rest of the board we are at 5:35 uh Florida i call this meeting to order the broadcast is all attendees in listenon mode i aliance 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 thank you city clerk please call the role council member sorry Council Member
Davis council member Kellum here council member Jackson here council member Willis here and Mayor Morrison here we have a quorum we have four out of the five council members here thank you all
for being here we do have a quorum we will go ahead and proceed council we are on uh approval of agenda as written or with amendments this is item number four on the agenda are there anything that we would like
to change any requested changes any emergency items or anything hot that needs to be added or addressed now is the time i'll make a motion we approve the agenda as written i'll second got a motion by
Mayor Pro Tim Kellum second by Council Member Willis to approve the agenda as written any further discussion seeing none city clerk council member Jackson for May Prom Kellum for
Mayor Morrison four and council member Willis four unanimous okay agenda is approved as written 40 now going to the presentations portion of the meeting this is numbered
as number five on the agenda we have 5 A B C and D the first presentation is 5A with the A1A pedestrian hybrid crosswalk submitted by council member Willis which
is a discussion or a presentation on the pedestrian crosswork crosswalk and the efforts to secure a signalized pedestrian hybrid beacon crosswalk at Taylor Avenue council member Willis uh yes and um thank you all for being
here um after joining the city council in 2021 I was appointed to the Space Coast uh TPO governing board by council and tasked with continuing council's effort to bring about improved safety
features along State Road A1A and Cape Cape Canaveral in 2022 city council adopted vision zero uh FDOT um initiative which was a commitment that no roadway fatalities or severe injuries
whether vehicular or pedestrian were acceptable in 2022 the city asked Florida Department of Transportation for additional safety considerations for State Road A1A via resolution 2022-16 which was approved by the city
this resolution listed priority items for public safety improvements including signalized pedestrian crosswalks at various locations within the city along A1A and throughout my tenure on Space Coast TPO I've continually advocated for
improved safety features along A1A and for funding of these improvements through the Space Coast TPO and FDOT the issue of pedestrian safety gained more prominence in February 2023 after a
high-profile pedestrian fal fatality mr bill Grover from uh Seashell's community the city council of Cape Canaveral modified and updated the city's list of state road A1A improvement priorities with the main priority being a target
speed of 35 miles an hour since 2023 there have been six pedestrian instances on A1A within the city of Cape Canaveral resulting in injuries and one fatality in September 2023 the city reaffirmed resolution 202302 updating
the city's list of State Road A1A priorities and directed staff to advocate for the advancement of two signalized pedestrian crosswalks at State Road A1A and Taylor Avenue and State Road A1A and Hayes Avenue
following this the FDOT performed a pedestrian study in the area the pedestrian study prompted an FDOT design consideration of pedestrian refuges in the Taylor Avenue and Hayes Avenue areas constructed in the center turning lanes
of these areas in September 2023 resolution 202302 was reaffirmed making a formal request for signalized pedestrian hybrid beacons at Taylor Avenue and Hayes Avenue as the refuges were considered
short of the safety features needed in this area the public excuse me the pedestrian refuge designs were presented at to the public by FDOT in August 2024 and received public input all available
funding options were pursued to accomplish the design and construction of the needed pedestrian hybrid beacon crosswalks for the area after being asked to join FDOT District 5's Central Florida Safety Steering Committee in October I continued to
advocate for improved safety features in Cape Canaveral along A1A which resulted in a design proposal from FDOT for a pedestrian hybrid beacon crosswalk at Taylor Avenue in late August 2024 and through the efforts of Geanna
Gillette who is here and we'll make a presentation in just a moment the Space Coast TPO director and staff funding was made available to by the Space Coast TPO to the city of Cape Canaveral for the needed pedestrian hybrid beacon crosswalk at Taylor Avenue in A1A after
discussions with Space Coast TPO and FDOT project managers and engineers during the TPO long range planning subcommittee meeting in January 2025 5 this crosswalk project number 452688-2 was confirmed as part of the
FDOT projects number 452688-1 for safety improvements and roadway resurfacing on State Road A1A from 520 to George King Boulevard with the anticipated letting date of December
1st 2026 i want to uh give you just a little information on what it takes um there's seven FDOT districts in Florida competing for federal funds and state
funds in district 5 which we reside there are five TPOs NPOS vying for that funding within state within district 5 the Space Coast TPO one of those five has 14 government
agencies and municipalities seeking their part of those funded transportation projects so it's not an easy proposition to get any money when you have to go through all of that but I want to give some special recognition for their cont contributions to this
effort lexi Miller our former Cape Canaveral city manager was Space Coast TPO technical advisory council member the late Arlland DeLau who is a former Space Coast TPO citizen advisory council member Geanna Gillette and staff of
Space Coast Transportation Planning Organization Selene Bounds FDOT District 5 scoping manager Lorie Trevettz FDOT's District 5 roadway design supervisor and Mike Sanders FDOT District 5 assistant
district traffic operations engineer and commissioner uh Secretary John Tyler FDOT District 5 Secretary and also members of the Sea Shells community for their patience and uh their assistance in putting this forward
um it it's been something that this council has wanted and has asked for we've made multiple uh requests of FDOT and I think we are about to see some fruit here and I would like to
invite Geanna Gillette to add the TPO's view on this effort we are the regional transportation planning organization uh here for Bvard County and really what that means is we plan prioritize and fund transportation
projects uh with our partners and one of our big partner of course is the Florida Department of Transportation uh as well as our cities uh the city of Cape Canaro has been a tremendous partner we care about safety it is our top priority we
have a very robust Vision Zero initiative i know you've heard us talk about Vision Zero before uh but we've been partnering with our communities really for years and for decades um between 2018 and 2022
2,744 people died in Bvard County or were seriously severely injured um and that's a big number um last year alone 88 people died in our county and 27% were were our most vulnerable road users
meaning people walking and biking um so when you think about the 2,744 that's one of the the cruise ships one of the smaller cruise ships here out of Port Canaveral which is really unheard of so vision zero initiative it really emphasizes on sharing
responsibility between those who design the road and those of us that use the road so you can build the safest road in the world uh but if you're not abiding by the laws of the road um and you're not paying attention it really doesn't
it doesn't do you any good and so we all have a part to play um we all um you know safety uh is a shared responsibility um we were one of the first um in the state for all 16 of our municipalities Bvard County and the
Bvard County School Board to adopt Vision Zero so that was a big effort and uh we uh we get gold stars all over you know uh DOT talks about it we were the first out of the gate but really the work has just begun um and you all here
at the city have been right there with us and I can't thank you enough for that so thank you for your leadership and commitment um I I'm very appreciative of council member Willis because he's been he's been very strong in building that relationship uh with FDOT
um upper management uh because really he's been one of the biggest advocates for safety uh for for A1A um building that relationship with DOT I can tell you is uh very important in the process i know firsthand and we have to keep the
lines of communication open and constantly look for opportunities to fund transportation because as council member Willis said it is very competitive and so we got to look for all opportunities um he also was on um
was asked to join the DOT Central Florida Safety Steering Committee which is a group of uh elected officials um which has really given us a lot of positive exposure and really um it he's very well respected and it it is important for Cape Canaveral and I'm
very appreciative of that and he's uh given some great presentations so at the end of the day whether we're talking about the A1A intersection realignment at International Drive which by the way is fully funded as you all know in fiscal year 2627
um that begins July 1 of 26 or the longer term curb and gutter project which um you know we don't have right-of-way or construction funded yet but it's a process you know we we just we keep chipping away at it uh one
project at a time the proposed uh pedestrian hybrid beacon crosswalk that council member Willis just mentioned just south of Taylor um it is being designed as part of the big resurfacing project that DOT is doing um and uh you
know we've told DOT that we uh want to be a partner we want to fund that because the DOT is paving the corridor they're putting in you know uh curb ramps they're bringing it up to safety standards but they did not have the additional money to put in that
pedestrian crosswalk and so the construction of it is roughly around $475,000 um and to incorporate it into the resurfacing that is also going to take place in in fiscal year
2627 same time frame really within a few months of the intersection realignment um you know we want to put our actions really with our words and um and so we're just very excited that we were able to do that um because we have a lot
of new members on our governing board uh we'd like to get the blessing by the of the governing board at the April 10th meeting just so they understand that council and the community supports the project that's very important to them um and I know that this has been a long
time coming for you guys um um and I I tell you this is a very important project I think for the overall vision of A1A because not only will it improve safety for pedestrians and bicyclists but it will provide that traffic calming
measure and ultimately slow speeds as a pedestrian hits the light and crosses the road and at the end of the day if the goal is to reduce the speeds this is one of those tools one of the countermeasures that allows the DOT to
actually put up a lower speed limit sign which is what the the city's been wanting for for many many years they say they can't do it because um you know just because they put up a sign doesn't mean people are going to drive what they feel comfortable driving and so this is
just one of those tools but you know things are happening uh you know between the resurfacing and this pedestrian hybrid beacon and pedestrian crosswalk and then the big realignment project um you know the realignment project
construction is 9.8 million the right-of-way for that project alone is um over seven million um and the resurfacing project is 5.9 million for construction not including um our commitment for the construction for the
PHB and the crosswalk so um I just want to thank you all for all that you've done and um I know Council Member Willis has been to more meetings than I can count and just working through the process uh of just talking to people and
just trying to get these projects uh funded as far as incorporating this PHB and other things so be happy to answer any questions thank you Miss Gillette any questions Georgina i have I have a a one question
yes mayor Perim Kellum um yes in our resolution 202302 we we identified four possible crossworks and the one that concerns me a lot I live down that way and see it all the time is at the Burger King and
the bus is that still part of the um plan to put a crosswalk there because we with the hotels down there and the workers that come on buses they're crossing the highway and I'm just like "Oh my gosh," you know um all the time
and um and the speed that people are coming off the overpass is really concerning so I I think that should be a a priority as well if possible well in the in the big curb and gutter project there was a whole host of improvements
that were um proposed and so you know I don't specifically remember if there was one at that location there there was Okay there is one in the plans at the very northern end of the city on A1A um
just just slightly north of Burger King as I remember so I that sounds right but I was not 100% sure so you know this project would give us um give us a buffer until we can actually get the larger project funded
at some point in the future and and it may open things up you know um once you get one in it has a tendency to just you know if everyone is comfortable with it and it's well used which the pedestrian counts say that it would be without
question right uh and the overall vision of the city i think it will open up a lot more opportunities thank you any other questions yeah I have Council Member Jackson um thank you so much for your for being here for us and
everything we appreciate all the work that you and Council Member Willis have done and my concern I was fairly concerned with that Burger Creek King crosswalk because literally the speed limit is like that is just hysterical no
one no one goes the speed limit and if you go the speed limit cars are on your on top of you so that one concerns me that it the safety on it also um and I found this when we had our comm community our public uh hearing or
