You might have to stand up. >> Okay. We're going to open up the March the 3 commission meeting. We'll have the uh invocation by Mr. Hart. Then we pledge of allegiance by one of the young Boy Scout members there. We'll help you with it. Just come up close to the
thing. You got to have that thing. And then we'll have roll call. Please stand. >> Eternally most precious Father, we thank you for the opportunity you've given us to come together to conduct this city's business. And father, even though we may come in with different ideas and different opinions, even though we may
disagree, let us not be disagreeable or disrespect one another, but continue to work together as brothers and sisters. We thank you for the opportunity we have to live in this beautiful place that you call Okcoy. And father, we say a special prayer for all the men and women of our armed forces who are keeping us safe throughout the world. Watch over them as
they watch over us and comfort their families knowing give them reassurance that you will watch over their loved ones. We give you the praise, the honor, and the glory you do. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. He's gonna come up. >> All right.
>> Come on up. >> You just start off. I pledge and we'll get right in with you. All right. >> I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> You can add that to your merit bail. >> Commissioner Kennedy >> here. >> Commissioner Wilson >> here. >> Mayor Johnson >> here. >> Commissioner Fner >> here. >> Commissioner Oliver
>> here. >> All right. We got presentations, proclamations, Black History Month essay contest. Who's Who's coming up? Okay. >> Good evening everyone.
>> Is that on? Make sure that's on. >> Yes. >> Good evening everyone. Mayor, Commissioners, City Managers. I'm Caitlyn Ooa, the community event specialist with the city of Akoi, and I'm excited to be here today to introduce the winners of our 21st annual
Black History Month essay contest. We have the winners, teachers, families, and principles here tonight. So, I would like to congratulate you and thank you for coming. Um, I'd also like to thank our AKOA Youth Council members um for volunteering to assist me with the
presentation tonight. Uh the essay prompt this year was Black History Month is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 1925 when Dr. Carter G. Woodson established the observance of Black History. It started as a week and now has evolved into a month dedicated to
remembering Black History. Why do you think it's important to celebrate Black History? Why how has Black History Month impacted you? and what inspirational stories have you learned about African-Americans contributions to American history? We it was open to
fifth grade participants and we had a total of six schools who participated including Hope Charter School, Lake Whitney Elementary, Okoi Elementary, Maxi Elementary, Thornbrook Elementary, and Westbrook Elementary. Our winners
get some great prizes tonight. The overall winner will receive a $200 gift card from Best Buy. Our first place winners will receive a $100 gift card from Best Buy. And our second and third place winners will receive a $50 gift
card donated by Dr. Sandria Foster. Our first place winners also get some great prizes tonight as well. Uh they will receive a gift bag filled with goodies from our other city departments as well as coupons from Chick-fil-A. We'd like
to extend a huge thank you to both Dr. Sandria Foster and Chick-fil-A for their donations. Uh they have donated to this event for quite some time now and we are very very grateful. Uh the students worked really hard on their essays tonight and I am so excited to introduce
them. Um I will start with the following students. Uh Havin Elizabeth Bennett from Lake Whitney Elementary. There you go. Next we have Michaela Fage with Okcoi Elementary. Victoria J. Harris from Maxi Elementary.
Amber Patterson from Thornbrook Elementary. Come on over. and Haley Marks from Westbrook Elementary. And now the moment you've all been waiting for. I'd like to introduce our overall winner for the 2026 Black
History Month essay contest, Rashni Beher Singh. and Rashny will be reading her overall winning essay tonight. So, let me introduce to you our overall winner. Good evening everyone. My name is Roi
Harris Singh and before I start, I just want to say thank you for giving me the opportunity to share my story here tonight. It is near and dear to my heart and I hope you appreciate the message. We have evolved in how we honor and appreciate those who endure pain and
suffering, endless sacrifices and taking risks to pave the way for a better future. Over a hundred years ago, a African-Ameans were treated unfairly in the most extreme ways. Black History Month is designated to recognize the
achievements, reflect and continue to learn about black history. As a national observant, I ask, what is a century of stories, challenges, achievements bring us to this day? It's not just history. We need to educate ourselves on the background and details of black history
and the impact it has made in our world. When I learn about Africanameans history, I say to myself, I cannot imagine what they had to endure. The sacrifice, pain, and suffering. Two years ago, I crossed paths with the girl in my class who judged me just because
of my skin color. I never understood why she made fun of me. I wasn't brave enough to defend myself and lacked confidence. Going to school wasn't fun anymore. I felt like everyone looked at me differently. I remember seeing a video that spoke about important women in history. One of them was Rosa Parks.
