Who's got the G >> right under there? >> So, we're going to start December 16th uh of course city commission meeting. We'll have the prayer by Mr. Hart and the pledge of allegiance by myself and then roll call. Please stand.
>> Dear heavenly father, we thank you by your abundant grace and mercy. You've allowed us to come together to conduct the city's business. And Father, we thank you for the leadership that you've given our city officials and our our staff. We pray that you will fill them not only with wisdom, but with compassion to make sure we do the best things for our citiz.
We pray a special prayer over our first responders. Be with them on every call. Watch over them as they watch over us. And we're so carefully give you the praise, the honor, and the glory you do. In your son, Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> Amen. >> I alian 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 Oliver >> here. >> All right. Presentations and music festival dash of the century 5K beneficiary check presentation. Parks and Leisure Services Operation Manager
Hogan Mark Johnson. Good evening, Mayor Commissioners. Um, tonight we're here to present a check to the beneficiary of this year's 5K race and music fest. I'm going to turn my time over to Beth as from Chick-fil-A and she's going to give a rundown of our
sponsors and talk a little bit about our beneficiary at this time. Good evening. We are so happy to be here tonight to present the benefactor check from the once in a-lifetime dash of the century
5k that we just had celebrating this uh city centennial. Um we picked this year um it's a local charity um at heart to give and I'll be introducing her in just a little bit, Terry Scott. First, we couldn't make this 5K happen um for our
centennial year without all the sponsors and the help that we had. Of course, the city of Okoi Parks and Leisure Services, uh amazing job, the police department, the fire department. Um our gold sponsor uh was Orlando Health, Health Central.
We had our silver sponsors were Healthy West Orange, Christian Brothers Automotive here locally, Texas Roadhouse of Akoi, and all the other sponsors that helped us was Betty J's Flores. If you saw those flowers, um, if you saw any of the pictures, those beautiful purple flowers were um, for the city this year.
Card my yard, Windeir, Church of Christ, Pastor David, I see. Um, House Blend Cafe, Jesse Taylor Catering, Akoi Middle School, Akoi High School, Akoi again, Fire Department, Police Department. Shout out to Bernie Hendricks and his
drum line. They come every year and make a huge celebration for us at at all of our city events. the original sign factory, Pelican Snowballs of AoE, True Nature Juice Bar. Also, a huge shout out to Frail Brewer Orthodontics, and of
course, I wouldn't be here without my operator, Sig and Genie Bose, Chick-fil-A, Vakoi, and Winter Garden. Again, we appreciate everybody that came out this year. If you didn't see the medals, please go online, look at the medal. It was a centennial medal with the landscape of the city behind it. We
also had a beautiful shirt that had the same thing on there. Um, we love our community and each year we try to give back with the u with the races that we do. Um, and again, Terry Scott with a heart to give is here local. She's going to tell you a little bit about her. But
first, you know, I have to tell you and get out your pens, get out a piece of paper. April 11th, 14th annual Chick-fil-A 5K with the city of Akoi. We are also going to be po posting about the benefactor because each race we pick
somebody locally um that we can give a portion of the race to uh um and help them with their cause in our community. If you don't know some of the ones that we've had in the past, please go on and look. Every year, somebody has benefited and it goes right back into our community. I it is my great joy and
great honor to introduce Terry Scott and what she's doing in our community. Come on up, Terry. >> Good evening. Um yeah, so my name is Terry. I run a heart to give here in Akoi. Thank you. And um we provide hope and practical support for families in
need. Um we help everyone from single moms to families u with double income. We help domestic violence survivors um get into a place and we provide uh all their furnishings for the home so they don't have to worry about that. Um we help single moms with formula, diapers,
anything they need. You name it. If we can help meet a need, we meet it. And we don't just provide a handout service. We want to be a hand up to our community. Therefore, we um will sit down and help families budget um so they don't have to keep coming back time after time and
they can be the ones that actually help others um from just us helping sit down with them and budget. Um we provide our Thanksgiving food drive. We do um right now we are in the middle of our Christmas toy drive where last year we
helped 2200 local West Orange County students receive presents and this year we um our goal is over 2500 kids here in >> currently you told me how many >> we have over 2500 I don't know that uh because we keep adding from the local
schools. So yeah, thank you. >> And your website? >> Yeah, it's www.ahhearttog.org or you can find me on Facebook um Terry SS Scott or a heart to give. >> Thank you Terry. And also guys, she's always looking for volunteers to sort,
to pack, to do all types of different things. So if you have kids that need community service hours, you want to get out, give back to the community. Reach out to her, please. I forgot to give you the date of the 14th annual Chick-fil-A 5K. April 11th, 2026. Make sure you put that down in your
books. We look forward to seeing you guys out there. and merry Christmas and eat more chicken. >> Just a question. Quick question. Yes. >> Could you give me the website again? That was a it was a hearttog.com or
>> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. >> I want to say that I've been helping out there through our city thing. >> It's a great honor to have you here to do that and what you do with your family. I know you have a goodiz family also. >> Six kids. >> You put a lot of time and effort into
that. We truly appreciate you don't get enough recognition and we really thank you. >> Well, thank you. >> All you do appreciate it for and your family. >> I appreciate it. Thank you. >> And we're going to be able to give her a check tonight. That'll help with those 200 families. >> Come up front and we'll get some
pictures. >> Thank you. >> All right. >> Bring the cow on down. And we want to thank especially we want to thank the chicken proprietors. That's why I Hey, listen. you one of the better things we have in
the city. We appreciate it very much. We truly appreciate it. >> Am I out of the way? >> You want to be in it? >> No, I'm out of the way. >> You take their picture. Thank you. >> I don't think that cow is smiling.
