Good evening and welcome to the board of commissioners regular meeting. Today is Wednesday, April the 8th, 2026. It is 6 p.m. City attorney, would you please lead us in the invocation and pledge of allegiance? >> Sure. Our
>> Heavenly Father, we seek blessings on the tasks before us. Bless our efforts with clear insight, our deliberations with wisdom, our work with clarity and accuracy, and our decisions with impartiality. We pray that our work this evening will find favor in your sight. This we pray. 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. Would
you call the role please? >> Mayor Brooks >> here. >> Commissioner Taglerini >> here. >> Commissioner Dylan >> here. >> Commissioner McGee >> here. >> Commissioner Gabbay >> here. >> All are present. We have no proclamations this evening. So we will
move on to the approval of the agenda. I have one item that I would like to ask to move to our workshop which is 13B the 555 property and survey of the water that is required for the building docks. When I requested this I requested it
because I thought it could be a quick informative conversation and it is going to be a much longer conversation more suited for the workshop if the commission is in agreeance to moving that. >> I agree. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Do we have a motion?
I make a motion to move the unfinish unfinished bis business of 13B 555 property and survey of the water that is required for building docks to the next workshop >> and approve this agenda. >> And approve the agenda. >> Do we have a second? >> Second.
>> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Commissioner McGee, >> yes. >> Commissioner Gabay, >> yes. >> Commissioner Taglerini, >> yes. Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. >> Mayor Brooks, >> yes. >> The motion carried five to zero. >> Next on the agenda is presentations. We
have no presentations, so we will move to public comment. Public participation is encouraged. If you are addressing the commission, step to the podium and state your name and address for the record and the organization or group you represent. Please limit your comments to 5 minutes
and do not include any topic on the agenda. Public comment on agenda items will be allowed when they come up. If you would like someone at the city to follow up on a comment or question made at the meeting, you may fill out a comment card with the contact information and give it to the city
manager. Comment cards are available at the back table in the commission chambers. Completing a comment card is not mandatory. For any quasi judicial public hearings that might be on the agenda, an affected person may become a
party to a quasi judicial proceeding and can be entitled to present evidence at the hearing, including the sworn testimony of witnesses and relevant exhibits and other documentary evidence and to cross-examine all witnesses by
filing a notice of intent to be a party with the community development director not less than 5 days prior to the hearing. Do we have any public comment? >> Hi, my name is Tom Wallally. I live at 6037th Avenue Circle, Madira Beach,
Florida 33708. I just uh wanted to let you guys know that I've been a resident here for about 30 years and I enjoy riding my electric bike on the beach and I do it when I'm in Madiraa Beach on a daily basis and I
pay a lot of money in taxes here and one of the things that I really enjoy is ride my bike on the beach and unfortunately I'm a 65year-old guy now and I'm uh recovering from cancer and um I don't have the uh strength that I used
to have when I was a younger man. And um I would just appreciate it if you guys would do something about the residents that respect the beach and have been living here for a long time and uh enjoy,
you know, taking rides up and down the beach. I use it for praying and worshiping God and it's a really nice spiritual thing for me. And I don't like to have the police officers chasing me around trying to write me a ticket for it. And that's it. I was just it's something that really uh
makes me unhappy. >> Thank you. >> And it takes a little bit of joy away from uh my life right now. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Do we have any additional public comment? >> Hi, my name is Rick Willis. I live at 555 Lillian Drive, Madura Beach 33708. I
have two questions. Um, do we have any influence with the state as it relates to road repair on 150th Avenue? Um, when you're going toward Gulf Boulevard, there's two potholes in the left lane that are pretty deep. And as you go to
the north toward the bridge, the right lane right close to the light has a horrendous bump there. And so I'm trying to figure out, do we have any influence where we can ask the state to address them? Uh second question I have is on 140th uh Avenue as you go toward Parsley
on the on the uh left side there's a water uh puddle there that's like looks like it's leaking from the sidewalk and it's been there for some time and I wonder if we can figure out what's going on there because it's it's a constant leak. So my fear is is it dredging out
the ground? I don't know but could we look into that please? >> Thank you. Thank you very much. Do we have any additional public comment? With no additional public comment, we will move on to appointment of the vice mayor. >> Madame mayor,
I would like to make a motion to appoint Commissioner McGee for next vice mayor if accepted. Um uh may I'd like to also nominate uh uh Commissioner Govi.
>> So if I recall who Clara don't you usually um >> Well, I'm sorry. I I have to first accept, right? >> Well, correct. Okay. Or you could take both nominations and do a ballot.
>> That's how we did it in the past when we had multiple ballot vote based upon the two nominations without second. >> Would you accept that nomination commissioner? Well, um, like to discuss that a little bit if that's okay before I answer my question. And I truly appreciate uh
commissioner's uh uh trusting me to be a vice mayor. But but but from from the history um perspective, Commissioner McGhian's been here longer than I have, and I think it would be more respecting to him
to appoint Commissioner McGee to our next vice mayor. So having said that, and out of respect, I would like to I mean, if if it was any other way, I would have said yes. But in this particular case, I would like to say no
just because I have all the respect and he's been here longer than I have. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> I certainly have no objection. >> Sorry, Commissioner Telei. I'm sorry. I just uh appreciate your trust in me.
>> Okay. My suggestion is you treat the motion by Commissioner Gvahi as a mo of his motion. Have a second now since there are no other nominations and then vote on that. Do we have a second? >> I make a second to approve Commissioner McGee as vice mayor.
>> City clerk, would you call the role? >> Commissioner Gavay? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Dylan? >> Yes. >> Commissioner McGee? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Tagarini? >> Yes. >> Mayor Brooks? >> Yes. >> The motion carry five to zero. >> Next on the agenda is roll.
>> Thank you. City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Yes. May Mayor Brooks >> here. >> Commissioner Taglerini >> here. >> Commissioner Dylan >> here. >> Vice Mayor McGee
>> here. >> Commissioner Gavay >> here. >> All are present. Next on the agenda is the approval of the minutes. If the board has had the opportunity to remove or to review the minutes. Um, if no one has any changes, do we have a motion?
>> Mayor, I've had I've had time to review the minutes. I see no uh mistakes. I move that we accept the minutes as submitted. >> Do we have a second? >> I second the the approval of the minutes. And actually, can we do all four of them? >> Yes, they were all at the same time.
>> Okay. So I approve 20626, 30426, 31826, 32726. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Commissioner Taglerini, >> yes.
>> Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor McGee, >> yes. >> Commissioner Gabay, >> yes. >> Mayor Brooks, >> yes. >> The motion carry five to zero. >> Next on the agenda is the consent agenda. Any member of the board of commissioners can ask to pull a consent
item for separate discussion and vote. The only item we have on the consent agenda this evening is approval of the purchase of self-contained breathing apparatus. If no one objects to that, can we have a motion? >> I move approval of consent agenda.
>> Can we have a second? >> I second that motion. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Commissioner Taglery, >> yes. Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. >> Commissioner Gabay, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor McGee, >> yes.
