of the resources that uh Visit St. Pete Clearwater has. Uh, their advertising
resources because they're a monster. They do it better than anyone that I know and they're able to just reach all over the world and bring people here. Uh, is it possible that that the county could work with them and use some of uh
their talent to actually do a a social media campaign locally that's pointed just towards this area to, you know, help apply some pressure and and make people aware because maybe the only way that you're going to be able to even
get the message to them. Well, first I I completely agree with you that they're the they're the best uh there there is at their social media and their marketing around the world. Um I actually Brian Scott uh Commissioner Scott just came back uh from Chicago with them and he he called me and just
in awe about you know the way in which they uh did that outreach and the visibility that they had into the folks that book tours and book groups and you know and all the different places where people find that information. Uh they
really do have that talent. we have that talent also and that's folks back back behind me with um our communications group for locally. So to I I take your comment well we you know and they're listening so we can we can figure out how we can do that but I I think it's a great idea. Um I'm sure they've thought
about it but let's let's do everything we can and and and we've got the talents to be able to put resources behind this. So whatever we can do I don't and I don't care whether it's them or or or visit St. Pete Clearwater. We we need to get the word out and so however best are equipped to do that. We'll we'll make
sure that that happens. Thank you. All right, that everybody. All right. Well, thank you for being part of the solution. Great. Thank you guys. Next, we have from the Florida League of Cities, Lindseay Johansson is going to
talk to us about hurricane preparedness. I do have a Yeah, it's right there. Right there. You got it. All right, thank you everybody for having me. U my name is Lindseay Johannes. I am with the Florida League of Cities, specifically the FMIT. Um so
I'm the account executive for the west coast of Florida. Um and I manage accounts from as high up as Ocala down to Everglades City. So work the whole west coast of the state. Um, and today I just want to do a little bit of a briefing on some hurricane uh season
preparedness, which a lot of you are pretty familiar with. So I believe last week you had a speaker come and talk a little bit about um that kind of topic. So um we'll go ahead and get right into it. Um we do have an insurance summit every year. So this is partially from
that summit where we presented this same topic. So you'll see that icon there. So the main objectives here are really just to discuss uh lessons learned from past catastrophes as well as defining the risk management strategies that we recommend. So this is more of an
insurance standpoint. Um so any insurance concerns we can also address towards the end. So um we work with our partner Synergy. Synergy for the FMIT is a disaster response and recovery team. they do
manage claims um from the point of um the pre-construction and all the way through to the end. Um and your insurance companies probably provide a similar service. So before the hurricane um and before we start hurricane season, it's always good to review your policy
to look at the deductible structure. Um many of you are probably aware you have an AOP deductible as well as a name storm. So the name storm deductible is going to apply in the case of a hurricane or a major wind event and that's usually a percentage of the total
loss. So usually three 5%. Um we did go through uh hard property market so a lot of cities went ahead and elected a higher um deductible limit. So that could be up as high as seven or 10%. Just um be aware of all these different
important coverage provisions as well. Uh we have Pedo which is property in the open. It's a sublim policy and I believe many of our other programs in the state do some something similar where you don't necessarily schedule every bench or light pole but you do have coverage
for it as a submit in the policy. Um you also want to make sure that you have some level of mitigation coverage. So, your insurance company will actually reimburse you for the mitigation and stabilization of buildings um before they actually become managed through
this uh through the city and um begin the reconstruction process. So, um another important thing to make sure you're up to date with or you're at least aware of when your last appraisal was for your buildings. Um there was quite an inflationary period as we know
over the last few years. And so if you haven't had your assets appraised in the last three to five years, um that's something you definitely want to take a look at because come claims time those buildings to then reconstruct may be significantly more than what they're currently scheduled for. Um obviously
there are implications for underinsuring. you could be subject to a co- insurance penalty, meaning you insured a building for less than 80% of its actual value. Um, next would be a coupe plan. So, a continuity of operations plan. This is
something that's really important to review with your city staff. A lot of the times cities will have turnover or new people in key positions. So, this is something important to go through every year as you enter hurricane season. Um, and this kind of lists out some of those factors that you want to consider. Make
sure you have a roster of the personnel that are vital. So, a lot of the times with our cities that have significant hurricane um, activity, a lot of their staff is going to also be personally affected and maybe not able to work. So, make, you know, a contingency plan for
some of your staff not being available as well as alternate work locations. um if your city hall or various buildings are not able to be used. Um so this is just important as well to share with the insurance company so they know who to
