april 17th 2025 as Houston City Commission meeting uh please join us for a moment of silence and the pledge of allegiance led by uh Commissioner Collin mr mayor before we go to a moment of silence can
I ask set up we all remember our folks uh in Tallahassee at FSU with the terrible tragedy that happened there today so when you bow your head if you'll just remember those folks pray for those families thank you amen please join me in the pledge i
pledge algiance 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 thank you thank you
call of order madame clerk is there a quorum and proper notice been given yes Mayor Hawkins tom are there any agenda updates uh no sir okay thank you uh commissioners before us we have the approval of minutes for our meeting April 3rd 2025
move approval second roll call commissioner Holland i commissioner Azotti hi vice Mayor Ashcraft hi commissioner Lee hi mayor Hawkins i okay next uh we'll go to
presentations um presentations um for the amazing race aane and and before she gets started uh you know I' I'd like to say that uh a couple of weeks ago we had the amazing race and last year Aane was tasked with
putting it on something that had been done by a team of 10 or 11 and she did a majority of the work uh with the help of uh some of her workmates but she did the majority of the work and she did an
outstanding job so great [Applause] job good afternoon good afternoon everyone this year marked an exciting first for the
city we had the incredible opportunity to take over the amazing race for charity it was an honor to host this beloved community event and even more rewarding to work alongside 12 amazing organizations 10 of which are local charities that work tirelessly to give
back to our community tonight we're proud to recognize those organizations for their dedication and their energy and their heart we were able to award $41,850 to these groups in just a moment
I'll be calling each organization up one by one to receive their check we'll take a quick photo with each group and then we'll have everyone stay off to the side so then we can do a group photo at the end you might notice that some organizations received a larger check
than others and that's because they went above and beyond some hosted multiple challenge stations others took to took on water stations and even shared their extra volunteers to help us cover other key areas of the race their extra effort
made a big difference first Companions for Courage they will be receiving a check for $3,575 [Applause]
thank you that's a big boy i thought she was talking to us too stay right here [Applause] steals the show next is ECS for Kids
they will be receiving $3,575 [Applause] why don't you stay in the pictures with me yeah you should a lot of work yeah you presented
couple children two more [Applause] next is the Education Foundation of Lake County they will be receiving $3,575
[Applause] i'm not the same she has a double represent [Applause] next is Habitat for Humanity of Lake and
Sumpter County Florida 5,000 they will be receiving $5,000 [Applause] two sorry [Applause]
next is handinhand recovery they will be receiving $6,000 [Applause] two [Applause]
next is the Humane Society of Lake County they will be receiving $3,575 [Applause] [Applause] next is Lake Care's food pantry they
will receiving $3,575 [Music] [Applause] [Applause] next is Lux Love Extension they will be
receiving 3,000 $3,575 [Applause] thank you [Applause]
next is Trout Lake neg Trout Lake Nature Center they will receiving $2,000 [Applause] oh my god that's a classic [Music]
i think I'm on me [Applause] next is Worth It Suicide Outreach and Support they will be receiving $4,500
[Applause] [Applause] i'd also like to give a special shout out to two organizations that played a different role but equal role to everybody else the African-American
Heritage Group they will be receiving $500 they brought energy to the finish line cheered on racers handed out drinks and helped volunteered throughout the race [Applause]
it's collectible that's what I One two three [Applause] next next we have Ellie Academy they will be receiving $2,500 thank you to Miss Hope and her
team for organizing transportation for the Raider Racers to the starting line you helped kick off the race on the right foot literally [Applause] thank you so
[Applause] much and Finally I'm excited to share that next year's race will be on Saturday March 21st and registration for the next year's amazing race is already open if you're interested in signing up
or volunteering there are some QR codes by the door every participant and every volunteer truly makes an impact and can I have all my charities who received a check come to the front so we can take a group picture please she like she got to walk back up it's
Hope how are you good to see you yes I'll be there it's okay [Laughter] now she's coming in yeah yeah never pass a camera never pass a camera
she didn't love so you're going to be our middle point so anybody can really Oh lord you know he did oh my god
yeah really that's his [Laughter] backy all right all right [Applause]
[Music] so you don't want to speak on your audience Peter we'll give everyone a couple of minutes to uh to exit what's your place the check it's over there oh it's right here the big one yeah it's right here you talking about the big one right here
you can get it tomorrow neither one so are you saying do you want to just speak under the first ordinance or do you want to speak under a specific ordinance it doesn't matter it'll flow through how you doing over there sure thank you Christine we should be helping
you with that sorry yeah I I'd like to say that was a good problem to have that many organizations you know standing here uh receiving money to to benefit you know our
community uh again Aane did a great job and thank you to all the um the charities that that came out to support and we look forward to a lot more people being here next year so thank you okay
next we're going to move on to the audit presentation is that you Lori okay thank you i'd like to introduce you to our um hands-on audit team we have a partner
and we have the audit manager and the audit and um they're just going to give you some of the highlights you do have a book that I handed out to you and you have it electronically as well good afternoon helen Painter Pervis Granting Company and with me today is
your audit supervisor Lori Walker uh just want to thank uh the mayor and the city commissioners for having us here today to present the audit we haven't been here in a few years ever since co and we're back on track especially with
your new finance director and also uh your assistant finance finance director um Mary Neielson so we'd like to thank both Lori and Mary for their assistance during the audit so as you know um your former finance director recently retired
fortunately he stayed on part-time uh to help with the transition and both Lori and Mary came on uh and uh we know knew them both from previous uh local governments that we audited uh we also um had a nice conversation with the
mayor a couple days ago um we're required to ask individuals throughout the um uh the city as far as employees key employees and those charged with governance which includes you all the
mayor and the city commissioner about their consideration of the risk of fraud that could occur and uh we're happy to say that no one uh um had any suspicions or anything like that but the purpose of an audit is to give an opinion on the financial statements uh and uh we have
to design our audit procedures to make sure that we uh see any material misstatements so your management team prepares the the financial statements uh they get ready they have all their accounting records ready for us to do the audit and then we come in and we
perform the audit procedures and we issue an opinion on those financial statements so in the report that's in your board package you will see that we have issued an unmodified opinion which is a clean opinion stating that we believe that these financial statements
are uh fairly stated in all material respects so it uh it starts with the budget process so your budget is your strongest internal control to ensure that you don't overspend your expenses that you keep it within your budget and you have that monitoring throughout the
year you know what your projects are you know how what your payroll is going to be etc so you um have that budgetary control in place uh there was a couple things that I wanted to point out we did have two uh management letter comments
