mayor Foley vice mayor awater council member Carol council member Altier council member danan let the record show all members are present e e e
e e is class one anything hang one just one inquiry because I know you are a continuing consultant um we're um we have a change of administrations in Washington that you know affects FEMA um and are you the
right person for us to rely on to keep us up to date on the potential changing of blood zones and terrific thank you if we're not getting that already um you know I I personally appreciate getting a copy of it I just
like to keep up to date with it so if any of the other Council people also want to be kept on that it would beic proposals everything from completely eliminating you know FEMA coverage um and then I I saw a pretty shocking number of people who just Define
coverage because of the cost of the insurance so you know puts a lot of people at risk great thank you very much vice mayor you have a comment how how many points are we short again please 143
143 do you have any examples of what we could do to uh narrow or eliminate that Gap have okay and it's my my understanding the theme is going back and looking at the the flood zones
and applying tougher criteria for for flood zones do you have a sense of when they're going to hit our County to review you okay okay all right thank Denise does um Indian River County have a rating as a
County and what what would be what would be the benefit to the town if it achieved a class 4 in so if I'm a resident of the
shores and a resident of Indian River county am I in if Indian River County went to a four would I then be entitled to a 30% discount since I'm in Indian River County you talk about they doing this master
Watershed plan since we're part of the county would that mean the data that they would generate to fill out that plan that we could take some of that data and maybe uh short circuit art not
short circuit uh shorten our efforts to do a wed master plan if we decide to go in that direction okay well that that okay all right may maybe something the town manager might want to check
into see some some cost saving if we decide to go in that uh Direction but um speculative but I'll find out terrific any anybody else um just one comment it's you know this is kind
of fluid you know we're we're talking about a static system and now we're we're having a potential change in regulations and so we're just going to have to I think have a you know a little bit of time here to see how the new Administration kind of kind of puts all this stuff into play because it could have an impact on how we approach these
things so anyway I appreciate that thank you anything else thank you always appreciated all right appropo the next topic is a proclamation on flood awareness so um anybody who wasn't sleeping two nights ago when we got
three and a half inches of rain will appreciate the flood awareness because we we got we got a lot of water in the town that night um so we will proceed to the flood awareness Proclamation and if those that are
um those that are here to receive it come forward if there's no one we will just okay I seem to have I seem to have a proclamation uh but none that relat to flood awareness
so we hereby Proclaim flood awareness month okay there you go I know but we don't I don't have the hard copy to get there so all right we'll get the hard copy to you at some point um all right item C is Meals on
Wheels Proclamation month um and I take it that's the proclamation that states the older Americans nutrition program so if you'd like to come forward um please uh please feel free to give us a little little recitation on what this
is all about before we give your proclamation to you morning good morning e e e e thank you very much and for those of you on Council that have not had the
opportunity to do the ride along with you it is eye opening and uh uh I know you have Li limited spaces um if um if there's a a spot and nobody else wants to take it I'd be happy to do it again this year um you you have thought of
things that nobody would really think about in particular I'll just give one that I that I remember thinking H that was a pretty good idea that um many of the older citizens who who get these meals and it has a tremendous nutritional value on a daily basis for them would give some of their meal to
their pets because you know they didn't have the ability to feed their pets so uh you have a program to provide pet food for the for the dogs and cats as well so U you've thought this through well uh the things you do in the community are invaluable and uh all of
our citizens are our treasure but our older citizens in particular you know deserve this you know kind of wonderful care so thank you very much with that um you know Council of town of Indian River Shores you know does here Proclaim March 2025 as a month celebrating the older
Americans Act nutrition program and again thank you for all you do we have for some reason two copies of the Proclamation but um you can have there are two of you so I why don't you each take one home and um if you want to get a picture with Council or your
newsletter by all means great thank you very much all right our last Proclamation is um a proclamation of the town of Indian River Shores recognizing Dr David Moore for his achievement as 2025 superintendent
of the Year 2025 National superintendent of the Year finalist and 2024 Consortium Florida education foundation's star superintendent is there anybody here to accept this Proclamation on Dr Moore's
behalf uh if not I'll just note that um the metrics greatly improved in the county in the last couple of years and um we we can uh thank all of the people involved in the education system uh and U especially in these tumultuous times
uh over education but uh the numbers don't lie um we we've done some terrific terrific things education wise so we uh the town of Indian Rivers Shores Council expresses deep appreciation for Dr Moore's leaders ship unwavering
dedication to Excellence and transformative impact on the Indian River County School District and its communities so thank you very much Dr Moore and thank you Mr Harring for taking the four-page proclamation and working it down into a readable onepage
document so very well done um if you can hand that to the clerk you can send it over thanks so much um all right item four are there comments from the public regarding any the any of the agenda items any comments on the agenda
items okay uh we have the consent agenda item number five is there a motion to approve the consent agenda uh let me see we have resolution so we do need a roll call vote mayor Foley I vice mayor awater
council member Carol council member Al Harry council member Dane let the record show the motion passes unanimously all right item six the mir's report um okay so uh the first thing I'd like
to report on is uh we had an issue with what we deem to be a potential solicitation for homeowners to uh participate in a time share scheme and um we will uh defer to the town attorney who did a a masterful