contact. Um so this kind of goes through it a little bit more in depth, but you want to make sure that you have all of your critical assets prepared. Um as well as contacting your coverage provider, making sure you have those up
to date in terms of the values. Um, also having power generation and fuel for critical buildings. So if that is your police, your fire, your city hall, making sure that you are prepared for those to lose power or be damaged. Um, if they're going to flood out,
possibly, you know, prepare for that kind of mitigation. So pre- disaster contracts is also something that's very important. Make sure that you know who you would contact at FEMA. Obviously, that's down the road a little bit. um but could be necessary
if the damage is that severe. Um same with debris removal, hauling and things like that. Make sure that you have vendors prepared for that. Um also establishing a chain of command um so you all know who is taking care of what in the event that um the city is
majorly affected. So, this is just talking about activating that coupe plan while it's in process. Um, at the FMIT, we do send our uh synergy team out to your EOCC's. So, they're actually stationed at your EOCC's and they're
prepared as soon as the storm passes to go out and start those initial assessments um of the damage. They also will mitigate and stabilize your buildings. Um, so some people have contracts like that. Um, but we definitely take pride in having that all set up and ready to go um, in
communication with our clients. Oh, one other thing that I thought was important here, um, crafting the narrative and making sure that you have, um, a dedicated person to kind of communicate with the public, respond via social media and that kind of thing. Um,
so that you have a, you know, set person who contacts um, the press and things like that. Again, just kind of talking about how to monitor the status during the event. So afterwards, the biggest thing is
documentation. So if you can get out to the sites that are affected with photos, descriptions of the damage, that is going to be extremely important, as well as keeping track of everything you're doing to mitigate. If you're tarping a roof or you're using a wet vac to get water out, um all of those things should
be noted for the insurance company to later reimburse you for it. Um, oh, one other thing is PPE for your your first responders. We've had definitely down in um like the Fort Myers area, Santael, Fort Myers Beach after Ian um there was there were quite
a few claims related to um well workers comp claims related to um folks from their utilities or public works coming out getting infections from the water, the standing water and all of the bacteria that was there getting into cuts and stuff like that. make sure that
your uh staff is prepared and has the proper PPE for for being on site in some of these situations. So, the faster that you can get out on site and get photos and and um and a narrative created for the the carrier, that's going to be the best way to start
getting paid and getting claims paid out. Um so, time frame usually was in typically an insurance company is going to respond and get someone out there within 30 days. Um it depends again on your insurance company and how they
contract out with other carriers or with other um vendors. Relocation. Um a lot of people will have to relocate. So be prepared to um have a temporary modular structure or work in a new facility which many of you are
probably aware of. All right. So, when you have a claim, you're going to either be below deductible, which means that there is no insurance coverage for it, and that's something you may want to submit to FEMA for reimbursement, or if you're above your nametorm deductible and is eligible for coverage.
You kind of have two paths. Um, and I believe this is the same with our other carrier the other carriers in the state, I will definitely say it's true for the FMIT. Um, we have, like I said, that synergy program. And so that's an insurance insurance managed repair program, meaning that Synergy manages the full repair. You pay your deductible
at the end of that process. They are going to come out and do the initial inspection. They're going to give you the estimate for the damage and then you can basically bypass the procurement process and they'll go ahead and start the repairs. We see a much faster repair
process this way. Um, and clients are a lot happier because they don't owe their deductible until the project's finished eight, nine months down the road or a year. Um, the other option is if you are eligible for insurance coverage, you manage it yourself. So, the city then goes through a full procurement, which I
believe is like a three bid process where you have to vet out the contractors that would do the repair and then it's managed by the city and you typically owe, you know, lump sums as you go as that is going on. The problem that does happen there is that if the
whole area is affected, contractors are really backed up and busy and so sometimes those recoveries are slower um when the city manage manages it without their insurance company. Um so yeah, this is just kind of more of the same.
So this is FEMA. Um I am not an expert on FEMA, but we do have um again within our synergy program, we have a group of people that work directly with FEMA. So all of our forms are in the the format that FEMA requires um in terms of documentation and it does streamline
that process for FEMA. So these are again just some of the the best practices. So we can open up open it up for a Q&A if you guys would like. I don't know if you have any questions related to the insurance process after claims. Does anybody have any questions
for Lindsay after all that? You got it all. No questions. I I only have one question. Um will you provide this PowerPoint to us? Yeah, sure. Um great information. Thank you very much for coming and sharing. Yeah, absolutely.
