Hey. Hey. Hey. --------- Hey, hey, hey. under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you everyone. Okay. Any disclosures, any of that anybody
needs to make before we get started? No, we have minutes to approve for January. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Let's do that. We have uh Julie Braa today attending via Zoom. So, uh can we get a motion and
a second to allow Julie? >> Second. >> Have a motion by Mayor Medina, second by Mr. Hermanson. Can we call the role on that? >> Um Julie Braa. I guess we can call her. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Yeah. >> Um Mayor. Okay, sorry. Mayor Connors,
>> yes. >> Vice Chair Hermanson, >> yes. >> Larry Johns, >> yes. >> Mayor Medina, >> I. >> John Morren, >> I. >> Okay. And Chair Felner, >> I And we'll consider that for a roll
call, too. Okay. Sorry about that, by the way. All right. Welcome, Julie. All right. Now, we have minutes to approve for January 28th. Is there a motion for that? There any questions, comments? >> Motion to approve a minutes.
>> We have a motion to approve by Mr. Hermanson. >> Second. >> We have a second by Mayor Connors. We'll call the role on the minutes. >> Julie Braa, >> here. >> Mayor Connor, >> yes. >> Vice Chair Hermanson,
>> yes. >> Larry Johns, >> yes. >> Mayor Medina, >> I. >> John Morin, >> I. Chair Felner. >> Yes, we'll show those approved. Thank you very much. All right, Peter. >> Very good. Thank you, sir. Um,
I'm gonna keep this short because I want to get into the next topic which may take a little bit longer, but just uh a note on um TDT came in December, was down a little bit. Um, you know, don't have a lot in the data
to, you know, give a a firm explanation. We were about 5% off from uh the prior year, which puts us for the for the um fall, October, November, December, uh down a little over 1%. Um January is
currently tracking slightly behind last January, but February is actually looking very very strong. So, uh, so my hope would be as we get into season that, um, some of our numbers will wipe out any deficits.
Um, other than that, I I don't have any other reports unless there are any questions on u on budgetary items. Uh, and if not, I'll just move on to the next item. >> Okay. Real quick, questions for Peter on
that? Any comments anybody on that specifically? >> All right, go ahead. >> Okay. Uh for Okay, so then for our subcommittees, the two subcommittees that will be meeting this year are marketing and um beach. Um Tom Hermanson
will be chair again of marketing and Julie Brago will be chair again of beach. Um, let me ask first uh before I ask for new members. Are there any changes to existing members that the
that the TDC would like to make? >> Mr. Director, I I do need to make a change with my marketing committee uh subcommittee appointment. >> Okay. >> Amy Matthews, who is currently on there, will not be cons continuing to serve, but I will I got to find somebody else. >> Oh, you have to find somebody. Okay. All
right. Let us know if you need any assistance with that. Um the first meeting for marketing um is going to be March 18th. So that's going to happen prior to the next um TDC
meeting. So they whoever you is appoint will just come to the they can come to the April sorry the May meeting which would be the next one. So um and then uh so that's existing members. Any new members? Um
>> Mr. Moran, sir, you had a an appointment for Beach, right? >> Sean Williams. >> Shawn Williams. And Shawn is with M. It's not McBride anymore. What's Do you know his company name? Used to be MCell. >> Cowbell. Thank you. >> More cowbell.
>> More. So, uh, Mr. Chair, there just needs to be a vote for approval for Shawn Williams to, uh, be the the beach represent beach representative for Mr. Moran. >> Okay, sir. That's your motion for Shawn
Williams. Okay, we have a second. >> Second. >> All right. Had sec. Okay. So, we have motion by John Moran. We have a second by Mayor Medina. We'll call the role of Mr. Sean Williams. Julie Braa,
>> hi. >> Mayor Connor, >> yes. >> Vice Chair Hemanson, >> yes. >> Larry John, >> yes. >> Mayor Medina, >> I. >> John Moran, >> hi. >> Felner, >> yes. >> We'll show show him approved. Thank you.
