Yeah, we have no volume here. Believe the line is Is this thing on? Gremlin it. There we go. Whoa. Hey. Check, check, check. Um, all right. Josh Jackson, would you mind doing the pledge for us? Please
stand and face the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Uh, is it Pastor Mike Wodka here? All right, we'll have Is he here? We'll have uh Pastor Keith Capey, Club Zion, do the invocation. I'm the fill in. Father, I thank you and bless you that we can come together and seek your will, your purpose, your wisdom, and your guidance, Lord, for
this city. We pray for protection and guidance, Lord, through this hurricane season that you would uh keep them storms away, Lord, but not that we're asking that it goes to others, Lord, but spare us, please, Lord, and give this council extreme wisdom as they make
decisions for the city. I pray for each of them, Lord, that they conduct themselves uh in a in a manner worthy of their calling. Thank you for our city attorney, our manager, and our clerk. Father, let all things be done to your
glory and honor. We ask this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. City clerk ro Commissioner Jackson here. Commissioner Hutcherson here. Commissioner Tamoli here. Vice Mayor Williams here. Mayor Capzy here.
City attorney. Okay. This is the budget hearing item one. Approve the tenative mill rate of 6.00. 0000 mills for fiscal year 2026. The proposed millage rate of 6.0000
mills is 0.65% higher than the roll back rate of 5.9610 mills. Adoption of the millage rate by resolution number 2025-ine is scheduled for September 18th, 2025.
Staff Representative Anna Juman, finance director AJ Hudson, city manager. Recommendation approve. Move to approve as read. Second. Motion in a second. All in favor? I I. All right. Motion passes. File number
two. Um. Oh, sorry. There was a roll call. Roll call. Sorry. Or roll call. I want roll call. All right. And also have did you ask for it um comments? public comment. Oh, sorry. Just so so used to uh consent agenda. Uh
yeah. Any any public comment on uh on our uh tenative mill rate? All right. Uh roll call. Commissioner Jackson. I. Commissioner Hutcherson. Nay. Commissioner Tolty. I. Vice Mayor Williams.
I. Mayor Kip. I. Motion passes 41. Number two. Okay. Approve the tenative budget making appropriations for fiscal year 2026. Adoption of the budget by resolution number 2025-17
is scheduled for September 18th, 2025. Staff representative Hannah Juman, finance director AJ Hudson, city majour. Recommendation approved. Move to approve the tenative budget as read. A
motion in a second. Any public comment? KP online 1907 or lane just two remarks that I saw in the budget. There is a million plus in there for the bicesentennial park. Uh I thought that was kind of fully funded and then uh or by by a grand and then there is a
million plus in there for a vegetation island in the golf course. I really wonder if we need that. Thank you. Okay. Um I I suppose we're going to be going over this Hannah um in the presentation, right? Oh, there's Okay. All right.
That's fully funded, though. So, yeah, I just want the island the islands on the golf course are uh as far as I'm understand um grant funded or fully funded already. So, yeah. Uh any other public comment? All right. Uh roll call.
Commissioner Jackson, I. Commissioner Hutcherson, nay. Commissioner Tumulti, I. Vice Mayor Williams, I. Mayor KZY. Hi. Motion passes 41.
[Music] All right. [Music] Um, this is the approval of the agenda. Anybody want to motion? Move to approve the agenda. Second.
Motion in a second. All in favor? I. I. Motion passes. 50. All right, we have a special presentation. This is for um
uh the proclamation for National Suicide Prevention Month and uh we have a representative Wayne Price is here and I'll read it. Whereas September is designated as National Suicide Prevention Month as recognized by the National Association of Mental
Illness and whereas many health officials and communators locally, state, and nationally understand that mental is a significant issue of concern particularly among our youth. And whereas we realize that to address mental health issues requires more open
and honest discussions about mental health. And whereas one major hurdle is moving the stigma attached to mental health treatment and discussion. And whereas individuals, businesses, organizations, public officials, and many others recognize the importance of me of emotional health. And now
therefore be resolved that the city of Cocoa Beach supports efforts on the Space Coast to provide education and resources for meal health for mental health problems. And be it further resolved that the city of Cocoa Beach will encourage a positive effort to
encourage those with mental health issues to seek the help of a family member, friend, colleague, and or licensed mental health professional to assist them in times of need. Adopted by members of the Cocoa Beach uh by the by members of the city of Cocoa Beach on
September 4th, 2025. If you'd like to, you can our CEO of Facebook Health Foundation. She's going to come up and say a few words. Sure. Yes. Come up and say something and then you come and grab your proclamations for me.
