Yeah, yes, now. We're going to do the oath of office now. Good evening, everybody. We're about to do the oath of office for our elected officials. And we'll start with Colleen Charles. I can't put this out. Maybe it'll pick it up.
A little bit more. See if that works. And if you stand up Right or left hand? I don't know. Right hand. Okay, Colleen, you ready? I am. Colleen, state your name. Colleen Charles.
Do solemnly swear >> swear Oh, I do solemnly swear that I will support that I will support >> protect protect >> and defend the Constitution and defend the Constitution >> of the government of the United States and the state of Florida of the
government of the United States and the state of Florida and the town of Lake Placid against all enemies, domestic or foreign and the town of Lake Placid against all enemies, domestic and foreign that I will bear true faith
that I will bear true faith loyalty and allegiance to the same loyalty and allegiance to the same and that I am entitled to hold office under the Constitution and that I am entitled to hold office under the Constitution that I will
faithfully perform all the duties as mayor for this town of Lake Placid which I am about to enter Good thing I can read this. That I will faithfully perform all the duties as a mayor for the town of Lake Placid which
I am about to enter. So help me God. Congratulations. Thank you. >> [applause] >> So I can have Mr. Sapp and Ms. Perrin Hayes. You're going to do it for them or you want me to do it?
I think she You want to come up? I want up, he wants down. No, no, no, you down here. There we go. Look better, yes. Can you guys share that? That's going to be a little too short.
Duncan, can you raise your right hand? I, state your name. I, Greg Sapp I, Nan Hayes Do solemnly swear that I will support and protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States Do solemnly swear that I will support,
protect and defend the Constitution and government of the United States the state of Florida and the town of Lake Placid against all enemies, domestic or foreign the state of Florida and the town of Lake Placid against all enemies, domestic or foreign that I will bear true faith, loyalty
loyalty and allegiance to the same and that I am entitled to hold office under the Constitution that I will bear true faith, loyalty and allegiance to the same and that I am entitled to hold office under the Constitution that I will faithfully perform all the
duties as a town council member for the town of Lake Placid which I'm about to enter that I will faithfully perform all the duties as a town council member for the town of Lake Placid which I'm about to enter So help me God. So help me God. >> [applause]
>> If you guys can sign Thank you. I will sign them and seal them. Okay, thank you. So the time is 5:36 on April 13th. I now call this meeting to order at the government center. >> [applause] >> So we're going to have the invocation
and the pledge of allegiance, but I'm going to change something. So for today we have Pastor Norris from Trinity Lutheran Church to give the invocation. And going forward for the pledge, we're going to have a veteran from the community to lead us in the pledge. And
so Pastor Norris is going to do the invocation and I'm really proud to ask Chief Snyder to lead us right after in the pledge of allegiance. Chief is a four-year Navy veteran, an electronic technician, navigation operation and
subsurface. So just a little change that we want to do going forward. So let's rise for the prayer. Please stand. Paul reminds us in 1 Timothy first of all, that all petitions, prayers, and intercessions, and
thanksgiving be made for all people for kings and all those in authority that we may live peaceable and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. This evening we come before you asking your blessings, oh God
and guidance upon this town council. We give you thanks for those who have served on this council in the past and those who are serving and those who are recently elected and reelected to their position positions of governance.
Give each member, employee, and resident of the town of Lake Placid patience and a spirit of cooperation at this time in our town's history. We ask you to guard and protect our members of the armed forces law enforcement, fire, and EMS
personnel. We pray all these things in your most precious name Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Clerk, can you call the roll, please? Mayor Charles Here. Council member Hayes Here. Council member Sapp Here. Council
member Everhart Here. Okay, next on the agenda is um public comments on non-agenda items and these will be limited to 3 minutes and uh per our town protocol to state your name and your address so we have it for the record, please. Good
evening, Marlene Barger, 760 Sunset Point Drive. I just want to say congratulations to Mayor Charles. Congratulations, Council member Hayes, for your reelection and congratulations, Council member Sapp for your return to the council. So thank
you to all. >> [applause] >> Jack Homely, 607 Sunset Point Drive. I also wish to congratulate the the new members, the reelected members, and and our new mayor. Thank you. Uh I have a question uh
there's been a lot of talk about uh communications in the last few months, right? And I noticed that when I went to uh try and pull up the agenda for day for tonight the procedure had been completely
changed and I tried Friday, Saturday, Sunday finally we called some the city hall today and they explained to us how to do it. I think when when there's a major change like that, there's about six steps you have to go through to to call
it up, you know. Maybe something should be on the first page of the uh of of the website or something stating that, you know, the procedure has been changed and here are the steps that you have to go through and you know
it maybe they could put that on there and leave it on there for at least a few months or something so that people would be able to to find the agenda. Thank you. I'll just make a quick comment. Um the website has been moved to a new platform and
um with anything there's going to be some changeover challenges um but we'll certainly take those those um words into account and we'll we'll get those fixed. So we do look forward to this is a great tool, this website with great capabilities that's going to
assist us. So patience as we do our startup and our cutover. Thank you. Okay, so next on the agenda is some mayor's comments that I want to make. Um so first off, I'm very honored to be here today as the newly elected mayor of Lake
Placid. I want to begin by thanking all the voters for their trust and confidence. Serving this community is a privilege. And I'm grateful for the opportunity to continue to serve us in this role. I also want to thank our town employees,
our citizens, and our local businesses. Each of you plays an important part in making Lake Placid a strong and vibrant community. I look forward to working alongside you in the years ahead. Additionally, I want to take a moment to
thank Mayor John Holbrook for the 28 years of service to the town of Lake Placid, including 18 years as the mayor. We appreciate his long-term commitment to this community. I would also like to thank council member Deborah Wordley for
her service in completing the remaining 2 years of the council term. We are grateful for the time and dedication both have given to the town. My commitment as mayor is straightforward. To listen, support our staff,
to strengthen communication, and to help ensure our processes are clear, consistent, and fully aligned with the town charter and our muni code. This will allow decisions to be made transparently and to the best of our community. We have several important projects
underway. And my role is to help ensure that they're carried out responsibly, efficiently, and in the best interest of our community. Public safety, infrastructure, and customer service will remain central priorities.
I plan to maintain regular office hours at town hall so that citizens, businesses, and staff have direct access to their mayor. We have a dedicated team working for this community, and I look forward to supporting them and helping move
projects along where needed. Another priority is improving the structure and efficiency of our town council meetings. Our residents deserve meetings that are organized, respectful of everyone's time, and focused on the business at
hand. We will be following the town charter's requirements for agenda deadlines so that our staff and our town attorney have the proper time to review and prepare. This will help ensure the decisions and well decisions are well informed and that our
meetings run smooth and professionally. Lake Placid has tremendous potential, and I am committed to helping us operate with transparency, accountability, and a shared sense of purpose.