>> All right. So, that's that finishes the director's report. Now, moving into item three. Um we had a discussion last uh month about uh updates to the uh capital facilities grant guidelines. Um we now
have uh county attorney input. Uh so in your under your packet uh there should be a separate um guidelines. I'm going to try to go through this relatively quickly, but there may be a few things where there either we'll have questions
or discussion. So feel free to stop as we go. Um, starting on page two, most of the language here was just sort of cleaning up language. We took out the goals. We really didn't feel like we needed that. We just stated that the capital facilities committee will be the
one to review, score, and recommend projects. Um, that the TDC and the board of county commissioners would then be the final approval for those. So, that's that's really on page two, the only uh material changes. on page three. Um
again, just some language uh clean up there. Um Deborah, who's here uh today, Deborah Webster will be the liaison for any questions that might come in this year. As as you recall, last month we voted not to have an have a grant
program for for the next fiscal. Um but we often get questions from people about it. So she will she'll be the point person on that. uh she assisted with uh with the guidelines. So, she's very familiar with those. Um under section four on page three and it goes over to
page uh page sorry section four on page three and four. Um we just at this point we don't have any dates since we don't have a actual um program. So, we're just kind of cross those out for now. Um, also on page four, again, nothing
significant, just sort of some verbiage changes there. So, nothing major on that page. Moving to page five, um, there was something under the funding requirements that actually that that's in red. That's actually my changes. Um, we had some
conversation about matching funds versus funds. There's no requirement to bring in a third-party matching funds, although having some kind of funds um to match our funds is is obviously looked at
positively um in the when you get into the scoring of these grants. So I just changed some language where basically it was just very specific as to what what we needed know some some sort of detailed or verifiable documentation
um uh that that would be required to to show what kind of funding you would have. So if you were an organization and you had some funding in your bank account, then you'd need to show us that uh to show us that there is funding available. or if you were going to let's say get a grant from a third party,
you'd have to show us that kind of documentation. So that was just the intent there um in in that paragraph. Um after that um not again just some some clarification in this next paragraph. If a multi-year
funding award distribution is established, it will follow groundbreaking and completion scheduled as outlined in the notice of award. So that was just sort of to clean that up a little bit and give a little more explanation to that section. Moving on to uh page six, there were uh
some additional changes. Purple uh was uh from the CAO. It's actually wasn't purple. It was just a different it was actually a different color blue, but it printed purple. So um this was this was good. And you know Justin's here. He can
answer any questions about it. The the uh thought here is that um this explains what is reimburseable and that it would basically be um postdesign construction costs and then labor that's
directly related to the construction. So that was what was that that was the thought there that um it would it would only be cost related to construction directly not any sort of you know things like architectural or engineering or
anything in the design side. So um that that language is in there now. Um and then there was some additional language about if um the TDC might require additional documentations of expenders prior to issuing any reimbursement. Um failure to provide adequate
documentation might result in a reduction or cancellation of grant funds. So that's that allows us to kind of really clarify what it is that they're seeking reimbursement for. Um, and then uh this the next language was something we talked about last month,
which was that any cost reimbursed by the TDC through this grant shall only be the last source of funding for the project. So, for example, there's a $5 million award on a $50 million million project. They would have to use the $45 million from the other sources first.
So, a little bit of clarification because I think this came up I don't know if it came up last month in this meeting or somebody else had asked me uh about does this preclude people from using our grant to go out and get other funding and this wouldn't because for
instance with the aquarium they've been awarded 15 million. They've never been paid a dime. they, you know, obviously the project hasn't started yet, so they haven't gotten a dime of it, but they've been able to leverage that 15 million for various different kinds of, you know, government, uh, private grants,
all of those types of things. So, they you're still they're still would be able to leverage the fact that we've committed dollars to the project, but they wouldn't be able to use our money first. So, in the case of the aquarium, it's a little different because it's a
fif it's a 10-year project. Um, so they're going to get paid every year. Um, and that project will actually be completed before we complete repayment, re reimbursement. So it's a little different animal, but this going forward, if it's a project that comes to
us and they get, you know, certain amount of money, our money would be the last money used. And the idea there is that they would be close to completion by the time they're seeking reimbursement. So that's that's the intent for that section. All right, let's pause here for a second because I
I think that was a a key point before there questions on this this section. >> Comment comment, sir. >> I think it's a good idea. Uh but it's you know the the board of
county commissioners in historically as with the aquarium has uh a number of projects has favored the installment type of reimbursement which would conflict with uh this as a
policy. Not to say that the board of county commissioners can just disregard the policy, which does happen. >> They could do that. I I I feel like with some of the recent events >> um
that uh the board is looking for something like this. >> Good. I like it. >> I I think so. >> I think we're all looking for that, too, right? Are there are there any questions on on what Peter's drafted here on the
county attorney? Any comments? >> I think it all looks really good. I think you guys, you know, took our our input and and did a good job of laying this out as I read the line strike through. I think it it hit on all the points that that we were trying to make and trying to clean up going forward. >> Well, good.
