all right well if there's no other questions I just you have one more question go ahead Chief Carter so I have two questions technically the first question is two three years ago how many calls of
medical calls have you got and where are we at today and the second thing is the golf course that's in keyone Bradford County I'm not really sure how that works there was discussion of being done
away and a community coming in there then you also have the RV park who's expanding and adding in more housing so I'm afraid that as long as we continue with this Housing Development the medical calls are going to substantially increase so who's going to handle all how are they going to handle all the
burden of all those calls yeah to give you accurate numbers I'd have to again pull those numbers from our from our data for two to three years ago um and again I can I can tell you that we would have to take a look at our um unit hour utilization which basically tells us how how taxed our EMS
units are um that says you know hey we need to increase or we need to need to not but um you know with adding the fire station down there in speedville um the response out of there is Advanced life support so even if we don't have an ambulance that we can send there at that time we do have a
firetruck that can get there and stabilize a patient currently um until an ambulance can't get on site but yeah that's something that we look at every year as far as U how busy are our trucks and that's something that we did recently when we we um reduced the number of inter facility transfers that we were taking out of the the hospital
here um and we we've essentially eliminated those other than just truly life-threatening uh urgent needs that that have to go now so again something that we look at all the time and and um figuring out what we what we need for our response so the Community par medicine
program has helped actually with our repeat users that we that we have um we have uh we have significantly reduced the the number of calls that we're going to for again the frequent uh calls that we are recurring to the same addresses
so that's has certainly helped in that regard but yes his calls are going up but exciting news unrelated to the fire assessment we actually just started our uh medication assisted therapy uh program through Lieutenant weeks's CRP program
and we had our first dosing patient uh today that we dosed with our medication assisted therapy so huge step forward for our CRP program right thank you if I can ask then one question she mentioned the RV park I mean with all those people out
there I mean will there be there won't be any assessment on them or they will be can you speak to that one Jee because of course some of them do I think live out there sure here so RV parks by Florida statute have to be treated in the same manner as commercial properties
or other similar non-residential properties like hotel motel and and that type of thing so they are charged for their number of permanent RV spaces and a square footage and I don't remember the exact number 500 I believe Joe was
it five yeah I couldn't remember 400 or 500 but they are assigned a square footage um based on that and then you know they're a bit you unique there there are some things that you can think about doing for them if they have vacancies and different things like that
but they are they are assessed and if there are any permanent structures there you know mobile homes or you know single family dwelling units anything like that those would be assessed as well as any commercial buildings or anything like that that they have so they they
definitely would would be assessed thank youon think Jean want Mr Melvin my name is Jean Melvin I think most of the board know who I am I've lived in Brooker my entire life uh I
serve as a mayor of the town of Brooker and I took the initiative uh last six months to go through the community and a little bit of Bradford County and talk about this fire assessment tax uh I'm I dealt with primarily the ones on fixed
incomes I've served like I said 45 years years and we haven't raised the taxes in Brooker in BO coodles of years matter of fact every year we we roll back the millage rate uh my concern to people is these folks on fixed incomes are
struggling as bad as bad as they possibly can we don't we're not guaranteed tomorrow much less today but uh and we don't know what the world's going to look like in the next next few years but these folks on fixed incomes that I've dealt with and I've dealt with a bunch of them uh time they pay their
mortgage payment uh or rent uh feed of children buy fuel utilities uh they don't have a lot of extra money left over and I uh the Town Council we met a couple weeks ago and we've signed I think on the the reading
the first Chris am I correct first reading count Town Council has not accepted this fact on $167 uh I think that the our uh goal right now is to see that that's $84 now if you in increase it we increase our
water rates 50 Cent or a dollar and I'm going to tell you my phone rings off the hook for 50 Cent In a dollar uh I feel for these people on fixed incomes that they're struggling and there there hardships and I really think this board should take take this in consideration
by all means uh like I said uh I talked to people on the outside talk about them get them to move into Bradford County first thing to look at is your 10 mills that's that's not encouraging uh do we want encouragement or discouragement but
our philosophy out there and what I have felt uh through the community uh I don't know if the board is going to would agree on $167 uh this that's my personal opinion I can't speak for the rest of them but uh after going through the county and
going through the municipality out there in Brooker these folks are hurting you wouldn't think so by just looking at them but and they won't admit it but a bunch of them admitted now four is the the F the uh fire department they're excited about a fire department there in Brooker and eventually get a rescue out
there in Brooker but for as the $167 I don't think right now it would fly out there in Brooker and I think it would put a hardship on many many families out here not only in Brooker but in Bradford County also so my recommendation to stay with
$84 thank you all right thanks all righty all right we'll see you no more uh questions uh our next Workshop is May 6th um and and that will be a morning meeting at 10:30 so unless
y'all have anything else okay this meeting is adjourned um what do you want do you want to go right into the um planning and zoning and then after that we'll take a quick break okay all right well if youall ready we'll go
ahead and start this um The Bradford County Board of justments regular meeting um it's uh Tuesday March 18th 2025 it is 6:30 and at this time we'll call the meeting to
order and um I'll turn it over to sure okay they said go so and then after this meeting we'll take a break that sound good five minute break next thank
you maybe about on how you doing see okay do we have an agenda good how about you yeah I know the if she
