And I'd like to go ahead and start with the roll call. Clerk, if you would please do the roll call. >> Gary Patau >> here. Ron Whittington >> here. >> Megan Edwards >> here.
>> Vad Mosley >> here. >> Kevin Myers >> here. >> Sydney Talcott >> here. >> Marcus Campy. >> Thank you. Um with that we'll quickly move into our agenda for this afternoon. The uh first
item is courtesy of the Florida visitors. I'm not sure I've received any uh requests for addressing the board. Is there anybody that you know of Taylor? No. Okay. We will move on to approval of
meeting minutes. We've received the February 23rd, 2026 regular meeting minutes. Um are there any comments, changes, or corrections to those meeting minutes? Any
um any specific changes. So with that, I'll entertain a motion to approve those meeting minutes. >> Motion to approve the meeting. >> And is there a second? >> Second. >> There's a second. And we'll do this by
voice. All those in favor of approving the February 23rd, 2026 regular meeting minutes, please say I. >> I. opposed. Motion carries. Uh downtown Cape, is there any
>> That was a typo. Um our civic clerk still keeps that section in there from when we had it like three, four years ago. Uh and it just didn't delete this time. So, that was um error on our part. So, there is no downtown Cape update.
>> I just want, you know, might as well just see if there's anything. >> That's okay. No, I didn't mean to put anyone on the spot, but no, there that was just user error on our >> Well, the only thing I would say I want to take a moment and thank uh Corporal
Lamont. He uh provided me a very uh eyeopening experience in doing a ride along with the police department on a Saturday evening from 300 PM to 3:00 a.m. And uh he showed me everything.
But Corporal, thank you. I greatly appreciated the uh the opportunity. Um old business, is there anything under old business? Uh Taylor, do you have anything for us on that item? >> Um no sir, not right now. Um if it's all
right after we get through the new business, um kind of as I've been doing lately, just some upcoming meetings and things I can go over, but we can kind of save those for after new business if that's okay. >> Okay. >> Thank you. Is there anybody else on the board that has um anything they want to address
under old business? Seeing none, I'll just move on to uh new business. Um the first item that we have under new business is um the accepting or rejecting the fiscal 2025
uh CRA financial statements and independent auditors report. all of us uh received that report and if I believe I've had a chance to go through it. Um I will Ashley if you want as the CFO
please uh if you've got some comments or thoughts for us. >> Thank you. Good afternoon chairman and board. Um along with the physical copy of the financial statements I handed a one page handout to all of you. Um, if you did not have the opportunity to
attend the March 2nd special briefing with our external auditors, these slides are kind of the relevant slides for the CRA. So, I just wanted to call out that the city and CRA received an unmodified opinion, which is the highest level of assurance that our auditors can provide.
uh and that the CRA uh complied with all um requirements set forth in the state statutes in 16387 and both how we adopt our budget and how we appropriate our year end fund balance. Um I wanted to call attention
to the uh third slide. If you flip the page over, the financial highlights for the CRA um this year the uh ending fund balance for the CRA was 40 million um 737,349
combined. Our downtown redevelopment fund balance um was reduced this year largely because of the work in projects four and five. Um that's the largest project the CRA's undertaken to date. Um and it progressed during the year. And
then our south end redevelopment uh the fund balance increased by $1.4 million. Um the last slide has the contact information for our external auditors should you have any questions that you wanted to speak with them directly about. Um but I am happy to answer any
questions that you might have. Yeah. Um, so truly that variance is what our investment portfolio measures at September 30th. And so if the market closes on a good day on September 30th, we have strong investment performance.
Um, but we've had years where we've had kind of negative performance in the year. So we budget extremely conservative on interest income because we do not want to plan on revenues that are not going to materialize. >> Yeah.
>> Yes. So when we did the year- end fund balance appropriation, this revenue was accounted for. So everything we appropriated um that we brought before the agency at the end of October included this the revenues we received
from the interest income. Thank you. Did everybody hear that? You want me to do it? >> Thank you. Um I'm assuming that u this is an item
that um does need our approval and and sign off. So, u with that I'll entertain a motion to to approve the community redevelopment agency fiscal uh
statements and independent auditors report for fiscal 2025. >> I'll make a motion now. >> I'll make that motion, Jerry. I see further down our agenda that we have a discussion of this. So, we're going to approve it now and then discuss it.
