when they graduate it's one of the final things that they do is they jump in fully clothed and they have to turn over roll over on their back and actually be able to scream for help at that point in time it's just an awesome segment program that leads right into our learn to swim program so that way we can make
sure we're keeping our kids safe in on and around the water [Music] they're trying to get [Music] oh my gosh this is going to be great
wooo [Music] so I always get very excited when anybody asks me about my job and where I work and what I do it's not a secret that I love working for the city of Northport I worked for Charlotte County and I felt that I needed to do something
different and I wanted something more and I wanted to offer my skills so I said to my friend I'm don't know what to do and I was thinking about my next steps and she said Maria did you think about applying to a job at the city of Northport they have a different vibe here and she says I love it and I said
oh I didn't think about that so I applied and I started my first position in in Planning and Zoning in our development services department I'm partnered with the building department because my my the fees are assessed off of the building permits and it's
strictly for new construction new development and uh the first thing I do is to check the spreadsheet to look at the permits and determine which ones need me to estimate their impact fees and that's where I start with that then
I go to numbers that I have to put together and I put together the invoices for our developers I often times I'll get phone calls to give quotes before their uh the development comes through and so developers want to know how much
they can budget for so sometimes I put through proposed estimates to help them with that and the bulk of it is is making sure that the fees are in the system as fast as possible I love the as free Decor that I experienced just just
how everybody teamwork together I uh enjoy knowing that I'm can make a difference for the city and that my position can have a positive impact in for our [Music]
city oh you're in pool [Music] [Music] [Music] I'm Stacy loio I'm the Emergency
Management coordinator for the city of Northport we're going to talk about why it's important to have a go kit and what should go inside of it it's important to have a go bag because if you wait last minute to pack there are definitely going to be items that you are going to forget in the scramble to get everything put together so it's important to have
your documents such as IDs Insurance paperwork titles for your home and your vehicles and your boats just so that if your home does flood or your roof blows off all those documents are with you and they're safe because you don't want to end up losing those and having to try to
replace those later on also in your go bag you should think about what medications you might need to have ahead of time if we're under it good evening everybody today's Tuesday November or March 18th where did that come from where did
that come from it's 6 is it going to be one of those nights it better not be it's 6: p.m. we're in the city Chambers and I call the city commission regular meeting to order commissioner preser commissioner commissioner Langdon mayor Stokes vice mayor EMR and commissioner
Petro there's a quorum present for the meeting also present city manager Fletcher interm City attorney goolan city clerk faou board specialist Lane uh fire chief Titus and I can't tell who's back there from the police
command Commander all right and let us see uh B you want to lead us in the pledge United States of America the for it stands one nation God
indivisible andice for all all right need a motion to approve the agenda second we got a motion by the vice mayor seconded by commissioner langon to approve the agenda let us vote
and that passes five to zero city clerk public comments Al olander good evening sir good evening I am valdier uppercase V
lowercase a l Dy uppercase o lowercase l n drr I am not a corporation I came here in peace and I am not a criminal I have a dignity please respect
my dignity folks I am instruct you to remove policemen of my back and let them sit over here stop assaulting stalking intimidating me Stokes obey you old
Stokes I am waiting there is no consent to your behavior I am instructing you Stokes to write in a Authority and sponsor to every item on the
agenda you have eight legal Department's workers they should have the time I instructing you all to reduce marriage rate for fiscal year 20 25 26 to 3
Mills for the past 10 years I am ADV advocating to reduce Mage rate to zero and the property taxes finally government DeSantis hear me in his
dreams and advocating to abolish property taxes for good in this uh legisl Florida legislator session let me address State economy on the national
level ACC to Federal Reserve Bank of New York total household which is 2.6% in United States debt now stands $ 18.04
trillion in it credit card debt is $1.21 trillion credit card default reach 50% student loan $1.62 trillion car loan $1.66
trillion mortgage balances 12.6 trillion dollar 47% of households in live paycheck to paycheck city of norport Corporation offer City Water
Hookup in 30 years plan payments are you kidding me why we are so poor and you pushing us more and more into
that thank you sir announcements the current vacancies for the following boards and committees include the art Advisory Board auditor selection committee Charter review Advisory Board citizen tax oversight committee environmental Advisory Board firefighters pension trust fund board
