All right, we're going to start the October 21st, 2025 meeting. We'll have call to order, invocation by Mi Mr. Hart, pledge of allegiance by myself, and then roll call. Please stand. >> Eternal precious father, we thank you for allowing us to come together and we
pray you help us to come together in the spirit of unity. And even though we may disagree, let us not disrespect or disengage from one another to continue to uh treat each other as brothers and sisters. We pray for your divine wisdom to guide this meeting and help us not lead not only with with wisdom but with compassion as well. And we pray a
special prayer of our first responders. Keep them safe on every call. Watch over them as we watch over us. We so carefully give you the praise, honor, and glory you do. In your son Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. >> Amen. I pledge algiance 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.
>> And Commissioner Oliver is absent. Uh hold on just a second here. I got a couple proclamations. We have one here for the uh week of the families. Miss Laney, you going to be the one getting this when I get through reading it? >> Yes. >> All righty. Let's read this here. Whereas the city of Okcoy is blessed
with a multitude of families and a central part of the culture, social, and spiritual fabric of our community. And whereas the city of Oakcoy commission recognizes that strong families are at the center of communities, that children live better lives when their families
are strong, and that families are strong when they live in communities that connect them to economic opportunities, social networks, and services. And whereas the theme for this year's week of the family is families support each other. And whereas we hope you will
consider every day how you can be present with your family, your parents, siblings, and children if you have them. And whereas during the week of November the 1st through November the 8th, 2025, any Vocory residents should take the time to honor the importance of families
and recommmit to enhancing and extending the special connections that support and strengthen them. Now therefore, the city commission of the city of Ocoy does hereby declare the week of November the 1st through the 8th, 2025 as week of the family in Ocoy and urge all citizens to
share in the many festivities prepared for this occasion. In witness whereof I have here to set my hand and cause the seal of the city of Oco, Florida to be fixed this 21st day October 2021. >> So get anybody to come take a picture?
Is where's the where's the gentleman at for picture taken? >> I see him. >> He's coming. >> All right, we'll stand up. We'll stand up back here. >> All right. And I want to thank for being a wonderful families every year and we've
got 100 years celebration. We're looking forward to 100 more years of wonderful family opportunity. We've all slimmed down. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> You always give the most beautiful proclamation. >> Oh yeah. >> We're having our words this evening.
We'll be displaying this. Thank you, ma'am. >> Thank you. >> All right. I think I will read this other one, too. It's the um Florida League of Cities. Whereas, city government is the
government closest to most citizens and one of the most direct daily impact upon its residents. And whereas municipal government provides services and programs that enhance the quality of life for residents making their city their home. And whereas city government
is administered for and by citizens is dependent upon public commitment to and understanding of its many responsibilities. And whereas city government officials and employees share the responsibility to pass along the understanding of public service and
their benefits. And whereas Florida City Week offers are an important opportunity for elected officials and the city staff to spread the word to all citizens of Florida that they can shape and influence this branch of government. And whereas the Florida League of Cities and
its member cities have joined together to teach citizens about municipal government through a variety of activities. there. Now, therefore, be it resolved, the city Okcoy commission does hereby proclaim October the 20th through
October the 26, 2025 as Florida League of Cities Florida City Week. I'm going to let this pass this down to our city manager. >> All right. >> No picture. >> No picture
>> staff. And I'll also >> Oh. Huh. >> Okay. >> All right. Let's stand back up. >> Bring it back down here along. You >> want to stand there and hold it?
>> Okay, we'll do it. >> Okay. >> My good side. All righty. >> Now we pass it back to Craig. >> Okay. >> All right. I feel that pins, too. >> Before I call on Craig, I want to do a
special shout out to our long lost What is the What do you handle? I about forgot your name. It's been so long since we've seen you. I was surprised. >> Good to see you there, brother. >> Thank you.
>> All right, Craig. Um, just a couple quick items. Um, one is more of an announcement. Um, as you all are aware from the the groundbreaking of the law enforcement training facility, um, we have a lot of work going on, including the
installation of water and force mains on Fuller's Cross Road. Our our contractor, Cathkart, is in the midst of of installation. Now, it will require a road crossing west of Lakewood within the county's rightway jurisdiction, and the county permitted a daily road
closure on Fuller's Cross for this week, which must be opened at the end of each day. So, the narrow road and the rideway do not allow for a single lane work zone option. So, there there has been a a uh detour drafted that will be posted on
the city's web page, and we will circulate it to um everyone for that. Um, the second thing I had was the the Ruis Street water line and sidewalk replacement is complete and the paving uh looks well and I know not sure we've
signed off on it yet, but that's that's a a project that's done well and that's all I have to say. >> All right. Thank you, sir. >> Thank you. >> Is Steve here? Is Ru finished? Ru street finished.
