e --------- good afternoon everybody today's Tuesday February 25th 2025 it's 4 pm we're in City Chambers and I call the road and drainage district meeting to order Commissioners present are Commissioners Deval Commissioners
Langdon mayor Stokes vice mayor emrich and commissioner Petro there's Quorum present for the meeting also present city manager Fletcher inter term City attorney Goin city clerk F board specialist Lane police chief Garrison
and I believe Chief Titus back there no it's Mr chair oh I'm seeing the reflection all right and let's see who's goingon to do uh let's see Mr Yaro care to do the pledge for us or lead us in
the pledge he looked ready the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for all all right I'm looking for a motion
to approve the agenda second all right we got a motion to approve the agenda by vice mayor seconded by commissioner langden there's nothing to that let us vote and that passes 5 to zero uh city clerk
public comments there is none all right moving on to consent agenda city manager any items been pulled no Mr Mayor uh any public comment then I'm looking for a motion I'll make it I move to approve the items
in the consent agenda as presented motion by uh commissioner Lang to uh approve the consent theend agenda seconded by vice mayor let's vote and that passes 5 to zero next up
public hearings resolution uh 2025 d-7 uh city clerk would you read this by title only please resolution number 2025 r-07 a resolution of the city Commission of the city of Northport Florida as the governing body of the Northport Road and
drainage District authorizing the purchase of real property located on Zan court and ascribed as Lot 24 block 2257 46th Edition to Fort Charlotte subdivision Sarasota County Property Appraisal parcel identification number 112 722 5724 incorporating recital
providing for filing of documents providing for conflicts providing for cability and providing an effective date thank you ma'am city manager your item thank you Mr Mayor the road and drainage District owns this parcel in the Far East section of the city the district has identified the use of that parcel as
a potential hurricane debris management site currently there is only one point of access to this parcel requiring Public Works to seek alternate access Public Works seeks to purchase this parcel to secure permanent access to this larger parcel we ask that you approve resolution number 2025 R7 today
as presented thank you sir thank you sir Commissioners anything to this let's see see nothing we're all good oh there one oh commissioner Deval yes um I did read the background
material on this um the price $113,000 that's proposed uh is within the appraisal of also $133,000 uh I am for this you Sirah
nothing else uh I'll close public hearing and request a motion move to adopt resolution number 2025 d-07 as presented second I've got a motion by vice mayor to adopt resolution 2025 d-07
is presented seconded by commissioner Langdon let's vote folks and that passes 5 to zero next up B resolution 2025 d-16 city clerk if you'd be kind enough
resolution number 2025 d-6 a resolution of the city Commission of the city of Northport Florida as the governing body of the Northport Road and drainage District amending the Northport Road and drainage District budget for fiscal year 2024-25 for additional funding for Price widening Phase 1 Project R15 pw1 in the
amount of $4,320 two 302 $241,000 providing for findings providing for postings providing for conflict providing for severability and providing an effective date thank you ma'am city manager thank you Mr Mayor um
this item has an extensive history but uh most recently the city engaged in conversations with representatives from Watson civil to discuss the bid received and identified cost reduction opportunities Watson civil provided rev revised bill on January 2nd 22nd excuse
me of 2025 of $79 m283 th000 um utilizing a Florida Department of Transportation standard of 5% for contingency the revised project total was 83 M 247,000 the current price Boulevard widening Gap
in funding was 17 m12000 this item right here will cover approxim L was it 13 excuse me 43224 with the products that were identified on the staff summary we're
happy to answer any questions you may have right Commissioners questions discussion commission gal yes U that's the
fact that there's some pedestrian Bridges and walkway projects included in this I just want to make sure that the money that's taken from that does not increase uh or decrease the
safety of any of those walkways or or Bridges thank you commissioner director speak will come down and speak from our public works department good afternoon CH Chuck speak Public Works director so the money that's moved from those sidewalk projects those projects were uh either
Gap projects or yet to be determined so it's not repair and replacement uh these were actually new projects so it's not going to affect the safety of the pedestrians all right thank you um I also just want to say that
um taking the money from these projects just shows the importance of our getting this price widening project going um you know all our funds uh they all need
money and and and it's I'm sure it's hard for any Department you know to be losing funding to be delaying projects um so I just want to thank everybody that's giving up something um
