e e good evening I'd like to call to order the Board of Commissioners regular meeting today is Wednesday February 12th 2025 and it is 6: p.m. City attorney would you please lead us in the
invocation and Pledge of Allegiance 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 their work this evening will find fav 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 city clerk would you call the role please Mayor Brooks here vice mayor tagini here commissioner Kerr here commissioner mcgean here commissioner gabay present all present next is the approval of the
agenda if the commission is okay and no one has any issues I'd like to ask that we move item 12d to just after item 9 and this is the uh Tampa Bay Psychology Services Dr
Benson is going to be here and if we could move that up does anyone object so before before public hearings um it'll go right before public hearings yes okay yes okay I don't have a problem do we have a motion
so moved second second lady clerk would you call the role please commissioner gayi yes vice mayor tagini yes commissioner Kerr yes commissioner mcgean yes Mayor Brooks yes the motion carry five to zero and there
are no proclamations so next on the agenda is presentations and I will hand this over to Chief Belk good evening mayor vice mayor commission uh thank you for a few moments of your time this evening um again what we like to do is just come to the commission
twice a year with new hires promotions uh years of service that way we're not bogging up the agenda but so I would like to start with our new hires it's uh it's been very difficult in the fire service trying to recruit new employees and unfor or fortunately madir Beach
we've been Trucking along we we've hired four and those four are uh firefighter EMT Joseph calderero hired 21924 and he is currently in medic school and pinning him will be his
mother Pam next is firefighter paramedic Christian green hired January 6 2025 with four and a half years of experience and former Marine next is firefighter EMT kavaris service IR
11424 he comes to us with one and a half years of previous fire service and is also a former former Marine and currently in paramedic school King him as his wife LAN e our fourth new hire unfortunately
ironically enough is at live fire training tonight with the truck company so they're not able to be here and that happens like once a year so I didn't want them to miss that um next up is promotions first is John
morite uh John morite was promoted to Deputy Chief of the med Beach Fire Department on October 1st 2024 he came to us with 28 years of experience previously achieving the rank of assistant chief with his former Department throughout his career he has earned numerous certifications including
a bachelor's degree in fire Administration Fire officer one and two fire instructor one multiple FEMA incident command certifications in the State of Florida paramedic license he has also attended classes at the National Fire Academy in emmittsburg Maryland and participated in many
conferences across the country in his role at madira Beach Fire Department deputy chief mortalite is the emergency emergency medical services officer operations officer and training and he's also the Department's inhouse Tech specialist uh deputy chief mortalite was
unofficially promoted a few days early to assist with preparations for Hurricane Helen uh during during Hurricane Milton he was instrumental in setting up nbf's alternate Emergency Operations Center ensuring mobile internet access and maintaining communication with panel's County
dispatch during an unprecedented Barrier Island evacuation his promotion marks a new era of success for both him and the department as Madera Beach Fire Department continues to set higher standards for exceptional community service so deputy chief mortalite will
be pinned by his wife Tara next is Michael walosi madira Beach Fire Department held Lieutenant promotional assessment on December 17th 2024 it comprises of a written examinational tactical scenarios conflict resolution and Public
Presentation the department had three very qualified candidates with scores literally just points away from each other uh the Mad Beach Fire Department is pleased to announce the promotion of Michael walosi to Lieutenant of B shift with this promotion Lieutenant walosi will also take on the role of the
Department's assistant EMS coordinator and pinning Mike will be his wife Meadow and Porter don't go anywhere don't on back so next up is firefighter of the Year Mader Beach Fire Department is
proud to Ann announce that former firefighter paramedic current Lieutenant Michael wusi has been named 2020 firefighter of the year since joining the department in 21 firefight Lieutenant Wasa luki has set a high standard for professionalism hard work
and teamwork known for his outstanding work e ethic and positivity he consist consistently goes above and beyond to support his fellow firefighters and serve the Mader Beach Community in just a few short years as a firefighter with us Mike has completed the acting driver acting Lieutenant programs and became a
marine operator while also completing his bachelor's degree uh before coming becoming a firefighter he served in the United States Marine Corps from 2011 to 15 deploying to the Hellman Province Afghanistan during operation and during freedom in 2012 so with that Michael
walosi is also our 2025 firefighter of the year um next up as years of service as you all know we're I'm also supposed to attend the Readington Shores commission meetings I sent Fire Marshall Perez over there moved the years of service to the
end hoping he would make it back in time um and if he's not I'll make sure he does get his pin um but first I'll say with five years of dedicated service is Joanna Whitfield she is currently exploring the acting driver Engineer program and Joe also has the great
distinction of being the first firefighter that I ever hired he's not here all right and next is um Fire Marshall Raul Perez with 10 years of dedicated service to madira beach he also became the first fire marshal for madir Beach Fire Department um and in
addition to that he also serves as a secretary for the penel County Fire Marshals group and additionally Fire Marshall Perez Su successfully obtained the AAA grant that you all will be hopefully approving this evening um unfortunately
oh look at that timing perfect and that is it for uh presentations thank you very much next on the agenda is public comment public participation 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 five 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 w 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 for items that are not on the agenda hi Bob El um 13301 Golf Lane uh I just wanted to highlight and I
I took some notes here because I wanted to make sure everyone's aware of some of the progress that I've seen in the building department and Zoning departments made regarding the permitting process after the Hurricanes I'd like to share what my experience has been and compare it against other jurisdictions which I own property in
and what I experienced there so you have something you know to compare against um I really think the progress of the building and Zoning departments has made needs to be recognized so starting off in Madera Beach my first permit that I submitted
was on 10:16 took six weeks to receive it as I received it December 2nd second one I submitted which was on the same day 10:16 I received it on 1218 so eight weeks while at first that might not sound that great I think you have to
take into consideration and compare that to other municipalities during those days we know Treasure Island Indian Rocks other jurisdictions close host are a mess and during that time frame they they weren't even issuing permits um now while I don't have firsthand experience with those
municipalities to share with you I'd like to share my experience with Pasco County as I own a bunch of property there um well it start off Pasco had meetings um looking to dissuade um the residents from even considering rebuilding in areas that were impacted
um it was really a horrible meeting to be at to be quite honest um the meeting I attended here with Robin and Marcy speaking um discussed options and saw it input from residents so completely different tone and
experience um in Pas school I didn't receive my substantial damage letters from um the county the earliest one I got was November 15th um the latest was December 10th so there's no way to start the
permitting process until I had the letters and keep in mind pasu county has a much bigger building department um and a lot less properties were impacted maybe 5% of their properties um where madira Beach realistically every property was
impacted right um so I feel madira Beach did a lot better in the early days than Pasco in my opinion with benefit of hindsight I mean everybody was up in arms in the beginning but as we step back and take a look at it here's the experience I had and these are are
actual dates I didn't want to misspeak to anything um now in Pasco once I got the substantial damage letters it was very confusing on on what they're going to require and it did keep changing much like some people will complain about what happened here but I think every municipality and all fairness had to
figure it out so everyone was delayed in the early stages but being Pasco was more delayed in issuing the substantial um damage letters deader I wasn't able to submit anything a permit in Pasco or until January
24th um and keep in mind I had one of my properties the permit on December 2nd and it was closed out before January 1 so big difference there um but going back to Pasco once I did submit one to
them and this is January 24th it took them 12 more business days to issue the permit because all the paperwork was correct okay not bad however on another permit it took them 11 days to review it they found the small issue and they said it's going to be another 11 business days I'm still
waiting um [Music] so that's kind of experience I had there um now let's contrast that with the recent um two recent permits I submitted to madir beach on the 27th so a little bit after that right I was told seven
days later I was told on one of them there was a small issue it was corrected that day resubmitted the next day I had my permit um not two weeks later like Pasco County my other permit was submitted on
the 29th and was issued four days later by madir Beach so it's just getting better better and better right to me this shows amazing progress we're doing better in turning these permits around than a county that has a much bigger building department was and was not impacted as greatly as we were I think
that needs to be recognized there's a lot of good people working for the city putting their hearts into their jobs for the residents my experiences as I've come down to get answers at the staff sessions which have been Implement implemented here at Chambers has always been positive and helpful those who
decided to implement those staff sessions helping the residents should be commended as is a great idea and like I said it's been very helpful will there be things we could always tweak and improve on absolutely so as long as the city's open and receiveing constructive feedback I know we can continue to
improve and be the gold standard for the pelis Barrier Islands if we're not there thank you thank you very much do we have any additional public comment with no additional public comment we'll move on to approval of the minutes has the board had the
opportunity to review the minutes do we have a motion I'll make a motion to approve the minutes as written Second City Clerk would you call the RO please commissioner Kerr yes by mayor
tagini yes commissioner gagi yes commissioner mcgean yes Mayor Brooks yes the motion carry five to zero with nothing on the consent agenda we will move on to the Tampa Bay Psychology Services LLC agreement for psychological
evaluation and counseling services of fire personnel and we have Chief yes thank you good evening again um this is the same contract that was presented to everybody at the Workshop um again the intent is unfortunately Tampa Bay
psychology uh lost the the grant funding that provided the service free of charge for every single fire department in penis County and I know there was a couple questions at the workshop so Dr Benson is actually here to kind of give an overview and answer any questions
that anybody may have hi good evening everyone thank you so much um yes can you hear me okay all right thank you thank you so much for having me so I'm happy to answer any additional questions if I do not address your
points um Tampa Bay Psychology Associates is uh I am CEO and chief psychologist of this company we are the first company in the State of Florida and actually I believe also the first company in the United States that serves
as a one One-Stop shop that assists with first responder mental health um this is a concierge practice and what that means is that we go into municipalities we work on a consultative level with administrative bodies in
