Good afternoon. It's um 3 PM according to my uh iPhone. So, uh we'll try to get this um community redevelopment agency regular scheduled meeting underway. Uh this is Monday, January 26th, 2026.
And uh we'll start with um roll call. So would the uh clerk please roll call. >> Gerard Patel >> here. >> Ron Whittington >> here. >> Megan Edwards >> here. Bad Mosley >> here.
>> Kevin Myers >> here. >> Sydney Talcott >> here. >> Marcus Campy >> here. >> Fantastic. Um got the whole crew here this afternoon. Um the first item on our agenda is courtesy of the floor to the
visitors and um I have not received any specific uh cards uh of anyone addressing the uh the CRA board. So we'll move right on and uh go through the approval of our uh meeting minutes.
The first item is the December 22nd, 2025 CRA meeting minutes. Um, are there any comments or uh changes in reference to those meeting minutes? Not seeing any. Um, I'll call for a um
motion to approve. >> Move we uh approve the minutes from our last session. >> Two sessions. >> One session. Two sessions. I forget. Is there a second? >> I'll second. >> We have a motion and a second to approve
the December 22nd, 2025 meeting minutes. Uh why don't we just do this by voice vote? Um all those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> All those opposed? Motion passes. We have a second set of um workshop
meeting minutes from January 14th, 2026. And um [clears throat] are there any comments or changes to those um minutes? >> I don't see any uh comments. So again, I'll ask for a motion in reference to
the January 14th um minutes. >> I move we also approve those minutes. >> We have a motion to approve. Is there a second? >> Second. We have a motion to approve in a
second. Um any final thoughts or comments? None. With that, uh we'll do a voice vote. Again, all those in favor of um approving the January 14th, uh 2026 minutes, please say I. >> I. I.
>> All those opposed. Those minutes are also approved. Old business. Um, we don't have a specific item under old business. Um, but I'll open it up uh to Taylor. Do you
have anything that you want to address uh in reference to old business? Taylor. >> Um, I uh Mr. Chair, I will leave it at your um discretion. I've just got the I typed up a council Sierra joint workshop
notes summary page just to pass out to everyone for reference. Um, I did run this by administration and the other department heads that were at this meeting to make sure my notes were in fact as I remembered and everyone um was in agreement that these notes were good from kind of just where the items stood
and what's to happen next. So, I'll have those to hand out as well as upcoming meetings and upcoming events. Um, but if you want, we can go through the new business items and then after those I can kind of dive into these a little bit if that's all right with everyone. >> Yeah, that'd be fine. That'd be fine.
Um, in reference to uh that's all we have in the way of old business then this afternoon. Does anybody else uh on the board have anything from an old business standpoint that they'd like to bring up? I don't see any. I've got a couple of comments, but I think I'm going to
reserve those for items for discussion just um because I'm not sure if they fall into old or new or exactly where they fall, but uh we'll uh address them as part of the items for discussion. Moving on to the next item of the agenda
is new business and we have uh two specific items under new business. One is u resolution number 2026-04 which is the u an increase in the
downtown cape um pay plan for the police department. Yes, sir. >> Taylor, if you'd like to address that um for the board, I'd appreciate it. >> Yeah. So, um it's pretty straightforward. The only reason this is coming to you now is the
FOP negotiations weren't complete at the time of us adopting the budget. So, that's why we're having to modify. Uh we will be appropriating these funds out of reserves. So, no other planned projects or expenditures are impacted from this modification.
