invitation. Lord, thank you for bringing us here today. Ask that you guide us in our decisions. Uh that we're doing what's best for the city and that we're doing things that will glorify you in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Thank you. Okie
dokie. All right. Approval of minutes. Everyone's had a chance to review. And these are just the minutes from the joint, right? Yes, that's correct. So, were they combined then? How how's that? This is only from the combined.
Yeah, I think it's Yeah, I think it's just for the workshop. So, we'll have the minutes next probably next meeting. That's right. Correct. Sounds good. Is uh any uh changes or comments? Motions. Motion to accept. Got a motion
to approve. Second. Got a second. All in favor? Uh any discussion? Okay. All in favor say I. All oppose say nay. Motion carries four up. Okay. Moving on. We've got the financial report for us.
Yeah. Good evening, chair, commissioners, members of the public. So, nothing really notable to report since our last meeting. I can tell you I've been working with the city's finance uh team to to bring back a formal budget amendment. We're actually uh getting very close to our um annual
report or excuse me, our annual audit being completed. So at that time all the unreconciled um funds from last year will be brought forward with that budget amendment uh for you all to u to distribute how you see fit. So hopefully at our our June meeting I will have that
budget amendment to memorialize a transfer from the sale of the two properties into the streetscape account along with those unspent revenues from last year. Um great. And so that'll be the the monies that we need to allocate to some
private That's correct. Yes, sir. Yep. Um are we some of these things like the alleyways account, are we in a interest bearing account or Yeah, I believe so. Uh yeah. And if in fact if you'll note on the top of the revenues on the budget
report, you'll see uh some uh revenue from the interest which pages. So, it's going to look like this right here. Um, oh, and it'll be um CRA interest. And so, you'll see so far this year, we have um
recognized about 12 a.5,000 uh in in interest revenue. That's page 23 of 75. Yeah. Just All right, great. Okay. Uh, do we have any comments or does someone want to make a motion to
accept? I'll make a motion to accept. There's a second. Second. Uh, any discussion? Any discussion from the public? All in favor say I. I. All oppose, nay. Motion carries four. All right. Thank you for that. Uh, next thing here is the growth and development
assistance grant tracking sheet. Since our last meeting, I've had the pleasure of making three new grant awards and closed out one. To date, this brings our total awarded amount uh to just over 96,000 through 23 different awards, uh which is about a 95% increase year-over-year. In your packet, you
should have those um photographs from the before and afters and then the grant check presentation for the one we closed out. All right, looks good. All right, so uh under old business number one here, update on House Bill 991, Senate Bill 1242. So, so this is
the legislation that was filed um this year to restrict the CRAAS. I'm kind of pleased to report that that has died off for now. I think there are certainly interest uh to bring some of this back next year, but as far as this legislative session, it doesn't appear
that any changes will be made to part three of 163. So, all good uh moving forward and we'll stay tuned to next legislative session to kind of see what happens um with filings then. So, no changes at all or No changes at
all. Are they changing the u the use to where you can't do concerts and stuff or not even changing that? There there wasn't any language um you know approved in the form of a bill. Um but there is certainly direction or guidance from the Florida Redevelopment Association to to not do those kind of things. I think I
don't think strict prohibition, but it's highly discouraged in light of that. I don't see that being an issue with this board, but uh it I I do hope that people will quit doing that because it makes CRAAS look bad. Sure. Yeah. I think the guidance was to if you're doing that to
stop doing that because otherwise they're going to keep coming after us. That's right. Yeah. Right. But that doesn't have anything to do with like special event space like the amphitheater. No, no, no, no. It's events, you know, given to nonprofits just to hand and check to nonprofits in