has sure she does yes in but for this adjustment we going to say comments for this for this right here [Music] you e
e e yes I'm ready now all right so now we're going to start the meeting for the board adjustments call this meeting to order first item is uh old business um consider approval or corrections to the minutes from the following previous
meeting I just need a motion in a second from the board adjustment uh meeting held on Tuesday February 20th 2025 I make a motion that we approve the minutes for Tuesday February 20 2025 I
have a motion from commissioner Andrews second second from commissioner adulter any discussion all in favor by sign say I I motion carries 40 all right now we'll go over to new
new business and I'll turn this over okay very well uh just to make note this is the board of adjustments meeting for again Tuesday March 18th 2025 we did start probably around 6:35 is anyways um the new business is V
25-2 an application by Colton bass to request a variance be granted as provided for insection 4.5a agricultural section 4.5.7 minimum yard requirements side Lot line from a required 25 ft to a
requested 10 ft along the west east lot line of the property being described as follows Deerfoot hammock lot 13 lying in fractional section 4 and section 5 Township 7 South Range 21 East Bradford
County Florida and being Bradford County parcel number 00849 D- 00213 we just need some public comments if any a motion and a vote okay at this time I have public comment cards here
but if your public comment does not is not for this one specific item the uh V2 5-02 uh we're just going to ask you to hold your comments until we start our next regular scheduled meeting which will be soon as this one's over so does
anybody have any public comments on this particular item here okay seeing none um or do we have a motion to change the the setback from 25 ft to a requested 10
ft is there any discussion or I just have a question question is um the applicant here yes the applicant is here okay and um is there been any opposition to it not that I'm aware of I've checked our
voice messages no emails that I can find okay all right I'll make a motion to approve application v25 d02 I'll second okay we have a motion second is there any other discussion okay all in favor by a sign
of i i i i motion carries 40 and that's all I have for our Board of adjustments meeting okay at this time we're going to close this meeting out we're going to take about a five minute break and then we'll start our regular schedule
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all right Board of County commissioners of Bradford County Florida it's March 18th 2025 it is about 6:45 at this time I'm going to call the meeting to order and before I do I just want to say commissioner Thompson as you
can see it was not able to make it to the meeting tonight uh and I failed to mention that earlier and I apologize but um anyway so at this time I'm going to ask uh commissioner Spooner to open us up in prayer and a flag loop with all vow Heavenly Father we
thank you for the privilege of serving you dear Lord we thank you for each and everyone who is gathered here today oh Lord we ask that you watch over our children that are on spring break and allow no harm to come to any of them dear Lord we ask dear Lord that we touch
the heart of those who' lost loved ones during this this season dear Lord and uh we have a special prayer we say for our school board member um Miss Mula who's lost her husband the work at Dupont and any others who have lost their loved
ones during this um during this time bless them in a mighty way we thank you for the wonderful weather that you've given us and bued us from a lot of disaster but those who are still in the midst of of suffering give them some relief dear father and dear Lord H as we
engage in our meeting tonight help us to do what is best for our community and that is pleasing in your sight um we thank you and love you Jesus name we pray amen amen pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay the first item on the list is public comments and um I've got several public comments I'll call your name and if you would just please come forward to
the to the mic and state your name and your address uh and limit it to 3 minutes and um it's it's um not a question and answer time it's just a time for you to make your public comments so um the first one I have on
this is uh I'm apologize Damian fata fata okay uh Damen forato 1 19027 Northwest 69th Lane uh so I'm here to request that summer subdivision be halted due to ser ious misconduct by County officials and others involved on August 1st 2024 I
sold a 5 acre parcel under the false belief that my property could not be partialed into less than five acres unless to an immediate family member with no exceptions Randy Andrews explicitly told me this was the law and that no exceptions existed immediately after the sale Randy's close friend
Hunter sha subdivided the same five acres into 1 acre lots exactly what Randy claimed was impossible upon learning of the subdivision I confronted Randy during our conversation he contradicted himself multiple times initially insisting that only family sales were allowed then saying it was a
catch 22 and finally backtracking from using that term his demeanor and inability to give a straight answer made it clear he was lying through his teeth realizing the severity of this deception I escalated the matter to County Manager Scott corn um Scott acknowledged Randy's
wrongdoing and even asked if I wanted the property back my only request to Scott and still is to Halt the subdivision since the sale was based on false pretenses he gave me his word that he would take care of it he later left me a voicemail which I have stating that
after Consulting his legal team Randy was going to be reprimanded for six different infractions why would he say this if there was no wrongdoing here I have provided a police report and statement of fact that outlined further evidence of this this suggests an ongoing conflict of interest that
benefits Hunter and potentially Randy at the expense of honest land owners I also have email threads and other evidence compiled to support these allegations Additionally the 7-Day notice and due process requirements under Florida Statutes and Florida Sunshine Law were not observed denying affected parties
their lawful opportunity to participate uh based on the above facts I'm filing a formal complaint against Randy Andrews Scott corn and Amanda Brown who still has not answered any of my phone calls nor returned uh voicemails I have records of all that here are the five counts of violations misuse of public
POS I failure to fairly and impartially execute duties neglect of Duty and willful disregard of public concern conflict of interest in favoritism failure to provide public notice and due process members of the committee the only thing that we ask is that you stop
