waiting on the other two to arrive we have enough to start a quum because I believe this on time okay amen amen amen okay good you going to leave us ination yes sir all right yes ma'am thank you
and who would like to do the front row everyone of this front row will lead us in the pled Le I alance to the flag of the United States of America and to theic for it
stands God indivisible withy and justice for all other God we thank God for one more day we also know that God W us up this morning to start a new journey in the chapter of Our Lives which is many
facets of what we all have going on let all understand we can all agree to disagree and love and just let us know God didn't bring you in whichever direction circumstances you're in to leave you and all is well amen
amen very good thank you all I guess front all across the board job it's all L let's here for estrogen [Applause] power wait a minute as Jackie gleon says How Sweet It Is So
you guys were not born at that time that's that's during my era remember yes I'm remember it well absolutely happy um black history month but also happy uh state champions and Super Bowl champions
from our great school Coco High School in our great city um we were recognized in our sister City Rock Ledge as they say uh North Rock Ledge uh and I had to be humble because being the president of
the Florida League of cities and um um um uh councilman uh Leander Hearn wasth present as well I have to cross that line that says Coco when I'm leaving Rock Ledge so I'm not pulled over right Darby Phillips over there Darby sir yes
sir all right all right all right Madam CL may we do roll call please yes sir mayor BL presid ma'am Deputy Mayor weeks here council member gos here council member Hearn pres council member C here
City attorney gargan and city manager Whitten here thank you thank you very much Madame clerk we would like to proceed forward please this is my book right yes sir okay yes ma'am to tonight's meeting um we would like to
amend the the agenda for tonight to include um two items and one of the items is the big brunt Saturday February 22nd First Street between P Street and
Main Street we would like to add that on sponsored by Family Promise the closure of that street um would like to put that on the city business number two and also um we have Awards and
presentations we would like to add uh Mr Greg uh stole please Triple G Mr Greg stole under item number three period three Awards and
presentation motion to approve we have a motion on floor by councilwoman on C the second by Deputy Mayor weeks check on call a question all in favor by saying I I eyes have it unanimously proceeding on to item number
two D2 special meeting of November the 25th 2025 what are the wishes of council move to approve we have a motion on the floor by Deputy Mayor second weeks and second by councilman Hearn CH gonna call the question all in favor saying I I I
have it unanimously item number 2-3 minutes regular meeting of December 10th 2024 what are the wishes of council move to approve we have a motion on the floor by Deputy Mayor weeks second by
the chair chair's GNA call the question all in favor by saying I I eyes have it unanimously proceeding forward to uh Awards and presentation nine 22 presents
2024 outcomes 202- 13 two Family Promise of bouar Mrs P pagini let's give her a round of applause as she come okay good evening we so appreciate the opportunity
uh thank you for the round of applause but I want to make sure that that round of applause goes out to all of 922 crew so I want to make sure we introduce ourselves uh I am Tara pagini the executive director of Family Promise of bravard and I would love for them to stand up and introduce themselves this
is just a small uh Gathering we actually have 33 organizations that are part of this group I'll tell you more about in just a minute go ahead start um Chris mcferson on the Community Partnership School director through Children's Home Society at Endeavor all right hi everyone Lori
benjam I'm the director of rard Adult Community Education hello everyone Gabrielle barock associate director with the Healy Start Coalition all right hello my name is Lily I'm with population Li
International core all right me Crown swed housing and what is Charlene got on her head thank you more to see you with good evening Darby Miller Early Learning Coalition
ofar hello I'm Stephanie bran with County Services Community Action Agency supervisor all right so uh in the fall of 2023 Cheryl Kaminsky with the children's hunger
project and myself uh actually had a meeting uh with mayor Blake and city manager Stockon Whitten and uh we came with the idea that um in our work in Coco that we have so much um in
intentional uh Outreach happening amongst our agencies but there wasn't a lot of cross collabor ation and communication and we came up with this concept of kind of creating a group and we looked for the cities just the blessing to move forward and starting to
assemble this group of agencies together really with the intent to get together every month and talk about what's working what's not working and how we could better work together with the resources that we have so fast forward now uh we had a full year in
2024 we had um as I mentioned 33 organiz ganizations they're at the bottom of the sheet that I shared with you um and they come and go um so we've been meeting every single month uh we average about 15 to 20 organizations each meeting and
what's beautiful about the meeting is that we rotate location um actually our one of our last meetings was um at robs at uh Orchid Lake to see the new housing there and the meeting before was actually at CoCo police department and
anytime that we locate uh rotate those locations those organizations are able to really speak to what they do there they're able to physically show us what they do there so that when we bring that information back to the people that we serve through our organizations we can
say go through the blue door when you get there make sure you ask for Patricia you know we're able to be really specific um and able to um not only serve our um constituents better but that we're also better able to build trust amongst our agencies because we're
making really uh solid referrals to one another because we know what they have and we know what they don't have we're not making bad referrals to each other so we've um as we've met we've had some key outcomes the first is that the
county is taking notice of what we're doing they um love the 922 crew and um I call I want to just tell you our first meeting I called us like the Coco consort consum of agencies or something I don't even know I came up with a name
and at that very first meeting Pastor driis was says no that's a terrible name and he said we're the 922 crew and so that's why we're named that um so the the group named itself and the group is owned by itself I may help do the administration of it but um the members
that you see and the people that you hear from they all equally own it um it's not one person's organization or group um so for us um our Bard Homeless Coalition uh through our work they've actually asked hey Tara can you help us
set Geographic work groups up in the north like you've done in the Coco area as well as in Melbourne and in Palm Bay what I can tell you is Titusville has taken this kind of model they already had the north Bard Coalition of Human Services up there but they've also
started working in work groups in this way so uh I've met with some leaders in Melbourne and I've met with leaders in Palm Bay it can't be that Tara does it or um that our group does it but there are agencies just like ours here in Coco
that work together and would benefit from getting together on a regular basis to work across sectors and just do a better job of of maximizing resources so I am working on that with the Bard Homeless Coalition to try to create GE Geographic work groups the second part
is something that I had spoken to um city manager uh Stockton Whitten about of doing something called asset mapping in the simplest term asset mapping is taking note of what your assets are and then geographically mapping them in a
way that you can actually see them interact with them and lean into those resources as providers when you need each other it exists so I started working an asset mapping with a group called Sara it's a free tool it's a free
Geo mapping tool any of us in this room could look up Saro right now and um it helped to create a map of our providers where we can actually in real time update information so unlike two onone
which has a wonderful database it's just very expansive and it's it's so much information we're actually able to take and really geographically hone in on our ZIP code with those partners that are part of this group and we actually pin them in with real-time information so if
in any meeting let's say Early Learning Coalition comes to me and says hey we're not doing that thing anymore we can immediately take it off this asset map so that that information is updated in real time from provider to provider the
asset map was really popular uh as I presented it last spring and it actually expanded from our uh initial map uh Parish Healthcare loved what they saw they thought it would help in discharge planning and so they actually took what
we started with the asset map but I want to say that we Coco started it first so if anybody else in the Count's taking credit for IT Coco did it first we have our first asset map Parish picked it up they have the second asset map and we work with the developer sapara that we
actually can create a super map so I remember I talked about those two different work groups if Melbourne and Palm Bay create work groups they can actually also set up a map and all of those Maps to be interconnected with each other so that we have what we call a super asset map and so I just wanted
to make sure you were aware of uh where we stood with asset mapping and this group helped to fill out that information for the map but even more important than all of that is like the real organic conversations that happen in the meetings where um Coco Police
Department says hey we went out on a call we met a family and this is what we saw and this is what their needs are and then and Endeavor says hey we have exactly what you need for that family and then somebody else in the group you know maybe Rob saying hey and we have
housing for that family and so it's this ability for this group every month to come together and say this is a a need that we're seeing and then organically in real time them uh the group coming together and meeting that need 100% like
within the the setting of the resources that we have and it's just a beautiful thing to observe and I just wanted you to be aware of just how strong we work together to meet the needs of residents um the other thing is that and using like Lori with Bard Adult
Community Education like they're they always have resources there they always have programs they always have opportunities but so many of our agencies we're just so busy serving we don't stop to pay attention to necessarily what's happening and so her organization the library they're kind
they're bringing Flyers about information of of things that would be of value to all of the residents and we bring it that information back to our constituents and make sure they're aware of Education opportunities of
certification opportunities of just ways to upskill and um have some economic Mobility um so not just basic needs being met but also opportunities for growth um so so for 2024 we just saw
just an incredible uh turnout and treible participation and it was real honor to be part of it but I'm here tonight to ask for some help as well so the first is one of the needs came up during the year this is an organic thing that came up um uh Girls and Boys Club
the Boys and Girls Club said we really would love to see more attendance in our after school program tell me if I get this wrong Chris and Chris is like we would love for our kids to come but we can't get them there and boys and girls girl club are saying well maybe we need a van and Chris is saying like if they
could just walk across a crosswalk at Dixon and pinita they could safely get there and they could participate and that would help solve um the fact that the the kids at Endeavor could benefit from an after school activity and also enhance the participation in the
activities that already exist right so we need some support and getting a crosswalk at um Dixon and pinita I believe that Chris may have already had some conversation so I want to invite her up to talk maybe more about what's happened with that so far hello