Thank you again for your trust. I look forward to working with you all as we begin the next chapter of our town. >> [applause] >> Uh next on the agenda is the consent agenda, but before we consider approval of the consent agenda,
I would like to request council's consideration to add an item under action item 8F, ARPA grant bicentennial playground equipment match. This is time sensitive because the ARPA meeting is this Thursday, and missing
that meeting could delay our submission for a grant until January of next year. If a council member member would like to make that motion, the floor is open. I shall move. I second. Go ahead. Yeah, it doesn't matter.
Discussion on the dais. Out to the audience. Bring it back. Clerk, take the So clarification work approving the consent agenda with the recommended change of adding the ARPA. Okay. Council member Hayes?
Yes. Council member Everhart? Yes. Council member Slat? Yes. Next on the agenda under six is uh presentation and citizens on the agenda, and the Chief Snyder. I thought we just did. Oh, we did.
Take the roll. Clerk, take Take the vote. You did that. I did do the vote. They're trying to confuse me my first day on the job. >> [laughter] >> I I'm sorry. I thought I was doing well, but I thought it was the action agenda,
but there is one small mistake Okay. >> on the council meetings of February 16th on 2026-04, um the LMS, the vote count was not four to one, it's three to one. Right. Just a That's the only correction
that I had of that, and I even wrote it under the action agenda instead of consent agenda, so Sorry. That's all I have to say. Thank you. So we're good? I think so, yes. >> Okay. We'll move on. Chief Snyder has a citizen award
that he would like to present. If you would join me down here, Mayor, in the presentation, you would. If I could have join me up here, Mr. Gilbert Randall, please. He doesn't know about this. In recognition, grateful recognition of your outstanding commitment and
dedication to the community by supporting the Lake Placid Police Department in its efforts to ensure a safe environment for all. Your support has played a vital role in strengthening public safety and fostering a sense of trust within our community. And for those who don't know,
the reason we're we're awarding this is Mr. Randall took it upon himself to ensure there was a uh warm spot for people to stay during our cold snaps for our homeless population and anyone else who needed a hand, especially with the power outages
we had. Um I know that he asked me not to say anything about this, but I felt that this was too great a deed for our community go unnoticed. Um this particular award comes from the American Police Hall of Fame and has gone through them. Your name will be
included with that. That is for you, sir. >> [applause] >> Uh did council want pictures as well? Did you want to have pictures of council and everybody? No pictures. Give me two seconds. Get you back up here for pictures. Not for me.
Can we get that at council members down? Oh, if you're insisting, that's different. >> [laughter] >> So next on the agenda is an an update from Panoni Engineers on the wastewater in the treatment plant. And I think Roger, you're giving that.
And Brandon's here, also. Good evening. Roger Holm with Panoni. So update, the wastewater plant, the status of it now, we had to work through some issues with some code issues on the structures of the headworks. I think we mentioned that in maybe the last meeting.
Um we're 99% through those by tomorrow morning, that should all be resolved, and by it looks like Monday, the contractor is going to start flowing wastewater through the new plant. So basically, that'll be the startup for the plant.
Uh the first thing that'll happen is emptying out the old plant, something pumping out of everything out of the old plant into the new. That's probably going to take about a day, something like that. And then uh and then it'll start flowing through the through the new plant. Uh
the other parts of the Well, I guess project the force main extensions change order for KDL. Um they've done a lot of work on that already. They're all the way up on Main Street finished with that work. Um Fenoni has helped to get the um
renewed county permits for the and right-of-way permits that were needed. Those had expired and there were several of those that needed to be renewed. Um there's a railroad crossing that we were going to change to a different type of installation construction directional
bore instead of a jack and bore. It's going to be a less expensive option that the contractor can do. That's well on its way. We've got the permit app about ready to go back in to to revise that permit. Um we don't anticipate any problems with that. The permits have already been
issued, so this is going to be a renewal. And it's already been paid for. There was a pretty hefty hefty fee up front, but that was they're not going to require any more money for that. Um there's a an easement um that the attorney Michael's been helping with um
working on. It basically crosses from um Lake Brasseur over to main over to the railroad. And um as of last week, there was some uh a call with the developer
and they've been agree they've agreed to grant that easement, which is going to be basically 20 ft across the south part of that property. Um Fenoni's working on the legal description for that right now and we'll have that by Wednesday. And then from that point, it'll just be
um drafting the the easement and uh have to go through the system, be recorded and such. Um pretty much it for the status of things now. Anything yet? I'm just here to answer questions. He said it all.
Any questions? So, Brandon is our acting utility director and we appreciate you stepping into that role. Carrying your regular job, stepping into that and keeping these guys in line. Thank you. Thank you for keeping me in line. Okay. Okay. Thank you.
>> That's good. Thank you. Uh there's no public hearings um for this agenda and then we'll move to the action agenda. And the first item um is request for consideration for parking
requirement for 7 South Main Avenue. Good evening, Dana Riddell, town planner for the record. Um and congratulations to council for returning and for your new positions. It's great to see a full board tonight.
So, what we have on the agenda for consideration tonight is for a request for a parking reduction at 7 South Main. That's the address of the property, the whole entire parcel, but the actual storefront is 9 South Main.
Essentially, this is a change of use from a retail establishment to an eating and drinking establishment. This is something that we've come across a lot lately as we're getting a lot new many more eating and drinking establishments throughout the town instead of retail
exchanging for retail. When there's a change of use that goes from retail to eating and drinking establishment, unless they make their guest service area extremely small, it ends up increasing the parking requirements.
