All >> right, it's 5:30. Good. Good evening, everybody. Marne, let's get this show on the road. Will you please call the role? >> Council member Steve Freriedman >> here. >> Council member Deb Gillis >> here. >> Council member Anna Richards >> here. Vice Mayor Sharon Mahoney >> here.
>> And Mayor Don Horton, >> I am here. We have >> uh let's see. Pasta, will you lead us in the pledge of allegiance, sir? >> You can do it from right there. You're fine. >> You do it. >> Go for it.
>> I'm too nervous. >> No, you're not. I pledge 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. Thank you very much. >> Council, do we have any uh requests for deletions or emergency additions for tonight? >> Not for me, >> Deb. Nope. >> Nope. Nope. >> Jennifer. >> Uh Mr. Mayor, I would ask um that the
council defer I believe it's tab 9 um at this time so that I can do some additional research and uh make a call um I want to give make a call to Tallahassee to the Department of Commerce to ask a question about that ordinance before we move forward with it.
>> All right. So, we're pulling tab nine. >> Yes, sir. If if >> John, do you have anything? >> Uh nope. Nothing for me. Ron. >> No, sir. >> All right. Very good. Um, let's see.
We uh can we we've gotten rid of the announcement from Greg Dolly and the land acquisition. And uh is Lette here today? Is our captain here yet? >> She just called me and said they're running late, so to move ahead with the lieutenant here.
>> Very good. We'll wait on that. Um, Anna, it looks like you may have something on our reports and presentations. Go for it. >> Uh, Pasta, would you like to come on up, please? Um, so in case anybody doesn't know that
I've been working with Emily Rother for the last month and a half on this beautiful room, getting it all pretty and nice. And Pasta was so generous to donate to the village this beautiful
keys to life painting. So, uh, go ahead. I'll give you a couple minutes. >> I'll make it quick. I know you guys got a big night ahead of you. So, I don't have enough thank yous in my uh in in this time frame to do it all with this uh community. 20 uh 20 years ago, I came down here full-time and I opened up my
first gallery called Keys to Life. It was across from the OV. Uh hung my shingle up, left my sign business, started a new life, and uh it took it didn't take very long for this community to uh to really reach out. The Alma Mlouds and the Bob Lodges of the world came out to me and started collecting
some art. I was right across the street from the LV. I painted the keys to life and I named the keys to life for two reasons. The for everything to live in there and and how the keys how the magnets protect everything and it was my keys to life to be here fulltime 20 years ago. So, it's called Keys to Life.
It's going to be on permanent display here. Actually have a larger frame one that's going to replace that one liter that came out of the gallery today. But this community I felt I tell people I'm like an old car and this community fills my tank with gas every single day so I can keep going. And um um all the
different uh village council members in the last 20 years have been nothing but so nice to me and Corel and all my little shenanigans on projects and things that go on in the Chamber of Commerce and Judy Hoe. They believe me, I wake up every day indebted to some great people and I see
our kids growing up in a in a like-minded community and see all the opportunities they have by seeing some young professionals that made it here in life. Whether it be construction, real estate, art, music, they all have a lineage of things to look at are successful people in a successful town
thanks to a lot of great people. So, thank you very much. >> Wait, don't leave yet. >> Costa, come back up here. Come back. >> Pasta, come back. >> I have a beautiful certificate for you. >> Okay. >> And pasta, you have donated to every
fundraiser I do, every event. You are so wonderful to this community and I've gotten many trophies from you for my tournaments and continue on that. >> I appreciate you greatly. I know everybody else does >> and you're and our conversation was heartfelt and thank you so much. >> You're welcome. He did a he did a piece
of art on the sunset for me before I sold it. So, nice. I'm going to the old fans tournament. We're doing the trophies for that. So, I wasn't old enough to even >> I got Thank you, Pasta. Pasta. I'm going to I'm going to thank you like I do every year. U Pasta
donates about 25 pieces of art for the take stock and children backcountry challenge that the Keargo Rotary has every year. every year he is there uh with those framed prints and uh those awards are are well appreciated by all
the attendees of that. So everything you do for this community is awesome positive and we're we're indebted to you and we thank you so much for this gift to the village >> and my wife Angela has a lot to do with all that and and my success as well. So um I'll continue because you guys give
me so much to uh work from this. Thank you. Thank you. >> And Anna, what you've done with the artwork in here and you and Emily are is it it's a big improvement. So, thank you for your hard work on that. We really appreciate it.
>> All right. We've got an update, I guess, from uh Mr. Cutler tonight. Do we? You're getting close, aren't you? >> Yes. Thank you, village council. >> That's tough to follow right there. art and now I got to talk about dirt and
groundwater. So, um, thanks for having me. I want to also thank the village um, Chamber of Commerce last month. They invited, uh, myself and Greg Vez to their lunchon on the 28th. It was an awesome time and we
were able to share some of the upcoming projects and the progress that just what we've had with all the support that we've received from the village. It's really made this, you know, these projects go as smooth as they can possibly go. So, I want to thank the the Chamber of Commerce for that. I'm going
to fast forward to the map here. Okay, so the the update I have tonight is good news. Um, we've finally reached through the orange area on the map, which is known as the school zone, um, which causes most of the traffic congestion. So, as of Friday, they were
um covering up the last hole and then they got the asphalt pavement down and were able to advance the traffic control and theote. So, um we've got that in the ground and that was one of our main goals to get done here. Um certainly this month, we actually were wanted it
done last month. Um, but with that, you will notice just because we're working on the north side of Tavern Bridge now, and in order to get traffic over at night, you know, at at night, we're we're doing the same like we did in the other areas, we're we're keeping the lane open during the day just to keep
traffic flowing as best possible. And then at night when we're laying the pipe, we're putting the north and southbound on the just the southbound side. So, in order to make that transition though, we have to extend theote to the south side of the bridge
until we get further up closer to Ocean Boulevard. So, you will see that um during the night operation, we've also um we've mobilized the Monroe County Sheriff's Office for the Ocean Boulevard intersection now that we're going to be working up towards that area from the
north side of the bridge. They're in position basically at 8 o'clock every night for three hours just to manage the traffic coming out of the Wind Dixie Plaza there. And um our guys, they're already laying pipe on the north side. I think they've got 115 ft in already just
starting this week. It'll go a lot smoother now once we, you know, we're getting all the utilities and everything located there now. But just to give you guys some totals, you know, this we started this project um to install 34,205 feet of the steel water mane. We now got
27,79 ft in the ground, which is um basically 81% of the pipe done. And it's looking like end of April is our best projection for that small dark reddish orange color that you see up there going up to Julip
Road. By the end of April, we're hoping to be to the to the north limits there. Now, May, June, summer time frame, we're going to come back and there's six connections that we have to make. Um, so we'll have to do that work, get everything tested, and then we're going
to start doing the paving work. Um, just to give you guys an update on that as well. There were some discussions with FDOT about because they have a project coming right behind us to do the full roads. Um but but the agreement that has just recently been made, we're basically going to do the first half of the lane
pretty much everywhere where where we've laid pipe. We're going to come back and put new asphalt to the center line of the road. Basically, that will be the last thing we do probably around July, August time frame would be our projection now. So with that, there's one more thing I want to just point out
on the area we're working at now. If I can get to the right slide. Uh, keep going here. I think that might be a good one. Let me see. This is See if this is a closer. It's not going to work for me, is it?
I'll use this one. So, the intersections that you see there, one of them is basically coming out of um where the Dunkin Donuts and the AT&T store is and then up to Ocean at night. and and we understand this plaza or this area um is
used quite a bit at night more than the school zone areas. They've made it the construction zone is going to block a lot of those areas where you can't cut over and head north. You'll have to go south and get through the construction zone and then come back around. A lot of people are already figuring that out and
there's a police up there to help with that. But just to let the public know that you will see that during the nighttime operation in this area. And um with that, that's all I have unless you guys have any questions. >> Does that mean that you're going to have to come out of the Windixie Plaza and go
across the bridge to come back around? >> Not that far. Um but it's it's about uh I think just just short of the bridge, right, David? >> Oh, across where we're at now. Excuse me. I'm sorry. Where we're at now because we're transitioning at the bridge. you will have to go across the
bridge. Now, there's a way there's a cheat code. I probably should say you can go to the hospital right now because the MOT is not that far. That option won't be available once we scoot up a little bit, but you can go up through where the hospital in the McDonald's is and avoid that intersection like if you
work in there, you have to if you want to go straight north. >> Are you going to allow them to do a U-turn there in front of Vixs or are they going to head down to the uh because that's kind of a little that's kind of a sketchy area where the road curves there. Would they have to go all the way down to the stoplight or are
they you going to prohibit them from doing a UI right there across from like Vicks? >> I think what we've been encouraging and this just started this week is to go down to at least where Creek Side in where Old Highway is. >> Yeah, that's where I'm talking about. >> Yeah, that that that's the um location
we're telling them now. Um, we're monitoring everything though cuz this is just going if we see an issue or if law enforcement tells us there's something, we we could switch that. Um, but right now, yes, that is the that's the location. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. Any other questions,
>> council? Anyone? All right. Thank you very much. Thanks for the update. >> All right. Uh, let's go to citizens advisory committee reports. Uh, looks like we've got one from Nearshore Water. Roger.