beautiful people I know most of you have already heard my my begging for a crosswalk talk I say it every time um and we've this group has allowed us to grow today we enrolled our 22nd kid in Boys and Girls Club for the last two years we've had zero kids from Endeavor
going to Boys and Girls Club because they can't cross that walk by themselves even when the light is red it it Ain it ain't working out um so our parents are begging us for help and I was able to connect with Garrison Moreno at the boys and girls club and
they're actually walking them now they walk down to Endeavor every day with their team and escort the kids back to the club and we're sponsoring those kids but with that crosswalk we can grow that program exponentially Mr Garrison is not
here tonight because he is over there with my kids and enrolling a few more um and we can grow that program program from they were looking at having to relieve staff to now they're hiring more staff because we've made that connection these are kids that are going
home alone in our city our after Care Program only accommodates for 91 students from kinder to fifth grade our sixth graders who are our most opportunity youth most likely to go get in trouble are being sent home
alone the Boys and Girls Club is closing that Gap we need your help to close it some more that crosswalk would allow those kids to walk that way on their own as well as our family's dayto day so that was good thank you thank you
so much it's almost like they pay me the uh so that's that's the first request uh the second is oh please one moment please councils no I are are you finished I I didn't want to interrupt I didn't clment
up okay go ahead ma'am second request was we would love for uh someone from the city to be attached to this group that we could lean into around um needs that arise like this that could be an advocate within the city for things that
arise I don't know that you would need to attend every meeting I know that time is of an Essence for you uh and I just wanted to be mindful of that but there are times that things come up where there's gaps there's questions there's concerns would love to have a person be
the designated person to this group from the city that could help us potentially solve or bring it back to council when needed okay yeah that decision will not be made at this very moment yes thank you the
proper authorities are this that's right okay yes awesome that's it that's it that's it all right go ahead Mr Hearn sir um I just wanted to say uh think this collaboration among the organizations is a great idea um one of the biggest things I had amongst my
constituents they would cough seeking resources sometimes they would get bad information to the wrong resources or uh they just felt they were getting to runaround so I think you guys having that conversation and making sure you know where the correct uh resources are
for these people seeking help I think that's a great idea um And in regards to the crossing I believe uh there was already an approval for crossing at that location and that's that's kind of what we heard this summer uh I believe it was you councilman Hearn that was on our
community Leadership Council we got so excited and it was going to be here by school start and it a is still not here um because we got our parents hyped we were like s the city listened to us y'all they're doing it for us we're just
trying to find out what information to then pass to them it's actually County yeah the crosswalk has been in design um for quite some time the city is actually sharing in the cost of that unfortunately or fortunately Dixon
Boulevard is a County Road and so we have to participate with the county in terms of the design of that um so I'll double check on where we are with that that that uh cross wall I think has been designed and and so it's a funding issue
now um cost a little bit more than we would expect uh to do that but I'll I'll double check on that and I'll I'll send that information out to Tara probably in the morning there there we also we sit on a working group with
the uh Transportation Planning organization and it's called the Dixon Boulevard working group U we weren't as creative as Pastor jvis on the on the names there but but we've been sitting now we've been talking about um Dixon
and there'll be some sort of uh total Street design that comes back eventually but most immediately um I'll get you the information on the crosswalk thank you and the last thing I had I'm sure you guys are already doing this but um if you are tracking the data
on on how many people you are helping and uh assisting if you could whatever is best for you guys report back to the city uh as you know we travel throughout the state and we have neighboring cities that have these same issues that we are struggling with and and you know trying
to provide uh answers for uh we can maybe have those conversations elsewhere so thank you thank you okay Council woman c yeah I was going to say the uh crosswalk is complete with flashing lights and it is
outrageously expensive but it should be a like top shelf um the uh the asset mapping now can we access that from your site can anyone look at that yeah I it's it's I I wanted
to sit down with um Stockton and kind of go through that and kind of show it to him and kind of work through that he and I had conversation a couple years ago about the start of it just to show how it could be used and really talk about how the city wants to unroll that for us we're using it as providers we certainly
don't want it to take the place of 211 but like Parish actually um publishes the map in their Hospital settings so that patients uh people visiting can actually see the map um or scan a QR code to access the map so again not
trying to take the place of a database but just wanted to have real time accurate information for residents of Coco and I don't know what that looks like but I'm happy to sit down and and walk you through it and show you what it looks like in a live version okay so you
you can't access can you access it on the Paris site or um I don't I'm not sure if you can access it I can send a link to it so that you can see for right now I I don't have it as a public map I can invite you as a stakeholder so you can take a look at it so maybe that's
the best next step is to invite Council to take a look at it as stakeholders and then you can kind of play around with it okay great um and then you can see what it looks like but I just want to reiterate it I actually uh is a free version but space Co Health Foundation funded us to work with a developer to
customize it for what we wanted uh for Coco and the customization is available to everyone not just us so it actually is a benefit to the the country so thank you thank you councilman go what what uh what time and
date and location of the meetings that you have what what when is when when are your meetings they are typically the last Friday of every month of we've asked the city if we could hold it here on the 28th I believe that was the date that's a the
Friday have to think the 28th yes um so I think that's confirmed for here at 9:00 am kind of looking that way I don't know stock like yes it is I believe it is I we were going to have it here and offered if any of you wanted to attend that meeting we would love for you to
participate but you have to provide um breakfast for us oh I forgot to say that part uh so whatever organization is hosting us actually is providing like a light uh like Continental or coffee so you can talk about that all right I appreciate
that appreciate that yeah all right thank you wonderful clearly ma'am there is powering numbers that's right clearly yes and I just want to say thank you to all 92 um you make our heart go pad oh good
I don't want to say you rock because that's South Coco down there but that's right but you make our heart go pity pad and I thank you very much because you have the heart of the people and you're the champion of the people so thank you very much thank you and we'll get through this together collectively
appreciate it yes ma'am appreciate you all thank you very much council with your blessings can I just slide the order uh let uh Triple G come on up and let him do his presentation sounds good then we'll do our Proclamation for Black
History Month Triple G Mr eaglet uh thank you uh all uh and as a personal note I just want to uh thank Family Promise uh our church and my wife has been involved with hosting families overnight and so uh she's down where the
rubber meets the Road and let me tell you they get good traction uh uh so actually you're getting a two for me for for tonight I will make it as quick as possible uh since I did have the sepo meeting uh
Monday I have some my usual out brief uh but instead of tying you up twice I'll give it to you one time so what I'd like to do first off is just talk about our museums and uh uh uh if you're not aware I had laid out a sure for you uh museums
of Bard uh with Sam's help uh the city has joined that group uh basically what it is it's uh 20 different museums throughout the county and it includes both of our museums and recently I've participated in two Outreach events
where we go and put this out into the community uh so uh that's that's a a good thing for us uh also uh uh for uh The Bard Museum where I spend a lot of my time I figured I'd give you some
numbers uh for 2024 we had over 9,000 visitors uh with 6,000 adults and over 3,000 kids come through uh that includes the trains event that Florida East Coast Railway Society puts on uh for that we
had four uh 1,500 adults with uh 480 at kids and those kids get things like a safety bag and we have crayons and safety information and uh uh all kinds
of goodies for them they get a little Junior engineer card when they get to run the train around the layout so they always enjoy that and of course down in Malibar tonight don't you know we had another gate Runner that got caught so uh I understand he had to be extracted
from the vehicle so uh that wraps up my little Museum thing uh uh now let's move on to TPO so uh uh also I've passed out the annual report for you from Space Coast TPO uh it includes a couple of
good things that I'll get to uh but first of all uh uh okay here we go uh lrtp long range Transportation Planning cost feasible uh we'll have a public comment period for everybody back here
right uh there'll be a virtual one on May 21st from 12: to 1 and on June 11th it's the in-person meeting 5:30 to 6:30 down at the center of collaboration right down here on us one in rockage so
you know they're always looking for that public input okay uh speaking of Dixon Boulevard complete streets analysis uh there will be a public meeting coming up towards the end of the year uh sometime in September 25 to take
public input so this would is aside from what the city is working this is actually the uh fot and scpo working with the city to make uh uh safety improvements to that road uh uh third uh rail Crossing
elimination otherwise known as a safety Grant uh uh coko will have have three Crossings uh involved with that uh Dixon Boulevard will go to a four quadrant gate protection West Highlands Avenue will go to a four quadrant gate
protection Michigan will go to three gates and a median which uh to tell you the truth I'm not real thrilled about not having four Gates but having three gates and a median there as a person who would drive that while it may work for
bright it certainly doesn't work for when FEC train 336 comes rolling in to City point at 5 miles an hour and you watch everybody make the u-turns and head to Dixon or
the Bel line and I did try and pass that on to the TPO I don't know how they decided what they were doing where leave that to the professionals uh also uh uh this caught this caught me by surprise I I wasn't n
aware of this one uh under the fought the transit work program uh you know Clear Lake Road from 520 all the way up to Michigan they have a work order now for landscaping so this is above and beyond the Safety project and so they're
going to be doing some Landscaping out there so boy you know it should be nice to have some shade trees buy those bus stops we all know what our summers are like here uh real quick doesn't directly apply to us but the turnpike you know
they do own some in in bravard County here and that is going to be being repaved already passed out the annual report uh F do projects uh 520 520 should be complete in early 2025 they're
doing some final thermoplastic striping and also the 501 Clear Lake Project they're doing the last bit of cleanup there spring of 2025 so those projects should be wrapping up here and then uh last but not least upcoming