Um so, I have that information throughout my staff report, the exact numbers. But essentially, there are three parking spaces on site that are off-street parking spaces. And the change in use would increase the number
of spaces um by nine because they need a total of 12. So, there was a parking study conducted and that's shown in this red square here on your screen. It was within a one-block radius strictly on Main
Street. And throughout that parking study, it was demonstrated that there's an 84.29% parking availability throughout the course of a two-week study. Most of that a lot of that was in the
evening. We know that in our downtown areas, we could use a lot more stores open in the evening. Um some days there was it was getting nearer to like the 50% mark in the afternoon and in the morning. I think we're all familiar with
Main Street America using a lot of parking in that area as well. Um in terms of other parking approvals that have been granted in this area, uh New Hope was granted a parking reduction in the same vicinity. Um
the Journal Plaza was granted a parking waiver further north on Main. And just a couple months ago, a parking waiver was approved for this particular business on Inner Lake. But by the time the parking approval occurred, the building space
was leased out to someone else. So, she had to select a new location. And this is where she's landed now. So, the parking waiver that was approved a couple months ago, we can at this point disregard. It will not be used. If anybody else wants to use that
particular business, they will have to go through the same process. Uh I worked today with our town attorney to refine the proposed motion. So, I'm going to go ahead and read that motion. If you need me to read
it again, I'm happy to do that. And after this, I'll turn it back over to council. So, the recommended motion from staff is moved to approve LPTC.26.003, a reduction from the parking requirements for the change in use at 9
South Main Avenue based upon findings that one, the reduction is necessary for a viable economic use of the historic structure. And two, the reduction will not result in a severe parking shortage or severe parking traffic congestion
for this specific use of a cafe as described in the application and that this approval does not extend to any other use of the property. The approval is conditioned upon receipt of an owner affidavit and limited to the tenant
making this application. I'll turn it back over to council and I'm available for any questions as well as the applicant. I'll ask for a motion. So moved. Thank you. Second. I'll second for discussion.
Is this for three spots just on the left side of the property, not the other side? They still have four on the other side. So, it's for nine spots that would be generated from this development and they would be located anywhere in the vicinity of the business. So, the
parking study was done specifically on Main Street on a one-block radius right in front of the building. But we're essentially saying that there's nine spots short in this area. They can't put nine more spots on their property, but they have three [clears throat] existing
on their property. They're not going to make any less than is currently there. Correct. >> previous owners were not letting anybody park on that property, but anyone will be allowed to park there. Now, are they opening up for everyone to park there, making it more public now? Cor- well, They had a sign before and would tow cars if you parked on that
spot on that property. Oh, they were towing cars if you parked on that property? Okay. I'm unaware of that. So, if they're opening up to everyone, I don't see a problem with it. It actually provides more parking than we've had in the past in that area because no one's been allowed to use that.
That does change the equation for me a little bit. Okay, Ms. Lay, do you have any reference that you could comment Oh. Oh, thank you. Hello. If you're speaking about the parking directly in front of the building that's
actually uh I guess chained off, that is private parking and that belongs to the actual building. I did not do I did not use that count when I did my survey on purpose. Um so, that would be the two additional because remember I told you we updated
the floor and they did the the lines again in the actual parking lot to accommodate to the new um laws when it comes to wheelchair access. So, now we have also the I don't know what you call that, the walkway, I guess, if you will for that parking. So, the parking survey
that I did was based solely on what you see there in red. What's in yellow is the private parking. I think Councilman Sapp is just making sure that the parking that's on the property in yellow will be available to anyone in
the public and they will not be towed if say they're going to another retail store after they go to your establishment. >> To my knowledge, there have not been. I I know in the past to me being there. I also do request because I do have signs
there that is for my spot meaning the two on the left and on the right cuz we do have additional four parking on the right that belongs to the establishment next to me. So I can't speak on his behalf. But on my behalf that wouldn't be an issue. There is already super tight.
I am not about unless you free those spots up making it even tighter. You're asking for tying up lots you already park spots you already have. I'm asking >> us to to give you more.
It's already a crazy tight spot. I'm just not comfortable with that. If you open it up I think to where we can park and anyone can park there if they want. It it'd be fair it'd be fine. But you're keeping your spots and asking everybody else to give up theirs in the area. I'm not asking anyone to give up anything that's public parking to my knowledge and I did it off of the main
street public parking survey. >> You are by asking us for an allowance. I'm sorry? >> You're asking us to give up spots by asking for allowance. You're going to be bringing more people in there which makes means less spots in the area. You're taking three yourself that you're not sharing with anybody else and you're asking us to
give you more along the road and that it's already tight there. I don't turn away anyone from there. But like I said I cannot speak on behalf of the person or the tenant next to me. But you can speak for yourself and you're saying you do not you don't have a sign there that's only for your
restaurant. Those Well cuz I'm putting that I would like for my customers to be able to have access to my place if supposedly the owner's telling me that that's private parking. I'm not the owner of the establishment. Meaning the building itself. So he has a sign that says private parking
for that section that's in yellow. But when I did my survey the lowest that we ever had was 76%. All the other spots up front were open. Which is by the bank and all that area across which the owner of my building also owns the buildings in front of me.
Danny do you have any thoughts on the matter? Um based on this conversation I think it might be wise to table the hearing until the following Monday to see if we can engage in further discussions with the existing property owner and have a little further discussion on what
it means to kind of exchange the parking between on and off street parking. Okay. Um I have a problem though with having her two spots open to the public because it's private property is there a
liability issue. I don't know. A lot of businesses the bank across the street does that. My wife has a building across the street and there's parking behind there people can park on. It's pretty common across town.
I I just have a question too. We have um we have several businesses in a row there. We have Main Street America and New Hope and then we have the the building that you're in and we have the barber shop the foot doctor and across the street we have the the different you know private businesses
etc. across the street. It seems like [clears throat] every time I come to go to business to go to lunch at Main Street America I have to park like a block down or so. Did we give um parking variances to Main Street America and I think we did to New Hope and are
we are we giving variance on variance is what I'm trying to say. It seems like that we're we're saying oh well you can have these parking places. Well then you can have these and they're the same parking places. Mhm. So I'm just not I'm not adding up right. Yeah absolutely. So this was part of my
discussion today with our attorney Mike Durham um and at what point we need to kind of stop that or come up with the larger solution or a bigger game plan. Right now we're kind of rolling with the punches. We're taking what's coming before us and evaluating the existing
conditions at this time and seeing if you know if the next person who comes in if it we are at a parking shortage at that point I think there should be longer term solutions about maybe in the future when we do um
like a waiver or reduction that money should potentially be put into some kind of pot for future parking improvements for the town to be able to upgrade parking in the future and that might come down to assigning a dollar value on the number of spots. It's something I'd be happy to look into and
come up with a longer term solution. Uh at this point I'm in a little bit of a holding pattern. I've been waiting for the downtown revitalization plan which I know is forthcoming and hoping to see if they make any recommendations regarding long-term parking solutions. I'm I'm not trying to keep this nice
lady from opening her establishment. We definitely need restaurants and things like that in in town. But I also think it's not fair to the other places that have already that are already there and have gotten their parking approved and now we're going to allow a variance for
parking that in essence will take up those same parking places. So that's my issue. And I don't know what like lot or piece of land that we would have in that area that we could eventually look to purchase to have parking. But I understand that we've
we've got to kind of look that way but I just don't want to I don't want to give parking variance when people already are using those places for their own parking variance. I hear you. Mike do we actually have the discretion to deny this? Is this something
Yeah. We reviewed this at great length and I think your decision-making process is more quasi-judicial. You have law you're applying facts to law you're taking evidence. Um is there confidence substantial on the record to support the
applicant's request? Um essentially what you're asking for here and and it's a quid pro quo exchange and we need to review the code a little bit more to make sure we don't get in trouble with that type of an extraction. Um
but let's go back to the property owner um and certainly the the tenant that wants to open up her business. I think she already lost one opportunity because of time delay. So let's go through that and at least give counsel the benefit of the law. Uh Mayor
also I mean councilwoman also brings up a good point about exposure on the owner requiring that parking and and maybe there's some way to cover that insurance or something. Okay? Also if I can add one more point. Um The in the intensification of parking
that results from this change of use only comes from the eating and drinking area. So if she had a smaller eating and drinking area
it would be less of a parking reduction or she might even be able to reduce it and to such an extent where there is no need for parking reduction. But what we're talking about is the
difference between people coming and grabbing food and leaving or being able to sit down and eat their food inside. I just want to make sure we understand that distinction. So can I say that my establishment is going to be a bakery where it's going to
be a grab and go and out of courtesy I have put six chairs in there with tables. But not because I'm going to have waitresses or waiters serving at any given time. So the turn around time should be fairly quick. As long as I can make the coffee
and whatever they're asking me for and serve it and get them out. And I hate to say it like that but you know what I'm trying to say. So so that is an interesting nuance that however the criteria was set up whenever whatever
rationale they had may not apply. And we have been just by going that the letter of the law comparing square footage to required parking spaces might be the wrong equation.
