All right. Call this meeting 6:30 meeting start starts till 6:31. All right. Um meeting to order. New business. This is a scary meeting. Okay, this is um item one of resolution
2025-01 of the downtown Cocoa Beach Community Redevelopment Agency, Cocoa Beach, Florida, adopting a budget for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. Staff representative Devon Tally, Deputy Finance Director, CRA, Hannah Juman,
Finance Director, AJ Hutton, City Manager. Recommendation approve. I'm going to move to approve with all that horsepower behind it. Motion in a second. Any public comment? All in favor?
I close up. Any public comments or items that were not on this agenda meeting is two minutes. Sorry, we have to wait. Call this meeting. Let's call this
meeting to order. All right, Skip. Do the pledge for us. Vice Mayor. Thank you. I pledge algiance 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. All right. is uh Pastor Greg Lzure from Christ Lutheran here. Yes. Okay. If you wouldn't mind do the invocation for us. Yes. Heavenly Father, our gracious God above,
we thank you for blessing us today with life and liberty and peace and the pursuit of happiness. We thank you for our country. We thank you for the good things you're doing in our days. We pray for our federal government, our local, our state government, Florida, and especially for this group here in Cocoa
Beach. We pray that you give us all tonight a spirit of wisdom, of discretion, understanding in the spirit of love and unity for whatever is best and right for this community that all may be blessed and live great lives before you to the glory of your name. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.
Amen. All right, city clerk roll call. Commissioner Jackson here. Commissioner Hutcherson here. Commissioner Tamoli here. Vice Mayor Williams here. Mayor Capey here. All right. So, we've got our our budget
hearing. Okay. This item one, adopt a resolution number 2025-16, a resolution of the city commission of the city of Cocoa Beach of Bvard County, Florida, adopting the final levying of Avalor taxes for the appropriations to
be paid out of the general fund during the fiscal year 2026 of the city of Cocoa Beach, Florida, providing for an effective date. Resolution 2025-16 adopts a millage rate of 6 mills. staff has prepared budget based on a millage
rate of six mills. The legislatively prescribed tax rate that gives local government the same tax revenue as the year before i.e. roll back rate is 5.9610 mills. The final millage rate of six
mills is 0.65% higher than the roll back rate of 5.9610 mills. Staff Representative um Hannah Juman, finance director. AJ Hudson, city manager. Recommendation approve.
Move to approve. Second. Motion second. Any public comment? All right. I don't understand how you take 5.961 and add [Music]
65% and end up with six. But okay, I won't bother you with the math. Any commission comment? All right. All in favor? Well, Commissioner Hutcherson had provided some analysis and I I did read through it and really appreciate it, but would
like to hear his thoughts, sir, if you were willing to share. Yeah, it's um Does she have it up in Yeah, she's got a cute I I would get this out as read ahead because I think I know how this is going to vote, but I mean was getting this more of Okay, can can she put it up?
Yeah. Well, she's queuing that up. The um I just am concerned with the overall the longevity. You know, I think deficit spending is good is not good. Um I, you know, the first two years I went through specific line items of areas I think we could cut. Um this year I tried more of
a macro approach of hey, we got to cut. I mean, I'm not just favored growing government. So, I I don't identify specific items. That's what we've hired the city manager to do. Um, so I just just think overall we can challenge the definitely the operations side of of
budget. Um, I think historically what we've done is we've never challenged the operation side. We just wind up cutting capital projects and now we have years of deferred capital. So that's just my overall approach. I suspect this is going to vote four to one anyways. So I was
you want to go through any more than five? Okay. So I went through this also. uh Commissioner Jackson and the other commissioners and the mayor and um
I understand it shows a huge increase over the time period that you uh you know delved into. Mhm. And I also understand that you're wellversed on uh statistics.
Is that true? on statistics. No. Okay. Okay. All right. Well, in statistics, I can watch a couple YouTube videos, though. Okay. No, let me just then I hate to give a history lesson or a cool lesson. We all expect it. Go ahead.
But I know that Tim understands statistics, correct? I possibly I mean, I'm a certified. Are you calling me a budget hawk? Yeah. Calculus. I don't Maybe that's what statistics. Okay. So
if you look at the raw numbers, it equates to what Jeremy has has said here in this slide that we've had this, you know, pretty huge growth in expenses
and based on the budget. But from a statistical perspective, when you take data, you have to clean the data as they call it in statistics.
And if you clean this data and you took out all the ARPA money that was thrown at us, which was our tax dollars, which if we wouldn't have accepted, somebody else would have got it. But it all shows
up in these years as additional expenditures and additional budget. And then additional to the art funds, you have all the grant funding that we had people in this city that staff that
went out and fought for and got grant funding. Well, all that money which wasn't, you know, u coming out of adorum taxes was also included in these increases.