job of heading that off at the past but you know this is different than a short-term rental we do have a um you know an ordinance that U prohibits time shares in our community and uh you know so we we were um actually informed about
this by our Planning and Zoning uh commission who keep tabs on this so thank you for them to uh stay a breast of this um this is a trend that I think we're seeing in other municipalities in Florida um kind of you know interesting
convenient workarounds uh short-term rentals and um if there's any additional information uh I'm sure we'll hear about it from the town attorney during his report uh but I do believe that we should instruct staff as a council to monitor this much the same way we
monitor short-term rental compliance for which we have an ordinance um my my understanding is that short-term rentals will not really be taken up this year in the legislature they've got um fair amount of fish to fry other than shortterm rentals and so three years in
a row is a charm apparently looks like they'll probably I'm not saying there aren't going to be bills file but I just don't think they're going to be seriously taken up if they are my apologies but we'll we'll continue to monitor it um uh next item of three I have uh the
35 m per hour speed limit and traffic on A1A um so I'm sure we're going to get different opinions from people about the speed limit in different parts of the town the folks most affected down in the south of town are uh very happy with it
um they're proximate they tend to cross the street more than places north of Fred Turk um we we did have a fatality there about 15 months ago I believe probably wasn't due to the speed limit but it's it's mindful that the roads are dangerous um see you know Sergeant
Bell's in here and um you know I think you you have experience uh you know seeing that people really tend to tended to fly by there so so thank you for educating the public uh we don't want to be Draconian and uh come down too hard on people but there is a safety issue
and you know we do note that that 35 mph stretch now extends really all the way through to pass Quail Valley River Club uh so it's not an anomaly that's really the Steed Li it um I mentioned to the town manager a couple of days ago uh because when I get a a text of people
complaining um of course the first thing I do is call him or forward the text to him um but it appeared to me that there are times when there's traffic backing up on A1A and by the time I you know get my sneakers on walk out sometimes the traffic is gone so it's not the 35 m per
hour speed limit it's everything from construction debris clean up um back up from the from the bridge and uh I noticed this morning you know coming here at a time where usually I see a big backup of traffic um there was none so
it's something we'll monitor um not sure how effective we can be in you know preventing accidents from backing up traffic and you know the F do construction on two Bridges which is certainly contributing to the problem but um we we are aware of it and uh for
those of you who text me I'm also aware that when you're sitting at the traffic light at bamar you have nothing to do when you're late other than to text me so I'm just going to forward it to Mr Harring so um but we will we will do our best to make sure that the conditions are as optimal as we can have them uh
last it item is um our budget you know our budget season starting you know actually it never ends but uh you know mid Christmas our Treasurer really starts to work in Earnest around this time of year to uh prepare our budgets
um we're um uh unfortunately and Council has different information I'd love to hear it but we are you know I put down likely when I saw it and now I would I would upgrade that to Defcon 4 most likely we are not going to see the kinds of grants that we did in years past um
the grants that we used to uh improve uh winter Beach Road seol and you know Pebble Bay and all those areas that really um obviated the need for you know costs to be laid out by the town uh those days are over um the uh
article I read said the gravy train has ended uh a lot of this money came down from the federal government um through the state government directly to us or to the County government or to uh more districts and you know I I think it's um
it's just a reality we're going to have to be prepared that U you know help is not on the way uh we're going to have to U we're going to have to keep in mind that uh particularly in light of the fact that um you know I'm sure other Council people are hearing uh the same
message as we always hear which is keep the military the same keep the militate the same so uh we've got our work cut out for us this year particularly you know with uh the thought in mind that we don't have uh tons of um you know tons of money coming down from arpa or
whatever the you know the previous sources of federal funding were um and that's not to say that we won't be on the lookout for them we will but the pools of money are just not not likely to be there um I you know I'm I'm going
to next move to uh an item that we've all seen in the Press um and I say this in the spirit of of uh sympathy with our friends in the city of Vero Beach and not to um kick someone when they're down but um
you know obviously there's a report in the news that will come out further in the press that they missed their budget filing deadline under the state statute that means that they are not eligible for funding of certain programs from the state because they were out of compliance I suppose there is a
possibility that that could be rectified um I don't know enough about it um but other than you know idle gossip the reason why I'm bringing this up is that it does directly affect us what happens next door we want the city to succeed uh if the city succeeds we all
succeed on the island uh so it's um um my my deep hope and wish that you know they can they can rectify the situation with either help from um our state representative state senator or you know through the administrative process
but in the nuts and bolts of how it affects us is you know we have a um service provider in in um the water utility the city of Ero Beach uh in moving their sewer treatment plant they were counting on $35 million in Grants
so uh technically my understanding is that those are no longer available to them unless they Rectify this budget situation uh so if that $35 million in Grants goes away they're going to have to find the money somewhere else so um
councilman alter I know you're on the Utility Commission I know it's a big ask to uh get information from the Utility Commission given the way it's constituted I thought you it has proven to be that yes and I thought you did an excellent job and it looks like you had some support from the minutes of the
last meeting and and watching that I saw but uh perhaps at at their next meeting which likely won't be for quite some time since they're you know thinking about um meeting quarterly but leave that to your report uh we could get some we could get some information in terms of how it affects us but you know the