Well let's go back. If this this only apply to her business if she moves in a year or finds a better location will it go back to the way it was before? Correct. That there will be no parking waiver in place. And if the use were to revert back to a
retail use there would be no additional requirement for parking reduction. So So the reason we're discussing a parking waiver is the fact that she's having sit down rather than in and out
purchase and go. Correct. Okay. So if the business model her business model changes to purchase and go then we don't have to have this discussion at all. Correct. So maybe we should table it and see if she'd like to consider that and come
back next next week. I mean we can do it as quickly as Monday. So Yeah I'd like to table it to Monday if we can do that. Do we need a motion for that or do we just do it? You need a motion. Yes this wasn't advertised. Let's >> going to withdraw the motion that
there's already a motion and a second? Do we want to withdraw that? So I will withdraw the motion. Thank you. I move that we table it to Monday. Second. Any other discussion? Any discussion from the audience? Kendall Block 120 East Yerlane.
I use this as an opportunity to talk about the concept of revitalizing our historic downtown. You know, this building if you look at it, it looks like a 7-Eleven in our historic downtown. You know, no building in a historic downtown ought to have parking in front of it. Now, that was a mistake made in the past and it's very
possibly a mistake because at the time this building was built the town council was requiring that this person put parking on site or they wouldn't let them build the building. You know, mistakes made in the past can be opportunities now. If if I own this building, I would be trying to take the
parking spaces that are inside, you know, stripe across the front which would put most of the parking spaces back and put a paved plaza in front of it, have tables, chairs, and umbrellas and a sidewalk cafe, and all that kind of stuff. If we as a town want to revitalize this
historic downtown, we got to start thinking with a you know, revitalization mindset. And right now we're we're thinking with a strip mindset which is what 27 is. Walgreens, CVS, all the places on Interlake are are strip and we do not want to turn our historic
downtown into a strip. And you do that by by focusing on parking. You know, the historic downtown there's parking up and down the street. What I would look at, I see a parking a lot across catty-corner from there that has, you know, city right away on
two street fronts that you could put on street parking there and add parking to the area. You know, so in my opinion the town council or the town as a whole should be looking where can we add parking into this downtown? How can we let people fix the mistakes of the past
and turn them into a revitalization mindset which is sidewalk cafes? How many places do we have in our historic downtown where we can put sidewalk cafes right now? Very few. And this is an opportunity for that. Now, she's not asking for that, I understand it. I'm just using this as an
opportunity to talk about revitalization. And and you know, it and and building a Sebring in the downtown easy as could be. Trying to do anything in our historic downtown is a total pain. And I think we have to look at doing a downtown
code that is specific to the historic downtown. So we don't treat everybody that comes in and wants to do something as if they're CVS trying to build something on 27. Because effectively that's what we're doing. And you know, look, we could we could put more parking down there, but it's the town who can
put more parking there. You know, it's not her that can put more parking, it's the town. And historic downtowns all over the place, you know, the town focuses on where do we have parking issues? If we have parking issues, >> Can I appreciate broadening the topic, but I think we
want to stay on the topic for her specific parking situation. >> Okay. Thank you. Ms. Mayor, if I may. Please. That's the reason I asked if she would share the parking with the town. She's wanting her parking and everybody else's and it doesn't work like that the way I see it. Ken, what you just said doesn't say
that. You you want her to give up hers. So we need to just table it till Monday. Excuse me, it's not that I don't want to like I said, if the owner's telling me it's private, if he tells me open it up, hey, I haven't put any signs up at all on purpose. Waiting to see what you all would tell
me that I could and could not do. But when I signed my lease, that's what I was told. That's why I'm that's why I'm re- I don't know how to say that word correctly, but re- really radiating what he told me. So I think it's worth it just to have that conversation and just take that
week for a little bit more time in between today and Monday and just double-check with him to see if there's any solutions we can we can work on together. Can I ask a a question? Um if if she changed her business model to what Kendall Block is talking about with
the the outdoor eating cafe, you know, all that type of thing, does would that then require the extra parking waiver? That would actually increase the parking waiver. >> I thought. Yeah. Okay. Mhm.