All right. Well, all right. With that, well, thank you very much for coming out here and always being available. Okay, moving on to the next item, discussion items. I have one thing. Um I am the representative for the big C on forward panelis. So, Unfortunately, my
schedule doesn't allow me to give it enough the time that it needs. So, if there's anyone here on BigC that would like to volunteer to replace me on Forward Penelis, when do they meet? Do they have a schedule like once a
month? I I know, but I mean, is it the second? We'll get that to you and then explain what it is all about if you're somewhat interested. If no one else here is interested, we want to be represented. Of course. Yes. Well, I would keep doing it, but I'm saying if you if you let me know what the
commitment is. Excellent. I will see if I can make sure that works for my schedule and I would volunteer. Okay. and with everybody on the big C. Uh, is that uh acceptable that the mayor unless somebody else wants to do it?
No. All right. Okay. Well, thank you very much. We'll have that discussion afterwards. Um, moving on to legislative update. Do we have anybody here who would like to give any Excel? Please come on up to the podium. Good morning everyone. Ashley Overin
from County Commissioner Kathleen Peters office. I just wanted to add on to uh Barry and Kelly's update and let you know that Senator Dgley and Commissioner Peters have sent letters to Governor Dantis. He was here Monday up in Clearwater for a bill signing event. And
uh so as I mentioned, you know, even though we're set back many years, uh it's important to stay engaged with the governor's office since his resiliency officers left. And uh Governor DeSantis could serve as a conduit between the county and uh President Trump's
administration to work with the core. So they had a brief conversation about that prior to the bill signing on Monday and have uh both followed up with letters. So we'll make sure to get you a copy of those as well. Thank you. Well, thank you very much for working on that for us.
All right, moving on to city events. Let's start at my far right. Yeah, in North Readington Beach, uh Backwaters is going to be having a Fourth of July party with uh drinks, uh little booths and games and a band. We'd
like to invite everybody out to that. And then um this Friday we have a groundbreaking ceremony for our new EMT and fire suppression building um to serve all the Readingtons. So that's pretty exciting. Thank you for mentioning that. That's about it for us.
All right, great. Uh same on the fire. We're going to that event also. Okay, that's about all I have right now. We've spent a lot of time getting ready for the influx of our visitors next week. Uh I think it's already started
judging from uh what we're seeing on the roads. Uh but we are also planning a beach cleanup for the 5th of July which is always sorely needed. So that's about it for Indian Shores. Thank you.
We don't have any events coming up for Fourth of July. And I think our next events don't start till October. But good news, we've got a new law firm. Yay. All quiet in Bair Beach. Right. Well, I was also going to mention our uh this Friday the groundbreaking for our new
fire station that will serve the three Readington. So, uh gold shovels, hard hats, the whole deal. All right. Madira will also be at that groundbreaking. Um, and we have Friday we have the 11th annual Sunset 5K down
at John's Pass. We have a our fireworks are on the third this year and then we will have a beach cleanup on the 5th. So, if you have nothing else to do on Saturday, come pick up trash. All right. In Treasure Island, I have
two things. Uh the first uh being that uh we now have a city manager or we'll be putting them under contract uh tomorrow. So uh that that's uh that's exciting and uh I think one of the biggest things that I'm excited about is
that everybody was on the same page. Our our charter basically said that uh that we had to have a supermajority. We only had four commissioners because one was on vacation. And everybody stepped up. we all agreed and uh and we're moving forward. So, we feel pretty good about
that and uh hopefully this person will be a permanent. We actually put out for a temporary for 90 days and uh but we've kind of moved that out of the the pathway now and uh so we're looking forward to it. The gentleman uh comes
from the Jacksonville area and he's got a good uh experience. He's been military. He's uh served on the uh uh school board for six years. He was the school superintendent for four years and then got involved with the
municipalities over there and that's how we we found him. So, we're uh we're thrilled to death about it and uh moving forward. We will be having a July 4th celebration. The fireworks will begin somewhere between 8:45 and 9:00. That's
all I have. St. View Beach. We're having a summer concert series on July 4th uh at the city park at Haran Park. It's going to be from uh 6 to 900 pm. Um it's going to be a funk band. Uh so come and join
that. Uh food and drink will be there as well. Thank you. Well, as you know, Clear Water is a sleepy seaside town with no drama. Um, but all seriously, um, June 27th, the Bay Care Sound at 6 PM, we will be having the band Slightly Stupid with a
special guest of Iration and Little Stranger. On July 4th, we will have an incredible events um, Clearwater Celebrates America. It will be starting at 5:00 PM featuring the Black Honis with fireworks at 9:15. We will have a
rooftop party start at uh starting at 6 pm which will include a silent disco, games vendors, buskers, and food and drink. So, we're looking forward to that. All right. Well, that's everybody. Well, thank you for being here. And thank you
for being here. And we are adjourned.