order to best support membership from a retention perspective resiliency perspective or how do we recover from traumatic exposures um and how do we continue working towards preventative care so that again we can retain
membership retain employees avoid workers comp claims avoid attrition so on and so forth um and ultimately we come in and we create cure rated PL treatment plans for these individuals so they are getting very unique care that
has not previously existed with traditional insurance or EAP products um part of our role also goes into work work directly with the agencies when they experience an agency-wide trauma a
community-based trauma or an individual level trauma and so what that means an agency-wide trauma and individual trauma this might actually be the Unexpected death or demise of one of their peers um this might be a suicide event that has
occurred it might be a very traumatic exposure such as a death of a child in a very dramatic way or I mean speaking to the beach cities I am a beach resident that watched the destruction that
occurred this is an agency that was faed first with something very unexpected in an event that quite frankly none of us were alive for the last hundred years storm so I don't know if any of us actually expected what occurred and they were right there in it and so our
company has contracted with all over penis County we also carry contracts with the entire um Pasco Public Safety uh with similar contracts that madira is trying to fill and pull for their membership now what's very meaningful
that Chief mentioned was we were one of the one of two exclusive companies that worked with the mental health for Heroes Foundation that utilized Federal grant funding to cover the cost of Mental Health Services for agencies that didn't have funding built their budgets a lot
of times that could be some of our smaller agencies so when that grant funding went away um it just ran out from the foundation itself we didn't have the resources to be able to continue covering care for our me madira
fire members that were seeking out treatment for various issues PTSD or just overall wellness and resiliency in light of Hurricane exposure etc etc so it was really amazing when when chief called me to say
how can we continue supporting these individuals and we've already come out done station visits really provided a network of support have assisted lieutenants and administration how do you reach us on a 24-hour basis that's something that doesn't exist for First
Responders so at any point in time if there is a first responder from madira Beach that is struggling they can get a hold of a clinical provider not an on- call service but a Clin iCal provider likely their therapist or someone that
can become their therapist and their clinician at any time day or night Sunday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon or tonight at 2 am if they need me so it's really amazing we have three office locations we have nine professionals all
of them with various certifications so again I cannot speak to the quality of care and dedication that my team brings in and the accessibility and the support that can be offered so I don't know if any of you guys have questions oh I think one meaningful thing uh that you all should
know which Bravo to the city of madira you guys would be the first Beach City that would actually build this and approve it in their budgets for their First Responders serving the community that is huge it's been so hard for me to
get the beach cities on board with such a such an important program so if this is approved and ultimately serves to continue supporting our guys and gals with madira Beach fire you guys definitely get to take that knot of
appreciation from me I know from them that you are the first Beach City to be able to prioritize this for them that's amazing can I answer any questions for any of you let me ask first if we have any public
comment all right then commissioners I don't have any questions I believe the board is very supportive of this action um when it was brought to us at the workshop my only question was and it was probably I'm G to call it a push back
but my only push back was how do we determine if someone isn't really cut out for the role of EMS or fire um how does you know the worst thing I would
want is someone I mean you bring up suicide to be exposed to things that they just are not capable of handling I mean you're not allowed to share information um with the administrative
side so where how do you how do how do you figure that out and you know is is that part of the the program I guess that's the bigger question yes sir actually that's a wonderful question and it's one I've been asked every time I form a new relationship so yes one of
the reasons this program is so successful is because we do observe confidentiality from the legal perspective the ethical perspective but also very unique is this my company does build in the service it's the first time
that administrative bodies have the ability to consult and have access to a psychological expert to best advise or to get options for their membership that is not punitive or misapplied so to your
question of what happens if we do have someone that really is ill suited for this profession and realistically that can be predicted sometimes before the employment process through pre-employment psychological
valuations which are um beginning to be applied in the fire service but not across the board that's been a standard of practice for law enforcement for decades now but it's becoming standard in fire service but if let's say this is
a member and they are a current employee they've been on for a few years maybe they have gone through some events unexpectedly that have compromised their ability to adjust effectively and continue in this capacity a scope of our work is on healthy
transitions out of the fire service and so we actually do have working relationships with other career counselors that come on board that help build in healthy retirement practices when we have fire members that are
actually leaving the fire service and we want to make sure that they're not at risk for suicide or if we have current members that really are ill suited and should be moving on on we do have interventions specifically designed to help them build inside to that and
access to other career options to gracefully exit um the fire service and find something better suited for them the other component of that a lot of times these individuals might be acutely distressed or in an unhealthy adjustment
or coping place are working relationships with various treatment centers not only just our own professional but higher levels of care can help restore occupational Fitness before it becomes problematic so that's
all part of that resiliency model too and that prevention we can actually work on preventing behavioral issues preventing employee issues liability Problems by transitioning and curating treatment plans for individual members I hope that answered the question that's
that's that's perfect just I just wanted them understand that which wasn't brought out um and the my only other comment would would really be for the chief is that with anything that's brought to the board I more and more
want to make sure that we're looking for any grants that are available um and I would think that this would be a perfect opportunity um to bring a grant to the to the Firehouse yes there if I
may there is um I know DED and fire and I believe seal I know D and fire has been able to channel and access opioid task force resources through the county um and that's something that I do I have
assisted them with in terms of constructing the contract so the language could be used to access those funds now I don't know if you have any other Grant resources that you're going to look at but that's the one idea that I have been aware of honestly um just trying to think outside
the box and I don't know how well it'll be attended this year but last year the proceeds of our 5K goes to um The Franciscan Center and it's a it's a retreat I I I've attended it myself it's four or five days and it's it's not
something you go to over and over again it's it's more of a like a onetime visit and then you go seek further treatment and I was actually trying to think of ways to fund this this year and I said and well maybe moving forward we can
take the proceeds from the 5K help offset the cost with Tampa Bay psychology yeah I wouldn't I mean last year we gave the Franciscan Center I think I believe it was $4,000 I'm not really asking you to do that I'm just asking that um you work
with Robin and oh absolutely and see what we can do because I I would imagine there's state grants available there's philanthropic uh uh grants available um but we just need to do the do the leg work and the paperwork and know who to
reach out to um I think there was a resource in one of the most recent meetings um about some grant writers and um if we can get that we may be able to get it on a Perpetual abely annual basis that that help offset some of the cost
and and that that's not my priority the cost is not but any anytime we can help the residents with anything I don't care if it's buying a truck or or this we need to try to in the agenda packet you'll see the triaa grand it's yeah perfect yeah it's not a high dollar
Grant but it's something that's going to be beneficial for us it's something that could even be used at the Wednesday morning markets right and it's and it's open-ended so you never so you know any we understand that and we want you to use it as a little fisical responsible I
I completely understand that so that's my that's all my comments thank you thank you so much much any other questions I don't have a question but I just have a comment I I think it's a wonderful idea I think it's great for our city and also our
firefighters um especially the 247 care U where they can reach out at any time any day and be able to get uh some help that they need so fantastic thank you so much thanks so uh glad to have you with
us thank thank you Chief balk uh spoke very highly of your organization last uh last Workshop my only question um when you spend time with these patients do you have any way to gauge your
success with them is there any mechanism that you use to to basically see any improvements in their behavior attitude absolutely so I would tell you greatest rule of thumb
internally is the best success is when the person reschedules an appointment because that's a person that's finding benefit from the conversations and the interventions that they are applying and certainly clients are very encouraged to be active and provide that feedback
because that's part of the introspective growth process now word of mouth is also our best feedback and I think certainly for me to be able to say our company has expanded such that we're in multiple counties across the State of Florida and
pelis county is our highest concentrated membership I think that also speaks to the word of mouth that has carried on certainly Chief and I came to be in contact because of people using our services and saying this can't go away so word of mouth is one of our big
biggest objectives of success now beyond that administratively we get feed back when administrators say we are happy because our employees are happy happy employees are more productive employees and we certainly get to avoid issues
that cost a lot of money on the front end or cause concern and then on top of that we do also have assessment processes sometimes where we can actually objectively measure symptom changes or maybe getting someone in medication and we can really objectively
observe the changes in functioning that are Happ happening awesome thank you yes sir well I'm glad that you came today and were able to speak to everyone um I shared with Chief when we had the conversation
uh I've been fortunate enough to spend some time with the fire department and last year pelis County lost two firemen local here to us not in madira but local to us to suicide and having those conversations
with that with when that happened with the fire department and being able to have a glimpse of what they live with in with what they do um mental health is
just so important and I think going to see a psychologist anybody can see a psychologist but seeing a psychologist that specializes in the field of First Responders is that's a GameChanger it appears to me
based off of all the conversations that I've had and I support 100% now I'd love to understand why they pulled your funding and if there would be a way to find to get that money back through our lobbyist if we could add that to his list of things to do because having the
funding if there are other Beach communities that aren't willing to put the money out maybe they can't afford to it's in their budget to be able to be supportive of their of their First Responders um isn't that really something something that the state should get behind so I support it
wholeheartedly thank you mayor thank you do we have a [Music] motion um I'll make a motion that we approve the um I'm on the wrong page the uh Psychology Services LLC
agreement and do we have a second second city clerk would you call the Ro please commissioner Kerr yes commissioner gayi yes commissioner mcgean yes vice mayor tagini yes Mayor