Oh, it's not Roger tonight. Look at that. >> Anna's married to the wrong >> Anna's married to the wrong Roger. >> I was volunttoled. >> Good evening, Mayor and Council. Uh, for the record, my name is Jason Richards and I serve on the nearshore water
regulation citizens advisory committee. I'm here to update you on our last meeting we had conducted on January 27th of 2026. Um, I'll get into it. We had Michelle Robinson from Monroe County Marine
Resource Office provide a graphic to showcase recommendations to the committee for several piling placements to replace buoys at the Whale Harbor. No motor zones. If if you've been out there in a while, a lot of the buoys have either been broken and missing. um
committee agreed and recommended uh that uh replace the buoys with some uh piling like style uh no wake uh to make them a little bit more well they'll stay in place. We also recommended that we put extra retroreflective tape to be added
to pilings for those that can't keep it between the navigational beacons. They can kind of see it at night. Uh the committee all agreed it would be beneficial to have a representative from the National Marine Sanctuary at our next meeting to provide some updates. Uh
other item discussed, I'll let Peter touch on that about the Starks Wheel Ditch. Uh Taer Creek extension of the slow speed uh speed zone was heard at the BOCC meeting uh on the 28th and it passed. So it's heading to permitting
with the state in the next few weeks. Diane and Steve located two old pieces of signage in San Pedro Lake, which is the lake behind Plantation Key there, the school. A couple of the citizens there had asked us to look into the they have some signs that say shallow water,
I believe. Um, we kind of thought that was out of our scope. So, we uh counled them on uh maybe the homeowners could put some signs on their docks. Um, and let's see, Diane discussed uh the marina
ordinance that we originally introduced to council in September and October 2025. Uh, found out that the area that we had asked FWC about in front of Robbies there, that little flat, uh, we were having some people kind of kayaking or
paddling out there and and then casting into Robbies to catch tarpon. So, we came up with an idea to put the the bird uh stakes up, but apparently that's not FWC's uh realm. That's National Marine Sanctuary. So, we'll bring be bringing
that up to them when they send a representative at our next meeting. And then Peter uh Fresa provided a brief update to the committee regarding the potential shoreline protection project at Seotes Beach utilizing concrete wads. Um, this is still in design, but this
committee fully occurs with this project and we hope it moves forward. I'll let him speak on that. I'm here if you have any questions. >> Thank you, Jason. Anybody have any any comments or questions for Jason? >> Nothing. >> None.
>> All right. Good report. Thank you. Thanks for all y'all are doing up there, Jason. >> All right. Moving along to mayor and council communications. We could just go down the line. Anna. >> Okay. Um as promised, I'm going to go on
and recognize our uh village staff uh for the February birthdays. And so we've got uh Jennifer has a birthday coming up here. uh Anna Caps, Wyatt Bastron, Aguna Herzburg, James Griffith,
Alexander Estrada, Michael Rodriguez, and our very own Peter Fresa has a February birthday. So, happy birthday to all of our village employees. Uh the only other thing I wanted to say was we I feel like we had a a really
good uh almost a whole week uh in Tallahassee. uh Anna and I were able to attend Florida Keys Day and uh and have met with many many people. So I would say oh and Jennifer was there and certainly Ron was there and John Quick
was there and um I'd say take a look at the the this week's newsletter. Uh all of the folks that we met with and all of the department heads and all the departments and Terry was there too. Terry, thanks for your your head was shining. So, I finally got a glimpse of
you. That's better. >> Yeah, take a look at that newsletter and and uh uh look at all of the different uh folks that we met. I think it was very productive, much better than than last year. And, uh I hope that good things for the village come out of the all of those meetings in Tallahassee.
Uh John, uh village attorney and village manager communications. >> Just uh two really brief updates on a couple of items. One is uh uh I think you guys you all are we advised you all on this or I think you're all aware of of both, but just in case uh there was
we recently um were able to collect uh about a little over $180,000 on an old code enforcement uh fine uh that came through. This was uh related to the uh tennis center um and some some wastewater uh fines for failure to hook
up. So uh happy to report that that money is in um and the uh the village has that money now. Um and the other issue which is something that came out today. I emailed you all about this. Uh there was an appeal if you if you all recall probably about eight or nine
months ago u you had a quasi judicial item on a denial of a vacation rental license had to do with a two-story building. It was a mixeduse building. The argument was the second floor was just residential. You should only look at residential. That was one of the main arguments at least that was appealed. Um
and today that uh appeal was denied. Uh the court found that the village uh was supported by competent substantial evidence which was primarily Jennifer. So uh we were happy to hear that. Um and uh and that uh we complied with the essential elements of the law and that
due process was was afforded. So uh that was denied. Um obviously came out today. there's still uh an option for for further challenge or further appeal, but uh if they do not, then uh that will be put to bed and we'll we'll all move forward. That's it. Unless
>> John, good work, Jennifer. >> Let's see. Ron, you have anything? >> Uh just an update. We've had two charter review committee meetings uh since y'all approved the committee. Uh chair Ty Harris is here. They've done a good job. Uh we did have the LA city's zoom in
Lynn Tipton and I have copies of her presentation on the table over there. The league's been very helpful as far as providing resources uh to the committee and the committee's already making some progress and so I just want to thank again the members of the committee for volunteering to to serve on the charter review committee and welcome the public
input. Is there any discussion we need to have related to that? I know that there was some discussion at the charter review committee last night. Uh but as far as I know everything is okay and uh Lynn Lynn tuned in and that lady is a warehouse of
knowledge on historical facts. So we're we're all good and the committee's all good and all's working well right >> and we had uh John zoomed in on the so his legal counsel was very helpful then Jennifer is our staff lays on so she was there last night too as well as me. So,
I think we had it covered pretty well, but uh we're relying on the committee to let us know what they need, but Ty Harris is the chair and and Susan Raphael is the vice chair and they and the committee all were participating last night. I thought it was a good discussion. >> It's a really good committee. I think we're fortunate to have all those
applicants in there and uh no no major arguments even with one attorney, two attorneys being their chair and then vice chair and so I like it so far. >> And a third one online. >> Yeah. Right. Uh, do you have the it's it's a Wednesday night. Do you have the
date for the next meeting so the public can tune in or >> February 18th? >> February 5:30 >> at 5:30. >> Okay. Steve. >> Yeah, John. In the last meeting we um spoke about the Shans uh case and whether we're going to go forward with that. You were going to bring us back
some uh whether the fees were going to be worthwhile or not. Could you just give us an update? Uh yeah, we actually we have a um uh discussion set for next week with some of the other entities uh with regard to a potential there's a number of entities who who'd expressed um a desire to participate uh as an
amicus um and so we have a call and we're going to find out more. So as of right now I don't have anything because the um marathon hasn't uh hasn't uh finalized their arguments. So, I don't know if we'll be able to um support that in a in a meaningful way through an
amicus, but once we get that and I anticipate that that should come next week, uh obviously I'll reach out to all of you so that I can give you an update as to whether it'll be worthwhile endeavor for the village to uh uh to move forward with. >> Is there any kind of deadline that we have to consider? >> Uh it are yes, but it it it has to do
you you guys already gave me the marching orders that to to move forward if there is a worthwhile argument. Um there there would be a deadline to file the amikas. I it it's tied to when the um initial brief is uh filed. I'd have to confer with my appellet partner as to the exact timing of that, but there is a
deadline as to when an amikas would need to need to be in. Yes. >> Thanks. >> That's it. >> So if I understood sorry if I understood that you're saying it's tied to whenever Marathon actually files their uh comeback their their answers.
>> Yes, that's correct. Okay. >> And also what I heard is we're all still evaluating whether it's even worthwhile to to go forward. >> Yeah. Exactly. If if there's not a if there's if we can't participate in a meaningful way or if we can't lend anything meaningful, there's really no reason to do it. But if we can, then obviously this impacts us as well and
and and you know, we've got a sister city to uh just to the south and um uh so we'll we'll take a look and see if uh if it's if it's a worthwhile endeavor. >> That it guys. Uh, Jennifer, you had an update on our comp plan. >> Yes. I just wanted to give you guys all
an update on where we stand. I know there's been some questions that I've had and I know that the manager Ron has had as well. So, I just wanted to give everybody an update where we are with that. So, um, we did receive a a working draft um, for staff review um, back in
September um, and staff reviewed it and provided feedback back to Able City East. Um they are now working on final draft that will be um presented to the council and public as the draft that we will move forward with um for public
comment and and council review. They um were anticipating getting me that this week. Um I reached out to them today. I have a call with them tomorrow because they have some follow-up questions. Um so I'll be I'll know more tomorrow as far as the exact timeline. Um but just
generally the timeline will be once I receive that draft it'll be posted to the website the council will receive receive a copy as well and um we will move forward with scheduling a public workshop for public input um on that draft with Able City and Able City will
then take all that feedback and create another document uh based on all that feedback and then we will start having hearings with the LPA. Um, I anticipate at least two hearings with LPA, maybe more. Um, depending on how they go. Um,
and then after the LPA recommendations, we will move forward into council readings. So, um, it's still a process. There's still a lot of public input and public information gathering to happen. Um, but that's where we are. So, I'm here to answer any questions if you
might have them. >> Thank you, Jennifer. >> You're welcome. Anna, Sharon, Steve, Deb. >> All right. >> Yeah, John wants to chime in. >> I I was just going to mention that, you know, we're all eager to to move forward and this is, you know, this is always a
long kind of, you know, trying process, but there is I do want to mention that there is some benefit to to it taking as long as it does. And that has to do with the prior SB80 um which was passed last year uh which has preeemptions in terms of um additional burdens or restrictions
that can be passed. Um there's discussion and certainly a lot of hope but there's also discussion that there's going to be some fix it bills that that come out to to limit the impact of SP 180 um so that we can hopefully hopefully that will flow through. Usually the effective dates of those
bills are either July 1 or October 1 of of the the current calendar year. So if that's the case based on our schedule, you know, we should know whether or not SP 180 is going to have an impact on our our comp plan uh or if we're going to if we're going to be able to to move
forward under any potential fix it bills. So I I I know that we're all kind of, you know, we're all eager to get it, but there is on the legal end there is some benefit to to it taking this this amount. >> Thank you, Steve. Yeah, it just seems like the timing might be right. You know, when we when we get this finalized, it actually we might have
worked all this SP 180 out either to our benefit or a detriment. At least we can move forward from there at the same time rather than putting the cart before the horse as they say. >> Exactly. >> Well, I think it's I think it's a good thing that we're continuing to march forward. There's several cities that have actually put their comp plan
rewrites and revisions just totally on hold. uh we're at least advancing it the rest of the way so that u hopefully they do fix have a glitch bill for 180 and and we'll be ready to go in it once we know we can. So thanks for that
Jennifer. All right, why don't we open it up to public comment now? Is there any public comment? >> Yes, sir. Uh first up we have Ken Thomas. I don't need my timer. You got your Thank you.
>> Can't miss the timer now, can you? Can >> I'm Ken Thomas. Living on Windley Key for over 20 years. Our rightway has never looked so good. I mean, no more cars, trucks, or boats. But this is all going to change with Angler's Reef building permit and site plan with up to
a 38 space parking lot. With my economics PhD, I've outlined five objections. No public purpose, a dangerous precedent, loss of green space to 22,000 vehicles daily, fiscal irresponsibility, and serious legal
problems shared with the village manager, namely violating Florida's Constitution, Supreme Court rulings, and AG opinions. Article 3, section 11 A10 prohibits disposal of public property for private purposes here benefiting 52
wealthy, mostly non-local homeowners. Our 7,000 residents receive nothing but lose right ofway access. Article 7 section 10 prohibits using public assets primarily aid in private entities like HOAs. The Supreme Court in Bannon v.
