United States and justice for all. >> All right. Good afternoon and welcome to the uh special meeting. We got a few items on the agenda. Item A, award bid number 2526-10, water transmission main. Uh Mr.
Smallwood. >> Yes, sir. Mr. Chairman, so on page one in your packet, there's a memo. Uh the staff recommendation is to award that to the lowest responsive bidder, 850 construction services at a price of $546,4515. >> Thank you, sir. Any questions,
commissioners, for uh Mr. Smallwood? >> That was the wishes of the board on this bid. >> So move, Mr. I got a motion by Commissioner Mcronone. >> I'll second. >> Second by Commissioner McLemore. Any further board discussion? Anyone in the public? >> Any opposition to the motion?
All right. Motion pass 5 and0. The second item on the agenda, Mr. Chairman, is uh bid 2526-12. That's the Selenas Park dune restoration project that came in $200,000 over our grant amount. And so our recommendation is to reject those bids and give us
permission to to readvertise that. We'll adjust the scope of work and readvertise it. >> All right. Any questions, commissioners for Mr. Smallwood? >> Clay, I think we can get there. We just wanted to change up the sand deal. >> Look at the sand. Yeah, we can do
something different on the sand. >> Okay. I'll make a motion, Mr. Chairman. >> All right. Got a motion. >> Preid. Reject. >> Yeah, reject. >> Reject. Okay. Got a motion by Commissioner McRone to reject. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Pid. Any further
board discussion? Anyone in the public on rejecting these bids? Yes, sir. Come on up and state your name and address for the record, please. >> So, my name is uh George Bazilia, 110 West Cscape Drive, Port St. Joe. >> Yes, sir. >> Um, this is just a suggestion on the Selenus project. Um, it seems like it's
a large scope for one contractor to handle. So a suggestion I may have is to split it up into three parts. Uh one would be the dune restoration. The second part would be the landscaping or the reforestation. And then third part would be the covert underneath the road
3A. Um just a suggestion maybe that would help get more bids in if you had broken it up like that. That's all I wanted to say. >> Okay. >> Appreciate it. Thank you, >> Clay. I do know that one of the biders that they're using three different C I
think they're you know they're they're partnering up to do this. You know what I'm saying? So I mean whatever they want to do but you know they are doing that but >> we can I mean we could take the landscaping out. I mean it's pretty easy to separate that out from building the
dune you know >> just bid it just bid it separate. >> Okay. >> Look at it. >> Yeah we can brainstorm that. >> Okay. All right. Anyone else in the public? All right. Any opposition to the motion? All right. Motion pass 5 and0. Go ahead, Mr. Smallwood.
>> Third item on the agenda is bid 2526-14. This is the Cypress Creek bridge repair. This one um it's on page memo's on page three. >> Three. So, this one was a little bit over our grant amount. Um, since then
Lars had good discussions with DOT and we're going to ask you later to um award the supple or sign the supplemental agreement. So basically they gave us the money we needed so we're not short. So we can award this one now and it'll be fully funded by DOT. So this is B 2526-14.
Uh the recommendation is to award to the lowest responsive bidder Weber Infrastructure Management Inc. at a price of $73,590. >> Any questions commissioners? I entertain motion we award. >> I'll make a motion, Mr. Chairman. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Husman. >> I'll second.
>> Second by Commissioner McLemore. Any further board discussion? Anyone in the public? Any opposition? Motion pass. Five and0. On to the administrative report. It's item number four in your packet. This is bid 2526-15
for firefighting bunker gear. The results of those bids are in your packet. Um, this is memo from Matt recommending uh the bid from Sunb Belt Fire and that is $3,322 per set.
And they were the they were the low bidder. All right. Thank you, sir. Any questions, Commissioner? I entertain a motion and we award it to the low bidder. >> So moved. >> Motion by Commissioner McRone. >> Second. Second by Commissioner Husband.
