special meeting. We got a We thought we had a something on the agenda, but I think we may have a something the administrator needs to run by us. But if we would if you would join me in the pledge and then we'll jump right into it. >> Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right, Mr. M. Novak, you got anything you want to add? >> Yeah. Uh, Mr. Chairman, commissioners, good afternoon. Thank you. Um, and I appreciate you all getting together this afternoon for this special meeting. Um,
following your March 31st meeting in which you awarded 252609, we received a bid protest from uh, Anderson, Columbia. Um, following state statute, we don't have a formal process. We notified them of your special meeting that the you chairman and commissioners
agreed to meet today at 1:00 to give them that opportunity required by law. Um, we sent that notice to them last week and throughout the weekend communicating with them. Yesterday, they reached out and told us that they would be we should anticipate a letter. We're sending that protest. Um, and then late
yesterday afternoon, you have a copy in front of you from their general counsel dated April 14th. It says, "Please accept this letter as formal notice to Anderson Columbia hereby withdraws its bid protest dated April 9th concerning 2526-09 and their bid protest." So, it is formally withdrawn by them. So that
agenda item for today is no longer needed. And again, I thank you, Mr. Chairman and commissioners, for making yourselves available for this. It's required by law. It's something we need to do to move us forward on that particular process. You've already awarded the bid, and that gives us the ability now to move forward with the awarded bidder and start working through
a contract process, which we'll do immediately. I'll turn it back over to the administrator, sir. >> Thanks, sir. >> Got a couple quick other items if we can handle. Also going back to the last meeting, we awarded bid 252607 to Monolith and we took alternate one uh
after further review from Raymond the the the replay official. Uh we want to change that to the to go with the base bid, not the alternate. So the the difference is the the base bid was 98,293. The the excuse me, that was the alternate that y'all accepted. I'm
asking y'all to go with the base bid of 11709425. And the difference is, correct me if I'm wrong, 70 feet versus 80 feet in width. When we laid it out, it was just too narrow. So, we're going with the extra 10 ft. And that's for the fuel center.
>> Okay. Thanks, sir. Any questions, commissioners? Okay. >> All right. I entertain a motion in that we uh go with the base. >> I'll move it. >> Motion by Commissioner Pidge. >> I'll second. Second by Commissioner
Husman. Any further board discussion? >> Oh, I need to abstain. Mr. Chairman, my company does work for the contractor. >> Thank you, sir. Anyone in the public on this? Any opposition to the motion?
Motion pass for >> any in furtherance of our housing project u on 71. Jeremy's got uh >> uh chairman, commissioners, um your unsolicited proposal you received is 26-01. Um you received um the unsolicited
proposal for the workforce housing project for 70 workforce housing units to be developed within a 4 mile radius of uh here at the campus in downtown Port St. Joe. Um on the 31st, you received that formally. you voted for us to go out and advertise that, which we've now prepared in the last week, a
formal advertisement which will be run in the Florida uh administrative register. It also be run locally in the papers and will hit the Florida bidding circuit. Um that is going to be posted tomorrow and the specs will be out for 30 days. alternative or competitive bids can come in and other companies or uh
firms or contractors can come in and offer you alternative proposals to what you've already received. Before you move forward on a uh comprehensive agreement with this proposal, you have to give that window of time and advertisement to the open public. Um we we've done that. We're ready to do that. The only thing
that we need from you is a formal vote of the board as to the application fee. Historically, it's somewhere around $4 or $5,000 depending on the amount of work that you anticipate. if we receive a proposal. This is a significant project that you have for the county moving forward. You're talking about
potentially from 70 up to several hundred work housing units. Um, so I'd recommend that you put a $4,000 application fee on this. We'll put that in the specs that we advertise tomorrow with your vote. We'll advertise that and then wait a month and come back to you, let you know any alternative proposals
come in and then we'll make recommendations going from there under the P3 statute. But right now, today, I just need a formal vote of the board to accept that application fee. >> All right. Thank you, sir. Any questions, commissioners? I was wishes of the board. >> Mr. Chairman, I'm going to have to abstain from this vote due to a conflict
with doing the engineering work on the project. And I just to note, I was working on this project before I was commissioner. So, >> thank you, sir. >> And I I'll move it because it's workforce housing. >> We're just setting the fee. >> Second. >> Okay. I'll second. All right. I got a motion by Commissioner PR, second by
Commissioner McCro. Any further board discussion? >> Anyone in the public? >> Yeah, I got something. Just can we have can we have an update after we get this going down the roads? It's future meeting if you get a chance. >> Just kind of update where we're at >> on that process. >> On the process. Yeah, the process and what it's going to look like down the road.
>> So, just so know it's on the record. Um, what we have now tomorrow advertised is both basically the public notice. will have the specs of what we need submitted to the county for you all to look apples to apples or competitive projects that are comparable to what's been submitted. It's public record. The proposal that you've all received, commissioners,
you've all evaluated it. The administrative staff, we've all looked at it. You have an idea of what's being proposed to the county to work as a public private partnership. Um, but over the next 30 days, the public will be able to read that. anybody that wants to submit something, review it, submit it, send the $4,000 application fee, and it
gives the staff and the county opportunity to compare them so we can come back to you at your May meeting and make recommendations to you as to how we're going to proceed. And in that next month meeting, we'll be able to give that to you commissioners to let you know if we get alternatives. If we don't, then we can start really narrowing the focus as to what's going
to be the idea behind a comprehensive agreement. a contract is really what it is between the private side of this and what you are going to give to them as concessions to build these 70 workforce housing units. >> Do do you think that um and this might be a Mr. Hammond question. U once we uh
once we get past the 30 days and we get we find out who's going to be responsible for moving this forward bu building. Is it possible to get um something that we can put on display to show the people? Um I mean I'm just at I mean just at the
meeting that they whenever they come in we can show the people what we what we what we expecting and what the company is going to build. >> Yes sir. >> Okay. All right. Any any further questions? Anyone in the public? Any opposition?