trustees historic and cultural Advisory Board joint management Advisory Board Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and Veterans Park advisory committee sarasot County advisory Council vacancies include one resident in Northport to serve on the citizen advisory committee if anyone would like more information please see the city clerk's office thank
you thank you ma'am moving on to the consent agenda city manager any it has been pulled No Sir Mr Mayor right any public comments any there is none all right looking for a motion I'm make
it I move to approve the items in the consent agenda as presented second a motion by vice mayor seconded by commissioner langen to approve the consent agenda let us vote and that passes 5 to zero moving on
to public hearings uh resolution 2025 d-13 um this quasi judicial hearing city clerk agreed by title only resolution number 2025 R-13 a resolution of the city Commission of the city of Northport
Florida vacating the rear utility and drainage easement for Lots 1112 31 and 32 lot 1438 29th Edition to Fort Charlotte subdivision providing for findings providing for recording providing for conflicts providing for severability and providing an effective date and everyone wishing to provide
testimony please stand and raise your right hand you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to provide is true and accurate to the best of your knowledge to help you go thank you thank you CL uh Commissioners expart
Communications commissioner dual um I spoke briefly on this topic at my agenda briefing um and I'll ask a question that will make that conversation clear when we talk about this
subject certainly can one on ones with the city manager are considered next I also did have that conversation with the city manager got you uh Mr Petra yes I have discussed
with the city manager some details of this resolution at my agenda briefing vice mayor I no I have none I think we just touched on it at my uh briefing as well so other than that
nothing um any grief parties city clerk there are none there are none so we move on to presentations uh applicant got 20 minutes each I'm William Schwarz and I've been sworn
I'm Jamie Swartz and I've been sworn so we're trying to put a pool in but we're trying to do like a backyard area covered area and it's pushing the pool toward end of the easement and that's why we're requesting to vacate
the easement um we didn't even know it was there until we got the survey we knew the side easements were there and now it's kind of com you know confining the whole vision of our backyard area that's kind of what we're asking to vacate it for so we have four Lots
unfortunately have four Lots so we were just trying to vacate the whole thing you know while we're doing it if the we don't vacate any of the easement then the pool is going to be really close to the back of the house it's going to kind of be like you're walking out into the
pool so we wanted to push it into the easement a little bit so it goes along the back of the house kind of from side to side and then just into the easement a bit so that we can walk all the way around the pool and that easement we like I said we didn't know it was there
so that's what we're trying to do fortunately thank you is that it it [Music] good okay good evening David Brown planner 1 development services and I have been sworn today we're here to talk about 455 5 belladon Avenue which is a vacation of
the platted rear easements this is being done via resolution number 2025 R-13 under vacation number v-24 d174 the applicant is William and Jamie Schwarz and the property owners William
and Jamie Schwarz and the applicant is requesting to vacate the plaed rear 10 foot utility and drainage easements in order to construct a pool in deck the location is 45555 belladon Avenue with a parcel ID of 0956 D14 d38
31 the applicant is requ requesting to vacate the platted rear 10ft utian drainage ements in order construct a pool and deck the four lots have been combined through the unity of title process which was done under o number 2024 D12
d281 and that was in order to facilitate the construction of the pool the total combined property size is 39,99 ft and the total area EAS to be vacated 2,960 Square ft on February 6 2025 the Planning and Zoning Advisory Board voted
5 to2 to recommend denial of this petition following agencies have reviewed the request to vacate the platted rear 10 foot utility and drain easement and through written response have granted their approval no issues or concerns were raised regarding the request and there's also a note that it
says the development services department standard practice is to consider an easement vacation uncontested if the utility agency does does not respond within 10 days of notification the vacation easement was reviewed and approved by staff for conformance with the Florida Statutes
chapter 177 the vacation of easement was reviewed and approved by staff for conformance with ulc chapter 53 zoning regulation worth noting that this was reviewed under the previous C the planning zoning advisory my apologies the Planning and
Zoning division recommends approval of petition number vac d24 -174 via resolution number 2025 R-13 thank you all right um it
rebuttal no no reevs okay staff I have no reot all righty uh and we have no agreed parties uh any public