Palm Beach and West Palm v. Williams held public land may be leased only when the primary purpose is public and any private gain is incidental here. No public purpose all private gain. Florida courts in AG opinion state rightaways
are held in public trust not for private benefit. Rooney vers Miami Beach and Sanolo v Garstein AG opinion 8640 states the municipalities can't authorize private use of rightaways without a public purpose finding and formal
vacation requiring published notice public hearings and a finding it's no longer needed for a public use. None of this was done. Municipalities must obtain highest and best price for public property. but no appraisal, no market
study, no traffic, no safety, no lighting or storm water retention plan. Leasing 7,000 square ft for just 1,000 monthly without independent valuation may be viewed as an improper gift under article 7 section 10. Finally, on
September 9th, Anglr's Reef made the proposal, but our village code prohibited backing onto the rightway. Less than a month later on October 7th, ordinance 2517 was adopted to accommodate them. Rewriting rewriting
code benefiting 52 wealthy homeowners is not in the public interest. I respectfully request the lease be deferred until you have a written legal opinion from the village attorney about these concerns. I'm an economist, not a lawyer, but this exposes us to unnecessary legal and financial risk.
This could all be avoided if Angller's Reef buys or leases nearby available private land like everyone else. For details, I'm at kenmia22ol.com. Thank you. >> Thank you, Ken. Lonnie,
>> next up is Lori Hansen. >> Hi. Thank you, Mayor and Council. Um, I'm hoping you guys can help us. Uh we are longtime uh homeowners in Isa Marada. >> Can you introduce yourself please for the record? >> Yes. Yes. I'm sorry. Lori Hansen. Uh
longtime homeowners in Isa Marada. Um we have what I'm sure will be a controversial issue. Uh a chicken infestation. Um there are approximately 40 feral chickens in our half block.
They are fed by the neighbors. Um, about half of them are roosters. They crow. Anybody who thinks roosters only crow at dawn, I would invite you to our barnyard because they crow all the time, uh,
24/7. Um, they are really a public nuisance at this point. They're a health hazard. Um, they are causing environmental degradation. It's at a point at our house we cannot have guests at our house because they cannot sleep. I mean literally the
roosters crow 24/7. It's affecting property value because no one in their right mind would buy our house at this point. Um we are we look at the charter of this group and it says to protect the
residents right to quiet enjoyment of life. And I'll be honest, we don't have that anymore. We've we've lost that. And so I would respectfully request that the city look at an ordinance to not feed
feral chickens and enforce it and then manage the chicken population. I know there's chickens all over in our block. is seriously I would invite any of you to come by at any hour of the day and see how many chickens are there, how
much damage they're causing, and how much noise is there. So, that would be my request to consider an ordinance to stop the feeding of wild chickens, and then to effectively manage where there's an overpopulation because they're just going to create
more and more damage. >> Thank you, Steve. Thank you. Just whereabouts is this? Uh, our address is 113 Jerome Avenue. It's across from Worldwide on the Oceanside. >> Yeah, you guys recognize it. Yeah, it's really bad. >> That is the chicken neighborhood. It
sure is. >> Yes. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you so much. >> Ron is duly noted. >> Yeah, Marne. >> Next up is Angel. Angela S. While you're coming up, Angela, uh,
Captain Lzette just walked in. So, right after public comment, I'd like for you to come up if that's okay. Thank you, Angela. Go for it. >> No worries. I'll be short. My name is Angela Ser, founder of Crustation Plantation, Inc., a local nonprofit dedicated to protecting Florida's only
native land, hermit crabs. Florida Bay Forever has been an excellent steward of green turtle hammock and a true partner in conservation education. They actively collaborate with organizations including myself, Florida Keys Wild Bird
Rehabilitation Center, IARE, Last Stand of the Florida Keys, Florida Keys Fishing Guides Association and Lower Keys Guide Association and Surf Rider and many others. Their work elevates awareness of local wildlife, including our wildland hermit crabs, and we
strongly support their continued role at the green turtle hammock. Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Angela. >> Anyone else, Marty? >> Yep, we've got more. >> Next up is uh Jodi Sarah. Thank you so much for having me. My name
is Jody Sarah. I'm with Florida Bay Forever. Um I have some pictures if I'm allowed to give this to council. Is that okay? >> If you just uh provide them to the clerk and then uh a copy for her and then she we can distribute them to the council.
Uh, Florida Bay Forever's role at the Russell Cottage and Green Turtle Hammock is to keep a village property active, accessible, and educational for our community. A place where residents, visitors, and students connect with Island Marada's natural resources.
Over the last 5 years, Florida Bay Forever has more than fulfilled our obligations of our agreement with the village, including environmental education, signage, which is required by the state. And part of the pictures you're seeing now or some of and just a
small maybe 20% of the signage we have put on that property. We have staffed, insured, programmed, maintained, marketed, and kept the site open to the public with a 7-day week presence including holidays when village staff
was unavailable. In 2025 alone, we delivered targeted programming programming to more than 400 participants. that includes collaborations with schools, homeschool programs, libraries, Boy Scout groups,
uh, and several of the local nonprofits. We've got the Lower Keys Guide Association, Orna Keys Guides Association, Last Stand Reef Reef Relief, and the Wild Bird Center, who we pay to come do a bird walk on the property. We've also welcomed more than
4,000 visitors and answered more than 4,000 questions. anything from what's the best place to eat, where is the best place to eat tonight, um assuring guests that the spiders won't attack them, and of course answering why there's no turtles at Green Turtle Hammock.
Under the villages agreement with the state, the site must provide interpretive signage, a staffed nature center, and a minimum number of educational programs each year. Florida Bay Forever meets and exceeds those standards. We maintain low impact
outdoor learning spaces, interpretive signage, conduct well beyond 12 educational programs annually, and operate a staffed nature center year round while protecting sensitive habitat at Florida Bay Forever's expense.
Environmental education and restoration are not free. They require trained staff, insurance, planning, materials, outreach, and consistent presence. Florida Bay Forever covers those responsibilities by fundraising,
building partnerships, and reinvesting earned revenue back into the property. If that role shifts away from Florida Bay forever, those responsibilities shift back to the village and back to the people who live here. I also want to
note that an environmental restoration project involving mangroves was approved and funded, but yet we were told we were not allowed to start due to this transition. It has already caused a delay in environmental education.
I've been told the village values our current efforts but has concerns about longevity. Longevity comes from professional operations, not just good intentions. Volunteers are important, but they cannot replace trained, insured
staff who manage public access, education, safety, and stewardship every day. We manage staffing, insurance, program, outreach, and facility care, and reinvest support directly back into the Russell Cottage and Green Turtle
hammock. We're not asking for privileges only to keep strengthening the property in a stable, responsible way that aligns with the village's goals without shifting operational burden back onto the village. We respectfully asked the
village council to support a renewed agreement so the Russell Cottage and the Green Turtle hammock remain active, accessible, and sustainable for our village use. Thank you. Thank you, Jody.
Um, you know what? Let me just interrupt our regularly scheduled program and and go on and have our captain uh introduce our our new lieutenant so that they can continue to go out and save lives. >> Well, protect protect our people, protect our lives. Good good evening
everyone. Pardon the interruption and uh apologies for the uh delay. We had a meeting that just ran a little bit longer than what we were expecting. I'm very happy to be here today. I'm Captain Isro. I'm the district commander for uh the village of Island Marada and I've been here now a little over a year and a
half and I absolutely fallen in love with Island Marada. Thank you to all of our council who works so so greatly with our with our um agency. I'm pleased to announce that we have a new lieutenant that's been assigned to our district. His name is Lieutenant Mario Benedetti.
He comes to us with a lot of experience. He's currently a member of our SWAT team. Interestingly enough, he's um in the SWAT team and I'm in the crisis negotiations team. So, you have the best of both worlds and very very great combination. We compleiment each other
very much. Um Mario's going to bring a lot of great things to the village of Alam Marada and I'm very excited that he's going to be working with us, but I won't speak um too much longer. Mario Benedetti. >> Good. Thank you. Appreciate it.
Uh good evening. So again, Lieutenant Mario Benedetti. I've been with the sheriff's office for it's going to be 11 years in Maine. I also served in the military for a while. Really happy to be here. I'm so excited to be working with Captain Cana. I have the utmost respect
for her. I used to work with Captain Brian. So I used to be a lieutenant up in the upper keys. So now I'm here again. I'm excited. Different, but you know, I love new challenges. So thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you, Mario.
Lieutenant, we thank you for your service and we thank you for joining our uh um our island with us. >> I'm sure if if captain if the captain chose you that we're uh we're in great shape and thank you the sheriff all that he does.
>> Thank you, sir. >> All right, let's go back to where we were. Marty, we got any more public comment? >> Yep. Two more speakers. Uh, next up is Amy Collier. >> Hi. Uh, my name is Amy Collier and I I'm a longtime Marada resident. I'm a
business owner. My business is out of Colorado and I'm a writer. I'm working on a book over at Angler House. I'm involved in a lot of uh nonprofit organizations here in the Keys, including Keys Players and Coral Isles Church. Uh my I'm here to advocate for
the renewal of the lease to Florida Bay Forever at Green Turtle. I might have a little bit of a personal interest because uh my son happens to be a an intern at Florida Bay Forever, but my history at the Green Turtle Nature
Preserve goes back a couple years. I was I was in a abusive marriage and I used to go sit in my car there as a way to kind of get away. And over the years of going there, I never saw anything. It was just my little private nature sanctuary. I never saw anything, you
know, going on over there. And it was extremely gratifying for me with my history with the nature preserve to see Florida Bay Forever coming in there and doing the wonderful work they're doing with the community there. The the
signage out there is amazing. I guess they they paid for it out of their own money. Um, you know, I'm also an owner of a nonprofit organiza of Amy Collier Charitable Trust. I support a lot of community organizations and I, you know, I do feel that Florida Bay Forever is is
a really stellar program. I have noticed the educational programs that they put on, not only for the schools, but for the homeschool community. There's another personal tie that I have into this is that I am I homeschooled both of my children. One from first and one from
fourth grade all the way through they graduated from high school. Now they're both students at the College of the Florida Keys. And I know how important it is as a home former homeschool mom for these kids to have these kind of amazing programs like that Jodie Sarah
puts on. And my my son Mel is going to be leading nature tours over there. And I'm sorry, but I as a personal as a mother too, I have a vested interest in seeing this because it's such a wonderful opportunity. He's very brilliant young man. He's a student at
Florida uh Florida Keys College and he's, you know, for college applications, things like this. He's he wants to go into either politics or science. And I've it's always been my dream to see him doing some kind of nature tours. He's volunteer over there.
