and to the rep for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We have Pastor Mark from CER ministry, Mark WA. Uh today's our national day of prayer. Let's uh let's pray. Father God, we
thank you for uh today. We thank you for a day when many people are lifting our nation in prayer. We ask heavenly father for you to bring healing to our land. We pray for wisdom to prevail. We ask heavenly
father for you to bless not just our nation but specifically our state as community. Lord, uh thank you that we live in such a beautiful place. Lord, I pray that as uh these commissioners gathered today to make decisions that
you'll just help them be stewards of of what we have here. Thank you, Lord, for the the economy that we enjoy. Thank you, Lord, for people that are willing to risk their lives to protect people here. Thank you for those that are
giving their lives as educators. And Lord, we just ask your blessing to be upon all of them and uh the amilies that are are in our community. Bray your protection over them. Pray that you will bring peace in our hearts and in our
minds. Lord, we uh we just thank you uh once again for this time. We pray for wisdom and for cooperation and good communication. And I pray all this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
I'm so thankful that we get to we get to pray before each meeting. Um, let's get going. Can I get a somebody to make a motion for the agenda? Oh, sorry. Roll call. Commissioner Jackson
here. Commissioner Hutcherson here. Commissioner Tamalti here. Vice Mayor Williams here. Mayor Capzy here. Motion for the agenda. Move to approve the agenda as uh written. Second. Motion
second. All in favor? I I motion passes 50. Um special presentation. We've got the Cocoa Beach vulnerability assessment and the representative is um applied echo
ecology and geoc. So uh my name is Scott Diddy. uh with Geiointech and I'm the I'm the project manager uh for this project and and thank you very much for having us come up here today. I'm going to turn it over to Lisa Sto and she's give you a little bit of a background of this
vulnerability assessment for the city and kind of tell you where we are uh up to date on the project. I'll set this for 10. Thank you. Scott setting a timer for me like just in case I don't want to take too much of your time. I'm so excited to be here. I'm excited for you all. I'm excited for the Cocoa Beach.
Congratulations on the new city hall. really honored to be your first presenter uh and on 100 years. So, we're here to talk about the next hundred years with this vulnerability assessment and so you for the vision and the desire to really set a planning strategy in place to deal with what's coming at us
in terms of climate changes. Um so thank you all and I also want to recognize your incredible team here Morgan Zulki Brad Ko and Lauren Dick who have been tremendous value to this effort and I'm sure there have been a lot of others behind the scenes. So to reduce the
risks that are coming you know the city has decided to do a vulnerability assessment to plan prepare for climate related impacts. Let's see if this is going to work. Yay. Um the fun for this is coming from grants. So that's great news u from two different sources the
ARPA fund which is the Americans who plan act and also you got a grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Co resiliency program. Um recent legislation has set up that program to fund community vulnerability assessments and compile awided database
of assets that are most at risk for uh vulnerability to flooding from sea level rise, storm surge and increasing precipitation. that's expected. So, I'm going to talk today about the process and where are in the process right now of inducing this to the commission um so
that you guys are aware of kind of what's going on with this and where we are. It's a it's going to be, you know, probably another year before it's completed. I'm giving you an update. Once this von assment process done, you'll be eligible for additional grant funds from the state to implement
projects. So this is really a great decision to proceed with this process because then you're eligible for more money. So uh let me go through that process really quick. So the D guidelines, it's big picture. Um so it includes these steps. First is
establishing the context. The city did um this work, established um the context, assembled an internal team, established the area boundaries, got the grant funding, and then did a public outreach workshop. which I'll talk more about in a in a in a slide later on.