concerts like Yeah, exactly. Is that one thing we need to think of though is what one iteration that you like if this passed anything that wasn't already on your books to do? Yeah. So, the way that that it was written originally uh basically said if it's not in your uh
budget uh then you can't do it as far as a new project is concerned. Uh fortunately for us we have several projects large ticket you know projects that have been been included in our budget but yeah you know something to think about for sure moving forward. Probably the more extreme point of that
was the prohibition on the issuance of new debt service should we be seeking the ability to bond or leverage our money to complete any largecale projects. If you did have that in effect though, all versions of that allowed the
CRA to continue in existence for such time as needed to pay that debt service down. All right. Uh moving on to item two, downtown undergrounding. So, further direction I received from you all last meeting, I did meet with city staff to discuss a memorandum of
understanding uh and to learn a little bit more about the city's desires for the alleyways and and basically what I gained from that is that there's a strong desire to kind of do all of those things that we discussed in our workshop at one time. Uh meaning storm water
improvements, um utility upgrades, and then obviously the aerial utility undergrounding along with pavement. And so I think we're at a place now where the the recommendations that I'd make to this board are are twofold. On on one
side is either either we issue an RFQ and we go out and hire an engineering consultant to address all of those. uh or if the construction value is less than seven and a half uh million, we use the city's continuing services agreement
consultant and issue them a task order uh to start that design work that would that would look at all those things. Um certainly well within our redevelopment plan and in part three of chapter 163 for us to do those. It's just a function of whether the board wants to take that approach or do we want to continue down
the path of just addressing the aerial utilities. In your packet, you will see some uh correspondence I've had with those utility providers. Most of the communication utility owners have indicated that their price is fairly close, if not exactly the way that it was. Um, Florida Power and Light did
eventually get back to me yesterday and provided a ballpark estimate, which is a little more, I think, um, as far as their costs are concerned, but their credits for the undergrounding actually increased. So, I think the net difference is is actually favorable to us. Um but you know again it appears
that there is a desire for us to to kind of deal with all of these at the same time. If we're going to make um impacts to the alleyway we might as well take a holistic approach to it. So that's that's kind of where I am. Be glad to to do whatever this board you know would like to do. Um but that's kind of my
recommendation. Well if they're going to do all of it if we choose to do that do they have like a time frame that it would all I mean how long it would take? Yeah. So I I think that would be uh contingent upon um the degree in which the construction activities have to take
place. In other words, what does that storm water improvement look like? You know, what what type of facilities need to be placed there? Um and you know, how could they accomplish that in a way that is least destructive to the business and commerce? And so I would like to think
based on my experience that this design effort would probably be somewhere between 12 and 18 months. Uh once you get through that design, we would ultimately bid it out. I would estimate four to 6 months on that and then probably a construction timeline of 12
to 18 months. Um so all in I would guess a three-year project. So I think I would go ahead and make a motion to uh use the city's continuing services uh just and just for timeliness because I know if we have to do the RFQ and all that's going to take another six
to nine months and the city's already got engineers ready to go. Sure. So my motion would be to use the city's engineers and get this project started. Second. Okay, we got a motion and a second. Any discussion? Any discussion from the public?
