Jeremy would you mind doing the pledge of allegiance love to stand of pledge of allegiance to the of the United States of America the stands one nation God indivis liy and justice for all we've got uh Pastor Greg lur from Christ Lutheran Church to do the invocation let us pray gracious God we thank you for creating us and for loving
us and giving us this great country to live in we are so thankful for the freedom and the joys of the prosperity that we can experience every day we thank you for our federal government we thank you for our state government we thank you especially for this city council and for all the good citizens who are here tonight and we pray that you would work in the hearts of all to give each and everyone here uh the spirit of wisdom discernment understanding in the spirit of love that they might make decisions and have good
discussions uh for the best for this city and for all who live here that we might live in quietness uh mutual love uh freedom and peace with your prosperity and blessing and we thank you for all these things through Jesus Christ Our Lord and pray your blessings upon us tonight in Jesus name amen amen amen city clerk commissioner Jackson here commissioner huderson here commissioner small here vice mayor Williams here May
here two year can I get a approval of the agenda Mo that approve the agenda second motion and second all in favor I I motion passes 5 any public comments about items that are not on the agenda okay Veron Thomas yes
burn Thomas uh just keep in mind you have three minutes and if I've got two subjects one is the docks I live at 100 Sunset the first house on the left it's like a wildlife sanctuary right behind me manatees um 152 Is Not Unusual the babies are there a lot of wildlife uh the birds are nesting um it's just it's it's a neat little place and it's it's
little it's small it's shallow very difficult to get a boat down and turn around and come back a lot of times they're bouncing off my dock they were doing it in the middle of the night and then I had some help in preventing that from happening and we put up some signs but it's a great idea but it's not a good place to do it and you're welcome when if it this idea is pursued you're welcome to come down to my house we'll go on my dock we'll look to see the area
from my side and you'll see that it's uh really not a good idea in that area the second uh thing is the ebikes um rhetorically speaking if there was a serious accident with one of our children going to school on an ebike what would you do to prevent it from happening again 6 months ago I was turning into Sunset off a minute man heading west
traffic had stopped and I was going real slow and all of a sudden I heard a thump and two kids on an ebike crashed into the the right rear of my car so I stopped right there jumped out and they were on the ground and they were okay they they were bloody and I said what what happened he said we were going too fast um so that that got my attention this subject then the other day I was driving down a minute man doing 30 and there was a girl next to me without a
helmet doing 30 and then I stowed down to 20 and she went on the road out of sight so now the new speed limit as you know on A1A is 30 the kids are on an e ebike they start out on the brick portion which is 6 ft wide then they'll go to the concrete portion which is 7 and 1/2 ft wide observation go and look and watch what's happening I've had a job at the end of Minute Man and I've been going down there daily and I'm horrified at seeing
the speeds these kids are driving on it's you you heard all this about airplane accidents close calls one after another and all of a sudden an accident happens well this is analogist to that uh you see I saw this lady Jan 86 she was on a three-wheeler she was driving here tonight cuz I went and measured off this the width of the sidewalk and all and she said she had three bikes go by her and just startled her you know there's not that much room
there 30 mph is 44 ft per second so if they're 2 seconds away they're 88 ft it's hard as you're coming out to see what's going on but if you talk to people along the bik pass you'll be horrified at all the close calls that's all I got thank you thank you thank you very much any other public comment about items not in the
agenda um J oh sorry you can go after him go ahead you're you're good sir all right uh James Elliot also here in regards to uh Sunset Island um from your comments at the last meeting Keith um east of sunset is all private property the canal is the smallest narrowest shallowest of them all we get 40 boats a year that come down the canal literally half of them get stuck like Fern said ran in his do my do got it got hit so
hard the front of it collapsed into the water can I just interject real quick sure I wasn't proposing that the docks be on the sunset on the east side I was I was talking about the wide Canal maybe a couple finger finger peers on the wide side not not your skinny narrow section all I'm just based off the comments cuz you said east of sunset I'm sitting on Sunset looking at my backyard going we weren't clear because it wasn't an actual like something that we were boating on or it was just it was just an idea okay but yeah no intention of of do it on that side because like you said it
