All right. Good morning everyone. I would like to call to order the meeting of the Anchorage Advisory Committee. Today is Tuesday, May 27th. Uh let's do the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Roll call. Uh Jennifer Rusk here, Ron Flammy,
John Wesley Match, Sam Lur, Chris Rele King, Ted Lo, Edward, Jim Adhalt, Curtis Ledwick. All right, everyone is here. Uh, public comment. I do not see anyone for public comment. We will move on to
approval of the minutes and we have a lot of them. So, we will start with April 2nd, which was one of our planning meetings. Does anybody have any comments about those meetings? I move to accept the minutes of April 2nd. All right. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. Second
from Ron. Any discussion? All in favor say I. I. Passes unanimously. I move to accept the minutes of April 10th. Okay. Uh second.
I'll second. Okay. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Passes unanimously. Sam, I move to accept the minutes of April 16th. Have a second.
I second. Okay, there we go. Any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? I passes unanimously. Sam, I move to accept the minutes of April 22nd. So on the ball, Sam, do I
have a second? Second. Okay. And any discussion? Seeing none, all in favor? I. Okay. passes unanimously and oh boy Sam I move to accept the minutes of
April 28th okay second okay Jennifer any discussion all in favor I passes unanimously there we go all
right Curtis would you like to do staff reports yes I Good. All righty. All righty. Good morning everybody. Um hope you all had a uh great uh Memorial Day weekend. Um, so what I have for you for Statford Porch
right now, um, right now our main focus is, um, it's the offseason right now, so we are cleaning up the, uh, the moring balls. We've, um, cleaned up the entire third field. Our focus now is going into the second field. Once we have openings
on um, once the boat leaves that spot, we know we have we have an opening. That's when we're going to start hitting the ones that are um, you know, um, uh, I'm occupied um that we have transit
vessels on that that um uh I'm come and go. Um next on the list is uh is um we are moving forward um with the boat um our new our new boat. We have um we had
to wait for that boat for the vendor to get put on the GSA advantage website. Um that is done. We have moved forward. We've created a PO. Um we are and we are about to make we're about to make payment.
We're paying uh 50% upfront and then 50% on the back end. So um very very excited about that. It's going to be a roughly four to five month build. So um but that could that timeline could get pushed up
hopefully is what I'm what I'm hearing. uh from Mr. Skully question. I do. Curtis making model. Can you share the making model? Yes, it's a skully. Um it's a 26 foot landing craft. Um um and uh I can bring in a picture of
that boat. So, I don't know if y'all seen um the debris removal boat that was working uh the longer one with the with the twin engines. Um that is the boat. Okay. That we're going to be getting. So, the one we're getting is twins. Um,
yes, I believe so. Not horsepower. Um, uh, 200s, I believe, or 150s, I think. Yes. Plenty of power. I'm sorry. Plenty of power. I'm happy with it. Yes, absolutely. Since it's a no weight.
Well, it's mainly for the currents and stuff like that. What are the capabilities of the boat? Um, capabilities. Um, not that we need it, but if any certain matter, we can run beachside with that. Um, I'll have two spuds on it where I can spud down to
work on the systems. Um, we'll have a winch and a davage for us to hoist the moring balls up higher so we can clean underneath. Get all the tackle underneath the rigging underneath to clean that up properly. And then also it gives us enough room for us to replace things too
if we need um at all. Um, and I believe we are going to have a small winch on that so any debris or bigger items we can be able to um winch up. Um the bow of this vessel also drops down so I can
bring stuff in as well. So um um and this boat is pretty much going to be our allpurpose boat. You know, the pumpout boat is under the CVA grant. So um I'm limited to what I can do in that boat. And then the vessel we have, our working
vessel we have now is just a glorified pontoon boat right now. Um, so that boat's going to replace that and that will be we will be in that boat pretty much uh for you know everything we do the pumpout boat will only be for
pumpouts. So sounds excellent. Yeah, I'm happy about it. Can I ask Can I ask a couple silly questions? Does does it have a trailer? Yes, it does. So you could pull it in the parades? Yes. Do you plan on having it marked with the town's logo and so forth? We are. Do you
have a name for the boat? We do not. Not yet. Should that be should that be a matter for this committee to discuss? Can we have a christening too? Another good thought. We can have a christening and everything. We can do a we can do like a little ceremony. Want to drop it in or whatever
y'all want to do. I would challenge the committee to begin to think about names or we could reach out to the community as at large. Whatever because this boat's going to be with the town for a long long time. So, how about we name it Beach School? We'll tell you after tomorrow whether
that'll be appropriate or not. How much does it cost? Um right now it's at um uh the quote that I just got back 121,000. Are there parameters for boat naming that you know we want to do some sort of
a contest and throw it out to people? Are there things that we should encourage? I don't know. I say I I think it needs to go along, you know, the lines of the Morningfield and our job and then the the town as well. So, it could be, you
know, multiple multiple things to consider in naming the vessel. So, Kurt, it's not going to be Coastg Guard documented. It's going to be a Florida state. Um, yes, it's going to be a Florida registered vessel. Yeah. Then to answer your your question, um, Madam
Chair, very little restrictions. Okay. Virtually none. Okay. All right. With the landing capabilities, are you able to put on the one of the town's golf carts, drive up on there and deliver it and take it back and forth anywhere if you needed to.
If it came down to that, yes, we could probably do that with this vessel. Not a car, but maybe one of those carts. Yeah. Yeah. We would just have to do measurements and make sure it fits and strap it down. But I mean, is there a use case for that? Yeah. Are you What's that? in case we needed to get it out to
one of the islands or in case you need to get a card out to an island or going to be weight limits. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. But um if it came to that I'm sure we could make that happen. I mean this
vessel in the state of emergency as well um this vessel will be can be used for emergency response as well. So, it's kind of a all in one all in one vessel here. Curtis, if you're going to have the town's logo put on it, you may want to wait to do that until we figure out what
what the community wants to call it and maybe that whoever does that work can do it all at the same time. Yeah, that's fine. I think I think what uh my my thought process on this is um for this boat is we're going to have the town town logo on it. uh town of Fort Myers Beach, you know, um and then, you know,
on the back corner or whatever that we could put in smaller letters like the boat name or something like that, but I want our presence on that the town's presence on that on that boat bigger than the name if that makes sense. Sure. Yeah. And so with your four to five
month build, we're looking at Octoberish, correct? To have it right before we get going in the season. That's the That's the goal. Do you want to talk a little bit more about emergency response and how that's going to be added to your responsibilities since you talked about
how So that has always been part of my responsibilities. It's just going to be put more into our resolution and everything now. Um I think as a town as a whole that emergency response is going to be um more um
how should I put this? um perhaps more visible, more correct. Correct. Um and so um you know, in a state of emergency, we're always going going to respond um no matter what. Um but also the details
with all that is still being still being discussed within. So Kurt, I don't want to take up too much time, but I know if I was sitting at home watching this, any planned electronics on board? Any what? Planned electronics? Yes. Garmin units.
Garmin. So, I already have two two units that I'm going to give to Scully for the build. Okay. Um I'll send you a recommendation of a particular radar that I think is fantastic from guard. Okay. I wasn't planning on putting radar on. I don't
think we I don't think it's a ne necessity for us and what we do. Um um and plus nowadays with our phones I feel like you know you know just just pl some sort of plotter and and radio, right? We have a chart plotter. We have a um this
is a three in one unit. So it's a a ch a chart plotter. Um uh down view and then it's a side a side scan. Wonderful. Yeah. And Garmin side scan's wonderful too. And I'm assuming radio as well. Yes. Yes. VHF for sure.