>> No, I don't believe so. I'm not sure which item you're specifically referring to. >> No, sir. I think you're probably referring to the last one, which would be the fiscal uh year 25 annual report, which probably in retrospect not a great agenda to have both on because they're similar and they definitely feed into
one another. But the audit report is what we just went through and approved and that really hones in and focuses on all of our financials and that's citywide and the CRA because we're a component of the city. And that the annual report is what we are required to do um under state statute uh for Florida redevelopment.
>> Okay. I do move that we approve it, but I also have one comment and that's it's great. It's amazing to see the tax role in central CRA approaching $1 billion. That is really really amazing. And that
has a lot to do with what Jacksonville Beach has been able to do. Take two steps forward and one step back. over many years of constant effort. So, I want to commend everybody involved in that over the years. That's that's huge. When I first hit town, we had maybe one
or two commercial leases downtown. The rest was weekly cash collections coming a long long way. That was $40 million worth of appraised property, more or less obviously already at that time. We're now right at 1 billion. So, I move that we approve this. And I also
want to commend everybody involved over the years in getting that value up. Two steps forward, one step back. We have made a lot of progress. Thank you. >> Thank you for your comments. >> Oh, that was quick.
Any further comments uh from any of the board members? Seeing none, uh roll call vote, please. >> Ron Whittington. >> Yes. Megan Edwards, >> yes. >> Dad Mosley, >> yes. >> Kevin Meyers, >> yes.
>> Gard Pel, >> yes. Thank you. Moving on to item B. Um, we have before us the U, our chance here to have some conversation about the P3 project that's
started to move along. Taylor, you might want to give us a quick update of where you stand. >> I was gonna say, let me jump in. Um, so I do want to be, y'all are going to be tired of hearing me say this by the end of the super cautious because we are under our point of silence. So we are
selecting um one regular board member to serve on the selection committee that will be made up of five staff members u myself included one council person and one CRA representative. Um again the only portion of this that can be
discussed right now is this is like for example you know Jim and I are on the CRA and all that we can really say is okay we nominate Brena and we vote and say yes and then that's that's it. So we cannot discuss the actual project itself
um at all. We can only nominate >> I mean you can and it won't it won't go anywhere. you're welcome to. Um, but so I just again I know it seems like a reach but uh we have to be really cautious. Um, and so again we are active in the procurement since last Wednesday
which is very exciting. All the information we found online and any questions need to be directed to the procurement department. Their contact info is on like every document that is out there and that's all. So, Taylor, that the proposal is on the street at this point in time. It was basically
released Thursday of last week. >> It was released. Yep. Wednesday of last week. Um, and we will be held to the Cold of Silence until the bid opening. Well, actually really past that until we have our scoring public scoring meeting. Um, which is looking like probably
sometime late July. >> Great. Thank you. council will be sorry they will be doing their nomination at the April six council meeting. They will be nominating someone
to serve. >> Fair um gave this some thought while I was traveling around and communicate to Taylor in case this decision was made while I wasn't here. But um basis your professional background and
your experience I think far and away our best represented in this favor if you're willing to do it. I thought about that pretty hard, but you're the only one of us who has actually been involved in projects of this type over a period of time and I
think you do a great job for us if you will to do it. Fellow board members agree that don't know what the process is but if I'm nominating you're nominated. >> Thank you very much. >> First of all, thank you.