>> I uh I had considered we swore to go page by page and ask questions and what have you. We've been through a few pages there. So, how about that? Is there anything in the in the first four pages or so that Peter's gone through so far? >> No. All right, we'll we'll keep going. I
think I think that was an important point though. >> Yeah, it was. Yeah. And I there's another one where I'll pause on it as well because there was some discussion. But uh the next section is uh just goes into the detail of eligible use of funds. So it sort of pays off that previous paragraph where it actually
just line item by line item details what is allowed. So, first the first one at the bottom of page six, post-design construction costs and then uh building materials, labor that are directly related to the construction and permanent fixtures. So, that that's
pretty much it. That whole section we know kind of going back to the input that we got, you know, let's take out some of these other things and put them under nonallowable. And then further under non-allowable, we added a few items that we realized were in other
grant um program guidelines that we just felt it would be good to add for whatever, you know, whatever might uh happen. For instance, um marketing, you know, we took that out, you know, this is not a this is a
capital grant, so it wouldn't be any marketing, no travel, no prize money, none of that kind of stuff. permits and fees, financing, um costs associated with loans, um interest or accounting fees, taxes. So, all of that was just kind of added to
the non-allowable cost just to be very crystal clear about what's not going to be reimbursed. >> All right. Um questions on this part >> on the nonallowables? No. All right. All right. Peter. And then uh and then at the bottom, a good addition from uh the
county attorney's office, grantee shall provide copies of all contracts, task orders, purchase orders, etc. with third parties on which the grantee is seeking reimbursement. That's really important because that was, you know, again, u something that that we've had difficulty
obtaining uh in the past. So this this will clarify that that is going to be required or or no reimbursement. Um other than that uh next section is on submittal procedures. So again pretty straightforward just a change in the uh
individual on our team. Um on the evaluation process just some cleanup language uh as part of the application pro process. Applicants will be scheduled to give presentation about their proposed project to the capital facilities committee and may be asked to present to the TDC at a regular meeting.
So that just clarified that. Um, again, just some cleanup language on that page. Nothing really major in that section. Um, moving to page nine under 11, reporting requirements. This was this was something that obviously was very
important to us as again we saw uh had some concerns about past reports. Um, at a applicant shall provide at a minimum a bianual status report to the TDO staff reporting on the progress of the award. Um, capital facilities
project report must contain a list of tasks completed during the prior six months and overall select progress and photographs of progress beyond submitting status report on March 1st and September 1st. Grantee may be asked for a um in-person presentation to the
capital facilities committee and or TDC. And then the TDO further reserves the right to request the project status report at any time and be available for on-site status checks with with TDO staff. So that again I think it gives quite a bit of more detail and and puts
some more teeth in into that. >> Anything on that part? >> No. Okay. >> Okay. Um page 10 just uh just some again some language and some deletion of dates which are don't need to be in here right now.
>> Yep. And then on page 11, um, reimbursement requests require the following. For each expenditure, each line item per reimbursement request submission, copy of the signed contract with the vendor, including any scope of work, descriptions, and projectgress
reports, copy of invoice, proof of payment, proof of item. Inaccurate reimbursement request may forfeit the awarded funding. Um so just trying to you know be again crystal clear about what we expect and what's needed. Um a
lot of uh just minor language things in the rest of this page. Uh and then moving to page 12 sort of uh this also came from the CEO in terms of failure to complete. So I'm just going to read this because this is one uh that
people may have some feedback on. If the project is halted, delayed, terminated, ceases progress for 12 months or greater um or is not able to be completed as outlined in the application and notice of award um grantee shall repay and return to granter any and all funds
received by grantee in connection with this grant upon written request by the granter for the return of funds. Grantee shall have 90 days to transfer funds back to the granter. Should grantee failed to return funds during the time period, granter may pursue legal action against grantee, including but not limited to seeking a moni money judgment
in a court of competent jurisdiction, including costs, attorney fees, and statutory interest in favor of the granter against all real and personal property of grantee until such time granter has received all monies owed. So that again puts the final teeth into
this which is basically a clawback. Um and u I think uh well stated by the CAO for that. Um I'll just pause there. >> Yep. Are there questions on on that section
that the from the county attorney? One one question that did come up is if the 12 months seem reasonable uh to everyone and if there were the other question that once that came up in our internal con conversations
was what if it if there's an act of God like you know hurricane or something that delays the project um what would we do about that and I you know my general feeling is then they would have to come back you know if it went longer than 12 months for some reason they would have
to come back to the board and ask again for um reinstatement. But obviously let you know any thoughts that the TDC might have. >> Just real quick, the board of county commissioners is going to end up dealing with that at that point. Right. >> That was my thought. Yeah.
>> And we we've had a couple of things recently where I think you just have to be reasonable because of just the silliest things. Like one of them recently was we're putting sod down somewhere. Well, all the sod has died um because of
the hard freeze. And so while we had a hard date to go out there and resaw an area, we're going to wait until we have actual green grass to to put down. And that's that's a really small thing, but I I I think reason um will will prevail.
So, but ultimately that'll come back to the board, right? >> It would. Yeah, I believe that that would trigger that. Yes. And then other than that, um the rest of it is really the terms and conditions and there were not significant change or
really any changes other than just a couple of minor things here or there um in from a language perspective through the remainder of the n 1920 pages that are in there. So you can kind of page through it and you see it's just there's just were a few there was a corre
correction there was some spacing issues but nothing more formatting kind of stuff nothing uh language wise so that uh Mr. chair is in the staff and CEO recommendation. We'd look to the TDC to
um to make a motion and vote on that. >> Qu any other questions for Peter on this. >> Oh, just outstanding job. >> Okay. >> Any other comments? Is there a motion to approve the updated guidelines? Have a
motion by Mayor Medina. Is there a second? Have a second by Mayor Connors. We'll call the role. Uh, Julie Bra. >> I. >> Mayor Connor. >> Yes. >> Vice Chair Hermanson. >> Yes. >> Larry John. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Medina. >> I. >> John Moran. >> I. >> Chair Pil. >> Yes. We'll show that adopted. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Okay. We have public comment.