I think Was there Mr. Did you have a comment? And then Mr. Brantley next. Yes, Margaret Deer, 1504 French Street. I know this isn't the attempt, but it sure feels kind of protectionist. I mean, she's already said that New Hope got a variance. Um Main Street's
probably been there forever, so that wouldn't have been one. Um we all know that Pork Chop's is selling out in 3 hours and I can't imagine the headache that that's causing on Interlake. Um that it's it it feels hard. It feels not right. I get I get exactly what everybody's
saying, but who would else would be screaming about parking? Um I kind of feel like we're we're reinventing the wheel here and then what were we going to do when Miller was going to go with a retail down the road? It feels like we're just uh constantly kicking the same can and that's that's
just my my two cents. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Brantley. Bill Brantley, former former council member. Um this is all this we beat this dead horse so many times I can't believe it's coming back, but I'm glad. Ken and I, love him, but we'll never agree. Um
as far as the parking, yes, we we needed to have some some innovative ways to park downtown. The thing is uh to the southeast that vacant lot, yes, we tried to buy that, but it was $27,000 back then from Mike Hoy and no one wanted it It was too much money because the town
council didn't have the money. So when New Hope went in, they got a variance for 12 parking spaces. When the uh Mid-Florida went in to the northeast, they got not even a They got a variance, but got to delete 12 parking spaces. So now we're even negative 20-something
parking spaces. So if if someone has to have a variance for parking, there needs to be a mitigation fund. And I'm not talking a lot, let's say $2,000. So they don't have to buy the land, they don't have to pay the land, they don't have to pay taxes on the land, but if you give them a two or three thousand dollar per
parking spot um price and they say, "Okay, it's worth it paying that one-time fee." And now that money can be used to pay for that lot across the street and pave it. The problem was the town didn't have the money to buy the lot or pave the lot, but if they
started with this 10-15 years ago and that little mitigation fund would have been huge by now and be able to buy these lots to be able to save downtown. Yes, I I agree with Ken, you don't want to make people have off off-street parking on Interlake or Main Street, but they need to contribute to a fund
towards the the problems that they're causing in the future for parking. Okay. So we have a motion and a second to delay it for a week. Um clerk, take the roll. Council member Sartain? Yes. Council member Hayes? Yes. Council member
Eberhardt? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Next up is a fee waiver request for Grace Bible Church. Do we have a representative here? Good afternoon. Uh my name is John Canfield. I live on 125
Lime Road. Sorry, it took me a second. Northeast here in Lake Placid. Uh this originally came in, it's uh it's supposed to be Grace Bible and Youth for Christ. And Youth for Christ has pretty much taken over. So it's going to be a Youth for Christ event. Uh I sent in a letter
with the request. I don't know if you got it. I have a copy here I can hand to you if you're okay with that. Okay. Sure, to the chief. Okay. All right. So this letter was originally written so that we could give it to the the groups that you see on the second
sheet that has the different churches here. Uh we have some Youth for Christ people here with us. I was kind of hoping Reverend Norris would hang out uh because he's aware of this and he's uh he's approving of this. His church is involved. What we're attempting to do is
to set up a uh a venue for 3 hours the day after school and have each of these churches come in and have something on a piece of paper. We talked about a bookmark or whatever that lists what's going on at the churches for the next 3 months while
the kids are out of school. So if they're going to have a vacation Bible school, if they're going to have a kids camp, uh if they're going to have like free meals on Wednesday or Friday and a youth group, that would be available so that they could come in and they would get it. We've also we've we've set up we're going to have some entertainment
while us people come in and play music. Uh we've got people we've asked Toby's to bring some clowns over to paint paint faces. Just something to bring them in. We're going to pay for we're going to bring hot dogs and and hamburgers and just pay for the kids to to get them in there and just let them know what's going on in the summer. We're not making
anything out of this at all and it's not for one group at all. It's for every one of these groups to let them know what's going on over the summer to get them involved, get them out and get involved in some of the stuff. And it's funny I was looking at your strategic plan for Lake Placid and under goal number five
says the town of Lake Placid will strengthen community partnership to address youth engagements. And further says establish family resource liaison programs, expand youth recreation and mental mentorship, and coordinate faith faith faith-based and nonprofit
partnerships. Oh, it's exactly what we're trying to do. It's exactly what you're trying to do. So, all we're saying is can we come in and do this and not be have to pay a fine or a fee for it? Yeah, just for the public, what he passed out is 20 different organizations
are participating in this. So, that's pretty impressive and then just I'd like to clarify even though it says a $400 fee waiver, out of that $150 a deposit. So, we're we're basically talking waving the um
the the park fee, the Stewart Park fee and then um garbage um cleanup later. Yes, ma'am. So, sure. And you're correct, Mr. Canfield. This was something that we had discussed in
the strategic workshops. We had one it was one of the largest turnouts that we had between the business and the faith-based communities and this was one of the main areas that was discussed and how the the different churches had different offerings, but we didn't have
an ability to bring everybody together to make sure that it got out into the community. So, we we applaud you for bringing this forward. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. So, I need a motion. I hate to preface check my memory. Um
there was a small group that applied maybe a year ago and we turned them down for their fee waiver. I forgot the name. It was they wanted something on Main Street. >> They wanted to close the road. Okay, well that was not the fee waiver. >> the Caladium Festival, they wanted to
close the road in a different area. >> All right. And then the other thing is we've always been wrestling with even allowing um fee waivers for legacy events. We've been wrestling with fee waivers for a while.
Uh I'm concerned that I mean this is a great great great thing to be doing, but I'm concerned that then the next group comes and they want a fee waiver and so on and so forth. So, I would propose
not granting the $150, which you're going to get back anyway. And uh I would propose denying the fee waiver, but I'll throw in $150 towards your payment.
So, she's sponsoring. And maybe somebody else will come up with the other uh the difference to make the uh 250. Just to clarify, the one that was denied was a for-profit organization. That's why it was denied the fee waiver
previously. It was for-profit. This is not for-profit. Okay. Thank you. And I said this is not for one organization. This is for for Lake Placid. We wrestled with this before when I was up here.
It's town's property. It's town's money and we're giving things away. It's my first meeting up here after a couple years. I'm not sure where we are now. Sounds like you're been doing the same thing for the last couple of years that we did before. It's hard to make a proposal because I don't know where we stand with this. I haven't talked to anybody out in the
community. Sounds like you're kind of the same way I am about this whole thing. It's not a lot of money. You got a lot of churches. If each pitch in a little bit, they could make it work. And where do we stop giving things away? It's absolutely not ours to give away. The town has to still do the work. The
police have to go You still have to do the trash. There's still a lot of work involved in this on the town's part. It's easy for us just to keep giving it away and giving it away. It's really not a lot of money for what the group gets. Well, we're we're not getting anything out of it at all.
>> [sighs] >> You're getting a park and you're getting garbage picked up and you're getting a lot of services that go along with that. I I my my concern is I remember during the budget process that every time something came up and and like for for the sanitation department or for the
police department, you know, well you're over budget. You're over budget because of this. You're over budget because of that. Well, a lot of times you're over budget because we've had fee waivers and yet you're still responsible for the garbage collected and for the security for that event, but we waived the fee. So, there's no offsetting. There's no
offsetting item in the budget. So, then the they they look like they're over budget, but you know, they're they're just overtaxed because of the because of the the fee waivers. So, um I mean it's still going to cost the town to provide security, to to pick up the
trash and you know, I I can see maybe the facility rental fee at $50, but um the it's still going to cost us a a fee to do the garbage and the sanitation. So, uh I'm not in favor of
of waving the $200. Just just for that reason. And >> totally understand what you're saying, but I have to agree with with what Ms. Rodriguez said. We're going to do exactly what you're trying to do. We're This is what you wrote and this is what you put together and we're trying to do
this. We're trying to help you do that. And all we're saying is just don't don't charge us to help you do what you want to do. I I totally agree and that's why I said I would give you $150 and hopefully somebody else will kick in the difference. We're not coming out to you guys yet.