events uh uh scpo in conjunction with Bard County schools on February 17th is conducting a student travel survey so when you talk about kids going from Endeavor over to the Boys and Girls
Clubs uh you know hey we can give you some input there and with that I conclude my report okay great job sir do we have any questions for him just full of information just real
quick yes ma'am go ahead real quick the student travel survey so should they call somebody or is somebody just going to be out there looking I'd have to go double check the agenda package and see how you actually participate in that
since it is Broad Public Schools I assume it's going to be Sol solicited through the school but of course know you can get to Abby hemway who who whose report this was out of so okay thank you yes any other questions for Mr Triple G
here yes ma'am emailing Abby get that information yeah yeah that came right out of her public relations report okay all right awesome hey thanks gang thank you very much great job sir uh Council would you join us uh down
front please as we read this proclamation to Black History Month council members councilwoman calls would you give us the onor and reading the proclamation call you Dr Weeks you need microphone ma'am yes
ma'am down front yes ma'am you need where's our photographer no s she wasn't be I know what to do come on the front man get in the sunlight there you go s all right y tighten up come on up here whereas
celebrating Black History Month is an integral part of acknowledging the invaluable contributions and achievements of African-Americans throughout history and whereas recognizing Black History Month Fosters a greater understanding and appreciation
of the struggles triumphs and cultural richness of the black community and whereas history inspires and informs the future in Black History Month serves as a reminder of the resilience and determination exhibited by individuals who have fought for justice equality and
civil rights and whereas it is essential to honor the legacies of African-American leaders activists artists Scholars and innovators whose impact has shaped our society in profound and Lasting ways and whereas by commemorating Black History Month we
reaffirm our commitment to confronting and addressing systemic racism discrimination and inequality in all its forms and whereas celebrating the achievements and contributions of African-Americans promotes diversity in
inclusion and equity in our communities workplaces and educational institutions and whereas Black History Month provides an opportunity for dialogue reflection and education about the African-American experience and its significance in the
broader context of American History whereas it is imperative to recognize and celebrate the cultural heritage traditions and resilience of the black community both past and present and whereas by acknowledging and
honoring Black History Month we acknowledge the importance of representation and representation of black voices in all aspects of society now therefore I Michael see Blake on behalf of the city council of the city
of Coco Florida to hereby encourage every Coco Citizen Business and visitor to join the mayor the city council and staff in celebrating February as black history month right even though we come from different
tribes we belong to One race that's the human race and we're all God's children amen and we acknowledge all nationalities for the whatever the History Month may be from Latinos in October to recognition of my brothers
and sisters my Shalom brothers and sisters and the Holocaust day of remembrance and so forth that list goes on so we want to say thank you all for participating and let's give our councilwoman lorine C another round of
applause yeah not only do you read Well ma'am but you look great when while you're reading you look great anyone would like to say anything council members you good as we stand in church we're all under one Accord all hearts
and Minds all right thank you very much I appreciate everyone thank you may be seated thank you next delegation thank you sir first on the list delegation okay uh that's right uh we're going to Greenwood I think you
did turn your card in first but uh as councilman Hearn is correct um you did turn your card in first but I know you would defer the floor for the ladies so we're going to do uh Teresa Clifton come on down I feel like Bob
Barker awesome well thank you for having me I'm Teresa Clifton I'm the executive director of The Bard Humane Society at 1020 Cox Road in Coco since 19 52 um not me the
building clear here um I come to y'all today to invite the community to come out to celebrate Marty gr we have Marty gr PA in the park in Coco Village on Sunday February 23rd it is our 19th year
doing it and we are very appreciative that the city um welcomes us and makes Riverfront Park pet friendly because um just like every Tri tribe every tribe have pets and pets depend on us for um their successful happy lives just the
same as our um tribe members do so the event is from 10:00 a.m. to 3 pm it is a familyfriendly event and we will have our uh Pet Parade starting at 12:45
p.m. um we'll have some judges um I know that um councilman uh Hearn wasn't here when I got here and Nei was uh councilman go but y'all have in the past been judges so um if you I extend to you
as I did um to the other uh members of council um that if you other they can make it or not um to come to be a judge if you are free that day we would love to have you come out as judges for our pet contest we do have some uh Companion Pet lookalikes you'd be surprised that's
true you seriously want to get a pet is goodlook because you don't want them you know are you are you offering security guards too I people are very passionate about their pets um but we are very uh excited this year to be able to continue doing
it um after the Pet Parade then we will have our crazy pet contest aside from that we have our best pet trick and um we will have the best pet um Marty gr outfit and then we will crown king and
queen of Marty paws by the king and queen of a past Marty gr uh which will be Ralph and Cindy Peron um so they will be coming out to help be judges um and they will wear their crowning glories um because I understand there won't be one
this year for the city but that's okay because we move on um we also will have lots of uh dogs out enjoying the lure course if you don't know what that is you should just come out and watch it's very entertaining um it's it's like fun
for for the for the dogs uh oh I'm almost out um we'll have pet contests and as silent auction and a pet psychic so if your pet's doing something you don't like you should come have them talk to the pet psychic I'm just saying anyway uh the Humane Society is very grateful for the city to be a
partner again and we welcome everybody to come out and on a side note we do have um some money left from our uh the State of Florida spay neuter tag this year we were awarded $25,000 to spay or
neuter um dogs that are in um CH income challenging homes so so if you know of anybody that is seeking to get their pets spit or neutered and it's a dog and they don't have the income for it um they can call us and we can do it
for them through that Grant and that number is on this fly correct ma'am yes is that number on that fly can you talk about the FL a little bit please yes yes it's um they can find out more information about the event from Bard humanesociety.org or they can call
321 636 3343 that's been our number for like all that time it's extension 218 if they'd like to be a vendor at it we have some really great food vendors coming out as well as uh pet related uh vendor supplies so it should be a really
um fun event and like I said again spaying and neutering is so important to keep the pet overpopulation down we do believe in responsible pet ownership and are very grateful to the city for allowing Riverfront Park to be pet friendly and having the doggy DW bags out there because we don't want to
endanger our environment either we have a question ma'am um Mrs clipon uh Deputy Mayor weeks ma'am oh I just wanted to say uh I have a now 16-year-old cat that I got from your facility uh when we
adopted her uh her name was Frick because it was her and her sister and they were Frick and Frack her name is now Sophie May and and she is now 16 years old and she was just a little kitten so and she's one of many I adopted a dog from you
guys many years ago who is he lived 14 years so you guys do a great job and thank you oh thank you I'm I'm disappointed that Chief lamb isn't here because I was going to tell him that I have now raised just about the $3 million doar I needed to rebuild the
front of our uh facility and we will we're working on now getting through that department that gives permits if anybody can help me with that that'd be great um just saying um because we're we're got the plans and we're ready to rebuild and it will be great for the
community because we are 100% not tax Bas we we get do it with through these kinds of events and it'll be just really awesome once we can get our permit so we can rebuild it I have two I have two questions real
quick short sweet I promise first question is this I know traditionally as one of your fundraisers you raffle off a car are we going to do that again this year um Yes actually um I think it's going to be a 1966 VW Beetle
wow Volkswagen be it's white it's so cute yeah it's not ready yet but when it is um that will actually it will help every little bit helps we use I think nine cents out of every dollar donated for administrative overhead the other
nine 91 cents is saving animals lives so we have a Sho string budget but we are very good we use everything to the end and things like that people benefit by buying a ticket and winning the car and we get the proceeds from it so it works
out really well so buy a ticket you all I because if I win I'm going to turn my ticket in again so they can R raffle It Off to help that is very kind of you yes um my last question just a survey from Council how many of us have participated
at the MRA show before the pant tree raise your hand how you deod is working man that's a tough competition there yes yeah know yeah so we only have L fun yes a lot of fun so we have one rookie I asked her but she's busy this
year I'm be out of I'll catch you next year Miss well we'll catch you next year always next year I I told her I would love to do it I will do it next year there's a song called Unforgettable I promise you yes it's fun okay thank you for what you do for the
community okay next on the list Ted four councilman go thank you for having me this second cousin Mr four I held from Township 25,700 00 free to trail I sent Mr gos an
email I apologize for some of the misspelling you have to get on Apple about that cu the auto correct it spelled some crazy things so I apologize for that and you know we touch base and I just wanted to May to understand Mr gos and Mr Walsh you know where our
dedication and where we're trying to you know reach a goal and I know everybody can't promise in me a rainbow but I would like to see the sunshine sometimes but I'll give you something I've been digging up and you know like the gentleman said this is where the rubber meets the road in 2010 a feasibility
study addressed the concern that all the homes in West canaval Groves area were being served by individual water wells and septic tank systems this condition raised serious condition and concerns about water contamination the report
documented high levels of Arsenic and Lead conam contamination within the area exceeding Safe Drinking Water St standards this was was done by DP development to solve this problem DP develop installed 20,000 ft of a 12-in
water line the objective of constructing the water line along Satellite Boulevard was take the first major step to create an integrated public water supply system to the West canaval Groves area as part of this project we also installed 30 fire hydrant and 40 12in gate valves in
100 calendar days the scope of the work they had you know was accomplished with one utility crew digging the thousand feet to 1,200 ft a day and another one back filling the contract a lotted for 240 days and thank God the man worked hard and got it done in 100 and that DP
development takes great pride in the fact that we have provided safe high quality drinking water to the residents living in West canaval grov I don't have no safe drinking water and it says to all and then there's a water plan in 2009 took effect and it gives a