the subdivision I sold the property under false pretenses created by County official deception at this point all I'm asking is for the subdivision to be stopped however if this escalates and needs to be resolved through the court system we will definitely be seeking a broader spectrum of justice that will
include Financial remunerations I also have a meeting in Tallahassee in two weeks and I'm prepared to do whatever I need to do and I have a team of people who uh agree with me on this I urge you to take action now to uphold the law protect public trust and ensure that Bradford County residents can rely on
honest transparent government thank you for your time and consideration I have all these uh just give them to Amanda if you would yeah thankk thank you you're welcome the next person I have is uh Chad apping
okay Chad Appling and I I have a NE neighbor bring property to Daman and I'm here for the same he said pretty much everything I needed to say so um but that's I'm here in opposition of the subdivision as well okay thank you Chad and Michael Apple
apping hi my name is Michael Appling and uh I have nothing further to add other than I am here for the same opposition um under Damen fata and my dad Chad Appling okay thank you Damian I I've got another I guess this must been a card you filled out for
other meeting okay sounds good uh Jake M mow okay Jake mcau 8462 Northwest County Road 229 um I'm here same reason uh Daman Chad and Michael are here here in opposition
of the subdivision I uh moved here to kind of get away from the subdivision if I wanted to live near a subdivision I would you know move to Gainesville um I like my space I like my privacy and uh you know additional five neighbors right up next to my property would be
unfortunate pretty lightly but that's all I'd say thank you thank you Sabrina Jones I'm Sabrina Jones uh I am with the submission uh the summer submission I have no further to say I agree with
everything they have said uh I'm with Daman Michael and Chad and all of them but I have nothing else to say okay thank you okay the last one I have is U Mrs strong I don't live near
subdivision my name is vianda strong post office box 530 Ludy I'd like to talk about accountability and um holding people accountable so I guess I do want to talk about um a little bit about
subdivisions and County workers and and taxpayer dollars um everybody here uh is a taxpayer I should hope and everybody expects everyone to do what they're supposed to
do as a taxpayer we hold the five of you guys and everybody here accountable we expect you to do what we're we expect you to do with our tax
dollars we expect people to be held accountable for every dollar we want you to hold the people underneath you accountable for our tax
dollars those people expect you to hold the people accountable for their tax dollars we expect results we don't expect for our tax dollars to be misused we expect no
less than accountability the agreement with the fairgrounds we don't expect for you to waste our tax dollars we expect for you to look at that
board and take the people off that are supposed to be taken off and put in a comprehensive plan for that money we expect that because those are our T tax
dollars we expect you to do exactly what's supposed to be done along with every other dollar we don't expect you to waste our money the fire assessment those are our tax dollars
also we expect for you to make sure that we can afford that so not only assessing those dollars we expect for you to look beyond what you've already
done and to look outside of the box to make sure that you've done everything that you can do so that we can afford to pay for the fire because nobody wants to have a
fire but we want to make sure that we're prepared in case of an fire a fire but we expect to hold everybody accountable and that you're spending our tax dollars like you're supposed to
thank you okay that's all the comment cards I have at this time so I'm going to move on to item three uh approval of the consent agenda do I have a motion make a motion to approve the consent agenda I have a motion by commissioner
Adry second by uh commissioner Andrews any questions all in favor by a sign of i i i i motion carries 40 all right item four Rotary Club uh Mr John
Williams good evening Commissioners uh John Williams I'm here on behalf of rodri Club Stark uh before you you should have uh a project that we are working on uh we are looking this year to uh put in a covered Pavilion at the
Santa Fe boat ramp um it's uh something that's very needed uh the Rotary Club is planning to submit grants to accomplish this and we just want your blessing to move forward with the project yes and I thank you so much I I met with
yall at The Rotary Department and this is a project we've been I've been trying to get something done on this for I I don't even know how many years 6 eight years it's been a it's been a long time uh this would be something uh board I guess you all know about it for it'll
be at the Santa Fe boat ramp it'll be a pavilion uh I believe it was what 24 by3 have a concrete um slab they'll have a couple picnic tables um and for the fishing tournaments and stuff like that or people just come down there to eat
lunch or whatever be a nice place to to actually look out over the lake we'll be moving the portapotty from where it is now to the opposite side so that way it would not be where this Pavilion is going to be um and um and I I just thank
you so much I'm excited about this I've talked to several fishermen and the people that do the tournament and um I I can't thank you enough I really do appreciate it so is is there did yall have any questions just a comment Mr Williams I just appreciate order Club um
their willingness to do such a thing to improve the area I know when we got the Pavilion downtown what the difference it makes and to be able to have something like that at the lake would be great we're excited about this project we think it's uh going to benefit the county uh
benefit everyone who utilizes that space out there yeah I thank you so much again Mr Corner gay and myself and Mr dos were down there with tap measures measuring it all off and you know trying to get the maximum bang for the buck and all that put it in the right location so um
I do appreciate it you know and if you ever want to meet me down there I'll meet you down there and show you exactly where where we're talking about putting I guess you'll know that but by the uh by the drawings you already got but yes so if you look at the map you'll see exactly where it's going to go um we've got it kind of drawn out there so okay
good I sure do appreciate it thank you John great thank you thank you did you want to add some well Mr chairman we will need a motion in a second and a vote um and the motion would be to allow the Rotary Club of Keystone or Rotary Club of Stark to move forward with the Pavilion project at the boat R okay do I
motion I would offer that motion to allow the Rotary Club of star to do this project second the motion have a motion in a second and again we sure do appreciate it all in favor by sign of i i i motion carries 40 thank you thank you so much