you know it's really it's really hard to do that but um the fact that you know we need to borrow money we need to have funding for this project for Price widening project you know it's just uh it's sad to have to do things
his way but that's the way it is and I thank everybody for it thank you sir anybody else City cler any public comments sir then I'll close this public hearing and request a motion I'll make it I move to
adopt resolution number 20 25- r-16 as presented I you've got a motion made by Mr langen to uh to resolution 2025 R16 presented seconded by the vice
mayor let's vote and that passes 5 to zero um city clerk any general public comments there's n then at 409 I'm adjourning this meeting you Part: 2
grocery store or tossed in the trash very good do you see a lot of recycling inside the containers uh I do bag yes I come across a lot of that okay we don't want to do that so okay so if you have any questions you can always look at our website ww. Northport florida.gov SLS
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Chambers and I call the city commission regular meeting to order Commissioners present are Commissioners Deval Commissioners langen mayor Stokes vice mayor emrich commissioner Petro there's a quorum present for the meeting also present city manager Fletcher inter term
City attorney Goan city clerk F board specialist Lane I believe police chief MC Garrison hopefully and fire chief Titus and uh let's see who's going to read The Pledge Miss Sandy how' you like
to lead us in the pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the repu for [Music] Indy andice all right I'm looking for a motion to
approve the agenda second got a motion by the vice mayor to approve the agenda seconded by commissioner Langdon let's vote and that passes 5 to zero city clerk any public general public comments yes Robin
San vente good evening Commissioners my comments are regarding the outstanding Florida Springs designation for warm mineral Springs I am happy to see this agenda item finally return back to the commission my comments are as follows one the agenda item is specifically asking for possible Direction along with
a discussion on the application process we have already been down this road several times on unfortunately since it was pulled from the legisl legislature We Now find ourselves back again to the 2025 legislative session begins on March 4th 2025 so I don't see how anything can
really be achieved until the 2026 session three do we have a legislative sponsor for a new bill or since the old Bill was paused can it just be reopened four if we look at the commission's 2025 legislative priorities this didn't even make the list why five why isn't little
start Springs also part of the discussion since it was a part of the prior resolution and Senate Bill six the memo attached state that the springs is not impaired however current published data as of yesterday's under fd's implementation of the impaired water
rule clearly states this is in fact considered impaired along with little SAR Creek additionally there has been no regular or up-to-date Water Analysis and studies to clearly determine the health and state of the spring Why seven due to the current ruling of Florida's first
District Court of Appeals against FD to produce bmap that will actually lead to Spring's restoration by 2038 how does that affect us in achieving the designation in a timely manner if at all eight knowing that this is an extremely sensitive
topic for the community why is the agenda item almost the last item on the agenda My Hope Is that this time the designation of outstanding Florida spring for war andal Springs and little start Springs will finally come to fruition thank you and in person I have valy oleander
followed by Debbie black and Jill Luke good evening I am valdier upper case v lower case a Dy upper case o lower case l n drr I am not a corporation question does the corporation have the
rights I come here in peace and I am not a criminal I have a dignity and I am instructing you to respect it I am your boss and fair one Stokes I instructing you to remove policemen of my bik and
let them sit here I'm not a criminal respect my dignity starts talking intimidating me obey you out I don't presentent to your behavior now I going to talk about the
um preamble to the uh City chter Preble is UN introductory and expression statement that explains that document purpose law and philosophy the objective of norport charter is to present in the form of the
legal document a general plan of municipal government that is democratic response to the electorate and to the community not to manager of the city staff and capable of doing work of the
city effectively and translating the voter intention not you city manager or the city uh staff into efficient administrative action
hello manager or mis manager as promptly and economically as possible is you all your duty if yes you and the bridge of your duty I'm talking to you five does the comments replace the freedom of
speech here does the common appear in the Florida Constitution no Fletcher claims that you don't answer to the We the People Fletcher is an administrative part of the
government federal state county local government H three branches uh legislative administrative and judicial he wants me to come to him and ask the question give me answer who is
