Okay. >> Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to call to order the Community Redevelopment Agency meeting for Monday, December 22nd. It is 3 p.m. And uh Madame Clerk, would you call roll,
please? >> Gerard Ptow >> here. >> Ron Whittington. >> Megan Edwards here. that Mosley pres >> Kevin Meyers, Sydney Talcott >> here, >> Marcus Campy
>> here. >> Even though we have a couple of our members absent this afternoon, we do have a quorum and we'll be able to conduct business this afternoon. And we do have a short agenda. So hopefully um we can get through this quickly so we
can all go enjoy our holiday. Um, the first is the uh courtesy of the Florida visitors and >> I do not have any speaker cards unless the clerk does. >> Okay. I haven't seen anything either. Looks like um we will then move on to
approval of the meeting minutes. There are two sets of meeting minutes that were distributed to the uh members of the uh board. The first was September 22nd, 2025. Um, are there any changes or revisions to
that set of meeting minutes? I think those are the ones that we did make a slight change to Yes, sir. Uh, very quickly uh earlier today. Hopefully everybody had a chance to take a look at that. And >> are there any comments, other changes,
recommendations from the uh Okay. Well, then I'll entertain a motion to approve the meeting minutes. >> Uh, I'll make a motion to approve the meeting minutes from September 11th or excuse me, September 22nd, 2025.
>> Thank you. Is there a second, please? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Um, we'll just do a quick voice vote on this. Um, all those in favor of um approving the uh meeting minutes say I. >> I. I opposed.
Motion carries. On to the October 27th, 2025 meeting minutes. Um any comments, changes um from anybody on the board? None. With that, um again, I'll
entertain a motion to approve um the October 27th meeting minutes. I'll motion to approve the October 27, 2025 meeting minutes. >> Thank you very much. Any Is there a second? >> We have a motion and a second. Uh again,
by voice vote. Uh all those in favor, please say I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed? Motion carries. So, the October 27th meeting minutes have been approved. Next item on our agenda is old business. Um,
I don't know if anybody has any specific items that they'd like to uh present or discuss. Yes, sir. >> I do. the um dumpster enclosure in the pier parking
lot. Um um looks like somebody put some paint on the damage, but the top hinge where it's pulled out is still a hole in the masonry and the bottom hinge is still present. Um it's been a while now. if we
could maybe get that fixed. And I think um somebody mentioned something else in the same area. >> There's a question I just have for you. Um Taylor, is I don't know if you've had a chance to meet with the um property
owner that um property faces a little bit on First Street between Lynches and V's Pizza. as that fence area and stuff like that. Have you been able to meet with them and talk to them about trying
to um improve uh that fence line? >> Yes and no. Um always have to be careful on the record what we're discussing. Um but I'm actively working with the planning director and code enforcement to make sure number one nothing is violating the
code because that would be a pretty quick simple process. Um, and we are looking for creative solutions on how to incentivize not just that property owner, but all of our property owners downtown on how to make those areas not look blighted.
>> If I may, Gary, um, there's another stretch that's just about as bad between sixth and seventh on the west side. >> Seventh on the west side >> on First Street between sixth and seventh on the west side. And that's um
>> same property owner. I believe >> that's um the old Dolphin Depot site. >> Dolphin depot and beaches painting carpet and two houses that were gone before I got here. Maybe door. I don't know. >> Okay. >> It's It's just ugly.
>> Mhm. >> And u while we're on it, weren't we going to put some kind of a sign or something in front of that garbage enclosure saying something about it being the Jack's Beach? I don't remember.
>> Weird that there was nothing there's nothing on telling me where you are. >> Maybe it's not so much of a photo op. It's kind of grumpy around there anyway. There's somebody camped out on the transformer next to it every time I go by. >> Okay. >> But again, it's just the whole kind of
look of that area is um >> Okay. >> Not what it could be. >> Noted. >> Thank you. I don't know if you had a chance to go by there today, but if um there's quite a bit of activity going on at this point in the way of landscaping work and so
forth, and uh it's uh it's making a difference and hopefully we're we're heading in the right direction with those uh with those efforts. Um, but you know, one of the things I guess I'd like to put on the, you know, think about for an agenda item in the new year is could
we have a conversation again about construction fencing? >> Um, because I think part of our problem with the downtown is what some of the construction fencing looks like. Actually, there's a good example. If you go down First Street and you get to
about I think it's between 7th and 8th Avenue South, there's a parcel of land where they just recently demo demoed a couple of buildings and they did a very nice job in putting up the fencing, putting up some screening, um putting up
their sil fencing, and it would be great if um we could put together a uh a requirement along those lines, you know, something that would reinforce force that so that
it looks more professional. Any other old business items from anybody with that? Uh we'll move on to new business. Uh we have one item in the way of new business. Um there is the a resolution to amend the south end
redevelopment budget to allocate $100,000 for underground infrastructure repairs in Sunshine Park. Um I don't know Taylor if you want to present that or if um Mr. Baron would like to present it.