>> Mayor Brooks, >> yes. >> The motion carried five to zero. >> Next is the public hearings. We have no public hearings, so we will move on to unfinished business. A lot mowing lean and special magistrate leans. 132252nd
Street East, MadiRaa Beach. Case numbers 14-68 08.04. 04, 08.24, 08.07, and 09.39. City attorney. Thank you, mayor. This is a follow-up to the discussion at the
work session. The city has received a settlement offer to settle some code enforcement leans. I'm going to go over those in a minute. The settlement offer is $2,14948. City staff is um has no objection to the settlement that that dollar amount, but of course, you're the ones that make that decision. The background is is that
on December 27th, 2007, there was a lot mowing lean on this property. Uh, and again, the property is 132252nd Street East here in Mader Beach. Uh, the lot moing lean was for $325. In April of 2008, uh, the special
magistrate entered an order finding the property in violation and ordered uh, costs and expenses to be paid in the amount of $866.86. Also in April of 2008, there was an order on a repeat violation for the same
property. Uh those um those violations did not come into compliance for a significant period of time. The calculation of the outstanding fines on that lean are $547,500. In January of 2009, there was another
order uh for another repeat violation on the same property. Special magistrate assessed fines in the amount of $2,14948. Lastly, there was a order setting um time to comply or suffer a fine entered by the special magistrate in July of
2009. That fine is $68,600. Um, these leans went undiscovered uh by the title companies that were involved in the transfer of this property. We believe it was through three or four different transfers. Uh, however, the
last request when it came to us, we obviously found all of them. Uh, we provided payoffs for all of those. Um, and then we immediately received a request for settlement in the amount of $2,14948 in return for the release of those
leans. Again, city staff um has no objection to the board of commissioners accepting that settlement offer. Um, I don't know any other details um on each one of the code enforcement leans other than the fact that it looks or appears to be lot mowing um high grass
vegetation, that type of thing. So, >> do we have any public comment? >> Commissioners, >> uh, mayor, I walk by that property every day. It's been wellmaintained for a long time now. Uh, and I don't think the current owner should be held responsible
for oversightes on title companies. Uh, so I would be I would be in favor of of this agreement. >> I agree definitely. Uh the only the only thing that I would have to say is wow. I mean, how did this slip through the
cracks so much, you know, and and there there's definitely lack of diligence on some part, but I'm for it. >> I also agree with that. >> So, Commissioner Tiglerini, did you make
a motion? >> No, no, no. I get to say something first. >> Okay. Yeah. I because I I do I want to go on the record just so we did discuss it in the in the meeting but just for the record again. This is an anomaly. We are not making a precedent of reducing
fines for anyone who has gone before the magistrate. This was something that fell through the cracks at the title agency level and the recovery of that would be difficult at best. Um, and because this
is this is the first, I would say that if this were to ever happen again, then that would be something we would look deeper. But I also do believe that city staff was looking into if there was anything on our side we could have done different. I believe based off the conversations that we had at our
previous meeting, there was not. So I am in favor of reducing the fine. So do we have a motion? I make a motion to reduce the fine to what the city to what the staff has presented the 2,000 some odd dollars.
>> 14948. >> Do we have a second? >> Second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Commissioner Dylan, >> yes. >> Commissioner Gabay, >> yes. >> Commissioner Taglerini, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor McGee,
>> yes. Mayor Brooks. >> Yes. >> The motion carry five to zero. >> Next on the agenda is Tom and Kitty Stewart Park and city manager. >> All right. Mayor and Commission, I'm just going to provide a um update on Tom and Kitty Stewart Park where we're at
with the progress right now. Um it's also in the uh actually it's not in the this agenda but it has been previously about every project that the city's currently undertaking but currently we we are looking for or getting the structural engineering underway for the
elevated bathroom foundation and it is in progress. We're waiting for the building loading to finalize the structural foundation for the bathroom. Uh the site plan is 95% complete. We're just waiting on finalization of the foundation and CXT bathroom has been
ordered. Met with CXT47 and again on 49 to finalize and discuss utility connections and delivery methods. Um if there's anything I missed, Director Weer, please feel free. But other than that, that's that's where we're at with the Tomakitty Stewart Park renovation.
>> Thank you. Do we have any public comment? Good evening. John Connley, 600 Normandy. Um, tonight I want to present a couple things to you. There is I have in front of me the
original deed from Kitty Stewart to the city. Anything you're going to give, would you please hand to the city clerk? >> Thank you. >> Where I'm going with this is
this. We would like the citizens, people of the community would like to have open discussion in a workshop. We can go question and answer like a lot of times that we've done before
so that everybody's aboard and who's ever in favor is one thing and there's a lot of people that aren't in favor. Therefore, I'm going to give you the second thing that has been collected,
which is a name and address and phone number of people. >> If John, you have to stay at the mic when you talk, otherwise it doesn't get picked up on the >> Okay. Uh
these people are are in objection to where the city is going now with this parking lot. They want it back to the original park. And there's probably close to a hundred
names here. So therefore, being in front of you tonight, I'm asking if the city could do a workshop where on a Saturday where everybody can
attend. Uh some people couldn't attend tonight because they're working. um etc etc. Um but I think that the city now or I should say the residents now should have
some kind of input. Um again, you're doing plans and going ahead with this. I'm on the planning board. I've never seen the plans
unless you have them on the web page, which I don't look at, but anyway. Um, so that's my input to this. If if this could possibly be done, we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> Do we have any additional public comment? Good evening, mayor and commissioners. I'm Deborah Brad, 16442 Readington Drive. I'm here tonight because um mainly of Kitty Sturret. She was a very
dear friend to my family and also to my in-laws who own Service Stores Hardware on Madiraa Way. So, I'm just going to read what I put together. Thank you for your time. Kitty um sir donated in 1987
through Warrant CD vacant property to the city stating it must be used solely as the site for a city park. The mayor and commissioners then respectfully at the time provided the park with palm trees, grass, a gazebo with limited
parking and golf cart spots for residents. Thank you. You need to be a little toddler. Okay. with limited parking and golf cart spots for residents with fencing as well around the park. As a city park, it
falls within the classification of a 0.25 F, which low ratio is designed to prevent overdevelopment, preserving open character as a green space to provide for passive recreational use. A
neighborhood access park for residents to walk, bike, or drive to. pictures in the local newspaper reflect these attributes. So, in my opinion, a bathroom facility isn't needed at this park and would be
better served elsewhere for the town tourists and visitors. Um, from my heart and my personal opinion, I feel you, mayor, and the commission have not been totally informed regarding the extent of the
warranty deed Mrs. after it signed on November 19th, 1987. The statute your city attorney cited only said that the heirs cannot try to take back it after 30 years. The city
must simply comply with the dedication if does not absorb absolve the city of this responsibility. Um, in my opinion, and with all due respect to you, mayor and commissioners,
you have absorb absolved yourself from representing the voice of residents who have poured out their hearts concerns regarding Mrs. Stewart's park. Visitors and tourists have been provided several hubs to enjoy John's past village and
boardwalk. along alone is known to have drawn hundreds of thousands of visitors tourists annually. The town has several designated beach park access points with parking. Two of which are Archabal Memorial Park with 1838 parking spaces
and Madiraa Beach Access Park which provides some 77 parking spots for visitors. Please put Kitty and Tom Stewart Park back to what it existed originally and do not forsake the residents a community
park that they so deserve and desire. Mrs. Stewart loved Madera Beach and dedicated herself to it to its well-being. I have no doubt the residents would not object to their adalorum taxes being used for the
restoration of the park. And as well as as you well know when you start using grant money or penny for penelis tax revenues then the park can no longer just be for the residents themselves.
So um I have a couple of questions. I would like to know why the park um can't stay the way it was originally and why were all the trees, gazebo, and fencing removed in 2020 and who made the
decision on the removal of those and I sincerely appreciate your time. Um this is sort of this is dear to my heart because we all loved Miss Kitty and um she really gave this park for the residents
and as you well know mayor you have applauded the residents of this time town time and time again with their con being so kind and pleasant with the tourists that do come and I really admire you for that.
