The clock in the room is slow. iPhone says it's six o'clock. No, keep keep chatting. That's good. Thank you everyone for being here for the Monday, August 4th regular city council meeting. We will begin with our opening ceremonies invocation followed by the salute to the flag delivered by
Mr. Jansen. Please rise. Let us pray. Good and gracious heavenly father, as I lift my brother and sister up in prayer, I'm reminded that your grace is endless and that your mercies are renewed every morning. Lord, we just thank you for the
opportunity to pray and that our praise our prayers are answered. Lord, we thank you for your hand at healing, touching those that have ailments and those that need the healing that you can only you can give. Lord, we just ask you to look
over our first responders and our military as they protect our peace. Lord, most of all, we thank you for your son Jesus and the perpetuation that he has provided for our salvation. For it's in his name we pray. Amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. This meeting is called to order. Madam clerk, roll call.
Council member Golding here. Council member Horn here. Council member Jansen here. Council member Sutton here. Council member Wagner here. Council member Wowers here. Mayor Hoffman here. Moving on to approval of minutes.
I move that we approve the agenda. I'm sorry. Approval of the agenda. We have a motion of seconding the discussion. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. Announcements.
Council member Golding. Uh, thank you, Mayor. First of all, I want to um uh recognize our staff who uh were involved in the back to school event at the Carver Center this past Saturday. It
was a really really great event. This was if for those of you who may not know about it, this was an opportunity to uh partner with Beam and some other organizations in our community to hand out backpacks and school supplies to
kids who needed it. And um needless to say, they were all handed out and unfortunately people had to be turned away. So there's definitely a need. But but it was a really great event and our staff did a great job uh putting on that event, especially the Carver Center
staff. Um I also want to while I'm mentioning staff, I want to recognize our financial staff who um have worked really hard to put our budget together, but also put a lot of time into uh responding to the Doge request that we
got from the state recently. And I know that that was uh a lot of work between the budget and working on that. So, want to recognize our financial staff for all that they've been doing there. Want to let everybody know that there's a town
hall this Thursday with Senator Yarro and Representative Michael. It's going to be at 7 o'clock at the Beaches Branch Library. This will be a great opportunity to interface with our state elected officials for our citizens to have a chance to hear them talk about
their priorities, but also let them know what your priorities are. So when they go to Tallahassee, they will be representing us here at the beach. Um, also want to bring up an issue that is very a very important issue and our
friend Kevin Brown is here tonight and I know he's going to talk about it, but um, Kevin made me aware of the fact that about a week ago we had six sea turtle hatching disorientations in South Jack's
Beach. Um, and that's not good because that means that we have too much light on our beach at night. Um, whether it's residential or commercial. So Kevin and I took a ride down the beach from like 9
9:00 till about 10:30 to look at what what we're seeing and what the turtles are seeing. And it's really disappointing. We have a sea turtle for some of our new council members. We have a sea turtle lighting ordinance and unfortunately our community is not doing
a good job of of complying with that ordinance and but I will say I do want to give huge kudos to Four Points by Sherin to Best Western and Margaritavville. Those three had sea
turtle lights and and Beaches Energy. Um, we could see the street ends, all the lights that Beaches Energy had replaced with the amber lights. So, we have some good things going on, but we can do better. And I feel like, um, we
have an opportunity. And maybe as council people, if we know people who live along the ocean front, um, or we know business owners along the ocean front, I think now is the time for us to start talking to them. And I feel like
we really need to have an education campaign and we need to like it needs to be something that's ongoing. But I wanted to add one other thing. My sister was visiting from Tennessee and she uh we were talking about the sea turtles because she was staying at the Hampton
Inn and there's a sea turtle nest in front of the Hampton in and um I explained to her the issues with lighting and everything and she said, "Oh yeah, we go to Hilton Head every year on vacation. We stay in a condo with my father-in-law or with her
