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Part 1 (Video ID: bmGzYLcKCk4):
- 00:00:07: Meeting Called to Order; Pledge of Allegiance
- 00:02:36: Public Comment: Tim Doyle - Sarasota County Theft
- 00:05:42: Public Comment: Joseph Majorino - City Manager Criticism
- 00:09:05: Hurricane Season 2026 Preparedness Presentation Begins
- 00:16:10: City and Residents Roles in Hurricane Preparedness
- 00:18:56: Commissioners Question Hurricane Preparedness Team
- 00:33:53: Public Comment: Hurricane Response Praise and Concerns
- 00:36:50: Public Comment: Morgan the Thief, Dantis, Penny Tax


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When your day ends, others begin theirs. Every hour, every act quietly connected. Most of us don't think about how the city works. >> Good morning. Today is Monday, May 4th, 2026. It's 10:00 a.m. We're in the city chambers and I call the city commission

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workshop meeting to order. Commissioners present are Commissioner Duval, Commissioner Stokes, Mayor Emerich, Vice Mayor Langden, and Commissioner Pro. There is a quorum present for this meeting. Also present are city manager Pletcher, city attorney Fuino, city

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clerk Fost, board specialist Linder, is that Chief Garrison in the back, and Chief Titus. I'm requesting that all commissioners, public participants, and staff maintain order and decorum throughout this

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meeting. City Commission policy 2021-03 states that attendees shall refrain from engaging in personal attacks and boisterous, immaterial, inflammatory, obscene, profane, or

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disorderly conduct. Thank you. I'm going to call on Elaine Allen Emerage. Would you lead us in the pledge this morning? >> I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic

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for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. City clerk, public comment. >> Tim Doyle, followed by Joseph Marina.

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>> I brought my two cents today. I think you're still allowed to give two cents. So, I'm going to start out today by talking about the Sarasota County, how they've ripped people off. They're bigger shysters than I don't know anybody in the world right now. So,

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I had to go to motor vehicles and register my car. They're not giving out change. They are keeping your change. It is policy of the county to steal from the American people, to steal from the citizens of Northport, to steal from the citizens of

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the whole county. Now, everybody has to go to motor vehicles, pay your taxes, pay your car stuff. So, if they don't have pennies to give back to people, doesn't give them the right to steal yours. I say we should succeed from Sarasota

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County. I say we should start our own county and keep all that tax revenue for us or join Dakota County or Charlotte County. This is the second time I've gone to the tax collector where they try to defraud me and steal from me. And I

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believe the vice mayor tried to come console me last time when I bought it up in this room, which I appreciate. She was being nice. The point is there is no law that allows that Morgan dude to steal people's money. They have accounts. They have everybody's name,

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right? So if you can't give me my two cents, then you credit my account for next time I go in there. You credit my tax bill, but you cannot steal. I am asking the police department to investigate this office right here for stealing from the public. I have called

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Senator Rick Scott. I have called Dantis. Mr. Dantis, I would like the state police to investigate that building in Sarasota off of Park Road from stealing from the American public. And there is no law that allows any of you to create taxes on your own or

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because oh, I can't give you a penny, so I get to keep your money. There is nothing under the law that allows this. This is called a penny tax. Now I talked about in this room I brought up solutions to this problem. But no solutions have come anywhere. Not from

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Rick Scott, not from Dantis. No one's doing anything about this. Every time you walk in the store, someone's getting stolen from. Every time you go to the Sarasota County Tax Collector, they try to tell you you can't pay your bill, come back the next day and charge you

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more money. They keep your change and they say that's perfectly legal. I don't think it's legal. And again, I'm calling on the state police and I am calling on the local police to have their detectives, you know, you spend 54% of your time looking upon wearing a seat

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belt. Maybe what you see and go after people who are stealing from the people and it's mortgage and the city and I mean not the city, the county government because they are stealing from the taxpayers of this town. This is another fee. It's another fee.