And one final little piece is uh this is just a personal thing, but I had this beautiful desk from my business, Rocky Mountain England Club in Colorado with a hand like a it's a beautiful custom piece with burlwood legs and a trout. And I really wanted to donate it to Florida Bay Forever and see it in that
Russell cottage, but if their lease is not renewed there, I'm I'm not going to be able I know that's a silly thing, but I would love to be able to donate my desk as well. Thank you, council. Thank you, Annie. Um, morning.
>> Next up, we have Mr. Wish Meer on Zoom. Okay, go ahead, Mr. Wish Meer. You've got three minutes. >> Yes, Joe Wishmire, Plantation Key. I'm concerned that again tonight we're combining land use issues with regular
council meetings. I didn't know if it's because y'all think that there may not be enough to discuss, but I've got some suggestions. baseball season has started and we haven't heard anything more about the upgrades to the baseball field. All we've heard is it is in bad shape and
it's up to the school that are supposed to be taking care of that. We haven't had the update on the edus. I would like to know if we're making progress on that. the comp plan. If y'all had gotten the original draft in
September, remember we were promised many, many public meetings during the course of them putting this together, not just meetings after they're done and they submit it to staff. So, I would like to know what happened to that.
Uh school student school IDs for students to be able to get into the park. I know that there's a number of students who don't live in Isa Marada and they can't join some of their friends all the time because they don't they can't afford to pay the uh the fee
to get in. I also was wondering I was at CVS and I am Ronda the other day and my gosh I was in the park I could see the bay. What happened to all that land clearing in the back? I don't even think that permit has been approved yet and yet it is
completely scarified. Something should be done about that. Florida Bay Forever, the lease is up on March 1st, yet it wasn't even added to the agenda. How about the church? You know, we hear
that it's uh uh declared uninhabitable right now, yet you're trying to redo zoning. We bought it because we didn't want a CVS to go in there and now you want to reszone it and do all this stuff so it gets more and more business in there. We need to get sight of why we
buy land and what we're supposed to do with it. So, I would respectfully request that you consider adding more items that are of importance to the meetings and that way we can move farther along. last with the comp plan.
Like I you've heard me say over and over again, you keep saying 20 years ago it was a mistake and that's why we're making all these changes now. Well, the comp plan is almost done, so maybe we should also stop until we actually have the final draft. Thank you very much.
>> Thank you, Joe. >> That was it. No one else. >> That's it. Okay. Terry, >> sneaking up. >> You're sneaking up on me. >> Sneaking up. Sorry I didn't fill out a form. I never do. I just kind of pop in at the last minute. Um, this is
everybody's warning. We're 11 days out from one of the greatest events that happens in the Upper Keys. Um, we're going to have 400 plus vendors right out there in the park. We're going to have a dozen and a half food trucks. We're going to see over the the total of the
weekend 20,000 plus people go through here. And yep, traffic's going to suck. You know, MCSO does an amazing job at keeping them moving, but with that many cars and that much traffic, we do as best we can, but traffic's going to slow
down. It's going to be very busy here from Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then we'll clean it all up. It'll be done by Monday, and everything will be golden. But the the takeaway on it is, yeah, you can complain about the event in the park and you can complain about children, but this is Upper Keys
Rotary's annual event. We raise 300 plus,000. That every penny of that goes back into the children. It goes back into their education, goes into college, not just for the first year, but for four years so that they can get their their degree
and help get those expenses covered. It goes into CTE. We pay for some of my firefighters, some of my medics, EMTs, uh linemen for the co-op, stuff of that nature, welders, builders, brokers, um even some real estate agents. I'm not sure why. There's enough of those. But,
um we help these people out so that they can make a living. And it goes back. Not a single Rotarian working this event makes a penny. It all goes back to the children. So, when you're sitting in traffic complaining cuz it took you eight more minutes to get south so you
could get your Starbucks latte, it's all about the children. All right. Thank you. Have a great evening. >> Thank you, Terry. >> That thing has grown and it's a wonderful event. It's a It's a communitywide event. It does good stuff.
So, thank you, Terry. Uh Marne, is there any more public comment? >> No, sir. >> Remember, is this is anybody out there? It's public comment for those things that are not on the agenda. Is there anyone else that has any public comment and hasn't signed up? All right, seeing
none, public comment is closed. We'll move on to the consent agenda. John, we're in the consent portion of the agenda. These items are routine nature, and council members have reviewed these items in advance and sought the advice of staff as they felt necessary. There'll be one vote on the consent items today, which are items uh tabs 1
through seven. If anyone like to pull an item from consent, he or she should state so now. All right. Very good. Anna, >> Sharon, >> Steve, Deb, I'd like to pull uh tab four, which is item D on the consent agenda. And uh we'll hear that hopefully
next month. There's some questions I had on that contract with DOT. And I think that between the manager and AJ, they can work that stuff out. So, I'm going to pull tab four. >> So, you're not pulling it for discussion. You just want to pull it for
the next >> out of the whole thing. Yes, ma'am. >> Okay. >> All right, John. >> Just making sure there's no opposition to uh since we're not going to be pulling that. Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Uh so, uh except for tab
four, do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> I'll make a motion to approve the consent. >> I have a second. >> Second. >> Okay. Do we have a motion and a second? And is there any further discussion? >> All right. Hearing none, is there any
opposition? Oh, >> public comment. >> Oh, I'm so sorry. Okay. >> On the consent items. >> Is there any public comment on the consent agenda? >> Not that I'm aware of, but let me double check. Zoom. Uh, no, sir. >> All right. See no public comment. Public comment is closed. We've got a second.
We got a motion in a second. Is there any other discussion? Okay. Is there any opposition? All right. Very good. Hearing no opposition, then uh the motion will be approved. Um
uh unanimous consent. That's the end of consent agenda. Um resolutions, John. Yep. This is tab eight. Uh sorry, I'm on tab nine. My apologies.
Tab 8 is a resolution of the village council of alamara village of islands Florida approving a purchase from island air control uh island air control for three HVAC systems and ratifying expenditures incurred from island air control for purchases to date and approval of additional expenditures authorizing village manager to expend budgeted funds authorizing village
manager to execute the work authorizations and providing for an effective date. >> Very good. Thank you John. Um AJ you got a presentation? >> Uh just a couple comments. So this is um for village hall. We had
three original units uh both the interior air handlers and the uh exterior um units as well uh fail. So we had to replace those. Two of them were on the second floor and one of them was on the third floor. Uh we went ahead and got three quotes for those. Island uh
air was the lowest and uh they're all comparable, but we went ahead and uh moved forward with those and replaced them and they are in operation now. So, this is uh ratifying those purchases that we had to do. >> Thank you. Any questions on AJ?
>> Yeah. Okay, Steve. >> Um AJ, it's just a little bit confusing how it's written here. Uh in in the analysis, village paid island air 1588 for HVAC services. Um additionally, purchase order in the amount of 51800
was issued for replacement of three HVAC units. Um, and it says something about how it it's um it's not cost effective. It it sort of to me reads like it's it's costing us $1,588 a year for maintenance. That seems to be a lot cheaper than $50,000.
>> No. So the >> for the whole it's for the whole new >> So just in general on all of our units uh villagewide at all of facilities we have spent 58 I think it was the 5,800 um up to this date. So including that with the the replacement of the three
units of the 51,800, it exceeds our 25,000. So this is uh allowing us to expand that not to exceed to be able to utilize them if we do have a maintenance issue. You know, they need to check something out. Uh we we can utilize them uh through the rest of this
fiscal year, >> but we we utilize a lot of the local contractors. >> So So this is more than a maintenance pack. This is a maintenance package. >> It's not It's not a maintenance package. No, the so we have we have they we have called them out um when there was an issue. A couple of them were on these
issues. Uh they were low on refrigerant. Uh there were some other issues and they were inspecting them. Um and we ultimately decided that they were done and completely needed to be replaced. Um >> it looked like some of them didn't last 4 years. Is that correct?
>> No. >> Okay. >> So the the interior units are original. All three interior units are original from 2009. >> Uh the exterior units have all six of them. There's six of them that are at Village Hall. All six have been replaced
once. Um we have also replaced one full unit both interior and exterior on um in a I think it was last year or the year before and that was in on the first floor. Um, so we still have two interior
units that are original. Um, and two exterior units that have on their second one. >> And do we have any warranties on them? I I don't know how long. >> We We get way more than what the warranties are. >> Okay. So, the life expectancy is we have some that are still there from 2009.
>> Yes. >> Okay. And we need to >> That's next year, >> right? Okay. So, we're anticipating failure here and >> we we will have in the next budget cycle I'll be planning on replacing the the last two. Um they they tend to go as a
unit >> about 15 years is a is a good average on lifespan of a condition. >> Yeah, that's why I was confused because the way I'm reading it with the different units and different years, it seemed like one only lasted about four years. So, I was just a little confused. So, thank you.
>> No problem. D the salt air is really tough on them down here. Um you said this this would cover uh not to exceed uh going forward. I don't see that in this ordinance. I I see this as approval of the purchase
of the new things and the 1500 that we spent 15 whatever that we spent to date. I don't see any new uh not to exceeds budget increase >> so that you don't have to keep coming
back. >> So if we're a long ways from the end of the year >> from the original >> if if you look at the under above budget impact it says an additional allowing for an additional 5,000 in future anticipated expenses for future disruptions to ensure the village remains
uh fully operational. >> Okay. >> So it would just be an additional 5,000 from what we've already spent. But we again we we utilize uh Island Air Control. We utilize some of the other uh Rex Air, Rocket Air. We we we get quotes
from all of the local guys. >> Great. >> You good, Dad? >> Yeah, I'm good. >> Steve, you good? All right. Thank Sharon. Nope. All right. Good deal. Um is there any public comment?