We're currently here in step two, the vulnerability assessment with the city and the city partners um working with geocentech and half to uh develop create um collect all of those critical assets and then do the modeling to figure out assets are going to flooded. The vulnerability assessment is really
trying to answer three questions. Where will flooding occur under different storm scenarios? uh how deep will flooding get and to what extent will the city's assets assets we're going to get in a minute how are they going to impact so you can see how modeling effort will allow you
to prioritize your capital improvements you'll understand over time so we're looking at a 2050 2080 scenarios the future like I said celebrating 100 years we're looking 100 years forward so you've got capital improvement timeline that you can work with and really be
able to prioritize where you want to put your your capital improvement dollars So with that over kind of the big picture. Oh, so you see then you go into the planning implementation and in implementation that's where D can come back with additional funding for the adaptation plans and for the capital
improvement projects themselves. Overall this is a great opportunity for the D. So having looked at the big picture let's go back and talk about what done date. So we led a community workshop um at the beautiful country club and the goals that were to public the importance
of the effort communicates what the city is working on uh also collect information from them so that they would have kind of an opportunity to participate. So we had the the workshop um we also conducted a survey of your residents and we asked them if they had experienced any flooding city and to
what extent and 88% of those respondents indicated that they had and they pinpointed those flooding locations on map. So you're actually looking at map of survey responses from from residents who experienced flooding. So at the same time we were doing this, we were also
out in the community attending events and letting your citizens know about this great plan effort they're doing and recruiting them to participate in our survey and in our work. So we interrupt you. Uh I think so. Okay.
Um so we see all these X's on the map where people told you yes there was people that came to work up. Some of them some some through it online. Okay. Well, I can tell you that on where one
of our commissioners live on a drive, there's no X and it's very susceptible to flooding. So, should we send the survey to him? Maybe. No, no, no. I'm just I would think that your analysis just be based on the
people. Of course. Absolutely. The survey told you, Mr. Williams, you're absolutely right. Well, you actually go out and find from elevations and everything else. Yep. Exactly right. And you know what, Tim? You're bringing up a great point about ground truthing
models. So, this is not really ground truthing data, but whenever we run models are only as good as the data that go into them, and we we understand their weaknesses. When we do this modeling effort for these VAS, we come in and we'll ask your staff, are these
accurate? So these are just another point of information that we're going to consider when we look at the model outcomes if it's if it's demonstrating what we're seeing in the model. Does that make sense? These aren't really data. We're not going to analyze them,
right? They are just showing you a source of information. It gave you input and this is what you have to date. Exactly. And they got to provide an opportunity for input to the city's effort. Okay. Which is important for your residents. Okay. You you understand? squeakiest wheel doesn't
always need the most oil. Sometimes it doesn't. Usually it doesn't in my opinion. But anyway, what are critical assets that we're talking about? These are things and actually these are defined by the Department of Environmental Protection in Florida statute
380.093. So the so the state is very um specific about what they're interested in in looking at and they are grouped in these categories. transportation assets, critical infrastructure, community and emergency facilities, and cultural and natural
assets. So now I'll go through them really quickly. The first is the categories of transportation assets. These include things like bridges and evacuation routes, your main roads, bus stops, boat launches. It's important for egress and
ingress into the city. It's important for evacuation emergency response. um etc. Um we have maps. So the maps are that we're showing you are have gone through a peerreview process with internal team um to de to confirm
whether we've got accurate locations of assets. They're still relevant. Um and so you know it really is a a GIS exercise in under in getting accurate elevation data. We can't uh assess whether an asset is going underwater if
we don't have its elevation. So, a lot of things don't have elevation data and they have to be collected. Critical infrastructure. This is a giant group of assets. It includes two really important uh components that you guys I'm sure are painfully aware of. Your wastewater
treatment system and your storm water treatment system. So, if those aren't working, you're in big trouble and you know that going on. Um it oh, see it also includes these other things when you're talking about hazardous waste facilities, small quantity generators.
So they're interested in looking at something bigger than your small quantity generators. You don't have much of that going on here quite frankly. Uh community and emergency facilities or um your government facilities is your beautiful new building, fire stations, schools, hospitals and healthcare
facilities, libraries. Uh and then your cultural resources um it would be your conservation lands surface waters and they are not only important to your community's quality of life but they also be important areas for water storage in the future.
