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Part 1 (Video ID: ZuSGrs966DE):
- 00:00:00: Meeting Call to Order, Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance
- 00:01:54: Roll Call, Filling Open CRA Board Seat, Consent Agenda
- 00:03:36: CRA Project Re-Allocation Review: Devain Park Rehab
- 00:06:19: Devain Park Gazebo Railing Material and Engineering Discussion
- 00:08:33: Narrowing Gazebo Railing Options; Unallocated Funds Discussion
- 00:11:57: Motion to Approve Railing Quotes and/or RFP; Adjournment
- 00:13:58: Town Council Meeting: Invocation and Pledge Omitted
- 00:17:35: Public Comments: Lights at Ball Field and Soccer Fields
- 00:20:10: Public Comments: Email/Mailed Water Bill Redundancy
- 00:20:29: Mayor's Transition: Banking Changes and Staff Communication
- 00:25:09: Agenda Approval: Adding Banking Authorization Resolution
- 00:26:21: Tower Update Deferred; Parking Requirement Reduction Approved
- 00:28:42: Resolution for Check Signers; Rescinding Prior Signatory Designations
- 00:32:55: Adopting Resolution 2026-10; Approval of Primary and Alternative Signers
- 00:33:17: Downtown Master Plan: Central Florida Regional Planning Update
- 00:35:41: Tourism Council Vacancies and National Day of Prayer Notice
- 00:38:13: Citizen Input for Branding and Master Plan Implementation
- 00:40:27: Discussion: Parking and Mobility Challenges for Older Population
- 00:42:38: Business Owners' Voice and Fees for Parking Waivers
- 00:43:58: Ad-Hoc Committee Structure, LPA Involvement, Merchant Input
- 00:46:44: Town Branding, Architectural Standards, Development Considerations
- 00:49:33: Day of Prayer, Utilities, Projects Update and Inquiries
- 00:50:50: Sewer Plant Startup; Ribbon Cutting Plans After Debugging
- 00:52:38: Project Updates: Gator Eco Wash, Big Box, Murphy's, Culver's
- 00:53:46: Committee Openings, Public Involvement, Council's Town Vision
- 00:54:18: Public Comments: Parking Study from 3 Years Ago
- 00:56:41: Meeting Adjourned


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On April 20th, I now call the Town of Lake Placid Community Redevelopment Agency meeting to order. Today, we have Brandon Roberts, who's our own fill-in utility director, is

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going to do the invocation. Uh Brandon is a pastor at Living Waters Church of God. And after Brandon, we're proud to have Commander Fred Pierce of the American Legion to lead us in the pledge. Commander uh Pierce is a master chief of

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23 years in special forces with the Air Force. Brandon, let us pray. Dear heavenly father, Lord, we just come before you thanking you once again for your love and your mercy. God, we ask you to bless this meeting tonight. Lord, let us uh uh further the

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the kingdom of heaven with the decisions that we make. Lord, I pray that uh the town of Lake Placid, God, always to put you as as first in their life and the men and women that are on this council. God, I ask you to put a hedge of protection around them as well. Lord, I

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I pray that when we make decisions tonight that God, it betters uh the town of Lake Placid. Lord, put a hedge of protection on each and every one of them. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. You join me in the pledge. I pledge

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allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you.

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Clerk, would you please take the role? >> Mayor Charles, >> here. >> Council member Hayes, >> I'm here. >> Council member S >> here. >> Council member Everheart >> here. >> Board member Hartzel

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and board member LeBlanc. >> Thank you. And we also, just for clarification, have an open seat on the CRA board, which is due to the open seat on the town council with the plan for our first meeting in May. Uh the town council seat and the CRA board seat

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would be filled. Um at this point, uh we'll go to any public comments on non-aggenda items. Anybody? Okay, moving on. We'll move to the consent agenda. Uh the chair will uh entertain a motion to accept the consent

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agenda. >> So moved. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Um we'll move on then to um for the agenda is we have no presentation.

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>> Mayor, I'm Mayor. Take a roll. Apologize. Take the vote. >> Years and years. Mayor Charles, >> take the vote. Thank you. Council member Zap. >> Yes. >> Council member Eber. >> Yes. >> Council member Hayes. >> Yes.

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>> And Mayor Ch. >> Yes. And just for clarification in the CRA meeting, the mayor can also vote. Um so moving on, we don't have any uh presentations or citizens on the agenda. So, we'll move to action item five,

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which is the CRA project allocations re allocations review and the project summary report. And I'll turn it over to our town administrator, Charlotte Rodriguez. Thank you, Mayor Charles. So, we don't really have any updates, so to speak, but we are seeking some approval.