>> Thank you. So, thank you for your time. >> Thank you for coming. >> Do we have any additional public comment? >> Hello. >> Hi. My name is Stephanie Druding. I live at 1748th Street in Madiraa. I think you
know the zip code. Um, I would like to first of all applaud um the heartfelt statement of our neighbor. I have not lived here as long as everyone else. Um, but I do come from a place uh and a a community up north that has a high level
of value for open green space. And this is a little postage stamp of a piece of land, but the intent of that land was to be green park space for the residents of this community.
I read through the poster board over here and there's a lot of mention of different developers and corporations and the name of the stewards is on here but there's no acknowledgment of the
intention for that piece of land which was not to be a parking lot. Um it was to be a park. Now, I'm sure there is some legal precedent for turning a park into a parking lot. Um, but that doesn't
mean it's the right thing to do. And my neighbor, I think, made a very good point that there is a lot of accommodation for visitors. Um, and I think there's probably a lot of accommodation for business. um including the business that is right buted up next
to the park who spent $750,000 to turn it into a parking lot. So, um as a resident, I would respectfully ask that if we're going to use space that it be used um especially space that's given
to us um in the manner that it was given to us, which is a park for residents, a green space for residents. We don't have to pave every inch of land that leads up to the beach. It's just not necessary.
So, those are my thoughts. I appreciate your time and I hope that you do the right thing. >> Thank you. Do we have any additional public comment? Good evening, mayor and commissioners. Jim Roser Beach. I think some of the
records got to be set straight. So, the first thing I would like to say as this all started and was approved by another administration. None of you here had anything to do with it except him, the city attorney.
The park was not taken away in its entirety as some people are saying. It was reformatted uh with more parking and less green space is pretty much what has happened. The restaurant did not have the required
parking spaces, so a deal was made that violates the terms of the deed. It is very abnormal for a municipality to allow city-owned parking spaces to be counted in the requirements for a commercial property as well as providing
access to the commercial property through city property. And there's one thing I forgot to mention. Mr. Winters is back here. He had nothing to do with this. This was way before him. This was 2013. So he's he's out of the picture other than he's the owner of the
property now. So this all started in 2013 on 4913. There was a second reading in vote approved on the golf girl development agreement. It was a 50- vote and uh the commissioners at the time were Paladino,
Listister Hodes, Poe, and Sh. Attorney from MadiRaa Beach was the city attorney at the time. And I'm going to go through a couple things, but they're all going to go back to what happened on 51316.
Multiple ethics complaints were filed against the city manager at the time. A I think Crawford is his name. Uh there were three separate complaints all merged into one complaint and that
complaint is 18152. I urge the commission to either make contact with me. I have the thumb drive in my pocket or call the state ethics commission. This will lay it out from A to Z what transpired. And I believe
whatever happened can be overturned because there's potential bribery involved potential. Okay. So, there was a joint stipulation. Okay. Well, let's I missed a couple
things. the O. So on 68 of 16 and this is important and I have this document also the one complaintant attempted to resend his complaint with the ethics commission due to threats received. The ex ethics commission denied his
request. I have all of that in the names. I will not mention the names here. Uh 617 Crawford resigns. 1212 of 18. There's a joint stipulation about the uh previous city manager. He uh was
found guilty of having a conflicting contractual relationship with a developer of the golf guil golf grill project. Found guilty and fined. Also accepting a gift from a lobbyist developer of the golf grill. This is all
public record. And this is why I believe a lot of this if in fact you want to move forward to res get things rescended I think it can be done especially when you review these documents. It is unbelievable what is written there.
Okay. On 923 of 19 the golf girl building permit was issued. The issues at hand. The park has been modified from its original footprint. The deed specifies solely as a city park. There is a park. There's just less
of it now. I mean, pretty much that's what has happened with the redesign of the park to accommodate a business. Traffic into the parking spaces, park, and driveway has led to increased amounts of traffic. How can more traffic be safer? One
commissioner I had spoke to said it's safer now. More traffic equals more issues. with that particular area. It's drive-in parking only, no back in. No matter what you do, you still have to exit the Gulf
Boulevard. That's the danger zone. So, I have to throw that comment to the wind in my own mind that it is safer now. I I don't believe that's the case. It is unheard of from what I can
uh find in my research for a municipality to grant vehicular access to access a business through their property. This permission increases the liability to the city. >> Thank you. >> Okay, I have more but I'm done. If
anybody wants to relinquish their time to me, >> will you allow that? >> You can't do that. >> Okay. Do we have any additional public comment, please? >> Good evening, commissioners. My name is Marcus Winters. Uh, I'm the owner of Gaddis. I'm a resident of Treasure
Island. First of all, congratulations to our vice mayor. Well done. Um, I just find that it's unfortunate that we're I'm back speaking in front of the commission for um something I thought was put to bed a
long time ago. Um, it was nice for the ex mayor to stand up and say it wasn't my fault that I wasn't involved in it, but he still felt that he needed to mention me in his resignation letter. um
2013 there was a development agreement done between the city and um the owner of the property at that time. Um I'm kind of familiar with development agreements but I know it goes through a public meeting. It goes through planning
and zoning meeting twice I believe and it then it goes through two city meetings. At all of those meetings, there's plenty of time for residents to come up and give their objections and everything. Um,
all of those meetings, I've read the minutes. I've looked it up because I've been dealing with this property for a long time. It was all supported and it was voted 50 by the commission. Um, I came back up here in 2023.
Um, there was I had to fight for my right to be able to put free chairs out on the beach for people to use in front of my restaurant. Um, I've also provided free bathroom facilities for all the people on the beach while we're waiting
for it to be reconstructed and put a bathroom back. um while I was doing the construction on Kitty Shore Park and it took me two and a half years to go through all of the requirements from the city of Madiraa Beach to the county who
owns the utilities to the state that owns the road to Swift Mud who and the D that owned the beach. So it took two and a half years to plan this whole um this whole process. Um there was nothing I did that wasn't under a microscope. I
had um if my guys start to work at 5 to 7, the gentleman in the top apartment across the street used to call them. The painters couldn't work on Sundays when I was trying to get work done. So, you know, there's rules and regulations. I pushed it a little bit. I apologize. Um,
but in all the time I was doing all of that and the time that I was being around the area, the beachflower apartments are right next door. My wife, she's uh does a little interior design, but she redirect decorated all those apartments, the old houses when they were there
before. Um, I used to come up in the evening. Um, so she didn't feel safe walking out there. The gazebo that was there, the uh the local drunks and the drug addicts. Um, that was where they used to hang out. Um, not a lot of
people used to use the park. I think uh a lot of the residents used to get heckled. Um, I know myself and the city manager and the chief have mentioned about the needles. I was there when we were cleaning it up. I saw what was in the
grass, what was in the green space that was there. But we work really hard with the state and um with the county and everybody to redesign the park. Um the green area that we talk about, okay,
it might not be I would have the the I talked to Mr. Rastak when I was up here. We talked about palm trees. I was given the plan that was accepted by city staff, the city engineer. I
spent 750,000 doing the park the way I was told to do the park. I would love to have put in trees, but I wasn't permitted. I got a landscape plan. I was told follow this plan. Do not deviate. This is what you're putting in. That's what I put in.