and I'm happy to answer any questions. Um, and I know the, uh, CFO is probably listening in, so if your questions are too technical for me to answer, I am certain Ashley will send me a message or, um, pop down. >> Thank you. Um, again, u, I'll open this
up for discussion by the board. Are there any comments from any board members? I'd just like to take the moment and um say that this is definitely welld deserved for the police department. Um
they do an extraordinary job for us down in the u downtown area Cape if not and also the rest of the city. But obviously this is focused specifically on the CRA and u I greatly appreciate what they're
doing. Um myself and uh Mr. Whittington here are doing u what's called CPA citizens police academy this um this session and I'll tell you it's an eyeopener and to understand what the police department
has to deal with everything from the patrols on a daily basis to report writing to the uh investigations to um the fact that uh you've got a large group of people um staff of almost 100
people that need to be managed on a day-to-day basis. What they do is incredible for the city and uh I wholeheartedly support uh this resolution. Um and again, I thank the
police department for uh for all of their efforts and and what they do for the city. Thank you. Um just wanted to mention that the chief has stated um at various council meetings and workshops that um these funds
in toto allow him to remain competitive and to staff his forces fully. And that's pretty important because there's overall a shortage overall in the largest sense a shortage of qualified
officers to meet today's combination of demands. And if um chief says he's got what he needs to do it, then I think that's a wonderful thing. Thank you. >> Any further comments from any board members?
If not, um chair will entertain a motion to approve this resolution. Motion to approve resolution number 2026-4. Is there a second to the motion?
>> We'll second that. >> We have a motion and a second. Um any final comments or thoughts from anybody with that? Um let us go ahead and just do a um roll
call vote. Um, if the clerk would do that for us, please. >> Ron Boington, >> yes. >> Megan Edwards, >> yes. >> Dad Mosley, >> yes. >> Kevin Meyers, >> yes. >> Gard Ptown, >> yes.
>> Resolution passes. Thank you. Um, the next item on the agenda is the um continuation of services for the Southern Group. Um, and I think I'll just turn this over to you, Taylor, and let you uh address it
and unless u Jim wants to come up here and do a song and dance for us. [laughter] >> Um, I I am certain if I >> Yes, >> if I forget something, I will happily pass the mic over uh to to Jim or Brena. Uh, so this is quite frankly just to
continue what Jim and the Southern Group have been providing the agency um even before my time here. uh they continue to help us uh just with support. You know, we're a department of one full-time employee, so having their help uh has
been great. It's a great asset for for just me every day. Another thing you'll notice, a lot of the scope of work is pretty similar to what we've had historically. Um on the last two bullet points, this was something we added this year, and not that they weren't already doing this, we just wanted to put it in
writing. um they are a huge help for me following the legislative activity that affects CRAAS and TIFF or any type of redevelopment authority. Last year in particular when there was a pretty big attack on CRA statewide um they were a
huge asset to helping me kind of keep things uh in track and understanding where those bills were and fortunately this year there's nothing too crazy coming at CRAAS for now. Um, but again, just even on some of the bills that affect us, you know, just as a city,
they they're tremendous um asset in helping me kind of keep track of that. So, I've got Jim here, we've got Brenda here. I'm sure they can answer any specific questions you may have. Um, and the reason this one looks a little different with the wording, the requested action is requesting the board
to approve the scope of services, which is what is attached, and then for the effective date retroactive to December 1. uh December got the best of all of us and we were a little late getting this before you. So, we apologize for that. Um and then this will expire at the end of the fiscal year and then we will set
this up to continue to renew and we'll continue to bring that back to you guys before before January next time. >> Any comments from from the board? That >> um thank you Taylor. I certainly agree with everything you said and I think
it's also worth noting that the southern group services u being available to the CRA also are tangentially available to the larger city of Jacksonville Beach government which is very important as far as catching flags and signals and
trends and shifts and drifts. So thank you. >> Any other comments? I'd just like to um I'm sorry. >> Oh, no. >> Oh, I'm on. Sorry. >> Has it been a year already? That's what
I was see >> um just a quick comment, you know, looking at the scope of work. it uh specifically focuses on the P3 project and um obviously that is one of our main efforts for this next year and
um you know I see where Jim could help us tremendously in that area and making sure that we move that along and uh finally get that out on the street and then go through this hopefully the selection process. Um, so you know, I I
think that alone speaks to the value that Jim will bring um to the team this next year. So, thank you. And um do we need to do a formal approval on this? That's >> Yes, sir. If we could. Yeah, a motion, a second, and then just a roll call for
the record. >> Okay. So, with that, um chair will entertain a motion on this specific item. I'll move that we um renew the contract with the Southern Group. Thank you.