John all right uh item five um a presentation from nv5 I didn't know if uh Mr Craig was going to be here or Mr Randy okay Ryan Ryan oh Ryan Thompson
okay I'm sorry I've got Randy okay thank you good evening Mr chair Commissioners Ryan Thompson with mv5 uh joining me today is Mr Craig brazer is our director of uh planning as well as Margot Moyer who's been working with me uh on this project for about a year um so we're
happy to be in front of you and present our final results and um you know get this part of the the process done so you can start on the next um so uh with
that like to thank you uh for this opportunity make sure I'm going the right direction all right uh the purpose of this meeting is to share our final uh results of the vulnerability assessment and uh provide our
recommendations uh to this board and uh always want to encourage the commission to stay in touch with their constituents to so that they can best understand the flooding issues within the county so that you your plans are U most impactful
in those areas a little history I apologize I keep looking back I want to make sure it's on the right slide um so uh we're really at the start of this process uh the vulnerability assessment helps the
community determine uh what assets are vulnerable um and then following uh the VA is the adaptation uh strategies uh preparing adaptation plans and then imple and then ultimately implementation
grants uh through the Florida resiliency program um and I will highlight that it is important uh if not imperative that this vulnerability assessment identifies Focus areas uh for Grants to be
permitted through the implementation uh grants uh so this assessment will need to include areas that you uh find um need to be uh improved uh due to flooding
so uh uh these are the type of Grants if you don't mind if I um so there are three different types of Grants uh for the through the Florida resiliency program um and uh this is the the planning Grant
which is for the vulnerability assessment uh then their implementation grants and then their rre grants which are Regional grants that are conducted through the regional planning Council or through the Water Management District uh but this is where your funding uh will come
from just a brief overview uh last April uh we met with the steering committee uh that included a lot of County staff the Water Management District Regional planning Council Representatives as well as the city of Hampton um we collected
uh critical assets as determined by the floor department environmental protection um who administers this grant um and verified those assets with our steering committee uh utilizing online mapping uh
for them to be able to come through uh asset data and then uh ran flood models uh that were derived from the Water Management District uh and covered the six scenarios uh 2024 as kind of a
baseline uh 2040 and 2070 both at the year and 500e storms and then uh we compared the flood models with the assets that we collected uh that's a sensitivity analysis to determine uh which assets
were impacted and then uh refine the list of assets based on uh critical need in a flood event or uh how they're impacted by the flood event we collected over 60,000 assets that's
both through uh fdp's uh geod database uh and online sources uh that we were able to obtain ourself uh we uh removed a lot of privately owned assets such as
Wells and septics um as well as some historical uh natural and cultural resources that we felt weren't critical uh to the county in a time of of flooding event um that got us down to
about 300 assets and then uh we retained assets uh that we felt were critical uh in those situations or were most impacted and also in uh working with County staff uh identified some other
assets that should be added um so to identify how impacted a asset is um it's not just on the flood Model results that's a component of it um but
we uh partnered with high tide uh analytics and they prepared a an index uh Florida flood sensitivity uh that's actually comprised of a number of index uh that have three main
components the first looking at social so your population around those assets and how impacted they are um around the flooding areas pardon me and then the physical uh which is uh the area around those assets and then direct
which is the flooding to the asset itself um so uh high tide took that information and created you know one to five how impact is a particular asset uh so uh we boil it down from 60,000
assets that was just a lot a lot of them were privately owned uh which through D they're looking at public assets uh specifically and then boil it down to about 44 that we felt were most critical you'll see that there are a lot of
bridges um Bridges were retained because the uh flood model has limitations uh I'll speak to that uh for a second the limitations are it's countywide um it's very difficult uh to have specific data
on culverts conditions of colberts um and um you know so the model is great in identifying areas of concern U but it's not detailed enough to tell you exactly the extent of that concern um so
although it's it's good and it's appropriate at this stage in the vulnerability assessment what you'll hear me say when we come to recommendations is those adaptation plans are to look more closely at some of these areas to determine exactly what
the needs are so you can have very specific mitigation measures and then apply for implementation funding um I just skip ahe I notd me um you can see that these assets
are scattered around uh the county but when you take out the bridges um you can see that there are a few of uh areas that are clustered uh Lake Samson being one of them um the
Alligator Creek which runs through you know the heart of town um that's another area and then the water Ro Creek uh to the north of that is another important area uh and we included Bridges as a whole even though it's not a geographic area uh that you
might naturally associate with the focus area but a subject matter such as Bridges could also be a focus area so taking a look at Lake Samson um it is it has a number of critical assets one of them being the three F
pipes uh this is the uh only Water Management uh system within the county um so we felt that this was an important asset to include even though it wasn't um high on our sensitivity list it's high importance to the county with
regard to flooding uh so we did keep that asset um and then we think the uh Lake Samson area uh would be an important Focus area and then of course Alligator Creek uh there are uh quite a few probably the
highest density of assets within that area um understanding that flooding from the mining operation if combined with a flood event could be uh very uh dangerous to the town and so we want to
um or we recommend uh looking further at that area um this is a substation uh next to UF Health and I although the focus isn't the flood maps themselves it's how the
assets are impacted in that sensitivity index I did want to include a flood map and so this this is Baseline 2024 at 100-year storm um and although you see that the actual assets themselves aren't