Uh the next step is really to do this in a formal manner. And the position that we're going to approve is one that will take a fair amount of time for any individual that is selected. It's going to include
reviewing of proposals and who knows how many proposals will get in hand. Um it may include doing interviews potentially with the uh submission uh firms that had submitted. uh there will probably be
several meetings internally that will need to be happen to make final determinations and recommendations and so forth. So it will be somewhat intensive um as you make your considerations for who might be the appropriate person for this uh this
position. And it's going to take a fair amount of knowledge because you're going to be looking at financials. You're going to be looking at design criteria. You're going to be uh getting involved with land use planning and things to that
extent. Um it it's going to be a well- encompassing um exercise, that's for sure. Um, so with that, I think the way that we ought to proceed is I'd like to hear
from the board any recommendations for um recommendations for for appointment uh to this position. And then ultimately we will vote on those uh names and we'll do
that by by the if there's more than one We'll do it by just identifi and identifying that person in your vote and obviously the largest vote will put that position put that person in that
position. Hopefully I said that right. Kind of >> exactly how council does if any of you have watched when council's nominating someone to fill a seat on something. Um sometimes they'll nominate one, sometimes you'll get two, three, whatever, and then they just go down and um a nomination typically with council
and and um madam clerk, please correct me if I'm wrong, it's usually someone would nominate that nomination would then get a second and then if there's an additional nomination that would get a nomination and a second um if and then once we have that and then it's a vote. So if it's more than one name as a
nomination and a second to that nomination um however many of those names exist then that's when we would go down the line and everyone would just >> So you're so you're looking for the name and then a second. >> Yeah. So you know again I'll pick on the three of us here. So I would say you know I nominate Brena and then if Jim
sat silent and there was crickets then okay that didn't stick. Um, and then if I say, "Okay, I nominate Jim and Brandon seconds." And then we vote on two of the three of us pick, then that's the majority and Jim is the lucky winner. Um, so that's
>> just in a form of a motion. >> Yep. >> I'm sorry to say that. >> Someone would need to make a motion. I make a motion to nominate blank. Then we would do a second and then we would do a >> Okay. Thank you. I appreciate that. >> And there can be one motion. There can be sometimes we've seen two, three. So, it's just however
it goes. >> Yeah. Um, I recommend Oh, excuse me. I nominate Gary Vro because of his professional experience, his professional background and his experience and hopefully his willingness to do it. So, some of the second I appreciate
you're moving that very quickly. I haven't even opened up the uh the opportunity to do that. Excuse me. But I'll >> that's >> unless anybody else has any questions or comments. Um I'll go ahead and open up
the uh the nominations for the uh position on the P3 selection committee with them >> third time. Jerry has the professional background and the experience and if he's willing
to do it I think do a great job for us the whole island situation we need to put our best foot in there we will not have input process proced >> if I may is there anybody has wants to express interest in wanting to do it
that's picking on you. Is there anybody that wants to do it or any expression of interest? >> They're asking me a question the whole board. Is there anybody else? I mean, I know we've just nominated Gary, but is there anybody else has an
interest in in doing this? >> I'll just put it out there. I would be interested. I think Gary, you make a great representative, just clear, but I think we've all discussed the importance of this project
many times. So I'll just raise my hand as well because I think it is such an impactful project that it's it's one that demands. >> So I'm going to go back a little bit here because that had
nominated me in reference to this. Is there a second to that? There is no second. So that that just dies. Um is there another nomination? >> Because lack of a second that motion
dies. So we will need another motion recommending someone else. >> I'm sorry. Would you repeat that for me please? >> We had a motion on the table. A first nominating Gary Pat. We did not get a
second. So that motion dies. >> So now we're starting over and we will need another motion nominating someone else. And we'll need a second to move forward. >> Right. Okay. Is there another nomination?
>> I'll I'll nominate Kevin. He's willing to serve. >> We have a nomination. Is there a second? I'll second for Kevin. >> Okay. >> Are there any other nominations?