Okay, so there's a summary of the number of assets that we've collected to date. Four boat ramps, two bridges, 58 buts, three metal facilities, two fire stations, etc. Um, and then we're going to um be moving into the next step as part of the how do you how do
you get 64 parks? Uh yeah, I think it was from these all every single one of your crossovers is good to park. See them all on the map. Awesome. So that's how there's so many I think it's it's any um
any community. Okay. So uh oh there were a couple things other points I want to make on the slide. Um this is all summarized in a critical asset data gap report and a geo data. So this is the database that D really wants. They want
to know um where are the as what are the critical assets and how far underwater will they go um in order to identify risk. So as part of the process we needed to identify any gaps in the data. The only data gaps there were were um
sensitive data. So these are understandable and DP is going to be fine. So there's nothing preventing us from proceeding to the next step. Is that my 10 minutes? Okay. So, here let me make Can you make
it stop? I'm almost done. So, the next part is uh figuring out how far underwater things are going to get eventually. You know, we talked about 2050 and 2080 timelines. And um then the next part of the process is going to be um geocentech and half doing the
modeling. They're going to look at coastal tidal flooding. This is your sea level rise projections. um the 2050 2018 current storm surge, flooding and then precipitation that we're anticipating is going to increase and they'll model those
scenarios spatially. So everything has to be considered. The topography of the city, your elevations, the current water levels, your land use, your impervious areas, storm surge, precipitation, evapo transpiration are all generated um put into the model. And then um and then the
outputs is a uh a risk assessment of the critical assets based on their inundation that can used by the team for adaptation planning based on the prioritization of your objectives. So you'll have a whole list of how far
underwater this critical asset is going to get and how far underwater this one is going to get um in in order of priority. You can do capital improvement planning. You can request additional funding uh and you can work cooperatively to reduce future flooding
and current flooding situations. So, thank you for investing in this exercise of planning and implementation to prepare for sea level rise, storm surge, and changes coming in and precipitation patterns. Thank you for inviting me to present today and I'm happy to answer
any questions or we're happy to answer any questions um if if you have any Thank you. Thank you. Any public comment about items that are not on the agenda?
All right, staff reports. Okay. Uh, I have two things real quick here. Uh, it's in reference to the parking garage. We executed a proposal with Schindler elevator and um, we're just waiting on a schedule when they can
get out and start work and then fix that um, elevator finally for good. Um and secondly, I have a tenative meeting set up on May 20th um with the GSA representative at the site um on Ocean
Beach Boulevard to go over the uh the path forward for the acquisition of that property um which is a good thing and um they keep uh assuring me that we are at the top of the list for that property. Uh and that's all I have. Thank you,
city manager. Um, city attorney. Um, nothing tonight, city commission. I've provided you guys with a uh packet that has some thoughts associated with one of the items on the agenda. Just
wanted to note that I have provided that to the commission. Thank you. Um, all right. Consent agenda. Okay. This is the consent agenda. Item one, approve the April 17th, 2025
commission meeting minutes. Staff representative, city clerk department. Recommendation approved. Item two, cancel the July 3rd city commission meeting. Staff representative Wayne Kerajino, city manager. Recommendation approved. Item three, board appointment,
Space Coast Transportation Planning Organization, TPO, Citizens Advisory Board Member. Applications received, Aaron Murphy. per agreement. Cocoa Beach, Cape Canaveral share voting delegates on the transportation planning organization for 2025. The voting
delegate is Cocoa Beach. Cape Canaveral is designated as the alternate staff representative, city clerk's office. Recommendation approve. Move to approve as read. Second. Motion is second. All in favor? I. All right. Motion passes
50. Um unfinished business. Okay. Okay. Item one tabled on April 17, 2025 requesting the commission to provide a path forward for staff regarding hiring of the city manager position. Potential costs incurred for
filing this posi for filling this position is unbudgeted for fiscal year 2025. Effective August 31st, 2025, city manager Wayne Kerajino will be retiring from the city of Cocoa Beach after 17 years of service. Representative Becky
Vos, city attorney recommendation provide direction to move forward. And in the um in the agenda package, I put in um I was asked to um because certain
staff members potentially are going to be applying. Um I went ahead and got some quotes for potential um companies to do searches for us. Um, I was able to
I tried to piggybacks from all three of them. Actually, I contacted several more, but they were all way more expensive and they didn't have piggybacks either. Um, but I found one piggyback which is Colin Basinger and
Associates. There are two other proposals. One is from Baker Tilly public se sector executive recruitment. um they were
um $29,500 plus all the costs are in addition to that and the advertising cost would be between 1,700 and 20 2200 and every time they came to visit there
would be um approximately $1,500 per visit um because they come out of uh Chicago, Illinois. Um, and then Capital Strategic Solutions had a proposal for
$38,950. And the Colon Colin Basinger um proposal was a flat $32,500, but that was all inclusive of everything, including all the background searches, all the visits here, all the everything.