makes no sense okay well if that's the case then uh then then I don't want to waste any more time but yeah you know we're very concerned on many front so thank you very much yep any other public comment go ahead Janice good evening everyone um I'm late because of the wreck uh just north of Dollar Tree the roads all blocked but anyway um I'm here to give you some comments as a port Ambassador uh I've been a port Ambassador for the past two years and so
hey if anybody in the community would like to do that I'm sure they would welcome your participation I didn't hear who was assigned uh to the port for information or to attend the meetings from the commission when you all made your assignments but I wanted to tell you that um the 25th of January was the best day ever for the port they had um 25 deep sea vessels in Port six cruise ships six six cargo
ships eight space vessels a casino ship and four fuel bunker barges with L some of them had LG um the ports um ratings Moody ratings have been upgraded to uh their bonds been upgraded to A2 and um their revenue is up 14% boy who who else could brag about that to 175. 4 million
um the fuel tankers that are coming out of the port now uh will annually would fill every gas station in the United States one and a half times so there has been some interest in putting a pipeline you know that's going to make everybody crazy but it really would be safer because the beine you know they're going to widen it it's getting very dangerous to drive that road um many of you would like to know also that the U speed rules uh the Noah
speed rules to go down to 10 knocks going in and out of the port um never passed um and I guess that's about all so uh star of the star of the sea is largest cruise ship in the world headed here and um oh and their garage capacity 3,65 with 1.1 million Cruise passengers a year so with that business going into
the port seems like the neighboring communities could make some money thank you thank you for the update Janice any other go ahead Rick Anderson 1800 Minute Men Causeway um I all of The Pedestrian um safety things that we've been doing so far I've been 100% in favor of um there
reduced speed limits uh the the crosswalks the crossing lights that we got on the North part of A1A there absolutely fabulous but I'm reading something about these speed humps that they f f doots planning on installing on A1A and apparently they tried them in Indi Atlantic and they had to take them out because I don't know if anybody has done a study of on if if a car hits that speed hump at 45 or 50 miles an hour which is going to happen uh the car is
going to be airborne so I don't know if we have any way of of communicating with f do and and and slowing this down until there's some kind of a study done uh it it just just seemed it just seemed pretty dangerous to me uh I agree thank you for your comments any other public comment all right let's move along um staff reports okay got that
um we are city has initiated a vulnerability assessment to identify areas under City jurisdiction that are vulnerable to the Future impacts of sea level rise storm surge and coastal flooding your feedback is essential to shape the city's future we invite you to attend our Workshop which will be held on March 5th at 6: p.m at this country club um and then February 15th at 9:00 a.m. on at on South Third Street we're
going to have our annual sea planting and a little good news we got on our capping project we got our permit um from FD this week we're just waiting on the marine fisheries permit and then we can put that that project out on the street meaning we can hire a contractor to actually start the Capp that's all I have thank you um City attorney um nothing tonight thank you thanks um City commission
anybody want to say anything I address what uh Mr Anderson mentioned about the speed humps on A1A um we I've been your representative on the space CR Transportation Planning Organization for 17 years and when that uh came up um they were wanting to put about a
dozen of those between Minuteman and where the roads come back together on the south end um and some of them are going to be 6 in high and the requirement for a low boy like the ones you see that are carrying cars around the federal requirement is 5- in clearance so if they go over a traffic table even though it has a 12:1 slope going up to the flat part and then
the flat part and then the down part they'd end up getting stuck so we got what we got out of it was a reduction to eliminate um out of the Dozen they wanted to put in we got it down to just one at Fourth at First Street by the 7-Eleven sonoko you know police station one there that's going to be my understanding now it's only going to be 4 in and it'll be a slope and then 4 in
high and then a slope down on the other side so it won't be a you know something you just slam into and then uh the other one's going to be on the south end of Cocoa Beach for people coming north as traffic calming just to say hey you just went from a 45 M an hour speed limit to at 30 you know kind of wake up got a little traffic Plateau here and bring it
down to 30 mph so fot owns the road they listened to us in the past we got a substantial reduction and uh I think that's the best we're going to get for right now thank you all I got I'm taking that I'm taking that over um I was livid at when I heard that uh from the first time skip had asked me to calm down but uh
you can guarantee that if um if we start getting accidents uh I will be I will be making a stink and and requesting that they remove them so uh this is something that I really feel is not a good idea but um time will tell and uh hopefully it's not for the worst any other I want to comment um on the first public commentary I think Vern um
