26 Pledge of Allegiance will be formed by Chief birthday an invocation by Chief Reverend Bishop lamb would everyone please stand for 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 liy and justice for all let us pray our dear gracious Heavenly Father Lord we just
thank you for this opportunity to come together as one Lord and work on the city's business we pray Lord that you keep your hedge of protection around our community and around our citizens Lord we also pray you keep a hedge of protection around our city council help us in every decision that we make Lord
that it glorifies you in your kingdom in your Holy Name we do pray amen amen everyone thank you very I Wasing you would ask me that question better be but I want to get start see that we do not have to vote on
anything tonight now we know let's move forward I have a plan to catch he has a plan to catch still have to do some packing to and I I'll be gone for an entire week so that's the reason I want to proceed for
because I you know I want to stop Pro functional all time so since it's nothing that we're going to vote on that's only reason why I took that okay position do you object to that position do you support that position no I'm fine of course I guess when we get to talking
about our priorities I'd be concerned but somebody should be here by then I would think so ma'am if not then we have to shut it down and reschedule again and everyone will have Tad pole eyes okay Madam clerk would you do a roll
call please ma'am thank you yes may president ma'am may herec here okay thank you very much for an attendance today um the the priorities
for today are the city council fiscal year 2026 um budgeting parties and planning special meeting and uh we are now getting underway it is March the 4th and I'm
appreciative city manager is yours sir Hey Brianna do we have hard copies no hard copies um Council has them you want me to do we have a copy of the uh of that
resolution yes I have okay bring bring that yeah Mr Mayor there is one item you Rec call that had a conversation with representative soy okay uh and um we don't have multiple copies
I probably okay okay take a five minute recess I need a second I need a second oh second can I ask what it is your looking for to and is it supposed to be the
special meeting of oh we got the right one okay yeah Council woman weeks we we needed copies of a of a resolution I thought Monica was to send that to you guys but okay have so I don't have it
yeah no it was a my check CU I got the list of legislative bills she sent I've got that up but I can see the screen if you put it up on the screen on the on the video everyone please secure your cell
phones including me because it's a $30 donation your CH I was hoping we get another Council okay I'll go check to see what we got in the back you leave that one there we'll just throw this one back Mi Mr city manager can you put it the
resolution up on the screen because then I can see it um let me I'll send it to you br you have electronic copy of the resolution um I'll I'll send it to you thank you sir
I'm ready Mr Mayor oh I got it thank you sir all right chair like to return from recess and then start the meeting held here 2026 in planning please let the record reflect
we have councilman going here present um do you have that recorded Madam Secretary okay Madam city clerk is this is a first time first time m'am by your Yeah by yourself yes so we have a rookie so I
will be extremely patient okay so now I would like to return the floor to you Mr city manager sir all right thank you thank you sir and as you said this is briana's first uh special meeting by herself there and
so um she's learning um and so I had a conversation actually I took a call from representative soroy on the uh on the um rock ledge Regional Hospital issue and his request was for
this Council to uh to draft up a resolution um in support of um more time for the hospital to remain open and so that they can come up with a better sort of um a better closure
plan and so we crafted up this resolution there a lot of where ases I don't want to read the the whole thing but at the end of the day it uh it's an expression of concern and so I'll I'll I'll read the uh now therefore be it
resolved by the city council portion of it if that's okay with you Mr Mayor sir yes sir uh and so it says now therefore be it resolved by the city council of the city of Coco as as follows expression of concern the city council expresses its deep concern over the
announced closure of Rock Ledge hospital and the significant negative impact it will have on the residents of coko and Central rard County advocacy for extended operations the city council strongly urges Orlando Health to consider um postponing the closure of
Rock Ledge Hospital into a new facility is operational ensuring no Gap in critical health care services for Community request for detailed plans the city council requests that Orlando Health provide a clear and expedited timeline for the construction and
opening of the proposed new hospital in bvar County including specific plans to address the interim Health Care needs of the affected population collaboration with stakeholders the city council calls upon
Orlando Health to engage in open dialogue with local governments health healthare providers and Community organizations to develop a comprehensive plan that addresses the health care void resulting from the hospital's closure
support for affected employees the city council emphasizes the importance of providing robust support and resources to the 940 employees impacted by the closure ensuring opportunities for employment within the local area to retain valuable Health Care
Professionals in our community number six preservation of Health Care Services the city council advocates for the maintenance of essential health care services including emergency care and Behavioral Health Resources with within
Central Bard during the transition period to prevent any disruption in care for residents transparency and Communications number seven the city council requests regular updates from Orlando Health regarding the status of
the hospital closure plans for new facilities and measures being taken to mitigate an impact on the community adopted by the city council of the city of coko Florida at a special city council meeting assembled on the fourth
day of March 2025 Michael C Blake mayor I'm in support of it what you and so we're we're asking your favorable consideration for this resolution we'll send this to uh president of soroy I
think he plans on forwarding it to the governor and to the uh the uh to the U to Orlando uh Health yeah just a comment just that um they have already begun their layoffs and there's a nurse and a
doctor in my neighborhood that were laid off and a lot of their employees are fleeing because as you know healthcare workers uh there's a lot of need in the whole region and so we are getting you know the
talent is being taken away so and I did see today where uh both parish and Via uh health systems are are interviewing are taking some of those employees also
Council Council uty mayor weeks yes um I I have no problem with this resolution but I know like Lorraine said uh so many of them I know of a bunch that have already been laid off and um and you know they stopped taking
new patients and they will have it totally shut down as of April 22nd so but I I too hate to see it closed because Vieira when I had to take my husband there uh a week ago every bed was full and my son who's an EMT said
every bed is full all the time at Vieira so where are all these people going to go what I can answer that question ma'am I'm sure we have a if I may Mr city manager we can have acreage that could
accommodate a hospital right here in beautiful downtown Coco somewhere even if it's on the Coco's curve where the next boom is going to take I think we're we are at a prime
position to monopolize and take advantage of this Golding opportunity why do I say that proper preparation promotes positive productivity and it's pleasingly sometimes to as well so I would like us
to even consider as time moves forward we put our name in the Hat even though I was born at woff hospital and I have a lot of historical moments there um um I would definitely like to keep our name in head or at least place our name in
that um I like to get a consensus well yeah well oh yeah think about it you all I'll just say age there nothing like having your own period point blank no I I agree I think that's great but I what my concern is
and I'm sorry I can't see you guys at the moment because I have the resolution up but so I can't tell if I jumped in in front of somebody and I apologize if I did um I'm just saying uh it's going to take four to five years for a hospital to be built and my concern is the lack
of beds in Bard County today in the meantime but I think Coco is a perfect spot you're exactly right put it out on 524 I'd love it in my district yeah yeah District three sounds good to me okay Mr city
manager sir yeah before you take the vote let me give you a little bit more context to the conversation with representative sooy okay and because I again I had and the City attorney did tell me he was going to be late running late there so that may be him so I did have the conversation and he was going
into a meeting last week or maybe this week with the Orlando Health uh officials there because Orlando Health request I don't know if it's each year but I know this year they're requesting millions of dollars from the state and
so and so he was again just as we all are upset with the closing his request was going to be that they delay the closing but again he was going into meetings this week I I I I asked if uh there was an opportunity for coko to
come to the table and talk uh um on the subject with either him or the Orlando Health officials there because again we don't obviously we don't have a whole lot of land but but again we have some possibilities and and again uh as we as
we get further into the agenda I'll tell you why some of the federal priorities are as they are because that was with that in mind had talked to Chief lamb about Standalone uh emergency clinics I
guess they're called Stand yeah erss and so and so just just kind of that thought process of hey let's let's at least start pitching what we've pitched before over at the uh over at the uh the old Dr
Jolie Smith uh site you know so so again and uh representative rooy did promise to come back to us but he but he was he was going to ask a number of cities to actually propose and present resolutions so that he could he could uh Elevate the
issue to to the governor's office okay is that it sir yes sir okay um I've heard from everyone now um what are the wishes of council motion to approve we have a motion on the floor by
councilwoman C second okay I was getting ready to second by the chair second by uh uh vice mayor uh Deputy Mayor weeks she's gonna call the question all in favor say I I I
eyes have it unanimously the floor is yours sir so thank you uh Mr Mayor so yes sir um we're here uh as we are each year this is this is the second uh special meeting slw Workshop of the season
um pretty standard form with a couple of exceptions um we have the the contract planners here to talk about the evaluation and Appraisal review process and Alexis will will uh we will'll give you more details on exactly what that is
but that's a a policy uh document uh comprehensive plan uh document that is again a policy matter for the council and so um needed to to have that presented to you get any
input uh that you may have on that and so uh we'll call her up we will again go through um the financial update Mrs Bowman will do that because again um I'm I'm a little nervous about what's
happening in the economy what's happening at a at a state level and so um you know we never know what the revenue picture is going to look like when we sit here in uh in March and February and it's there's even more
uncertainty out there at the present moment um you guys probably all heard on your way to work the stock market the that that um and every everything is sort of upside down at the moment I'll pass around for you and I emailed this
to uh councilwoman weeks there I'll pass around the uh Florida League of cities their legislative sort of Bill watch some summaries that are out there um okay and again it's just a as there is every
legislative session there's just a lot of activity out there uh with regards to bills that could negatively affect local governments um and so so again um I'll
send those out as we get them uh I know City attorney also uh advises you of things that come on his radar but again if you ever want to know I think they do this weekly at the end of the week the Florida of League of cities does their
legislative Bill summaries and so so you can go there each week and and see uh what's happening there uh again uh recall that at this second at the second uh meeting we do ask you for Council priorities we always list those as
Council priorities because although they flow up individually we're always hoping in Need for you guys to actually give some Direction as a body with regards to what the collective uh uh priorities of the council will be and then as always
and as required uh any public comment um um that you may have in the audience there so uh Mr Mayor and and council members I'll bring up uh Alexis prpo who