he you are come to the people you come to the people to get elected and now I have to go to him and his stuff are we Republican form of the government as you claim in the pledge of
the legions or it is the dictatorship and the Republic to which we stand really why don't you obey the people yesterday evening in Morgan Center was good indication how the public meeting should be
[Music] conducted thank you sir that Blackwell good to see you I'm Debbie Blackwell um Mother Jones was a really a 60-year-old Advocate that uh was in West Virginia and Pennsylvania and stuff when
the co mines were active and Rockefeller carnegi Vanderbilt and J people Moran were making America great but people were dying to make a living in the coal mines so they put on red scarves to show unification that they stood that the people stood together they were going to
make unions and the people were from Hungary they were the Southern blacks that came up out of slavery they were the Italians that had immigrated in and a lot of Italians and the Irish were also in the coal mines and to show unification because they're all covered
in the cold dirt they wore the red scarves which could also come up and keep cold out of your nose and your lungs pretty much which leads me into likewise the neighbors and Friends of warm Mineral Springs have unified as you know we write letters We call we
talk to you and we talk about you uh we want the outstanding Florida Springs designation we want it and it has great importance to the diverse functioning of the aquatic ecosystem of Northport the
spring the slew that leads out out of it the river and the manatees good selling point that come in there to keep warm probably yesterday today the Springs reflect Regional aquifers conditions and recreational opportunities for swimming
birding caving Wildlife watching Health Wellness activities Financial benefits as you all know now fresh water is 3% of the earth just 3% so it's really everybody's responsibility to protect
that 3% it's serious so the quality of life in Northport depends on safe wise management of our water citizens insist on the outstanding Springs designation application be submitted and expedited
it helps us to focus on conservation protect and protection Eco Heritage tourism combines ecological and cultural aspects of everything about the war Mineral Springs the history that place has to tell is amazing and then put in your Botanical Garden too with the
Master Gardeners and people like that it doesn't always have to cost a million bucks there are very talented people in our community that can make these things happen I would love to make them happen conservation protection management of land natural resources sewer line hookup Integrity I was
talking to uh representative Buchanan that Antiquated septic system there could make a disaster so I'm asking you to kick it up a notch progress does not need to move as slow as maple syrup in January in Pennsylvania and West
Virginia the P3 was on a fast track and the same reference can be directed to the warm Mineral Springs request the outstanding Florida Springs designation no more Lolly gagging around thank [Music]
you I'm Jill Luke and I'm here again for 6A that out Landing Springs uh designation that was my baby a couple years ago uh It Was Written the bill was written actually had a bill to it uh
Senator grutter was did that we had letters we had all of our delegation supporting it uh and then it was stopped couldn't or wouldn't have stopped had the property been divided the way we thought it was initially but it was
halted uh it is time to pick it back back up I was in Tallahassee already and I'm going to really recommend to you because all bills cease to go in on the 28th this is the 25th so I
would encourage you to quickly get get this I don't know there he is I don't know if he still got the paperwork s it in his office I probably have it digital including the bill but get everybody in motion and get that submitted before the
28th uh I would also encourage you before the 28th get in touch with our new uh representative Danny Nicks he handles all of wellam Park and the um chamber side of 41 we need some parking
some angle parking along there uh I would encourage you to see if you can't get a bill and maybe have Mr Nicks bring it forward to you to submit it ask for some Appropriations to help us with that angled parking don't hurt to ask all
they do is tell you no and you come back again next year but uh I would encourage you to put those two things in and again I will help you with the outstanding Springs if you need any of that material brought forth but you had everything in the
package and it was there and halted so we all we've got to do is easily pick it back up but get it done before the 28th believe please thank you that's all right city clerk
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 Community Economic Development Advisory Board environmental Advisory Board firefighters pension trust fund
Board of Trustees joint management Advisory Board Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and Veterans Park advisory committee Sarasota County advisory Council vacancies include one resident of Northport to serve on the citizen advisory committee and one resident of Northport to serve on the