mentioned about the the bikes going fast we've been talking about this for a long time and we need to have an we need to do something about it um I see it every day cuz I'm at the school um they we are making a change at the school in that the bike racks are not going to be on the west side of the campus now they're going to be on the east side so the kids on bikes are be going to be coming in the East parking lot there's a picture picture of it right there that's the
entrance on the top there is Minuteman Causeway uh so that entrance there is to the uh the East parking lot of the high school and that yellow line is the bike path that's uh been marked already and as you see at the bottom that's where the bike racks are going to be for all the kids to park their bikes um they're doing this because the kids were basically every morning and every evening cutting across traffic that's coming out of the parking lots at the
school and it's creating quite a uh a risk so so this change is is very good um on the issue of the speed of those bikes it's um it's pretty scary I see those kids going at least 30 m an hour every day probably close to 70% of them do have helmets but probably close to 30% don't I spoke to one kid I complimented him on
uh how nice his bike looked it looked like a BMX bike you know with the spring on the seat you like you're going to do jumps I asked him how fast it went and he said uh he said really how fast it goes 52 you know he said 55 M hour so the parents are buying these bikes for these kids and allowing it to happen yeah we've got to come up with a way to uh to mitigate this issue because something is going to happen and uh we
need to be out in front of it before and you know take care of it before something happens so hopefully we can get something on the agenda next for our next meeting uh with regard to this at least a discussion some more discussion on it possibly and the thing is the City attorney there's you know our hands get tied by the state so well we need to do something okay I understand I believe we need to do something especially the ones that ride around at night with no lights and don't stop at stop times and turn in
front of people that are driving down B man and wherever um but if we could uh request that the City attorney look at what what if any limitations we have on any restrictions we might want to bring forward so that so that we're not talking about it we come up with an idea and then we Becky goes and looks at it and says so you can't do that that's why we're bring it up on put it on the agenda for next meeting about those bikes govern to 28 but if they no if
they YouTube it they cut a wire that takes the Govern off that's how they go fast like that so they even though they're legally sold then they do something and makes them illegally fast okay um okay the city commissional template recess and then convene as the Coco Beach downtown community redevelopment Agency for the following items
okay all right community redevelopment agency all right item one request approval to renew Cocoa Beach Main Street lease agreement staff representative Devin tally director of Grants and special projects [Music]
we need a you want you want an explanation of what you we're just we're just I mean we're just voting you're just saying you want you want a motion so that we can it yeah so let's just get a you want to give a motion for it well I'll make a motion that we um approve and renew the cooka Beach Main Street lease agreement second all right and a motion in a second basically guys this is just saying that um we we we give them an office space currently and all we're
doing is allow them to Comm to give that office space so I don't think we really need a discussion on this I think this is just a no-brainer um you guys all pretty much age has public comment anybody have public comment on this okay uh so you all in favor guys I all opposed motion passes fiveo you need to was that it scav it again all right that was it back to
commission all right where we at okay um unfinished business item one adopt resolution 2025-the Florida providing legislative findings amending resolution number 20 23-6 a master resolution for fees by the removal of vacation rental fees and fines and and fines and false advertising fines from that resolution
and placing those vacation rental fees and fines and false advertising fines into separate matrices incorporated into into this resolution and providing for severability in an effective date comment mayor yeah go ahead so um do we have a motion and there is a typo in I'm going to make a motion but I don't want to
make it now because they make kind of sty things so I I ask we can't talk about it unless there's a motion I ask the mayor then I I'll just make a motion to discuss second motion to discuss granted go ahead okay I I I want to mentioned when I read it there's a there's a typo in the um in the title it says by the removal of vacation rental fees and fines and false advertising fines so it's not fined uh not with a d but with an E okay so
vacation reyolds it's been at you know a hot topic for basically a few years now um we have as a city uh tried to use our current resources and some registration uh requirements and some inspection requirements and some requirements to try to get people to