>> Chair. I would just like to use this time to ask Julie Braa to confirm her vote on the approval of the minutes as a yes vote. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Thank you.
>> Um since if we have a quick uh 30 seconds if it's okay. U Mike McGary from the natural resources department is here. He has a new staff member that's uh been hired to bring uh more sand to the beach and focus on beach projects.
And I thought maybe just be a quick moment for him to to introduce her if that's okay. >> Yeah, thank you. Peter, >> come come to the mic there. Uh sir, >> as Peter said, we do have a a new staff member on the beaches team, uh Maropi
Moonstone. Uh she's been working in and around Bvard County for a number of years uh helping monitor our beach projects through her graduate work at University of Central Florida. So I felt fortunately we could bring her on with
already a little familiarity with our work. So welcome to Maropi Moonstone. >> All right. Welcome to the county. >> Thank you. >> We're h we're happy to have you. >> Thank you. Excited to be here. Nice to meet you all. >> Okay. Now are now where where's she g she's
gonna be located with you or she's going to be here in uh this complex. >> She's she's sitting with me in the annex down in Melbourne and eventually in the long run I'll spend more of my time up here in Vieira uh and let her lead the beach program out of our Melbourne annex
office. >> Okay. Very good. All right. Thank you very much. Okay. We have other public comment. Anybody? No. All right. Let's go to board reports. Uh Julie,
>> nope. I have nothing to report. Well, other than we're just very busy. Sorry I couldn't be there in person. >> I was going to say, how's your season? >> Good so far. Okay. >> Yes. >> All right. Mayor Connor. >> Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was actually at a groundbreaking this morning for a
new hotel in Titusville, the True by Hilton that'll be opening up uh here hopefully soon. And the same ownership group is actually uh looking at building another hotel across the street. Uh different kind of extended stay as we do get a lot of government contractor types
running through our city. So uh that that's very exciting. And then as I look at how we can do something to improve tourism in Titusville, I kind of really focused on our marina as uh with our land lease with the state. It says we can have no commercialization in it. And
that doesn't make sense to me for a marina. Uh so we really need to focus on how we can revitalize that marina as we do have about 180 slips in it. So it is a decent sized marina. Uh but really focusing on getting the tourists there and and making a draw. So uh hopefully
I'll have more to report if I ever get the state to renegotiate this lease with me that apparently goes in perpetuity. So >> the marina up there off US1. >> Yeah. Once you get past downtown. >> Yeah. Um, now is that where the Molly Air um, how's that going?
>> Well, apparently they've turned the project on. So, what Commissioner Felner is referring to is we're doing a nanobubble project in Titusville to see if uh, this new technology this company has can help provide oxygenization to the lagoon to help encourage the national natural processes to break down
muck and clean up the the area. So, with private funds, we're able to get this pilot program off the ground. And so we're testing it in our Titusville Marina to see what kind of difference it makes. And uh currently it it is running. We're doing an official uh flip
the switch next week. I believe it's March 4th. >> Okay. >> Uh and so if you didn't have an invitation about that, let me know and I'll I'll make sure you get that. And uh Dr. Fox from FIT is going to be validating any success or any failures or however it works out. But before we
go bigger and try to treat more of the lagoon, we want to make sure we have a good good sample. So, we're excited about it. >> Yeah, I'm looking forward to to seeing how that that turns out. Um, very good, Mr. Hermanson.
>> Nothing to report. It's good to be in season, >> Larry. >> No report. >> Okay. Uh, Alex, not here today. Mayor Medina, >> nothing to report. >> Okay. Uh John Moran, >> we are finally getting to the point
where we're going to be building at at uh Olympic size swimming pool for the community. >> Where's that going to be? >> It's over in Palm Bay at next to one of our uh charter schools. >> Okay. >> So, it'll be uh >> now when when it you say Olympic size, I
don't I'm >> 50 meter with um a community uh like a water park for the young guys. Um, and it will be open to the community weekends and when the school's not using it over the summer. >> Now, let me ask a silly thing, and I learned this recently. Is it going to be heated?
>> No. I I got I I got some calls on I'm not school district, but uh schools I guess I guess uh they had some heating issues when the hard freeze came and they were able to get it get it fixed and
everything but um but certainly people called and and said the water was cold. So >> it's not something that you would think of. >> Yeah. Well, >> I go swimming every every other day on the ocean. No, I'm >> in the ocean. >> Yes,
>> with a wet suit. >> No, >> not with a wet suit. >> Bathing suit. >> You're a better man than I am, sir. For sure. >> Indoors. >> It What's that? >> Indoor. >> No, out in the ocean. >> No, I'm seeing your pool. >> Oh, no. It's going to be outdoors. It'll be outdoors. And there'll be a wait room
also in the area and a service um snack bar. So, we're going to really make it a real community area, but also uh a really neat place to >> And when it's open to the public, is it you sell like a membership for the membership season or
>> We have memberships now. We we're selling memberships, but uh it'll be otherwise it'll be open to the public. Maybe maybe another dollar or two to get in. Um but we'll keep it about the same as as the other pools are paying. Um it be it's going to be fun for the community.