>> Seeing that none, um I guess we will just do a roll call vote. >> Yes. And this is a nomination for Kevin Myers. We have a first and a second. Megan Edwards. >> Yes. >> That Mosley. >> Yes. Kevin Myers,
>> yes. >> Ron Whittington, >> yes. >> Gard Pat, >> yes. >> You will be entrenched in something that will be very unique. Buckle up. >> Um, going forward at some point,
procurement will reach out to you. So, if you see a random city email come through, it's likely not to be spam. It's likely someone from procurement. Um, and then they will handle all that communication. Um, and then once we the bid closes, that is a public
meeting, so that date's out there. wants to attend is um welcome to. There's obviously no comment, no voting, nothing like that. Um it's usually pretty antilimatic. There's not a whole lot that happens. Um at that point, selection committee members will be
handed their packets. Um so if we have one submission or if we have 15, uh that will be when we get all of them. And then from that point forward, it's where it does get a little tricky. And now that we have someone from a board serving, it's really unique because
Kudos to whoever's, you know, to you serving as the board kind of putting their trust in you. Um because unlike when we have an RD resing before us or something where we're all sitting here talking, once you do receive the packets, you're still held under that same point of silence. So, it is tricky because it's not like we can't talk
about it like we can most agenda items and you unfortunately can't talk to everyone else in the CRA. Um procurement, I'm sure, will go over all of that with you in great detail and yeah, we will make sure you're well equipped and uh ready to go. Thank you.
>> Thank you all. Uh we're going to move on to item C of the uh new business agenda is the approval and reappointment of the following board members to the public art advisory committee to serve a four-year term beginning April 2026 and
ending April 2030. And there are four individuals that have served on that board that that we're looking at reappointing. Do you have anything for us in reference
to that, Taylor? >> Um, just at this point, you know, I I know I sing the praises a lot of the art committee, but truly the first really year and a half, two years, we they were so helpful in kind of figuring out what was going to work and what was not going
to work. Um, you know, sometimes we've received some not great feedback and they tend to take it in stride. They've been a great resource for staff. Um, I feel like thus far they've done a great job. I have talked to all four individually. They
all did confirm. I did not just throw them on here as a surprise. We're seeking you four more years. They all did confirm they would like to be reappointed. Uh, in a perfect world, we would have had our fifth vacant seat person on this as well, but unfortunately time was not We've had so many things going on, we've not had a
chance to do all of the interviews for that fifth seat, but we do have a few candidates we will be interviewing. And I anticipate in the next meeting or two, we will also bring um that fifth person to you guys for approval as well. And then we will finally be back to a full five member committee. But I'm happy to
answer any questions um about the four that we are seeking reappoint for. >> Any thoughts, comments from anybody? Um I just had a a background question. Um >> uh what is how were these um first of
all they've been amazing and love all of the work that uh they've helped roll out. Um but just for my own background knowledge um what how did the committee the members of the committee come to be?
Yeah. Uh great question. So we a couple of years ago we decided it was time to implement public art. Um I think I always have to pick on Gary but Gary was here when all this went down and everyone on the CRA and staff included quickly realized we are not art professionals and art is such a unique
um realm. What one person may think is art someone else may not like. So the CRA very graciously said you know what yeah we trust staff. let's go out and try to figure out how we can best put together an advisory committee. Um, CRA within the state statute are able to do
that. So, myself, uh, Jim and Heather crafted and wrote an application that we put out to the public. Um, and it did not what what we were really intentional with was we didn't want to put it out and say you must be a muralist or you must be a sculptor or you have to be,
you know, this very specific thing. We really kind of left that open ended that they had to have some tie to the arts. And what's really unique about the four that are on here currently and we're seeking reappointment for is um they all come from very different backgrounds of art. And I think it's why we tend to get a really
we feel really comfortable with the decisions when they are made because they're coming all from a different angle. Um for example, Bob Angeler, he was the art teacher at Fletcher High for 30 years and very connected in the local art scene and as an artist himself. Um
Trey Phillips, he was selected. He's very skilled in fabrication and understanding, okay, if you're putting up this massive sculpture, this is what needs to be actually anchored to the ground and it's going to take this or with the murals. Um several times he said, "No, they need to use this special type of coating or you know, whatever."
He um he handles and works with all of the LED lights on deck the chairs. Um Terry Delo is another one who's a logo. He's been here forever. He actually was the reason we the boy statue at Oceanfront Park. So, he's been involved in the arts then. Um, and Chad has a
lovely art collection. Uh, he's been a collector for a number of years and he's also very involved in different capacity of the arts world. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dad can probably attest to
that a little bit too. >> I'm good guy. >> Yeah. Well, that too. Um, so we felt very fortunate. Um I wish I could say that that it was some crazy, you know, we had to go up, but truly it was we just got very lucky with applicants we
did receive. And these four not only are great in their own right, they really come together and they work really well together. And they don't always necessarily at the beginning of a meeting have the same viewpoint on what we're selecting, but then after communicating and all kind of talking from the angle that they bring, we always feel like we get to a really good
comfortable decision that we can be proud of. Um, so that that's kind of how they came to be. >> So, thank you so much. >> Yeah, >> I think Megan was >> um there wouldn't be any pending applications for these seats, right?