Move to enter into a piggyback contract for an executive search firm with Colleen Basinger and Associates for the city manager search by pigging up backing off of that company's contract with the town of Orange Park for a lump
sum all-incclusive for a price of 32,500. Second. All right. Um, so attorney said that there's possibility that we could we could do a lot of this stuff, the the leg work and
stuff ourself with our own staff as far as we'd be posting it in the same spots that a lot of these people be posting. That that is a possibility of doing that. However, it makes it um a little difficult actually a lot difficult. We
have a limited staff and um there are people who are among the staff people who are potentially going to be applying for the position which makes it awkward. It makes it difficult. We do have to
have background searches on each one of the applicants and that is um having that done internally I think would be take a a tremendous amount of
time and I don't know that we have people who are not interested in applying for the position who are qualified to do that just as an example. I'm not qualified to do that. I've never done that. I mean, I know how to
background search lawyers who I'm going to hire, but I don't I don't that's beyond my area of expertise. And the only, as far as I'm aware, the only person on city staff who has that skill
set is someone who has already expressed an interest in applying for the position. So, that's going to be difficult. Okay. So, mayor, I just wanted to say that um we have and and Tim was here for at least one, if not
both. I think both. Um we had used Colin Basinger before. He's basically local. He can basically plagiarize all the information that he had before. He can gather additional
information like this. This is a great start because this is one of the things they do is they come to each commissioner and say, "What are you looking for in a city manager?" But as far as all the demographics and the stuff about the city, they basically
already have that uh available to them. And also they were the ones that got us uh um Bob Micah and Jim Mcnite which I thought were both excellent city managers.
So, I'm going to trust them to uh and like I said, uh or I will say that I encourage any internal city employee candidate that wants to apply to go ahead and do that and we'll see how it
all fares out and see what kind of interest we get. Okay. So, I forwarded you guys similar to what Commissioner Jackson said was my inputs. I misheard in the last meeting so I came up with eight bullet points of qualifications that I think are necessary. Feel free to use them, reference them. Um I think
that's a good starting point. Gets us ahead of the curve. But I concur. This is not this is probably the biggest decision the commission does. So it makes sense to spend the money to get it right. Okay. And did when you say you sent these out via email, your your your
eight bullet points correct. So that's Did you get it Karen? Yes, sir. Okay. So we need to get that as part of the public record so that you can share that and does she have an electronic copy of this? Yep. And go ahead and share this
with with the firm should we make this vote? Okay. And then uh they can talk to the other three of us. Any public comment on this? All right. I also believe that this will be the most expeditious way to move forward because we're not trying to
bring in a firm from Chicago and try to get them to build a demographic about the city. I agree. All right. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes 50. Number two. Okay. Item
two, approve the Beach Island Resort Parking Agreement amendment. Staff Representative Hannah Juman, finance director. Recommendation approve. Move to approve. Second. Got a motion and a second. Um, we basically went through
this last last meeting. So, everybody that has been involved with it knows exactly what we're talking about. It's the the parking for the for the one condo that needed extra parking at night. Um, any public comment on
this? All right. All in favor? I I. All opposed? Motion passes. 50. Number three. Okay. Item three, adopt resolution 2025-08, a resolution of the city commission of the city of Cocoa Beach,
Florida, adopting storm water fees and method for charging and providing for interpretation and for an effective date. Adoption of the rates presented in the stormwater system rate review will allow SRF rate covenant requirements to
be met and significantly assist in promoting financial sustainability in the storm water fund in support maintenance and improved storm water management within the city. Staff representative Morgan Zulki, storm water utility manager. Recommendation adopt.