>> Okay. If uh if the sports commission had an interest in bringing maybe some teams from up north to come utilize what would you guys open? Oh yeah, we're open. Yep. For all the other schools in the area to use for practice swimming. Uh we're going to open up to aerobics
classes the the whole bit. >> Okay. We'll reach out we'll reach out at some point. >> Will it be available for the schools down in >> Absolutely. Yes. >> that that area for Okay. We rent out the We'll rent it out for help pay for the expenses. >> Very good. >> Yeah. >> But we have the local We have our
contractor that's been building our schools donating the pool. >> So, it's about $5 million. >> Oh, wow. >> We donate. >> That's great. >> So, >> Peter, >> just a couple of quick things. Last week, uh uh our team was in Charlotte. I uh attended as well. Um we did uh sales
calls. We actually had several u big travel agent trainings. We tra train trained over a 100 travel adviserss. Um and then we also did some PR while I was up there. Winston Scott, who's a astronaut and represents um Kennedy
Space Center Visitor Complex and I were both on uh Positively Charlotte, which is a Fox uh station um TV show. So we were on the on the TV there. We I also did a podcast while I was up there uh with one of the meteorologists. So um
got, you know, some good publicity. We uplifted some of our media buy from the spring. Uh we had uh billboards running all over town. In fact, I saw several of them while I was up there. So, kind of a good effort to kind of reach into Charlotte. Charlotte's got direct service into Melbourne uh with American
Airlines and it was a good, you know, it was a good opportunity for us to spend a few days in that market and and kind of blitz them and remind them that we're we're a great uh destination as we go into the spring and summer. Um, also,
uh, upcoming in May is, um, IPW. IPW is run by the United States Travel Association. It's a it's a big show down in uh, they they move it around from east to west coast, but this year it's in Fort Lauderdale, so we'll be
attending. Um and uh and that's another one where we meet with international um travel trade uh representatives from really all over the world. But our you know we'll obviously focus on Europe, try to meet with some some of the folks
from Canada, Mexico, some of those other hot markets for us. And um because of that on your um agenda, we made a change to the second marketing committee date. is going to now be May 28th. So the the
IPW fell the week before, so we kind of just shifted it. Uh so we'll have marketing committee March 18th, May 28th, and then August 18th, and then beach committee March 31st, July 15th, and August 11th. And we'll send out a
notification to your um you know, your representatives on those committees. I just wanted you to be aware. Thank you. >> Okay. Um I always ask this question. So before we we end, how's season? >> It's good.
Looks looks like it could be uh stronger than last year. >> That's good. Gas is still relatively cheap, right? >> Makes it easier to to drive here, fly here. Julie, how's your season?
>> It's good. Um, we had a little bit slow start. January was a little bit rough, but February is making up for that definitely and March is looking strong. So, we're optimistic, more optimistic than the last time I was at the TDC meeting.
>> Okay. Very >> hoping Artemis goes in April, which will give a bump there. So, >> I'm I'm waiting for the punchline. Maybe a delay >> or two or three. Well, it's when the delay comes. >> Yeah.
>> You delay six days out. >> Yeah. >> You lose a lot of money in the hotel business. >> Empties out your hotel and you can't fill it. So, >> well, thanks everybody. Appreciate it. We'll see you back here. Um, what do we say,
Peter was the next one? >> March 25th. >> 5th. >> March 25th. Thank you. >> Thank you. Hi everyone. >> The opinions expressed by any member of the public during any period of public comment do not necessarily reflect the
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Hey, hey, hey. under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you everyone. Okay. Any disclosures, any of that? Anybody?
John Morin. >> I >> Okay. And Chair Felner. Okay. And Chair Felner. >> I I And we'll consider that for a I and we'll consider that for a roll call, too. Okay. Sorry about that. Roll call, too. Okay. Sorry about that, by the way.
All right. Welcome, Julie. All right. Now, we have By the way. All right. Welcome, Julie. All right. Now, we have minutes to approve for Have minutes to approve for January 28th. But just but just uh a note on um TDT
came in December was down a little bit. Um you know don't have a lot in the data to you know give a a firm explanation. We were about 5% off. >> Real quick questions for Peter on that.
Any comments? Anybody on that specifically? >> All right. Go ahead. >> Okay. Uh for Okay. So then for our subcommittees, the two subcommittees that will be meeting this year are marketing and um beach. Um Tom Hermanson will be chair again of marketing and
Julie Brago will be chair again of beach. Um let me ask first uh before I ask for new members, are there any changes to existing members that the that the TBC would like to make? And
Sean is with M. It's not McBride anymore. What's Do you know his company name? He used to be Cowbell. >> Cowbell. Thank you. >> More cowbell. >> More. >> So, uh, Mr. Chair, there just needs to be a vote for approval for Shawn
Williams to uh be the the beach represent beach representative for Mr. Moran. >> Okay, sir. That's your motion for Shawn Williams. Okay, we have a second. >> Second. >> All right. had sec. Okay. So, we have motion by John Moran. We have a second
by Mayor Medina. We'll call the role of Mr. Sean Williams. >> Julie Braa. >> I. >> Mayor Connor. >> Yes. >> Vice Chair Hermanson. >> Yes. >> Larry John. >> Yes.