Unless for some reason we didn't vote to reappoint them or I'm just wondering how does it work with because I know there's lots of people that like to be part of all parts. >> Honestly, great question. I even thought about putting this in my memo, but when I wrote the memo, I was cautiously optimistic I would have another one and
I don't, so I do apologize. Um, these if these four are appointed, like I said, they're still like 50. I can tell you, um, I thought we would have received more applications than we did. We did not receive as many as I thought. Um, I think we've got about three that are
good, strong, qualified applicants for that vacant seat. Um, so, you know, we can always reappoint. Uh that would put us on hold with the committee, which is not it's not anything crazy. And we can interview all three
of the new applicants. Just going through resumes and knowing what we have now and what we've got in the pool, we felt comfortable that we would be able to comfortably appoint one new person. >> But I'm sorry, how many seats are there? >> Five. >> There's five. So then there's really
>> effectively for the next when and when does that other term >> so they would fall right in line with these it would all be the same. >> Oh it would all end up being okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Thank you. Yeah. >> Quick question Taylor. Have you consulted or do you consult?
Should you consult I don't know those four people about who they think would be the best fit or have you asked them to recruit for you or anything like that? >> I've definitely asked them to recruit. Um, yes, absolutely. Uh, and I, you know, it's interesting because it is
in the bylaws of the art committee that if you're on the art committee, you cannot submit your own art, which yeah, makes sense. But it does limit a lot of people. Um, because a lot of people want to apply for art calls. So therefore, I probably, I'm not kidding, had at least in the last month probably six or eight
say I would love to, but I would rather have my artwork featured than be on committee. So I think that's a big reason. We just don't have that many applying. Um, and these four, while I have no doubt they probably could do it, they just don't have any desire in doing art. They just like to review it.
>> Taylor, I just have one question. Um, we're doing all four individuals for four years. Would it make sense to do it and to kind of stagger two for two years and two for four years so that if there's, you know, we have to transition
some of the out at some point or they they leave it gives us the flexibility of having some historical knowledge still on the board. >> So yes, it would unfortunately we sort
of limited ourselves on this one. Um when we originally made the committee it was seven and it was staggered three and four. Um, as you know, we had two basically right out the gate when we made the seven, they kind of fell off and then we were left with five. Um,
when we were looking back at the reappoints, we realized the four remaining by luck were the four that were all on the same rotation. Um, so yes, at some point we do need to go back and effectively change the bylaws, but
the way our bylaws are written, we can't change appointment terms without going back in and changing those bylaws. So, it's it was just really a stroke of not great luck being these were the four that had the first four year terms and
the ones that had three are no longer on committee. Yeah. Could we increase the number of people >> to seven? Again, >> we would have to change the bylaws, >> but we could do that. >> Yep.
>> So, if we had three great candidates, we could change the bylaws and put them on. >> So, that makes me feel much better about going ahead and reopening these guns because they've done a good job. >> They put in the time, they put in the effort, they come up with some great decisions to recommend to us. So, we do
these four and then let's say you come up with candidates, you can recommend we change the final laws and we can get it done. >> That's absolutely an option. And then Mr. Chair, to your point, >> seat number five or five through seven at that point would then be on that
threeyear rotation. >> Um, so >> yeah, that's a great idea. >> Sure. >> Thank you. I appreciate that comment. Oh, I just want to say I agree with
that. When I was on the arburedom board, we always had a we always make sure we had like three or four openings in case someone great comes along and is very very interested in doing. The only other question just follow up just for clarification. Is there any uh term limits on number of terms these folks
can >> not as it exists? >> Well, that may be something we want to look at because I real I think you really need to have at least two terms, three terms max or something like that. have the same voices. >> Yeah. >> Over an 8 year period, 12 year period.