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Thank you. >> Joseph Majorino, 2747 Rebel Lane. Um, looking back and watching everything that happened here over the years. Uh, city manager does have a tough job. Maybe that's why it was he cost so much and it was so hard to find one because

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you had to find somebody who was far enough left to go and raise the taxes to pay for things. The problem is you keep spending and you keep spending. The solution to that is uh fees on trash department on road and drain. Everything

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gets a gets a franchise fee now which is paid into the budget because we can't stop spending. We want police stations. We want this. We want that. Well, the wants of the police station and the I mean the needs of the police station and the wants. The wants got to go. Now, what we're doing is we're going to put

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apartment buildings all over the place because why? Section 8. Here we go. The government's going to pay. It's his idea that the the city man this is all him. He'll violate laws. He has. He violates state laws. The employees violate state

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laws. He told me he's not in charge of permitting. He's not in charge of the employees. That's his job. I don't know. I've never seen anything like this. It's a joke. And the three rhinos up there like to just agree because, you know, and again, we bought doubled in salary

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32 to 34 to 64 since since you've been there. So, give each other raises. Give each other pats on the back. How about saving the tax money? Deb McDow had it right. Oh, we're not raising the taxes. We're not going to raise the mill rate. We charge more on the water. We charge more on the electric. Yeah, you hit them hit them when they're not. Then illegal

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illegal uh uh uh got to hook up to water lines doubling the price. Then people up there saying, "Well, we'll give it to you half price." "Oh, you mean the regular price that it was?" It's ridiculous. And and you think that nobody's watching and you think that that the the residents are stupid. They

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see this. I'm going to see you guys out. You're gone. I'm telling you, whatever it takes, whatever amount of money and he's gone because he doesn't want to change his stripes. He just wants to do whatever he's going to do. And when it doesn't work, he tries to have you

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physically removed from the building. He He tries to trespass you from the building. He does anything and everything. He stares at the wall. He tries to be I really don't care. I'm not the one who's going to get angry. I'm not the one who's going to get physical when anybody I'm just going to point out

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what everybody else is thinking, what they're afraid to say. There's a lot of people who won't say something because they're worried about retribution. He can't do anything to me. There's no retribution. He can't make me lose my job. He can't make my wife lose her job. She owns her own business and

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high-profile people in the area. So, guess what? You picked the wrong person this time, Mr. City Manager. You really did. You picked somebody who will now come back and go after you and not stop because you haven't yet apologized or

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made anything right. Not I apologize emptiness and then have your security sit there. >> That's all right. >> Thank you. >> Moving on to presentations. Item 26-0626. Presentation regarding the 2026

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hurricane season in the city's preparedness efforts. City manager, this is your item, sir. >> Thank you, Mayor. I am going to turn it over to our emergency manager, Miss Stacy Elisio, for presentation. Thank you so much, sir, and thank you, commission, uh, for your time today. Um, this is our annual presentation

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regarding our upcoming, um, hurricane season as well as the preparedness efforts that we've been making throughout the year based off of lessons learned, what we learned from last season and previous seasons. Um, so I appreciate your time and allowing us to get this information out to the public as well. I want to start off with

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talking about last hurricane season. While we didn't have impacts here in the state of Florida, it was still a very significant season. 13 named storms. Five of those storms were hurricanes and out of those five, four of them were major hurricanes. So, category three or

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higher. Um, this is tied for or the in second place for the most major hurricanes in a single year. And Hurricane Melissa was tied for the strongest ever hurricane to make landfall. And that made landfall in Jamaica, which isn't too far from us.

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So, um, we were very blessed last year to not have had an impact. We just don't want people to become complacent because we didn't get hit last year. It was still a very um busy, almost record-breaking season um for the Atlantic Basin. >> Good morning, AJ Brown, emergency

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management planning coordinator. So, now for the current predictions of a hurricane season. So according to Colorado State University, they are predicting 13 named storms, six hurricanes,

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two major hurricanes. So this is just one under the average uh for the season. So we just want to emphasize that even though this is slightly below average, right, it only takes one storm, right? And so we're always prepared.

