Father, we thank you for the abundant grace adversity you've shown towards us by blessing us live this beautiful piece of your creation that we call McCoy Lord, as we come together to conduct the city's business, let us come together in the spirit of unity. Let us not disagree or be disagreeable. Let's continue to work, work together and not disengage from one another, but to love and respect each other. We say a special prayer that are our first responders, are our police and our firemen will putting their lives on the line every day to protect us. Watch over them and say, watch over you. I watch over us. We're so careful to give you the praise, the honor and the glory to do. And your son's name we pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Flag, flag. The United States of America and to the republic stands, one nation under God, invisible with liberty and justice for all I I. Who jumped in? Commissioner Kennedy Boo. Here We Commissioner Wilson. Hey, to call you. I'm here. Yes. Thank you. Mayor Johnson. Here. Commissioner Furner is absent. Commissioner Oliver Here. All right. Presentations and proclamations. Uh, recognition of GGS Boys. 2000 Gold Team Steak cup winners. What? Uh, they here? Are they here? Yes. At, come on up here about a podium. All of you. Where's Jane? Right? How about everybody coming up and you want talk a little bit in the mic before they come up? We'll get your picture. Also, come up here and just stand in front. We'll get, you can Introduce them. Just introduce them. Just say who they are, what they are, what You did. Just say group what they, what they did, huh? Oh, yeah, man. I think you can do better than I did last week, Jane. I don't have my notes. We, we'll stand up. Good evening. My name's Jane Rainer. I'm, um, affiliated with GGS and OSL and, um, the boys here, the young men, uh, are 2008, which is U 16. Won the state cup in, um, central Florida. About two weeks ago, we were the only boys team in central Florida to, um, win a title. They now go on to regionals, which will be held in Tampa in, um, June, later on in June. And then from there they'll go to nationals, which will be outta state. So it was a hard won, um, tournament, but it was a shutout in the semi, semi-finals and in the finals. So they did really well. Coach Carlos is their coach. He was a professional player in, um, Brazil in his younger days, but they've done really well. Good job guys. Rusty, I just wanna make a couple quick comments. Awesome. They started about six or seven years ago, and you can see what's happened with that. They have about 600, 600 something kids up at the soccer facility. So that's an amazing thing. And there's, these young men have done a great job. So I wanted to give 'em outta my discretionary fund, a $500 check from, uh, the city outta my fund for them to have towards your next, they going to Where now? Did you tell 'em? Tampa. Tampa to play in the playoffs. So, alright. You guys just switch. I can get you, you want me over here? Okay. What? I'm shorter than yours. Okay. To, to, I'll say it. I'm shorter. I'll to say it. So now I'm in the middle. You're in the middle. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. Tim, Tim, another picture. Sorry. Read coming outta your discretion. Thank you. I, I got Alright, here we go. Stand call. If it's coming outta my discretionary. I'm glad we don't use film. Yeah. Standby. Okay. Okay. Where are we? Get along. Where's It's like, where are we? I brought a this time. Yeah, it's been so, it has been cold. It look good to me. It feels nice right now, but Yes sir. I appreciate it. Good. Good luck. Good luck. Take care. Congratulations. Thank you. Awesome. Congratulations. Good. Alright, next. Commissioner Oliver, you have a check You're supposed to Do? Yes, sir. Alright. Uh, I had the opportunity, uh, actually, uh, um, when I come to City Hall to gather my mail, um, I noticed there was a letter on my desk a few weeks back, uh, maybe a month or so. And I, I read the letter. Uh, it was actually from a young man who was talking about college and how he wanted to go to college and, uh, what he wanted to do when he get to college and, and actually what he wanted to do after college. And, uh, I read the letter, uh, once, sitting at my desk and I read it twice. And after I read it the second time, I, I had to meet this young man. So I actually looked at the dress and, and went and knocked on his door and met with his parents and himself. And, uh, he turned to be an amazing young man. Um, and I, and I got a chance to welcome into a home. And, um, it was just wonderful. And beyond that, I had the opportunity to, uh, uh, to worship with them at their church services on Sunday as well. And, uh, this young man is very well regarded, not only in the community, but also at his school and his also his church community. And I was just so impressed with, with the young man. I, I thought that he deserved to have something to help him off as he goes off to college. He's actually going off to, uh, university of South Florida to study dermatology. And, uh, I wanna bring him and his parents up and I'll do a presentation, uh, uh, for him. And, um, but before I do the presentation, it's something I wanna read, not only for him, but or for anybody, anybody that, uh, um, any, any high school students out here that, that you may be getting ready to either matriculate into the next grade or you're getting ready to go to college. But it's just something I definitely want to, to instill in you. And, and actually, uh, just kinda read for you real quickly. Um, whenever you, you're going through anything and you feel that, uh, you need some encouragement, I just want you to remember who you are. Remember what you are and how, what brought you to where you are. Remember, you are a mountain, you are a tree. You are a swift wind sweeping this country. You are a river, uh, down in a valley. You are a vision. And you can see clearly. You can see clearly. And if anybody ever asks you who you are, stand up tall, look 'em in the face. And I want you to say this, that you are a star in the sky. You are a mountain up high and you made it. And you are the world's greatest. You are the world's greatest dermatologist. You are the world's greatest plumber. You are the world's greatest astronaut. You are the world's greatest, uh, mayor. You're the world's greatest governor. You're the world's greatest, whatever you want it to be. So just remember those words that you are the greatest whatever you want to be. And never let anybody tell you different. Let's come about. I want to ask you, uh, do a presentation for you. He did it. There you go. Should we move to the site? A print for $500? We're also, well, many different things. Excuse scoot more so I get, there you go. One more. This is your, just Go ahead All, don't try to cast different. And thank you so much for inviting me in and, um, luck to me. Awesome. I'll thank you so much. Congratulations. Thank you. Well, I have one more here. Lucas re come on up here. Come up here first, right here. And I won't embarrass