geographic area it said the city of Coco water system is a regional system that is permitted to provide water to all and I put in there Webster's Dictionary don't take my word for it they've been in business since 1800 and it explains all it don't say part maybe think about
it it says all to the townships of 23 24 25 and 26 of Bard County and then I give each one of y'all a direction to all and I just didn't want you to take my word for it so collectively I would like to you know the city water department and
all the councilmen to take this into consideration and give me direction I take good wisdom and I listen and my ears is my greatest tool and my mouth is the next and then my Feet's got to make it happen so you know we started off with the water station then we went to
this and you know it we need safe quality drinking water and this was done by a Federal grant so you know I asked for input and information and wisdom okay see the manager
sir M Mr Walsh can update you on on his initial request I think we can also talk about the water lines that was a that was a County uh project there we may have participated through cdbg or something but that was a county project but Mr W will will give you the uh
latest information that we have thank you very much sir Mr W sir yeah go Army so as yall I wasn't here for the first meeting but I had heard the uh customer come in for you know the inquiry so over the last whatever month
or so was kind of doing some research trying to figure out you know steps costs other things associated with with proceeding with this kind of a a station uh I got to tell you I didn't find a whole lot and he was right uh very limited use in fact there's hardly
anybody in Florida who provides the service but I think as you get out west where things are more rural and more more spread out the bulk stations are used but they are primarily uh private stations that are providing water for
bulk haulers to then fill trucks to haul water to to communities is really the the model that I saw but that being said I still went ahead and did the research so the first map here I put together just hey you know the area that we're talking about uh this gentleman's property is kind of highlighted you know
you were saying he he lives off of a uh oakal ow and Freda right yeah end the road yeah so kind of in the in the middle of that area north of 520 but south of the Canaveral groes area um more specifically uh he he's tucked you
know back in the corner uh he's about 04 miles 04 miles from Satellite Boulevard so 2,300 and something feet away so pretty far down that road uh just so you understand the lot was purchased in in
2018 undeveloped the lot the house was constructed in 2022 this is all according to the pavard County property appraiser about four miles away um and and just so you guys that all Council understands that although we'll have
more slides about the cost of the bulk water station arsenic removal can be arsenic can be removed from Water Systems it costs some money but I would imagine that a lot of folks who are out there right now are using that system and it depends quite a bit on the
chemistry you're not going to know exactly what that cost is until you pull water samples and test the water and see what kind of ARS arsenic comes in many forms and there are different treatment systems that treat different kinds of arsenic so you have to kind of figure all that out but that certainly is an
option for the homeowner it has nothing to do necessarily with this Council that being said the rest of the story so yes the history is that Bard County and the City of Coco entered into a memorandum of understanding for West
canaval Groves that project built a 12-in water man in 2018 using a HUD Grant for the purposes of adding fire protection and services for Lots along Satellite Boulevard and it's specifically called out in the agreement that was the only thing that it was to
be provided for this issue with Satellite Boulevard by the way predated me when I got here I got here in 2009 this issue had been if you all remember Mr Len Becket and others used to come regularly yes he had been to Carl araby and others for years and Mr weff before
I ever got here and so the development of the rideway and all the necessary steps were outlined in letters that were given to Mr Becket as well as other people in the satellite Community about hey the the rideway needs to develop if you can develop the rideway the streets
we we can extend those water mains and so on and so on and this was before we had even gotten the 12inch water man so the nice part of that is is that the county got the grant they installed that water line it provided a number of hydrants along there for protection that were never there so all the homes that
were along there now have fire protection but it was never contemplated that it would extend all the way to the side streets at least not for free we you I mean there's just there's a cost associated with everything that we do and who pays for those costs are decisions that this board this Council
has to make okay and of course you know anything that has to be done has to be done per our requirements and by the way the the although it was a county project we had an inspector that went out there and inspected it to ensure that it met all the Coco standards and so on when it was
constructed so the idea that came to council was to use uh there's an abandoned booster station pump along 520 that's the area highlighted in red if you can see it there um as as maybe a possible place for a booster station so that's kind of an aerial to kind of show you what's there there's an existing
abandoned building there uh which most likely we would want to take down at some point uh but for now there's certainly enough space to do what what we're talking about that's no question I did do some research uh I talked to a company I forget where they're out of uh they sent me some some brochure and some
informations the bulk water dispenser about 22,000 to 41,000 plus or minus depending on whether we only want to serve people for 3/4 inch got to fill up a bucket or do we want to go up to a say a 1 and a half or a 2 in for somebody say with a uh a business a power washing
business wants to fill up a a 200 or 300 gallon trailer that would come up because obviously if you did it with a three quter it take you quite a while so that's why the variability in Co in costs uh the meter backflow tap uh again I threw out just the dollars here but the other things that we did not talk
about or have not been discussed is that that site as is is not usable not by today's standards and it's a DOT road it's going to potentially require a turn lane I hope it doesn't but it could there has to be analyzed it has to be permitted through do honestly if the if
the lane is required which I probably doesn't but we're going to have to prove to them that it isn't needed uh the lane itself could be 50 70 $80,000 which I I didn't really necess even include in that cost but the site development we're going to have to do storm water we're going to have to do pipes we're going to
have to do security on the site we're going to have to connect to the internet we're going to have to do all of the things I generally listed there I try to come up with a very uh conservative estimate very low estimate quite honestly Ju Just a ballpark I want you to get an idea that it it's not just $50,000 for a bulk water station it's
quite a bit more then there's reoccurring costs like software maintenance cloud services uh there'll probably be some site maintenance and of course electricity to serve that site uh the kinds of bulk reader that I did look at uh has the ability to swipe a credit card if we connect it to the internet
and set up accounts and things potentially uh but unfortunately right now the other system which would be like to try to connect them like a customer because of our our navaline system it really won't communicate there's really no possibility that we can do that but there would be potentially a system to
set up it would just have to be you know paid for and built into that station so uh that's Poss again and I didn't include the demo of the building that if we were to do that that would be the utilities cost just to clear that building out of the way so like anything there's always policy impacts when we have have these
discussions so I tried to highlight some of the things that would have to be at least be discussed by this by this Council uh we don't have a rate for bulk water distribution we'd have to discuss that we'd have to get our rate consultant in involved and figure out what the true cost of bulk water is
relative to the cost of what customers pay we would have to look at our covenant and our bond restrictions to see if we have any conflicts and and unfortunately those are fairly lengthy and I really didn't have a chance to go through those documents to see if I'm not sure if we would or not but it would
be something we would want to check uh there is a legal liability of water contamination what happens if somebody fills up from that site they get sick and they turn around and look at the city and say well I filled up at your station I can't control from that point of of of exit to inside that person's
containment what happens and so not over unachievable it would just it just creates another wrinkle which which we would have to deal with uh and before we could maybe move forward so that the city's interests are protected as well as the other people who pay for the water system uh the utility policy
of restricting one meter serves One customer kind of clearly outlined in our handbook we would have to make some adjustments there it's just one of those things we have to do um and then the current policy of the owner developer pays for infrastructure that that's where we've been well before I got here
it's the current policy uh I I clipped a couple excerpts from our handbook but you know basically growth pays for growth we don't put growth on existing customers for water or sewer and so in doing this kind of a bulk station if the city were to pay for it it would
certainly be our rate payers paying for that for that uh for that service to provide for these customers that don't have water so if this board is in favor of going forward with that bulk station we would have to address that very carefully because not only would it affect this bulk station but it would
affect really all development throughout Coco and not through city of Coco the regional Coco system that I'm talking about that you all wear the regional hat for when we make decisions about what goes on in the water system I think that was it so I'm here to answer your questions this thing is
lighting up like Christmas over here give me one second Esquire gargan give me give me a quick analysis of a legal opinion in
reference of the station and I know uh Mr Walsh did address um contamination if they pull off from that facility and they get sick they will come back to harness I just want to protect what we fought for protecting our Liquid Gold sir you know
what I'm saying sir well I think Jack covered a lot of the you know highlights and additional issues that have would have to be evaluated from a you know from a risk risk standpoint I mean the city is is in the business of providing portable water
so um the city if they and and has a fairly good control of its water system through traditional methods of piping water into the households the water station adds a different complex Dynamic that the city has no experience in today
so I would imagine given the duty that the city has to provide uh safe drinking water a water station would have to have certain rigorous um standards and protocols to ensure uh that the water um
is safe to drink because the intent would be for drinking and for obviously other purposes but you know Jack's going to have and his team would have to meet all the same rigorous uh drink Safe Drinking Water standards that it does through a traditional method using a
more you know foreign method for lack of a better term with uh with water stations you know the city will have a duty um in my view to um to manage that appropriately thank you very much sir um
we will proceed in this order we're going to start with uh councilwoman cost and just work our way down to councilman going and just want to make sure my understanding so we could get him water but we would need to we'd have to build
a line and and we can't it's just too far away no no no we're not building a line if we would have choose the bulk water station yes the water line is out on 520 we would have to tap that line create a safe place for the water to be distributed from and a place to account