>> Is there a second? >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Does that motion cover what you need? A continuation of services. >> Yeah. Yeah. I just wanted to make sure that the motion itself, the way it was stated was
>> Okay. Any final comments u from the board? >> None. Uh with that clerk, roll call, please. >> Megan Edwards, >> yes. >> Bad Mosley, >> yes. >> Kevin Myers, >> yes.
>> Ron Whittington, >> yes. >> Gard Patel, >> yes. With that, it passes. Jim, thank you. Oh, you're going to be >> because of what you're doing because I live at the beach as well. So, it's important.
[laughter] >> Well, because I live at the beach and that's important. >> Um, just keep things moving for us. >> Keep them moving. >> So, Taylor, do you want to touch on a couple of >> Please. [clears throat]
Um, so Jody, thank you for helping me organize and hand these out. Uh, the if you'll look at the page that is the council CRA joint workshop notes. Um, I'm not going to read everything word for word. Uh, if you guys read this and
at some point have a question, please feel free to reach out. Um, a couple of the bigger ones I did want to touch on, uh, the downtown enhancements, fence screening, and code enforcement. Um there was a little bit of um maybe a
little bit of a divide on certain council people were very supportive of fence screening and providing a grant. Some were supportive of fence screening on the fence about a grant and some were not for it um at all. So we are working um with our legal
department right now to kind of figure out number one what is going to need to change how we would need to require this. Is it an ordinance? What what does that look like? Um, we also heard from council that the code enforcement issue, they kind of bounced back to CRA and said for us to discuss and bring forward
some recommendations. I had a very brief 90 second conversation today with our code enforcement officer. And what I'm planning to do once Heather is back in office is sit down with code enforcement, Heather, myself, and probably the building official because code enforcement is under the building
department. uh and just kind of talk through some of the things that she sees and some of the feedback that I've heard just over the years being here. Kind of get a game plan there of some more technical recommendations and then uh essentially dedicate a good chunk of a workshop um to really kind of hashing
this out um and then also likely bringing code enforcement to that workshop as well. um no one can answer the technical questions as as well as she can. Um on the P3 project update, um at some point, probably February or
March, we will be uh entertaining and voting on nominating a board member to serve on the review committee. Uh something that when I was listening back to the minutes, you know, the the mayor and council agreed upon was saying the role of CR will be to look through the lens of our plan and the focus of
economic development. Uh, and then once we get that timeline kind of more flushed out and finalized and get that through everyone's approval level, that will be likely when council and the agency would both make nominations for the review committee.
Uh, we will be doing a kind of new version of monthly update reports on projects that we'll give to you guys at the regular meeting and probably just to keep everything consistent, I'll probably send it out to council the same day as our meeting so that way they're getting it as well. And I am planning to
include public works projects in that and private development updates um when appropriate. Uh, I did reach out to the consultants on the LSV lot. I know a big thing we heard was more accessible spaces and uh the number that kind of came out of that at consensus was six.
