it's six o'clock uh welcome to the February 18th city of Jacksonville Beach city council meeting um let's get started with our invitation followed by the Sala lag presented to us by councilman wner thank you for allowing this group
to come together today we ask that you help us with your guidance and wisdom to make to allow us to make our day our place where we live and working with each other better because we came together thank you for those men and
women you put in arms way to protect us each day thank you for those that spend their lives practicing medicine and education so that we are safe and we are learned thank you so much for all you do thank you for your blessings and in your
we pray amen all right call to order Madam clerk bro call council member Golding here council member horn here council member johnon here council member Sutton
here council member Wagner council member wers here mayor Hoffman all right uh getting started before we U move on to the approval of the minutes just if you see a different Look Tonight uh mayor mayor Hoffman is
out of the country so I'm sitting in for her and um we have uh councilman Golding uh council member Golding uh joining us virtually this evening so um Sandy can you hear
me I can thank you good good all right uh approval of the minutes I uh make a motion to approve the minutes from the regular city council meeting held on February 3rd 2025 second we got a first and a second
all in F any questions or comments all in favor say I I I any oppose um I make a motion that we approve the minutes from the city council briefing held on February 10th
2025 any questions or comments I got I got a second any questions comments I would just like to say I appreciate uh that briefing very much and those folks that hosted it I think they're doing a great job
okay put the switch and I'll know that you got a comment um all in favor say I I any oppose I motion carries all right approval of the agenda I make a motion that we approve
the agenda minus item a numbers one and two under city manager new business second we got a first and second um all in favor say I I see any
opposed motion carries uh announcements we'll start with Sandy since she's virtually attending Sandy do you have announcements yes thank you Dan I appreciate it um I don't know if she can hear us thank you all for allowing me to
participate virtually tonight um uh can you hear me I know she had some announcements she mentioned it earlier yeah can you guys hear me while they're working on that I'll go ahead and uh give my announcements uh I
do have some announcements uh I just returned from Washington DC last week uh it was a fruitful trip um it was able to cover the appropriation that we're working on for the uh 13th AV South in the South End of Jack beach in front of
the hospital uh and speaking with Congressman Rutherford he said that um we are in the best position we can possibly be with that appropriation it still has to wait to hit the house floor so that was really good um that's good news also there were some concerns that
were brought forward from the from the league from the Florida leue of cities about tax exe tax exemptions on mpo bonds and it sounds like as it stands right now that they're in favor of not supporting that bill so that's good and
they are in favor of the national flood insurance plan keeping that in place to help uh fund flood insurance for Floridians uh obviously that's an important factor for us in the State of Florida so it was it was a good trip all in all we we made some positive ground
with that uh today we also had the opportunity to give a proclamation to Xavier cortado for the waterfall columns uh thank you um Miss mobs for putting putting this whole organizing this whole
event and getting this art put in place for for the city of Jacko Beach it was a nice uh it was a nice ceremony and Mr cortada had a a nice speech to to present to us and if you want to see any of that it's on social media sites it's
on our take two Tuesday and YouTube I believe and then last but not least boring stuff um House Bill 301 um covers sovereign immunity was uh dropped I think a few days ago or last week and
it's not looking good as far as it's written right now they're asking for um caps of a million 1.1 million and 3.2 million on any lawsuits against the city uh to kind of put that in a frame of reference we're we're sitting right now
at 24,000 so that's a quite a bit of an increase so I think we're going to be fighting that in Tallahassee come the end of March also Senate Bill 184 was dropped today this it's not a really
positive one either it has to do with allowing not allowing requiring municipalities to allow adus on any property that's in in within your municipality without any effect on uh
impact fees or or Mobility fees and with without any parking restrict either so it's it's it's a horrible bill as as it's written today um and I'm I can forast that we're going to probably be
fighting that one on in Tallahassee as well any other comments Mr wers thank you councelor Wagner um please forgive me uh the Land Development code has been coming at me
pretty fast and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it as I don't have the background knowledge that many people on this SK do and I brought some pictures to share with you all and um in the rm1 and rm2 districts they are
going to uh reduce the side setbacks in the front and back setbacks and in front of you is a picture of a building that was giving the setbacks on all four sides so you can I know when it's not right in your face or in your backyard
it doesn't affect you I don't know where yall live but I know that people in my uh neck of the woods are concerned and um we would hope we are not anti-development but we are for smart