>> Could you please put speed bumps back on there? They asked what was like you did on Montgomery. >> I also would ask you you gonna have to put more than one. That's a longer street than Montgomery. >> Steve can speak to this um speed calming. Um several of you have mentioned specific projects. We are
working on those right now including putting those back. >> Two activities up there with the pop water football and the little league and everything else and the speeders don't seem to know where that stop sign is anyway. So we need you to put speed bumps back and you only had one. So we
need to spread it out at least for two or three. >> We've got the one planned to go back in on Ruis. We can look at adding some on Fleelli. >> The same way you put them on McGomery. >> Okay. They are. And those will be painted to that's the last of the contract. >> Okay.
>> Thank you. >> All right. Thanks, sir. All right. Now we have uh public comments, Dr. Moyer. And in this comment section is three minutes per per person.
Good evening. My name is Dr. Jim Moyer. I'm the elected orange soil and water conservation district supervisor serving here in Northwest Orange and I live here in the co. I spent some time today at
the Orange County legislative delegation. Sorry about that. Can y'all hear me now? I spent some time today at the Orange County legislative delegation uh meeting and I presented three things,
but I'm going to elaborate just on one which I've spoken to here before, but I've done a lot of research on what I call the center of the center of good living right here, which includes Stark
Lake and Lake Prima Vista. I've also done a lot of research on what I'm calling extreme weather conditions that are going to come in the next 25 to 100 years. I believe the state has to take the lead
on a long-term holistic approach to cleaning up and a long-term plan for Stark Lake and uh Lake Prima Vista. They have a vested interest. They're one of the 550
property owners, TITF, the trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund, which includes the governor, the attorney general, and uh Department of Agriculture, and I may have missed
one. Uh they also, as you probably know, Stark Lake is a uh fish and wildlife um wildlife commission location where they stock fish in there because of algae
bloom. Uh the department of health is involved. uh FD dot they're have a plan to work on the road uh Silverstar Road which is one of the pollutants that's coming into
Stark Lake at the what I call the south end Lake Prima Vista where the blueberry farm is and where the elementary school and the middle school are. I gotta watch the time here and middle
school are are the blueberry farm and the city of Akoi are doing everything they can in my view uh to remedy this situation. The blueberry farm's working with uh department of agriculture and
the city of Akoi has been taking a lot of initiatives in including uh the park over here uni park. So, I'm encouraging them to adopt several initiatives, including Commissioner Scott Kenny's
initiative for a retention pond. Thank you very much, and God bless you all. >> Can I ask you a question, Mr. Mor? >> Under your district, does it cover Winter Garden? >> No, sir. >> It doesn't. >> No, sir. >> That's under a different person. >> Yes, sir.
>> Okay. my district if I may. A Pakka, Akoi, uh, Rosemont, uh, Lockheart, Tangerine, Zelwood, and Eatenville. >> Okie do. Thank you, sir.
>> Kelly Brock, Brock, Beck, Kelly Beck. >> Good evening. Uh, my name is Kelly Beck. I'm chair of the human relations diversity board. I am here tonight to prompt or to sorry to bring the city commission um an initiative from the
HRDB that we'd like your approval on. So throughout 2025 we focused on educating the community um primarily through guest speakers with our partnership with UCF. So focusing on veterans in the community as well as facilitating disability
access. We had pretty great turnout from small business owners for that event. So, as we wrap up the year, one of the things that we wanted to do was highlight the amazing diversity of countries and people that have chosen to make Okcoy their home. And so, we are
proposing a video asset that the HRDB would organize getting created called Discover Okoey. uh where we ask people that have chosen to move to Okoi and make it their home from all around the world to record a video in their first
language, five, 10 seconds just saying hello and welcome to Okoi. And then we string it together into a series. Maybe we have a bunch of different languages of hello. We have the full clip, you know, it's very dynamic and create a digital asset that can be used on
websites, social media, anything that the city wants really. The nice thing is is it's an asset that persists. It has almost no cost. It's completely voluntary. Um, and to help illustrate this, since somebody people may not be as um chronically online as I am, I
created a brief pre uh proof of concept to show the idea of what the HRDB is proposing. on behalf of the human relations diversity board. Hello and welcome to OKOE. I don't know where the volume went on
that but it was just everyone saying hello and welcome to OKOE in different languages. So it would be completely voluntary. We'd be able to collect the videos digitally with a simple Google form. the city has. That's really the only resource we would need from the city is the form and then putting it out
on websites, social media, etc. inviting everyone to submit it and then we would string it together creating this digital asset reflecting the amazing diversity of cultures that we have that have chosen this city as their home from all around the world.
