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Part 1 (Video ID: CpJtT8KuLOk):
- 00:00:02: Meeting Call to Order and Invocation/Pledge of Allegiance
- 00:01:18: Presentation of Audit Results for Fiscal Year 2025
- 00:05:59: Governmental and Proprietary Funds Analysis/ARPA Funds Update
- 00:09:26: Commissioner Questions Audit Results: AR Write-Offs
- 00:16:38: Commissioner Questions Internal Controls Auditing Frequency
- 00:22:50: Drop Savers 2026 Award Presentation and Recognition
- 00:31:44: Dr. Boyer on Water Conservation and City Announcements
- 00:37:12: Urination Ordinance First Read and Lakewood PUD Annexation
- 00:45:11: Public Hearing Closed; Approving Lakewood Avenue Annexation
- 00:46:21: Commissioner Questions Lakewood Ave Traffic Concerns
- 00:54:44: Approving Lakewood Avenue Rezoning Ordinance
- 00:55:03: Comprehensive Plan Text Amendment - Capital Improvements
- 00:58:20: Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement Trust
- 01:03:50: General Retirement Trust Fund Amending Ordinance
- 01:06:21: Resolution on Vacating Portion of North Cumberland Avenue
- 01:09:27: Mayor's Announcements: Surveys, Events, July 4th
- 01:11:54: Commissioner Comments: Hackne Prairie and Code Enforcement
- 01:15:42: City Manager: Recording Studio and Duke Energy Issues
- 01:17:32: Landscaping: Lake Shore Center Improvement Discussion


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All right, we're going to call the meeting in order. April the 21st meeting. We'll have the uh pledge of allegiance will be by Mr. Fner uh and then we'll pledge of allegiance Mr. Fer and then Mr. Hart will be the

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prayer. Please stand. >> Dear heavenly father, we thank you through your abundant grace and mercy. you allowed us to come together to conduct the city's business. We thank you for blessing us to live in this beautiful part of your creation that we call Okoy. And we pray that you help us to come together in the spirit of unity. Even though we may disagree, let us not

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disrespect or disengage from one another. We continue to work together as brother and sisters. We say a special prayer for all our men and women in the armed forces who are all over the world keeping us safe. Watch over them as they watch over us as well as our first responders. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Presentations and

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proclamations. Presentation of audit results for the fiscal year end in September the 30th, 2025. >> Mr. Mayor, we need to do roll call. >> Huh? >> We have to do roll call. >> Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you already getting ahead of you. >> Commissioner Kennedy >> here. >> Commissioner Wilson >> here. Mayor Johnson

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>> here. >> Commissioner Fner >> here. >> Commissioner Oliver >> here. Now we'll start with the presentation. F. Director Weber. >> Uh, good evening, Mayor and Commissioners. Uh I'm going to introduce Mino from the firm of Purpose and Gray

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who is going to go through presentation of the results from the fiscal year 25 audit here. >> There we go. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. I'm glad the mayor's excited to get to the audit

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presentation first thing and always excited about that. >> It's also good to have a nice packed house, I think, tonight. all the young individuals here to listen to an audit presentation. I'm sure we I'm excited about that. But um I'll go ahead and get started with sake of everybody's time. Um as you can see here, this shows the

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leadership of the audit team. Myself, Matthew, you know, I'm an audit partner with Pervis Gray and Company. Uh joining me with the presentation as well is the partner in charge, Tim Westgate. Listed there also is Michael Sandstöm. He's an IT audit director that oversees the IT elements as it relates to our financial

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audit that we perform. Uh this slide right here shows the GFOA certificate of achievement award. The city participates um in a GFOA certificate of achievement award program which goes above and beyond the minimum requirements for any city financial reporting. This requires additional

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reports and disclosures to be made all in the name of transparency as well as requires the city to submit in a more timely manner and complete their audited financial statements. Uh the city did receive the award from the GFOA certificate of achievements for the year ending September 30th, 2024. We do

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expect that the the city's annual comprehensive report that they have completed to also receive this award for the 2025 year. So I'm going to go ahead and go over some of the reports that all the reports that we issue as part of the attestation engagements and scope of our engagement

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that we perform. There are several reports. The first one listed there references the independent auditors report which can be found on page one of the annual comprehensive financial report. In this report, it discusses management's responsibility. Uh management's responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the

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city's financial statements. It is our responsibility as auditors to perform an audit and based on our audit procedures that we perform issue an opinion on those financial statements and state whether we believe that they are fairly presented in all material respects. You can see in the opinion paragraph and on

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page one we have issued an unmodified opinion which is a clean opinion. The highest level of assurance that we can provide as part of an attestation engagement that the financial statements are fairly presented in all material respects based off our audit procedures in our opinion that we have given.

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Second item there related to internal controls. We do issue a report on internal controls. We do not issue an opinion on the city's internal controls. However, we are required to review the city's internal controls as it relates to us performing and planning our audit. And if we do come across any significant

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deficiencies, material weaknesses, or other issues related to internal control that would meet those requirements, they would be mentioned in that separate report. There are no material weaknesses or internal control significant deficiencies that we have written and included in that report that rose to

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that level. We are also required to issue a compliance report with the city's investment policy with Florida statute 218415. Happy to report that the city has complied in all material respects based off of our opinion and our procedures that we performed. So that is as a clean

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report as well. Last thing mentioned there is management letter which is a requirement of rules of the auditor general. In this letter if there were any uh deteriorating financial conditions or financial emergencies that would need to be included with the city those would be included in that report. happy to report. There's nothing to report

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related to that. Nor are there any material non-compliance findings uh related to any contracts or grants that we would have to include in that report. So that is also a clean report. Lastly, for all the reports that we go over, uh the city due to and actually this year, uh due to the city, um

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expending more than a million dollars in federal awards as well as $750,000 in state assistant grants, a special uh single audit was required for both federal and state awards this year. Um and that is more of a compliance-based audit to ensure that the funds are spent

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in the in compliance with those grants. Um there is also there so there based on our testing and the issuance of that report there was no findings or or u material compliance issues that were noted related to that. So that is also a clean report related to the city's uh single audit.

