##VIDEO ID:ZhksQ0XFC7c## e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e recording in progress good morning everyone and Welcome to our January 7th 2025 Board of County Commissioners meeting our invocation today will be given by Pastor Sandy gamble Church of God prophecy taries and will'll remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance good morning Madam chairman and Commissioners would you bow your head please father as we come before you this day Lord God you've given us this beautiful day it's a little cold but God it's a beautiful day still but father Lord we ask this day this morning Father Lord for the wisdom that's needed father for the Commissioners to make the decisions that are needed for this County God at your hand would lead and guide them Father and keep them Father Lord in your hands and God that all decisions that are made father Lord are for the best of the community and we ask it in Jesus name amen amen 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 liy and justice for all thank you before we start our meeting we're going to have our virtual meeting instructions uh Eric Ross if you will provide those for us at this time Commissioners this meeting is being streamed live on the County's website the meeting is also being made available through Zoom webinar for members of the public who wish to provide comments during the citizen question and comment period later in your agenda anyone watching through the live stream who wishes to participate in the meeting can follow the directions broadcast now through the stream during the citizen question and comment section anyone who has joined the zoom webinar using their phone can press star n to virtually raise their hands anyone participating online can click the raise hand button to let us know you wish to speak when it is time for public comment the meeting facilitator will read the person's name or phone number and we'll then unmute the appropriate line and the speaker will be asked to provide comments everyone will have 3 minutes to speak after 3 minutes an alarm will sound letting them know their time is up we have previously notified the public that comments could be emailed up through 5:00 p.m. yesterday and those comments were shared with the board prior to the meeting anyone wishing to provide written comments during the meeting can visit lakecountyfl.gov SLC commmission meeting that's lakecountyfl.gov SLCC commmission meeting any written comments submitted during the meeting will be shared with each board member following the meeting thank you all right our next item on the agenda is our agenda update and I'm going to call on our County Manager Jennifer Barker um to give us an update on the agenda yes good morning Madame chair uh first there was a correction to the minutes recommended for approval today the November 5th and November 12th minutes are for 2024 not 2025 also we added supporting documents to tab 14 since the agenda was first published and finally commissioner Smith is out today he would like to participate in voting remotely if this board so approves if so the vote the board will first need to vote to add it to the agenda and then second take a vote to approve or not whether he can vote remotely all right do we have a motion to add that to the agenda I would move to add that to the agenda second all right um we have a motion we have a second all in favor say I I any opposed all right we've added that to the agenda uh so that commissioner Smith can participate and vote this morning if you could do a motion to approve him voting remotely that was just adding it adding it now we need I move to allow commissioner Smith to vote remotely second all right first and second all in favor say I I I all right that passes unanimously and can we do a check commissioner Smith is online uh yes I'm here we I think we understand why you need to keep your distance yeah thank you for not coming in thank you for uh letting me vote well we we appreciate you making that effort especially when you're not feeling so great um now we'll move on to our minutes approval uh christe main is is here on behalf of the clerk of courts yes we just recommend approval of those minutes thank you all right so we have minutes for November 5th 2024 and November 12th 2024 do we have a motion for approval move approval second all in favor say I I any post all right that passes moving on to Citizen question and comment period we're now entering the public comment portion of the meeting when the public can discuss items that are on today's agenda with the exception of zoning items there will be an opportunity for public comment during those specific um sections of the agenda when we get to those uh items uh anyone who has joined our meeting through zoom using their phone may press star9 to virtually raise their hands anyone participating through Zoom online please click the raise hand button to let us know that you wish to speak everyone will have 3 minutes to speak after 3 minutes an alarm will sound letting you know that your time is up um I only have one card at this point um and I'm not sure if this is on a tab or not um so let's check uh this is for Terry Rush is it zoning is it zoning is it a z zoning case okay there you there you go all right that we'll get to that when we get to the public hearing part of the meeting um anyone online for public comment all right I see no um okay so um we are at the Clerk of Court's consent agenda yeah again christe main with glake county clerk clerk of courts um we recommend approval of the consent agenda move approval second all in favor say I I I all right that passes moving on then to our consent agenda tabs 3 through 10 do we have any items that need to be pulled or are we moving forward with consent I'll move for approval of tabs 3 through 10 second all right all in favor say I I I so that's unanimous 5 Z on consent and now we are moving on to presentations tab 11 and Jordan Salinger operations director of Public Works will be making this presentation yeah good morning Commissioners for the record Jordan Salinger Public Works operations director so today we'll be presenting on a few recommendations for higher regulatory standards for storm water and flood plane so we'll discuss a little bit of background and the purpose of this presentation uh and then get into some specifics regarding flood plane preservation freeboard cumulative uh substantial improvements and then some lotg grading recommendations it will be a lot so we'll uh summarize our recommendations at the end um and then we'll answer any questions and talk about next steps for some background last October the county was struck by Hurricane Milton and several areas including Aster sento and Claremont and and other areas really experience some significant storm damage on October 22nd in the aftermath of the storm the board discussed our current regulations and requested that staff look into potential higher standards on December 3rd Public Works gave a presentation on FEMA regulations and we discussed uh what the what that meant for our residents that receive substantial damage to their properties so the purpose of today's presentation is to provide