you. You might not be on way. It seems to be over the years. We, we, we do the different things for all the schools. Congratulations. Thank you. We, uh, seem to forget that this city has participation in West Orange High School, OCO High School and WBA High School. But some of us don't seem to know that, but I do, and I won't. I give different things to different schools, but this today is through West Orange High School. There is this young man Lucas, who's going to college up in Thomasville, Thomasville University University, and he's gonna also play baseball. So I wanna always make sure that people remember that south of our town is a West Orange High School in different places. And we got some of 'em, I think even go to Olympic somehow. I don't know how that worked out, but I do know some of 'em on the other side. Go to week Haba. So once again, I want to give you this $500 check. Thank you. And wishing well in college young man. Thank you. Thank you. Thank Come on up, parents. It's really unique. I was just talking to his mother and, uh, my son graduated West Orange High School in 1993 on a baseball scholarship. Also went to the same time at the same school she went to. I didn't know that till the day. So she was at the same college. You hear that first home run, let us know. I have one other, one other thing here that I was told it was gonna happen tonight, but I don't, I don't know if Senator Geraldine Thompson, is she here or anybody for her? Okay. She was supposed to come give a report tonight, so we'll have to check on that. Alright. The small city's, uh, proclamation is on our tv and the, the proclamation is out in the lobby. So we'll move along the Stafford Reports. Um, I do have one item, mayor and members of the commission. Uh, if you recall the last meeting, uh, along with, um, city Attorney Artman actually briefed the commission on some actions that were being considered by the County Commission that could potentially affect our ability to annex properties. And they had a discussion at the city comm, the County Commission meeting today. And Fishback Dominic, our, our law firm had a representative there. And I'd like to ask a city attorney Geller, to provide a very brief overview of what happened today at the County Commission meeting. There were about 60 members of the public who spoke, um, for or against the proposed charter amendment that would restrict the ability of cities of municipalities like a co e to annex land, uh, which is of concern to us. And, um, we sent, uh, my associate Brandon Ow there. And, um, each speaker was allowed one minute. And so he, he did not have, um, a lot of time, but the arguments that he gave them were the same arguments that the county attorney himself made. And so, uh, the, uh, Mr. Newton, the county attorney mentioned this is in public, his private concerns about the amendment's legality. He expressed uncertainty about whether the comprehensive plan or land development regulations of the county would be amended by the ballot item and which could violate certain section of the Florida statutes. He estimated a 50 50 chance of the amendment being legal and suggested the legislature might step in to preempt the actions of both the board and the charter. The County Charter Review committee, uh, mayor Demings asked, uh, Mr. Newton to elaborate on the legal concerns to which Mr. Denton responded that applying county regulations to annex land might be illegal. He raised the issue that the rural boundary could constitute a land development regulation, which would violate, uh, the statute, which is, uh, section 1 63 0.31678. He needed more time for analysis, uh, but be that as it made, there was a unanimous, um, support for a motion by, uh, one of the county commissioners, uh, Bonilla. And, uh, the direction is to the, uh, county attorneys, uh, to, uh, analyze, uh, the code and to prepare some type of rural boundary amendment for further consideration by the County Commission. That's my update. So our intent is to continue to monitor the, monitor this and per your direction, to step in where needed to defend the city's interest. So we will have further updates depending on what happens, but as you heard, the, the county attorney himself express grave concerns over the legalities of what the County Commission was doing. That's all I have lawsuit. Do you have con do you need consensus that we want that to happen? Or has that already been? Well, you've already given us that. You've Already gave that. Okay. Yep. Well, it won't help to have the, uh, that notes today from the comments that county attorney made too. So when we go to fight that, Oh yeah. Okay. We'll get back. Thank you. All right. We down to public comments. Nobody's filled out any forms for the public comments section. So, uh, I I wanna make one public comment, uh, pertaining to one of our citizens, Mr. Hart, who served up here well, uh, for the, for a year and filling in a slot. His wife has been on our diversity board. She's been out and she's a hardworking school teacher who also has three daughters in college, I think one of 'em in medical school, three daughters in college, and now she has just finished her doctorate, got her doctorate degree. So I want you to let her know it as she's watching, I know she's busy. Let's all give her a big hand. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. And you tell 'em what you told me, you calling her. Okay. Well, once again, thanks, mayor. And, um, it's, it's a privilege. And I just speak as one of the 48,000 people that call Lacoy home. And as being, as the mayor said, I've had my wife in college and my daughter's in college. I've had four people in college at the same time. So, you know, that makes me broke. That's right. I've been working, working a lot, trying to take care of em. But, um, it's great that you young people had an opportunity to experience, uh, the things you've experienced. One thing I didn't have growing up was the experiences that you have. And whether I look at our soccer team, I look at the exodus and education that's found in Akoi. I want people to know this is what Akoi is. I've heard a lot of ghost stories and rumors about what a COI was, but I'm telling you what a COI is. A COI is a center of good living. And if we keep going on the path that we're on, we're gonna do great. When you go to college, remember one thing, you are not alone. You have a family that loves you. You have a city that's behind you, and you are not alone. The hardest thing in college, it's loneliness. That's the hardest thing. And sometimes you feel like nobody cares. Nobody's there with you. Stay connected with your family. Guys, it's okay to call mom. It's okay to check on dad, but the experiences you've had, they will make you a great person. I encourage you to dream the biggest dream you can do. Once you achieve that dream, go help somebody else achieve their dream. But remember one thing, you don't need a reason to come back home. My wife struggled in math as a student growing up. She went into nursing. She had our kids that she went