uh in this report that we want to bring to your attention uh one of which is uh the outsource CPA firm that was doing the accounting for the fire uh for the police pension fund it continues to be uh late because those accounting records
are included within the city's annual comprehensive financial report uh and the the firm that was doing it I think they retired was the only kept getting later and later and so they um are going to make a decision about how to handle that accounting going forward uh in
addition to that we also um let's see let me take a look at my notes here uh we were still having some problems with the reconciliation of some of the capital asset records it tends to be something that uh uh plagues a lot of
local governments because of the large mass of capital improvements that you make like for example you had your ARPA funds that came in and you had some major capital projects with those ARPA funds you get grant funds so there's a lot of capital expenditures and you have
to um account for that and reconcile that with the accounting records and that u took um a couple goarounds to get it right just to say so we're just asking that they change their procedures to ensure that the capital asset records are reconciled on more timely basis uh
and finally the we talked about the fact that um uh in your building fund and this is outside the report uh to that uh something needs to be done with that because there's a Florida statute that governs how much excess revenues over expenditures that you can have in your
building fund you're supposed to not charge more than what it costs to run that fun so those monies are in a separate fund and of course we have so much construction going on uh that um you know maybe your costs remain fixed but you have more and more contractors
coming in so uh there needs to be something in place decision to be made on how to spend that money down so we just want to bring that to your attention and of course with your CRA that was uh that meeting was at five and we now have to have a separate standalone report for that uh the
biggest thing with your CRA is um the fact that your note is due this year and it's a balloon payment and you're going to have to get that refinanced the interest rates aren't quite as favorable as they were five years ago so that's something that uh have to make a
decision this year but other than that um you know everything went well um all of your funds did well all had u monies left over to put into reserves for future um expenditures and uh so there was no deficits your pension plans did
well because of the market rate uh did very good so I'm happy to answer any questions that you might have questioning okay you're welcome thank you thank you okay all right okay thanks Laura thank
you Laura okay uh next we're moving to appointments uh appointments to the uh historic preservation board uh commissioners we have four four
applicants uh the first of which is uh Miss Dorothy Stevenson who's seeking reappoint uh we'll have to have a vote for each for each applicant i move to reappoint Dorothy Stevenson to the uh historic preservation board second
okay roll call commissioner Holland hi commissioner Asody hi vice Mayor Ashcraft hi commissioner Lee hi mayor Hawkins hi okay next uh will be Ronald K muscleman
seeking reappoint uh I will recuse myself make up a motion to uh approve second roll call who seconded that i did it was
a split give it to either one she's closer i thank you so much commissioner Holland hi commissioner Asbody i vice Mayor Ashcraft hi commissioner Lee I Okay next up will be Shannon
Graves uh and filling a vacancy left by Dena John so moved second okay roll call commissioner Holland i commissioner Asbody i vice Mayor
Ashcraft hi commissioner Lee hi mayor Hawkins hi and and lastly Derek Stewart uh filling a vacancy due to the resignation of Robin Sambore so moved second
roll call commissioner Holland i commissioner Ozbody i vice Mayor Ashcraft hi commissioner Lee hi mayor Hawkins hi uh Miss Stevenson or Mr mosulman uh
would either of you like to say anything okay all right come on up good evening everyone good evening good evening i'm Darth Stevenson i serve on the historic preservation board and it has been a pleasure serving on that
board and I appreciate y'all accepting me we thank you for serving yeah we we really appreciate you all volunteering to do this we know that once a month or is it once every three months every three months yeah once every three months is a lot of work so we appreciate
it thank you so thank you okay um Okay that's it okay next so commissioners oh we're coming up to audience to be
heard uh if you have a card uh please come to the mic to our left state your name uh city of Eustace you have three minutes i have a card from Brian Broomfield and please try and be done by 259
because by three minutes is I'm ready to jump because it's it scares me he he had the the sound on oh the sound's not on anymore my name is Brianville and I'll try to do this fast okay short while ago we all recited the pledge of allegiance
to the principles of this country that that this country was founded on represented by the American flag we ended with liberty and justice for all so I looked up liberty and justice liberty by one definition is the freedom
to of uh freedom from control interference obligation restriction or hampering conditions justice judgment of persons or causes by judicial process these are key
principles to our democracy and we must stand firm and speak out against anything or anyone who attempts to take these freedoms away from all of us when we pay attention to how the current administration is deliberately tearing down the Social Security Administration
and Department of Education just to name two it is an attack on our liberties when the administration openly admits to mistakenly arresting then deporting and imprisoning
an innocent man in a notoriously cruel and inhumane foreign prison with no due process then fights court orders to bring this man back home to his wife and
family justice is clearly being ignored the Reverend Dr martin Luther King Jr said and I quote "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." And I want to close with one more quote from
Dr king the nation is sick injustice uh uh I'm sorry the nation is sick trouble is in the land confusion all around but I know somehow that only
when it's dark enough you can see the stars it's getting pretty dark let's all look up because the stars are shining brightly and we must all stand up speak up and speak out in support of our
constitution thank you thank you um I have a card from Kimberly Nukem did you want to speak now under audience to be heard coming with me sorry I'm short um I'm Kimberly Nukem i live here in Eustace
and I am here to talk about the 7-Eleven um which I don't know i know Mayor Hawkins has heard me uh complain about this several times but I'm here to keep talking about it because there's nothing happening and it's making us angry so we
live directly on the back side of the 7-Eleven that's being built off of Abrams and Orange um and basically I'm not trying to be dramatic but it is ruining my life um so first of all they're doing construction at 4:30 in the morning we do have videos of all of
this yeah so that is not only shaking our house and our neighbors houses but it's waking up our kids we have four kids they can't sleep they also have decided to install really bright lights which shine directly into our house also making it impossible for our kids to
sleep and yes we have blackout curtains you can still see that light shines directly into multiple bedrooms in our home i have reached out to 7-Eleven i've reached out to the city um and nothing is being done to help us with that additionally like we've asked for trees
to be installed or a higher wall or something to block that out and we've gotten like no resolutions whatsoever um we need to move back to Indiana where I originally grew up for family reasons and so we've been trying to sell our house and every single buyer has walked away because of the 7-Eleven that is
right behind us and when this originally was like put up for like vote we came and we talked about how it was not going to be good for the city for health and safety reasons everybody voted for it because it was a past city commissioner's property um is what I've heard so maybe you guys can refute that
but that's what I've been told and so um I'm pretty mad about it because we can't sell our house our kids are waking up they're doing construction at 4:30 in the morning no one is responding to me and if nothing continues to be done I feel like we're going to have to like get some kind of lawyer involved or like