is with rvi to present the uh the ear comprehensive uh update and she'll introduce the rest of her team and and if you guys don't mind I'll just have Alexis sit at the table with us so the floor is yours great thank you
can everybody hear me okay yes um good evening uh as Stockton noted my name is Alexis creso I presented to yall a few times um I work with rvi Steve notto was the point person for the first year years so that we've been working with you but um I'm here today along with
Patrick Murray and Carol zapa who are planners in the our office uh working on this um evaluation appraisal report and so uh we wanted to kind of walk you through uh this project the process explain the steps involved and the um
aspects of the comprehensive plan will be uh evaluating uh along with your staff so um my my first time presenting to you was actually an amendment your comprehensive plan we I came and um we made some amendments to the mixed use future land use category to try to um
stimulate some Redevelopment in in the downtown Coco area so I know you're all familiar with the comprehensive plan generally and you see projects coming before you frequently that discuss the comprehensive plan this is a document um that we're required to have by state law
so every county has a comprehensive plan every city has to have a comprehensive plan and uh the the state also mandates that we maintain consistency with Florida Statutes so it's timely that uh Stockton passed out the legislative
summary and initiatives this year every year the state legislature goes to Tallahassee and they have a lot of Big Ideas some of them are good for Coco some of them are not great for Coco and they start making uh passing bills and making changes to Florida statute and so
each and every year um there are changes made at the state level to statutes that affect your compreh comprehensive plan and effect policies that are in that document fortunately the state understands that it's not cost effective for the city of Coco every year to go
from their comp plan start to finish and try to figure out every little change in those bills that affect the plan they say you really need to do this every seven years we're going to give you some Grace and understand this is can cost money in time so we we hit our seven-year Mark where we are due to
demonst rate consistency with State Statute and we have to do so by sending them amendments um to meet the state requirements by October of this year so we've got a timeline on us and we do know just from our uh cursory review we do need to make
some changes um to be in consistent with with um the Florida statute so we know that this is um again your comp plan this is not your Land Development code we're not going to go into your zoning ordinances or the zoning districts and start making any changes that often get
Property Owners up in arms or or making changes to your your future land use map this is um and Stockton and I have have spoken about this with staff we we really feel it's prudent to really approach this and make the the changes needed to be consistent with the state
if there are other changes longterm you want to make to your comprehensive plan there's Avenues to do that um right now we're time constraint to be to get get consistent with the state so we want to make sure we do that in doing so we are going to look at every goal objective
and policy within the comp plan to evaluate for consistency we'll go through each of the elements and um proceed that way so um your comprehensive plan has many elements or really chapters where they divide up the subject matter there's the one I think
you work with the most or see the most as council is your future land use element that's where we allocate density intensity and land uses to every property in the city and it's always what's changing the most in the plan um you also have infrastructure elements you you've separated your storm water
your sewer pable water all into separate chapters under the infrastructure heading you have housing schools conservation so there's there's a broad um level of subject matter uh I can tell you that the the ones typically impacted by state changes or your Capital
Improvements your transportation when they change stuff like concurrency and and um items like that so um we were engaged as part of our contract with the city to start looking at this just last month um you
did do a a light update in 2019 so your last comprehensive plan is dated 20120 the planning horizon or the length of time that plan looks outward is to 2030 uh your plan per the state law must
look out a minimum of 20 years so we know just right off the bat we've got to perform data analysis look at your population growth over at least 20 years we'd recommend doing a 2050 plan that gives you a little bit of fluff it's a
nice round number um and so uh that will get you consistent with the state uh laws but also give you a little bit of wiggle room in terms of the length of time we're we're projecting out growth of the city so wait I okay so I'm 2050
projecting our growth through 2050 yes okay as part of this and that's really the next the next slide is um get to the preliminary assessment here so the first step in this process is we we choose the year you want to
plan towards and we're going to look at um overall population growth we're going to look at demographic shifts we're we're going to look at does the is the population going to age significantly or suddenly the the people of coke are going to be much older or getting younger people coming into town where
we're going to have stable cohorts um moving forward so we do it uh that's what the state likes to see to know that we've all of our policies tie back to that growth we'll also look at your vacant available land for development um we'll look at available housing stock the infrastructure
available um is that really is the basis for the amendment so that's what we're actually working on right now um as we move forward so we go back so um I've touched on that phase approach in terms of the steps in this process we're doing our research and as I noted the
assessment report right now um we will issue the assessment report to um staff and City management we certainly can we're here most or can be here at any meeting you want us so we could always present that assessment report advertise it um so that the public can come and
and walk through um our findings in terms of what are the state changes needed based upon um our analysis then we'll just immediately put a pencil to paper and start making any policy changes needed to be consistent with the statute so we'll we'll do that over the
summer months and then we'll be back before you late summer and earlier if we can um in order to uh have you allow us to transmit or send this up to the state for review where they'll look and make sure it's consistent on their end after
the state reviews it um we'll also have a one final adoption hearing uh where we can incorporate any comments they may make about our amendments okay um just for the record if you want to say something want you to exercise your first amendment just raise your hand
I'll write it down and then you can ask a question okay all right great so that's our timeline with this allows us to meet again that deadline we have with the state to send them a legally consistent uh plan by excuse me
October um I talked about the preliminary assessment that we'll have done here in the next month or so in terms of community involvement opportunities um tonight was was advertised and certainly an opportunity we have a light audience but um we will publish the preliminary assessment on
the city's website um we can again present those findings uh at a a city council hearing uh when that report is done and then we will have multiple public hearings with your Planning and Zoning Board and then um transmitt and adoption with City Council in order to
um not only present this to you but get Public public input again this first phase of amendments is the more dry dry legal e type amendments where we'll be um digging into statute type changes but um so that doesn't always excite the
public as much as if you're making sweeping changes to to policies and Maps but um they they may at least be be curious about the process which we can incorporate them into um so we are really excited to be
working on this with with you all and um we'll definitely we're going to meet your timeline and um I'm just happy to answer any questions you may have as we kick this off council do we have any questions for um I have a general question of course we will see any
changes we're going to make before they're submitted yes so when we get to um the transmittal hearings we will give you a strike through underline so it'll have your current comp plan and anything we're changing will be will highlight it struck through new text
underline so you're very clear on what's changing it won't just be a clean updated document okay and I just wanted to verify the San the change to the sanitary sewer element that was to be made by July 1st did we make that
because I don't remember that ever coming before conso was a part of the legislation last year is that is that a report requirement yet or yeah I think it was an update to the compl update that'll be
a part of this update the 50 law subdivision we'll be doing that that's that'll be a part of this okay okay you have additional questions thank
you one one question the demographic we'll have that in the first assessment we'll have that yes ma'am okay great thank you thank you C manag thank you Mr Mayor so we'll we'll
move and again as Alexis presented on the schedule uh the public hearings are the public hearings are going to happen sometime between August and September so obviously you'll get an opportunity to see the full plan plan as she said strike through an
underline um so there uh I'll turn it over to Mrs Bowman to do the financial update and let me give you the thank you Mr Whitten so um just wanted to give you another brief
Financial update um so at the last um special meeting I presented to you uh and kind of walked you through all the different facets of assigned fund balance because we had a sign fund balance from fiscal year 21 and
22 um I need to present a Consolidated number in the financial statements and not have all that level of detail in it so I Consolidated the number um and so this uh slide is showing you what the
detailed categories are that go into assigned fund balance what you will see in the financial statements is the one number of the 20 million 666 558 what I had shown you previously was 16, 631
258 um some slight adjustments were made to as I Consolidated the numbers and got them all together um and if you'll recall I had on one slide a $3 million item for early debt repayment that was
just shown on the fund balance slide and um I moved that money over here so you can see the line up here for early debt repayment so I merely moved the the $3 million from an individual line into the
line that says assign fund balance and I didn't change the total fund balance it remained the same I just added and subtracted and the number stayed the same so I'm presenting this to you to show you um what you will get and you will see from the Auditors when they we
finish the audit they'll come back and present the financial statements to you it will be one line that'll show this $20 million and then as total fund balance as I just stated total fund balance did not change because I moved the $3 million it simply went from an
individual line somewhere on this slide into that $20 million assigned fund balance category and so the way that I have to present it in the financial statements is these categories according to my gasby requirements so I just
wanted to update Council on that and demonstrate that the fund balance is the same um and the detail of the assigned fund balance so um we've you know as we stated at the last meeting we're very early in the
budget process and so we start out with a very high level things that we know we know um the fire assessment um is already built in uh increase the storm water is a built-in increase so we know what those numbers are based on what the
number was last year so we're simply taking last year's number times these percentage increases the r Y is a calculation based on the capital Assets in the Utility Fund and the property tax increase at this point in time we have nothing from the property appraiser so
we're just taking a conservative estimate at 3% to say we think we're going to get some additional Revenue the economy hasn't tanked like it did in uh like 20072 2008 so we're projecting a positive number instead of a negative number but right now we have no idea
what that number is so um the high level guesstimate right now is an increase in revenue of $1.7 million um we do have an update on this slide um that we met with the insurance company and based on the claims that we
have right now we are fully insured uh but our broker is estimating a increase of about 15.7% and we had a much more conservative estimate on the last uh the last meeting so we wanted to update you
again to show you that um you never know we had 7 and a half% on the last meeting so it doubled and that's why as the city manager alluded to a few minutes ago we don't really know what's going to happen at this point in time that's why you try and