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Just uh high level real quickly just go over a few significant events and some financial highlights. Here you can this slide shows for the governmental funds the changes in fund balance and the ending fund balance. The general fund did decrease. It's had a negative change in fund balance this year, and that was primarily due to a lot of different

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things, but there was a $1.3 million transfer to the solid waste fund to help offset that fund's deficit that it's been carrying forward for several years. The ARPA funds there increased $520,000. That's primarily due to investment uh earnings that were incurred on the funds

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that are in the ARPA fund. and the capital projects reserve and both the other non- majors primarily is a lot of capital projects that have been incurred. That's a spin down of reserves for projects that have been approved but due to timing they just kind of started gotten um finished and completed and worked on this year that helped spin

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down some of that reserve funds for proprietary and uh fiduciary funds. You can see at the top there for the proprietary funds shows change in net position, ending net position as well as working capital. Uh working capital is a good way to look at the short-term ability to pay short-term obligations

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for a fund. So of course you want that to be positive. Uh that is uh current assets minus current liabilities and that helps show the the ability for those individual funds to meet their current obligations. Uh all those funds look like they're uh have have us have a decent working capital to continue their

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operations. For the fiduciary funds there uh there was a $13.8 $8 million in increase in net position. Uh most of that is actually due to your investment earnings on your fiduciary funds. So this is all your pension retirement funds which were roughly $14 million in investment

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earnings for the current year. Few last items just to bring to everybody's attention. So the city did receive originally American Rescue Plan Act funding. There's still roughly as of 9:30 2025 there was roughly $5.6 million in unspent money. Those funds are

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required by the federal requirements to actually be expended by the end of the calendar year, December 31st, 2026. I know the city is already currently working on spending that down, but just want to make sure to keep an eye on that to make sure that hopefully those funds can be spent by the end of the calendar year. Uh the next item on this slide just

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shows a lot of the Gazsby upcoming accounting pronouncements. Uh we are uh have already started discussing with management and the finance team to see if there's any significant impacts on the city related to these upcoming accounting standards. Uh lastly, um there was there was one uh one discussion or one comment actually

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this year that was related to recording of land conveyances and related receivables that required an audit adjustment to be recorded. Um that that was made this year and management is already uh based on their response in the management letter is already taking proactive action to start um updating their process to ensure that that those

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items are caught going forward related to those type of agreements. So, I'd be happy to answer if any questions or anything if anybody has any questions. >> All right, staff commissioners. >> Good evening. Um,

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I'm going to kind of ask Director Weber also first. Um, so this is an audit through September 30th, >> correct? >> The issues that we discussed at the last meeting regarding the AR for the water fund >> Mhm. were not discovered

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by 9:30, but the AR was there. Um, correct. >> And he talked about uh the fund and testing the AR, but I'm I'm curious about the level of I know you wouldn't

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test the level of internal control like you did for the federal program. I just read the note. Could the internal control be overrode to avoid compliance? But clearly we had an internal control that was overrode

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and created a write-off in this year. Um so my question for both of you did you you you talked about um you consulted on standard changes and things. Have you all discussed that as like a subsequent event and what are the recommendations

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from the firm to the city on on that the amount of the write off the amount of the rears? Is that uh something that you've seen with other cities that went through COVID and changed those rules? I'd like to know more. It's convenient. You're

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here right after that. >> Sure. Uh so I'll answer um uh part of it. So each year in our utilities uh funds um we do record a bad debt expense

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um for those that um you know to anticipate that we aren't going to be able to collect on them. Um so that was recorded in the general ledger side of our accounting system. Uh the official write off of the accounts were would be

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in the utility billing system side. So as far as the accounting records that they would look at and recording the bad debt that was uh recorded in the financial statements. >> Okay. So to some they're just stating that the actual amount of the rears and

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the bad debt is correct. >> Correct. >> Just want to make that clear. >> Sure. >> I'd like to know what you discussed as far as internal control and subsequent events or anything management. >> Yeah. And uh just just so mentioned just some of these items that were discussed

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in these reports, those have to rise to a specific level to be mentioned uh in those various reports. We have a lot of discussion items periodically with management during our exit meeting that don't rise to the levels of written comments and the utility um utilities estimated allowance has been an items

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that we've discussed when we first came on board actually several a few years back as well as we did actually inquire about these specific balances that were out there that were long-standing. That's one of our test procedures that we do perform when we're looking at AR is how far back they are still dated and typically a lot of times once it's over

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180 days or something it should be getting closer to 100%. So those type of items have we've discussed in the past and I know they've kind of updated their allowance amounts as well to kind of account for that but as long as that amount that they're currently recording is materially stated that's usually what would be in our report. So we have

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discussed that. Um as it relates to internal controls we do a risk assessment. So those are the areas that we would usually drill down and look at more of the internal controls because those are the areas that there's more likely to possibly be a material misstatement occurring or or an actual misstatement. So that's done pre ahead

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of time. Then we'll dive into those areas. But while we are also performing the audit, whenever we come across a specific area like we did with this land conveyance, additional controls and reviews will be done at that point to see if anything, you know, if there's any potential material misstatements that could have occurred or actually did occur and that would actually depending

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on that would rise to the level of being included in the reports. >> Well, I I'm not speaking as an authority on the fact. So just but my understanding from the last meeting was that um we wrote

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off a half a million dollars and that that was because partly because those that AR was so old that it was beyond the statute of limitations which I believe was 5 years >> correct. So to your point about testing

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the age of receivables, I would question that >> because it should have come up. You've done the audit for >> is this the third year that you all >> fourth year? Yeah, third year. Third year. >> So I'm I'm trying to figure out how we have a write off of a half a million

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dollars that goes back five years. >> And we just found out that we have an internal control problem in the water billing department. And we have another to your point about materiality, we have another $2 million I understand in at risk AR.

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>> So could you comment on those and and it may be that those are going to come up in this year's audit. I don't know. But >> so for the write up element of those significant elements in the financial statements, they're presented net. So as long as you can essentially account for that portion in your allowance, there's not necessarily an audit adjustment to

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present the financial statements materially needs to be made. Um, one of the things that one of the procedures that we do perform when we're looking at AR, we come up with idea, we come up with what we think is the predictive testing on that and compare that to management's analysis. If management feels that the that is more likely that

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they will collect these and be able to go back, usually a lot of times we'll kind of go with that. As long as we can it's not a material difference between what our predictive analysis is until it grows above that threshold. then we'll recommend an audit adjustment being made and the kind of force that we think to the to for these to properly be

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presented in all material specs you have to make the entry but when we're talking about estimates and materialities there's a lot of discussion that has to be had and looking the methodology that management is presenting to us >> and one more if you don't mind uh so that was my question which I kind of skipped over

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are you see in your predictions of what you're seeing when you go into Florida city since co are you seeing fiveyear-old y old AR because of the policies that came out or is I mean that >> I don't was that a red flag in the

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analysis was that in the analysis or was that accommodated as normal for a city >> the the initial years subsequent we saw not only in water utilities a lot of electric utilities as well they kind of didn't want to force the collection. So there's a little bit of a a gap period in there to kind of okay, how long are

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we going to let this go on before we finally take action in those manners and and um we we are required to look at the estimates that management is using to make sure that they're materially mis you know not materially misstated and seem reasonable based off of our professional judgment. Uh we do include there is a separate letter that we also

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provide uh communication with those charged with governance that is provided to y'all. Um, and that specifically outlines the estimates that are utilized by management. And I I'm get ahead with myself without actually double checking, but typically that is included in that letter because that is a significant estimate that management has to utilize

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that we have to ensure that are neutral and fair of course, but that's usually included in there because it is subject to management's estimation. >> Got it. Thank you very much. >> Anybody else? >> I have a question. Um, I guess this question is probably for Craig. with the

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ARPA funds. Are we pretty well set for December because we don't want to return? >> Yes, >> we Okay, >> we are set. >> Yep. >> Okay, just so we're don't want to give anything back. >> Anybody else? No. >> Yeah,

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I have a couple of questions. Um, so you you're talking about internal controls. Are you auditing our internal controls? I I heard you mention in your presentation, you said you mentioned you you kind of went past it pretty quickly. You said we're not we're I can't I'm not not sure if you say we are or we aren't.