go to the news which I've also threatened to do at this point because no one will respond to me and I've sent multiple emails about this to the city so I'm just here to see if anybody is actually going to step up and do something or if I'm going to have to like make bigger issues
uh can I uh your description i I have to say and you said the word that that probably and and I've been I've tried to help you i know you're the only one yeah hold on hold on
hold on and I received a uh an email from Troy a nice email i responded but when you make demands and
you make threats things are being done the city has been working the city has been in contact with the developer but and and I'm trying to do everything I can but I think it's
important you get more with honey i tried honey well you didn't give honey enough time to cure i gave it over a year yeah but you asked you asked for your tree to be cut down we made sure that happened you asked for your fence to be taken care of we made sure that
happened so we're trying to do the best to make your lives better but that letter was and that's just me i'm not speaking for anyone else did you Did you see the video of Yeah I did i did and we we we've actively been talking to him so
and we'll have you Tom you want to deal with it or have Miranda deal with it sure i mean we can we can Oh you want to just deal with it right now you want to talk about it now um we Why don't we put together what we've been working with 7-Eleven on and we will respond to your
email with uh what we've been working on um that said um I don't know if we can we can look at things like photometrics and uh it's currently an active construction site right and so
they need certain lighting to conduct the construction uh the building official did reach out to them about uh any construction prior to 7 a.m and they've said they won't be doing any construction prior to 7 a.m the 4:30
thing happened like two days ago just you know I don't know when they reached out to you but they were out there at 4:30 with big construction equipment making noise yeah so the building official has been in touch with them about early starts um and then um the as
far as additional trees we can't force them to plant additional trees but they've been very good to work with and we'll work with them to see if they're willing to do a landscaping above and beyond their original plan we just can't force them to do anything because they haven't gotten in from my understanding
they haven't even gotten into the landscaping phase yet no not yet yeah so so things are happening they're just not happening as fast as you'd like it to happen uh and to some degree the city's hands are tied as well uh because it's
their job we will send an email tomorrow summarizing what we've been working on awesome thank you so honey I know I tried i did try but eventually when my kids are woken up every night for months
okay when when you want to send an email just turn over and look at Troy and say "Should I?" I did okay he told me to do it wait a minute dude okay all right okay we'll uh Yeah we'll we'll help at least they're honest yeah
all right okay next uh any other calls uh Darius did you want to speak under audience to be heard okay darius good evening everybody um Darius Carrison
city uses resident um over the weekend we had the useless hometown comedy and music festival um I wanted to thank um Chief and the youth in the police department um recreation Sam that whole crew um everybody that came out Mr
willie Mr hashcraft uh Marissa Marissa Marissa Marissa thank you um hopefully we can do it again next year um had a good time man a lot of people came out uh comedians they
enjoyed the beautiful city um couldn't couldn't imagine the view that they seen um thank everybody for coming out just thank you thank you Darius for doing what you do
that is it for audience to be heard okay okay next up is the consent agenda is there anything anyone wants to move for approval okay second okay roll call commissioner Holland hi
commissioner Azotti i vice Mayor Ashcraft hi commissioner Lee hi mayor Hawkins hi okay next up Madam attorney thank you we have resolution number 25-32 a resolution of the city commission of the city of Eustace Lake
County Florida amending the city of Eustace 2020 2016 redevelopment plan by adopting the 2025 downtown master plan final draft authorizing implementation of the plan and providing for an effective date tom are you um Yes um Al is unable
to be with us this evening uh I have no formal presentation planned uh we did have um the workshop where we had some discussion on the master plan um staff is recommending that we move forward uh
this is both adopting the master plan and incorporating it into the 2016 CRA redevelopment plan uh so that uh the CRA can uh actively participate in um
bringing to fruition what's in uh the master plan so uh again staff is recommending approval uh and I do have one card uh for a member of the public that wants to speak on this okay any questions from the commission for Tom
i I uh I just wanted to make a comment on on this i think we had a great workshop um back uh when we did unfortunately we we've got we got about 50 pages 40 page 40 some pages deep so I'd like us to consider and I know we got a lot of workshops i know we got a
lot of stuff going on in the budget but this is also important to to help iron out some of the things that are in there and hopefully go from page 50 on uh in little clips here and there maybe we find an hour to stick here or there would be great if possible well and if I
can uh if I can piggy back off of that you know after the workshop I had a lot of people call me talking about the master plan a lot of people and the thing for me is we have so many
people telling us what to do we have the master plan saying one thing we got G3C2 saying one thing we got Mr mike Omen saying another thing how are we going to filter out all of
this and do what we should do or what we think is the best thing to do i think through a workshop we have to just make a decision we have to well we just happen and the same thing happened we get we're getting we're getting information for you know and and someone
asked me you know it's it's almost like information overload in my opinion and and you know we're entrusted to try to take all this all this information and do and do what we think is is the best but we need to do something we just we
just we just lost another restaurant downtown and Dr cook who's been in this town for decades decided to move out did not retire from what I understand decided to move out of Eustace we have to get something going and we need we need we
need a direction we need a direction and I did a lot of thinking and a lot of talking with people over the last week and I I've I'm going to I'm going to change my position and I really think that we should focus on a hotel first
we've all been saying that how many years how many years we've been saying we want a hotel Gary and and I'm sorry just let me finish and logistic logistically the hotel would be easier to do with vacant lots as opposed to
them being built up so if we could do the hotel first use the lot across from the post office as a staging lot work on parking we're going to need probably a parking garage maybe near maybe near the
hotel um and then maybe use that that staging lot after the hotel build as surface parking until we can decide what we're going to do with the other two lots it's just an idea but I'm telling you we've got to get something going there's there's no there's not nobody going to be in downtown if we don't
start finding a way to bring and no disrespect Mr gman i mean I I you know 80 to 120 units of people living downtown I don't think is going to be the the the the entire answer i think we need to do it all but I think we really
should consider the hotel first does anyone have any comments uh you know I think you know and my concern about doing the hotel first is I I think that we need to concentrate on the
waterfront we need to get people downtown and I don't know if the hotel is going to be the draw to downtown we've got to get people excited about Eustus well and and I don't know hold on
i know i don't know if a hotel is the only thing i I think we still need to look at big picture and and which means that probably uh Miranda you know gets more involved we do more events we come
up with other ideas but we've got to do something more than just Well you know and this weekend actually there was a lot of things going on i mean think about it we had the fair mhm we had there was a sailing riata going on and and then and Darius had the comedy event