public meeting about this at our community center is that the areas that were observed by FDOT were observed in May and that's really concerning to me even in the photos that are in that
resolution by city hall there's no traffic on the roads may is one of the the months where the kids are still in school our snowbirds have left our spring breakers are gone and our traffic is low and so I'm as I look at the
locations of these and the statistics in the tables that are here it makes me question whether you all saw it at its worst because or whether FD dot saw it at its worst because February and March
are absolutely the worst times of year for the for people trying to cross i had a citizen talk to me actually yesterday and she says she sat through the light at Central and A1A two light cycles because our snowbird guests were trying
to cross the road to get across the street to eat and by the time she would let them get across the light would be red again meanwhile backing up traffic on central where people are commuting trying to get to work and that kind of thing so I have a little bit of a
concern with the fact that these observations took place in a month where there wasn't there's not very much traffic on our roads during that time they're not seeing the peak heavy traffic at that time so that was a little concerning to me and I had a you
know had some concerns with that sure yeah um will there be possibly um any other observations made because we've got a we've got a work product you know with a plan and I think these are
good plans however we've seen sister cities with some of their FDOT projects that are not having uh all the success that maybe was intended one of them is a pedestrian crosswalk and they've had multiple deaths since that crosswalk has
been put in um luckily we aren't in their situation because their situation is to get to the beach you have to cross ours you know that's different for us and that's helpful um and we certainly want our citizens safe we do have a lot
that cross from the mobile home parks and from the west side over to go to Fridayfest and things of that nature and then recently in Cocoa Beach they put in speed bumps that and after the first boat flew off a trailer now they're
removing the speed bumps so so the May worries me a little bit that you didn't see it at its worst well department is working with the with the city of Cocoa Beach on that um I know it was it came up actually at our
governing board meeting and um and so they're working through that to to provide another option um and what what specific crosswalk were you talking about the fatalities the fatalities are for ones right the fatalities are um on
one of the ones well one of the ones but several of the ones down in Satellite Beach and they and they've had several fatalities at those crosswalks and and I'm I'm not being negative i think we need to do something i'm just raising
the concerns as I've seen them up and down in our area um and the fact that this was done in May because you weren't seeing the worst of they weren't seeing the worst of the traffic at that time well I will tell you that the Florida DOT we're we're constantly looking at
A1A um and another thing that they will be looking at is before and after so once that crosswalk gets put in they will be monitoring it they will uh ensure you know are people adhering to it do we need to do special popups do we need to stand out there which many times
the TPO and the DOT have been out on the side of the road even with our cities to educate folks um and what would happen if we put one in in a location and this is just a a hypothetical we put one in in a location that in May that's where a
lot of crossing happens but then in February when we have a different set of people here we find that oh there's a whole bunch of people crossing at a different spot um that are not in a crosswalk would we look at planning more i mean would we look at moving this is
just the first step okay um and now you all know and I council member Willis you may want to chime in on this particular location but they look at high pedestrian traffic okay okay the department's not going to put in a crosswalk unless it
meets a high pedestrian traffic area and of course with the Friday Fest and and all of the fabulous events that you all have here that just adds to it um but you know council member Willis I don't know if you want to Well one thing we
need to also consider is that the plan for the north half of A1A yes was reliant upon a bumpout at the port on A1 on 528 bumping it out slowing speeds and
if you're not going to have that it's or until you get that it's going to be very hard to put a pedestrian hybrid beacon near Burger King because traffic's just going to be coming over the hill right
quickly and that just has a cascading effect as you go further south on A1A from that point now there's several other places where Georgina and I have talked about it that we'll be advocating for on the north half but a lot of that
is going to be dependent upon what FD FDOT does or when they plan to do the northern part from North Atlantic intersection the realignment all the way to the port so those those things are basically kind of holding that up so we
had to get what we could get when we could get it as quickly as we can get it and that's that's where we are yes thank you Council Member Jackson yes and I have one more thing which I'm I'm the curious one that always looks everything
up and I'm not paying negative it's all good thank you um I know I looked into vision zero because I was curious about it i'm a new council member so I'm trying to learn a lot and it is a push
uh for zero deaths um from Sweden and I traveled pretty extensively to Europe and their roads are quite different than ours and I noticed that it is a push globally um so it's a global program for
uh for zero deaths and then I saw one of the early adopters was New York City yes and it actually made their death rate go up and that's why I was asking about some of the questions of how we do
modifications they actually uh went in and abandoned it after several years i believe it was 2016 that they abandoned it so um Bvard is so different it's not New York City yeah exactly it is very
different and we are highly reliant upon our vehicles in this county um and so as we look at things like the slowing the traffic down I I can't remember the term that you said and those types of things
we have people um and we found this with Cocoa Beach where they were given a lot of feedback of not being happy with the minimum minimum speed limit being 30 going through downtown Cocoa Beach because people commute from Cocoa Beach
and Satellite Beach out to the space center so um as we look at this how will we ensure that that traffic continues to flow with a reasonable expectation of being in the same time frame for commute
times for our space workers the one thing the department does not want to do is to reduce travel time you know it's travel time reliability this is one one of the performance measures that the DOT has and it's one of the performance measures that the Space
Coast TPO has as well for for our plans now if you're slowed down for a minute and it saves a life then so be it you can just you can just leave work just a little bit earlier to save someone's life so at the end of the day that's
what Vision Zero is it's about making sure that our family members and our residents our visitors can actually go home alive or not get severely injured that is what vision zero is about the DOT has named theirs target zero uh it
means the exact same thing um you know the reason why we went on the on this uh this initiative was because back in 2016 I don't know if you've heard the um dangerous by design report by Smart Growth America um it listed uh all of
the urban area urban cities like Palm Bay Melbourne and Titusville as our urbanized area it identified Florida it identified the nation and basically 10 excuse me nine out of the 12 top
urbanized areas for pedestrian danger index was in Florida bvard County was number two that is why we started this effort is to really say look we can do better than this orlando was number one and in
fact I remember the Orlando Sentinel had a big article you know blood in the streets dangerous by design which is not anything anyone wants to to hear so it really you know it shocked a lot of people we knew we had a problem i don't think we realized it was on that level
once you start comparing it to the nation and Florida is basically number one in the nation uh in pedestrian fatalities so we have made tremendous strides we're getting better um it takes
time um but you know we are an you know we're a roadbased society you're absolutely right uh Council Member Jackson um but this is why we have to look at all you know modes of transportation and we have to be safe for all modes and um and we have to do
what we can to improve safety and um we don't want to we want to move traffic that is important to the department but it is about balance this is you know think about where we're at here uh and you know we have so many tourists here
and I know that that this is important to you to to make sure our residents and our tourists are safe um well and one thing I was really amazed actually as I started researching this is on the 20 uh
the January 1st 2020 to December 31st 2022 average per year totals on crashes not necessarily deaths on crashes was
2.3 and that's really low average per here and this is on page five of the re the report um so I was pretty amazed however when I saw the map I noticed there were seven right in that area where you all are talking about putting
that the first Mhm pedestrian island for them to cross but I I think the numbers are fairly low but that's apt to change with the amount of hotels that we've had added so this is in the U pedestrian this is the DOT's
report that okay it's on page five of the DOT report and I think that's crash rate and so when you look about it in the big scheme of things it's um it gives the type of collision the average per year um the severity
the number of fatalities during that period um were zero but the 1.3 for the injuries it gave wet and dry conditions daylight dark which several of them mentioned that darkness was a thing uh
so lighting is important too there but the numbers are low and I had noticed that and when they met with us in the community center for a several year period in a tourist town with A1A um one is too many and especially we
don't want anyone harmed but fatalities too many um but the numbers are really low so I don't want to see them go up is my thought very good point very good point and I'm glad that you know we can start uh implementing projects that you
know the city knows is important and that there is a need prior to someone actually losing their life i think that is really kind of where we're we're all at right now that's all I had thank you so much i appreciate that thank you Council Member
Jackson any other questions for Miss Gillette here today no I thank you for all your efforts and and thank Don for staying vig vigilant on the A1A safety we It's very important in our city so it is Thank you so much
for your support we really appreciate you yes thank you very much entire Space Coast TO [Applause] Wonderful that concludes the uh first presentation on the A1A pedestrian hybrid
crosswalk we now have a presentation with uh seag grapes from the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural UFIFAS Bvard County Extension showcasing the best management practices regarding beachside sea grapes
hello hi good evening thank you Mayor Morrison and council for having me here tonight uh my name is Holly Abiels and I'm with University of Florida IAS Extension and Florida Crant um and I am happy to talk
with you tonight about Crapes i um just wanted to let you know that I've been working with uh Zach Izzy on the rain garden at Veterans Memorial Park so um happy to be here today to talk with you all about another subject besides rain garden even though
the rain garden is amazing so um so I wanted to just come to talk with you today about um seag along our coasts um and as a marine biologist environmental scientist and with University of Florida Extension one of my biggest jobs really
is to provide education to the public um and especially about our coastal ecosystems which is um my background um so you guys are probably all very familiar with seag um they are a native tree um found in our sand dunes in
Florida um and I Yes and next slide perfect okay i can kind of see it from over there um Holly yes i I'm very sorry to cut you off i just want to cl uh see if we can get this monitor i noticed
there is off uh so that we can follow along with you yep oh it's on the back i got it they went off there i think we got power okay we're with you
it's You got it thank you very much yeah you're welcome of course um it does help always to see the presentation i know it's in the agenda packet as well so if anyone's curious to um get it later um but yes so sea grapes um they are a native tree um here in Florida found in
our sand dunes they're um more of a subtropical tropical plant so they don't tolerate freezing kind of similar to our mangrove species um but they do have a very high tolerance to both salt um and drought um many species of plants that
are on our dunes do have to tolerate both of those things um because it is a very dry environment um they have these really large beautiful round leaves um and can reach um pretty great heights up to 50 feet um
I'm sure you've probably seen some along A1A as you're driving down the coast some pretty tall um sea grapes uh next slide I think yes perfect um so one of the reasons why I like to
talk about plants especially along our coast um is because they do provide a lot of services um not only to us but of course to wildlife so they are a habitat for birds gopher tortoises and butterflies um they are so named sea
grapes because of these green grapes um that hang from the tree that sort of do look like the grapes you might find in this in the grocery store they do turn purple when they're mature um they're often used in jellies and in wine if you've ever had a chance to taste that
yourself u but that fruit is readily eaten by birds mammals other wildlife um and one of the important things that they do that I don't think a lot of people are aware of is the tree itself because it's large and it has these