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We are focusing very heavily on Deain Park. We want to be able to present this with a holistic picture when we look at Devain Park. Previously, you'll note that we had consolidated for a rehab project under the gazebo and for specifically there were certain items

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and we have a $75,000 amount there. We have had issues with the railing for about six years is what Allan has reported. And so we would like to be able to come in and ask for you to allow us to go out for an RFP or to um obtain

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some quotes if we're able to get that so we can begin the process of re um replacing the railing. Not rehabbing it, but actually replacing it. And we do have some pictures here, some conceptuals I'll pull up so you can see.

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So this one here is what it actually looks like right now. And then these are the next two are just conceptuals with different colors. Black and then the still. So our request would be to go ahead and

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find out how much it would be to replace that. And we'd like to do this in a phased approach because we've talked about the benches as well and the lighting. And so we believe if we looked at look at Deain Park in a holistic view that we would be able to go ahead and start with the park benches in

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specifically this park and then also do the lighting in this park as well. It would be a nice complement with the workout equipment that we are getting with the chamber and allow us to really have a nice revitalization of Devain Park. The benches right now we count about 22,

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but remember that we were going to phase out some of those for the workout equipment and then also for the lighting. That's 17. Allan has um started the vendor application so that we can get one of the lights ordered and we had already

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planned to put them um the example in Deain Park so that we could see what that lighting looks like. We do have some other pictures just so that you can see it and for also for everyone else here and Allan is available to answer any questions if you'd like because he has been working a lot on the gazebo and

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he could speak a little bit more towards how we have patched it how we have basically done everything that we can and in his staff recommendation it would be for us to go ahead and replace it opposed to just patching it and let's give it a nice good rehabilitative look

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to it. Alan Good evening. Um, I would like to just not replace it with the same type of material. I'm looking at potentially getting either welded aluminum or stainless steel,

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something a lot more sturdy, something that would stand up to the high traffic in that area, especially in a school area. Um, it's kind of hard to see in the photos. We tried to render them as as the round tubing, but it would be like the round style tubing you would see at

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theme parks and other areas that have the high traffic. I don't have any numbers just yet because we're currently looking into whether we need to have it re-engineered uh as far as the handicap ramp that is

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in that area. I've reached out to uh several railing companies, but they were they were uncertain as well. We do have the original drawings of when this was done and I believe 2013ish. Uh and I we're trying to find out if

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those schematics would suffice and it which would bring this costal down significantly or whether it has to be re-engineered because it's a different type of material. The railings um in particular the handrails.

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They're not holding up to the day-to-day traffic. It is just a constant battle with keeping those tight because the original material those were held together with were like selftapping screws. Although it's listed as being

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commercial grade, I don't believe it is up to the challenge of the high traffic. Do you have any questions? I imagine there's no cost difference between black and white, but there probably would be if it was stainless.

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Um, do you want some direction from us as whether um like for example, I don't like the stainless. I don't know how the rest of you feel, but if we could narrow it down to either black or white um and get a price for that, would that help you?

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>> I I believe the aluminum railing is the style that can be painted. The stainless steel would not be. So, the aluminum can have a coat of paint on it. >> It doesn't matter to me what color. Just get a price on them and see where we are and we can talk about it at the next meeting if you can get it that soon.

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Yeah, I'm just trying to narrow it down. If you would be agreeable to eliminating the stainless steel and then get price for whatever, black or white or might make things easier for him. >> I personally I like the black better,

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but I don't know would that be extremely hot to to the touch or do they have um a black paint that does not absorb the heat? I know like my neighbor has a black roof, but it's it's is not one that absorbs the heat. So, I would not want to make it hot, but I just in the

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picture my my my my preference is the is the black in the picture, but I think um Greg's right. We just need to get some some estimates. I don't know that it'll make a big difference on the color, but >> Thank you. We also um keeping in this

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same area, um Councilwoman Ibrahart said that she had sent in a question about un unallocated funds. We do have about we have 25,000 in unallocated funds. We would request that we leave that money there for right now until we come back

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with some exact amounts and if necessary for us to continue with this rehab project to be able to use the funds there. So, let's see what how much that's going to be if we're we can do that. >> And and what about the lighting? What

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did you say about the lighting? >> We were doing the lighting. We would like to be able to do that in a phased approach. And so if we since we were going to start with Deain Park, we would like to be able to do that in one holistic view so that we will have if we're able to do the rehab of the

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railing, we're also able to go ahead and put in the lighting and we can put in new benches with the workout equipment. that gives us a really good say a bang for our buck and that the community will be able to see that whole park revitalized and Allan submitted for um a

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company to be able to get added to our vendor list and as soon as that process gets completed then we will be able to order the light that was going to be the example so that you could see what that looks like before we roll out ordering anymore. >> That that sounds like a good idea. I I

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understand, you know, doing a little at a time, but I don't want people to think that we would do a little bit of the park at a time. We want to do a little bit of the town at a time, starting with the park, because if you you can't just light up a part of the park. You got to

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do the whole thing. So, okay. Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Go ahead. >> So, so what do you need from us? We need your approval for us to get quotes and or go out for an RFP. >> Okay. So, move.