i mean there was a lot of people in town but they they didn't have anywhere to stay i've I've been talking to the sailing club they would they would love to stay close to the sailing club when they come into town but they they can't there's nowhere for him to stay i I mean I I really I mean I the waterfront's
nice but waterfront's going to take going to take a lot of going to take a lot of money and where I think we could find a developer to do the hotel um and work on parking at the same time while we're trying to build up the other two bars go ahead yeah I I agree with the
hotel you ask how we uh we have so many voices coming at us and how do you filter it out i believe we have the master plan that was paid for it was expensive follow the master plan and what does it say start with a hotel and I and I believe that's what we have to
do because there are people are coming into town where do they stay we've got the the the uh sailing club we you know got different organizations coming into town no place to stay so my vision for it would be a hotel that has and I think
we I've heard it mentioned like even where the community center is if we had a a hotel with a an a center in it for an events place and my dream is for a rooftop i don't know why but that appeals to me and uh and and have
something that draws people downtown and give them a place to to stay we're talking about the sea planes we're talking about a tour boat people are coming what are they going to have we don't have anything to keep them and so I believe that we need to follow the
master plan and that's the first thing it says and that's what we should do okay mike Mr mayor I want to refocus because really tonight we've got to have the workshop tonight we've got to we have got to go ahead and accept this master plan and then we've got to move
on and I'm going to tell you one of the reasons we have to do this master plan tonight if you've watched the state legislature that CRA bill is still alive it could crush us if that CRA passes in the form that I've seen it you're going
to have to earmark your money by October the 1st if we're still messing around with this master plan we're not going to be able to earmark money the proper way so tonight I encourage is just we need to have a workshop then refocus whether we want the hotel first which I agree
with i've said that for many years just needs a hotel where it sits I don't know whether it's on this property down here or whether it's on the community center property which puts it right on the lake and then you do a private and uh a
public and private partnership to where the the uh community center is on the bottom floor and we build up but tonight I think we just need to refocus accept the master plan and then have a workshop and then refocus of what we need to do in which direction we go
no I I I agree but this is the only time we can talk so I mean it's no I wasn't trying to delay the matter let's just move for approval and go for it yeah one of the things and and I I think we all agree that that that we want to go ahead and adopt it at least that's the way
that we left the the workshop um we're all in the we're in the driver's seat uh it's up to us to figure this out and sometimes you just have to you know block out the noise and go with the master plan y uh but I think and I
say this all the time I think that we're able to walk and chew gum at the same time uh and we've got to figure out what that what that looked like for us if we do the hotel how do we get people to
consistently come downtown you see we've got to we've got to think about that we can do a hotel and have people come sporadically but consistently not if it's able to hold 500 600 plus people that you would have you would have a you would have a
lot more you know a lot more people in town doing doing a you know events if it could hold it could hold that many people our community center is outdated we've known that we can but we're going back to we're going back to what we need to go back to what what um uh Commissioner Holland has
just said we either are going to vote for this or we're not it's time for us to make that i'm not trying to delay the master plan i'm just trying to bring up ideas yeah we we we we do need to have this this discussion right okay but let's So we'll go ahead and adopt and
then we can have set a workshop like Yeah yeah commission well at this at the rate that we have workshops we won't be having a workshop till October well maybe an hour here or there we got to have before we got these guys working so but uh let's go ahead and get it adopted
and then we'll go figure out what we are okay just a moment and we need a card you have a card daniel Deanzo and just um just for the record Daniel and I have talked twice in the last week
oh good evening sorry good evening daniel Danzo uh I am a Lake County residents resident uh I also have a number of businesses that are anchored here in Eustace and in the downtown and so uh first I want to say thank you for
actually uh continuing on with having the master plan updated uh I believe the last one was 2016 there's probably a considerable amount of overlap but I will tell you Lake County and Eustace has changed a
lot in the last 10 years a lot and so I think that uh the master plan has been if you want to say refreshed uh is a good thing for everybody because I think it it pretty much clearly spells it out i have read the master plan i've I've
written everybody uh I am definitely supportive of their conclusions on page 50 uh I question some of their some of the uh the data they collected on parking but you know what that's something that can be addressed as projects come through and I agree um
that you know what it needs to be adopted and I also I've heard you there's kind of let's you guys need to get together with more conversation with regard to how things will be um you know play played out i think that opportunity is in your workshops but once you've
adopted the plan you've got a starting point to go forward us is a pretty exciting place i mean I came here guys 30 and excuse me folks 30 years ago and it was rough you know the orange
industry was gone the hospital they already had their vision things were starting to peel down there and when the hospital left I mean I know because I'm a landlord we had to actually work to hold some of our tenants but now there
is there is a certain um level of vibrancy and if you get a good operator here and we've got some great operators you know you talk about a hotel in downtown of course for me it's an easy connection but also when I stayed at hotels a lot of them have shops you know
what this hotel doesn't need shops they can walk right out of that hotel and go to Peddler's Wagon and I want to tell you Peddler's Wagon is a worldclass store i've traveled the world peddler's Wagon is awesome and we have it right here that's an incredible anchor tenant
we have downtown we also have uh jewelry stores another thing that Eustus has is we have four or five businesses that are at least three generations and one I know that's four generations because Mary Jewel Mary Jeweler Smiley Mary's
greatgrandson is working at Mary Jewelers it's it's really pretty spectacular so I I'm hoping that you will adopt the master plan and go forward and remember we uses can actually be an oasis and all the communities around of us around us are
afraid thank you do we have anyone else in the audience that would like to speak on this resolution seeing none I will close public input mr mayor Mr mayor I move for approval of resolution 25-32 second
okay uh roll call commissioner Holland hi commissioner Ozbody hi vice Mayor Ashcraft hi commissioner Lee hi mayor Hawkins i hallelujah you took the words right out of my mouth
all right for second reading we have ordinance number 25-01 an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Eustace Lake County Florida amending the city's land development regulations as follows amending section 102-11 subsection B
community meeting adding subsections to section 109.4 use regulations table to include definitions and requirements for the following uses retail smoke shop tattoo establishment and massage establishment amending section 109.4 four um- use
regulations table to add as a conditional and/or permitted use the following uses self-service storage retail smoke shop tattoo establishment and massage establishment providing for applicable legislative findings providing for