large leaves um they actually help prevent artificial light from our properties from reaching the beach and this is actually really important for protecting sea turtle nests u both the females that are coming on the beach to lay their eggs but also the hatchlings
that are hatching and then making their way to the water once they hatch uh next slide so I did want to just specifically talk about sea turtles and or sea graves and sea turtles because this isn't something that's very wellnown but they do act as a natural barrier that blocks that
artificial light from nesting beaches um so if you are trimming or removing them you might be increasing that illumin illumination level um on the beach and deterring nesting or disorienting hatchlings um because of
this reason um and because sea turtles are protected um there is um they are protect sea grapes are protected under Florida statute because of how they do um reduce that artificial light from getting on the beaches specifically related to sea
turtles so I list here the Florida statute related um to that so um because of seag grapes helping with that artificial reducing artificial light the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission which um manages our wildlife here in Florida
and sea turtles has some trimming guidelines that they um have listed just to help people think about when they're trimming their sea grapes sort of best management practices so the next three slides are just a couple of diagrams related to this so this first one is
just before sea grape trimming seeing how high the sea grapes are and of course um this house isn't able to see the beach because of how high the sea grapes are so there's considerations just taking thinking about how best to trim in order to be able to see the
beach from the home um but also to reduce that lighting from getting on the beach so next slide sorry you can't really see it moving in but the next one was going to be showing just seaggra trimming to the point where
it's lowered so low that the lighting from the home um actually starts to illuminate the beach and so this is where it could be problematic for um introducing that light to the beach and harming sea turtle nesting both the females coming on the beach to lay their
eggs and the hatchlings getting um into the water and then the last one in this Go back one more please perfect so this is just showing some trimming that can still occur so you're still reducing the height of the
sea grapes so that way at least in this instance the second floor of this home can still see the beach and then just um ensuring any light that might be on those upper floors is directed away from the beach um so you can still have that um that view um but just reducing the
lighting um that's going um onto the beach to help with sea turtle nesting and then the next slide was just a graphic from FWC's website showing you can go on their site to look at basically the nesting beaches that the Florida Fish and Wildlife manages so
they have various entities that go out and um count sea turtle nests you probably have probably all seen if you've lived here going out on the beach during sea turtle nesting season and see sea turtle nests marked off um so um Cape Canaveral is one of those nest
those beaches that is monitored um during sea tail or nesting season so that's just something to be aware of as you're thinking about any lighting um that is going out on the beach during sea turtle nesting season so next thank you um so the other
way that um sea grapes are um listed in the Florida statute as far as being protected is because as with many plants that are along our shorelines or along our coasts they are they do help protect any property that's behind them so in this case they're helping to protect
from salt spray erosion sand and storms so they do stabilize the beach and the dunes so they do help to keep the sand in place as well as when the sand um or when wind is blowing sand upper up on the beach they help to kind of be a
break for that sand to drop down um and um build the dune even higher so they help prevent erosion so for this reason because they are helping to stabilize the dune they are protected under Florida statute 161 um and this relates
to dune plant maintenance specifically and trimming so the next slide so this is um on the Florida Department of Environmental Protection so we were sort of moving regulatory agencies here um to their dune plant maintenance um guidelines so this is
under the coastal construction control line um and any plants or specifically here um sea grapes and sea oats are protected um under the statute and with seaggrides specifically um there's
guidelines related to trimming um this also means that when trimming does occur um a permit needs to be um you have to go through the permitting process with Florida Department of Environmental Protection um a permit to trim these
plants in general but also a permit going through the coastal construction control line permitting process if the plants are um east of that line so that I just highlighted under here um that under the Florida administrative code um
seed grapes um and other dune plants are protected um and that any property owners or agents um can't cut down or damage um beach dune plants without a CCL permit so having a trimming permit and then a permit um through the coastal
construction control line department so there are um exemptions when and when I mean exemption I mean that when you apply for your permit um and you um list in your permit the guidelines for how trimming
is going to occur um if trimming occurs under these exemption criteria then you can get an exemption and be able to trim according to these specific guidelines so normally um the plants can't be
trimmed unless they have these they're following these specific guidelines for trimming process so that is what I mean by exemption you still have to go through the permitting process but as long as you follow the guidelines then you're um welcome to trim and usually contractors have to do that when they
apply for permit for um permitting to trim um plants so these are the two um criteria specifically so any trees that are under 6 ft in height no more than one/ird of the leaf mass of each plant
may be removed in a single pruning event or in a single year and then if the tree is over 6 ft or more no more than 1/3 reduction in the height of each tree annually provided that there's no more than 1/3 of the leaf mass removed annually and then pruding should not
result in plant being reduced to less than 6 ft in height sort of similar with mangroves where you use if they're at a certain height you can only trim so much so it's a sort of a similar types of guidelines um but as long as you're following these guidelines you can
receive the permit in order to um prune sea grapes and next slide so this is just a map showing where the coastal construction control line is anyone can go to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection website and um search for a coastal construction
control line and look at the map to see where the line falls along our coasts so this is just showing the line in Cape Canaveral you can zoom in much more than I've zoomed in here but this is just to highlight that anyone is able to go to
the website and look up this information so the very last thing I just wanted to say is um there's a lot of benefits not only to wildlife but also to us and that would be considered ecosystem services to humans for a lot of our coastal plant
species there are no specific um research that has been done on sea grapes specifically that talks about economic benefits to having sea grapes and the um as far as protecting property
behind the sea grape like I said before they help to prevent erosion they help to keep the dune in place that ultimately protects any property um that's behind the sea grape but there have been studies on mangroves so I just wanted to include this just as an example of another plant very similar to
sea grapes in that they help to prevent erosion they help to shore up the shoreline and they also help protect um plants behind or properties behind them so this is specifically from research that was done um the second bullet in
Florida related to Hurricane Irma so this was done in Collier County um looking at reducing the flood risk and damage to any property behind mangroves by 25% and that ultimately averted $1.5 billion um in potential costs the
properties might have had to pay um by not having as much damage as they would have if the mangroves weren't there so I just wanted to put this in just to highlight that there is research out there that's kind of looking at these plant species and sort their benefits to properties because we all want to
protect our properties ultimately right from damage so and I think that's my last slide thank you again for having me today i really do appreciate it yes thank you Holly and the University of Florida and Bvard Extension for taking
the time to inform us it's a big part of our conversation and um we've got throughout the year uh areas within the city where you know those sea grapes will not only block salt and wind but
blocks views mhm and so that's where as you're well aware of becomes a bit controversial i can say another thing you might have said it I missed it is seag grapes that they're probably 20 foot like Harrison Avenue is one I commute quite a bit they also shade our
crossovers where they're higher because they're on the south side and you know bare feet on that hot sand you see some that people running for refuge and sort of that that's you know because the pavement's next but um very informative
very helpful council any questions for Holly or thank you council member Willis sorry the application process with uh FD now how does the
city assist with that how does that relate to the city i think it depends on the property that is looking to trim the sea grapes so if it's private property more than likely they would go through a contractor to go through the permitting
process i um am not sure if the city is ever like if the D reaches out to the city during that process process if it is private property um but DP I know that their their permitting department
is always willing to have meetings or conversations with people about permitting in general or going after specific permits i work with uh colleagues who go who put in living shorelines for instance and so one of the recommendations that D always has is
setting up a meeting talking with us about what it is that you're thinking of doing so they can kind of help guide i would assume that if the city wanted to do that and just talk about their sea grapes within the city and what that looks like they would be happy to do that and meet with you so and then maybe
that would help provide you guys with additional information and maybe in the future when other when permits are going through um just being more aware of the process and Mr mayor I know several months ago we asked about
uh properties being permitted to trim sea grapes and what uh what the city was doing and uh I believe Brianna So was going to be working on that and I as of yet don't know where that has gone so um
if we could have the interim city manager update us in the future on uh what the policies are on trimming sea grapes along the shoreline i would I would like to know
and I did find out an interesting tidbit because there are multi multiple condo complexes that the dunes in front of their complex are owned by the county mhm so they literally don't really they're not the property owner
and so that will make an interesting twist on permitting as we look at that and thank you so much we have had this conversation in our city for quite a while so we appreciate all the information yeah of course any I'm always happy to talk at any time um and
I'm Thank you for having me here today i appreciate it thank you okay that was fantastic now we are uh still in the presentations we are on item number 5C recycling service day change request
with WastPro i believe we might have Mr dean Olrich here with us here today i see you coming forward thank you the floor is yours great good evening everybody thank you for having me so I am um uh I'm here to request a day
change currently um uh we uh service curbside recycling uh in the city uh half the city gets it on Tuesday half the city on Friday uh I would like to change those days combin and and the condominium complexes that have uh cart
service for recycling those are all done on Wednesdays um I would like to move all recycling to Wednesday so take the Tuesday to Wednesday take the Friday to Wednesday um primary reason for that is to uh alleviate some pressure on us give
me an additional truck and crew on that Tuesday and Friday i can then use that crew most of the time is going to stay in the city and be operating trash because we are currently uh we run two trucks uh on Tuesday and Friday for
trash and uh I would like to do like I said most of the time we would add that third truck to keep it here in the city uh that will alleviate um some of the pressures that we're experiencing currently um I give you a little bit of a background on um uh on some of our
service uh pains right now um a lot of it is self-inflicted but I think it's for a good thing um we have over the past year year and a half um have really enforced uh rules for the drivers and
the helpers uh for their safety i guess going on to our safety conversation a couple presentations ago about uh traffic safety so uh we are very strongly enforcing uh the rules of the helper can only be
on the step if the truck is traveling 10 miles per hour or less okay 10 miles per hour is very slow and very difficult to uh maintain that speed but our drivers have been doing a very good job of of keeping that speed down uh we we
actually rarely catch somebody we monitor we do follow alongs we do um observations through our camera system through our GPS system and we rarely uh catch I don't like saying it that way but we do we rarely catch our drivers ex exceeding the speed limits with the
helper on the step um that's a good thing all right when we talk about safety uh however what it has done is is slowed down our routes and made it more difficult to complete those routes within the given period of time where we