Brooks yes the motion Carri five to zero congratulations thank you all I really appreciate you next on the agenda is public hearings ordinance 2025 d04 plan development first reading and
public hearing thank you mayor I'll go ahead and read that ordinance um this is ordinance 20254 an ordinance of the city of Mader Beach Florida amending chapter 110 zoning Article 5 districts Division 10 PD plan development of the city's Land
Development code providing further information on intent and purpose including dimensional regulations specifying requirements for the application for PD zoning clarifying the review criteria from the local planning agency clarifying their review
criteria from the Board of Commissioners including standing o operating adjustments in changes of development plan and including options for time extensions providing for conflict codification severability and providing for an effective date that was the first
reading of ordinance 2025-the summary I know that we've gone over this in multiple workshops um ordin 20254 the plan development amends the PD section in the code to really fix
inconsistencies that we have currently uh to reference the Ford pelis countywide rules and to update the standards in that division to current practices this ordinance also went to Planning Commission on February 3rd and
was recommended approval do we have any public comments Commissioners comments questions uh hi Jenny um thank you for bringing this um I don't think that there's anything really new here um I
support everything I I don't support the height in the John's Pass Village is 15 feet higher than what we have but that was voted on and approved so I can't can't do anything about that so I'd also like to point out that there is
in the PD section um under Section 110- 387 um which is used uses permitted um the last paragraph there that PDS in
traditional Village commercial Corp boardwalk and low intensity mix use character districts in the John's Pass Village Activity Center won't be able to get additional height through the PD process so there is some additional
restrictions for for some character districts in village that appendix D says that the maximum height yes is higher than anything but they can't go higher than than that even through the
PD process well that's good thank you appreciate it any comments I have just uh one quick question we have not adopted the penol county vulnerability right no there's still
working on that vulnerability assessment okay and the vulnerability elevation or DFE basically um we have four foot of freeboard right now based on FEMA yes but when it comes
to vulnerability would we have any freeboard over and above that or would that be it would just be the four and then if if the board wanted to change that in the future that's obviously something that we could talk about um but we have not received they're still
ongoing that in that process right now okay thank you no comments do we have a motion I move the approval of ordinance 2025 d04 plan development do we have a second I'll second that city clerk would
you call the RO please vice mayor tagini yes commissioner McAn yes commissioner Kerr commissioner gay yes Mayor Brooks yes the motion carry 5 to zero next on the agenda is ordinance
[Music] Division 10 flood resistant development Article 1 buildings and structures section 94-103 manufactured homes and recreational vehicles of the city's Land Development code providing for the use of recreational vehicles as temporary
shelters on Residential Properties following a natural emergency providing for conflict codification severability and providing for an effective date this is the first reading and public hearing for ordinance 2025-the all right uh and we talked about this at
the boc workshop but in Florida Statutes um the prohibits the municipalities from prohibiting the placement of one temporary shelter after a declaration of emergency from the governor um and then also the national flood insurance
program the nfip has standards in place as well um one of the things being that um um recreational vehicles must be fully licensed and ready for Highway use so this is really taking the Florida Statutes um in our requirements there
along with the nfip's requirements and putting them in our flood plane um section of the code do we have any public comment good evening my name is Shania Campbell and I live at um 17423 Street
South in St P can you Pi up please so we can hear you okay um I'm a student in the public policy and administration program at St Petersburg College I appreciate the opportunity to speak today about ordinance development they did an excellent job
explaining the Florida statute and the national flood insurance programs requirements involved with temporary shelters and as well as the planning commission's recommendation for a five foot setback from the curb and the process for registering and RV with the
city of Madera Beach their Insight reinforced how well thought out this ordinance is in balancing the need for temporary housing with safety and planning considerations as a student I've sted study how policies like this impact communities and I believe that this
ordinance is a necessary step in helping residents recover after disasters natural emergencies like hurricanes can leave families without a safe place to live and rebuilding takes time while by allowing people to stay on their property in a temporary shelter
this ordinance provides stability while they work to restore their homes this policy also aligns with Florida statute 166 section 0335 ensuring that the city follows state state guidelines while
prioritizing the needs of residents it establishes clear requirements such as ensuring RVs are licensed and connected to utilities and do not pose safety hazards it also sets a reasonable time limit of 36 months or until a home is rebuilt so that this is
a temporary solution rather than a long-term issue as someone who hopes to work in government I see how ordinances like this can directly impact people's lives it is important that madira beach remains proactive in supporting its residents during difficult times and I encourage the city to continue finding
ways to make recovery more accessible and to ensure that those affected by natural disasters have the resources that they need thank you we have any additional public comment Commissioners mayor if I could just jump in here I want to discuss the
issue of what the Planning Commission recommended which is different than what is here Jenny do you want us set the background on that because there was discussion of it by the speaker and I want to make sure that everyone is clear as to what we're doing and what we're not doing in the the ordinance we have here today yes thanks
for bringing that up at the Planning Commission we discussed uh where the RVs would be be placed on um on the properties and one thing that was brought up is a 5 foot setback from the
edge of curb um as well as the RVs being on the person's property so after talking to attorney tras um he advised that we do not go forward with a five foot step back just making that more
stringent um than the Florida Statutes so let me just a little more clarity there the statute says we absolutely cannot prohibit a recreational vehicle from being used as a temporary shelter if these three
criteria in the statute are met what I'm concerned what I was concerned about when I heard that the planning board wanted to add this additional criteria that that the RV had to be at least five foot back on the property line there may be situations where that will not work
and I'm afraid that if we add an additional restriction or condition that is not in the state statute that um we may be challenged on that um and not only that I think you're going to cut out a lot of people we have very small
Lots in madira beach and if you cut out another 5T we may not be able to use that for a recreational vehicle so even though the planning board has recommended that my opinion as your City attorney is is that we should not include that because the statute does not authorize
that so the ordinance that's before you although it did add the language in there about must you must have it on your residential property that's a given in my mind in the statute but we did not include that 5 foot setback
requirement so now that is noted in the uh memorandum by the way at the very bottom of your memorandum just so that you know okay I just just clarifying what it says here under recommendation is not that's the planning board's recommendation planning board you're recommended minus
the five foot setback correct and we've prepared it without the five foot set back okay okay yeah got it yeah uh I'm I'm in favor of this 36 months I think for people to give it have a chance and I like that we're not going to restrict them to 5 feet setback so I agree
forward um I would agree 100% with Mr tras and um with the 36 months I do want to point out however in the nfip um or the yeah mentions 180
consecutive days um just wanted to make sure that that didn't matter um I mean we doing 36 months or or the date of occupancy yes and that comes from the Florida statute yeah word by
word but that's where that comes from for fewer than 180 consecutive days which that's not that's not necessarily realistic if you get if you get started in your reconstruction it may take you some time so uh to even get break ground
that alone so so I'm I'm I support exactly what You' written here Commissioners I I also agree uh I believe uh this ordinance will help uh our citizens minus the uh 5 foot setback
um and the 36 months should be in place uh so yeah I'm I'm for this ordinance as I said minus the set so um if someone's not able to construct their units or sell um
would there be any mechanism for any extension requests after after 36 months so the statute does not provide for that the ordinance will not provide for that so if you wanted to make that change sometime in the future I'm sure
that we would want to have the flood plane manager that we talked to review that request um it's probably not something you want to do you eventually want to get all these recreational vehicles out of your city so you get back to normal yeah of course yeah but but there
are people that may be in dire need of maintaining their RV because of their housing situation they have to have their building permit um all the other requirements have to be made they have to make a good faith effort to rebuild
or renovate their structure including but not limited to applying for a building permit submitting a plan or design and obtaining a construction or obtaining a construction on the very very specifics and then once they get their building permit issued and they start their work they have specific
threshold inspections that have to be done and as you know um and if they're not done within 180 days for example an inspection well then the building permit would be lost so more than likely the structure will be completed within three
years so but thank you I support the measure the change so do we have a motion I'll make a motion to approve ordinance 2025 d05 temporary shelters on residential
property minus the 5 foot setback do we have a second second city clerk would you call the role please Commission commissioner MC yes commissioner gabay yes commissioner Kerr
yes vice mayor tagini yes Brooks yes the motion carry five to zero next on the agenda is ordinance 2025-the and public hearing City attorney mayor Commissioners this is ordinance 20256 an
ordinance of the city of mad Beach Florida amending the Capital Improvements element of the comprehensive plan of the city of madira beach to update the capital Improvement program CIP schedule of Capital Improvements for fiscal years 2025 through 2030 providing for conflict
providing for severability and providing for an effective date that was the first reading of ordinance 2025-the on when you when you voted on the on the budget last fall um basically because of
FL statutes we have to put the cap Improvement improvements program in our uh comprehensive plan and and we uh revise it once a year um our comprehensive plan now it's on on munic code so you can uh see it publicly much
easier um and then our Planning Commission is required to review it and we did the public hearing and they approved it to go forward to you guys on February 3rd
2025 um and the fiscal impact is what what you guys already adopted last fall um and the plan commission and and City staff recommended the approval of ordinance [Music] that's required by State Statute thank
you do we have any public comment with no public comment Commissioners um we've already uh approved the budget but I just want to make a statement that just because it's approved in the budget that's doesn't
mean it's a it's approved um and that I'm really beginning to think that every Capital Improvement every
purchase part of that submission for approval we should have some sort of confirmation that a grant was was at least applied for doesn't have to be received but at least the attempt it should be applied
