All right, good evening. We going to start the uh first meeting of the year, January 6, 2026. Uh we've got the state of the city over with. Now we're going to go to the um invocation by Mr. Hart and then we'll have the pledge of allegiance by
Commissioner Wilson and then roll call. Please stand. Dear heavenly father, we thank you for blessing us to come together to conduct this city's business. And we thank you for allowing us to see the year 2026. We pray that you help us come in with a spirit of unity. Even though we may disagree on certain things, let us not
disrespect or disengage from one another, but continue to work together as as brothers and sisters. Once again, we say a special prayer for all our first responders. Be with them on every call. Watch over them as they watch over us. We're so careful give you the praise, the honor, and glory you do. In your son, Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. [snorts]
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. >> Commissioner Kennedy >> here. >> Commissioner Wilson
>> here. >> Mayor Johnson >> here. >> Commissioner Fner >> here. >> Commissioner [snorts] Oliver >> here. >> All right. presentations and proclamations. We have the CRNA week proclamation 2026. I'm gonna let
Commissioner Wilson read it off and then we have Marley Kaine here who will accept it at the end. >> Miss Kane, I'm going to apologize first when I say anesthesists. I have to I'm working on it to say it correctly.
Whereas certified registered nurse anesthesists, CRNAs are advanced practice registered nurses providing anesthesia care to patients of the United States for more than 150 years. CRNAs are among the nation's most trusted
professionals most trusted profession and whereas legislation passed by Congress in 1986 made nurse a neessist anesthesiologist the first nursing specialty to be accord direct reimbursement rights by Medicare
and whereas CRNAs are the primary anesthesia providers in rural communities and continue to be the primary providers of anesthesia care to US military personnel. And whereas CRNAs practice in every setting in which anesthesia is delivered from traditional
hospital surgical suites and obstetric delivery rooms to critical access hospitals from ambulatory surgical centers to the offices of dentists, podiatrists, opthalmologists, pain management specialists and more. And whereas CRNAs are qualified to make
independent judgments regarding all aspects of anesthesia care based on their education, training, and licensing. And whereas CRNAs are trusted anesthesia experts caring for patients safety and compassionately delivering specialized
cost-effective care to all patients from newborns to seniors for every type of procedure in all types of facilities. And whereas CRNA's experience in critical care nursing in addition to anesthesia care provide the training and
education to address unique healthc care challenges of some of our sickest patients including veterans. And whereas the period from January 18th to the 24th of 2026 has been designated as national
CRNA week. Now therefore be it resolved that the city commission of the city of AOE is hereby declare the week of January 18th to 24th of 2026 national certified registered nurse. [laughter]
Not yet I lost it again week is witnessed thereof that our [snorts] mayor has here set his hand and caused the seal of the city of AOE to be affixed the 6th day of January of 2026 and I apologize. We'll let We're gonna let um Marley come up front and get a
picture with you. >> Okay. Do we have >> We'll let you come up front and have >> Is this it? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Here. >> Okay. I'll come around. >> Get it on the other side. >> There's someone. [snorts] >> Oh, [laughter] well.
That's not good. >> It's not an easy word to say. >> Thank you for making me feel better about it. [laughter] >> It's [snorts] the right side. >> It's the right side. Good side. >> Anyone else going to be in this picture?
>> You stand up. Anyone stand up behind? >> Yeah, we can. Yep. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Come on in. There we go. [snorts] Kill me. Hope you don't get another picture. You want vertical or >> ready. Thank you, sir.
>> Thank you so much. [snorts] Are you a are you a nurse asleep? [clears throat] >> You know, it's it's a funny situation. I before I come up tonight, my granddaughter's uh boyfriend is a uh critical care nurse, Shans, and
now he's going into the anesthesiologist thing nurse >> starting May. >> Starting in May. >> What it three years? >> Three years doctorate. So, >> yeah. >> Yeah. >> Congratulations. That's a lot of work. Thank you. >> [applause] >> ALL RIGHT, STAFF REPORTS.