codification scriveners errors severability conflicts and an effective date we had presentation on this item on April 3rd anything further Mr delay on this any further presentation no any questions from the commission on this
item for staff no do we have any cards would anyone in the audience like to speak on ordinance number 25-01 all right seeing none I will close public input mr mayor Mr mayor I move approval of ordinance number 25-01
second okay roll call please commissioner Holland i commissioner Asat hi Vice Mayor Ashcraft hi Commissioner Lee hi Mayor Hawkins hi next we have first readings uh we will have presentation on ordinance number
25-304 and05 by Mr wils so we'll start with ordinance number 25-03 for voting an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Eustace Florida voluntarily annexing approximately 49.5 acres of real property at alternate key numbers
1097070 and 1094712 generally located north of County Road 44 and east of State Road 19 i take it back it's Mr lane yes as as Sasha pointed out uh this is
49.5 acres it's on County Road 44 again it's directly across the street from the uh Trout Nature Center and the property owner is Robert T hangster uh it uh he is actually seeking
the uh MCI designation it's currently the urban low in the county and He's also asking for the u the design district for the property 9.5 acres is actually a suburban corridor and the 40
acres behind it is actually going to be the rural neighborhood design district again location there's the aerial the u the notice actually was uh run or
we we sent notice to the county in March March 21st uh we advertised in the newspaper uh April the 7th and the 13th and a sign was posted on the property on the 7th as well any response from anyone
any calls i I think we did have a visit uh from one of the neighbors and I think he was present earlier at the uh the meeting workshop uh urban low is actually in the county uh with four units an acre uh
they do allow 35 floor area ratio uh they do allow single family office commercial and multifamily type uses in that particular district so it's multifamily apartments yes sir duplexes
triplexes quadlexes as well that's what's commercial did I miss that that That's what would be approved in this no that's what the county allows and and they allow commercial yes sir uh now when they come into the city the
uh the MCI district allows no density no residential type units there it's simply light manufacturing uh distribution corporate offices and of light commercial uh as well as industrial type facilities what is what is light
commercial mike light commercial could basically be very similar to what uh is in the cob commerce park i mean you know it's uh kind of like uh Lulu's the candle company yeah lulu's candles is a a good example for that it's not heavy
industrial they simply make things like craft type activities there assembly those sorts of things okay we have analyzed the the property and we do believe it is consistent with the the neighboring properties particularly to the
east again as mentioned it is in the 100red-year flood plane uh and a low recharge area uh we uh we have looked at the the traffic and and transportation and basically the level of service uh in front of there on county road 44 it is
accommodating for this type of development uh the water and sewer utilities are there and uh in essence uh as mentioned previously that the uh county road 44 is an urbanizing corridor with commercial and residential
activities all along there there's Yes sir the county allows commercial and that's heavy commercial under we don't know I I'll confess I haven't really uh drilled down to see what that
urban load category mentioned but uh again u it's my guess that they they do allow some commercial because it it is referenced there in those their uses there uh you the utilities are at the the site
in front of the property flood zone yes uh future development will be required to uh to seek a uh a letter of map amendment or uh provide studies and analysis that make sure uh and ensure that the
development is out of the the flood zones and those uh the actual zone itself the um mentioned uh earlier the the property is low recharge 0 to four inches a year
a mixture of soils they they primarily are are poorly poorly drained uh but if uh future development is uh interested in the property we will require those geotechnical reports uh to review uh again the design districts
there there will be two for this particular property uh 9.5 acres in the front suburban corridor in the rear the 40 the bulk of the the property will be rural neighborhood and at this point staff is recommending approval for the
property as mentioned previously the uh owner's representative is here if you guys have questions for him any questions from the commission my concern is just that and I don't have the experience these guys have is that we don't do what I remember uh
commissioner vice mayor Ashcraft talk about uh with the powers is that we don't back ourselves into a corner with some type of uh zoning or use that later we leave a headache for somebody else but I think at the end of the day here
we have it's a double-edged sword but I think getting it under our into our city um and then we have to keep an eye that it meets at least the vision of of the five up here yeah
my my my concern is uh if we don't do anything of course what they'll put there um we know it's commercial that that they have that designation uh under the county
and residential Ford yeah yeah i think the last thing I want there is an apartment compact it's in walking distance to uh Windixie it's within walking distance to uh Walgreens and CVS and I could see them
trying to put a an apartment complex out there on that property that's really not what any of us want to see out there on that area no I think uh I think when the county was designating their zoning I think they really they they really thought that corridor to be
more more commercial not not residential i really do so you know they could stay in the county and they could they could do both and truthfully I'd love to see it stay just the way it looks right now to be honest add on to Lake
all right do we have any questions not discussion right now um no okay any cards Tom yes blake Griswald so I wholeheartedly agree with Commissioner As about uh getting it
under our purview for the city of Houston we'll have more control over it but I'm still don't think we need an industrial complex out there they want to annex it into the city let them bring it in make it rural keep it rural one house per acre i don't care if one house per acre is not have near the impact of
a of a industrial complex out there so I think that we need to again think of what's around us and try to protect what we are currently have without ruining it thanks any other cards Tom uh that's it as far
as cards can I have one more thing one one moment please let me finish with public input i thought that we're done do we have anyone else in the audience that would like to speak on ordinance number 25-03 yes okay you can come up and state your name and if you're a resident you have three
minutes yes my name is John Thornton uh was here earlier uh for the previous meeting um in regards to that property about if you look at the property it's about probably 25 acres of that 49 acres is considered
wetlands um they have numerous ponds around this area um for wattage drainage and they also recently just did some dredging unbeknownst to any of the owners behind their homes we don't know why the dredging who ordered the dredging um who paid for the dredging
but if they start developing this property you're going to have some major issues doesn't take a you know a scientist to figure this all out but right now where this neighborhood is to the west of this property based upon what they've already done with the concrete when it rains and I have
photographs of this if you would like to see it about 300 yards of that whole property if not more than that probably four or 500 yards of that property is literally underwater if it rains for a good hard day it's flooded and believe me it's going to stay that way for about
five to six days the percolating aspect of that soil is literally zero it's worse than clay most of it's muck over there i live on it and um I see what it looks like when it rains and there was some flooding around the neighborhood uh because of the storm we had last year
the hurricane um but if they start developing this I don't know where they're going to put this water because literally I have pictures to show you how bad it gets when it rains um this gentleman I was told at the beginning of this whole harvesting of all of his trees he was hoping to get some money