citizen oversight committee for school facility planning thank you thank you all right we're on to the consent agenda uh city manager any SM pole no Mr Mayor all right then uh City cler public
comments we have Debbie McDow good evening everyone I'm Debbie mcdell and I'm here to talk about item 4N which is the warm Minal Springs design oh my gosh finally we're getting closer progress is being made everybody
should be celebrating um it it will be exciting to see what these design plans look like when they're finally complete which brings me to item the uh uh attachment C that says the schedule for
this amendment for tasks 13 through 21 which is this amendment it says that it is estimated to be completed within 9910 days from notice to proceed folks that's two and a half
years plus that is an extraordinary amount of time to design this so I just wanted to bring that to your attention hopefully we could get on the stick get this done a heck of a lot sooner than 910
days thank you very much and I'm looking for a motion I'll make it I move to approve the items in the consent agenda as presented I've got a motion to approve the uh consent agenda by commissioner
Lang seconded by the vice mayor there's nothing else to that let's vote and that passes 5 to zero moving on to public hearings ordinance first reading ordinance uh a 20 25-7 I'm going to need a motion to
direct city clerk to read by title only move second okay I've got a motion to direct city clerk to read by title only by vice mayor seconded by commissioner langden let's vote that passes 5 to zero city clerk do
us the Hors ordinance number 2025 07 an ordinance of the city of Northport Florida amending the code of the city ofth Northport Florida Chapter 2 Article 5 division 5 police officers pensions providing for findings providing for conflicts providing for severability providing for codification and providing an effective date thank you ma'am city
manager your item thank you Mr Mayor ordinance number 2025 -07 amends the code of the city of Northport section 2-26 benefit amounts and eligibility and section 2- 283 deferred retirement option plan or the drop plan so that the
code is consistent with the terms of the collective bar tting agreement section 2-26 is amended to reflect that effective October 1st 2024 members who elected to continue participation in the retirement system after the city join the Florida retirement system F FRS will
receive a $200 per month benefit supplement those that elected to join F FRS are not eligible for this supplemental benefit we ask that you continue ordinance number 20257 the second reading on March 11 2025 thank you sir thank you sir commissioners
anybody wan to speak to this nothing I'm going to close this public hearing request a motion there's public I'm sorry there move to continue ordinance number 20 25-0 second to Second reading on
March 11th 2025 second I've got a motion to continue ordinance number 2025 d07 the second reading on March 11th 20125 made by the vice mayor seconded by commissioner
Langdon there's nothing to that let us vote that passes 5 to zero on to be ordinance a motion to request uh city clerk to read by title only second that a motion by vice mayor
seconded by commissioner Langdon to uh request city clerk to uh read this motion by title only let us vote and that passes 5 to zero city clerk was the H ordinance number 20258 an ordinance of the city of
Northport Florida amending the non-district budget for fiscal year 2024 d225 for Hurricane an and hurricane melon costs and payments from Park impact fees from the West Village's developer agreement post annexation in the amount of $823,000 thank you sir um this item is amending
the non- District budget for the fiscal year 2024-25 for the hurricane Ian and hurricane Buon cost and payments from part impact Fe from West villagers develop agreement in the amount of $823,000 and move to Second reading on March 11th
2025 thank you sir thank you Commissioners anything to this and I am uh closing this public hearing and requesting a motion there no public comment I'm sorry public comments then I'm closing this public hearing and requesting a
motion move to continue ordinance number 2025-the I have a motion by vice mayor seconded by commissioner Langan to continue ordinance number 20258 second reading on March 11 2025 there's nothing else to that let us
vote that passes 5 to zero moving on to see ordinance number 20259 a motion to direct city clerk to read by title only so moved got a motion by Mion langen seconded by vice mayor to
direct city clerk to read by title only let us vote and that passes 5 to zero city clerk you're up ordinance number 2025 09 an ordinance of the city of Northport Florida amending the non-district budget and Improvement budget for fiscal year
2024 d225 for additional funding for Price widening Phase 1 Project R15 pw1 in the amount of $3,723 472 providing for findings providing for posting providing for conflicts providing for severability and
providing an effective date thank you ma'am city manager your item thank you Mr Mayor on this project Price Boulevard wiing current available funding including bond funds and a 1.5 Grant from the Florida Department of Transportation is$
66,1 144,000 a funding gap of 17,2 we are proposing that the following sources listed on the summary be used for that shortage in addition to an item that was approved deler today on the road and drainage District meeting the treat fund of