for it and that's what that site showed we could do it at that site but I think from a from a board standpoint the policy decisions are the things that you all need to sort of wrestle with which we've wrestled with before which is about how do we pay for growth how do we
for this case for for a service not only for this gentleman but for other people who would be interested in in doing or maybe participating we don't have any necessarily idea but there is an expense associated with that that's that's all I've really presented versus doing what we usually do which is build a line out
there and right the the other way the other approach if you read our handbook would be for this gentleman at 1700 Freeda Trail Freeda to apply for a water man extension for 2,000 something feet of water man that would go down that dirt road until it landed in front of
his property and then we would tap that M after he paid for that expense and then we would set the meter for him but all of those costs would be associated with in this case an individual yeah but it's the exact same policy that we appli to the Vieira company for instance they're about there building 16-inch
water Ms and extending uh you know uh several major roadways all the way to the very southern end of our of our service area down slightly south of pinita and all the way west as far as it'll go for that that final Village those costs are paid for by the Vieira
company up front and then are reiners through uh impact fees that we collect on the on the meter when we when we actually make the connection so they get a reimbursement and we also had an agreement that paid for five major infrastructure projects where to extend those things and so they're able to draw
against those infrastructure projects as we build up that account if I'm well that was a question so are there other residents that if he were to are there other residents along that line that could share the expense to have water brought out there I have no idea this
issue has come up several times yes Mr Becket was the only person who came regularly for a couple of meetings that's right um but every time I I kind of suggested the same thing which was by the way the I I I did a little bit of research on the
rideway private rideway whatever it's described it's not it's not a a traditional rideway I think it's it's really hard to find I've looked it up in Bard but what I didn't see was was a utility easement within it and without that I think that would make it even more difficult okay which is where I
kind of was like eight or nine years ago when Mr Becket came which was I'm not so sure you even have the right to build a common utility in the private easement that grants you access and this is also to have a station I mean this is really rare Florida yeah for Florida even on
this side of the Mississippi yeah I think so I I really I spent hour is looking and iend I ended up throwing it out to my Consultants who found somebody who they knew and they contacted me and then and then I was able to find a company and and then got some basic information I'm not I'm sure there's other companies and quite honestly we
would have to do a procurement I mean I didn't even put any of that down but finance and another you know we have requirements it's not just one company I'd have to put out specifications as to what we want and I'd have to open put it out onto the demand star so that could be openly bid but I did that just so we had an idea that hey the station is
around 40 or 50,000 depending on what you build if it's a really small line only for residential use it might be a little smaller but relative to the cost of developing the site it kind of doesn't matter at that point because the site's going to be very expensive to develop because it's not going to be just where you just pull off to the side
of the road fill up your can and leave uh We're not gonna be able to do that so okay thank you that does that make sense okay thank you is that it Council War cost yes yes ma'am thank you Deputy Mayor weeks well I some of my questions
were just answered but I'm curious uh being that we did a a joint thing with the county before uh is Satellite Boulevard now part of Coco or isn't that still the county right County so aren't there aren't there bonds that could be
or I mean uh not Bonds but um uh huh well impact fees number of places that you could go to to apply for Grants that's the word I'm thinking of grants for for doing this not only for a water station or now that I hear about the
easement no easement out there for utilities that makes it tougher because I'm trying to get you water thinking of water straight to your house I have another I have the solution to that they're permitted to sell water to private individuals I'm private once it
leaves the water tap off of owski it's all my responsibility the city wouldn't have anything in it nor the county I've contested everybody so far nobody said they own Road Mr four owns the entire 2,000 ft Road the county said they don't
know they don't want it the people lives there don't want it so it belongs to me and otherwise so you can go intimate domain down the street right or I could go intimate domain and the city water
facility has put in five water taps that I can prove without a shadow of a doubt no house is there nobody and that line just keep on trucking so explain that one and go back sir yeah I actually I
did some research from the last meeting because he claimed that there was some some meters and so we went through the customer service database and checked and we don't have a single registered meter that's not on Satellite Boulevard so if there are meters there they're not
ours or there's some kind of submetering going on that's illegal and against our handbook and our policies does the city allow someone else to tap the water remain without their knowled it doesn't no it's illegal well they was city employees there so I'll save that one for Christmas present they was all there
in the city trucks verir born under the road I spoke to them I got each name I got to picture the lot where the line went the water tap is still there there's no house there's nobody there but the pepper trees so there's no address on the lot either so but we'll
leave that one for another time and another place so my question then is are you planning to pay individually to have water brought all the way down to your I can provide the water line from owski to me I just need a water tap at the end of owski I will pay the fee nobody's asking
for nothing free all they have to do is bore under there and put me a water tap we sign a disclosure that and and the city is never responsible for after the water leaves the tap so is that doable Mr W he he's going to need to submit engineering drawings for that development and he's going to need to be
able to submit the right away that has permission yeah for all three 400 houses that collectively have that shared access easement and have a utility easement there's not that many houses lives on what whatever that is for that
for that section I'm familiar with that but anyway there you go so you got your answer yeah I just I just need if they're going to do it and then the second question would you permit a water tap if I bought a lot on Satellite Boulevard yes if you bought a lot on Satellite Boulevard there there are 40
or 50 houses that have and then one more question got many people behind me I just but everything's important but the bulk water haulers pull up to all the fire hydr turn and hook up I've seen them take 10 and 20,000 gallons in truck how do you keep track of that and how do
they pay for that if they're if they're not they even brought it to me right off of owski backed up hooked it up okay one conversation y'all one conversation go ahead sir all right the developers have um uh meters for
development and they metered is the water's metered when it comes to the site during the construction until the final infrastructure is built uh there are a couple of businesses that have uh meters that can hook up some of the mobile businesses and again we've kind of worked out uh some policies with
these you know limited businesses that move around a little bit um and so that that's how they're supposed to do now I've gotten I think councilman go sent me a picture of somebody connect I'm sorry councilman Hearns just a month or so ago said hey I think this guy was connecting without a a meter on it so
but we checked it out and so when people tell us you know we do enforcement if we find them they're if we we find they're taking water without a meter then we find them well I was talking about independent bulk water haulers that hauls 5,000 gallons at a time in the water trucks it's legally have their
name and they're bulk water haulers that's my next thing could you do a c analys for me to be my own personal private bulk water hauler and I could back up to the meter and get whatever water and you sell it to me prior to me having the right licensing to be a bulk water
hauler if you if you have a a registered proper business to haul water and you have a place to draw it from then well I mean where where do you normally draw the water from if you're bul businesses that haul bulk water you get yeah they're I for they deliver to me all the
time and they pull right there to oow I don't know where unscrew the tap hook on a hydrant 5,000 gallons come down to me Mr Ford it's $450 cash so I I don't know what to tell you and it's consistantly on sat at
Boulevard so but I mean we're not here to throw dirt we're here to help one another to work with one another and I just you know there is a way this will happen because you know and I know you know the one I did look up in Arizona was private but there's many more but
the $64 question is all of us live there I pay the same taxes as I said before as a gentleman on the front of the road then if I'm a private entity then I should own the whole place and not pay no taxes and do my own thing if nobody loves us the city don't want us in a
sense and the county don't want us in a sense but they have no problem the county cashing that $1,250 check for taxes every every year and they don't have any problem our roads is better maintained on the side roads than Satellite Boulevard but you know how it
means and when I first got there they told me the police and fire and nobody even comes down them side roads some of them is unpassable and there'll probably never be nobody live there but to us that do live there you know it it is a sacrifice that we have made to try to
make things forward but I know I don't want to hold this count up but if you can find a solution and if you could give any information to Mr gos about me being a personal private bulk water hauler and how would I get where do I get the water where does the normally
bulk water haulers get their water from when they bring it to you we don't we don't provide bulk water any there's there are a couple of businesses that have meters that can pull from a hydrant because they're filling up like a you know a 300 what it call water buffalo
that's what I call them but so what they do have a big water tap at their home and they just fill them up and then sell it to you no they pull from a hydrant from a hydrant through a meter well that's through a meter meter now the ones I've never seen got no meter they just back up and hook the hose and open
it up but that's a different story for another time yeah but to me being a personal water hauler if I had license insurance and things could you provide me to get water on salake Boulevard off the hydrants stay tuned stay tuned all right
thank you good evening all right yeah good job wood that's green come to the podium get aie greetings everyone mayor council members and thank you Alex Greenwood Bard Avenue Coco um I'm going to try to
be very brief this is information that I wanted to share that we are at a um chapter for Coco that is reaching a level that I'm glad to say that I'm able
to witness it uh there is a total of uh three three projects that's going to bring approximately 800 or 6 to 800 new residential
units and that is within a couple of years so we now uh are having to recognize the extra services that that influx of people are going to be looking for and is going to
need now uh the there's been um other support for uh an idea that the uh could could satisfy some of the needs that uh these additional residential units are going