impacted the area around them are and as you progress to 2040 and 2070 the flooding gets worse um so it is of utmost importance to to take a look at some of these areas and uh water creek um I wish I had
a comparable FL map for this one I apologize um but there is a lot of flooding a lot of it comes from outside of uh the county and so including this area and one idea might be uh to have County uh storm water management
facilities that could address some of this flooding before it goes into um the local creeks and uh so our our recommendation are first to establish the focus areas uh that you want to include in the vulnerability assessment so they're
eligible for future funding through the implementation grants um to prioritize these I think Alligator Creek because of its location approximate to the core of the city and
uh water Oak Creek uh being that there's a lot of flooding that comes from out of the county into that area and then um through the county those would probably be our priorities of those Focus areas um and
then um The Next Step would be the adaptation plan and so focusing on those areas to identify exactly how the flooding could be mitigated and eventually the implementation
plans so um that is uh my presentation U I would welcome your feedback uh I want to First hear if our results are similar to what you witnessed in the county and if
or if there are areas that we've missed that we need to look closer at as far as assets or um focus areas more importantly um in um with that I'll conclude and and listen for comments
jman Rick um Mr Thompson all of the ears that you mention are critical to our area but I also would like for you to um also U consider a few other areas um for example I don't know the street name but
um in in the Brooker area where we had the big um flooding um and the erosion of the um do do you know that specific River B yeah riverband River
riverband would be another one and um near chores on um that's Northeast 125th that intersects with Northeast 6th Avenue whenever there's a discharge or if there's a combination of the
discharge and they flooding 125 floods dangerously I mean it's like a ice it's like a a glaze of water that makes it dangerous for people passing um and so um the areas that you
mentioned on Northeast 12th Avenue and 171st are are very critical as well um so a Northeast um 12th Avenue washes out totally and so if you can consider those
um those areas um to to add and take a look at that and I know that you're probably working um getting data from the city but when the Alligator Creek area floods um CL St Clair um Street and
the area where red Graves is where the um electrical apparatus is up there that whole area floods and um that low region so that was red Graves red Graves uhhuh I guess it's Street or Avenue um that's
near the downtown right on off of um 235 okay but those are the ones that you know just from my observation um that [Music] happens thank you and when we have storms just so you know um Samson Lake
you you mentioned it it's going to flood and it has been absolutely detrimental I've seen people coming down a dirt road in a boat because they that's the only way they could get out uh Crosby lake is going the flood um and like Miss sponer
said and it's private it's private owned property but the people at Riverbend which is um is housing there's many people that live down there every time we have um a serious rain um all of the
roads are just destroyed in there um but we have to wait till it's declared an emergency that we can um repair some of the the big huge that holes that makes it impassible for them but that is some of three of the
most critical areas that we have in in Bradford County okay and I will say this from talking with some of the people at Riverbend you know because you ask them the question I'll just put it like this why would they move back there if they
saw it flooding like that well 20 years ago they said when they moved back there they didn't have that issue so I don't know what changed to where like everybody's saying that it it totally floods out so something had to have changed uh because there's that
Creek that well that that flows right right beside it so actually becomes a river M flowing down the street uh down the road that they go into I mean I've we've seen it
and it is like nothing you've ever seen okay right and maybe focusing on U you know where that where it's coming from you know that's impacting that area because you know just like um you know they mentioned like Alligator Creek coming from
kores uh you know during Irma you know it flooded you know some of the areas out there some of the housing areas and their minimum daily flow is like 6 million gallons per day their maximum daily flow is 45 million gallons per day
and that day they released 76 million gallons per day wow so 76 million gallons coming through Alligator Creek by the time it gets into Stark and takes a 90 degree turn goes over St Clair Street red Grave Street so then you get
the flooding in town and then it backs up and then it floods fpnl city of Stark power station they have there MH and then so on and then it gets to the Lakes it bottlenecks there floods the Lakes you know and just keeps going on from
there so certainly a good uh area to focus on and impact you know to all of those areas thank you I know the off course area yeah really is is bad there too yeah and that's where it you know it comes from you know when it's coming
from kores you know just on the be on the south side of State Road 230 and then it just you know comes that way so right and a lot of that I think sheet flows across and it gets over into 16 171 uh 12
and lah yeah lah as well um yeah so um again I think that uh I think we know where it's coming from it's it's you know how do we control it and uh right so and and and quite honestly we've had meetings before Senator Bradley might have been a part of one of those
meetings and you know we hear about uh Army Corps of Engineers and how they've been studying it and you know we're we're really kind of over studying it I think it's time to you know move forward and try to find out how we can mitigate it so right yes sir understood and and
one other I'm sorry I didn't mention it's also in Lou but it's um cter Road 227 where it intersects with Northeast 6th Avenue that becomes a washed out area whenever there's a light rain and it doesn't have to be a big
flood okay thank you did you have anything Mr well and I will say too just one more comment three pipes I know you mentioned it but um did we ever get the equipment the the new equipment that we were at trying
to get no ma'am uh Emergency Management director Brad Wht is working on that now and so we don't really I had talked with him recently about it but I know he is still trying to to get that done those those pipes of course releases the the
water to try to keep keep the flooding down but the equipment that's there is very very old I have no idea how but um when they actually close the pipes they have to use the um jaws of