Thank you, mayor. I have a few things to try to get through rather quickly. One is an update on the Fuller's Cross and East Crown Road wash out repairs. Um the construction continues on the drainage and roadway repairs. Um the drainage
portion is being completed this week um with new 84in culverts installed with head walls that are being poured with the full roadway restoration slated to be complete and open between the 14th and the 16th. And as a reminder, this is
an Orange County project. Um second thing I have is uh the notice of kickoff meeting and you should have in front of you a printed out copy of the flyer. This is fairly important for our citizens and and commission to to be
able to have voice here um of a virtual meeting held by Orange County Public Schools for the design and construction 100% plans for a proposed series of AOY Middle School improvements. And um this
information we'll post on the city website as well. Um, but this this meeting is coming up on Wednesday, January 14th from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. And uh we would encourage everyone to uh
tune in to that. Um the the last thing I had two things, I'm sorry. Um I'm going to have Mr. crew from public works come up in a minute and give you a brief run through on sidewalks and and street resurfacing for
for the year. Um, as you all recall, we we kind of got a late start last year and we've made that a very big priority. Steve and his um group has been working hard and we've we've actually been able to procure a few things. Um, and
[clears throat] just to give you a quick primer before Steve starts, um, there will be some additional input we'll solicit directly from you guys on these things. Um, as as we move ahead and we'll be scheduling time to to meet with you
individually about it. Um, but we want to we want to really get moving. um in the era that we're in with um with the the financial times um and uncertainty in Tallahassee, uh we [clears throat] want to get this money um spent, get these improvements
in the in the community as quickly as possible and we'll be able to judge if there's, you know, additional money at mid year that we might allocate towards additional projects to to try and you'll understand more when Steve gets started.
Um, and one last thing I just want to kind of remind you, there's going to be a lot that we're going to be bringing for you in the next couple months. We owe you a workshop on Forest Lake golf, uh, which we will be having in February
and, uh, to talk about, um, the master planning effort and and the the the recommendations that we're going to have that we can discuss together and with our community. Um I will be presenting to you um uh or staff will the results
of an audit that we commissioned on water billing um with a a major set of recommendations and we will also be um having a workshop in the not too distant future to discuss the um fire assessment
as as I was directed um last year. [snorts] So, we'll be having those which will kind of line us up um in time for budget prep season and the end of the legislative session. >> Take it away, Mr. Crew. >> All right. Thank you, Steve Crude, public works director, mayor,
commissioners. To add on to the state of the city address this year as part of the projects approved, we're in the middle. We've advertised and awarded phase one of sidewalk replacement. will be replaced about 3200 linear feet. It
should begin next month and we're ready to solicit pricing on the next phase. We broke it up in order to get it out there quicker. We're also advertising by neighborhoods. We're not just doing pinpoint areas. We have actually
completed the entire city digitized. The team went out, walked the entire city sidewalk, recorded every location. Unfortunately, we've also found there's about 46,000 linear feet to be replaced throughout the city. But we're finding that just
advertising it and bidding it by areas, concise areas, we're getting a better economies of scale, and we're getting lower prices. So, we're expecting that number to come down. And even the half million that was dedicated this year, we expect to go farther than we originally
proposed. on speed tables. We'll be bidding them this month. There's a couple there's some on existing ones on Russell, Kimble, and Jamela. We're going to repaint and restripe those, refresh them so they stand out with new tables on Sabrina, Flewellian, and Ruis right now.
