All right, good morning everyone. We're going to call this meeting to order. It is 9:00 a.m. Today is Wednesday, September 24th, 2025. We are at the new town hall. All town comments, council members are present, town attorney, town clerk, town
manager, and deputy town manager. If you'll please rise for the pledge of allegiance followed by or followed by or invocation then the pledge of allegiance. Get it right. One of these days. As we gather here today, we come as individuals with diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and beliefs, yet united by
a shared commitment to serve our community with integrity and care. As we begin the important work ahead in both this meeting now and in this evening's hearings, may we quietly center ourselves bringing focus, intention, and respect to this space and to one another. Let our discussions be
thoughtful, our decisions well thought, and our actions rooted in a desire to bring peace, progress, and a unity to all those we represent. May we listen with open minds, speak with compassion, and lead with courage. Amen. Amen.
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. Next, we have approval of the final agenda. There are a couple items
that will be removed. Uh, item number C, resolution 25-293 under administrative agenda will be removed and added at a later date. And under town attorney items, item B, the settlement agreement will be removed and added at another date.
I'll move to approve as amended. All right, we got a motion from councelor King. I'll second. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed. Hearing none. That motion carries unanimously. Next is public comment.
Madam clerk, I have nobody signed up. Anyone like to speak in public comment? All right. Seeing none, we'll close public comment. Local achievements and recognitions. Councelor Safford. Um, I I feel remissed for uh not doing this at
our last meeting, but uh we had an island icon pass away a couple weeks ago, Betty Simpson. And uh you know, my deepest sympathies to her family. She, as I said, she was an icon. Um she was on the first LPA. She was the longest
standing member of the LPA still to this date. She was on every committee. She always did it with a smile on her face. And you know, that lady exhibited grace. And uh I'm going to miss her. Yes, yours. Anything else?
That's it. Council Woodson. I'm going to go on the opposite end of that. Joe Boofest. We had our final, I think, of the season, Joe Boofest, uh last Saturday, I
believe it was. And he's doing his job is all I've got to say. We've We're out of out of the zone for now. So, let's just keep Praying to the gods, right? Whichever one you need to. Whatever one you need to just keep him away. All right. Anything else?
No. I just wanted to uh recognize uh Kim Boxa, who's the uh principal for uh the the sort of uh transient Fort Myers Beach Elementary School. Uh she is being
transferred to another uh middle school. Uh it's another happy for her. She did an excellent job with our kids and our parents uh during a very difficult time. She filled some very very big shoes, but she did a great job and uh she'll be
missed and uh certainly sadly another troubling indicator of of the uh lack of certainty about our our elementary school. And I'm hoping that we can uh have a conversation about that as a group terms of strategy uh maybe during the town manager items. But thank you,
Kim, for your service. Uh councelor King, I have nothing, mayor. Uh I do not I also uh did not bring up Betty at the last meeting and I had the privilege of serving with her many years on the uh on the board committee and she
was always good at everything from cupcakes to leading meetings. So she will she will surely be missed. Uh next is the appro uh adversary committees items, reports and appointments. Um adversary adversary.
Well, evidently I can't read today. Thank you. Slip. Oh man. Of all the days. Uh the only thing I wanted to bring up about this was that there was some confusion because of the word appointments that the uh appointments for the committees
will be the first meeting in October. Do you have that off the top of your head, madam clerk, as to what that date is? October 6th. October 6th. Okay. So people were concerned that we were going to be picking committee members today, but that is not the case. That will be on the sixth. That appointment is on there every every agenda.
Yeah, I know. But not everybody looks every week. So I just thought I'd bring it up so everybody knows when it'll be. Next is the approval of the of the minutes for the town council meeting September 11th, 2025 and the town council budget hearings from September 11th, 2025. Is there any changes or an
approval? Motion to approve the the minutes. I'll move to approve. I'll second. All right. Got a motion by councelor King, seconded by councelor Woodson. Any further destruction? Destruction. You're on a roll.
This is why I don't drink this vitamin C water. It's all Megan's fault. Well, now I'm really in trouble. Yeah, you went there. I did. I did. All right. Uh, a motion by Councelor King, second by councelor
Woodson. Any further discussion? All those in favor signify by saying I. I. Opposed? Hearing? None. That motion carries unanimously. Next is the consent agenda. We do not have anything. Obviously, there's nothing to be removed. We have no public hearings, which brings us to our administrative
agenda. The first item is the proposed 2026 meeting schedule. Madam clerk, do you want to take this or do you want? Um, I can. It's fairly self-explanatory. The the highlighted in yellow dates, um,
they conflict with the Lee County TDC meetings. So, those would be up for discussion. everyone has had a chance to look at the proposed schedule. Does anyone have any
uh conflicts with that schedule? So, you would need to know if we want to go to either Wednesday or pick another day either way. And I believe as of right now,
um you know, the calendar for next year is pretty open. So, you we can pick any day you wish. We can go the day before. We can try and go the week after. Does anyone have any objection to just going to Wednesday for those three meeting four meetings versus that
Thursday? Yeah, I think that's a good plan. The Wednesday prior, the day before. Yeah. Okay, John, you all right with that? I'm okay with that. I think that would require then uh but they've been doing it this year, the Murf Committee to move to Thursdays then. So, but I don't see
that as a problem. Right. We haven't set the committee schedules yet. So, they usually meet on a Wednesday meeting. Jim, does that work for you? That'd be fine. Thank you, Karen. Yep. I think that's good, Scott. Yes. I'm all for that. All right.
If we could, Mr. Mayor, Madam Clerk, once this gets codified, if you'd be so kind as to I hate to do this, but slide a hard copy of the schedule in our boxes, that'd be great. Thank you. Wait, we have boxes, don't we? We used to. Do we have I don't the old town hall we had them. I don't know we
have them now. Do we? It must in the base stuff. I was gonna say mine has got three years worth of stuff in that was a little old. That's a little flashback there. Sorry. Uh all right. If there's no other discussion, is a motion to approve the
the now adjusted uh proposed 2026 meeting to move those? So moved. And a motion by councelor Safford. Second. Seconded by councelor King. Any further discussion? Councelor Safford. Hi.