life right to actually do that it's it's like I said it's very old equipment yeah but the three PPS is very very important to trying to keep the flooding from from escalating so yeah Mr Thompson I think you you've mentioned the impacted areas
and the focus but I think it'd be worth that we you know we still you know each of us know when we're out in our areas and and we hear from our constituents you know some areas that are impacted but certainly a followup because like I said I think you've hit them the core of them but you I think there's probably a couple more
that we can still you know bring up to Mr corn and have a further discussion about that sure I welcome that thank you thank you all right thank you very much okay moving on to item six Capital Improvement plan uh Amanda saing oh do
you get one more thing sorry if I may and it's a detail of the grant um if we could open it up to public comment um and uh there is a signin sheet uh up here if anybody does have public comment I just request that you please sign the sign in sheet U for our D Grant okay
thank you it's part of the grant process you said okay yes okay thank so does anybody have a public comment okay Mr strong my name is VI strong um and my public comment is you
guys didn't mention um but it seems like uh camores is the um they seem to be the common denominator of a lot of areas my mom's
the ditch next to my Mom's house nobody wants to say about that area but that area continues to flood when camor releases that from the
hill um from their area it floods and it floods her area it comes around and floods around off of 223 Northeast 223 and comes around and floods the big
ditch in Ludi which in turn floods 301 because that area is not cleaned out and it floods all of that floods kamor
keeps releasing their water they're the common denominator thank you is there anyone else that would make a like like to make a comment about the flooding okay Mr strong did you sign in
on the signin sheet you did great thank you thank you all right thank you very much all right Amanda good evening Commissioners I am coming before you tonight to request in addition to the
capital Improvement plan from my office we are requesting at 170,000 allotment for the 2025 2026 budget year by no means do I hope to use that amount of money but we do need to
upgrade our tabulation equipment which includes our tabulators themselves we right now have 20 of them I'm hoping to lower that to 15 which would decrease our ongoing costs on that but we also need to upgrade our service server and our server hardware and software in our office which receives our tabulation
results on Election night I provided you guys with breakdowns of the quotes I've received so far so how I've come up with this 170,000 just so you know is so far right now if we were to purchase everything tomorrow it would be about 135 to
140,000 that is not my plan and nor is it my current budget to do that so waiting till October 1st hopefully having full mentation by January of 2026 of course as you guys know prices increase constantly so that's why I've gone ahead and requested the 170,000
allotment but again doing whatever we can to lower that actual cost when it comes time to purchase do you guys have any questions for me regarding this oh I know you you probably haven't had time to
check but um I was wondering if you were able to um Benchmark with any other syst the facilities assist the cities um for the machines or cost or so forth that they may have yeah so as far as our equipment goes let me um kind of talk to
you about how we choose our equipment I don't really have a lot of choice our server in our tabulators have to be certified by the state of Florida and we cannot use anything that is not certified and by certified I mean every single component of the tab the hardware
and the software because it has to be so secure so we cannot purchase anything that the state has not um allowed and said certified as part so we have two vendors for this product and we are under one vendor there is another vendor in the State of Florida that is um certified
and that's Dominion but Bradford County has always been on um election system and software and that is the pro um the software and hardware and tabulations we're looking at getting next year this just the newer version of all of this the upgraded software and everything
where we can piece now where I can purchase Hardware pieces that are fit that requirements from our own it Department instead of through their package that saves those cost and you'll see on our breakdown sheet that I provided that that's where we're trying
to save some money on and working with our current it um inspired to get some purchases through them but as far as like the tabulators they come in one component we can't P Mill it it has to be done allinone because of the certifications good any other questions
one more question are you held to a certain time frame in which you have to um to change these good question um yes and no obviously you need to keep up with what's certified our current system will still be certified through the
gorial year 2026 election cycle but we look at ongoing and training and updates and all that and what we have to do to implement this for an election process in the county since it is going to be new software I got to give my staff time to train on it I need
to be able to update all of my materials and train our poll workers my plan is to do that next year like I said purchase in January that gives me in my office time to do all that before the gubernatorial election in August the primary if we wait then our first
election using this equipment is going to be a presidential election which is a lot busier a lot more hectic and I'd rather had something before that going back to the timeline as well so that's of them the other is the age of the equipment these tabulators are
over 10 years old and as you guys know especially with cell you can you look at your cell phone they don't last that long the technology is always updated and again with security risk anytime they see a vulnerability especially in software they have to recertify re resubmit to the state the state recertifies that and then we have to
implement it so we're getting into maybe I could wait but till the 2027 but again for my thinking about the planning of the election process I would prer to go ahead and purchase them in 2025 so they're ready to go in 2026 all right do I have a motion to or
did you have another question no just that that is critical that is it's it's um wellworking equipment that is accurate and that you know we don't want any glitches so yes it's it's critical and important so I I would make the motion to to approve up to
170,000 yes and to add that as a part we're adding as a part what we're doing is ADD is a part of our Capital Improvement plan is that Mr Carn you could do one motion you're so inclined um to uh approve the capital