Any further discussion? Anyone in the public? Any opposition? All right. Motion pass. Five. >> Number five in the packet is uh is Henry Avenue and Wewall. It's a DOT grant project that we did um as a partner with the city of Weiwall. That uh project is
complete and this is a decrease a change order to Roberts and Roberts is a decrease of $33,899.86. >> All right. Thank you, sir. Any questions? Commissioners, >> Mr. Chairman, I want to abstain on this vote. We did the C due to us, my
engineering firm, doing the CI on this project. So, I will be abstaining from this. >> Thank you, sir. Any question? Any other discussion? Commissioner, any questions for Mr. Smallwood?
I've been I entertain a motion. >> I'll make a motion. >> I got a motion by Commissioner Mola. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Piden. Any further discussion? Anyone in the public on this? Any opposition? Motion pass five and0.
>> Oh, I'm sorry. >> Yes, sir. >> I'm sorry. Motion pass 4 and0 with one abstension. >> Thank you, sir. >> Yes, sir. Sorry. All right. Item six in your packet. It's another project that is closed out and u it's a decrease or
ask for your approval for a um deductive change order decrease with Roberts and Roberts in the amount of $9,510.54. This is on the roads and storm water project which is post hurricane Michael money. It's been around a while and we're finally closing it out.
>> All right. Thank you, sir. Any questions, commissioners? >> I entertain a motion. >> Make a motion. Motion by Commissioner Piden. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Husman. Any further board discussion? Anyone in the public on this one.
>> Any opposition to the motion? >> All right. Motion pass 5 and0. >> Page nine in your packet. This we're asking approval to uh ratify a change order with road drilling. They are installing the whale pump at the uh in
our well that's at White City and there were some additional materials that were needed. The total would be an increase of $1,573 and it's covered by our grant. >> All right. Thanks, sir. >> Any questions for Mr. Smallwood on this
change order? >> None. I entertain a motion and we move forward. >> So move. >> Motion by Commissioner Mcronone. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Husman. Any further board discussion? Anyone in the public on this? Any opposition? All right. Motion pass five
and >> pages 10 and 11 in your packet. This deals with the Cypress Creek Bridge, the supplemental agreement from DOT. So, we're um asking your approval to accept that. The total being added is $12,927. And um that'll bring the total amount to
$78,865,000 on that particular grant. And then the resolution is on page 11. >> You want to read about title? >> Yes, sir. Can a resolution of the Gulf County Board of County Commissioners authorizing the chairman of the board to enter into a state funded grant supplemental agreement with the state of
Florida Department of Transportation. >> All right. Thank you, sir. Any questions, Commissioners? >> All right. I entertain a motion we move forward. >> Second, Mr. Chairman. >> Motion by Commissioner Husman. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Priet. Any further board discussion? Anyone in the
public on this one? Any opposition? Motion pass 5 and0. Page 12 in the packet deals with 911 recorder maintenance. We're asking for permission to um sign for the chairman to sign the grant agreement uh with the state that will
increase that funding. It'll increase it from $64,452 to $68,940. >> All right. Thank you, sir. Any questions on this? I entertain a motion then we approve this amendment. >> Second, Mr. Chairman. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner
Husman. >> Second. Second by Commissioner Mcronone. Any further discussion? Anyone in the public? Any opposition. Motion pass five and >> Yes, sir. >> So that y'all don't fire me, I'll do one
thing. So, and I know the chairman had had spoken uh to the career source director about an appointee that's it's out of county, but they need this particular individual in a specific uh area. So, in
uh page 13, it is memo from the chairman to appoint Cecil Jackson to serve on the crucial source board. He runs a driving school. Yeah, we had Miss Miss um Miss Kim was here to um
at our last meeting to to discuss I think and she gave information to Michael. I just told him to make sure he forwarded to you guys. But I think y'all validated the guy and checked it. Yes, sir. And everything's good. So, I was I was good with the appointment. Miss Kim spoke.