Okay. Uh all in favor say I. I. I. All oppose say nay. Motion carries 40. All right. So, I'll be working uh with city staff. They are actually just approved the contract for those engineering consultants. I'll be working on a task order to get a a price back from them and bring it back to you just as soon as
possible. Great. So, I do have a question on this uh the highlighted areas or the old areas that are for the area utilities. Correct. Oh, that's it. That's right. But but I think the scope for the actual, you know, total project would
would increase because of all those other things we've talked about. In fact, I think it would extend from 10th all the way down to what is that fifth at Firestone. So it would include a lot more. Yeah. So yeah. So it would go basically where the gym is all the way
down all the way to Firestone. Otherwise, you're leaving out Sentry Link and all these other things. Yeah. Yep. All right. So the next item I have here is the parking study final plan. So in in your packet or actually on the screen rather not in your packet because it's
300 something pages is that final document. This is nothing different than what you have seen previously. This is just a culmination of all that information we've previously discussed. This did go before the city council Monday night for their acceptance and they did unanimously accept that. Uh so
in you know this process I figured I'd bring it back to you and at least let you see and take some action and and go through the formal acceptance if so desired. Okay. You need a formal acceptance and to approve this this final payment. Yep. That's right. Yep. That motion. So,
you're making a motion to approve this bill and acceptance of the Okay. Second. Uh, okay. I'm sorry, this phone was talking to me here. Second. Got a motion and a second. Uh, any discussion? Okay. Uh, any public
comments on this? Okay. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. Motion carries 40. All righty. Thank you. Uh the next item I have is an update on RFQ25-01-c. Uh this is for the amphitheater project. I've met with um
our architect that we awarded the RFQ2 DAG architects uh this past week. They have provided uh to us a proposal for the conceptual phase of that project. One thing to note is that when we put out the scope of work for this RFQ, it
it included a number of tasks. Conceptual being one of those, design development uh which would include bid support and construction administration being the other. So my my ask to them was to put together uh a proposal to include all of those task at one time for this board to consider. They are
preparing uh to do just that right now. They have a set of assumptions that they're putting together to to be able to put that price in there. One thing to note about those assumptions is that they may change throughout this conceptual phase. So if you know we have a price that is memorialized in a
contract you know just a recognition that that may go up that may go down but at least we have memorialized that we've captured that and we have a contractual agreement with the consultant to do those tasks when we get to that phase if we get to that phase because there's always a possibility that through the
conceptual phase we decide well maybe this doesn't make sense. So point being, uh, we're we're continuing to work on this and I feel, uh, confident that by our next meeting in June, I will have you a full proposal with all those costs included for you to consider. So we
don't need to take any action. No action. No action. All right. Request. Is it the request to be on the agenda next? Is that It is. Yep. So um, I'll introduce this uh, Dr. Mini Henderson actually approached uh me with
a grant program that she has identified through the National Trust Preservation Funds grant program and so she's here tonight to kind of explain uh what that is and her ask from us is to be a partner uh in this effort. She as for
Defunia will be the applicant um but she has requested along with the WF historic trust uh for us to be partners in this endeavor. uh it would include uh a number of of workshops kind of in preparation for our historic design preservation design standards that that
are underway. In your packet is a letter of support that I've crafted for just that. Um and so I'll allow her to explain further and answer any questions you may have. Okay, Mr. Chairman, members of the board, my name is Dr. Melinda Henderson. I'm the
executive director for Forward Defunia Incorporated. Um, one of our goals is to preserve and capitalize our history, our unique history and heritage.
Uh in that regard, we started a subcommittee with representatives nominated from various organizations in town that were interested in historic preservation from the Walton County uh
Heritage Association, the University of West Florida Historic Trust, Defunia Landmarks, and ourselves. We studied the current city historic preservation code and resolved to strengthen it. Many codes from other cities were reviewed
online. We also consulted the state historic preservation office and reviewed codes from cities that they suggested. Thus, we were able to write a model model ordinance that was strengthened and that included expanded
definitions, design review board, and a certified local government maybe in the future. Our consultants during this process were Anthony um Valley, Chris Wallace, and Joe Johnson. Our next task was to to
develop some design review standards that could be derived from national standards but individualized for our local area. The group was uh busy searching online sources and the literature
uh in order to accomplish this. We expected to find some uh standards that had already been developed that we might revise and individualize. We did find two good candidates. Meanwhile, the
city designated Dorsy Street as a historic district and designated the downtown business district. Well, about that time, Mr. Irving visited the group to explain to him what this group was about and uh what your annual um
strategies were and so so forth. Uh he became involved in our discussion and recognized almost before we did that developing standards for three diverse districts uh with radically different needs was
far beyond the expertise of that little group. So he uh quickly became a fourth consultant and came before you all um to see if we could get some consultants for that regard.
uh this was approved and the RFP was let the contract was written and we had the first public workshop in reviewing why the few attendees were inattentive inattentive
and failed to participate Mr. Irvin, Rob Overton from the University of uh West Florida Historic Trust and I concluded that there were three generations plus many newcomers that do not know the history of the area well.