Yes, sir. Okay. All right. Next uh next topic I have um uh we have the dingy dock. I just heard from Kelly Brothers. They are getting the docks
um built uh correctly for the for the pilings we already have in place right now because they are not repunching piles. So, right now, I don't know if yall have been down to the dinghy dock or not. um how it's set up, it's kind of catty wonky a
little bit and it doesn't line up correctly. So they are getting those custom made for the pilings itself. So everything's going to act as one unit and flow flow flow properly. So once he gets that in, he will come back to me and we we will have a hard hard start
date. So um that is where we're at last night. That is that's the latest of last week is the most recent I talked to them. So, um I would think by probably the end of the summer, we're going to get rolling on that, which is good. And we're going to have 50% more since we have we're going to have another
perpendicular. No, it's just going to be just just like it is right now. Same like it is now. Yes. But I think with how it it's going to be laid in there, I it's we're going to have more room than what it is now. And it's going to be properly built. That's
all been piece meal together several times. So, all righty. Um, next topic is I got a staff report. I am fully fully staffed. Um, we uh our third person we um came on board last week. His name is Joseph. Um
he is a um 50tonon captain. Um he's worked at he ran ran a couple charter boats out of uh uh Hawaii for a little while. So um you know I like his skill set and um I think
he's a good good asset to our to our team. So I'm very very pleased with that. Um any diving certifications or you going to send them dive school? Um still as of right now we're moving with just the contractors. We're not doing
the diving. that is now that is that still gets brought up from time to time but as of right now we're moving with the contractors as of as of late. So and I think that is best. Um we feel that the liability and stuff with the diving
um um we would we think it's the safest to have the professionals do that matter. I agree with you totally. It's just what has happened in the past. Correct. Correct. No no I understand that. So I think we we have discussed that and I
think um this makes a little the best sense and the safest for us. Okay. All righty. Um for workwise that's uh that's all I have right now. I have a couple more topics I want to bring up. our next
meeting next month. I believe it's scheduled when I know I'm coming June 23rd, but um that is going to be my family vacation. Okay. So, I'm going to be out, but I'm going to um have somebody fill in for me. It's um so I
will let you know who that person is. I'm not going to Okay. I don't want to surprise anybody, but um I know that Chad I asked Chad Chad, but Chad came out. So, okay. Do we need to move that when what's your time? Um, that's up to y'all. If y'all want me to be here, you
want to fit it into where I I am here and kind of change it. That's Would you be back on the 30th if we moved it back one week? Be back. Yes, I'll be back on the 30th. Would that work for body if we moved it to the 30th if that works for Is there any
other meeting? Yeah, we have to I mean that's sort of like the 5th. Yeah, that's that's good with me. June 30th. I'm not available. How about um June 18th in the morning 9:00 a.m. It's a Wednesday. We originally used to
meet on Wednesdays at 9. This is going to be a MURF. Oh, no. Never mind. We talked about changing back to Wednesdays. We we moved to Mondays for a former member of the committee because Mondays work better for him.
But prior to that, we met on Wednesdays at at 9:00 a.m. Those are better for me. What's better? Wednesdays. Hang on. I'm trying to get my And it normally would be the 20. Well, it was a I believe it was always the third Wednesday that we
met on, but that conflicted with somebody else. Yeah, it did at the time. How many in the organization in the town currently? Third Wednesdays don't work. Okay. Okay.
If it's if it's available, maybe. What What day are you leaving? Do Fridays work for people? So, I'm gonna be I'm gonna be gone that Friday. Okay. The 20th. And I'll be back on the 30th. Yes. And June 19th is a
holiday. Okay. What about fourth Wednesday? You say that's conflict. do uh so really my last day is well I think we want to have some meeting in June because we might decide to take off July like the rest of the
meetings correct so um so it's the 17th is that consideration Tuesday Tuesday I can't do that doesn't really I guess my thought was to try the 18th and then moving forward if
we want to the fourth Wednesday. I mean worst worst comes to worst I can take some time and just promote in you know I'm only going to be an hour away so or you could zoom that's what that's what I'm saying. But it's your vacation.
Um, so Tuesday the 17th in the afternoon. Would that work for people? Works for me like at 1. Not me. Not you, Ted. I'm available. You are? Yeah. Does that work? Tuesday. What time? Uh, the
17th at like 1. And again, we'll have to check with Amy. Yeah, I got a doctor's It works for me. Okay, Curtis, would that work for you? The 17th. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, let's say that tentatively
and I will check with Amy before I leave and let everybody know. Hey, you saying 1:00? Yeah. I'm unavailable, but I don't have any pressing business. So, as long as there's enough people that Okay. I know
we receive emails um but uh I really um I'm not sure but I haven't been receiving the alerts, the alerts when there's a meeting and it's so helpful. I've never gotten one of those. So, are you signed up? I have. I've gotten Anchorage alerts and I did not know
there was alert. I don't get them anymore either and I used to get them too, but I don't. They're really helpful. I don't know what happened there. I can check on that as well. Never got them. No. How come I would get them? Are you signed up for it? I I don't know. I
mean, I'm signed up for the emergency alerts, but not necessarily for committee. Yeah. Committee meetings, what's going on in the town, welcoming the new town manager. I mean, I get it's a newsletter. That's different.
Yeah. I mean, I get I get a newsletter all that. Yeah. I get text. All right. I'll look into that, Jennifer, and then send everybody information. Yeah. Um, and then I got two more things. Okay. Do you want to talk just briefly about the financials that you No. Yeah. Is that on
your list? You didn't want to. Well, no. I mean, just what you sent us just so that we absolutely and then we'll get into that. Yeah. Absolutely. I don't want to get No, no, no. So, but and that's not a problem. I'll get into that. Okay. Before I do that,
let me um two other things. Okay. Um it's probably going to be the beginning of June. We're going to have the the yellow special purpose buoys installed around the morning field. Those got knocked down and out of place during Ian and with the two hurricanes last year.
So, uh Coastal Engineering is going to come in and uh reinstall all those all those buoys. So, um so everything's coming back together slowly but surely. Um and then um as of right now um our
contract had ended with the debris removal contract. Um we are um sending our reports off to FEMA and everything right now. Uh the re they're reviewing that. Um we are discussing right now if
we can get an approval for another another extension. So that is uh that's where we're at right now. So, um, Chad and I have been working on that, uh, diligently the past couple weeks. So, we
got that off and, uh, now it's in, uh, and, um, FEMA's hands. They're reviewing it now. So, okay, that's where we're at with that. So, all right. Now, now the, um, the, um, financials part. So, I sent this out to y'all last week um, last
Friday. So all this is up to date and accurate as of Friday of last week. Chris, do you have a a copy of that? I never received that unless it was in the packet separately. It is it is a bunch
of pages. I hope I didn't leave you out. But I do have a copy for you. Oh, thank you. Yeah, you're Thank you. That's right. So what I printed out this first uh the
first first packet reservation of Matanas Pass. So these are all the boats that we've had um in the morning field from April 1st to April to April April 30th. Um it also
um and this data provided um you'll also look it also tells them if they it tells them how long they have stayed here throughout their entire stay um as well. So it gives you the departure and then and then the nights that they have stayed that is a cumulative since
they've been here the entire time that they showed up in the morning field under the reservation. This counts all under just that month, April's month report. So, um, one comment, Kurt, on the Yeah, go
ahead. Um, can can you put a a total um under nights? Can you put a a total at the bottom? I know you had we don't need them in this report but total of nights like how many how many votes we've had on balls
for the entire month just just uh um just show bloated total number so I don't have added up myself yeah absolutely absolutely but this is so this is nights through year-to- date nights so that's what that's going to
give because the nights column is it's cumulative. So that first vote has been here 121 nights as of last Friday. Well, that that's fine. We But that's still they've still been here for that month. So you just want a total of all the reservations and everybody we have on
the ball for that month. You see nights and what you sent out um the the nights column of what you sent out. Um if we if at the end we could have yearto date
and number of nights for that month. So So you're saying yearto date total total nights which is what they which is what's provided. Correct. Right. And then you're saying also monthly total nights. That would be helpful because we
can look at the we could look at what we've had this month versus what we had last month and then total um what we've had since the first year. I I would find that very useful um instead of trying to add this up myself. So do we receive
these reports monthly? I think this is the first time we first time. Yes. I stated like that's been a big topic in the past uh meeting. So I said every for my meeting for these meetings I'm going to bring the monthly
report for the last month in. So I think that's the the question that maybe we should talk a little bit about is what information is helpful. You know what do we want Curtis to provide each month when it comes to the financials or when it comes to other things. And so if it's
important for us to know revenue what was our monthly revenue and then maybe yeartodate revenue against budget. I think might be helpful against what we were expecting to bring in or hoping to bring in and then monthly monthly nights
and yearto date night which yeah just would make it easier to track it and I think that would get to your point that monthly he said exactly what I was thinking and do you think that's you just want to know the number of votes
that we had that came in that are staying on the ball on the new reservations that we had for the for the entire month. I think that is what he said. Yeah, I think it's nights. So, you're saying if there was one boat that stayed for 30 nights and another boat that stayed for 10 nights, you'd add
those nights up. That's what I was thinking. Um, so right now you have this is for April, but it's year to date to April. Correct. Or is this just April? That's just April. That's just
April, but it's year to date when it comes to nights because they have been in the mooring field for longer than just April. Correct. Some of these people. Correct. Correct. So, is there a way in the system, you know, that you can just
extract the people who've been there for just April. So, so Kirk, I'll try I'll try to see. I just have to play with it and then I have to get on DACA and ask them if that's possible. Yeah, because this is this is a a report that's just their
standard report. Yes. That they give you. Okay. Yeah. So, we're asking for a slightly different view. Correct. Or once you get it filtered if they can give you No, they got you got dates on here. Yeah. You can. That's what I'm saying. For me to pull that information without me doing it manually on my own,
I would have to ask them to do to create a new report. Correct. You need a new column. Yeah. Or tailor it at that if it's possible, you know. Um, but I mean I mean I see what you're saying.