growth and some of the concerns that folks have uh in these areas include storm and rainwater accumulating on your property pulling against your building uh accumulated in your yard I was at U
Starbucks looking at all this stuff and some plumbers happened to approach me and they said uh are you a developer and I said no I'm on city council and I'm looking at these side setbacks and they told me yeah I was just at an old lady's house in h Jacksonville Beach and all
this water was coming on her property and she can't afford to put in drainage so she's just going to have to live with it but it's a really it's a real thing in our community and it's a affecting us in addition it's a privacy issue when you have a Windows 5T apart from each
other total of 10 ft you have Eve sticking out two feet plus the gutter you're basically right on top of each other blocking the sky blocking natural sunlight in addition to that it takes away the acoustic feel and beauty of a
neighborhood it takes away from our small town Vibe cramming buildings right on top of each other and these new structures with their front and uh back setback enlargements they'll block your ocean view your Sunset View and so
on um we're not asking for anything special but the the uh side set backs in RS one in particular and the front and rear were uh still stable they have not been reduced and I would hope that some
of my friends would consider keeping the at least the 10- foot side setbacks in the RM districts and uh perhaps allowing the front and rear ones to go into effect but I appreciate your time and hope you will consider this with an open heart thank
you thank you council member W wers um gonna try Sandy again Sandy can you hear me now I can hear you can you hear me yes far away okay um thank you guys for uh
allowing me to participate remotely um I apologize for my uh inability to be there but I had a work trip that's been planned for several months and and I could not could not uh could not change
that at all but anyway my announcements I wanted to share with everyone just to remind everybody that we do have the public Workshop this Thursday for the Land Development code at 6 o'clock in council chambers uh the draft Land Development code and summary of changes
came can be found uh in the workshop announcement on the city's website on the homepage there are links there to the current draft of the LDC um so I hope that citizens will plan to come out for the workshop so that you
can uh get more information about the proposed changes and ask any questions that you may have also want to let everyone know that there is a town hall scheduled uh for uh Wednesday March 5th at 7 o'clock at the beaches Branch
Library this is a town hall with the Jacksonville city council members who represent the beaches and that means all the at large members represent us as well uh as our 13 District 13
representative Rory diamond and so the uh at large council members that have confirmed to participate in that town hall are Matt carluchi Nick Howland Chris Miller and Ron Salem um Terrence Freeman is out of town
and U Rory Diamond our di District 13 representative will also be at that town hall again that's Wednesday March 5th at 7 o'clock at the beaches Branch Library this will be a great opportunity to interface with these atlarge council members that we don't see that often um
it'll be an opportunity to hear their priorities for the coming year but to also communicate to them ask any question questions that that any of our beaches citizens may have about uh issues that are going on in Jacksonville that that impact us here at the beach um
also want to let everybody know that the legislative session is starting March 4th and like um vice mayor Jansen said House Bill 301 Sovereign it's a sovereign immunity bill that um uh falls under the municipal operations policy
committee and uh it's uh as he mentioned it's significantly increasing the Caps uh that cities would have to pay um and if there's any lawsuits against the city
and so uh I encourage all our C all the other council members you should have gotten a uh an email from the Florida leag of cities there is a uh committee meeting tomorrow morning February 19th at 9:30 in the morning and
I urge you to send an email to all the committee members and ask them to to vote down on House Bill 301 uh that's all my announcements thank you so much thank you Sandy uh council
member horn yeah um councilwoman Golding and um uh mayor protim Jansen kind of did bring up some good points and I just want to reiterate that there's a lot of things that we try and do for the city of Jacksonville Beach but as I've come on
we learned that this activity that happens at the state level that significantly impacts us at home our ability to govern ourselves our ability to make you know decisions and I just want to thank everybody on this team for being as active as they are at the state
level I did not realize until I got here um how much goes on and how much the state can really kind of I guess for back a better term Stick it to us um you know the concept of ad on every property so every property in Jacksonville Beach could then have an Adu if that passed
and we will do our best to fight that um with no parking requirements again you know you just stick a house anywhere and so again when this you know we're in the middle of redeveloping our Land Development code and we're trying to do it in the best interest of citizens but the state can come along and preempt us
and just say hey here you by the way you know whatever you say locally is your business but this is the rule now and I just want to thank everybody for their efforts and I want all the citizens to know that we're we're doing everything we can thank you Mr horn any more