comment commission questions discussion Mr Duval yes um I did speak about this as I said with the uh my pre-job brief with the city manager and staff
and Public Works is for this utility said yes it is for Lots it's not intruding on anybody else's property and for that
reason I'm for this thank you commissioner commissioner langum uh thank you Mr Mayor um staff why did paap deny this request um most of what they were looking at is they were thinking there
was other options as in like moving the easement um but it's worth noting we do not have a loc relocation of easement process they have to vacate or re and re-record if they were going to try to move the easement so move it somewhere else on on the
property what why would they want to do that I cannot speak to that okay so it didn't come up in their notes or or anything like no they just said they had they thought there was other alternatives okay thank you um just in my
conversation with staff I was questioning why this was even coming before the commission you know at at this point um and so I got an answer for that um but I agree it's so refreshing
to have residents come before they construct yeah approval so often it's like whoops so I applaud you both we're working the process the correct way um
just from my own point of Interest what are you planning to do with your back those back two Parcels why did you acquire them well so we we're going to put a pool in but we want to our house is kind of small so we wanted to do an
outdoor covered area off our we closed our l in for dining room so then that was going to put the the new covered area out further then that pushes the pool out into that easement more right that's in the back which like I said we didn't even know it was there until we got the survey and like oh there's an easement there you know would and then
we're like well that we've already kind of designed my son-in-law owns a pool company so we kind of went through the design process before I you know got the car probably the horse a little bit with that but uh that's that's what was happening with it so and I wanted the floor Lots because I grew up on a farm
Ohio so I like to have little I'm not really used to having houses like right on top of me so I kind of like just F in backyard for my dogs and you know yeah good for you and thank you for getting permission before and
not a whoops uh and not required but if you were also planning to leave some trees oh def on those back properties that's would make me very happy yeah our plan is to do some forestry mulching but we're going to try to leave most of the big trees up in the L over there that'll
be great that's our plan thank you both yeah I'm I'm in this is a no-brainer for me this is yeah commissioner Petro step in your presentation you said uh there's a note that the utilities companies have 10
days to respond with did they respond or or how if they know well it it tells you in the um the presentation if it says None then they didn't respond all the other ones that say approved are ones we got responses
on yeah I have no problem granting V vacation it's you own four Lots so more the better all right see nothing else we're on to closing arguments greed
parties or uh no aged parties staff sorry sorry I just respectfully request that you approve this petition thank you sir an applicant and so so do I appreciate it if you would thank you
thank you that was quite an argument there we go with that I'm going to close this public hearing request a motion I'll make it go ahead I move to approve resolution number 20 25- R-13 as presented second we've got a motion by
commissioner langen seconded by the vice mayor to approve resolution number 2025 d-13 as presented nothing else to that let us vote folks and that passes 5 to zero congratulations good luck conratulations
moving on to be resolution number 2025 D28 city clerk would you be kind enough to read by title only resolution number 2025 r-28 a resolution of the city Commission of the city of Northport Florida appointing James toll to the position of hearing officer with a FL
authority to hear and decide matters related to enforcing the city's codes as well as zoning related matters providing for incorporation of recital providing for conflicts providing for separability and providing an effective date thank you ma'am city manager you're
right thank you Mr Mayor um due to information we received on the appointing Mr James toll we're asking that we continue this item to the next meeting um any questions Commissioners that is good public
comment there is none then uh close this hearing request a motion on this when is the next meeting I move to move this resolution to the next meeting on April 8th
2025 second and a motion by the vice mayor seconded by commissioner langden to uh postpone this um item to April 8th 202 5 let's
vote and that passes 520 moving on to ordinance's First reading e ordinance 202-10 I need a motion to direct city clerk to read by title only second got a motion invite vice
mayor seconded by commissioner Langdon to direct city clerk to read by title only let's vote on that Deval sorry about that not a problem and that passes 5 to zero city clerk ordinance number 20 25-10 an ordinance
of the city of Northport Florida amending the code of the city of Northport Florida section 26-3 and 26-7 relating to fire sprinklers and exceptions to fire sprinklers providing for findings providing for conflicts providing for separability providing for codification and providing an effective