for so I know that that's not part of this vote but I just want to bring that um bring that up for for an improvement to our process Commissioners uh commissioner CER brings up a great point you know if we can save
money uh through grants then I'm all for that so how do you apply for a grant um I mean would you want to have a grant writer maybe unnotice or
dep that's for the staff and the department to Fig figure out I mean it depend you're going to apply for grants for different in different ways um uh to to to different places one of our most
recent board meetings or maybe it was a workshop uh it was pointed out that we have uh access to a grant writing grant writer um we haven't heard back is that
a monthly fee is that a per per occurrence fee is that a percentage fee we don't know so I we want to follow up with that but you know we we just approved something that was on the
budget the mini excavator which I said in the meeting you know you need good tools you you need this but I'm not not questioning the value I'm questioning can pennies for pelis help offset some of that cost are there
other grants out there that can help offset some of that cost everything that we get in a grant is going to help the residents and that's what we're up here for yes for sure no no doubt just that I I just want
the effort made yes how how do we get there is is what we need to basically formulate right we're not going to decide that here I mean if we need to we will but we need to have that brought to us yes um if it's an annual fee then then that's something we need to discuss
and um but I I want the attempt made that's all no doubt thank you thank you any additional comments do we have a motion I move we approve ordinance 2025
06 do we have a second second city clerk would you call the role please vice mayor tagini yes commissioner gabay yes commissioner McAn yes commissioner Kerr yes Mayor Brooks
yes the motion carry five to zero next on the agenda is ordinance 2025-the and public hearing City attorney thank you may this is ordinance 20257 an ordinance of the city of medier Beach Florida creting section 110- 841 of
subdivision 1 in general of division 13 adult entertainment uses of article 6 supplementary District regulations of chapter 110 zoning of the code of ordinances to prohibit persons under the age of 18 to enter remain or purchase goods or services at an adult
entertainment establishment to prohibit persons under the under 21 years of age to be an employee of an adult entertainment establishment providing for conflict providing for severability providing for codification and providing for an effective date that was the first
reading of ordinance 20257 by title only all right and this went to boc Workshop as well um there's a Florida statute which sets that minimum age for employment at adult establishments um at
21 years of age and that was effective January AR 1st of 2025 so this is really bringing in that Florida statute um so that we comply with that state law do we have any public comment
Commissioners we discussed this at length at the at last Workshop I'm I'm fine with this I'm in favor of anything that makes it difficult as difficult as possible for adult use establishment in Mader Beach
yes do we have a motion like to make a motion Madame mayor to uh approve ordinance 2025 d07 adult use restriction first reading and public hearing do we have a second I'll second city clerk
would you call the role please commissioner gagi yes commissioner McAn yes commissioner cerr yes vice mayor tagini yes Mayor Brooks yes the motion carried 5 to Z next on the agenda is ordinance
[Music] 202-0862 d08 an ordinance of the city of madir Beach Florida adopting a revised appendix a fees and collection procedures Manual of the code of ordinances of the city of madir Beach Florida to added declared disaster of Sanitation fee repealing ordinance
2024-25 providing for conflict codification sever ility and providing for an effective date that was the first reading of ordinance 20258 by title only good evening mayor and Commissioners uh this was discussed at
the workshop this is to help those residents that are displaced in their homes and are not currently utilizing our services to drop that down from $38.75 a month to $10 a month and I'm here for any questions you may have do we have any public
comment commissioners I I'm just in favor I I know that I know many uh of my neighbors will appreciate this who can't live in their homes right now I'm all in favor of um reducing it uh to the $10 I do have a question
though when when do you when does the city pick up the containers once they apply for for the $10 for for the reduced rate once their application would be approved we would then Mark them in our new system as suspended and then we would go
and pick up the containers okay and that's both containers that is correct okay there will be no service during that suspension time right perfect comments I'm in
favor it's very very thoughtful of you know this this city to be um hurting with our residents so I'm in favor of it so I would like to make some comments um I have actually spoken with
several residents who aren't in favor of us reducing the fee and one of the questions that I was asked and that I have asked of Megan is um can we afford to not collect $38.75 on 50% of the properties in Madar
Beach Beach and still maintain our Public Works trash trucks and here's my thought I understand that people are displaced from their home but when you bought your house you knew that as long as your house was standing you would pay
trash service every month and that the only way your trash service could be discontinued was if you demolished your home period so this the budget is built on $38.75 for every house in the city that
was a house for this year and what you're talking about is currently we have 70 plus properties I think the last count I saw was 75 properties that had full demo permits so that 75 properties
in madira beach that will no longer be paying at least five of them are commercial so they were paying more than 78 or more than the um minimum $38.75 so they've lost that Revenue completely and if you take every house
in madira beach that no one is living in and think about it a little bit differently than just not paying 38 the $38.75 when we vote to reduce that down to $10 their trash cans are going to be picked
up the city will not pick up a palm front you can't put any trash out to that road and have it picked up the logistical nightmare for Megan I hope everyone up here understands what
that does for her I've sat with her when she was taking the phone calls and weeding through the information that people think well I don't have trash anymore but I still have debris from my tree that's got to be picked up and they're going to put it out to the road
and no one's going to get it and you're going to get a phone call that they didn't pick up the debris because you know they put it out there but they're not going to pick anything up nothing's going to be done and there will be challenges and there will be complaints and there will be people
unhappy because they won't fully understand that my other concern so I'm very concerned about the financial side of it because when you eliminate that dollar amount from the budget of which people knew they would
have to pay no matter what you're also the truck's not going to quit driving driving the number of people that are on that truck is not going to stop the amount of what we do isn't changing the truck is still going to run up and down that road every time it did before it's
just not going to stop at that house I will say that the new software that Megan has that we voted for is pretty fantastic because when the driver gets to that location and there's an issue they're on hold and there's debris out
there they are able bble to Market and she can sit at her desk and look when someone calls and say well you don't get you're on hold this is so I think there's going to be a lot of a lot of issues that are going to come up she's got some great tools for her but again I
do have a concern about where are we going to be if our income drops below what our what our payout is to run that portion of her department and how are we going to pay for that so think about that because if she comes back before us
and I'm not saying I'm going to vote against it but I think that everybody here should understand what you're voting for so if she comes back in six months and she's out of money and can't pay her staff because the reduction of
$38 74 C which I understand can mean a lot to an individual that's not living in their home so don't take it that I don't recognize that it also means a lot to a a property owner who owns multiple properties in the city or owns a duplex
or a Triplex that has two or three trash cans at one address but when she comes back if she has to and asks for money remember that we took this money away from her budget and she'll need that money back and if she has issues
with the community we need to be super supportive of her and her staff because I do believe that there will be challenges for you based off what I've seen in just the last few weeks is this reduction in it's not
indefinite so can we put a time limit the so it says on here and I'd like to say this so that it's said for the public also that to get your trash service stopped you have to have applied for a new building permit so you can't
just have your house sitting there and stop your trash service you've got to apply for a rebuild permit to be able to get the trash stopped and then the trash will get stopped until they get their final permit and then their trash will go back
automatically correct I'm not sure if that's what yeah I'm sorry yes now I have another question um so it says the fiscal impact is unknown at this time is there been a like a just close summary of like how much are we going to lose
and I mean that should be just numbers we could figure out so for every 100 properties just to simplify I'm just rounding so the loss and revenue is approximately $30 per household so for every times 12 months is
$360 for every 100 properties that's $36,000 so if it's 500 properties it's 5times 36,000 excuse me 180,000 and we're not if we have 500
properties but we don't know we have an idea that there are likely a few a few hundred that would qualify but going into the future there's no way to determine that some are still using their cans for trash and they may want
to going forward today I spoke with a lady who walked this morning U into City Hall and inquired about what can I do about my utilities and I explained well there's a discussion this evening about lowering the city's trash bill from this
amount to this amount and we did receive one phone call today so I mean that came to the front to the lobby so we've probably had I mean between Megan and I probably 20 people call and ask to have their
trash that fee waved completely in reality but we're proposing just to lower it Megan based on the the broad numbers Mr Gomez gave and I knew you'd have numbers does that seem like it's going to be a massive hit to your your
budget I think that it's unknown honestly still unknown it is because I feel like the phone calls ramp up more along whenever people receive their penel County bills and then they they look to at first a few months ago they were still utilizing their sanitation
for the removal of small items from their homes and now maybe if they're in the midst of waiting for a permit or rebuilding they're not utilizing those services so they're trying to cut as much as they can so as Robin said we've they're kind of maybe one a day or
so and some of them totally understand and others are a little upset I just think that with the the number of requirements specific requirements that have to be in place before this can happen it's not going to be the worst possible scenario where every single
person that's eligible is going to ask that they have their utilities bill reduced there's going to be some but I don't think it's going to be the worst possible scenario where every body so because of all those uh because of all those conditions I I still feel like this is something we should
do I have a comment Oh please how many do you know how many substantial damage letters went out that are going to require rebuilding I would defer to the planning and zoning department or Robin for that answer we have issued
1,130 substantial damage letters and a large percent percentage of those obviously need some type of repair not repair rebuild are you're you're asking over the 50% rule how many have been no over the over the 50% R what I'm saying is
how many homes are going to be re mandated to rebuild we will have to come back to you with that answer we don't have that okay because they're they're gonna a they're going to have to find a place for those cans because they're going to just get
stolen as they rebuild their home um we're talking about a reduction of $28.7 not 3874 because the $10 is to maintain the the gas and the trucks basically um so I
don't know how much of that 3874 is tipping fees and which you're not don't have anymore on that amount um the um restrictions are pretty pretty tight you have to have a uh demolition