There still should be money and it um left in the budget for additional ones as we've had some requests and we'll move forward with those as we can go. Hackne Prairie Road diet, which is a fancy word for we're taking out part of the median and putting in grass. This is
a way to traffic come and make the area look better. It should start, it is starting this month. We met with the contractor last month. They're not going to close the road. They're going to sequence it so that the road can remain open the entire time. All the long lead
items like fancy brick pavers and all have been already procured and delivered and we're looking at an April final completion. Citywide resurfacing. We've got another 7.5 milesi of roadway. Um and if you're
wondering where's the list, Steve, both the sidewalks and the road resurfacing are on the city's website. If you go to the homepage and at near about midway of the page, there's a few little links and it says road reservicing or sidewalk repairs, you'll see the updated lists on
there that give you the details of where they're at. One of the benefits um we are we worked with purchasing, they're preparing the bid to bid out next month. We've saved money last year in our budget. We're able to extend the resurfacing. We expect to do the same
this year and it's very dependent on fuel prices which hearing a report this week. Um we're supposed to have some of the lowest fuel prices in recent times this year which would hopefully lower also our asphalt prices and should
extend what we've already planned on paving and we'll come back to the commission if when we have when we realize savings and see where we can go from there. That's really about it. One thing I did want to mention, I know in the um state of the city address it talked about treating Stark Lake and to
improve the water quality. That's actually going on this week. That's the reason the boat dock shut down. The we our consultant is out there um treating the water after that. Starting next week, we should be planning some different aquatic plants out. But the um
treatment's underway to get that lake back off get it off the uh impaired list. Any questions? >> Mayor, I just wanted to add again, we'll be getting with each of you individually to kind of fine-tune the list. We've
we've built that into the approach. [snorts] >> Okay. Anybody else? >> Um I do have one thing. Um [clears throat] looking at the the uh speed table, um the slide that the speed tables,
>> uh I didn't see sawmill on there. Um, and and I know that's one one of the neighborhoods has been they have been really uh uh looking for speed tables for for some time now. Uh, it's one of our older neighborhoods and the and if you notice in the older neighborhoods in Okoy, the roads are really wide. So, it
leaves folks uh uh uh you know the idea of I can speed through here and they've been speeding for for years. We've actually did the um I know we did the the survey uh with the police department to determine this the the rate of speed there. So, if there is any extra money
um for speed tables, please, please, please, please. I have a lot of older older residents live in those neighborhoods. Again, they've been there for almost 40 years and um they walk the sidewalks, folks, folks speed through there. I would love to see some table speed tables in Sawmill.
>> All right. Um I would just add a little bit to that. We we do have a little bit of money left over. Um, uh, Commissioner Kennedy had had already gotten his requests in before the end of the year
last year and, um, this presentation, you know, covers upcoming and we we're already working on some of those others. So, if you have specific requests, um, let us know and we will we'll do the analysis, um, the warrant analysis for
them and budget permitting, we'll try to get as many of those as we can knocked out. >> All right, I got Commissioner Wilson. >> I just want to say, you know, sidewalks, wait, how far can I get that away from me? Sidewalks in my We're very established
district. I didn't want to say old. We're more established. and sidewalks are an issue that we've had and I thank you for that. Any money we have extra sidewalks seem to be that's one of our major issues within my for my residents. >> Thank you and comm mayor commissioners.
I appreciate the um support you've given the city manager's efforts to push this forward to get the sidewalks replaced. We're at a great point now. We've actually quantified everything in the city. >> I need to ask you a question.
>> Yes, sir. on the um CMI Avenue, the speedway. Is there any way we can put speed bumps on CMI Avenue? Cuz when they come off of Meuire, it's full bore till they hit the
railroad track. Then they realize they've hit that. Then after that, they're right back at it again to get downtown. There's no sidewalks and we need lights. That's a main road in besides Blueford Avenue coming into town there.
>> We actually have we're proceeding with lighting on that with Duke and there's some other things in place that may actually speed tables may not be the ideal option there, but we have some other things we're looking at as part of CMI where we're rebuilding widening the
road and improving the downtown. There's some things, but maybe we'll have to implement something in the meantime because those projects aren't slated in the immed future. >> Can you mention the trail project? >> There is right there where the railroad used to be going down CMI. We're working
on a trail project there and looking at some grant funding for that also, which may be able to tie into that. >> Well, I'm just saying you're going to have to tie something in because it is a speed speed road is what it is on that Cassini Avenue.