operate so uh so I am looking and requesting uh to be able to change those days i'll say it this way i currently have eight routes that run on Tuesday and Friday i only have four routes that run on Wednesday so I have much more capacity
on Wednesday and that's why we'd like to move that recycling to Wednesday it frees up um a truck for us and a crew for us to operate uh trash uh on that on that Tuesday and Friday um without u I
guess it's going to make it easier and it's actually going to u offer you better service in the city because we will have more assets available at the time so um and you know I've discussed this with John I've discussed it with June and uh and Jessica and DPW uh on
many occasions and uh I believe everybody's in favor of that um what I have here those with the in according to our contract it just states I need approval from an authorized person it doesn't say who that authorized person is it doesn't say what the title is it
just says authorized person and so what I'm requesting I guess is to maybe get council approval to give John approval to give me approval if that's the best way to go about it uh that way um I can
kind of go to some notifications uh that would take I know there would be um um it's not going to be an easy process but we can make it an easy process um um I've actually done uh four route changes in other communities uh so far this year
um and they have gone very well um and uh what we've done is put uh we put out flyers put out mailers um uh to uh to every resident that would every household i guess it would not go to the condominium complexes but um would go to
every household uh in addition to that on those particular days affected whether it be uh the day directly before or two days directly before depending on how this works out um we have then also put a flyer uh a fixed to the cart for
those people that had it out on the wrong day on the on the old day right the previous day um and we'll put out a reminder flyer as well and so uh that has proven to be very effective it doesn't get everybody um but I think
we've done very well and very few complaints very few phone calls uh that have come in about these other route changes not quite as large as here but um I'm very confident we can uh we can get out plenty of advanced notice um and plenty of personal attention to make
sure it it goes smoothly that's a very good goal of ours to make sure it goes smoothly so I think that covers my notes i don't know if you have I'm open to questions though thank you Dean sure and thank Waste Pro for all all you do and I
want to put on the record I know him by brother do you know brother antoine anwine yes um one of the nicest most uplifting people yep that we
hear him coming and uh the kids love him he changes people's days for the better and just want to let you know how much I've heard positive feedback and directly experienced um him and and the entire team but he's
really special to this community and we want to keep Antoine as well as others safe and that's why we have slowed down our trucks when it comes to that so I years ago I was the guy who's on the back of the truck going 40 miles down the road right waving everybody and thinking "Boy this is great." And then now I'm looking back at I said "Boy that
was stupid." Right and I'm on a fivelane highway on the back of a truck and that does not make any sense and so we have really uh stressed hard to put these um we actually call them our life preservation rules um it's a series of seven rules the big one is the speed
allowance with when a helper is on the back step and we're doing that just for for safety we're doing it not just here but all of Waist Pro is really focusing on that thank you John anything you want to add to that yeah Dean um go go forward with your you know your
notification process um and on the you could also go if you want to notify Jessica Coco and on the utility bill I think they put on the bottom of the utility bill they usually require you know 30 to 60day notice but in this case
this is not going to um upset what you need to do so go ahead and do your notices call Coco tomorrow just send Jessica Dvalier a message and uh what you're going to say on the bill as far as the service that you're changing right and I think you'll be in good
shape if you need me for anything just give me a call okay so we would look at to get all the notifications done we'd probably be looking at midappril uh to make sure it happens properly so excuse me i have sample flyers if you'd like to see them for what we've done for previous town so if that helps I think
it would be helpful i don't want to get too far ahead John um maybe I misspoke but just want to hear the council's thoughts on it first um that sounds good council um thank you this is a move we made
recently in Palm Shores and we moved them from Tuesday they were Tuesday Friday for trash and we've recently moved them to Wednesday Saturday and does the same thing for us it helped alleviate uh a truck which I
was able to use u as needed in another area that we service and these were mailed or handed out we did both so we mailed them and then on uh the effective route day when it went into place that particular week i had a separate uh
driver that would follow around the route and just tape them to the carts so they would have a second notice as well thank you sure council Council Member Willis Dean you're you're assuring us that you can combine the two days into
one and get everybody taken care of okay yes so like I said we have um uh so we currently run uh on Tuesdays right now Tuesday Friday we run eight trucks um and we have five of them are south
Malibar Granfell Carrier and actually three of them are here so we have two for trash and one for recycling so we'd be taking that same truck moving it for trash on Wednesdays uh we only run four
routes and so we do um and one of them is condominium recycling here so I I can take those trucks i have multiple uh trucks available on Wednesday so it actually uh uh is going to free things up much better for everybody around i'll
may have a a much smoother route system throughout the week as opposed to a lot this day and not very many this day mr mayor I have I see no difficulty with this so thank you just to understand the trash
will still stay Tuesday Friday correct and the recycling will be Wednesdays yes all recycling will be Wednesday yard waste will stay as Monday trash Tuesday recycling Wednesday nothing Thursday trash Friday okay i don't see a problem with that either
thank you Mayor Perim and I don't see a problem with it either mayor um it makes good business sense for him which means he's going to be more effective you know making sure that everything is picked up because it's all the recycling will be
done on Wednesday so as long as he's able to make those condos and yes our single family homes and everything then I don't see a problem yeah i think the big change from a resident standpoint is like you said Monday we bring out yard
waste mhm that's staying the same tuesday trash only there's no recycle on my side i think you said you do half so so yes we do half the I don't remember which one but yes we do half the city on Tuesday for recycling the other half
goes on Friday and so yeah typically trash only Tuesday wednesday we do nothing as of today and then Thursday most res for most residents nothing but we do have a separate truck that goes around to all the condominium complexes okay where you're going to have anywhere
from 5 to 20 carts for recycling and so we pick up you know that's a day that's a route right there that we do so so we will actually be running three trucks here on Wednesday for recycling so two for the individual residents and we'll continue our condominium truck nothing's
changing on Thursday Friday trash only in the weekends right sometimes there's Saturday morning when it's real heavy pickup and and that's that should be alleviated now because we will be able to add uh we'll have another truck available on the super heavy days when
it's out there um you know we might not need it like we talked about May coming up not as busy here um but certainly this time of year it's it's busy right and so it's busy and it's crowded so that is it does slow us down obviously and uh u but that by making
that change we will have an extra crew available that we can kind of spread the wealth out a little bit among three drivers as opposed to two well thank you very much any other final comments i think John's already kind of talked
about next steps and uh city attorney anything we should know on this as far as other than supposed to but he's asking so okay do we have consensus on the the
proposed change yes any opposed hearing none Thank you very good thank you thank you Dean okay great uh we have one more presentation uh city staff
introductions interim city manager yes i'd just like to introduce we have a new building official deputy building official Patrick uh Laurel stand up please and Isaac Light i think the city is very fortunate for these two
gentlemen very experienced and I think they're doing gonna do a heck of a job for the city and I look forward to working with you and I think the city's is going to be well covered with your experience and knowledge thank you very much
thank you [Applause] i I want to thank you you both um and and let you know that we I really love that you do this that that you introduce new uh employees and take this time i
actually wrote this down so I wouldn't babble but I want to take a moment to express my sincere appreciation for our interim city manager and the dedicated staff obviously our new hires building official and the changes in that department and deputy building official your hard work professionalism
and commitment to serving our community does not go unnoticed whether ensuring our city runs smoothly managing key projects or assisting residents with their needs you all play a crucial role in making Cape Canaveral a better place leadership transitions can be
challenging but thanks to the dedication of our interim city manager and city staff we continue to move forward with confidence and stability so on behalf of myself the city council we want to thank you for your service your passion and your commitment to our community thank
you mayor thank you thank you thank you all excellent welcome to the city thank you okay great that concludes presentations uh which brings us to the public participation portion of the
meeting got a few cards up here try to keep them in the order that they came in thank you very much couple more and if um we're going to hear the folks here first uh for the cards but at
some point this um monitor here did lock out so being able to to sign back in in the event um that you're listening from home we will get to you in just a a moment if any of you choose to speak uh there is a webinar ID that you might
need to plug in if you do intend to participate that ID is 516-34-291 again that is 516 34291 i think we're going to try to display that on the screen as well and
with that we'll go ahead and move forward with the cards I have here first one is Miss Vicky Mace hey Vicki good evening my name is Vicki Mace i currently reside in Merit Island but I am part I am a partial owner of a condo
on Cape Canaveral at the conclusion of the city meeting Cape Canaveral meeting of February 18th council member Davis suffered a stroke within a few minutes of gathering the end of the meeting she was taken by ambulance helicopter to Holmes Regional Medical Center where
emergency surgery was performed this medical emergency took place shortly after pulling the agenda item public records discussion please understand this was not a discussion but perceived by many as a personal and tenacious attack on council member Davis by both
the mayor and council member Jackson mayor Morrison as the mayor you are ultimately responsible to lead in an efficient and ethical manner when guiding council to make critical decisions for the city as a leader you set the tone for these public meetings perhaps more importantly you are
responsible for creating a positive culture to ensure the members work productively and collaboratively to perform its legal responsibilities at the highest level with this in mind I address my next comments to you Mayor Morrison i implore you that you watch
the videos of the meetings in which you have governed especially the last couple of years and I ask that you do a true reflection that you ask yourself have I always led with integrity being consistent honest moral and trustworthy have I always demonstrated civility and
respect for all members of the council city staff and constituents have I always demonstrated empathy the ability to understand another person's position and how they are feeling in order to find common ground when discussing public matters have I always demonstrated decorum have I always been
an active listener have I always demonstrated diplomacy have I always utilized specific deescalation techniques and conflict management skills to help navigate through contentious meetings have I always valued and embraced collaboration please note that these are
just a few research vital qualities to look for in a local leader and do in reflection is what some good leaders always do i can't imagine that I'm the only person in this room that's growing weary of the division the lack of moral fortitude the hateful rhetoric and the
win at whatever cost mentality there we are witnessing at the country level the state level and right here in this room in Cape Canaveral Florida character matters integrity matters and as constituents we must expect more of our elected officials we must demand that
they govern in a way that is civil transparent respectful and represents the values beliefs and priorities of the community not just a few members or a few demands made by a few words and actions can have serious consequences as evidenced by what happened to Council
Member Davis at the February 18 2025 meeting i hope through true reflection the council will determine that changes are desperately needed for this organization particularly if you want to be perceived as a viable entity serving this community with the utmost dignity