So, it's just my det my belief that if you glean the ARPA funds and all the all the uh grant money out of these budgets, then you would see
that the increase isn't nearly as much. I agree it's grown and I agree it's grown substantially, but I'm not agreeing without the statistical cleaning that it's actually grown as much as you
you're reflecting. I mean, I'm not skewing the data. I'm just illustrating the bar. Well, this is true, right? This is true based on the numbers, but if you take out the money that was ARPA funding out of these line items
and the grant funding that was out of these out of these bars, then that's gradient's not going to be quite as steep. I mean, we had what 12 million alone just in in uh dredge projects, grants, and stuff like that. So, that would all show up in the revenue. Mhm.
Right. But then you you have to spend it so it ends up showing as total into your total budget. Well, no, but to Josh's point is is you're going to have an expenditure that is offsetting that grant. So, it's a wash. But my biggest problem is the pink
is longer than the green to kids terms. I think your point is we're spending more money regardless of the grant. If we're getting 10 million in grant, well, let's let's take it to account. We built a city hall uh in 2024. I mean, you you got to take it was 11 million. Again, I know how
this is going to vote. I may be able to convince Josh. All I'm trying to say is from a statistical perspective. I think you mean sanitizing, not statistics necessarily. You want sanitize the grants out of it. And it's from perspective. Okay.
From professional. So grants are new in the last three years. I mean we've been always getting awesome but but we had all the ARPA funds was a really big ARPA funds were huge that was huge and we had to show that we got it as income but we had to show it
as expenditures also I understand I mean like I said I okay so I'm just saying it's not quite as bad as these charts depict and let's not forget when when we came in three years ago we were at $44
million in debt and this year we're going to be 30,800 agreed 5,000. So, so I want I want to ask your perspective on this. I think you guys ran on on lowering the debt. Do you do you want zero debt? I didn't run on zero debt because I
think debt can help us if it's invested wisely. So, the debt's not my concern. It's the expenditure. All right. So, had we not spent cash money on city hall and and got the loans, we'd be in a much better position.
I don't agree with that. But, um, as as well, hold on. Bear bear with me for a second. Um, as well as the uh um irrigation system at the golf course, two $2 million that should have been um planned for,
pardon planned for. So it's not as well it should have been planned for but we also should have done debt service for that as well rather than spending that money out of our reserves um uh to to go that direction. Now this is going to maybe you know get a grip on the
chair for a second but I I'm agreeing with you in dropping millage rate down the road. I would love to see the millage rate drop to zero. Mr. Why didn't we Why was it so resistant to drop this year then? Our reserves need to get be built in my
opinion. Absolutely. Well, hang on. Hang on. I don't I don't want to put on the current taxpayers to rebuild reserves, right? That should be that fin or should the current taxpayers pay for city hall or the irrigation system? I I should be that should go out 20
years. All of it should. Um but if we can find revenue sources like we did with a little bit with parking and find some other um opportunities to generate revenue from the millions of
tourists that come to Cocoa Beach. Um I think that'd be great to get our our millage rate down to next to nothing. I I think it can be done. Um, we just need to have a plan going forward, not just year by year, but we need a long-term
plan for that. Um, and and let's come up with it, right? I think incremental cut. So, here's so here's my question, and I and I'm I'm agreeing with this. So, what happens after if we got a millage rate down to zero?
We have staff about a third of what we have now, and we wouldn't be doing capital projects. I'm saying if we got had a revenue source that that compensated for the ad valorum tax. Yeah, but you you're hypothetical. It's hypothetical. Absolutely. It's hypothetical. Let me throw this.
So, I'm asking you this. I'm asking you this because you guys you want to keep the keep the military down. At what point do you say, "Oh, I'm a resident. I'm a taxpaying resident." Like, well, military zero. You're not paying taxes.
I hypothetical. I don't think you're I don't think you're ever going to get the millillage rate to zero. I don't know why not. If you can if you can the millillage is basically a third of our general fund. There's funding from services and and government transfer basically funds a third of our
a third. So if you get zero mill size general fund unless you replace it. I don't know. I don't know where you're going with that. is I'm I'm going with that as far as finding revenue sources for from the city
to pay for expenditures of the city. Well, I've tried that. I think we've already realized that increasing the parking fees has a a a point of no return where you raise them to a point where you're not bringing in more money the next year than you did
the year before because of the increases that you did. And there there is a limit to that. I understand that. So you can't just keep and you can't say, "Well, let's just get the franchises,
the water, the sewer, the electric, the AT&T people, everybody that pays us for our our easements to jack up their rates, which is basically a tax on the residents, so that we can lower the
military." Um I'm I'm only going to be here year and a month or so. So I'll be here for one more budget cycle. But with the banks, skip vote. No. It go down as a legend. Oh my god. Legend.