You want all the nights all together. Like how many nights each boat stayed for that month? I mean if it's a month they stayed for a month. Not each how much all boats stayed for that. Yeah. So just the nights. So there was one boat for 30 nights, a second boat for 15
nights, a third boat for 20 nights. You add up those three things, 30, 15, 20, and you add them up for all of the boats. And then you can divide it by the number of boats that were there or at least you know. Yeah. So, so you know
what's possible. So there's if there's 83 balls times 30 nights, you know what the total possibility is and then you can average that against the nights that you had. Madam Chair, I I don't think average works. No. I only track month to month. Okay. So we can graph out what
months are better than others. So right here it's year to date. So it's it's all nights since January, right? But you see like although it can't be year date because No, it can't be because it isn't right because um
it's rolling. Yeah, that that's what I mean. Like so so when does this start? This is so so this is all of April. But I see 182 nights for example. That's
because that boat has been there for 182 nights. They haven't left. They have stayed there the entire time. So there's a date that this all started. Correct. Correct. Which would be right. So look, golden
rule four 4225. Right. Right. They've been here. And this is up to May May 6, 20 25. So they
But you should This report is pulled from April. So this includes them in the April, right? Report, but I don't know when to start it. Well, when to start it? What do you mean when to start it? If you're doing by month, just put them down for that month. Is it they're in
that? We've got people who arrived in 2024. So, I'm wondering if there's a filter you can apply to say just 2025, just the current year, the current month. Well, yeah. I'm I'm hoping that there are filters that you can do in that report that will allow
you to just see by month or to see yearto date because you've got arrivals that were in 2024, which obviously will skew if we're trying to look at a a year. Curt, can I make an example for it and email it to you? Yeah, please do.
Please do. That'll make it more clear. I I think y'all are getting confused with these nights and the numbers. Like I don't understand. I'm not I'm I'm struggling to understand what y'all what y'all are getting at because this is they're included in this month,
right? So, so they stayed 30 days for the month of April. You know, the full month they're on the monthly rate. That that's correct. Understand that. And then you would deduct that 30 days or whatever 29 days and then you can take
the the amount of days and go back. No, that's not what we're looking for. I want a total of everything in this column. All right. And then out next to that, I want a total just for April. But you also want it to be just for this year. And what we have here includes
2024. So yeah, if that's correct. And and so there's if there's been a boat that's here since May f or since January 1st, we would mark it as let let me just send an example. Example I think would be a lot easier. So so do you not so so the long-term
vessels that are here monthto month that are pretty much here year round, right? You want to extract those from the month report and you just want the new vessels that came in for that month. Can I This is something you may not be able to do, but you showed me a report, a daily
report, and it has how many vessels are there that day, correct? Okay. And there's a daily report for every day of the month, and that figure uh of how many there were if they they could give you.
So, you want to know how many boats are on the ball each day for the entire month. So every day I have 41 votes. Tomorrow I'll have 42 votes, right? You know, you think on Friday on Friday I'll have 39 votes. That's you want to see
that list for each day of the entire month. We don't have to see the list but the addition of those but the numbers you want to see those numbers for each day of the entire month for each month or the average of those days. In other
words, you take Well, I can give you I can probably look it up and give you exact numbers of how many votes we've had on each ball. Yeah. You know, well, I think that would be great. And then we can But I don't I don't want to cause him too much work if that's an easy number. No, I just have to look on Doc see if I can go back and pull that, you
know. I mean, all this is I I reach out to DACA and do a meeting and make sure that I can pull this data and understand how to Madam Chair, I have a question. Yes, sir. What What is the goal of this? Are we just trying to know what our revenues are? Well, because I know like with that work for me, revenues are
great, man. We look at revenues and we get all excited. Then we look at expenses and that's where the rubber meets the road is the two things. We want to understand revenue against the budget and expenses and I think we want to understand average occupancy. I think that's where we're
trying to go is and I think we have a good idea of where our high points are going to be, but it also would be helpful to have that historical information. And I'm guessing you guys kind of have that historically average occupancy from some of your information.
But but historically doesn't I'd like to see I'd like to see what is April 24 versus April 25. Um and and then the same thing for each month. And and are we increasing? Are we
decreasing? What is our percentage of increasing? And I'm not asking you to put all those in there, but we can look at it and see it. So, what I can try to do um for their for our next meeting. That's what I'll
bring May's report in. 2025 and I'll try to pull last year's report so you can for May 2024 May 2024 so we can compare the two.
Right. Does that work Ted and and Ed? Uh mind is not following as well as it might but does that mean that we will know uh the financial income for per month and the number of nights on all the balls
for a month each month? Yes, I think we will because we'll just add up those numbers. No, there's different there's different income per Oh, depending on different classification of bulk, right? Well, someone that's on a monthly rate is different than someone that's on a
daily rate, right? It's the actual payments of the finances. That's what you want to know is how much money came in that month, right? Money and count. Yeah. The money he does, he has. Okay. The question is how to present the
count. Yes. because it is not in any of the reports that he has. That's correct. And and if I can if I can make an example that we can email to the committee through or send it to Kirk, Kirk can decide if he wants
to distribute it just to try to um I know it's confusing what we're trying to explain here, but we got to start somewhere. All right. So if I can make an example, which I can do from this document right here because I have it electronically and then uh and then we can look at it and say this is what we
want to add or this is what we want to delete or this doesn't make any sense. I I have this data for 10 years. Excellent. and I'm trying to pick up from where it was and of course there's some missing years but I have 10 years of data specifically the average
occupancy uh per uh month each month and I've got it all graphed out and I would like to continue that exactly and and I think that's what you're asking for exactly I'm just I just Yes, it's exactly where I'm trying to get to.
Exactly what you have is where I'm trying to get to and it be done and Curtis I think is is going to get him to make it work and we got from Austin before and and that's excellent. Um we just want to
continue it. We want to pick it up and continue going forward and I I think I can make formulas in Excel that would help that. I've been doing 135 votes for the entire month of April
and and that's wonderful, but I have to go through this individually to figure that out. Yeah, I I can put the total down. How many votes? Is that the sort of thing that you were looking for? And how many days? It's the day. You want to
take it and give it back to me? Yeah, you can. Sure. Sure. the number when it needs to go to curtain. Curtain needs to distribute it your but I can show it to you daily. It's just Yeah, I'll take it for sunshine laws. It's when something is being passed to
someone else. That's why I'm talking about giving it to Kurt and let Kurt distribute it to the committee. You can you can hand it around and just show it to everybody. I mean, it's just something that was uh back in probably a year or so ago. Um maybe when I first started Austin, I haven't. Yeah. Yeah,
sure. You want to just show it to her? That's fine. We can we can pass it around then. I'll if you want to hang on. So, Ted, what you're saying is so so for this month of April, I have 100 130 I had 135 vessels,
different vessels. Yes. Well, yes. Altogether, I had 130 boats come in and stay. Whether that's they were already there and or we had transients that come in and stayed. You want to know the number of each day I have on the how
many vessels I have on the ball for each day of Ted. I don't think you were doing it. We were you doing it each day or were you doing on monthly? No, monthly. And that the answer is but the way you get to the month is to add up each
day and there's a daily. You can't you can't take that number for each day and add it up and be like, "Okay, this is how many because that's not going to be it's the number of nights." Nights. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And then and then associate them with revenue, right? Well, those are separate.