Good evening, mayor, council members. Thank you for having me. I'm John Ginling. I'm the president and CEO of Space Coast Health Foundation, and I'm also here with Do It for Hunter and is with you. Um, I want to thank you for passing this resolution and the ongoing interest that you have
in promoting suicide awareness and prevention and mental health in Bvard County. We started this initiative four years ago and Cocoa Beach was earlier supporter. We thank you for that. We wish there were answers to this um and we wish we could end this tragedy, but
unfortunately we know there aren't quick fixes. The latest stats from the Florida Department of Health um 2023 tell us that saw nearly 150 people take their own lives. That's a rate of 21 per 100,000 people. The rate of Florida was
just over 14 per 100,000 people. The Space Coast Health Foundation and other and provides mental health community are determined to do something about this. Your support means a lot towards us getting to solutions and finding better alternatives for the people when they
need us most. Thank you. Thank you. Hi. Thank you. Um my name is Jenny Gleon and I represent Do It for Hunter. Uh on behalf of Do It for Hunter, I want to sincerely thank the city of Cocoa Beach for recognizing suic
means more than the words express. It's a powerful step toward breaking the silence and saving lives. Sadly, the need for awareness is more urgent than ever. According to the CD, again, statistics from 2023, over 50,000 people
in the US died by suicide, the highest number ever recorded. Even more alarming, suicide rates among youth and young adult increased by nearly 40% the past two days. These aren't just these are our sons, our daughters, our friends, our neighbors,
people like Hunter. Our nonprofit, Do It for Hunter, was created to honor life and fight who are struggling. We share mental health resources. We work with schools to provide 988 suicide lifeline stickers on all student laptops. We have
purchased and placed 10 suicide awareness benches at local schools and parks. And each September since we lost Hunter, we have hosted a free community event called You Matter Day. Um, and it will be this year on Saturday, September
27th at Bird Island High School, and we invite you all to attend. It's a day dedicated to connection, hope, and healing. There will be speakers, music, local organizations, and resources for anyone who needs support, wants to support others. For more information,
visit doitforhunter.org. Our mission is simple, vital, to remind people they are not alone and that their lives matter. Let's continue this conversation. Let's make mental health a priority, not just month, but every day.
Together, we can save lives. Thank you. Thank you. I have a question. Yes, sir. So, you said 50,000 nationwide suicides. So um because of all the overdose deaths
and a lot of those are unintentional but then there are some that are actually committing suicide but overdose deaths. How do you delineate between those or who delineates between those two as to which ones were suicides and
which ones were just negligent overdoses? Well, I think that's a really good question. oftenimes we do know when um a person dies from suicide in the way that they died or the way that they left a note. Um as far as the the fentanyl
accidental overdoses, um I think that's another whole another conversation, but my understanding is that these statistics are more from verified deaths by suicide. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Good question. Thank you again.
And I have your proclamations if you want to come grab them. We'd love I'd love to get a pick with you. [Music] All right. [Music] All right. Do we have any public comments about items that are not on the
agenda? All right, that's your chance. Staff reports obviously. Good evening, mayor, commissioners. Uh first, um we received a call from FDOT a
couple of weeks ago, uh about a biking a biking safety symbol that was in the sidewalk on Rose in front of Rosevelt School. Uh and FDOT told us that it had to be removed. Um, we did a little bit
of research and found out that actually the uh symbol the artwork uh of of the biking symbol was the result of an F dot contest art contest. Uh, and they said, "Well, it's got to be
removed anyway." And so, um, rather than us remove it, I had them remove it. They reached out to Roosevelt uh school and um uh offered in lie of the the uh symbol in the in the sidewalk, they
offered a poster or a sign uh to the school to recognize the students. So um uh and apparently it's part of a a larger effort regarding street markings and um I think uh Roosevelt school and
beach got caught in in in the net. So um any questions on that? Yeah. Did did somebody get fired or I mean does some some marketing genius that uh had this idea that didn't go through the proper channels?
My my guess is the uh uh FDOT did did the contest in the spring in good faith, not knowing that at the federal level there was some uh concern about markings on the street and sidewalks and FDOT
FDOT controls the markings on both the streets and the sidewalks. So um on on their street sidewalks, not ours. All they control the markings. Oh, the Oh, okay. Not the signage though. Right. Right. So,
so that was I believe the uh it I think the new laws or whatever came into effect was it maybe July 1st or something like that? There was a lot of times when they had the new laws roll out they um they they come in in July.