Healthy West Orange Trails Connection. Central Florida Operation Director Patrick Pan Panza. All right. >> Okay. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Uh my name is Patrick Panza. I'm the operations director at BikeWalk Central
Florida. It's a local nonprofit with a mission to improve our built environment and improve safety for anyone who's walking, biking, and rolling. I I really appreciate your time tonight. I'm sorry I'm a little frazzled. I just fought a lot of traffic to get here, but um I
appreciate the opportunity to address you and to provide you a little bit of an update on the Healthy West Orange Trails Connection effort. Uh the Healthy West Orange Trails Connection, I think I've got control of it here. So, let me go ahead and
there we go. So, this item I wanted to give you all a progress update. So, for those of you that were here at the beginning of this effort back in 2021 and 2022, maybe some of this will be remedial, but hopefully
this will all be great information for everyone. Um, BikeWalk Central Florida, we are the facilitators of the collaborative effort known as Healthy West Orange Trails Connection. Okay, that program exists under a mission to bring together our partnering
communities in West Orange County. Uh, the shared goal is to promote, activate, activate, and enhance the trail system that we have here in West Orange County. So we have been working diligently toward that ever since 2021 when a
report was put together called the healthy west orange initiative report. Your own ginger corus was instrumental honestly uh in that initial vision and the assemblage of that report. So just to kind of give a little bit of history it came together with the west orange
healthc care district and the f foundation for a healthier West Orange. They are championing that first report. So it was a working group, the healthy west orange trails initiative working group that came together to put together that report comprised of members from
Gula, Oakland, Akoi, Wintermir and Winter Garden along with a number of supporting agencies. We had Orange County Parks there. Um all sorts of representatives and all of your neighbors as well. In that report were identified a number of goals. I won't go through every
single one of them, but they're listed on the screen here. Um some of the really really one important ones I want to highlight there is collaboration that's really integral um enhance empower and connect. Okay I really like
to highlight those ones specifically. Moving on from 2022 on until today we were building framework. Okay and we still operate under this framework today. it. We have a steering committee which has a voting member from each of
those partner cities and towns. We have an executive committee which has members from the foundation for a healthier West Orange, one city seat and then a seat from the West Orange Healthc Care District which is now dissolved but it is a representative seat.
We've also had a number of working groups over the years to help us in that collaboration and identify a path forward to enhancing the trail system in West Orange County. We had communications and events at the beginning when we were really trying to get the word out about HWOTC and the trails connection group. We had a design
and connections working group which is now known today as the trail network development working group indicative of us moving into sort of the action phase. We had an enhance and restore working group. We were able to kind of get out in the field boots on the ground and do some improvements in the trails, some
landscaping projects. And we had a safety working group that operated with a lot of safety audits. We went through the entire West Orange Trail in the area and a number of other trail segments. In fact, we we did we evaluated this segment here just along Blueford.
Now, all in told, we had a lot of accomplishments during that phase of framework building, and I've listed them all kind of here. We did, like I said, trail enhancement projects. We did a lot of trail safety audits. Those recommendations went directly to the partnering cities and towns and we've
seen some action on those as well. We also did future trail corridor evaluations as we look toward the future and how we can improve um mobility and connectivity and opportunities for people in these communities to live healthy active lifestyles.