Uh I don't know whether the u the fact that that number of boats were there. It's how many how many days all the boats were
there. Meaning each boat stays a different length of time. Correct. Which is listed in this report. So are we trying to get to a boat equivalent of hotel nights? Yes. Yes. Okay. And then
the cost revenue associated. So you have a 100 rooms in your hotel and your average occupancy is X over a certain period because you know how many rooms were occupied during that time. So on Friday, May 23rd, I have 43 boats on
balls out of 83. Correct. Possible. Correct. Yes. So I'm I'm right at 50% right now. Will Doc will write you a report that does that? I have I'm that's something I have to ask them. Yeah, I'm
I'm not I'm not sure. I gotta go back I gotta go back and sit down and look at Dwood to make sure I can pull that because there's several reports you can pull. I just got to make sure that's one of them. It's just something I got to go back and play with and everything. And I don't think it needs to go back once you get it together. We could
start from that point. Yeah. So that he doesn't have to go back and Oh, absolutely. Yeah, we need a starting point. So if you look back at the last page, the revenue the revenues have revenue for March and the revenue for April
and and all those revenues came in for that month. Now now look so this is cumulative I guess. So nights is 4,000. Well this is for the month. So nights oh number of nights I had 4,000. Okay, you
have it. 63 seasonal mortgage is 120 23. That's another cumulative one. I mean, are you looking at the revenue summary that comes off of the correct the one? So, there were 4,186 nights total during that month.
But, but some of those nights weren't in that month. Uh, is that true? Well, some of the divide 84,000. How do you how do you So 83 if you divide that with balls times 30 nights. Yeah,
probably how do you have it's probably going off of 89. Okay. Morning balls. Can I see that? Yeah. Just want to make sure I'm looking at the right one on my phone. That's from March. um that that data
when you look at the whole thing is cumulative. All right. I mean these are these are each month and this takes away the yearly I mean the this takes this includes the transit and what
we already have as well because they have to pay the monthly rate have to renew if they're staying we have to renew them each month. So all this is this is strictly the month that this is in. There's not other months running into this month. But that's too many
nights. Yeah, that that's too many. It when you look at the the source data, uh it uh it ends up putting in the nights that somebody spent for the last three months.
So that data is not I got you valid. You want to extract that? Yeah. I don't that might be and it's be daily reports all put together if they could do that, you know, finance and occupancy. Okay.
Just to be clear on the cumulative, do we need to direct Curtis on the calendar as opposed to the fiscal year? Yeah, I think calendar year. I think No, we've always done it on the fiscal. Yeah. Do it on the fiscal year. And it
seems like we're talking about calendar year now, but what what do you think of that, Jim? That we should base everything on our fiscal year rather than the calendar year so it meshes with budget. Yeah, I would yield to the CPA, former CPA, vice chairman way as to what
would be appropriate. Yeah. Well, we should be consistent, but it sounds like we were just talking about calendar year today, but we probably should do fiscal year. So, when we look at the figures, it'll jive with, you know, our other reports. Or we just need to let Curtis know which
which way we want the cumulative numbers. You said this is a report from Austin. Is this his notes on this? No, that's all mine. Oh, that's all your mine. Um, and I have no idea what they said because I haven't read this in a long time. That's okay. I can understand most of it but um um I would also like
to see this report as well included. Yeah. What is that? Um like to see the pump out um how many vessels had pump outs. It was just something that he provided to us on a monthly basis. And
so if we could include that with reports that would be great. Possibly the formulas exist if you have all his data. Well, that doesn't come from DACA. No, it wouldn't. No, he he did all this
himself. Okay. Yeah, I don't look back. This might have been before DACA as well, you know. So, it might have been um which they had to make all these, you know, keep these spreadsheets themselves. So, um I have a question. Do you have to report to Daqua the
pumpouts? No. No, no. I have to do I have to report to the grant for the pumpouts clean water. No, we have we have all that data for the pumpouts that we do and I can
provide y'all with those. Yeah, that's a we just submitted our packet to renew the um submitted our application um to renew the
um to renew the grant and keep keep going. So we just submitted that last week. Yeah. But every quarter we have to submit a report to them with number of votes all that and uh we have to keep
track of our hours how many hours we have associated with it between individual workers and everything. This is just where Okay. So we're going to try to create some new reports sort of based on what we some of
what we've seen in the past. I'm going to give you Do you want that as well? and we can pass that around too. It's just something else that I found. Um, but what we're really trying to get at is an understanding of the occupancy of
the Moring Field. Sort of like hotels do their occupancy. And then we really want to understand our revenue against our budget on a fiscal calendar. I think that's where we're trying to get. Okay. We're really trying to sum it all up. I
think I think we just want to create what Ted has from previous previous months. Yes. Yeah. Previous errors. Previous errors. I think I think he has all this. I don't know if you have this
errors. No, I do. Yeah. Yeah. Um need to pass this to him. But that that's really I think the summary is whatever Ted has had the reports that came to Ted previously I think is what we're trying to recreate
and I'll hand this to you to Curtis before we leave you guys old things. Okay. Oh yeah. Okay. Any anything else Curtis? I'm good. figure this. We'll we'll figure out this financial thing. We'll get it
we'll get it down and I I believe I can pull a certain report. If not, I'll I'll um I said I'll create I'll create something for youall. Okay. Um originally what I asked for was was just
a quarterly report of revenues versus expenses. I think we got kind of caught a little blindsided last year when the when the financials came out and it turned out that we lost the Moringfield itself lost quite a bit of money.
And as a committee, I thought it would maybe be a good idea for us to keep our eyes on that bottom line as we go on throughout the year so that we could do our best to advise the council to to reel in either some expenses or increase our revenues so we
get closer to that zero dollars. So, this report is great. It's nice to know how we're the Moringfield is performing, but without the expenses, it's I mean, it is what it is. I got you. It's just like and and
I'm trying to remember exactly where sort of the differential was. Do you remember was it because of additional equipment that had to be purchased or and and I think we saw a couple of different cuts of the budget because it was sort of like maritime operations big
picture versus just moring field. So I mean if we can understand the real things that just apply to the moring field. Yeah. And also I believe at that time um so you want all my expenses for the month too along with this is what you're saying. Well, I I figured
quarterly would would, you know, be sufficient. But the other thing about last year you asked a question, a lot of your staff, your current staff were working in other areas of the
town and it was getting charged back to marine operations. So, we were also trying to get a, you know, a finger on how that works. But that I don't think I don't think they were being paid out of our budget even though they were even
though they helped us out. They were still under a different department if I'm and you know correct since the town is without its finance director right now. We may need to wait for some of these things to get figured out because I
think we would really like to know what expenses are really applicable to the Moringfield and which ones are applicable to the larger department. Correct. So that we really in the presentation that Joe did, if I remember correctly, he said the stuff for last year wasn't 100% accurate because of
we're waiting for money to come in to take that number, that large number away. Um, and we would be looking a lot better is what I remember correctly. Now, correct me if I'm Yeah. wrong. But, um, that sounds Well, it's just with
these reports that we get and and and expense reports, I mean, we're just trying to be responsible to the taxpayers of this town. Absolutely. And report to the council that, hey, we've got a problem here. Yeah. Hey, we're doing really good here. Right. Right.
rather than waiting till the end of the year and going, "How did that happen?" Right. Okay, sounds good. I can give you my expenses. I have a question. We get uh many grant support
for many things that we do in this uh marina stuff. And I'm wondering, we got expenses that come through this. Some of those expenses are paid by the grants. Are the grants
income there in any way to balance whatever deficit is shown on the expenses? Are are are there funds that are grant funds that go there and cover what you're talking about, but but you
don't see them, right? And I'd like to know how are those accounted for and is it possible that this overage and expenses is really covered by grants and and we don't have it in the system that way.
Having lived on federal grants for 30 years, I I know how that goes. you've got this grant over here and you use it in several different locations and the location it's used in doesn't get credit for it. Uh and oh, we're losing money
over here. But in truth, it was covered by a common piece of equipment like the boat which is charged to here, but there was a grant somewhere that that helped buy the last boat and I assume there's
possibly one now. So this what we see in in the budget are expenses but not some of the funds that came in because we're here uh to cover it. And I don't I wasn't in the 10 years I pushed to get I
never did get that figure. It would be nice to know if these uh apparent over expenses are not being covered by grants that uh so I I I still don't know whether
that's true or not but that's right in my experience. Yeah. If there's a grant and there's dollars, it shows up in a financial report somewhere, right? It doesn't just disappear. It does. It just may not be shown. it may be shown as, you know, like other
income and grants and not necessarily applied against the expenses when they put a report out for us. So, I get what Ted's saying. I get what you're saying that it'd be nice to have it all tied together in a way that we could see how we really were rather than it's kind of
in disperate pots. Yeah. I mean, the ultimate goal of this committee is to seek revenue neutrality. we and and how you do it, Ted, to your point and and how do these grants factor into revenue neutrality and ed are we charging enough for our product? That's a that's a complex
financial puzzle that I think we're all trying to solve. Yeah. And in addition to that, that report there is is excellent because it tells me that month which we're looking at that the highest amount of of vessel use was 50footers.