father-in-law and she said they have signs on their sliding glass doors that say close your curtains at night to protect the sea turtles and Hilton Head is doing it right and their beach is
dark and the the community seems to embrace the need to do that. Plus, they're by doing this, they're educating the tourists so that they know that they should be doing it, too. And so I feel like maybe instead of clean, dark, flat
mugs, we need to print some stickers that condos and hotels can put on their windows or their sliding glass doors because some of the biggest offenders were people just not closing their windows and they've just got they've
just got huge I mean like major lights blasting the beach from from their condo or their hotel room. Um, and the only other thing I'll mention is that um, oh, she was so she was staying at the Hampton Inn. So, I took the opportunity
to when I went by to see her, I was asking the guy at the front desk. I said, "So, I'm just curious, do you guys have any educational material here about sea turtles and to give to your guests?" And he's like, "No, no, we don't." I said, "Well, you know, you have a sea
turtle nest in front of your hotel." and he's like, "Yeah, I noticed that the other day." But so sadly, the staff there don't have, you know, they're not doing anything to educate the their guests. And my sister when she came
down, she to visit, you know, I had asked her, "Please tell me what you have in your room." and she said, "Yeah, there was nothing in the room to educate, you know, to give us any information about sea turtles or closing our windows to make sure that the lights
from our room are not interfering with the sea turtles." So we have a huge opportunity here and so I would just like to share this with you guys and inspire all of us and hopefully maybe we can talk about this. I you know in a future briefing where we can maybe
brainstorm amongst ourselves on things that we could do to try to to wrap our arms around this and and get our and get our community to to be an example of of how you how you uh how
you protect our sea turtles. Um, and then the only other thing I will mention is I had shared this with Mike after Kevin and I did the the beach tour because it was so alarming. And um, Jacob
is doing a take two Tuesday tomorrow. And so I encourage everybody to look for that take two Tuesday because it's going to be about sea turtles and the lighting. And uh I I hope that if you can share it, that'll be a great way for
us to get the get the word out about what we need to be doing in our community to be better about protecting our little sea turtles. Thank you. Spoiler alert. Just kidding. Um I did want to add though that we did a couple years ago.
kind of infuriates me to hear that the whoever it was at the front desk, but we did a piece with the three beaches cities in conjunction with beaches go green to put in all of the hotels about our beach rules as well as sea turtle information, etc. So, um we can certainly revisit that with them. And then also there's funding from the
license plate, the sea turtle license plate. They do grant funding for awareness campaign. So, maybe that um is something we should look at in partnership with our friends at Beaches Sea Turtle Patrol. Uh Mr. Jansen. Yeah, real quick. Uh we just came off of a a budget workshop with uh our police
department, Beaches Energy and Parks and Recck. Uh thank you to those department heads for the hard work and the wonderful presentations you put in. You're doing an awesome job. And of course Ashley uh she's the she's the machine behind the budget. So thank you for all your hard work and we have
another workshop tomorrow as well and and they're throughout the entire month. So you'll be hearing from me as those uh come along. Also, next week, uh, the majority of us on this dis, I believe, will all be going to the Florida League of Cities annual conferences, which is
in essence the kickoff of the new legislative season. So, you're going to be hearing a lot from all of us up here about the new laws and and um resolutions that are that are going to be looked to be passed and those that are going to be positive and those that we're going to have to fight against. uh
we all sit in a certain policy committee. So look forward to hearing from us on on that piggy backing off of our town hall. So we have some challenges that are going to be coming our way and we'll see if we can move some pendulums in a direction we want to move them.
Thank you, Mr. Jansen. Um I want to add my kudos to the staff for putting together the budget bus tour, especially we haven't done one of those in a few years. and actually see physically see the issues. Um the number of golf balls
uh at the substation really justified uh the net that we just approved a couple weeks ago. So it was um it's always really good to to put eyes on things especially when they come to us later in the year for votes. Um, we just got confirmation um, state rep.
