It's file. You have a transparent doing good. It's been a while. >> [snorts] >> But How are you? >> I'm great. How you doing? >> So, these are fresh pictures.
It's cool. Yeah. Basically, I'm going to see you tomorrow. Okay. All right. Yeah. [laughter] >> Yeah. Good to see you.
>> You want to refresh my memory? Yeah. >> Don't t-shirt. >> It's working. Is everybody ready? >> Okay. Call to order the community
redevelopment agency governing board meeting at 6 PM on November 17th. Uh let the record reflect everyone is here but Councilman Bterford. Uh so first item we have is approval minutes. What's the pleasure of the board? >> I move we approve the minutes. Is
>> there a second? >> Second. >> Hearing a motion and a second. I'll call the vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> None opposed. Motion passes. >> Uh we have one request for citizen comment, but it reflects on item seven. So, we're going to wait till item seven
to do that. And the next item we have is consent agenda. What's the pleasure of the board? >> I move we approve the consent agenda. >> Second. >> Okay. There's a motion and a second. Any discussion? No. Okay. Call the vote. All
those in favor say I. I. >> I. >> Okay. Motion passes. Uh we're now up to discussion item number six. Mr. Cobb. >> Uh thank you, Mr. Chairman. Uh we wanted to advise the board that we're going to have a little change in
the staff that's serving the board. Uh effective on January the 1st. Uh Mr. Kelly will be taking on the primary responsibility for the CRA. I will become the backup. uh the finance department, public works, development services, they'll all continue to serve in the normal
capacity. Uh one of the things that I've been looking at and working with Mr. Kelly is through his professional development uh giving him additional duties to take on as part of also as part of our uh transitional planning. And uh so one of the things that I've
wanted for Mr. Kelly to do is to be the primary staff of a board that has decision-making authority, that has monetary authority. And the uh I had the I had the benefit of being able to staff different boards as I was working my way up through the ranks. And so I wanted to
give Mr. Kelly the same opportunity. Uh one of the things that we've done, your next item is an update of the CRA plan. And so what we did, Mr. Kelly took the lead and so he'll be making the presentation. He's been working with public works and finance and GIS to
compile this draft plan. And what I what I looked at was with him putting together this plan that would lead to the opportunity for becoming the lead staff to this board. And so I just wanted to let inform the board uh before
January 1st so that um you know, like I said, I I'll become the backup. Mr. Kelly will be the lead uh beginning January the 1. >> Thank you, Mr. Cobb. Are there any questions or comments from the board? Okay, we're going to move on to item seven. We have a request for Mr.
O'Hanland to speak. >> Please state your name and address for the record. Although everyone knows, right? >> Tom O'Hanland, 827 Division Street, Ovito, Florida. Good evening, Mayor, Council, Dave, Tim.
I've been before you before for building a tower and a canopy trail here in this community, one that would mimic and be very close to the one that is in Florida's largest state park down south, Manka River State Park. Um the reason
for and the big interest on my part for this canopy trail and tower is it tripled the attendance of my river state park in South Florida when they built it. One of my concerns here has always been and a lot of you some of you were
here when we did the original plans for veto on the park and the big thing was the hook. what's going to get people to come here and make our businesses successful. Um, this canopy trail and tower will definitely be put us we're already on
the map, but it will certainly manager told me several years ago that uh Tom, you're too early. You need to wait till 426 419 is four lanes and the rerouting of the trail is done. And uh that is now
complete. I want to thank you all for making all of that happen. And uh the transportation here is definitely much better. So I um approached Brian and Patrick um and they said the first stop I should make is here. Um we need
funding for the project. Uh the original project was built for $250,000 25 years ago. So if you do inflation that says yeah, it's probably close to a million dollars today.