They if they did it just before I'm not sure if that's the reason, but I I you know I don't know when it came into effect. All I know is I I received a an urgent phone call from the secretary of uh FDOT's District 7 um
about the need to remove the the Viking artwork. So So FDOT spends about as much in demolishing and removing uh the stuff that they build, right? spent about as much on that as it cost
them to build those things and put them down. Okay. Just interesting. Second version of the speed bumps. Yeah. Anything to work. Exactly. I mean, how much have they wasted on Cocoa Beach and let it die. Let it die because it's ridiculous. I mean, it's going to And it's going to
social media will take it. Social media ship with that doc. Social media did take it and uh the two winning students got a lot a lot more publicity. Good. So, we made sure of that. Okay. Um, secondly, um, working with Main Street on renewal
of their annual agreement. Um, that probably will be brought forth at the 918, uh, commission meeting. Uh, I would also like to recognize Pete Malone, uh, an employee of, uh, of Coco since 1972,
who just retired on August 29th, 2025. 53 years with the city. Wow. Um, first as a firefighter, then he worked in an administrative capacity in the police department. So, Pete, I hope you enjoy your retirement. You earned
it. Yeah. And and and finally, I I regret that I have to pass along sad news of the passing of Harvey Blanchard. Uh Darby uh also started with the city in 1972.
Uh he retired in 2015. He along with Chuck Billas were instrumental in uh building the water reclamation plant, the wastewater treatment plant and the irrigation system in the city. Uh he um
uh he he did a lot u over the years and brought the system up to what it is today. So uh rest in peace, Darby. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Um, city attorney, nothing tonight. Thank you.
City Commission, got a couple items. Um, one, welcome, city manager. I know you've been in the interim role, but but thank you for uh taking on the official role. We're so delighted to have you. Thank you. Um,
couple announcements. Uh, one really great news and and hopefully I'm not stepping on on Tim's announcements, but our Bvard County schools are excelling. Uh we have five Bvard County schools ranked among the top in Florida. So number four in the district, 85 85th in the state uh for Cocoa Beach. Uh so we
are doing really really well. Schools are awesome. Um and uh just a warning for all of us with young drivers. Uh Bvard is starting the uh bus patrol and it's launching now. It's already launched technically. I'll read it and then I'll just kind of give you the the
quick so what. Uh Bvard public schools and Bvard County Sheriff's Office have launched school bus safety program to protect students on their way to and from schools. The stop arm cameras on the buses will automatically catch drivers who illegally pass stop school
buses. So if the stop sign is out, stop. even if you're going the other way, even if you're in multiple lanes. Um, drivers who ille illegally pass stop school buses have already started giving warnings on August 11th and beginning September 17th, violators will be
receiving a $250 citation automatically. The camera will catch you. You'll you'll get the citation automatically. So, for our young drivers who are not aware of the rules with school buses, let's remind our kids, stop for the school buses. So, anyway, thank you. Just wanted to get that out there. Anyone
else? Uh yeah, to you know add on to uh this the school's you know my my uh weekly or bi-weekly report on uh phones is that instead of being an interim situation
where there were no referrals for kids having phones as of Monday they started giving referrals. Um first one is hey they just take the phone away for the day then give it back. Second time they could phone away. The parents got to come pick it up. Third time is actually
a suspension. So it's it's pretty ser they're very serious about it and um fortunately the the kids are all um taking it or taking it serious. So you know it's good stuff. Um you know I know both of the uh the
gentlemen that AJ spoke about um Pete uh his last job was cutting grass at on the golf course and I'd see him on a regular basis. He he truly loved Cocoa Beach and he's you know he's going to miss miss it out there but he's got some grandkids
now that that he wants to take care of and that's why he's retiring even after 15 years. And um Darby was uh amazing had a lot of you know in-house information obviously building the water treatment facility and the the
wastewater system through the city. um actually gave me his phone number said after he retired, hey, if you need anything you need about anything going on with uh water treatment facility, like as a liaison, he'd come in and answer questions. I mean, just, you
know, just a super two super nice guys and um and that's basically what you see really in Cocoa Beach. A lot, you know, all the ways here are pretty pretty sharp and um and care about the city. So, thank you all so much. Anyone
else? Yeah, as far as Derby goes, um, yeah, I worked with him a lot of years, you know, interface with him, and, uh, he was very straightforward, easy to get
along with, good with the residents, and I'm really kind of jealous cuz he had a full head of hair cuz he wasn't a commissioner. He had he had a lot of hair. I thought you just shaved it like that. No, no, this is not this is not the way
I trim my hair. Anyway, yeah, God rest his soul. Um the other thing is uh city manager some of the questions that came up uh during the city manager candidate
interviews was where are we with our emergency management not only the plan which I'm sure we have left over from Ducky but uh does it need tuned up and who's going to be the
work person that's going to uh be the head of emergency management. And I see Justin coming up. He's like, "Oh boy, that's my job." But I'm I'm just saying, you know, it's a very