>> With that, if there are no further comments, um I'll entertain a motion to approve the u the four individuals identified for the public art advisory committee to serve a four-year term beginning April 2026 and ending April
2030. Is there a motion? I'll make that motion. >> We have a motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion to the second. Roll call, please. >> Beth Mosley, >> yes.
>> Kevin Myers, >> yes. >> Ron Whittington, >> yes. >> Megan Edwards, >> yes. >> Gard Pat, >> yes. >> That motion passes. Thank you. >> Yeah. Um, and right now, uh, we've only got one thing on our workshop that's in
April, and that's very intentional because I truly think it's going to take the entire meeting and then some. Um, but I did just make myself a note maybe in advance of that April meeting or at that meeting, I can disperse some um, draft updates to the art committee bylaws and then you guys can just kind
of take them, digest them, read over them, and then we can have that as an actual item on the regular April meeting. So the last item we have on our agenda for this afternoon is items for discussion under item A is the fiscal
year 2025 annual report. I'm turn this one over to you. >> Sure. >> All right. Um so uh we're required to prepare and file our annual report um for the previous year. Every year at least since I've
been here that we've done this, we keep trying to elevate this a little. Um I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that there are awards at the state level that we would like to win for how nice our report looks. So we are continuing to work on that and actually we've already
started brainstorming some ideas to make it even better next fiscal year. Um, so the intent here is it highlights the efforts in both districts. Um, I will say if you're looking at it and going, "Wait a minute, this doesn't make sense. We are we did this or we did that." I spent probably eight weeks
straight doing that and I have to constantly remind myself that the dates I'm working off of of are October 1, 2024 through September 30th, 25. And I caught myself several times going to add something and then going, "Wait, no, that was October of 25." So, if you
think It's probably because it's just a scooch outside the fiscal year because I went through the same thing. Um if approved today, this will be sent out to our city council um and pursuant to statute and then we will also file a copy with Duvall
County. uh he was our taxing authority and then we put a copy it has to be on our website uh by March 31st to be in compliance with state statute and we also file a version with the lawyer redevelopment association and I always
keep a version in my office um in case anyone ever pops by randomly and asks to see a copy I always have a copy and a binder ready to go so I'm happy to answer any questions um I will say my printer ran out of ink as I wasing this so there are questions on specific
pages. Um, I'll just jump to it on the screen and answer from there. >> Open it up for questions or comments in reference to the u the report, please. >> What's the I'm just curious what's you
said you have to have it done by March 31 >> and what who dictates that? >> The uh state statute. >> State statute. Okay. Anyone else? Any thoughts or comments? Taylor, just a couple of quick ones. Um, when
you go to page seven, I'll just use that one as the example, there's a graph shown in the middle of the page. And then it has to the side, it has S and C. And I it's hard to understand what that is. The two red marks there.
>> Started completed. >> I'm sorry. >> Started is and completed is C. >> Okay. It just be helpful to >> Yeah, >> because when I looked at that, I wasn't sure what I was really looking at, but
that would be helpful. And the only other comment that I had um when on page three there is a listing of C funded positions um in the year and
I think there are two other positions that are not identified. One is the construction project superintendent and the other is the construction coordinator. because that it shows up in the business plan and some of the other documents that we have. It shows that, you know,
we're supporting 50% of a construction project superintendent and then the construction coordinator is another 50% um position. >> I do know we only filled one of those. Those both did not come to fruition. Um
I will have to go back and look at exactly what date we actually went through with funding that >> it may have fallen just outside of the fiscal year. If it did not, then I will absolutely go back in and add that. And I will also add started and completed is
a key for the chart. >> It's just when you go back into the 2025 business plan, there's a description of the positions and you know that's where those came from. It defines those two positions. >> Yep.
