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good afternoon caka city of bright opportunities special Commission meeting Tuesday February 25th 2025 the time is now 1:34 PM Madame clerk roll call commissioner bass I'm
here commissioner Santiago I'm here to vice mayor Kelly I'm pres let us stand for the invocation followed by the plan Eternal God our Father we thank you for all of human many blessings we thank you God how you continue to watch over the city Paka continue God to give us wisdom
knowledge and understanding do those things which are pleasing in your sight in Jesus name we do pray amen of the United States of America and to the repblic for one nation indivisible liberty and
justice everybody manag was over not having the flag here I do with something earlier but make sure in the future we have the the flag we're going to move forward public input for the agenda item
listed which would be 61 public input is open public input is closed Madame clerk do we have anyone online no Mr vice mayor all right Madame attorney a resolution of the city
Commission of the city of opaka Florida supporting a revision to section 267.327.4265 designating opaka historic City Hall as the interim site for the Florida museum of black history committing to the use of historic City Hall for interim
exhibitions for a limited time offering the city's assistance in the creation and convening of the governing board carrying out the interim exhibitions and completion of pre-development activities requiring City represent City representative involvement in all
planning and or implementation activities relating to this resolution providing for incorporation of recitals providing for an effective date this is sponsored by the city commission need a motion move it move by commissioner sanago second second by commissioner bass this is a sponsored uh City
commission item um as we all know after the meeting and presentation and for the city to be able to um take on this assignment even in a temporary fashion we wanted to send a support document and so that's the resolution any comments
from my colleagues Mr vice mayor Mr Bass thank you I just want to be the voice of some of our residents who have contacted me in regards to this resolution um they are supporting this and I'm glad that we are commission also
supports it thank you thank you yes vice mayor Sago thank you um the only question that I have for this resolution I I supporting it but we're going to keep
the historical City holdall permanent for the museum uh no it's not permanent if you notice what's in the document it's really a maximum of four years that can be temporary but it's not going to be
permanent um this would allow for any kind of Expos existence and a limited time offering as you see but it not will not be permanent to answer your question no City Hall will still be C Hall and can be used for other things we want to this just says to the um Florida museum
of black history that we are excited and support of having it on an interim basis but it will not be a takeover of City Hall okay any other discussion just want to make sure uh Madam manager you have no challenges
with this no sir all right hearing no other discussion Adam attorney Mr bcan I just wanted I don't know if there's a representative here um um Mr Logan did forward a number of documents and one of
them is a house a Senate Bill 466 and it has St John's County as being the site but this resolution has a supporting um I guess what would be new language and so I'm just wondering if there is someone who can speak to that being
changed to Miami day County as opposed to St John's County as the potential site I don't know if there's anyone here that can speak to it specifically I know it was stated at the meeting and discussion that the
original um support was for S J's County but because of the challenges that there was a good opportunity for opaka to become the permanent site um but I can't answer that question I don't know anyone is here or not
okay oh I'm sorry oh come forward state your name who you are okay uh Nikia bowling uh with 10 North group I need to give my address good one for them uh 490 opaka
Boulevard uh so yes uh St John's was uh the original site but um we have been working over the last past half year to show why that uh site is not a feasible
site um it started out um with it being five top with Obaka being ranked the uh lowest we're now in the top of three and they are strongly considering the city of opaka we have as if you look at the
maps that were also provided um it is nothing but swamp land it is not a viable site we've also commissioned a feasibility study to show why this is the best site also St Augustine is is not a viable site there are no roads
that lead to um for tourism to increase um economic tourism dollars and that site opalak is the best site and we're in Tallahasse um opening session um and we have strong support to move oock as this as the site for the permanent home
of the museum and Mr may I was just wanting Mr vice mayor I just wanted to clarify that that it's the commission's intent that Miami day County be the site for it and replace the St John County language in the Senate bill so that's
the intent of the commission okay thank you all right thank you any other questions all hearing none roll call commissioner Santiago yes commissioner baz yes vice mayor Kelly yes motion passes 30 Z thank you motion
to adjourn move it move by commission sanago second move by commissioner bad this meeting is adjourned the clerk will certify the time have a good evening