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Are we auditing internal controls? >> We are uh as part of a regular as a financial audit. Uh there is no scope with that that we're auditing the the internal controls. The element that we do related to control internal controls that's required for a financial audit is we have to review and assess and consider the city's internal controls

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during our risk assessment of a planning. Um because it like I said earlier when we were talking about what that risk assessment if there's areas that we don't think the internal controls there's likely to be misstatements those areas we would do additional substantive procedures on um and and and basically expand our testing in those areas but we don't issue an

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opinion on the internal controls. So that that element of actually testing would be outside the scope of a normal financial audit. >> Okay. So the answer is pretty no you're not. >> No no it's not part of a financial audit. So when you look at the compliance of of numbers in any audit and you look at the internal controls,

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the internal controls, the policies, the procedures, the practices that that you're operating under should comply with the the actual financials that that you project. So my question then is if

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we're not monitoring or auditing the the the the controls, how are we how do we know we're in compliance with what we're how we're operating? >> Just it's just a >> well so from the financial audit specifically itself um that really

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doesn't say that that part doesn't actually issue an opinion on compliance with anything necessarily. Um that that would be based if there are credential control issues. is we do subsidive testing and and specific vouching reviewing reconciliations to ensure the financial statements that are presented

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are materially stated correctly. Um we do issue there is there is a yellow book essentially report that that that talks about the internal control element but again that report if you read it it discusses that we don't audit and you know issue an opinion on internal controls. we just have to consider them as part of and we do we do review them

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and we do some controls walkthroughs and some testing related to control controls but that's really just to figure out where what areas do we need to dig deeper into but there's not an the only uh the only internal control related report they have there necessarily is the single audit report um that that's

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testing the compliance elements of those expenditures but there is an internal control that we have to review those internal controls related to grant reporting and compliance to ensure that you have something properly in place to ensure that those are being properly utilized. >> Which leads me to my last question.

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How often should we have a audit that takes our takes our our our internal controls, our controls and the actual financial audit and actually literally just see how we're are we complying with

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those internal controls and our financials every five years, every 10 years. How often I mean looking at a holistic >> Yeah. >> approach to an audit. uh how often would you recommend that that we do something like that? >> I think I mean there there's a lot of different facets related to that. I

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think from an internal level I think regularly management actually should be reviewing the internal controls and updating them addressing them and improve them constantly. from an external level. If you're you're discussing having um another another type of um operational audit or something or an ADP or something

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additional scope outside of a financial audit to dive in and look at internal controls, that would be a another type of engagement and scope and that just varies from entities to entities. Entities that don't regularly have internal controls issues. Those are probably going to be a lot rarer. when something comes up, that's usually, you

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know, if there's concerns in areas like that, that's the kind of thing that you could do potentially to help address some of those concerns. Um, and then if nothing comes up, you can go even a longer period, whereas if it has a lot of recommendations, you may want to put it on a rotation schedule. But that's that's not something that that's uniform across all entities that we audit

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throughout the state. That that varies a lot. >> Okay. >> Um, Mayor, if I if I could address a couple things Commissioner Oliver brought up. Um we have internally under my purview um conducted two independent audits in the last year and a half. One

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was of the fleet services that we provide. We contracted with an independent company separate from Pervis Gray to come in and evaluate the internal controls and the financials um because you know there's auto parts coming in and out constantly and so it's

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a common place for for things to get out of out of whack and I'm delighted to say that came back squeaky clean and uh looking good. On the other hand, I also, as you all heard last meeting, I conducted an independent audit, hired a

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third party to look into water billing and internal controls, and we found a lot there that we have already taken steps to address, including the commission action that was taken last week. And there uh one other one that is

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kind of in the midst of an ongoing audit that Mr. Weber and Miss Lewitzky are part of is with the golf course because we took over a business unit um last May. And so they have a regular scheduled meeting um to review the

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financials with the operator and to verify, you know, all accounts payable and receivable related to the golf course. But that I'm glad you brought that up. That's something that you know is separate from the financial audit that we get u from Pervis Gray that we

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have to look at any of those types of business related operations and those are three of the bigger ones that that we've looked at. Thank you. >> Anybody else? Anybody else? >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Thanks, sir.

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>> Thank you. I don't think so. All right. Thank you very much. All right. Drop savers 2026 award presentation. Utilities director Balding

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and her helper >> McKenzie. >> Yes. Commissioners, mayor, um we're pretty excited today to present the 2026 Drop Savers winners. I will tell you that it was a really stellar year this year in

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terms of our entries. Um McKenzie is going to go into it a little bit more. This is water conservation month and we do try to tie this in with our water conservation month. Water touches everything uh that we do in our everyday life. And so it's important that we continue to get this message out. And um

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the partnership that we have with this group of children, the ones that you have here and also the ones that are not being recognized tonight um is really the highlight of my my month. Honestly, it's pretty exciting. >> Hello, welcome. Good evening everybody.

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Uh on behalf of the city of AOA utilities department, I am honored to congratulate the outstanding students who won the um the drop savers water conservation poster contest. Uh we actually had over 120 submissions. So our whole utilities department got

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together and helped us vote on tonight's winners. Um and yeah, just all the students creativity really really impressed us. And uh tonight during this commission meetings, we are very proud to recognize the students, the teachers, and the schools that continue to inspire

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our community. Uh your artwork supports our power program, uh which means protect AOE's waters resources, which is reminds us the importance of conserving Florida's water resources. And then the artwork created by our community and teacher uh community and our students

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teaches us that even small actions can make a big difference. And uh we're going to announce some of those winners as well as some of the prizes that they get. Our first place winners got a really cool water bottle with their poster design on it, a magnet with their poster design on it, and a jigsaw puzzle

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with their poster design on it. And our second place winners also get their reusable water bottle and a magnet that is also customized. And our third place overall winners uh got a reusable water bottle with their uh poster design on it as well. And I've also thrown in a whole bunch of really fun goodies because I

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just couldn't help myself. There's so many fun cool little prizes online. Um, but to announce our winners for third place, well, for our first division, kindergarten and first grade students, third place, I have Owen

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McDonald. Feel free to come on up. Yes. Yay. And then Owen. Yeah. And Owen, here's your little award as well. >> We'll take pictures after you get through and bring them all up.

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>> Yes, we'll definitely have to take some photos. >> Okay. >> And for second place, we have Rya. Feel free to come on up. We loved your photo. She's in our second place winner. All righty. And for first place, I have

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Lacy uh from Thornbrook Elementary School. Feel free to come on up. Shower shower. >> And then Yep. She's right over here. Yes.

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Short shower. Alrighty. And moving on to our division two winners, our second and third grade students. Alrighty, we have Zoe Foster. I'm not too sure if she's here tonight. Yay, Zoe Foster. Everybody give her a

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little applause in case she sees this online. Yeah. All right. And for our second place, it is Aaliyah Kumar. Yay, Aaliyah. All righty. And I know that I saw our

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first place winner. I have Joanna. Yay. Yes. Come on down. There she is. Thorn Brook Elementary. And here is your award. Yes. Thank you. All righty. And for our division three winners, our fourth and

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fifth grade students. In third place, we have Kinsey. Yes. Yay. Welcome. >> My name is McKenzie, so I got really excited whenever I saw your name. >> And for second place, Kennedy Buck.