So anyways, I'll just point that out. >> No, absolutely. And it it can be kind of um even when I was doing this, I was working with our uh newest member of our communications team and really kind of giving her like a drinking from a fire hydrant in chapter 163, kind of throwing
it all at her at once. And you know, back in December, we had the new statute of chapter 189 reporting requirements. We have this one under 163. We have our audit requirements. Then we have our city business plans. And so as you're kind of looking through those documents,
it can kind of start to really mix. Um, but sometimes if it's in our business plan, but it didn't occur or we didn't get to it or it kind of got pushed out. Um, it would not be reflected in that annual report. So I think that may be why that position's not in here is
because it didn't come to fruition within these dates. But if it did, I will absolutely make sure it's added in there because it should be. Um, >> okay. >> But that may Why is that left out? >> That's all I had. Any other comments
from the board? >> Yeah, I just wanted to say that um well, it looks amazing. I already I think gave that feedback, but um it also is incredibly helpful like coming off of the uh financial audit review. It's
really helpful at distilling the pieces that we need to worry about or concerned about is CRA members. Um and so just thank you for distilling it in that way. Um and uh just for next year, for the
future, just an idea. I don't know if this is common um with these, but if there's a way to share quotes or feedback from the community on like the you know the positive impact that the
CRA has had I think might be kind of a nice nice >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Thank you, Sydney. Anybody else? I think I heard you say you approval on this isn't a item for discussion. I just
want to make sure it's >> just um a acceptance so it doesn't have to necessarily be a formal vote but just that everyone agrees and accepts that this is our FY25 in report and that gives me permission to share with council Duvall and the website
>> just sorry quick question put this together >> I worked with um communications but yes Looks very nice. >> Thanks. >> Yeah, it was it looks it looks good that um I think there's another part in here that you mentioned in the beginning
about the value of the real estate, >> right? The downtown taxable property values have grown from 42.3 1984 base year to 99 992.6 million >> and in the south end it went from 6.5
million base year of 86 to 542.4. That's very nice. have in the purpose of the report, right? >> Yeah. >> Just really nice and easy. >> Really nice and easy. Um, this this looks good. >> Thank you. >> Our communications team expanded and uh
we hired Jess and I was very lucky to be on the selection committee for hiring her and 12 out of 10 choice. Um, she and Jacob both helped me with this and I may have had the content and what it needed to say and they were able to help me make it not boring. So, they were big
helps. Thank you. >> Final comments with that. I just, you know, I guess just a nod if everybody is in agreement that >> the report reflects this past year.
>> Cool. >> Okay. Thumbs up. So that's a good sign. Everybody's good. >> Everybody's good with it. Thank you. >> Yeah, >> that was the last item and agenda. Did you have one or two other items? If that is all right, I just want to uh share a
couple of upcoming meetings. Um, and I don't know if you guys have had a chance to come out on Tuesdays. I'm gonna say this, but then also tomorrow it's canceled, so don't come tomorrow. You'd be disappointed. Um, but every Tuesday when it's not bad weather out in Lakeland Plaza, we have been having the
local farmers market. Um, and it is phenomenal. It's kind of, I think, become the staff's favorite thing to do at the end of the day. We're all kind of waiting for the day to wind down so we can go. Um, so if you have not gone, they literally have everything from fresh produce to amazing bread to I
literally bought my dogs dog collars last week. I mean, they have everything you can imagine. And they also have some phenomenal coffee truck set up out there. So, it's great for that like four o'clock slump you get in. Um, so if you haven't been on Tuesday, come check it out. Um, just not tomorrow because it
just got cancelled for tomorrow. What time is it? >> 4 to 7. Is that right? Yeah. three actually >> right here in LA and plasma like literally right in front of the building. I sit and sometimes open the windows and watch them set up. It's great. I mean truly it's it's
really great. It's really nice because um you know again kind of going back to council direction on really trying to activate more spaces and the activation that we've just seen over the last couple of weeks with how many people are out there. Um it's really cool to see and it's on a random Tuesday in the
middle of the week and there's tons of people out there the whole time it's open. So, um that's great, but we want to keep seeing a lot of people out there so we can keep having the farmers market and it is from 3 to six, not 7. Someone just texted me because they obviously are listening. So, thank you to who text
me. Um we have a workshop in April on the 15th. Um right now I have that workshop only going over the first street traffic study. I am still digesting that material. Um I thought I had a good