Um I've got nothing but abuse about what went in there. um Caddy seems to come up. Um I like being part of this community. I like supporting everything, but I just seem I get ridiculed because of something that was done that I wasn't involved in. Um
and I just find it unfortunate that we keep coming back up. There's plenty of stuff going on in the city. There's plenty of stuff going around. Um there was five parking spots. I actually gave up 5 ft of my lot. So now that cars can reverse in, can park, can turn in the
lot. Cars don't even have to go in under the restaurant. So I've done everything that I was asked to do and uh I would just like to see, you know, it's time for this to end and let's move on and use the parking lot and go to the beach. >> Thank you very much. Do we have any
additional public comment, please? Madame Mayor, commissioners, I'm Jeff Begin. I live up at 429 Bokeh Drive. The thing I I find interesting about this is, and this is a 2013 agenda item that
13 years later, we're now discussing. It's almost like saying, "I don't like the rec center building. I don't think you should have it." I mean, this was voted on, approved, 50 vote, and it's done. I mean, it's and there's some people in the community that maybe I
missed something. I didn't think this is open for should we have this or not. It's there, right? Unless So, I just think that there's some misunderstandings in the community that this is up for a vote as to what needs to be put back. What's being put back is what was approved to be put back and was
put to be put in in 2013. in the development agreement that was approved 50 13 years ago. So, I just want to just call out because I think some people don't understand this isn't up for a approval vote. This is a development agreement that's 13 years old that some
people just want to talk about and I guess I don't understand it at all. So, this is my public comment on this. I think there's some people trying to stir up the pot thinking that this is up for a commission vote again and I don't see it being that way. So, I just wanted to clarify for a lot of
people in the public, this is 13 years ago was the time for this fight and a lot of people brought it up and that was the time to bring it up. So, just as a resident here, I think there's a lot more productive things now. Could it be prettier? Something everything can always be prettier. That's a different topic, but it's got to go back the way
it's approved. That was 13 years ago. So, I just want to clarify for a lot of people that have the opinion that this is up for some type of a vote that it's not. So, that's my public comment. >> Thank you. Do we have any additional public comment? >> Hi, Michael Jordan. Uh, 1748th Avenue.
Um, I want to say this, that land was given to the township as a to be a park, not to be bartered with. And if some other party did that and if this was my opinion if it was done in 2013,
it's it's wrong. It was her will. It was given to the township and it's an abuse that it was given to someone else. And I recognize no one else here did that. But it should be recognized because the woman's wishes should have been followed. And if there and again,
I feel bad for the man whose business it is. He felt that these issues were worked out. I spent about an hour looking at setbacks and I'm going to tell you the setbacks that aren't right unless there was a variance approved. So, I can see how people have an opinion
on it. If I left something that's worth a million dollars in today's value to the township and then it's misused and turned into a parking lot extension of a business, I'd be upset, too. So, I didn't as as someone I moved here
in 2021. So, I'm going to say this. The township had a drug problem, had an alcohol problem, had more homeless people when I moved here, and the township's been cleaned up. But, I think a lot of that was because there was lower rents and the fishermen were living in the town. That's what the town
is. So, I I I don't know. I mean, I just feel that it should be acknowledged that the woman left it in her will. That's all. >> Thank you. Do I have any additional public comment? >> Daniel Carlton. Uh, I am not a resident.
However, I have spent many days and nights at that park as well as a lot of people uh here. So, I just came up here to state uh my love for that park. Um the uh the esteemed Mr. Begins, the uh crusher of the $100 a night uh hotel
stay in this county, uh came up here and stated that it was it was done in what what year? It was done 13 years ago, which to my research as a layman, uh, breaches the 30-year contract where it states that you do own the city, owns
that property, and can do with it what you will. Uh, that's that's news to me. I was unaware of it, but I just came up here to state the public comment statement that I brought up uh about the Tom and the Tom and Kitty Stewart park. So,
regarding the park uh at uh 14070 Gulf Boulevard, Madira Beach, uh I'm submitting into public record the warranty deed dated November 19th, 1987, which gifted this land to the city. The deed contains a free, simple,
determinable clause with three specific non-negotiable mandates. The land must be used solely and perpetually as the site for a city park, which was done away with. If this was done 13 years ago, that was still in effect.
The city is prohibited from using the land for any other purpose, any if the conditions are breached, the land automatically reverts back to the granters's heirs, which there are many of. I would hope that they would be here
tonight. If not, hopefully they will come again. By allowing private businesses to use this land for traffic flow and by proposing to replace park space with asphalt parking, the city is in direct violation of this deed. Under
Florida statute 95.36, which I think uh the city attorney mentioned at the last meeting, the public's right to this park, dependent on your view, becomes absolute in 2017.
The city does not have the legal authority to erase this park for commercial convenience, which it is. Nobody can argue it. If you've looked at pictures at any time up until you demoed it, it was a park. Undeniably, there was
a sign out front that said park. It looked like a park. There was large growth trees, bushes, grass. It looked like a park. It is no longer that. It is now a parking lot.
by doing so does not just renovate the park, which is the term that's being kicked around, it legally terminates the city's ownership based on the date previously stated as well. If the city continues to prioritize private parking over public parkland and public wishes
and the public's wishes, it risks not only that but a quiet title action by the Steuart heirs that would completely strip the area from the city who would I think they would be uh in agreement that their
rights have been trampled upon. They have been taken from them by the wishes of Kitty. I ask the commission to immediately halt any plans that convert that continue to convert the parkland to parking and to
restore the site to its intended use solely as a city park. Thank you. >> Thank you. Do we have any additional public comment? I don't know a lot about Tom and Kitty.
Oh, my name's Tom Wallally, 1637th Avenue Circle, Florida. I don't know much about Mad or uh Tom Stewart, Kitty Park. But I know that you get a common denominator that's still sitting on your board and that's Mr. Tras. He was here
when all that crap happened with Crawford and he's the guy that's sitting here now. And I think that you guys should maybe uh seek to find another attorney to give you some good advice before you make any further uh decisions
about anything. I came here when they were uh looking at city attorneys and I mentioned how he violated my civil rights with some actions that I had here with the city of Madera Beach. And you guys are you guys are all brand new. You had nothing to do with the Kitty Park
thing, but you're taking uh you're taking legal advice from a guy that shouldn't even be sitting on your board giving you legal advice. I would seek a second opinion and everything that you're doing with this guy sitting here. That's all I got to say.
>> Thank you. Do we have any additional public comment? >> Oh, I got one more thing. And I think I think this guy over here that owns Tatties has done a great job for this entire community. And I and what he said, he just did what he was told to do. He's a layman. And this guy here
probably gave a lot of advice along with Mr. Crawford. And I feel sorry for you, sir, that you had to take some of his advice. >> Do we have any additional public comment? >> With no additional public comment, we'll close public comment. Commissioners, do
you have any comments? Well, I I'm sure everybody has something to say. Uh I I would love I would like uh to say speak first as a resident before I speak as a commissioner. Uh I've actually lived here for 30 years. Um in the same place I bought my my home
1997. Well, it's 29 years. Next year it'll be 30. Uh the park always had an asphalt. It always had parking spaces. The only thing it didn't it doesn't have now is the the bench and the little gazebo over it. Uh it ne it never had a
bathroom there. There from 1997 there was no grass. It was it was pavement. Yeah. When you got over the the dunes, that's where parks are. And to my knowledge, that's where the park is going to continue. That's where the sand will continue to be. And we're not done.
the the landscaping hasn't continued because of the hurricane, because of the construction, because a lot has changed. Um, I think there's something one thing people keep saying to me is why is Caddy's getting the revenue from those parking spaces? Th those aren't catty's parking spaces. Those are city parking
spaces. Uh, Caddy's we now have 14 places instead of five. Uh, and anybody can park there. currently only residents can park there because there's again still construction be going on. So I just I just want to say and I did look
at an aerial view of this place from 1984. It was pavement. It was parking space. It when we say city park, if you go to the end of 131st, okay, go to the east end of 131st.