date thank you thank you city manager your item thank you Mr Mayor Northport fire rescue desires to establish exceptions to the fire sprinkler and alarm systems to minimize the economic burden while not compromising the light safety of Emergency Response personnel
and its citizens these exceptions include commercial buildings not more than 2,000 grow sare feet without commercial cooking and an ENT load of less than 10 persons shall be excluded from this requirement we're happy to answer any questions you may have thank you sir commission any
questions discussion commissioner Deval uh yes I did talk uh it just happened I took a a tour with the fire department today uh city manager was there and and I did ask some questions
you know just some verifications on these exemptions and you know I was told that these exemptions are not going to be related to like Apartments where people will be okay was going to be for Commercial Art operations for small
things like bathrooms and things like that so I'm okay with it sounds good anything else Mr langon I have a very quick question we have a lot
of homebased businesses in the city of Northport um many of those are under 2,000 square fet how might the this apply or not apply to that type of an
establishment Scott Titus for the fire rescue District so this is specific to as it's written here and I understand why commissioner Deval asked the question because when the heading when you look fire alarms of buildings it starts out all commercial and multif
family residential so most of the businesses and I'm trying to think in an example where there would be an exception to your question um but most of those do not you know homes in res businesses in residential homes typically don't require a residential uh sprinkler system um the
only the only thing that I can think of off the top of my head it doesn't require sprinkl but there is uh depending on the occupancy and how many children they have I believe some of the home dayc carees if they have over a certain number of children they would still be required to have a fire alarm so the intent of this and the way the
wording is and that it went through was for when part uh put a bathroom in you know there's everything is non-combustible it's all concrete and it was adding a lot of cost to City projects some of our um some of our communities when they put the guard
shack in out front the way the uh the way the ordinance was written and the way the code is written it really didn't give the ability to have an exception to that there are other communities that have just said no you don't need it for that they didn't go through a legal process we thought it was best to go through a legal process and kind of
Define that um Construction trailers things like that the way that it was written right now is they would have to have that so even for a city project it added a lot of cost or or other projects you know around the city that are that are not City involved ated a lot of cost
for them to have to do that so now they can do a temporary use permit for like a Construction trail or something like that as long as they keep that valid you can extend that Beyond a year you just have to go through a process they would not have to have a a spring system or something like that so small commercial
um dut store that didn't have you know things were cooked off site in a commercial facility and delivered there they wouldn't have to do it so it's it's things like that so I think uh from Economic Development standpoint I think it's beneficial to the community I think it makes sense to our Builders we don't think it adds any life safety risk those
those occupancies are all small enough there's immediate um access and erress and so we're very comfortable okay great thank you for that thank you anything else to that Mr Petro Chief uh quick
question what about the model houses for Builders of those there's a food traffic inside of those houses those houses be required to have no I I don't believe they're required to do it now because it's not even though there's a temporary office
in there it still falls under the residential code it's it's a it's a temporary thing I I I will confirm that question I don't have the code in front of me me I will have to um make sure uh that I'm speaking correctly on that but
in the event that were the case most of those homes uh if they did put something in they wouldn't I guess they wouldn't have to keep it current once that office closed but most of those offices are a 10 x 10 that's actually in a residential home and there's just somebody operating out of that during the daytime if if
somebody tried to apply it to this if it was a home over 2,000 square feet and they had to have it before then they would still have to have them but I I'm not the code expert but I will get you an answer on that but I don't believe that we require that even now
for for current ones unless you know of an example of one but I will I will look it up get with the fire marshal and make sure I get good answer um but our intent again again if they are required now in any of those I don't think that was ever the intent that it would be it was just that the
the code didn't provide any common sense to it so when some of the builders put up those Model Homes if they required to put them in none of their other homes in that Community would have would have that same it's just a lot of those model homes or houses um are larger than 2,000