bottom line is that if this is not rectified they do go forward with um uh the treatment plant which uh is um right about where some of us up here said the cost would be about five years ago and we were told we were crazy
um it's that 35 million it's going to affect rates so the rates are going to go up and up and up so we need to monitor it um um and um I bring it just just for Preparation purposes for for folks here because you know you may not
call it a tax but when you're paying more for an essential service it's a it's an expense that you have and uh we will as rate payers here we will we will bear that uh that responsibility um and then we you know we hope that they uh you
know they get this all rectified but that's that's it I didn't want to uh leave the impr that we were not aware of what was going on so um let's let's hope and pray our our friends at the city of EO Beach can work their way through this um with that we'll move unless there's any questions for me or comments on what
I've said uh we'll move to 7A which is council member alter has an as an item on ordinance 558 the BF plus2 and Community rating system councilman Al Terry thank you mayor um on on January
21st I sent a four-page memor to um Town manager Mr Haring and to Town Council Mr Sweeney regarding um what I considered to be concerns um relating to
ordinance 558 in particular in in particular the provisions of 558 that deal with an increase a 100% increase in the finished floor elevation standard
that's a part of that um of that provision so ordinance 588 deals with um individual code sections of the Land Development code section 16516 um and this concern was brought to
me by um representatives of the community who were expressing concerns about the in the financial impact that raising the ffe by 100% to 2 fet above Fe um would um visit upon
Homer unintended Financial consequences which can be very very significant so um that memo uh I think well I know has been shared with the mayor and other members of the council um and um for for
the reasons indicated in the memo um I've suggested that Town Council give public notice of and then hold a workshop to revisit the enact excuse me of ordinance 558 and its Mandate of 100% increase of the minimum finished floor elevation which is
codified in section 16516 of the Land Development code um my goal is to um have Council participate in a publicly noticed
Workshop um my preference and my hope is that that that Workshop would be attended by represent members of the community who can then um inform us about their views about how the increased FF
will um impact homeowners developers uh in the community um my understanding is that it will have a very significant impact and already has had a significant impact um my hope would be that we could hold that in a
form where it would in comment from for instance contractors developers Architects uh real estate brokers um and also because this feeds
into um uh the impact upon the um flood the national flood insurance program and the nfip's knew what they refer to as their
equity an action um premium rating system it's called um equity and action 2.0 the result of which is going to drastically increase
um premiums for the um flood the feema flood insurance um to the point where in zip code 32963 there are inforce 9,9 13 FEMA
policies 893 of those FEMA policy holders will definitely face drastic premium increases over the next five years um to the point where um for instance in
Indian River Shores it would not surprise to learn that policy holders in Indian River Shores who now typically play pay something between $900 a year and $1300 for flood insurance um will
after 5 years probably be paying closer to $5,000 in pums and those are for people who are already grandfathered into the programs if you are a if you are a lot owner or if you are developing property that had
not been developed before it is more likely that you will face a nfip premium of something in excess of $10,000 um so when you take that cost together with the unintended cost
Associated what it means to elevate a property to get your property to a point where it is 2 feet above EF has the the likelihood that it's going to visit Upon Our constituents significant cost to the point where I think it's it's important
for us to step back revisit the wisdom of 558 and the increasing of the FF 2et above BF uh and determine whether or not we want to do something about that I don't think that we um have the um
background and expertise in in the issues that face the community on this and I think that we would be informed by having that Workshop my preference would be to have it in a form where um we can encourage the free exchange of ideas um
uh I think we could either do it here in the in council chambers my preference frankly would be to do it in the allpurpose room so that it depending upon the audience that we achieved with this I think that there's going to be a significant interest in this in this
meeting so um I would leave it to all right so the the request is to um schedule a a public Workshop um the way I read your memo was you know to revisit the issue particularly based upon um a
restructuring of the way the Biden administration had this equity in action Community rating uh to see whether or not um because we all we this this ordinance was approved unanimously uh I guess your point is we didn't have that information available to us at the time
and we would benefit by having um additional experts from the community on both sides you know kind of present the pro and con and invite the public to attend my my memories that this ordinance was approved on January April 23rd 202
23 um the equity in action premium basis went into effect probably three weeks before that we weren't aware of that I I suspect that our Consultants probably weren't aware this is something that's
buried in the federal rag so um that that information didn't come to me until frankly December and it was shocking to hear what the numbers were okay so the request is a workshop um I don't I think we need a vote but is there comment from
Council uh you want the workshop you don't want the workshop after councilman Al's uh presentation vice mayor uh a couple questions um first of all with regard to our CRS rating the
Improvement we just uh received it was my understanding one element of getting uh a better rating was changing the BFA what was the what was the impact in points on that um there were two um facets of the
increase in BF one is the points the increase in BF gives you an extra 120 points that we would have to make I think it was 125 I beg you pardon I think it was 125
100 yeah about that um just the other thing I just want to make sure to remind you is at the time when we did the bfv plus two we had new flood maps that came out and that had lowered our base flood
elevation by 1 foot and it is mandatory to have a one foot of freeboard or BF plus one and when you have your BF here you're required to per Florida building coat to build up to