and respect it deserves thank you thank you [Applause] uh next card I have is Mr john
Bond did John step out or is he Well we can come back to it if he returns Brad Pll is the next card brad I got two for you i saw you added one um do you want to do those together sure
hey Brad thank you thank you Brad Pel i'm a citizen of Cape Canaveral Florida first and foremost I want everyone to understand I am talking as a citizen only today for the city of Cape
Canaveral many people know why I said that first card I'd like to talk about the safety of A1A one thing I think we all missed is why are we not talking about doing bus bumpouts to keep the traffic
on A1A flowing that's common sense so it doesn't hinder traffic the other issue is we need to align our bus stops on the southbound side and the northbound side since we're going to be spending or the
state i hope that lady's still here there she is it just makes common sense to align the bus stops and to put bus bumpouts whatever that turnouts I guess is the term so traffic can continue to
flow that's all I have to say about that the next topic and typically I like to freelance but I'm going to read this please good evening first I'd like to thank our elected city officials for keeping our taxes as low
as possible without an increase in the past inflationary years thank you very much for that as many of you know I'm a huge softball and baseball supporter as a matter of fact this year I'm volunteering over 30 hours of time to
the Space Coast Little League i'm here to discuss the almost a half a million dollar proposal to build a concession stand for our single one baseball field
in the city almost a half a million dollars to be used uh to be spent on a facility that is used between 30 and 27 times a year we cannot cook in this facility for
fire reasons we must build an apron for using cement or pavs to put the grills there to cook product this is similar to Port St john's sports complex this is similar to the Cocoa Beach Sports Complex the
difference is Cocoa Beach has three plus fields port St john has almost seven plus fields how much revenue will this concession stand generate for the Little League that's anyone's guess more
importantly what's the ROI for the city on this almost half a million dollar adventure is the concession stand nice to have it sure is no doubt about it is it necessary for one field not at
all please do not consider that it could be rented during the year look at the success rate of how our city has rented other pavilions a viable alternative would be for the Space Coast Connection and I know you filled out a couple cards
council we're okay with extending please proceed thank you thank you a viable alternative would be for the Space Coast Little League to contract a food truck there's parking for it have the food truck donate 75 to $100 per day to the Space
Coast Little League it's a tax write off have the contract include a 90% attendance perform uh performance attendance not including inclement weather in turn the city should be able
to offer that food truck contractor 10 spots at the Friday Fest including inclement weather the Space Coast Little League for this can earn close to
$3,000 with doing virtually nothing now of this half a million dollars plus or minus that's earmarked to this concession stand I suggest we use 20 to 30 of that to update the press box to
add batting cages to our field and perhaps updating the scoreboard if there's money left over the remaining funds I sh I suggest they go to the space between not the space between
sunset and sunrise but the space between city hall and the Nancy Hansen building where we have a milliondoll parking lot there's no update in the last 10 months on the website regarding the
civic hub the reason we spent a million dollar to tear down a building million dollars plus i believe this is a sensible choice for a sensible community thank you for your
time thank [Applause] you Mr john Benton okay you know why I'm here a code reduction hearing anybody going to give me one or
is this going to continue for another 10 years you won't give me one is because I was coming out on a Jew school in that warehouse judge Rainwater can verify that and the FBI can verify it you called the FBI and when the FBI was
recording Mr randles and I in the court in the hallway over there at the library Randall started to talk to me and I told him I said "Don't even talk to me we want to settle John we want to
settle why don't you give me a code reduction hearing?" And that code enforcement hearing I went to the guy that followed me I just saw it in the minutes he was a repeated violator i've never even been had a problem and my renter in the next unit to me was a cop
make sure we know that he was there 160 hours the month before you guys laughed and mocked me and referred to me as a cookie that crumbled never been homeless in my life it was a Jew school I was going to coming out on and Mr randles must have
found out somebody at the courthouse maybe Judge Rainwater somebody in her office told her "Hey hey this guy's coming out on the Jewish school again." I did it in 93 and psychologist said "John you need to go and tell someone about these other people." And that's
what I was doing i would go to my warehouse i don't want to talk about stuff like that at my house write it down i'd go to the warehouse and do it shut that door and keep the paperwork there so that the owners over there the board members don't have a pass key and come in and read this they don't you want to read about two year old children
getting raped by teachers i brought all the I brought pictures in all the homeless people up there and they were there the night that they found me guilty kevin man the deacon up there at the Presbyterian church came in there and lied to you guys every one of you and now I find out
that he's a deacon up there and his wife is up there at the seafarers ministry and his son was arrested for using the warehouses living up there at the same time you found me guilty why didn't you find him guilty my driver's
license electric bill phone bill and homestead exemption two of those are state issued the cops in the meeting after mine said that there was people living in the house over here on Pulk Avenue the cop that came to me at my
warehouse a half a dozen times he knew the cop was in the unit next to me cuz I told him he didn't tell anybody cuz I begged him not to so that none of those homeless people up there would go over there and bother him when he worked on his car randall's begged me in front of that
FBI please John we want to settle you guys have kicked it down this lawyer over here he's Jew mayor was Jew you don't like Hey I'm not racist you're not going to become boisterous and yell please keep your volume down address my
volume down listen listen add address me okay don't be pointing fingers to other people up here and call address the chair i can I I certainly can cuz they just had that problem down in Arizona and the charges were dropped you've never told him he can't stand up
and defend himself thank you John mr joe Brew Joe Abram Longpoint Road most of you know me i am uh very happy to see that in the capital projects something is trying
to be done down there at the end of Longpoint Road the last week and a half there has been surveyors there pretty much every day when all that really needed was the retention pond to be fixed it wasn't
fixed after they started doing the remediation of the uh pepper plants that was done by I don't know St john's Water District Management to some contractor being down there is like playing a game
with a pee under three cups because you don't know who you're supposed to talk to i am happy to see that they're trying to do something i believe you could have saved a lot of money if the city is even paying for what's going on there now i think it's being done by someone else
they're going to give the city some free money because we did that one other time we're going to do it because it's free money and we're still in the same boat i was in here the other day or two weeks ago three weeks ago it just continues to go and go and
go now whatever's going to be done down there I have a feeling what's going to be done i want to make sure that somebody's looking at what the ripple effect's going to be of whatever they do because just like this gentleman said from the Space Coast Little League going
to spend half a million dollars on a concession stand doesn't make any sense at all the last time we went through this on Longpoint Road we didn't know anything about the $33,000 the city was going to have to put up to get a permit
i never saw that anywhere in any of the meetings any of the updates none but all of a sudden we had to pay $33,000 to get a permit from I'm not even sure who it was from anymore again it's like three or four
different cups with a P underneath it all I ask is that as we go through this hopefully we'll have a workshop before anything really gets done i would love to attend it i want to see what's going to
happen thank you and thank you all for your your support and doing what you people do don thank you for getting A1A started on the right track thank you thank you Joe jody Burgger now I see this is selected
for item 5B which you're more than welcome to come up and speak now Jody um let me just double check is it oh the secrets oh please come forward thank
you hi my name is Jody Burgerer i live at Sierra Sands right around the corner from you mayor um I want to thank um Council Member Willis we've been in contact with him many times for the last four or five years I've been contacting
the city the sheriff's department about things although I know you love the height of our sea grapes going over the Harrison crossover I have a little different perspective because I go by every day and there's homeless people in and out people are using drugs they're
defecating um it's a scary place especially if you're at night and you want all the lights down because of their sea turtles and you have to go over there and people are living in the sea grapes because they're so massive um children coming off the beach and
there's people coming out i even ran into a lady of the evening coming out of there with somebody else once it's it's very scary for for the residents um and
I've been contacting the city and the sheriff's department many times about this so I did find out I talked to Melissa Kaine no Mel sorry Melanie Kaine she is from the um Florida Department of
Environmental Protection she is our in this area environmental um specialist and she does issue the permits we as in Sierra Sands cannot get a permit for that corner we maintain our area and we're allowed to do that when she came
down apparently there was another condo that had an issue cutting too low on city stuff she came down and she actually looked at that area and walked through the Harrison and agreed that it was in pretty bad shape so I emailed her
and I talked to her and she said that we could if the city applied for a hard cut permit but the city would have to do it um that she would issue a hardcut permit um if under these conditions um the city of Cape Canaveral applied
for the permit since it's on city land all cutting was done on weekdays only no weekends um a representative from the city was pre present to oversee the cutting to ensure it never went below six feet the cutting was done at a time say like
November that was not during turtle season and if there were any pepper trees in there they would be uh promptly cut and treated um and one thing she noted was that what we have in that area
specifically is a canopy effect that it's gotten so big that the light is not getting to the roots and it's the roots that help save our dune so we need the cuts in order for it to spread and right now it's so high that it's not as
protecting of our dune thank you Judy thank you for that i um and I want to clarify I wholeheartedly agree with the healthy of pruning and I'm not an or an expert in that but I know pruning is
good for the points stab puts that energy back in the roots thicker I like the height but they are very high and uh be I think there's there's a balance so thank you for for bringing that forward
and explaining that process Um well she said that we could hire they would allow Sierra Sands to do the work if the city did the permitting and followed those guidelines thank you i hope we uh we can do
something with this is I forwarded you the email if I didn't I can send it again i don't recall receiving it's been a while but I can send it again thank you thank you thank you John yeah I think the last time we did this for Filmore Avenue one of the
things that I'd heard in that it was having a city representative present during the whole time i don't think we did that last time i think that's good suggestion um during the weekday and that other criteria so when that email comes if that's something that the city can
pursue and you know obviously learn the process I I think it would be it would be good yeah I would I I would like to see something formal process something that we're not
having to make residents go and research it for us that we go ahead and have I mean uh Miss Burgerer's email will probably give us enough information to uh formulate a a process if you will and uh so that
we can get these things done and not have to make people come talk to us about it we they just go and get the permit and go through the process and get it done and we'd also discussed the city
maintaining the city's rideways at all of the boardwalks so that's something we need to we need some followup on because that process is going to help assist in that because even in a condo complex when you go down far enough they still
have those at the boardwalk that's in our rightway our easement any comments May no i'll be discussing this at uh my 10:30 meeting tomorrow with my staff and when we get into the budget ongoing budget for if it impacts us
thank you very much i think that's something we're all open to thank you thank you again Jody michael Corrian thank you for your time i'm here representing the Bermuda House i'm the president of the association i'm here to
see what it would take to get our trash emptied the trash bin at the dumpster has been full since last week i came down to the city hall yesterday to get a phone number or to see what it would take i was given a phone number i