I don't know if anybody even knows where that is. It's right on the on the water on the east side. Uh and you go turn turn south and you go to a culde-sac. There's a city park there and it's about four feet wide. It's it's basically a
parking curb. Uh city park has lots of different definitions. The city park that's that was there is still has public access, public parking. It's not zoned for it's it's not zoned off for any private venture. The only people who
are making money off of it are you the the city because it's parking revenue. So, um, it's bigger because, uh, the the property owner to that owns Kennedy Caddies enlarged it and made it more parking. Uh, it it's a
little easier. It probably will be easier to get in and out. It's hard to remember since everything's been fenced up for a while. But, in my opinion, I would like to see people just take wait and see what it's going to look like. I've seen the the drawings. There's lots
of landscaping uh that's going to be there. Uh there's going to be a nice permanent bathroom that's going to be elevated. Uh there'll be uh so just want to say you I keep hearing I want it to go back to the way it was. Well, it was smaller and it was a parking lot. So
that's that's all I want to say. Thank you. >> Thank you. Commissioner comments. >> Okay. I've been here 15 years and I used to walk to that park and I used to walk to that park with my wife. We took our beach cart and we walked there every day
and we used to frequent that park five, six times a week and four or five times a week. Yes. My wife got kind of accosted by the homeless people and I heard about all the drugs. No, I was
never familiar with the drug situation going on there andor the uh illegal women or illegal things going on there. Um but I still go to that park
and I am at that park at least two three times a weekend and I see a few people out here in the audience that frequent it also. And I've asked everybody there,
residents and visitors, would you rather have a gazebo or a bathroom? And what do you think they say? Every time they say they would rather have a bathroom. And thank you, Marcus, for having your facilities available for us because it's
it's something that people got used to. And once again, you know, I'm not sure where this is all trying to go. You know, we are trying to get it back to where it was prehurricane. And that's
the only thing we can really accomplish, I believe, because like if you try to do something else, it's going to take that much longer to complete. and the 30-year stuff and everything. And and in terms of the park, once
again, a parking lot is a park. And who wants to go to the beach to sit and read a book? I mean, you know, so people go to the beach there to go to the beach. They parked there and they've always parked there and it's been for the last
quite a few years. And granted, the um park got demoed in 19 or 20 and it's been utilized very well. And that's what we're going to be going back to. And so, you know, granted, once again, as many
people have said, I wasn't on this commission at that time, but I was at every one of those meetings trying to fight against what was going on there. But yet, what's there is fantastic. I mean, you know, and it's it's we went
from five parking stalls and it was never just resident. You had to pay to park there unless you were a resident. And we even were such that once we started driving there, we knew all the people that parked there and we double
park and we'd park illegally and you know, it was just because we knew everybody was there. So, I've been at that park for the 15 years I've been here and it has incre improved increased in revenue and you know at this point
we're going to make it as beautiful as it was before the hurricane and we're going to be adding more trees to it I believe. Thank you. >> Thank you. Commissioners comments. >> Yes. Hello everyone. I uh first of all I
want to appre uh tell everyone that I appreciate you for coming out today. Um whether this is a great discussion to have and and thank you for for showing up tonight and discussing this. Um also as uh Commissioner Taglerini had spoken,
I'm also going to speak as a uh uh as a resident. I mean 2005 in the same district on 144th Avenue. Um I I I have witnessed many many events
there at the Tom and Kitty Stewart Park. It's it's basically almost right across the street and it's very true and you can ask any of the residents that lived in that area. And not to take anything away from Tom and Kitty Stewart Park, but there was an illegal element there
every day. every day that I was there and people would say they would get accosted as they were trying to go to the beach in that direction. Um there was a development agreement in 2013 uh between the city and the owner and we
are moving forward. Um I have actually um talked to people in residents because we're in the same area. uh they would love to see a bathroom there, an elevated beautiful bathroom there and with there will be green space
there. There will be um landscaping. I believe that this Pil County Sheriff's Department has done a great job in cleaning that area up as long also uh along with the owner of Caddies and thank you for allowing uh the residents
to uh use your uh accommodations also. you you've done a great job, I believe. Um I I had a talk with the city manager earlier and I asked him directly. I said, "How many calls did you guys did get back in the day? How many calls? How
many times was the Madira Beach Fire Department out there?" Um so he could probably respond to that if he chooses. I came here in 2012. Um during that time I was on the street
running the 911 emergency calls and we ran there often. It was overdoses, ETO, which is drunk on alcohol assaults. Sometimes when we would be treating a patient, it's like we would have to have
one person step back to make sure that the three buddies that were there were weren't going to assault us or try to alter the care or what have you. But I mean, I'm I work at the direction of the board. That's just my experience.
>> Okay. Thank you. And just real quick, um and like I said, I think it's a great discussion tonight. Thank you very much. Um there's brighter days ahead for Mader Beach. Brighter days ahead and it's going to be a great Tom and Kitty
Stewart Park. It still will be a park. Thank you, >> Commissioner. >> Um just like Commissioner McGhian stated, uh thank you for joining us tonight. Um, our our intention truly is
to listen to our neighbors and residents and do whatever it takes to please, you folks. Um, from proper perspective, from from a
perspective of let's say engineering of this site, the land itself was 63.66 66 feet wide that is along Golf Boulevard. And if you were to put a
parking lot there per se, it would have to be one side parking. In other words, you put a the 62 feet basically is 19 ft for each parking the depth. So you multiply that by two and then plus 24 that makes it 62 feet. So you'd end up
with only 1.66 66 ft less than 2 feet of space between the two property lines and that is not acceptable. You have to do buffering 5 foot on each side. So the land was too narrow to put parking
spaces there on both sides. So at the time um there was only a driveway and one side parking and the other portion to the south was landscaping. So, um,
uh, Caddies at the time, uh, dedicated 5 ft of of land, whether it was in terms of easement or whatever, to be able to utilize more space, so you could put parking spaces on both sides of the driveway. So, now
a lot of commissioners been here, I've been here for 22 years. I'd like to ask maybe Commissioner um Tagglerini, do you recall how many parking spaces were there by any chance? >> There was four or five. >> There were five parking spaces and one handicap >> at the time.