Therefore, they can't understand the need of the design review standard, what it means to live in a historic district or area, what integrity is, and how integrity relates to the need for standards. There is a need for the community to
understand from where um historic standards derive how they might participate in developing the standards. The very reason the consultants were um contracted and um finally how they can
apply the standards to their own needs in a costeffective manner. We decided to do an introductory workshop that would address some of those areas. The goal was to pre uh to prepare citizens to participate knowledgeably when the
consultants come back on June the 22nd. Through Zoom and conference calls, we developed such a workshop and resolved to hope um to host additional workshops that might fill some of the knowledge
gaps. Almost sim simultaneously, the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced a $5,000 matching grant opportunity. We decided to apply for the graph grant funds knowing that with
strong national competition success would be highly unlikely. Even so, the benefits of us trying uh to get the funds would be that reviewers would begin to recognize that
this was an area that was committed to historic preservation and that maybe future applicants would be looked on favorably. So, it's it's worth trying. Um you have a summary of the grant grant
application that denotes um what Mr. Irvin said, um, the application will be submitted electronically prior to June the 2nd. Changes can be made in it right up until
the time we push the submit button. And uh, we request that if you have any, just let us know. I have also sent a query letter to them about the need for support letters and how we might attach them to that online
grant application. Also, there were some budget issues that I needed clarification on. We're asking for your continued participation in these additional ways. First, that Mr. Irving
be allowed to assist in developing and and participating in future workshops that relate to CRA goals. The CRA would be listed as an inind contributor. Second, with your permission, Mr.
Irvin's privilege to use the uh Shiakwa Hall of Brotherhood free of charge might be used as an inind or a direct compet uh contribution for C from CRA that would meet the matching funds requirement for the
grant the grant application. Uh this would help us to meet most of the uh required matching funds. Third, we ask that you approve the support letter for the grant application that he has submitted for your
review. Finally, forward defuni would like to thank you for considering these requests and for your continued support for the veterans memorial. We also wish to thank you very much for all that you've already done
and continue to do for defuniac springs. I'll try to answer any questions you might have. Does anybody have any questions for Are are the grants to help raise awareness and do public meetings? Is that what the grants for? Or could they also be used toward the memorial or
anything like that? No, no, not toward the moment. Just for the public meetings. Some of them will relate to your goals and others may be just things like how do I research the history of my property? So some of them will be uh sit
down participation in discussions. Some of them like looking at the history of your property might involve uh field trip to the courthouse things like that to get people involved in the idea general. So, does the motion need to be
more expansive than just approving this letter or I mean you don't need our approval to to help them in the other ways, right? I don't believe so. I think it's just the formality of the support letter and being a partner in this. All you're being asked to do is execute the support letter at this time. I'll make
that motion. All right. We have a second. Second. All right. Any discussion? Any public comments? Okay. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. Motion carries for Oh, yay. Well, and commissioners, I will tell you
that our first meeting, our workshop will be on June the 5th. Great. There at the stock brother. And I I will say there's a lot of I don't know if this money could be utilized for like um you know this the Spire's house next to the next to the hospital that we had. I had
to I had a a guy that did a great job. He came in and found the real history of it and found out there was a little small house that was original and they added on added on to it. We got it approved through NPS. So, it's part of the historic text program, but but
nobody knew that information. So, there's a lot of information that people don't know probably about the history of Definia that if you could utilize some of that to improve, it would be awesome.