Councelor King. Hi. Vice Mayor Ed. Hi. Councelor Woodson. Hi. And I'm an I as well. That motion carries unanimously. Next is the special event for the farmers market at Times Square. You want to come up and say a few things? Does anybody have any issues with love to
hear about it? Just remind everybody who may be coming back to their their uh condos this year. Hopefully. This is Linda Miller from Shop Local Productions. And we run the farmers markets, Santini and Moss Marina and also Fort Myers Beach, which we're here
for today for the one at Times Square. It starts in October on Fridays from 9:00 a.m. to 1. And uh we are working with a produce vendor to have produce at all three locations. So that's going to
be pretty exciting. mostly fruits at the downtown locations because there's less kitchens up there. And um we did a mock setup today. Uh Santini just trying it out. And so Santini and Moss Marina, Santini starts on Tuesdays and Thursdays
in November. And Moss Marina starts on Wednesdays uh in November uh as well. Not and they're all 9:00 a.m. to 1. and we're excited to bring way more uh tourists and things to do free to attend events, family fun to our markets.
Very good. Anyone have any questions for Linda? Scott? Linda, what what's your max vendor for each location? Just so people know. Um we're kind of small. Just about 40. That's what I thought. What we're like kind of looking at. And are you full at this point?
We are not full. Uh a lot of vendors don't really want to start till November. So, um, we we're working on it and we just get a few applications every day. And where do people apply if they want to participate? If, uh, vendors are interested in applying, they can go to 41markets.com.
Rates, rules, application are all online. Can you say that again just a little slower? Sure. 41arkets. The numbers 41 markets. Okay. Markets.com. I like this new microphone. We haven't heard any complaints yet. It's really awesome.
All right, Karen, any questions for for Linda? I have none. Vice Mayor, uh, good morning, Linda. I was just curious. Sometimes the produce market is there actually, which is wonderful, by the way, is there even more frequently than the the farmers market that meets
as well. Is is that going to be the strategy or is that yet to be determined? Um, we are still working out a schedule, but um, I think it's going to the produce trailer down at Cantini. We don't have an ETA on it yet. We're
trying to still get that uh, in the next week or two. And then, um, I think they're going to be off on Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday, and then open the other days. That's great. And could you just very slowly go through the first farmers
market date of opening for each of the three locations? Sure. So Fort Myers Beach open is the first one to open on Fridays in October. That's October 3rd. You said Fort Myers Beach. Do you mean time square time square? Okay. Yep.
And then Santini Tuesdays and Thursdays in November. And then when you say November, you mean the first Tuesday of November it would start? Yes. Okay. And then Moss Marina is on Wednesdays. First Wednesday in November. Very good. Thank you so much.
Uhuh. Thank you. Just make sure John doesn't have any questions. No questions. Just looking forward to it. Thank you. Thank you guys. Thanks, Linda. All right. Is there any further discussion or a motion for the special event for the farmers market at Times Square? I'll move that uh special event, Mayor.
All right. Got a motion by Councelor King. I'll second. Any further discussion? Councelor Kane. Hi. I'm an I. Vice Mayor Adolf. Hi. Councelor Woodson. I. And councelor Safford. Hi. The motion carries unanimously. Item C has been removed. That brings us to
item D. This is resolution 25-275 for fiscal year 26, Florida State lobbyists. This is a resolution of the town council of the town of Fort Myers Beach, Florida, authorizing the town manager to renew and amend the existing agreement with the town's Florida state lobbyist Ronald L. book PA in the amount of
45,000 and providing for an effective date. Will thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'd just say uh you've read through the resolution. The only thing I'd add is is I've only been here a short time, but I feel very strongly Ron Book has represented us
very well at the state level um through many successful appropriations and uh public assistance efforts. Um, so I think to continue uh having Ronald Book, a PA firm, represent us would be in the best interest of the town. All right. Thanks. Well, I probably
worked with him the most hand inand over the last few years, and I can tell you he has been uh well worth the $45,000 with the amount of appropriations he's helped us uh bring in. So, I I will gladly move this item. Um, is there a second?
Mr. Mayor, three years ago, I never would have imagined doing this, but I second to your motion. Amazing what you didn't know back then, right? All right, we got a motion by Mayor Aller, seconded by Vice Mayor Aderholt. Any further discussion?
I'm an I. Vice May, I councelor King. I councelor Woodson. Hi. And councelor Safford. Hi. Motion carries unanimously. Next our is our final public comment. Looks like we have somebody. There is someone here. Tom. Oh, hey Tom. Come on in. You want me to fill this up?
No, we know. Come on up, Mr. H. Hotton. You made it just in time. I guess. Yeah. Right. Um, good morning everyone. Um, I was just made aware that um, just say your name, Tom. Tom H. Hotton. Um, I'm owner of Lola Surfside Restaurant. Operate from Time
Square. I've been there for about I've been working there for 15 years now. Um, I'm here today to talk about the farmers market. Um, I was all for the idea of the farmers market um, when it was first brought up after Ian as a way to get people back to the beach
and the foot traffic would be excellent, but unfortunately there's been a lot of negative effects that have come from it. Um, I've been on the phone this morning after just being made aware of this and all the owners that I talked to, I haven't talked to all of them, but they
were all against bringing the farmers market back to Time Square. obstructing the front of the businesses, competing with the businesses, having cars coming in at out of Time Square in the middle of the afternoon on a busy Friday
when we're not allowed to even bring our own cars into Times Square. Um, I think it's a better fit to move it back to where it was last year. I think we all had a sigh of relief when it was moved over to that area. Um, but I would just hope that you would
pause and get some input from the Times Square owners before you move forward with this. Um, also I can just tell you that my own personal experiences with the people that are managing um the event um they've hung up
on my property owner. They conversations have not been productive whatsoever trying to remedy things in the past. So very concerned. Hope you'll reconsider. Thank you. Thanks, Tom.
Anyone else? All right, we will close final public comment. Uh Tom manager items. You want Frankie to Huh? I just wanted to address something. It's a Tom manager's item. If he's okay with it, I'm okay with it. Yeah, I I've got some other things.
We'll let Frankie go first. Please cover that in a couple of and one more item and then I'll go with my reminder. Just to be clear, the Ballards that are locked on Time Square will remain locked. There is no vehicular traffic in that area. We're allowing foot traffic only. So the the people that are setting
up have to have um booths and what that can be carried in and easily carried out. And the event is over at 1:00 each day. And are Frankie, are we going to make sure that they I noticed last time that they would park in front of those ballards and then block traffic? Are we going to make them or are we working
with the county to to make them go into Lynh Hall Park to unload? Yes, sir. That's probably where they're going to park anyway. Yes, sir. Okay. Any questions for Frankie on the And I know that there was issues in the past. We did receive calls about
block vendors blocking the businesses. I'm assuming we're correct. We blocked everybody out and they go, we showed them exactly where the the markings were. Uh they're good at marking their spaces. As you guys know, when we started this, uh I was out there pretty much every Friday morning and and
making sure everything was running good at that time. Um I haven't been lately, but um they're they're they're very good at moving their people away from the businesses after they've been told. Um and again, with those ballards being locked, there'll be no vehicular traffic whatsoever in Times Square. We did that
because we did not know the extent of the underlayment being compromised from Hurricane Helena and Milton and we just continue to keep it closed until we can make such repairs. Will maybe it'd be a good idea for the town to reach out and facilitate a meeting between Linda and
and her people and the Times Square merchants just so everybody understands what the the rules and regulations are and what's actually going to be happening so everybody's on the same page. Sure. So that uh maybe it's a little more cohesive than it has been it sounds like. We'll do Mr. Mayor.