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>> Is that you, Kenny? Oh, no. Welcome. Welcome. >> All righty. And then for our first place winner, we have Kinley. Is she here? Oh, yes. Welcome. This is so exciting.

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Beautiful. Oh, and Kinley, here's your award. >> Everybody, you want to grab a picture? >> Yes. And now, if you guys don't mind, we can all take some photos together. And thank you again to our students and our teachers and our parents and our community for this incredible,

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incredible thing. Let's go down front commissioners here. Slide in everybody >> come down. Couple more.

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>> All right. one of these >> next year. >> We should. And then if all of the parents and teachers would like to meet outside, we can take even more photos. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Yes. Thank you guys.

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>> Thank you. >> That answers our question. >> Yeah. That's a good reason. >> No tortures. >> Exactly. >> Exactly. >> All righty. Then we have >> uh the water problem legs and stuff. We

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water. We got Boy, Dr. Boyer coming up now. >> Of course. >> Good evening, mayor, commission. My name's Dr. Jim Moyer. I'm the elected orange so and water conservation district 2 supervisor.

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And my comments as always are that on my own and no one's else's. A infant at birth is approximately 75% or more water. Ideal soil content is 25% water.

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However, in Florida, we have such a diverse uh soil that can be 10% or or even 40%. And it's right now in some places it's less than 10% with the drought.

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plants generally are 90% 80 to 90% water. The crops here some of them are as much as 96% other ones 90% and most all crops are

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80% or more. The animals and fish here in Florida are 60 to 70% water. Adults, adult ladies are 60% water

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approximately and adult men 70%. If you love life, don't forget >> life is water and water is life. So please conserve it. Please prevent from

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pollution. There's many, many little things we all can do every day. And if the eight billion people on this earth do just a little bit every day, we can make this a better world. We have one planet. Let's

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protect it. God bless you all. >> Thank you, Dr. Moyer. Very much ahead of you. I'm going to let you come on out. >> Thank you, Mayor. >> Yes, sir. Um, I have a few things. I'll try to get through them quickly. Uh next meeting I'll be providing you uh with an

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update on AED installation in the city as well as the the fire station project. Um happy to announce um great job by parks and recck with getting the new playground installed at Freedom Park um

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on time and on budget. um utility department had anformational meeting uh for residents on the North Lakewood area last Thursday regarding the gravity sewer project and it's designed in two phases with phase one receiving 1.4

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million from a federal community appropriation grant. Project will start at the beginning of summer and take up to two years to complete. Information on lane closures will be provided throughout the project. Both OCPS and Innovation Monasteri have been provided

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with information on the project. Um the the utility department will also be holding a community meeting on Monday, May 4th from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at the Lakeshore Center to provide information on payment programs offered to the property owners impacted by the

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downtown septic to sewer program that you all have authorized. And lastly, some of you have already noticed, but uh we have an online public survey on the city's web page being distributed to our residents um regarding public services

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and ranking ranking the importance of public services. As everyone's aware, we're awaiting um any decision by the legislature um in the next month or so on what they intend to do with regard to

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property taxes. This survey has been designed to to give us insight, you know, for future policy discussion or financial planning um and potential advocacy efforts relating to what happens in Tallahassee. Um the

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survey is going to be shared on social media. It's going to be um provided with a popup box um on the McCoy website. A flyer has been printed and we can make available copies for you. Um we will have those flyers posted with the QR

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code. It's very quick and easy. um in just a a couple of days we already have almost 200 uh respondents and we we really need to get to 600 to have a statistically valid sample size. Um

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and um we will continue to provide updates to the city commission on this important data that we're trying to collect from citizens as we move through you know these next few months which as you all are aware be very important from a financial planning standpoint for the

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city and that's all I have. >> All right. Thank you mayor. consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Motion made on the consent agenda by Commissioner Wilson. Do I hear a second? >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Commissioner Kennedy. Any

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more comments? Let's vote. >> Motion carries unanimously. >> All right. Down to number six, first read of ordinance. This will be dropped back on what May 5th. The second reading. The first

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reading is ordinance prohibiting urination and defecation in public places. Police Chief. >> An ordinance of the city of Akoi, Florida, adopting a new chapter 60 of the Akoi code of ordinances titled miscellaneous offenses, prohibiting

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public urination and defecation, providing definitions, providing penalties, providing for cotification, conflicts, and an effective date. >> Like I said, that'll be back on I think it's May the 5th >> for the second reading and then the

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public hearing. All right, going to item number seven, second reading of ordinances for 1460 North Lake Wood PUD annexation reszoning from Orange County A1 centress rural district to plan unit

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development PUD and PUD land use plan LUP concurrency and commitment coordinator McFarland. >> Good evening, mayor and commission. um staff is bringing before you tonight whether uh the honorable mayor and city commission should approve an annexation

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reszoning to PUD and an associated PUD land use plan for 1460 North Lakewood Avenue and 1446 North Lakewood Avenue. So, a bit of background on this item. Uh it is located in district commission 3. Uh it's approximately 6.46 acres in

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size. It's currently in the county zone county A1 and has a mix of uh residential and agricultural uses currently and the proposed annexation and reszoning is to a residential planned unit development. There you can see the location map. It's adjacent to

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North Lakewood Avenue. And here's some aerial photography showing the two subject parcels as well as the surrounding future land use map and the surrounding zoning map. As you can see, there's quite a few properties that are still within the county uh in

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this area. So, this is the proposed land use plan. Uh it includes uh 30 lots of attached single family homes. Um the density is about 4.7 units per acre with a 34% open space uh which meets our requirements

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under the comprehensive plan. Um there's approximately a 1.2 acre retention pond. There are 44 guest parking spaces shown uh and various amenities such as a walking trail around the pond uh and a dog park as well as a play area with various amenities.

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Um as a part of the annexation reszoning uh the applicant is dedicating 10 ft of rightway along North Lakewood Avenue for uh future rightway expansions along that road. Um, and with the submitt of the preliminary subdivision plan, when that comes back for your review, uh, an

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intersection and safety analysis will be required at that time. And I'll get into the reasoning for that in just a moment. So, when staff looks at an annexation and resoning, we look at a variety of different things. Uh the first being consistency with chapter 163 of the

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Florida statutes uh which governs land development in Florida as long as well as consistency with our joint planning area agreement that we have with Orange County. Uh regarding both of these, the uh annexation resoning met the requirements of both. Uh, regarding

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schools, um, because this property is currently has a future land use under the joint planning area agreement of lowdensity residential and they're not changing that designation, we required no um capacity determination with Orange County Public Schools. When they do come

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back for a preliminary subdivision plan, uh, we would require a capacity determination at that time. Uh, regarding utilities, we look at water, sewer, and reclaimed water availability. Um, and there is capacity available. um for uh this subdivision.