into, um, to, uh, being a teacher. She saw how many kids were struggling in math from the primary education. So she went and got her master's. Then the door opened up for her to get her doctor's. So now she's a doctor. I have to call her doctor Boss. So I used to call her boss, but now I just call her doctor boss. And she's trying to work to help primary ed kids in, uh, achieve, uh, higher scores in math. I found out watching on television this week, 85% of the people, young people in juvenile, uh, detention are illiterate. Education's the key. Yeah. Education is the key to a part of future education is the we a way to get out of poverty. Growing up, I picked oranges. My dad had a third grade education. My chest is still uneven because I was carrying the sack. It was too heavy for me at eight years old. But he told me he got a third grade education and he convinced me that I could do better. So I got into college, graduated Magda c*m laude. I've been a pharmacist for 35 years. I've had a blessed life because of my education. You can do it too. Go achieve the biggest dream. You can dream once again, come back home and remember, OCO is a great place to live. Thank you for you kind words. Thank you for giving me a place to raise my beautiful children. One of the smartest things I ever did was live in this city. It's not a sunset city. It's a sunrise city, a city full of hopes and dreams. And dreams do come true. God bless y'all. Thank you Mr. Hart. Thank you, sir. All right. No more. I have no slips for public comments. So we're going to go to the consent agenda. I need a motion for the consent agenda. I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda. I'll second a motion, Motion made by Commissioner Scott Kennedy and, uh, seconded by Commissioner Oliver. Alright, any more comments? Anything? Let's, uh, let's vote. Didn't. Firster is out. You turn it on. There you go. All right. Yeah. You better? Motion carries with, uh, I don't get a vote. Commissioner Furner out all we have a new member. All right, let's go to first reading avoidances number 11. First reading of ordinance for 3 38 North Blueford Avenue, Rodriguez Property, small Scale comprehensive plan, future land use map amendment from LDR, low density residential to commercial and correspondent rezoning from R one aa single family dwelling to C two community commercial. Uh, an ordinance of the city of Ocoee Florida amending the City of Koi comprehensive plan is adopted in 1991 as amended amending the future land use map of the Ocoee comprehensive plan to change the future land use MAP designation from low density residential to commercial for certain real property containing approximately 0.44 acres. Located at 3 38 North Bluford Avenue on the west side of North Bluford Avenue, approximately 334 feet north of East Silver Star Road. Providing for and authorizing the revision of the official city future land use map prevailing in the event of any inconsistency providing for severability, providing for an effective date. Should I go ahead with the rezoning? Do What? Also the rezoning? Yes. Yeah, do both. Alright. In ordinance of the city of Ocoee, Florida, changing the zoning classification from R one aa, single family dwelling district to C two community commercial district on certain real property containing approximately 0.44 acres. Located at 3 38 North Bluford Avenue on the west side of North Bluford Avenue. Approximately 3 34 feet north of East Silver Star Road finding said zoning to be consistent with the O Coe comprehensive plan, providing for and authorizing the revision of the official city zoning map prevailing in the event of any inconsistency providing for severability and providing for an effective date. Alright, this was first reading. We have no public hearing on this till the 17th of June. The second it'll be the second reading, then we'll have public comments. Alright, go to number 12. First reading of ordinance for amendment to the Oakway land development code LDC pertaining to part one a Article seven Floodplain Management, An ordinance of the city of Ocoee Florida, amending the city of Ocoee Land Development code. Article seven part one A relating to floodplain management, specifically with regards to elevation of manufactured homes in critical facilities in flood hazard areas. Substantial damage and substantial improvement development activity within flood hazard and special flood hazard areas. Provisions for drainage, providing for applicability conflict and severability and providing for an effective date. Alright, this is the same thing. It'll be back on June the 17th for the public hearing where anybody in the public can have comments. Alright, let's move on to the, uh, second reading of ordinances, public hearings number 13, second reading of ordinance to implement Speed enforcement cameras in school zones. Police Chief Ogburn, I don't know if what, I can't see that 18th. Oh, there he is. Is it the 18th? 18th that's not here. Yeah. Excuse me. Don't come on the 17th. It's the 18th. June might be by yourself. 18th. Yeah, all chief. Good evening, mayor. Commissioners. Uh, the issue tonight is, uh, if the mayor and the commissioners would approve the ordinance, the city of ordinance to implement school, school speed enforcement cameras in the school zones within the city of, uh, coi, uh, the options would be to ratify the ordinance and allow it to remain an option to consider installing 'em in the future or ratify and, uh, move forward with the implementation, implementation of the program for one or more schools. That it? Yes, sir. Alright. And, and, and, and just just for clarification, we're looking to adopt the ordinance on second reading. Yes. To Adopt. Okay. I didn't want to, I I think we're in, speaking of ratification, there is a section in the ordinance about ratifying a contract. I'm just, I'm just parsing some, some legal terminology here, but understood. I think we're all good. I think we understand what we're doing. Okay. Um, an ordinance of the city of Ocoee, Florida, amending chapter 1 68 of the code of ordinances declaring purpose and intent authorizing placement and installation of school zone speed detection systems providing for implementation of general law by the city manager and designation of local hearing officer providing for severability of the newly created section, making findings regarding relevant traffic, data and evidence warranting additional enforcement procedures and designating school zone speed detection system locations, which constitute a heightened safety risk providing for severability ratifying approval of contract for implementing school zone speed detection systems, providing for codification and providing for an effective date. Alrighty. I'm open the public hearing. Does anybody in the public have any comments pertaining to the, uh, speed enforcement cameras and school zones? Not, I'll bring it back to the diocese. We need a motion Before we do the motion. I, I wonder if we could just put in the record, since it's in the, in the ordinance, um, if, if, if we could get some record