Coincidentally, I found a book in my class library and read it. Timing couldn't be more perfect. I was inspired and got the courage to stand up for myself that day. The insult has come to an end. Why do you like bullying me? I asked. Not one word came out of her
mouth. She was shocked. In her eyes, I am a weak and easy target. The silence that felt like forever ended. My skin color might be different. Some My accent might be funny. My religion may be something you're not familiar with, but we all breathe the same air, come to the
same school, and have dreams. I said with confidence and walked away. The next morning, she came into class, and not only did she greet her two best friends, but the entire class. She walked over to me and said, "I'm sorry. Maybe you could teach me more about Dewali." There are many individuals in
history that have inspired me. To share a few, I'll start with Louis Armstrong. He was a jazz trumpeter, singer, and composer. He broke down racial barriers just by playing jazz. Bessie Coleman was the first African and Native American to own a pilot license. She broke down
gender barriers. Last but not least, Maya Angela. Not only was she a poet and memorialious, but also a civil rights activist. Maya Angela's famous quote is what resonates with me. I have learned that people forget what you said, people
will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. It is important that we recognize Black History Month and pay tribute to those that made it better for us. What can you do to make our world a better place? Thank you. That was very inspiring. Thank you so
much. Um, if I could please have our winners come back up to the front. We'd like to get a group picture with the mayor and commissioners as well. Um, thank you guys for coming out and I hope you have an amazing night.
>> We'll stand back here. >> U, make sure to bring your certificate and gift bags as well, please. Step this way. It's like it's Oh, the really harsh eyebrow. Don't
>> Is that it? That's right. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. Give about a minute here to clear out. >> Yeah. >> All right. Are we going to do the staff reports?
>> City manager. >> Yes, sir. >> Hold on a minute. >> Hey. >> Yeah. >> Give him a minute. >> What is in Cody versus Edward? It's
sports. I went down last >> I know it's it was it was positive through >> but it was it was meant for sporting events. I said I had to read it and know what it
was. >> That clear Okay. Okay. All right. All right. Staff report. >> Thank you, mayor. Um, couple items. One is um a a really good thing. We just had
our uh rerating done with Fitch on our uh bond rating for our water and sewer um bonding capacity and it it remains very stable at AAA. So that's a very good thing um in the market that we're in. Uh the second thing um Commissioner
Oliver had asked me about the sidewalk uh replacement program. It commenced in January. Uh the following areas are either underway or completed. The Meadows unit one has been completed. Wintermir Groves completed. Villages of
West Oaks um will be starting on the 25th. Well, it's already started. I'm sorry. This is an old update. It's started already. Um Harbor Highlands 2 will be starting around March 5th. Prima Vista will be starting later in March.
And then the second phase has already been sent out for bid and and just some of those areas will include notably Prairie Lakes Village, Remington Oaks, and Silver Glenn. Um that's not an exhaustive list. Um but we will be
giving you a more formal update in the next couple meetings. And that's all I have. >> All right. Thanks, sir. >> Thank you. >> All right. We're going to go to public comments. First one I have here is for um Mary Barnes. I will tell you on the
public comments we have three minute time limits. So Mary Barnes commented by >> ma'am you got to come up to the podium. >> My question there I'm not commenting about what he's talking about.
>> No ma'am I know that. >> Oh okay. I just want to know that myself. >> You get to do what you want to do. >> Thank you. >> Three minutes worth. >> All right. Three minutes. All right. >> Hi, my name is Bishop Mary Barnes and I'm here to talk about the Oakcoy
community health and and family fair. My request, we are asking Oakcoy to partner with us for this community initiative history. Deeper Life Assembly Church has served the Oakcoy community for over 25 years at 235280 Mims Road. Its pastors
are Mickey and Sharon Partee and founders Dr. Omar and Ununice Ramasoon. The mission, we want to unite families and community members in a celebration of a life joys by bringing them together for a fun-filled connecting event with
vendors, social service agencies, medical and emergency organizations. This event will be hosted by Deeper Life Assembly Church and is scheduled for July 11, 2026 or the date can be contingent on other OKO community
events. The time is 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. This will be an outside and inside event. The church has five acres that will be restaurant room accessibility. This initiative seeks to cater to the community's needs by providing essential
support and resources through social service agencies. With so many households having to spread their financial resources in a myriad of ways, this occasion will help give them the tools and assistance to do this. By offering these services, attendees can
better navigate their financial and personal affairs. Furthermore, Kaiser University College of Nursing of the Health Care Vendors will provide free health screenings and support benefiting vulnerable groups. This funfilled atmosphere will allow the attendees to
have a day of music, fun, eating, games, and other activities. I'm completed. Thank you. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you, >> Dr. Jim Moyer. You're welcome. >> Good evening. My name is Dr. Jim Moyer.