Already a legend. What are you talking about? We're talking points is big%. First time in 20 years we've lowered. So I can tell you I was just I was just like you for You can look at the records. I was
just like you at this commission for years and years and years and years because they only they needed their four votes to raise the millage rate. You voted against it and I voted against it every time just like you're doing now and here we are.
I'd love to hear Commissioner Jackson's comment. So I I I want to agree with a number of things Commissioner Tumulti said. I think we're talking with Hannah and talking with uh others within city staff, the risk that we could see the
legislation come back and property tax be eliminated is real, right? It it it got voted down, but it could go and I think we need to take that seriously. I don't think that that means we intentionally eliminate it ourselves, but I would love to see a day where the
the resident millage right on homesteaded properties goes directly into reserve and where the city has to spend out a reserve for unbudgeted, unplanned, hurricane and other. We adjust the millillage each year to recover the reserve spent out not large
but out of the residents, right? Or out of uh so that we can recover reserve. I think that would be not something we can jump to. I think something we would have to plan very intelligently for, but I think the risk of losing property tax should be at least a poke for us to take
it seriously. Um, so that that would be one thing. In talking with the city, uh, AJ and I have discussed at least three different areas beyond parking garages and things that where there is significant opportunity for new revenue sources or changed revenue sources for
the city. I don't think it's absolutely out of the question. I think it would require disciplined planning strategy and implementation of those strategies across multiple departments, but Commissioner Williams, I agree with you. I don't think we're going to do it just by taxing the franchises or increasing
service fees and stuff like that. I think we've got to be smart. Um, but I really would love to see our revenue growth, not by cutting back on city, but actually increasing our revenues such that the the resident mill is reserve funding.
And to that point, I'm I'm pretty confident that I'd be willing to vote for a reduction next year. Right. Right. So, one thing I was sorry, I was thinking I could too because you made a comment on on the initial budget workshop that you could see the city
operating at roll back if we had a plan to put the excess the surplus into reserves. So, to me, pulling on that thread, that's the kind of challenge I want to see operationally to run things leaner, not necessarily go top line and bring in more money because we will find things to do if there's more money
coming in. I'm more of a bottom line growth. So, I want to cut costs and come up with efficient ways to do business. That's exactly where I came from. That's why you hired me to do this. Um, but I was I was hoping to go that that angle. We can operate on roll back. You know, obviously we can't get a commitment from the CFO to do that legally, but if
that's the strategy, I was to vote for RO tonight. But I think you guys heard that. I I intend to consider roll back next year. Okay. We go to public comment. We already did. Yeah. And I' I've got just one additional thought in response with
Hutcherson and the mayor's comments. Um, and now I've completely blanked on what it was, but you guys had good thoughts. If I think of it, I'll mention I will say this, I really appreciate Hannah's detail. You guys have got good hands. It's just a fundamental difference. This is kind of a basing year because we had some interesting
financial transaction last few years. Uh, but we have great talent in Hannah Devon. So, I'm confident going forward. Sounds like we have some commitment to potentially cut costs next year. All right. I know what it was. I was just going to thank Commissioner Williams. I'd be going in. I know we have not gone back roll back but your
proposal to go to the 6% was a conservative step in getting back to where our revenue exceeds our expenditure. So just wanted to complement that and that that was a step in the direction that commissioner Hutcherson is recommending that at that point we didn't know
exactly what the roll back rate was going to turn out to be right it could have been 6.01 01 and I think you got to look like heroes. I think you got us within 130,000 of roll back rate 120. If we were to change direction now
and go to roll back, I think we'd probably spend close to that just trying to update everything. But then that hurts and puts our document at risk and things that but I think that what we have done is laudable. So if you take the roll back rate at
5.961 Tim you credit me and you add 0.39 mills 039 you get what we're asking for which is 6.00 Z. Is that correct? I think you had a really good um
compromise you when you said 3 or 6%. So yeah. So we're we're 0 3 91 mills above. I mean 39 $125,000 mills. So I think that's pretty darn
close. 125 is going to take care of uh 520 beautifification. All right. All right. Uh questions. I have a favor. You want to just call it? You want You want to drag this longer? Checking my math. I need to compliment your math. And the
math is actually correct. It is 75 or excuse me 0.65%. But it's only 039 mills. Yeah. 039 is the rate. 6 is the dollars. 6% is more than you pay last year.
Exactly. Okay. All right. Hang on. All right. All right. So, let's not beat a dead horse. It's a favor. It's roll call. Oh, roll call. Let's do roll call. Commissioner Jackson. I. Commissioner Hutcherson.