>> An attorney is that an attorney question. >> Any questions? >> Is that an attorney question regarding form? It shouldn't be because this city has the Google form stuff. So, it would all be Florida Sunshine Law compatible. It would be stored on city servers. Um, I would just need the video clip after the
fact so that we could string them together. >> Drew, I'm not sure what the what the question to me is. >> The question was the form >> she mentioned a form. >> Okay. So I wonder if there was a special form that they have to use in order to
make in order to make this video from the individuals that will be sub submitting >> sign forms from the >> from the because you're >> forms from the folks, right? >> No, no, sorry. When I say form, I mean like a a >> digital fields,
>> not >> no like a like a digital worksheet where there's this form fields for them to put in their name and what country they're originally from and what language they recorded it in. So we have all the data we need and then they upload their video to that spot. >> Okay. I'm sorry. I thought you were also asking for a form.
>> No, no, no, no, no. I since it's completely my understanding is since they are submitting and they are aware of what they're submitting to, we wouldn't need a photo release because we're not taking the photos or videos. We're just asking them to upload it to us of their own valition. So my understanding from social media work in
the past is that we would be good. I mean, we could always put a language that says, "I understand I'm submitting this to the city of Okcoay for purposes of a video." If that would help, >> we could come up with language that >> Yeah. throw a sentence on the bottom. >> Yeah. I'm just again
>> relinquishing all rights to whatever. Whatever. >> Okay. Come up with something. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. All right. >> Any concerns? Are HDR HRDB is good to move forward? >> Nope. >> Fantastic. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. >> Thank you. Great idea. >> Yeah, it is cute.
All right, that's all the public comments. So, we'll go into the uh consent agenda. >> Oh, I got one more. >> I got one more. >> I'm looking at her thinking. >> I'm looking at it. Yep. >> Andrea Jones, >> you had that face that
>> about forgot you. >> All right. So, I can say Smi Croissaw e ai, which is Welsh for hello. Welcome to Akoi. I figured I'd throw that in there, but she left. So, that's okay. I'll submit the form. >> Um, I would I was here last time and I
appreciate your discussion about Tiger Minor Courts and I've been told I don't give up easily. So, I was just hoping that we could uh reconsider perhaps a compromise just for the mornings to
continue to open the parks at 7. That would be in keeping with the typical noise ordinance that generally happens at seven for yard work, etc. The current plan of closing and only opening at 8 disproportionately affects people who
work and can only play from 7 and pretty much the courts empty at 8:30 because that's when people have to leave and go to work and they get pretty quiet after that generally. The current plan also involves city staff now having to come to the park twice in the morning to open court separately and then twice in the
evening. This would eliminate 50% of those visits. Um, and then also prior to spending city funds on the plans that were presented last time, which seemed like they still would include limiting the time frames of the park, before spending money,
could you please consider running a cost comparison of the permanent switch of switching the tennis courts with the pickle ball courts? because that would be an absolute permanent fix that would have lights and then hopefully we'd be able to have the time frames back and
potentially a couple more pickle ball courts too because as the mission statement for Akoi says the city of Akoi parks and leisure service department strives to provide the citizens of Akoi safe and enjoyable programs, parks and facilities that will enhance the quality
of life for city residents and promote an overall sense of community. And the pickle ball courts, they were excelling at that. I mean, probably too well, frankly, but they really were excelling. And balancing the needs of many over the
wishes of a few. And to be honest, a really good sound machine would probably help between 7 and 8 m. I don't know. I'd be willing to buy a really good sound machine because so many people value their ability to play for so many different reasons to do with health,
mental health, a sense of community, and we just really love those courts. So, I was just hoping that you could uh reconsider just the morning. I understand the evenings get probably loud. I get that. Morning people are quiet. They don't play music. They just come, they play, they leave. Um I have
26 seconds left. Thank you so much for thinking that. >> Anybody have any comments on it? >> I can I can make many comments. Um when you talk about balancing the health and welfare I guess of the health of the individuals, my residents who live in
the back of that park are so thankful that it's not starting until 8:00 in the morning because they have got the noise in their backyard. And this is something that pickle ball court um they never had that there but then their life has been disrupted in the morning and you're
saying it stops at 8:30. Their life starts earlier and they're having problems with the noise that is coming from the pickle ball court. So I of course am not in favor of of right now. I'd like to go ahead and look and see how it runs. We've made a change. I I think that um it's too early in the
game, for the lack of a better word, to make a change at this point. And I'd like to talk to my residents who live there who back up to it and back up to the noise and their life has been disrupted basically to through to the noise. So, um I think we have to take all that into consideration. You're
saying the pickle ball folks want to come, but I also have to look at the the should I say the health and of the folks who wake up at 8 o'clock at 7 o'clock in the morning and have someone banging balls in the backyard. So, I' I'd like to give it some time. I'm not I'll talk to them after a few
months of seeing how it goes. Um, right now, they're so pleased. The ones that are there are so pleased that this is what's going to happen. So, um, I think it's time we balance their welfare also with folks who use the park.