I motion pass 401 abstention. >> You still got >> commissioners. >> Yeah. I have one thing. Um just real quick. We have uh the burn ban in is in effect and I would like to make sure that every week we publicize it. Uh
because we have new renters that come in every week and they weren't here last week. Um, so if we could make sure through our our media and everything that every Sunday or Monday, whenever you choose to do it, we do it every week so we get the new band of renters coming in if you don't mind.
>> I I hate those signs. I'm glad the sheriff has them now or one. But when I went check on sand yesterday, they had it on the sign in Sevens Bio and the fire department had it on the flashing sign there. So we got that in covered. We needed something on the St. Joe Beach end. >> Yeah, because it it
>> Yeah. It's dry and it's going to be worse. >> It's Yeah, we got uh what I think seven seven seven to 10 days and then relative humidity is going to be in the 20s and the winds picks up every afternoon and that's not good. >> All right, just come on over there, sir, and state your name and address for the record, please.
>> Hi there. Uh my name is Steve Wick. My uh residence is 127 Sable Circle. Um I own part owner of the Port Cottages. just I haven't been around town for several years and I'm developing a new platform and like you were talking about
the burn ban. Uh the platform I'm developing is replaces most social media. It's a better place and I'm having my corporate headquarters here in Port St. Joe. Um I have some of my team here with me today. I just came to the meeting to hear what's going on in the county and just listening to what you're
talking about I realized how many ways we can help you because Jeremy you're talking about the development plan for housing you're going to put it in the newspaper and you put it out in different ways with better place you can put it on the platform and the basic thing with better place it's a 100%
freedom of speech platform and the way you communicate is an audio video recording with your face on camera it's geoloccated timestamped and it can never be deleted. So, it's proof. It's time. You have evidence of exactly what it is. If you wanted to beep your project that
you you're doing the affordable housing, workforce housing, it could be spread nationally. You could have developers from anywhere around the world that have ideas and we'll have think tanks and they can develop ideas. Every beep is going to be analyzed by AI and organized
and coordinated. So if you start a think tank about your housing development, anyone interested can contribute. They can have their ideas. They put them all in there. AI organizes everything into clusters and develops the whole and it's the whole conversation is organized so
you can scam skim it quickly and understand anyone in the community that wants to know what you're building. Whoever the contractors are when they place their bids, it can still work with your current system. They can go through the whole process, fill out all the paperwork, pay the $4,000 fee. you'll get a lot more people bidding on this
project because it's expanded to everyone. You can have developers from Chicago or New York that are interested in contributing down here. And plus with the beep, it's tied to a real person, a real face, a real location. So when there when you have a proposed property,
you can walk the property and say here we it's on Highway 71 and it's right up by White City and this is we could use this entire parcel. 127 acres and you can have all the schematics and the every requirement there and then people can actually look
at real information and say okay I can build this and you can have city planners real imaginative people come up with new ideas instead of just 75 affordable housing homes it could be mixed use it could be residential and commercial it could be any number of things and that's the idea of think
tanks you have everyone involved in the conversation everyone has their say and it filters out the noise because AI if someone says oh you build a a water park up here if nobody is interested in that it go gets dep prioritized and you don't waste your time listening to that idea
but this is a way to organize all these ideas for the community and it's just a standard feature the app is free you actually earn the tokens on the app by using it and you earn it by signing people up it's it's way too much to explain right now but I if anybody has any questions I'd be more than happy to
answer them and I just wanted to put this out there just to plant the seed. We're about two months away from launching in beta. I've been working on this for two years. Uh we've been building the app for a year and a half and it's getting close and I just wanted to let you guys know what's going on
because we're going to be here in Port St. Joe and it's going to be a big thing. So >> appreciate Just want to let everybody know and we can hopefully help out in any way possible with the community and you know responsible development and really have the community aware of
exactly what's going when you have to have a meeting like this it would be beepcast and everybody could see the beeps or and it's all recorded and organized by AI. So if they want to know the summary of the meeting it's all right there and their AI assistants know what's important to them. if the workforce housing is important to them
or if the road work or whatever, it can prioritize that information so they don't waste a lot of time listening to a two, four, five, six hour board county board of commissioners meeting. They can get the information that they need out of it and you can have that in your permanent record and easy recall. What
did I say on that? You just look back, you ask the AI and it'll go back to that and show you that exact portion. There's so many applications of it, it's insane. But just wanted to let you know and thank you very much for your time. >> Yes, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you, sir. >> All right. Anyone else? Anybody else got
anything? You're good. >> All right. Thank you for coming. I entertain a motion to adjourn. >> Motion by Commissioner McCro. >> I'll second. >> Second by Commissioner Husburn. God bless