I'm the elected orange soil and water conservation district to supervisor. Before I get to my powerpoints, please join AOE Elementary School, AoE High School, myself and the community this
Saturday morning, 8:00 a.m. to 1000 a.m. We'll be cleaning up Stark Lake from Lafayette Street to the pier and then many of us will be going over to a Koi spring into conservation event. Again,
that's this Saturday, 8:00 a.m. Clean up to 10:00 a.m. and then spring into conservation starting at 1000 a.m. Um, I have a few comments. They're my comments alone. No
one else's. These are the best and worst states to live in due to climate change. Florida is ground zero. It's because of these five criteria I
want to focus on inland flooding. That's us. Okay. During the next 25 to 100 years, it's quite likely that all five of these will impact Florida, including inland flooding here in Central Florida.
These are some of them. This is a rather comprehensive list of the effects the impact in the next 25 to 100 years due to climate change. I want to focus on
two agricultural production will be decreased and economic impact including tourism will be down. So it's quite likely that Florida is going to have to reinvent itself again. For those who
don't know, the natives in Florida predominantly were fishing. La frolita. This was a military stronghold for the vast uh Spanish empire in the Americas
and agriculture starting started from basically the civil war to the great depression and uh the dust fall that was the number one industry in Florida and now tourism's number one with agriculture
number two. So there's a good possibility in the next 25 to 100 years Florida is going to have to reinvent itself again. Um these are some of the what took place 90
to 100 years ago and what's going to take place in the future. The hottest year in recorded history was 2024 and nine out of the last 10 hottest years were since 2000. Thank you so much
for all your time and God bless all of you. >> All right, Norin, they're working. Good evening, mayor, commissioners. Hello everybody. My name is Noren Dwarkin. I'm the editor-inchief of Vox Populi, winterguardbox.com.
Um, I wanted to announce that for the first time ever, we are offering a $500 journalism scholarship to a graduating senior from an Orange County public high school. This is to further study their
um, uh, interest in journalism. So, our profession as journalists is changing. Um these days anyone with a mic and a YouTube channel can uh hang out a shingle and call themselves a journalist.
But the fundamentals remain fact-checking, objectivity, neutrality, balance. So we want to contribute to cultivating and educating the next generation of reporters in print, broadcast, and digital. There's a
link on our website at wintergardenox.com. If you know of a senior who is been working either professionally with an internship who has worked on a student newspaper or in the yearbook, in a magazine, TV or radio
station, please send them our way at wintergardenvox.com. The deadline for the uh for filling out the application is March 20th. Applications will be reviewed by our staff and our board and we will be making an announcement in April. Again,
this application is for a $500 journalism scholarship. We want to help defay your costs, further your study of journalism. So, thank you very much. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Okay. Uh, do Dura, what's the last name?
Meritine. >> Where? Come on up. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and City Commissioners. My name is Dara Murthy and I have the honor of serving as the captain of a lady nights varsity basketball team. I stand before you today with the men's pride and excitement as we share some truly
historic news. The Koi Lady Knights have made school history again becoming the first girls basketball team to advance to state championship back-to-back years. This achievement is not just a victory for our team is a victory for the our entire community. My teammates and have and I have worked tirelessly
demonstrating dedication, discipline, teamwork, and resilience to reach this milestone. Now, we have the opportunity to compete at the highest level in the state of Florida. As we prepare for this incredible journey, we are asking for your support. The expenses associated with travel, lodging, meals, and other
essential costs are significant. We will depart for Jacksonville on Thursday morning and our state championship game is scheduled for Friday, Friday, March 13th, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. We will face Winter Haven High School. We respectfully request a donation of $2,000 to help offset these expenses.