>> Mayor Medina. >> I. >> John Moran. >> I Felner. >> Yes. >> We'll show show him approved. Thank you. for and recommend projects um that the TDC and the board of county commissioners would then be the final
approval for those. So that's that's really on page two the only uh material changes. On page three um again just some language uh clean up there. Um Deborah who's here uh today Deborah
Webster will be the liaison for any questions that might come in this year. as as you recall last month we voted not to have an have a grant program for for the next fiscal um but we often get questions from people about it. So she will she'll be the point person on that.
Uh she assisted with uh with the guidelines so she's very familiar with those. Um under section four on page three and it goes over to page uh page sorry section four on page three and four. um we just at this point we don't
have any dates since we don't have a actual um program so we just kind of cross those out for now. Um also on page four again nothing significant just sort of some verbiage changes there so nothing major on that page. Moving to
page five um there was something under the funding requirements that actually that that's in red that's actually my changes. Um, we had some conversation about matching funds versus funds. There's no requirement to bring in a
third-party matching funds, although having some kind of funds um to match our funds is is obviously looked at positively um in the when you get into the scoring of these grants. So I just changed some
language where basically it was just very specific as to what what we needed know some some sort of detailed or verifiable documentation um uh that that would be required to to show what kind of funding you would
have. So if you were an organization and you had some funding in your bank account then you'd need to show us that uh to show us that there is funding available. or if you were going to let's say get a grant from a third party, you'd have to show us that kind of documentation. So that was just the
intent there um in in that paragraph. Um after that um um post um post design construction costs and then labor that's directly related to the construction. And so that was what was that that was
the thought there that um it would it would only be cost related to construction directly not any sort of you know things like architectural or engineering or anything in the design side. So um that that language is in
there now. Um, and then there was some additional language about if um, the TDC might require additional documentations of expenders prior to issuing any reimbursement. Um, failure to provide adequate documentation might result in a reduction. Obviously, the project hasn't
started yet, so they haven't gotten a dime of it, but they've been able to leverage that 15 million for various different kinds of, you know, government uh, private grants, all of those types of things. So they you still they're still would be able to leverage the fact that we've committed dollars to the
project, but they wouldn't be able to use our money first. So then in the case of the aquarium, it's a little different because it's a fif it's a 10-year project. Um so they're going to get paid every year. Um and that project will actually be completed before we complete
repayment re reimbursement. So, it's a little different animal, but this going forward, if it's a project that >> just disregard the policy, which >> does happen, >> they could do that. I I I feel like with
some of the recent events >> um that uh the board is looking for something like this. >> Good. I like it. >> I I think so. I think we're all looking for that too,
right? >> Are there are there any questions on on what Peter's drafted here and the county attorney? >> Any comments? >> I think it all looks really good. I think you guys, you know, took our our input and and did a good job of laying
this out as I read the line strike through. I think it it hit on all the points that that we were trying to make and trying to clean up going forward. >> Well, good. I uh I had considered we sort of to go page by page and ask questions and what have you. We've been through a few pages there. So, how about that? Is there anything in the in the
first four pages or so that Peter's gone through >> so far? >> No. All right, we'll we'll keep going. I think I think that was an important point though. >> Yeah, it was. Yeah. And I there's another one where I'll pause on it as well because there was some discussion. But, uh the next section is uh just goes
into the detail of eligible use of funds. So it sort of pays off that previous paragraph where it actually just line item by line item details what is allowed. So first the first one at the bottom of page six post-design construction costs and then uh building materials labor that are directly
related to the construction and permanent fixtures. So that that's pretty much it. that whole section. We w, you know, kind of going back to the input that we got, you know, let's take out some of these other things and put them under nonallowable. And then
further under nonallowable, we added a few items that we really And then uh and then at the bottom, a good addition from uh the county attorney's office, grantee shall provide copies of all contracts, task orders, purchase orders, etc. with third parties on which the grantee is
seeking reimbursement. That's really important because that was, you know, again, u something that that we've had difficulty obtaining uh in the past. So this this will clarify that that is going to be required or or no
reimbursement. Um other than that, next section is on submittal procedures. So again, pretty straightforward, just a change in the uh individual on our team. Um on the evaluation process, just some cleanup language. Uh as part of the
application pro process, applicants will be scheduled to give presentation about their proposed project to the capital facilities committee and may be asked to present to the TDC at a regular meeting. So that just clarified that. Um again, just some cleanup language on
that page. Nothing really major in that section. Um moving to page nine under 11, reporting requirements. This was this was something that obviously was very important to us as again we saw uh had some concerns about past reports. Um
at a applicant shall provide at a minimum a bianual status report to the TDO staff reporting on the progress of the award. Um capital facilities project report must contain a list of tasks completed during the prior six months and overall select progress and photographs of progress beyond
submitting status report on March 1st and September 1st. Grantee may be asked for each line item per reimbursement request submission, copy of the signed contract with the vendor, including any scope of work, descriptions, and projectgress reports, copy of invoice, proof of
payment, proof of item, inaccurate reimbursement requests may forfeit the awarded funding. Um, so just trying to, you know, be again crystal clear about what we expect and what's needed. um a lot of uh just minor language things in
the rest of this page. Uh and then moving to page 12 sort of uh this also came from the CEO in terms of failure to complete. So I'm just going to read this because this is one uh that people may have some Ethan to this which
is basically a clawback um and I think uh well stated by the CAO for that. Um, I'll just pause there. >> Yep. Are there questions on on that section >> that the from the county attorney?