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>> Second. >> Any more comments from the podium out to the public? Bring it back for a vote. >> Council member Everart. >> Yes. >> Council member Hayes. >> Yes. >> Council member S? >> Yes. >> Charles, >> yes.

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>> Thank you. That was easy. Anything else on CRA for tonight? >> No ma'am, not for tonight, but just for future. We will come back to be able to get some guidance again on the lights. We'll have that information and then we'll also bring the benches forward for that review as well. >> Okay.

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>> Thank you. Thank you, Alan. >> And and when is that next CRA meeting? >> It's it's not next month, is it? Or is it every month? >> Yes, ma'am. will be for next month >> on the second meeting of the month. >> The second meeting. Okay, that's all I need, Charles. I just just that it's

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next month, the second meeting. That's all I need. Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. >> So, moving along to item six. Is there anything else from CRA board members? Any discussion? Any items

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out to the public? Anything? I declare this meeting ajourned. So, we're just going to take a few minutes as we rearrange and then we will uh start the uh town council meeting. That wasn't

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Here are So yeah, your casual should be Hopefully not works. And we have one I called the 27th

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all the letters. You give me a call, email. I'll try to remember to different. I'm glad they told me. Okay, we'll go ahead and get started. It's 5:51

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on Monday, April 20th, and I call to order the town council meeting in the beautiful town of Lake Placid. Uh, we've already done the invocation and the pledge of allegiance, so we'll just move forward to roll call.

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>> Mayor Charles >> here. >> Council member Hayes >> here. Council member S >> here. >> Council member >> here. >> Okay, we'll move on to any public comments on non-aggenda items. Um, and

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we're going to limit to three minutes. And if you introduce your name and your address and I would also ask to stay in your seat, raise your hand and I will call you. We're not going to use the front row for a congregating while people are talking. Please,

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Jack. Good evening, Jack Conley, 607 Sunset Point Drive. I have a couple thought questions and thoughts on the uh lights at the ball field and the and the soccer fields there. I've been noticing that not not tonight when I drove past there,

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but most nights the lights seem to come on around five o'clock or six o'clock. Now, this time of year, you know, that it's plenty light enough until almost 8:00 really. And I was just wondering how

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how do those lights get turned on? Is there a the gentleman that works in the park there? Does he turn them on when he leaves at night or do you know? >> Good question, Mr. Conley. They're actually set on a timer and so um Okay, Harry is not here tonight. However, we

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will ask him just to check the timer on that if you're seeing that. >> Maybe the timer needs to be changed for this time of year then. Okay. Yes, sir. That's because you know it's uh those those lights from from what I've been able to uh find out uh generally little

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league type field lights are either 300 watt or 500 watt bulbs. And there are including the uh including the uh the soccer fields there. There are uhund

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sorry there are 40ome lights there. So it's it's a lot of electricity. You know maybe we could save a little bit of money if we this time of year we turn them on at whatever 7:30 or something like that. And I guess they also go off on a on a time or two.

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Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. And just on that note, um what we're going to look at is ways that we can get feedback quickly from the public on things as you're driving around and you see somebody brought to my attention um that uh Charlotte the

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Deain Park lights are coming on late in the afternoon too. So maybe there's a timing issue there too. So but I appreciate everybody helping us out when you see something. We just need to h come up with the best way to say something so that we know about that and

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we can jump on it right away. Anybody else? Okay, moving on. I just want to make a few I'm learning the the waving has to be higher. Thank you. Carolyn Morrison, 119 Sunset Point

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Boulevard. Um, on that same note, the suggestion you just made, I receive an email for my water bill and then I also receive a mailed water bill. So, I'm happy to I do not need a mailed water bill and um, you could save money there, too.

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>> See something, say something. Thank you. Anybody else? Okay, moving on. I just want to make a a few comments and then we'll um move on. is, as you know, I was sworn in one week ago. Um, and after that first meeting, I've

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met with the town administrator, our directors, and staff to understand current operations, ongoing projects, and transition from prior administration. I appreciate everyone who's taken the time to walk me through their areas of responsibility.