permit if you're repairing your structure I would imagine the bulk of those individuals are not going to want to are not going to want to just eliminate their discontinue their trash service because they're only going to be
out for a month or two at most I would think and most permits now have been issued so they're they want to get back into their home and they want to if they're not already back in their home um so for for if you're GNA if you're going
to demo or raise your home you really don't have any any services so to pay for a service you're not really receiving you know you're you're you're paying uh
25% um to maintain just just the same way the pelis County Utilities do they reduce your water and sewer but they don't elimate at because there's a base that they need to keep um
and I would remind the board that the sanitation this this um line item ran in the deficit for years before the previous commission raised the rates so it's it's not going
to it's not going to the sanitation division is not going to go away it would just be mement it by the general fund um you're not going to put any anybody out of out of a job that's not what I that's not what I was saying
however on your $10 that so for a house that's completely demoed yeah they pay zero that $10 they pay zero this ordinance is being changed so that we can um allow houses that aren't being
completely demoed to have their services reduced to $10 a month correct because the only way to currently stop the sanitation fees are if a complete demolition permit is received for the property okay my okay thank you for
clarifying that I thought that if you were demoing your home you still had it a maintenance fee okay thank you for clarifying that mayor can I make another comment please um I although I'm in favor of this uh I I would like to see before the second
reading a kind of a cost evaluation can can we take the hit I would like to have that before I make my second vote yeah we've requested information from penel County but unfortunately didn't receive it in time so we'll have that I mean just use General scenarios it's not
going to be every single person what's good you know somebody with informed with with information can make informed decisions uh and calculations so again I'm I'm in favor of this by the second vote I'd like to see a cost evaluation well this appears to be a tough decision
because we want to feel for the residents but at the same time we also need to worry about our budget um could we table this a chance to get more information and then don't want to table this because of the advertising it's so
it's the first reading you're gonna have a second chance okay so the second reading will determine exactly what we're doing okay yeah that's why I said I wanted that cost evaluation because no matter how I vote here I might change my mind depending on
that I just thought that it was important we think about those things yeah both are valid points also um and you know are we flexible with the $10 I mean can we do it to 18 or 15 or
you know something like that we can just you know take a look at those numbers also um if we can come to some sort of a halfway agreement you know that still helps the citizens of madira beach but also
um brings money into the sanitation department so we don't really have to stick at 10 we can move it around a little bit so and you can do that at the second reading we would just make make note of that and uh finalize just so
long as you know we don't um increase it right when we're saying we're decreasing it so so one last thing um there's no timeline on this I mean I understand that when you get a permit for a remodel that the
permit only lasts so long but you could extend it so I'd like to see a timeline on it we put a timeline on the um recreational vehicles so there should be a timeline here so that a resident doesn't just extend out the permit I
mean I can't I I can't imag imagine somebody doing that but there's always the chance that someone would OCC occupancy permit why you get your occupancy no no no I'm saying that if somebody gets a permit but doesn't do the work and they just they're just letting their property sit there and
using the permit as a placeholder if the permit expires then they're they go we go back to billing them it has to be an active permit but you stated if they continue to extend I think we would address that with the res with the property owner and find out what they're looking to do do
but I I understand what saying it's really up to you if you want to set a timeline I think we're going to review this just like the uh the permit fees that was set for one year we're going to review that later this year we can certainly do that with this and bring
you back and give give you periodic updates as to where we are are what has happened so do we have a motion I move uh we approve ordinance 2025 08 fees and collections manual do we
have a second I'll second city clerk would you call the role please vice mayor tagini yes commissioner Kerr yes commissioner mcgean yes commissioner Gabi yes Mayor
Brooks yes the motion carry five to Zer we have no unfinished business so next on the agenda is contracts and agreements Public Works satellite building department design good evening again as we spoke about in
the workshop um I am bringing forth the cost to start Engineering Services for the public works slat satellite buildings slash possible Fire Department training facilities over at our current
Public Works Yard located at 505 150th Avenue um with this uh we will have the the mechanic will come back on onto the island um the current idea is to have three Bays one of which will be able to
fit fire trucks and also the garbage trucks and then to permanently have the mechanic on this side of the island I know it may seem like Bay Pines isn't too far but in all reality in the midst of the afternoon travel it is a nightmare to get over there not to
mention it's highly dangerous so we would then um currently myself and Ally are here at City Hall temporarily and really would love to move back over to where my staff is so that would house a office for myself a lobby area with a
reception area a break room because currently we the public works department does not have an AC or heat or a bathroom facility where we currently are so in the midst of a thousand degrees outside my staff doesn't get to cool
down and whenever it's freezing outside if there's a room here at City Hall we have one over here and when I say we I join them every day for lunch so we would really love to be able to build a building to house all of those items and to be able to have just a better working
public works department do we have any public comment Commissioners I'll start sorry it looks like the of a budget of 1.5 million but Engineering Services is offering to
do it for 62,000 am I reading that wrong no we have $500,000 in the building department and a million in the public works department but this is just for the Design Services once we complete the design service will then go out to bid for construction got it so we're hoping that we would start
construction in this fiscal year um in an earlier segment we were looking at budgets and we have a budget of a million dollar this year and a million dollars next year for a total of two million for this Public Works building
services facility um I'm all about supporting Public Works and fire but I also
ran on making this Marina which is the entrance to our city something more than an an industrial location industrial look um I know we've looked for property
for the for the public works but I don't know that we've hired a real estate state agent in any of those months or years that we've looked maybe you can address that um
so the only the only time property is be become available is when I brought to the attention of a couple of properties that were offsite um and we made a lot of inroads on one of those um
but it was sold out from under us um so I can't support it being here now that being said if the other I'm only one voice and if the other four Commissioners or four three Comm everyone else on the
board wanted to vote this in my only input would be to try to position this building instead of in the middle of what is called now the Public Works area to be pushed to this to the seaw wall or
something to be able to still try to maximize the marina area and make it what I Envision um which would be a a location that guests and residents could
appreciate and and enjoy not a not a working um Marina why do we why is the building positioned as it is I mean how much of this Geo how much of this area is actually
going to have uh engineering as far as a boring the Geo booring to see um where the building could be or what how many pilings would be needed or the foundation structure um I remember seeing this years ago in a board meeting
and this is a metal building how much geoengineering do you need for metal building I don't it will not be a metal building it will be a concrete building and the and the boring samples are included in on the engineering right but it would just be for the for the
footprint of the building then correct right well why is the building have to be in the middle of the of the space why couldn't it be near the seaw wall drive-through base and for other storage and other areas is working
of the yard we have many different things that happen in that public works yard that we have to make sure that whenever we design that building and the layout of that building works with the best possibility of what we are I know that that area may seem like it's quite large but in all reality for what we are
currently utilizing it for it gets very tight in there and we already have boats in there and it they've hit our vehicles several times so yeah I'm I'm against having the boats in there it should be in my opinion it should be an attra traction not it shouldn't be just a storage yard it's the first thing you
see when you come over the bridge and previous boards have tried to hide it with with solid fencing it just it makes it to me it it looks like a salvage yard and that's the first thing you see when you come in and
and um I couldn't make it to the meeting on the 28th here um I had a granddaughter we born that day and um but I did watch it and I believe that
the residents this is this was one of the things that they you they they they talked about when we just come across the bridge and this is this is our entrance to our city and and I mean it
wasn't highlighted a lot during that meeting but it's one of the parts of the master plan but once it's there it's there so it'll be there forever and um I can't support it being there I I don't I don't think we've taken our our due diligence and trying
to find a location that's not in the marina grounds and and you've said yourself it's I'm tired of waiting I get it but I don't know that we're we're we've taken the actions to try to find a property that's more suitable we
have and just to make a point to that we've we've gone the med de Beach garage when it was for sale it was sold out from underneath us then uh Garrett Plumbing it was sold out from underneath us and we've spent countless money I can't even tell you on different
appraisals to purchase properties to look at properties to purchase and they've all sold from underneath us so we have taken time to look for properties that would be suitable for maybe we need to look at the way we're buying property how how come it keeps getting sold out from unders if it's the process we need to be
able to at least and you Robin and I have talked about it we need the city has to have a way to at least get a deposit or a letter of intent as it goes through the process for approval I can't change what the
properties of sold for now but we can't purchase a property to try to make it utilized for what we need it for if it won't work it will just be a waste of money but we've never had a have we ever had a realtor looking for property for us we have I've reached out to my woff
um he had property for sale but unfortunately there was letters of attent on both of them that's just my input Commissioners comments um do we have competitor fees
did did did you have to get another like three bids for this project this is one of our engineer of Records we went out to bid in 2023 I believe for these engineer records okay uh to commissioner Kerr's um statement just looking at the
geotechnical report it just seems a bit High you know having a couple of let's say five borings it just seems pretty high as far as cost for that GE technical the rest of it I don't have any problem but geot technical seems to
be just way up there and as far as meeting FEMA would this be flood proofed or or will this be FL flood proof it would be drrive flood proof it would meet all of the standards we've already met with Jenny talked about what we would need to
have we would ensure that would meet all the standards all of our codes and you'd have to bring water and sewer to it will you have you have restrooms obviously right there used to be a building on that property and it was demolished back in 2010 2011 because the city didn't want to spend the money