here now our base flood elevation went down 1 foot so basically homes that have been built at 1 foot plus they already meet the minimum criteria of having a two-footer
freeboard I that was the whole premise behind us getting the BF plus two I had discussed with Jim that I will give him information based on our vulnerability assessment how many buildings are
impacted by the BF plus2 where they would have to elevate if it was a substantial Improvement or substantially damaged building I I think it has a different impact upon existence okay well then I I that brings me to my second question our
building official so what what's the criteria where they know now have to meet the new standards is it 50% rehab okay yes sir and it depends on the type of work they're doing as well
vice mayor and there's a actually a Desk Reference that I follow that's put out by FEMA and it's basically a guide for substantial complete and substantial Improvement structures so it's not just basically a one-size you
know fits all you have to basically look at the the flood zone then you have to look at the type of uh construction that's going on the type of improvement you know whether it's an addition an alteration whether the addition is is
going to be attached or detached those are variables that you have to take into account to see if that structure needs to meet the current criteria okay so so B based on your experience reviewing
these all the time say over approximately last year what was your guess as to how many properties would be impacted by this uh vice mayor a percentage I can't give you a percentage but I can say that it's
very low it's it's a very low percentage when it comes to let's say additions uh when it comes to substantial complete uh Renovations uh um it's it's still again very low the the new homes obviously
need to be raised and they need to comply and you you've had three of those uh three of those this year fiscal year according to page 53 of your your your report so um correct okay and then and then obviously you you you have some
other I I think it would just be important to understand the magnitude of of of this issue I mean I'm I'm okay with having a having a workshop but I think that's information the council needs as well you know is this how how
big of a problem is this for for certain people so yeah and vice mayor again regardless if we remove BF plus two you're going to have to meet BF plus one per the Florida building code and under
nfip the 50% rule will still apply regardless of what the free board is going going to be set by ordinance you still have it set by the fora building code so okay all right you want because he wasn't
finished so no I I frankly I think it's best that we save that type of comment for the workshop I mean I don't see the point of litigating it at this point I don't you know I don't I don't have any um um any
problem with the workshop but I I don't want that to be taken as a signal that um I personally decided that you [Music] know always to they would like to have deer
discussion on and it's a workshop so you know we have it council members can come or not come if they want I know this I know this guy said partip um and you know I will I will you know further add that we
have hopefully bad attendance records from you know affected citizens every time we have a workshop on stuff like this but I I don't have an issue I don't have an issue holding it do anybody strongly object to having a workshop on this all right um I would ask um with
your Indulgence Council that you schedule this for a couple of months because as we were kind of looking at earlier there's there's a fluid situation a lot of you know potential regulations that are changing so I'm not saying HT this into the fall but maybe later in the spring you know we can you
know hold this and then we'll have a better better level of experience to see where potential changes and regulations are going you know if Hema is going to restructure the flood insurance programs you know it's quite
frankly um it's it's in it's in such a state of flux that we may find ourselves in back into um issues that are there or not there much the same way we adopted this ordinance before the equity and action thing happen so you know I I read
your memo as um you know very correctly pointing out that you know this equity and Action reating System really threw a boomerang into this whole you know this whole thing so you know are we really complaining about you know BF plus2 or
are we complaining about you know how the you know how the powers that be are um you know calculating you know flood insurance premiums and things like that so no problem at all but I just think we need we need to make sure we schedle this for a time and we have a clearer
picture of you know where the regulatory regime is going so um Mr Harin you feel comfortable finding a Time on the schedule later in the spring and you know before everybody goes away
from you want to have participation yes we've had a number of internal meetings on this topic since council member alter's um uh memo uh was issued so we'll be prepared to get a couple of dates to try to coordinate with Council uh first make sure everybody's available and and we'll
we'll get that said okay good um is that acceptable to you the timing of that yeah yeah it it it it suits my purposes because it gives me an opportunity to make sure that the people in the community who have expressed an interest in this are available and prepared to
come and to give us their point of view great greatly appreciate that um and uh you know we'll we'll get a date for that on this on the calendar and um look forward to seeing as many people that are interested coming as possible but
you know I would like I'm I'm not going to be as persuaded by a realtor real I've had realtors in the family but you know Realtors you know typically look for the easiest way to sell a property not necessarily the safest or the one that benefits the
community in terms of resiliency uh Builders I talked to a couple of Builders about this after I got your um your memo it's a mixed bag um in terms of how they think but you know we'll you know I think we'll we'll also be very
well served to um give a little bit more homework to held and leading is boning um that you know that there's some experience of other similarly situated communities over the time because we just did this um you know what does it
look like you know particularly a place like us where you know we have mostly Renovations and additions we don't see a lot of new builds like other places there's not much property develop so we we have a unique set of issues and then I think we have a global set of issues with the unknowns as where the
regulations are going on this look forward look forward to the the discussion yes sir correct thank you great thank you all right we have it here not in the community center the Acoustics are not that good with a large crowd at a
community center uh my thought is given the nature of the topic to have it here so we could uh record it post it and and so on for you know for reference um I uh unless there's a u overwhelming number of people we can't fit in here we have our fire inspector here he'll let us know uh I I I don't think that's going