serious role. It requires basically 247 support during and after a storm or any other emergency. And uh you know I know you're you've seen Ducky's uh plan you know. Yes. Uh thank you Skip. Um we completely
updated the plan this last year. Um it's pretty much the same but as technologies changed, departments have changed um things like that in the last year. We've just kind of updated it. We've updated our EOC and DOC locations, organization
charts, things like that. Um, and the directors and everyone will know. I send out neverending weather updates. So, we're always on top of it. Right now, 70% chance of a storm forming. Um, it's
would be named Gabrielle and it looks to make the curve. That's the way it's looking right now. So, more swell and no hurricane. Um, it could also go down to the south and hit the Caribbean, but high pressure system pushing down. high pressure system over we're not asking
you to be a weather man. I know I understand but ju just so you know is that we are constantly monitoring the weather and we have updated the plan. Um we've sat down with all of the directors um and Karen and we went and sat down with each individual
one and we updated every single portion of the plan that needed to be updated. So, and you got all your call lists updated with everybody's current cell phone numbers and all that, including ours. Yeah. Yeah. Yours are on there, too. Get with get with
Karen. So, but they the only other thing I And thank you. I guess he's saying he stepped up to the role, right? Yeah. He um uh Justin uh organized and conducted a what was it 2 and a half
hour uh walkth through in June. We we did a mock hurricane. Good. So, we attend the regular EOC meetings um in Rocklage. Uh that's going to be for all the municipalities including the county, DOT, everyone that's involved.
Um and then we take some of what's that is there and we bring it here and we do our own city version of a mock hurricane. Okay. Drill. So, my not to mention last last hurricane season you took over. I mean, you were you were in charge when we had
the tornado and all that. So, so um so my only suggestion is if you haven't done it already is there's some extraneous partners, you know, the small business association, uh the Coast Guard
gets involved. There's so many different entities that get involved if you end up having a disaster response center. Yeah. So, um, to I feel like the best way to answer your question is when we do the mocker, have you seen the new EOC
that's located in Rocklage that's been, uh, built? So, in that that control room, if you want to call it, um, we have representatives from every jurisdiction, not just cities, but like I said, uh, fish and wildlife, sheriff's
department, everything. And then John Scott is the emergency manager. This year, our plan is to send a representative from the city. And what they'll do is they'll be at the control center at the county and that they'll also be our representative. Now, we do municipal calls, search and rescue
calls, um EOC updates, all those types of things throughout the the storm, but we'll also have a representative there. And when we did the mock hurricane drill, um it was really cool to see how if you need something like for instance, we had a storm that blew sand all the
way across uh A1A from Pineita to Minute Man and we had no way of getting back and forth. So, we were able to get our public works department along with Satellite Beach's public works department and then get other resources from Bvard County and as well as we were
able to use barges to bring across emergency equipment to help do things. So, having someone there is having a voice at the control. It's it's like being on the the floor of the stock exchange, right? You're right there, right? What I'm saying is if we ever did get
hit and we had to set up a disaster response center, uh there's going to be a key person that's coordinating FEMA response, the small business association response to give loans out to people so that they can,
you know, fix up their properties as quick as possible. Gets involved. I've I've been at a disaster response center for 32 days after Rita hit the Bolivar Peninsula in Texas. And there's a lot of playing
parts there. And my only only thing I'm asking or, you know, thinking you probably should do is find out who those key contacts would be and just kind of reach out to them ahead of time. put names with faces and say, "Hey, you know, if something happens here, are you
are you the right person to contact?" Absolutely. And um again, at those meetings when we go that those are all the the the partners and build all the people that are going to be there, including hospitals, everyone is there. And I understand what you're talking about with recovery. So there's
obviously the planning and all the preparation, there's the actual event, and there's the recovery side. and we do all portions of that so all those key players are there so that we can start working towards a a quick recovery. So um in fact this when we do the hurricane
drill event itself is the shortest part. It's a lot of prep and a whole lot of recovery. So, um, yeah, I I I understand what you're saying and I'll, uh, I can get with AJ and give your reports time. We we, uh, have one of those drills and,
um, John Scott is the emergency manager and they have been very, very good. When I came in, the first thing I did was sit down with them. I said, I want to know what my expectations are. And they've helped me every little bit along the way. And then going to those meetings, you get to develop really good
partnerships with that. I'm just saying find out who your PC's are for those external organizations that come in during recovery. Uh contact them and if they if you get like nothing crickets
then maybe they've change PC's so that you can find out who the new one is and just keep current on who those PC's are for those external agencies. Understood. Yes, sir. Thank Thank you. Thank you guys. Thank you, Justin.