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So we have made several improvements over the past year that I want to let you know about. So we have acquired YBOC which is the incident management software. The county also has this program and so does the state. It's what we use to um do our resource requesting

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throughout the year or throughout um the response and recovery phase of an emergency. So when we need something because the city doesn't have it, we ask the county for it. Now that we have the same software, we're working on getting them to talk to each other. So, as soon as the EOCC approves a resource, the

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county has it, whereas in the past, we'd we'd approve it and then we'd have to copy and paste everything over into another form for the county. So, it just saves some time. It also gives us visibility of the status of our resource request. So, in the past, we'd ask the county for something, they'd say, "Okay,

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got it." And then we have no idea where that resource is and when it's going to arrive. So with these updates, we'll now have more visibility of of the resource needs. Um after we order those, we've updated our plans and our policies. Uh so we've updated our SOGS for those

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positions that sit in the emergency operation center so they have better guidelines for where they're going to be sitting. Um and then we also have updated our EOCC activation plan. So when the EOCC is going to be activated, what thresholds so that we have a better guideline for that.

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We've coordinated with finance to obtain feeding contracts. So now we'll have emergency feeding. Um that is federalized contract so FEMA can reimburse for those costs if we have a disaster declaration. So when our EOC

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responders, public works, utilities, PD, fire, all of us are working after disaster and we need to eat. So this will allow us to have a feeding plan for them. And then we worked with it to automate our E-roll tier assignments. So last year we had rolled out the emergency role program or e-roll

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program. So each city employee is now assigned. They're either a first responder, an EOC responder, they're department essential, or they're at home on call waiting to be called into a role after the storm. So now it's automated. When we onboard a new employee, their

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supervisor gets notified that they have a new employee that now needs to be assigned to a tier. So it just automates that process, makes it a lot easier for us to know who's available to help after a storm. We've also been working with HR to talk at onboarding to discuss with employees what our expectations of them

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are during a storm as city employees and also the importance of family preparedness. They can't give their 100% to the city if their families aren't first prepared because that's really the number one priority for them. So making sure that they have those plans in place for their family as well so that they can come fulfill their jobs with the city.

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And then the most recent thing is we up uploaded our public infrastructure to crisis track. So that is what we use to track our damage assessment data. So damages to public buildings, to our water control structures, to our lift stations, those can now all be tracked

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in crisis track. We did an exercise last week on Thursday with utilities, public works, and development services as well as the planning section and finance section of the emergency operations center to test this out. Um it went really well. We've got some lessons learned from that. So now we can make

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some more improvements before hurricane season. So we're ready to go there. >> So current preparations. So in two weeks we're going to be holding our EOCC section briefings and so we have staff from a variety of departments who uh

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serve in roles in our EOCC during an activation and some of that staff will be even uh new to those positions. So, we're going to be reviewing again the outlook for the season, what they can do to prepare as staff members and then what their roles and responsibilities are going to be when they serve in the

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EOCC during an activation. So, we we we will be reviewing all those sections with them. Uh, additionally, later this month, we're going to have a communications exercise. Uh so we're working with our communications department um again for a hurricane exercise and we are looking at uh

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coordination between our call center, our joint information center and our PIOS. So we'll be um again just reviewing preparedness and response and we're going to be throwing some uh scenarios their way to see how they handle those situations.

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And then public outreach again we're coming off of a really great successful hurricane expo. So again, we'll be um meeting with different uh community organizations and groups again just to discuss this hurricane season. Um what our citizens can do to prepare, what the

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city's doing to prepare, what response looks like from the city, how they can help, and then again some uh recovery uh resources um if that storm occurs, right? We also have agreements with STC and FPL um in progress. And this is

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really important to have those locations in the city um where our resources can come in and stage right to provide that local uh response and recovery. So we're working on that and then again streamlining resource request processes.