Your generous support will allow us to focus fully on our preparation and performance as we strive to bring the state championship trophy home to Hokoi. It would mean the world to us to have the backing of our city leadership as we represent Akoi on this historic stage. We are committed to competing with
excellence, integrity, and pride. And we are determined to make our community proud. Thank you sincerely for your time, your consideration, and your continued support of our athletes, our schools, and our city. Together, we can turn this historic opportunity into a championship moment for a KO.
All right. Before before I call the last one, can we go ahead and discuss this about see if we can donate some money these basketball players here? I would say u in the contingency fund we have a we have the
money. Anybody want to suggest what is it? $2,000 y'all were asking for? I know one time we did a bus or something like that, but I don't remember. >> So, >> mayor, you can take the 2,000 out of my uh discretionary fund.
>> All right, that saves THE need for that. >> That's his money. >> Here's anything else. I want to do it. I'm good. >> Okay. Mr. First, this is uh Commissioner First on the south end of town, but he
that's a generous office there. So, we appreciate it very much. And so, can you get the information to I'll give you this young lady's uh you can get her address and phone number for who in charge. >> Okay. Will you get with the will you
fill out a form or something? He can get you and call you. he can uh turn it into our executive secretary and she'll make the check. You can come pick it up. >> Appreciate it. >> So, is that this week or week? We week week after. That's good. >> Next week. >> Yeah, we need to get it. But if you can turn it in maybe about a
>> tomorrow, >> I'll take care of it. >> All right. We'll get that worked out. Okay. >> Thank you. >> When are they leaving? How about that? How about How about all y'all coming up front and let us get a picture of everybody up front? >> Congratulations, too.
>> Rich, you ought to go down, huh? Rich ought to go down. He's >> Richard, you go down and get in the middle of them. >> All right, y'all. Slide on over. >> You want to get >> Get in the middle. Get in the middle of the >> you know covering that middle middle
zone. >> Get in there. again. >> And what schools did you beat to get through that? >> Good answer. >> Said everybody. matches the shirt.
>> I just take breakfast. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right there. >> Rich, you got your card with you. >> Give him your card. Hey, if you if anybody
I take breakfast like a little team breakfast >> let let me know. >> All right. All right, buddy. It's >> all same. Thank you, coach. See you.
All right. >> Joseph Ban Ban Bander Bander. Yep. There you go. >> This is good. >> Hello, commissioners. >> It's good to see you here this evening. >> My name is Joseph Bander. I'm a resident
here of Akoi. I'm also currently the chairman of the code enforcement board. Um I'm not sure if if me coming up here right now is a little premature uh because I understand you're going to have a reading uh with regards to
amendment to chapter 7 dealing with the code enforcement. Um, apparently there was a meeting uh that you guys had the beginning of February and uh the Chief Agburn presented a uh
uh an option for you guys that was put before you guys. All right. And um I I actually was able to watch that video on uh you know online and uh there's some inconsistencies in that
meeting or some misconceptions that I think uh were put before you. Um, I would like to, as chairman of that board, uh, propose a a meeting with you
folks so that we can clear up any misconceptions that you might have, uh, prior to you you guys moving forward. Uh so I'm not exactly sure who that meeting is going to be because we used to be
under the opices of the city and then the police department took it over and honestly since the police department has taken it over it doesn't feel like we've gotten a lot of support. Uh so uh I'm not sure exactly who that meeting is
going to be. Maybe the city manager might be able to help us out with that. Um, I know that my uh vice chair has sent out a uh email uh regarding uh some of his concerns. I don't know if you folks have received that or yet or not.
Uh I don't know if there's been a response to that or not, but in either case, um so that's why I'm offering to have before you folks make any kind of decision. I know you guys are going to have a reading tonight. I know there's going to be a second reading and you
guys are going to have a vote and um I would I would strongly suggest that we sit down and have a conversation uh before a final um resolution is made. All right, I yield back my time.