We get a chance on that. Um and so Council member Sapp, to your comment and I was very vocal during budget meetings on all of this of the different amounts to with police services, with sanitation
pickup, with closing the roads. I was very adamant opposed to it in total. There are certain ones that did get approved. So, this will be a come another hot topic. Okay. The ones that have been traditional and to your point, Council member Eberhardt, it's like the
floodgates open because now we have a form that's called fee waivers. So, um so and the comment I had made is okay, loss of revenue for the $50 for the park is minimal, but actually having our employees work overtime is cost to the
town. So, I'll go in with you and cover uh the the fees because I think this is a critical for the youth and the and the families. This is summer activities that we can uh put to good use. So,
I guess Mr. Attorney, I don't know how we do this if we're legally up here, you know, on that to say that I would be glad to, you know, contribute money to these 20 churches in order to have this happen.
Mr. Attorney, why don't we just flat out deny the fee waivers and then we'll take care of the finances wherever. So, I'm understanding that the applicant is withdrawing the request for the fee waiver. Absolutely.
Okay, well said. So, he's withdrawing the request for the fee waiver and and some people are going to cover the fees. I don't know about that. Okay. >> [laughter] [clears throat]
>> But but I will say that um if if I may, a lot of the groups, especially nonprofit groups, you have some money invested in this. I see a live band, food, hot dogs and and your churches are probably contributing to this. So, there's almost a quid pro quo. What is
the public purpose serving here? And and you probably have it here for the kids and what would the town do if it wasn't for this and we'd have youth coming here in the summer asking what we can do. So, maybe we need a little better um form or to articulate the benefit that
the public is receiving. And then when you give something, you can actually value that out a balance sheet. But something we need to work on probably internally, so Council has a better idea. Cuz you don't list the value of all of that, but if you were to value this package up, this might be a
$20,000 package if you were to do something like this. Yes, cuz there could be a lot of food involved. There like you said, entertainment and the churches are paying for all that. So, I think like with the fee waiver, the first question is does this activity serve the town's public purpose? And if
it does, you're getting a good value for a fee waiver versus a $20,000 benefit. But that's something we need to work on, so you can have those decision points. Okay. We're done? Yeah, we're done. I think I think you got what you wanted in a different way.
>> I did, yes, ma'am. Thank you very much. So, now we'll move to another fee waiver. Um so, this is for the um Mason Smoke Foundation request for fee waiver. Do we have somebody representing them? Who's presenting this item? I'm I'm not
sure. I don't see anybody here from the organization. Who's presenting this? So, this is a This is a um one that's been done over the years. So, the Mason Smoke Foundation comes before council regularly for the fee waiver. Um
Chief, remind me Chief, remind me, is this one of the ones that are on the list that we had made um was the Mason Smoke Foundation one that was included in your your budget for this last year? Yes. Okay. So, the police
services were included in the budget this last year for this particular We have a list of um some of the regular events that take place that Chief had we had kind of budgeted some money for police services. I'm not sure if we did it for sanitation.
I I believe we did both, right? This one was like 6,000 for the budget. Between police services, sanitation, roads closing. So, this has you placing it on the agenda, Charlotte?
No? It's stuck, Eva, and will not let me scroll down. >> have to scroll. Just click up top a little bit. Nope. Nope. Click on one of the items. Click on the 8A. Click on There you go. Now, just scroll. My bookmark's not working. So, I'll
scroll. Sorry. It's not letting me. Is the contact person The bookmarks There we go. And it is a standing item when we went through the budget, like the mayor said, and we went through this process, and it was already allocated, and this was one
that we had said was basically a legacy event. So, it's a motion to approve the fee waivers totaling 3,150 as outlined in the agenda item for the Mason Chief Smoke Foundation's 18th annual 5K and Family Foundation.
So, is is this Chief, is all of this in your budget already? The the road closure and the police services? Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am. That's all accounted for in my budget to include the any insurances or additional monies that
the town would have to come out. It would be a zero dollar event if it were paid in full. Thank you. And Mr. Sapp, so that I could add a little context, we went through um looking at fee waivers. We looked at possibly having what we call a legacy
event, and that was basically what this one would be considered. Um it came back to council I want to say four times potentially, I believe, four or five times. So, this is an item that we need to look at more in depth, more closely to set some parameters.
I've approved this one before a few times, and I just don't know how I feel about giving away town resources. My comment in the budget meetings was when the organization is charging and making money, this just becomes another
expense on that. But, we did the budget approve this as part of it. Um I don't think those numbers have changed. I think they're actually less than what was originally presented. This organization has probably already included it in their budget and their
fees as part of that. But, again, it's it's a council decision. I move to approve the Mason Chief Smoke Foundation request for fee waivers. It's already done. We can get on with it. I'll second based on the fact that it's already a budgeted item.
Any more discussion on the dais? Out to the public? Back, Clerk, take the roll. Council member Sapp? Yes. Council member Ames? Yes. Council member Eberhard? Yes. Okay, next up is the Florida
Cybersecurity Grants Award. Mayor, this this item was put on the agenda for information only. Um it's one of those grants that they give across the state of Florida. They've given out They have have $15 million that the state is giving for cybersecurity
for local governments, states, counties, and the town was awarded part of it. We don't know how much the fund's going to be at this time. And we looked, and there is no contact person at this time to to get a hold of. So, it's basically information only.
Okay, so this is an application for a grant that's um for IT state We got awarded but it doesn't tell you how much and who is our contact person at this time. So, it's just an info a letter to you say you accept the award.