>> She was she spoke positive about the guy. So, >> that's who I think it is. I think we'll be okay for sure. >> Must be some CDL training. Yes, sir. I bet I know who it is. >> Okay. >> All right. Well, I entertain a motion we move forward with that recommendation. >> I'll make a motion, Mr. Chairman. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner
Husman. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Mcronone. All right. Any further board discussion? Anyone in the public on this? Any opposition? All right. Motion pass. So this is a again this is more Clay and
Sylvia than than me, but this is the culmination of what we started here about six months ago. We budgeted for this money. The TDC just passed this plan. Uh so that you have a copy of the plan. It's on 14 and 15. Uh we recommend
that you take the TDC's recommendation and move forward. >> Thanks, sir. Any questions, commissioners? Yeah. Uh I uh talked to Blake the other day. Um not now but in a future meeting when we sit down and talk about I guess Clay. Is it going to be Clay's budget
now going into Clay's new budget? Yes, sir. >> Um an analysis of bathrooms. Um I have 12 in district three and that's a lot. I don't know. It's just a lot of bathrooms to keep up with and and u you know it's the face of G County when you go in
there. a lot of we want to have clean bathrooms and all and they get disrepair every time. We have vandalism, Blake, as I know we we talked about, >> but maybe this is the year we do a rehab of bathrooms dis uh countywide. Just put it in everybody's head. Um we started on
it, got halfway through, but I think right now we need to probably take a a year to really go after all the bathrooms. I don't know if y'all are having as much. I've got like a couple still that have bad doors on doors don't close and we try to knock them out as we can but it's it's tough staying ahead of it. So maybe
we rehab them all. I know they're doing a good job with the new pressure washer they're doing and all. So um jump in there Blake if you >> So the plan is just to evaluate every one of the bathrooms at each park and then report back to you guys as to the
condition and expect the cost to repair and bring those up to speed. >> Right. I know we've got lighting uh with the new type of uh solar lighting. I talked to Mark about that. Some of the bathrooms need like I know underneath the bridge at Highland View, we've got some issues there with the with the
solar lighting, but going in the TDC, I think that's a huge thing we talk just not today or next meeting, but we need to get it that data done done before we start next year's budget. >> I know also we're having tremendous problem with vandalism in some of these bathrooms. Mark, if you want to uh they
put brand new uh fixtures now on some of these bathrooms like dryer, stuff like that. They'll beat them off the wall within a week and and it's just it's just unbelievable. So, I don't I don't >> we go in bathrooms. I don't know if it's people or small farm animals going in
there with the destruction and the and the way it looks. It's it's ridiculous. So >> tightening up on the facilities. Blake, get you the information. That'll give us something to go on. Prioritize. Let y'all prioritize where you want to start. >> Can I share a horror story, too?
>> So, uh, I looked at my parks budget on one of the Windmark West bathrooms and it was Sherry, you can remember or Laura, y'all remember it was just outrageous. I said, "How come we have that much water during a winter month or it was it was not a one of the prime months?" And we went out there and we
just hooked up the shower and the shower head was gone. Well, the company the company that was doing the grounds for Windmark was filling up their tanks with our water. >> So, I mean, you can't make that stuff up. And uh so we have to when you're
doing it, we need to make sure we do it commercially. Yes. >> And then I mean that's that's the biggest thing. Uh it's I guess coming from the schools, you do it too. Uh see, we go in bathrooms all over the gyms and stuff like that. that we look at ways they do it. So, if we can come up with good ways to keep that vandalism down
and get good stuff when we put it in there, hopefully it'll last longer. >> May have to send Blake out to some of these new facilities somewhere. >> I'm sorry, sir. So, we may have to send you to some of these new facilities somewhere. >> Yes, sir. >> Unless you look around. >> People might be asking question. Why
does this guy keep going in and out the bathrooms? >> Just telling you trying to figure out how we can make our place better. That's it. >> Yeah. >> Once you get it, like you're never going to lose it, so it' be the rest of your life. I just tell you that. >> All right. Any any more questions on
this? I entertain a motion. We go with the uh administrator's recommendation from the uh DDC. >> So move. >> All right. Motion by Commissioner Mackmore. >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Husman. Any further board discussion? Anyone in the public? Any opposition? All right.