>> We we're going to do a little right city manager talk here. >> Um I I would encourage you to get with the assistant city manager. He'll meet you um on your way out and we can schedule time for you to meet with us, one of us, and um talk about, you know,
clearing up some of the inconsistencies. >> Sure. >> Um you have the ability one-on-one to try and and and get appointments. Our our elected officials are very busy. Um, I think we can handle that and communicate to them and advise you on
how you can um voice your concerns at the um hearing and um clear that up and we can provide that information to the commission. So that's what I would recommend that >> are you are you aware of the letter that
we received from Chief Augin? >> Yes. >> It it basically summed up as a termination letter and uh Yeah, there I I'm sure you you you understand >> I did and I I I drafted a response which
was sent to um >> Mr. Lewis >> Mr. Lewis yesterday um >> and you know I'm just going to go ahead and say this. I take responsibility for this. Um I did not make it very clear um to uh Chief Agburn um with what needed
to be in that letter. Now, the letter violated no statutes, codes, or the charter. Um, the the letter was actually accurate in that it outlined that the commission directed us to come back with changes to chapter >> 7.
>> And so, the process is we had we have first reading tonight. >> There's a second reading which will be a public hearing um first meeting in April. And so, um, what I had hoped we would include, and again, I take full
responsibility for that, um, for not making it clear. >> You didn't draft that. >> What I had though to make clear was that here's the process, and this came after a dialogue. Um, the commission has all expressed to me they want to get tougher
on code violations. And you know, there's a whole series of variables that have led to it becoming kind of convenient to keep violating the code here. Um, for no one specific
reason, but a a a mixture of different reasons. And so following that discussion, which you watched the video, Chief Ogburn did mention that, you know, it might be beneficial to have a
magistrate who could then um and I'll say this, you know, part of what I would like to to share with the code board members is gratitude for their service because it's a tough job that is it's a quasi
judicial board and you get to the the evidence of people that are struggling and trying ranging to people that really just don't care. And >> we've we've seen all of that. >> This this group here really is focused on the people that just don't care that
are just going to keep violating the code. And so, um, through nothing against the code enforcement board, they directed us to come back with an ordinance change that would transition from a board with residential violations
to a special magistrate. And I I I think that well, and when you're too close to something, I read the letter and did not feel like it was a termination letter. Okay. I can understand after reading it, stepping
back that it did, but it it it actually mentioned that there's a due process and advised of the hearings, but I would have preferred a more sensitive approach and I didn't, you know, again, I didn't sit down and make all those things clear. So, that's that's on me,
>> right? >> Um, and I did apologize to Mr. Lewis for that because ultimately it is my responsibility. Um, and so I I have a draft memo that I'll be sending out in advance of of the the public hearing to
the code enforcement board members advising them and then taking responsibility for um the misunderstanding that arose from that letter. And um I don't think there's any more I can really say that I haven't already said. The question I'm going to
ask the rest of the commissioners are are are you still open to a dialogue or have you already made your decision on this >> maybe maybe >> maybe just go down the the line. Yes. No, >> I don't this is public comment. I thought we weren't going to
here's the deal. We voted on it at a meet public meeting. What we did it was and it was stated that all people on that code and board would be have chance to get on other boards not to get out of the all together but it would be offered other places on the other boards to be
in because they voted to go hire the magistrate judge to do the coding portion. So that was what was voted on by the commission all five of >> and you and you feel that is the the in the best interest. >> I don't want to get into that. We'll get to the public here. We can do that. >> Yes, sir.
>> Yeah. So, but I'm just saying, >> well, >> and let let me just say something real quick. The city manager did what he was supposed to do, >> but the letter didn't put it out the way we said in the thing. So, that's a different story alto together, but the commissioners all voted to do what we
did and it'll come up at the public hearing for discussion again. >> All right. >> All right. Uh, that's fine. Thank you. Uh, we'll we'll take it from there. Thank you. Uh-huh. All right. Now, we're going to move down
to the consent agenda. I need a motion and a second. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion made by Commissioner Wilson for consent agenda. I hear a second. >> I'll second. >> Seconded by Commissioner Kennedy. No more comments. Let's vote.
>> All right. First read of ordinance under this number. First read of this ordinance will be brought back on April the 7th for second reading in the public hearing. This will not >> Excuse me, mayor. >> Someone did not vote on the consent. >> Who?
>> There's only 83%. >> Who? >> It's only >> Let's do it again. >> Oh, I don't vote. >> He don't vote. >> Gerard doesn't vote. >> He don't vote. >> He should vote. >> It's five to zero. It's unanimous. >> We all voted.