Nay. Commissioner Tumulti. Hi. Vice Mayor Williams. Hi. Mayor KZY. All right. [Music] Hey, at least we're cordial. Hey, I think that was an excellent
discussion. I think we had a great discussion discussion. That's all Patty's our discussion on this. Okay. Item two, adopt resolution number 2025-17, a resolution of the city commission of the city of Cocoa Beach, BVAR County,
Florida, adopting the final budget for the fiscal year 2026 of the city of Cocoa Beach, Florida, providing for an effective date. Resolution number 2025-17 adopts the budget for fiscal year 2026. Staff representative Hannah Juman,
finance director AJ Hudity, manager recommendation approved. Move to approve as read. Second. Second. Any public comment? Any commission comment? Roll call. Commissioner Jackson. I. Commissioner Hudson. Hi.
Commissioner Tolley. Hi. Mayor Williams. Hi. Mayor Capezy. Hi. All right. Number three. Okay. Item three, adopt resolution number 2025-18, a resolution of the city mission of the city of Oka Beach for adopting a 5-year
capital improvement program to include the fiscal year 2026 capital improvement budget and adopting a proposed capital improvements program for the next four fiscal years 2026 through 2030, which may be revised and extended each year. With regard to capital improved staff
representative, Hannah Juman, finance director, AJ Hudson, city manager, recommendation approved. Move to approve as read. Second. Motion a second. Any public comments on this? Any commission comments? Roll call.
Commissioner Jackson. I. Commissioner Hutcherson. I. Is this on? Did you say I? Commissioner. I, Vice Mayor Williams. I, Mayor Capzy, I.
All right. Can somebody make a motion for the agenda? Move the agenda as it's written. Motion in a second. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes. 50. Um, any public comments about items that
are not on the agenda? You may come up. [Music] Can't can't read that. K. Someone K. That's not Kevin. Kevin Key. Kevin without the educator.
All right. Good evening, commissioners and mayor. Uh I'm Kevin Key and my wife and I, Noel Hikes. We own Cosmic Tiki, a downtown business. And uh I stand before you tonight to uh I would like to to grow the piece as was recently discussed by your forum u of our downtown beach areas particularly in the beach vendor
area as within the minute beach entrance. Our contention is that two vendors at the first street northb uh entrance would accommodate tourists and local alike as we enjoy beaches as that area is significantly growing as you know with the surf and ka and other businesses such as ours and uh we want
to generate additional commas for the for the in tax revenue for the city and we would like to we would like to fair for this if it's approved and in summary we are a little two years ago we combined and improved two rundown properties just north of first street we improved the flooding problem with a
retention and uh wall and drainage along A1A with working with the CNF dot. We invest hearts in our life saves in this project. We believe providing to our community in this way is something that not only is fulfilling but it's but it's very fun in our facility. We provide an arcade indoor outdoor showers and we we
also offer clean restrooms something is not that downtown. We beverages include wine with planned expansions in those arenas uh in the near future. We also have AC protection air conditioning and protection from inclement weather. We have a max depth of 4 foot uh heated pool. Parents can lack a lot of the surf
and potential rip currents which a lot of those from Nebraska and other areas don't realize how stressful that can be on a parent who has young kids. We employ a staff of local Cocoa Beach residents and our theme cosmic tiki is designed to put our space unique. We are in excursions working with the as well
as many of the uh many of the many of the the Canaveral uh resorts and we had a great meeting today to the like. We've started an after school program working with the another growing downtown beach bring family orient patrons to local downtown and promote sorry just checking
the time and promoting our beach. We submitted a proposal last month to obtain additional permits to run beach vending operations. It's my apologies but we're ignorant to how process works and miss the last application but we would like to submit the through that uh proposal that you would an additional
application. We believe that we are not in direct competition with beach vendors. we offer an alternative or provide something slightly different and uh further we know that not everyone would like what we're offering and we're fine with that. We just want to offer something more focusing first on the excursions
and on those um we have we have we have uh memberships we offer and we'd like to offer things to them. We want to give them a first class experience in our downtown Cocoa Beach. Again, know if you approve this, we would automatically get the approved to do it, run it ourselves, but we would to compete for it if you
are to approve a second vendor on the first street north. And lastly, thank you for your consideration. Thank you, sir. Any other public comment? I just have a little history lesson. No history on beach vendors. We're going we're going to go to staff reports and announce.
I concur. The history. Yes. Yeah. the history on vitrols. You know, you know what? I'm gonna lie. I really want to hear this. You should give a lesson every We had I think that Adrian Dylan creating an issue though and Rosenberry
at Shepard Park and the pier. We had two genders for decades. Yeah. Okay. Then we got the coconuts people and the beach check people and people doing it
unregulated and we decided as a commission and Tim was up here part of the time that we needed to be able to regulate beach vendors and we had beach vendors that were going from city limit to city limit pulling carts of ice cream and bug
everybody on the beach to buy their ice cream. Um and we didn't want that. Okay. So, the original deal was you had to have the permission or be in partnership with the direct upland business owner to
be able to have a potential beach vendor license. Then we did a strict limit on number of beat vendors based on the maximum we could think that there would be at the time and that was uh 14 or 15. I think 15.