So, we appreciate it. >> All right, that it anybody can I say something to off subject, but I just want to say [snorts] both city manager and you and your team these Christmas lights before you leave at the end. >> They have been wonderful. >> Y
>> and great response. I mean, I I know you're leaving might be leaving say something at the end, but I want to thank you because they've been lit. They've been on since Thanksgiving and people really have spoke very highly of them. So, I want to thank all of you and your team for a wonderful job.
>> We will relay that and I appreciate I also appreciate there was a lot of effort going into that and you allowed us to expand the program and I do appreciate that recation >> and I I again there's more involved but I know that you I dealt with you [clears throat] last year. Yeah, [snorts]
if if I may, mayor, um it's been a a complete team effort with parks and leisure, public works, um our office. Um we have a lot of people that have weighed in on what works and what doesn't. And Duke Energy also gets some
credit uh for working with us, but um I I think we we have a good thing going and we want to try to beat it next year. Consistency is is everything. So, we want to continue to try to improve in that area.
>> All right. The um and you I will say something because somebody's probably going to ask about it sooner or later is the lights on Oakland. I know we I've turned it into the city manager and assistant city manager. Duke's one. If you wonder why we don't have lights on
Oakland, Duke, it's the one that's in kind of holding up and not getting it done. So, we put in >> to have it done. So, right, Greg, >> I we are in the process of doing that. I I have to double check. I think we
actually have authorized a purchase order for the additional lighting. I'll have to follow up with I don't know off the top of my head, but I know we've been moving forward with that. >> Well, it's kind of >> and there's funding available in the project for that.
>> All right. Okay. All right. Thank you. >> All right. Thanks. >> All right. public comments out before. Didn't Mr. Memorial leave? >> I know. He slips in and out. You know, you never know. Oh, well, I have Mr. Rants that lives up in the north side of
town. Come up. You get You get three or three minutes there to He lives in Ardan Park North, right? [clears throat] What you say? >> That's correct. >> Yes, sir. >> Three minutes for a preacher. That's not much time.
Hey. [laughter] Well, I didn't say give a prayer. I said just give a talk. >> All right. [laughter] Well, Mr. Mayor, thank you for inviting me tonight. It's a joy to be here. Uh, I commend the uh >> Speak into that >> right here. >> No, the other one. >> This one here. Everybody hear me? All
right. >> Yeah. >> All right. It's a joy to be here. I want to thank each of the city leaders and officials here for doing the job that you do. It's fantastic. And I'd like to thank law enforcement for what they do. uh kind of ties in with what I'm uh here
to talk about tonight. Uh I am um a pastor, lay pastor, First Baptist Orlando. Uh I'm also um the vice president of Ardan Park North of the HOA association and I'm running for Congress in the
ninth district. Uh so man of many hats here tonight, but I'm here tonight just to address some uh the speeding issue. you folks have talked about it here on the on the on the commission. Uh problems that you're facing here in the community and we're facing it too in the neighborhood. We're a gated community
and sometimes uh folks in gated communities like that think it's private and they can make up their own [snorts] uh their own rules and do their own things. Well, back in November, we had a child that was hit sadly to announce uh in the neighborhood there, which should
have never happened, but it did happen. And so, uh, before the meeting began, I had the privilege to talk with the the chief and [clears throat and snorts] some of the officers there, and we're going to look at the agreement that we have, uh, in the neighborhood and, uh, see what we need to do to, uh, enhance
some patrol and educate the community and, uh, just provide some safety and protection for not only our our our children and our families, but also wildlife. We had a large crane that was killed by a vehicle. Um, for some reason
they think u American Beach is like a racetrack and like the Indy500. I'm originally from Indiana, so I can bring the Indy500 into that. But uh, with that being said, u, I'm just here to bring some awareness uh, to uh, the community
that I live in. Uh, we love Ardan Park North. Just the aesthetics and being a part of AOE has been a a fabulous journey for me and my wife. My wife's from Brazil, S. Paulo, Brazil. Like I said before, I'm originally from Indiana, but now we're
uh we're we're Fidians. And so we're proud to be here. Proud to be a part of the community. So again, hats off. I commend you for what you do. Thank you very much. And uh thank you for the officers that keep the community safe and may God's blessings be upon you. >> Thank you.