to happen uh even with the hot button issue of dogs on the beach we still have plenty of room for people who are here so uh you know if if we do have if we do have that level of public participation that would be a great thing and then we can uh you know we can move it along but
we can get a sense of interest for how many people are going to come beforehand as we have in the past so uh all right good anything else on this or we ready to move on uh Mr Mayor under councilman item sure okay just just one quick thing
you you brought up the speed limit of 35 uh miles an hour that was a necessary but not sufficient condition to try to get a crosswalk with f dot uh I started working on that originally with uh with Mark Shaw who's retired now we did have
a discussion with them they're still dra bragging their their feet but I'm going to I'm going toh keep after them to try to get that crosswalk the second thing is I was at the F operations center down in Fort Pierce on a issue regarding the
uh bike Lanes they apparently put the uh avts the rumble strips in the long location to try to fix that during that uh discussion there was a a gentleman on traffic signal management who was there on a zoom call from I think Fort
Lauderdale and I bring did bring up the HMR again talked to him about how the traffic is backed up he was rather surprised by that he said he was going to take a look at it we'll see what happens so that's it great thank you councilman elater um if it didn't violate the Sunshine Law I would I was
thinking about forwarding some of the texts to you but uh for now we'll just send them to Mr Haring so but it but it is odd because you know you'll for no Rhyme or Reason you back up all the way up to Fred Turk and then at the same time you know pretty much the same
weather conditions there's nothing so um we'll just have to keep an eye on it can I can I ask a question mayor that we still in the vicinity of the mayor's report yes sure um I I read recently that the that the governor and the state of florer is giving serious
consideration to doing away with property taxes yeah have we begun to think about how that resonates with us there are some things councilman elter after a while on this days you just don't think about and uh that's that's one of those I I think that's
aspirational and uh you know it's it's a it's a concept that was just flown out there but you know interestingly enough I was talking with the town manager about this today and I got you know a couple of questions like well well who would it apply to would it be homad of people um would it be commercial
properties as well um would we then be allowed to uh Implement a sales tax so um you know I think uh you know I think it's it's going to be very interesting topic of conversation when councilman danne goes to the Treasure Coast Regional League of cities because they
love to freak out about stuff like this and they will um but I I can't imagine that um you know we're going to see you know very uh substantial action on this anytime in the near future it's just too
disruptive um particularly since you know it may work for us but we're we're about 30% of the County's advolum tax revenues so um if you think about what do we have about 50% homesteaded in our in our town thereabouts 45 to 55% any
given time that's a that's a fairly substantial hit so um I'm you know I'm I'm oldfashioned I believe that it's the people's money and you know it's only by you know our consent that we give that tax money to the government so they got
to stop thinking it's their money and not ours I'm all for it but I just don't see it as being in any way way um in any way feasable the way the finances of the state are structured others others you may disagree but um I'm not sure what we would even have to think about you know
until we saw something more concrete and uh do we get a sales tax you know ability um just just nothing to think about right now well in Europe they have them they're called value added taxes are a nightmare try to try to do I think the
you since we're on the question of taxes there's house bill 87 and there's a companion bill in the Senate limiting our ability to raise the the military I think that's something we're going to have to keep a very close eye on that's uh that has been moved to the Ways and
Means Committee so I don't know what kind of momentum it has I I I just read the thing uh this morning and you know I was talking to our town attorney about it it's it's a tough read to kind of figure out what's going on there so something to keep an eyee I I agree
that's that we could see um and I couldn't would impact us less than larger municipalities some municipalities are very near the statutory limit in terms of the mill rate that they can charge there is a limit you can't you can't what is it 10%
um and some are pretty close to that so you may see you may see something like that's more likely but you know well but this this if I understand it correctly creates restrictions our ability to raise our rate regardless of how high
high or how low it is and you know I'm sure Heather can you know with with Peak and take a look at it maybe run a couple quick scenarios what this might do do to us you know as we're coming up in the budget season you know for other
discussions as well we takeen anything anything else on that all right item 8 a ordinance 576 which is on smoking that's prohibition on smoking
marijuana which is U second reading on this item we're going to ask is there any uh any public comment on this no one wants to admit smoking thought H Mr Mayor I'll go ahead and read intitle able to move okay wait do
we have any further discussion from Council on this we have some discussion to change the scope and penalty okay so if you can go ahead please and read yes sir 7576 ordinance of the council Florida amending
912 all right any further comment there is none is there a motion to approve all right the vice the vice mayor moved and counc Carol second a roll call vote please mayor Foley I vice mayor aler I council member Carol I
council member Altier council member Dane let the record show the motion passes unanimously all right thank you um item 8 B this is the new ordinance number 577 which is a marijuana dispensary ordinance uh if you would like to read
the title of that since it's the first reading and then I'll ask for public comment thank you Mr may this is all right is there any public comment okay um once again this is um uh first reading is there any discussion
from Council on this or are we satisfied with the way it is now all right if there's no discussion is there a motion to approve MO is there a second second all right we uh have a roll call vote mayor Foley I VI M awater
hi Council M Carol council member alry council member danne let the record show the motion passes unanimously all right staff updates uh we're getting our money's worth out of you today Mr held so building official report in