>> Yes. And it was completely asphalted. >> So there wasn't green space to like go throw a ball. It wasn't that when you when park is said and the green space there there was some things planted along the edges and on the other side of
the pavilion but the actual large area was all covered in asphalt with the five plus one parking spots. >> Yes. So with this extra >> also and also the green space was the sea oats. It was beyond the seaw wall
and after this hurricane they would all be gone. >> Right. So it's like it would have been devastated. >> So um so additional land width with that easement gave us the flexibility to put more parking spaces there. Um and and
the spaces um I think invites more people to come and enjoy the beach. And I can't imagine going to this property and wanting to just maybe sit on a bench and maybe have a sandwich. Maybe that's possible with, you know, some folks, but
um I um I I'd like to respect the previous commissions 2013. We have to honor that. However, it doesn't mean we can't eliminate some spaces to create a little bit more landscaping. So, um, if I were to make any
suggestions is to, yes, let's provide the, um, the restroom. Let's provide the beach access to the beach because a lot of folks are going to be parking in here and they're going to walk to the beach and enjoy the beach. Um, and so I would,
you know, I would be inclined to say, let's let's eliminate, you know, maybe two or three parking spaces along the side on the south side where the restroom will be and put a bench there and possibly maybe a small whether you
call it gazebo or a small, you know, overhang. um you know just just to listen to the folks um listen to a residents. Um I I would I would you know like to
maybe recommend um you know maybe create to take a couple of parking spaces and create green space for some bench and some gazebo. So that is what I would like to recommend just just to make the
neighbors happy. Thank you. I'm going to come in. Well, and that's something that I was going to also propose and I talked about that earlier to Megan. However, at this point, our hands are tied. We have to go back with what was there. We can't start
changing things. So, let us get back what we had prehurricane. At that point, then we can open it up to discussion as to whether or not we want to give up two or three parking spots to make this area grassy and potentially even potentially
make a gazebo back there if that's what the people want. So, and that's where I didn't include that in my thing, but that is something that I had talked about too. But now all we can do is put back what was there prehurricane without
getting into big long drawn out things. And as it is our it's almost 18 months that we've been without. So let's get us back to where we were square one two years ago and then we can look at
bringing this up again and making it more green. But let's let us get done what we can. >> Thank you. >> Commission Dylan, if I may, I'm sorry. Um, so I mean, we couldn't go and build
it and then come back and remove parking spaces. So, it should be all during planning >> if if we're going to eliminate some spaces. It should be during planning of of the project. >> So, first off, I'd like to thank
everyone who did come today. Um we ask for public involvement all the time. We have talked about this park. In 2023 we had a minimum of three meetings that the park was discussed and we talked about beautifification of the park. So the
commission well not all of us were here at that time but some of us were at that time. The discussion was to do something to beautify the park. And when the condo next door was being developed, part of what the city went to them about was
landscaping so that there would be a buffer. And they are finishing up that project and there is some landscaping buffer there with trees and there's some palm trees. Um, the part to me that is so
unsettling, um, and I want to choose my words wisely because I don't want them taken out of context and I have been taken out of context quite a bit recently, which is unfortunate because what is going on is so divisive and there's so much
unkindness out on social media for not only us sitting up here that we should be replaced and that we don't care about the community and all things like that. Um, which just is not true. The five of us sit up here and very much care about
this community, very much care about Tom and Kitty Stewart Park. The development agreement was entered into in 2013. We did not participate in that. At that time, there was a large amount of
community that was in favor of what was approved. They came to the meetings. I sat up here at a meeting and read public comment into the record today from way back then and as to what people came here and wanted
in 2023 when we discussed it here. Um there were again residents who came and said and supported the park that it is today because they like my fellow commissioners have lived here for a very long time and remember what it used to
be. um that Caddy's is even a conversation is a whole another level of shouldn't be because Catty's had nothing to do with the development agreement. Catt's Sunpubs purchased the property with the
agreement and he has been Marcus Winters as a business owner in this city has been nothing but supportive of the city and of the residents and of events and all kinds of things. Um, so but I just want to remind people that
the city didn't give away the park. The park was an asphalt park. There was no green space in the sense of a green space like a park. It was a park as it is today. It's still a parking lot. It
is an asphalt. It has imperous pavers, which is better for the environment, better for the water, better for the rain, and all of that. And that when that park was developed to what it is today, they did spend $750,000. And the
city did not pay a dime of that to have that work done. That was all part of the agreement that was negotiated back in 2013. Um my point on talking about the 2023
um meetings is that we talked about doing something to beautify the park. One of the things was to wrap the trailer in to skin it so that it would be prettier. That was something that the residents talked about. It was to add more landscaping into the park. That's something that we started doing. So the
com the the commission in my time here has listened to the community. when the community comes and talks, but the place to talk is here. It's to us. It's not on social media where you're just tearing, not you. I'm not saying that you all,
but when you're tearing down the people who are sitting up here volunteering our time, we don't get paid a ton of money to be commissioners. Um, we all are doing it because we love the community and want something better for it. I would like to see us complete
the work on the park. We had already committed in a previous meeting into adding benches at the park when it's done. There are limitations to what you can put because of the coastal water line. So, we're going to put a bathroom back. It
is what was approved as part of the development agreement. Until that is completed and the design and where it will land on the sand, we don't know what we can do next. But once we are done with getting the park back, the
dunes are going to come back. Just like they are everywhere else in the city where the dunes washed away, they're going to come back and we're going to be able to plant the sea oats back and the vegetation that will beautify that again. And I just would ask anyone to be
patient. The recovery from the hurricane has been horrible and the park has taken much longer than any of us would have wanted to, but there were a lot of things that have to be done. And we still have a lot of homeowners that aren't in their homes because they're
suffering through that. And I just we've talked about this so much in the time that I've been here on the commission. And to see that we're we're we're in a place where we're being pushed to fight over this is just not good for the community. It's not good for who all of
us are and who our wonderful city is when we are working, I believe, for a common goal. We can't make everybody happy. We can try to find a a place to land where we can all agree that works.
And that is what city staff is doing. It is what this commission has been supporting for three years now prior to the storm even and I would just encourage that we continue to do that. >> Mayor, if I could uh >> there's been some discussion about uh
the legality of what we've done or what we're doing. Can I'd like to ask Mr. cont. Would you care to comment on any of the are we breaking any legal contracts by what we're doing right now regarding the the deed given to us or the the the shape of the are we doing
anything wrong that would legally get us in jeopardy or you have any other comments you'd like to make about that? >> So, I think I've commented before. First of all, the deed just specifically said um that the land hereby conveyed be used to maintain solely as a site of a city
park. That's what it is, the city park. So, I don't see how there could be a violation. It doesn't say there has to be certain green space. Doesn't say has to be certain parking. It doesn't say that there has to be a gazebo. Doesn't say there has to be anything in particular other than it being a city park. It still is a city park. Um I have
mentioned on at least one other occasion the state statute uh because that keeps coming up. You know let's let's address the reverter language that it says that if you don't use it as a city park that it was uh it could revert back to Kitty and Stewart Kitty um
Stewart. And the answer is no. It's not going to revert back. There's a very specific state statute that we did not adopt. the Florida legislature adopted and it became law in 1949.
Um, it's been amended a little bit over the years. The last amendment was 1989, so it's almost 40 years in existence. And that paragraph, I'll just read it out loud. dedications of land to
municipalities or counties for park purposes that have been recorded for 30 years. You remember this deed was recorded in 1989. 1987 >> 1987
shall not be challenged by the dedicator. That would be the Steuart family or any other person when the land has been put to some municipal or county use. It obviously has been a park for 30 years during the period of dedication or has
been conveyed by the municipality or county by a deed recorded for seven years. That doesn't really apply in our situation and then it continues and all rights of the dedicator and all other persons in the land are terminated. So
this thought that if you don't have it as a city park that it automatically reverts back to the Steuart family, it's not true legally. Um the reverter language no longer exists. Um and it's not something that you've done. It's a
state statute. It's the law and we enforce the law. So, um I don't see, you know, any exposure to the city for putting um a parking lot there to allow
cars to park there and not installing the gazebo that was once there in the past. So, I hope I answered your question. >> Are we a legal jeopardy by providing a bathroom for that's free of use? >> No. And I think that that's probably if
you think about a city park, most city parks do have bathrooms. So you're not putting yourself in any legal jeopardy by making it more of a park. >> A couple of people have said that we were not allowed to put palm trees back in. Are you familiar with that situation and why that is?
>> I don't know what they're talking about. I did not hear that, but I don't know why that that would be an issue. >> Uh Miss >> That's not true. >> That's not true. So at some point we could. >> Okay.
>> Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Tras. >> You're welcome. >> Anything further? >> Well, for me, I would just like to clear this all up with all the residents here. Not like any of us are against you, but it's just like let's go back with what
was there. I mean, that's what we're doing. We're still in hurricane recovery mode. And so, let's get back to where it was. And then at that point, if you people feel so strongly about having it greener or something, we will discuss
it. And that's what I think has been the idea. But let's get the city a place and I a chance to get it finished and get it opened and get it beautiful again and then we can redis it. >> Good.