Thank you. All right, that's all that I have. The money will be used primarily for uh that they give us for advertisements, you know, for creating flyers to hand out and to trying to get an audience. How do you guys advertise
now? Uh how do we like how do you like if you have workshops and stuff is that providing advertising and we're hoping that help with that as well. Otherwise, it's flyers and crowding people off the street and calling up
people we know are interested. I'd say we got to be careful about some of that stuff with this new law stuff they're talking about. I'm, you know, supporting if it's, you know, supporting a nonprofit. You know, that we just got to be careful, make sure we don't get that. That's been one of the cautionary
instructions I've given now going on about four years. Fully delegating your authority, allowing a nonprofit to act on your behalf and providing them the funding to do it is what brings us into a lot of risk with audit. Too many CRAAS
have played that game by saying, "Well, we can't actually do this, but we'll let but we'll do this in support of this nonprofit, which we can do, and then the nonprofit uses the money to do something that would otherwise be outside of our purview, but not necessarily illegal." Yeah. Well, that still brings the heat
on us. I just say look, you got to make sure that everything's all kosher because we don't want to get any heat. We know that the state and and we we've talked about that. You know, I think the extent of our efforts will be, you know, asking the city to push it out on their Facebook page. Um
got it. You know, that that basically be the extent of that. So, great. All right. Well, good luck. Thank you. All right. Um Commissioner Commissioner Hamilton has some um some things on the agenda. So the we talked about some of this at the um it's a joint meeting with
the city. So the parking committee I think a better awarding would be like a parking work group. So it's not an actual committee that has to you know advertise and you know all that stuff. But I think we should have a work group set up um to help implement all those
things in the parking study and figure out which order is the best order to get that stuff done in. That's nothing we'd need to approve, right, since it's a working group. But I guess loosely, should we just talk loosely about it? I mean, Commissioner Hamilton, are you
willing to kind of hit up that working group? I mean, my my idea for that is to get some of the business owners from downtown um that are affected most. And I'm going to I'm going to try to talk to uh city council and see if they can get somebody
to to kind of be on that work group as well. Get Main Street involved. And I'm definitely Main Street. That was and you being the only one of us on it, right? Because I wouldn't want us all part of this work if two of us are on it
subject. Yeah. It's more it's it's an informal work group and then you know I can take what we talk about and come here and say, "Hey, this is what we talked about. Let's let's start with, you know, restriping is probably going to be the first one. Um and and let's you know, let's go with that and then we can talk about that vote and do all the
stuff we do. So, I think it'd be good to have that um have some more people giving us ideas and you know what, especially the business owners like what are you being affected by the most right now? So, and and I will tell you, I've had numerous conversations with Main
Street. We've talked a lot about these very things and how, you know, they have the I guess closest relationship with the merchants downtown. Don't want to put a whole lot of task on their plate, but I think they're a good resource to a
good conduit is probably a better term. Uh, so they have a number of of working groups, committees. So, I think that there's plenty of opportunities to to grab everybody and put them together in a room and meet however often you guys want to look at some facts, see where
things are, and then ultimately the city council makes the policy decisions as it relates to parking downtown. So, you know, I see this as a factf finding type group u that looks at some of the recommendations that the consultant has already put together and helps the
council with prioritizing those or or providing the facts for them to prioritize those if that makes sense. And I and I'll be glad to put all that together for you and and give you some guidance on on that. Okay, great. All right, next is abatement program. So again, we talked
about this at the joint meeting with the city. So I just wanted to um maybe give Mr. Irwin some direction as far as get an MOU with the city as far as what that would look like with us where we can either, you know, have the option to purchase the property at a
discount off of the fees or, you know, figure out up to x amount of dollars that we're willing to, you know, help with the problems that they're facing to stop them from getting more fines like we had talked about that meeting. So, I think the the idea was just to be able to get him some direction to be able to start that
process. Have you Have you met with the city? Have you met with Kobe about this? I have. We we met um actually we met when um the time I was there and we've talked a little bit about it, but I think, you know, now that I have formal direction, I I'll certainly have more conversations and and work on putting
together some kind of a document or a memorandum of understanding whatever that legal term needs to be and bring that back to you. Is that something we need to approve? Are we good? Okay. Yeah, we're good. I think we're all in favor general direction, but I think it's important to bring ideally by June to formalize it in an actual meeting of the CRA. That was the direction. Okay.