I would not want that in my backyard at 7 o'clock in the morning. >> I want to make a comment. Um I just want to reiterate my comment from the last meeting. There are competing desires here.
Um, I think the first thing you have to recognize is somebody put a pickle ball court in there. And, um, as I said at the last meeting, we
blocked a gentleman from putting in pickle ball courts that were 10 times further away from the nearest home. Um, the best way to find a balance and to find a compromise is to put this on an
agenda and let a wider portion of the population of our city speak. I've heard many good suggestions and what I've heard is the people who use the pickle ball early now would uh consider it
successful if we did something temporary to allow them to continue to play until the new indoor pickle ball facility is built. And I think that's I think there's some reasonable compromises. I agree, Rosemary. I would like to do
something to mitigate it and see if it works. So, I think if we'd had a full discussion of this based on the emails and comments I've heard, we could have put up maybe the noise stuff and see if it got better, see how that and then decide to close the hours or do
whatever. Um, but there's there's comp shutting it down till 8:30 isn't a compromise. And that's what's happening is it's just a decision on one side of the coin and now the people who are affected or complaining. No matter what we do to some degree, somebody's going
to be unhappy. >> We start at 8:00. >> 8:00. >> Well, pardon me. >> I'm I'm >> I think when we did it a month ago, we we put it out and publicized it and we had people here. I don't think it's going to change. You're still going to have somebody complaining that lives
there. Same people that live there is going to be the ones complaining. They That's how it works. I think I'm not for changing it for another anyway. So, you okay with a commissioner? >> Yeah. The way I look at it is it's in a
public park. It's an amenity to the the public to the people of Okoey. Uh yes, it does create a lot of noise. I think we ought to look into uh noise mitigation efforts for it. But, uh it's a public park. I think uh it should have
the same hours as all the other public parks in the city. And it's an amenity for the people to use if they want to. If they don't, that's fine, too. They're building a new pickle ball court with teen courts inside and everything, and
that should be coming online within the next year, I would imagine. So, uh I just think it's fine now. We ought to look into mitigating some of the noise for the residents that live right around that park there because I'm sure they
don't mind the park and the normal activities that take place in there, but this pickle ball thing is added a new dimension to it and I think we we should do our best to uh minimize the problems that it's causing to the local
residents. I think we made some u different comments about some of the things that need to be done there. Craig, is that right? >> Um the presentation um that was made
identified some mitigation measures um that we can look into doing um you know in the in the short term. And you know, we we've, as I stated um several times, we're anticipating, you know, with the
the new era of tax reform, having a a more streamlined budget with more amendments as we need things. So, we can actually um I've already given staff direction in general to be looking for grants. That's that's one of one of my
core directives. if we could get some grant money, we could even look at um maybe moving them or or something like that. That's subject to the commission's direction. But in the meantime, we can actually look at um the the the
mitigation barrier like uh we talked about and you know, I think there was kind of a mixed review about the landscape um aspect of it, but um sound mitigation barriers, that's something that um Mr. uh Johnson, our parks and leisure
director, talked about um several times already and and we can be prepared to to bring something back uh for approval on on something like that at a subsequent city commission meeting. >> I have a question.
>> Um Commissioner Fner said all the parks should have the same hours. I agree with that. But my understanding what we did was we made the hours of this park start later than the other parks.
>> Some of parks are dust dawn. >> I'm totally for dust dawn. Not dust dawn >> don. I'm totally for that. That's what I >> That's what most of our parks were, which would stop. >> Yeah. So now what we did at the last meeting was we made this one park open
at a much later time than the rest of the parks. Just to clarify, >> all the parks where's all come up. Mark, >> well, if you had if you had Dustin, you probably wouldn't start till 8:00 pretty soon after November 2nd.