>> Thanks, sir. I don't have anybody else on for public speaking tonight, so I'm going to go to consent agenda. Need a uh motion for approval of the consent agenda. >> I'll make that motion if you can hear me. >> All right. Motion made for the consent
agenda. U Commissioner Wilson. Do I hear a second? >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Commissioner Kennedy. No more comments. Let's vote. Motion carries unanimously. All right, we'll move over to uh number 10.
First read of ordinances. First read of ordinance 2277 Fuller's Crossroad Baragan Property project number AX07 to 25-07 uh deputy development service director from Whitfield. So you going to read I
don't think we need that first reading. So he'll read the ordinance and then we can uh have it back in two weeks and it'll be public comments then. >> Very good. An ordinance of the city of Akoi, Florida annexing into the corporate limits of the city of Akoi, Florida. Certain real property
containing approximately 5.09 09 acres located at 2277 Fuller's Cross Road in the northwest corner of the Fuller Cross Road and North Lakewood Avenue intersection pursuant to the application submitted by the property owner finding said annexation be consistent with the
envision 2045 AOEI comprehensive plan the AOE city code and the joint planning area agreement providing for and authorizing the update of official city maps providing direction to the city clerk providing for separability prevailing in the event of any inconsistency and providing for an
effective date. >> All right. Like I said, in two weeks of the next meeting, what's our date? Um uh the 23rd. >> What is What is the date for the next meeting? >> February 3rd. >> February.
>> February 3rd. >> February 3rd. >> Mhm. >> All right. We'll be open for public comment then. All right. Second reading of vortices. We have none. Public [clears throat] hearing. We have none. Regular agenda. We have none. Comments from commissioners. Do we have none?
>> Mayor, mayor, if if I could before you start. All right. Um, >> I wanted to recognize Notch Whitfield. Tonight is her last meeting. >> She has accepted the position of executive director for the Elatchua MO.
And you know, we we believe strongly in development and hiring good people. And with that kind of continued development, professional growth, sometimes you lose some really good ones. And um if you want to say a few words a notch with
this being your last meeting. We've been very grateful to her. She's been an outstanding asset from a long range planning. I will share one anecdote. Um my first time meeting her was my first month on the job here as development services director and she was our comp
plan reviewer. um in what was called the Department of Community Affairs in Tallahassee at the time and the city, and I knew this coming in, had been sanctioned from adopting any further comp plan
amendments until they addressed the Wakiva protection area more stringently. And a notch I I knew then I was like, "Wow, we were really lucky to have her as a reviewer because she worked with us very well." And I never knew then that she would wind up coming to work for us
and moving up the food chain very quickly. Do you want to say a few words? >> I wasn't expecting to, but I'll just say thank you for the opportunity to serve the city of Aaliy have four and a half years. Thank you. >> Thank you. Good luck. >> Appreciate it. [applause]
[applause] >> Anything else, Greg? >> No, sir. I'm sorry. All right, Commissioner Kennedy. >> Uh, no comments. >> Commissioner Wilson, >> no comments. >> Commissioner uh, no comment. >> No comment.