called the trash company they said that uh they come every Wednesday Monday Wednesday and Friday there was nobody there on on Friday there was nobody there on on Monday and they assured me that they would be there today to empty
it it is still full over the weekend the trash dumpsters in our neighborhood were overflowing with garbage um I'm see glad the gentleman here is here tonight to hear this uh that the
service is not being provided at least not for the not for the trash bins the the dumpsters what is your address again Michael that you mentioned that place where you live where the dumpster is located uh it's in our parking lot there there's only 10 units at the Bermuda
House bermuda House bermuda House and it's on um um Circle Drive thank you and but and it it uh it's easily accessible um I do want to compliment the employees of the trash company i've met them
they're great people they do a good job they're friendly um no heartburn with any of them but I do have heartburn and and our residents are having heartburn with the lack of the they either come three times a week which we really don't need twice a week
is sufficient but it's got to be at least once a week and the neighborhood looks like hell over the weekend with all the trash so it's if something could be done and that could be addressed um we don't have
any problem with recycling it gets picked up uh sufficiently but with the trash that that seems to be a problem okay the the second item I would like to bring up is uh I try to spend as much time at the beach as I can and it's been
pretty nice down there people ride their bicycles and they uh they fish and they do a lot of things over the weekend we I noticed several young teenagers driving their ebikes at about I don't know I estimated 30 miles an hour down the
beach with little children playing in the sand in the ocean uh and I think it's getting to be a little bit hazardous uh I would hate to see one of the children run over but at the speed they were going if they had hit somebody if they hit a child they would have
killed it uh so I I hate I don't want to see bicycles removed i have a one of our tenants uh owners he takes his bicycle with his trailer and goes down and goes fishing
that was on the beach Michael the ebikes yeah okay straight out from here thank you straight out from here so it's a it should be and it's only a it's only a couple of people but it's always that's the case okay is not on my list but I'd like to make one more comment about the
um sidewalks here or crosswalks uh I moved here 12 years ago one of the things I was appalled with was the lack of conformity of s of the crosswalks the crosswalks are not being designed to where the person driving the
car can see them they have signs to the side i don't know how you drive i don't use peripheral vision to read all the signs going down the street there's so many of them that's like me getting on my cell phone trying to read and my my
emails i look ahead of me but the sidewalks here on our streets you you put the bike lane in with the new green paint that really stands out you can see that but there A1A has gotten so bad i went drove
I usually go use it to go to Melbourne i'm not going using it anymore i used it on on Friday i'm now going over to Highway One the the the speed bumps they've got there are unmarked uh and
the the signs for the sidewalks are between the car and the person using the sidewalk it's not on the other side of the sidewalk so there needs to be some consistency i don't know if the the Department of Transportation here has
ever done a study on the safety and what is visible to the driver because they're not visible okay thank you thank you very much for your time i appreciate it thank you angela Raymond that's the last card I have received so
if you just want to make sure I didn't overlook you good evening i'll be brief as as usual since the new council has been seated I think that we have reached a new height of ugliness in the
city we have witnessed um some outrageous behavior in my opinion and I think other people agree with me in the city we have seen disrespect for our staff disrespect for
our residents disrespect for each other this is very sad we're a small town these are our neighbors we see our neighbors in church we see our neighbors in the store we see our neighbors at the
grocery store at the mall and um we live we live we're living together so this is part of life to respect be courteous to one another i think that um we have to recall that city council when city
council meets it's a business meeting it's a business meeting uh I don't want to use the word diversity because I heard that has a negative connotation today however diversity of an opinion is a
positive thing for all of us we This is the way that we learn we learn from each other we should listen to each other it is so sad what happened the last time that I witnessed oh yes I wasn't here physically i was listening on the phone
i heard it all i think that we can do better so I just want to encourage the council please let's have a business meeting you won't have people walking out we don't need to have 50 questions and go on and
on and on and also I'd like to say thank you to Vicky Mace for um and I would like to reiterate many of the things that she had to say tonight i thought that she said it very very well and um I it's too bad that John Bond left because
I think he had things to say too and I think that we just all need to be conscientious we are neighbors we have a small town we need to respect each other be
courteous and try try to live it try all of us need to try to live this thank you that concludes the cards that I have i'm not able to see the screen here if anyone is listening online and that it
that functionality is working and you have the opportunity to put in the code I'll read it one more time 51634291 again that's 51634291 mr delea how do I um get logged into this screen or do we
have the capability i think somebody back there mic's coming should be able to control it from back there i thought our screens are locked with the code mic i just can't get into the basic desktop and see anything it locks out
yeah if I could get a password or create a whole new user oh that's the this is the password thank you very much that's excellent i thought you said the webinar code i'm very sorry thank you thanks
again Mike okay I can see the attendee list looks to be zero at this time um so I don't think anyone's was able to get
on or just not on tonight and with that we will go ahead anyone who intended to speak did not get to speak mr abru yes sir already spoke but I have one other comment if I may yes if you just please come forward
and uh if you are listening online as Mr abru's coming up and you have the opportunity to put in a code to go to meeting it is 516340291 mr brew thank you again the gentleman from Space Coast Little League made a comment about keeping our taxes
low which the council has done and I think you've done a great job at it what I do want to know is how come our water bills are so high is that where our taxes are being able to be lowered there's one on there and I don't
know if the city manager interim city manager can answer it or not it's the very last line item on my build and it's something about a water conduit tax or something it's only a buck 85
do you have any idea what that's about yeah I think we can find out if not well if if you look at your at the bill yeah the line items on the cocoa water bill reclaim water fee the storm water fee waste water everything is city of
Cape Canaveral well over 50% yeah yes so maybe we could get that to go down a little bit you know send send me a message okay and I I will respond directly to you looking at
that bill and I'll even explain the whole bill to you if you need me to i pretty much understand the bill it's just I'd never noticed that one that was a tax yeah there now there is a 10% water on the consumption of water that's what it is and that that could be Yeah that that's been charged for years ever
since I've been here 12 years and that was uh instituted probably 10 years ago it uh the state does allow us to charge 10% on each city can charge 10% most cities have it too so whatever whatever
your water is 10% of it or what have you it's like for you it's a$185 or whatever it is yeah it's a way it's actually way for cities to get more revenue oh bingo thank you and there you go yeah thank
you John you're welcome and that allowed us a little bit of time to give the opportunity i still don't see anyone on and so with that we'll go ahead and close public comment public participation bring it back to the council we're at 7:44 p.m
i'd like to take a at least 5 10 minute recess here we'll reconvene here let's try to get back 7:55 no later than if we're back here sooner we can start as soon as we're ready thank you
first of all is it Is that what I did i tapped it i don't know i don't know what it is it worked earlier thank you that's right i know that it
needs changes that I can advertise my handwriting i staff reach out she left that time after Yeah it's in the back agendic
I sign yeah my handwriting sorry when it was first okay because you know what when we do a search Thank you
how are you we have an agenda we ready to go alrighty okay it is 8 o'lock p.m we call the regular council meeting back to order
just had a recess about 15 minutes and we are at agenda item number seven we just completed public participation agenda item seven is the
consent agenda with three items A B and C we can approve all three or pull one if needed um I would I would I'll go first and
just say I would like to pull item um 7 A one or I the January 28th 2025 special meeting
uh that was the only one uh out of those council there's the uh remaining February 18th minutes the interim city manager employment agreement and the executive recruitment services firm contract
are there any other items you'd like to pull i'll make a motion we approve the consent agenda A number two B and C i'll second
got a motion by Mayor Perim Kellum and a second by Council Member Willis any further discussion city clerk is that clear the motion okay please call the roll four
four four four okay great just give me a second here i'm going to go to 7 A I the actual item the minutes the one we
pulled a little too far right there okay so the January 28th 2025 special minutes um the section where it goes
through public comment um public participation it summarizes them i believe that's on page three of 10 of the minutes yeah it just got here [Music]
um well no three of 10 or where it goes through the Well two of five is it two of five where it goes through everyone who spoke yes h25 no I'm on the Okay I was on the
wrong set there sorry about that the first so in the middle of page 205 as Mayor Pim said thank you uh the individuals below appeared before the city council citing reasons in support of the existing city manager agreement
it goes through and and names those individuals and the last uh individual mentioned it says property and business owner John Bond
um also referred to his January 28th 2025 letter to the city council a copy of which is filed with the supplemental papers to the minutes of this meeting i did not see
that was that Did I just overlook it i don't see it either it's um now but then I started thinking typically when we approve minutes if somebody brings a document I don't know
if I've ever recalled us approving so I'm not saying it's wrong or inappropriate i'm just thinking we don't you know if people bring documents forward we don't usually review those documents with the minutes
but it I just want to make sure it it's usually saved in the minutes folder historically you can go back and see maybe you can help explain first question is how would somebody be able to access that letter i have a I think
we all have physical copies yes and And that was a subject of debate in the end um and whenever documents are presented before the board and it's addressed
I sometimes get public records requests for it and that's the only way that one can identify that it was submitted in that forum um so I mean I'm not saying that it's good or bad i don't know what
the attorney thinks about that but that's what I've been typically doing for many years for larger agencies so I don't know what your protocol is but that's the only way I could identify where that record was created and existed and it was filed with the
supplemental papers thank you in my history you could go to the laser fish 2025 or city I'll go through the click city council you know minutes
2025 and then it would you know the nomenclature of the the date of the meeting and then maybe if there's more than just one minute there'd be another folder you click on that it would have the minutes that we're going to approve tonight and then you could see any additional materials or documents that
were circulated But it you know I'm not it was it was not anything we approved it happened city attorney um if that's what's I just want to make sure it's accessible and
Yep you have the minutes in front of you did you say the minutes reflect that that letter is attached to the minutes yeah because I mean typically um there's a lot of documents that you know the members of the public will
submit as part of a meeting and um I think the clerk there's different ways to handle it but just these random documents that get submitted my opinion best practice is not to include them in the minutes unless the council directs that they be
included in the minutes otherwise you're going to bog down your minutes with all this extraneous documentation right um so it bogs down the minutes with that said there's usually a um a meeting um a
meeting folder so when documents are presented you know they're collected as part of the meeting and part of the part of the record so to speak but the official minutes that get approved the summary of the meeting um ordinarily miscellaneous documents submitted by the
public don't get included unless the council directs that they be included in the minutes okay is that is that Yeah it says um furthermore there just so you know I mean there are different retention requirements