>> No one elected me. Oh, wait. If you get elected, you don't get paid. >> That's right. >> All right. All right. Motion's made by Commissioner Wilson, seconded by Commissioner
Kennedy. No more comments. Let's vote. >> Right. >> My button is not >> It's not active. >> Now you got it off. >> There it is. >> All right. Hold on to get all the thing on there. All right,
>> there you go. Now you're >> I didn't understand. >> All right, let's go back. Let's start. Can you clear that and start over? >> Okay, >> she's got to disable his voting. >> Give us a few seconds. >> Let's vote. >> Well, she's got >> She's not reset yet. Hold on.
>> She's got to reset. >> Good to go. Are we ready now? Yes, sir. >> Yes, sir. >> All right, >> everybody vote. >> Time's charm. >> Here we go. >> All right, >> there you go. Carries unanimously.
All right, >> all right. Number seven, we just got you reading it. >> Sure. Item seven, an ordinance of the city of Akoi creating the office of special magistrate to hold hearings and assess fines against violators of the city
codes and ordinances. Abolishing the city of Akoi code enforcement board subject to future reinstatement. Reassigning all cases pending before the code enforcement board and all powers of the code enforcement board to the special magistrate. Defining terms.
Setting forth the terms of the special magistrate and appointment of a special magistrate prom establishing code enforcement procedures. Establishing hearing procedures and standards. Setting forth the powers of the special magistrate. Providing for administrative
fines. Fines for the cost of repairs made by the city. Leans procedures for applying for and considering lean reductions and releases. Satisfactions and settlements. Providing for notice to affected parties, allowing for
enforcement by other provisions, providing for appeals, establishing a code enforcement recovery fund, providing for severability, providing for conflicts, cotification, severability, and an effective date. >> This will be read again on April the
7th. We did what be a public hearing. We voted on that already, too. Did we vote on that yet? Nope. All right, let's vote on Well, wait a minute. We don't vote. >> We don't vote till the >> second second read. >> Second reading. >> Got me confused now. >> Okay.
>> All right. We're down now at regular agenda. Approval of commission leazison to various boards. City clerk. >> Um this is just >> glad to speak up to break them up. >> This is just the annual selection of the
liaison for the city advisory boards. There's a list on here. Yes. All right. Who's changing? Anybody want to change? I'm not I'm stay I want to stay where I'm at. >> Me, too. >> Everybody. >> Me, too. >> Everybody going to stay where they're at? >> Yeah. >> Yep. I'm happy with the airport board.
>> All right. >> Oh, yep. All right. So, we need a we need a motion on that, too. >> It says somebody needs to make a motion. We stay as we are. I've never missed a meeting. >> Is that It just says an alter being requested by the committee. Is that you
never missed a meeting? >> It says if you read >> Not at the MAC. >> It says for the MAC >> commission, but >> Richard was uh you were on the Mac before me. Would you would you be willing to be the alternate if I had a I haven't missed a
>> I'll be our alternate for that. Yeah. >> Would y'all be fine? He was on the map before. >> Yeah, he was there before. Yeah. Have you made it to those? Yeah. All right. >> I go Thursday. >> All right. So, we need a motion to put him as an alter. >> Yeah. >> All right. Give me a motion to put him as alder and then we'll
>> All right. Uh, I'll make a motion to approve um the list as is with people maintaining their boards and to name Commissioner Fner as alternate to the MAC. >> All right. Go hear a second. I'll second that. Seconded by Commissioner First.
All right. Any more comments? Let's vote. >> All right. >> And can I make one comment just real quick? Uh I did receive all the backup that I requested for the bylaws and the uh >> the background on the boards and it
looked good to me. I just uh one of the things uh we did actually uh Dr. Moyer used to do at one of the boards was read the uh the vision statement of the board at the meetings and I think as liaison we should probably just make sure our
our board chairs are drawing people's attention to their to their actual mission but it looked great to me and thank the clerk for including all that. >> That's a great idea. >> We did we vote. >> Thank you. >> I think do we vote? >> No, just a suggestion.