So it affects how we market which which I think in addition to all the revenue which I think is 100% correct this report helps me or helps the committee know that that particular month where we have our most is 50footers so we know
how how to market. Okay. So, you want to know the size vessel, how many how many 40footers we've had in the month, how many 50 footers, 60footers that for each month. Yeah. Just just pass this over real
fast. Uh, and just a quick look. Uh, Kurt. Yeah. Yeah. See how it's broken down. I agree. And that's for marketing purposes mostly is what you mean. much more for marketing purposes than for what you're talking about expenses and
and balance of sure revenue which to the penny I think we need that as well uh but that gives you information that clearly indicates who's using the moring field the type of vessel that's using the moring field and who we should be
marketing to and I think it would also help for future planning to know do we really need balls with larger radius or not. Excellent thought. Can can I can I throw in one This is going to be under items for next week next time. Oh yeah,
just one as this is a great intellectual discussion and if I could just add to the discussion just a bit and I'm I'm really poking a hornets's nest here, but I had a a marina owner approach me this past month with mixed feelings about the
town operating a moing field because he was explaining that it's they be it has become in direct competition to the marinas on the island. And I wonder if there's things we can do to not be in direct competition with the marinas. And
if first of all, is that premise correct? And second of all, if there if it is correct, is there things we can do to become less in competition with our private marinas? And I honestly have I don't know the answer, but I don't there's some smart people on this
committee and and and I just and I'm courteous and just something for people to chew on. uh because we certainly don't want to be get in the business of competing against marinas and I don't know if we are but I but I just I thought it was an interesting question for us to kind of pause it and chew on a little bit.
I um vice mayor I think part of that answer is we there's there's a total of me slips that exist on the island that's operated privately and of that we know how much of each
type of vessel they can accommodate. So possibly 30footers 20 footers that may be exactly that may be interest more interest because very few through there's very few slips on this island
that can handle 50s and above. So again that information and being able to answer those questions to come back and say um you know we're competing against at the most 20% of your business or 10% of your business. Yeah. How do we
position ourselves as complimentary? We're serving a different market than they're able to serve with their marinas plus all of our benefits that we're, you know, our environmental benefits with the pumpouts and everything else that we're controlling, you know, putting some guard rails around. Good summary of
what I was trying. Yeah. If anything, I think we work hand in hand with the marinas around here. Um, I don't think there's any competition. I think we use each other and help each other out. Um, I've know that marinas have sent boats to my moing field and
I've sent boats to their marinas. Now, the marinas offer things that that I don't offer that I can't offer with being um electric, water, all that stuff. Boats want to fill up by water. I send them to other marinas to get for
them to have their business. Um, so I really don't see if anything, um, you know, um, I do want to say I pride myself in the relationships I've built with all the marinas around here. Um, you know, Salty Sams, um, we helped
them out when they were redoing their dock. You know, um, we have a second pumpout station because of that. Um, you know, um, we also we also pump out Moss Marina's boats every Thursday. um you know they help us with uh I think
his point Curtis to your point it wasn't uh it wasn't in criticism of our operation it was more of a theoretical concern I got you know I don't meaning like because I am cheaper than marinas yes but also but also as I'm going to be
cheaper because they offer power and electric and all that stuff that's very that's a lot more expensive so and it may not be an issue I just thought it was interesting that a marina owner posited it again it was never critical of Moringfield or operation because they have a good relationship with us, but just sort of in theory they they were
feeling that that somehow we're in competition with them. That that may or may not be true. I just thought it was really an interesting question. This was a marina owner owner coming to you saying that. But I think it does beg the question that we can continue to tell our story better and we can explain to,
you know, citizens at large and marina owners and business. Okay, here's exactly our sweet spot. Here's where we play. here's how we benefit. Here's how we work with everybody in the community. So, not a competition, but you do this good, we do this well. And to John's
point, if there's certain needs that the boring field could meet that the marinas aren't meeting, or if we're meeting needs that really are already trying to be met by the marinas, something just just something to keep an eye on. I don't have the answer. I'm just just positing the question. Uh I I'm
extremely surprised uh because of the marinas that I've been with in the past that this has never been a problem and most of the marinas are over full. Yeah. Uh so I I'm sort of surprised. I was surprised too, Ted. Yeah, I agree. Agree. But this somebody who's been in
the business for a long time on the island and somebody we all know, I just thought it and he wasn't wasn't like harsh or anything. He just was sort of positing a theoretical question. I thought it was I just thought it was something for us to be mindful of. How did you answer it? I said I'll check with the with the experts. Yes. But I
said something to chew on. I mean, something to certainly be sensitive to. Uh but but it I just thought it was interesting. But again, that's that's a topic for a whole other meeting. Well, no, but I I do think it's interesting. And you know, Curtis obviously knows how they're working in handinand with the marinas like you talked about and the
fact that okay, well, you offer this for these size boats. We offer this for people who need this and we can all live together. Yeah. I I I could very well be true. I just I just thought it was interesting that they said it wasn't a criticism of the of the chemistry or relationship. Just the concept of a of
of a Muringfield in general was in direct competition to what they're trying to accomplish. I thought that was an interesting comment and something that at least in terms of messaging and communication something to be sensitive to. May not be true. I mean I I don't know. They've been I mean I mean I see where you know I mean boat comes in
whether they want electric or not but you know um you know I am the cheaper rate so I get that important part you know um I don't know why he's saying that if he wants me to raise his rates closer to his I'm guessing I'm guessing the answer to that is yes we won't have
those in the we won't have votes in the morning field if that if that it's a very delicate balance it's just choosing one hotel over another correct ities. Do I want these amenities? Am I willing to pay for it? But I think like I explained, I
think I mean, unless I'm thinking wrong and don't know any better, but you know, I think all the marinas around here with us, we all work very well, very well together. We all have great great relationships. So, um, that be brought
up. Yeah. No, it wasn't a criticism of the relationship, just more of a theoretical concern. I got you. But I think like Chris said, we can all find our place where we can all live and help each other out. You know what I mean? If I don't have it, I push it to them. You know what I mean? I give I want I want this town to succeed, not just us,
right? I want everybody to eat, you know? So, all good. I just would have been remiss not to at least raise it intellectually. Okay. Um, I have a question for you. Final cruisers costs. Do we have an
accounting of a final accounting and how much we have left and where that's going to live? Um, yes. I can grab that. I have to touch base with Sher on that. Um, I don't have the exact numbers. I thought I'd sent that out already. Well, you did, but I don't know if it was
final final. I mean, it was right after the event. That was pretty final of what we had. Okay. That was after everything, all the costs, everything. Okay. Um, and I can touch base with Sher as well, which I need to do anyways, and talk to her about that because she is I
just wanted to comment on that while you're on cruisers day real quick. Um, cruisers day was on a Sunday. On Monday, I submitted our um to the town to remit the um the check. They discounted us
like $75, which was nice. Um, I was able to pay um Snug Harbor on Wednesday. They really appreciated it and they extended us an invitation. They thought it was a great event. They extended us an invitation to come back again the next year. Yep. I I talked to Peter on Sunday
and so he was very very satisfied. Okay. I have a few items from last time that we talked about and I just want to make sure that we re revisit those. Um, Jim, you had made a suggestion that maybe we invite the media to debris removal. And Nicole, I'm not sure if
you're here to give us a report on any communication or if you're just hanging out. Okay. Okay. Do you want to come up? I have a couple things for you. How are you? Good. How are you? Good.