Chief, you have a any quick comment just to keep the residents tuned in. So, we had a pretty full day Thursday, Friday interviewing it's all great candidates for city manager, but I think interestingly enough, we were kind of dispersed across the commission. So, it wasn't a clear obvious choice. So, I
thank AJ for accepting um you know, the the extension, if you will. And I did get a common theme from the city folks I talked to that he's the guy for the fit of the city. So, I appreciate that and I appreciate the commission not agreeing and getting a clear picture. So, thanks AJ.
I thought I talked a lot. Uh, anyways, um, I want to I want to echo AJ. Um, you know, I I also did actually an interview with AJ. I wanted to be fair to everybody, but I also, you know, I knew AJ. I talked with him and during
the whole the first process of this when we when we picked everybody um I didn't know him and uh I was going off of the recommendations of people that I knew uh knew him uh that I trusted in and um as I got to know him really solid guy
really nice um I always do my homework I usually know the answer before I ask a question um that being said I talked to most of the staff It was unanimous. Not one bad word to say about him. Uh you're a really solid
guy and we're we're really happy to have you. And uh as as you may know, I'm on the the transportation organization board and I did bring up the concern um that you were talking about of building stuff
and then removing it. Uh the main thing is is communication. and I and I I expressed it to him and and just said in the future, we really need to we need really need to lock down communication before we we actually build a project. We need to speak with the the commissioners and the and
everyone else involved and make sure we're all on the same page. So, they were very responsive to that and acknowledge that um that they they could do better in that aspect. So just to add on to that, before he became the Space Coast Transportation Planning
Organization representative in Cocoa Beach, I was there a genesis of speed bumps and you know pedestrian crossings and all that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Skip. I'm sorry. You were there when the speed bumps became a thing. Wow.
Wow. Skip is that cars. Do they have speeds during the the uh okay the wagon? I was there when they first started talking about the project to put in the speed bumps and the crosswalks
and originally you say we need to talk to them ahead of time. Well, I did and they were going to put in 16 speed bumps in the city. Cut them down to two. the one just found coming into the residential area from the from the south
to the north. I'm gonna let this keep going, which didn't didn't last. And then one over here and told him, you know, the low boys, oh, they have to be 6 in off the ground. I said, I've seen low boys that are 3 in off the ground. That thing will
last in maintenance problem. Nobody like it. So, they come to two and then they then they got put away. Okay. So sometimes you have to, you know, compromise, knock it down as much as you can and
then let the final product come through at the public uh kill the rest of it and the mayor of course. All right. And then he brought a Ferrari that's got this much ground clearance. Irrelevant, but we'll we will move on. Very relevant.
Um coincidence don't have speed out of where we at. So, oh, we are informed. You know, I like to make it interesting for you guys and that's why we have Skip up here. Oh,
uh, no, I'm just joking. I love Skip. Actually, he's the reason why I'm sitting in a seat right now. He's the one that that convinced me to run. So, I love you, brother. And, and we, you know, it's all in good fun. Um, all right. Here we go. Consent agenda.
Okay. This is the consent agenda. Item one. Approve the August 7th to August 19th and August 21st. Commission meeting minutes, staff representative, city clerk department recommendation approved. Contract extension with Marlo landscaping for a period of one year to
expire September 1, 2026. Staff representative Brad Calzo, public works and water reclamation director. Recommendation approved. Item three, approve a one-year memorandum of understanding between the city of Koka Beach and the city of Cape Canaveral to share the cost
of the school resource officer SRO assigned to Cocoa Beach Junior Senior High School for the 2025 2026 school year. This is a budgeted item. Staff representative West Mullins Police Chief recommendation approved. Just one clarification. I2 is a budgeted
item. it. Usually we print that out on the consent agenda so that there's no question about it. If it's not budgeted, it's over 50,000, then we have to bring on as a new item. So that's for the record that's a
budgeted item, the landscaping one year. I know we're not supposed to discuss this agenda. I just Yeah, this I just wanted a yes or no answer. This company is based on task orders. So, it is budgeted.
It is budgeted. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Got a motion. Move the approved and sent agenda read. Motion a second. All in favor? I passes 50.