Whatever that amount is right now. And for us to proceed forward with exploring it. Um I would only like the wording revised that we don't tie ourselves in with BC3. With the wording such that it is the current provider or their
um successor. So, if they change from BC3 to another IT um consultant, then we will let them know at that time. It may be a year or so before they even start on this. So, it's one of those things that it's not going to start next month. So, if the
new IT consultant is in place before then, yes. Yeah, but I don't want to have it nailed down that it's BC3 in the wording. Make the wording a little um broader that it is BC3
or whoever is after them. Do we you know, in case we don't I think their contract is maybe up in a year or so, and we don't know if it'll get renewed. So, the wording here I just don't like
it so tight on BC3. Yeah. Yes. Go ahead, Charlotte. We'll work with the town attorney on the verbage so that we can make sure that's corrected to reflect that. And and just for the record, we had our directors meeting this morning with the mayor, and we are going to be looking at the
contract in depth and reviewing the costs associated with that and try to see how we can bring it back to the town attorney to review and help us with that situation. So, so just for the public, BC3 is our IT provider,
and um we're we're going to be looking at the contract and the quality of the service that they provide, and then also the cost. So, uh there's there's some frustration with them that we're going to be working, and that's why Council
member Eberhard is bringing it up, not tied to this IT company for this type of work because it it could be somebody else. So, need a motion and a second. Do you want one? We don't We don't want to need one. It's just information. You don't need one. It's just
informational. Okay. Just to accept the presentation, if anything, but just information. Okay. Good. Thank you, Rachel. Yeah. Um now, we'll just move to the add-on item, which is an ARPA grant for
Bicentennial Park um playground equipment, and um and again, apologize for the lateness, and but this is an item that ARPA meeting is Thursday. If we miss it, like I said earlier, it's not till January for the next cycle.
Um and I'm Joe, I'll take the quick lead-in on this, Charlotte, and you can take it from there. Um so, for Bicentennial Park, uh which is a town hall um building, and the and the playground there is um is in the CRA
district, and as part of the CRA funding, we approved to um replace the playground equipment. And then we went to FRDAP to get a match for that, and Ferdap came back and denied we were under the the the points, the 53 points. So, then
the discussion is, well, we've got it all packaged up ready to go. Can we then take that same grant and apply for an ARPA grant? And so, that's the reason. Um it's already been part approved by CRA. Uh it's in the CRA budget. I think
Alan uh has done a lot of work um along with um Rachel and the grant to put it together for Ferdap. So, it's kind of like lifting it from Ferdap and then applying for ARPA. Thank you. And Jennifer has been working on this with Rachel's um team through
grants, and she brought in an application right before the meeting, so we have it ready to look at. However, I do need to review it with Rachel just to confirm that the money amounts are accurate. Um I know that our representative is here, Ms. Morrison. I just had a question. I don't know if you can answer this or not, so I don't want
to put you on the spot, but it does say that the funding limits are up to 150,000 ARPA allocation per application. Is that still the case? Do you know? Okay, that helps us because then we had this priced out our the cost out at
189,227.42. So, and then we also have 50,000 that we have allocated in our budget. So, we need to look at the numbers, and then we'll be ready to submit this, and we'll get it back to Brandon tomorrow morning midmorning. If if that is She had a motion tonight.
How do you want to word that? I think it's a motion to um approve submitting a grant to Ferdap ARPA grant uh for Bicentennial Park playground equipment match. So moved.
Okay, that's good. Second. I I thought we did this already. Go ahead anyway. We We did it for Ferdap, but now this is but we didn't get approved for Ferdap, so now it's taken to ARPA. Oh, the consent agenda was to add it to
the action agenda to start. So, are you seconding the motion? Any more discussion on the dais? Up to the public. Back, Eva, take the roll. Council member Sasser? Yes. Council member Hayes? Yes.
Council member Everett? Yes. Thank you. Um so, now anything from staff? Um you're missing um D. We skipped over one? Solicitation of letters of interest, town council
vacancy. Is it I my bookmarks aren't working, so I think you E. I'm sorry. Oh, I'm looking at I guess the agenda I'm looking at. You mean E. E.
E, got you. Okay, yeah, we jumped the other one ahead. Um okay, so for E is solicitation of letters of interest. Um as you're aware, we have an open council seat for the remaining 2 years initially of my
term. As been customary in the past, the council um will ask for any um resident of at least 6 years with the town would submit a letter of interest to fill the remaining 2 years to the
town clerk. Um this was to um request for that, and then at the May meeting we would have that discussion. Um and the council will approve uh from those that um expressed interest.
And then at the May meeting also per our charter would be the voting for the vice mayor. So, that's what this item is is um for letters of interest to come to the clerk and to be um then discussed and decided at the May meeting.
Yeah, I mean, we don't need to do a motion unless there's any discussion. Unless you want specifics as far as any conditions on that, when they need it in by, and and so it's over. So, you know, at least you have some time. >> we roll with it. If someone else submits
a letter, we should be good to receive it, and we can vote. We can vote right now, we can vote next week, we can vote next month. It doesn't matter. To me, it doesn't matter. Uh whenever someone's ready to present a motion, we can roll with it, and we can give it a week or month out of courtesy.
Yeah, I I think your comment is to give the date that those letters of interest need to be in by. It would be advisable. You don't want somebody showing up you know, in in a minute late, and it puts the council in a bad spot. At least put some kind of timeline on that. But
you're prepared to do that tonight, you're prepared to do it next week or whenever you are, but if you ask for letters of interest that you're going to consider, I imagine you want the people here to at least present themselves, and you you would take a vote on that. There may
only be one letter. >> [clears throat] >> I I would I would like the letters to be in uh a week or so prior to the meeting so that we we as council could at least look at the letters and see see who has put in, you know,
for these places and So, we're meeting a week from tonight, you don't want to do it then. We need to The next meeting then will be May 12th, May 11th. May 11th. Cut off by the 27th of this month to receive them?
2 weeks too far. Yes, 2 weeks. I'm sorry. We don't need a motion, we're good. As long as that's in the record that all letters will be received by at close of business. April 11th. I mean, April 27th. And and will there be you um
not advertise, or how will you get the word out? We will put it on the town website, we'll put it on the Facebook, we'll also put it on in Nextdoor, and if you'd like for us to I mean, I don't We don't really need to advertise in the news, we don't need to
Yes, ma'am. We can do those through all those platforms. Okay. So, now to staff, is there anything? Alan? Alan Keefer, uh public works director. I just wanted to mention that uh Katie El requested West Park Street be closed on
Wednesday, April 15th from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Uh they'll be doing maintenance in the area. I I'm not aware of the specifics. Uh it's over by Serenity Village. Okay, and maybe Chief, we can put that
on the I know you do a good job of putting on um road closures on um the police department Facebook website and then the same for Nextdoor and the town. So, the more we can advertise that that date would be helpful. Can you make sure you send me that info
now? Okay. Alan, what's those dates again? That date again? Uh Wednesday, April 15th. Income tax day, right? All of the West Park on on the on the Serenity Village side
near the circle. Oh, yeah, yeah. Is it an all-day closure? Are they thinking Yes. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? That's all. Rachel? Chief? Eva? Okay. Um
Yeah, we'll go ahead and try to I'm going to try to run through these. When you came in, the Central Florida Regional Planning Council, the final of the strategic plan, there were copies there. We also have the draft concepts for the downtown revitalization plan.