U, uh, Michael's office has been working with a, um, program called FLO, which is Florida licensing on wheels, and it's a big, um, bus type of thing where you can go in and get your driver's license renewed. I wish I had known about this before I sat at uh, the clerk of courts
for three hours on uh, anyway. Um, so you can do that. It's going to be it's got there's a whole host of things that you can do state services and it'll be on August 28th from 10 to 2 and it's going to be parked right outside of city hall. I think we right on this side of uh Lakeam Plaza. So we'll send that out
to the um council members and put that out on our social media. So if you guys could help us amplify that, it'll be a nice service for our residents to be able to access right here um in the heart of Jacksonville Beach. We do have a seawalk session on Wednesday. I always look at Molly to confirm. I don't I
forgot again as usual my tradition forgot who the artist is but I did remember that there is a Trevor Lawrence lookalike contest. I'm not seeing anyone in this room but you might know you know someone. I mean a good wig could really help anyone be um competitive and there's going to be I
think a signed uh ATN jersey. So uh it'll be worth uh dusting off your Trevor Lawrence wig should you have one. And do you know who the artist is Molly? Do you know? Okay. One of us is gonna remember one of the Anyway, it's one of
our lifeguards. Oh, that's name. No. Okay. Oops. Sorry. I didn't mean to do that. Oh, Liz Beck. Okay, great. And there'll be a food truck out there right here in uh Leam Plaza. So, please come out and enjoy. Bring your chairs uh and your
trip Lawrence Wigs. Um Mr. Jansen, did you have another? No. Okay. Mr. Horn, I want to say um Yep. Thanks very much for all the I I echo what Councilman Jansson said about the uh um the budget meeting we had earlier. Appreciate all
the department heads coming out. I want to follow up. I just briefly mentioned this to one of our citizens, but uh uh at our last council meeting, we approved $100,000 for a repair, an emergency repair to a drain pipe, but we were able to identify the offending um uh cable
company and they will be getting a lovely bill in the city of Jacksonville Beach. So, we're getting all of our taxpayer dollars back and that's a wonderful thing. Uh, the only other thing I want to say was roughly a week ago, I was lucky enough to participate again in in the um volunteer life saving
corps menac ocean swim. Um, I was not victorious. I did not win. I'm sorry. Um although I was the fastest member of the council. Um, uh, but I I have great respect for anybody who's willing to swim three and a half miles in the ocean. Um, I was
only beaten by one person, but you know, uh, and and we do this every year, so it's not a closed race. You guys are welcome to come out. You know, we'll we start down there to Pond Club. Just go out offshore and make a left and come on down to Beach Boulevard. It's it's a lot of fun. So, we'll see you all next year.
I'm I'm hoping to get all of council to swim next year. Thanks. I It doesn't even sound fun. Like, I can't even fake it. I'm so glad that you are were so successful and congratulations to Metanac for their many years of sponsoring that race, but you will not ever see me doing that. I'll I'll come and cheer.
Maybe the polar plunge polar plunge I'll do. I I I will say in 2016 myself and another person pulled an old lifeguard in a kayak and we got the three of us together. That's not right. The three of us together got fifth,
sixth, and seventh. I'm willing to be pulled in a kayak. That's it. If you want to get pulled in a kayak next year, I will pull you, mayor. Are we recording? Okay, let's It's It's happening. We're going to do it. Any other uh council announcements?