What is you have another thing or? Yeah, go ahead and cover the pool. So, well, as you all know, we're actively involved with the CDBGR funds and trying to get those projects moving. Uh, one of the projects that we have is our community pool. Um, we had a
applicant uh come and interview with the selection committee. Um, the selection committee did not feel the strongest moving forward with that applicant. Uh we reached out to the county with our weekly meetings that we have just prior to this meeting. Uh we were given advice
from the county to pursue the possibility of readvertising to the original vendors that had applied. Um and uh in doing so, we could eliminate time off the back end of that advertising. According to our procurement rules, they mirror the
counties. It's usually a 30-day period or 30-day window. um through their advice, they're saying that there is no HUD regulation for advertising and that with the blessing of a town council or in their case the BOCC, they can reduce that advertising time down to 15 days.
So, I'm standing here before you today to ask if uh you'd be willing to reduce the amount of advertising time to readvertise the pull project for the CDBGR that we currently have. And Nancy, that doesn't give you any pause, but giving direction to shrink it to 15 days
versus the 30 because there's no requirement, you said from HUD. There is no HUD requirement whatsoever. And this was given us by the procurement person from the county as well as their uh representative that's running the CDBGR program. So essentially, you're saying going back out to bid for the pool with a 15-day
period versus a 30. Correct. Nancy, you have any issues with that? Um, I don't like giving advice, you know, on the fly. So, if I can just work with Frankie on on the details. Um, but you're, if possible, you would like to
have it reduced. Is that I I would support it. Yes. If you if you feel that there's no legal challenges. So, I think the direction to me is to work with Frankie and see if we can accommodate that. Okay. I have no issues with that direction. Councelor King, you have any
issues? None whatsoever. Vice Mayor consent. Council Woodson agree. Councelor Safford agree. There you go. Thank you. Yep. Thanks. Okay, Mr. Mayor, thank you for that. Uh I'll continue uh update on emergency
temporary placement permits. As of uh yesterday was the final day of the of the temporary placement permits. Uh as of yesterday evening, we we received 40 applications for emergency temporary placement permits. Uh approximately 40. I think some more came in a little bit
later which is good. Um uh of those they're in various stages of the approval of the review and approval process right now. Um I've reviewed approximately uh 15 packets so far, returned some with some more questions
and uh have one have approved one extension uh emergency temporary placement permit and have a couple more ready for approval today. So the process is good news there. process, as we had hoped, is moving forward in the in a good direction. Um, and we're receiving
um a lot of applications. Uh, and the those that did not get their uh emergency temporary placement permits in in time, uh, Mr. Yazo and his team will now move forward in the next step of of issuing uh, notices of violations on
those those uh, properties. But uh I still would encourage everybody even if they haven't gotten the application in by last night to continue the application process. And we will continue to process every application as we receive them and try to move people into either an extension or into uh the
path towards removing that temporary structure from the island. We have seen I have seen and Tom has updated me too that we've seen some people have voluntarily removed their temporary structures uh by the deadline yesterday. That's also a good thing and we encourage people who who may not be meet all the criteria for the ETP to go ahead
and remove that structure. Um or if they have any questions before they apply just reach out to to us and we'll answer those. Any question? If I can add um so um our team has worked with Tom and his team um and we have developed the process uh with a
flowchart as well as forms in the event that an extension was not requested. um and code will move forward with those that did not have an extension um approved and by the deadline. Um I also
wanted just to comment that even when you are cited with a notice of violation there is a compliance period. So that would be uh the time where uh there might be some discussion about um
extending it. However, uh we would have to get some direction from council to um to allow some additional um extensions to be filed um because the deadline by council was set for yesterday at 5:00.
So, there still is room to negotiate and and talk, but we may be coming back to you for um approvals. Yeah. I guess I just What was the point of having a deadline if we're still encouraging people to apply after the deadline? As of They will receive notices of
violations. Um after Oh, you mean to come into compliance? To come into compliance. Correct. Yeah, they're still as of this morning. Uh they will receive a violation if there's still a non-compliant structure on their property. Okay. If they haven't already received, many have. Right. But any further extension would
have to have um authorization from the town council because I believe the direction from town council was we would only um allow the those applications to be uh presented by the deadline period. Thanks for that clarification, Nancy. Yeah, that's that's what I was trying to
get. Understood. Yeah. What else you got? Um, good news, at least we think it's good news so far, but still under under uh evaluation, is uh just a couple of days ago, we got notified by Lee County Sheriff's Office that they found our boat uh that was
that was stolen last year. Um, and uh we have recovered it um from the location where Lee County found it and it's now in our PW yard. So, uh, um, Curtis and his team, uh, are working
with, uh, Tom and Tisa on the process to, uh, in investigate this and and we'll work with our insurance to see since we already received payout for that to see what the process is to Lisa's in coordination with them. But I just wanted to let the council know that that property has been recovered and it
is in our PW lot. Uh, the status of it is still under review from what we can see. Uh just as a cursory review outside it's on the trailer. It was on the trailer when it was recovered. The motor is still there. Um wow. By looks of things, it's it's in good condition, but we we haven't really
put it to the test yet. So, more to follow on that. Okay. Wow. Yeah. It may just be the beginning of another, but we'll see. Um, uh, so the FEMA update, I I I'll turn it over to
Tracy real quick for an update with our FEMA cav. So each week we are we're having multiple town internal meetings uh to take a look at the properties that still remain non-compliant according to FEMA status. Uh the good news is with our conversations with FEMA this week, we've
been able to collaborate slashdebate with FEMA on the compliance of of some of our properties and have been successful. This week we we were able to get approximately 10 additional properties into compliance with our conversations with FEMA. Um we've
submitted some properties last week that we're waiting on their decision, if you will, and we'll continue working with them through October. A lot of times it's just paperwork and pointing out where it is in the paperwork or if we have a a code case, they want to see
that code case closed if they are compliant. So, some paperwork details, but we're we're excited at the process. We still probably have about 70 properties that are considered non-compliant. Residents have been calling in once they received their
letter from the town that, hey, your property was on the list. And so we're thankful for all those residents who are calling in and submitting additional paperwork, um, communicating with their contractors to submit additional things. So, we're moving along.