statistics I do not have anything additional to add regarding the uh reports here there is an error however uh that was brought to my attention and it has to do with the approximate number of inspections that
are performed within 24 hours of the INSP inspection request and it's showing here approximately 94% of inspections are performed within 24 hours of the
request that information that 94% is inaccurate it's not tied in anywhere to any type of uh table or query that is pulling out live data from the rest of the information here on the
report um all inspections that we receive are completed on the the day that they are scheduled um and we obviously keep doing that unless there's some type
of you know issue with the contractor to where they might cancel the that inspection I just wanted to make that clear yes sir I'll I'll eliminate that for the uh for the next council meeting are there any
[Music] questions yes sir they are great thank you everyone e e e e I don't really have anything to report
except that we just finalized I just finalized the financial statements for the 2024 audit um I've done the reviews I'm going to get some to the Auditors next week we should have a finance committee in March and presentation at the either the March or the April
meeting for the council's approval there any questions thank you your procedures stand the island a little bit Public Safety department reported statistics keep
St good morning um just a few things I want to bring you up the speed on construction continues to be on schedule and going well over at the over at the building um the base base have been the floor has been done on that and they look great starting to install the walls do some uh do some fire stopping and those types of things that the entire
project is on is on uh uh on schedule um the only downside to all that is it's very noisy inside the building with all the construction going on um I'm sure you've seen we've uh deployed the speed signs um and uh both ends of the Town
we've also staff rebuilt the uh um message board that we had they we had a couple boxes that were rustling out so staff actually rebuilt those and thank you thank you much for the for their efforts on that and actually that that one's currently deployed right here on Fred tur Road actually getting that
construction traffic to slow down as they coming up through the through the uh through the area um staff continues uh to do speed enforcement along A1A um that's been very successful with the number of warnings issued some tickets depending
on the speed and if they're uh so-called repeat customers when we run the run the backgrounds on um down a single position right now um and uh the replacement for that position has actually gone through the through
his final steps in the hiring process and we've identified that individual we currently have one of our pum employees uh who is in fire school um and he will be a triple certified when he comes out of fire school and he's slated to be our next hire um the uh uh
I think that's uh we we do have uh something that uh we're we're very happy about over there we've had two recent additions to the uh the public safety family over there Nev Hall our receptionist and officer Sana um both welcome new new babies into their families and both are healthy and the
MERS doing well and uh um we we would just all wel them into in our into our family so be happy to answer any questions that you may have anything for chief Stone starting here way down vice mayor uh thank you for putting the speed
signs up I would ask that you are on keeping them up for a longer period of time it's uh in the beginning when this occurred in particular driving uh North along A1A I'd have a pickup truck right behind me his grill covering there and
he was uh give me a hand Jester indicating I was number one and that that has reduced uh quite quite a bit I think there's less lack a better term pissed off people they know why I'm doing 35 miles an hour right
so yep and my neighbors have said the same thing yep we'll continue to P those and move them around move them around the town good point vice mayor um excuse me Mr Carol anything um one follow-up item and um I say it only because
one has the correct speed limit the other and uh Google Maps if you go to carplay still has the old speed limit and so I'm I'm 100% convinced that a lot of the people given the Hawaiian salute as we call it um to us that are doing
35 um are looking down at their dashboard not at the signs and they seeing 45 miles hour um any way you know we can uh encourage you know these these service providers and you know GPS folks I don't even know how they do it I tried
to look into it you know I I think I suggested three meetings ago let's get a 17-year-old kid and they'll know exactly and your grandson was going to look into it so I would just ask that let's let's really drill down into that because I you know I I am 100% convinced that people don't pay attention to signs
anymore they look at what's on their digital screen and if they see 45 they think you know we're going too slow and and we'll we'll get with if if thought to to have them reach out again we'll we'll make sure that we because they're the ones that actually have to do it because it's a state road um and
if not if they continue to uh go down the path of running 45 miles hour and 35 officer bill will be glad to uh take care of their division issues and monitor the screen yeah no I I I appreciate it but I you know I also have um an awareness that if somebody thinks
that they're you know that that they're behind somebody who's going 10 miles under the speed limit and they're late for whatever reason you know they're more likely to uh to to get raged yeah exactly so maybe fot if it's fot you know or we zone four sector four
whatever they call it our representative we'll reach out to okay great thank you Chief anything else for chief all right good um Town attorney Mr Sweeney thank you m Mr mayor council uh three quick things to report first following up on a part of your mayor's
report U we were successful and I'm very appreciative of the support of the planning zoning and variance board uh chair Mr carbin who brought the issue to the Forefront about this time sharing entity um who had made a first fora into the town it's also been referred to as a
fractional ownership approach so a cease and assist letter was issued as I mentioned to all of you to the homeowner The Entity and the real estate agency um very appreciative of the homeowner who spoke with me immediately upon receipt took the uh notice and immediately
reached out to the third party it was removed it has been removed and as of the date uh Tuesday this week there was no listings within the town however um as part of this I was made aware that Miami Beach had already gotten in front of this and as we discussed Mr Mayor for
the benefit of the rest of council this is pervasive uh in Florida and many other affluent basically vacation h spots in the country very prevalent in Colorado I've been told um so we will continue to see it and as I said Miami beeps has gotten ahead of it uh the town