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We're doing this with that web EOC. So we're really looking forward to that coordination again with the county and the states and uh we're really encouraged by this this process um improvement. So that's what we have current preparations. >> Now I want to talk a little bit about the residents roles, right? Because

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they're really the first first responders. They see everything and report it back to us so that we can send our first responders out there. So it's really important that the residents all have family plans. I have plans for sheltering in place as well as for evacuations. As we know, last minute

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shifts and tracks can happen. So, if you're planning on sheltering in place and all of a sudden you want to evacuate, you want to make sure you have that plan ready to go. Um, knowing your evacuation level is extremely important. It is different from flood zone. So, I just want to remind the public that flood zones and evacuation levels are

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different. You can be in a flood zone and not be evacuated and vice versa. So, just make sure you know those evacuation levels. Um, and then sign up for our alerts at northportell.gov/alerts. It's the alert Sarasota program. That is where those real time life-saving

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updates will come through. Where when our shelters are opening, when evacuations are being called, what levels are being evacuated, when our multi- agency resource centers are opening, when our points of distribution are available, all of that will come through those alerts. So, please sign up for those. And then prepare your homes.

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I know we have a lot of new residents here in the city who maybe have never been through a storm, don't know how long it takes to prepare your home. So, have a list. Know what you need to do to prepare. Ask your neighbors for help if you need to. also help your neighbors prepare their homes if they need it and just make sure that you're really fulfilling your roles at home so that

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we're able to be more resilient as a community. And this presentation wouldn't be complete without a quick EOCC project update. I just wanted to show you guys this wonderful timeline of how the project is progressing. You guys have

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seen the fence. We've cleared the land, got some fill dirt dropped off. Um so right now we're still in the site clear and prep phase. We're going to be slab on grade in August, topping out in October. We'll have a roof and be all dry um through November. And then um in

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February is when the power and HVAC come in. And then in April, we'll be doing all the last minute preparations to be able to occupy the building to hopefully be in by July of 2027 for our EOC. And I want to thank you guys again for your support for this project. Um we're

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really looking forward to it. And that is all that we have. Do you guys have any questions for us? Happy to help. >> Yeah, I I have a question. Um, back in the day when I was employed with the city, the city offered training to all of the staff members. Um, I can't

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remember what the training was called, but there was multiple levels for going out there, working, working situations. Is that still being done now? So we do um the FEMA classes, the 100, 200, 700,

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800 classes. We teach those. >> Yeah. Because I I went all the way I did all of them. So I was certified in all of them and and it's good training. It really is. >> Yeah. So that is actually a requirement through FEMA that we continue to do those. Um currently with the shutdown,

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FEMA doesn't have access to those tests right now. Um, but usually during normal time, we're we're doing each class once a month for everybody to take. Um, it's also an uh independent study class, so people do take those on their own, but we do offer them in person once a month.

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>> Yeah. And we also had other trainings, too, that was like on-site training to where you went out, you had a situation, and you if you were the first one there, you know, you looked at the building, this that and the other. And it was good hands-on training. And it was good for especially public works employees

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because you know I know y'all are limited so we send our workforce out there and to get the proper you know feedback was always excellent. >> Yeah and that was part of what we did last week with our exercise was public works went out and did damage assessments and came back with some great information for us.

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>> Yeah that's great. I'm glad that y'all are still doing that. Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Uh Commissioner Stokes. >> Yeah. Thank you for the presentation. Um, so just going through this season and pretty much hunkering down the same way we did using our space here.

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>> Yeah. >> All right. Um, with the web EOC software like has what conversation if any's gone on with the county as far as if we get hit in South County, Charlotte County

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and us and they don't are they going to open? Are they going to operate? are their resources are going to be available to us. I mean, it's one thing to, you know, we still got another year or so to be self- sustaining, but it

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still doesn't mean that we're not going to interact with them. Ian was the perfect example of, you know, getting left high and dry and and it's costing us a whole lot of money now just stand on our own two feet. But what are they going to be doing for us if anything?

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>> Yes. So, we have had those conversation. That's a great question. So the county, if we're the only municipality impacted, they will send their people down to us and in bed with us here to allow us even more streamlined um access to their resources,

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>> which I guess we didn't get any. >> We have No, no, that was an interesting situation. They've had >> they both both us and the county have had a lot of changes since then. A lot of conversations. the relationships are much stronger now.