register and to basically play by the rules that the state has limits on but they do have rules and we adopted those rules and um it's turning out to be where you know potentially a couple thousand maybe more vacation rentals the the numbers that have been registered and if they're not registered
then we can't enforce any of the rules on them uh we haven't had the resources to to go and basically try to get everybody to comply so from the state um they say we as a city we can't make any Revenue we can't end up in the Black based on on the fees coming in and registrations and all that
and fine money coming in um we can't end up in the black we have to have a balance sheet that says we spent this much money and it cost you know cost us this much money and this is the amount of money that came in from registrations and fines and and and the different fees so um the increase that you're seeing is because the city believes that
they need additional staff to basically bring everybody into compliance and that additional staff and actually Vehicles also um those costs translate into higher fees to pay for those items so what you guys haven't seen yet it just came out today and I know this whole thing just showed up uh uh like 10 days ago that it was going
to be on the agenda and um you know the the actual fees didn't show up till just a couple days ago besides uh some of the other hot items in Coco Beach you know our all our emails blew up my my commission phone at home blew up um and it just kind of came on rather quick quickly so I've got this
sheet here that you guys haven't seen that should be in the public record and Karen has that now there it is but you guys haven't had a chance to digest it I uh I questioned the first line item under development services an annual cost of close to half a million do and from our our finance um CFO I got that that's adding two
additional Code Enforcement Officers include and their salaries a deputy director and that salary two additional vehicles to the tune of $130,000 those are pretty expensive vehicles and uh a planner at uh some money which adds up to about $390,000 plus there's a 45% on top of
that for pay in their FICA and unemployment insurance and their benefits and insurances personal the city supplied insurances so um what I'd like to see is a balance sheet with a separate fund that shows like we see in the big budget big thick budget that has all
those different budget uh line items and and and code numbers for the different costs I'd like to see this broken down into that type of uh data where we can see exactly how the money comes in and how it's going to be accounted for because we're going to be liable to the state to prove that we're spending the extra money that we'd be getting on funds so so at at this point um I I personally uh
would like to M make a motion to table this till February 20th to allow time to get that additional data to give the people that just found out about this didn't have a chance to come on both sides of the issue uh to come here and uh I'd look for a second to table it till second on and I got a second on it
so we vote on it and that's it I have comments on that uh yeah let's get some comments go ahead don't make comments on T motions to table no no I wait till the no you asked to table it we vote on table it you got a second so we we vote on tbling it correct okay following your rules thank you that's good all right um we we got a motion in a second to table
till date certain February 20th February 20th all in favor I all opposed n nay what was yours Josh I all so it's Ted we don't discuss it at all tabled okay next item if you're here for that we're not going to talk about it till the 20th if you want to talk about the flower bed you you're welcome to
stay where are we at um I2 I2 i1 I'm sorry okay i1 the one I I won yeah this is uh new business i1 adopt resolution 2025-the Florida to charge an annual fee for renting a community garden bed in the city of Coco Beach community garding garden and providing for an effective
date staff representative Scott Maxim project manager recommendation adopt move to adopt resolution 20252 as [Music] read second got a motion in a second Scott would you mind uh coming up and just explaining what this is and where it is
so this is a fee resolution to um this is a resolution to we're going to adopt this fee resolution so that we can charge fees for renting a community garden bed the annual fees it' be $60 annually to rent a bed um and there's a whole list of [Music] uh uh terms that they have to agree to as far as like using the bed that's everything from maintaining it
and not using harmful pesticides and stuff like that are these the ones um by ramp Ro ramp Road okay that's the only community garden we have currently that's what I thought okay um are are they providing the soil are we providing the soil we provide the soil every August okay y any and most of the users they're not going to be surprised by this I this has been socialized with the current users that this is not going to Sticker Shop no no I met with all the
current users $60 annually is what they agreed was fair and that money will go back into the community garden in the form of materials and supplies and repairs weren't wasn't there a fee prior or or no cuz I know that it seemed like there was some like that were um they have plaques on them there was we didn't have a fee resolution there were fees prior but uh okay cash the table all right any other