for you know meeting documents versus the minutes the minutes as you know are are kept in perpetuity you know meeting documents p per se have different retention schedules
so where it says which is filed with the supplemental papers to the minutes of this meeting could I add to that absolutely sorry um the supplemental papers have a life cycle of I think of five fiscal years so it's not
necessarily attached to the minutes per se okay so I don't know how you wish me to address that because it was mentioned in the meeting and it was discussed and what the the the document well certainly
the the minutes can reflect that there was a document but I'm I'm just talking about whether they should be attached to the minutes what you're saying is I think you and I are saying the same thing this supplemental record is what I call as you know the
file folder for the meeting yes for all the collection of documents that are submitted that's fine and then they're just preserved and then subject to a different records retention than the official minutes which are in
perpetuity and I and what we do with those we dispose them supplemental i mean I think you maintain them for a period of time and they have no administrative value then they're then they're um destroyed disposed disposed
of right once it's met its retention requirements right so we'll be able to go and access that that letter though yes until without a formal records request yes i would I would prefer that i would
I would want to be able to I mean I have it and the second thing that if I don't think it's necessarily that they need to be included here well if we if we start including one thing next next month's is going to be this big so we don't want
that and it's out of the scope of what we're doing we're the minutes no one can deny that letter i mean that that's the letter what is important though from time to time is to capture what was stated during the public comment and here it sort of summarize you know
supporting which I felt very efficient and helpful um that particular individual made some um public comments and statements that was not that the letter um was different it it states that he
referenced the letter but I would like to to see and this is the reason I pulled it can we ask that the minute show um I mean ideally a verbatim of what that individual said
into the record at that meeting and then this council have the opportunity to approve it i mean it's uh the council's minutes i mean to the extent that you want a verbatim of something that was said at the meeting incorporated into the
minutes I mean that's your that's your prerogative i I don't want that to be lost today the video is is how we can do it if that's uh something the council would be willing to do i think it's important that we we capture those public comments
that's the council's prerogative that the attorney said so um if this motion passes then I would reference the minutes as amended and then amend these actual minutes to include the verbatim as what you requested or or or
alternatively you can just not approve the minutes tonight for that meeting direct the clerk to put the verbatim in and then present them to you at your next meeting if you want if you if you want to see the the verbatim is your desire it's it's you know it's depends
on how you want to handle it and I have one other thing with it as well if you don't mind yes take it i um in that same section at the beginning it identifies day which was Lisa Day as and it the
other person it has uh miss city resident property owner and city employee so we didn't identify the first name or anything about day so I think that should be corrected as well so that it's correct where is that right at the
top of that first paragraph started the paragraph oh yeah good catch okay well I I just thought for consistency we probably should do that since we did this with the other the other city staff member
good yeah I think so i just need to add Lisa lisa and city employee is that how you formally write misses yes that's plural that is like because they see sorry no no I I love learning
that's great so anything else Council Member Jackson that's a good catch i didn't see anything else well we'll and we'll have them before us but ideally I mean she can our city clerk can make those
changes and and and bring them back um Council Member Willis are are we now going to be holding up our minutes in the future to add verbatim to any one individual is
that what we're doing if a majority of the council desires that a public comment be captured for the record I think that the majority of the council can do that if I understand our city attorney um I don't think it's necessary
uh those specific comments made strong allegations and also uh there was a letter that that that accompanied it that I I would like for that to not to be captured um I think it could be on a
case-byase basis if you felt the need or um that that's fine i I just wanted to be sure the uh grounds we were going to work under now so that's it that's all no problem
yeah I don't think that's a good idea across the board um but unless the council decided um I I'm certainly not suggesting that just glancing down I do see one it's a tough last name but in the last in on
that same page Lee Vissadonni and it might have been um yeah I was going to say the same i can I can email or one of us can email visa domin so just that spelling of the last name which I'm not going to attempt to spell
without looking myself b I C I D O M I N I and that was it m as in manity after the O yes okay
vidomin got it yep okay so we'll I guess bring this back to the next meeting if that's okay with you city clerk that's fine thank you so it's postponed to the next meeting thank you thank you council motion or just a
consensus these they they removed it right yes so just consensus to bring it um Thank you bring it back do we have consensus to bring it back at
the next meeting yes yes thank you thank you okay great that concludes if anything else on that good deal thank y'all very much um that takes us to item number eight
item for action item number 8A resolution 20250 Space Coast TPO interlocal agreement and a motion uh to consider the adoption of resolution 20250 the title of which as follows city
attorney do you need to read this one uh no I don't okay thank you okay this item interim city manager is there anything you need to state on this
no sir okay council at a resolution approving an interlocal agreement for the formation of a metro politan planning organization no by and between the Florida Department of
Transportation the county of Bvard al also representing Valkcaria Airport the Titusville Coco Airport Authority and the Space Coast Area Transit the Canaveral Port District also known as the Canaveral Port Authority the city of Titusville uh and it goes on to I
believe name all the cities i'll I'll finish city of Coco Rock Melbourne uh Melbourne Airport Authority also known as the Melbourne Orlando International Airport the city of West Melbourne City of Palm Bay the North Beaches
Coalition City of Cocoa Beach and Cape Canaveral and the South Beaches Coalition which includes the city of Satellite Beach the city of Indian Harbor Beach town of Indantic and the town of Melbourne Beach collectively known as the parties
um or as the TPO and with that this is a uh one-time reading I believe yep got it thank you
council any comments no I considered a standard thing we've done this once before or it's just time to do it again and I think we've already seen the benefit of being there
so I would like to see it passed and of course I have questions yes Council Member Jackson because I'm new at this i haven't seen it yet um okay on page four of 33 in the inter
uh local agreement for creation of metropolitan planning organization under section 2.0.3 0.3 um it talks about grant uh chapter 334 Florida statutes grants broad
authority for the department's role in transportation um it'll be responsible for coordinating and planning viable state you know which makes sense because it's F DOT and they're putting the money
out they're doing all that but when you go over to section 3.05 under rights of review all parties to this interlocal agreement and the effective federal funding agencies shall have the rights of
technical review and comment on the TPO projects and since we're a party does this mean we have a right to review but no right to approve the projects
which as part of the governing board you have a right to review okay so me sitting on the governing board I can review anything that comes through and I have one vote within the governing board and that's
you're you're voting for or against something that Melbourne is applying for or Cocoa Beach or Cocoa um okay it's well it is it is 14 vote 14 or 16 votes
and and I saw that in the breakdown and let and Don you're probably the one I need to or council member Willis I'm sorry uh you're the one I need to ask this of so like with the roundabout they gave us the opportunity to give feedback
and make a choice on that does this affect that in any way shape or No it doesn't restrict that i mean FDOT was coming directly to the city and to the residents of the city to get their input the TPO
um of course that input happened before I was on city council and before I was on the TPO uh but uh the TPO did not weigh in on that okay they they did observe
and note that uh we voted it down as a council and that the predominant uh feeling of the residents was that they didn't want it okay so it didn't preclude us from acting on our own best
interest just as trying to get the pedestrian hybrid beacon the only the only reason that the TPO is going to have the formal vote is because we're using their money okay fdot was funding
the roundabout it was not a TPO fund okay all right thank you so much for clarifying that for me that's that's what I had Mayor thank you okay any other comments
council council member Jackson anything else no I'm just wanting to make sure we're not giving it any away away any of our ability to home rule and when you start seeing interlocal um governmental
agreements you have to you know make sure that there's no gotchas um city attorney have you seen any that might impact that um not not for this particular in a local agreement again this is for cooperative decision making among many
um agencies it's a federal requirement I for federal funding and a whole host of uh other state requirements regarding transportation projects and coordination okay in in the specific geographic area which is what all these parties belong
to exactly okay thank you no I have no more questions thank you i'll make a motion we adopt resolution number 20250 i'll second got a motion by Mayor Pro Tim Callllum and a second by Council Member
Willis to adopt resolution 202505 yeah I I support it i think um it comes down to paying attention you know and having right now Council Member Willis on there and all of us and communicating
um working with our city staff and attorney if anything's coming that's not in the interest of us our city uh you know we have our resolution which really was the instrument that I mean it's not anything binding f dot doesn't
have to adhere to it but they've certainly I think taken it seriously and they appreciated i mean they actually appreciated the uh unan unanimous
decision that that all of those resolutions were so well thank you anything else city clerk council member Jackson four mayor Prom
Kellum four mayor Morrison four and council member Willis four it's unanimous unanimous for a vote to adopt resolution 20250 is complete now we move on to item for action 8B which is a public hearing item this
is a second reading for ordinance 2025 01 first one of the year comprehensive plan coastal management and future land use element perils of flood mr city attorney okay ordinance uh
01-2025 an ordinance of the city council of the city Cape Canaveral Bavar County Florida amending the city of Cape Canaveral comprehensive plan coastal management and future land use elements to address perils of flood in accordance with the requirements of 163.31 178 sub paragraph 2 Florida
statutes and other applicable law providing for the repeal of prior and consistent ordinances and resolutions severability incorporation into the comprehensive plan and an effective date and legal status of the plan amendment this is second and final reading it's
also called the adoption hearing u because it's a comprehensive plan amendment if you recall last year the commission uh city council u approved the ordinance on first reading it was transmitted to the state reviewing agencies state reviewing agencies looked
at it and didn't provide any substantive comments regarding the proposed changes related to the minimum requirements of peril of flood there were some technical um comments that were made uh by one of the agencies regarding um um an
unrelated matter that does not need to be addressed um in this ordinance um so the ordinance is uh ready for final adoption thank you very much city attorney this is a public hearing item council if we
don't have any technical questions now well we can ask those now for city staff or anything related we'll go to public and then come back discuss it further if we need are there any questions at this time seeing none this is a public
hearing item if anyone would like to speak on this item please come forward and I and I did confirm that one of the participants they said it was on their end i didn't know if no one was on or if it was on
our side they believed it it was on their side let me just check here and make sure no one's on and I think as a as a matter of if this doesn't time out as fast maybe we can at the end after
this meeting change this so it doesn't lock confirm i see no one on so with that we'll go ahead and close public hearing bring it back to the council first one of the year final
reading anything well I I know Zach probably worked on this did you work on this but would you mind giving us just a real highlevel overview of any changes that may be in here
and updates just so that because I've gone through it but I don't I didn't have anything to compare it to yes that's an easy answer there are zero changes from the first time okay it is identical
it's exactly as it was in December okay but I mean prior to the the one prior to that okay so the was were there any from the any changes from the prior years or whenever the last time this was done yes