of Palm Beach Island has also been made aware of it so in speaking with colleagues I will continue to get information make sure that we stay on the Forefront of this because again I do not think it will go away again much like the vacation rental short-term rental market that balloon 10 years ago
um I think this is the Leading Edge of that so I'm very appreciate of council support on that uh additionally um I would mention that on Tuesday legislature will start as was alluded to and for the benefit of council and our
residents there have already been 1,300 bills pre-filed with the state legislature so now again that may just be on one side or the other side of the legislative body the house or the Senate however they go through many committee stops and we will continue the Florida
Le of cities provide updates but some of the hot to topics generally that I've been made aware of have to do with Second Amendment issues um potentially addressing the increased age for purchase of long rifles um also open carry um some environmental issues and
obviously the budget is the Forefront again so we will continue to monitor that there will be a 60-day session but again starting on this Tuesday March 4th um the third thing that I'll just mention to this council is that on Tuesday I attended independent of town
duties uh an econ IC development Workshop uh hosted by Indian River County they have contracted with a consultant based out of Austin and are moving forward uh for background previously the county had utilized the Chamber of Commerce as their Economic
Development coordinating uh basically person uh Helen catine has retired so they don't have somebody I believe they are going to be hiring somebody but in the interim they're updating a report which last I looked has not been updated in about 12
years so this was a first foray there was some Realtors there was some developers property owners that were there and they expect to have more Outreach workshops and again as mayor alluded to this this town provides not
just 30% of the adum base but also so much of the Phil philanthropic aspect of this town and all of the other development opportunities that are ancillary to that so uh I would encourage and we'll continue to provide any information that I receive on any of those Outreach efforts because again
this is being spearheaded by the county uh it's expected to last over approximately the next 3 to four months so any questions on any of that or anything else I'm always available thank you very good question uh as was reported by
the consultant um they starting with getting an idea of what do we have and so they will cre a Baseline and that was the essential Outreach there was commentary has has come up many many times throughout the county over the last several years affordable or Workforce housing that would probably be
the single thing that was discussed the most and then from there the economic opportunities that come from that um it's appropo that Dr Moore was awarded a resolution today because that came up we certainly have a very well designed and structured Early
Education System in Indian River County and that should lead to people wanting to say many of the stories that were told were my sons and daughters leave and they don't come back um so focusing on that but to to take your point further what drives does development
drive the infrastructure does the infrastructure Drive the development the USB study which the County Commission has been finalized in a sense but staff is working through and we'll be presenting a final implementation uh I believe in May so that Corridor the only
area that's really going to expand is the Oslo where the new interchange I95 interchange will be it's it's moving along very quickly and I've been told will be open potentially in uh late this year potentially even middle of next year but as it continues to move that's
the focus there so you have a maybe left hand right hand approach um what are we allowed to do from an infrastructure perspective versus what will the development Community do but again this was an initial kickoff um I expect that we'll see more and hopefully more Outreach it's being driven by the
community and development services department at the county so but again Mr tanic and his assistant deputies are aware of it again I'll provide any information that I get as it comes out yes sir thank you excuse me um Mr mayor council I
would just like to note that the town uh has been conducting a vulnerability assessment uh for some time uh we've had a couple of uh internal staff meetings with our Personnel we've also had one uh public Outreach meeting we're scheduling a second public Outreach meeting on vulnerability assessment and it is March
18th at 9:30 it'll be here in the council chambers uh we'll begin publicizing that in our newsletter and website and so on uh and that's uh part of the ongoing uh vulnerability assessment uh that we've been working on received a grant from fdp FD on that uh particular project uh I don't have
anything else specific for Council but if there's anything I can address I'm happy to do so um and honestly given the um uh given the Personnel that we have uh here and in our collective experience we've we've already started talking about it prospectively in terms of things that
we're looking at now and no we'll essentially be uh engaging in the same uh pre-storm preparations uh one of the biggest things is to make sure that we have um uh piece of heavy equipment for our Public Works um uh Department uh to use and we lease that
for a period of time DET term that's kind of the most cost effective thing right now and uh I will just note um how valuable that determination to have that turned out to be relative to Hurricane Milton uh because that was uh critical uh in the assistance of the recovery efforts just south of us um so that's
all I have yeah last week uh town cler jennis roten and I attended the meeting of the Treasure Coast uh League of cities and
um basically the the things that they're uh concerned about are uh are affordable housing and um most most communities are running into the same problem uh there's a couple of bills that are looks like
they're sailing through the legislatur um House Bill 359 and there's a an accompanying Senate bill look like they're going to go through uh through the process
successfully they're going to uh it'll raise the homestead exemption from $50,000 to $100,000 that probably won't affect us that much because of the value of the homes here
it will it will but it's going to substantially uh affect communities where the homes are you know in the $1 15200 th000 range is going to cut a lot of great percentage of their revenue out
down so they're we're watching that it's 357 359 how's Bill 247 is also it supposed to deal somewhat with affordable housing
again what it proposes is that you can have accessory dwellings in backyards of residential residences basically without permitting and