Okay. Hearing no public comment. Public comment is closed. Do I have a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> There you go. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Well, how about that? All right, we got a motion in a second.
Um, is there any further discussion? All right. Is there any opposition? Very good. Hearing no opposition, then the motion is approved and unanimous consent.
Let's move on to tab 10. John. >> Yep. We're an ordinances on tab 10. This is an ordinance on first reading although it will sound very familiar. Uh, it's an ordinance of Alamada, Village of Islands, Florida, amending chapter 66, waterways, article 1, in general, section 66-2, operation of
vessels in restricted areas of the village code to modify the Starks wheel ditch slow speed minimum wake zone as further described on exhibit B, providing for severability, providing for inclusion in the code, and providing for an effective date. >> Thank you very much, Peter.
>> Yes, come on up. >> Thank you, John. And good evening, council. So this is I consider this a rather uh trivial amendment to our ordinance and I will explain. So as you probably remember it was in October of 2025 the village council did adopt an ordinance establishing the slow speed
minimum w zone through the Starks wheel ditch on lower Madakumbi Ki and immediately after that we continued in with the uh permitting with the uh regulatory agencies that have jurisdiction in this area for the buoys that are necessary to denote the swim
zone. So shortly after that we had were contacted by uh the FWC who had a recommendation or a request that we remove the reference to the latitude and longitude coordinates that we noted in the ordinance both on the map which you
have in your packet there. You can see that we crossed that out and then also in the language where we had referenced the exact uh coordinates. Um so that's simply all that this amendment is doing. We're eliminating uh reference to the coordinates to meet the uh requests of
the FWC as to comply and therefore allow the permitting. The FWC has reviewed the draft of this ordinance and said they would accept it uh if the council approves it. Um and and that is all. Um and uh this want to stress that this
will have no effect at all on enforcement of the zone. will have no effect at all on where we place the buoys. So, um if this is approved, this is the first reading, we will bring this back for a second reading in March and um I've been told that they FWC will
approve it and hopefully within 3 months we have a functioning uh slow speed minimum wake zone. Happy to answer any questions about this. >> All right. Thank you, Peter. Is there any comments or questions from council?
>> Okay. Uh, do we have any public comment? >> No, sir. >> All right. Hearing no public comment. Public comment is closed. Do I have a motion to approve? >> Motion to approve. >> Okay. Steve, you do I have a second? >> I'll second it. >> Sharon's going to second. Okay. So, we
have a motion and a second. Is there any further discussion? >> Is there any opposition? Hearing no opposition, the motion is approved by unanimous consent. John, let's move on to Quasi Judicial, please. >> Yep, we're in quasi judicial. There are
um four items. They're tabs 11 through 14, although they are companion items. So, we'll take uh 11 and 12 and then 13 and 14 together unless there's any objection to that. Um please be advised the following agenda items are quasudicial nature. If you wish to
comment on these items, please inform the village clerk by filling out the available signup form. An opportunity for persons to speak on each item will be made available after the applicant and staff have made their presentations on each item. As a reminder, testimony and quas judicial items must be in person. Zoom testimony is not permitted. These proceedings will be handled in
accordance with the village code requirements. All testimony, including public testimony and evidence, will be made under oath or affirmation. Additionally, each person who gives testimony may be subject to cross-examination. If you do not wish to be either either cross-examined or sworn, your testimony shall be disregarded. The general public will not
be permitted to cross-examine witnesses, but the public may request the village council to ask questions of staff or witnesses on their behalf. The full agenda packet on each item is hereby entered into the record along with the village code and comprehensive plan. Any correspondence that was received by the village staff is included in the file as
and part of the record. Persons representing organizations must present evidence of their authority to speak for the organization. Further details on the quasi judicial procedures in section 30-256 of the village code may be obtained from the village clerk. As stated tonight, there are four quasi judicial items. There are tabs 11
through 14. At this time, I would like to ask anyone who intends to speak on a quasi judicial item tonight to please raise your hand to be sworn in by the clerk if you intend to speak at all on a quasi judicial item. >> In the matter in which you are about to give testimony, do you use for affirm to tell the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth? >> Thank you. The witnesses have been sworn. >> All right. Um, Mr. Mayor, I will read tabs 11 and 12. Um it tab 11 is an ordinance of Marada village of Islands Florida considering the request of Ty
Harris PA agent for Jamie and Mike Snder to amend the village's future land use map from residential uh medium to uh mixed use for the subject property on 87469 Old Highway located on Plantation Key with real estate number 00413300-00000000
as legally described herein providing for the transmitt of this ordinance to the state department of commerce and providing for an effective data upon the approval of this ordinance by the state department of commerce. Tab 12 is an ordinance of Lamar Village, Florida, considering the request of Ty Harris, PA, agent for Jamie and Mike Snyder to amend the official zoning map from
residential single family R1 to Highway Commercial HC for the subject property located on 87469 Old Highway located on Plantation Key with real estate number 00413300 0-00000000 as legally described herein, providing for the transmitt of this ordinance to
the state department of commerce and providing for an effective date upon the approval of this ordinance by the state department of commerce. Council, before we begin, um I would like you to please disclose any exparte communications you may have had uh with anyone on either of these items. As a reminder, um please include whether the person represented
any group as well as the uh the substance and subject matter uh as as you best recall. >> Anna, Annie, >> Ty Harris, and Jamie Snider. >> Very good. Sharon >> Ty Harris >> Steve
>> staff Deb >> Ty Harris >> okay and I spoke to Ty I I wasn't on Mike Ty Harris >> okay very good thank you uh I spoke to Ty Harris and Roger Young uh Roger Young is a neighborh Ty Harris is of course
the attorney for the applicant >> and just as a reminder these are on second reading >> very good Jennifer >> good evening council Jennifer Deboran playing director for the village Bam Marada. I'm here this evening um as uh Mr. Quick stated for the second reading
for the ordinance to amend the future land use map for 87469 Old Highway from residential medium to mixed use and to amend the zoning map from residential single family to highway commercial. Again, this is second reading. The council uh heard this on first reading
at its meeting on November 13th, 2026 and approved this ordinance unanimously. Um, we rendered this ordinance to the Department of Commerce and they issued a letter with no objection. That letter is in your packet. Um, you may recall during the discussion at first reading.
Uh, this is a change to allow the existing business to continue to operate um, in a legal fashion. Currently, they're operating as a non-conforming business and the property owners would like to continue to operate in a in a conforming fashion. So, that's the
intent of the change. Um, I don't have any additional information to add at this time. My full analysis is the same in the packet that it was at first reading. So, I will um not say anything else and not waste anybody else's time and defer my time to Mr. Harris if he
has anything else to add. >> I'm sure he's got plenty to add. Uh, is there any testimony in uh for those in favor of this? >> Well, Mr. Harris goes next. >> Okay. Mr. Harris, >> may may I may I interject something first, please? Don, >> good evening.
>> Interject something first. >> I'm sorry, what? >> I need to interject something first. >> Um, you said that our last I don't know if it's of any real relevance, but you said the last meeting was uh November of 26, and I know you meant November of 25.
>> 25. >> Okay. I don't know whether it'd make a difference on legal procedures. >> Yeah, it's good. It's good. Sorry, I didn't catch that. It's good to have that and make sure the record's clear. Thank you. >> Good catch, D. Thank you, Ty. >> Good evening, everybody. Ty Harris with the law firm of Ty Harris, PA, 110
Plantation Shores Drive, uh, Plantation Key, and I represent Island Air. So, this is as as your planning director told you, this is second reading. Uh, it had a recommendation from staff for approval for both the land development
and the the zoning change. It had a unanimous recommendation from the LPA. Uh, you approved it unanimously on first reading. It's been to the Department of Commerce who miraculously didn't object to anything for the first time in a
while and it's back for second reading. Um, that being said, I understand that there are folks from across the street in the condominium that now object to it. Um, and again, we're in the same situation that we've been in for the
last few years where we have existing uses of property or existing businesses or buildings that were of some commercial use in the county and then when the village came into existence in
our first comp plan in in zoning became some type of residential use. Um, I I know the mayor probably knows the history of this property and some of y'all probably know the history of this property better than I do, but I know that there were commercial uses going
back to the 70s on this property. So, you know, this is a I would say from a zoning and a planning a funky little area because there are a mix of residential and commercial uh zone properties. I mean, the property just to the south, which is that triangle piece,
that's owned by the the guy that owns Boat Depot up in um Kargo. So, if you want to know who owned it, that's who owns that. Um I know that at one time the village was looking at acquiring it for affordable housing in 2018. So, this
whole area has been kind of a mix primarily because you're very limited in the size of business you can have because none of those properties have access to US1. They're all accessed by um old highway. And of course, that
creates some inherent conflicts with residential because now all the the parts of the business are are going to end up funneled out on on old highway. But we also know that FDOT's not granting any more curb cuts on US1 so
that we can keep the level of service going. So there's always going to be a little bit of conflict. But the the purpose of this application is just to take it from being nonconforming to conforming status. And people might say,
why are you worried about it? I just point at the tennis center and go never say never. You know, the way our code works, um, if you're non-conforming and you're closed down for a year, you lose that nonconformity and then it would
revert back to a residential use, which of course, as we know, we don't have a lot of permits left to dole out and they're certainly not in line and be passed right now. So, I think um, you know, it's been disfavored to go to a residential zoning classification. This
is an opportunity to fix a a problem that should have never occurred when the village changed its its maps when it came into existence. With that said, I'd like to reserve a few minutes for rebuttal in case I I need to to address an issue. And with that, um I'm
concluding my presentation. Thank you. >> Thank you, Ty. Is there anyone else uh in favor of this request? >> Yes, we have two folks signed up. Um, first up, David Smith. >> Hi, my name is David Smith. As most of
you know, I own Alamado Construction and Kentucky Welding. I've been in business 40 years. I'm the only neighbor that could possibly complain about it. I really don't have a dog in the fight. Uh, I own from Palm Lane to Royal Lane across the street from US1 from them.