okay what were those high level of changes i'm sorry there there is a track changes version in the agenda if you guys want okay those are the ones in the back yeah so those are the changes that have been made all right i'm not I'm unaware of when the original text was written for the sections that are being
changed but it was a long time ago we found references to things in 2010 2015 that might as well be two centuries ago at this point so you know on a broad level the comprehensive plan changes fall in line with the parallel flood state
legislation that we have to follow of which we are not in compliance with at this moment doing this will bring us into compliance with that which will be good um and it basically allows the city to begin the code changes to make uh
residential and commercial properties more capable of withstanding storm systems weatherization elevation of structures um you know basically allowing for more low impact development style things uh
reviews of you know how developments are put into place um and whatnot so it's a it's a really timely update that we frankly should have done a little while ago but I'm glad that we're here now so this will be
good and we can tell the state we're no longer out of compliance and it appears that a lot of it is um clarifications and cleaning up verbiage that's exactly right um I think it was a little comprehensive plans are always meant to be a little broad but I think we were
able to tighten up the language a lot and be allow us to be a little bit more focused in what we're doing to make sure that when people want to develop on this island and they want to come here that they're basically following some rules and that we can um make them a little
bit more accountable to ensuring that they don't in their development hurt anybody else while still maintaining proper economic development for the city so that will give us a little bit more teeth to do that um and once we
retransmit back to the state um we'll begin those code updates immediately we'll have the leeway to do that and all those code changes will be brought back to council for your review okay thank you so much Zach yeah no
problem thank you Zack zach also for um giving a threeminut summation of a 200page document you did great to me that's what happens when you've been doing it for two years no thanks memorized great that's great i see it when I go to sleep at night
yeah this was a big one yeah 430 something page yeah it was I just a positive comment like page four and the track changes no need to go to but you know little changes like policy CM114 it says collaborate with the
county state and federal governments in the orderly and balance utilization and preservation consistent with uh it it had sound or with conservation principles and it changed it to data driven i love
those little things that that you can actually do something with that and uh it's not as vague in a very specific way um and I think it's I think it's good and I know this a lot of work went into
it so the next step I mean we adopt this and then any other action needed no once once this is adopted we'll tell the state that it's good to go and it will be put into the comp plan comp plan will be
amended be up on the city's website as that's the new language and then my team starts read systematically redoing the code to do what the comp plan says we can do now so it it allows us to begin the
changes expeditiously it's needed to happen for a long time yeah or we're changing the code and it doesn't align with the comm plan i'm sure No they have to talk they have to talk okay council member Willis anything
council member Jackson nope i just want to thank Zach for all his efforts just as usual thank you great job appreciate your support as always i'll make a motion we adopt ordinance number 012025
i'll second got a motion by Mayor Perim Kellum second by Council Member Willis to adopt ordinance number 012025 any further discussion debate seeing none city clerk council
member Jackson four mayor prom may Morrison four and council member Willis four it's unanimous ordinance 012025 passes unanimous 40 thank you thank you sir big step in the
right direction today okay well that now brings us to got my paper uh the end here we unfinished business we don't have anything we don't have any items for discussion um we are now down to item number 11
reports we do have a monthly financial report uh that was provided for us and I think at this time we'll typically do if anyone wants to give a brief report we can do that
um no particular order council think we're we're at the end here i I would like to commend Molly and her her group for their diamond award at the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council meeting uh for
the Cape Center that was it was uh very welld deserved and uh they represented the city very well thank you thank you Council Member Jackson any reports
well I wanted to talk about and I'm glad Molly is still here talk about the tennis courts and what a a great job Marcy did during our January meeting we had all of the tennis players that were upset with the surface of the court um
they were looking at or we've been given a figure of $500,000 to redo all of that and Marcy came up with a temporary solution of moving a pickle ball court and a tennis court to get players off of
that depressed s depression mhm and that ended up uh giving Molly it appeared to me after attending the culture and leisure services board meeting that it gave Molly the time to be able to actually get bids in for the work that
we have requested be done in our last in our budget for this year so the $500,000 was not necessary at this time and with um Marcy having come up with
that solution it took players out of harm's way on that court that had the depression and um now we have time or Molly has had time to work on it and the original um discussion that we had last year
during our CIP meetings of resurfacing and fixing that one court is going to be able to move forward and she's worked she's gotten bids in and that sort of thing when we received the feedback from the tennis and pickle ball players um no
bids have been received at that point so now we've got more solid information that we can look at and um they have been working hard on this so and I thought Marcy uh should say something because Marcy
really did come up with something creative to take care of making sure our players were out of harm's way on that part of the court that was has the depression in it so thank you Molly and thank Marcy for us um and just want to
let you know that thank you anything else no believe it or not thank you Mayor Pro tim I don't have anything tonight thank you city
attorney city manager city clerk county sheriff's office see none any other reports from anyone who's still with us thank you'all for staying with us i'll end with this i'm uh very
honored we have an awesome team that puts this together again hats off to Molly uh Amy Zach interim city manager i'm probably leaving Lisa all who are involved in the state of the city which was just handed to us here today at the
meeting it's always beautifully done and a lot of work goes into it i I play a small very small part of it and it's always done first class so thank y'all very much who's a part of putting this out every year
yes so so spread the word there's going to be some printed copies there is a a new I think an online flip book I believe it's called you might have seen um other cities i think Titusville might use it that similar to Canaveral
Explorer uh and uh it's a it's a digital way to to to easily view and navigate the state of the city this is something our charter and code requires us every year it's been going on in the city for years and when you look at the what
we're putting out today compared to two years back is it's a very high quality production i'd go a step further even compared relative to other cities very proud of it it's very professional and I I use it i go back
when if I'm going to go give an update to anyone it's like a little handbook the state of the city and that's really for all of us is high level what's going on what are the big things this is it i think the plan is today's the 18th
uh the 20th here in a couple days gonna try and get uh it out on the social media channels if if everything goes well that day and uh there's a video promo video
um Dylan and his company and their team again an amazing job uh putting together the video work and he's been with us for a few years now helping out and I one thing I noticed this year is as we're
doing events like the the sea oats he or uh the the veterans park the rain garden you look out Dylan's there and he's taking video and he's kind of aggregating this and we we get to see
glimpses of it and so he he gets to have him help us and and provide that service to the city really puts us I think up there and uh in the future one of the things as we get in the budget kind of a
transition state of the city we put this out but and I might have briefly spoke to Zach or the formers about potentially doing some more on the things that are really important to us
and matter i know that internally we're doing um ongoing educational videos that that Zach and the team is doing which is really helpful uh but being able to potentially look at other areas where
we we might utilize that because like they say a picture's worth a thousand words a video is worth a a million i mean it can really help be used as a tool for the right things and so as we get into the budget season this year one of the things I am going to bring up is
making sure that we not only keep that but potentially expand uh and one of the things I'd like to add is getting the other council members an opportunity to to be a part of those videos as well and and certainly obviously the key staff
and their departments and so we're talking about next year's budget but there's things we're all passionate about and give the the the community a chance to meet their their council and we can think about ideas and stuff but don't want to take away from what we
were just handed tonight and the hard work state of the city is out so go Cape Canaveral that's awesome thank you again um [Music] the city manager recruitment forum town
halles is coming up on the 26th i'll let you uh touch on that that's a mark your calendar um the sea grapes I mean we we got that awesome presentation tonight we obviously heard the public comments we know the the history with Filmore we've
heard if there's any thing that we can do as council member Willis was saying to standardize that to make that clear so that we're not figuring it out i think we all have a desire to do that
because there are I mean not even speaking just emails from beach ends that have inquired and I can go back through it is I think a demand out there on the this the city owned properties um and I think we heard that loud and
clear earlier but I I had that as a note just to to drive it home there's a round table uh with the port and here in a couple days I think on the 20th um Congressman Heridopoulos called uh I believe reached out to the port uh
Captain Murray and asked the representatives from the port district Cape Canaveral Cocoa Beach Cocoa Rock Ledge Titusville um mayors vice mayors to come i'm gonna uh I plan on being there pro Tim
hopefully uh can be there as well and I'll be providing a report i don't know what the congressman wants to speak about i would imagine he wants to just listen um so if there's anything uh if there's anything port related
there's a lot port related uh that that we need to talk about from city staff perspective or um I want to make sure I'm going in representing the city well so little bit of short notice i'm going to listen and learn but perhaps I can
get with you John before I go so you at least have a one pager i already started i already had some points because we had just met with them that I can I think even recycle for the congressman um the port does a a mayor's breakfast with all
the uh the the mayors or within the port district we just had that and so we we've already it's coming off fresh to to meet with Congressman Heridopoulos and last is the live stream
i know tonight we I think tried a method that we didn't get to test it um live but it sounds like did some test today prior hopefully we can get that i know I don't think we've actually met in about
it but just want to state that the two-way participation is really important to me but I'm just one and I know what I don't but it's also important that it's
not a stress on city staff so IM Solutions was kind of this contractor that could come in and alleviate that and some other ideas whatever we need to do I think to alleviate take the pressure off city
staff but ensure we have it and if I can help I will support that we can make that happen but council before going do we support the the two-way participation
it's had its high points of COVID hundreds of people and uh we'll call tonight a low but I think confidence is sort of diminished uh because we've had some challenges but if there's another program um whatever we need to
do I fully support it i know that was long but that's it i just wanted to uh express again um the importance of the recruiter meeting with the public for their input on the city
manager recruitment and how we are really looking for uh involvement from the residents what they what they're looking for what they're expecting so are is it is it um advertised on the
board out front the the forum is it out there we'll get it on there okay we have a We do have a new employee who's working that well we'll get it up there yeah i just I
think it's real important that people know that I may you know I may have to get with it on that to help out but um because I know Daniel used to do that for us and we have a brand spanking new employee so we'll let me we'll make a note we'll get that out there i mean
it's the 26th today's what the what's today the 18th okay so we we'll get that out there yeah sooner the better you know so it is on social media though i think it it is promoted i I plan on sharing that tonight or tomorrow as well
to help right thank you okay leave anyone off i think that's it and with that we'll go ahead and adjourn