I definitely want to talk about it. So, I guess I'll move to approve. Yeah, I'll second. Okay. Motion a second. Discussion. Yes. Um, I live for acronyms and I got a
eru acronym here and I read through this before. Um, trying to figure out what the ERU stands for. It's equivalent residential unit. Okay. Equivalent residential unit.
And then on uh in the resolution it basically says the monthly eru fee is hereby established at what was it's strucken. So the current is 11 and it's
going to $19 and the current was $11.64 and now it's $1966. Is that correct? I think it's 15. No, currently it is $153. The striketh through is because the one that was passed originally was
$11, but then in section F there's boxes in the original resolution that increased it on January 1st 1513. So I had to just X out what the original resolution which had the 11 there. So basically, but right now it's 1513.
Basically we would be raising it about 30% for$4 or5. Um, and this is going to help us be able to uh be able to loans or if we don't we're not we're not showing that we're making money where we have enough money to to pay back a loan.
So, if we do this, we can move forward with our products and get our loans that we need. This also protects our insurance rating for our residents, which is significant as well as storm water is public safety. I'm not one for I hate to raise rates and I hate I hate
raising taxes and I I have no intention of raising our millage rate in the future either, but this is one thing that um this just makes sense. We have to do it in order to to move forward with our storm water and all that.
So, so um I'm just curious. I can't recall what did we pay this repulus company for their study for the rate study. I do not recall how much it was.
Okay. Well, obviously we already paid them. Yeah, we already did. Okay. Okay. I think you covered it. Thank you. Uh any any public comment on this? Go ahead, Janice. Jan Scott, Cocoa Beach. Um could you um
elicit an overview of exactly what is going to happen with this increase? What are they going to do it? Thank you. Yeah. You want to come back up? We're going to let them let her know. So, some projects that we have ongoing is like the vulnerability assessment
that just came out that is big funded, but right now we're working on Cedar Wood and Bvard project. um which is a big flood assessment. It's going to design phase right now. We had our kickoff meeting um and hoping to go to construction in fiscal year 27. That is
a about $8.6 million project at the moment. So, that one would be one that we'd have to go out for loans for. Um another project coming up is Ramp Road Park. Uh we have some grant funds for that, but we need additional funds that hopefully the rate will be covering. um which is a big storm water project uh at
Ramp Road Park with adding parking and water will be going to the pond there for treatment. Um another project coming up is at Cocoa Isles a bioen area for water treatment. A lot of other projects coming in the future are helping with uh the water quality pro problem that we
have and state statute to make sure we have our total nitrogen total phosphorus met by 2035 and along with flooding products. There's 15 projects in storm water master plan that needs to be addressed. The Cedar Wood and Bvard project will cover two out of them. So
there's a lot of projects coming our way that needed space mass land with flooding concerns and water. I I just wanted to comment about Morgan. Did you just hear her spit on all that pertinent detailed information
off top of her head with no shows that you know you really studied this? You really know what I hope that answered your question. Uh, former mayor Scott. Okay. Any other comments? All right. Uh, commission
good with it. All the questions. All right. All in favor? I. All opposed? Motion passes 5. New business. Okay. Item one, acceptance of the school board of BVAR County resolution
2025-01 and approval of amended interlocal agreement with BVAR County School Board, Ramp Road Park. On April 22nd, 2025, the Bvard County School Board approved the transfer of ownership of the stormwater pond at Ramp Road Park
to the city of Koka Beach via resolution 2025-01. Additionally, the school board approved an amendment to the existing interlocal agreement with the city regarding Rampro Park located on Freedom 7 School property. The quick claim deed will be provided at a later date. Staff
is requesting a accept the school board of Bvard County resolution 2025-01 provided by the Bvard County School Board for Rampro Park located on Freedom 7 school property. Move to
accept. Motion in a second. Any commission comment? Any public comment? All in favor? I. All opposed. Motion passes. 50. Okay. And then be open of the amendment to the interlocal agreement by and
between the school board of BVAR County and the city of Cocoa Beach, Florida relating to ramp road park. Move to approve. Second. A second. Any commission comment? Any public comment? All in favor? I.