Uh the consultants have already emailed me back and said that's no issue so they can get in there and make that change before we move into construction documents. Um another budget modification you will likely be seeing in the next few months will be amending the budget to go ahead and bump that
project up into this fiscal year. So that should be coming. Um, and then let's see, again, another conversation we had at the briefing was just kind of about our timelines and projects. You know, as you kind of start working through some of these, you realize what works and what
doesn't. Um, going forward, we'll be adding tighter timelines on the beginning of our projects, uh, that give us a little more teeth when enforcing deadlines. And then something that's worked really well for these larger projects are these incentives that we
put on this 900day project for public works. It's looking like they're going to finish substantially ahead of schedule and a lot of that's due to the incentive. So those may be some things that we start discussing. Um first street project once we get the tpo traffic study data we will meet
internally and then kind of take all of that data and information and bring an update to the council and the CRA. Uh, and then the urban trails staff is going to take some time to go back to that overall site plan, pull out the segments that are in both districts,
and then that will likely take up a big chunk of a future workshop for the CRA to kind of start talking through that as well. So, that will probably be, I'm guessing, March time frame. We'll start diving into that. Um before I jump into
meetings and events, any questions or feedback or comments or anything on these my notes? I'm happy to >> Are there any comments from the board? [snorts] I think all of us are trying to digest all this information still. So, you're
going to have to give us a little >> notes to get it just out of my head and out of my notepad onto a piece of paper just to kind of give myself a to-do list. So, I I understand. it. You know, personally, I think it seems to cover everything that was talked about in the
meeting and um does it very well. I I I really want to thank everyone, council, you know, board, staff on what I thought was a very good meeting, one that um seemed to solicit a lot of conversation, but good conversation that uh started
out with one idea, but maybe morphed into something a little bit more in in a in a different idea, but it all brought us together and took us in a direction. I think that's going to be very positive for this year. the the one thing maybe that um I don't know whether it's in
your minutes or not, but um we did talk about another uh potential meeting in uh June of uh council uh CRA meeting in June of this year. So u you know I hope that we can progress a
lot of things and really have a similar kind kind of conversation when we get together in June. >> Yep. And um I expect sometime in the next few months you'll either get an email from myself or from Lauren in administration just with a you know poll of what days work better as we
start kind of looking out on the calendar and summer always tends to get a little crazy for everyone. So trying to find a date that works for 14 isn't always the easiest. So we will probably in the spring go ahead and start sending those dates out just to get on everyone's calendar. So um stay on the lookout for that.
>> Great. any com comments that >> Yeah. Um the notes are great and um I think that the project update that you presented really uh was um very uh enlightening to the group at large and I
think their awareness of the status on the projects on a regular basis has a lot to do with their uh support >> for our activities. So thank you Uh, not to put you on the spot, just a quick question. Do you think on the
boardwalk activation, do you, given what you've got to go through, do you think that might be able to be launched in spring or summer? So, it's on the February hold please. February 9th uh council briefing and my plan um I've got an
internal meeting with administration and I believe legal to go over the last minute tweaks to the that ordinance. Um it very well could be on the March, right? If they look at it, I could get on a March agenda and it would be two
readings for an ordinance. So, I mean, >> so by summer, >> if there's no bumps, spring, >> but I would say play it safe, maybe April, May. >> And I can look this up later, but just for point of clarification, what is a busker? >> Uh, those are the street performers that
kind of stand with their guitar case open and just strum and sing. >> A busker? >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. That's fair. Yeah, that's great. Great point. Juggling. Yeah. Anything. >> Juggling. >> Yep.
>> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Any further comments about the workshop notes at this point? I don't see any. Is there anything further uh Taylor that you want to talk about in reference to the upcoming meeting? Um, just that I I will not read
everyone the upcoming events, but you do have an upcoming event sheet. Uh, Don Marathon weekend is upon us. Uh, so that'll be very very exciting for everyone. And then there you go. Uh, our next meeting will be our regular meeting
in February. Uh, at this stage right now, I would love to tell you that I could have all these great items prepared for a workshop in basically a week. uh it it's it's not going to happen. So, we will defer workshop items for our March workshop, which will be
March the 11th. Um and then we'll have our regular meeting March the 23rd. Like I said, council briefing February 9th. It's going to talk about boardwalk activation ordinance. So, I will take that one. Um this isn't a CRA project. It just may be in interesting. uh the
senior planner has been working with the um transportation planning organization on mobility projects and looking at just different mobility projects throughout the city as a whole. Um so that is something that he I believe is discussing at the briefing on the 9th as
well. Uh the 23rd will be a special briefing um storm water rates and if you'll note there the start time on that one is 5:00 pm. Um so it starts 30 minutes earlier than most. And then at the March 2nd briefing, that's another special briefing to provide council the
audit report um from finance. And then right now, uh upcoming regular meetings, February 17th council meeting, they are uh tenatively reviewing and approving the brand standards for citywide signage. So that's kind of been
what we've been waiting on to get that standard in place to then kind of see how we kind of tail off of that into our signs for downtown. And so again just for information and the first meeting in March um the CFO will bring the annual finance financial report and financial
statements for fiscal year 25 and those will be the same documents that will be discussed at the special briefing 30 minutes prior and I think that's all I got. >> I'm sorry in reference to March 2nd is
that fiscal year 2025 that not 26. >> Okay. >> Yep. Yes, sir. >> Um I'm going to be absent um on February the 23rd and March the 11th. >> I'm traveling outbound on the 23rd and
traveling inbound back on the 11th. >> Okay. >> I don't break my record. [laughter] >> I will um I think I've done this with someone else before. I think maybe Kevin when you had to miss something. I will make sure the agenda packet goes out to you as soon as it's complete. Um, and
any comments or feedback you may have, you can put in writing and send to me. So, obviously, I mean, I can't vote for you, but if there's anything on there that you want to provide feedback on, I can then give the group your comments. >> Thank you, Taylor. I've pretty much enjoyed being here whenever I can, and so far that's been every time. But,
>> yep. >> Senior management at my house dictated a massive massive, [laughter] massive trip. I'll tell you all about my comeback. >> Yep. One one other comment I have real quick is on the 23rd of February in our
regular meeting, public works is going to do an update based on the comments that Dennis made in the um joint session that we had >> potentially. That's I don't have it listed on here because it is not a confirmed agenda item yet. I know Director Baron had to see if he was
available that day. Um if he is not then I will see if he's available at the March 11th workshop and dedicate the first time of the workshop to his updates. Um but yes, if he is available, >> it'd be interesting to specifically hear
about where we stand with the 90-day project and um you know, my understanding is they're basically complete now, but um there's still some activities going on. question is what happens with the bonus that was associated with that contract
um and and where do we stand with that? >> Yep. >> Okay. >> Got it. But yeah, as soon as I um have confirmation that that date works, I'll let everyone know, but it will be at one of our upcoming meetings. >> Okay.
Any further comments from anyone on the board? No. Um, do we have anything else for items for discussion? >> I do not. I think I'm still digesting all the meetings we've had this month, trying to keep get everything straightened out. So,
>> I have a couple of quick ones that I'd like to just touch on. Um, with the Donna Marathon coming, uh, I guess it's this weekend already. Wow. It's hard to believe we're into February already, but um anyways, uh I'm just
>> I wondered if we could get somebody out and clean up that site between lynches and bees that it's just kind of trashed. It's the one spot where everybody's going to be running past. Uh even if we just get out there and pick up all the trash, cut the grass, uh pick up the
broken boards, uh fix the um utility installation pods that are out there and things, it would just make a whole different impression for the city than what's out there right now. It's just a a real eyesore. I you know, we've got
the landscape company out there doing some work right now. Can they send a guy over there? It's not going to take more than an hour to do this. To send somebody over there and just clean that site up a little bit, I think it would make a significant improvement.