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As part of this transition, I began the process of being added to the town's banking authorization so I can sign checks and carry out the duties of the mayor. During that process, we discovered that two former administrators were still listed on the banking accounts. That's being corrected

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and highlighted, and it highlights the need to review other areas where outdated procedures or resolutions may need to ensure proper controls. Our charter assigns the mayor responsibility for administration and oversight of town operations and council for legislation

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and policy and staff for day-to-day work under the direction under their directors. The town administrator performs duties delegated by council through resolution 2024-29. As part of my transition and in light of

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the banking findings, I'm reviewing the current delegation to determine whether revisions or clarifications are needed to ensure alignment with the charter and to support strong internal controls. I also want to address a verbal instruction issued about 8 to nine

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months ago that directed council members not speak directly with staff. After reviewing the charter and the delegation resolution, I believe that instruction was unnecessarily restrictive. So tonight, I am formally rescending that

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prior verbal directive which was not in place for previous councils. As with past councils, members may communicate with staff to ask questions and gather information as long as they're not directing staff to

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perform work. I want our employees to feel comfortable and supported and concerned that a simple conversation versus concerned that a simple conversation could put their job at risk. Over the coming weeks, I'll continue to meet with all departments

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and employees to learn, listen, and understand where we may have opportunities to improve processes, customer service, efficiency, and overall employee job satisfaction. Our employees are closest to the work and I value their ideas and experience. I also

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work with uh the town administrator to determine the best way to gather input from business owners and residents so we can collectively make Lake Placid as efficient, businessfriendly, and customerfriendly as possible while working within our budget and regulatory

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requirements. As the saying goes, it truly takes a village and I know I can count on everyone to help. As part of this transition, I'm also beginning a review of our internal control environment across all departments. This is a normal

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step during leadership transitions, and it's something I've done throughout my career. The town administrator has responsibility for many of the day-to-day administrative processes under the current delegation. And this review will help ensure those processes,

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documentation, and safeguards are aligned with best practices and fully support our employees and doing their work efficiently and confidently. I look forward to working closely with the town administrator and all of our department directors as we strengthen

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these process together. Finally, I began reviewing our workspace and facilities to determine how we can accommodate a mayor's office and provide appropriate space for council members to meet with the public. I'll bring updates and information back to the council once

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I have complete details. Last, you will note a small adjustment to the dis layout this evening. The town attorney and the town administrator are now seated closer to the clerk, which allows the mayor and council to sit together for more efficient discussion and

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coordination. This arrangement supports smoother meetings and clearer communication for everybody. So now I'd like to move on to item number three, approval of the agenda. But council, I have a walk-on item this

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evening. I'd like to add a banking authorization resolution as action item number eight to ensure our authorized signers are current and aligned with the recent transition. You should have received an email from the finance director earlier today with the draft

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resolution and later we'll have it on the screen for the the public's information. I'll entertain a motion to add this item to the agenda. >> So moved. And in this case, it's just the agenda item. There's no other consent item. So,

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go ahead, clerk. Take the role. Take the vote. Call for the vote. >> Council member S. >> Yes. >> Council member. >> Yes. >> Council member Hayes. >> Yes. >> Now, we'll move on to item number four, um, presentations. And in this case, I

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think um it's just a a brief update on the tower and I think um a town attorney is going to speak to that. >> Good afternoon, council. I'm going have to get used to speaking sideways. Yes, this item was put on the agenda under the chief and it went out a little bit too soon. Um and the chief has deferred

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to me, but I would like to defer to him, but I'll I'll go ahead and take it. Um, essentially believe council asked for a review of the tower matter and during a meeting with the chief code enforcement, town manager and the mayor, it was discovered there's some

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additional information out there that that um is pertinent to the discussions and I would suggest that maybe we put this on an item to return back to the council on a returning business matter or old business matter maybe in about 45 or 60 days out and hopefully have more

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information for you then. But it is it is being actively um pursued by code enforcement and there's some matters out there and there's about half a dozen other code matters that we had a really good discussion that we should be bringing back for you to take some action on.

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>> Thank you. >> Um so now that we have on item number five, we have no hearings scheduled and we'll move on to action items. Um the first is LPTC26.03 request for consideration to reduce the

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parking requirement for a change to use at 7 South Main Avenue in Lake Placid. And I think this is a continuation from last week's meeting. >> Miss Mayor, I move to approve LPTC 26.003.

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>> Is there a second? >> Second. We're going to end up here anyway. There's no such thing going on for an hour about it. >> Any other any comments or questions from the DIS? >> Out to the public. Back to the DAS. Clerk, take the role.