Motion pass. So, so moving forward, I want y'all to please coordinate directly with Jerry and you feel free to take me out of the loop, but to make sure that we're following the rules with that, but uh now's the time to to get moving on on your individual budgets with that and we
put in the match. So, so we're off to the races. Uh an update similar to that. It was talking about vandalism. So, I don't remember what day it was last week. I think it was Wednesday, but Wednesday, Wednesday or Thursday of last week, Sheriff and I met with uh State
Attorney Bassford. We had a very productive meeting. Uh I we we mugged it out at the end. So, the gist is that the individuals that uh that stole the stop sign and the and the Charlie Kirk signs and did the vandalism uh from Missouri
are coming back in the next few weeks and they will be pleading uh to to that. They're going to make restitution. They're going to to appear before the county commission probably at your uh May regular county commission meeting to apologize. They're going to do 40 hours
of community service with the TDC and the public works. uh and they're I think we've got their attention and we're all on the same page and we told uh the state attorney we appreciated him looking at this closely and sorry that it got off the tracks but that uh I
think we're back all on the same page and so whatever day that was it was a good thing and and uh I I tried to reach out to the assistant uh state attorney today and I don't know if they've got back to us car and I have been out some of the day but uh we will follow up and make
sure that If not, I told them we might could do a special meeting to let them come to apologize individually, all five of them. Uh, but they've already, if I'm right, Blake, they've already lined up the work for >> That's correct. Yes, sir. >> So, and that's the week before Memorial Day or in that time frame.
>> That time frame, I believe after 9:30 is their meeting on Thursday and then they would immediately start that day uh through the weekend and wrap up sometime around Tuesday. So, a good good ending to a
bad story. So, anyway, so I think that's worked itself out. So, >> sheriff, you got anything? You good? >> No. Glad to get it over with. And I'm glad they have to come back and be held accountable right here in G County. I think so. >> And I don't remember off the top of my
head, but I think it was about $3,000 of restitution. 30 something00 little under three. Okay. Everybody's Everybody's going to be happy. At least on our end. Health fair is tomorrow. Casey here. The big red bus. If you want to give bloods tomorrow
>> from 8 to 12. >> Health fair. >> Yeah. 8 to 12. Right. >> So So I remember a former commissioner say that it's mandatory. It needs to be mandatory because we need to to get our health insurance in line like we've got our workers comp in line. So encourage
all all department heads are here. encourage every one of your employees to make an appearance. They need to do the blood testing. They need to do the uh screening. They need to take the blood pressure and go through the sites. There's usually a lot of of interesting things. Uh you know, from dental and
vision right on down, but we need to we need to be healthier all the way around. It'll it'll help the bottom line as we go forward. >> Anything else? That's all we have at this time. >> Commissioners got anything? >> I got a couple things. Um, is there a
way uh that we had I know the water we're not drinking the water right now. Um, things happen and with the city with the city water, but we have county customers that that are confused between city and county. Let's just say that. Uh, they may not be from here. They don't know that we don't do the water on
St. Joe Beach and Windmark and all that. Can we send a letter to the city, not a skating letter, but a letter saying, "Hey, when this happens, make a point of contact with the county so that we can put it out to our constituents as well and put it on our website saying specifically where the
break is, who's affected, and for how long it will be." Um, I had a a grandpa said he was giving baby formula to a baby. You know, he didn't know better. He's keeping his uh grandbaby and didn't know that the water was bad for three or four days. So, and I know things happen,
but uh letting the public know is very important. So, if there's some way we could do that, commissioners, um you know, when it breaks, okay, what are we going to do? I mean, what what's the timeline so we can let everybody know that we're on board? Because they start calling county commissioners and saying, "Why didn't you tell me the water's
out?" I I didn't know it either. So, I just if there's a way we could do that. Uh the the second thing, we had the the golf carts again. We we talked about that. And when are those things coming in the lockers? >> Supposed to be today, but I have not followed up. Mark, do you
>> I didn't check today. >> Okay. So, um any update? >> I will follow up as soon as meeting over. >> Okay. All right. And and I guess we're going to the next meeting or full meetings when it's the second advertising of it. >> Well, so it's in place now. It's in place now,
>> but but we have advertised again in case there needs to be any tweaks for the end of the month meeting. So yes, it will be opened again to be able to tweak, add, takeaway uh at the at your March meeting. Yes, sir. Excuse your May meeting, end of the month.