also uh no change in the parking regulations so you could somebody pointed out well they could someone could move a a uh trailer mobile home into the backyard have you know six people live
in it and uh maybe add six cars to that residential piece of property um the the municipalities are are prohibited from
restricting that now um there's concern that there will be other uh things that are need to be permitted that that would be bypassed also so they're very concerned about that
one what the Treasure Coast Council is going to do is we we formed a initial committee to to study whether or not we should have have a Workforce that would uh establish another
committee that would establish a someday a Workforce that might look at the problem of affordable housing which if if I if my term lasts that long maybe I'll uh maybe I'll see what it is but it is most of the Comm communities
have very uh very much interest in this because depending if it's a large uh large municipality or a small one like we are um there's there's great impact
because folks can't afford housing and uh so I think I think that the not only is the legislature looking at it but all the towns are looking at what they can do and how the effect is how they will be affected by this pending legislation
which if this goes through there's a good chance there'll be uh additional legislation that'll try to address it very difficult situation that's what we do homeowners associations as long as they qualify as homeowner associations it's
been mentioned that there are homeowner associations that say they are but they really don't need all the criteria and you have to you would have to have been one uh before this is is enacted um so you
can't then back up and say oh well now we're now we're going to be a h because they basically don't want their uh goals to be curtailed by acts in the future
other than that we had a great lunch well February is not an odd-numbered month so uh there was not a utilities committee commission meeting but there is one uh uh in the next several days um
so nothing new to report officially although I come to understand that there is a new number attached to the anticipated cost of the waste uh water facility um uh I don't know exactly what
that number is but my memory is that it's it's either 10 or 20 million do higher than the last number7 million so so we'll people yeah and it's my hope um in the next couple of days just to stir the pile a little bit so that an
actual representative of the essential Water Services team shows up for the meeting as opposed to just sitting on a Das with five other people who were not informed by the people who are in the central Water Services all right thank
you for govern p okay in the uh Beach and shures preservation advisory committee meeting uh I managed to get myself elected chair which brings some some advantages the discussion that occurred at the last
meeting was regarding a memorandum of understanding between the Sebastian Inlet District and the India River County under Florida of Statute any of these Inlet districts that are established are required to move sand
around the jetti so it can't all accumulate there and as I think everybody knows here sing uh in our County goes from north to south So eventually that sand gets down here in Indie River Shores well the county and
the district negotiate this agreement that I got maybe with two or three days business notice on it it was completely Toothless and just this background I'll try to go through this as quick as I can Sebastian Inlet was generally supposed to be putting anywhere between 75 and
990,000 cubic yards of sand a year on the what they call the downd drift uh beaches So eventually sectors one and two sector three is Indian Rivers Shore so it just keeps flowing down they have missed this Target and I have reports
from the state that show that so they came up with this agreement to set a Target the word they used of I think was 75,000 cubic yards going over the next uh 10 years with renewal dates and so forth well a Target is meaningless so I
rewrote it requiring that every since these are fiveyear rolling periods every two and a half years uh there is a requirement that the Inlet District produce a report showing how much sand theyve put over the past two and a half
years and if they're short of this 75 ,000 uh per year goal that they have to come up with a plan within six months to amarate that well all hell broke loose in the meetings you can imagine because the Sebastian District okay we'll have
this regular uh uhou that we can ignore like we've done done previously so unfortunately we're short one person from a a quarum so it has to come back to us and uh I I think I created some uh issues because somebody hired relatively
high up at staff level uh in the in the county apparently had signed off on that knowing that it was that it was just it was was meaningless so we'll see what happens uh I think I'll get a vote to uh approve it but it's only an advisory uh
comment it'll go to County Commission so the presentation the slide deck that I had put together for the uh meeting at the uh Beach ures I'll probably have to go in front of County Commission again because they got a feeling they're not going to change it so we we'll see what
happens but I think it's very important for us certainly is this is there any benefit in you know us reaching out and uh you know having a more formalized sort of your position on this yeah I think that would be a good idea I probably I probably should have
thought that before it came no worries been dying to say this for years Jim your mission should you choose to accept it if you can get the um you know the relevant municipalities through the town managers to put together a joint letter
um supporting this I can't imagine anybody wouldn't um jump on board um you know we can you can sign off on it and you know I'm sure Council Council agrees you know that you know St position and you know listen to the recording Bob
just stated it you know perfectly so that would be I think helpful I I I did speak with cherry Stow or orc at Town manager for those and I brought her up to speak because it impacts them even more because they're F they're fur further north so you know I
think that's an excellent idea so that's it for me Teresa Morgan 935 Beach L um I just wanted to ask a question um I think despite the headlines that the most important decisions that affect my life are made here not in Washington so when
I look to prepare to come to a meeting and I look at the agenda I don't know what some of these bills and resolutions and things that are being voted on are all about so I would love it if there could be a hyperlink on the agenda connecting me to some of that
information just so that I can I can know what's happen happening before I come to the meeting is that I well you know I dug around the website like for instance one of the consent agenda items was a budget resolution and
I I looked for it I couldn't find it so maybe it's there I just have trouble finding it so a hyperlink in the agenda would be super helpful so yeah yeah yeah it's it's good for insomnia if
anyone has that thank