We did seven community events. Um, we developed and published the trailside development design and policy guidelines which have been a great guide book to uh this community and your neighboring communities um as you look to improve policy and how your future development
can address trails, activate trails, and provide your residents with opportunities for a healthy active lifestyle. We also performed a pretty heavy duty analysis on the entire trails network in West Orange County. uh that has helped us really look forward into the future
and I'll get to that in a second. Um and we worked with our partners to identify the sustainability of this collaborative effort moving forward in terms of funding. Um also a big item which goes really I
can't skip over this one, the trail project implementation grant program. And this is really in the meat of where we're at today. Um so to take a quick step back, the original um implementation of this vision and the pulling together of the group was made
possible by a very gracious uh gift from the West Orange Healthcare District. All in told, it was $5 million for trail projects and another $500,000 set aside for the facilitation of the effort. So that included creation of that initiative report. It includes all of
the facilitation and collaboration work that we've been doing over the past five years. The original 500,000 that was set aside for the collaborative effort facilitation, um that is what we have run up against the end of. And so what we're asking
here and we have been kind of going around to all of our partners is to renew that commitment to this vision and help support that collaborative effort moving forward. And that is the reason why we're here tonight. So, we've devised a cost sharing across all of the
partner cities and towns. Um, and we're happy to report that everybody is on board as well with the foundation. They're chipping in as well this year. Um, and so you ask, well, what has happened to the $5 million for trail project implementation? Well, we we designed a grant program. Um, we split
it into small projects and then large projects. We've had a couple projects come through for small project grant applications that have been successfully completed last year. And we're now really looking forward to the future and putting that money in the hands of these partnered communities in town such as
yourself to to see action on the ground and building trails that we've identified in our vision. So what you can see here now on the left hand side is exactly that vision that came out of our trails analysis that we performed in late 2023 and in 2024.
Um, so just really quickly, I'll show you the the the bright yellow line that you see there, that's the Florida Sun Trail network. Locally, we will know we will recognize one of those specifically is the West Orange Trail that plays a big part in a lot of our lives here in Orange County. Um, and on the the north
south section is is a lot of the Shingle Creek Trail section, a lot of the Pine Hills connectors that um Orange County is working on building right now. Now, the three loops that you see there in a combination of solid and dotted lines, that's the vision we've put together as
HWOTC as the Healthy West Orange Trails Connection. Our analysis gave us this opportunity to identify what is possible in the future to connect the communities and provide more opportunities for your residents to move about and and get some
exercise, get some recreation, get from point A to point B. Those three loops right there are what we are prioritizing now in our action phase of Healthy West Orange Trails Connection. And we're going to put the full force of that $5 million that's available in grant money
behind making that a reality. Uh so we are working in our steering committee meetings and our working group meetings and aligning this up trying to leverage this against available state funding opportunities um so that we can make dollar for dollar the biggest impact
that we possibly can moving forward. Um, so what we are up to in 2026 coming up on this is our fiscal year, your fiscal year, but also the rest of the the 26 calendar year. We have a singular working group now because we really truly do have a singular focus. Okay? It
is the trail network development working group and its purpose is to develop our trail network. So, we're going to be following that vision that you saw on that map earlier, and we're going to be working directly with the cities and towns and Orange County and our state agency supporting agencies to try and
get as many of these trails built as quickly as we possibly can, complete that vision so that we have full connectivity between our neighboring communities in the near future. So, we will also continue to facilitate that trail grant program and make sure
that that funding assistance gets in the hands of our of our cities and towns here. And we've also carved out quite a bit of effort in direct support to the partner cities and towns for additional trail grant research and trail project support. Um, we like to provide that support to
the partner cities and towns. We are fully aware that you all have a full plate. You're working on a lot of things. So we are essentially extend a hand um if there's trail opport opportunities or grant opportunities that the city is interested may not have the resources to dedicate at the moment
to to the research in some of the pre-application items. We exist as facilitators to kind of help you all along with that. We have a a deep research library that we have assembled. We've researched already over 25 grant programs and provided that information
directly to uh the cities and towns. Our next big step, and we're working on this right now, just had the framework for the request for proposals approved by the steering committee last week. We will be soliciting for a network-wide planning and design study for those
three loops that you saw on the screen earlier. Um and we will be facilitating that process along with the foundation for a healthier West Orange. This is going to give all of the partner cities and towns in hand uh basically a conceptual master plan getting uh out of
the way some of the initial steps of research planning and design that are typical in trail development. Okay. We got approval from the foundation to apply some of that implementation grant funding to that study. So that study is essentially coming at no cost to any of the partner cities and towns. uh we
think it's a phenomenal move forward and it will really position these trails for success in the future as we move toward implementation. So that is my update for you all. If you have any questions, I'm I'm happy to address them today and uh again, I just thank you for your time and your commitment to this cause
honestly over the past five years. We have accomplished a lot and and we are really looking forward to what we can accomplish here in the future. >> Okay. Appreciate it. Anybody on the commission have any any comments? >> No. >> We appreciate it. Thank you very much. It's great. >> Thank you. >> Looking forward to all the work.