1.59 million Transportation effect fees of 1.5 million will be transferred from the interchange road instructure infrastructure at F blade and $171,800 from The Interchange Ro structure at Swinton um to this price widening phase
one also Sur tax of 10,461 th000 will be transferred as well from the projects of the sidewalk and pedestrian bridge uh also another sidewalk and pedestrian bridge project water control structure 114 neighborhood
expansion of 7.7 million as well the additional funding for Price widening for this project is in totaling today of 13,722 472 we ask that you approve orance number 20 25-9 on first reading and
continue with the second reading on March 11 2025 thank you sir thank you sir Commissioners questions and discussion commissioner jual
yes U why price just has to happen this is good I apologize I didn't have I didn't have my speaker on I think the
price has to happen this has been delayed long enough our infrastructure in this city is vital to the growth of this city to the success of this city the economic of this
city to the health and wealth and happiness of the people who live in this city now having said that this 13 million $1 13 million plus that
basically is a funding Gap and what we're talking about here is relieving that funding Gap and it will not be painless it is not painless some of that money is
coming from a reduction in interchange road infrastructure at toetal blade in 75 some from suer in 75
$1,590 th000 from our tree fund um I have a personal interest in that tree fund seeing that it does not get depleted and actually gets used to
maintain our tree col transfer from pedestrian Bridges we're taking money out of water control structure rehab we all know that that's important as I
said infrastructure has to be done we don't have that ability to borrow money at will so sometimes we have to rob Peter to pay
Paul and that's why even though I don't like these painful costs I am in favor of this thank you thank you very much commissioner commission langon uh thank you mayor I mean
clearly my mic is on there you go um clearly the widening of price needs to happen um there's no question about that but some of these projects are also very important so I I do have a
question for City manager um what process or or what rule ruler did we use to select these projects rather than other projects what was the rationale behind this
selection well Mr speak our public um comes down I would say it has to be the ones that were least impactful to the community ones that we knew we could delay not delete and ensure that we move forward with price wide in B but I
Willer to Mr ski yes sir for more information CHP Public Works director uh so these are projects first that we looked at that because they're all very important projects uh we looked to see if there was additional funding available from other sources it is
Grants impact fees that we'll collect over the life of this project right this going could be a long project uh to touch on The Interchange the monies that came out of those those interchange agreements with fot those became we had money in those those through our
agreement negotiations with fot became fully funded so that money came back so that doesn't affect the timeline or the construction of those interchanges pedestrian Bridges uh and and sidewalks we we talked about those earlier right so it's not the deletion
of projects that are safety hazards it's the just the delay of new sidewalks and pedestrian Bridges which Price Boulevard includes sidewalk and pedestrian bridges on both sides thank you for that that does help
um like commissioner Duval I'm very supportive of doing this we have to widen price but I do want to be confident that we're not cutting off our nose to spite our face so I appreciate that Insight thank you yes
ma'am I'm good thank you commissioner Pedro I agree with the commissioner Deval and but uh my question is since we taking the money from other projects and uh city of Northport is
known for delaying projects and I want to be a part of the solution not part of the problem as a commission member of this board my question is how long do we delay those other projects to fund this
project do we have any timeline or plan and funding of for the projects that we taking the money from sure so the water control structures again we're looking for grant
funding for that and and we should have those answers within the next six months to a year through the the county and the state for those grants we score typically very high uh the Water control structures du we have a structure that's designed and ready shovel ready which
helps us uh so we're very confident that we'll get some assistance there the other projects which are the sidewalk and pedestrian Bridges as I said uh those projects are are wants more than needs in certain areas they're filling in gaps of
sidewalks uh so we didn't deplete those those CIP projects completely we removed money from two separate projects uh and left money in there so we can still address any issues or still make some of those gaps based on the mobility study
and and our Gap list priority list for calks so it's it's not that we're reducing completely we're or or deleting completely or or putting on hold it's we're we're not going to do as much work as we had initially planned and then those projects will be