Very good. Thank you, Tracy. Um yesterday uh at at at our request uh we had a meeting with Dave Herner and his team at county to talk uh about our efforts here and the council's direction on um wave
mitigation wall and in and the possibilities for future wave mitigation wall uh efforts here in the town. Uh Dave Herner and his team were very receptive. It was a good discussion. Elizabeth Fountain joined the conversation and and provided information to the county, Dave, his
team, their engineers. They asked some good questions uh of Elizabeth and she had a lot of great answers as was no surprise for any of us. uh going forward uh they've agreed to work with us on our efforts and um we're very interested in
considering at this point more to follow but considering uh including such you know uh the possibility for uh wave mitigation in their uh upcoming efforts in some of the count uh county parks that are along our beaches in the same vicinity. So I think it was a positive first step in working with the county on
this. Uh many more discussions to come. Very good. Uh next I I'm happy to announce again we had another great meeting with the Dascese of Venice yesterday. Um this time they had not just renderings and even more detailed renderings but they have plans um for the Church of the Ascension rebuild.
Their intention is to begin that rebuild really they'd like to begin before the end of the year. Um very ambitious. Uh we promised to assist them in that effort as best as we could. Um they are they've already been talking with some of Frankie's team. They've um they uh
have already been talking with the flood plane flood managers, flood plane managers and everything to make sure they're doing everything correctly and they are ready to come in uh very soon with Frankie and his team uh and the planners and the permit Frankie's
permitting folks to start that process. In addition, uh the u we found out yesterday afternoon after the meeting that the bishop has set October 10, 2 p.m. on October 10th at St. Leo the Great. They're going to have a public information hearing. The bishop is going to hold the public information hearing
at again 2 pm October the 10th at St. Leo the Great in Bonita Springs where they will officially release the you know to the public their their renderings and their plans and get public input on those. Very good. And then um finally uh Mr. Vice Mayor
you wanted to uh talk I believe during my time here about Fort Myers Beach Elementary School. Um Tracy and I have continued our uh regular meetings with as directed by the council with staff of the district um to work through the
remaining requirements of the interlocal agreement and uh make sure that we are holding up our end of that agreement and and work to hold the district accountable for them living up to their end of that agreement. um those meetings have I think we've reached a point where
I would say we've done I would say we've done everything we can. I'm not so sure that they have and and we're seeing you know indications of um an impass I think if you will of whether or not the district is going to
move forward with physically renovating and rebuilding the school to reopen on Fort Myers Beach Elementary on Fort Myers Beach, I'm sorry. So, uh, we've continued with, uh, as as we found to to the public records request. I did receive one more response to the public
records request, uh, from, um, from the district as far as did they request any um, approval from FEMA to to red reallocate, redistribute the funds they had received. Um, I I I still think that the
response I got with I received was not adequate. It didn't answer the question. Um, so at this time as far as for my next steps if you if you're the council I know would like to know would be I think uh we will engage with our lobbyists and with our elected officials
and go direct to FEMA you know to submit a request direct to FEMA and ask for assistance from our uh our you know elected officials. If I could Mr. Tom, man, before we get into the broader issues, could you be a little more granular on on on what you just discussed in terms of the information
you were provided as to whether the school district uh asked FEMA to redirect those funds? Could you explain the correspondence that you got and what your your interpretation of that correspondence was? Um really I just I received responses of
the detailed um project requests that they submitted. Um and maybe just just for people who are watching take it up 10,000 just give an overview of just set the table and then get into that more granular answer if you would. So if if what you're asking Mr. Vice Mayor
is what what initiated the public records request? Yes. was a U notification that uh that we received from Representative Donald's office that uh that you know FEMA grant uh money had
been allocated and distributed to um Lee County Schools for the um renovation and rebuilding of Fort Myers Beach Elementary School and this and associated structures around the school here on the island of the tune of over 11 million. In that we began discussions
with the school district. We I mean my staff and and their staff again discussions about this is great. What are your plans? Um we'd like to see um exactly how you plan to uh use that funding and and what your timeline is going to be and we're here to help. Uh
and we received responses of this is not new money. we you know we've already this is money we had already been allocated and we already um dist you know distributed for projects uh across the district and we asked then I submitted a public records request um
more now more granular public records request of show us the uh the project worksheets show us your applications to FEMA we'd like to see exactly what you asked for exactly what you received and then if you did request permission from FEMA to redistribute the funds to other
projects please provide us with um that request and FEMA's approval. I received two out of three of those questions basically. And in in going back and asking for uh uh submitting a amendment or in addition to the request to the
school district for clarification on question one and if they had answers for question one. Um I received response to the effect of asked and answered pretty much. You know, I said that that what they provided was what they have. um
which I still feel is insufficient. Um and uh I believe that now there's a possibility we could maybe ask FEMA for that um that information and clarity on on the process as FEMA sees it from their end.
That's that's where we're asking you. I I don't want to blavorver this, but just curious. Uh we we've had uh what is supposed to be a collaborative effort uh with our friends at the Lee County School District. And did you have did you just request this information or did
you actually have to file a public records request from the school district because that seems odd in a collaborative relationship? I had to file a public records request. Thank you. Well, I don't know how far down the rabbit hole we want to go, but you know,
we have been working with our our our local representatives to try to get some answers as to the grant funding, and I think Will, you covered it pretty well. We did receive a response uh through our congressional office uh from FEMA specifically about the reallocation of
those funds. Um it's basically what we expected. Um, I'll be happy to read it for the record if you'd like. It It says Lee County School District as a subreient should approach its Florida Division Emergency Management Pro uh pro
prog management programmatic reviewer Rachel Langston to discuss the eligible ways to use the funds. The state may consider asking FEMA for what's called an alternative project. An alternative project is when a subreient and the state determine that the public
welfare is not best served by restoring the function of the damaged facility. When this occurs, FEMA must grant approval to the apply public assistance funding toward a different facility or facilities. FEMA has not received from the state a request from an for an
alternative project. So I read that as they have not submitted any paperwork to use those funds that were granted for Fort Myers Beach Elementary School for another project. Uh, and this was as of yesterday. So, um, I think going to I
would like to to to give staff direction to work with Nancy to see what our next steps are. um both through FEMA, through our congressional, through Senator Scott's office who has also copied on this email uh who has been inquiring on our behalf as well to to see what our
next steps are all around, not just through FEMA and finding about some answers, but both legally what we can do as next steps to ensure that uh the ILA agreement that we are adhering to um what we could do to make sure that they adhere to it.