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>> Um the other question I had is we have over 70 HOAs. Have we what is going to be our policy with regard to debris removal for these private communities? Are they going to be required to go

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ahead and contract on their own? Are we going to take care of those non-HOA that do not have the resources available on their own first and then move to them? Like what kind of you know what's our plan and how have we communicated to

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these 70 HOAs? >> I believe yes I believe director speak has already been on top of that and communicating with the HOAs but I'll let him speak to that. >> Thank you. Chuck speak public works director. So, we've sent uh notices out to all the HOAs on our list in the city

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to explain to them that one uh we don't pick up uh routinely in private communities. It would have to be a declared emergency or a public threat for us to go in and do that. Uh we recommended that they they look into a debris management company of their own

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to handle those services. Uh because there's no guarantee that we can get reimbursed for that. So those letters have been sent out uh along with with with that the information on how to uh get registered so if they are if we do declare that emergency and we get the

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green light to go into those neighborhoods um we have all the paperwork in place to do that. >> How we going to we're going to pri prioritize areas of the city that do not have that capability first and then move to the HOAs because I remember that was an

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issue. We had a few communities that complained about, you know, when are you going to get to us? When are you going to get to us? And the response was, we got neighborhoods throughout our city that don't have anywhere else to turn. Your community has the resources to be able to go out and contract or should

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have been able to prepare >> better than Yes, sir. So, we'll do a push uh for emergency services. We'll push and clear those main roads to allow emergency services to get in and respond. Um, and I think what we had that that question last time was once

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the debris was stacked uh in the right of way, when are you going to come get it kind of a question. Uh, yes, they will. If it's declared emergency and we get the green light to go in and CM tells us to go in, uh, we will go in there. That does not prioritize those neighborhoods. We will work through the

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the city owned streets first and then we move into the private owned areas. >> All right. Thanks. Thank you. And the only other >> question I have and it's it's sem budget related but it's it's in the event we get in I mean as a board should we not

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have some discussion about how how this board wishes staff to handle the utilization of reserves to address debris removal and other things. I mean, Ian was an example of

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I mean, an enormous amount of resources were devoted to debris removal. We were probably the quickest on the spot. We did a great job, unlike most of our neighbors down in this area who for months and even years had mountains of

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debris, but we exhausted our reserves. God forbid we had been collaborate a second time, we would have been in a real bad fix. Is there any staff policy procedure idea that they wish

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this body to think about because you know I'm concerned about the same thing happening again and and us going ahead and overextending our reserve resources. So that's discussion I think this body should have and decide how far or at least you know what process might be in

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place for us to review how much money we're going to devote to do this >> and with Hurricane Ian FEMA reimbursed at a very high percentage they only by

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policy reimburse I believe by 50% normally that they have that they have to um we got up to 90%, I think for the first for the first amount of time it's 100% then they went down to 90. So we got a lot of that money back. That might not be the case moving forward. They

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might only reimburse us at 50%. So that's something else that I think we need to that we are thinking about um with as as FEMA with all of these unknowns, how are we going to how are we preparing ourselves to better be positioned moving forward? And we're

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following that with Val with the grants team. FEMA actually has a meeting this week that's public that we'll be attending um to get some updates of what's going on with FEMA. >> All right, that's all I have, Mayor. >> Vice Mayor.

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>> Yeah, thank you, Mayor. Um also a web EOC question. Um, now that we have software that enables us to electronically connect with the EOC in Sarasota County, will that preclude our

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sending a person to sit with them or will we still send a representative of the city to sit within Sarasota County's EOC? >> We will still send a representative. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Um, do we pay refresh my memory? Do we

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pay overtime to city employees when they uh are activated to provide emergency response? I can't recall. >> Yes, for certain for certain emergencies with city manager approval.