keep fund balance because you don't know um this is a recurring cost so we would need to come up with recurring Revenue to meet that because as you know we need to have a balanced budget our Revenue needs to equal our expenditures and we don't want to use recurring revenue for
for recurring or non-recurring revenue for recurring costs like medical insurance and and on the medical insurance we we we've actually done a good job over time Miss Jamani uh Mrs Bowman along with our Insurance Consultant because when we when I came
we were self self self-insured we flipped to fully insured and and generated some savings or at least held the percentage increase uh at a at a a single digit percentage
here I think we've been single digit percentage increase for the last four years we have and they've they've been able to negotiate every year this I just wanted to add they they are working on going out to bid on this and this is largely due to the glp drugs if you've seen all the commercials on T TV related
to the Olympics and all of that those are big drivers in the health plans um and so now next year the medical IAL provider or the the um the signas or the
all the providers will be putting more um stricter guidelines on the use of those or authorizing them but in the meantime um our broker is going to put a bid out to to try to reduce this 15% to a lower number yeah and and that's a
that's at again uh my direction your concurrence you know because we again we flip from the self-insured to the fully insured that that erated some some savings and so we were able to minimize the insurance increase um but we haven't
been out to the marketplace in three four years this this would have been the fourth year and so I just don't think that that we can engage conscience um I don't well I don't think the tactic of going to the
insurance carrier and saying hey we're going to go out give us your best uh you know so we we don't feel like that's a strategy that is going to work they will go and try to uh negotiate with the insurance carrier but again at the end of the day I think it's time to go back
to the marketplace all indications are that we're not going to do as well as we've done for the last four years that 77,000 number remember is only a general fund number I think that number is well over a million when you include the uh
the Enterprise agencies and so and so again um you know the big hit as Mrs Jamani said are are the uh are the glps which are the oics and the woia and
and and uh things like that you know so by by their by their more brand name there so so that's a big hit on us again we're hoping we're going to come in below the 15.7 but again it's certainly time to go to the marketplace and see what's out there and and I just want to
add that the trend for the weight loss drugs isn't just for us it's a trend that a lot of people are seeing everywhere that the the medical providers and that they're just now learning that they need to put stricter guidelines on authorizing them because
it's affecting the the premiums yeah the problem the problem is is that they're they're supposed to be for there your A1C drugs that are used that are used for you know weight duck
so that's part of keep going so um just wanted to point out uh further on this slide that this shows about a $2 million increase just based on again very high level um what we think is going to
happen so right now we're looking at a shortfall of Revenue against expenditures of $328,000 and we'll find out more as we go along through the budget process but again there are many unknowns at this point in
time and at that I'll hand it over to city manager thank you so again we we always come into this second Workshop I believe at least since I've been here asking you for Council priorities and
and we got a listing of those from um I think two council members there um and I thought we had a slide for those but again we're missing um
Samantha we're missing um and this is uh Brianna's first meeting there and so so you guys did give give me something I got something from councilman goinging and councilwoman weeks um and and we can talk about those
I I can I can take time out and and copy those down um Mr Mayor but wanted to sort of start this section by talking about um the federal Appropriations request and as you guys are aware we
have uh we have a state lobbyist we have a federal lobbyist and on the state side the states primarily looking for water quality um projects there and so uh we've been working to submit those uh
water quality projects there I think uh Mrs Morgan can tell you that uh where we are with regards to projects that are out there we're we're actually we do pretty good there in terms of uh the
projects that are that are outstanding are our needs and so we we are going to to uh submit something in terms of water quality on a state level we we we got this request was that that was sorry so so we we we've been in dialogue
with our with our federal lobbyists and um the he believes that we're going to have an opportunity to do to submit Appropriations request uh you know Appropriations requests are uh better known as ear
marks um now none of us can tell you what's going to happen up in DC but again we're gonna we're going to take our swing or or uh I was trying to get a hockey term Slap Shot
slap um and so and so he asked that we submit to um to um I think Senator herod's uh I'm sorry Congressman herod's office some federal prorations request and perhaps to uh to Senator
Scott's office there and so again you know um this is uh if you will this is Stockton's list and asking for the uh the council's concurrence on it and I can move uh them up and down the list as
you guys uh c fit or as you guys direct but what we submitted to them was the 524 widening um we've talked many many times about how critical that is for the growth of of the city for the bright Line Station recall that the city um you
guys authorized and directed an unprecedented uh step in that we gave money to the state to fund the the uh design and Engineering portion of it and along with and and and and in
partnership with TPO we have about $7 million committed $6 million committed to to uh the design and engineering and that got us into that got at least that portion of the project into the five-year work plan and so so again we
think that that's just extremely critical if we can get some federal dollars it's a state state road if we can get some federal dollars um in pursuit of that that would be uh uh nice really the the RightWay acquisition on
that is not too terribly bad I think it's estimated at 17 million that's a big number but not as big as it it usually is there and so and so again um so we're asking that uh the the curve
you know remember the curve is going from 524 to 501 which is Clear Lake uh so the curve we're working with uh you know and so and that and that again is and and they're going to reach out to
you councilwoman weeks because that design is a roundabout design so I know and I'm not happy yeah so we they're gonna make a yes sir call so they're they're going to
make a a special appointment to visit with you uh Council woman weeks so special and sell you on the the safety efficiency of roundabouts they could
try um Mr whon the one thing I wanted to interject on is the state road 524 widening we have not paid fot yet as far as I know they're not ready to go out to bid normally they once they do that they'll request the payment and then if it costs less that when they get all
done with construction then they um pay us back so they put that money in escrow but we have not submitted that to FD yet we're waiting for them to request the payment and that's in your fund balance numbers correct okay okay so 524 50
state Ro 501 I.E uh Clear Lake uh and then the Coco bright Line Station Gateway road and that is the road that takes you in into um into uh the Super Walmart Coco Super Walmart that'll take
you into uh the station um and so the city attorney's office has been working with the c the Walmart uh attorney on actually um finalizing that deal so we're hopeful that they'll give a
portion of of their property to us we only need a few feet for a certain distance to actually build a two-lane Entry Road two-lane Entry Road to the station that'll that'll benefit
obviously it'll take you to the station but it'll benefit the uh the Coco uh Super Walmart there so we've been we've been in conversation with them um um Mrs Morgan has has worked uh has been in
multiple multiple meetings with fot on the design um and again in meetings with uh with uh Coco Walmart we've all been there with Coco Walmart and so they've been receptive to that um um and I think that
that'll along with the Curve that'll be a great uh entrance uh entry point to the to the station there uh the Indian River uh Drive septic to sewer conversion again asking for money on
that as was mentioned by uh councilwoman cost there there is there there was I don't know if there still is conversation about overriding the governor's vetos uh from the last uh session there and so so we're asking for those dollars
on both state level and now uh on federal level also um what I alluded to earlier was the Dr Jolie Smith Community Center Health Care Facility and I think we actually pencil that in at $7.5
million uh to actually um set up a community health clinic in the diamond Square um Community again um Bard Health Alliance has identified that area as an area of need and so I know they a couple
of years uh back they had some dollars that were available and so we thought we'd take our shop with the feds to ask for some dollars there and then the uh the multimodal regional storm waterer
facility and park uh recall that um in the curve or on the bright line site uh the city has approximately 40 something Acres 25 uh acres are in a conservation easement that we're working with the uh
St John's Water Management District to to relieve that easement we think we'll be successful we'll have to purchase some uh some uh mitigation Bank credits there and so you saw in Mrs Bowman's fund balance numbers there you saw the
economic development uh set aside uh to do that this is the other portion that was given to us by I forget the the local family that donated this and their stipulation on it was that it' be for uh
recreational type facil facilities or amenities and so we would turn that portion if you if you think back to the bubble plan we would turn that portion into a storm water facility that has uh some recreational um
functionality and so this would be a great uh oh she has it on here okay so so we do have what was submitted to us in terms of
um uh individual council member priorities uh Council going you want me to go over this or you want to you want to take it from here can I say one thing okay def you want to say something yeah
well it was pretty simple I know we have we get from the state of Florida ship program think am but is there possibility to add on that appropriation Federal
hous well well I mean I I've had those conversations with our federal lob um and and so the state programs are is the CD I'm sorry the federal program is the cdbg cdbg and home or the federal
program ship is State ship State and so not sure that you know in terms of submitting the Appropriations requests you know you can you know got to be strategic there I we're going to be there I'm not sure if Eddie will be there tomorrow in DC so let me let me
talk to him about the wisdom of asking for those additional dollars for those types of programs under the current Administration and then I'll Circle back to the counil okay councilwoman C uh well my my
question was resolved because uh councilman Hearns just got here I did have questions on the presentation though just a couple simple things I wanted to ask okay um and I'm sorry I don't understand this
yeah I was just going to asked about the impact fees that we used on on the widening the impact fees is that are they solely for roads when you they're they're for growth related
infrastructure expansion of so all all infrastructure okay and then I wanted to ask on it's from the Transportation impact Fe so so Transportation related Transportation related okay and then on the uh general fund
let's see what slide was that 14 the um unassigned fund balance just wanted to make sure I understood the figures um the stabilization is that the same thing as
our Reserve uh there is a stabil stabilization Reserve yes okay so that's just like the 11 million that we had last last year yes except for 13 milon and then the unassigned fund balance is
that basically those are the monies that were not spent this year or those were where are those monies from unassigned fund balance fund balance is assets minus liabilities and so you do a calculation and that's where the 56
million comes from as your total fund balance and then you go through and um you know I have to report the nonspendable I have have to report the restricted I have to report the the committed because those are uh political
actions that Council has taken and then the assigned fund balance is the list that Council approved and so the difference is unassigned okay okay but but for these for these purposes your unassigned is is
an accounting yes assets minus liability okay I mean what what what what we really what you really had an ability to sign out is to assign out is is on this on the previous sheet