But you want consensus. Councelor King, do you have any issue with that direction? I have none whatsoever. Please go for it. Uh I have I have no issue with that direction. Uh I think we've got two uh
paths that are uh that we're on right now. one one with respect to this uh these FEMA funds which uh appears again appears to add insult to injury uh as to what we have been through as a community. Um I also
I think it's important for our town attorney uh to also explore how the FEMA issue uh not in isolation but also uh sort of in in collaboration with the interlocal agreement. I think it's
important to look at both of those uh dynamics to determine compliance and uh we have tried and the mayor made an extra effort this last uh six months to reach out uh and and and to try to build that coalition uh for the school and and
I know our town manager and our assistant town manager, the former principal of the beach school uh uh Fort Myers Beach Elementary School have made yman efforts to try to reach out and build relationships and work uh positively with our friends at the Lee County School District. And uh it just
from an appearance standpoint, it appears as if uh not only those efforts uh have been um stagnant, shall we say, in terms of the response from the Lee County School District. We're certainly hopeful uh
that there will be a proposal soon to uh uh both temporary and long-term for our beach school. Uh the school superintendent is on record as saying she wants to uh have a a beach
school. So, I'm I'm a bit confused by the lack of communication from the Lee County School District. Uh I know a lot of parents who are extremely disappointed and and continue to live in this flux, if you will, uh not knowing
where their kids are going to be. They have they've got people that are wanting to come into the Fort Myers Beach Elementary School. There are kids their parents with kids that are in the elementary school and also in other schools. Uh there's some that are just making their life, they're trying to
plan their life around what's going to happen to the speech school. And to hold them uh in this uh abyss, if you will, seems particularly cruel given what everyone has been through uh as a result of Hurricane Ian. So I think for the
town attorney to look both globally at what our options are for compliance for the interlocal agreement but and to also again pursue with FEMA and our federal representatives some clarity on what happened to those FEMA dollars. Uh it's
quite frankly sad that it's come to this because I do think there are people on the Lee County School Board who are trying to help us, but they seem uh uh it appears as if they've not had a lot of support or encouragement from the
administration at the Lee County School District, which is disappointing in and of itself. So, uh, I I certainly don't want to cast dispersions on all involved because there have been there have been members of the Lee County School Board who have been very kind and supportive and encouraging to us. Uh, we're just
hoping for that same level of commitment from the Lee County School uh, administration. I think I probably ought to stop there. All right. I think we direction has been given. All right.
Nothing for ju just for the record. I I want to consent as well. Oh, I thought you already did. No. All right. So, I don't think she did. And I would consent, too. I mean, my only question is at what point do we go into litigation with it? And I think that would be
something that we want to get the details on. Um, I think it's it's almost cruel and unusual punishment that is happening right now. and I'm I'm really beyond disappointed and it's time to move
forward actively. Yeah, I think if you can bring it back the next meeting what our options are. Um I think it's been very clear. Yes, I'll work closely with um with Will and Tracy and uh get all the facts and um be able to uh come back and bring you
some steps next steps for your consideration. All right. Thank you. Anything else? Nothing further. Thank you. Okay, that will bring us to our council member items and report. John,
we'll start with you. Thank you. Yeah, you did. Oh, did I? I'm sorry. I did. Oh, God. You're not having a good day today, mayor. I'm telling you, this emergency stuff does not do me well. So, the item u council that I have on your agenda today uh is the announcement
of an executive session. Just um a little bit of background very quickly is uh whenever you meet outside of the public um there is an exception in the sunshine law uh that first requires me to make an announcement that we're going
to do this and then the day of the meeting we actually announce it again um so that it is uh very transparent as to what's going on and um behind closed doors outside of the uh the purview of
of the public. So in that regard, if you recall at your last meeting, we had an executive session scheduled, which would have been the second um executive session item that I I just mentioned. The first is the announcement, then is the actual executive session. We canled
that one and we rescheduled it. And so now I am going backwards and I am going to make the announcement of the new uh scheduled time for your consideration uh and approval. So, um, this is an announcement of a request for an
executive session pursuant to section 286.0118, Florida statutes for the purpose of advice and discussion of settlement negotiations related to litigation expenditures in town of Fort Myers Beach
versus Whitand Properties LLC. Case number 25-ca-4261 filed in the 20th judicial circuit in for Leo Lee County, Florida and scheduling the executive session on October the 20th, 2025 at 3 p.m. or
shortly thereafter at 6231 Eststerero Boulevard, Fort Meyers Beach. The requested um executive session will begin at 3:00 and is expected to last no longer than one hour. This executive
session will take place at town hall um at the uh 6231 EO Boulevard address. Only the following individuals will be present and allowed to participate during the executive session. That would be Mayor Dan Allers, Vice Mayor Jim
Adterhalt, Council members John King, Karen Woodson, and Scott Safford, town manager Will McKini, town attorneys, you can have a bunch of us. Um myself, Nancy Stupri, Becky Vos, who would be participating by Zoom, Khloe Barman,
Paul Waters, who would also be participating by Zoom, and a court reporter from Dyn's Court Reporting. So during this executive session uh there would only be discussion regarding this particular case no other items
um and any possible uh settlement negotiations or litigation strategy. Um once the executive session has concluded, you would go back into a public setting at which time if there is any potential settlement offered, that
settlement offer would be made public and not behind uh closed doors. So, with that said, um I would just really need your approval to have it on the um October 20th at 300 PM.
Uh I have no objection to it, Councelor King. Works for me. Vice Mayor Hall, I have no objection, but just out of curiosity, if you can comment, what is the nature of these delays? Delays or extensions? Um, this one was because at the last meeting, if you recall, the
court reporter was not present, so we had to reschedu it. Gotcha. Thank you, councelor Woodson. It's on my calendar, Counc. Uh, for the record, I'm going to recuse myself from this. So, when do you have to be notified now or? No, at the day of is fine.
Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. All right. Anything else? I know item B has been removed, but is there anything else that you would like to Um, no. Uh, we are working diligently with staff um, the last couple days on this code
enforcement um, issues and just really trying to streamline the process as best as we can with the resources that we have. Okay. Very good. Now, Councelor King. Yes, sir. Thank you. Um, last Thursday the MURF committee met and I wanted to
bring forward u some concerns that they had about uh dogs running on the beach uh unleashed. And uh one of the things uh that they asked for is more dog signs um at the beach access points to let
folks know that their animals uh dogs should be on a leash. Um, they also uh thought that maybe adding language to the short-term rentals contracts uh would help facilitate uh and educate
folks on that. So, if that's something we could look into, that would be a plus. And there was a concern about enforcement uh how enforcement is handled. Are we issuing warnings first? Are we tracking citations? um along those lines. So to help
alleviate the issues. Yeah. Can we ask Tom a I got a call yesterday from a resident specifically about this that was and I they did tell me they they were able to get a hold of to Tom. Good morning Tom Thomas Yazo e services
director for Mars Beach. Uh I did handle that yesterday was a couple who were intoxicated down to the southern end of the island and they had their dogs out there running. They were approached by numerous residents. Had a ranger located them, advised them. So that's the
process. Initially we go, we make contact, we advise them of what the law is. If we have a repeat offender, then we get the deputies involved. The deputies are are with us now uh on a regular basis. They even hop into the uh
UTV sometimes with us because they actually have the authority to do a a force stop. Uh rangers do not have the authority to do a force stop. They can stop, they can talk to people, they can ask for compliance with the deputy with us, then we can do a force stop, do an interview, get some information, and go
from there. So that's been our process for since I've been here for the last three years. And to be very clear with the dog complaints, I was with the commander uh Lelayer uh last week. We went over what we've had as far as complaints. There's
been 14 documented complaints that they've dealt with on the beach. Uh all have been handled by talking to the owners. No citations were issued. Uh for the LCSO, we handle probably probably I would say maybe three to four a month where people
are have the dog off and we go and talk to them and they put the dog on a leash. Thank you. Just real quick, Tom, sorry asked this before you left away because I wasn't exactly sure how to direct them. When this resident reached out to me, they said the dog was being very aggressive
with them and with some other people. I directed them to call the Lee County Sheriff's Office first before they tried to reach out to you. I mean, if the dog's being aggressive as you said, you guys you absolutely I mean, we'll get somebody. We're usually closer. So, we try to get somebody there as soon as possible. And if it's a public safety issue where we
have to intervene, then the ranger will intervene and get between the dog and any civilians. But, you know, LCSO is always get always gets the call right next. If it comes to us first, then I call them. If it goes to them, then I usually get a phone call from somebody, whatever deputies working on the beach
or one of the the watch commanders. Well, that's kind of I mean, I certainly don't want someone to get between I've been between two angry dogs and I would not a good You don't usually end that. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I still have the scars, too. Yeah, absolutely. So, are you are your is your team equipped
to be able to like pepper spray or something to be able to defend yourselves? They they have nets with them which they can use as a shield in that manner if they had to. Uh they carry the nets because we recover any sick and injured animals on the beach for that too. So are they equipped with
pepper spray? No. That's that would be something that we would have to have further discussion on what what you would approve for our people to carry and have to go through legal. Um I would like to outfit them with some stuff, but that would be that's another discussion. Well, I think it's a disc I would be I would want to have that discussion.
Okay. I don't want you guys putting yourselves, you know, you sometimes are the first people out there. Yes, sir. And want to make sure you got the tools you need to react if you have to. All right. Thank you. Understood, Mr. Mayor. I'll have that
discussion. and and councelor King. Um Jeff Hygi, our community services director, it did talk to me already, but he's he's getting ready to uh um start renovating many of our beach accesses and the signage is something that he has talked to me about and getting some of
the signs back out there that clearly articulate that issue among other things that are allowed or not allowed in our beaches. Um and so we'll get we'll get on that. Uh he's already working it. Thank you. Appreciate it. Um just as briefly as I can be, uh I
attended a board of directors meeting for the Florida League of Cities u last th Friday and Saturday. Um went through a a new board member orientation. Uh learned a lot of what u the Florida League of Cities can offer this town. I
know we had issues with FMIT and couldn't uh make it work this go around, but there are other uh avenues out there of uh interest that I'm going to sit down with the town manager and explore uh that may be be a benefit to the town. So looking forward to those
conversations and uh and September is budget month. So we approved a budget for the Florida League of Cities as well, which was interesting. So thank you, Vice Mayor. I wasn't uh going to have an item, but then I saw Chad sitting so patiently out
into the audience. Chad, would you uh come up and give us an update on the the vegetation planting going on throughout our lovely beach? Smooth shaven slick Willie. Yes, sir. Uh morning chat shoots environmental staff.
Uh so we're moving down. They're moving uh pretty quickly. Everybody's amazed at how quickly they're getting the plants in. Uh most of the island has planted uh the low profile which is 15% sea oats uh mostly like 50% bitter panicum
um and then railroad vine and doom daisies for some color pop. Uh right now they're out in front of the Margaritavville um area and getting that planted. Uh so far we've planted from Baldage to uh Crescent Park and then
jumped around a little bit to uh the south end and planted from uh just south of Windham all the way to Island's End. Um those are the two big chunks and then interspersed uh around um like I Street and the avenues there uh where
properties have participated in the program. Um, we've been educating people uh getting with the vendors and uh making sure they have uh enough room for their tractors um to uh go in in and out of their properties as well as property
owners to make sure they have the accesses where they want them, how they want them. Um not sure what other questions you'd like talk a little bit about use the turbul profile. So there's four vegetation options. Is that correct?
Yes, sir. So, uh, the sea oats are the tallest of the plants. Um, with their, um, uh, seeds, they'll, you know, get up to five, maybe six feet tall, but then they shed them come October, November, and property owners can snip the the
panacle, uh, stem, and that'll grow back the next season. So, uh, that's why they call it the higher profiles with the heavy sea oats. I think 75% sea oats. That's what the county went with. Seotes are renowned for being dune builders and being pretty hearty. Um
this uh this concept, Chad, of uh we had a nice emergency BM uh initially after Ian and obviously we had additional hurricanes that did some damage to that emergency berm. Talk a little bit about how that that vegetation could help uh rebuild that emergency BM.