announcements go uh Mr Wagner just a fun one just a reminder to everybody that this weekend is the seawalk Music Fest if you haven't had a chance to come out enjoy it I highly recommend it it's a lot of fun thank you sir all right if that's
all the announcements we'll move on to uh courtesy of the floor our first speaker is uh Ronda mcdonal come to the podium give us your name and address and you will have three minutes please turn the microphone on please in the club yeah hi I'm Rhonda
stanky McDonald 1120 2 Avenue North dville Beach and tonight I just want to talk to you about the public workshops especially the one we're going to have Thursday but public workshops in general I'm unclear just a
moment pardon me I'm unclear who has the authority to Grant my request or come to my Aid with this but for the last two years here in Jacksonville Beach I've been very involved with fellow citizens on different issues and one thing I hear
again and again prior to the Land Development code coming you know forward they talk about the public work shops being presentation times and it's not really time that uh Garners any public input now I know that we've had a lot of
Land Development code um meeting after meeting where there has been input but for this last moment where there's going to be this fine-tuning this tweaking of it and there still is an awful lot there were things put in that you all said who voted on this um so I don't know if it's
possible but if there's a way to have public input at the meeting and not just the simple presentation style it seems like this meeting of all meetings would be vital thank you thank you m McDonald um Thomas Herold you give us your name and address
three minutes please sir good evening how are you my name is Thomas harell I live at 2796 Colony Drive at the end at the Old Navy dump where colonies and Republic uh currently meet meet up I'm on the corner um we
currently have construction going on on 6th Avenue where uh pedot Schmidt is one of our contractors that were utilizing the Old Navy dump as a staging area moving in concrete big heavy trucks uh front end loaders so this is
this is going to happen for two years I completely understand it understand that we need to move forward with the future of Jacksonville Beach but we had mentioned multiple things today you you mentioned um being you know your space
or you know that small Time Field um the other Council uh said something about legal we also mentioned about you know repercussions and so with that being said with at the end of my street there's a cable that's supposed to go up
every night I would assume but I don't know that I've asked that question of Public Works multiple times the cable goes down you can attach it but you can roll over so the other night I was out of town and my neighbor text me and said listen I had to call the police yet
again because councilman Mr horn told me to call the police every time we see someone back there well we call but they never show up or you know I understand they're very busy taking care of this but there was an kids on a golf cart coming around the turn there on the old
Dam dump there's four kids in a green 4x4 you know speeding down that dirt road almost caused an accident what if they've gone into somebody's yard we don't hang the cable you approved six days a week from 7 A.M to 7 pm. uh
they're coming at 6:45 in the morning on a Saturday I know you said space uh none of you I hope don't have Construction in front of your house for the next two years and I'd like something done about it either put up the cable at night do
it on the weekends I'm sure they're paid hourly so so in that regard they can get out of the truck unlock the cable put it down put it back up then come back through there's been um construction on Republic that said it'd be done in a week it's been now a month that and it
was just little space that they were trying to do some tubing down for that particular area and that's been a month so we continuously overpromise and under deliver from uh your neighbors and again I don't wish you guys having construction in front of your house but
I do and I've had it for the last eight months or nine months and I still have another year and a half to go so I want you to think about that when we uh maybe talk to Public Works and maybe doing the right thing for your neighbors because my other neighbors weren't able to come but this is my second time I have
actually gone to pedote and Schmidt and spoke to stitch over there as well I went to their office and explained the issues because everybody's busy but why not go directly to the source I have emails from councilman horn as well so let's get something done about it and
thank you for your time yep thank you sir uh hard for me to read this Adam feber feber if you give us your name and address you have three minutes and I've let me apologize for our clock we haven't figured out how to get it working here this is all new technology
up here so uh no worries three minutes time sir all right Adam feber 3916 Grande Boulevard uh and I was just wanted to come today I guess you know a get information or Express frustration like we've been trying to understand the variance process and I know there's a
lot of changes going on with the Land Development code and everything else but seems to be I get different answers when I've come in and spoke to different people um I was actually told that it may or may not be discussed tonight but to come but it also may have been postponed and might not be talked about
until April so again varying information but my wife and I are just trying to put in a pool we would need to request a variance because it's um you know for land coverage and we feel like we're in a rock in a hard spot because we have the plan drawn up but I've been told