>> Appreciate it. >> Thank you, sir. >> All right. Staff reports. >> Uh, none at this time, Mayor. >> All right. Public comments. I have Dr. Jim Moyer.
Excuse me. Good evening, Dr. Jim Moyer. Last no uh November, I was elected Orange and Water Conservation District to supervisor at a time when we had five board members. One was in a nursing home
and she passed in February. So February 1st, we only had four board members. We came out, reached out to the community and very responsive. We now have a total of eight people involved with Orange
soil and water conservation district, five supervisors, two associate supervisors, and a proona attorney. So that's a major step in right direction, I believe. In addition, for a number of
years, the county has generously allowed us to meet at the in the BCC chambers on Rosland Avenue, but uh they gave an inkind donation to put us a live
broadcast on Orange TV, which will help us reach out to the community. I believe the answer for us as an organization and throughout the county is community involvement.
And to that end, I took a tour of the Tom West Blueberry Farm. Uh Scott West very generously spent uh quite a bit of his time. It's
exemplary. I believe it should be a model for all the growers. Not only does he meet all the BMP best management practices by the state, he actually tests new blueberries
uh for with works in conjunction with UF and he also found an unknown disease to that point. So, he discovered a disease that nobody knew of in blueberries and is working to correct this. Um, what
I've been trying to do here, as I said, community involvement. I've been speaking with the state. I've been speaking with the county. I've been speaking with the water management district. And I'm hoping that some point
in time the city of Akoi will sponsor a get together, what I'll call a town hall light meeting to discuss uh Stark Lake Prim Vista, the future of the business
of downtown of Cody. Thank you for your time. God bless you all and happy holidays. >> Thank you, sir. I'd like to make a couple quick comments on the uh on comments about the lake. I will ask tell you that the city of Okoy has done our
part so far with helping out with the storm water which leads into before it goes to the lake where it never had it. We don't get any help out of anybody else to the state which is a state responsibility too and also highway silverstar road that comes down floods
the lake all the time. Nobody's done anything there. We need to show up to the county and give a talk to them about taking care of their problems that are coming down through that lake with all the wash coming into our lake. I mean, we keep getting it every time here, but somebody needs to sit down and have a talk with them about what happens with
that road and the drainage that comes off that road and into our lakes. >> So, I'm I'm just telling you've had your talk. We appreciate it, Mr. Moyer. >> But I Well, they haven't done anything, sir. It's been years. We've been talking
to them for long before you got here and we have not got anything out of them. So push them, not us. Push them. Anybody else got any comments? All right. Thank you. All right.
Just real quick, I will say that it might not be the best lake in the world, but it is a lot better than Lake Aopka and a few other ones I can tell you about that. and you know with with our lakes here in Okoy with the fishing and people coming down to the park. So it's it's just needs to be taken advice from
other people, not just us. So work on that. All right, that's I have one more here. Doug Gomemer 405 Misty Middle, come on down. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, commissioners,
fellow residents. Those of you that know me long enough know that uh there are very few things that uh fire up my furnace like recreational facilities. And after last week's meeting about the baseball fields, softball fields, I was pretty excited about that. I I kind of like the idea that these people have
already put an investment into those fields and it looks like they're going to stay to be softball fields for a long time. But then when I was driving home, something that Commissioner Oliver said to me kept ringing through my head and he kept thinking the comment that he had made was that once you give facilities
away like this, you can never get them back. So I'm thinking what would be the what would be a thing and maybe this is for Mr. Geller. If we were to do a sales agreement with these folks to sell these fields to them, could a clause be put in the contract that if anything ever happened to that company or they were to
sell that the city could get a first right of refusal to get those fields back so they could always stay softball fields. >> You could always have a reverter clause in a um >> is that standard? you guys automatically do that or >> I wouldn't say reverter clauses are
standard but certainly in this sort of situation um that would be something that >> because again Commissioner Oliver made that comment and I that just rang through to me I mean once we give it away it's never coming back but in this case if it ever did come back at least we could do as a city we could keep it
under the recreational umbrella which is what you know the people in AOE really want I mean that's what we need to do >> if I'm not mistaken their baseball fields softball fields are the other place. So, the ones we're talking about is the baseball field. >> Right. Right. >> I think that's a great idea. >> Thank you.
>> Yes, sir. >> Yeah. >> All right. Thank you, sir. >> Um, consent agenda. >> I'll make a motion to approve. >> Motion made by Commissioner Wilson. Do I hear a second?