there I mean again the unassigned is just an accounting formula I don't mean to minimize account that's that's really quite a bit I mean we have a little bit of money from 21 and 22 but if you recall fiscal year 21
assigned fund balance was uh the 8.8 8 million and then fiscal year 22 was 5.3 million in assigned fund balance and now we're up to $20 million in assign fund balance and some of that is money that is already earmarked for other
purposes and especially with the train station coming we need to conserve that and and we we we talked well you all some of you you we talked as as a CRA about you know notice the c Village
parking and the number we we uh we talked about last night there we we do have assigned to that um over half a million dollars there and so again trying to trying to to uh to tackle that problem um again
via the Oleander West lot and then some other initiatives that that uh could have to be underway and and also that 575 again is general fund dollars and the Coco C paid for one of those lots on
Oleander as well so we reset that back up to 575,000 because we did buy one of those lots and general fund and then Rebecca that that includes so we've we've assigned out the uh the uh the easement dollars that we
got from the two utilities to yes that's included in that 575,000 um and so if we don't have any other questions on what was previously presented I I'll move to what was submitted individually is uh uh District
priorities the r RFP or my number one was um the Orange Street um property I do know understand that is a part of so I
still priority yeah and and Mrs neuter is actually working on that and I I I'm be honest with you on that one I'm we're setting that up so that the RFP is soliciting a not for-profit to come in
and and uh and do that uh because again because of capacity uh because of experience you know just I don't I don't want uh rookies um bidding on that but again
that that that part parcel is the actually it's two Parcels there in ownership of the uh of the CRA and actually um the land owner that is south of that has agreed to donate um very
small sliver of their property so that we can increase the density uh on that on that uh parcel there so so again I want to recognize them for doing that the U this something that I believe
that we could actually take vot on tonight um brought this up several times about uh the museum and and I believe it's time for foring individual inever it is create that RP
for um I believe it's been it's been long enough in my eyes but I think we need to make move sooner than later um talking to the city manager he
doesn't smart um to do Soul source that was something that I brought to him to go that route but he believe that RFP is best yeah and I think it's I think it's a matter of competitive solicitation or
the requirement for a competitive solicitation within a CRA although I know this is a city asset um you know CRA follow City's policies as far as puring yeah so so I just think yeah it's
it's the course of the necessary course of action okay um so th thoughts on on um on how I feel about the the museum um I I believe again it's been it's been
long enough and and we need to uh start creating foot traffic which could be um nonprofits coming in having EV um it could be um Divine n organizations coming in having Banquets uh um
traveling exhibits um coming inside of the museum um they're doing an awesome job in Bard Museum on Michigan Avenue uh I I I really would like that same energy to be right in Diamond square and and so
that's my my thoughts on so what is that what does that require um yeah yeah so I have another bulletin point for that
too um so um so we know quite naturally we tried to do the the volunteer route the volunteer route did not work I believe that that was a great idea um but we didn't see that that energy and that fire for that opportunity and so
and speaking to a few nonprofits um each one of them had different amounts and so some of them was $25,000 for the year some of them was $30,000 for the year um which was creating programming for the
museum um and so that that's my my idea is setting aside uh between 30 and $50,000 um for a calendar year uh to
provide for a nonprofit to come in and run the museum and so that that was just my thought I'm not I'm not an expert in the matter but I do know that we need to do something that $3 to $50,000 may not be
the number um but that's just how I feel about it ma'am I I think the whole idea of organizing events there to give it visibility to get the word out that it's
available um we have a relatively small interpretation at this point so I just you know the expectations what are the expectations um I think people will go to events
there um they can spend you know an hour or two looking at the interpretation yeah but building that those exhibits and the interpretation is going to be you know that's a long-term thing yeah
um the So when you say 30 to 50,000 a year um if you would like what you know one of my requests was to do um speaking event to plan a series of speaking events there as we you know
build its visibility and popularity um I don't know how much that would cost either if I'm sure it does dedic need a dedicated organization ation or groups of Minds if you're talking about a nonprofit you know there
volunteer energy there I mean basically you know the the history museum that's they've got somebody that's keeping the doors open for what 20 hours a week but the rest of it is is volunteer energy right um and then
they're now they're trying to put together a friends you know of the museum organization that can do more raise more funds that sort of thing um
so yeah I'm not an expert either yeah I know I like to go to museums I often go to museums when I travel and um and I like the little uh what would you call them kind of
um well the smaller exhibitions they can be just as valuable as a large exhibit um if done well so I know somehow put more perimeters in what I what I've seen at
at some of the other museums that I visited they all started with a Community Committee and and and that Community Committee worked with the nonprofit to create the programming so it was a um holistic approach to it and
that's just that's from what I've seen it wasn't necessarily the nonprofit by itself it was it was the community as a group um it was say for example 10 committee members from all walks of life inside of diamond Square they come in
and and that that whoever is chosen from that RFP have a perfect marriage together and then that programming is born out of that relationship so that's that's just my thought process but I I just know just so you're saying
to attract that nonprofit we offer a or you know we look to see how much they would be requesting right with the RFP right and their present that RFP would include their plan yep so I mean I'm definitely supportive
I'd like to see something tiered you know so that you know our expectations aren't too high for the first year we're going to be building something here can I put in two sense certainly
ma'am okay I I too like what you're the direction that you're going on that with the community and putting out an RFP um uh I think that that's a great direction to go and uh getting somebody
who knows how to do that but enthusiasm from the community will drive it so I definitely am in favor of proceeding down that line okay all we moving on no no he's want to get
some insight oh I'm supportive of it I want to see some foot traffic and uh some action happening over in that museum it's a beautiful U exhibit we put a lot of effort in it and I would love for people to start en join it so I'm in favor of the
RP my only concern is funding correct yeah that's my only concern um to me this is Michael's assessment because I had people come to me and ask how can I volunteer um and to me if we get people
to volunteer their time and educate them um it's there Thomas Cole school right down the street some of the immediate members from the community will volunteer how do I know I talked with them um people who
dedicated uh um artifacts to the museum are willing to participate for free now my only concern is where we get the money if you're just talking about
an RFP just putting it out there does that mean that you put it out there and you must fulfill that RFP or do you have to do it from a different version cuz there again we talking about dolls I mean I'm born there I see it
every day I drink it I absorb it I'm just saying just to me um through this ARP I'm hoping it would be somebody local I don't want anybody from Mel cuz just like me going down there
speak about the 3,000 members of melbour Crane's Creek Peter R is buried here it's your local people are the people that will do it you know ba them ad and
also right Brothers it's your local community that will do I I really wouldn't want anybody outside of Goo that's my so I guess to to your point I I agree with you um but but at the same
time sta has been working diligently um to the best of their ability to locate those individuals who would who would um take the time to volunteer but we have not had the
interest I think we've had 12 from what Mr Brown was telling maybe 12 people or so at one time and then only one or two actually completed application for it that's correct and so it it's so I hear you and I I agree with
you 100% but I think the the issue is that when volunteering for a museum is not when you feel like it it is whatever that time frame is that we say that that museum will be open they must be available and I think it's difficult for
some individual especially retired individuals um to commit that time that you know we may not have enough of them either but but we also have Diamond Square dollars as well uh I made um mention of that at the last
Diamond Square meeting um that we can do uh an agreement with them as well where it could be a 50-50 situation where City Andor CRA come together um I my biggest thing
is I'm just tired of the doors being closed and I think the community as well feel the same way I agree with you we have people that can come to the table like I told you before to me the first event is having your
father your having other people like your father come in and have that traveling local we don't have to have a lot of uh uh exhibits coming in from out of town we have enough juice right here within the city within our local area that these young people don't know about
at all or don't have enough history to understand who these people are you know like one of the one of the best things I could have did was introduce a kid to Jolie Smith and he didn't realize Jolie Smith was standing right next to him and
so mixing in the people that you're talking about in the community along with RFP nonprofit Diamond Square some dollars from them as well and I believe that can bring um something good to to that
building that's just just my my opinion I think it's worth a try anyway I'll say that it it is worth a try staff has done a good job along with historical society we got some exhibits inside of there at one time it was nothing inside and so we've came a long way we still got a
long ways to go um to to councilwoman cost's point the the building itself is really not where it should be as a exhibit or as a museum but I believe it's a good start for where we are right now and so that's so I believe some of
the dollars from from from Cityside some of the dollars from Diamond Square I think would could be a good thing okay let me ask you another way as we building the uh area right there in Michael C Blake
subdivision as we add more homes to that Community to our community to the neighborhood y that once we build more homes we get more additional tax doll do 100% then yes I would be in favor of a
combination both of diamond Square dollars and City dollars okay uh yeah I mean it's a pleora of information um but U my concern right now um really is I'm trying to hold on
to $25 find whever that is in the back um trying to hold on to our dollars and be H account accountable knowledge is power and and and I've directed many people calling Mr Ryan Brown because wanted access I myself have opened up
that building that made people be access accessible to it even Larry Brown he's not there now but he he went over there with me to make sure you know properly set the alarm I mean I want the facility to be utilized um and I know for a fact a lot
of the old schoolers pointet graduates mighty mighty pythons and they were middle school as well um will be attending that facility I'm just trying to see before I I I I mean I will feel a ham sandwich a lot better if
I put it on next year's budget not 20 and I'm I'm not procrastinating not on 25 but I would like to see it in 26 so then we'll see how much funding we'll be getting from our Tiff as we build this year and get them on this year's role to
to see what it be like well could we um take a vote on the RFP get the information and then we'll we'll have whatever that amount would be from those individuals who interested in the project we'll have that money we'll have that amount 25,000 whatever it is we'll
know what that is I just I just I take a RFP I just don't want to lock no dollar amount in okay I'm down with RFP that's you know long we we're getting knowledge that's what I'm saying we get knowledge so so if you're going to do the