Improvement plan as presented for 2425 through 28 29 with one amendment to um add the replacement of the precinct ballot tabulators add an amount not to exceed what was been set forth that would be the motion I would articulate
that motion as stated um by the turn Mr Bradley thank you okay we have a motion by commissioner Spooner I'll second second by commissioner Andrews any other questions right all in favor by sign a
by I motion carries 40 thank you so much thank you so much I do have a comment though I'm just being on the Cabas board and watching everything that that these people do it's um it's amazing the check and the recheck and the counting and
there is so much work done in that office during an election and I just my hats off to your group you do an excellent job and and we're very very proud of of you guys well thank you and I wish my whole staff was here but half of them are so Sarah we'll take that back to our other staff member thank you
so much Commissioners thank you thank you okay the next item is uh item 6B approval of the capital Improvement plan for we handled them all was we did them all oh we did them all at once okay that's right with your motion I apolog olizee no not at all thanks somebody's
got to keep me straight all right moving on to item number seven the agreement of the Bradford County Fair Association uh for this I'll turn it over to Mr cornay thank you Mr chairman in your packet you have the agreement that was uh drafted by our attorneys and
also the attorney for the fair Association and it's before you tonight uh for adoption yes sir can I ask question yes ma'am okay um our attorney Mr Bradley um when I read
it h on 4A that um I guess the first sentence there um where it says BC shall lease the real property for bcfa for one year with the option to renew for additional one year
Etc and shall reconstitute its board director board of directors to include nine nine directors um it does go ahead and clarify in a latter part of the paragraph and how that would be done but
when I initially read it I it it implies that um bcfa has the nine nine directors so if I initially interpreted that way maybe others would and I was just going
to ask if after the the um the line that says to include nine directors um that the reconstructed board um if the reconstructed board
would um let me see the reconstructive board will be comprised of appointees selected by bord County fa and by the bord County Board of County Commissioners I know you it's
clarified in the latter part but at the beginning it it it almost implies that BCF would have those nine and the way I read it um certainly not the certainly not the intention of the
language um I think what the language is is expressing is that um the board is the board for the BC F so they do have to they're the it's it's that organization and it's their
board M and so um that's what it's meant to imply um and let me be clear the the the way that it's written is cannot be subject to other
interpretation um in that four were would be appointed by the BCC for it would be appointed by the fair and then you the BCC would appoint the chairperson who would break any ties right
um it's for a year lease so after a year if things are evolving in a manner that is not to your comfort level you you have no obligation to renew and you can go back to the drawing
board in terms of how to constitute however when you constitute it because you own the property once this agreement is followed through that so that's that's how it's set up okay so it's set up when this agreement
is signed and done right the board of County Commissioners they're signing you would own the property we would own the property all the property not not like the last email okay would own all the property that's what this agreement all four fers contemplates if they this
agreement uh then the deed would include all the property okay and um the board would be constituted as I described um it would be leased to the fa Association for a year and then after
a year that like if I you're into a piece of property that you lease to somebody else and it's a year lease after a year the lease ends you can renew it or you can not renew it it's up to you um the idea being that you know things
aren't going well after a year then you can revisit the matter things are going swimmingly uh then you have the option to renew and you you could even say you know what it's going so well we'll do a 5e relase after a
year um you're not restricted you know at that point to uh from from approaching it in a different way after after a year um but um you know considering what the County's being asked to do I think it's
appropriate that a you own all the property and B that um you um make sure that it's being um managed in a way where you're comfortable with the majority of the board members being folks who were appointed by you for that
first year and if that isn't even working for whatever reason you can revisit it any year so I see that as um as a way of Maximum protection for the County's interest not commenting on anything that
happened before will happen in the future but if you're the owner of the property and you're being asked to put taxpayer money up to solve a problem um then then I think it's very appropriate for the people who
elect um you for you to to be the The Entity that controls the use of that property because you're asking taxpayer dollars to be used at this point to be use to um to solve this problem so um that's that's sort of the con that's the
that's the concept um of what is before you and and the board members that we assign I mean we so that we will have some control on how the operation is
going correct I mean well they you will you will appoint five I hope everybody works together and there's and you never have to worry about this again okay so you you can't you don't you're not going to have an agenda item every week saying let's dictate how these five people vote other
words you're going to appoint five people right and um they're going to go off and do what they're going to do all right and uh along with their four members that are appointed by the fair Association and hopefully they can work colg and work together team effort to
the nine of them make this the greatest fair in the state um and the other events that happen out there right and um but uh certainly if you're observing things that are going
on out there and uh the five you appointed are the collective is not doing what what you want to do you know you certainly have appoint appointment Powers over those five all right um but it's not intended to be a micromanagement situation by its design
it's intended to be you got five people you trust not that you don't trust the four that they're going to appoint right uh but you got the five that you know you you put in there and uh they're going to go forth and Conquer right um understand that this is going to be a
new way doing business in the sense that included in the agreement is a requirement that' be a sunshine board okay because these are commissioner appointed so you're you're now and it's your property this is a new way I mean so all the you know the