that they're not accepting new applications for it until this is passed but then when it's going to get passed it range you know by a span a month so yeah just trying to I think there's you know a lack of communication or a disconnect between some of the employees as far as updates and just trying to get
a little Clarity there right thank you sir one more uh just made it in David Parson if you come up give us your name and address I'm uh complaining right now on the car wash on
16 uh name and address sir what name and address uh Red Cross from CVS 16th Street South it's the yellow one I've been here since oh my name is David Parson I own several properties I own 1706 First
Street 4841 Avenue 50 Phillips in P right near the church and also 1705 Bill I've been here since 1978 but at the beach since 85 pick and save over there uh crab part just to let you know don't let the accent F you but my concern is
right now is the hydr Floric acid I also am a chemical engineer for August Bush for 35 years is uh the third and if you go by that car washer across the Cs it's it's devastating you know what I think how long would it be if I took my
garbage and just dumped it in front of my house on thir Street and then you people would be sending me documentation and papers also in the back of the ditch there's blue containers I don't know what's in those containers in which is the property line between the church and
the car wash okay and then if you look at the old junk pickup truck in the back all the yellow of things is deteriorating a fake garage door I mean I don't want to have I always learned to try to settle things the lowest possible way I don't want to have to go to the
EPA on this because like I said those Car Washers are very dangerous the guy sold that one with the three car washers for that reason and the Amo if you're familiar they replaced the tanks uh when it was closed across in the gate gas station because of the pollution
situation so my concern is is let's do something you know let's clean it up I mean it's an eyes saw I go down Tony you look at um Tony slat's property they're all excellent you look at um the Payton family all their properties are
excellent there's no reason that that should be an eyesore for such a beautiful beach so I would appreciate if each one of you come down here go left and walk the property and look at it and see if it needs attention Okay thank you very much time sir thank you Mr
Parson all right that that concludes courtesy of the floor moving on to the consent agenda can I get a motion I make a motion that we approve the consent agenda second got a first and second all in favor say
I I I I any oppos motion consent agen is approved moving on to City manager's new business uh moving on to B item a is cancell and Miss mobs yes all right good
evening uh Taylor mob C coordinator you have before you uh a scop and fee for phase one of the conceptual design for a lowspeed vehicle parking lot located on the CRA own property that is directly across from the cape parking lot uh this
came from a briefing with Council a while back kind of talking about a way to accommodate more local traffic in the downtown uh and this is where this idea came from to have lowp speed Vehicles so bicycles golf carts scooters and then we also have talked about adding in and having just some Ada spaces as well to
accommodate for more accessible spaces downtown the Redevelopment agency reviewed and approved this at their January 15th meeting and I am happy to answer any questions thank you Miss Mobs Can I get a motion I make a motion that we approve
the scope and fee for phase one conceptual design of the low-speed vehicle parking lot second we got a motion and a second any questions or comments from Council I can't tell s Sandy do you have
anything uh no I don't thank you okay thank you uh Mr wers thank you uh Vice uh mayor I would just like to say when I read it over I was very encouraged to see that the uh intent is to preserve as
many of those beautiful palm trees as we can and I hope that will come to fruition absolutely yes thank you no more comments at the risk of this meeting going longer than necessary you've already covered that there's the the Ada
spots the one thing that I would just ask um because it doesn't jump out in our in our document is that we that we really think about kind of over indexing a little bit we've we've had we have an opportunity I think to have a few extra over indexed spots for people with
disabilities uh and and part of the reason for this too is as we have big events and we have to close down certain areas we do lose some and uh you know it's not going to hurt us to protect those with sure with great needs so thank thank you that's just my kind of
request okay thank you all right see no more comments Madam cler can I get a roll call oh wait yeah on that one we're going to do one and two separate yeah okay yeah can we get a roll call council member
Golding yes council member horn yes council member Sutton yes council member Wagner yes council member wers yes Mayor protm Johnson yes can I get a motion on
item two uh I authorize the mayor uh motion to authorize the mayor and city manager to execute the scope and fee for phase one conceptual design of the lowspeed vehicle parking lot second got a motion in a second any comments
questions Madam clerk can I get a roll call council member horn yes council member Sutton yes council member Wagner yes council member wers yes council member
Golding yes Mayor protim Johnson yes uh that concludes everything for tonight um uh can I get a motion motion to adjourn to adjourn and a
second I'll second I second all those in favor CL thank you guys