testimony of speeding in the presence of children in the school zones. Is that something that, that's been observed? You mean like a speed test? Speed study? We've done a speed study in the past, not Speed study. We had a few meetings ago we had Statistics. Yeah. Okay. So, so, so we do have this statistics that that's what I wanted to make sure, because we had, we have a finding in the ordinance. Yes. Just wanna make sure that we have record evidence supporting it. So, so it has been presented. Thank you very much. I Do have a question, if I may. There, um, I'm confused. I'm further confused. Um, from the option, so when we previously considered this, we directed staff to prepare an ordinance and this option of whether to go ahead. We told them to go that you have the option to go ahead. I wanna make sure that it's Correct. It's either we, we adopt the ordinance and leave it there and we would say, okay, we, we have the ordinance and we can go forth and implement the school zone, uh, school zone enforcement cameras without having to come back to commissioner. Correct. So, uh, or we can just approve the ordinance and go forth and, uh, install 'em. Yeah. I, as I said, and I thought we determined at that time that we would, uh, have staff bring the ordinance back. We'd pass the ordinance and we would leave it to the, the chief and staff to go ahead. They don't have to come back. They're fully authorized to proceed how they wanna proceed is that, And, and all of the school zones were provided in the ordinance. So we'll not have to come and At 'em later. I remember at that point we discussed, I, I discussed some of the numbers that were higher Yes. Than, um, I think we had a co high school is one of the higher ones, if I'm correct. Uh, Citrus Elementary, I'm sorry, off the top of my head. Citrus Elementary was The Citrus elementary was one of the highest. So we discussed a few of those. Yes. But this allows you To proceed, proceed, proceed, Proceed. Which you think is appropriate. That is correct. Will you be putting signs out, I guess initially, do you have to put signs out to tell folks that this is gonna be monitored? Yes. There is a, a period of opportunity where we warn people, it's a public educational side of it, and then there's, it comes down to the enforcement side of it. So there is a process. It's not like we will implement 'em in two weeks. We enforce off of them. We'll let people know that they're there. Uh, then we will, of course the, there's signs, we warning them that your speed is this, whatever it is. And after that it's enforcement. Well, I'm still confused. Uh, may I City attorney you, it says the, it it's in the staff report. Maybe it's irrelevant. It says, um, I don't think it affects the ordinance. The option to consider are an, uh, to ratify the ordinance and allow it to remain an option to consider installing the system in the future or ratify the ordinance and move forward with the implementation. I want to ratify the ordinance and move forward with the implementation. Is that part of the ordinance? Well get, I, I prefer the word adopt the ordinance or approve of the ordinance. I didn't write, um, I, I, I just so that the record's very clear and certainly, uh, you can make, uh, for if you wanna make a motion, you can specify exactly what you're, uh, what what you're indicating here. Okay. But there aren't two ordinances with optional language. No, no, no. There, there's one ordinance and then the direction of the commission by, you know, as reflected within the motion. Thank you. So we approve it first, and then let's just use Mr. Kennedy as the example. If he wants to make the motion to allow the police department to implement it, that is the next step after this, Correct? Correct. Okay. Okay. So first we're going to approve it, correct? Well, You could be part of the same motion. Oh yeah. Why don't we need two Motions? You do. You'd not need two motions. Just have it all in the same motion. Okay. Just mo motion to approve and to direct the, the, the police department direct, you know, as, as you wish. Okay. Do you have a question for Me? Yeah, yeah. I just have, uh, just a quick question. Uh, there, there's two words. One was ratify, one was adopt. And, and, and what is the, I know you, you're, you're, um, recommending that we use the word adopt as opposed to ratify Either adopt or approve. Adopt or approve. Right. Okay. Is there a difference there? There, there, there, there is. Um, sometimes you need to go back in time and to ratify something is to approve something that was already approved, but may not have adhered to all the requirements. So we, we have, uh, a situation like that in here where there was a contract that was approved on consent agenda back in October or November, I cannot remember which. And the statute says that the contract must be approved at a public hearing where there's an opportunity for the public to give comment. And so when it's part of the ordinance, as we're now ratifying it, now, the public will have had an opportunity to comment on the contract if they wish. So the idea is just that we are, um, ratifying the prior approval just to make sure that we are adhering to the, to the, to the statute, if that makes sense. Okay. So we're ratifying the prior approval, the prior contract. That's, that's correct. And that is, that is in the ordinance in one moment. There. Agenda Ratification. Section three. Section three of the ordinance. Alright. Give me a motion. I'm ready to make a motion. Alright. Um, I will make a motion to ratify the previous action by adopting the ordinance and directing staff to move forward with the implementation of the program with the police Department. Let, let, let me just, I think said, Don't you rat. Can't ratify. We have to Just, just, just if, if you, if, if, if go ahead. You're okay. If you would just make a motion to approve of the ordinance. I will make any within the ordinances is a ratification. I think we got hung up on that word. I will make a motion to approve of the ordinance and direct staff and the police department to move forward with the implementation. Thank you. Do alright. Do it here a second. I'll second. Seconded by Commissioner Wilson discussion real quick. I would assume he would do that anyway without having us to I, when you make It, just wanna make sure you Don't have the roadblocks. Say it's done, why not do it? Okay. That's just a little tidbit of information there. Uh, So the, the ratification was already in the ordinance itself. Right? Okay. Alright, Let's go. Gotcha. Alright, let's vote. Okay. Motion carries with Commissioner Furner out. He's on vacation, by the way. Oh, Ms. Oh, she's late. Okay, I'll go back to it. Alright. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Thank you Chief. Thank you. And slow down. Yes. You late? You started At seven. No, ma'am. We haven't done that in six, seven years. Oh, we're glad you're here. But that's quite all right. 