to repair the roof leak so instead of repairing the roof leak they decided to demolish that building and then combine the marina and Public Works under the same director so then the Public Works director Marina director worked out of the marina until in
201 19 I believe it was separated again and then the marina was its own department and Public Works were separated so it's been through quite some change but for as long as we've known that's been the Public Works Yard where it currently sits so there will be
I mean I mean there's gravity sewer available there is sewer on there already water lines and Sewer lines already correct fire hydrant for fire protection there's a fire hydrant on the property okay thank you Hi Megan
hi we had discussed um doing a lot of different things with the marina as far as making it more accessible to the citizens or people that wanted to come into to the city um and I agree I totally agree with you
with the amount of work that uh you do that you need your own uh building definitely now my just my question is is uh this whole do you need I mean have you really excuse me you need that whole
Space there we currently utilize that whole Space yes all that space there yes and in order to bring the mechanic back over here we have to have a certain amount of space okay base for him to work in okay thank you welcome so I have a few things that I'd like to say first
off um I know that you're not responsible for the marina yard however the marina yard sure has come a long way over the last several years and it did used to look like a hodg Podge mess and it sure
does not anymore I mean I stand on my balcony at my house and I look at it and it the changes are amazing when commissioner Kerr brought up um the residents bringing up coming over the bridge and his comments on
coming over the bridge and what you see when you come over the bridge you have the fish house that we have no control over how that place looks and it is full of derel boats and fishing boats so I
hope that people don't see that and I'm not I have no issue whatsoever with that fish house because a working Fish House in my mind is a wonderful thing in our city that's what built this city is the fishermen so when you come across and you see that people should be mindful
that that's not the city that is somebody else's private property and how they maintain their yard is on them and then the next building that you see is the pump station that we also have no control over how that looks or how that
is maintained or whether it is an eyesore and then you come to the um exterior of the marina lot which I think they have done a really nice job Krabby has done a really nice job there in keeping it maintained um it's orderly
when there are Fisher people come in and they Park their vehicles there with their trailers during the day it's kept nice it's maintained well the fence looks good the fence is necessary for protection of the boats that are in the
Boatyard so I don't foresee us ever having a time where there's no fence there because it you and it locks so that gate closes at night and locks and it locks not only for the protection of those um boats that are stored there but also for the protection of the people
who live on their boats in our Marina legally um I've been to the public works yard I've watched you work over there and I see the equipment and I mean that's where you store all the trash cans and um the uh building that they
have currently to work out of is abysmal it is just I mean it flooded during the hurricane so um and I do know that you've looked and tried to make arrangements for other properties in the
city and I see I mean we don't know what you will present us in a building but I can see where this building could be a beautiful building that's placed there and beauty doesn't cost any more than
ugly it's just how you make it look and paint it right so I mean we've paid rent off the island for how many years 2010 11 and we
have um you've been looking for property for that many years me personally I've been looking for property for three or four years four years okay so I mean I do think that it's time that we make a decision
and make a move forward there in our previous administration um there was talk and look about building a Marina and that was found to be not costeffective so we know that that is not something the other thing I want to bring up is that and it was in our last
meeting there was a conversation about a uh having a restaurant at the marina and it was found that we can't have a restaurant at the marina even though that building was built to have a restaurant put on top of it there is a condition in our lease agreement
with uh it's a it's in the deed it's in the deed that we can't do that so I think that it would be good and mindful of us to put that out of our minds of of what we could or couldn't do there there's things we're not going to be able to do there it is the way it is it's the way it was written many years
ago and that's not changing when it comes to beautification there's lots of things we can do for beautification somebody brought up in the Saturday meeting um having picnic tables and things like that to be a for people to be able to come to the marina
there are picnic tables at the marina there are beautiful tables that you can sit out on the deck and watch the water and so it's already there um um utilizing it is just a matter of making that a something with the rec department or the marina starting some new but that
doesn't have anything to do with what we're voting on today what we're voting on today is Public Works having a proper building to be able to work out of and when I first looked at it I had the same question well why is the stinking building sitting right in the middle of the piece of property and then it dawned
on me that the only way you would get the vehicles in and out is you would need the drive-through Bay and I think it's exciting to have the possibility of the fire department over there doing training to have something else for them we took away their gym so they'll gain
something else and that's wonderful I support it do we have a motion I'm not I move that we com you want to comment okay okay um yes the mayor is absolutely right the the property is broken up into different
sections none of those sections say we cannot have a restaurant they say it has to be in the interest of the fisherman or how it's phrased in a different different way and just because decades ago that
was we talked about petitioning a the state or whoever to be able to still have a restaurant or other facilities that
would uh supplement the the fishermen it's all about the fishermen they want to keep it as a working Marina um I get that but it would there's nothing in there that says we can't have a restaurant as far as I I recall
um the question on this engineering have we applied for any grants Robin we have provide we've applied for State funding for this yes for an appropriation okay for the engineering
and and for the for the for the building for the construction we can either it would probably most likely be construction of the building okay can we apply for the it's $100,000 in $90,000 in engineering can we apply for that Grant that's not a
small sum we can look into it okay um and I'm not picking on you just you always you have most of the capital requirements and being in public works
but that's going to be an ongoing theme um about grants so um and um that's really my two comments thank you anything
further do we have a motion I move that we approve the engineering Proposal with penon for the public works building in the amount of $6,050 do we have a second second second city clerk would you call the role
please vice mayor tagini yes commissioner gabay yes commissioner MC yes commissioner Kerr no Mayor Brooks yes the motion carried 4 to one next on the agenda is triaa Florida
traffic safety Grant yes all right promise last time you'll see me up here tonight I hope um yeah before you is the AAA safety Grant we were fortunate enough to receive it last year
we got the H Hydro painting machine that parking uses Public Works uses we Ed it for uh marking off various areas um this year Fire Marshall Perez applied for it again and usually that doesn't happen to get it two years in a row but he was
fortunate enough to do that and what that includes is five portable reflective speed bumps uh five additional reflective collapsible cones one 3-foot diamond shaped road sign with a 4ft stand that reads emergency ahead uh two electric
vehicle plugin to shut down the battery current through the it's a electric vehicle like uh you plug it into the plug to charge it and it deactivates it is essentially what that is and so um after Helen and Milton and I that's
probably going to be used the most those two plugs but yeah that's what is presented to you this evening do we have any public comment commission any comments questions great job Chief thank you
thank you and again uh stuff that we could use for the Wednesday morning markets or anything else you know it doesn't have to be strictly pigeon hold Into the Fire Department thank you yes thank you do we have a
motion I'll make a motion to approve the triaa FL Florida traffic safety Grant do we have a second second city clerk would you call the role please commissioner cerr yes vice mayor tagini yes commissioner McAn yes
commissioner Gab yes Mayor Brooks yes the motion carry 5 to zero next on the agenda is approve the saltwater destination agreement Second Amendment thank you mayor mayor and commission this is the item for our
beach equipment concessionaire they provide chairs and umbrellas out in front of at archal Park on the sand uh this is a their second amendment an extension a five-year agreement from
October of 24 through October of 2029 really the only there no other changes the agreement remains um the same as previously the National Park Service had no issues with the continuing The Five-Year agreement it's
our intent at the conclusion that we would we will issue a request for proposals do we have any public comment City Commission [Music] comments do we have a
motion I'll make a motion to approve the saltwater destination Beach equipment concessions agreement do we have a second second city clerk would you call the role please commissioner Kerr yes
commissioner mcgean yes commissioner gabay yes vice mayor tagini yes Mayor Brooks yes yes the motion carry 5 to zero next on the agenda is rebuilding madira Beach Advanced engineering yes mayor and commission we
discussed this will be I believe the third time or at the third meeting uh our process as we were concluding or as our uh con engineer of record Advanced engineering was concluding our watershed management plan they did point out it would be a good time after the two
storms to begin to address the future of the possibilities the tools the strategies that we may use to alleviate future flooding in our city as I've had discussions uh with all on the
commission the this is obviously going to we due to rising sea levels and other components we're going to see more just tidal king tide or high tide flooding uh that has continued to increase over the last 20 plus years and forecast that it
will continue through at least 2050 so at this point this item is to contract with an engineer of record Advanced engineering and design to proceed to do the study to give us really the tools the possibilities what could we use in
the future to help alleviate whether that's a combination of fill uh with elevating more structures elevating roads all of those uh tools and strategies so that's the item the funding is through from our storm water
fund so it's not out of the general fund we're I believe it's a four month project four or five months the schedule's on here and the consult the our engineer of record is here Justin who presented the
last couple of times in his uh staff be happy to answer any questions do we have any public comment commissioners um I'm happy to see this come before the board just like our master plan you have
to have a you have to have a plan and I think this would present that opportunity and now that so many homes are going to be rebuilt or elevated in our community that there there's no time like the present to to get this
implemented um if we do come to some understandings of some some base ground levels uh elevations for homes that we we get this uh discussed uh the sooner the better and um I I
support I support the plan Commissioners I also support this I think it's going to be a great team um with Advanced engineering and madira Beach I'm looking forward to this and thank you very much thank
you Justin made an amazing presentation last time uh Advanced engineering is a very good team good firm um design is going to be challenging and I know Justin and his team will be able to do a
good job for us we need to obviously keep the floors or not not necessarily habitable floors but garage floors as high as possible and it has to be in relationship to the road and the slope and so forth and so on so it will be challenging but I'm I'm
confident that Justin with and his team can handle that I um had conversation with Jenny this week and I had a lot of questions um and a lot of them had come out of conversations with residents and about