Um, I recently met the neighbors islander. Um, I believe in small town, small business. Obviously, you're doing business with Island Air. You just bought an air conditioner from them. I like to do business with Rex Air. I like
to do business with local businesses. I don't want to see the business someone living in Florida City, someone hiring other people from Florida City, Homestead, Miami, and the money going up there. So, it really wouldn't
hurt to let them have the zoning. I really don't have an objection to it. I am the only neighbor that's across the street from them. Thank you. >> Thank you, David. Anyone else? Marty. >> Yes. Next up is Matt Turk. >> Welcome, Matt.
>> Matt Turk, village of Island Marada, CBT Construction. Um, I think uh Tai said it pretty well. Um, I'm in support of uh the zoning change. I think it's pretty obvious. I'm just down the road. I'm a commercial business as well. Um, so I think it's just uh setting the record
straight, so I support it. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> No others in support. >> All right. Are there any in opposition? >> Yes. First up, Tracy Huard. Hi, good evening, mayor and council members. My name is Tracy Hubard and I
live at Plantation by the Sea. Um, unit number 231, which directly overlooks Island Air. My balcony is their business is my front yard. Um, the parcel is identified as real estate
number 004133000-00000000. Um, I'm here tonight to respectfully request that you deny the proposed changes from R1 to highway commercial and from residential medium to mixed use. This request is inconsistent with
multiple policies of the island comp comprehensive plan which is the guiding document. You are required to uphold incompatibility with surrounding residential uses. Future land use policy
1-2.0 requires that land use decisions ensure compatibility with the character of existing neighborhoods. This parcel is surrounded by residential uses including Plantation by the Sea. Highway
commercial and mixed use introduces noise, lighting, traffic, and activity levels that are fundamentally incompatible with established residential character of this area. The
protection of existing neighborhoods. Objective 1-2 states that the village must protect and preserve the character and stability of existing residential areas. Approving a commercial or mixeduse designation in the middle of a
residential block directly contradicts this objective. Transportation policy 2-1.1 requires that development maintain acceptable levels of service on US1 and
local roads. Highway commercial uses generate significantly more traffic than single family homes. The location already experiences congestion and turning conflicts. Increasing intensity here would worsen and degrade levels of
service. Environmental protection requirements conservation conservation policy 4-1.1 requires the village to minimize adverse impacts to nearshore waters and sensitive environmental resources.
Commercial and mixeduse development typically increases imperous surface and storm water runoff. This parcel drains toward nearshore waters, making environmental impacts a legitimate concern.
Public benefit requirements. Policy 1-1.4 states that the amendments to the future land use map must serve a demonstrated public purpose and further the goals of the comprehensive plan. I see I'm out of
time. Thank you very much for hearing me. Um, this parcel does not front US1. It fronts the old highway. That's where the ingress and egress to this property is. Thank you very much for hearing me. >> Thank you, Tracy.
There any other testimony or or u comments in opposition of this request? >> Yes. One more speaker. Kemp Shepard. >> I'm sorry. Who? >> Kemp Shepard. >> Kemp Shepard. Thank you. Kemp
Kemp going once. I'm sorry. What? Miss >> Hubard said she he left. >> He left. Okay. There are no other speakers. >> All right. Very good. Uh let's see. Jennifer, do you have any more comments you'd like to make?
>> No, >> I do not. >> Okay. Ty, >> I would point out that the comprehensive plan, as we've gone through this over the years, is a two-edged sword. Um, your staff found that this application is consistent with our comprehensive
plan policies and the Department of Commerce agreed and found it also consistent with our comprehensive plan policies. And the entire gist of of opposition supposes that there's not a business already there. I mean, those comments
would be completely in line if we were talking about introducing a new business into an existing residential neighborhood. But as your staff has pointed out, and I'm not colorb blind, and I can read a map, too. We have a mix of residential and commercial. This is
the definition of mixed use. When you have commercial, small commercial, and residential all in there together, that's what this is. And it's not a new business. It's an existing business. So, I think those comments would be better placed or aimed at um at somebody coming
in trying to convert a residential property into a commercial property. But those comments ignore the fact that it has commercial history going back to the 70s. Thank you. >> Thank you, Ty. Marne, is there any other public comment? >> No, sir.
>> Hearing no public comments. Closed. Um Sharon, you had your mic on. You have a >> Yeah. Um first of all, um I'm one of the people who suffered from nonconforming use or non-conforming building, whatever. They renamed my building. And
that took me oh seven, eight years to try to fix that mess. And uh I was commercial in the 50s, my building when my dad got it. So I don't see uh Island Air isn't going anywhere. They've functioned as a business for all these
years. It's the labeling that were put on all of us in the medium that has goofed us all up for this amount of time. And it's um to me sort of a shame that uh this happened to all the businesses. I have no access to US1
either and I'm on the old road. So again, um I see this is us fixing what was done to so many businesses that should not have been made non-conforming. So that's my opinion. >> Thank you, Sharon,
Steve, Deb, Anna. Um, okay. Uh, so do I have a motion? >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> And we we'll split these up. So we'll there's tab. >> Okay. So let's have a motion on tab 11
right now, please. >> I'm making a motion on tab 11. 11. >> Is there a second? >> Go ahead. Second. >> Okay. I've got a motion in a second. Martney, will you call the role, please? >> Council member Deb Gillis. >> Yes.
>> Council member Anna Richards. >> Yes. Yes. Council member Steve Freriedman. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Sharon Mahoney. >> Yes. >> And Mayor Don Horton. >> Yes. >> That motion passes. 5-0. >> I'll make a motion on tab 12. Also >> got a motion. Do I have second?
>> Approve. >> Second. >> I have a motion in a second. Um, any further discussion? >> Uh, Marty, will you please call the role? >> Council member Debillis. >> Yes. Council member Anna Richards. >> Yes. >> Council member Steve Freeman.
>> Yes. Vice Mayor Mahoney. >> Yes. >> And Mayor Don Harton. >> Yes. That motion passes 5-0. >> All right. Uh Jennifer, let's move on to I guess tab 13 and 14 or John. >> Yep. Tab 13. I'll read them together. 13 is an ordinance of Alamara Village of
Islands, Florida to amend the village's future land use map from public semi-public services to mixed use for the subject property located on Upper Madakumbi Key with real estate number 0042900-000000 as legally described herein providing for the transmitt of this ordinance to the state department of economic
opportunity um actually should be state department of commerce apologies and providing for an effective date upon the approval of this ordinance by the state department of commerce. Uh number 14 is an ordinance of Alamada Village Islands, Florida to amend the official zoning map from public semi-public services to highway commercial for the subject
property located on Upper Madakumbi Key with real estate number 00429 uh 0042900-0000 as legally described herein, providing for transmitt of this ordinance to the state department of economic opportunity providing for effective date upon the
approval of this ordinance by the state department of commerce And um if uh uh council, if you will uh disclose any exparte communications that you may have had on either on uh these items and
again if you'll please disclose the um uh the uh the name and the uh the substantive discussions to the best you recall. >> All right, very good. Anna, >> I would just go with staff. >> Same here,
>> Steve. Yeah, just staff. Dev >> on this go around just just staff. Um in the past when we had this before um I talked to Tony Hammond. >> Very good. >> I don't know whether it ever got all the way to council last time. I don't think
it did. >> Very good. Um uh Tony Hammond the last time. Nobody this time. And and just to clarify the the titles I read that the uh ordinance to have the correct in that mentioned the state department of commerce not department of economic
opportunity in the in the agenda um table of contents for whatever reason it um it's it states otherwise but uh the the titles are correct. >> Very good. John, do you need to swear anyone in? >> Uh they should have been sworn in um when we swore in the uh everybody else.
>> Very good. >> Uh Jennifer. >> Yes. Thank you. Council again. and Jennifer Deborri playing director for the village of Alam Marada. I'm here this evening um for the uh ordinances to amend the future land use map from public to in semi-public services to mixed use and to amend the zoning map
from public to and public and semi-public services to highway commercial for the parcel at 000042900-0000 located at 83250 Overseas Highway. It's the former home of the Island Community Church. This property is comprised of
$32,000 square feet. The village purchased this property in 2024 for $3.9 million and leased it back to the church until this past August. The village now uses the building and the property for storage. The council and the village manager have requested that this changed so the property can be used to its best
potential. This flam um sorry um the subject property is located in Upper Madakumbi. The property is the original home to the Iserada movie theater. In 1974, the church purchased the property for its congregation. The property contains no significant habitat and is
mostly devoid of all vegetation. The property is not recognized as habitat to any state or federal listed animal species and is not within the state conservation recreation lands boundary or critical habitat area. Pursuant to the village's GIS data and records, the parcel is not defined as any specific
habitat. My full analysis is in your packet on both ordinances. The LPA did hear uh this these ordinances at their meeting on January 12th and voted unanimously on both ordinances to recommend approval. Uh at
this time, uh staff recommends approval of both ordinances. And I'm here to answer any questions that you might have. >> Very good. Thank you, Jennifer. >> You're welcome. >> All right. So, um, is there any testimony or anyone representing that
would like to, uh, uh, give testimony in favor of this request? >> I have no one signed up. >> Okay. Is there anyone in opposition? >> What is the request? I don't know. I The changing of the of the ordinance.
>> Yes, sir. A changing of the zoning. Yes, sir. >> Did you come? Uh, you need to come to the microphone if you want to >> please introduce yourself and my name is Joseph Robinson. I'm a long
time residents and I would like to know what the difference to the changes that you're making that the you're changing it from the p public semi public- semi-public services PS to mixed
juice mu. Can you tell me what the first was and with the change you're making? What does that mean? The changes be happy to be happy to do that. Jennifer, will you please explain the two different flums and zonings?
>> Sure. So there the the flum and the is the future land use map which ultimately defines what what a property can and can't do. And it it allows for certain densities. It allows for certain development standards. The currently
this property is public semi-public services which allows for um churches, schools, government buildings, nonprofit organizations. The the village would owns this property currently and would like to change it to a mixeduse flum. The reason the village
would like to do that is because under the mixeduse flum or under the public service semi-public service, you can only do certain things. You can only do schools, churches, government buildings. Under the mixed use flum, there's different zoning districts that allow for commercial uses. So, one of those
things that they would like to do if the village decides to sell this building that would give it highest and best use would be a commercial use of this property. So, that's the zoning district is the highway commercial which allows for the most commercial uses within that building. So, that's what the village is
is proposing to do at this time. So, the the changes to the commercial use. >> Yes, sir. >> Has anybody uh made a uh an offer to to buy that piece of property? >> I can't speak to that. >> We're
>> I don't think that we have an offer on the table as of yet. >> I'm sorry, I didn't hear I don't think we have an offer on the table as of yet. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you very much.