'cause we going to let you come up. Senator Thompson's here to give a, uh, presentation on what's going on. Okay. Come on up to that podium. We'll let you take over. Nothing like being right at thrown. Right put, you're right on the hot seat. You prepared. You ready? Alright. You all have the, the, yeah, she'll take care of it for you. Welcome, welcome. Thank you so much. I'll have to talk with my aide about this being on the calendar at the wrong time. You changed about a year ago or so, Uh, but I appreciate the opportunity to give you an update in terms of some of the things that happened, uh, in Tallahassee. You know, we had three special sessions to deal with property insurance, and I wish I could report that your premiums are going to go down, but unfortunately I won't be able to tell you that tonight. Um, and during the 20 day session, the 60 day session, we dealt with a lot of things, including the budget. And the budget has not yet been signed by the governor. But these are some of the things that we were able to get into the budget that benefit Orange County. And you'll see a lot of it deals with, uh, education with, uh, workforce education, Valencia College, university of Central Florida, uh, second Harvest Food Bank. We had, um, $117 billion in terms of the budget. A lot of that, uh, had to do with funds that came from the federal government. Uh, so that even though we had a hundred and over $117 billion budget, uh, we anticipate that there may be some vetoes because we know that the federal funds are, uh, going to, to dry up. But there was, uh, 50 billion put in from general revenue, 68 billion trust fund, 10 billion, uh, now in reserve. 3% pay increase for all state employees, except the ones that messed up my calendar tonight. Uh, 30 billion for education funding, uh, 46 billion Health and Human Services, 7.3 billion for criminal and civil justice. Uh, 20 billion for transportation, tourism and economic development, and 9.9 billion agriculture and the environment. This was a bill that, uh, passed that has to do with employment regulation. It was a bill, uh, that I, uh, opposed because it restricts local governments from setting minimum wages that are different from either the state or the federal, uh, minimums. And in addition to that, it prohibits municipalities from requiring an employer or government contractor to meet or provide heat exposure requirement. Now, we know that agriculture is the second largest industry here in the state of Florida, and we have a lot of people who work outside. And this says that local governments cannot provide water shade or rest to people who are exposed, uh, to the extreme temperatures here in Florida. And we have a, a law that was enacted years ago with regard to athletes. And we require water, we require shade, we require rest. And so we're treating outdoor workers in a way that's very, uh, different than the way we are treating athletes. So putting more value on one group of people than on another. Uh, this same bill prevents favoring businesses based on their wage structures, the employment benefits, or the work environment. And it prevents local government from imposing regulations on private employers with regard to scheduling. Now you all probably know that I am a proponent of home rule. Uh, I believe that you need local solutions for local problems. And so all of the preemptions that, uh, have occurred in Tallahassee have generally been things that I have opposed, because you're duly elected and I think that you're closest to the people while we're 200 miles away. And, um, I don't think that all of the intelligence in 22 million people in this state resides in Tallahassee. Uh, this is another bill that passed and it allows minors 15 and under, uh, to work until 7:00 PM on school nights. And you all know I'm a retired educator, taught in the public schools, and spent 24 years as an administrator at the lencia. And I know that most young people have not finished school by the time they're 17. They're still, uh, in school. And to allow them to work these long hours, I don't think, uh, helps in terms of their education. The same bill permits 16 and 17 year olds to work until 11 o'clock on school nights. And they can work more than eight hours on holidays or Sundays. And it removes requirements from minors to take breaks if working for continuous hours, unless under, uh, specified conditions. And it allows parents to waive work our restrictions. I, uh, filed a bill along with, uh, representative lvo Bracy Davis to deal with some of the things that are making it more difficult for people, uh, to vote. And that bill, uh, failed. But some of the things that it would've done, as you can see here, makes, um, election day a holiday expands language access, uh, vote by mail ballots you'd be able to receive unless you cancel them, rather than the way that it is now. And this gives you some information about Harry t and Harriet, uh, B Moore, who were killed in Mims, Florida in 1951 because they were registering people to vote. Uh, this bill also failed, and it would have provided protection for our election workers. A lot of polarization. And you have people who work in elections who are now being threatened, uh, who do not feel comfortable. And so this bill would have provided them some protection, but it did not, uh, did not pass this bill. Um, that did pass, uh, sets aside three licenses for, uh, black farmers who were discriminated against in the agricultural industry. And as we look at the amendment that's on the ballot that probably will make recreational marijuana a a, an industry here in Florida, it says that this particular population would also be able to participate, uh, in that industry. This bill failed and it would have, uh, protected and, uh, prohibited the removal or the destruction of historic monuments. Uh, many of those monuments would've been, uh, confederate, uh, statutes. And this, uh, this bill failed. And I was, uh, in support of it not passing this bill passed. And it prohibits individuals from knowingly and willfully approaching or remaining within 25 feet of a first responder, police officers, firefighters, um, et cetera. Um, this bill passed and it eliminates independent police review board. So if your, uh, city here in Ocoee has an independent police review board, this would take away their authority to have oversight and disciplinary power within law enforcement agencies throughout, uh, the state. This bill passed three bills, um, that will steer $1.5 billion into healthcare. I supported this bill because it was, it will make more healthcare professionals available, uh, in the state of Florida. We are now looking at Medicaid redetermination during, um, the health emergency that was COVID. We, uh, kind of relaxed eligibility requirements so that people would have healthcare. And now that that epidemic has passed, people are being taken off of the roles for Medicare, Medicaid. And we are looking, uh, at that with regard to redetermination. This bill failed, um, which would've required health insurance plans to have conversation or conversion, uh, therapy. And we had L-G-B-T-Q people who were very much opposed, uh, to this bill. And it did