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>> Council member Sap. >> Yes. >> Council member Everheart. >> Yes. >> Council member Hayes. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Uh moving on to uh the item that we added for the um the resolution for the

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check signers. Rachel, are you going to take that one or Charlotte? Are you taking it? There was some discussion. I believe the mayor in the past would read at least the title of the resolution into the

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record, but um that would be it and then it can is open for discussion. >> That's been the procedure in the past, but I would defer to the clerk. >> Okay. I read I read the title. >> That's correct. That is correct. >> Okay. I read the title, but you mean the whole >> that paragraph down to the effective

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date. >> Gotcha. That's fine. So this is resolution number 2026-10, a resolution of the town of Lake Placid, Florida, designating authorized signatures on the town depository accounts establishing a two signature

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requirement. Designating the vice mayor as an alternate alternate signatory upon appointment. Providing for automatic termination of signatory signatory authority upon separation from office,

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resending prior signatory designations and providing an effective date. Thank you, mayor. So, the proposed resolution rescends all prior signatory designations, including the individuals identified above, which as you can see,

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we have former mayor John M. Hullbrook, former Vice Mayor Deborah Worley, and former town administrator Kevin McCarthy, and also Wallace Phil Williams. Part two designates the mayor and the town administrator as primary

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signitories and the director of finance and human resources and the vice mayor as alternative signitories. Part three establishes a two signature requirement for all town checks, drafts, and other negotiable instruments and any

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lawful combination of the authorized signitories consistent with the segregation of duties and requirements of section 218.33 of the Florida statutes. Part four designates the vice mayor by office so that the individual appointed

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to that position following the town council's selection may be added to the town signature cards upon presentation of the meeting minutes and this resolution without a further council resolution. Part five provides for automatic termination of signatory authority upon

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any signatory separation from the office or position by reason of which such authority was conferred, eliminating the need for future res recession recession resolutions when officials leave office. And part

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six directs the town clerk as a town's designated depository liaison to deliver certified copies of the resolution to each depository institution and to cause the removal of all prior signitories from the town signature cards. A

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supplemental resolution addressing additional banking, cash management, wire transfer, and loan authorities will be brought forward upon completion of the town's ongoing review of related banking and loan instruments together with a review of the town's internal

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controls under section 218.33 of the Florida statute. There is a recommended motion for your review. I move to adopt resolution number 26 uh 2026-10.

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>> Second. >> Any comments from the dis out to the public? Bring it back. Clerk, call for the vote. >> Council member S? >> Yes. >> Council member Hayes. >> Yes. >> Council member Everart. >> Yes.

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>> Moving on to um agenda item number eight. Um we'll just start coming down the DIS if there's any updates here. Mr. Attorney. >> No, mayor. >> Charlotte,

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Miss Town Administrator. Yes, ma'am. >> I have to turn this thing on. I did um we brought this forward last week, but we wanted to bring it up so that you could see it more on the overhead screen for anyone who may be tuning in. This is a draft concept of the Lake Placid

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downtown master plan where Florida Florida rule water I apologize where um Central Florida Regional Planning I have water on the brain. Central Florida Regional Planning will be coming back in the meeting in May and they will be presenting this. Trying to see if I can blow it up a

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little bit for you. It outlines the goals of the downtown master plan. Goal one is to establish a district downtown identity and a sense of place. Goal two will support cohesive highquality design and development. Goal

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three will strengthen downtown as a vibrant community gathering place. Go. Goal four is to promote economic vitality in local business growth. Goal five is to improve walkability, connectivity, and mobility. Goal six is

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to enhance quality of life and environmental stewardship. Goal seven is to foster partnerships and implementation capacity. And goal eight is to develop master storm water system for the downtown Lake Placid. You will

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also see that they have different um icons here. We have a plaza for open space that is suggested. They also outline some streetscape with um complete street corridors. We have temporary popup installations

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and suggestions on where they believe that will be beneficial. Activated storefront with facade improvements because facade improvements have been greatly discussed. We have outdoor dining corridors, wayfinding features and signage.

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We also look at downtown gateway features, intersection enhancements, and parklet for pocket parks. So, they'll be bringing this information back, but we wanted to be able to put it on the screen so everyone could see that.

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I do have a few more um comments because we have the open seat for the tourist development council. Following the recent election, it was determined that Vice Mayor Worley is no longer eligible to serve in that capacity. Based on the coordination with the TD staff, there

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was insufficient time between the election and the April 30th TDC meeting for the Highlands County Board of County Commissioners to appoint a replacement. For context, this particular TDC seat is governed by state statute and is designed for an elected municipal

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official from a municipality within the county other than most populace. At the local level, this seat has historically rotated between the city of Avon Park and the town of Lake Placid in four-year intervals.