>> A second. >> Seconded by Commissioner Fman. Any more comments? This vote? All right, we're down to public hearings. Number four, approval of resolution to of an intent to use the uniform method of collection
for nonadvelor special assessment utilities director bullet. >> Good evening everyone before you say it's on. There we go. Okay. Um, so I'm tonight I'm here to discuss the resolution of intent to use
the uniform method of collection for non-edalorum special assessment, which is a pretty big mouthful. So I'd like to start off by how we got here. So at this time there are 41 customers that are required to connect to sewer because the sewer is available
to them. And so this connection is required per a state law. It has to do with legislation that's been passed regarding a basin management action plan. BMAP big long acronym. Essentially what it means is that we are in um an
area where it's been designated to reduce nutrient loads to Waka and Rock Springs. We're also um separate from that is the Apakka Basin. The 2016 bond also requires that um connection to all available public
facilities, city facilities. And then we were recently awarded a springs grant. And in that grant, it was money to help assist customers with this required connection. The grant has the scope where it covers the cost of all of the on-site construction, which would mean
the sewer laterals. There are several connections that would require a grinder pump and restoration of these properties. The remaining cost is the capital fee. And so this sewer capital fee is required by city code. So we've managed
to get funding for over 50% of the cost to our customers. And now we are working on providing options for payment for connection. So, the sewer capital fee right now is $7,811 for a single family residential unit.
Um, for a commercial business, this is based on their water demand. And so, it can vary based on the type of business. The downtown sewer area where there is sewer available, we have customers that have not connected. There's three areas. The first area, this is Cumberland, and
although you can't see, it's Silverstar Road. The red are residential properties. When we move on in these maps, you'll see there are some yellow areas and those are commercial properties. The second area is directly downtown. It's primarily related to the floral
sanitary sewer project that we recently completed. And there are also a handful of um connections that are along Blofford that did not connect with the Blofford project, which is what the uh downtown bond money was used for.
and then just north of uh Geneva Street also on Blford A. So in total it's 41 parcels. So staff um we've been looking at numerous options on how to assist with the remainder of the connection costs to the customers. Um if the owner of the
parcel has the money on hand, they can go ahead and they can pay. There's also the option per state statute to do essentially what is a two-year uh amateurized um loan. The other options that we're looking for that we've
presented is the non-advelorum tax assessment and that would go on the property bill and then we're also um further investigating any other payment options to be able to bring to commission today as we bring forward this nonadalorum tax assessment um
resolution. At this point it is just to provide the commission with the flexibility for payment options for these customer connections. And so today we recommend approval of this resolution. It essentially just keeps the door open just to prever pre
preserve this opportunity. >> All right. Anybody comments? Any comments in sir? Commissioner, >> no. >> I've already spoke with them and I think that, you know, again, a lot of it is within my district. Question I do have on one of them that if it's a two-year
with a two-year loan, if someone sells the home, does that go with I mean, it's premature right now, but does that go with the home? >> If you do a two-year loan, does that go with the home or does that go with the >> the person who did the actual >> question should be tied to the parcel? I
actually do not have that information. I don't know if Craig, you can answer. >> That would make sense. >> You can put it on the title. >> Put it on the title. >> It goes with it. >> I just wanted question. >> Comes out of the proceed. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. The two-year option is per state statute. So, we will explore and ensure
that there's protections for the city. >> So, that's that takes all the way down to the lake, right? You talking about Magnolia, Lafayette? >> Um, not at this point. The majority of this is the floral street connection and there's a handful um on Blofford. So
when the Blofford streetscape project comes through, we'll be able to bring sewer down. >> There's 41 on floral. >> It's 41. It's floral. It goes up to North Cumberland. Here's the majority of area to here. McKe Street. >> I can't read that thing. It's too small. Looks like
>> So it's floral McKe South Cumberland. have there's properties on Oakland. >> It's not commercial properties. Correct. >> It's actually it's commercial and residential. All available sewer and the grant is for both for the connection. >> But the connection for a resident is
7,800. Commercial is based on their water consumption. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Okay. Anybody >> what is the uh s the sewer capital fee that is mandated by our our code? Is that a standard fee or that based on something else? >> It was a fee that was established years
ago and it increases annually based on the construction cost index. >> So it it's based on a construction cost index. >> It it increases annually, >> right? >> So So the fee was established I'm not sure what the date was that it was
established. >> Okay. And this is for new construction. >> Every new connection. >> Every new connection. Okay. All right. >> Do you know what it is? >> $7,811 currently >> for residential. For residential.