Unfinished business. Okay. Okay. Item one, adopt ordinance 1700 on second reading, an ordinance of the city of Cocoa Beach, Florida, adding a new section 22-2.5, regulation of electric bicycles and similar devices on specified rights of
way of article 1 in general of chapter 22, streets and sidewalks of the code of ordinances of the city of Koka Beach providing regulations for the use of electric bicycles and similar devices on specified rights of way and providing for conflicts, codification,
severability, and an effective date. Staff Representative Wes Mullins, police chief recommendation approved. And I will note that there are two exhibit A's attached on the agenda. Um, and the
first one is the one that was approved by you on first reading. The second one was the one that was edited by um the chief. And it's my strong recommendation to go with his edited version. I think
it was better than my version. Question on that. That was the one you emailed out, correct? The second version. Move to approve is read. Second. Motion in a second. Any public com. [Music]
Did you want to say anything or Okay. Go ahead, Skip. So, back in the day before there was bicycles or or or skateboard now, right? Oh, no. I really do have a point to
make. So, um, as a follow on, we'll see how this works. Okay. But it could be possible me during special events
that we actually ask people to walk their ebikes or their skateboards or their e anything even their bicycles or skateboards through like the downtown
area where we're we've got people on the sidewalks mingling in the streets. you know, they want to walk their bike with one foot on the ground kind of pushing their bike along. That's one thing. But, you know, we do have people that that do that. And then it actually
happens even when we're not having special events and there's crowds. So, I would think that if this doesn't quell the appetite for the ebike speeds and and potential dangers to the public that
maybe we should go as Okay, so good evening. Thanks for having me up here and thanks for uh helping us all get to this point. Um I've had some conversations with a few of you here uh specifically related to location. Okay,
I just this kind of thing and I just want to discuss just very very briefly and I am winning. Thank you. Uh the pros and cons of the location issue, right? And I I get the um I'm torn, right? As police chief, my job is to just end what
you guys legislate and we will do it to the best of our ability like we always do. Um, I think that running a test run on man Causeway is a great idea until you turn on Cedar and then you see somebody being an idiot on Cedar and we can't sight them for it. It just seems
like a really tough spot for our cops to be in. Um, other than that to and I actually wouldn't bring that up until Comm. But, um, if we make those changes, Cocoa Beach is a really interesting town, right? And we have a bunch of interesting events bring in a whole
bunch of interesting people and we have a bunch of different areas that you know people come together. Circus for instance, right? Artfest, all these things. If we're going to do that, then let's do it, right? If we're going to allow it, then let's allow it. If we're
not going to allow it during events, then let's have to be in order. We can't just have to do that, right? So, however you guys want to do it, let's do it. And if you want to do it as a trial run, then let's do it as a trial run. But if you want to do it [Music]
man, somebody makes that right on the seat or left on the seat, they can all of a sudden start breaking the rules. I don't know. That's that's a question that I have. So I just want had this discussion before and not it's not the oned. And I'm agreeing, mayor. I'm just
so there's nothing rightways on Cedar when the problem is they're doing it in the middle of the road. They're breaking the law already. you already have jurisdiction to to them or doing wheeling on cedar next to cars or breaking the speed limit or running a stop sign.
Yeah, I'm not I'm not making a case either way. I'm just saying that I've had conversations with commission, right? Aside from that point of view, I just want it out there that I'm down either way. I just let's just come up with it. And and I'm I'm just saying let's go
with what we got here. And if we still have problems, we we can expand it. And uh then the other thing would be, and this would be up to the city manager and the special events
uh folks, that maybe for special events, we could have some signage, you know, both ends of every sidewalk that says, you know, uh electric vehicles must be
walked. They had that for the the Thunder on Cook Beach in Canville. They put signs that said no scooters allowed or walk walk. Well, you can't say no scooters or skateboard. What are you going to do with your scooter or your skateboard? You're going to walk with it. I misspoke. Walk walk your scooters.