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Um as well as storm water requirements um and that's mainly looking at the retention area that the subdivision would be proposing um when they get to that stage. Uh as well as public safety which includes fire and police and whether they are within our service areas and this uh proposed annexation

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and resoning is within our service area. Um and finally we look at transportation and access. So, we want to make sure that there's enough circulation um for the amount of trips that this development would be uh creating. So, we looked at that and it's a trip

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generation of approximately 199 daily trips. Um North Lakewood Avenue has a context classification under our new comprehensive plan as a suburban residential roadway and the comp plan designates um the future number of lanes by 2045 for North Lakewood as three

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lanes. So with all that in mind, staff looks at how this uh is going to affect the city's transportation network. Um and staff found that there was sufficient capacity along North Lakewood Avenue when we look at our anticipated needs and development over time. Um and

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we found no issue with that. We did want to look further and that's why we're requiring at a preliminary subdivision plan submitt to look at an intersection and safety analysis. Uh specifically the intersection of Worst Road and North Lakewood Avenue. So, at that time, we're going to be looking at um that

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intersection more in depth. The development review committee uh considered this item at its March 3rd, 2026 meeting and identifying new issues, made a recommendation of approval. Uh the planning and zoning commission considered this item at its March 10th

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meeting and after the staff um presentation and public comment recommended approval in a 4 to zero vote. So with that in mind, staff recommends that the honorable mayor and city commission approve the annexation reszoning to PUD and PUD land use plan

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for 1460 North Lakewood Avenue and 1446 North Lakewood Avenue. I'd be happy to answer any questions and I believe the applicant is here as well. >> All right. >> All right. >> All right. We going before we have the opening public hearing, we will have the reading of the ordinances. >> The first is the annexation ordinance.

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An ordinance of the city of Akoi, Florida annexing into the corporate limits of the city of Akoi, Florida certain real properties containing approximately 5.44 and 1.02 02 acres located at 14160 and 1446 North Lakewood Avenue west of North Lakewood Avenue and

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approximately2 mi north of the intersection of Worst Road and North Lakewood Avenue pursuant to the application submitted by the property owner finding set annexations to be consistent with the Envision 2045 AOE comprehensive plan the KO city code and the joint planning area agreement

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providing for and authorizing the update of official city maps providing ing direction to the city clerk providing for severability prevailing in the event of any inconsistency and providing for an effective date. The second ordinance is for reszoning an ordinance of the

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city of AOE Florida changing the zoning classification from Orange County A1 Citrus Rural District to city of Akoi residential PUD plan unit development on certain real properties containing approximately 5.44 and 1.02 02 acres

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located 1416 and 1446 North Lakewood Avenue West North Lakewood Avenue and approximately2 mi north of the intersection of Worst Road and North Lakewood Avenue pursuant to the application submitted by the property owner finding such zoning to be

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consistent with the envision 2045 the COE comprehensive plan providing for and authorizing the revision of the official city zoning map prevailing in the event of any inconsistency providing for severability and providing for an effective date. >> You have both of them.

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>> Yes. All right. We're going to open the public hearing. Anybody in the public have any comments or want to make any comments to 1460 North Lakewood PUB? Okie do. I'm going to close the public here and bring it back up to the D. We

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need a discussions or a motion. And I'd ask for separate motions on the annexation. >> I said that while I go. >> Thank you. >> I'll make >> First is the annexation. So >> I'll make the motion to approve the annexation uh ordinance.

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>> Do I hear a second? >> A second. >> Motion made by Commissioner First or seconded by Commissioner Oliver for the annexation orders. Any more comments on it? All right, let's vote. Motion carries unanimously for the annexation.

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All right. Now we need any discussion on the uh >> where is that? >> Where am I at here? >> Zoning. If not, I need a motion. >> I do. >> Huh? >> I I have questions. >> Okay.

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>> Um good analysis. I like that. That's improved. Um, as you know, the redistricting split Lakewood and uh the west side is district three now and the east side is district one. I've had

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a lot of residents reach out to me um and as and you know some of them were at the PNZ. I'm surprised they're not here uh that are against this because of the traffic issues. Um, I'm wondering if you could clarify some of the points you made. Uh,

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the first one is, can you explain uh what three lanes of Lakewood will look like and what that would do for traffic because it's not obvious. >> Yeah, absolutely. So, the comprehensive plan that the city recently adopted

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envisions um three lanes for North Lakewood Avenue. this would allow for relief um for vehicles that are making lefthand turns across traffic uh or vice versa. So that that would provide some relief as development occurs and

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continues to occur in that part of the city. Um and then over time as we look at projects that are coming in, we'll also look to um potential turn lanes for larger projects. So staff is is constantly looking at that as as projects come in and what will help

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mitigate uh potential traffic concerns there. >> Will that help with the people that we're talking about they can't get out of their yard onto Lakewood during peak traffic times? Is that correlated with that or not really? um

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traffic might be mitigated with that as as the city in puts in improvements and as projects come in. Um and Nick Le may have more direction on that as well.

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>> Uh good evening. Uh Nick Le, development services director. Uh yes, so the center turn lane will start taking a lot of those cars out of the actual travel lane, especially northbound with the school. Now they'll actually have a place to store as they're getting out of the travel lanes for the traffic to

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travel north south uh more freely. >> And that was the complaint that the traffic from the school backs up correct and then people can't get out. Now my second part of that question is you mentioned 2045. Is that when that's in anticipated? Are the people going to have to deal with

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this for 20 years? >> Hopefully not. we're acquiring the right of way, you know, like with this development as it's dedicating the 10 feet. Um, as this goes on and as more development comes in and the right of way that we acquire, hopefully we can get that in sooner than 2045 as it is

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one of our improvements that we're looking forward to, but there's still a lot of uh Orange County rightofway there that we're looking for that we would have to go out and purchase. >> Okay, >> that that's >> that's what you were, >> Mayor. I was just going to interject there. That is a classic example of a

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project that we should be working with the county on. >> Um we know we need better north south corridors >> and that is parallel to um Koi Popka Road. Absolutely. The project needs to happen.