>> No. How many motion you made? >> Oh no, we don't. Let's vote for that last motion. >> We did. >> Oh, we did. >> Here we go again. >> Now you got me going. >> Now you got me. >> All right. All right. We're down to uh go. >> We're down to Mayor's announcements,
March events, spring into conservation happening on Saturday, March the 7th from 10:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. at Bill Breeze Park featuring uh Commissioner Wilson. Right. No, featuring >> featuring educational s sustainable
exhibits, wildlife encounters, giveaways, and fun activities. There will also be a plant giveaway and rain barrel workshop for Okcoy residents. You must register in advance for the rain barrel workshops at okcoy.org. Tip a cop
on Wednesday, March the 11th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Visit Texas Roadhouse at 11:50 Blackwood Avenue. Customers can tip your Oakcoy police department with all donation benefit in Special Olympics in Florida. St. Patrick's Day block
party will take place Friday, March the 13th from 6:00 p.m. through 900 p.m. in downtown Okcoy. The event will feature live music, food trucks, game rides, and more. Neighborhood matching grant
program assists residents with making improvements to their neighborhoods. The program is open to HOAs and non-HOAs. Application deadline is Friday, March 13th. Apply oakcoy.org. Commissioner Kennedy.
>> Thank you, Mayor. Um, I just have a couple comments. Um, one regarding the code enforcement. Uh, Joseph is your name. I I also know Warren. He's in district one and I know him well. He's the chair of the CACOPD
that I'm the leazison to. Um I just wanted to make clear um we can't have it wasn't explained but we can't have as a group a private meeting with anyone. Um but as the uh city manager said individually we can. And if you and
Warren wanted to set up a call with me, I'd be happy to share my opinion. Okay. >> Um you can reach out to me. Um, I also had a suggestion and the timer that pops up on here. Um, a lot of times when there's
presentations, sometimes there's uh building submitts and site plans and stuff and the timer is in the way. Is is it possible that we could maybe put a little side monitor or something to park the timer on so it's not overlaying?
Could y'all look at that? Okay. >> Because it it gets in the way of the presentation sometimes and >> so just a observation. >> It's supposed to be up on that board too. So >> it is but it covers up the content sometimes and so maybe if there was like another little monitor or something. I
don't know maybe they can look at a better suggestion but just an observation. Um last comment. Um we went to the cops board the uh
concerns of police survivors uh gala and um it was really exciting for me. Um I've been a couple times. The city supports it and the police department supported and the commissioning has supported it. But this year it was really exciting as the liaison to the
CACOPD which I mentioned. uh we had most of the members of that board attend and um I've been trying to get that done and it just really it it's it's just unbelievable. So I just wanted to
publicly thank them um uh for attending that. It's very important and as I mentioned the mission of the boards um that's something that the CACOPD has supported in the past and I really wanted to get them to go to the gala and
hear the mission uh and the testimonials of police survivors and the impact that the contributions that that board and my own discretionary contributions are making in the lives of of children and spouses of police that have been uh
killed in the line of duty. Thank you, Mayor. >> All right, Commissioner Wilson. >> Yes, we must not forget that the shred event will be happening on March 14th at the Ecoi Police Department from 9:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Please bring your sensitive documents that you want
destroyed. They're destroyed on site. Uh again, it's a drive-thru, so it should not inconvenience you at all. um please come between 9 and 11:30 a.m. If you want to watch them being destroyed, we can have you pulled to the side and have you watch them. Sometimes the first time
folks come, they like to see it actually happening. Um the other thing is as we get into um mayor as we get into the situation with yard waste again as we're seeing more leaves folks are putting out more yard debris
that we need to remind maybe Craig we need to remind our um department that's the um I'm not going to say sanitation department our hauler that when they go to pick up they're supposed to pick up four by four by four I think is the
magic number. But what happens is, and we saw this last year, that when they see more than 4x4, they just go by. And um it's a situation that sometimes you leave the portion out and the next week they get the extra portion or if
they want again picked up, they can also arrange privately with our hauler to come get it. There's a fee for that. Um some folks will leave it out, wait for the next week or bring, you know, keep it behind somewhere and bring it out for the next week. But I don't want to see that happen again to where we see folks
having half of the items they think are going to get picked up and all of a sudden the truck just goes right by because it's larger than the amount that they're allotted to pick up and it's getting to be leaf season. >> It is. We will redouble our efforts. We
do have a dedicated employee that's supposed to be going around and monitoring randomly and um we will we will take care of that. >> Okay. I appreciate that and I I think our residents do too. Especially in my district again, we're a more established district. We have a lot of trees
and uh a lot of leaves. Thank you. That's it. >> Commissioner Fer, no, I have nothing to add. Commissioner Oliver, >> just a couple items. Um one, I am um really elated to hear that the sidewalk project has is off off the ground and
running. I've been getting a lot of phone calls or or emails as well about when it's going to happen, when it's coming to my neighborhood. So, uh the city manager gave a a presentation uh earlier in the meeting about this sidewalk project. So, they're underway. Be patient. Uh they they'll get there.