And we have a waiting list now. 12 originally. Yeah, I think it we extended to 15, but um we have a waiting list now of vendors that want if somebody drops out,
they want to fill their spot. We have to be the same patient, but it could be the same location. So, as the person spoke about competing for uh the particular geographic location that they're talking about, there is no
competition unless you end up being the one that falls into that spot and the person that's doing the first street north vendor drops out and it's your turn and then you would have that opportunity. But I'm not in favor of
just continuing to expand beach vendors on the beach. And I'll just leave it at that. And I'm not planning on voting to increase the number. Okay. And and I feel the same way, Skip. Uh I think we I think we kind of made a mistake when we expanded it and we we created a headache, especially when it
comes to uh Coconuts on the Beach. There should not be two vendors there in my opinion. And and we are dealing with the headaches now. The police are dealing with it. the the staff is dealing that there should absolutely ne never be two vendors at one beach. So maybe maybe we can come up with another
way to handle that. But and I agree with you, you know, we're either going to commercialize the beaches 100%. Uh which we don't want to do. I don't want to do that. I don't think that's the, you know, consensus of the commission or past commissions to do
that. Although we've allowed, you know, the these vendors to uh to get in and and grew more. Um we're going to do that then should rake the beach and become, you know, that that resort, right? Um so South Beach.
Yeah. So, and that's not I don't think that's what what we want. That's not what the residents want. And um it's absolutely not what the residents want. Huh? It's absolutely not what the residents want. It's they don't they don't like the commercialization of their beach.
Well, they like the highrises. So, it's all that's all together. It's all the same. All right. So, we'll close public comment uh staff reports. Okay. Um the um we receive noticed from
management uh that there is a 5.39% increase coming effective 11 one uh it would appear on customers February invoices for January service reached out
to um Jordan Chandler and I'm trying to uh give that a haircut. So, um, we'll see. Per their contract, I thought they're tied to CPI. They they they are. So, how can they go to 5.3?
They they have the CPI for the services of um the the trash trash and waste management. It's a whole separate category, right? What's what's the dollar? Do you know the dollar amount? I I don't have I don't have the dollar
amount. I think that Becky, please look at this. I when we wrote the contract, when we said CPI, we meant national level CPI.
I'll have to look at the um wing of the want to argue that we need to use their CPI. If the contract says it should say specifically what type of CPI it is. So well please please review that and and
and give that information to AJ so he may have some oomph to push back on them. Yeah. My guess is that dollar amount's higher than what our tax increase was. [Music] And I that overall dollar amount probably higher than what our tax
increase is. That's good. more than 12 bucks a month. I'd have to run the numbers times times 12 months, $104 a year. That'd be that would be more. I mean, that pulling on that thread, if we're going to do if we're going to operate within the CPI, everything's
expensive. We can't cherrypick what CPI we want. That's a really bad time for them to to to consider doing that, right? If that if they're watching, what's the length is how many more terms do they have in this contract? Six, eight months, something like that.
They have um the contract comes up for new renewal in December um and um it December of 2025 20 Yeah. Yeah. 2025 for one one last year. And we and if we want to
renegotiate it, we have to give them uh notice prior to uh uh 121. Okay. Well, let's see how you do with your Clippers. That's what I'm thinking. Let's see if they want to play ball with us. How hard they want the contract.
Y. Okay. Uh, next is uh new street sweeper contract. We were having problems with the other one uh and we fired them. And most areas will will receive
uh the street sweeping service one time once a month. Uh and a couple of areas will see it twice a month. Uh on the the grants and appropriation side, we're preparing appropriation
requests to the Florida House and Senate for submission through Jason Steel for number one gravity sewer line upgrades and number two uh fire station at Moy Park.
While you're on the Moley Park fire station, did we get permission from the from the estate to go ahead and use that for a fire station? There were two different um developers involved. We got it from one, the other
one told me that she would sign. She now won't return my phone calls and won't return my emails. So, we have there is a Florida statute that would um put a basically would get rid of their ability
to challenge the use of the property and I've write written a legal opinion on that and send it to AJ. Um so, we do have the ability to build that. So the lack of response after you had a
verbal that they they would agree. It was actually in an email. She said she was going to sign it. Okay. So I believe that I believe that we have an astute city attorney that you work for that could uh probably make that flush in court. So Liz
Oh, I I'm I'm real comfortable with I know you I can tell. So yeah, please proceed proceed that. Okay. And uh the muck capping pre-bid conference was attended by seven or
eight companies earlier this week. Bids that are to be received opened in November. We heard work on the muck capping it until fiscal year 2027. We need to know if the project is financially viable and we'll we'll learn
whether it is or not uh by the construction bids that we get in. We have the uh retrofit to the downtown garage elevator that's going to get in November. Uh, regarding the Ocean Beach
Boulevard ADA Park, uh, we should have an answer from the National Park Service by the end of this month, uh, as to whether or not they'll award the property to us. Uh, pre preliminary work on the tennis
courts is scheduled to begin early next month with the removal of the fencing. permitting problems uh by contracted engineers is delaying the start of the ramp park rations by a few weeks.