>> Uh while I have would love to. I don't think I'm quite as qualified as Mr. Baron. So uh I'll give a little quick intro. Um it is pretty straightforward. Uh this is back several months ago when we were kind of preparing some of that asphalt. We also mentioned we were going to have to kind of scope under there and
figure out what was actually happening. And Mr. Baron and his team worked together to figure out what was causing some of the issue. And this is a quote to repair that issue. Uh and I will let Mr. Baron >> answer any technical questions.
>> Mr. Baron, >> I'm not sure exactly what questions. Dennis Baron, I'm sorry. public works director, Jacksonville Beach. I'm not sure what questions you may have. I know there was two separate quotes uh doing two separate repairs. Uh one involved um
working on a new manhole, one involved uh an old manhole. So depending on which way we wanted to do it, um which is how we settled in. I apologize. Um, Madame Clerk, you have the wrong documents um from you have the ones we originally released on Wednesday that we changed to
on Friday. >> Yes, it should be on the website, Joby. I'm sorry. So anyway, what we found as we do were doing uh doing the investigation, we found the manhole was busted apart on the inside of it and then the pipe that was coming into it was cracked um at the
halfway point going longitudinally across the thing. So we need to be able to get in there to be able to repair the pipe, repair the manhole, keep it keep it repaired, make sure it all gets lined so that it won't um you know have any more infill. Then we can be able to back fill that, be able to
get it ready, to be able to repair the asphalt, to be able to get it back to a surface we can drive on and back open again. >> Are there any questions from the board? >> Don't seem to be a um Dennis, just for
my information, did do you have a schedule for doing this work yet? >> Uh we do not. I know I know there won't be anything happen until after the first of the year. just they won't be ready to go, but I know uh G&H is already currently working on some other work in town. So, they're uh you know, they're
available as their schedule needs to be for beginning to schedule the work. So, um I'm not sure exactly yet what the schedule is. Like I said, we had to wait till we could appropriate the dollars before we could actually cut the PO and get it in their hands and get the contract signed and get everything ready to go. It is based off of a piggyback
that we use utilize for these kind of repairs. So, um, but I don't have a schedule yet, but as soon as I do know one, I can I can let Taylor know so she can bounce it back to all you so you get it. >> Yeah, I was going to say as soon as, um, Dennis is able to let them know. I'll send you guys an email and give you a
timeline and kind of a rough outline of what we're looking at. >> Okay. One, u one thing I would like to ask staff to do would be to uh take a look at the rest of the parking lot. Um, as
long as uh we're in there and we're doing some fairly significant uh activities, does it make sense that we need to do some repairs in other areas, particularly around the storm water inlets? you know, there seems to be a lot of water that gets captured there
and it's not draining very well and pavement starting to break up and then the um wheel stops for the cars, a number of them are broken and rebar exposed and you know, so I I have a concern and
here's my concern is is we're we're asking you to appropriate just short of $8,000. um $8,000 is not going to go far towards any of those repairs you just mentioned. Um if we're trying to use contingency dollars to
tack it onto this project because we're already going to be here, we need to have a different conversation at the appropriation level because you're not going to be appropriating enough money for me to have the contractor do all that extra work because >> they're automatically going to be I don't know what it was, but it was just
short of $8,000 in in contingency because we kept it. That wasn't my intent was to tack it on. So that's all I would like. >> Yeah. The parking blocks, the parking blocks in the parking lot actually are part of parks and wreck. So I say the repair with storm water. That's why we took lead on it. So we'll have to work
with them to figure out the rest. But we can do >> all I'm asking is that staff take a look at it and what do you think needs to be done? And if there is more that needs to be done, please come back to us and let's talk about it. It's just that if we've got a one month
>> contractor working there already, >> you know, why not use him and let's let's get it done. >> Um it's just seems like there's some areas that could use some additional touchup because we've already done that >> in a couple of areas where some large
repaving areas or pavement was redone because of the >> asphalt breaking up and so forth. But again, it was not intended to be to be attack attached to this specific resolution. That's not not the intent. >> And I'll coordinate with um parks and
wreck on the parking stops and we can just kind of >> just get a general kind of survey of >> what maybe needs some attention and then when we come back to you guys in January, we can see if there's not something we need to do then or kind of get a plan for going forward. >> Very good. Thank you. >> Of course. >> Any other comments or thoughts?
>> Yes. Um caveat is I this is not my expertise. Manholes are not my expertise. Um in looking at the the two options of course option one is a for a completely new manhole right for 92 versus option two which is a repair for
108. What's the reasoning between why option one is the recommendation versus starting you know starting fresh? So option two requires a subcontractor to come in, which is why the cost goes up significantly because you're hiring one contractor to do part of the repairs.