Um, one of the things that we talked about is as we were getting near the end of our debris removal contract and maybe they're not doing any pre- removal right now. They're totally done. Okay. Yes, we're stopped right now. Okay. So, won't make any sense then, but we talked about inviting the media to come to see sort
of the last big dumping of debris, but we don't really have that going on now, so maybe that's something for future consideration. Yeah, definitely. Okay. Uh and then we had also talked about how can we use what happened at cruisers for promotion in general of the morning
field. So I don't know if you have anything going on and any plans for some communication to like cruisers.net. I know John you have a whole list of of uh you know sort of boat media on your That would be great if you could send me the
list of media outlets that you have. Um I heard the event went great. I'm sorry I couldn't be there, but I'm looking forward to the next one. Um, yeah, any information that you have would be great just so that even in the future we can get it out to more outlets. For this one, um, we did a quick press release on
it and then we put it on all of our social media on our website. We do a weekly newsletter that goes out on Fridays. It was on there from when we started advertising up until the weekend of the event. Um, but other than that, we I didn't have any other outlets really to post it on. So, if I have
those for the future, that would be great. I I think Nicole, what what uh what uh the chair was talking about is is that these are trade publications that if if some some content was created with some pictures to submit like a maybe a synopsis of the event with some
pictures after the fact. After the fact it's earned media, so they would they're always looking for content. Great. And if they run it in their publications, then we get all this earned media, great marketing, free publicity for Fort Buyers Beach. what a welcoming place it is, how fun, how cool it is that they honor the people that support the
brewing field. That was kind of the pitch. And on the debris piece, that was so it was such positive media for the town, all the all the coverage of of the canals getting cleaned up that at the conclusion of it, if there's if if they come out with a final report as to how
much they cleaned up and in in the aggregate, correct? That might be a worthy press definitely thing as well with some pictures. They love the picture piece because it was really and and not only was it great media for the town, but it was I think the people on this island are very encouraged by it
and a really we're always looking for positive news to encourage people and that was a good one. So just just for the for the good of the order. Yeah, definitely. I'll get with Curtis on any final numbers or reports that we have from that company that we can
potentially get out there. Great. Yeah, again, it's all about how do we keep the Moringfield top of mind even when it's not high season and more about celebrating what we do for voters. It's not about the event itself necessarily, but look at Fort Myers Beach. They really care about the voters and here's
what they're doing. Yeah. And we can try to do um even just post more often and get the Moringfield social media a little bit more active, whether it's just promoting coming to the Moringfield or the amenities that we offer when you
um more with us. So, um, we can just kind of collaborate on that and get more posting out for the morning field. Now, I have seven media outlets that I think would be ideal to let know these are
capabilities and um, and I've just thought of another pass. And John, I remember you sending which I think I took a picture of and sent to you to that list of all of the different vote related media. you handed it out months and months ago. So, I'll recirculate
that as well. That would be great. Thank you. Because I did this in the last month. Um, so it' be good to combine. Captains of Clean Water would probably um like to maybe post things that we're doing too like clean up and that would
be a good one. If you don't have that one, I I'll add that. Yes. And I have a question not in regards to this, but um I you the that actually puts the information for the alerts and text alerts like um it depends on what that
is. It's a special it's the alert um that you can sign up for on the town website. Okay. And for example, I just got one a special town council meeting May 28th. It helps when I get these text messages because I have a lot of emails
coming in and so this I basically can just tap and it goes right to my calendar. Yes. So, um, there's quite a few different options that you can sign up for on the website. We do have that. That's for our town calendar, I believe, is why you're getting those texts. We also have news flashes. Um, I'm if you
sign up with a phone number and with an email address, you should get an email and a text message about those as well. And who puts that information in? Um, it depends. So, our town calendar, when it's in regards to a meeting, it's our town clerk's department, but when it's our news flashes or just general town information, it's usually myself. Okay.
So it would be Amy that okay because I I just it's so nice when I have um it's coming up you know that a meeting and it's just really helpful. We also do have our town app that um not many people know about. We need to do a little bit better job of promoting that.
And um if you have the app on your phone you can enable notifications so anytime there's a news flash or something put on our calendar it's going to send a notification to your phone. Is that on Play Store? What would the name It's on um It's for Androids and Apple. It's f
Gov. I think that's what this is. Is there a way to tell? Um you would have an actual app on your phone. Oh, I see. It's our logo. Um and then that would just put a notification on your phone. It's not a text message. It's just a popup that comes up.
Chair, do I summarize this and send directly or I send it through? Send courtesy. Yeah. Yeah. Um, but I'll also once the meeting is over in the next couple days, I'll do my little recap and then you can send it and everybody can get it all at one
time. Yeah. Because I'm sure there's there's other ideas, right? Just Okay. Uh, anybody else have questions for Nicole? Okay. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate you being here. Okay. Well, I had and to walk through
some of these other documents that I sent out. Um, we may not want to get that deep into things, but uh, I'll just sort of summarize what I put together and I think we can talk about this hopefully at our next meeting and perhaps do you know if if we set up the meeting, will will Tom be able to join
us? We can Yes. Yes. We're we're still um discussing things with the new town manager that he just got into the plan and everything like that. So once that's all said, that following meeting, hopefully next meeting is what I'm sure we'll have answers to bring him in.
Okay. So I put a couple of things together with my friend um co-pilot. Boy, I love using AI. I told it what I wanted to create and it spit out something for me. It was great. So one of the things I sent you was sort of this channel canal maintenance overview.
Yes. And basically it's just an attempt to start getting a source of truth around this. I know we don't have a source of truth, so that's going to be something that I'm sure that you and Chad will be working on. Um, Curtis and um, was that email to You should have
gotten it when the email uh, there were like three documents attached. Curtis sent it on May 16th, I believe. Everybody remember getting that? Do you get it? Yep. Okay. Okay. I must have didn't see. Um, I believe you were in
there. So, I'm I'm going to back up a second here. At our last meeting, we did talk a little bit about, you know, the fact that canals, we don't have that source of truth. We're trying to figure out who owns what, how we can figure out how to properly maintain
canals, whose responsibility that is. I mentioned that when I spoke to council on May 5th, as did MURF chair Dave Nusbomb. So, we know that MURF is also interested in this topic and the mayor suggested that uh Dave and I send an
email or a letter to of other municipalities who have a lot of canals and ask them for information about how they think about this and what their plans are. So, that's something that we're going to do just to try to do a little bit of research and help the town out with this. Um, but in the meantime,
I just took the information that I had, created this document just so it's something that we can start working through once we get more information about what other towns might do and then we can come up with maybe it's a joint proposal that uh what what's the name of
the document? Well, it's Channel Canal Maintenance. Got it. Got it. It came out through Curtis or Yes. Curtis would have sent it. Curtis or Patty would have sent it. Ed May 16th. May 16. May 16th. Okay. You should have gotten that. I got it. Okay.
Okay. So, for our next meeting, maybe we can just talk through this um from a high level and just see if there's anything here that isn't correct as we know it today. Again, it's from all of our previous meetings and everything that I
had in my notes. So, it may or may not be totally accurate. The second that I put together um was in response to you know Ted's suggestions about hey we have a lot of
documents out there and they don't all sync necessarily and some of them are older in nature. We also know that there's going to be uh a need to create a new resolution because of really formalizing the uh critical response
stuff under your under your committee or your uh department. So along with this this committee and and um what we do and the goals behind it. So it's a really good time to take a look at all of the information that's out there and try to
figure out what's right, what's true. So I put this together. So the FMB Anchorage Advisory Committee charter, uh I put information from the code and also the letter I received when I got on the committee. Then a bunch of
information from uh the maritime operations staff. At that time it was Austin. On page four I started to detail out responsibilities. And this is based on what is in that code. And then on pages
five and six I actually listed out all of the responsibilities as it's stated in the code and then kind of put a for consideration column there. Mhm. And then I also did some strength, sweet pieces, opportunities, and threats. And then deliverables. That's a lot of
stuff. I know you guys probably haven't taken a deep look at it, but if you could take a look at it, and we can talk about it next time and just come and mark up your copy and say, you know what, I don't think we should do this. This doesn't seem like it should be our responsibility. Or, hey, we're really
missing this opportunity. Um, this is very much a collaborative effort. I just work I just put everything I know in here so that it's in one place rather than 16 different documents. Yes, I agree. Thank you very much. You're welcome. Is hopefully this is helpful.
Touch that again. The uh Curtis, if you'd be so kind uh to print up a hard copy of what Chris put together for the next meeting so we can have something to pencil and pen and work on, especially for us old school types.
Thank you for doing all that. I I I have to confess I missed that May 16th those attachments. So, I'm going to go back and look at those. I did, too. Okay. But they're there. They're there. Okay. Well, good. Well, then we don't have to belabor that and and talk about these if you haven't, you know, you're not
prepared to talk about I'm going to go back and look. But again, yeah, just uh really want your input. It's it's a good time to level set with new town management, with new um you know, leadership for Curtis and the field and I just think we have a really good
opportunity to figure out what it is we would like to suggest our responsibilities are at the same time understanding what we're legally obligated to do because I know that we have to have a committee as per our submerged land lease agreement at least
that seems like it's evident so we need to uh work with Nancy to make sure that we substantiate what we legally have to do with what we really think are in the best interest of the for us to do. Make sense? Sounds excellent.