Uh they're actually working on the weekends as well. I received a uh actually a phone call Sunday. There was a crew out in front of a resident resident's home replacing the sidewalk uh Sunday morning. So, they're out there. uh they're getting it done. We've already put the RFPs out, so we have
more crews coming on board uh in the coming months. So, uh we take this very seriously. The sidewalk projects are very, very serious. We allocate extra money for this project. So, uh that just goes to show how serious we take that and um just be patient. Uh we will get to your neighborhood, your
neighborhoods, uh as soon as uh we can. Um also, um I've had some dialogue with uh Mr. Warren regarding the uh um uh uh um the code enforcement board and um uh we
sent some texts back and forth and I did uh explain to him uh one of the things that that I was interested in but I don't I think we're kind of beyond that point. I was looking for more of a hybrid uh type of system where you would have citizens that make recommendations to a magistrate and the magistrate has the ability to either take those
recommendations and apply them or apply uh you know other other methods such as whatever the statutes stay. But at at at this point I don't know if we can even look at that or we can talk about that because we're we're facing a second reading right now. But the the goal is is to actually add more bite to uh the
bark with our code enforcement. Um, and I see it all the time on north side where there's violations after violations after violations and nothing happens. So, um, again, that's where we are with that. And I'm sure you can have some dialogue with the city staff uh
before we get to the second reading. Um, I don't know if it'll change anything or not, but that you do definitely have that uh ability to do that. Uh, other than that, I don't have anything else, but I will leave you with this. Health is not about what you're eating. It's also about what you're thinking and
saying. Be positive. That's all I got. >> Thank you, Commissioner. I also contacted Mr. Lewis, but he never called me back. I left a message for him to to talk to him. He never called me back. So, I'll try again.
uh the um at at the police thing uh Saturday night. I've been going to those ever since I don't know how many times, but it is a heartbreaking thing to listen to some of the u survivors and the
parents and husbands, wives, children of the u officers that have got um killed or in in the line of duty. It's a um I will say that our police department chief was
the honor guard at this and there must have been a thousand people there, maybe more than that. I I it was packed in this place. But our honor guard did a great job. They were super and we're proud of them. Let them know that we thank them and they did an excellent job
represent the city of Ocoy and our other police officer. I think we had a lot of Oakcoy police officers there. And this is for police officers, sheriff departments, any kind of officer that was all included at that function. It was a um it was a heartbreaking thing to
see some of these people and listen to the talk. So just want to let them know then and it goes to a good cause donating money to the program and stuff. So want to let them know that my I know she's one of the board members and stuff. So yeah, let them know we
appreciate it. And uh back to the stuff on the city main street speed bumps. We been months now we fixed Lewis. We never went back and put the other speed bump in. Uh other one is Orange Avenue which is a
main entrance off Silver Star up the road by those houses and that neighbors have asked for a speed bump on it. Uh Craig. So and that's a major place for people to come down. They get to speeding up and down that hill. So, it'd be kind of nice to get a couple speed
bumps put in there and, you know, fix them. So, also the the roundabout up on Lakewood keeps breaking away. It's either on the circle on one side or circle the other side. There's a big drop off all the time. And we have got
to figure out a way. Maybe put concrete underneath it then asphalt on top of it or something because somebody's going to break the tire or something. Then we're going to be paying for it. So, I uh I'm pretty sure that's it. I think the um uh
I was talking to a lady, Commissioner Wilson, you'll like this. I was at Jenna's place in Claremont yesterday and the lady was talking and she said something about Okcoy and I said, "You from Ocoy?" And she said, "Yeah, she lives in Rose Hill." But they were talking about we I said something to her
about She said, "Well, Orlando." I said, "Well, you live in Okoy." She says, "Well, yeah, the zip code says Orlando." I said, "I know. That's why we're trying to straighten it out. I said that's the problem. It does say Orlando. So it other people are aware of it. So we're working to try to change that and get
that changed. All right. Once again, appreciate everybody for being here tonight. We'll see you April the 7th.