One one question that did come up is the 12 months seem reasonable uh to everyone and if there were the other question that once that came up in our internal conver conversations was what if it if there's an act of God
like you know hurricane or something that delays the project um what would we do about that and I you know my general feeling is then they would have to come back you know if it went longer than 12 months for some reason they would have to come back to the board and ask again
for um reinstatement. But obviously let you know any thoughts that the TDC might have. >> Just real quick, the board of county commissioners is going to end up dealing with that at that point. Right. >> That was my thought. Yeah. >> And we we've had a couple of things recently where I think you just have to
be reasonable because of just the silliest things. Like one of them recently was we're putting sod down somewhere. Well, all the sod has died um because of the hard freeze. And so while we had a
hard date to go out there and resaw an area, we're going to wait until we have actual green grass to to put down. And that's that's a really small thing, but I I I think reason um will will prevail. So, but ultimately that'll come back to the board, right?
>> It would. Yeah, I believe that that would trigger that. Yes. And then other than that, um the rest of it is really the terms and conditions and there were not significant change or really any changes other than just a
couple of minor things here or there um in from a language perspective through the remainder of the n 1920 pages that are in there. So you can kind of page through it and you see it's just there's just were a few there was a corre correction there was some spacing issues
but nothing more formatting kind of stuff nothing uh language wise so that uh Mr. chair is staff and CEO recommendation. We'd look to the TDC to um to make a motion and vote on that.
>> Qu any other questions for Peter on this >> just outstanding job. >> Okay. >> Any other comments? Is there a motion to approve the updated guidelines? Have a motion by Mayor Medina. Is there a second? Have a second by Mayor Connors.
We'll call the role. Uh, Julie Bra. >> I. >> Mayor Connor. >> Yes. >> Vice Chair Hermanson. >> Yes. >> Larry John. >> Yes. >> Mayor Medina. >> I. >> John Moran. >> I. >> Chair Pil.
>> Yes. We'll show that adopted. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> All right. Okay. We have public comment. >> Chair. I would just like to use this time to ask Julie Braa to confirm her
vote on the approval of the minutes as a yes vote. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> Um since if we have a quick uh 30 seconds if it's okay. U Mike McGary from
the natural resources department is here. He has a new >> here in uh this complex. She's she's sitting with me in the annex down in Melbourne and eventually in the long run I'll spend more of my time up here in Vieira uh and let her lead the beach
program out of our Melbourne annex office. >> Okay. Very good. All right. Thank you very much. Okay. We have other public comment. Anybody? No. All right. Let's go to board reports. Uh Julie.
>> Nope. I have nothing to report. Well, other than we're just very busy. Sorry I couldn't be there in person. >> I was going to say, how's your season? >> Good so far. Okay. >> Yes. >> All right. Mayor Connor, >> thank you, Mr. Chairman. I was actually at a groundbreaking this morning for a
new hotel in Titusville, the true by Hilton that'll be opening up uh here hopefully soon. And the same ownership group is actually uh looking at building another hotel across the street. uh different kind of extended stay as we do get a lot of government contractor types
running through our city. So uh that's very exciting. And then as I look at how we can do something to improve tourism in Titusville, I kind of really focused on our marina as uh with our land lease with the state. It says we can have no commercialization in it. And that
doesn't make sense to me for a marina to get this pilot program off the ground. And so we're testing it in our Titusville marina to see what kind of difference it makes. And uh currently it it is running. We're doing an official uh flip the switch next week. I believe it's March 4th.