That's what it says. Or walk your street vehicles, whatever. So, so I would like to think maybe we could incorporate that special event permits so that we don't have to make it a blanket law for 24/7 in the city of Cook Beach at least for a
Okay. I mean, I think we all have a consensus on this one right here. Yeah, we have two things we're talking about, right? And one is the the special events. I mean, I've been involved in special these special events for 15 years and it's a big deal. Um Fest and riding
their bikes and you know, blowing through the uh through the crowd uh skateboarders, I mean, I've seen some major hits and and it go the wrong way saying, "Oh, Skype hit this." Well, no. you know, if we have some sort of um
like you said, I I really like this. So, if we have consensus, we can we can vote on that. But I want to go back also back to um fact that, you know, uh Chief, you said that, hey, it's it's up to us to make the decision, but we aren't the prof, we aren't the um experts and
professionals in this area. You are. and I look at you and all the employees here give us advice on the decisions we make as well as the residents and and all but um that's that's what I look for. I I
think just doing a trial run on Minute Man is not the way to go. If we're going to make law in order here on on these ebikes, it's got to be citywide. These kids aren't just going 30 miles an hour down Minute Man. They're going 30 plus miles an hour down Cedar B all the off
street and um it's it's not like it was 20 30 years ago mayor when when we were riding bikes pedaling bikes and doing wheelies. These kids going 30 miles I guarantee you
weren't your bike 30 miles an hour doing a wheelie. No, I agree. So I said he already has the jurisdiction to do it on and whether it's a wheelie or not they're going 30 plus miles an hour. They're not doing it on the sidewalk over there. They're doing on the road. Has the law to take care of that. They're doing it everywhere. And if I it just should be citywide.
That's my that's my opinion on this. And um again, that's just from the data that I have. It is and then if this doesn't help quell the issue, then we can move
forward with more restrictive actions. And um as far as consensus for events that we do some uh restrictions on, you know, where you have to walk bikes, walk skateboards, walk ebikes, walk any
kind of any kind of except for maybe a motorized uh wheelchair, you know, can't make them want that. But if we can get consensus that we would ask the city manager to work with special events to figure out his way to that for them to
have a city attorney. Yes. Okay. This um well for first thing are y'all voting on the second exhibit A. Yes. Okay. All right. Just wanted to clarify that. But also but also the um it only takes a
resolution to add streets or add all streets or add streets during special events. We can come back with resolutions. We don't have to advertise it and spend the money and all that and it can be done in one reading. So if you want to just let this
go this way, adopt the base thing and then we can tweak it by resolution. I think looking at where how far we've come and this was a start right we're as a city we we learn right and that's a good thing when we were running this
past round uh for commission I think this was one of the major things that we were hearing from residents concerns about safe right and I think what we're targeting here is outs it's want to see our kids safer we want to see pedestrians safer we want to see a safer situation and I think what chief thank
you and AJ thank you for the work that you guys have done on this I think this This is a step in the right direction. I think we'll find out is that comes and I agree with commi that we want that safety across you know across the city this is not saying just minute men needs
to be safe right totally agree I think is the step direction let's see outcomes let's take this step right and then as as attorney has advised let's take what we learn with this and continue to refine it that's that's my position
it's a framework that it's a resolution to ban or scale it beyond minim. So I like it. All right. Any public comment? All right. All in favor? I
roll. Sorry. All right. Commissioner Jackson. I. Commissioner Hutcherson. I. Commissioner Toly. Hi. Vice Mayor Williams. Hi. Mayor Cape. 5. Pass 5. Um newness. Okay. This is um item one. Approve
fiscal year 2026 liquid sodium hypocchlorite bulk supply piggyback agreement addem utilizing Bay County contract bid number 22-27 for Odyssey manufacturing company to supply the wastewater treatment plant at
a price of $169 per gallon. This is a budgeted operating expense. Staffer representative Brad Cowzo public works and water reclamation director. Move to approve as read. Second motion in a second. Any public comment
about the sodium hydrochloride bulk supply? Pretty exciting stuff. You got all All in favor? All right. Motion passes 5. Okay. Item two, accept the city selection committee recommendation of
award for the bid submitted by American Facility Services, Inc. Under bid CB25-00008 to provide janitorial services for city hall fire station 51 employee station allow staff to enter into a contract with American facility services inc.
This is a budgeted operating expense for fiscal year 20 fiscal year 26 if a contract cannot be negotiated with American Facility Services Inc. Allow staff to enter into cont with the second and or third rank company staff
representative brazo water reclamation and public works director recommendation approve approve as read second motion to second any public comment about the janitorial stuff for the station in favor wait oh
yes skip do you know the history of the janitorial service or the toilets they used to not have running water so there was once once upon a time No. So this says mandatory service city fire station 51 and police station. So who does
uh uh bysentennial I'm not well by parks have a bathroom. Shepher park has bathrooms. Fisher park has bathrooms. Uh does this include
the parking garage has bathrooms? Uh, Ramp Road has bathrooms, you know, and we lost our employees that used to do those. So, this looks kind of limited to me. Who's going to do all those extra bathrooms? Uh, we still have two
individuals with our facility maintenance and old janitorial duties. Uh, they take care of the public works complex. Um, and they take care of the country club. the uh other the parking garage and some of the other bathrooms are contracted out
to a different contractor that correct that company did not make a bid on this uh right did their contract expire or are they still under contract? We're still under contract with them with them or all the places I meant.