Okay. Alrighty then. Um I guess we're at member items and reports. Jennifer, uh I have uh just one question. Um I know that you had said
that the the ramps um on the island are going to be fixed and it was on the list. I'm working on coconut. That's so I'm trying to get that started now. So, um, what is it you do? Do you lay gravel or how to kind of fill in all the holes or how? No, no, no. They're going to re
reconrete repave the entire ramp. So, what they're probably going to do is pre-stage a slab already and then have to slide it in and then concrete the rest all the way up. So, I'm getting a lot of people um asking about it and how you know where we're at and do you have
a time frame? I don't. I don't. So, I'm trying to just get coconut started right now and then I'm after that then I'm working on the other two ramps which is yours Myar and then um uh yes.
All right, that's it. Ron, I have nothing. Okay, John, I uh I have nothing additional. Okay, Sam, couple things. Um, first of all, I heard on the news lately that uh
Marco Island has approved to dredge 100 miles of canal. So, okay. The person to contact. Yeah, if we can get some information or just kind of follow that and see what's going on. I did have some comments on dredging um when it comes
up. Um, normally I think what they do is they boom an area because um I'm sure Curtis knows this well. Anytime you stir up the bottom, all the oil and everything that's been there for years, decades comes to the top. You can see it when you when you just walk through that
and uh that's boomed off. However, I think it's going to be a lot more complicated this time because a lot of the chemicals and things that have settled to the bottom will not float. They'll be going in and out with the tide. I'm not sure what we can do about
that. Maybe Chad has some suggestions on how we should handle that. Um there's regulations with there's regulations and everything you have to abide by. Um the biggest thing we're working in the canal, we can boom that canal off so it keeps all that oil and
contaminants in um so it doesn't drift into the bay. Um but um that's something we have to discuss and everything and come up with an ideal plan because after you boom it off. All right. Do we we got to clean it up after it's done
after we're dredged and everything, right? I mean that's and worry about a lot of work, a lot of steps, you know what I mean? I think I understand where you're getting at with that. that is a concern and stuff like that. But I think biggest hurdle
is for us is getting to the dredging point. Right. Like let's just get to there first. You know, I think we got a lot of hurdles uh ahead of us and it's going to be some time, you know, before all this, you know, takes flight. So,
and but I hear you. You you are you are absolutely right, Sandy. That is something to be aware of. into something that we need to protect and we don't want I mean you know I don't want all that stuff going back in our back base you know what I mean and the spoil if we put it somewhere well you'll handle that
when it comes up correct that's all once dredging these are all topics that are going to be talked about within the dredging of when that project happens absolutely most importantly want to congratulate Curtis on making it one year with us you are the master of
multitasking I'm trying to get better at that. Um, returning to cruisers day, I never made a evaluation. I was asked what I thought of it. It took me a while. Uh, the day
went like a welloiled machine. Chris did a beautiful job of keeping things together. The cruisers appeared to have a positive relationship with Curtis and a respect for Curtis uh which serves the town well. His comments from the stage
indicated high regard for the cruisers. Uh Tina Jump served as registration desk uh and interacted with voters as she has for previous years. uh she worked many years as a university professor and got
has a good idea of people's feelings. Uh uh Tina reports that these cruisers seemed appreciative of the event including the lunch and prizes and from local prizes from local businesses and they like the town was being brought to
them. So, my goal of honoring the cruisers uh I believe was fulfilled. Good. Uh the attendees were a different group than we've had in past years. Uh towns people and less voter towns people. Uh
and uh the opportunity to present to present the morning field to a new group of town people I believe was positive. Uh thoughts about next year. uh to present to the crowd benefits of the
mooring field to the town and make that a theme for next year is we did we did the the uh cruisers this year and maybe make that something next year. Uh the Batis Pass boring field was
installed to deal with the large number of uncontrolled anchored vessels on the waters of Fort Myers Beach. It has reduced the problem to a significant degree. The presence of the moing field and its equipment and
trained and certified personnel provide assets for use throughout the waters of Fort Myers Beach. These resources are supported in part by income from the renters and by multiple water related grants that might not be available
without the boring field being present. And that's the point I wanted to make is that the the mooring field does more for the town than just being a mooring field. And it does clean up the the waters by the pumpouts they do. And it
also enables many other things in the town that they don't get credit for. That's terrific. Thank you, Ted. Would you be able to send a copy of that to Curtis so he can send it to all of us? Oh, you've got copies for everybody. Oh, I'd like to add to that that Tina has
been doing this for years and she she should be an honorary member of this committee. She did a great job. Um, and she has for for as many years as we've been doing this this party. So, thank you, Tina. You want to handle? Thank
you. She was great help. Um, and on that note, uh, we were talking about when we want Do you need one more for You need one more. One more this way. There we go. Um, we
were talking about perhaps doing it earlier next year. April, uh, Easter is April 5th. So, do we want Let's just think about it. Maybe we can talk about it at next meeting. Do we want to do it the week before April, the week after April? We'll have to look and see what's
on the on the calendar to make sure we don't conflict with anything. But April 5th, 2026, Easter, April 5th, that's what said in my calendar. Okay. I'm just I'm just thinking. Yeah. Um
I don't know. Maybe maybe the last week of March we do it. I don't know. I mean, we we have time to discuss obviously, but I'll make my usual recommendation the week after Easter. Okay. And that's just that's been the usual recommendation for all the reasons of
traffic and people getting there. And hopefully everybody isn't gone from the morning field by then, right? And it still be two weeks earlier than we did it. Correct. So So that might be to our advantage. You know what I mean? It's it's so difficult to do it during with traffic coming on the beach before
Easter. But I see what you're saying. So Okay. But the fact that Easter's earlier this year, it does work out. we get a better attendance with the earlier Easter because I think if we were like two to three weeks earlier on that we would have had a lot more voters. Well,
I will check and see if there's anything on the calendar already. I'll check with the chamber and other places and see if there's anything going on. Sounds good. How many voters uh attended? Did we know? I think we had 19 votes represented and about 30 35 people. It
was in one of the reports. Yeah. But when it comes to the traffic deal for cruising, there's no traffic on the water. It's cruisers appreciation day. Yeah. The vendors and stuff like that. Yeah. Mhm. Sure.
On me. Um marine operations question. That might be for Chad. Um when you go in the back bay, you'll see several different types of seaw walls. You see concrete seaw walls, you see steel seaw walls, and many people just have rip
wrap. Is there regulations into into what product somebody's supposed to use when repairing or replacing a seaw wall? Um, honestly, I'm not 100% sure on what
product. I know that now that I think there is um and then and and don't quote me, there's something that I need to look up, but I spoke with a resident and um they um they just got their seaw wall built and um they had to put rip
wrap in front of the seaw wall after the seaw wall was done to protect it. She said that rocks. Rocks. Rocks like those concrete. They look like they're just concrete sandbags almost looking like and they're stacked up on top of each other. Just another layer of protection
for the seaw wall and I think that might be something that people have to abide by now. But I will look into that. I don't know the the uh regulations on that and that's something that I could maybe ask Chad too, but that's something I can look up and I'll uh um I can I can
have that answer for you next meeting or I can look it up and email you as well. Perfect. And then just one other comment. I noticed that you brought a boat bumper with you. I found it on the beach and so I'm gifting it to Curtis. That was one of my thought it was very symbolic for the anchorage committee to
have a boat bump. We should have probably put it up, you know, up here. So yeah, we should have. But it it washed up on my beach last week and I'm like, well, that is looks brand new. I know that is too nice to just throw away. So very nice. There you have it. That's all I had. Thank you. Jim, I have
something for you. um the derelict boat legislation. Do you want to say anything about that? You you sent uh I think you sent me an email about that or just uh that it was I believe there was an article about it. Okay.