they'll just fall into the next year as we do a sidewalk and pedestrian bridge CIP project every year so you'll see those projects built in the next few years yes sir anybody else
d but I forget about public comments any public comments Debbie McDow good evening again Debbie McDow first I want to thank the three Commissioners that I met with over the past few
weeks um thank you for hearing my concerns about a developer agreement that I brought to the city manager's attention in July of 2024 to be brief um the city was has met
the threshold to uphold the requirement for the heren creek developer to install an 8ot sidewalk and a pedestrian bridge along price between the Walmart and um southford using previous projects as a
guide my guess is this developer's contractual obligation is over a million dollars regardless of the math every penny counts you're postponing many projects important
projects yet not a peep of the requirement with the developer at today's discussion about this obligation there's not even a mention of it in the memo that the city manager gave to you guys if it's a million dollars that's a
lot of money please make sure you you collect that money from that developer they're required to pay it and yes you can withhold the ceric
certificates of occupancy which now becomes leverage to make sure that they pay that's how that agreement that's how vitally important those Agreements are the tree fund is not intended to be
used for landscaping yet this proposal has $1.6 million of tree fund money to put down sod and hedges and other landscaping materials it certainly is not going to be used to
plant trees because the commission Exempted trees to be planted in that project area eons ago when I first got elected that's a lot of money for sad the backstory on the stamped
concrete which was removed was for safety to keep people from driving that center lane as making it a little racetrack nobody likes to drive on that stamped concrete the sidewalk that was removed that Pon St own sidewalk from Sky View to
hornbuckle I do believe is cdbg project and we got funding for that so you might want to double check on that too thank you thank you that's all thank you with that going to close public
hearing request a motion I'll make I move to continue ordinance number 20 25-9 to 2 reading on March 11 2025 second second got a motion by Mr langen
seconded by the vice mayor to continue ordinance 2025 -9 second reading on March 11th 2025 there's nothing else to that let us V at passes 5 to Zer moving on to ordinance's Second
reading D ordinance 202-626-0290 for conflicts providing for suff Ability providing for codification and providing an effective date thank you ma'am city manager you're item thank you Mr Mayor during the city regular commission meeting on February the 11th 2025 the commission continued
this item ordinance number 20256 a second reading as is on today February 2025 February 25th 2025 we ask that you accept the ordinance and adopt it as present it number 22 56 thank you sir
thank you sir commission questions discussions commissioner Duval yes uh on this item uh this was negotiated back in uh July I believe of 2024 um this is also the same as in the
fire department that was negotiated and passed and I see no reason why we should not bring this along thank you thank you sir anybody
else all right any public comments there is not and with that I'll close this public hearing request a motion move to adopt ordinance number 2025 d06 is presented second all righty I have a motion by the Vice mayor seconded by
commissioner Duval to adopt ordinance 2025-the regarding the application process for an outstanding Florida Springs designation War Mineral Springs by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection city manager
your item thank you Mr Mayor um with the improvements occurring at Warm Springs since the last time this item was discussed it is moving forward in the direction for the improvements in the future of the spring staff would like to discuss and receive commission Direction regarding the application process for the outstanding Spring Florida Springs
designation for war Springs by the Florida Department of Environmental protection um there are two hurdles that caused this item to be paused one was the direction that was given toward waral spring has now been um decided upon by this board but there was also
concern with the flow rate and water quality um waral Springs will be subject to an assessment assessment by the Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to which an impairment determination would need to be made um the designation also imposes ongoing
obligation for the Department of Environmental Protection to clean and maintain the spring so we're not sure that the Department of Environmental Protection would support it our ask for you today is to ensure that staff continues to explore the hurdles with the Department of Environmental
Protection to see if this outstanding Florida Springs designation can be attained since the deadline for this year is in front of us and that obligation that excuse me that Hurdle from D still resides we know that it will take some time in order for us to
talk to D to get a resolution we're asking for your direction to continue to explore that and figure out if we can get over the herles D thank you Mr Mayor thank you very much um commissioner langon um I just have a