RFP and and I know we got a committee meeting we have to continue to move forward because I you know yes that is important but I'm just saying if we just getting an RFP I'm not ready to allocate any dollars to it that's what Michael is saying to okay okay is that a motion yes ma'am
and I'll second it call a question all in favor saying I I I okay placing it out on the RFP do you have that Miss um re early well let me make sure I let me make sure I have it so so we're going
to place an RFP on the street for the management of the Leon and Jewel Collins Museum of African-American history and culture um we've not allocated any dollars to that endeavor but we're going to ask the
proposers to submit MIT uh a budget for for doing that activity it's a it's a okay yeah what's your thought on that cuz I you you your your gear is turning in
your head well well I mean I mean to be to be consistent you know when we put rfps on the street for a service there's a budget associated with that service you know and so and so again because you know it's it's government purchasing but
it's also uh people don't really bid if they you know you're serious when you attach dollars to to the initiative you know and let me let me just let me just tell you the way the
uh the way the uh the um Harry T and Harriet V Moore uh homite happened there there was a there was a a committee that was functioning in the community for a number of years um and uh there was a
state appropriation for the home sites there and so so bvar County just got lucky and one of the uh one of the state legislators uh from Jacksonville Jacksonville rebal High School um um Champion that and so we got State
dollars to do that but the management of that facility is Parks and wreck staff you know obviously the count is bigger than us and they can they can have dedicated staff and so so they do have a board a sort of friends of uh board and
and I and I've talked with a councilwoman uh C about the friends of we were most successful in terms of we being the county in terms of fundraising for the library system because we had all of these friends of you know and there was a friends of group for
virtually every library in the uh in the county and so so so we had the Grassroots sort of effort first and then the management came second but again you know and I guess we could issue an RFP asking
for um asking for uh pricing for management of the Leon and Jewel Collins Museum but I think I would do a letter of interest a request for letters of interest and so perhaps maybe not necessarily having to
have a budget associated with it but it's seeing at least if there are any uh organizations not for-profits that would be interested in the Endeavor and so I would just simply say if you can amend or modify or redo your motion to say
request for letters of interest and then we we can sort of Step into the are there organizations out there that would be interested and see how many are out there um get a sort of ballparking ballpark figure of what they believe
they would be able to do it for and then uh go if you will to an RFP or or perhaps even select ultimately off of the request for the letters of interest if there's going to be a mix of of uh
CRA funding then you certainly you certainly have to go through the competitive process but for me I think it's it sets up better as a request for letters of Interest okay okay yeah and then and we can I mean we can limit it in the first year you
know organize six events organize 10 events yeah I like it you know whether they be uh speakers or an actual events I'm just saying if if I can do it
on Michigan we definitely can do it on on blade there's no doubt in my mind because just and I'm going leave leave it alone but um are y'all will are you going to amend your motion to as the request of the city manager to reflect
that of course okay are you going to amend your motion Council woman call yes okay so just for the record do I need to vote on this again Pano or just let it stand why don't we clarify for the
record what the actual motion it's going from RFP to a letter of interest okay all right so I need I'm asking just for Robert rule of law yeah I would have another motion I mean you need to substitute the previous Direction RFP
for letter of interest at two different all right documents and processes and and I will guarantee you how many is that the staff at Michigan right now there's one part person say it again there's one part-time person one
part-time person okay I guarantee you get you four people okay what's the date guarantee that what's the date write it down man she a man a man um so then okay you have a new abended motion Mrs brief
thanks ma' was going to call a question all in favor saying I I I I I happy um so the um some of the other things may have already been done except
for number five number five what I'm go with number four number four we have some older signs that need to be updated coming into the city um they don't show the the current state championships is is we need to upgrade those so that's
something that that I know that I I'm probably the only one that have seen them but um y we travel Trel um and and the uh so I don't know if that's a diamond Square thing but I
have attempted to uh speak with our sister city and haven't had much success maybe this is something that maybe city managers can do as well collaborating with their city
manager um but we know the island on Rosa Jones is is is maintained by the city of coko and so what I'm asking from them was something simple hey come to the table with $88,000 $9,000 because before
Miss Morgan came Bryant Smith gave me a number at that time that was maybe you know a while back but it was like 14 to1 15,000 to landscape that median that runs from F Boulevard all the way down
to is that exor close to close to Georgia oh we talking you going west going west going west from Fist and so yes we we we we technically share that island but we as city of Coco we cut it
and so I don't know what that looks like I don't know if that's even possible to do a partnership but we have had one before on the asphalt on the road on Ros of Jones in front of Mcnair um I don't know if that's a possibility
but I a lot of people that lived in Virginia Park asked me for this one and this been maybe a year or so I didn't bring up last year cuz I didn't get I was kind of waiting on them to get back with me and it didn't happen so I'm just
bringing it to to us for a potential project um I think that was it the O another another one was the storm water um
connections on South Carolina and Georgia intersection of home Home Street um in that area they don't have that uh drainage a lot of the drains when it rains in that area water is holding in a lot of those on both
those streets on South Carolina pretty much Midway from Counts to home street and the same thing on the corner of Georgia and Home Street um they don't have that Inlet curb inlets in that area
to uh create that water flow and so uh I was asked to bring that um as well up in this conversation okay um in regard to the uh Landscaping at Virginia Park I'm not opposed to
Landscaping anywhere in fact I'd love to see more of it but my neighborhood had its Landscaping reduced a couple years ago the US1 has been taken out not maintained I'm told it's because we don't have the resources it looks pretty
shabby so um you know I want to know if they're going to be able to do that are they going to be able to do you know other areas and in particular let me be a little more specific well in particular not even my
neighborhood we talk about but the areas that are are actually entryways into the city yeah yeah no I agree with you on that but but again I've did this before a couple years I I I have to bring up priorities in my own district and so so
I think that's it's up to other District members to do that for their own District so um but I but I do agree with you on that if that's a concern of yours but I know again I would like for the city manager to have that conversation if possible okay because again we share
you got the city we share that street with the city of Rock Ledge I just say that um and to Miss Morgan as far as the $500,000 for asphalt is is I know we raised that up
202 last year two years two years ago is is is that that's a comfortable number um moving forward as far as what you know because I know yes for now okay that's it I'm good thank you sir
let let me let me talk a little bit because because you're I want to be transparent so so in the tree mitigation fund we have 14 maybe 14 1.4 million okay
um and we can do those landcaping sort of things let me tell you why I'm holding that in OB bance there because we talked about the uh we talked about the uh number three the Coco bright Line Station Gateway road there and so as we
negotiate with Walmart to to have them give us some of their property so we can create that road um part of the negotiation center is around Landscaping that Entry Road and so we don't know what we're going to need okay but again
I just want to be uh open so we're we're sort of holding those dollars uh back in terms of doing anything until we actually negotiate out that deal hopefully we'll get uh federal dollars there but again we're asking Walmart uh
Abby you remember how much we're asking them for they property um I want to say it's like 30 32,000 Square fet yeah yeah so so we are trying to trying to make that happen
um again you know we we would uh we would landscape it and then there would be another uh entrance point for for um for Walmart just to sort of to do the swap of give us some of your property
and and we'll make the road uh pretty for everybody okay ready give the B I'm good okay and so um councilwoman weeks we're we're on your listing I don't know are you at the
screen I am looking at the screen but I have my list here as well but I don't it hasn't popped up on my screen yet uh because there's a delay I've still got yours up there the there we uh there we go
okay um yes uh and I will say I think I've got on there about the entrances to the city along uh with what Alex said and I understand now uh what you're saying about holding the money in a bance but all the entrances to the city
definitely need sprucing up to make us look better but yeah my my first priority was um I did not want to see the property taxes go up because everybody screamed very loudly last year even though the millage rate didn't go up their property values did and their
taxes went up and I've heard so much from people about that so I'd like it where they're the now obviously we have a lot of new homes and a lot of new properties coming on board and so we will get additional funds from that but
I would sure like to see us uh keep um not the millage rate but have it at the point where their taxes are the same this year as they were last year so my phone's not ringing off the hook with people screaming about their taxes um
and then uh the uh obviously the trail head and all that for the part is my number two and um and I also have heard that there are grants that we could put in for to help with that uh with those
costs to make that money that we have go even further and eventually I would like to see it have a pavilion and uh bathrooms there at that entrance like there is at the one in Coco Bay especially if we're going to have you know groups going in there yes there are
bathrooms across the street at juny Rios but they'd have to go over 524 and it'd be nice to have those there uh so I see one and two what was my my number three was um the septic toour of course you
know time is of the essence of that so I put that as number three and then um what did I can you scroll down I beautify the entrance to Coco at I95
was number four yeah yeah uh I would like to and again it goes along with what Alex said all of the entrances to the city really could use sprucing up we we look a little dingy along there and um and then I think I've got on there
garbage along 524 uh that I got a second call today from somebody about the garbage and about the homeless Camp next to the CVS I told him to call the police when he saw him there he said he was going to put a trail cam out there so he'd know when the homeless people were there to
call the police so um but anyway uh oh yeah I'm planing for the new fire station and widen Friday Road um with all those 400 homes going at the end of Friday Road uh those
I mean the people between 524 and the new subdivision are County but um I drove it the other day going to show property and I kept thinking my goodness when you add another 400 people driving down that road um we need to do something now that's is that a County
Road or is that that's a County Road isn't it yeah but we can maybe light a fire under them so that was my priorities and we do need to plan for a new fire station okay and I love the hospital
idea I think we've got land out in my section okay um I don't know if we have any other uh Council input but counil uh so one of the uh big initiatives that
I would like to see in District to uh is okay let let me get through I'm sorry oh this was just on this item here sorry you want to say something about District three no no I was going to speak on something else I didn't know we were still on this yeah he no no I I think
she's done on hers I was asking yeah I am other council member priorities or wishes or okay Council um her cost um so I already know that it's budgeted uh I saw the