to be um creating uh and in uh because I have presented information and petitions that I collected Donna collected also um the uh petitions that um the Coalition
had received for uh Candice Rogers we're talking about just those numbers there alone M Donna's is uh 40 uh signatures mine was 35 and the commercial property group that's majority of them um Donna
is mostly residential and some commercial and of course Candace is more of the residential what those petitions are saying is that the residents here are recognizing that we're having growing pains and we need to uh address
it the issues that's happening and I think one good solution that I haven't had one person respond by saying no that's a bad idea everybody that has uh that has been involved with some of the
issues that's happened in the village they all agreed with the idea of potentially having a security guard to make a presence in the downtown area and I'm just hoping that this is something I know you can't make it decision on it
now but uh there's been enough support for this idea and I'm hoping that maybe I could leave here that you all could mention that you might uh see about putting it on the agenda to vote on it we need to do it as soon as possible uh
because we want to take advantage also of the riverfront park where all the new parking is going to be created again I've said this before we need to have a ribbon cutting ceremony and we need to brag of what we're doing in the downtown
area for everybody to see all the other bars Satellite Beach Orlando all of them they've all made some changes with the way things are going to be happening in their village with ordinances things like that and I think that a security
guard idea like we have here in the city hall would be excellent uh to help show that there is some representation in the downtown area that not only will help the police department they have been bombarded with responsibilities that
they're having to deal with and it's it'll give them a little Breathing Room by having additional representation like that uh is it possible that I could get a consensus if there's a majority of you all that might want to that phone call
Sir make that phone call make the phone call okay I'll do that last thing I want to say because I think that this is important Teresa coko is lucky to have you you have done a beautiful job all the years that I've known you and I will be there at the
parkc all right thank you thank you sir thank you m uh Miss Lisa mcdarment please good evening good evening my name is Lisa mcj I am the general manager of Clear Lake Liquors and I am here
regarding 10:35 West King Street I do have some information on um zoning verification and a zoning denial um I've got copies for everybody if you like one we were looking at that
spot when a shooting incident happened in April of 2023 at 68 685 C Lake Road which is county property we saw this property and put a contract on this
property in June of 2023 after getting the zoning verification from the city we closed in September of 2023 then we looked for a liquor license
and it has to be liquid cash Banks don't Finance lior license took us a little longer to come up at the $450,000 wow in the past we've never never had an issue with the building sitting over two years well we
found liquor license we were not expecting the city to screw us and give us a denial on OB BTR we submitted an application on the 15th of
December 2024 and we got a denial on January 204 2025 in December after we put our application and the city started the new ordinance on the 23rd of
De December 2024 we are requesting the city give us a conditional use permit to open up a package liquor store we have already spent the $450,000 on the liquor license $700,000
on the building and we have contracts $180,000 in contracts roofing company inside shelving all that stuff um if you like to see like I said
I've got paperwork from the roofer I got the paperwork from the city so we are asking the city after we've spent all this money to give us that conditional use permit so
we can move forward and open this store and thank you very much thank you m mcdonal next Mrs Lanza it comes and goes first of all I haven't been in here
in a while since uh they did the $3,000 government grant uh home renovation which um they picked three um what uh what um I can't say I'm sorry I take I'm on medication because
of my neighbor and I lose memory but they picked three patri uh the Patriots uh Paul Brian and whatever another guy from these three big contractors or contract what's the word I ended up with a mechanic and an alcoholic working at
my house if you come to my house my house is destroyed every I have to repaint I have to fill in holes and everything I mean I'm a very clean person very clean very neat that's that I mean they screwed me like I was going to say another word but
the screwed is the is the good word Miss Marcia never came for the final inspection the doors that they put in the front and the back are the same exact I could said they probably use the same ones and said they bought new ones but they got the opening in the in the holes so all my air is going in and out
a year later my air conditioner broke down I had to pay to fix it because exactly a year to the date so that's that now I stand here before you to address the problem with Mr perverse our community everybody sees and nobody says
anything his house is getting worse now he has a tractor trailer which is picking up even more garbage I call code enforcement nobody picks up nobody sends me text nobody I don't know what's going on with them if they even there um if it was someone else he would had already El
that would have thrown him out she came to my house the other day asking me if I play music at if it's me playing music at 2:00 in the morning no 2:00 in the morning I'm in bed already sleeping that's your neighbor in front of you or well behind you she's afraid of him so she doesn't
talk to him so the only one that really talks to him or not talk but screams and yells at him is me because he doesn't listen but he's related to you Mr Mayor maybe he'll listen to you and growing his favorite friend
friend he's young what's he nephew of yours my cousin your cousin well maybe he'll listen to you noo and the chief the police officer the other day came to my house and said it was my husband's fault Miss treat and mishandled my husband he has bruises all
over and it wasn't even his fault it was Mr Bran's fault now I'm looking into M I'm looking into a lawyer because yes they come and I just need you to so your voice can be be heard through the microphone okay um everything is always
our fault our for we now we try to relax and talk to the police with calmness because I can't I can't do anything he gets away with murder the trash I mean and now he's parking across the street they cut the grass is really nice he's
tracking the grass up and down every day he parks in front puts on his headlights to my windows my dogs be barking all night cuz he's up all night all night getting high and what are you going to do about the neighbor across the street selling drugs this is in and out we get
more more traffic than than Stone Street I mean we're in a kodac I shouldn't be having all that traffic my dogs are in the front they barking all night long Mr pis has traffic coming to him to bringing him drugs all day long and miss miss reic too the same thing I told the
police that yesterday why aren't nobody doing anything this been years I've been asking about that they're both selling if she's not there he goes they bring it to him but mostly they bring it to her and she takes it to him this is an In-N-Out thing every day every day
and I'm getting tired of it and that's all that's how fast I want to do it because I don't want that thing to rain bye thank you thank you very much m l um Madam clerk do we have any more cards for our delegation no sir thank
you kindly ma'am this concludes this portion of delegations we will proceed to consent agenda item what are the wishes of council motion to approve second we have a motion on the floor by councilwoman CA
and a second by Deputy Mayor weeks CH going to call the question all in favor saying I I I have unanimously see we have none for public hearing moving on to item number
7-1 considered the appointment of Jose Pacho to fill one of the five vacancies on the board of adjustments 202-9843 [Music] chair like to make a standard procedure um it's going to be closed from 12:
until 3: um chair like to make a motion to approve second go ahead okay second by count Deputy Mayor weeks chair's gonna call the question all in favor by saying I I eyes have it
unanimously proceeding on to um reports city manager sir thank you Mr Mayor Mr Walsh has a report yeah we are um this is our annual change and disinfection if you remember those of you here last year um hold on
Mr Walsh hold on Mr Walsh maybe we have one conversation please ladies and gentlemen thank you go ahead Mr sorry yep um so every time around this this time of the year we change our disinfection to free chlorine uh those notices will started going out about two weeks ago if you haven't
gotten one in the mail you'll be getting one in Bill uh it starts um February [Music] 20 8th I think February 28th um and that goes for about three
weeks then we transition back so it's necessary to help us keep our water quality High um it helps us keep uh disinfection under control especially during the summer months uh when it's harder to keep our disinfection in the pipes because of the temperature of the water and other factors so anyway so
that was my report thank you thank you very much Mr WS Mr Mayor the only other thing is is that uh before the holidays the council asked uh about holiday decorations
around the city and I promised you guys that we would get you a math I've sent that to you you all uh maybe two times and we have it as an open link on our on our website and so we need to close that link uh fairly soon but and so if you if
you if you want to take an opportunity to look at that then um we can make arrangements there but we're going to close the link um for uh security purposes um but again we did create that map and you guys have an ability to go
out there and and at least as we plan for the next holiday season to uh to see where we have our decorations that's it for us Mr Mayor yeah um we have a question here Mr city manager go ahead Council sir are those decorations the same ones we've been
using in previous years or are you seeing those new de decorations no these are these are uh current decorations there we made some changes two years ago in the heart of Coco but I don't know how consistent
over time they've been at the particular locations but that's everywhere where we have City decorations or we had City decorations for the holidays okay is that it sir yes sir any other questions for the city
manager saying none City attorney thank you sir I'm going do something out of the norm I would like to go first today for tonight and again happy valentine to everyone that this is this coming Friday
um I wish everyone and all their loved ones a Happy Valentine's I want to say thank you everyone for participating doing your civic duty actively involved in Community Affairs this is the event last night um where
we're at rockl city council being the president of the Florida League of cities traditionally speaking um rock ledge has the reputation of having the president come forward and speak in behalf of the league as a whole all
411 municipalities it's also the city in which my dad was the councilman for 40 consecutive years in the city of Rock Ledge this is our president Jeannie Gardner and her husband Rob
Gardner we were there in Washington DC and I was standing in front of one of the Congress members uh Podium and and recognition of the month of February wanted to acknowledge Black History Month as well um this was with the
Florida League of cities this event was paid by the Florida League of cities I'm happy to say and I represent like I stated 411 municipalities we did meet with our Congressional members both on the house side and also on the Senate
side um this is the lwis where John a poster were former Legend great John Lewis in his office right here um this is Congressman Byron DS from on the west coast now
called the Gulf of America and not the Gulf of Mexico um you know our sister city Israel I stand with Israel we have our sister city and I support them bet shames or some would say sheemish
so um there we met with one of the Congressional members there and uh had a wonderful time very educational we talked about cdbg we also talked about municipal bonds um not being taxed so that we can