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>> I will say that most of those houses are on the east side or county houses. >> Oh okay. And then last part, I'm sorry, >> most every one of those ones I got their comments and I sat back tell them we were working on it, but they were most every one of those houses on the east

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side of that road is >> Yeah, I had a lot of those. People would say, "Well, I'm I don't vote in Okoi. I'm not annexed in Oko, but I live in Okoi, which is their perception, and I appreciate that." Um, and can you

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also elaborate on you mentioned intersection improvements at worst in Lakewood. What would that look like and when would that occur? >> So, with the subdivision as it comes in, they will do a traffic study looking at the turning movement counts at that intersection and determine if a left

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turn lane may be needed to help facilitate the safety and operations. And at that point, we can look for some sort of mitigation towards that. >> Thank you very much. >> Can I? >> Yes, sir. Would it be any time in the future to have a red light at Worst Road >> if the traffic counts start uh meeting

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those warrants of the number of turns and the delays and >> that's where that's where really it's a busy intersection coming down worse road everybody coming out going in and going on up Lakewood. >> Yeah. >> Yes. So those counts will help us determine if it's close uh and when we

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may start needing a signal that >> Okay. All righty. Anybody else have any comments? I think that when and that's a great point about that traffic light at war road. Um we have budget workshops coming up. We can always start looking at

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future budget workshops to start set aiding fund set aside the funding to uh at least do the studies and um and see where we go from the warrant studies and what what what the cost of warrant studies is going to be and just at least start the process u through uh set

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aiding the uh the budget set aside the funding in the budget. Okay. >> Because I know you I don't >> I'll make a comment that you mentioned the lack of north through lanes. I know Commissioner Oliver does the same thing I do. >> We gave up on a KO proper road to come

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to city hall. We come down Lakewood. We go all the way around our neighborhood back McCormack and go around and come down Lakewood rather than take the direct route because of Ko Propa is such a mess. So, I think a lot of people, especially once the shopping center, the

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store, uh, supermarket and all that gets there, I think a lot more people are going to be using Lakewood comes out. >> Also, exactly. >> We're finding that with the development. And as for the warrant, we do have a traffic engineer, uh, consuming consultant. So, as these do come up, we

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can start using them to do these warrant analysis. >> Perfect. >> Right. I need a >> I I have one last comment uh for the city manager. Uh I believe you had a list of projects as far as dealing with purchases of rightaways as well as uh

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traffic caling devices that goes to the county. Is that list up to date or how often have you been giving that list over to the county uh for for funding those projects? >> It's just there. Well, we just um transmitted a couple months ago to the

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county when they were considering um doing an infrastructure sales tax initiative. Um we gave them an updated project list totaling around $239 million. Um and it included

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small projects but big projects as well that benefit not only you know circulation through the city but the regional network as well. Um so they have our they have they have the most recent list that we have. Um I will go

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ahead and take this opportunity to let the commission know that they've reached out to us regarding the intersection at uh McCormack and Popka Vin Island Road. Um I will I'll be getting with you individually on that to discuss it. Um,

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you know, the city annexed in a property a few years back um under the project name CLRM, which is now Windwood um subdivision and we um received funds from the developer to go towards a signalized

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intersection there. county has designed a roundabout and has requested that we cost share with them and recommended that we reach out to the developer um as well. So, we have thoughts on that. We'll be getting

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with you oneon-one before any >> anything comes before you about that. Yeah, I brought I brought that issue up to the county commissioner who's just got out of that seat, but I asked or find out why that process wasn't finished up.

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>> So, they're supposed to be getting an answer. Craig's working on it. >> All right, we need motion. >> Did we get a motion? >> Not yet. >> Major, >> not yet. >> Oh, we have a motion yet. >> I have a motion on the zoning. Based on the uh staff's recommendation, I make a

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motion to approve the reszoning ordinance. >> Motion made by Commissioner F. Do I hear a second? >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Commissioner Kennedy. No more comments. Let's vote. Motion carries unanimously. >> All righty. >> Who's got a

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>> Let's go down to number eight. Second read of ordinance for the annual comprehensive plan text amendment to adopt 5-year schedule of capital improvements and update the capital improvement element project number CPA 202601

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concurrency commitment coordinator McFarland. You still there? >> Yes, sir. >> Yes. So, this item is uh whether the mayor and city commission should approve the ordinance to amend our capital improvement element and update it with the five-year schedule of capital

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improvements that was adopted uh in tandem with our budget. >> Um and to incorporate this into the city's existing comprehensive plan >> issue. That's right. >> So, just some brief background on this. Uh each local government as you know is required to have a comprehensive plan

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and it must contain a capital improvements element. Um each CIE has to contain a schedule of capital improvements covering at least a 5-year period as well as publicly and privately funded projects necessary to ensure that our adopted level of service is being

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met. Uh this is not an amendment to the comprehensive plan and it can be adopted uh by ordinance. Um it's not an amendment in the traditional sense as you've looked at at other amendments such as the um comprehensive plan amendment regarding the Dynasty Sports

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Complex. Um and this is a the proposed 5-year CIP um looks at capacity projects that are taken directly from the adopted budget. So in this case, it's the adopted budget from fiscal year 25 to 26. Um and this was previously approved

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by the city commission back in September. and it does not contain any projects or improvements that were not previously um approved by the city commission. So a new table will be established in the CIE goals, objectives, and policies within the comp

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plan. And that table will look like this. Uh lay going through our capital improvements uh five-year plan. Um as you can see, covering everything. So, uh, the planning and zoning, uh,

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commission considered this item at its March 10th meeting and after staff presentation and no public comment, uh, recommended approval in a 4 to zero vote. And with that in mind, staff recommends that the honorable mayor and city commission approve the ordinance to amend the capital improvements element

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and update the five-year schedule of capital improvements within the city's comp plan in accordance with section 1631773 Florida statutes and policy 1.3 of the capital improvements element. >> All right, we're going to have the city of lawyer read off the ordinance. An

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ordinance of the city of Akoi, Florida, amending the Ekoi comprehensive plan as adopted in 2025 as amended in order to comply with section 163177 sub paragraph 3 Florida statutes amending the capital improvement element of the comprehensive plan providing for

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separability providing an effective date. >> All right, we're now open public hearing. Anybody in the public have any comments pertaining to the annual comprehensive plan text amendment to adopt the five-year schedule capital improvements? All right, I'll close it. Bring it up to

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the dice. Anybody have any comments? Commissioners. >> If not, I'll need a motion. >> Make that motion. >> Motion made by Commissioner Wilson. Do I hear a second? >> I'll second.

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>> Seconded by Commissioner Oliver. No more comments. Let's vote. Motion carries unanimously. Move down to nine. Second reading of ordinance amending the city of Okoy Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement Trust Fund. Pension board

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attorney. That's not a big >> Good evening. My name is Brian Pace. I'm the chairman of the uh police and firefighters retirement trust fund. And this is our pension board attorney, Pedro Herrera. >> Good evening, council. Um uh if you guys

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uh have seen the the backup materials, uh it's the second reading for a proposal to uh effectively restate the uh pension ordinance. Uh clarifying terms, removing some obsolete language, uh adding some additional language that had been recently um incorporated and

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and and required by the Internal Revenue Code. Um, we we issued a indicated a memorandum and just essentially clarifying what the changes were and and certainly happy to address any questions or comments uh that you may have. Um,

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you did also receive an actual impact statement reflecting that there was no uh no impact to to the plan sponsor to the city ultimately. Uh, but happy to uh happy to address any comments or questions. >> All right, commissioners. There any comments?

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It's not changing any of the assumptions at all, is it? >> No, sir. This is this has nothing to do with uh any of the actuarial assumptions that that go towards the funding of the plan. >> Uh those those remain as they were. Uh this is really simply just uh changing

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the language that's found in the city ordinance uh to update, remove some obsolete language, uh clarify, move some things around, make it make it a little bit easier to read uh and digest. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. All right, I have one.