500,000 uh for pavement I would love for a large chunk of that I don't know where we at in the uh the chart uh for that to be uh the neighborhood south of Dixon Boulevard in District 2 um where many of
the streets are in bad shape Abby Abby you'll send out the list again between p and fist Boulevard right you you she'll she'll send we'll send out the list the list of uh the priorities there I mean we we arm
wrestle each year about listing how we came to the list there but but we'll we'll put that back that ball back in your courts and so we we do have a list that is recommended by the pavement management
system and secondly uh I've been thinking long and hard on this one this this is one of those uh this is one of those free throws that I'm going to throw out there and um I don't know if the council entertain it but
uh I was doing some research I would love to give direction uh to the city manager and staff if this is possible uh for the city to look at there's two large properties within District 2 uh one of
the properties is shared with District 4 um to investigate and see if some of these properties are willing to or willing to entertain uh selling those properties to the city
um and I believe one of the properties may be behind on their taxes um so I would love to investigate if those property owners are willing to sell those properties to the city uh for the purpose of uh some mixed use
development um Redevelopment redeveloping those properties is currently a isore to the city um possibly bringing more businesses in and and possibly more homes similar to what we did on 524 uh we're serious in the old wind
Dixie um those properties are located on Dixon Boulevard uh bird Plaza and the other is uh the building is shared by Save A Lot currently
UHA bird Plaza uh there's a couple businesses I've seen going out of business there so I don't know uh the property owner may be willing to uh entertain that and also uh the building shared with Save A Lot
um I believe it's current the building would save a lot the whole Plaza whole Plaza is under one ownership yeah you just talk about Pastor Earl Beck I did talk with him he said he pay his property taxes
come people who live their life on the internet are to my attention and I'm just cut to the chase we'll see um if anything you know the best way to help stimulate and rejuvenate that area we all at that
conference make that Dixon Boulevard a commercial I would love what Happ various independent tours of Tamp that was one of the suggestions I actually uh received um at one of the conferences uh first uh try to negotiate with the property owners see if they're
willing to entertain it secondly uh something similar to what the mayor just alluded to a commercial C or or similar here's my only conern two things time time can be with you or against you Governor saying he's going
to do away with all CR we talked about that last um what can be with you I think the County Commissioners may vote for so all we need to do is Count three so I I'll give that to the city
manager um I know the city manager he he he doesn't move city manager doesn't move without Direction so um you guys support too now that ball swing that door swings both you all are
familiar with those two plows has been here longer than I've been here um uh I would love to see that area Thrive um and come to life so uh it's right for redevelopment um also
to point out that that is a park desert for those communities but the um the status of the complete streets there I mean they were going to look at um wasn't Dixon Boulevard being considered and they've talked about in
this place we're just on that project is just beginning and so we've had a couple of meetings on that um committee meetings on that Mrs Morgan is actually uh on the meeting with that I always forget the young lady's name that's
there Sarah what's her name no Sarah chome I think our consultant there oh Myra Myra yeah so so we've been there again they they've they've had a couple of meetings on that that will uh that
will uh that will eventually uh go to some plan that uh that uh is for it'll be eventually formalized in some plan so so there at the beginning stages of that process you know the the the uh kind of
funny because I just had a call on bird Plaza today and it was from the the the real estate agent and and there and I've met with the management team I met with the owner and and City doesn't have enough to actually buy the
plaza um and so that those things are always will be uh private development I can tell you what's going to make bird Plaza what's going to contribute to the Redevelopment of bird Plaza will be the train station um you know we got a call from a gentleman that was riding the
train who asked about it uh more than a couple of months ago and so um the car today was about their Cod issues you know they they uh you know again there there's just some terrible buildings in bird Plaza and so and so they're not
talking about selling they're talking about forgiveness of their code uh issues you know um so but I I do believe just as we see elsewhere uh we've seen it in Rock Ledge that those old shopping
centers and just as we've seen it in Coco with with a Cirus you know um they once once the train happens there I do believe we're going to see some some energy with regards to bird Plaza in terms of the the streetscaping
and the and the uh and Dixon uh Abby can you give them the update on the uh on the pine Dixon Crossing yes so um excuse me we received the uh con the
estimated um uh construction cost for the pinita street and Dixon Boulevard intersection um and so the plan is to go um to the Tiff board and
um request jointly with the county uh for funds to fund that project the construction of the project do we we already have our portion didn't I thought we already went went so we and the and the Tiff committee Tiff board is
the tax tax uh tax the transportation impact fee committee there and so we we've already asked and received authorization for to utilize uh some of our transportation impact fees for that project now the county design for the
design yeah is that not the construction uh no the design was completed last um I want to say October so now we have to go back for construction for construction okay so we we contributed to the design correct and now we're going to go and
ask for uh what's our what would be our contribution uh 175,000 so so do that times two you can see how expensive those those uh those projects are but but again going to the
committee to ask for uh use of our transportation impact fees to complete that project you don't know when that meet meeting is do you have um I'm waiting for the email from the county requesting availability to set that meeting up are we able to see that
design it available I have that okay C calls that's it that's it because um and I went back and of course I've always had my
list to see if anything was checked off um and there hasn't been any progress well there's been a couple of things uh that have been supported but overall it's the same list that I've been presenting every
year um some real doable things they're all pretty doable not that expensive oh with the exception of I would really like to see the uh the police waterways
vessel I know that would be an expensive item but short of that a couple of things I think are really necessary for the neighborhoods and starting with the Cambridge neighborhood to have some add some high VIs visibility
crosswalks at the cross streak locations for pin Ridge home for the pin Ridge area which is of course home to Cambridge Elementary to make it more walkable for the students we did work there we did
redid Cambridge last year but um still getting complaints of course from this neighborhood and every other um about speeding and the Cross Roads you know the cross walks at least give some
signals to slow down and and um an option for safety um you've also heard me talk about the acoustic padding for the gym at Travis so that it'll be more useful um went over there again they're
still not using the computers the the computer setup there is that was kind of a waste of our money at this point unless there's some sort of division between the play areas and the computer areas as there is at
Jolie um either through some curtain or you know setup they're just not they're going to become outdated you know before they have any wear um for a long time I've asked about bus
shelters I've talked with scat talked with Stockton we thought we had something going on Clear Lake we've got uh communities that use a lot of public transportation there so the one we're looking at Clear
wake Clear Lake Isles in that area we now have Orchid lakes that is there as well so potentially a lot of people that would like to use the public transportation system
um of course I support the museum idea and want to continue maintaining you know the um the history museum the high on my list were the uh
corridors again and also the corridor to the high school and it's pretty nice going down Michigan Avenue I know we it must have been a decade or more when we did that work going down Michigan and the curved sidewalks with
the trees that lead to the high school but I really think that's important because when people are coming to your city if they have kids they're going to be going to visit the schools and first impressions count so that one that goes down rostine um I don't know that's a is that
our road I'm sorry yes yeah is that our road yes at some point it's County and City yeah I would like to see that pushed up no it at at some point it becomes
City I believe right near the near the high school uh okay [Music] um you know really to do it right is probably a bigger project but at some point I think it's really important in
terms of as we discussed First Impressions and particularly when it comes to new people moving here and checking out Coco they're going to be looking at the
schools and the entryways to them um septic to sewer and in this case I'm interested in some sort of nias I talked about this last year as well but the residents that
are within the IRL Bas management action plan that are already near a sewer line using that money through the soral to hook up most of those people they likely don't even know the money's
available um and in most cases it has paid I think it's up to 12,000 now and it's paid for a lot of those completely so and and I guess somebody's writing these down right
yes okay okay the bus shelters okay the the the um crosswalks at Cambridge the acoustic padding for the gym the septic to sewer and the corridors overall I agree with everyone
else that has spoken about those um today the looking at my list it occurs to me that a lot of the projects and a lot of my frustrations have been not in competence but in capacity
and so also high on my list is hiring an assistant city manager we've discussed this before but we have a window here before our current city manager is retiring and we have talent in the area
now I mean there there's some Talent out there and we have some high visibility I would imagine in intensive in terms of the time needed from the city manager for
the projects that we have developing around bright line and elsewhere so I would like to have that discussion I would like to hear from others I feel like he's competent enough competent enough you ask me the question
I'm ask he would tell us if he wants assistance and or if he needs an assistance city manager you know that's his obligation that's just the way I feel about I mean you know this man has been doing this for 30 years you know plus so
if he's not able to speak up and say I will agage to you until that happens then he'll let us know that's all I believe in him I trust I would ask this is not a matter of believing in him and it's not a matter of competence I would ask you not to
Gaslight it on that because it's about capacity no I have so many things that have dropped off lists that don't involve a lot of money but they do involve some attention to detail there's no gas it's not that's
why we have it's not competence it's capacity we're putting in a bright Line Station which could be very big and so momentous for us now and requires so much more capacity than we have at the
the administrative level particularly at these initial steps I don't have to come to the council to hire an assistant I can do that at any time thank you uh it has to be budged and even even if I even if I
had an assistant I'm I am until I'm gone I'm going to be in first seat on the bright line uh I I feel like I in part uh did a whole lot to actually get them to the table in terms of choosing uh coko as a location because you remember
the the discussions from two years ago was was them going out to RFP and so and so um you know and as I've said with with the council individual Council
list you have five different council members and you have five different lists and so it is always a matter of the council deciding what their priorities are from
those lists and so um that's that that's not a matter of me list because if not we we we are we're in this same discussion that we're having you know and so and so the council needs to prioritize the the the individual
list into one Council priority list there but again I I don't I don't plan on uh leaving the city hanging with regards to some sort of a transition plan and who I pick may not be the
choice of the of the next Council anyway and so um you know and so again I don't feel like I'm shering my responsibilities by not having a a number number two cuz the number two is always going to have to