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>> That's of the discretion of the city manager. >> Okay. >> Um one more question. Last year, FDOT's Metropolitan Planning Organization denied the city's request to do a

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feasibility study for extending Toledo Blade to Clark Road or I think it's Route 72. Um, which would have provided an evacuation route for residents of this city to get into the middle of the

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state. We all know that during an emergency 75 and 41 are impassible, pretty much impassible. Um, in our planning, are we working on identifying slashimproving

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additional evacuation routes for residents of Northport? And here comes Mr. Speaks. >> Yeah, I believe he was uh very instrumental in that road extension project. So,

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>> and what are our options? So, if um MO they denied that request, do do we have an option to go it alone? What's your update on that? >> So, uh Pete public works director um

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we're I don't know if it was by design, but here we are. We're boxed in Northport. Uh to to the north, east, uh the the north and the west, we're kind of boxed in. So, we've got access

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south and and to the east. Uh I don't I have seen no movement and and I've tried a few times um both going west and going north and and it's been shot down every time uh because of the

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sensitive lands on both of those sides. I don't know that there's an appetite um because we don't own that's not within the city. We don't own that property. So our options are are pretty much extremely limited at this time. Uh I know that the county does not want to

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hear about those options. I was told that pretty clearly. Uh and they're, you know, they're the ones that are have more control of that property than we do. So the best thing we can do is try to make our connections within the city to provide some some extra pathways out

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because we've seen before sometimes our neighborhoods can be isolated u through road failures. Price Boulevard being rebuilt with the hardened crossings should help. And then our neighborhood crossings that we're working on now should help connect and provide some

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east to west connectivity to provide some other, you know, for our main routes, Sumpter and Toledo, to get to that south and and to the uh to the east side of the city. But going those other two directions, I'm all of my options

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are uh pretty much shut down at this point. Thinking long term, would the new interchange at Yorkshire provide a better alternative? Is is there less need to progress across a

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conservation area? >> So that's location >> that's surely going to help, right? The the the interchange out there will help get people access to 75. It will also alleviate some of that pressure on Kings Highway which will give another route

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for our people that are on that other end of town. >> Any any option to connect to 70 or 72 >> area all of that area to the north is is all sensitive lands.

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>> I I'm pretty much hands off on that that property for now unless something drastic changes. >> Thank you. One last question. When we do approve overtime payment for city employees who are responding um to an

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emergency, are those reimburseable by FEMA? >> Yes. >> Okay. Thank you. >> If we're under a declaration. >> Okay, that's it for me. >> All right. But I just wanted to address Commissioner Stokes concerns and city manager. We had discussed prior to about

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carving out some of our reserve funding to put into an emergency um declared bucket and I believe we were going to be discussing that again at budget time. Is that still the case? >> It can be but I remember us talking

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about it. I don't remember it what exactly the amount was that we discussed about it but yes we can definitely bring that. cuz we had like 52 in reserves and we had to keep >> we're keeping we have to keep 10% I believe but we're keeping 20%. >> That is correct. >> And we were looking at I know the

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discussion was we were going to put possibly half into an e declared emergency bucket and then if that ran out because we wanted to have other reserves still available in case a second storm came. Um, we had the discussion on possibly using city

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properties to go ahead and stockpile stuff until we could get rid of it. So, yeah, if we could regenerate that conversation according to Commissioner Stokes so we can have that conversation again. I I thought it was going to come up in budget, but if we didn't declare

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that for sure sometime, can we have a discussion on that, sir? >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you. I see nothing else. Thank you all very much. We always appreciate the update and it looks like we are prepared and I can't wait for the building to get open

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to where we're a fullfledged prepared community. So looking very forward to that. Thank you all. >> We are too. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> City clerk. >> This is public comment on this, right? >> This is Yes.

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>> General. >> No, it's >> No, >> it's >> it's on this top. >> You got another one after this. I got my two cents right here. I love this topic and I hate this topic. I love this topic because what you're doing about it, I hate when it happens.

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Okay, I will tell you that um I will criticize anything I don't like around here. You guys know that the one thing I can honestly stand up here and say, the hurricanes I've been through and the job that the first responders and everybody

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who donated the time was amazing. So, I have nothing to say up here to criticize any of that. You brought up overtime. My better half is an essential worker and had to go to the uh shelters.