>> Is there any other discussion uh in opposition? Jennifer, do you have any closing um discussion? >> I do not at this time. Thank you. >> Very good. Do I have a motion? >> Well, wait a second. Wait a second before speedy. >> Okay. I have talked to Ron about this and I
was on the only one here who was on the council who bought this building and our intention was to do something for the community. I am not big on turning this into a commercial as Jennifer just said it for a commercial use. I want to see housing on there and I would like also
for us to open this up to the public first. I don't want to do this until we have a chance to see what the public would like to see us do. It's their money. They were behind us buying it for other reasons. And it's almost like we're not listening to the people who
were supportive buying it. I'd like to put this off until we have a chance to see what the community'd like to do with it. It's just my feeling. If I'm out voted, I'm out voted, but um I don't want to see this turn into a commercial building. And right now, we don't have
the ability or anybody interested in putting housing on it. I would rather see that than a commercial enterprise going in there. So that's my feeling. >> Very good. Thank you. >> There. Any other discussion?
>> In order to recoup the money that we put into this because I'm not sure it was a a wise I understand why we did it, but now it's not as wise of a choice. Um,
we can we can always add a housing element to whoever buys it. And there are a couple that I know of people out there that are looking at it. Do we have an offer? No. As far as I know, we don't
have an offer yet. Um, so I I think it's important to move this ahead so that it can have the most impact that we can do. And if somebody can present something that is feasible
and it's all housing, that's great. Uh, but either way, if I remember right, Jennifer will need to correct me on this probably. Um, it would still need a zoning change in order to put all housing on it. Is that correct? >> That's correct. Housing is not allowed.
Well, I take that back. Some housing is allowed in PS, but affordable housing currently is not allowed. >> Okay. So, it would need a zoning change even if we did only that. >> That's right. >> Again, >> I'm sorry. >> I said you need to do a zoning change again.
>> No, we if we change this to the what's being requested, then affordable housing or housing can can be interjected onto the property. They don't if it stays as public semi-public, there is no density allowed other than an institutional type
of density for public semi-public. >> Okay. >> So, so it could be all housing or it could be housing and commercial >> or it and I think there would probably be some kind of building requirement or it could be all commercial. >> Yes. >> With what we're doing. Well, depending
on the size, there may be requirement for a housing element, >> right? Um, so I'd like to see it move ahead. >> Greg T. >> Yeah, I um I agree with Sharon. I I think that uh that we do need to have some more public input and workshops on
this and uh but I also see moving forward with this to give us some more options where we could still do um some of the things that Sharon was talking about and uh possibly um something else if if it comes to that. But I I don't see it changing much in terms of um
really just giving us a better opportunity and and a broader scope of of what we might look into and going there since we do control it still and looking forward to more public workshops on what we're going to do with our own public uh publicly owned land. >> Very good, Anna.
>> Um well, I'm in for favor of it moving forward still just because it it opens up our options and we can still do I'd like to see affordable housing there. I think is a great place for it. Um if somebody wants to come in and do mixed or do all housing, then you know, we'll
figure that out as it comes, but I think we need to um be able to put it forward so that we can do what we want when it comes time. >> Very good. Thank you. Um no, I I agree as well. it. By changing this, it opens
up the door for us to be able to get more public input uh and for us to have control over what what the future of that piece of property is. As it sits in public, semi-public only uh limited
institutional uses are allowed and I don't think that this council's wanting to build a church uh again on that property. So, um, this will help us advance, uh, and and have a better use of this property. Certainly, not saying
anything other than it it gives us a lot more opportunity by, uh, by doing what we're doing. >> I guess my main point was that um, and I'll go with the flow. I have no problem, but I I do not want things done behind the scenes. I want the community
to have a say in what goes there and that we did give the impression that things were being done behind the scene. So, just want to make that clear that we need to involve the public for whatever we decide to do and I will go with the flow to change it just because um it I
know it's the right thing to do, but I want the community to be involved >> 100%. All right. Very good. So, as it relates to tab 14, do I have a motion to approve? I would suggest doing tab 13 first. >> Okay. I'm so sorry. Let's do tabs.
>> Either way, either way, we're going to get there. John, do I have a motion for tab 13? >> I'll make a motion for tab 13 to change the zoning. >> Do I have a second? >> No, it's the phone. Sorry. >> Second. >> We got a motion to second. Marne, will you call the role, please? >> Council member Deb Gillis,
>> yes. >> Council member Anna Richards, >> yes. >> Council member Steve Freriedman, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Sharon Mahoney, >> yes. and Mayor Don Harton. >> Yes. >> Motion passes 5-0. >> Do I have a motion for tab 14 now? >> I'll make a motion for tab 14 to change the zoning.
>> Thank you. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> Got a motion and second. Marty, will you please call the role? >> Council member Deb Gillis. >> Yes. >> Council member Anna Richards. >> Yes. >> Council member C. Freiedman. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Sharon Mahoney. >> Yes. >> And Mayor Don Horton. >> Yes.
>> That motion passes 5-0. >> Very good. That closes the quasi judicial. And I see that we have a motion to change the date. Barney, will you explain? >> Yes, sir. Um, we have found out since the um
meeting calendar was approved that there is a primary election on August 18th and this particular building is a um precinct. So, the um supervisor of elections needs to have this as a voting precinct. So, um I'm asking to change
our meeting. They will also be dropping their voting equipment off the day prior to the meeting and picking up the day after, excuse me, the day after the election. So, um I would suggest we either cancel that meeting or change it to another date. Um I did provide the
calendar in there as well. If um you want to pick out a different date, we could also run it with the um August 20th meeting. Uh by then the um supervisor of election staff uh any equipment will be out. What's the pleasure of the council for
the um uh to change the August 18th? >> Isn't that budget time too? >> It is. It's all within that budget square. >> Okay. >> So, Marne, are there any dates? Sir, if you could hold on for just a
second, let us finish this calendar. Marty be happy to talk to you. Um uh morning, are there any dates that are critical for the budget cycle? >> Um at this point, not yet. Um we'll be able to set budget hearings as we like. Um the only other thing that's going to
be conflicting is the week before this is the Florida League of Cities Conference. So that is held the August 13th through the 15th. And so we wouldn't want to uh schedule anything there, but we have wide open calendar as far as not interfering with those dates
that I've mentioned to schedule budget hearings as well or budget workshops. >> And part of the budget uh scheduling too will be dependent on the the county and the school board because we're not we're not able to schedule our budget uh hearings on the same days as them. Um so we have to we have to wait to find out
what dates they select so that we can then fill in unavailable dates there as well. Don't the school board doesn't the school board normally have their meetings on a Wednesday or do or Tuesday? >> It's usually on a Tuesday. >> Usually a Tuesday. >> Yeah. I'm not sure if they do the budgets the same time, but I believe
they usually Yes. Tuesday is usually their regular uh school board meetings. >> Okay. >> Hang on just a second. >> Why don't we put it as tentative on the 20th and then we can move it around or cancel it if we need to. >> Well, don't we already meet on the 20th? >> We already have a meeting. >> That's what I'm saying. The 18th. Just leave it as the 20th.
>> Yeah. Can we get do it all in one day? >> Yeah. You guys good with that? You doing on the 20th? >> Yeah, >> I'm good with that. Uh, we will be 1 2 3 4 5 weeks out. 1 2 3 4. That would be the sixth seventh week out from the
previous meeting. The pre the July meeting's on the 9th. Um, I'm just trying to be careful that we don't have a book that we can't handle in one evening. >> I I I believe >> I like that idea, but we could change it. It gets closer if we need to. Hang
on just a sec. Sir, sir, sir, we can't have this meeting with you talking. It's very disruptive. Uh, you can take it outside if you need to have a discussion with Jennifer, but we need to get this calendar done right. I I appreciate you just indulging us for just a moment if
you would. Thank you very much. I was say I think last year if my memory serves me we we actually didn't have a regular council meeting in in August because of all the budget hearings um >> in the workshops. So if that alleviates any concerns I don't I mean obviously
every year is different in terms of what we might have but uh my recollection was August we didn't have council meetings because of that. Let's let's do what Anna suggests then and just have the one and we'll we have we well one of Sorry, I heard her say it too.
>> Who makes the motion? >> Okay. >> Well, then then it sounds to me like there might be a consensus to just drop the meeting on the 18th. >> Yes. >> Is that what I'm hearing? >> Yes. >> Yes. Yes, Steve. Yes. Okay. All right,
Marty, just delete the meeting on the 18th and we will have the meeting on the 20th. I'm sure we're going to have many other meetings during the budget cycle. So, I think we'll be okay. >> So, the other meetings during the budget cycle, can they be um noticed as
covering some regular business if we need something if we're having a workshop and then cover and then notice it also as >> with 72-hour notice. We probably can. we would notice them as separate. Um, and we would have bud we could do the budget hearing at a time certain to start. So, we could always uh and your budget
hearings can't start before it's either 5 or 5:30. I think it's 5:00 in the in the statute. Um, so we could always meet before and then start the budget meeting at 5 or after you do it afterwards, but so yes, we we could add on if need be. Sorry, longwinded, but >> thank you, John. >> Thank you.
>> All right, so there's a consensus on that. >> We all happy? Do I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> I did have one thing I want to ask. >> During public comment, >> okay, >> during public comment, it was brought up
about the Florida Bay uh forever lease. Um, and nothing was addressed tonight in our book about it. Yes, >> Ron. >> Yeah. After the uh public comment, I spoke with Chody uh Jody from Florida
Bay Forever and she's going to come in either tomorrow or Thursday and meet with Peter Freso and I to see what we can work out. We the lease expires next month. We're talking to other organizations whether we can cooperate with other organizations and how that would integrate with what Florida Bay Forever has been doing. And so we're
open to talking to Florida Forever and we keep hearing that they're getting kicked out. They're not getting kicked out. Their lease is expiring. and whether we want to extend it or not, that's something we want to talk about as far as how we would handle what's going in there. But we're open to working with them. Just other organizations want to also participate and we don't want to exclude other ones
just for the benefit of one. So if there if there's a way we can get all them working together, uh then we can figure that out. >> So does the lease expire before the next council meeting? >> Yes. >> Yes, >> it does. >> Okay. Um, >> how about we talk about do we just do an
a 30-day extension though so that we can have a substantive discussion about that? >> I'll defer to John. I I I think that under my authority I can do that. I don't know if we need to have a counsel to to do an extension, but >> I'd have to look at the lease to see, you know, if if we're able to do that.