run through the number one so so uh I feel pretty good about the progress we we've made and and about what we're doing and the energy that that we have but but again at the end of the day at the appropriate time there I'll I'll ask
somebody if they want to come on board again that's always difficult because you have the outgoing manager bringing on someone and then you have elections next year very honestly the end of my the end of my contract is is August is
uh October 8th midnight of 2027 so I think I got time that can I can I respond because first of all I made it really clear it wasn't about competence no I didn't I didn't say no and and also I made it clear I didn't address competence I don't feel
like I I I don't feel like you said anything with regards to my competency I I heard you loud and clear when you said it's it's a it's a matter of capacity and and and I think we have the capacity to do everything that the council has
directed and so and so again the operative word being that the council has directed so so again we can have a number two but again the number two isn't gonna again again it is the collective wisdom and the collective
vote and direction of the council that's the only point that I'm making but I'm also making the point to where I I am fully aware that there needs to be at least on an interim basis or whatever that then Council decide someone uh ready to take over when I walk out the
door in 2027 or earlier or or later so so so again um so again the type of things that I've
requested that fall off the list are not even things that would go to the council level the requests I get from my constituents um there was a presentation I asked for someone to give a presentation in the council meeting
different little things I mean you know I keep lists and notes from our meetings and there are a lot of things that I don't have the ability to call other directors I think you know we've discussed that you've sent out memos to
us about not contacting other directors to get things done I can't even call code enforcement now if I can't get a response from you it's hard for me to respond to my
constituents yeah I I I send I don't send out directives to not respond I send out directives to follow the charter and the charter says there's a form of communication and there's a form of and and the direction is given to the manager and and and and the manager
gives direction to staff and so so I just hold us all to the Fidelity of the charter because again if they have six different bosses they're running in six different directions and so and so again that and that's not inconsistent with
any other uh person in the business of public administration and so at the end of the day you know I can go out and hire somebody and and and and that person may not be acceptable to you uh when the
time is right and when the when that person is available um I I'll certainly uh do what is uh what is necessary again the the the not spending those dollars has
allowed us to address the overtime for the firefighters uh other expenses that that have come up there and so and so I I I like having that flexibility uh again it it takes some time to learn the job it takes some time
to get comfortable in the job and I'm not I'm never gonna again I'm I'm not I'm not going to be any I don't have a co- Captain I ain't doing this as uh uh everything falls on my shoulder and and
someone comes in and believes that that uh they they're co- captain of the team or or leader of the team and so again that person will work at my direction and so and my I'm pretty sad on how I
how I lead uh after 35 years of doing this but but again it you know it it is and I don't want to I don't want to appear too argumentative but but again it things don't drop off a list simply
because we don't have the capacity it it is the direction of the council that I've always said I needed you know I've and let me clarify again the type of things dropping off the list are not in general the type of things would even go to council they're constituent requests
constituent concerns like like what ma'am I will come to you with a list you know I'd keep a lot of notes yeah I okay and I think you're aware that things have dropped off the list I mean I'm not telling you anything new okay
but I would like to hear from other Council too other council members um you mentioned the charter that was something that's been on my uh my list for a while when can the council have opportunity to review the charter
and possibly make changes to the Charter there's I believe there's some things in there that needs to be updated can you give me a suggestion I don't have all the right now but I would love to have the opportunity to sit down with counil as a whole and
address any up definitely okay if you once you get your uh list I'm sure you can submit your list to him and then present it to us as a
whole um but I'm just trying to figure out what brought this on that's all what else sir the floor is yours okay do does the charter have to go to the to a vote
public I understand that at the at the end of the day he has a he has a end to his contract and I'm pretty sure I can 100% for certain say that he will have a plan uh in place I believe he's a
professional and and I believe he will get that done do do me and him have a believe me I call him 27 times in a row if I need to and and sometimes sometimes during the day he may not call me back until the next day but he also tells me
hey look I was in a meeting he had sent a text to me um but I think to his point it's our job to make motions it's our job to give him Direction um I've made plenty of mistakes as well to having discussions without Direction and
then three weeks later I turn around and say what happened to that it was nothing supposed to happen to that because I did not do the job as a councel person to give direction um to him so I'm speaking for myself on that part and so he he
consistently said that he needs direction from us so he can carry out whatever that wish is um that we're asking for and so you know I believe he he's going to lead us in the right direction on his way out you know I don't know when that
time frame is but I'm pretty sure he he has that um because of the way he gave that date in time and I believe he he knows what time frame he needs to do that and so um but but I that was a good question
too about when was the when was the last time um there was a review on the charter just just a question did anybody know that answer um I think it was uh 2010 maybe 2010 but that's but that's a question
like when was the last time the US Constitution right it's true Point taking Point taking yeah yeah well well only reason I I made I made that statement just same thing I said with about the CBD and so the the we had some some concerns or
questions about things that are old and outdated that sometimes need to come up and and to to the mayor's point maybe maybe we need to just review those things that we need to bring to the table instead of having a meeting about it it might be a good thing to um review
those things ourselves bring those things back and then have the collective discussion about those things uh like the last meeting I brought up some things things I had concerns with and so I don't I don't think you know councilman Hearn is completely wrong for
asking for that review especially if it has not been from 2010 and if he looks through it and sees some things that may be uh like like I brought up about the uh advertising uh what they call it a aching seeking signs or whatever they'll
call those things has been in our um ordinances that some that need to change right and so that just a just a point I was making but but I don't have any any issues um with him
not having a city manager at this time I I don't I personally don't okay when was the last time I one of us evaluated city manager I mean the evaluation of the city manager indicative of his performance cuz I look at
ww Coco grov right line the list can go on and on the improvements that we've had and experience and he's like I said he is
competent enough for himself to tell us and I'm not going to get in the game of semantics hey y'all I may consider having an assistant city manager not whereas I think it sometimes
it might be personal when you don't get your choice is cut through the chase I'm cut through the chase okay so then you know here we go but I'm just saying this is the way I feel about um this man has been in this position for
35 plus years and I mean are you upset with this man no are you upset with this man no uh are you upset with this man I do not get responses that I need to get to
Be an Effective counil person I don't get to call I mean I used to call and there were no responses I stopped calling I basically limited to the hour and a half that we have each week and I try to remember and
have every question that I need answered at that time and there's usually followup and it's the followup based on the constituent requests now this again I ask you mayor please don't Gaslight me this is not about
competence it's about capacity and I am an equal member of this Council and would like to be able to I should be able to express my experience and my
perspective um and at any rate it obvious it won't go anywhere um I will submit this again in writing as I do every year um most of
the things I'm requesting don't really require a lot of money they require initiative and um you know I would hope that we would be able to discuss those um
but I just want to know that we're going to spend time I I just want things to go somewhere and my requests have not been unreasonable they're not any different than I see other people
doing yeah and let me let me look yeah I've been doing this for for a long time and so if you if you were to tune in tonight and you say and you hear I don't get any responses that's a that's a that's a absolute statement I
don't get any responses it's just simply not true and so and so and I could I could jump on my my soap boox and and and again you know the one of the toughest jobs to have is a job of city or county
manager um but to say I don't get any responses and let's just take the the the the uh bus shelters uh uh as an issue you know I I presented that to the
county I've got gotten several different answers on that I don't even know what their process is now but that's a county process and so and so you know I just take exception to I've gotten no responses because that's just simply not
true I agree that's and so if I stated that that was incorrect so so and again as I said I've been consistent you you know I mean even even as we as we as we do the list
tonight you you guys still didn't say okay we're going to take those and we're going to put them together and here are the five priorities of the council I just don't I just I don't I don't have that and so and so if there's a Cod issue that's
presented uh you know they can answer questions all day long it's in the black and white of the charter they can answer questions all day long what you can't do is direct them to do certain things and I've made that clear I've made that clear I've I've
given you the charter language you being the councel I've given the directors the charter language uh again because it's just and there's a reason it's in the charter uh it just it it you you get out
of the old system of governance you know you get out of having these District Commissioners District Council people that are directing staff not based on the wisdom of the council but based on the
preferences of individual council members and that's that's that's why the the council manager form of government uh came to be and so so you know staff has not not been
directed to not answer questions they know that they can answer questions staff has been directed not to take Direction and that's in the charter and and so you can review the charter and you can submit to the voters uh a
suggested change in that in that uh system of governance but but again I've been pretty clear with uh staff and all of the emails that I've sent to them uh it is let's make sure that we we're
following the charter because again they have their daily uh uh task and duties and responsibilities and if they're again chasing or running in five and six different directions they can't get those done and I don't think I've ever
violated that part of the charter at least when I asked you if I had you didn't you said I hadn't um I certainly have been cognizant of it so um again
well we'll see to me my op a lot of cont missing in this and we're not priv to guys meetings that yall meet you don't as a councel we don't have the privilege to see that and I think to his
point if you say certain things and maybe you know you say you didn't mean it in that way you know we don't we don't know what that looks like so you say c things or or the audience may not they're not a part of that conversation so you say certain
things is it sounds as fact okay well I've been very clear that this is about competence about capacity not about competence even though it keeps getting directed that way as a defense mechanism I'm not I'm not I I know
you're not questioning my confidence ma'am and so I I didn't I don't think I came across that way and so okay again you know if it's a if it's a you know this is a much smaller organization that