>> That's true. >> When November 2nd comes, you'll be doing uh daylight savings and that will change the time. >> Any other any other parks have any other time openings? >> This park opens up at the same time as other parks. 7:00 a.m. It's the pickle
ball court only that opens up at 8:00. >> The whole park itself, >> that's different. >> No, it's it's what we presented last week. >> Yes, but it's different. It's not uniform throughout the city. >> We don't Well, we don't have pickle ball
courts near the park. >> We're not life is not uniform. >> Yeah. >> I I'm just responding to Commissioner Fner's comment, trying to get it clear in my mind. I guess >> sounds like they have different hours. >> We >> So we going to leave it like it is or
Okay. >> I don't I don't intend to make a motion. >> All right. All right. >> It's not the agenda either. >> All right. Let's go. >> Um consent agenda. >> Goes one through, if I'm not mistaken, through 18.
>> Yep. >> I hear any hear comments or com a motion? >> I'll make the motion to approve. >> Motion made by Commissioner Wilson. So here's a second. >> I'll second that. >> Seconded by Commissioner Fner. No more comments. Let's vote.
>> All right. First reading. First reading of ordinance for fiscal year 2025 year end budget amendment. Assistant Finance Director Lewiski. Is that it? >> So we You're right.
>> Just read the title. Read it. >> Yes, sir. An ordinance of the city of Akoi, Orange County, Florida, relating to the city budget, amending the city budget adopted by ordinance 2024-28 for the fiscal year beginning October 1st, 2024 and ending September 30th,
2025 by providing for increase of appropriations, providing for severability, providing an effective date. >> I think this would come back. We don't have a meeting in the 4th. It' be the 18th of November, right? That's when this will be the second reading and then it'll be open to the public. All right,
we go to number 20. First reading of ordinance amending section 124-8 through section 124-11 of the code of ordinances for smoking prohibited and portions of recreational property parks and leisure
services deputy director gains. >> Read the title. Would >> you like me to read it? >> Yep. An ordinance of the city of Akoi, Florida, amending article 2 of chapter 124 of the Akoi code of ordinances section 124-8 through section 124-11
smoking and vaping prohibited in portions of recreational property providing for exceptions and enforcement and providing for definitions codification inconsistency severability and an effective date. >> All right, we have we have that same thing. It'll be back on November the
18th for the second reading. Then you have open for public hearing. All right. We have second reading of orders. None. Public hearing? None. Regular agenda? None. All right. Comments from commissioner. Y'all want to put that off till we finish later or >> I just wanted to say one thing. I would
I'd appreciate a few a moment. >> Okay. Well, >> I don't know if >> you want to take your five minutes now then. Huh? >> I'd like to take my five minutes just quickly. Now, um, and the reason I asked that is last meeting, should I say, um, hindsight, it's 2020, we talked about an angel tree. It was brought before us.
Does someone want to do an angel tree here at the city hall? I think we need to look think about this because we already have our own program. We have Operation Santa which is run by the police department and the fire department. And so us putting a tree in here to me just competes with what the
city's already doing for the >> call back. I really wouldn't want to see I just personally wouldn't want to see that if a if an local business wants to do that. But um I think we as a city should be supporting the programs that we have in place which is operation >> Santa give things on the trees.
>> No we don't. But the thing is that they go around collecting toys and I think by having something here >> he's never called me back. >> But there's also a box that's put in the city hall for folks to leave things. So I think it would be a conflicting issue if we went with Angel. >> That's just my opinion. >> I agree and what I want to say is I
asked that and was told it wouldn't be put inside city hall at the last meeting. But I agree with you completely. We shouldn't have anything to do. >> I I think it's we should support our own programs. >> Absolutely. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. >> Okay. All right. >> That's all. >> That's all I wanted to say. Thank you.
>> Anybody else want to do their time now? Anybody? >> Yes, sir. >> Do you have announcements? >> I do. I do. >> He's afraid I'm going to sit. October events Halloween how how night Friday October 24th from 6:00 p p.m. to 900 p p.m. at Bill Breeze Park featuring trunk
or treat spooky maze costume parade food trucks games and rides November events memorial wall remembrance ceremony Saturday November the 2nd from 4:30 p.m. through 5:30 p.m. at Unity Park, 1:30 North Cland Avenue. Oakway Fire
Department Centennial Open House Saturday, November the 8th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at Fire Station 25563 Southward Avenue featuring an antique fire truck display station tours, spray from a water hose, free food,
entertainment, and more. Veterans Day ceremony. Tuesday, November the 11th from 6:00 p. p.m. through 8:00 p.m. at Bill Breeze Park. The event will feature a ceremony, military vehicle displays, and weather permit, and there will be fireworks.
Please bring your own chairs. Okcoy Musical Festival, Friday, November the 14th, and Saturday, November the 15th. There will be live music, vendors, rides, games, and more with fun activities all weekend, including a garden market, car show, fishing
tournament, and dash of the century 5K race. All righty. So, we're going to this will be the end of our