fail. This, uh, bill passed, which I think has to do with the fact that we're now putting our children to work. But we have legislation with regard to migrants and immigrants. And so if we don't have the immigrant labor, the migrant labor, uh, the, apparently the solution in some folks' mind is to, uh, have our children now work longer hours. This bill, uh, would prohibit young people 13 and under from having social media accounts. And this is in the state that really touts itself, uh, for parental choice and parental involvement. And I think that's a decision, uh, for parents. But it did pass. Uh, this bill affects municipalities like the city of Ocoee with regard to people who are camping or sleeping on public, uh, property. You would now be required to corral these individuals and have them in a camp that the city would have to establish. And the city would have to make sure that the camp provided restrooms, that there were no drugs and alcohol or behavioral. Uh, there, there would be behavioral health services and it criminalizes, uh, homelessness. Now, I argued against this bill because I view it as an unfunded mandate. You're required to set up these camps, but the state provides you no money to do it. Uh, this bill failed, uh, which was would've been a ballot initiative to raise the threshold for getting amendments on the ballot from 66, from 60% to 66.67, uh, percent. And this, this is the fourth year that the bill has been introduced, and it's the fourth year that it has failed on the ballot, we will have amendment four, which would put a constitutional right, uh, to have people make their own very personal medical decisions, uh, with regard to reproduction. And, um, this will be on the ballot for the citizens to decide, uh, in November. The voters will also decide, as I mentioned before, with regard to recreational marijuana. So the ballot initiatives are outlined here, uh, for you. These are critical dates that we're all, um, hopefully aware of. Um, we have a primary election that's coming up on August 20th and early voting for the primary begins August 10th. We have a general election, which will be November 5th and early voting. There is October 26th through October 2nd. So I went through it as quickly as I could, uh, to leave. I know you have a full agenda, but I wanted to leave, uh, time and an opportunity for you, uh, to ask questions if you have, uh, any questions and I can respond to them. Alright, commissioners. Commissioner Kennedy. Hi, Senator Thompson. Hi, I'm Commissioner Scott Kennedy. I haven't met you. Um, I really like parts of your presentation, particularly your stated support for home rule. Um, can I ask you if you don't mind, um, some of the charter counties are preempting the rights of municipalities. We have that going on right now. Can I ask you where you stand on that? Um, I, I, as I said, I'm a very strong home rule person, and so I don't believe in, uh, preemption. I think that you are duly elected and that you have the prerogative and the responsibility to make the decisions for the constituents, uh, that you serve. Thank you. Mm-Hmm. I appreciate that. Yeah. Anybody else? Commissioner Thompson. Thank you so much for what you do. And I appreciate as a Florida League of Cities board member, and I know that this Florida League of Cities has supported you in the past as a home rule hero, and I appreciate that. And again, I always enjoy talking to you when we get to go to Tallahassee and we appreciate your support for our local municipalities. Thank you. And thank you for always visiting me when you are, uh, in Tallahassee. Good to see a friendly face. Well, I appre I appreciate that. Yeah. Commissioner Oliver? Yes. Uh, uh, Senator Thompson, thank you so much for coming and giving us that, uh, that update as to what's going on in, in Tallahassee that's going to affect us directly. Um, I just had one, one question as you were going through, uh, your presentation, I saw about 30 billion there in education funding. Did that include, uh, teacher salaries? Is there anything on the ballot I was reading, uh, that there is gonna be some things on the ballot about teacher salaries and raising those, those salaries, uh, so that they can compete with, uh, the rest of the country. Well, you know, things happen incrementally not all at once. And, uh, there has been movement over the last several years to raise teacher salaries because we have a teacher shortage and we have people at one time, you know, um, people my age, um, most women went into teaching. Now women are becoming engineers and lawyers and all kinds of things. So you don't have that built in workforce anymore. And the only way that we're going to get the best and the brightest minds in our classrooms, uh, is to pay, um, competitive salaries. And so, yes, there is funding, uh, for increased teacher pay. Awesome. Thank you so much. Mm-Hmm. Well, once again, we appreciate you coming out to give that presentation. It's kind of great to get the, uh, the message straight from the person up there listening and hearing it. We, we truly do appreciate you coming out and taking the time. I apologize, I don't know the time we changed the time, long time ago, but, okay. You know, it's, uh, no matter what time you get here, we'll let you talk. Well, I will make sure that my staff now, um, knows that you changed the time, but, uh, when I returned from Tallahassee, I do appreciate the opportunity to come back and let you all know You're welcome anytime to come. Okay. Thank you all so much. Yes, Ma'am. Thank you. Appreciate it. Mm-Hmm. Alright, public hearings. We're, we don't have any more regular agenda, no more comments from commissioners. Commissioner Oliver. Uh, just a couple of quick comments. Uh, June 1st started a hurricane season, uh, from June 1st through November 30th. Uh, so be mindful of that. Uh, you can also, uh, get information from state county, uh, also locally about, uh, hurricane preparedness. Uh, if you wanna go online, you can also go to the, uh, national Weather Service. They also have information about hurricane preparedness and the things that you need to start doing now to prepare yourself, uh, for any hurricanes. It is predicted to be a active hurricane season this year. As you all know, we didn't have much of a winter, so that means that we could possibly have a very active hurricane season. And it is extremely important that you, uh, go out and, and start preparing yourself now, uh, for this hurricane season. Um, we've also started our summer. Our kids are outta school. And, um, uh, one of the things I wanna point out is the fact that there's teenagers on the roads. Not to make that a scary thing, but there's teenagers out there and they're driving. So we have to be mindful that they're not as experienced as most of us. So slow it down and try to drive for them. And, and make sure that you're talking to your, your sons and daughters and nieces and nephews out there that are going from, uh, place to place. Tell them to be mindful as well and slow down and, uh, and, and just make sure that we are, uh, are taking