>> I will make a comment on that. If you have in that area, if you have to put in a new septic tank, it's like $18,000. >> Yeah. That >> so $7,000 is a little bit better than the $18,000. That's kind of what I was
getting at because right now we have residents that how's over 40 40 years old and it's mandated they have to change out their their septic and it's and it's cost anywhere between 18 to $20,000 to do it. >> I know I know my my son put it in back by the firehouse and it was $18,000
>> put in. >> Yeah. The newer because they're more efficient now, >> right? We need a motion on >> Well, let me let me read the resolution and and I would say because it's a proposition. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. See if there's any public comment too. But let me read the resolution. Resolution of
the city of Akoi, Florida electing to use the uniform method of collecting nonadvalorum special assessments levied within the incorporated area of the city of AOE Florida stating a need for such levy providing for the mailing of this resolution and providing for an effective date.
>> All right, I'm gonna open it up to the public. Anybody in the public have any comments pertaining to the sewer? >> I do have a question. I >> Okay. All right. I'll bring it back to the desk. >> Uh I'm sorry I didn't ask this earlier, but I in in this there's a list of
properties in the package. >> Yes. >> And some of the properties have Windmeir and Winter Garden addresses. Is that I mean like one says Daytona Beach. Are
those property appraiser? >> This property appraiser information >> physical owners. >> Thank you. That's my only question. >> That it. >> Yep. >> So, what we need a motion on it, right? >> Yes. >> All right. >> We need a motion. >> I'll make that motion to approve.
>> Motion made by Commissioner Wilson. Approve the motion. Do I hear a second? We'll second that. >> Seconded by Commissioner. No more comments. Let's vote. Motion carries unanimous. All right. Thank you very much.
All right. We're at number five. Approve staff, excuse me, negotiate a single source vendor contract with cover the TE's to upgrade the driving range at Forest Lake Golf
Club. Parks and Leisure Services Director Johnson. Good evening, mayor, commissioners. Again, Mark Johnson, parks and leisure service director. Um, tonight I'm here to request an approval. Um about seven months ago, the city uh bought Forest
Lake Golf Course and then about a month ago, y'all approved commission approved full operational ownership with the city. Um as you're aware, uh we've been working on an operational plan and outgoing future upgrades to bring back
to y'all. Um, we're gonna have a workshop early next year to go over um and we're gonna pre present a master plan to y'all about what staff desires or thinks should be the the design. Um, in our initial staff discussions
internally concerning the master plan, staff identified a um a component that would bring entertainment, technology, uh, fun, family gathering, um, but also staying true to the to the
everyday golfer. Um, when I say that, I mean having access to natural grass to still practice. Um and with that we have we have identified a single source vendor who provides this technology
and um this capital investment and a revenue stream for the city. They have actually already built these couple of these structures. Um one's at the view which is at Claremont National Golf Course. The other is at Dubis. Um both
beautiful facilities they have built. um this this technology that's been presented this evening um in order for us to get ahead of the game um we're asking for approval um with cover the tees is the is the company that does
this work um we want to go ahead and capture our market we don't want to allow another golf course locally right right outside the city to capture this market before we do um so tonight we are requesting your approval
to move forward working with cover the TE's to negotiate um and bring back a contract for approval at an upcoming commission meeting. Um this will also let cover know we mean business and
we're we're ready to move forward. Um the workshop next next year, early next year we're going to have on the master plan for the golf course is going to continue to help us in that master plan meeting. We'll still talk about other
aspects of the golf course and how to continue improvements and amenities at the golf course. Um take questions now. >> Commissioners, >> questions? No. Well, there's something that I would like to
see uh as we um engage in uh in any type of contracts that deals with the city and and construction and doing anything in the city. I would like to see uh something in the contract that state that they would use uh local vendors,
local labor um to help facilitate in the construction as long as they qualify uh you know bonded insured or whatever it may be to uh to do the work that that they uh we would actually add that as a line in a contract state that they would look to use some local vendors here in
our city if if they qualifies. I would commissioner I would hope that's in our contracts when we do that on any contracts is it we can have that in right >> you could >> we we can certainly add that >> that's something we we would want to have in our contract
>> contract >> I don't know >> anybody else >> if it's available contract >> yeah that >> okay anybody else >> no >> all right we going to need a motion for it though >> I'll make the motion to approve approve
uh staff to negotiate with uh cover the TE's to try to get this done. >> Motion made by Commissioner Kennedy. Um I need a second. >> I'll second it. >> Seconded by Commissioner Oliver. No more comments. Let's vote.