So, let's let's hopefully get that by June. That would be my hope. Yes, sir. And and nothing in that abatement program waves the lean, right? Or releases a lean. That's what we we talked about. That has to be there was some confusion there. I don't I don't think you were there yet. So, so the the answer to that question
is it can um or it can at least lead to the lean being reduced, abated, and ultimately released. It is not automatic. An abatement program should never automatically relieve the lean because the abatement program is what we're participating in to abate the
nuisance itself or to abate the code violation. If it has already been leaned, that is up to the magistrate to choose to release unless satisfied. However, there are scenarios where what we do could directly result in that being done. It's also not uncommon that
abatement scenarios result in a requirement that go before the magistrate to address that, especially if they are putting contributo contribution into their property. You help us do this, I'll do this, but I need this lean released. Well, does it matter to the city if we collect $30,000
and the property's not cleaned up? Do they put $30,000 back into the property? So, it's not a onetoone, but it is absolutely going to be something we have to realize is related. Okay. Well, hopefully we'll have that. I'm excited.
My marching orders there, so I'll be bringing that back to you. Sounds good. And then the last thing I had is um man, I don't know why we all need this many papers at every meeting. So, my idea was um other boards I've served on, we we've
had iPads with even with like the magic keyboard and the pens and everything else, but um I know I talked to Josh about it and being able to have iPads where we can pull this up on the screen and we can still take notes and and all that I think would be a lot more economically friendly but also uh
more cost effective with all the the paper, the ink and everything else we're wasting the stuff out. But for me, it's more of an environmental impact. That's a lot. I know I don't think any of you guys are taking this home and filing it and saving it forever. I'm assuming you guys are throwing it out like I am. I'm
definitely I'm believing it. So So uh so yeah, so I would like to see us move to iPads and not have to have all this stuff printed out. Well, my question would be does everybody have an iPad? Well, the the idea would be for us to purchase the iPads and they would belong
to the CRA and they would go to where I I don't want to carry anything home. I mean, if it's like if it's if if the group agrees to do something like that, I would like to to give have Raphael or whoever, you know, you know, you bring them to the meeting. I don't I don't
even want to something that CRA purchases. Mean like maybe have so we use it when we're here, right? Like instead of he's saying instead of having this Yeah. You just have a little iPad which or whatever it
is tablet seem whatever it is the cheapest version of whatever you could possibly get and it's a property of the CRA and whoever now with that can you just do the can you the program where everybody just has the
same thing you you mentioned some about us all getting email addresses. Yep. as as part of that um exercise, it would require the city to purchase each of you a Google Workspace account, which would provide you with your own unique CRA
email address, which I think would be beneficial for a number of reasons. Uh that way you you all are not using your personal email address, you're using a CRA email address. So, with the purchase of the iPad would come along with that and and really regardless of whether you
guys decided to purchase the iPads, I think the uh CRA email addresses are are probably important at this point. Um either way, but that would be a condition of that. I think the the choice that you have is, you know, a device that would have data service
available or just a standalone Wi-Fi only device. Um the city has a platform that they use that kind of locks them down so to speak uh that they manage uh from their end. So all iPads will be the
same. You know, if you forgot passwords and all that, they'd be able to handle that for you. Um so that's included uh in that um attachment there that Jesse put together for us as far as the costs are concerned. But you know, they're all nominal really. I mean, I think the Google Workspace account is $18 per
month per user and then it looks like the data service is is $35, but that also includes the the subscription to the administration software that they have on the iPad. So, it' be very similar to what the city council is using. So, they use these