Courtesy of the floor to visitors. Kevin Brown, come on up. You know the drill. Think I know what we're gonna hear about. Spoiler alert. Oh, push the button. Oh, I need that. Kevin Brown, 1833,
King's Court, still in Jacksonville Beach for a little while. So, Sandy kind of spilled the beans a little bit on this. Um, what happens real quickly is is when the hatchlings come out and she didn't go
into the nesting females, we've had like 56 false crawls. And a false crawl is when the female comes up and she's disorientated and instead of laying the eggs, she goes back into the ocean real quick. If she doesn't get rid of those
in 14 days, she dumps them out in the water. Um, we have a light issue. Uh, as said, I finally got FWC to allow me to take somebody in the cart and I took uh
Miss Golden and we we've All the beaches have an ordinance. We have Mr. Knight who we work through who has done everything he can. We've That's why I've got her out there. We've gone to We've done everything we can. I don't
have a badge. I don't have any authority other than please turn your lights out. Um, one turtle nest went seven blocks parallel to the dune through two blowouts. We found some hatchlings in
the puddles, but all lights. We are a destination point. We have grown. So, we're getting a lot of visitors and I think we're a little bit lax in in enforcing and educating and it's all about education. Look what look
at our sand dunes. We started that. They're beautiful. And we get rep we get uh boasted on that all the time about where we are with that. So, um, I've got an instrument here. Um, we're going to go out again, I believe. Um, this will tell us if a light is good or bad. It's
real simple. You just kind of look through it and if anybody's interested out, like I'm looking at those red numbers and I can't see them, but I look at this light and it's blue. That means not turtle friendly. Um, there are some people that are doing well. She
mentioned them. Um, we just I need help just like I did before. I need I need support. We need support. Um we have uh a great hatchling rate. We're about 92%. Which is awesome. And um but lights are
definitely issue. Those turtles need to find the natural light and they're confused. They're having a little issue. You stay 60 days in a sand and pop out and you got a flood light right in front of you. So, um, well, I want to get on
record as saying we have an issue and you guys have always supported everything that I've done, which I'm thankful for. So, now I'm asking you again. Um, some way, somehow, if I could just, we got to come up with an idea.
Sandy mentioned um, Hilton Head, she islands the same way. And, uh, that's a thought that we can go down the road with, but it is an issue and we need to address it. and I thank you for your time. Thanks, coach.
That is the only speaker card that we have. Moving on to consent agenda. I move that we approve the consent agenda. Second. We have a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Motion carries. City manager. New business. Mr. Quas, come on
up. Good evening. Mayors, city council, staff, public. Uh my name is Don Kravas, electrical engineering supervisor for Beaches Energy Services. Uh just to give you a little background on this agenda item. Uh so our current contractor, Hart
Stilties and uh Beaches Energy Services or City of Jacksonville Beach have completed a three-year contract early this year around February or March. So right after that we went on a monthto-month extension while we work on uh while we work with the procurement to
send the request for proposals out to several contractors. Uh procurement emailed them and before the formal process we talked to a couple contractors. The way the RFP works uh BS entity
services have identified like 40 42 items. We call them work uh units and uh mainly and approximately the prices are based on the previous 12 to 18 months current contract. Uh the prices are
composed of uh the material cost and labor cost and uh like I said we send it out so contractors can beat it. We have identified 42 units with prices. All the contractors have to do if they can do it
for the same price they'll put 1.0 on the multiplier. If they can do it for a little bit cheaper we've experienced in the past they'll put 0.95 or 0.97. Uh unfortunately in this goound hard utilities is the only contractor
that bid they bid 1.2 too as mentioned we've talked to a few contractors for the formal process but when the time came I guess they decided they have uh plenty on their plate uh so the only
good uh thing about this is heart utilities have worked with us for over 10 years and uh they have uh completed they have been good they completed another contract with us they also have a contract with JA I mentioned that because our workload is
it it can be busy. Sometimes there's none and then all of a sudden we have to call in for emergency work. So having a contract with our neighboring utilities help them to manage the uh the their their crew, their equipment, just the
just just managing the workflow. Although we only have a a contractor on board right now, I think we'll be okay with uh continue to work with hard utilities until, you know, the thing starts to settle down a little bit more. Uh they've been good uh to work with and
we recommend to uh award them another uh I think we're going for a five-year contract. It can be cancelled or terminated at will. Uh but yeah, uh if things continue on to be as crazy as
like what's going on, at least we have a a a secure five five-year contract with hard utilities. So that's it. Any questions? Maybe. Thank you, Mr. Pas. And we'll have a motion on section one. Mayor Prom.