>> Thank you. >> All right. Motion carries. Thank you. Well, let's see. We're down to comments. Before we do that, I want to bring up something real quick. >> Uh, we do this every year, but I would asked a special thing here on this. It's
on the cops deal for the blue light dinner. We do Central Florida Cops does it every year, and we donate money for a table. Uh, I think we did 1500, but I would like to ask the commission if we can do the uh I think it's with all the stuff going on now about
the police forces and everywhere else. I think it's it'd be nice for us to help support our our I don't know how many of our officers chief you might know participate in that also. Can you give us I know I don't know exactly how many we got. I know we have some of them that
do that work in that program. Good evening, Mayor. >> Good evening, mayor, commissioners. Yeah, that's the concerns of police survivors and that is the victims or family members of the slain officers in the line of duty. Uh they take families
on retreats. They monitor the kids through high school. They they take care of them throughout the year. uh annually would they have this ball at I think it was at Shingle Creek Rosen and we pay for a table, you pay for a table and I know officers uh pay for tables on their
own and the tables usually consist of eight seats. So we I think we have three tables in total. >> So that's why I would ask if we could do the $2,500 one. That's >> except for one table. >> That's the silver sponsor. Yeah.
Yeah, that's the silver sponsor. I've already made a donation for a table out of discretionary funds >> se a separate one. >> Yes. >> All right. So any what anybody have any comments on it? >> That also >> I agree with it.
>> 2500. >> Good. >> All right. Can we take that out of the contingency okay with everybody? >> Yes. >> We have we still I have the I have the paper here. We still haveund $110,000.
contingency. >> That's fine. >> Everybody been real tight. That's good. >> Do we need to vote or is it consensus? >> I'd like to do We can do a consensus, but I think the vote would be >> be cleaner. >> Yeah. Let's just have a >> motion. Make that motion for the $2,500.
>> Motion made by Commissioner Wilson. >> 3,000. >> Huh? >> 25. >> 25. Okay. 2500. >> 25. >> 25. Motion made by Commissioner Wilson for the 25. Do I hear a second? >> A second. Seconded by Commissioner Fen.
Any more comments? Let's vote. Motion carries unanimously. Thank you. All right. Now, I'm going to read off the little list here. It's not as big tonight. December 2025. In observance of the Christmas holiday, city hall and all
admin city administrative office will be closed on Thursday, December the 25th and Friday, December the 26th. There will be no sanitation services on Christmas Day, January 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 W West Oaks MA mall food court. Parade also registration is now open and the link to register is
also located on the city's website. All right. One one other thing I wanted to uh say something about. I don't know any of you I don't know how many of you showed up the other night at the uh holiday
jamboree. I will say that our staff is one of the better people that I heard nothing but comments from citizens about our our city's people that worked and put this thing together. It was one of the better comments I think I've heard in the last few years about what we do and what we've done with our front and
everything. They love to take pictures. They we had a doggy parade. We had a um the golf cart parade that the chief was directed us in. So, it was a great evening. If you didn't come, you missed a lot of fun. I know Commissioner Wilson
and I have cranked up the tree and it didn't blow up. It it lit up. >> So, so I just want to say it's amazing to me the citizens. We have a lot of citizens that come to this, but we also have a lot of people from out of town that show up for that and really make
good comments about it. It was great. So, I want to thank everybody, especially the city staff and the city management for letting us put that on and doing that for the citizens of the city. Thank you. All right, Commissioner Kennedy. Uh, just one thing. We had discussed at the last meeting with the
chief uh getting with whatever it is the chief of the school police or whatever to come figure out all the problems and I was wondering if there was any >> stop that stop the clock till he makes the comments. >> So yes, commissioner I did meet with um
Orange County Public Schools and lieutenants. they came out and uh went to the campus of Okoy Middle and Okcoy High and they um said that we get the students or the traffic out 95% faster than any other schools in the city in
the county. Uh this week I met with the principal, Miss Levit, and uh the concern with the kids on the outside of the school is a budget issue. She says she doesn't have staff to pay to come in and monitor the kids on the inside to the gates. And I says, "Well, they're
the concerns and complaints that we're getting is the kids are hanging out on Blofford, and the concern is that somebody may get hit by a car." I reached out to the chief of uh Orange County Public Schools, and he has not called me back yet. >> Can I make a comment?
>> Yes, please. >> I'm not mainly talking about inside that gate. I'm talking about down on that road down there on Lafayette where they have all that area that's right there can be off the main road. Once again, I sat there the other day. I had to sit
literally because of the traffic. They let two across and then here comes two more standing there to go back, put them in, go back, put them across. I'm just saying move them down to the next block on Lafayette and let them stand down there. >> Yeah. She said as a monitoring issue, we
have to pay staff to come in. That's what I was told. I met with her yesterday. >> That's the problem. >> Yes. I just met with her yesterday. There's got to be something done with that because there's no reason they can't sit down in Lafayette and wait. >> Uh so what's in the minutes from the
last meeting and what we cuz we're just go round and round and round and round and round. Um so what we had said was let's make somebody from over there come over here and address these questions. Where are we on that?