Um, >> yeah. Are you and just because I want to make sure I fully understand, are we talking about the actual parcel or just the alley portion? No, what I'm talking about is the f the the
uh property line that's parallel to First Street between um between lynches >> where Southern Grounds was going to go. >> Yeah, I guess that's where Southern Grounds was going. >> So, I will see what can be done because it is private property. Um we can't just
send our crews onto private property to do maintenance. Um, >> well, maybe I just need to go out there at night then and do it myself and get I mean >> No, [laughter] just kidding. >> But, but to, you know, just to get it cleaned up, you know,
>> um, let me see what we can do. I'll I'll reach out to the property owners. I'll reach out to parks and then talk to administration and see if we can offer some something to get done. Um, >> yeah, >> I wish it was a simple, yeah, we'll get out there today, but just because it is
privately owned, it it's a little bit of a trickier situation. >> Understand your point, >> but I I will as soon as we're done when I get back to my desk, I'll >> reach start reaching out and see what we can do. >> I mean, you know, it's just been trash that's been blown out onto that property
now. And um, you know, anyways, if you look at it, you'll understand exactly what I'm what I'm referring to. >> Understand? Um along those lines, there's a there's a and I don't know that anything can be done, but there's a significant pavement issue in First Street at um
where is it? It's um Third Avenue North and First Street. There's an Storm water inlet. It's one that we've talked about in the past. Again, it's um deteriorating badly to the point where there's a real trip hazard there around that item, around that uh inlet. to the
point and it's in the middle of the road. So, if we've got a bunch of people that are running, I've got some real concern that somebody may potentially trip and fall in that location. Um, it's it's deteriorated before and public
works went out there and fixed it and it's deteriorated greatly again in the in the last u few months and again because of it being a real trip hazard. I I I know it's a little bit late in the stages of things, but I just wanted to
make everybody aware of that. Um >> the as the landscape crew goes through and does all of the um the new stone mulching that they're doing, will they be going back and addressing Beach
Boulevard also? because there it's this it's that fine um crushed material. That was what we did initially and then stopped and >> went in a little different direction. Are we going back? >> I think I'm actually going to look at my
email. I think I I think I literally approved the Beach Boulevard invoice today. Um no, sorry, that was a different corridor. Um yes, they will be. I will talk to Trevor and get an ETA on an exact date.
>> Okay. Because there's a lot of um that stuff that just keeps flowing into the street and so forth. And then using the material materials that we are now using, I think it's going to help prevent that. >> Okay. One of the things I'd also like to
suggest, Taylor, is that um with the art committee that we take some of the funds, not take but use some of the funds from the art committee and get the um Jack's Beach signs repainted, the one
that's at the pier and the one that's at um Beach and Third Street. They all need um they've deteriorated over the years and it would be nice to really dress those up and repaint them so that
um they're a lot more colorful than what they are now because they've pretty much um bleached out from the sun and so forth. >> Okay. And then the last item that I have is um one of the things I'd like to put into
maybe our um it looks like it'd be the March workshop would be the uh a discussion about capital projects in the south end. I'd like to have the board have a conversation in reference to uh discussing those um potential capital
projects in that area. on the sidewalk. >> Um I'm sorry that that's all I have. >> Your dumpsters are still lined up three of breast totally blocking the sidewalk on First Street in front of the hotel
this afternoon. The dumpsters that you come in on being in the street, well, they're totally they got the sidewalk totally blocked and um I don't know if they're out there all the time. Which hotel? >> They're out there several times during
the week where they're when they get picked when um garbage gets picked up, they push them out there and they sit there for a while. Then they >> Spring Hill, >> I'm sorry. >> Spring Hill. >> Yeah, Spring Hill. >> Three of Rest as of >> this afternoon.
>> Yeah, there were four of them sitting out there this afternoon and um blocking the sidewalk and stuff and then they sit there all day. Um it just that's a conversation that we need to have about that. Um >> it'd be nice when they get dumped at least that they roll them back in, but
they don't. They just sit there for any number of hours. >> That's right. >> Okay. >> I'm texting about that right now. >> Anybody else have any comments, thoughts that they'd like to express?
None. Uh, with that, I guess we'll move on to the next item on the agenda, which is a German. Um, [laughter] that's the that's the biggest item on my agenda. Um, I'll take a motion to uh to
adjourn the meeting. >> A motion to adjourn. >> Is there a second? >> No second. >> Second. [laughter] >> I'm sorry. We do have a second. We have a motion and a second to adjurnn. All those in favor say I. >> I.
>> Opposed. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you.