square ft so so if it was required before and if it was greater than 2,000 square feet then it would still be required it would only be if it's less than 2,000 square feet that's what and that's why we put the cut off we were trying to and uh we did send this through the city attorney's office because we were trying to make sure there was specific parameters that kind
of fell into that because we Our intention is not to create a life safety hazard or complicate anything it was to kind of try apply a little bit of of common sense um and help some of the communities you development in the communities on things that really did not you know sprinklers the idea of them
is to save lives um so if there's a if there's a large fire risk like commercial cooking or things like that or if it's a overnight sleeping facility that has those types of things or commercial building over 2,000 square feet that's a risk not only the tenants but the firefighters if they come to fight that fire that those were the
things we were thinking about but these smaller structures really that's not issue I don't know if our legal team knows about this didn't have my fire marshal but I had Elena thank you so much uh she looked it
up really quick under Florida law one and two family model homes are exempt so um where the language is earlier there's one place where it says three or more attached um those would be required to have it anyway those are all over 2,000 feet square feet they fall under a
different section of the code so okay thank you okay thank you all right anything else to that no thank you Elena and uh any public comments there not then I'm going to close this public hearing request a motion no make it um
are we using April 8th as the next meeting for this okay I move to continue ordinance number 2025-the made by the vice mayor seconded by commissioner Deval to continue ordinance
2012-10 second reading on April 8th 2025 nothing more to that other us vote and that passes 520 moving on to the resolution 2025 D-28 city clerk would you be kind enough
to read this by title only we did that where am I be no it's not there we go good Lord happens to all of us
okay K 25 you know what 68 this is that yeah that of order um 68 General business a25 [Music]
d264 uh city manager thank you Mr Mayor this item is discussion and possible action to direct the city manager attender letter support to the Sarasota County Board of Commissioners regarding the allocation of hurricane Recovery Fund for the sunos technical college it was requested by commissioner
deal commissioner Delle is this your item yes um each of you should have a sheet in front of you uh this is an editorial that was in the Sun newspaper
or local paper uh on 311 and I subscribed to the paper you know so you know I read this and you know on face value I'm looking at this and um I got the idea that you know maybe we
should support this money for the Sun Coast College uh the County Commissioners are going to make a decision you know ask them where this money should go um I got the idea to get try to get some
information and I went up to the college and I spoke to Mr Endy up there and he sent me you know the plans for the addition that they would use this money for and he told me that this money
would allow them to complete this addition um the college as a whole to be an economic driver for this city uh they're going to be expanding their
programs um they'll get into nursing you know we have some hospitals actually being built here um this money would help them out now that being said I did have you
know some discussions with our city manager and we already you know our sun Co College the city has been helped out by these funds from the county
already so I guess I have to you know leave it up leave it up to uh my fellow Commissioners and myself as to you know what if anything we should do about this you know my original
thought was to you know send a letter to the County Commissioners asking them to you know consider the college that's located here uh but you know there are two sides to every story so uh I have
to look at both sides and and let everyone decide for themselves what they should be doing m lang uh thank you mayor I've been a huge proponent of our Technical College as you know everyone on this
board has been we've been enormously supportive and proactive with the school board regarding the expansion of programs here in Northport U my understanding is that expansion in
addition to adding a lot of breadth and depth to the healthcare oriented programs offered there that they'll also be expanding some of their manufacturing options as well I've also had the opportunity to tour the technical
college up in Sarasota and they have quite a robust program for the industrial Arts as well so I have a a couple of questions um and I guess city manager you'd be in
the best position to answer but one question is do we understand why the Bia feels a need to train their own you know to develop their own training center for the
industrial Arts do we know if there's been any conversation between the technical colleges here in the county and the Bia no I'm sorry I don't know that interaction between those two
organizations my limited knowledge and what I read in here is only that the two uh entities up for the funding were at two different life cycles two different places in their life cycles right SEC was up and ready ready to go and the Via was getting their you know the feet