>> Um, as we know, it's it's only going to continue to grow. This last weekend, there were over 35 or third to 40 rentals just in Windmark North. Okay, that's not the city. That's not the county, it's the city, but no, that's on
St. Joe Beach as well. And if we don't get a handle on these things, I am I'm telling you, I've said it. I've said it. I said it with people crossing 98, it's gonna we're going to not end well with something. And so, uh, I just want us to be vigilant on that. Don't let that one
go. It's very important. Uh, it's it's for the safety of our of everybody that's out there. So, uh, any if y'all have any questions or anything on that one, I I'd like to make sure that we get that going. Um, we ordered 10, correct? >> Correct. What's the possibility? I've
talked with Chief Richards. >> Oh, excuse me. Wind 12. >> I've talked to Chief Richards. He has a little area of that now. He because he goes to Pine Street and there's a bad little area right there in that corner and he's been trying to do that. Maybe we can reach out to them, give them a
couple of them. Uh I mentioned it to him. Uh I don't I don't know. Just just a thought. So, I'll let Mark uh give the details because the reason it took a little bit longer is with trying to get them all keyed the same. So, >> yeah. >> So, so I'd reached out to Mr. Phil
because he was here and he had indicated he sells them. So, I reached out to him and he started looking and the problem he was having is finding 12 that were keyed alike. I if we have 12 and they're keyed differently, that's going to turn into a cluster. You got >> So, I end up contacting the company that makes them on what day was
>> Tuesday. Tuesday and talked to a representative there and told him what our deal was. Government agency and all that and he cut me a deal. The things were like $80 a piece and I got them for like $19.99 a piece. >> Good. Good. >> So all key alike and and I just looked they got delivered today at 110. So
they're at the office. >> So So gave Phil a chance and and he was pumped. He actually wanted me to give the guys so he could start buying them from them too. But >> worked out when we have them at the office and we'll do whatever y'all want to do with them at this point. >> Okay. Uh Matt hurt the sheriff's feelings. We give the city some of them.
That's hopefully we won't have >> you work out some electronically on that. Did you come up with anything on electronic payment or anything? Did you find out anything? >> We do have capabilities of taking payments. We'd have to get it set up through the software provider. Um and I'm still
waiting a response from them to figure out how quickly that can be done. >> I got you. >> Yes, sir. But I'll >> Makes it a lot easier. I'll send an email out this afternoon or call them directly and see what we can do. >> Commissioners, >> I was just going to say on the on the water issue, I think Commissioner Piden
brought that up earlier. Um I know my phone started ringing about midnight uh Sunday night, I think. So, um Monday morning I talked to to Clay and I also talked to to Jim Anderson and I think it was pretty much over the weekend that they were having that problem. I think it was on Sunday morning they had a
problem like a power surge and so I got Jim Anderson in touch with Matt and we did the alert golf message. >> Um as long as the board doesn't have a problem with it they could use our golf alert when they have a problem with anything but especially with our
>> our constituents too, you know. So um so that all worked out pretty good >> and I think there's been another message this morning >> or at some point today another message to come out. So, I was going to try to call Jim this afternoon and see if I can see if I don't if it was from the alert gulf. It wasn't from Okay, it wasn't
from us. So, it must have been from the city. So, maybe the city has their own >> program. They have like code red or something. >> Code red. >> Code red. >> Okay. Well, they got the message out today apparently commissioner >> to all the city res >> and the county residents too that's affected by the water line.
>> So, I I'll write a letter that'll that'll explain because the gist is this. Yeah, there's a lot of confusion and the the the press release I think they sent it out correctly but on either 13 or seven it said St. Joe and Over Street. It didn't say St. Joe be didn't say Beacon deal didn't say one mark. So
I mean it was it it was confusing again you can't depend on others but between the two of ours we we got pretty much all coverage. So >> and it was just a bowl water notice. I think there was some confusion early on about not having water for five to seven days. It was totally untrue. So um so we
got all that resolved Monday morning too. >> Anyone else? Commissioner good. >> All right. Thank everybody for coming to the special meeting entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> Second, Mr. Chairman. >> Motion by Commissioner Hudman. >> Second. Take about Commissioner Mcronone.