We did receive some good news. The um the increase to the city's health insurance was 5%. The national rate of increase 18%. And the Florida state of Florida average increase was 27%.
So, good job, uh, Cindy and team HR. And finally, um, we worked out an agreement with, uh, Surfing Sanders and Surfing Mingle so they can run their event concurrently. Good.
Uh, and, um, that is the end of my report. Thank you. Um, city attorney, wait, where did nothing today? Okay. Um, city commission. [Music]
I just uh want to give a shout out to the folks at the golf course. Um, Ed, Roy, Brent um are doing a fantastic job out there turning the course around. Um, both been aesthetics as as well as uh
monetarily their customer service and and look out there is uh changed to 180° turn. Um, I would suggest that the commission go out there for lunch or um, you know, try it out and uh, the food's
fantastic and um, they'll you'll be treated well, I'm sure. So, I always say I would highly endorse the fish fry on Fridays. That was fish fry on Friday. I I did post about that. It was quite delicious. It was
Oh, whoa. Whoa. I just didn't want him to walk out on me. Um, I'll wait till Tim's done. I'm I'm I'm done. Let's go. Go ahead, Skip. So, Justin, give us a digest version on
the the golfer that collapsed and hopefully he he survived, right? Yeah, he did survive. So, um you guys know if cardiac arrest happens outside of the emergency room, it's only like a 6% chance of survival. So, um, one of
our employees is Andy here? Yeah. Um, one of our employees was golfing, uh, with this gentleman on his day off and when he went down, he started PR immediately. Um, when our guys got there working with, um, Scott,
we've developed a response on how to get to the golf course quickly. So, we have locations, we meet with them, they come out on carts and, uh, get us out to the patient. It was a a very extreme uh card when I say that the way we had
to work the patient everything that had to happen it was basically like watching the show ER all the different things they had to do um they got uh the heart rate back they got him transported got to the hospital stabilized and now he is
out and living a full life again. So, one of those things that just it's very rare that you have a full a lot of times we'll get pulses back, but a lot of times there's too much downtime. This is the importance of CPR and hands only CPR is if you just don't get the blood to
the brain, you may get pulses back, but you're not going to get you're going to be brain dead. And and reading the report, it looked like the CPR was started within a minute of the collapse. Yep. Yep. The gentleman that uh that was there, he was a previous police officer. Fired.
Uh fired. That's right. fire and he uh he had the experience. He's also done hands only CPR and he was immediately on it and that is chain of revival the life is getting the CPR started and getting the appropriate people out there and then honestly with the golf department
on having a really quick response. Um that's something we worked on the last year because we've we've had quite a medical sometimes depending on where they're at and what location it can be pretty difficult to get there in a timely manner. And this hole was the furthest hole from the pro shop. So very
difficult to get to. So I just ask would be approve of the city to toward that individual with some kind of recognition. Yeah. I think so. Absolutely. His quick actions are what made
I know he do we have I don't think life but let's come up with let's come up with something. It was a whole team. Yeah. I know. I know it was, but if it wasn't for that one that guy doing one minute thing, the guy could have lived but been
a vegetable the rest of his life, you know. And that is correct. And that is that that is why uh we work here the city. Well, I'm recognizing you guys. You put the lung of life on and everything else, you know.
So, absolutely. So, um yeah, I'll get with Andy and we'll we'll get with AJ and we'll try to get recognized. Okay. So, thank you guys. Bring them to commission me too. Indeed. Thank you for leadership for team. Thank you guys. Any any other commission?
I'll say just a few. Oh, you didn't. That wasn't yours. No, I'm done. I'm done. Keep going, Skip. I'm done. I'm done. I'm done. It was just I don't have you. I just wanted to see your a few words. We've had a tough week um in recognizing Charlie Kirk. I don't get political but
um you know there's no place for violence. Words are not violence violence. Violence. So um I think he was very influential and it it's unfortunate the state of country but we live in a in a place I think us commission gets along that wouldn't have any of that kind of stuff happen but his impact to humanity.