two. That's correct. So, it's already kind of been city policy. That's correct. Yeah. They don't they don't print out anything for the city council. They use the Does the city council show up with their iPad to each meeting or I believe so. Yeah. Same kind. If you want to take it home, that's fine. If you
don't, we can provide you email access. You can log into a browser and do that if you want it on your own device. That would require coming up here and letting city it address it on your own device just to make sure it is configured correctly. But we can do that and it's
up to you. I just don't want I know for what you do. I just rather not happy to log in here and use that, but I can certainly accommodate. That's not a problem. Okay, that's fine with me, man. I I if that's the case and and the city council does the same thing. I just I I just y'all
can whoever take it home or whatever that's what you want to do. But it is the property of the CRA. It is public money we're using this kind of stuff. So, it has to be and then and then obviously it's only for use with CRA. It's not you go and let your kids I'd say limit it. We don't want the browser
work anything. I want it to be we don't want some board member, none of these board members, some future board member doing something weird on it, then then they coming back on it. So, and I think that's part of the benefit of having a data service that comes with that MOS 360 that will limit what you can do with that. So, good. Okay. All right. Do we
have a motion? Not really a motion needed, Josh. You just got to bring back some quotes on one. Well, actually, I have them there in the packet. Okay. There you go. But then you want to go with So, do we have a motion to approve anything? Do we need a pencil? Is that what you have in your
thing? Honestly, considering the cost, I I don't even know that there is really a formal need because it's below my threshold. If it hasn't been budgeted, I'd like him to approve the purchase. So, anybody says, "Well, why was this done? It was done in a board, like you said, I don't think we need the pen. I
think the the keyboard is good. The pen's kind of extra. We don't really So, the the price through FirstNet, which is the data service, uh, is at 199 for the device. And then you can see what the cost for the the keyboard and the pencil is. So, um I
think I don't I don't have that right here in front of me, but I want to say the the keyboard's $200 and something dollars maybe. Um what does that price say right there? The keyboard's 199. The iPad 199. So 199 and then 199 for the iPad. So just round
up $400 for those and then the $18 per month for the Google Workspace account, which is the email, and then the 35 for the data plan. So So the 199 is just the keyboard and the iPad itself. Yeah. So the iPad's 199
through FirstNet, and the keyboard would be $1.99. I think that was Best Buy where I got that price from. Do we need a keyboard? I'm I'm not trying to I mean, like that's up to you. I mean, you know, I think um could buy one, we could not buy one.
You know, it's really up to each each of you to determine that. Um I would say might as well have it in in the event that you need to type something on. It makes it a lot easier in the middle of a meeting, for sure. So, what do y'all think? I think keyboard we
definitely would need. Do you think your keyboard you a keyboard? Yeah, we got to get five of them, too. Wait, we'll have another. That's right. Okay. So, we're going to the motion, if there's a motion, will be a motion to to buy the iPad and
keyboard these prices. We need to get a total price here. That's good enough. Yeah, I'll make that I'll make that motion. Second. We got a motion in a second. Any discussion? Any public comments? Okay. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say nay. Motion carries 40.
All right. Well, I'll work with Jesse to make that happen for you. Cool. hopefully have them by June. See what happens. Um, before we get to citizen comments, could you just kind of for the record explain where we are on the uh RFP on the South Bees? Yep. Still out
for bid. Uh the the bids are due on the 30th, which is on Friday. And at that point, we'll review those bids, score those bids, and then bring back that recommendation along with that bid tabulation at at the meeting in I think
I got it in June. Great. All right, sounds good. All right. Uh, citizen comments, anyone? Anyone? Okay. Any, uh, board member comments?
Pretty nice, easy meeting. The meeting in June is June the 25th. Okay, good. Just checking. I'm out of town the 11th through the 18th. I just want to make sure. June the 25th. All right. Well, if there's nothing
else, I'll uh entertain a motion to motion to adjurnn. All right. Done. Adjourned at 5:40. That's a good meeting. Like these meetings.