>> I'm good. >> Yeah, I agree. >> Okay. Thank you all for coming again. Next on the agenda is contracts and agreements Penllis County ILA for post- disaster recovery. >> Um good afternoon commission RC Forbes,
community development director. Um you guys have the uh memo in your packet. So in brief, uh, Penelis County has developed an interlocal agreement to facilitate the cooperative procurement of posttorm disaster recovery services across mun municipalities within the county. The agreement is established
pursuant to section 163.01 01 Florida statute and is intended to provide municipalities with access to competitively procured contractors capable of supporting post- disaster recovery operations including but not limited to building code administration, substantial damage assessments, flood plane management, code enforcement,
technical communications support. So basically in brief um the county went through and negotiated with several firms and they came up with a ranking list which is attached in your packet. Once we enter into the interlocal agreement with the county, uh we would
then be able to enter into agreements with the subcontractors. What I would intend to do is to pick the top seven. Um we would go ahead and do the agreement with them and then I would make them readily available posttorm recovery to to bring on and to utilize in whatever capacity that we would need
to. We would have these firms in addition to the firms that are already on our continuing engineering list. um as well as CAP who we are currently utilizing for uh our services. This agreement was sent out in a draft form to all the municipalities and was shared
with u the attorneys in those municipalities. So the attorneys have the opportunity to weigh in, send it back, those corrections or adjustments were made. So what you're looking at is the final copy that's been reviewed by our legal attorney or um and as well as
others. So, it's gone through that all that review and and process there. So, now the next step is for us to execute it and then we would then go into uh contract with the firms that have been listed. >> Do we have any public comment
commissioners comments? >> I'm starting at this end this time. >> We need to save some money. That's the intent. Whatever it takes. Commissioner, do you have any comments?
>> Well, there's no actual um fiscal impact on >> correct. So, what would happen is like if we did have a storm event again, then I would be able to immediately reach out to these firms and begin to to get the assistance and help we needed. Whatever assistance and help we received, we
would be invoiced accordingly. Um, and based on the last storm, we would also be prepared to then submit that to FEMA for reimbursement. So it would be very similar to the the last storm recovery. We would just have a deeper bullpen. >> So that Thank you. Thank you.
>> Thank you. >> Uh it my understanding this means that uh we'll have faster recovery after hurricanes. We'll have more to choose from that are already vetted and uh it's only going to it's only going to work in
our benefit. So, uh, if you have nothing else to say, I I I move that we, uh, execute the interlocal agreement with Pineelis County regarding those vendors. >> Do we have a second? >> A second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please?
>> That was quite good. >> Commissioner Taglery. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor McGee. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Gavayi. >> Yes. >> Commissioner Dylan. >> Yes. Mayor Brooks. >> Yes. >> The motion carry 5 to zero.
>> Excellent. Thank you guys. >> Thank you, Marcy. Next on the agenda is renewal of the joint use agreements with Penllis County Schools. >> Uh good evening, mayor and commissioners. Um so this is uh two two different contracts that we have with the school. This is uh started in 1985
and has been renewed every five years. Uh it's a simple renewal of a mutual agreement between the city and Panelis County School Board for the use of uh property for education uses and for athletics uh on the school side. It's their athletic fields, the the gym uh
and the likes basketball courts out out there. And then the other one is the uh bicesentennial park which is all school land. So it's contractor that says that we can utilize that. Uh this we do maintain the school fields uh the grass
area and then the city does maintain the park trash and everything else related to bsentennial park and then also the mutual side is that they're allowed to utilize our facilities as needed for educational reasons. Uh in my 12 years here we've never had that happen. Um
they have expressed interest but for whatever reasons haven't used it but uh it doesn't eliminate the rental process on either direction. We still have to go through the process to do it, but this just basically solidifies the agreement uh mutually for five years. So, this is
just a simple renewal of that. Uh upon approval here, it'll go to the school board at their next available meeting uh for approval vote as well. >> Do we have any public comment? Commissioners, any comments or questions? >> As a former teacher at Madura Beach Middle School, it's always been in
effect. I think we should continue it. >> I agree. >> I agree. Yeah, >> I agree. >> Yes. >> Do we have a motion? >> I make a motion to approve the renewal of both the bicial bicesentennial park agreement and the joint use playground agreement with Penelis County Schools
for a 5-year term from May 12th, 2026 through May 11th, 2031. >> Do we have a second? >> I second. >> City clerk, would you call the role, please? >> Vice Mayor McGee? >> Yes. >> Commissioner Dylan? Yes,
>> Commissioner Gabayi. >> Yes, >> Commissioner Taglerini. >> Yes, >> Mayor Brooks. >> Yes. >> The motion carry five to zero. >> With having no new business, next is agenda setting. I just have one comment. City manager. Um,
this is a lot for a workshop. And I think that because this commission has discussed and said that we would like to work on having meetings last a reasonable amount of time so that our residents will stay engaged. If we were
to have a meeting with this many items, we would be here until midnight. And I'm not um likely in favor of that. In in our staff meeting this morning, um myself and the city clerk did a find some items on here. I believe four to five that we could move to the May
agenda that has very few items on it, >> which would lighten the load. >> I mean, a few of them look like they'll probably go pretty quick. >> Yeah. And some of them do need are kind of pressing, so we do want to have the discussion sooner than later, but some of them can can wait. Can can we ask uh
city manager to prioritize for us and discuss them at our one our one-on- ones? >> Yes, that I think that would be great. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> Um I know that discussing the boat slips and the 555 property I would like to if we can keep that
on to just have that because I think the revenue generating conversation is going to be a very good conversation to have um not just for the commission but for the community as well. and to try to get that moving in a
forward fashion. Anything else that you want to take off, I'd be in favor of. >> Okay. >> And and in our one-on- ones, we can we can also say if something's important to us that we >> I 100% agree. >> Perfect. >> You okay with that? Is is there anything else anyone wants to do or change on
this? Do we have any public comment? Then we will move on to the reports and correspondence. Board of Commissioners reports and correspondence. >> Does anyone have anything that you would like? >> Sorry. Thank you.