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Lake Placid has held this seat since 2022. And based on the established rotation, we were advised that Avon Park is scheduled to assume the seat beginning at the August TDC meeting. If Avon Park elects not to appoint one of

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its council members, then the TD TDC staff have advised that they will notify us directly, at which time Lake Placid may have the opportunity to consider appointing a council member to continue representation. I have just two more.

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Miss Hart also sent out a tourist council accommodation for vacancies and it states that with Highlands County Tourist Development Council positions recently vacated by the hotelers Lydia Capot and Christine Hatfield, the TDC

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currently has two vacancies specifically for accommodations members of the council. And these seats are specifically for owners or operators of motel, hotels, recreational vehicle parks, or other tourist accommodations in the county and that are subject to

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the tourism tax. So, if there's anyone who fits that model, they can reach out to the TDC at the county and submit an application to be appointed. And then I have one more. On Thursday, May 7th is National Day of Prayer. That

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will take place at the um at the uh county office at 11:00 a.m. and it's being provided with lunchon from the Kowanas Club of the Greater Sebring. That's all I have right now. There are a couple areas where it would

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be nice if we could have um citizens help us out uh save on staff time. The things mentioned in the Lake Placid master plan over and over again was branding and trying to keep the um current feel

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of the town. Um I don't know within the parameters of sunshine law how we can if we can get people together business people and citizens um to help us uh help us

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achieve that. >> Anytime that you um appoint a committee whether it's ad hoc to make a recommendation taking some of your authority away that's subject to the sunshine. It's just a matter of setting that up and and advertising 286 and go from there. So, anything the council

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pleases to do that, we can work on putting something together for you and policies and procedures so the clerk is well aware of them as well. >> Okay. So, if if that was a a possibility for you, would you want to go ahead to get people to do

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some of those tasks for us? >> Like an advisory groups. That's what you're saying. I think that's a good idea. I have made some notes um when the town administrator was speaking and especially with reference to goal number

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five and of this um downtown master plan and I I realize um the thought is to improve sorry the glasses improve walkability, connectivity and mobility. Um, I think we have to understand though that our

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demographics is a little bit higher than some of these locations where we've talked about uh like kind of mimicking how they do things that we have an older population. So, some of the walkability might be a little bit more limited. And

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I know that um there's been just just off-the- cuff conversations about streetscape and parking and outdoor dining quarters of which I love all of that. However, when you look at all of that, it's going to affect parking and well, it's not a big deal to walk two or

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three blocks, but for our population, it is a big deal to walk two or three blocks. So, I think as much as I would love to see a lot of this uh outdoor dining and and the streetscape and all like that, I think we we have to be very

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careful at how this is going to impact parking. and and in these pictures which are not of our place of course or other other towns but um it appears that they're indicating that we want to go to parallel parking on our streets and I think that's something that we really

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would have to have a conversation about because Avon Park has had quite a few conversations about that and I don't know the logistics of it but I think that that parallel parking gives you less spaces where the angled parking gives you more but I don't know I'm not

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a traffic engineer But I think some of these things we need to talk about and having the businesses come I think is a great idea so we could have input from them. Another aside that I noticed um coming

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from Sebring recently you know you've seen a lot of things in the news about the about the festivals that they've had in Sebring one right after the other. They had the soda fest and followed back up by the craft beers and then heaven knows what next. Well, the businesses that are associated with the downtown

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circle and the spokes of the circle have not had parking in front of their businesses for two or three weeks now on the weekends. And and I was trying to cut through the town the other day going from one event to another. And holy cow, the event didn't start till 2 in the afternoon and I'm there at 8:30 in the morning and the streets are already

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closed. You know, I get it, but how about these businesses and the effect on the businesses? So I think having a a panel to that effect would help us to keep from making some mistakes that may have been have been made with other cities in the past. So I think that's a

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really good idea to have that and see how we can do it as as our attorney said um within the sunshine but still to get good input from the from the people that patronize these businesses and from the business owners. They they don't have a vote when we get elected up here. the

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business owners, unless they live in the town, they don't have a vote. And I I think it's important that we listen to them and hear from them. >> Exactly. Exactly. Because I wanted the business owners to be able to have a voice and things. And they know better

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than we do up here. Um, and one of the things in the back of my head was to maybe address having a a fee for parking waiverss and build up a fund for future buying a a lot or something. But that's all for

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this group to figure out. Um, there are there a lot of things they can work on. So, if we could set up if if everybody is agreeable that we could have the attorney set up a template or the framework. >> Yeah. I so we're looking predominantly

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focusing at coming back with ideas on parking and how this relates with councilwoman Hayes discussed about the walking and mobility. We're looking for some input. Um we could also look at sending this to the LPA. I think some new members need to cycle off of that.