quick question for city manager um I I support pursuing um this as aggressively as we can is it staff's assessment that if we go to our legislative Partners
without the support of other organizations like the EPA that that would severely compromise the success of this request yes I believe that is DP um
yes we need we need we need D because they are a partner in the process of the approval of it if we don't resolve what their concerns are it is highly unlikely that we would get that designation we don't know if we can resolve them
because we stopped when we heard of them so we have not taken that extra step but our um development services team are more than happy to sort of follow back up with that see if we can get past that so it would be Our intention to be ready by the next
legislative session and make this a priority correct right thank you and just to add on to that as addition to the speaker said the the um sponsor for the bill most likely we would reach out to gutter Senator
gutter because he has been such a vocal uh sport thank you um have a question if assuming we can address the issues with d
um what are the costs projected that the city would incur prior to the designation being either approved or disapproved are there costs I should really ask it that way are there costs involved in getting to
that point we won't know Mr Mayor until we actually figure out what they need us to do in order to meet their threshold okay um if you would like which I'm sure you would we are happy to bring back to you any cost before the expended on said project so that you can make that
decision okay commissioner Petro I'm in full support of outstanding Florida spring designation for war Min Springs um I just don't know why it's taking so long I don't see that it's
feasible to do it for the this legislation session because we only have few days left um can we start working as soon as we can on this um matter and what are the steps to
do that practical steps as far as the commission board what do we have to do to make this happen as fast as we can we need you to approve this item and give us direction to say go and take those steps that's what we're asking today do we know the steps we need to reach out
to the EP and address their concerns once we talk to the I'm pretty sure they're going to tell us how and what the pathway is to get it approved or there are challenges with it not going to be approved we as of now we have not
reached to the up to in the agenda item there was a memo attached from Todd Miles your legislative analyst that told you the conversation that was had with d as well as conversation that was had with our development Services team and D it outlines the fact that they would not
approve it based on what they know right now over the spring now we all believe because this has been an item that has been presented before that there is a pathway to get it designated we need to know what it is and talk to D and find how to work around the concerns to get
it designated so we're asking you tonight for that permissions to go forward and take that step in the process let's do it anything else Commissioners public comments city
clerk Jasmine Bowman I strongly support pursuing the application process for outstanding Florida Springs designation for warm and all Springs since as the only warm spring in the state it is a unique treasure as well as a valuable natural resource and that is all that's it yes all right
well um anybody want to take a stab at this I will move to direct the city manager uh to pursue all avenues on finding the designation for the springs for the outstanding Florida
Springs designation second um do we want to give any dire ction is to report back um any more specificity or keep it that
General we're pursue all avenues and then it comes back to us I just didn't state it would like to include time frame maybe make an amendment I don't want to miss another legisl session jump into the
pool the only problem with that would be a we let the mercy of d That's the only thing if we try to spe specify a 90day or 100 day who knows D Works slower than we
do if I may mayor um I think we can always ask for staff to bring back a status report at a later time I don't think it has to be necessarily built into to the motion um we might do um a
consensus for that or just you know ask we can ask at any time for them to provide an update on how things are going well we also have our discussions up in Tallahassee coming up in March to where we meet with our legislators and we can go ahead and put a bug in their
ear saying hey this is coming just to get their F forward as well while we're up there so you know over the next few months you know we'll get more information and know which way we're going that's that's why I made it pretty vague you know just to get the information and see where we're at and I
know the city manager knows that we want to know what's going on so he can bring it back as an agenda by saying hey this is our update right now we are if I may I think it was pretty clear in in my conversation with the city manager that the intention is
to be ready by the next legislative session to to pursue it so um I interpreted that as we'll do everything we need to do to be ready um and if there are any