underneath them and that's what led to the decision of do you do you give the money to someone who is moving in the right direction or someone who's already there that's that's about all I'm aware of right so you're also not aware has anyone from the city of Northport had a
conversation with the County Commission around the funding for the Bia I I guess what I'm thinking I'm I certainly wouldn't be opposed to a letter of support but um I'd sort of like to see
the city of Northport show a little leadership in trying to connect with the B and you know if if the technical colleges aren't talking um it might simply be that the
Bia isn't familiar with the educational programs offered by the technical school um I I would find that hard to believe knowing that they've been talking to the county about it's the county program it's not it's not I don't
believe it's up to us to give them Direction about money that they're applying for from another entity it's should we have a conversation should staff have a conversation with the county on that
topic I don't believe so but if you want us to we will do whatever the board directs yeah I guess I'm just confused as to why the Bia felt a need to build their own Center
so I don't know I'm mulling done talking I have a question is this SRQ one money or two one money or two is this is this 7 and a. half million it's one from from
the trch one that they've received I Goa all right it's the only question I have no it's else commissioner Deval maybe can explain or maybe you know why bi wants their
money to the question commissioner langin asked I really don't know any more than is printed on this paper um I just looked at the newness of the
Bia being in the process versus our Technical College that's already you know up and running and uh especially after talking to rendy up there uh you know this will
this will allow them to finish this Edition um I really don't know anything other than what's written here about the Bia as a city had I mean what is the be I mean sorry I'm a little
unknowledgeable but what is the Bia and what relationship does the city have or might the city have this organization city manager from my understanding the city has no contact interaction knowledge of anything other than the Bia
other than they appli for the same grant money that SDC applied for I know Mr John Mass was mentioned in the article great guy know he's a great leader I know he's working in the best interest to get this company up and running I can't tell you why they're not as far along as maybe they thought they were or
why the commission decided at the county level to split the funding from the 15 million that they were debating on giving it to it looked like it was a two two vote and then Mark Smith came in and said well let's split it and they agreed to that and now they're coming back and sort of reviewing that decision to give
it to half and half and just maybe give it to one so they don't lose this money by not spending it in the appropriate time frame that the federal government has provided other than that I have no input or information on the
Bia sir just try I mean other than the obvious value of of helping our Technical College here in the city not having any real understanding of the
other side I just wonder like is this appropriate for us to put our thumb on this by sending a letter I mean stdc is certainly advocating for themselves and I mean I just I just don't know I mean I
certainly support SDC and would be delighted if they got the money but I just question whether or not it's appropriate for us to like put our thumb on the scale so to speak I mean we have an awful lot of asks to the county we
have srq2 coming which is you know hopefully Northport will be looked on favorably even though the vast majority of the damage that was done was further up into the county I'd like to think that we'll see some of that money down here for one or a number of things and
you know is this political Capital we wish to spend by putting our thumb on this and you know what reason other than them we're just trying to help SDC I you know I don't know really ambivalent about it I mean I don't know commissioner
Petro yeah I'm done okay I'm sorry I mean doesn't hurt to ask yeah um the thing about this is I'm in support of sending a letter up there it's a letter of
P we're not asking them to give money we're not getting in their plate and saying you have to do this but we're supporting our resources within our own backyard that we have supported time and time again that is beneficial to our citizens within Northport that could get
this training to work at our local hospitals that could work at our local whatever classes they may take AC or mechanics or whatever the case may be out there and to just say hey yes we support that money coming here we're not
asking them to do that we just support that money coming here because it is it's ours so to be questioning do we want them to do that or not it's it's to me it's a no-brainer let's just say yeah
we support you giving us money if they don't they don't that's on them but we support them giving sat money that's all I'm looking at Mr still Ang yeah I mean I'm I'm still mulling it's just my gut is
telling me we only have part of the story we we don't know the full story um so I personally would would like to have more of a feel
for what the argument is or what the proposal is on the other side before waiting into it and I mean the County Commission is set to
discuss it on April 22nd I mean maybe one or more of us should go to that meeting um and and maybe learn more about you know what's really happening here um I'm just a little reluctant to