>> Okay. >> Uh and so if you didn't have an invitation about that, let me know and I'll I'll make sure you get that. And uh Dr. Fox from FIT is going to be validating any success or any failures or however it works out. But before we go bigger and try to treat more of the
lagoon, we want to make sure we have a good good sample. So, we're excited about it. >> Yeah, I'm looking forward to to seeing how that that turns out. Um, very good, Mr. Hermanson. >> Nothing to report. It's good to be in
season. >> Larry, >> no report. >> Okay. Uh, Alex, not here today. Mayor Medina, >> nothing to report. >> Okay. Uh John Moran, >> we are finally getting to the point where we're going to be building at at
uh Olympic size swimming pool for the community. >> Where's that going to be? >> It's over in Palm Bay at next to one of our uh charter schools. >> Okay. >> So, we'll be uh >> now when when it you say Olympic size, I don't I mean
>> 50 meter 50 meter with um a community uh like a water park for the young guys. Um, and it will be open to the community weekends or when the school's not using it over the summer. >> Now, let me ask a silly thing, and I learned this recently. Is it going to be heated?
>> No. I I got I I got some calls on I'm not school district, but uh schools I guess I guess uh they had some heating issues when the hard freeze came and they were able to get it get it fixed and everything but um but certainly
people called and and said the water was cold. So it's not something that you would think of. >> Yeah. Well, >> I go swimming every every other day in the ocean. So I'm >> in the ocean. >> Yes. >> With a wet suit. >> No, >> not with a wet suit.
>> Bathing suit. >> You're a better man than I am, sir. For sure. >> Indoors. >> What's that? >> Indoor. >> No, out in the ocean. Nice. >> Now I'm seeing your pool. >> Oh, no. It's going to be outdoors. It'll be outdoors. And it'll be a wait room also in the area, a service um snack
bar. So, we're going to really make it a real community area, but also uh a really neat place to >> And when it's open to the public, is it you sell like a membership for the membership season or >> We have memberships now. We we're selling memberships, but uh it'll be
otherwise it'll be open to the public. Maybe maybe another dollar or two to get in. Um but we'll keep it about the same as as the other pools are paying. Um that be it's gonna be fun for the community. >> Okay. If uh if the sports commission
had an interest in bringing maybe some teams from up north to come utilize what would you guys open? >> Oh yeah, we're open. Yep. For all the other schools in the area to use for practice, swimming. Uh we're going to open up to aerobics classes the whole bit.
>> Okay. We'll reach out. We'll reach out at some point. >> Will it be available for the schools down in >> Absolutely. Yes. >> that that area for Okay. We rent out the We'll rent it out for help pay for the expenses. >> Very good. >> Yeah. >> But we have the local we have our contractor that's been building our schools donating the pool.
>> So, it's about $5 million. >> We donate. >> That's great. >> So, >> Peter, >> just a couple of quick things. Last week, uh uh our team was in Charlotte. I uh attended as well. Um we did uh sales calls. We actually had several u big
travel agent trainings. who tra train trained over a 100 travel adviserss. Um and then we also did some PR while I was up there. Winston Scott, who's a astronaut and represents um Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, and I were both on uh Positively Charlotte, which
is a Fox uh station um TV show. So, we were on the on the TV there. We I also did a podcast while I was up there uh with one of the meteorologists. So, um got, you know, some good publicity. We uplifted some of our media buy from the
spring. Uh we had uh billboards running all over town. In fact, I saw several of them while I was up there. So, kind of a good effort to kind of reach into Charlotte. Charlotte's got direct service into Melbourne uh with American Airlines and it was a good, you know, it was a good opportunity for us to spend a
few days in that market and and kind of blitz them and remind them that we're we're a great uh destination as we go into the spring and summer. Um, also, uh, upcoming in May is, um, IPW. IPW is
run by the United States Travel Association. It's a it's a big show down in uh, they they move it around from east to west coast, but this year it's in Fort Lauderdale, so we'll be attending. Um and uh and that's another one where we meet with international
um travel trade uh representatives from really all over the world. But our you know we'll obviously focus on Europe try to meet with some some of the folks from Canada, Mexico, some of those other hot markets for us. And um because of that
on your um agenda we made a change to the second marketing committee date. It's going to now be May 28th. So the the IPW fell the week before, so we kind of just shifted it. Uh so we'll have marketing committee March 18th, May
28th, and then August 18th, and then beach committee March 31st, July 15th, and August 11th. And we'll send out a notification to your um you know, your representatives on those committees. I just wanted you to be aware. Thank you.
>> Okay. Um I always ask this question. So before we we end, how's season? >> It's good. Looks looks like it could be uh stronger than last year.
>> That's good. Gas is still relatively cheap, right? >> Makes it easier to to drive here, fly here. Julie, how's your season? >> It's good. Um, we had a little bit slow start. January was a little bit rough,
but February is making up for that definitely. And March is looking strong. So, we're optimistic. More optimistic than the last time I was at the TDC meeting. >> Okay. Very >> hoping Artemis goes in April, which will give a bump there. So,
>> I'm I'm waiting for the punchline. Maybe a delay >> or two or three. Well, it's when the delay comes. >> Yeah. >> You delay six days out. >> Yeah. >> You lose a lot of money in the hotel business. >> Empties out your hotel and you can't
fill it. So, >> well, thanks everybody. Appreciate it. We'll see you back here. Um, what do we say, Peter? Was the next one? >> March 25th. >> 5th.
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