>> I've reached out to him commissioner declining. He has not reached out to me to come back and tell me when he can come. >> Well, I agree with you, Commissioner. >> Yeah. Can you do >> What about the person commissioner? I'm sorry. What about the people that's in charge of their safety or whatever? >> That's the Orange County Public School
Police. That's the chief I'm talking to himself. Yes. >> If you write formal >> letter, school board member. >> Absolutely. >> Yep. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> That's my only question or com. >> Thank you, Chief. All right.
just want to make an announcement that um tomorrow at 4:30 some of us are going to be meeting at but I don't know if the commission's aware of this but about six months ago we honored Gordon Applegate for his 30 years of service as a volunteer with the um park and recreation board and tomorrow we're
going to put the plaque up park and leisure department is going to put the plaque up at the skateboard >> um 4:30 um again Gordon was dedicated in his commitment to the city of Akoi and his interest in the skateboard Ford skate park for the youth. Um it's appropriate
place to put it. So we'll be if anyone wants to attend 4:30 tomorrow at the skate park. There's another item that the police department does which um I thought was a great idea that they're doing. They put they have the ability to put a lock box at your home. If you are um there's certain criteria, seniors,
etc. where if you the keys go in the lock box and if something happens that they have to make a call where they don't break a window, knock your door down to get to the person in the house, they have lock boxes. I think it's about $15 for them to come out and put that
lock box in. Um it's a great service and so I've had I know I've had multiple people getting it just recently um because again concern regarding if they need help someone can get to them. Um, again, I'll speak for the what the mayor said about the jolly jamboree and the
dinner with Santa. It was great great um response from the from the community and um great job. Thank you and wish you all happy holidays and we'll see you after the new year. Commissioner Fner, >> I just want to express tonight how happy
I am with the uh city's effort on the Christmas decorations this year. The streets downtown and city hall just look magnificent and I've been getting so many positive comments on that. I just wanted to thank the staff for such a
good job that they're doing with that. Thank you. Sorry, Commissioner. >> Don't have much, but um I do have a meeting with our schoolboard representative the second week in January if it's okay uh with you. I can also mention the issue with the school
when I meet with her >> if that's okay. >> Melissa B. >> Melissa Bur. Yes, I have a meeting with her. >> Okay, I'll mention that as well. Other than that, only thing I have is um merry Christmas to everyone. Happy holidays, season greetings, and we will see you back uh next year. Thank you.
Chief, I want to one real quick thing here. How many civilian people do we have patrol? >> Three, four PSAs. >> CSAs. >> Uh, we have five on the road and one >> I would like to see us put one of those
people in that in that place on the mornings. I have one at Lakewood at the exit of the school making sure that they don't come back toward Blford because people were disregarding the no left turn sign and they were coming back toward Blford.
>> Civilian patrol person. >> Okay. >> On Blford or Lakewood >> in Lafayette. Okay, >> that's that's the main place where all this is at. >> Okay, >> we put instead of they come down and they park in that church parking lot
down there, which is not helping us. We need them up there on that corner to help decorate. I mean, not decorate, move move the traffic around. >> Okay, >> I know we got five of them, so there's no reason why we can't put somebody there. They can alternate weeks or
whatever they want to do. Some one of them needs to be there. Absolutely. Um, we've had preliminary discussions about that and that's actually was on my meeting list for tomorrow is to talk to the chiefs um about this um adding additional
resources and of course um I'm going to reach out to my counterpart um about this as well because we're we're putting resources in and you guys know the soreness of the whole um reimbursement
for school resource officers and so so on and so forth. And and the other thing that we will discuss again is protocol with our crossing guards and you know at at what rate do we walk people across
you know if there's a group coming the entire group over two and then there's two more and it turns into a so that those were on my agenda to discuss with the chief tomorrow. We we'll absolutely make that happen. It's also in the afternoon too with the traffic
flow and not get through there in the afternoon. >> You don't have to pay a full-fledged police officer to be out on the job police work. Put the civilian officer up there covering the church parking lot. We don't need
them directing those people inirect corner. >> Right. Okay, I'm not harping on evidence. Just just aggravating citizens and somewhere along the line somebody's going to get hurt there.
>> Duly noted. Can I can I go this time? >> Yes. Maybe you got to get a chair closer to the front. How everybody hope everybody has a great holiday. Not holiday, I'm sorry. Merry Christmas. Why holiday? But merry
Christmas. I think everybody we like I said it's been a joyful week with the folks in downtown the other night. A lot of people are having a great time and the kids especially I don't think we don't charge for those rides. I think that's why we get a lot of people with a lot of children. They were having a
great time. So if you get to see it, you missed it. Thanks again to the staff. Thanks again to everybody up here for your time this year. We'll see you in That's it. Thank you.