Yeah. Um, I move we award RFP number 05-2425 to Hart Utilities of Jacksonville, Inc. for the installation of underground infrastructure. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion or questions for Mr. Quavvis?
Madam Clerk, roll call. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wers, yes. Mayor Hoffman. Yes. Motion carries. Item two.
I move that we authorize the mayor and city manager to negotiate and execute any contract as a result of this award. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any discussion? Mr. Horn. Sorry, I thought about saying this before and then it just popped up again on my bed. So, we do have the option
though of cancing this if something if we find ourselves two years from now in an environment where there other contractors. I mean obviously this is a single bidder and you mean a single option we have and we have to have the contract so but we do have the option down the road. Yes sir. Okay. All right. That's what I would
want to hear. Thank you Mr. Thank you Mr. Horn. Madam clerk roll call. Council member Horn. Yes. Council member Jansen. Yes. Council member Sutton. Yes. Council member Wagner. Yes. Council member Wowers. Yes. Council member Golding.
Yes. Mayor Hoffman. Yes. Motion carries. Item B, Mr. Taylor. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Uh, my name is Joel Taylor. I'm the chief information officer for the city of Jacksonville Beach. In 2003, the city
required a software program called Optiview. The purpose for this software is to automate and execute many of the city's key operating and financial reports. Um, this system currently runs approximately 241 reports, including reports such as the IE meter inventory
listing, deposit register, cash posting, and many more. In 2019, the Optuspool product was discontinued by the vendor. However, they have continued support up until last year when unfortunately that support is no longer available. Since it's a key system that supports the
city's internal operations and helps the city meets our record retention requirements, it is critical that we update to the latest product product called Optive Loon. The decision was delayed last year as we are in the process of determining the direction of our ERP strategy for the
city. This product will in fact integrate with our existing central square upgrade product. I recommend that the council approve the purchase of objective loan product for $55,920 which will enable the previously discussed reports to be run and stored
in our new filebound document management system. The expense breakdown is a $15,000 three-year agreement for license purchase, a $3,000 over three $3,000 per year over threeyear for support of the product and a $31,920
one-time 14-day implementation. and support uh professional services. This was a sole source purchase and falls under the master service agreement for the Upland Filebound project that was purchased in July of 2024. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Thank you, Mr. Taylor. A motion on section one. I move we approve the purchase of a document management and reporting system upgrade from Upland Software, Inc. and declare Upland Software, Inc. a sole source provider for future purchases. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any new discussion?
Always very glad to hear when the systems are will integrate with each other. That's refreshing. Questions, comments, m for roll call. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding,
yes. Council member Horn, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. Section two, I move we delegate the city manager as an authorized representative to sign Upland Software, Inc. quote number Q-317487 and statement of work.
Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or comments from council? Seeing that, madam clerk, roll call. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Hol, excuse me.
Council member Jansen, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. Did my vote count there? I'm not sure if Are you distracted by the thought of me being pulled down the beach in a kayak? Because I keep cracking up over here. Must have been it. Um, okay. Thank you,
Mr. Taylor. Next item, Mr. Flores. And we all remember this from the budget bus tour. It was at peak sweat. This was right where the heat of the day standing in an unairconditioned room. So, we are excited to hear more. Can you push the button?