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It might be a good place to start. They're already sunshined. they advertise and maybe see what kind of ideas they have with council's direction of what you're expecting and at the next meeting you wants to come back and report on where we are with that and hopefully have an idea of where that can

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go. >> Well, I I think too I'm sorry my voice is still not perfect yet. You'll be tickled that it's not. Uh anyway, um we we have some sort of a loosely

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structured uh merchants association in Lake Bass and they don't want to be called an association because they don't want to be structured because they're not really structured, but they're a loosely structured organization that's not structured. So, but I think it's important that we contact Ken Anderson

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who has been kind of the leader of the non-structured group and see kind of if we can hook up with them in some way. I know when they first started both Joy and I attended a meeting or so and then we realized we couldn't both be in the room at the same time so we left and you

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know that type of thing but um I think they they are um doing some things with with Frank Hartzell and doing some uh the uh the events in the in the parking lot there which as I referred to with reference to Sebring having those things

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in the parking lot are wonderful things for the community but where do the people that want to go to dinner, the purple iris, where do they park? How do they get into the restaurant? So, uh there's it's there's good and bad to these things and and I think we need to listen to the to the folks and see how

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they we can mitigate that. >> Okay. Yeah. So, what I'm hearing is why don't we try to formulate what an ad hoc committee would look like and then what it would look like going to the LPA and then the council can decide on which direction or combination thereof.

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So if for example if I made a list of things that I would want them to work on and you made a list of things that you had them would want them to work on and then we bring it as a discussion point next time. Would that would that work?

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>> Yes. I'm just thinking how you could get it done tonight by communicating that later without you two communicating and the sunshine. We could bring it back but why keep kicking this off for 30 days? you know, pretty soon you have 12 30 days and a year's gone by. >> Um,

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let us bring back a structure and then you guys can decide where I think it relates overall to parking, walkability council, >> say again outdoor dining. >> Outdoor dining. Yeah. >> And how that would relate. We can bring back at least an action item for you.

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>> And and um the the branding of the town. Um, one of my fears is that um, some business would want to come in and they're not in fitting with our character, but there's nothing in the code that would say you don't fit.

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>> Okay. It sounds like we have a combination of uh, merchants and LPA and and a little bit of traffic studies and I think the issue arose and Mr. Brentley rose raised a pretty interesting idea last week about this concept. If it would have been kicked in 20 years ago,

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we may not have this discussion. But I think there's a lot of smart people in the community that know the town and the increases and can really advise council. What you guys decide to do with it, but just being back here 12 months from now and another parking issue comes before

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you. At some point in time, you may have to say no and we don't have a solution. So, at least attempt it. And if we have volunteers, great. If we don't, then at least you attempted it. a question. >> Can I ask a question? Some of the

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comments that have come up to us when we have um had developments come before us, it if this is one of those, Councilwoman Ibrahart, specifically related to even color schemes in the downtown area and what should be appropriate and what's not appropriate,

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what I may think is okay or what Mike may think is okay. It all differs between us, but in some municipalities they set, well, these are the colors that we like. We don't want like a bright pink or we don't want a neon yellow in our downtown area. Would that be something that you would want to be

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able to discuss in this as well? I think um if I remember correctly and Greg, you probably know better than I because you were on council before I even came, but it seems like that that uh council previously stepped away from doing anything with reference to facades because they couldn't didn't want to

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have this color this color discussion. Uh, but I, you know, and and I mean, we don't necessarily want the whole town painted from the same pallet, but then again, um, do you want to have some architectural or design standards or something to that effect? And, uh, I

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think right now there's there's nothing in there at all. I I'm not sure, but uh, it's something I think that we stepped away from in the past, and maybe we don't need to step completely away. Do you remember, Brett? I thought we had something on there in the past and I was shocked to see some

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of these crazy colors come into town and I'm not particularly all about it, but I don't know what we can do about it. So, it needs to be discussed. Yes. >> But it's clear it does fall within the planning area, right? So, I think that's

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that's smart. So, we'll we'll take that on and >> and then we have to figure out how we break it down because there's a lot there, right, in these different categories. So we have to break it into certain categories to focus on that. >> I think we have enough to build an

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agenda item. Okay. >> Thank you. Anything else? Council members have council member Hayes. I heard uh administrator Rodriguez say we have a day of prayer on

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May the 7th. Is there time on that? Is that 9:00? >> It's typically 9. >> It's actually 11 a.m. >> 11. Yes, ma'am. I'm glad I asked. Um and they are providing lunch immediately

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after. >> And it's at it's at the office. It's not on the lawn. It's It's on the lawn. Yes, ma'am. It is on the lawn. >> Okay. >> I believe that's all I have. Thank you. >> Staff Chief, you have anything?