out of it he couldn't then I was told by someone that he was going to plant grass and sell it commercially mow it cut it grass and sell it and get rid of it he hasn't harvested anything he has rolls of hay or straw or whatever it's called
it's been sitting in these buildings for the last year and they have not moved they've been put facing the road and also facing our property and conveniently covering up some of the commercial vehicles you've had there for the last year uh I don't know what else to tell you
other than that um considering drainage and flooding is one of the major concerns I have not for myself because I've actually built high enough but the problem is is my neighbors um I'm here representing them a little bit uh we've spoken um we're just concerned i'm
hoping that if the city does annex it I hope that they're going to put uh stringent u requirements on how to develop this property but right now the county has their eye on them for possible violations and again like I said earlier St john's Water Authority
or district whoever they are uh they are also looking at violations that um have not been uh haven't found their foundings yet and hopefully that's going to happen shortly thank you okay thank you do we have anyone else
sorry if you could just come up yeah to the podium please sherry Thorton John's wife lived in the property adjacent to it i'd like to bring back up the issue with the concrete i know the gentleman said that it came from Eustace so you
know wasn't it nice that we had a place to put the concrete but my concern is that that can't be a conflict of interest that oh was it nice that you guys were able to get rid of the concrete because is this the right place to put it and when they're grinding it what's coming up in the air and what's
going into our water supply so is that an appropriate place to be grinding concrete that's all I have to say thank you do we have anyone else no yes
miss Newton Cindy Newton Unincorporated Eustace i live off of Estie Road and I've watched the trucks come down Estie going to this property we followed uh one of them from over close to Simol
County all the way in and down so I know that concrete's not just coming from Eustace massive amount of trucks coming down SD road which is restricted they're not supposed to be on it they're supposed to be using the business
loop we don't know what's on that concrete they're dumping it close to the wetlands in a flood plane and you really need whether you keep it in the county or in the city that really needs to be investigated because that is
going to end up at your waterfront the drainage from this property uh at least before they started putting a bunch of fill and uh changing the way the drainage is that drainage comes over to Trout Lake with a direct
connection into York Waterfront so whatever you decide please keep that in mind going forward thank you thank you anyone else okay I will close public input now mr
mayor back to you okay commissioners before us we have a decision to make would we like to to move this along i'll make a motion to um accept ordinance number 25-03
i'm good with that too i just want we're we're inheriting a a situation and I think I'd like our residents to know that the five of us are aware of that and that we're watching that and that we're going to better off to have it in our control than than something else
what we do from here puts the pressure on us five up here so I think we'll do a do the right thing and deal with the best we can with the cards we're dealt um and and St john's has the authority over us they manage that so they they
their stuff will continue to go on um and just one other thing that I was going to say when I was talking out of line was uh keep a keep a mind open uh and I might be really to Tom and and Mike that the trail leaving um Trout
Lake or if it's coming through there uh can we and is this a point to try to get a commitment from them to allow the trail to run up uh what would be probably the west side of it and continue if we choose if the trail ends up going that way versus the rail
because the rail cuts out and heads up so these are things that planning early we should consider you know what I'm thinking about i do and and I agree but um you know as we know the railroad is actually in negotiations with the county
right now so I'm assuming they might be willing to talk to us about and we all want the trail up through the up through the up through the park but I mean we can have an additional trail there we had a motion on the floor is there a
second he said he agreed i wasn't sure he seconded the motion whatever okay so we have a motion and a second mr mayor do you want further discussion or Yeah yeah let's discuss a little bit more anything yeah my my
my concern uh and it hasn't changed is is the concrete i threw up something when we if we annex it mhm and we have control over it i think that's
important do we have the authority to have it cleaned up yeah and see and that's where I was going if we do if we annex it and we have the control exactly how much
control do we have well I guess the question is if they're doing something they're not supposed to do then there's clearly some remedy that they have to undo it or or be responsible or pay a fine or or whatever i think maybe that might be more for
Miss Sasha but um and then we have obviously our code enforcement if they're running and storing stuff that they're not supposed to and things like that but apparently it's not on the county's radar but it's on ours but at the same time whenever they come to us with whatever whatever project they're
going to do at that point then we can assess and make sure right but but can earlier but but can we because you know we're and I'll say it we we're worried about the you know
legal recourse some people may have well and let's let's not forget the fact that he could be coming in here right now asking asking for suburban residential for those acres so it is it's it's a it's a no situation
it's a rock and a hard place it is a double-edged sword so NCI doesn't allow that i mean I don't know what the the residents around there they've been saying for years they don't want more homes they don't want more homes they don't want more homes so this is not
more homes um but I agree with you um we we do need to uh look at the uh the uh impacts of what's been done um mixed commercial industrial is light industrial Mike is that right can it be
heavy industrial does that allow that or does that require a change in You know we really don't even have a heavy industrial category just industrial which allows heavy we have a general general industrial yeah so then it would
allow heavy well you know this is more because it's a mixeduse type commercial uh slashindustrial district it's more of a light industrial the general industrial pretty much can be light and heavy industrial so this one again is is on
the more lighter side of industrial but when we annex it they inherit that and if we go to change it then we have home problems or we're still better off than residential yeah i like I like it better than res
and I like it that it's light and we have controls when they come forth with whatever it is that they want to do there as long as they're not asking for waiverss if if they're not asking for waiverss we lose control okay yeah that's the thing that worries me so they could come back
and build well maybe we shouldn't be industrial storage well they know they know but it would have to comport with the code yes so whatever the the code allows for within right
you know that north corridor's always kind of felt like I think you said that to Gary that it was kind of intended to be some type of commercial i I I believe that was the county's intentions back back when you know it was but we can't control all that right that's the
problem we try to negotiate with the them before we annex a table and and negotiate that we need to get it annexed get it over with it should be annexed okay all right i had first and second
okay roll call commissioner Holland hi commissioner Asbody hi vice Mayor Ashcraft hi commissioner Lee hi mayor Hawkins there's already three [Music]
hey i only because we can control it okay the uh second component ordinance number 25-04 an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Eustace Lake County Florida amending the city of Eustace comprehensive plan pursuant to
Florida statute 163.3187 changing the future land use designation of approximately 49.5 acres of recently annexed real property at alternate key numbers 1097070 and 1094712 generally located north of