care of them. Uh, because again, sometimes, uh, uh, we know that it takes a village and that's a part of the village to make sure that we are mindful of, of these, uh, uh, inexperienced drivers on the roads. So be careful about that. Also, uh, beginning of summer also, uh, marks, um, uh, swimming, uh, kids like to get near water. They like to swim. And we wanna also make sure that our kids are, have swimming lessons. Uh, there are several places, uh, throughout the, uh, county that give free swimming lessons. So if you have a, a child that, uh, maybe a toddler that you need to learn how to swim, uh, check your local YMCAs, check the, uh, the county. Uh, they have programs out there that will give them free swimming lessons. And in some cases there are, are actually, uh, swimming structures that will come to your home and, uh, and, and teach adults and children how to swim. And they do it for free. So, uh, looking into those kind of things, it's very important that, uh, uh, we make sure that we minded, uh, that our kids are out there swimming and, and at risk. Uh, actually 371 kids drown every year from, uh, from pool and, uh, and safety drownings, pool, pool and spa drowning. So, uh, keep that in mind. That's very important. Um, and before I leave, I'll leave you with this. Teamwork is the ability to work together towards a common vision. The ability to direct individual accomplishments toward organizational objectives. It is the few that allows common people to attain uncommon results. And that was by Andrew Carnegie. And that's all I have for the n Mayor. Thank you Commissioner Wilson. Thank you, Senator Thompson. You brought up a good point. I know that we at Florida League of Cities has recognized you regarding your influence on home rule. And I can't stress that enough to our residents that, um, how important it is. I'm a member of the, I am on the board of Florida League of Cities. I'm also on the board of the Tri-County League of Cities. And our goal is advocacy is getting motivating our residents to contact our legislators and tell them what you think every year. I mean, I go to Tallahassee during legislative session this year. I am, they would like to classify some folks as home Ruth, home rule heroes, and those are the folks that go to Tallahassee. And those are the folks that call legislators and tell them what we think. And you just can't depend on us to be the ones to call. I want you to know you shouldn't be intimidated by calling anyone. As you see, Senator Thompson's here and very approachable, and our legislators are very approachable. And we want you to know that you have a voice and we want you to use that voice. And if there's anyone interested in any infor information and advocacy, we're, I'm right here. I'd love to talk to you. I know our Tri-County League of Cities wants to promote that within our residents. And, um, again, we just want you easy to make phone calls, easy to make, do emails. You don't always have to go to Tallahassee. The legislators are right here in town, not in oco, but they're in local to where you go to their office. Am I correct, senator? That we can come and make an appointment and come speak to you and tell you what we think? Because again, home rule is we are determining what's happening to you here. And when we have state legislators make decisions that affect us. Some are called unfunded mandates, which means you're paying for these things whether you like it or not. And so again, being advocates to make those, get them, ask them it politely to how and let them know how you feel. It's important. Your voice is important and I just can't stress that enough. Um, okay, I'll get off my bandwagon for a second on that one. But, um, just wanted to let you know that I've had a lot of folks lately talk to me about their water consumption. And I don't know if you realize there's a program that's on the website. It's called Census, and it will, you can register for census if you have water in the city of Ocoee. I have checked, tried to find out if the county has a program, but I'm not, haven't been exactly successful on that one. But the City of Ocoee has one to where you can monitor each day how much water consumption you use. Um, I had a leak in my house. I guess I kind of ignored it. I thought that it was watering the yard, but, um, ended up having the house repre plumbed. I probably could have waited, probably could have known a month before, before the bill came in looking at my water consumption. It's called census. And if you go to the city utility department, um, website, you can sign up for it with your account. And I check it almost every couple days to see what, how much I'm using, what are my grass, how much we're using for the house. Um, it's fascinating. I put some water in the pool the other day and didn't realize it was 200 gallons. And of course I went, um, 200 gallons putting it in the pool. But it's just the idea that you can monitor it yourself. So I highly recommend you doing that. And again, um, commissioner Oliver, you mentioned the, um, kids are out, but remember speeding. We're, we're gonna go ahead and possibly implement some, um, school, the cameras. Thank you. I'll get my words together here. But again, before that, there's folks, it's summer, they're out walking, they're out in the evening. I know it's hot, but they go out in the evening, they cross streets. Are you watching before when you get to a stop sign? Because if we're turning right, we usually are just looking to the left and there's people on the right who are at the crosswalk. And I mean, I, I'm not perfect, but I'm just saying is that I just recently took a mature driving class. I like that mature driving class. True. And I tell you that it was, it was six hours long, it was on and on the internet. And I will tell you that it really reinforced some things that I forgot. And just like you said, education, but it was worth the $5 I paid for it. And I, again, it made me think what I was driving along. So, um, recommend you think about those classes if you're mature drivers, but even if you're younger, please remember there's folks out walking and we'd like to keep them safe. Thank you. Commissioner Kennedy. Thank you Mayor. On that note, Senator Thompson, I, I would just say I'm a big proponent of putting driver's education back in schools. Um, we've dealt, uh, traffic and safety in my district was the number one issue, is the number one issue. And as we look at what works, um, the statistics are highly correlated with 2004 when driver's education was taken out of our public schools. And so that's a hot issue. But again, thank you for being here and sharing your report. Um, Mr. Hart, I don't care how eloquent you are, I'm not giving you any discretionary funds for your school problem, but, uh, please, our, uh, I want to add congratulations to Lori. She's terrific. Um, thank you. Um, I have a couple things. One I would like to ask, uh, I don't know if I need consensus, but I would like to ask to direct the city manager to provide us with standards that apply to small