the process and we all know you have to start somewhere and it would have been wonderful to have done this a year ago or two years ago but what I did get out of our conversation that I really um thought was very encouraging is given the timeline that we have and where we
are today um because our ordinances allow Phill and the way that it's worded is vague once this study is complete and it all comes back of course to implement it
we'll have to do ordinances and all such as that but what Jenny and her team will get is an understanding of what type of fill we can go with you correct me if I get this wrong now and that so come June or July people who are submitting for
permits on houses we will be able to implement what's coming out of this study long before we actually write the ordinances so we're going to capture this there's 75 currently five are are commercial so there's 70 homes in madira
that are currently slated to be demolished and rebuilt and it's very likely that we'll capture the majority of those homes in this study and be able to have them as part of the buildup so I think that's
pretty fantastic I I thought that was a good um takeaway from the meeting that we had and so I support it anything further do we have a motion Madame mayor I'd like to make a
motion to approve rebuilding Madera Beach advance engineering do we have a second a second city clerk would you call the role please commissioner gabay yes vice mayor tagini yes commissioner McAn yes
commissioner Kerr yes Mayor Brooks yes the motion carry 5 to zero next on the agenda is emergency Bridge Loan program request for application great thank you when we discussed this the workshop that seemed to meet with resounding approval by
simply the concept of an interest free loan so this would be uh covering our operating shortfalls due to Hurricane damage all I'm requesting at this point is that you provide me with the authorization to go through the
application process we're not going to uh commence any sort of debt obligation at that point we're just going to apply go through that process and then come back to you for another uh approval based on more of the specifics in terms
of potential amount uh and then terms of repayment and so on and so forth so um hoping this will be a slam dunk as we discussed before um but yes want to confirm that it's a two-step process and this is for an interest free borrowing
uh from the state through this emergency Bridge Loan program we'll answer questions if you have any do we have any public comment Commissioners questions Mr Laughlin you out did yourself on this onek sweetheart no this is there there's
there's no downside in my opinion Commissioners great job y can't beat free money free interest money with that do we have a motion I make a motion to approve the
emergency Bridge Loan program do we have a second second city clerk would you call the role please commissioner McAn yes vice mayor tagini yes commissioner Kerr yes
commissioner gabay yes Mayor Brooks yes the motion Carri five to zero next on the agenda is new business resolution 20251 public records exemption for municipal clerks and employees who perform municipal elections work or have
a part in Code Enforcement functions of the city city attorney thank you mayor this is resolution 2025 j01 a resolution of the of the Board of Commissioners of the city of madir Beach Florida urging the Florida state legislature to enact legislation to provide a public records exemption for municipal clerks and
employees perform Municipal elections work or have any part in the code enforcement functions of a city and providing for an effective date hereof that was reading resolution 2025-the some background on this this has been circulating amongst the cities
here um Statewide here and in Statewide um the basic idea is is to give the city clerk the same exemption uh that a lot of um Code Enforcement Officers human resource city
managers um a lot of other individuals have protections but the city clerk does not and as you know and you have seen in federally how elections workers have been challenged and threatened um this is one way of
protecting our city clerk and her staff um if we can get this exemption passed and just as a reminder when you look at the public uh record statute you know it's only about a page or two long and
there are about 20 pages of exemptions that we apply when we have a public records request so there are significant amount of exemptions why the city clerk is not included I don't know um my recommendation is approval for this to protect Clara and
her staff um so it would merely be that they would protect uh for example her home address um and it all depends how is actually worded but it could be the home address telephone numbers name um and
other other information that would would allow individuals to find our city clerk at home or our Deputy city clerk at home which we don't want so and I don't know if Clair has any additional information that she wants to provide it will tell
you that this resolution has been adopted recently um in one of the other cities that I represent um I'm looking forward to it being adopted here too got to say in the past there were a couple times that I was that I had been
threatened and one I lived in the city and I moved it's not I don't think it's a good idea for clerks to live in the city where they do their elections because of what happens but this this exemption would really
help a lot do we have any public comment Commissioners comments it seems uh like a good idea to me makes great sense
definitely yep pretty straightforward then do we have a motion move that we pass resolution 2025 -01 public records exemption for municipal clerks and employees who perform Municipal elections
work do we have a second second city clerk would you call the role please vice mayor tagini yes commissioner gay yes commissioner Kerr yes commissioner mcgean yes Mayor Brooks yes the motion
Carri five to zero next on the agenda is city manager post storm work I can can I start proed so I asked Robin for this because um we all received an email from him giving us some dates that he and his
family stayed at City Hall after Hurricane helain and the reason I wanted to discuss it here in the open in the sunshine for public record to know is that we're all aware that after helain
hit our city manager lost his home and he stayed at City Hall for a number of weeks he did not he is not living in City Hall as has been portrayed on social media I don't consider that he
ever lived here he stayed here and I was here every day with him and I witnessed what he did and I want I want the public to know what he was doing so for those days that he was staying at City Hall sleeping on a blowup mattress on the floor in his
office that his wife and daughter stayed a few nights here and there with him he was here working until late hours at night he was opening the comfort center in the morning for residents to be able
to have a place to come and get C drink and ice and charge their phones he virtually was working 24 hours a day 7 days a week and it really really appalls me that anyone would want
to tarnish him and say things that aren't true when he was serving the community day in and day out seven days a week and he's not perfect I'm not perfect I don't
think y'all might think y'all are perfect but I'm here to tell you but he was here and dedicated to this community and he offered for people to stay here at City Hall if they didn't have a place to stay he offered residents a a Haven
and I think we should be commending him and not trying to tear him down for it and I really just felt like it was important because social media and I've said I've said more than one one time several times up here that I bring up topics that are in social media because
it's a terrible place that people go and they will Fester things that just aren't true and when things like that happen I want to bring it out into the public because I want to try to stop it I know we can't control all social media we can't control all the negativity that's
in our community but we should stand beside our city manager and stand up for him because he Stood Beside and up for all of us and I appreciate that and I wanted us to be able to say that publicly I could just take a step
further and say that he worked seven days a week for many weeks in a row and did not charge us overtime yeah I mean I think it's appalling some of the comments that I I don't subscribe to that social media but people send them to me yes just appalling they have no information about what actually happened
so thank you Mr Gomez for all that hard work May and as always thank you for your continued support and it was just a tough situation but we we're moving through it and and the staff has been excuse me obviously helping out quite a
bit and I couldn't be happier to have all the staff I know most of them left for the day but I really do appreciate them appreciate your support and just for the record there's no mattress in his office anymore he deflated the blowup it's gone good story hopefully
hopefully you'll never need it again I make a comment yes ma'am um while he was staying here a lot of the nights because I was in that the laser fish project they had had just built it out and I was trying to work out a lot of you know find a lot what needed to be straightened out and everything because
it was new but I worked very late and Robin was still working yep he was on the phone with people working on his computer and I'm telling you he it was I didn't see him laying on a mattress or anything but I saw him sometimes 1:00 in
the morning still working so I got to say he he does work tirelessly to help people he really does and I would tell him you need to go home and rest or you know whatever you know but he put the city first yes he did and I thought that
was wonderful thank you the city is blessed to have you Robin thank you thank you thank you okay so next on the agenda is the agenda setting for February 26 and I'll just hand that over to you Robin right so this is excuse me mayor and commission
on February 26 we will have a joint Workshop the Board of Commissioners with our Civil Service Commission that will begin at 4 o'clock and that's mainly to go over the the near essentially the finalized employee Personnel policy and
a couple three ordinances one the Personnel policy the commission the Civil Service Commission duties and then a process for posttermination hearings and a hearing officer so that'll be on February the 26th beginning at
4M uh for that joint Workshop then if you want me to go to the any questions or I don't have any any questions then the agenda setting for our next workshop two weeks from today U
and I apologize some of these are kind of re repeated but we will have a post hurricane update as we have on the recovery rebuild where we are with permitting any updates from FEMA the Florida Division of Emergency Management Etc um discussion on an information officer
possibility for uh the city to have a kind of like a public information officer um in future budgets um the task force committee I think was brought up by a couple of Commissioners in the past so we can
discuss that uh key to the City discussion the we will have a fiscal 25 Financial update from Andrew as well as look at all of our storm damage assessment and that'll include all the department heads to give updates on
where we are with damages such as this building the rec center the marina Etc all the the majority of that is public works but we'll have that update uh City street ends project uh the they are City street ends in the boaa neighborhood
that we have discussed uh in the past kind of took a little bit of a of a pause uh due to the storms now we're looking to finalize uh we do have one change that is being proposed we will discuss that during the the workshop um
purchase uh invitation to bid for rear rearload replacement dumpsters and then dumpster purchase approval I don't see Megan but I think they are two separate items Robin could we get um just to have an update on the jetty the dredging and the
military court of honor that all three of those yeah any questions Commissioners on that next on the agenda is reports and correspondence Board of Commissioners 2025 Bo meeting schedule mayor if I might yes um I've come across unexpected
Ed conflict with our April meetings if you look at April we're supposed to meet with a regular meeting on the 9th and then on the 23rd we have a budget workshop and a regular Workshop those are the only two days that I have those conflicts I could go the Wednesday
before or the Wednesday after on either one so what I'm asking is if the board would consider moving April from the 9th to the 16th and the 23rd to the 30th uh that still leaves us a week between our next
meeting uh just that would get rid of all my conflicts or you could go the weeks before April 2nd and April 16th you could go so any day but the 9th and 23rd any Wednesday so I could do the 2
and the 16th I couldn't do the um 20 the 30th has one that's my input how does that for I'm also flexible mayor I have a conflict on on