Once they get done, now I got to pick up the phone, call somebody else, schedule another whole crew to mobilize in to come in and do all that lining work. Um, so that's twice as long it's going to be open before that first contractor can actually get done with the work, which is why it was s such a cost difference
between the two. Um, so it's actually just as good to do what we're doing to be able to make the repair permanent. It's just as permanent a repair is just a less expensive repair simply because you don't have that other crew coming in at a separate time to be able to mobilize in >> and I assume the time the the time and
the disruption to traffic and >> I mean it's already been a parking mess for way too long and I apologize for that. This has been a little bit of a coordination effort and we've struggled because this firm uh the G&H who's doing the work um has just recently gotten back to the piggyback to get back to the
beaches for us to be able to get some work back up here. So, it's it's tough if they're not working in the area, we can't get them. But now that we've got them in the area, it's easy to keep them keep them busy doing some things and using some using them for some other things. So, >> have we worked with GH before? >> Fantastic. They've done great work
anywhere they've done any work in Jack Beach. They've done quite a bit. Great. Thank you. >> Any further thoughts or comments? If not, then the chair will entertain a motion. I'll make a motion
um to approve the CRA resolution 202604 approving a south end budget amendment to allocate funding for the Sunshine Park infrastructure repair project. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any further thoughts or comments? If not,
roll call vote, please. >> Megan Edwards, yes. Dad Mosley, >> yes. Sydney Talcott, >> yes. Marcus Campy, >> yes. >> Gerard Patel,
>> yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Thanks, Dennis. The uh last item on the agenda is items for discussion. Are there any further thoughts or things that any of the board members
want to present? Taylor, do you have any Okay. >> Um, nothing nothing crazy. I just wanted to run something by everyone. We have a date of January 21st for our first joint meeting of the year
with city council. That will be at our normal time 3 to 5. Um, but that will be on January 21st. And I will send a calendar invite. And if I remember correctly, I believe all of council was able to attend that date or maybe all
but one. Um, so we're always kind of trying to coordinate schedules. Um, so that will be on the 21st. And I made a note uh, Mr. Chair, where we were talking about this issue with the construction fencing that that probably would be a very appropriate um, item to
discuss while we're in a joint setting and just kind of get some feedback. in if we decide to implement something in the way of construction fence screening to make it uh more aesthetically pleasing. So, um I will talk to administration, but hopefully we'll just add that onto that joint agenda among other things. Um we have a meeting the
first week of January internally to go over the last couple of things that we want to talk about uh for that joint meeting. So, as soon as we have the exact list of topics, I will also share that with you all. And then for our other meetings in January, I normally write these down, but time,
>> sorry, go ahead. >> The so far, uh, just the 21st will be from 3:00 to 5 with council. Our regular workshop for that day or that month, excuse me. Gosh, is
okay. It is not on my calendar, so forgive me. Let me look. And our regular meeting will be the 26th from 3:00 to 5:00. I believe our workshop is supposed to be the 14th. But for some >> no council workshop 21st hour workshop
14th and then our regular meeting. Jody, am I saying that wrong? Why do I feel like that's not right? >> Sorry, Jody. Not to put you on the spot. >> I chose CRA workshop on the 14th. >> Okay. Wow. Yes. Okay, good. Had that
sounds weird to me. So 14th is CRA workshop 3 to 5. 21st is a joint workshop between council and CRA. And then the fourth Monday, uh, which would be the 26th is our regular meeting. Um, and I do anticipate all of those agendas
to be pretty packed. So what better way to start the new year than lots of fun meetings with lots of content. So um, >> so we have three meetings in the month of January. >> Yes, sir. I think that's a first. >> I think you're right. It is. Um among uh
we also staff also has a regular council meeting that month and a council briefing that month. Um so it'll be a very busy month, but hey, hit the ground running. >> Will you be um putting forth some ideas as to what the uh council uh joint
session is going to be? >> Yes, sir. And I apologize. I did not have that today. Time just honestly this last week got away from me. But as soon as I'm able to kind of consolidate all that into one document, um I will send you guys kind of like I normally do all of the list of upcoming meetings because there are a couple of things on some upcoming briefings as well that I think
the CRA would find important. Um so next week I will get that to you guys and just a list of what all we have coming up and what the topics are going to be. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yes, sir. >> It'll be a fun January, but I hopefully that'll make it a very productive uh
2026 for us. That's great. >> Anything else that you have um in the way of um items for discussion? >> Yes, sir. >> Again, any um items that the board would like to bring up?
>> None. Well, I want to take the opportunity to just uh wish everybody a very merry Christmas. Um particularly to the board members and to the staff and thanks for a great 25. I'm really looking forward to 26. So, uh, it
should, uh, should be a fun year. >> With that, um, I'll entertain a motion to adjourn. >> Second. >> I think I have a motion and a second. U, we'll just do a voice vote. All those in favor say I.
>> I. >> I. Merry