They will be presenting in May. The utilities master plan meetings are being scheduled between um April 30th to May 9th with Mr. Belcher, and he will be planning to attend a meeting so that he could give a more direction on what that will look like.
The vacant utilities director position is being advertised on the League of Cities, the Florida Rural Water website, and also the town website. It will be advertised on Indeed and the town Facebook beginning tomorrow. We have had two applicants who have applied.
In the May meeting, we will also be bringing back pickleball. So, meetings will be taking place to develop a path forward. And when we come back in May, they'll have further discussion on that. The tower property has sold and we are waiting for the developer to provide an additional update on that.
Culver's is moving forward. We just issued uh the driveway permit, so that is in process and moving forward. Um the Dal Hall building, we were asked about this with the Boys and Girls Club. So, we are soliciting for any other uh organization or interest for that
building before we enter into a secured agreement. If you are interested or you know what use you would like to use for that building, you can send [music] the email to myself or to the clerk. We will also put that on the Facebook and on the website. My email address is all
lowercase. It's town, t o w n, admin, a d m i n, at mylakeplacid.org. We also have the agreement for the YMCA that will be forthcoming for Lake June Park. That will be coming in May as well. And then I have asked Mr. Brantley
if he would give us an update on the equipment, the workout equipment. Bill Brantley with Lake Placid uh Chamber of Commerce and Keep Lake Placid Beautiful. We are still working on it. We have proposed eight stations on the main circle. Four of them would be on spokes next to street lights. The other
four would be on the wagon wheel that goes around the perimeter. Um those would then have solar lights on those for nighttime activities. Um the pads are going to be approximately 8 ft uh 6 ft by 8 ft with flares going out. Um we have secured a
donation from a uh greater Lake Placid person to donate all of the money for the concrete and the labor. Um Adirondack Health is working on the stations. They'll be eight stations, four with equipment, four without. Uh there'll be warm-up station, cool-down
station, other activities as far as that goes. Um we're waiting for the um uh Adirondack Health to get back with us for their exercise guru to kind of figure out what's going on as far as that goes. So, hopefully we'll have that back shortly. Once we have that all together, then we'll bring it back for
uh to review from town council. The only uh thing I want to bring up as far as I did speak to a couple of people on DeBaine Circle, once this project goes through, we feel more people will be using the park. Um on the south end of the park where everybody parks, across from the uh the uh library,
it really needs parking there. Um we need to get paid parking with Keep Lake Placid Beautiful. It's hard to keep any kind of grass growing there. The town does have an ordinance where you cannot park on town right-of-way, but we do it there. Um we really need to get that paved um with possibly up to 10 parking spaces,
one permanently dedicated handicap. Um that space is not used for any of the park or the activities that go on in the park between the festivals. It would be nice to have on-site handicap parking during the festivals on those 10 parking spaces, which would benefit the town,
the festivals, and I think the people that use that park year-round. Thank you. So, you'll take that one on. And that that park falls in the CRA district. So, you know, what the end of June, we'll start on the budget workshop. So, timing
is good for that request. Um the the I know the question comes up on the tower. So, will the code violations go to the new owner? We don't start all back again. I don't know who to ask that question
to, but that comes up a lot. I'm still waiting for the code enforcement officer to return. He is out sick. I want to verify some things with him before I commit to an answer on that. As soon as he's back, he's out sick. I'm not sure how many days he's going to be gone, but he'll be back and
I'll look at what he has and we'll make a plan and move forward and I'll notify everyone then. So, maybe we can just get that update on Monday's meeting. Yeah. Cuz I think it it the number of violations, how many are closed, still open, and then you know, the the plans with the new
owner to get those resolved. Anything else? One more thing. We're not prepared to bring it forward, but Mr. Clark with the Legacy Foundation, um they are exploring opportunities for us to be able to have the fireworks. So, we are very appreciative of that. So,
that will come back in the May meeting for council to consider some changes that we'll need when it comes to the fireworks. Um just for context, uh the JCs were handling it. We received notice that they were no longer going to do it. And so, Mr. Clark previously handled it
and said that the Legacy Foundation would be happy to pick that up. So, there are some things that will need to be discussed with council and a few other changes that will need to make modifications. So, we look forward to hearing that in May. Okay. Mr. Attorney, do you have anything? Nothing.
Um so, we'll go ahead and start now. Down in this end. I was just pleased to see it pleased to see it Sorry, I've been fighting this for weeks now. I was pleased to see in the director's
report that um we're working on repairing the flag. Uh I've had a number of citizens complaints about the flag, but I understand now what the real answer is and we're waiting on this this piece of equipment to put in the top of the flag. Uh
Let's see. I I had questions about Culver's. I had questions about the tower property. Those are all handled. And also, um I saw in the director's reports as well about uh upgrading the basketball courts and I had some concerns about that, too. So, I think uh all of my questions were were
handled in the director's reports and I appreciate that. Thank you very much. It's nice to be back. Welcome back. Is that the same seat? Same chair? Councilwoman Eva Hart. Um
can you give an update on um gladiolas and Main properties? On the status of the properties on gladiolas and Main. Yes, we intend to bring back an agenda item in May. We'll be updating the council members individually. We plan to
go in executive session at some point so we can fill you in and give you the update. Okay. And then um I had thought even before Connie said about having an office for the mayor. I had in the back of my head thought it'd be nice if there was a little cubbyhole
that um the council members could sit in one day a week, take turns, share the space if anybody wanted to talk to us. You know, the broom closet, whatever. Um and then the last thing is um I was on the canvassing board for voting
and I was really happy that how it was run. I learned how it was run and I had the confidence that the votes are all accurate and secure, all the security so that nobody can do any funny things. Um it was good to know.
And Harry's not here. Um so, on the basketball um court, uh the backboard has been or is in and our nets. And when he comes back from vacation, the plan is I think the week of the 21st to get the new nets up
and then the striping. So, I think we're getting really close to being able to and the um to get close to get that open. With that, the the lights and the timers of the lights for the basketball court and also a lot of electrical repairs, GFIs
and other repairs took place down at Lake June Park and Central Contractors did that in kind. And we really appreciate, you know, them coming in and helping us um and to get all of those repairs done. So, I think that's important to acknowledge that. Other
words, I don't have anything else out to the public. Any comments? So, it's 6:59. This meeting is Oh. Oh, I thought you I thought I did something wrong again. This meeting is
adjourned.