pay for uh projects pertaining to infrastructure pertaining to safety on a federal level so we can get our federal dollars and as you know at one point a time they stop all federal grants temporarily and that's the number one
concern right about now um at the capital at the White House is that are we spending more than what we have and we have to come up with a solution but the solution is this ladies and
gentlemen if I pay into it then I should be able to draw from the will that's our federal tax dollar and we're going to fight for our federal tax dollars it's also in conjunction with bright line $48 million so we can
build our station this is The Bard delegation here myself Dr fetro the city of rockless did a phenomenal job um they had hot chocolate for us last night and it was wonderful they had a cake with the
picture on it uh this is Pastor Ferguson or councilman Ferguson or past president Ferguson or he's my advocacy chairman of the board for the Florida League of cities at the city uh rockl Space Coast
55th um anniversary there and that wonderful time I will be first admit that our sister city rolled out the red carpet for us and it was uh seating room only 7 yes sir and the was under the 70s
you're right as you can see uh Jeanie Gardner executive director for FLC and her boots in her shiny Illuminating dress um this is one of the Gospel shows that's getting ready for Easter is that
you all somebody uh Sammy Brown Martin is sponsoring this um you can see Friday March the 29th right Larry at 5:00 p.m. until 700 p.m. he's not going there when I going to
your own sister event and this concludes uh my event I did have a a hard-to hard conversation with Congressional member Rick Scott our Senator Rick Scott also uh Rubio's staff
Secretary of State Rubio's staff and a host of other elected officials uh Congressman Herod dois of District Number Eight there was a couple of photos I don't know if got you and not but thank you very much Mr Beach for your cooperation and getting
my photos ready for me sir uh councilman Hearn is it odds or evens today uh evens two and four who would let to go first out of two and four may it be two or may it be four the first okay
fourer again congratulations to the state champions and Al Super Bowl champions Mr Chona Gardner yes and also Mr Joan Taylor all right District Four
here we come and um I apologize that I will not be going to Tallahassee this year what I'm sorry but I will be um I will be doing a community meeting on March 25th that you'll hear more about some planning going on in Clear Lake
okay uh oh congratulations to Irene Ortega who has joined our police force and the good news the the big news to me was that we're getting very close to having full staff so we're doing really well in
that regard uh the Savar Indian River Lagoon had its 100th project celebration in fact we had a 100 people across the bridge in Titusville each with one of those cups that you see there which had 100 baby
clams in it and the idea is that so you know we threw those off the bridge um so 100,000 clam baby clams they now have and the reason that particular site was selected was because we have a a 50%
survival rate which is actually pretty good um these are the filter feeders of course really important for our Lagoon in fact there are some studies that say if we had only 25% of the doct that we have along the Lagoon only 25% if those
were living docks with clams and other filter feeders that that would do it for the Lagoon that would clean the whole Lagoon they're that powerful um also got the opportunity to go to the West Africa Festival the essence of knowledge the urban bookstore
you know Michelle Davis um they actually have revamped their shop and brought in a lot of artwork and I don't know if they actually expanded the building but what an education that was so I have a friend that just came back from Ghana she was looking for a specific African
artist for a print they had it and she said I mean she combed the area this is the place in Central Florida for African art so it's also an education to me because you walk in and they have this
entire wall that is band books um and that was quite an education seeing a lot of those titles that I was familiar with and um just had no idea that they were banned
so anyway so she's she's educating the community as well um pursue what's next so uh Deputy Mayor weeks myself were at the Space Coast Economic Development commission annual meeting the theme was
pursue its next and the big takeaway was that the Titusville Melbourne Palm Bay urban area our our metro area is the only major Metro in Florida that is topping the charts on the Milan
Institute ratings we are number nine in the country for best performing cities notably the second highest for wage growth yeah now that doesn't mean that we have the highest second highest wages what it means is that the growth and the
trending is going in the right direction um let let's see did I oh today I got to visit with um Chris Beaver who is now the I guess executive
director is it artistic director of the Coco Village Playhouse I think um okay Mr Whitten also got to visit with him um I'm really excited um very energetic enthusiastic
leadership there they have 1.1 million towards their expansion of course you know all about this because your husband is a volunteer there um of the 3.1 million that they need they do have an appropriation request in for 2 million
and of course all our local representatives are very supportive of that um he has been working with and had several discussions now with Katherine Stewart and Riley Mory who is her drama director really looking at expanding
that youth program with the expansion of the building they're currently serving 238 youth but um hoping to expand that and actually be able to go out into the schools as well as have more programming in the
facility now uh on the right this is really fun to go into Coco Village today there are like a half a dozen artists out there and evidently this is a club that meets there regularly um this is uh U Schneider and she's she's over she has
some works over at Carolyn Siler Studio but um just one of the special things you know about Coco Village and and having an Arts Center as we do and lastly I wanted to talk about smart growth which is a term I hear a
lot of people use particular in the election and of course you want growth that is smart but I wanted to point out that smart growth is actually uh more than that that there are actually principles to it that have been determined over actually was 10year
period uh planners out of the American Planning Association met during numerous conferences to develop these principles so when we talk about smart growth and this is also a good way to kind of evaluate how we're doing and we're doing
well in several accounts but includes more than density so it includes the mixed land uses which we're incorporating um the compact building design of course is going going up um density um creating different a range of
housing opportunities uh not just affordable not just high-end but a whole uh range of course walkable neighborhoods are really important and I think number five the fostering distinctive attractive communities with a strong sense of place I know that was
important for me when when I went looking for a place to live and that's why I ended up in Coco to be quite honest because it had all that um pre preserving that open space which is you know we've talked before about the emerald necklace and you know having
green areas that connect with each other throughout the city to create uh walkable spaces for humans as well as for wildlife and um strengthen and direct development toward existing communities so the
density attracting more density rather than sprawl um and of course we're going to be a Transportation Hub so we're doing really well on number eight to provide a variety of transportation choices nine we want to make development
decisions predictable Fair cost effective I think that that's a lot of the changes that we've been making um and um encourage community and stakeholder collaboration so just to point out that there are principles
behind the uh term there you go so I don't have any photos this week but I just like to acknowledge the uh fist BR more acre project is really coming along um I don't know if any of you have had the chance to drive down
Fisk lately but we now uh have sidewalks on the uh opposite side of the road something we didn't have before U making that area a lot safer for the kids that uh the numerous of kids that we're seeing now at Anderson Park since we uh
remodeled it and uh so I'm very thankful for that um it continues to come along um and also I had the opportunity to attend the uh League of cities event with the mayor as he stated and it's just uh really something to be proud of
the city of coko being a resident here that everyone there was asking about what's going on in C everybody was really looking forward to the great things that we have coming along here so um I just wanted to report that to the public that uh you should really be proud to be a Coco citizen so thank you
amen go go go Gators and go Tigers so uh I said that to him that's right he did a great job a lot of Gator fans were in the house yes yes yes
yes ODS would like to go first OD he can go first I'll go I'll bring up the your s um so this this company I wanted to highlight today I know um I talked to Samantha as well about putting them on
our uh website as well um they came through to help out one of our residents um that been seeking help and and they answer the call amen and and so um I think it also shows that uh with
collaboration and relationships um because I I knew someone else that they knew and it all kind of connected to each other so it's all about how you treat people it can come back around not just for yourself but it can come back around to help somebody else and so uh dead dead bug
Dave um is a familyowned uh bug company um as you see the number is there um support this business um he did not have to um help out at all uh there was several businesses that chose not to but
and they have the right to um but they they stepped up and um and helped out one of our residents so again um I think we still got a long way to go with the process but the fact that the process has begun is a beautiful thing so thank you Dave when he said the name of the
company I was kind of okay I've never heard that one um but but again thank you Dave bu Dave for um stepping up um this is a black history program that's at Eastern Florida State College it will be Thursday February 27th um every year
uh they out the students there do a awesome job and they have have food some really good food and so uh you know I love food so I'm going to be there probably early and make sure I get uh but it's Thursday February 27th at the student Hub uh at building number uh 11
at Eastern Florida State College uh Coco campus um so I I visited a museum this past weekend in Birmingham Alabama um uh th this uh museum is my first time ever really getting emotional
inside of any Museum and it it brought a lot of reflection to me I'm only 45 years old so things um my mother or my grandmother have went through uh I didn't um feel that right and so when you see
and go through certain museums it really touched me personally and so the the the the photo to the right was a classroom and so that kind of brought me back to our um Museum that we have here which
was um a former all black elementary school and I believe may be one of the first in Bard County and it it brought me to thought process of we have not done enough uh with that museum we we have came a long way from
2017 when it was nothing in there uh thanks to staff uh and Leadership um definitely Charlene going out getting some a lot of the grants that was done um great job of getting that done getting that started um but being inside
this Museum made me feel like a failure um because I don't feel I personally have done enough to push it um I think I took the step back um just hoping that the system can take care of itself uh asking volunteers to to it was a great
idea for that um but I think now um and and probably Charlene could correct me on this or not but I I don't it was a great gesture but volunteers may not be the way am I pretty much on the right track on that um so I I believe we had some
interest over the last year or so with volunteers but I think some of the volunteers once they realize how much commitment it takes to uh volunteer in a in a museum which is a lot of time three or four days a week