unforeseen barriers or hurdles to that then we'll deal with them as they're presented to us are you comfortable with that mayor I'm comfortable with it okay veryy good we've got a motion made by
vice mayor to direct City staff for city manager to proceed all avenues all avenues uh to obtain the uh Mineral Springs outstanding Florida mineral
outstanding Florida Springs designation for warm mineral Springs of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection seconded by uh commissioner Langan and uh there's nothing else to it let's vote and that passes
520 right almost almost we got some general public comment you got one more oh I apologize we do there it is B 25-1 1938 discussion of possible action
regarding the appointment of Christine doy and John Perkins to the community Economic Development Advisory Board city clerk Mr yes so this one actually since the posting of this agenda we do now have two vacancies on this board so if we could just get a
motion to appoint both of them as regular members that would be perfect thank you m did I not say that 38 he slipping Commissioners any questions on
this one just a a comment from me go ahead okay thank you mayor um I'm relieved that there are two vacancies I reviewed both of um these um applications and both look like great candidates um my inclination um as we
had this discussion last month is in in jump ball situations like this to go with the person who submitted their application first but I'm really glad we don't have to make a decision I think both candidates
will be terrific additions to cep good okay uh with that public comment there's no then I'm looking for a motion I'll make it move to approve the
appointment of Christine L doxy and John P Perkins to serve as a regular member on the community Economic Development Advisory board board to serve a term from February 25th 2025 through February 26
2028 second out a motion by vice mayor seconded by commissioner Langdon to approve the appointment of Christine dxy and John Perkins to serve as regular members on the community Economic Development
Advisory Board to serve a term from February 25th 2025 through February 26 2028 there's nothing to that let us F and that passes five to
zero that I'm looking for any general public comment there is none there is none holy macro we are on to commissioner Communications commissioner langden want to repeat what you told us the last meeting absolutely so I've decided
rather than going through all of my activities in an open meeting that I will document uh every month I will document um my activities in a written report so I will do that at the end of February and again Ask the city clerk's
office to attach my report um to the agenda of our first regular meeting um in March so that's how I will proceed thank you ma'am you're are welcome commissioner
Deval yes um I did attend the town hall at the Morgan Center on our referendums last night uh also yesterday I toured our public works department uh
actually spent about three hours with the people from public works I really appreciate all their input on February 13th I attended a meeting in Venice of the community AC uh Community Action
Agency board uh I toured Northport uh business part phase two on February 20th that's a Benderson Development uh I toured our Parks and Recreation Department apartment also on February
20th and I spent way too many hours reading emails thank you thank you sir Mr [Music] Petro a little bit about tours I I
forget which ones I already did because I did so many of them but I'm really grateful for the public works stour they gave me a good information information and good presentation also did a fire department really thankful to them their
time to tell me all about their operations and all the information that they had um did a tour for the Northport phase two M it was really good
to hear that they going to bring over, 1500 jobs to the city of Northport um and yesterday's Stan hole meeting I really do think it was very beneficial for the community and for the public to
present questions and interact in the discussion format with the city commission and City staff so I'm looking forward for another two thank you sir and vice mayor now you know you were supposed to
memorize it all that cuz there will be a test I got nothing there nothing at all I attended the meeting last night and I thought it went very well uh I also toured the Benderson
Business Park uh phase two it's beautiful facility I'm looking forward to all those new jobs and getting that space filled right up uh just a couple of calendar items um Saturday this noon uh there is a Ukrainian FES here on City
all green um from noon to 4: um that's always a good time and uh good opportunity for everybody to come out and support our Ukrainian brothers and sisters um for any who wanton at 10:00 on Saturday I actually get to do a redo
I'm throwing out the first pitch at the Miss Northport fast ball softball uh season open time yeah I'm going to get there early and do a little practice and you know if if I don't reach home PL commissioner dval if do not Snicker
please anyway other than that that's all I have folks um on to uh Charter officers uh City attorney nothing sir city manager nothing Mr Mayor thank you and city clerk see it's first time in three shots
I didn't forget you guys and with that it is 6 54 and I'm going to Jour this meeting