Sure. So the both the sea oats and the bitter panicum the grasses um they spread out they catch sand uh the wind blows with the sand whenever it's uh drier out and that sand drops down and just over time with the fair weather waves and winds uh the dune sand will
build and those grasses with the ryomes will keep on growing uh above the sand and building that sand. uh we um yeah we've built that as BMS and in some areas three times over since uh Ian. So it is disappointing that some of the
areas are still on grade after we thought that we would be building on top of um a uh you know six foot elevated uh dune. But, uh, with those plants in and the rains that we're getting, they will get established and as long as we stay
off the dunes and let them grow. Um, they will catch those, uh, catch the sand and continue to build the dunes. Somebody asked me the other day, is there anything they could do to help these plantings? In other words, water them or you just assume let nature take
its course? Is that is that what you're advising folks? Yeah, let nature take its course. They put a little um gel with uh hydration and um fertilizer in there that will help these plants get established. They're pretty tried and true. Earth balance is uh well known in the uh dune
planting um realm uh doing what they do well and uh the best thing is just to stay off of them. will be out there putting out uh stakes to mark mark the accesses as well as to, you know, every so often along the lines just to remind
people to stay off the dunes. Um we can try and get some signs out there as budget allows and um just in general educate. Right now it's not too heavily trafficked, but um they are coming. And uh could you just explain folks have
asked me what is the maturity level of the plants being planted and and when will they reach uh full maturity? How long will it take before they uh so uh the maturity level uh we got uh the 4 in liners which um
we got some pretty mature plants out of the nursery. I'm not sure how long it took to grow those 4 in, but it's not the the 1 in that you would typically see out there. We got the mature plants as well as some onegon uh sea oats, which I think takes on the order of months. Um for them to meet reach pure
full maturity. I guess it it depends on what you're you mean by that. Um they'll be well established after this rainy season. Um but it will still be interspersed. It will still look a little bit bare in between the plants. Uh and um it'll take a few uh rainy
season for it to really look like it's um a mature dune. And then as those roots get more established, they will uh be more resilient to overwashes and uh erosional events where the roots are able to hang on. If you look over like
the 5,000 block where we do have some established dunes after Ian, those did bounce back pretty quickly, but those dunes are old and the roots are deep. So, um, they help them a little bit better. Last question, and this is just a ballpark question because I certainly don't expect you to know the individual
number, but this is a massive effort, and could you have a rough idea of how many plantings are being planted on Fort Myers Beach as a part of this renourishment ballpark? Oh, uh, tens of thousands, if not over a hundred thousand, I believe. I'd have to go and take a look. Definitely tens of
thousands of plants. And we're, again, we're working with property owners if they want more plants. We do have the funding um thanks to the state um and their and the TDC uh with their support. Um we can offer additional plantings if property owners want them. So please get
in touch with staff and uh uh let us know uh what you're thinking. We're happy to work with you on making sure that you have the access that you want and the protection that you need to protect your property. That that's great. I appreciate your efforts. You're welcome. Just quick piggyback on that. So is that
any property owner or only property owners that were part of the renourishment project? Well, it's it's part the renourishment project plus um we also so we have the project which is from Baldage to
um Lark and then also the southern CWA area. Um, but we planted properties, you know, we asked properties for uh an easement even outside of our renourishment project proper if they wanted plantings and then if people did not sign their easement, we're not going
to plant it, but there have been people reaching out saying, "Hey, I didn't want to sign the easement, but how do I get plants?" And we've been facilitating that. So, okay. Uh, that's also been a a positive sign. And when do you expect this whole project, the planning project to be done? uh weather permitting
with the original contract um by the end of October I think is a safe bet. They're moving pretty quickly if not sooner. Um we may have some opportunities to do some additional plantings that uh the property owners want and that may extend it a little bit but we're it's amazing
how quickly they're moving. So I'm confident we can finish up pretty quickly. Thanks Chad. Yes, sir. You're welcome. Anything else? Vice Mayor Council Woodson. So I have a question on um the light at
Old San Carlos and Astero. So, the last I had heard was that FDOT or whoever's in charge of the lights, uh, when they were working on the bridge lights, like like coming off the bridge in both directions, they would also be working
on the eststero and old San Carlos light and there's zero action going on on that. And as we get into season, I mean, that is a unbelievably busy intersection with people coming on and off the beach and
Time Square and the park. And I'm just wondering if there's any update on that at all. You want to talk the latest F dot update? I'm Isn't that the light that we have the interlocal agreement with the county? That is correct. And I know I know that they had put it up for bid for electrical. They're going to have to
raise that where that transformer is. Uh we also use part of that transformer for the lights in Time Square. So they were looking at the feasibility of lifting that off the ground just a tad and then also their electrical equipment that operate that light where it sat basically at 4 feet. Now they want to
lift that up as well. But I believe after talking to Mr. Price about a month ago that that already had gone out for bid or was just about ready to go out for bid for a company to come in and take care of that. I believe that's the last traffic light that they have left to do. And then
they're going to coordinate that like you said with the the project that uh they're doing. Yeah. I thought I was always under the impression that all the lights would go functional at the same time. So it' be nice to get That's why I was asking. So one was being controlled by F DOT and
the other one is going to be controlled by Lee County or Lee DOT, but they are going to coordinate eventually. All right. Stay there. That's all I have. Councelor Saffford. So, um it's it's almost a follow-up
question about not not the stop lights, but but the lighting situation in in time in in downtown. Um with season coming up, there's still a lot of concern about how dark it is down there at night. Do we have an update as to
when we're going to get permanent lights down there? And if if as a follow-up question to that, if we're not going to get it by season, is there a plan to have some temporary lighting just for safety? So, on the first question, uh that is currently being done with the CDBGR. Um
we have a possibility of taking from Bayside Park all the way to um the to that stoplight area north of Stero. Um that's all on basically two circuits. Um that is going to be happening here pretty quick. I think we just got the approval to put our RFQ out or we're in
the process of doing so within the next week from the county. Um it's different from the other ones because it doesn't have to go through a whole design phase. We know that we're roughly 28 poles missing. Uh the biggest thing is is having a licensed contractor that'll come in there and at least do a design
conduit build. We know that the conduit has to be replaced in all new wiring through that whole corridor. to your second part of your question. I think over the last couple of years, we've uh kind of accented that downtown area with some like standards, uh those type of things. And I'm sure that's the probably
the route that we're going to be continuing with until we get going on this project. It should be probably the quickest project once it does get uh bid because you're basically getting electrical contractor in to run new cable, new conduit, and poles. We have the fixtures. So,
can I piggyback on that real quick, Scott? Sure. Since we're talking about lighting, isn't it? It's my understanding that the lighting part of it, the electrical part is on the town. Mhm. To make sure that's operational for when they come through with the overall lighting project, but the actual
installation of the fixtures and the poles is part of the contract that we have for the greater stero lighting project. Correct. The fixtures. Yes. the poles because we at uh at some point long before any of us kind of got mixed into it, they were
going to go back to the decorative style. So that's kind of what got put into the RFQ for the CDBGR. So it's the same thing. It has to meet the wind standard. Um I think of 150 miles an hour, those type of things. Uh we're working with Chris Powell who is running the town lighting project for Aspire. uh
we have weekly talks with him and he's given us great contacts to put into our our bid packages for polls, things like that. But the fixtures are definitely being taken care of by that Aspire program. So, did did Chris and his team uh
include just even the standard polls that are being that we're seeing going up on Astero Boulevard now? Have they included any polls or are they leaving it up to us? No, because the the polls that they're putting on Astero are different through the art style, right? the ones they did through the the community are more of
the cement upright style. That is not what we're planning on using or putting back um on North Dero. And to to kind of tie that in, we also have a FEMA project on top of the CDBGR project. So with the cross-section of funds, we have to use
FEMA and that program and then we supplement it with the CDBGR funds. So for FEMA, we put back like for like I I think what you meant is Old St. Carlos, not North St. We're going to north of Darl on old on. So I guess what
I was let me be a little more clear in the scope of work through Chris Powell and his teams in their budget was it budgeted to put poles in on non whatever the decorative poles are understand the concrete one but it was my understanding that that in the contract that we signed
with them to do all of astero boulevard and the side streets that the poles were included. They may not be the polls ultimately we'll have there, but the polls were included to be able to get the lights up because the last meeting I was listening in on, they still sound like the first two weeks of November
they're planning on having the entire project done. Is that still the case or is it wasn't on last Friday, so I didn't get that. That is correct. I mean, that was part of the original bid package. You are correct, sir. And would that then include are we going to be able to through through this RFQ are we going to be able to have our portion of it ready for them to finish
on time? I I would like to give you an answer at that, but until we actually get that thing out for uh for viewing. It's been kind of going back and forth like a ping pong ball between us and the county for the last couple of weeks. Um until that goes out, I cannot give you a certain date on that, sir.