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Brandon, anything? Any update? Anything? Uh just to give you a little update, we update. We will be starting the uh the startup of the plant, the sewer plant, uh transferring everything over starting

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Wednesday morning at 7. And so just to keep everybody in the loop with that, but that's it for me. >> That's exciting. And so Brandon and the team will be working 27 hours a day for the next week.

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And hopefully everything will go smooth that they don't need to work 30 hours a day. But um I mean great progress. This is like long in the waiting, right? And so the the the cut over is going to be great. I

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know everything so far has been good. So we're on part target that what by the end of June we need to be completed so that we can ensure that we get the reimbursement from DP. So, whatever you and the team need, do Charlotte. You

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have a lot of our phone numbers. Don't hesitate. We're there for you. Good job. At some point, once we're up and running and things are debugged, we will plan a ribbon cutting grand opening. I don't know if you do a grand opening of a

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sewer plant, right? But, but we're Lake Placid. We do things different here. So why not? Um >> that but I thought no I just will be quiet over here >> with a cake and coffee right for the uh but we will plan something but right now we need to let them do their job.

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>> Yeah. Thank you. >> Thank you Alan. Dana >> Brandon didn't want to hear me say anything. Um, I can go over a couple of the projects and inquiries that have been coming in

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if council would like. >> Just just a it would just be a quick update, no detail. I mean, no >> um it sounds like we're finishing up um Gator Eco Wash. There's been inquiries about a big box store coming to town.

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There's been inquiries recently about a Murphy's Gas station coming to town. Uh, I just received my next submitt for Culver's and hopefully we'll be able to approve that and move forward very shortly. Um, and Burger King is being

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subdivided out from the public's shopping center and about a year ago, almost a year ago, legislation changed for that to be an administrative approval. So, that won't come before council. It's already been sent to our local planning agency. It's

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been going on for a long time. Um, So, those are some of the projects we're working on right now. >> Okay. Thank you, Rachel. Um, and and what we're also looking at is for the different two diff committees that we have, the local planning agency and the

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utilities agency. Um, some of the members terms are coming up, some can be renewed. So, at a future meeting, we'll be coming back with uh the membership, which openings we have, and we'll be more likely than not going out to the

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public to asking for anybody that might be interested in um participating in those committees. So, a a lot of good things going on where we're going to continue to need the public's help um so that we end up being our town, not five

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people up here's town. Um, anybody from the public? Pam Pam Fentress 12373 Lost Lake Drive, Lake Placid. Just going back to um the parking looking at it, a study about

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three years ago, the CRA had a um consultant come in. and you paid like 40,000 for a report to be done. Um, and they they came up with phase one and phase two of Main Avenue. You've completed phase one with the pedestrian walkway. That was a project that was a

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6040 split with the county. They put in 60,000. You put in 40,000 for that and then it was overrun, but the county pitched in more. The second phase is like a million dollars that y'all are supposed to be budgeting for in the future. In this consultant report, it

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was a beautiful presentation. Make Lake Plaza a destination, not a thorough through, but it talked about parallel parking, reverse parking on Inner Lake. Very detailed. I see this time and again sitting the audience. We repeat the cycle. Every people forget

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the reports of the past and you do them again. Then we talk about a couple years. But anyway, there's a lot of information in that. Architectural standards, state law changed. You had to have an architectural committee in place at the time the state law changed. There's some things you can do. The Lake

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Placid Regional Plan LDRs are pretty strict on the architectural stuff. So, there's I mean there's just a lot of things I could talk about. I really want to know about the uh planning like what's coming to Lake Placid. What are we doing? What are we seeing? You we can

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talk about LPA meetings will be LPA hasn't met in six months. Um, utilities didn't meet last month. They're supposed to have a workshop and a meeting. The $40 million DE grant should be the top priority in my opinion at every meeting.

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That's important big stuff right there. How the town grows. Thank you. Thank you for volunteering for our ad hoc committee. That's what I was saying. You all know more than we do. We need you.

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nominated. >> Are are you a aware of a three-year-old study from CRA for phase one phase two? >> I I do recall it. I'll have to go find it. I do recall it once Pam said that. Yes, there was one.

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>> Okay, we'll we'll follow up. >> Forward that out to everybody. >> I'm not aware of that. Okay. Anything else? So at 6:31 I declare this meeting closed.