County Road 44 and east of State Road 19 from urban low in Lake County to mixed commercial industrial in the city of Eustace we've had a presentation are there any questions from the commission for staff okay hearing none uh Tom do we have any cards on this one not on this one is
there anyone in the audience that would like to speak on ordinance number 25-04 seeing none I will close public input mr mr mayor Move for approval of ordinance 25- second a roll call please commissioner Holland
I commissioner Ozbody I vice Mayor Ashcraft I commissioner Lee I mayor Hawkins I and the last component is ordinance number 25-05 an ordinance of the city commission of the city of Eustace Lake County Florida assigning the rural neighborhood design district
designation to approximately 40 acres of recently annexed real property at alternate key number 1097070 and assigning the suburban corridor design district designation to approximately 9.5 acres of recently annexed real property at alternate
key94712 north of County Road 44 and east of State Road 19 we've had presentation any questions from the commission for staff on this item i actually I have one um Mr lane hi Mike i just I just want to um be
clear to the residents that neighborhood doesn't mean homes just because it's being assigned this district is that correct because it's MCI it's MCI it has no density no well I know but they're going to hear neighborhood and then Yeah okay
all the design district does is I'm just making a point i'm just making a point it's okay thank you all right um any cards on this item Tom no would anyone in the audience like to speak on ordinance number 25-05 okay seeing none I'm closing public
input mr mayor back to you Mr mayor i move approval of ordinance 25-05 second roll call please commissioner Holland I commissioner Asody I vice Mayor Ashcraft
I commissioner Lee I mayor Hawkins I okay commissioners now we're coming up to future agenda items comments uh Mike um just appreciate all that our city staff does you know we
hear a lot we get a lot thrown at us but they get more thrown at them so I appreciate everything they do to make us look good and uh keep up the good work um please keep the folks at Florida State in your prayers over the next couple weeks it's going to be a rough time for them uh when I watched that
press conference a little earlier I've never seen a president of one of our major state colleges get as emotional as he did today um so keep them in your prayers and then um on behalf of myself and my family happy Easter to everyone
okay Emily I I was wondering I remember there was going to be a park and wreck master plan has that ever been completed no uh the city commission probably three years ago as part of the budget process
um decided not to move not to put it in the budget uh that said we are going through CIP right now um and that is something that we've been uh contemplating bringing back to you um
frankly um it is it's it's not good planning it's not good resource allocation when we use the ready fire aim approach uh and a a recreation master plan would help us uh better allocate our resources
um we can get input from the commission and from the public and from experts in the field uh what our needs are and where our resources need to be spent um that said uh it's a pretty big undertaking uh both in time staff and
money you're looking at probably $200,000 for a uh recreation master plan but again when you're when we're planning $3 million aquatic centers uh or major uh improvements to parks or uh
when we're trying to analyze what uh buildings and facilities we need uh the a $200,000 expense is worth it to help you allocate your resources so um that in the end that's a commission decision
but that's a really long answer but the short answer to your question is no we didn't do it because the commission pulled it out of the CIP okay and wasn't there one being done like in the B we are doing a very sightspecific Carver Park uh master plan uh and Sam has
gotten me a draft uh that I have not had time to review uh but there is a sightspecific Carver Park master plan okay i'd like to I'll be happy to see that because of what I want to do my project gary actually I'm I'm good okay
George yeah I just had a couple uh things you know I read on in the growth uh spotter um about the impact fees from our adjoining uh municipalities and um I was surprised to see that we were at the
lowest impact fees and I know we're struggling with a lot of things so um I mentioned that to Tom at the be dur earlier and he did let me know that we're already working on it so I think it's kind of mute but it was interesting to to see that uh we're literally at the
lowest end which makes us even more attractive to residential so if they if they want to come they got to pay and uh Mount Dora is doing it now they're going to pick up another 10.5 million I think uh is what we said so there's a there's
a revenue stream there that we truly need for our residents so uh I' I'd like to see us not lose that on the radar and then the old thing that we've been talking about forever I just I I I don't know if it's as easy as I think it is but getting that new density level to
the 3 one instead of the 5 to one i know each one of you have talked about it for years before I came along is it that hard or I don't know but before we're constantly getting uh annexations if we can get that 3 to one in there uh I just
don't see where it could hurt us we can always give a a waiver of that but it falls off the radar with everything going on so 3 to one can we ever get that back on there i guess that's the Didn't Kimberly Horn did a They did a
Yeah and they suggested it wouldn't help it wouldn't help they wanted us to widen the uh the lot width is that how they were addressing it that's well one way and and it try to the design standards was their way of trying to make things uh and that's good too so right do they
come back or where is that so we um we are working on it um we need to bring that back to you um I think the um we actually did at one point bring to the city commission kind of
an SR light uh that was three units an acre um and uh we we the county actually uh opposed uh the creation of that district um because there were some regulations in there um
that um they felt wasn't consistent with some of the areas in Eustace that said I think Kimley Horn has said you can get development you will not be proud of at three units an acre uh so the the real
key is the lot widths the design guidelines the setbacks the things that um produce high quality subdivisions it's not about the five versus the three it's not strictly speaking about the numbers well and just to piggy back on that didn't didn't the city years ago
try to change densities in certain parcels that were annexed already and the owner was not too happy about that i mean yes well if you're referring to the Keading case yes um I didn't want to mention any names but go ahead yeah i
the the city lowered densities on Mr keading's property and it resulted in a long and drawn out um legal battle and I'll just clarify that's uh the Bert Harris Act um uh just for clarity the uh
the vested rights um really should be looked at very carefully because they're vested for a reason so we could look at any future annexations could be subject to a new um density requirement but when it comes to
properties that are already within the city that's it's very challenging yeah that's um you're right you're absolutely right about that and that's why it's so important to do these annexations correctly mhm and make sure we have the
right design districts for those in the future um because I mean we all know there's going to be some properties coming up soon that are going to be asking because they're already annexed in the city and they're going to get the densities that have already been
assigned to them um I know future design for future annexations or or to the new you know land development regulations but it's going to be hard for us to change anything it's already there and I'll set it enough tonight and another point um we do have currently
limitations as to what we can um require for design standards based on uh Florida law so we yes it's not you know we don't have as much flexibility at this point as was afforded years ago right
and then the last thing was the workshop of course that we the big elephant in the room I guess I call it with that when our time restriction do you think there's anywhere we could stick an hour in the midst of any of the other stuff other workshops we're doing you think it'll just take an hour no it's going to take a lot more but I've made a little