things that are required with the sunshine board there's going to be minutes taken there's going to be notices all the things that that you have to comply with uh and that's not being just trying to be an annoyance or anything that's because we believe that
um you've now appointed these individuals and they are representing you in many respects um both literally and and you know by by virtue of how they got there and their appointment and the fact that they're
there because of you right and so um I think that it's a I think it would be if I were a judge considering whether the Sunshine Law was this board um had to comply with sun law I say it probably does I don't think it's 100% sure it
would be an interesting question doesn't matter we were resolve solving that question let's have it do the sunshine all right now after a year if things aren't working because that's being too onerous or whatever it is then we'll see how things go for a year I see it as like a year trial
run um under this new Arrangement um that we find ourselves in and uh I hope that this resolves the matter because obviously I can sense that it's caused some angst you know and that's unfortunate because the this should be a happy place for the
community where happy things happen you know and the alternative is if we do nothing then it's gone um I you know I don't you don't want to I I think that's a a potential alternative uh commissioner for sure because um there's
a pending foreclosure action and the plane from that foreclosure action has a lean that um he can exercise I I mean it it's for an amount that the property may be worth more than that I I don't
know what the prop I haven't done you know but um it it is such that um you certainly put at risk the fact that uh you know if I were if I were a developer and I was interested in this
property I may be interested in showing up with that sale okay right you know at that foreclosure sale right where he gets paid off the guy who made the loan who who I haven't met but understand is you know honorable person who
participating in this matter and um and uh but there may be somebody who's willing to pay more than that you know to to own the property um you just never know what's going to happen so this does guarantee that it remains in the
public um Sphere for sure um which I think is appropriate considering that y'all put money there I know the state has at various times and um it's unfortunate that we find ourselves in this situation but this is a Way
Forward uh uh for bigger and brighter things uh if if the fair is signs the other side of the agreement Senator Bradley with that the property when it
was reconstructed and the grant money came from the Department of Agriculture for that building the appropriation and it's to be used as I was there yeah and oh yeah I was the
Appropriations chairman I got that money so so was that the department it came from I mean is that I can't I think we probably ran it through the department but it was in the budget as a as a special appropriation so my question is then with with that building being a u a
designated shelter okay how I I would I um I think that um you know it certainly would be
uh I would be disappointed if I were the State of Florida and I invested in this uh in this uh matter um and uh it ends up in some developers hands or some what was
in tended to be a shelter in some some situation that doesn't involve it not only serving the purpose of people's enjoyment and yeah and educating kids who need to learn about agriculture and all the things that a fair does in
addition to the services that it provides to the community at whole whenever we Face hurricanes and other natural disasters right so it it serves that double purpose I would be I would be very upset if I were the state of Florida okay and uh and I saw that that
money basically went went down the tube right so I think this is a good way of um uh this is It's one of 7,000 reasons I think that you were considering moving forward in this manner but uh yes it's a
good reason amongst several others to move forward in this man okay thank you know thank you okay that answer my question okay oh did I answer your question okay right yeah cuz I board I think this would be a good moving forward because there's some
people that were on that fair Association for over 30 years that would be able to bring us some knowledge to help us get this thing up going and uh so I think it'll be a good a good good Venture the way we're doing it way you drw it up so yeah I think I think it's a
reasonable way forward and with an appreciation of the good that's happened in the past and acknowledgement of things that probably need to be repaired MH that happened in the past you're fixing those in the sense that you're removing this uh debt that uh is
encumbering this and uh so uh and then you're moving forward brighter and bigger uh but with control right so that if it goes bad there's accountability uh but it's not because
you're not going to let it correct okay awful motion okay so we have a motion from commissioner sponer we'll need to state that motion yes sir um thank you um I offer a motion um to
on this 18th day of March um to approve the agreement with rid count Fair Association Inc for the payoff of the promisory note for the fairground property and exchange for the association to transfer the property to BR County there have motion from commissioner
Spooner okay from uh commissioner Andrews is there any other questions all in favor by a sign of i i i motion carries 40 thank you Senator Bradley thank you all right item8 Clerk's report no
comments uh sheriff's report I don't don't see the sheriff you don't want to give the report okay uh County Manager report I have nothing Mr chairman thank you all righty County attorney
report you good I I'm out of breath SS good and y'all are sick of hearing it from me okay uh commissioner's comments uh commissioner do I don't have anything just other than thank You' all for being here thank you for your public comments and um I think our astronauts made it
home do we know I hope soise job that's good good glad yeah all right graev is the order of the night so U we're going to be traveling to Tallahassee to meet with our legislators um and also I just wanted to thank the road department Mr
do for getting work started on the Roose in ly thank you um just thank you all for being here and being a part of this conversation being a part of um helping us to make the decisions that we make because it
does involve each and every one of you um and with that I'm um tough decisions tonight but um hopefully we did what was the right thing to do so thank you all for being here all right and again I I thank everyone for being here tonight I
appreciate all your comments and interest and we'll see what we can do to get some of these problems resolved and uh especially thank you uh Mr John uh I really do appreciate that that's going to be awesome when we get that built and uh other than that I have no other
comments and um this meeting is adjourned for