um when they built it, this was a community project. So what was um and they lead me to believe that maybe they could do it under their license with maybe an LLC or something like that to try and figure
out how to deal with the liability of having people from the community actually work on this project. So, I'm here before you today to say estimate maybe it's a million and a half dollars to complete this project assuming it's built by um one contractor
and hopefully only a million if it's built by the community and I'm looking for funding for half the cost of the project. This the other half of the project I plan on raising the funds from the community to cover the other half. So,
I'm looking to you for half the cost. Questions? >> Not really a question format. Um, I'll ask Mr. Kelly to address where this would fit in the in the redevelopment plan we're being presented tonight. Thank you,
Mr. Kelly. Not a so much had changed uh in terms of so much had changed uh in terms of uh our uh city and the uh documents and the the uh uh comprehensive plan, the downtown master plan, the land
development code and the mobility plan. Um, we decided that that it would be most appropriate to uh fully update the plan and bring you more than just a list of draft project a draft list of projects. Uh, so that's why we're here tonight. We
we put together uh a updated plan uh with all of that in mind. And Maline, if you go to or sorry, Eleon, if you go to the next slide for me, please. Um, so I just thought I'd uh go over what uh what uh general CRAAS are. They are um uh
designed to go back one. There we go. Uh they are designed to uh uh under the community redevelopment act of 1969 uh with the purpose of revitalizing uh slum and blight and foster economic
development uh in a particular area in this case the old downtown and surrounding neighborhoods in Ovido on the park area. Uh and it does this uh through and primarily our plan does this through investing in infrastructure um to make land and uh make projects
more attractive to private development and also uh typical of CRIS or land assemblage and site preparation activities as well. Um finding of necessity is the base document in the
creation of a CRA. It is a formal finding of existence of slum and blight. And in our case, I would my opinion there would be more of a blight uh uh issue than slum in the Ovido CRA after reviewing all of these documents. And some of the keys to that are uh some of
the inadequate and outdated infrastructure and uh land uses in the old downtown and surrounding area. Um next slide, please. So uh again the CRA plan uh was adopted in 2010 established uh that plan
established boundaries redevelopment priorities for the CRA and to foster economic development and eliminate blight advancing infrastructure mobility and economic re redevelopment with a placemaking focus. Next slide please. So here's the uh current CRA boundaries as
uh we know them up in the north north uh west there is up in Magnolia Street St. uh Joanna and Vine Street uh on the all the way to the east side and uh to Lloyd Lane and uh Geneva Drive the Adel Tinsley way area is included in that as
well down to Doctor's Drive in the park area um Vicki Sharon Court and the uh finally historic downtown. Next slide, please. So, the current uh plan you have before you, the draft plan, excuse me,
uh looked at uh the current state of the redevelopment area, evaluated the uh land uses as updated by the comp plan and uh land development code update and economic employment data, how the area
is redeveloping meaning under the uh current redevelopment plan, how uh the existing improvements were doing and contributing to the TIFF funding uh opportunities and challenges. The opportunities uh we see uh were the uh
increasing tiff over the years primarily driven by Obidal in the park. The uh challenges we would see are the uh sort of the rural vest vestigages of the old downtown and some of the closein neighborhoods to that lack of infrastructure as me mentioned before.
Uh again another opportunity would be uh common uh private property ownership in the uh uh historic downtown which would be uh driven by the uh infrastructure improvements that have been done of
recent years by the CRA and the city. Uh the updated plan aligns with the CRA as mentioned before and the sorry align with the comp plan as mentioned before. Uh it also adds an affordable housing element uh that has uh been placed in there per
statute uh that we do have to address affordable housing. The city has the opportunity to work with the Simino County Housing Authority which is in that Doctor's Drive area to facilitate that uh uh redevelopment plan that I believe is underway with the housing
authority. Next slide please. So we uh put together that list of of uh projects as uh the uh CRA governing board requested. Uh they are into six task categories. Administration which uh as you're aware the city staff
administers the CRA and that would be under that category along with the uh state required finance um state required filings and accounting and auditing as well. uh business development and neighborhood enhancement, our develop neighborhood improvement grants, things
of that nature, cultural and public art, as you're aware, the wings of joy, uh our one project murals and uh the Ovido Boulevard um sculptures uh as recently heard by this board. And we also in each category
have sort of a catch-all um evaluate and uh approve additional funding projects uh in each category. So streetscaping is another uh task category. Cross seminal trail activation, county road 419
streetscaping, Geneva Drive streetscaping, Franklin street trees. Um uh then we move on to mobility. the uh improvements primarily uh coming from our mobility plan and
um the Geneva Drive 434 connector road is one uh which is wrapping up but we also have the Franklin Street connection as well. Uh there are several other doctor's cord, Lloyd Lane, Oak Street extensions that are contemplated.