the 16th I have the Safety Harbor code enforcement board that begins at 6:30 I could do the other or I can have some cover my the meeting for me whatever is your choice I don't know of any conflict thank you colleagues I
appreciate that so just to be to clarify we would have the commission regular meeting on Wednesday April the 2nd beginning at 6 pm and then our budget workshop and regular Workshop meeting would be on
Wednesday April the 16th budget Workshop beginning at 4 pm and the regular workshop at 6 pm. that seems good y thank you thank you Claire will update the calendar and
we'll updated everywhere any other comments on the calendar so I will have to have someone to cover the 16 I'm sorry okay they won't be able to fill your shoes so next on the agenda is City attorney
I'm sorry I I just wanted to oh just uh just real quick um I'm sorry um today is commissioner Kerr's birthday so wanted to oh wish him a happy birthday you should have asked to have
this meeting rescheduled yeah he wanted to say happy birthday also Happy Valentine's Day um I I think we're a member of Tampa Bay Regional planning council is that correct that is correct
so um who attends that I do do you attend that would you like to no I served on that board for six years and it's a wonderful board they're great people just uh just wanted to just be sure someone was serving on that
board and then one other item I have here and and it's been a subject of you know talking to Citizens and things in that nature um as far as the uh limitation for the city manager
spending um is that something we need to set on the schedule to discuss at some point or I'm just C just curious uh commissioner do they want to raise it or lower it because we we didn't it wasn't that long ago we had a conversation
about it I feel there were some changes made to the procurement ordinance uh specifically bidding at we removed the Professional Services exemption from our ordinance but there were no changes made
to the the level the spending levels so I mean pretty much we're at I think it's 2500 or anything under 2500 or 5,000 I'd have to look at the or or Andrew might know but anything under that just simply
requires um can be done a p just a regular purchase most of those are done using the city's purchasing cards then up to 30,000 just requires the three quotes anything over 30,000 requires a bid right so I can only approve
purchases up to 29,000 uh $999 999 cents based on the Departments having obtained three quotes for purchases exceeding 5,000 5000 between 5,000 to
2999999 so anything over 30,000 must be bid out there are ex ex certain exceptions if it's a sole source emergency those types of exceptions to it or utilizing an existing bid but yeah I mean I'm however if you
want to discuss it at a future Workshop I'm fine just a thought so so again you know there are a lot of people talking out there and it's just good to put it out there in the public and they can all see this just I'm I'm very familiar with this discussion because we haven't it
was just on the last board that we had this discussion uh I I just I think continue to listen to your residents uh but it's it's not a it's not an old ruling we've we've talked about it in the last couple years
you want to have a discussion about that well you know I mean just just to bring some sort of a comfort level to to this to the residents that's for an understanding of the process and all that yeah okay that's not a bad
idea you want me to add it to the next Workshop yes if you would also I think it's uh important the sooner the better as the weather gets warmer that we uh address Us in the near future the uh mosquito
control U as it gets warmer and the the pools that the abandoned houses that still have their Pools full now they're they're black and with Barnacles in them um the they make perfect areas for
mosquitoes to breed and that definitely could affect our children our pets and madira Beach citizens so uh the sooner the better for that and that's actively with our code enforcement yeah they're going out and identifying they actually
went on the boat this past week to identify specifically docks and seaw walls but I think they did identify a couple of pools as you stated commissioner so but we'll that's an ongoing for code enforcement anything
further now City attorney thank you uh as you know this City had filed a lawsuit against wner maker Jensen and Hennessy Construction for um issues that have been occurring at the fire station and at the rec center um we've so far
had three mediations uh the last mediation uh was fairly successful um we'd like to bring to you a settlement proposal to settle that litigation I'll be ask I'm asking for a
shade meeting to be set to disc discuss those settlement negotiations on February 26th at 300 p.m. so if it's scheduled correctly you would have the shade meeting from 3: to 4: from 4: to 6 you would have the joint
workshop with the Civil Service Commission and at 6 PM you would have your your your normal or regular Workshop meeting I don't expect the shade meeting to take more than an hour those people that will be present will obviously be uh the commission the city
manager myself and one of the attorneys from Carlton Fields who's been representing the city in the litigation and he will bring us up to speed um and hopefully get some direction from you if we're successful in getting some direction then we'll be bringing it back
to you for settlement approval at the March 12th commission meeting so any objections to the shade meeting on February 26th at 3M Tom uh I'll be coming in hot that day from work and I
won't be here till just in time for the four o'clock Workshop is it possible to have I don't know if you ever do it with just oneon-one or is it is it an requirement that everybody be there it is not a requirement that everybody be there but I I do have to have at least three of the commission there and I'd be
happy to talk to you about the settlement uh anytime before then or after then if you if not able to make it thank you yeah any objections to that time and date I don't have an issue all right thanks so we'll go ahead and send the notice out then and we'll be prepared
for that meeting thank you next on the agenda is city clerk report February 2025 yes as you can see I did a um an annual report a meeting report for the Board of Commissioners so I hope you had
an opportunity to look at that and I can modify it how you please and I added the um ordinance index and the resolution index and I thought that would be very
helpful referring back to things and I've also added these two with the ordinance indexes and the resolution indexes of course is in laser fish and I want to do this every year for the Board of Commissioners and just keep it going at each
meeting do you have any ideas or what you would like to see or Chang let me know this is really good a lot of good information all one place yeah I try to group all the items together if you got you know explains what agreements and contracts we approved and going through
the uh minutes you know anything that got added at the meeting is there you know and you know what you visited and then before the workshop items I have our ongoing list at each regular meeting to what topics you won't discussed at
the workshops and you can just go through oh you know I'd like to talk about that again or we haven't got to that yet or but we pretty much do cover everything you know but at least you know when and I uh we have regular meeting indexes of course it's real big I would have convert it down but I'm
going to get it in um laser fish it goes way back you know and it's up to we keep it current every time we have a meeting everything that's approved and not approved but it's meetings and everything you know in order of the agenda that this one groups it together I thought it would be
nice thank you very nice thank you thank you I do want to to mention I think CLA mentioned briefly the laser fish project that's nearly complete we'll have a considerable amount of documents information history uh Claire and her
staff have done a great great job in compiling adding it and hopefully within the next I CL what your time frame will'll be ready yes well we're work on it every day it is live it's live I'm sorry yes it is live and then you look on it every
day you'll find new information it's like um today I yesterday and today of course we had a a server maintenance last night so which hindered a lot of it but that's okay um I'm adding a lot of you know I always get questions about
the Snack Shack at archal so that's in the project one Laura is working on everything before 2007 I'm in this the 2007 afterward and we're compile doing a summary of from the beginning of A to Z
On The Snack Shack and archal I thought that was very important and at the same time we have all the ordinances in there all the resolutions in there all the minutes and I've just got a few more ad hoc meetings like for the Marina and the library to get those in there but a lot
of stuff is in there and then we'll start working on getting all the contracts and things like that and we'll keep up on every item that the board commissioner approves and it'll be in there and that'll that will like relieve
our server a little bit I think and the good thing about it is if we ever got a new website or something we wouldn't have to worry about pulling everything off the website we would have it right there and the new providers you know they just connect it they connect
our softwares and stuff like that thank you next on the agenda is the city manager thank you mayor and just again thank you for your continued support and thank you to all the staff that continue to address hurricane recovery and certainly
getting folks steps to get them back into their homes which has and continues to be our priority a reminder speaking of homes please please remember to lock your vehicles uh lock your homes when you're not in your home but please lock
your vehicles um although um I'm not somebody who purports uh to I'll just flat out say to store firearms in my vehicle I do and of course that is it is a legal process uh
that does allow folks to do that but please if you do that please lock the firearm and please lock your vehicle we recently had some burglaries and various weapons were stolen out of unlocked um vehicles in a few parts of the city so
please do that I will have uh it appears at the March Workshop uh we do have new pelis County Sheriff's office staff some of you may have seen some of them but I will have H Captain Melvin Jackson took over for a retired Mike liner who
retired after 35 or 36 years he was about 10 when he started and but Captain Jackson to just introduce himself to all of you and go over a little bit of the Staffing really nothing much has changed um I I will say that the newer the staff
that took over essentially around January 15th are uh some of them have worked out here before so they're familiar so that's very helpful um but I've already had a few residents say boy what happened to the deputies because
they got a lot bigger a lot taller and and just stronger so anyway that just visually seeing some of the deputies are a little bit taller a little bit bulk a little not overweight but just built muscular thank you um so that we'll have
that at the March um workshop and again we will begin our uh budget process and we will begin to have budget workshops so there'll be a lot of information as I've stated before we do have uh still some unknowns we're hopeful that by
April we will know the effects of the property tax refunds from the property appraiser and the tax collector and then of course as we progress through the spring into the summer we will have our our tax roll for next year which as
I've stated several times will likely have some impact but um we will just deal with it as as it approaches but thanks to Andrew we'll have the uh the interest free interest free loan so that'll be something to look forward to um other than that thank you oh and
final thing this morning morning the county reported to me the Elevate Florida in the first two days the website is now open and they're accepting began accepting applications in the first two business days over
12,500 applications were submitted approximately 700 change from pelis County um so which I thought would be a little bit more but it's a significant and again the Elevate Florida is to provide potentially financial assistance
for folks to either Elevate their homes or tear down and build a new one or potentially to sell um their property so but we'll have more information at the workshop it yeah because it does yeah we'll wait till the workshop yeah but just that was what was provided uh this
morning just thought I'd share the data other than that thank you anything further uh just real quick uh once again happy birthday to our commissioner Kerr over here and also a proud uh grandpa again so
congratulations on that and to the young lady who's attending tonight uh she goes to St Petersburg College she's studying public policy and if you're out there listening tonight you did a great job and it took a lot of uh strength and courage to come in front
of the board and thank you so much for those compliments that was very impressive thank you with that it is 8:19 and we are adjourned