Uh and uh boy, I'm having a senior moment right now. Uh I remember it was being interesting and I know it related to helping enforcement. I think I sent it to Curtis too, I think, and to Tom Yazo. I think it it helps uh local municipalities enforce
uh the der boat dynamic with additional tools etc. But I don't remember Curtis, can you help me? I don't remember exactly what that the definitive uh change agent was in that legislation, but I know it was designed to be helpful. Yes, correct. So they're
putting together a program where it's going to be easier to um remove the derelift vessels and something that because there's a lot of them in state Florida right now. So um especially with all the storms that we've had. So, they're they're gonna what they're doing with that is it's going to hold the
owners responsible more um and um so um and that's something I'm looking into and I'm working with the town attorneys on with as well um to get a process for us and who we are going to contact
uh to help us with the deress which is most likely going to be LCSO and FWC I think I sent it to the attorneys and the sheriff as well. It's all coming back to me now. But I think that is still I think that whole project is still being
that WC thing is still being kind of they're still trying to figure it out a little bit from what my understanding. On that note, that vessel that's on ball
48 or 47 47. Yes. that I think I told you. Um I don't know if I told you but um I think I did that vessel was formerly owned by the chairman of this committee Jay and Kathy Light. She was an original member. She
was a chairman up until as far as I've been on the committee until Ian where their house got destroyed. They sold that boat maybe a month before Ian. So that owner should be easy to contact information. Um, if you want the
information, I'm sure Kathy has I'm sure the state probably has it. I think it's out of their hands by this point, Sam. Like I think the state is it's in the state's matter now or, you know, um because I know LCSO is just waiting there. It's it's in the paperwork
process to get removed right now. It is. So, yes, I feel like a liability. It's been tagged. It's had a red tag probably for a year now. I feel like it's a liability for the town because it is within the confines of our correct of our area. I have a question about
derelic boats. Um if is it considered a derelic boat if people are living on it or is it the people or is it just abandoned boats that no one is near or on? Is that I mean obviously that's
considered a derelic boat, but if someone is just out there living on a boat that is obviously not in good uh shape, is that considered a derelic? It is not because they are occupying it and
and and it is I mean if they're living on it, it's a means of so even if it's not seaorthy, somewhat livable. I mean, if it's a floating living on it, it should be somewhat seaorthy and float. So, it's not necessarily a derelift vessel. You're generally allowed to
anchor anywhere in Florida other than our moing field or private property. Yeah. But we have designated anchorages here that we push them to keep the boats rather not scattered
all over. As far if it's seaorthy or not, that's a Coast Guard issue. Okay. All right. I don't have anything else you have. I'm sorry. So, is seaorthy meaning that it still floats or
there's a whole set of regulations that too much to go into now, but there's a whole set of regulations that you have to because derelick and abandoned vessels can go hand in hand. You know, they Does a boat have to have a yearly registration? Absolutely. So,
I'm living on my boat. I forgot five years ago. Is anything ever done? Um if the Coard or LCSO comes up and I mean for me if you're standing you you won't be allowed to stand my morning field if because you require registration. Yes.
Current current registration and and um insurance as well. Minimum of 100,000 liability. So FWC, Sheriff's Department, Coast Guard, they would all have the responsibility or I don't call it the
responsibility, the opportunity to determine if it's got what it's supposed to have on it. Uh how however I understand there's legislation either passed or there that they can't
uh they can't board a boat unless there's probable cause. Correct. I don't know what probable cause that just changed too. That just that just came out and that's going to be a mess because you can't send some the I guess the Coast Guard can still do it. I think
that's state people that are restricted. Yeah, I I don't know what who what departments have certain jurisdictions over what what they are allowed to do. I haven't seen those list. Basically, no state people or local people can board a boat without I was told the Coast Guard
can board any vessel. I mean, that's always been the case. I mean, you know, they used to do random checks with correct. Yeah. Boat checks and stuff like that. That's what they're contesting. Yeah. So you can't go out and find out what's
And you're saying like probable cause. Probable cause says, "Hey, I don't see a a throwable, you know, PFD on board." Uh maybe Coast Guard. Yes. That's like, "Well, I didn't see it." You have to
have a throwable out, you know, for eyes to see. And if they go by, they don't see it. That's kind of It can be like, okay, even if they're not moving. Yeah. What do you mean if they're anchored or whatever? Well, yeah. I don't think they would mess with that. I
feel like it's operating vessels, right? I was thinking of going aboard vessels that were anchored. Anchored and looked darely. I got you. I got you. You always have the opportunity of proving that they're not dumping
overboard storage. Yeah. But apparently you can't do that now. No, you cannot dump over the board. I mean, you can't you can't go board them for that reason. Are we talking state or federal? State. State and local.
Any more member comments? Did you get that email from Jim about the legislation about the Der vessels? Yeah, that's what we were all talking. Yeah, I was just wondering if I could get that. Yeah, I will I will make sure that I reattach it with other stuff and Sounds interesting.
Yeah. Okay, public comment. I see none. So, we'll set next meeting's agenda. I have the following items. It would be the staff report and maybe there's some progress on the revenue and the
occupancy by then. If not, you know, I hope to have the correct revenue for y'all and what y'all want next meeting. I promise you I'll get the I'll get the um occupancy right. I've got an idea. So, afterward. Okay. Um, we'll talk a little bit about the canal source of
truth. Just get your first uh run through of that. What am I missing that we think we know? Uh, and hopefully by that time Dave and I will have drafted a letter to go out to Marco and other places about their canals. And then we'll talk through that charter document
and hopefully Tom Yazo can join us for that discussion. That'd be great. and I will double check and make sure that we can do it Tuesday, June 17th at 1 p.m. I will talk to Amy after this. It's not public. It's not the public calendar. They have public safety in the morning.
Okay. Is all that's on the calendar. So, okay. This is a another possible item of discussion and I would yield to Curtis on this, but since we'll be at the new new town hall, we may want to have the Moss Marina Arches project is
approved. There's been some discussions in their development agreement as to whether we would potentially lease some of that for offices. Not for not for upland facilities necessarily, but for maybe offices. For our office? Yes. Yeah. For our office. And so I think at some point
this committee ought to think about that along with Curtis and Frankie and and correct. I think right now um the talks it's a little it's a little premature. Um um I just didn't know what I was trying to understand. Is it is it actually in the development agreement
itself? It is. It is. Okay. But I mean, we're not set in stone like, hey, that's going to be our office and that's where we're going to operate. At least affording us an option. But that is an option. Yes, correct. We're we're doing that in place for us. So, that is
an option. I just wanted to make sure everybody here was aware of that. Yeah. You know, now whether is is that the best option or not? You know what I mean? That's kind of where we're I understand. We're discussing. So, very good. Any other agenda item?
I have a question. Yes. Private the date set for that meeting. Uh was that 17th? June 17th at 1. That's what we're trying for. We're going to check on that and then once we confirm that with Amy
to make sure that we can have it on that date, I I have it. Chris will send me an email and I'll send it out to everybody with the confirmed Yeah. with the confirmed meeting date for I'd also like to ask for an excused absence on that one
provided we have a quorum. I I will. All right. Well, maybe I will find So, that day just doesn't work for you. Um, that day does not work for me. Um, from the 14th to the 18th. Just
remember, we still have the 23rd. I mean, I know I'm not going to be here and I know you're trying to do it for me to be here, but Well, you know, I think it's pretty important for you to be here when we're talking about Well, absolutely. I agree. I agree. But, um, and also, I mean, for us, like I want
Tom be here next meeting. And if that I mean, he is who I would ask, okay, to fill in for me. So, all right. So, how about if I talk to Amy, see what's available on the calendar. So that whole week is bad for you. Um just through the
18th. And then Curtis, you're out. When do you start? The 30th. 20th. The 20th. The 20th. The 20th to the 30th. Okay. So we basically need to meet like in two weeks. All right. Well, cool. We'll see. Okay.
Let me see what I can find. I will do a recap of this meeting, have Curtis send it all out with some suggested dates and times. If we can't make something work, then we'll go to the 23rd. Did we shoot down the 30th? Was that not a
I'm good for the 30th. Good for the 30th. Good for the 30th. 30th. Excuse me. I'd rather not do the 30th, but if we have to, you have to. That's fine. That's by Dr.'s week for us. Okay. All right. Let me see what I can find.
Okay. Does anyone wantbody want to adjourn this meeting? I have one more question for Chris. I'm sorry. Where is the coconut um ramp? I mean, is coconut street? I know. Where is that? I'm trying to think. There's two coconuts.
Oh, okay. That's okay. So, where is it? Further south past Snookbite and all that. Hold on, I'll bring it up for you. I keep coming to Kansas. Yeah. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Anybody
want to adjourn the meeting? Sam, I go. Do we have a second? Everybody's ready. I'll second that. Okay. Any discussion about adjourning? No. All in favor? I. All right. We are adjourned. 10:44. Thank you.