Any opposed? Motion passes 5. Number two. It's not here. Last page. Okay. All right. Item two. approved the scope of services for engineering and design in the amount of $168,756 for the wastewater treatment
plant clarifier rehabilitation project. This is a budgeted item and the project is eligible for state revolving loan funds. Staff representative Brad Calzo, public works and water reclamation director. Recommendation approved. Move to approve. Second motion in a second.
Any commission comment? Any public comment? All in favor? I I. All opposed. Motion passes 50 number three. Okay. Resolution 2025-09 resolution of the city commission of the city of Koka Beach,
Florida, enacting a moratorum on the enforcement of the city sign ordinance relating to non-commercial signs for the 60 days before any election county, Florida and ending three days after such election providing limitations and providing an effective date. And this
was added 4:30 2025 staff representative David Dicki development services recommendation adopt recommend adoption second motion in a second uh I'll just make a quick comment on this um for
election purposes uh as an official when you're running you actually have to get a permit for every sign that you put up um that's over a certain a certain size. So, this would just allow you not to have to get a permit every single time you put a sign. It just when you're
running, it's it's a lot of extra work to do. This is to make it to where you wouldn't have to deal with that. But it also you still have to get a permit if you go above the signage size that that's in this resolution.
I don't think you can get a permit to go higher larger signs. There's there's a limit in here as to how big of a sign that you're now in violation. Yes, it's a violation. Oh, yeah. There there are limitations on this. It you know any commercial sign that doesn't have
anything to do with this. Um if it goes bigger in the residential area than what's permitted, then you it would be a violation bigger than um what stated in the resolution in the commercial. It would be a violation. If you put it in
the right of way, it'd be a violation. Uh you put it on a um a lamp post or you know everything except for this size. Um you'll have to get permits for every single one depending on the size. Before
it was it was uh it was very tedious. As long as it's placed in the proper location and it's within the limits of the size per the resolution. Right. Right. I think it's important to note and and I think this isn't what you're saying, Mr. Mayor, this is not to plate candidates, but really it's so that you
don't have a burden on city staff going through. And what has traditionally happened is the city allows for the signage, right? And it's overlooked, but this allows us to have law and order in terms of we're not just going to overlook something that
shouldn't happen. This allows what is okay to happen to be okay. And I think that's the important part without putting extra burden on the city. Thank you for your credit, Josh. Yeah, if I can interject, this isn't to change any of the rules we have for where the signs go, how big the signs are, or how many
square footage of signs any person can have on their property. It's basically allowing or cleaning up the um ordinance we have on signs for Cocoa Beach because all we had was for the city elections, not for these other elections that now
are just popping up. Um so, it's allowing them because we we didn't have that. So, it's just a timing thing. It's not changing anything other than timing of the amount of days before an election and 60 days prior to election and three days after which is a good thing to
clean up for our election as well. Yeah, that way you know it's clear, hey, 60 days before the election, 3 days after, those are the only times you should be able to see, you know, any Tim Tumulty signs or, you know, or you
know, citizens matter signs or anything like that. Residents matter. Residents matter. I don't know. I didn't want to I thought there was a copyright on it. That's why I didn't say it. All right. Thank you. We all good. Uh, any comment on this? Okay. All in favor?
I. All opposed. Motion passes. 50. We are journ. We already had public comment. And that's something this year's going to be a lot