clip here or there do a you know and and what we didn't do that I think you pointed out which is really a good point is we talked and we seemed like we were headed towards some idea but let's go ahead and check off and say we want to do a hotel or we don't and check it off and put it behind us and then go to the
next stuff and then we'll get the progress i think you wanted uh Gary just make a we didn't get we were kind of tied up we rushed through because we had the other stuff but we have a workshop on May 1st right the ethics yes and another on May 15th and another on the
15th of May yeah uh Mr mayor if I may perhaps uh Tommy you can circulate some dates um you know with the commission i don't think an hour would be sufficient and we want to ensure that we give enough time as well to the public uh for those that want to attend to hear the
discussion to at least uh you know have that option so um I agree with you that one hour isn't enough but I'm addressing what the mayor said which is true we don't have the time to do a whole thing so we have to like the budget maybe clip at it that's that's what Can we do can
we do breakfast sometimes and so like start at 7:30 or 8 and that takes a couple hours into the morning we always talk about evenings and then it becomes a dilemma would would mornings work
i can have fresh eggs um I mean anything is possible it's just a matter of getting everyone's schedule together and that you know if if you all want to do it i know you may have conflicts i get her when I get here in the
mornings uh yeah yeah monday to Friday but be tough for mornings evenings are better or for Saturdays saturdays are great saturday breakfast at Gary's house but we put dates out tom you put dates
out through July uh I put dates out in July specifically for budget and it was July is difficult um so we're going to have to but it those workshops have to be in July because you can't go too soon and you can't go too late so we're going
to have to work on that uh I can send out uh another doodle for uh end of April beginning of May and get a feel for um upcoming availability because I think that most of June
you're you're unavailable yeah the first at least the first two weeks but we also have to think about what Commissioner Holland said we need to get on on this because of the CRA thing that's hanging over our heads so we need to move as
quickly as we can well I I'm available pretty much anytime i think what we need to do is let Tom put it out again we get a quorum and we just have to move forward exactly we're We're at We're We're at that point okay so at the next
meeting I would like a few minutes just to go over what's going on in Tallahassee if I see a special order come from the League of Cities I'm going to get it to Christine and let her send it out we may we're at a point with some of the stuff in the state legislature i made every I may need everybody to make
a phone call um there's some really important stuff that we thought was kind of dying off that could be they're they're horse training right now they're getting toward the end of session so it's getting kind of scary with some things but um so kind of keep an eye on that also I just want one more last
thing the funding for our projects it was half funded in the House but it was fully funded in the Senate so it looks like it'll be fully funded it just depends on the governor when it gets to his desk what he does okay so at least
he's fighting in the House but he's not fighting the Senate so hopefully that'll work out and we have at least two more weeks left in this month so maybe we could work something out yeah so if I could just get a few minutes at the next meeting just to go over everything okay okay
thank you sorry no no no problem i used to do it all the time okay anything else okay um let's see tom yes um well a couple things have been mentioned uh Sasha I don't know if
you're going to talk at all about the uh workshop on May 1st uh that's we are scheduled for 4 pm on May 1st um we also have a workshop at 4 pm on May 15th that's to discuss Eastern
utilities um Sasha sent me um uh a new uh new state requirements for economic impact analysis related to um our actions so if we pass a
resolution or an ordinance uh or only ordinances ordinance okay well good that's one less thing I think Forest Gump said that um so uh ordinances that have an economic
impact on businesses and residents uh we are required to uh do an economic impact analysis to uh analyze that impact and so related to those items uh you'll be seeing some additional analysis in your
packets and then their requirements that they have to you have to f put them up on your website they have to stay up on the website for five years um it's um it it will be some work uh but it's good information um so I'm just pointing out
that you'll be seeing that uh and I actually um I've not forwarded that uh to staff yet what I got from Sasha but we'll be talking about that at our staff meeting tomorrow um and then uh Commissioner Asbody I don't know if you
want to talk at all about Chicken University um but we um so one of the things um one of the things that uh a lot of a a lot of government agencies that
allow backyard chickens require uh residents to go through uh basically extension training uh and so we did a group of us Sasha Mike Lane uh myself uh Eric Martin uh Commissioner Asbody
um went through uh the two-hour uh training there was a lot of good information um but I bring it up because we'll be coming back to you for some uh discussion on where we want to go with backyard chickens Kentucky Fried Chicken
did we pay you to We we paid $5 we paid the University of Florida Extension $5 for the training um and and I serve chicken tenders for lunch
it's getting bad it's time to end the meeting so um again I This is foul what did you say it's getting foul so I bring that up because we'll be bringing back to you uh a discussion on backyard chickens uh and that's all I have okay
thank you Madam Attorney i think Tom covered it um we're still on for the first um I think the discussion for but for the Packard chickens will be May 15th um and as far as the business uh
estimate impact estimate um it's not as ominous as it sounds i mean it it really just applies to um just changes and for instance if the impact be analysis that would be an ordinance that would qualify for that but land development regulation
type items or um anything really developmental for for staff it won't be covered so it's not that much of a extra burden there's an entire list there of what's exempt from that so pretty clear okay great okay all right
thanks okay i um uh we all know that a couple of weeks ago uh we had four young ladies and I think did I bring this up at the last one in the accident uh uh the vigil
uh that was held i I I wanted to give kudos um to to some of our city staff uh that came out to include our city manager
um you know it it it was a tough Sunday afternoon it was a hot Sunday afternoon uh we had chairs that needed to be moved around and we had public works uh guys out there uh giving water to people uh
moving chairs so people could sit down comforting people um you know just like I said at the last meeting about the young lady at the water department uh that went above and beyond to someone
that needed it and I just think it's important that every chance we get you know we applaud uh the people in this organization i don't think that the public knows what the city of Houston's
employees do and I'm not talking about us because we're not the important ones uh they are um I think if they knew it you know if they took the time to to step away from complaining and
um and actually talking to some of the people they see that we got some pretty good employees um and this commission appreciates them uh we really do um Lake
Care's grand opening Lake Cares has been uh in the building mode for the last 18 months a grand opening for you all to put on your calendar it's going to be May the 5th well you put it down uh yes at 10:00 a.m 10:00 a.m 10 a.m it's too
early to drink yeah well well yes some places um so you know it'd be great if you all could could attend 10:00 a.m 10:00 a.m um I think adopting the master plan was a good first step uh y'all we got a lot
of work to do and we're going to have to put the time in we signed up for it so let's buckle down and get it done okay uh we don't have long before
election time comes up and I hope we all stay but I don't want to have to revisit this again uh so let's buckle down and let's get our city moving
okay meeting is adjourned 7:48