Yeah. And when that expires, we can either come to you to renew it or we can ask this company that we're going to be contracting. It just looked limited to me and I knew there was a whole bunch of other bathrooms and I wanted to make sure we are only cutting all bids at these. Okay.
Did Did we get um bids on this or we just went with 17 bids? 17 bids. Yes. Okay. And do we go off of um quality that we know or or go price? The selection committ had a form that they they reviewed all of 17 bids. Uh they
had evaluation sheet and print um disciplines. Mhm. And they each gave me their ranking. Mhm. Okay. Right. If I remember correctly, if if successful, this this actually lowers total cost of the city for the same service. Correct. Okay. Appreciate it.
Thank you very much. Approximately 38,000. That's that's the kind of savings we're looking for from the department. I think this is laudable. smart just and and there's a little more information six month Oh, no. I like it. Yeah, there's a six-month probationary period
for the for the new company. All right. All in favor? I motion passes 5. Um, where we at? Number three. Item three, emergency ordinance 173, an emergency
ordinance of the city of Cocoa Beach, Florida, prohibiting the immobilization booting of vehicles by the use of an empoundment device on private property within the city pending the adoption of a regulatory scheme for booting through the regularance process. providing for
findings of emergency providing directions or I'm sorry providing definitions providing exceptions providing for enforcement and codification severability and an effective date and an ending date.
[Music] So this I guess we need a motion motion to approve. Second motion second. Go ahead. So this is we had an emergency ordinance at our last meeting uh related to towing
the the towing folks. So now we now we're finding out that booting instead of it's my understanding nobody from towing compass came to talk about it. I assume that they had the idea booting in their back pocket and in fact it's my understanding instead of towing they
just started booting the cars. Okay. politely. And then to clarify, it's basically the same um same verbiage as the towing ordinance with the wait 15 minutes before you can boot and all that. It is
actually it prohibits the booting until we get an ordinance um in place, a permanent ordinance. the the emergency ordinance that we did last time was also companion forance um which I believe is going to be at the
next meeting because of the advertising deadlines and stuff but the that emergency ordinance required um the towing companies to combine the state they were not doing okay and then the um that was the emergency ordinance
and the uh permanent ordinance that was read for the first reading at at the same time um added a lot of additional things including having certain signage up there in addition to the sign excuse me in addition to the signage that
they're required to have under state law and a lot of other different things to kind of thwart the predatory aspect of it. Um, booting, surprisingly enough, is not regulated by the state at all, which
I was shocked to see that, but there there isn't any regulation of that. So, we couldn't say you can't you can't boot unless you follow state law, which we could do with the towing. Um, so this is prohibiting right now. And we're coming
back. And I just found out about this issue because I just drafted this a day or two ago, I guess. And I haven't had time to take a deep enough dive into what regulation should be in the in the, you know, full permanent ordinance yet. So, at the next meeting, I'll have a
first reading of the full-on one. My understanding is that and and just make sure I'm understand this correctly. It it really we're focusing in on the ranger. We're not looking to prohibit property owners from relief if somebody is parking inappropriately on their
property. Absolutely. The business owners, private property owners still have the ability to get relief from a car park appropriately. However, we're observing is what appears to be a predatory approach where people are looking for the opportunities to
capitalize on this and almost makes a a business structure. We don't want our we don't want our visitors being subjected to a predatory approach for booting or towing. Is that Yes, it will. That's accurate. And right now they can still um we didn't hit them
from doing we just made them follow the state law. They didn't want to follow the state law so they started booting and I'm okay with booting as well as as long as they do it ethically and without without predatory practices. Uh while we're figuring out exactly how we need
to have that worded, we'll do this emergency um this emergency ordinance to to get everything just Great. Thank you. Uh any any other public on this? All right. All in favor?
Oh, I got to read these. Hold on. Well, this roll call. It's roll call. It's roll call. First reading, but it's roll. It's It's the only reading in the emergency. You're right. Commissioner Jackson. Hi, Commissioner Hutcherson. Hi, Commissioner Smoltzy. Hi,
Vice Mayor Williams. Hi, Mayor Kapzy. I All right. Um I assume some came here for for public comment. Um normally uh I only have the one public comment in the beginning but since uh the meeting was
changed and uh we went an hour early then some people if anybody had public comment you're you're welcome to speak now uh items that were not agenda. We didn't do public comment on that one before we voted. I think we did we Yeah, we did. Yeah. Yeah. Because there was a public
comment. Yep. Okay. Um, being a drone with them.