Um, I would uh assume that the manager could do it, but I'd have to take a look at the lease um to see number one, can we do that a 30-day extension? And if so, if the manager can um uh >> well, I don't I don't think it's fair for us not to have the discussion for them.
>> And so if it's if it's extendable, I I would like to see them at least extended for 30 days >> beyond the date of the expiration so that we can talk about it and the public can weigh back in. >> We good with that? >> Yeah. I I met with staff about this and
uh there's some there's some um uh some concerns about going forward and I think that that would be great to extend it because we're kind of working out some of the details whether it be instead of uh renewing a a 5-year lease, it could be a memorandum of understanding. Uh something the fact that if the tenant
isn't doing what they're doing, it's much easier to remove in that case. Um, and since they're doing such a great job and it seems like we've heard some people coming in in support, uh, I would like to see that continue until we can really work this out for the best for everybody. >> Well, then let's let's let's send that
direction to to, uh, uh, Ron De >> and Well, and I was going to say that I had heard >> I understand that that we weren't looking at another organization. The organization we were looking at was ourselves to start that management. So, we can
discuss this. >> Okay. >> We can discuss this, but um I hear a lot of good things about what's going on right now. >> Yeah. John, do we need a consensus or is there is that all you need? >> Uh why don't we do it as a motion in
case it requires council approval? Um, and I would just recommend that the motion be uh to uh direct the uh manager um uh to uh to >> to a to authorize the manager to execute
a 30-day extension to the extent permitted under the lease. >> I move. >> I'll second. >> Okay. So, we've got a motion in a second. >> Just exactly what John said. Do we have to do public comment now on that or >> I I we might as well. I mean, let's do
public Is there any public comment on this? >> No, the girls left. >> No. Okay. Well, hearing none, public comments closed. Uh Ron, >> just a couple more items. Um uh >> let me let me finish. Are you you move? >> Oh, yeah. I thought we're done with that.
>> Okay, let's finish. It's about this. >> Okay, so let's finish this. There's a motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? Is there any opposition hearing? None. The motion carries uh unanimously
um by votes vote. Okay. Uh go on, Ron. >> There are a couple items that were kind of alluded to. Uh one is the uh baseball agreement. Uh while I was in Tallahassee, I had a good conversation with our superintendent Ed Tierney. And then yesterday, I got a phone call from uh schoolboard chair uh John Dick. And
on both of them, I told him, I think we're closer than has been implied in the press at least. and in their meetings and so they've agreed to go back to their staff and find out where the differences are because I don't think there are big differences in our our proposed agreement that was approved
50 with a lot of community input and so they're going to double check and see where the objections are. Also the issue about who owns the first space building uh I told them we're still waiting for response and I think they were surprised that they had not responded. So we are trying to push that ball along. There
will be a a schoolboard meeting on February 24th in Coral Shores. I'm planning on attending and if they try to push the ball down the field is another metaphor. Uh so for the baseball field, I think we're closer than they think. We just want to retain final authority. It's our property. We own it and we're
just saying we want to approve anything that goes in there. We've also emphasized that they will require permits which they're not used to getting because on their property they don't need them. This isn't their property. And so we remind them that they're going to have to come before us for everything that they want to put there. So that's the baseball. Second
thing, I think Mayor Vice Mayor Mahoney alluded to uh back in August, I had a workshop on village owned property and it's been several months and so u it may be a good idea to have another workshop to get more public input. Uh we have the RFQ on the street for Machado which is
due next month. So that's already in process. the church. Obviously, there's been a lot of input. To reiterate, there's no contract that's been submitted. We have not gotten a contract. There was talk about contracts. Still is talk. No, no contract. Then, obviously, the big one, Silver and Spice, which we've done nothing with. And so, if there's no
objection, I I don't have any reason not to have another workshop to get public input. If they come in, fine. If they don't come in with any ideas, that's fine, too. So, uh I don't know that we need to have council approval on it. if as long as y'all think it's a good idea to get public input, I'll try to work with your schedules and see when we can
have another workshop. >> Thank you. >> Um yeah, I've uh I serve on the uh um on the school's uh construction uh committee and there's a meeting tomorrow night and one of the things on the
agenda is the ball field. Uh there's other uh there's other construction related items on other school board property. Uh so uh uh I'll I'll be able to give an update to you at least and you can forward that to council on as
far as you know what the status of of that is. Um John, there's also uh or Ron on our uh um on our tab 15 there's also a status on the rest of our open action
item which would be uh something on our wastewater. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I wanted to bring up because this is the first time we've actually had this for probably since April. >> Yep. >> And so this was a request by several members of the council to start doing the status reports. The staff was still
a little unsure about what exactly you wanted. So this was an example. I just brought up two things that aren't on this. The baseball field and the village owned properties, which we weren't sure technically it's something that need to be on here, but I wanted to update you on that. Uh real quickly, the creating a charter review committee. We I already
updated you on that. We've already had two meetings that's on here. Comp plan, you got an update from Jennifer tonight. Uh the TDR bank, I think that's that's a Jennifer issue, but I think that's been resolved or we're working with Commerce on that. The wastewater rate study, I
think I've kind of updated you that we're working with Raph Telus. You've already approved that. We're still trying to get some information to them so they give us a final quote, but 35,000 was the not to exceed. So it shouldn't be over that because we're trying to get that information so that we can, you know, work with the Keargo
on on our future capital needs. When we were in Tallahassee, uh we did have some discussions about our our cap long-term capital needs and it's going to be quite a bit. So we're trying to lay the groundwork for that. We have a smart ball study which we injects a a ball
into the pipeline and it records what's there so we can kind of see what's been going on there because that's important too. But once again, we have a much improved relationship with Kiloga Wastewater District. We spent a lot of time with Peter Rossco in Tallahassee. I've met with some of their board members. I know some of you have talked
individually to the board members. So, I feel pretty good about where we are with the wastewater process. And then I think the .edu thing came up. That's related to the Raftella study, too. We want to review and see, are we properly assessing? We've had some questions about one of the local restaurants, how much they were assessed for a system
upgrade because they increased their seating, things like that that we want to get better answers for. And so I think we're making progress on the wastewater, but uh certainly any input you have, we'd be open to it. Sharon, >> I want to Ron, I want to put another
reminder out there about the ride share that we need to get that out so we have time to consider uh the companies that do apply and what we are looking for in this village for ride share. Okay. >> Yeah, it got Yes, ma'am. That that got complicated because DOT came in and
questioned the original process. Um and we've been responding to that. Um and but we are looking at I think the the expiration is in June. Uh but we want to get ahead of that and see if we want to reopen it or not. And if you do, you know, put another request for proposals or request for qualifications, however
you want to do them. Uh and we also in addition to the freebie or the the pointto point, right? Sure. >> I know we've been talking in Tallahassee and also here about instituting a a trolley system, some type of you where it's it's not just the person to person, it's a a trolley, maybe a rider
driverless one, etc. And that's been part of our discussion with Tallahassee is as part of our budget request looking to see if there's some state money to institute a a a a loop uh within >> transit system. Yeah, we actually uh um
I got an email from um Tallahassee today introducing us to uh the uh lead folks district 6. Uh I've asked them to get in touch with you, Ron, and schedule a uh a meeting here at at the village uh so that we can open up that discussion on
that. Uh but u we still need to we still to make sure that our ride share stuff is taken care of. For sure. Yeah. >> Sharon, no Ron, you when we put out the Machado thing, you told me the ride share was like a week behind going out.
So where and that was three weeks ago. So where are we >> since that time that DOT came in and questioned the original process. So before we >> redid a process again, I want to because it was before my time, I want to have a better understanding of what what happened when they originally did the
the first proposal and there was some, you know, there was an interim manager at the time that apparently overrode and and there's >> some things that uh we want to clarify just to make sure that we don't repeat past mistakes and I'm just want to be cautious before we move forward. it it's not like it's coming up right now and I
wanted to make sure we get our ducks in a row. Uh but we I think we're looking at doing putting it out there and seeing what proposals are out there and also we're also looking at by the way uh the paid parking situation same situation where we're going to move forward once we see more from the comp plan you know
as far as I want to work with Jennifer on you know where are we looking at doing paid parking for example but we do intend to move forward with that one too just we want to get more information because that's what I'm being asked by the companies is well how many spaces are you talking about well we don't know is it >> we've been you've been talking about the
paid parking for considerable amount of time. Now, uh is there a package ready to go out or is there is there a bid process to do that or uh is there locations where this parking would happen? We have two companies I've been talking to. Obviously, there's no
proposal out there yet. Um we haven't identified the parking because that's ongoing. Uh we do have Silver and Spice, for example, I think when it was originally purchased, there's actually a parking plan for that. And so we know we have some spaces, but the old road is probably where we'd be looking if we're doing paid parking. But I also want to
make sure that, you know, the businesses there are comfortable with looking at that and the details. And so, um, I want to move those are the two things on on our agenda is the the ride share and the paid parking. Those are the next ones up. We got Machado out there on the
street. Uh, it's due back in next month. And so I think we're ready to move forward with the other two. So, >> may why don't we add those to the list? >> Yeah, that'll be we'll give you an update next meeting >> so that we can look at that. Deb, >> so concerning the paid parking, it should also include um An's Beach.
>> Um I agree. >> That's what it was originally. It started with Ann's Beach and as we were moving forward on on um um tea u tea table and and the fills uh it was supposed to include that and it never
moved forward because of the issues that would came up on the fills. So we never moved forward with an speech. So it should include an speech if we're going to do it. that original drawing that was put out there for Island Silver and Spice was supposed to be an interim
>> um thing >> to do with it. And that's a long interim now. >> Yeah, it is. I think we need to get moving on those things and and and get them under underway. Put them on the list. We'll put a maybe we can put a
drop dead date on those. Yep. All right. Anything else, Ron? Anything else on our action item list? Okay. Is there anything else for the good of the city? Do I have a motion to adjourn now?
>> Motion to journ. >> Okay. >> Thank you all very much.