Um, I had written something real quick down, but I just wanted to uh thank Commissioner Gavi. >> Yes. for your um for your support and also Commissioner Daglerini,
Commissioner Dylan, and Mayor Anorie Brooks as I now become the new vice mayor of Mander Beach. I've served as a city commissioner now for three years and I look forward to serving everyone the residents
and also all the staff in whatever capacity in the future. So thank you very much everyone here and at home. Thank you. >> Congratulations Eddie. >> Thank you. >> Well deserved. Anything additional
then we will move on to the board of commissioners meetings report. City clerk, did you prepare that? I did and I have it on there forformational purposes in hopes that people might be interested in keeping up on what the
commission does at these meetings during the um year. And also I I list the town hall meetings that we have and the uh communications with the mayor which are fantastic and it's nice to have those and just different things and
I have the contracts in there um everything that we do and then our discussions at these workshops. >> Thank you Clara. >> Do we have any public comment? >> Next on the agenda is city attorney. >> I don't have anything for you tonight. Thank you though. Then next on the
agenda is the clerk's report for April. >> Yes. >> Thank you for that, Clara. We always enjoy reading that. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> City manager. >> Um I'll update on a few of the the projects underway now. Anything with any
significant movement. Um the area three which is east and west parley, Margarite, Lenway, AMB Street, Puit, South Bay Shore. Um the contractor has completed the replacement of all the storm drains, is working to structurally line the three remaining. Um outstanding
items is restoration of yards, repair curbs, restoration of driveways, and mill and resurface the roadway of all of area three. Um the dredging is is moving forward. We're on we're exactly where we projected to be at this point. Uh
they're doing aerial surveys and water depth sand accumulation surveys every two weeks. So we we have a pretty good projection on where we're going to be here towards the end. Um the John's Pass Jetty sidewalk
replacement. We're actually meeting with Penllis County Environmental Staff tomorrow to discuss the sidewalk agreement and the concerns that Penllis County might or might not have. and the snack shack was tented. Um that
was a couple weeks ago. Uh the historical designation is underway. We're waiting for historical data to find the era that we would provide that designation and attach to and the public works building plans are at 100% ready
to submit for site plan and permitting. And that is it for me. >> Thank you. Do we have any public comment commission comments? >> Just uh just just a quick uh question um with regards to the key to the city. Um
I think we're we're moving forward with that, right? I we met earlier in this >> we met earlier. We we have some now. It's just a matter of is that what you envisioned? So if it would be at the direction of the board for Commissioner
Gavvi to take point on this and you and I can go back and forth over different variations of the key and what should be included and if if you find one that you like, then >> I thought I thought that we agreed at a previous meeting that the keys that we
already had that the city had already purchased is what we would use moving forward and that the design of you were taking care of the coin and I believe you sent that out to all of us. >> Yep. The coin >> to redesign the key would not be financially responsible seeing is how we
have 10. >> Oh, I misspoke. We have two. >> Two. >> We have two and and they're not attached to anything. It's just a loose key versus the one and we have in the conference room with in the shadow box. >> Um we do we have close to 10, but some
of they're all different sizes except the two main ones that we have traditionally handed out or presented. So, I think if it was okay with the board to for Commissioner Gavay to take point on this and >> I would be fine with that.
>> Yeah. Him and I could >> I love those two keys that you have the the goodsiz keys and we can place them on a nice plaque and recognize those wonderful people that give so much back to this town. I think that would be really something that we can pride
ourselves in not just uh not just encouraging more volunteers to give in more but also it would speak volumes about our city. So um >> absolutely and the the city coins they have been ordered they should be here
the update I got today was the 28th so right before our next meeting on the 29th I believe. or is that a budget budget workshop? I can't remember. There's so many. >> I've got one. Have we gotten any further
with the new city manager? >> So, I would like to just say something to all of you who are talking about this now. When we had board of commissioners reports and correspondence, that is our opportunity as the commission to ask our questions
and bring up things that are important to you that you want to discuss. And then when you go through the people, you get to the city attorney. City attorney has nothing to present. Do you have a question for him? When you get to the city clerk, she presents hers. Do
you have a question for her? City manager presents whatever he presents. question to him. >> What if he misses? I'm >> not I'm I'm just saying that if if we want to we want to try to keep it so that is when we should be prepared to talk about things that are of interest to us just so that it's in line with the
schedule picky >> the the um contract negotiation with the um new city at or the new city manager is underway. It will come back to the commission to vote on. It is not it is
not done where that can be scheduled. There's a possibility that we'll do a special meeting to vote on that. But that would be something that our current city manager would coordinate with our city attorney and with this commission for a date that would work for all of us
to come here and and vote on just that one thing if that's what ends up needing. >> And speaking with um Renee who did the the search and most of the commission, I did present a possible start date of May 11th. Everybody seems to be supported with that. Plenty of time to hammer out
all the details. And also with the new city manager being local, it it would allow him time to come in in a on a more casual basis and kind of try to get his feet underneath him, get with various departments, what have you, we can begin our warm handoff and that way when he
starts on day one, it's not nearly as much as him trying to get under his belt. >> Okay. We good? Well, I was just going to ask uh >> I know you're going to say no. >> Um >> how do you know I'm going to say no?
>> Because because sometimes, you know, we just want to let our city manager talk about certain items and so forth and and if he leaves something out. So, is is there an issue to just No. >> All right. So, just wanted to ask another question regarding our lobbyist. So, is he going to present his report to
us maybe next month or how do we >> Yeah. The last time I spoke with R.J. last week are lobbyists and the Senate and House are still going back and forth over the budget. I believe they're separate by $1.7 billion right now for the entire state. Um I suggested to him
just wait until the budget's been approved. We have 100% final confirmation on the the appropriations that we've requested and then he can do one big um announcement here versus bringing him in now where he doesn't really know for sure.
>> Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. >> Good. Okay. Next on the agenda is the respond to public comment. We only had two public comments at the beginning of the meeting. Um, and it was Mr. Wall-E in regards to the electric bike on the beach.
City attorney, not asking you to be put on the spot, but didn't legislation get passed in regards to bikes, and I'm not 100% sure. And if you don't want to answer it, we could just ask for aformational update on bikes on the beach.
>> I'd be happy to provide provide an update to you. But my recollection was that there was a hard push by every beach community to have the exact same regulation relative to ebikes so that it applied all the way along the beach. And that was the purpose of what we did a
number of years ago was to adopt that prohibition for riding electric bikes on the beach. So we're not the only ones. It's every beach along the way. >> So if you want me to look to see whether there was legislation that addressed that issue, too, I'd be happy to fill
you guys in. >> That would be great. >> Okay. And then the second comment was Rick Willis um in regards to the state road repair on 150th and then the 140th water puddle. Um
150th is maintained I know by the state not by the county. >> Correct. >> And then 140th if there's a water puddle Megan wouldn't that be done through Penelis County? No. Who would do that? If you can answer that in a Right.
I know. That's what Well, >> and I know I know that you do call and communicate with um the state in regards to 150th. So, you do communicate to them when there are issues because of what he's talking about. I know you've communicated it, but you don't have any
control over them coming out and doing anything. >> That is correct. Correct. Just saying that. stating that for the record. >> So it is although it is a state road, Penllis County has their utilities underneath the road. The areas that everyone is referring to are Penllis
County utility areas that need attention. Panelis County has been made aware they are monitoring those areas. Um that is all the information that I have, but everyone feel free to please report those to the county. they will
then make it more of a um immediate repair. Um but unfortunately Penllis County has a lot of aging infrastructure and these are all showing up after the >> So who should they call if they wanted to report it to Penllis County? >> Panelis County Utilities 7274644000.
>> Okay, for everybody listening, call Penllis County. >> That is the forth. Um, I believe I know the area that was referred to and with the rain that we've had. I know we're not used to rain cuz it's been so dry. There is a lower
portion on 140th that was damaged when Frontier literally collapsed the roadway. So, I believe that's the area that they're referring to. So, I will check it out tomorrow and we will see what we can do. But, it's not a puddle that stays constantly. Okay. Thank you
very much. I would like to add something as well, mayor. Um, in not related to public works. >> Um, a few months ago, it was the board suggested that the parking signs were were kind of confusing. Would just like to point out these are new signs back
here. It they're much nicer than the previous ones. City of Madura Beach is is boldly displayed on there. There's no there should be no confusion about parking in a private lot. Um it it outlines every single step to use the
park mobile app there. I mean we've made this very very user friendly. So on your way out if you anybody commission residents would like to admire Megan and Jamal's hard work. >> Thank you very much.
>> I got one thing. >> Yes. >> I was going to mention this during my public comment. Um, we I have advertised and it's been going out in social media. We have a planning commission vacancy and I I'm hoping that we get applicants.
I'm looking for applicants and you have to be a resident and registered voter in Mader Beach and um I'm looking to for the commission to do the appointment at its May 13th regular meeting. So, if
anyone's interested, please call my office, the city clerk, and I am so happy to give you an application. >> We've got an applicant sitting on the front row, I think. >> There you go. >> I read the variances. So,
>> okay. If we have >> an application before you leave, >> if we have nothing further, it is 7:37 and we're adjourned.