>> Well, I know Commissioner, [laughter] it's all yours, George. >> Oh my goodness. >> We don't need to give you our five minutes. [laughter] >> No, >> I don't need You don't have to start the clock. Happy New Year, everyone. Happy New Year. >> Um, also today is uh today is Three
Kings Day. So I also want to recogn I thought uh Mr. Moy would be here to uh Commissioner Moy or Dr. Moy would be here to talk about that but three kings day also known as the Epiphany is celebrates the visit of the uh three wise men and the celebration is celebrated by many cultures throughout
the globe here. So I just want to say happy three kings day for those that celebrate three kings day. Um, also, um, my last thing, um, I was at a a, uh, a funeral and, uh, and I heard this
before. There was a pastor talking, uh, there was just yesterday and he mentioned something about, um, the, um, let me make sure I got it right here. He mentioned something about the meaning of life. So, he said that um, it was asked by uh, Pablo um, Picasso, what was the
meaning of life? And he said that the meaning of life is to find your gift. Then he said the purpose of life is to give it away. So that's all I got. All right. Thank you, sir. I forgot to read this while ago during my little
things here. January 26th, 2026, Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Parade will be held on Monday, January the 19th, 2026 from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. A post parade celebration and keynote speaker
will follow at the West Oaks Mall Food Court. Parade restoration is now open and the link to register is also located on the city's website. The um I just wanted to comment about the lights out front. I will tell you there was
bunches of people getting pictures made during the holidays in front of city hall. They It was amazing seeing all the different ones come up here, ride by during the evening, coming by and doing around town. You'd see people sitting out with their children and their
husbands, wives, people taking pictures. And so I think that paid off for what what the lights look like and all that. So I just want to say thanks to the staff. I think what the recreation department was involved in that too. So I know I seen them taking the Christmas tree down today.
>> Yeah. >> I I apologize. I'm being too verbose tonight. But I I did want to mention, you know, Parks and Leisure does a lot of [laughter] the decorations on campus internally without using outside
services. And we have a gentleman who's um as talented a designer when it comes to that kind of decor as I've ever seen. He does all of our beautiful trees. Um and we we're very blessed to have an asset
um in house where we don't have to go hire a designer to do these beautiful Christmas trees to help come up with the scheme. and and you know I I trying to be more appreciative um this year and uh I really appreciate all of our staff for
getting on board. Um, I will tell you also that we're going to be doing a lot of team building as a management team to try and even take things to another level in the coming year. And um, we're already seeing a lot of benefits from that um, in the community and uh, we
we've got a long way to go, but we're going to get there together. Thank you. >> I [clears throat] I want to bring up a couple of things. I had uh go out to the industrial park yesterday. Um and u some of the people there, the businesses have those little buildings.
They all rent them. But the problem we got out there and I need code enforcement or the police department or whoever it is, they parking on all the rideways and also they got cars jammed into all the businesses where the people who do have businesses cannot get into
their own business. So, we need to put up the signs that have no parking on those rideways out there. So, what they've done is they've come in there with all those cars and they don't have places to. So, they park them on the rightway in front of these other businesses. Now, years ago, Joe's
Automotive asked for a sign and we put the sign up and there's nobody parks there. But if you go in, if you police or the code can go down and go into the uh the industrial park, you will see what I'm talking about. There's cars
everywhere on the side streets and it it is causing a hindrance to all the other people that have businesses in there. So, I'd like to see us if we could put street signs and u and put them up in those places. >> We'll get right on that tonight.
>> All right. So, I think that's it. I I I still would like to see us um get a chance to talk to the school principal. I don't know if we're trying to set that up or not, Mike. So if we we can it be feasible to like to talk to her that the other thing I I've seen this I'll be out
of town that day um from the 14th I'm leaving and go out of town but they're add more to the back they're not add more students that we need they're adding some students but this is not what we need another middle school in our city we're one of the only ones
around that doesn't get another middle school instead of just expanding this to add more students uptown town. We need another middle school somewhere in our city, which they have the property over on Ingram Ingram Road. I >> I agree. I'm have I have a meeting on this exact day with uh our school board
member and that is one of the topics we talk about the school on Ingram Road and getting back to uh our elected officials that's been reaching out to her about the traffic jam uh from the middle school. >> Yeah. So, we'd like to if maybe any of you could get a hold of Melissa Bird,
talk to Melissa Bird, too. Yeah, I'll be meeting with her on the 14th. >> I've tried. >> Have you tried? She didn't call you back. >> Didn't follow up. >> Didn't follow up. >> Well, I'm just saying this this is I guess [clears throat] it's going to be good, but I don't it's not what we we need a new school, a new middle school.
This is just adding more downtown and I think I know there is more students coming there. So, that's one of the things I think we need to check into, Craig. So, I hope everybody has a great new year. Let's let's enjoy it and keep
things moving. Thank you very much.