um any public comment on this thank you Scott that's it okay um so all in favor all opposed motion passes 5 uh next okay new business item two approve the proposal of 8 Koy in the amount of $65,900 ada8 Dune crossovers located at
Flagler Lane in South 7 Street 8 koi is a continuing engineering Serv services consultant with the city this is a budgeted item staff representative Brad cowo water Rec director and Morgan Zuli storm water manager recommendation approve
all right got make a motion to approve the proposal for the a coin am of $5,950 motion second um John Dylan come on up John Dyan here in Coco Beach uh known
this company for a year before they bought out from the cape design I'm designed the review for the many projects at the Space Center and other places uh the project are working on right now uh good project they've doing I give a good P back and B C Beach keeps them do more work for them thank you John any other public comment all right uh any commission comment um I just got
to you know the at South 7th Street that little crossback handicap Lane that gets filled up with sand and then and then the handrails aren't the right height and all that yeah that definitely needs a redesign probably a substantial one um the one at Flagler Lane doesn't look that complicated you I'm willing to support
this but it just seems like $65,000 that's in the in the local yeah environment that's like a full-time engine entrylevel engineer that ought to be able to handle this kind of job that's like a a year salary you took the words out of my mouth I think I think the price is ridic price is a little a little much two cross walks for just for design I think it's a little ridiculous
I don't know if we would ask the city manager to go back and see if they can bring that number down I mean I I can't believe they're going to come up with you know you know a thousand plus hours of design time to design those two crosswalks yeah we have numerous uh Engineering Services agreements so we can get a couple more I'd appreciate
that so we so I would I mean I'd like to wait till we get some different quot so we can table to to to um dat certain which would be February 20th because it's the only date we have that certain I don't know if that'll give him time to get that information but it can also be uh it's a proposal so we can push that off it doesn't have to be date certain unless it's an ordinance it does not
need to be a date certain on um a uh proposal CC on this is a design so um it would be under the CCNA we got these continuing service agreements under the CCNA once you decide to reject a dollar amount proposal you have to reject it essentially forever um because you're not allowed to essentially bid them you're allowed to
turn down proposals okay but you're not allowed to get a whole bunch of proposals and pick the low bid if he gets one under 50,000 he doesn't even need us though does he right um is 50 your number so I mean if you get50 you don't even got to come to it so we the you just have to technically instead of motion to table we just deny it and the city manager has direction to go try tog price yes and these people can B on it
again if they want to as long as not no no it's CCNA they have a really good Lobby um and the uh with Architects Engineers um surveyors landscape um Architects the people who are under CCNA I mean I wish lawyers had that kind of protection but they yeah c can Morgan speak she's she's the lead on and is this something that we could potentially get any um grants
for um potentially that's something I can look into but um design-wise I haven't seen anything but for construction I can look okay um I did question the cost and it was higher than this cost and I got them to lower it a little bit um but they explained to me that this one is more complicated than the two that they did this year because of the switchbacks that they have to do so the additional structural work that they have to do is why this this is more than last year's price so I just wanted
to explain that that it's like the structural Integrity that they have to make sure that they license and secure so that's why the price is higher than last year's but back to my is that permitting also yeah this is permitting and then also um they help with inspections during construction so they will ensure that the contractors installing everything properly so it's design design permit permit and CI okay but the PE permitting the permit is
not that expensive well it wouldn't include the cost of the permit would it not the not the city permit it does not um include but it costs the um fdp permit so they'll pay for that pay for the permit but they get it so yeah we pay for it and they acquire so I'm still saying that that's a half a year salary for if if you had 130 the 140,000 basically
engineer you're paying them for a half year salary to design two crosswalks they're billing 219 an hour yeah go to the next one number one I'm glad you guys are pushing I'm usually the only one pushing that this is my fundamental concern with the continuing Services is there are we managing the cost controls that price don't creep up so I'm on board with it but I agree I think it's usually it's for one that I'm so Then are we tbling this or are we