Well, that's a little disturbing. I mean, we've had two years of working through this and we still haven't put it out for and we've known about the issue. That's that's the problem I have. Last thing I want is that that's the most heavily heavily trafficked area we have and it seems to be the last part that's getting fixed and that's the part that
needs the lights the most, but we're not paying any attention to that. It seems like at least to me and I would hope that there was a way maybe we can work with Nancy to figure out a way to to streamline this or speed it up. I would hate for FPL's team to finish and then
have to remobilize and come back because we weren't ready for them when they got there. So, if there's anything we could do, Will, to to to make sure that we're ready when they we show up. I don't They've got enough challenges already with poles in people's driveways and
things. I don't want us to be a reason that they can't finish the project and we go through another season without having lights there if they're done with their part of the project. I agree. We'll do everything we can. Sorry, I didn't mean to shanghai. I you boy,
you pinched it well, my friend. That's how I feel as well. I mean, it's it's just, you know, public it's it's always been about public safety and and we've got to have correct lighting, especially in the downtown area. Just it's just a must.
Yeah. Like I said, old San Carlos aside, it sounds like they they're still on course to be done the first two weeks of November for at least a steroid streets. I think the last update I heard was they were waiting for permitting to be approved for the substations. FPL was
what they're doing now is our our building official Joe Spect is actually going out and um verifying that the hookups are correct on their little sub. Right. Right. Okay. So, as soon as they get them up and going, I just got an email this morning
that they have another batch and Joe puts it on his schedule and he goes out and checks that off. Very good. Thanks, Ricky. Yes, sir. Anything else? Thank you, Frankie. Uh, that's all I have. Thank you. Uh, I've just got a two couple quick things based on, and this is maybe for
Jeff. Are we looking are we going to be putting the MOI mats back out that or have they been put back out as we're coming into season again? A lot of people have been asking about, is that part of the signage and what Will was talking about earlier? Yeah, it's part of the process there. We're working on getting um pilings and
rope, the MOI mats, u then the signs we had we had ordered, we needed ones for all of the beach accesses, the ones that say, you know, the rules and regulations of the beach access, no dogs off leash, that kind of thing. So, we're actively putting them out there. Once we do, I I I talked to Nicole, our PIO, about
getting those accesses listed, which ones have MOI mats and also the access of our our ADA wheelchair beach chair. And great, that's good. And since we're up there, if anybody hasn't had a chance to to go check out Bay Oaks Field and how that's coming along with the I I
encourage you to at least drive through there, it look Do we have an opening date as far as when the pickle ball courts are going to be done, but I see the trees are all up down of the path looks nice. The grass is coming in great. Um I don't know. I didn't pay that close attention to the where we at with FPL and getting those electrical
stansions out of there that were there for the old trailers to be able to finish that. There the the electrical stansions are out of there. We kept one just for future use. Um we're going to kind of cap it and bury it a little bit more, but we did keep one that we can we can energize for any future use. Um but
yeah, the park is is coming along. It's they hydro seated it. They do have to do one more uh hydro seed once rainy season's out because it's it has some wash out and the birds are are sure loving the hydro seed. So um but yeah, the park we we it's almost complete. We
had to let the asphalt dry on the pickle ball courts for about uh about about 20 days before we could paint them. So, we're getting close to that. We do have a company that's going to be doing it. They're ready to go once the asphalt is set. Um and then the fences will also go up for the pickle ball courts. But, yeah, we have a nice walking path. The
trees look phenomenal down there. Thanks, Chad to to him and his team, too, to to organize that and get those those put in. But, um it's looking great. Um right now, we just put palm trees in. our next batch. We'll put some shade trees in once we find out where we're going to put the picnic areas um
for Bay Oaks. But yeah, it's it's coming along. I think uh it there's a story on Wink right now about it. I don't know if it was actually aired or just on their their uh website, but I did see it was on there. So, we got some good press that way. And um yeah, we're just plugging along. Uh and on that note, it looks great. You guys are doing a great
job getting that done. Again, if you haven't had a chance to go drive by, at least take a look at it and see it. You're amazed at how big that area really is once you have all the buildings and the debris and all the garbage out of there. Uh I did have a resident reach out about the the bench
program that we've always had. They're interested in purchasing uh a bench. Could you tell them who they can reach out to directly to talk about that as well as is there an opportunity to be able to put those uh memorial benches along the walk path there for people that maybe wanted to walk and take a
break? Yeah, we we have about a holding pattern of about maybe five that we've been contacting now that that the process is being done. So I think we just uh between um Deb and I we we've ordered I think five new ones um that what requested bay oaks. So we have we
can do that and then I think uh beach accesses I hope we can put some out once uh the the vegetation is done. But they can contact me um you know Jeff or Jay Hoggy at fmbbgov.com um and request a bench and I'll I'll get
to whatever they need. So very good. Thanks Jeff. I do not have anything else. Any more words of Rahid's Gil favor? Head them up, move them out. Move to adjurnn. Is there any opposition?
All those in favor signify by saying I. I opposed hearing none. We are adjourned at 10:13. Wow.