four or five hours a day um and I I don't believe that was you know it's a great gesture but that's not where we should go and so I believe we need to have a conversation as a counsel um and have and between us maybe at a budget
meeting um because we know everything takes dollars um and if we don't allocate funds to it that'll show the city that we do not look at that uh building as a
priority um and so again we got new windows inside we we we've um a historical society have came in and done a pretty good job of of getting that done bringing those artifacts in but
we're still not there uh where we should be where where it should be uh it was gr Grand open was done in 2017 we're now in 2025 um and like I was joking with with m Brown today is I don't want uh my son
to be 25 and it just start opening up and he's 5 years old and so again we've have we came a long way since 2017 but I don't believe at this time we still don't have a plan for what it is or what it should be and and and I'mma
blame myself um because I I again I have not uh push the envelope um we have not made motions to to put dollars to towards whatever we want this to be um and and I
really with consensus I really want us to be able to have this conversation maybe at a uh our next budget meeting to put it on the agenda for a discussion uh we really need to have a real robust discussion about what we want um this
African-American history museum to be um I don't have that much time left on the council uh and if we don't make decisions now I I don't know who's going to come behind us and it may not ever come to fruition and so we have to make a a a effort to to get I think our other
Museum that we have on Michigan we see it it's flourishing is it's it's coming up From the Ashes from where it was uh because of so many good volunteers stepping up and so we just fortunately unfortunately we don't have that uh volunteer crew to step up right now for
this Museum and so it's going to fall on our shoulders and so I I just wanted to show um this is the grand opening that was done in 2017 um I believe we owe it uh to to those
members that was on the council at that time as well um for us to step up and and make this dream come to a fruition just in my opinion and I I open that up I don't know how you guys feel about what I'm saying if I'm if I'm way
off please correct me let's put it on to be to be honest I mean we just recently remember we did the CRA and Tampa um and they took us to both the historical
African-American Community the Spanish Community uh the Catholic community and it's a culmination of everyone participating Y and um those CRA dollars were also invested to rejuvenate that
area and renovate that area and I think that's going to uh need to take place because we have a sunset for Diamond Square yep um it would be nice yes because it's it's amazing how all the streets intersect with one another y
from Barbara Jenkins to Ros L to Blake everybody is connected from the old school but it should go beyond that too as well just like councilman uh councilman herns was talking about um so not out of
Orlando but she stayed right here in near Stone Funeral Home Hurst yes sir so we have a plethora of information there and it's going to take tax dollars and and and and also grants Y and you're absolutely right and
it's going to start with our state legislator and and and funding is going to be tight ladies and Gentlemen Just Get Ready Get Ready Get Ready but just think about where we started from of course to where we are now and what's
the advancement Y in conjunction with the old Dr Jolie Smith building we're trying to get some of those fundings and we met with do um um State Legislature House of reps Tyler shoy we all did and I think you were instrumental in
spreading those funds to as well so um you know uh wills at at the guard Mill grind slowly but exceedingly fine and it just takes time and I'm glad you are recognizing and it's a Time crunching
time effort so yes continue to move forward um councilwoman cost your light is on man yeah I was just going to say I mean I I share your frustration as well because and I don't think the expectation that volunteers are going to
come in and you know I don't think we're there yet but our goal should really be to have a plan to make this a Living Museum you know and then build our interpretation as we go and um so
like last year I just we really need a a speakers program I mean that's a beautiful space introduce people and get people familiar with it and comfortable with going there um you know as we have more of a long-term plan to increase the
interpretation y y yeah I'm with you on that I mean I think the main thing right now just in a short term for me is to create um foot traffic in which that could be traveling exhibits it could be
uh local uh um uh Divine n groups to come in and do uh it doesn't have to be in black history month but in those in those months maybe every other month we have something that we present inside of
the building and I guess the question I would have and that's something again we could do that at the next the budget hearing but we may have to look at a nonprofit who is uh maybe currently have the expertise to do this and and allow them um to to
run it for us because we don't have the staff to do it um and and then again uh you just to reiterate we don't have the volunteers as well we maybe have some volunteers that can help out but to run daytoday n that's not going to happen right now and so um I would love for
this to be a conversation um at our budget meeting coming up in in March um and so if anyone anybody object to that okay all right good thing would be councilman going is to have a trolley system yeah
to do a Rob absolutely and we do both sides of the railro tracks you know what I'm saying cross over us one cross the railroad tracks uh going into the heart of Coco um go along Indian River Drive road I mean just if
you're going to tell it tell the entire story yeah you know the importance of it all yes sir and that's the pivotal thing why we have some of those individuals that are still alive that we put under the camera um so that we can protect and preserve
our history all of our history um it's imperative that we do be uh protected because everybody's family that migrated to Coco or either born here at CoCo should have some type of historical
recognition yeah lot of dot in everybody yeah okay and I think it's imperative that we do it but it's going to take funding and it's there it's just that consistency y okay go ahead the floor is yours I'm sorry go ahead U that that's really that's really
all I had um well the other thing I had was I I gave um city manager um just a thought um because we've had conversations about uh downtown Coco
concerns um the last few weeks and and again and maybe at one of our budget meetings we can do a 30 45 minute conversation um where we discuss some of those things security conversations um and I don't really hear Council really
objecting to that um so just so that we can actually direct whatever that com whatever that decision would be at a either a budget meeting or at a council meeting or at a CRA meeting or a CRA meeting where the dollars are at at the
CRA first and foremost we must start at the root level yeah I'm and then work our way yeah no no I'm complimenting you yeah I I get it I get it and that's what I'm saying I'm acknowledging what you're saying but let's do it at the CRA and
then proceed from that level and then eventually it'll be here gotcha right but also under the leadership and hear what staff city manager City attorney has to say as well okay all right we're good thank you
um I Dream of Genie I Dream of Genie you call it I'm I'm gonna do this real quick because I've go I've got to hit the road um anyway I got to go to when the governor was in Titusville on the 29th
um and he was there with the uh the um Wayne Ivy anyway uh it was when he was saying he was going to uh veto and all the news media was there and everything so I got it was a last minute invitation that I got to go and I was just three rows back I actually got to
shake his hand and um uh which I've had a picture with him before but anyway I got to shake his hand because he walked in the door right by me so um and then I went over to I was at a conference for Florida Realtors um and I served on a
panel um and uh about you know places you would go through women's Council of Realtors but anyway um but I served on a panel and uh only second time in my life I've ever served on a panel so you just don't know how you come out when you do
those things any they told me I did fine but you know I made them laugh anyway um and then uh this is Peggy Ward and uh she is the uh spaceco Association of Realtors a government Affairs director scar won four awards that night we've
never won four awards for our realtor political action committee and that's Donna Tidwell and so it was a banner night and then this gentleman here in the middle is uh the incoming president of of National Association of Realtors
his name is Kevin Brown and um then the lady on the far right is Christine Hansen and she will be 2027 president and she's from Florida she was a former president of Florida Realtors um so we were well represented
there and they were doing a panel um and you know Tim weire he is the uh Florida Realtors um new president and um you met him at the uh at the luncheon and then this was an interesting uh this has to
do and I somehow cut it off but it has to do with rental prices and how much they've gone up adjusted for inflation and if you look here you'll see Melbourne but that was kind of Bard County County and um
1.4% is what uh adjusted for inflation when it's gone up 24.9% yeah in the last five years isn't that amazing um but I will tell you that prices because of all the lovely apartments that we've had built all around they've stabilized and are
starting to go down so on rentals not home prices for sale um and then I'm a Florida director this was only half the room there were 700 directors there but our table happened to be halfway up and uh um so we I was there for 5 days and
uh then Lorraine and I as she said we attended the EVC awful picture no that's not an awful picture I said come here lorine we got to commemorate be in there so anyway we were there at the uh at the EDC and they do such a great job and Rusty Mill the this year's president of
Space Coast Association of Realtors was volunteer of the year and so he got that award and uh great guy um and I had I love the pursue what's next so I did that and look who is there Tim Weiss because besides being the realtor the
president of Florida Realtors he's also president of the Orlando Airport Authority whoa I know right so uh he was there because of the Orlando melber so he only wears a few hats and he has three companies so he's not a busy man at all um it scared me to death because
I didn't know he was there he came up behind grabbed my shoulders I jumped um so anyway th that's all the the pictures I'm sorry that I've missed some of the things I signed up to do with the council the last few days but I'm eventually getting to whatever
priorities you guys have okay I I figured there was a process I think it's I think it's next week it could be the next Workshop after that their priorities is it two workshops Council priorities so actually when we go to
your Council priorities at that March March 4th meeting is where we plan on okay I'm presenting that to you guys wonderful thank you I I meant like I said it was crazy when I was writing down I think I said if I don't write it
down now I have a little add I'll forget so so I wanted to make sure that I brought that up then and Council Council weeks there was also a budget adjust adjustment done rolling that money over back in November um and then I'm working
on the financial statements right now to ensure that that's a signed so there is still money set aside for whatever decided to do great great thank you so much I appreciate that very much and uh that's I I just want to say thank you to all of the rest of the council for all
the things that you guys brought up tonight it's um all good ideas all very good ideas thank you sir I'm great job man great job to council and City staff city manager City attorney saying this concludes this
portion I would just like to end with this theme be strong enough to stand alone amen smart enough to know when you need help and brave enough to ask for it so go in
peace Happy Valentine's blessings to everyone God Bless America and these great United States chains a motion to a journ move to a journ second all in favorable saying I I