grasp on how intense that was going to be and then I was like well it's going to be probably even more intense than I'm thinking and I could not have prepared myself for the amount of data that I've had the pleasure of sifting through. The good news is that we got a lot of great data and it's really I think going to help make a very informed
decision. I'm just trying to work and figure out what the best way to present that is. Um Yeah, it No, there it's it's like several hundred literally hundreds of pages and it's it's just a lot. So, I'm
working uh pretty much every ounce of free time I have right now. I'm working on traffic studies and I'm learning a lot about traffic. It's great. Um but at the start of that meeting, um if I'm able to, I will try to make those couple of changes to the art committee bylaw and I can just like I said, we don't
even necessarily have to talk about it at that meeting. I can just disperse that to you guys and then we can put it on our regular agenda for April to talk about a little more. And then in our April 27th regular meeting right now that will be our quarterly review of the
Sod grant and safety grant applications. Um and we will have applications for both types of grants. So that's very exciting. Um I've worked with a couple of businesses to fill out their applications and we'll have some good ones. So I'm excited for that. And then
city council meets on April the 6th. Um they will be doing hopefully approving the dumpster murals that you guys approved at your last meeting. Um and if they will approve those, then those artists are all very eagerly ready to get started. Um and we did request that
all of the artists update their renderings to go on the actual dumpster to be able to show council those pictures. So I've actually received two of those so far and I'm waiting on the remaining four. Um, I believe they're also selecting their member for the P3 committee. It's either at that meeting
or the April 20th. I wrote it down and I'm starting the second guess if I wrote down the right date, but it's either the 6th or the 20th council will select their member and then council will be doing the first reading on April 6 for the boardwalk activation. Um, we're
doing it a little bit different. Rather than completely getting rid of the ordinance, the city attorney basically made a recommendation. The way it was put is we're basically pressing pause on the 1946 boardwalk ordinance, putting in a new ordinance with a subsequent resolution that has the plan for activation. And then that way at the end
of the two years, if it did not work, it was a disaster, we want to change it, whatever. Um, we did not completely eliminate the original ordinance. So that's how that'll look. So, that'll be that first reading and then April the 20th will be tenatively the second reading if the first reading of that ordinance passes. Um, and that was all
I've got for upcoming meetings for right now. >> Taylor, I'd like to just present something to you that you're talking about boardwalk activation. I had the pleasure of meeting the gentleman who's the general manager for Bubba Gum now
and uh he was thrilled and showing me all of the improvements that they've made around the facility and so forth. And uh >> he was specifically talking about the improvements that he'd like to make between the uh structure and the doom
because I believe they own some of that property there from roughly roughly beach down to 1 Avenue South. um he's he's very interested in proving that area and then he would >> welcome an opportunity to talk with the
city with you because I had given him your name and suggested that he he get in touch with you to talk about what could be done and uh can the boardwalk be extended all the way down or is it just whatever concrete sidewalk that
they have there now just slightly improved but there's an interest in working the city and there may be a great opportunity for us as a city to do something there that's a win-win for everybody. So, you know, if you could
follow up with that individual, I think it' be worthwhile. >> Yeah, absolutely. I've not heard from him yet. So, if you want to shoot me over a text or an email with his contact info, I'm happy to uh reach out to him. Um or I can wait a couple days and see if I hear
from him and set up something. But yeah, I'm happy to happy to talk to him. Okay, that's all I have. Yeah, >> Gary, on that topic, I believe that's a 10 foot right away to the back of the bulkhead
that the restaurant overlooks and I believe it's continuous certainly down to first, maybe even to second. I have to go check that out again. when we first talk about the boardwalk, but you wouldn't need to do much to make it adjacent to the boardwalk and also give
connectivity to that party that's at the foot first and I think second and I think if the up property on cooperated be really easier because they can landscape appropriately so that you wouldn't even need to necessarily
increase the right away as connected to the up property owner. So, super opportunity there for not much money, I think. So, that would be fun. >> And did you mention a meeting date for our April regular meeting?
>> The 27th. >> 27th. >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you. >> Any further comments from the board? Seeing none, now entertain a motion to adjourn. I make a motion to adjurnn very loudly