box retail stores below 25,000 feet. I don't know if anybody else needs that, but I need that for some, uh, issues in my district. Is there a problem? I wanna find out if there's appropriate standards for those projects. Mayor, I want to review them. You're Specifically referring to the design standards? Um, yes. Okay. We can provide that and we'll copy the commission. We will send out a separate communicate to the commission with what we come back With. Thank you very much. Yes. Um, and the second thing, uh, you may recall at the last meeting I asked for, um, a list of open pending real estate contracts with the city and I was provided that and I reviewed it. And, um, there's one contract in particular that's been out for a while, uh, started in 2020, has been amended several times. Um, I would like to ask the city attorney to advise us on, uh, the GPK contract and what it would take possibly to, uh, terminate that contract. I'll be happy to look at that. Thank you. Get a Consensus. Is that what we need? Do I need a consensus for that? I think consensus Would be fine. What contract is that again? Yeah, I'd like To know what contract? Uh, GPK, it's the vacant property in the northeast corner of 17 acres. Fuller and Ochoa. Papaka by the church. Is that the mixed use? Is that the mixed use one that we have it, we had a site plan for mixed use. Yes. And then we changed it to apartments and then it's, it was supposed to be under development and it just keeps going on. You Have a, you have a problem? No, I, I just wanna Know which one it was. If there's a mixed mixture, so I I don't have a problem either. So that's What about commissioner? So we We're currently in contract With Yes. The owner of, of the property and have been since 2020 and they, Okay. So they have not held up their, their end of The bargain? Uh, possibly. Okay. Alright. Consensus. I'd like to be advised on that. Mm-Hmm. Alright. Start his clock. Oh, you got it. Go to finish. That's, that was it. That's all I have. Okay. Thank you very much. Well, I guess I can just sit up here and twiddle 'em my thumbs because y'all say everything, you know, when I get to the end, ain't nothing to do. So I'll just sit up here and twiddle my thumbs for a little while. But, uh, I could tell you about a fish story. I know. I, I, I know a gentleman of coy called a nine and a half pound bass the other day. Wow. John's Lake, if you want to know. But Senator Thompson, I, I, I personally want to tell you that, uh, it is, you are one of the ones as long as I've been here that will come and speak to us. You've always done that. And I truly appreciate, I don't care what side anybody's politics from, but I truly want to pay you respect for that. And, and you've, you've always, always came, come to our place here and give us the updates. And you're only one of the ones that do that. So we appreciate it and I know every one of 'em are busy more probably than us, but at least you come tell us and we, when we're asked by citizens, we can also inform 'em. So I truly appreciate that and thank you again for, and, uh, we won't hold you responsible for being tardy, don't worry. But, and don't, don't cut your raise out for your worker here. I mean that you might lose a vote there. But, uh, the other thing is, is sidewalks, uh, Craig, I need update next commission meeting on the sidewalk where they're redoing the ones with the trees that's pushed them up. We, we, this has turned into something that we don't hear back about it, but I get calls from citizens about it, so I would appreciate an update ever. We'll have an update and there should be an update on the West Site at least once it's on one of our meetings a month. We want an update on the sidewalks. Um, and the other one is the update on the tree deal for the, uh, Westmere deal. We haven't heard anything back about that, so I'd like to make sure we don't be catching a lot. I, and of course commissioner ER's gone for a month, but I get calls from them down there wanting to know what we're doing. So I can tell you that staff's intending to bring that back either the second meeting July or the first meeting in August. Yeah. And, and, and the other thing is, is the talking about the safety for kids in schools no matter what schools in or school's out. I hear every time we have schools in, we talk about 'em, about being protective of the children, but we need to be protective all the time. 'cause I'm telling you it is during the hot weather and these, these young people are riding bicycles around and doing things or running out the street. Be extra careful about where you're going and what you're driving for for these young people out on the streets. So, um, I know our pool's open, opens in it opened in May, right? Mm-Hmm. So I think if you want to go take a free dip in the pool, it's open. So once again, thank you Mayor. Uh, I'm sorry, I I forgot one item earlier on. Staff reports. Alright. Um, it's very rare when you have a city manager that spends 20 years in a place and, um, I would like to request that the commission, and I hope he is not watching tonight, um, to allow me to use a little bit of the funds in the contingency fund balance, which we have currently, uh, $55,000 in there. So just, we Won't have that bigger party. Plenty of money. We don't have that big a party, but I'd like approval by the commission to plan an event honoring, um, Mr. Frank? Yes. Anybody? Everybody got a problem with that? None of us have a pro. I don't, I have no problem. All right. Specifically use of the use of a few dollars from the contingency. Thumbs up. Not too. Hey, listen, I'm gonna tell you something. Gonna have 20 Years as a 20 years as a city managers a long time. Yeah. Uh, I, like I said, I've told you before, we interviewed a lot of people over the years and we had, when we changed city managers, you'd have 140, 150 applications and most of 'em average anywhere from three years to four years or five years in their term of time. So we've done real good having this one for 20 years. And Craig, you've been here how long now? I am halfway through my 16th year. Alright, You go. So you'll be Craig. Alright. Chadrick will be taken over in July, so is our city manager. So one o one other quick thing, next May, 2025 is our centennial for a hundred years. So we'll be, we started a committee and we are going to, uh, work on that starting. We've already started the first meeting and we're, we'll have another one here I think tomorrow, matter of fact. And, uh, we'll be making plans and we'd asked, even asked citizens when I think to come up with some suggestions of, uh, things that might be apropos to doing that for the centennial. So if you hear anybody talk to anybody, tell 'em if they wanna make suggestions of what we need that something we could do during that. We gonna start in January and run it up to May of the date for the May in 2025. So once again, if you have suggestions, turn 'em in and make 'em or tell people. We'd be glad to listen to 'em and see what we can do. Alright, see everybody on the 18th, not the 17th. Thank you. My.