I'm used to uh and so uh you know my my hands are dirtier here as the city manager than they were as the county manager cuz because we had layers and layers of staff and and I think appropriately so it's small enough to
manage that way again you know at some point you you bring in a uh you you implement a succession plan and you hope that the person that you selected as an administrator uh will will meet the political test of the council at the
time you know and so and so they because there no guarantees that the second in charge will become the number one and so and so you know but but I I feel comfortable that uh we're not missing a
whole lot you know I I've I've done more um I have a meeting twice a week on Planning and Zoning issues I have a meeting on Monday with the planners and then I have a meeting on Thursday with
the planners with the contract planners with the assistant City attorney uh and and and so um I don't think that I'm I'm missing anything I don't think that a number two
would be able to say oh ignore the charter and just go and direct the the directors to do whatever uh whatever you feel they need to be doing you know and again and I'm telling you and and it's
probably good that I I plan on this being my last stop in government I'm telling you that I'm not set up at this particular point in time to to have a co- leader you know and so so if the thought is is
that a second in charge gets to gets to to provide direction that is not sanctioned by me then that's just that's just not how I'm operating at this point in my career and so again I I I am I am
uh I have the best interest of the city of Coco at heart um I am proud of the fact that some of the things that uh that uh that I've done as city manager um weren't doing done previously I I
live in the city of Coco and so um and so you know I ride around and this is home to me I don't I don't I don't live outside the city of Coco I don't live in unincorporated I've been here for 31
years um and I and and and as a Coco city manager I've experienced some things that I never thought I would you know and we can start with um with uh my picture on a sign and and that that didn't really that doesn't
bother me um doesn't bother me that you put what you believe is my home phone number on the internet doesn't doesn't bother me that uh you you you put on the internet where I shop for my groceries
because you know at the end of the day if you're ready I'm ready for you you know and so and so um you know but but what did bother me was um I never knew that Chief Lamb's mother
lives in county and so the day he told me that I felt really bad for him being on that sign because again all of the junk that they put on the sign is not true you know and and
having to deal with that um um you know is is ridiculous uh having to deal with being here for 31 years and when an individual feels as though I've not uh met their public records
requests uh um swearing out a complaint to the to the state attorney's office I've I've never experienced that um and so um I I'm here committed to the city I committed to the city when I signed the
contract and I tuck out the provision that allowed you all to allow me to live outside the city um I asked for the extension because there are some things that I want to get done and I froze my salary as a tradeoff for that and so I'm
proud of what I've done um and I haven't done anything because it's the directors it's the it's the city attorneys offices that's doing all the work I I I can generate a whole lot of ideas and can generate some timelines to get those
ideas uh implemented but but again I think we have momentum I think I have capacity I don't think anything has been dropped um I get the frustration of having things that you want done those
things not getting done and those are not those are not me just being um um those are not because I am I am uh resistant to those I I feel like
again go back to this list that I need Council Direction and and that's the way this thing is set up and so and so again I don't think we've dropped anything on the code enforcement side uh uh I don't think we've dropped anything in terms of
con constituent requests or complaints on the uh on the on the law enforcement side because again I tell them to respond you know um and and they you don't have to take my word for you grab them and have
individual conversations about whether or not I'm directing them not to respond to certain council members or any council members there because again the the language of the charter is clear says for purposes of inquiry you have
every right to uh to have uh dialogue with them that originally originated in Anthony gargan can expound on that is the Leroy Johnson rule you recall that Mr
gargan yes that's my yes sir sir a long time okay okay I got you um let me hear from Council de Vice chair not Deputy Mayor weeks are you there ma'am okay okay now I open the floor to
public comments make sure you take copious notes thank you mayor councel uh I just want to state your name please Alex Greenwood rard Avenue C Florida um I'm just going to summarize what I've
uh witnessed and experienced for quite a few years three minutes during the term of the council that's here and I'm talking about U issues that I have also experienced as well as noticed of how things are being
handled to other people which includes staff and we're talking about micromanaging big time and that is the problem I've been seeing regularly the micromanagement that is not the position of a council member that has been
violated numerous times where we had to have public apologies expected to some of the staff members here that is unacceptable to me totally and that's the part that bothers me the most
another example is getting involved beyond your position as a council member I even went as far as sending a complaint to the Ethics Committee about one of the council members here and I can share that
information but I don't have to embellish I don't have to give misinformation everything that I am stating now I can prove it as a fact and I'm tired of it tired of all the misleading information the lies and I
cannot stand to sit here and see criticism for a group that the majority are 100% for the betterment of the city and all I'm hearing is complaints there's nobody good enough for one
council person nobody since I've been here and since that person has been on the board and I'm tired of it so when anything comes up in a negative position from that council person that's been identified really as the naysayer of the
group point of order to say something about yes is um three minutes ma'am and the newspaper is the is the location of where that title came from and I got proof of that because it was denied during a counsel me all right and then I also
don't appreciate from last night because I didn't get a chance to respond making a statement that it was basically I brought a failed project to the council when we're talking about the hotel yet when I brought that group they
just didn't have enough money like the current group is working here but yet it was insinuated that I failed to present a group of people to build a hotel here I can't believe that when
that council member voted several times for the hotel that she claims that I failed on I'm shocked minutes so is that three minutes thank you sir then okay I'm
going to respond one I'm resp that I don't think so and I'm not going to be lectured by you yes he did file a complaint with the ethics commission what I'm talking to sta
okay well he did file a complaint with the ethics Commission in October of 22 his request to increase the density on the property was voted against later that year it was voted
against and the FD came out after he cleared the property trenched it that anger gave what was it seven times I counted them seven times he got that up that
year in delegations to defame me and that was allowed it was at the same time that you know I that sorry that an opponent was running against
me seven times he he got up defame me said I had done illegal activities and that was allowed to be repeated on seven different occasions the ethics commission replied to his
complaint and this paragraph captures it characterizes it the complainant disagrees with the respondent's policies and her position with regard to the preservation of wetlands and development however just
because one disagrees with the policies and viewpoints of a public official that does not mean the public official's actions are corrupt yet on seven different occasions he was allowed to continue to say that I had done illegal
I was doing illegal things um and when I tried to make a point of order it was ignored so you know this is your right this has been going on several years except you know it's been going on since
um around 22 when he brought forward that zoning change and the community came out against it as well as our own comp
plan denied him the ability to be able to increase that density so it wasn't a personal thing then and it isn't now but this has been going on for three years I'm really sick of the lectures um it's unfortunate that that
um Mary Burgess has resigned from the planning and zoning committee she told me that it was dominated by one person um Frank M Freddy tried to make some thoughtful
remarks and he was bullied during the meeting uh and this is this has displayed a sense of entitlement that I you know I respect
the fact that Mr Greenwood comes to all our meetings and is involved and for that reason you know he like everyone else needs to be listened to but this has been harassment it's been focused on one
person and it's been done with the knowledge of several people here and I know you probably had a harassment too and I'm so sorry Mr Whitten that you've had to go through the things as well as the Chiefs that you have but what I've gone
through in the first couple of years I was stoed and in very um yeah I was stalked I was followed in grocery stores I was screamed at on the street so yes I've
been through it too so um but this kind of uh this kind of harassment from someone that is going from one council member to the another um it it it's it's not good and it's um
it's apparent to our public and as far as you know the ethics commission letters to the governors I mean uh it is not illegal it is not wrong for a council person not to
agree with your position and it there is nothing wrong with me having a different perspective or opinion than other members on this counil I bring a lot to this table
and I expect to be respected not dismissed or demeaned yeah yeah and the insinuations made tonight were ridiculous micromanaging really so at any rate I'm I'm really done with
the buling and the harassment hello hey it's me you missed the fire been listening no i' I've been listening uh I I actually walked over because I'm at a now at a dinner but I'm out I'm outside
I've been listening the whole time so I just wanted to say uh that um it's been quite something to listen to and yes everybody's entitled for their opinion uh and Lorraine your point of view is is uh your point of view and you're entitled to have it
along with everybody else so um I'm I'm sorry that you've been harassed that way I just wanted to say that thank you I'm gonna have to get off because it's hard to hear where I'm at but um and I do think a lot of our
our priorities can be combined uh Mr Whitten um uh that seems like a lot of them were similar when I looked at them when I heard them and so I do think we'll be able to combine them and get some things done in Coco that we all want done and so y'all have a good night
I'm going to hang up now and uh I'll see yall back in bravard County next week bye bye thank you okay I I got like one can I get like one minute don't even I I just want to ask a question don't ask go ahead it's a
good one though I guess this this the U counc woman cost right so I want to go home so I got I know you got to get ready I know go ahead man
um do you believe when you meet with the city manager just there nothing long winded do you believe that it is a that you get things accomplished in those meetings and if and if you don't guess
my question is why meet with him in that time frame and why not consider changing that strategy if you if you feel like it's a painful situation to go through that whatever that may be if you feel that
way why not change because we have this discussion every single year so why not change that strategy possibly so we do get things accomplished okay period okay there are a lot of things that drop off
and I am accountable like you are to my constituents when I don't get responses back or follow-up doesn't happen for many weeks um and it's because it's assigned to other people or maybe not assigned at all but I do get things
accomplished I want to thank all 400 plus employees for the great city of Coco that you all make a difference in the city of Coco from putting speed tables on our streets to putting curves and gutters to even mending sidewalks that are uneven to
taking on phone calls from individuals that may be rude but you maintain a positive decorum and a professional report so on behalf of you all I thank you employees of the great city of Coco
City attorney city manager and council members the ciens ofair on the floor for a second by councilman the motion was by councilman
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