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Okay. Not in this county. They pay double time. I have no problem with paying double time if they're going to be away from their h families for 72 hours. It was also offered the family members could go with them and stay at the shelter. So if

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you you set up shelters, any of the family members should be able to go. And again, I think the cleanup and my I can only speak for my you know little area. I lost power for what nine ten days

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and uh we cleaned up the street meaning the neighbors went out they just picked up threw it on the side of the road and my neighborhood didn't need people like that per se to come in the first or two days. You know what I mean? You should go the other part of town that was

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flooded and you're trying to get people out by boats. That's where they should be. So, please don't get wound up if there's some trees on the side of the road because that's really not what's important, especially for the first two weeks or something. You know what I

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mean? So, that shouldn't matter. Okay. Um, but again, they've done an outstanding job. I didn't realize until they start speaking that you wanted to move the road to 72. I am 1 million% in favor of that. There's a new EPA. So,

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the EPA isn't doing this stupid stuff. through wetlands like before and you can build roads. And I'm going to tell you why they don't want you to have a road to 72 or 70. That's the county, right? Arcadia. That means we could switch

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counties. You have a direct line. That's why they won't let you put in the road. The jail's over there. Last time I drove by it, it was decrep. I don't know if they did anything to it. Part of the problem with the police station is they have to drive all the way to Sarasota, the county jail. If we joined DInnesota

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County, we could fix some of our roads, get access to the interior of the uh state because we would be part of that county. All you have to do is take that land like you're trying to take the land someplace else in town. Just just claim

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the land and build the road. The API will let you do it. Thank you. But they did a great job during the hurricane. No complaints whatsoever. >> Thank you, sir. Is that it? >> Okay. And now we're moving on to general

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public comment. >> Here's my two cents. Morgan should be arrested. Morgan is a thief. Sarasota County tax collector is stealing from every taxpayer in this city who pays in cash.

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They are not crediting the bill. I had three sheriff officers come because they were called by the rena cop because I was walking, not talking to anybody, walking around because they still have these co laws

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where you have to have an appointment, you have to do this, you can't even come here because you have to have an appointment. These are all CO laws. None of this stuff existed before CO, but they're still enforcing it. So I don't want to sit next to 20 people. So I kept my six feet distance

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from everybody. The ran a cop called the sheriff department cuz I was just walking around. Didn't have a conversation with anybody. Didn't yell at anybody. You see me all the time sit here. I know how to keep my mouth shut. Especially when I'm mad. I've had what

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30, 40,000 people work for me. They knew if I was quiet, they screwed up. When I get excited, I'm just excited. You guys think I'm yelling. It's not yelling. That's me. When I'm really mad, I don't say a word cuz I know better.

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So, we got to do something about this penny thing. All these businesses in town are ripping people off. And it's the corporate businesses. I I'm going to say that again because I can go to mom and pop places, they have pennies. I go to

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the corporations, they don't. And you know why they don't? is I ran a business. I ran a penny business. The business I ran made what two to five cents per dollar coming in. So they know if they get an extra 4 cents every time someone

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walks in the building with a couple thousand transactions that adds up 365 days a year. Do the math. Rick Scott has destroyed this country by getting rid of the penny. Did Did the deficit go down?

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No. They took the money from this penny to spend on the bombs for blowing up the rest of the world because they couldn't pass a budget. So they reorganized the money. They took one money from this department and put it over here for the

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wars. That's what they did. It's BS. And Dantis, you want to be go you want to be president Dantis, you got to do something about the Sarasota tax collector cuz you will not get my vote. None of you guys will get my vote if nothing's done on this. And the other

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problem with all this, they put up their name. Morgan's the Sarasota tax collector. The sheriff puts his name on on everything with my name. So why am I paying to promote these people? That's a waste of taxpayer money. And where is

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this money going? In his pocket. >> That's on there. >> Thank you. All right. It's 10:39 and I adjourn this meeting. >> We drive maintained roads. We call when there's an emergency. We assume someone's keeping it all running and

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they are. Northport University gives residents a chance to step behind the scenes.