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>> All right. Um, just it says the pension board trustees recommend, but it doesn't say uh normally those things say like met on March 10th and voted to approve recommendation. So, can you just

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illustrate what that who those trustees are and what that recommendation looks like? >> Sure. Uh, so I I and I apologize. I don't recall the the precise date that the board met. Uh I know it was actually over the course of several meetings uh that the board met and discussed this.

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Uh it was um I think probably initially upon our recommendation frankly um but but I think uh in really in consultation with the board actuary uh just to really clarify and update some of the language um that had been uh that had been in the ordinance for for quite some time and

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and either was no longer needed uh was redundant was uh at times a bit confusing. Um and so so the process I think to your question really was um discussed by the board. Uh we went through several iterations of the actual

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draft language. Uh it was forwarded to the city attorney's office. It was forwarded to uh outside council for the city as well. Um the board reconvened with those comments. Um I believe we took the majority if not all of the comments. um and and accepted those and

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and maybe just uh you know obviously in consultation with the city's attorney just maybe wordsmith uh but but again um nothing substantively was changed uh and then also during the course of those several meetings the plan actuary was also obviously involved in the

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discussions uh provided copies of the draft uh ordinance amendments uh because ultimately obviously we knew pursuant to state law and the city's requirements uh that an impact statement would be required. So, um, if that was that was really the process that the board followed, uh, the board did take action

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at the meetings to go ahead and formally recommend those and I can get you the dates of those meetings. I just I just don't have those off time. >> Thank you. I appreciate that. >> Yeah, absolutely. Yes, sir. >> All right. You've read it. All right. Make a motion.

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>> I did not read it yet. Hold on a second. >> I did not read it yet. Sorry. Go ahead. >> All right. An ordinance of the city of Akoi, Florida, relating to the city of Akoi municipal police officers and firefighters retirement trust fund

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amending ordinance number 2010-019 as subsequently amended providing for the restatement of the city of Akoi municipal police officers and firefighters retirement trust fund providing for severability of provisions prevailing in the event of any inconsistency and providing an effective

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date. All right, >> I'll open the public hear. Anybody have any comments on number We're doing on number nine or number >> That was number nine. >> Number nine. Any more comments? If not, I'm going close it. Bring it back up. We need a motion.

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>> I'll make the motion to approve. >> Motion made to approve by Commissioner Oliver. Do I hear a second? >> Second. >> Second by Commissioner Pner. No more comments. Let's vote. Number 10 now.

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All right. Number 10. Second read of ordinance amending the city of Okcoy general retirement trust fund pension board >> and Miss G. >> Good evening mayor and commissioners. Can you hear me?

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On November the 6, 2024, the general employees pension Oh, did I say Jquita Cowan? I'm sorry. I didn't say that. I'm sorry. the the pension board approved to restate our uh restate the ordinance and

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when we did that we we did it in 24. So we took like a year going back and forth making sure that we cleaned up the language as Pedro said and eliminated anything that that wasn't needed. It was reviewed by outside council per city

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request this year and the impact statement. There's no impact to to the fund. Uh and Pedro is here to answer any questions that you may have. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Anybody does time on questions?

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>> All right. >> Feels good. >> My my comments from the last ordinance reading uh pretty much fall into place with this one as well. and Pedro Herrera formerly for the record. I apologize. >> All right, you going to read it? >> Yes, sir. An amendment of the city of Akoi, Florida relating to the city of

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AOE municipal general employees retirement trust fund amending ordinance number 2009-20 as subsequently amended providing for the restatement of the city of AOE municipal general employees retirement trust fund providing for severability of provisions prevailing in the event of

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any inconsistency and providing an effective date. >> All right, we're going to open the public. Anybody in the public have any comments on item 10, second reading of ordinance amending the city of Cory general retirement trust fund. All right, no comments. We'll move back

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to the dice. >> I need a motion. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Motion made by number I mean by Commissioner Kennedy on number 10. Uh I have a second. >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Commissioner Wilson. No more

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comments. Let's vote. >> Thank you. >> Motion carries unanimously. >> All right, we're going to move to number 11. Public hearing approval for resolution for the abandonment and vacation of the rightway for North Cland Avenue.

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>> Cland, let's see for North Cumberland Avenue vacate project >> concurrency and commitment coordinator. McFarland's up again. Okay. Yes, sir. All righty. So, this is a resolution on abandoning and vacating a portion of

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public rightaway uh line within North Cumberland Avenue uh for your consideration. >> So, just some brief background on this. It's located in district 2. It's approximately 18,45 square feet of public rideway. And the request is a

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staff initiated request uh due to the construction of Unity Park and uh the desire to combine various parcels that make up Unity Park into one distinct parcel. As you can see, when the park was constructed, there were various uh parcels of existing land that were used

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to build the park upon. And this is an effort uh that staff is trying to do to help clean up those parcels and combine them into one. Um, and as you can see here, this is the location map. Um,

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>> pretty much the bridge, right? >> Goes right to the middle of Unity Park. >> Right. Right. Smack dab through the middle. Yep. Yes, sir. >> Yep. One thing I do want to uh state is that on the south side of the vacated rideway, um there is a a residence there

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right at the entrance to Unity Park. staff um ensured that they have uh access to the public right ofway that their property remains and is not isolated. So that was something we took in mind and ensured that they still have sufficient access. >> Right.

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>> Um when the rightway is uh vacated, it'll be absorbed by the um parcels to the north or to the east and west uh which is city-owned property. So, >> right, >> all that being said, staff recommends approval um uh of this resolution abandoning and vacating a portion of the

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public rideway of North Cumberland Avenue. Be happy to answer any questions. >> All right, let's let's read read the ordinance. >> A resolution of the city of Akoi, Florida. a resolution of the city of AoE, Florida, abandoning and vacating a portion of the 60 foot wide right ofway

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of Cumberland Avenue lying south of Franklin Street lying 65 ft north of the southwest corner of lot 5. Block 2 is depicted on plat of the map of the Koi recorded in plat book A page 100 of the public records of Orange County providing for recordation providing for

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severability and an effective date. >> All right, anybody in the public open the public hearing? Anybody in the public have any comments on the approval of a resolution for the abandonment vacation of rightway for North Cumberland Avenue. All right. Close it. Bring it back to

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the D. Anybody got any comments? >> I'll make that motion to approve. >> Commissioner Wilson made a motion to approve. Do I hear a second? >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Commissioner Oliver. No more comments. Let's vote. Motion carries unanimously.

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All right. Regular agenda none. Mayor's announcements. Okie dokie. Uh before I read these announcements, there's nothing on here for July the 4th. The 250 year thing. Are we doing anything or not?

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>> I'll have to report back to you on that. >> We don't have a lot of time. I know we did fireworks last year >> just for the 4th of July. The our parks and leisure is looking to make that a part of the 250 year with our we do fireworks now. Fourth of July the 4th of July.

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>> Yes, that'll be the big 250 celebration. >> Would that be on the Monday or on the Saturday? >> You know yet? You don't know yet? >> I don't I haven't looked at the dates. >> We will be prepared. >> Okay. at the next commission meeting

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>> to um provide you >> um all the information you need. >> All right. Okay. All right. Thank you. All right. Community survey. The city of Oakway wants to hear from you. Share your thoughts about city services and community priorities. Your voice matters. Visit oakcoay or to take the

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survey. May events. Cinco de Mayo block party will take place on Friday, May the 1st from 6:00 p. p.m. through 900 p.m. in downtown Ocoy. The event will feature DJ, food trucks, games, rides, and more.