voting we got to are we voting not well if we back you or Karen if we table it then and he goes and gets additional proposals then we can consider this one again against the other proposals we can't get other proposals no no because you're not allowed to under the CCNA you can't yeah you can't do that so you might want to just not address this
tonight and if if we have to if it's over 50,000 it'll be put back on the agenda so so what the right thing to do Karen will be to withdraw the second withdraw the motion Y and just not take it up decide not to deal with it tonight okay you have the second I do withdraw the second right so you had the motion I I did have the motion and you know
basically we're we're talking about $15,000 for an ada8 ramp and you know I I've been around here for a while uh you have two Skip and you've seen people push Kick the Can down the road and then things don't get done next thing you know it's 6 months it's a year before anything gets done and um I I can see where it's this is going to go anyway as as we're talking here
but I'm just going to voice my opinion on it that it should just go through you don't get John Dylan to to agree to something very often that we're doing so that right there was uh uh key I was surprised that that you didn't go for that but um you know this is some we we've talked about ABA accessible access for a long time and and now we're kicking the can down the road basically for $115,000 so I'll uh I'll retract my
motion all right uh dies for for lack of a lack of a second really of a second or or a first uh next that's it oh good all right any other general public comment about items that were not addressed tonight go ahead this is what you gave me going for a
record here KP thinker 197 o Lane uh Tim for the bicycles I think you guys kicking or you you you approaching this wrong if the parents don't care that their kids have bikes that go 30 mil and with a snip of a wire they go 50 mil we were all 13 14 15 years old you will write whatever that thing can do and you'll crash into stuff and as we said in the old days the the dumb kids didn't make it go after the parents and I mean
of course do nothing is not an option we got to protect through general public from some Hooligans going down the road at high speeds but I recall the police chief saying we really had no accidents we hear all these stories about I saw this I saw that I saw kids getting scratched well bottom line is the police said nothing much has happened so we all annoyed about it and we all worried about it but really nothing much has happen so I mean good luck finding a solution for this I think we just have to go just butt up and get over it thank
you thank you thank you all right yeah sure um this this goes in in general basically General comment because I don't want to be specific um this is um my third meeting in this term and I'd just like to make this announcement to everyone whenever we have an issue that uh gets a lot of notoriety and people get all riled up on we got uh this has happened on on
other issues where you get 100 emails other the Commissioners get 100 emails but 80 of them are the exact same email with just an different email address I consider that one email if you don't have if you don't care enough about the issue to create your own email and write out your own email then you really don't care about the issue so I regard any email I get if it's a Xerox copy
basically of 50 emails and I get 50 emails and say oh 50 people want me to change you know do this go this way now I consider that one I consider that one person so if you want to make a difference in my mind you need to write your own email um or call me personally uh to make to make that difference that's all I got to say I'd like to add thanks like to add to that that I like to if you
want me to you know to make an extra effort to a very timely response to well call me but um if you want a timely response to an email um put your name and your address you know if you live in cooko Beach I'm more likely to respond more quickly and if you don't mind putting your phone number I won't call you in the middle of the night you know it's sometimes uh just like text you can go
on a text stream back and forth and spend 45 minutes on something you could spend three four five minutes on the phone discussing and those questions you know come up and get answered come up and get answered come up and get answered versus back and forth back and forth with emails so I like to know that the the people that are complaining about any issue in the city or have opinions on any issue in the city that
they are willing to put down their name and their address and you know if they are from Orlando then that's okay but I I want to know it and you might say something in your email that well I have a vested interest in Coco Beach I have three businesses there you know that you don't have to live here to have a vested interest in Coco Beach but just uh you know make it personal uh on the subject all right meeting is a J uh yeah meeting
is a Jour right go ahead you go ahead one more my name's Mario DeLuca I put a comment card in and no one called was it was it regarding the airbnbs uh it's because it was tabled so we we weren't two hearing it was because it was tabled so yeah be it's because we didn't vote on it it it it moved to a different meeting
we're not voting on it tonight so have a question on we don't we're not talking about it tonight we're not discussing it tonight I'd like to know what are the plans for um meeting is meeting is adjourned [Music]