Agree agree with that. it. We're so blessed to have a a commission uh and even uh the general public and we're all respectful to each other even though we have different views and even us on here. We joke around, but at the end of the day, uh we're so blessed to live in
a community where we we respect each other even though we we don't always agree on things. So, I thank God for that. Um oh, I want to say thank you to Brad. Um we uh someone had come here at one point
and said something about taking on a motto of uh see something say something and uh it's something that stuck with me and I think it does help make the uh the city run more efficiently when we all work together rather than stick to our own um our own division. Sometimes we
notice things outside of that box. And uh working with AJ and Brad, there were some things that needed addressed and uh was Johnny on spot and he got stuff done same next day. Uh so thank you Brad. Like I just want to recognize you for
for stepping up and and just jumping on stuff. So thank you. That's it for me. Right. Where we at? Consent. Okay. This is the consent agenda item one. and approve the August 29th, 2025 and September 4th, 2025 commission
meeting minutes. Representative City recommendation approve I2 resolution number 2025-9, a resolution of the city of Koka Beach, Bvar County, Florida, amending resolution 2024-25 affirming updated financial policies and practice for an effect date and
providing for adoption. Resolution number 2025-9 adopts amended financial policies and practices. Staff Representative Hannah Juman, Finance Director AJ Hudson, manager recommendation approved. Item three, resolution number 2025-21,
a resolution of the city commission of the city of Cocoa Beach, Bvar County, Florida, rescending resolution 2019-15 inactivating the capital improvements project fund authorizing the inclusion of the capital improvement projects fund and revenue budget and all accounting
activity into the general fund providing for an effective date. Staff Representative Hannah Juman, finance director, a HUD city manager. Recommendation approved. Item four, approve the employee agreement with AJ Hudson as Cocoa Beach city manager to be
effective August 29th, 2025. Staff representative Becky VO, city attorney recommendation approved. I move to approve the consent agenda as read. Second motion second. All in favor? I
motion passes 5. Um unfinishedness. Okay. Item one, adopt ordinance 1702 on second reading, an ordinance of the city of Cocoa Beach, Florida, creating a new article 3, towing of vehicles from
private property of chapter 13, licenses and business taxes of the ordinances of city of Cocoa Beach. Regulating tow truck operations within the city, providing for findings and definitions, establishing requirements for towing operations and signage, requiring permits and insurance, and providing for
vacation. Establishing a that's wrong does not do that. Providing for enforcement and penalties, providing for conflicts, codification, severability, and an effective date. Staff Representative Vid Dicki Development Services approve the
the um title had something that was incorrect but it was advertised correctly. Move to approve second public comment. I it's roll. Oh sorry. Roll call. Said that she just told me that too.
Commissioner Jackson. Hi. Commissioner Hutcherson. Hi. Commissioner Tumulti. Hi. Vice Mayor Williams. Hi. Mayor Capzy. I number two. Okay. Adopt resolution number 2025-28. A resolution of the city commission of the city of Cocoa Beach, Florida, adopting a fine schedule applicable to
violations of ordinance 1702 relating to the regulation of non-conent towing of vehicles in the city making findings adopting fine schedule for non-conent towing of vehicles requiring posting of fine amounts on city website and implementation of new fines and
providing an effective date. Staff Representative David Dicki, Development Services Director, recommending approve. Move to approve as read. Second. Any public comment? All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes. 50.
Uh, new business. Okay. Okay. Item one, adopt resolution 25-26, a resolution of the city commission of the city of Koka Beach, Florida, relating to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, FD Clean Water State Revolving Fund, CWSRF,
adoption of the city of Koka Beach SRF storm water facility plan update effective this 18th day of September, 2025. Staff representative Morgan Zulki recommendation adopt. Move to adopt. Second
motion in a second. Any public comment. All right. All Yeah. Just let me say one thing. I don't know Morgan if you want to. I don't want to put you on the spot, but just say a few words. I get a lot of times residents say, "Hey, just give a summary is I think it's important. I'll take a stab. You can correct any anything on this. If you saw an increase in your
water bill, there's a line item in there for storm water. So, it's treating water before it goes into the canals. So, if you saw that increase, we put on it. But this is plan that maps out effectively 12 I think project for $36 million. that's going to fund all that. So, it's not your increase just going to operations. Literally, there's a capital
plan in this agenda item that $36 million can accomplish advertise next 10 year be funded by that fee. Did I hit that, Morgan? [Music] And again, it's just transparency. I don't want everyone thinking.