wade into a situation and take sides when I really don't understand the full context of based on an article yeah I mean and please don't misunderstand me I am a rabid supporter of our Technical
College I think my comments and behaviors in the past really underscore that and and I really applaud commissioner Duval bringing this forward I wasn't quite aware of what was going on with the SRQ money but I'd just like
to have a better handle on the context for for what's going on here or I I sort of weighed Into The Fray I just you know part of where my head was at in in in hesitating a little is flipping the
roles what if another municipality or County weighed in on and the roles were reversed and we as the decision makers had much more knowledge and and understanding as to the reasons why we
might go a different Direction and yet here's another Municipal party or governmental entity weighing in on a subject that they really don't have a clue about so that's that's what I'm bothering me a little but I support sec
I mean obviously what the the points Pete make are so compelling you just want to say it's only a letter like just right but I don't really know what's going on with this issue may I think we're sort of in the same place
and um yeah it has happened to the city you know where people have weighed in um on what's going on here without having good command of the facts and we don't like it when that happens you know so I
just sort of like to have a better sensing of the context you know what possibly the resolution to this would be because they may well make a decision at their meeting so if we put it off we wouldn't be yet to say our piece perhaps depending on the the substance of the
letter it might if it if it's depends on how it's drafted and what it says maybe it's you know it's fine if if it conveys the intent vice mayor is looking for and and commissioner Deval is looking for and at the same time
is gentle enough and not intrusive enough if that's the right word then maybe there's nothing to this and it's like vice mayor says is it worth having a trick taking a look I mean staff gets a flavor of where our heads
are at on this let him draft it and see what it looks like and and we approve it or disapprove it or amend it city manager well I was just going to point out if is the mayor going to sign the letter or am I going to sign the
letter well if you get to sign then you got to sign this kid that was a good one too soon that was a good one because if I'm signing it then we're happy to draft it but if you're signing it then the clerk needs to draft it on your behalf I got that's
why it matters who signs it now that's a whole another subject to discuss oh my goodness what do you what do you guys think I'm try not to look at you you're no it's again you know if if
they're going to be discussing it here coming up time may not be on our side to get like you said to get our our our opinion in and that's just it it's an opinion you know we're we're putting the support in for SE and I to not do this to me I
think is a shame and and that's just my opinion and I understand both sides but they're actually going to make the decision they can go oh wait a minut your report says we got it they don't do it that way they're they're going to make their decision we have time to get
this back before they have their discussion man Follow the bounc Ball you just be sick that day well when's their meeting the 2 you
meet again on 8th but I did have the floor before by Nature I'm done anybody want to make a motion I'm make I move to direct the city manager to construct a letter of support to the Sarasota County Board of Commissioners
regarding the allocation of hurricane recovery funds for the Sun Coast Technical College and bring it back to this Commission on April 8th 2025 for review that work for everybody no mrce mayor we're going to have a long
conversation Tallahasse sir well it's going nowhere without a second second all right um would you be kind enough to read that motion fact inside to direct the city manager to draft a letter of support to the SOS County Board of Commissioners
regarding the allocation of hurricane recovery funds for the sunos technical college and bring back to Commission on April 8 2025 for review that was made by vice mayor seconded by commissioner D there's nothing else to it let's vote
you are prepared aren't you Julie just just asking than cow than cow and that passes five to zero done with that we're on to General Public comment I
do excellent move on to commissioner Communications anybody wishing to communicate commission Deval yes uh again I did uh we our fire station 81 today had a
great chat with uh Fire Chief and some of his assistants and again you know like I told them I'm very impressed with our fire department our EMS and our Police
Department thank you sir commissioner langon we already know uh I will be posting I will be asking city clerk to post my activity support to the um agenda of our first meeting in April
there you go vice mayor oh no commissioner Petro no I have nothing yeah since last meeting I'm the same I don't have anything to communicate um so with that we look to
administrative and legal city manager got anything for no sir thank you Mr Mayor uh acting City attorney May and city clerk anything thank you y well with that unless we
want to try to find something else to talk about at 651 and I'll turnour this meeting