Is that better? Okay. So, before you was a funding request, as I mentioned for the first project of the space needs effort that we started a couple of years ago. Um, as mentioned on Friday, we are looking to do this project in two phases. The first phase is going to be
the construction of the space of the mesh shop which is going to be rehoused in the southeast corner of the ON&M building facility. So if we were standing in pretty much in that space that was half of it the remaining half of it is going to be the the covered
canopy that's right there for where the beaches energy um vehicles are parked. And then phase two is going to be the remodeling of the space that's vacated by the meter shop. So I think um ma do you have the so the the first phase as you can see in the
current is is kind of like where we're we were standing um on Friday and then that entire space is going to get built out. We anticipate probably about five months um to be done and then once that gets completed then we're going to go ahead and move in the the meter shop
people back into that space and then the other building will be um gutted and redone. So we're looking the agenda item that you have before you had a whole um had all the vendors information for the three piggybacks. So we're looking to
piggyback three agreements for this project. We have one which is a CM at risk um delivery method from St. John's school board with Alden White then that's to do the construction. The second is to uh for all the integrated life safety and security work with
Sevens and that's a piggyback of sourceville contract and finally the third is um the piggyback of furnitureures and fixtures for Purdue with steelcase products off of Florida DMS. So we anticipate the entire project to take about 10 to 11 months. Uh we're
looking to get started if approved as soon as possible. So it would be hopefully by July of next year be completed. So I've got um representatives with Alden White, Cindy Reese, and Tom Norman with Alice 3P here um to answer any
questions you may have. Thank you. And this is a great example of why we do the budget tour because to have been in the space and see it versus the black and white drawings was really um impactful. Uh motion on section one. I move we approve the meter building
conversion project utilizing the competitively award awarded master agreement for construction management between Alden White constructors and St. Johnson County School Board at a guaranteed maximum price of 2,348,388. Second. We have a motion and a second.
Any discussion or questions? Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Council member Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes.
Council member Sutton, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. Section two. I move we approve a budget of $87,020 for the remaining meter building conversion project work which includes integrated life, safety and security,
furniture and fixtures and a 15% contingency. Second. We have a motion and a second any discussion. Madam clerk, roll call. Council member Waters. Yes. Council member Golding. Yes. Council member Horn. Yes.
Council member Jansen. Yes. Council member Sutton. Yes. Council member Wagner. Yes. Mayor Hoffman. Yes. Motion carries. Thank you, Mr. Flores. Thank you. Item three. Sorry. Yeah. I already turned my page over.
I move to authorize the mayor and city manager to execute any agreements that might be may be required within the scope of the construction manager at risk delivery method. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any questions or questions or comments? Madam clerk, roll call. Council member
Golding, yes. Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries.
Thank you, Mr. Oh, he's gone. All right, moving on to our ordinances. We have a second hearing or second reading. Uh, mayor, I have no updates for council. The uh request remains the same. Thank you, Director Ireland. Madam
clerk, will you read the ordinance by title, please? An ordinance of the city of Jacksonville Beach, Florida, amending the 2050 comprehensive plan future land use map providing for a ch change of future land
use designations on approximately 0.91 acres of land located on Ponellon Boulevard between 2nd Street South and Pontavra Boulevard from recreation open space to lowdensity residential providing for legislative findings
repeal bill of conflicting ordinances, severability, scrier's errors, and an effective date. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Clerk. This ordinance for the amendment to the text of the 2050 comprehensive plan is before the council for a public hearing and
adoption on its second reading. Under the laws of the state of Florida, an ordinance which changes the text of any element of the city's 2050 comprehensive plan is a legislative proceeding. A legislative proceeding means that a governing body is acting in its rulemaking capacity. It is the duty of the council to arrive at sound decisions
regarding proposed changes to the text of the adopted 2050 comprehensive plan. This includes receiving citizen input regarding any proposed text changes, any proposed text change. The application has been reviewed by staff and the planning commission for consistency with other portions of the comprehensive
plan. The council may hear from all interested parties in the legislative determination of an amendment to the text of the city's 2050 comprehensive plan. The council's decision on a comprehensive plan amendment application is based on the criteria set forth in Florida's Florida Florida statutes. I will now open the public hearing on