And then we have uh sidewalk projects throughout the uh community redevelopment area that are not uh uh currently uh uh funded in any city project uh but are um identified as needs. Uh storm water
projects, revisions to Soler Park and Sweetwater Creek. We also have various uh water utility projects in the community redevelopment area that need to be done. And lastly, we'll round that out with property acquisition, which uh
common in CRAAS uh which the OTO CRA has not uh accomplished as of yet, but they go out and they buy property. They um assemble pro uh groups of properties and um
they um site do site site prep and prepare them for development for private investors. So all of those uh proposed updates um are consistent with the findings of necessity and the redevelopment strategies uh that were in the previous
uh CRA plan and um we will uh have some next steps that we'll discuss on the next slide. CRA governing board. So, your next steps, we'll review these plans and projects and uh you'll adopt the resolution making a formal
recommendation to city council that they take uh those. The LPA will need to review uh the uh updates for consistency with the comp plan, but we've taken that into account as we've done this uh the comp plan updates and then city council will have
to hold a public hearing and adopt the CRA plan update. So, it's uh recommended that the CRA governing board discuss uh this uh the plan updates and the projects and offer direction to staff on what to be
included in the final plan brought. >> Before we get into that discussion, uh with respect to what Mr. O'Hanland mentioned, I I presume you would consider that a mobility type project. >> Um >> cultural. I I was thinking cultural
makes more sense for that. what whatever you want to call it. So if you look at mobility and this is true for all the categories, the last item is evaluate and fund additional mobility improvements. So we have if we move forward with this general plan, we have
a way to do projects that aren't specifically anticipated and listed. So Mr. O'Hanlin, wherever you would fall, we have that ability. I think >> all of that can be addressed and I don't think it's anything that anybody up here would disagree with. It's just some tidying up type stuff.
>> If if you make some changes, just let us know what they are, Mr. Kelly. >> Yes, sir. >> Okay. Any other comments from anybody? >> Are most of these projects already in our plan? >> Uh, some are. Uh, some aren't. >> Like to highlight what we added or what you're proposing to add so that I know
the difference so I don't have to go back and compare it to the old plan. >> Yes, sir. I can uh notate that. >> Is is that something you can bring back to our uh December meeting? I I can get it done. >> Okay. >> For a boardwalk uh running from the uh
historic downtown down to Obito on the park. >> Uh that would be the mobility part of it I believe that chairman uh spoke to. And then a cultural project. Uh as the mayor spoke, CRA's fund uh several I know they funded theater projects. Uh they've
funded libraries uh uh to try to generate that private investment in a community redevelopment area. >> So I'm looking to see if we have consensus to add it to to this version of the plan >> to have it specifically in the plan. We can add it as a project. So, for
example, under mobility there, evaluate and fund additional mobility improvements in the community redevelopment area. That could fall squarely within that category. If you want to add it specifically, I can ask for consensus if that's what you want to do.
>> I think, you know, it's hard to get a project going without it being part of some overall plan. >> Is there consensus to add that to the list? >> It's probably a good idea to add it based on what the state legislature is doing. So yes, >> on the list, too. If it's not on the
list, we are never going to get it funded. >> Okay. >> Yes, Mr. Chairman, I would preface uh every single one of these projects was subject to available funding. >> All right. >> Can I ask a question? >> Go ahead. >> Tom mentioned that it drove three times
the traffic. How in the world can our roads support three times the traffic they have today? There's just no possible way. Even with the new road we have, >> you try to get from old downtown to 417, that is a nightmare road.
>> I don't think it's going to drive that much. I've been to the Maka Tower Bridge and I I I get it. I I went there on an expedition. I went on >> changed from the prior plan, including this project. >> Yes, sir. >> Any other questions for Mr. Kelly?
Okay, with that, our next meeting is Monday, December 15th, and another one Tuesday, January 20. And Mr. Cobb, the December meeting, we we pick a chair for the next session. Correct. >> That's correct. >> All right, >> Mr. Mr. Chairman, >> go ahead.
>> Can I ask for a reminder for these meetings? Somehow I don't get anything ever, and I was just wondering if the council does then I should. We get the same as you. We're looking at it right now. >> That's all you get. >> Shows up on our calendar also.
>> On our calendar, >> our city calendar. >> Maybe we'll see what we can do. >> Thank you, >> Kelly. And can you just send a reminder