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Okcoy PD community picnic will take place Saturday, May the 2nd from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Vignetti Park. Commission is free. The picnic will include food, fun, vendors, games, and prizes. HRDB community speaker series covering

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creating supportive spaces will take place Thursday, May the 7th at 6:15 p.m. in the commission chambers. All are welcome. Visit okcoy.org for more information. Memorial Day ceremony happening on Tuesday, May the 21st at

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11:00 a.m. at Oakco Lakes Shore Center. The ceremony was open to the public. Refreshments will be provided after the ceremony. Commissioner Kennedy, >> no additional comments. >> Commissioner Wilson, >> no. Just please take the survey. I took

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it today. It's very painless. >> Commissioner uh Fman, >> no. No additional comments. >> Commissioner Oliver, >> Hackne Prairie is complete. The uh streetscaping on Hackne Prairie is complete. It looks really, really good. The only question I had was I thought we

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were going to kind of have razors uh on the road that was going to be uh rise up a little bit. I've driven it a few times. Um, is that something that's going to happen in the future? Because I guess the the whole reason that we actually did the street the streetscaping on Acne Prairie is to slow

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folks down. So, um, city manager, is there a plan to add razors to what we what we currently have or is that's what that the final um is that the final project what what we have now because it's it's they have the pavers there but

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they're not raised up. I thought they were going to be raised up a little kind of slow folks down. >> Yeah, I'm going to have to get you an answer on that. I I don't know the answer tonight. >> Okay, that's fine. >> I'm sorry. >> We we can circle back on that. Um it's my understanding that uh we're we're

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going back to um our original uh organization of uh uh code code enforcement board. So that's case is my understanding. We also have two two positions uh two four four so two

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primaries and two alternates. So I will be soliciting uh to folks in district 4. Uh if you have any um desire to serve the city in that capacity, please reach out to me. Uh you can contact me here at city hall and I'll be more than happy to

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uh direct you to to uh filling out an application to submit it so we can get uh folks on that board and get them moving. um because the longer we we wait there's we're still um racking up fines and those kind of things and uh not

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meeting quorum. So let's uh u let's volunteer to to help the city. And um finally um I'll say this many people make many people you meet are having a a hanging on a thread.

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Let your kindness be the thread that helps them hold on. That's all I got. Mayor Can I ask a question about what he said? >> Um, on the code enforcement board, does do we want to discuss

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uh each commissioner having a certain number of members? I already have two members. Do you all care if I put more members? Have on some boards we have everybody gets one or two or does anybody have an opinion on that? >> And could staff let us know who has who?

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Yeah, >> I have one. I have I have one possible. I just have to reach back out to them. Um if we can just um allow others to put an application in and go from there. >> Well, we have >> the chair and the vice chair. >> Well, we need to get the chair to turn

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into 100 names. They had that's got to be turned into the city. >> He did turn them in. >> Okay, I'll take >> I'd like to see maybe we can take some names out of that. They were take time to sign up. Maybe they'll take time to go to the meetings. So, we need to get

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that in where the city can see if we can contact some of them to have get on the get it to the meeting. U through you done. >> Yeah. As long as you don't care how many >> I mean >> you turn them in. If everybody else turns any in then

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>> we put somebody on there. The idea was to have them are in different areas of the town, right? >> But I mean there you pretty much cover different areas too. So >> we need to see who can we can get them. >> There was no rule on that. I don't think I think >> used to be. >> I think PNZ was one that we want.

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>> Some are some are. I just wanted to ask it is across the judicial border. >> Yeah. >> Yep. It's exactly right. >> Do we have do we have any uh do we have a deadline a date as to when these applications need to be submitted? >> Yesterday. >> Now.

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>> Now. All right. >> Thursday. I'm going to ask a few questions here. City manager recording studio. I was told to get that thing tore down January. I still see it sitting over there. So, what's the process of that?

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>> Well, Mr. Rumor is going to give you more detail, but we u just completed all the asbestous and hazmat related items and uh we'll be bringing back uh >> so two things. We did the as the city

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manager said or the SWAT did training and poked final holes in the wall. The uh company that did the demolitions of our buildings on Geneva no longer had a uh subcontractor for the septic. It we

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had to go out seek bids from three new uh demolition companies. We have those. With the asbesus removal required and the new sort of estimate from these companies, we're going to be bringing back a budget amendment in May. Just a short budget amendment to add some

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dollars to that account so we can uh go forward and demolish the building. So, >> all right. Second deal is the um Oakland Street power for Oakland Street. I spoke with Duke Energy on Thursday and

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requested an in-person meeting to address that as well as um several other issues including um the polls that remain um on at the intersection at Palm Drive and McCoy Popka as well as Maguire um that were supposed to be taken out

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that haven't. So um we are we are going to have a face to face about it. We have reached out via other methods uh to the appropriate staff um to this point to no avail. So I spoke to their intergovernmental coordinator on Thursday and we'll be having a meeting.

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>> Uh okay. All right. Thanks. I mean it that's that's one of our city streets that hadn't had lights on it in over a year and probably a year and a half. >> Yep. >> They tore them out. The other thing is I wanted to ask about the landscape and make sure I asked about this I think last year. We have that crazy looking

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grass when you in that spot where you come up to the front of Lake Shore Center. I wanted to see if we could do pavers in there and then on the side of the pavers put some kind of bushes where it look that's not very to me that's not very uh beautiful landscaping in the front of the legore center. It's that

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little patch of looks like what do you call that? I call it weeds, but I mean it ain't weeds but it's right when you come into the Lakeshore Center right there in front before you walk up the steps. Yeah, it's part time grass. >> I'd like to see us put papers in that.

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Plus, on the side of it, do some kind of flowers >> to make it. >> We can do that. >> Huh? >> It's like potato. >> No, it's No, it's like that. >> What? >> It's Spartana Baker. >> Yeah, it's it's a cord grass or something like that. What is it, Craig?

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>> It's called cord grass. It's spartina baker eye, >> but it's back up here. But there's nothing decorative to it at all. And u I I think if we put favors then we can let them come up through the middle of put flowers on the sides some of the things that you know maybe decorated a little bit.

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>> Absolutely. We we'll we'll include that. We've reached out to Sera about >> I'm not want to say no longer, but I want to bring up one other thing here is that the lights if we put if we could put some kind of something like two poles down on the lake, two poles up in front that'll shine out onto that field

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when we have functions out there where we can turn the lights on that'll show when you have enough like fest and all and different functions like the jazz festival. If you put poles up in front in the trees and poles on the and down

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on the lake and trees and then shine them to the land, at least we'll have lights. We only used have to use them when we have functions, but it will make it a lot simpler to have where you can see what's going on. >> We'll put that into the U May budget

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amendment. Okay. >> Okay. All right. Thank everybody for coming. Thank you.