Yes. Um, but also this is getting us eligible to apply for the SRF, which is a loan service. Um, so we would need additional funds, not just um the rate that they're paying um but the rate they're paying would help pay back the
loan, but we are um applying for grants for these huge projects as well. I'm applying for two actively right now. So [Music] All right. All in favor? I I I Okay, 50. Um
Okay. Approve U item two. Approve Cocoa Beach Main Street agreement with City of Cocoa Beach. This agreement is from October 1, 2025 and expires on September 30th, 27th. The agreement has 12 listed events per year. Representative Jay Hudson, city manager, recommendation
approve. Make a motion to approve. [Music] Second. Motion and a second. Any public comment? Any commission comment? Yeah, I think um it's coming up. I would
like to see I think it said on the financial reporting if commission requests can we just say that they provide input to whatever the cities on I think do manual that would only recommendation so I don't have to remember to that snapshot of financial performance I
think it says in here is per commission request or something that would be my own feedback so you want their um financial situation you said I think whatever cadence that the city is going to be reporting on we're giving giving them a not insignificant amount
of money on inind service. I think it's are we giving them money any kind services only in kind? We've been given insign these inind services for for approximately 10 years. Want to speak to us multiple times of
the year? I think that's fine too. I I just think they run a very professional um events and um I don't know do you I'm just curious um are issues with Main Street or
No, no, not at all. I think they do a great thing, but if they're taking taxpayer money and this not as cash payments as in kind, I think they valued it at 60k. I totally support all Americanism. I think it's fair to ask for the transparency at whatever cadence we report on at the city. We do an
annual review. We do it by annual. I mean, you're talking about if if they got grants on top of this in kind. I mean, it's just pretty straightforward. You know, we give them everything they need. Mhm. Well, I I guess what he's getting at is
we're giving them money if they're if they proide their uh balance sheet on a you know quarterly or bianual basis and it all of a sudden it start shows
them making me bucks then maybe we might want to down how much we're giving them. But I doubt that would happen. We're not money. Oh, yeah. We're not we're not giving them money this year. La last year, uh we we gave them money
to operate and then it was uh reimburseable. So, uh Main Street had to go through the process of keeping track of all of their So, I'm 100% giving them everything they need for for the Friday Fest to So, so here's what it here's what it
says. Whereas um they get their 12 Friday fest events. Okay. And then it says beyond that anything else would be a special event in which case they would be built as
follows. The city hall lawn $200 for uh 4 hours. Uh stage $100. Community room $350. public acts $100 per hour in non-b
businessiness hours and a 50% deposit of the total rental fee. And it does say um does specify that city hall facility, stage, bathroom, lawn apart from the community room will not be charged for
the 12 designated Friday fest event of any specimen outside. Those 12 will be a build according to uh already passed resolution 20 2513. [Music]
Um okay there was a question about when they reported in article 22 there's a reporting due date it's midyear and at year end going for rather than saying if requested I was just simply trying to make it automatic. It is it is automatic here. if request.
Okay. No, it says reporting period due dates. It doesn't say that they have to come and make a presentation, but they're required to give us a financial report midyear end. Okay. On those dates.
Okay. All right. Support any to do public comment? I think we did. Uh all right. All in favor? I motion 5. Okay. Item three, discuss the Holiday Lane boat ramp repair estimate provided
by Pelican Coast Marine Dock and Seaw Wall in the amount of $65,580. This is a capital item for fifth year 2026. Um staff representative Brado, public works water recck director.
Move to approve. Second. Hang on. Hang on. The motion is to discuss or motion to discuss. I I I made a motion to I made a motion to approve. What was the second? You need a second on that. Second.
He second it. I think this is a no-brainer in my opinion. Yeah. I don't That was going to be my question is why are we down selecting in this? I think this was a special agenda item. I'm in favor of this. I think this actually came in cheaper than what we had budgeted. I It was budgeted 25 cheaper than what
we had, but it's over so it's over 50,000. So I think that's why AJ wanted to bring it to us. Got it. We've approved the the budget. Just want to approve the vendor. Am I correct, Jay? It was Yeah, it's over 50,000. So, it's beyond my authority. Um, and
even if it's budgeted, we're not used to that. Yeah. [Music] Yeah. Thank you. I think it was specific that it wasn't following the standard RFP process. This was a great opportunity, but because we weren't in favor.
I got to do public. Uh do you still want whoever still want to do public comment on this? Okay. Uh all in favor for clear we are going with the tele. Got it. 5,58.
So I'll I'll approve to let allow AJ to do this. We got a vote. Yes. I'll approve. I I Okay. There you go, AJ. 50. There you go. Orson, stop bothering me.
Orson, continue to be engaged. We love you. Uh, he what else? Um, oh, number four. Item four, approve the Cocoa Draka Club fence installation estimate provided by
AllRight Fence Services in the amount of 80,321.84. This is a budgeted item. Staff representative Brazo, public works water recck director. Recommendation approve. Move to approve as red. Second motion in a second. Any public comment?
Any commission comment? All in favor? I I. All opposed. Motion passes vote. All right, folks. We are adjourned.