ordinance number 2025-8226. We already heard from uh Director Ireland that the staff does not have any updates. Does the applicant have any updates or wish to speak? Thank you. I do not have any speaker cards on this item. Would anyone uh in the audience wish to speak on this item? Seeing none,
public hearing is closed. May I have a motion on this item? I move we adopt ordinance number 2025-8226 on the second reading for a small scale future land use map amendment to change the future land use land use map
designation of 0.91 acres from recreation open space to low density residential. Second. We have a motion and a second before opening the floor for discussion or questions by the council. Please be reminded that our decisions will be based on the criteria set forth in Florida statutes, staff's reports, the
recommendation of the planning commission and the public and the public input at all hearings. We have a motion and second and is there any discussion by council? Mr. Wowers. Thank you, Mayor. Um, yes, director I had a question about this memo. Um, I'm
not sure if you authored it explaining the background and so forth. Um, on page two under your discussion of flu 1.4.2, I'm I'm a little curious about this comment. The use of the ROS land for
public recreation would be disruptive to existing residents. Public What do you mean by public recreation? Um, like a park? Yes, sir. So, should that property, let's say, stay in recreation open space and turn into some type of public or
private park, you'd have a lot more traffic through that area. I mean, just think about the traffic we get at Sunshine and Gonzalez, for example. Folks that don't live in that neighborhood, the only way to get to that property is through the existing neighborhood. Well, please forgive me, but I I would
agree with our parks director that no park would be disruptive to a community, but that's just my view. And let me just ask you one other question. As we can see, there are a lot of trees on this lot. Um, are they going to have to pay into our tree fund or anything like that
so that we can hopefully reclaim trees in another part of our city? So, it's hard to answer that question since I haven't seen a tree survey of what's out there versus what they'll be required to plant. Um, our tree requirement for planting is based on the square footage of each lot. So, if they
do take out all the trees, they will have to plant more to make up for it. I can't say whether or not there's protected trees on this site. Again, I haven't seen a tree survey. It looks like mostly scrub and p and uh palm trees. So, very likely they mostly can come out, but they will be replaced um
with the tree requirement in the code. Oh, yeah. Because I've I've walked through it actually and I have seen some trees that are 6 inches in diameter, but I am glad to know. Will these trees be replaced in the in our city? Yes, there's a requirement for the trees
to be planted on site for each property. Depending on whether, you know, it's commercial or residential, we have a a minimum tree requirement. So, based on the size of the lots, there should be no reason why they wouldn't be able to plant the required amount of trees. All right. I have nothing further. Thank
any other questions or comments from council? Mr. Sutton. Thank you, Mayor. Um yeah, I I um continue my position from um prior and with regard to a park, uh this is
privately owned today. So I think that's purely speculative at this point. Um unless the city were to purchase that um which I don't know that there's any plan or that there would be any plan for that. Um Mr. Payton and Ponabidra is perfectly entitled to do with this what
they would. And um again, uh given that this is after hole number 13, I think it would make for a great location for a bathroom um there to the left of that uh to the left of that green with the cart path cutting in front of the green and going around to the 14th T. And I think that
would be much less uh attractive for uh for the neighbors that are there. And I'm not sure that Pontedra would have to do anything with the trees. they they probably for the most part could clear that out as uh the way it is uh currently. So I'm in favor of uh favor
of this. Thank you, Mr. Sutton. I just want to clarify the mischaracterization of Director Fatiti's comments earlier at our budget workshop. He was asked if he thought the passive park proposed at South Beach Parkway and Jacksonville Drive would be disruptive to the neighbors. He did not believe that it
would, but I think we all nodded our heads that there are certainly times the parks could be disruptive to the neighbors and the example that I used is if there's a pickle ball court. So, I just wanted to clarify that because he's not here to clarify that statement himself. Mr. Welders, revisit.
Please forgive me, mayor, if I misspoke, but I thought I clearly asked him what any park and I followed that up with that question, but that's fine. Your correction and apology has been noted. Any other questions or comments from council? Madam clerk, roll call.
Council member Horn, yes. Council member Jansen, yes. Council member Sutton, yes. Council member Wagner, yes. Council member Wowers, no. Council member Golding, yes. Mayor Hoffman, yes. Motion carries. Is there a motion to adjurnn?
Move to adjourn. Second. All in favor signify by saying I. I. Any opposed? Meeting adjourned. Thank you. Have a great evening.