good afternoon everybody welcome to the student of the month ceremony this is our opportunity in the city to honor our students and educators um our future and we will each student give those shake their hands but then we'll do photos of
students along students with educators and students with families and that's kind of plain trying to do all of these things i'm going to hand these out to Commissioner Davis and I'm going to call out each student's
name miriam Perez Brown all right browning Pass Elementary School purdue Children's Reading Center Charter School Wilson Hill Zikaria Wilson sorry
Hillrest Academy james okay bray Kelly Smith Elementary oxendine Melon Learning Center 3K there we go thank you yeah mostly elementary school Junior Senior High
and I baptist Putnham Academy of Arts and Sciences putnham Classical Academy rosyn McDonald Little Sprouts Memorial Center [Music] want to take a group photo
i'm going to take a couple times ready say That's good in the back all right one more one two three ready go three two one
five six seven eight 11 great sound yeah hi one better shot anybody anybody let's see you don't
like two Oh my god yes sir speakers good evening everybody welcome to the city of Pali state 202 we're going to
invitation of allegiance by commission father we give you thanks and we give you praise again for this day we thank you for how good you have been how kind you have been brought us together once again and we say thank you we pray
God that you will bless this council to grant them wisdom God in every decision that they make father we pray that you will guide continuously the leadership of this city God that we may take this city in the direction that you would go
pray God that you will give what we need for such a time as this father keep us mindful of our stability as uh members and commissioners and leaders we thank you once again for what
you're going to do with us through us and for us continue to bless us God i Amen amen please join me in the flag to the flag of the United States of America to the
stand with liberty and justice for all Commissioner Davis present have a quorum on to approval of the minutes has everybody had an opportunity to read the March 18 2025 workshop minutes in the March 27 2025 regular
meeting minutes motion to approvement is as presented second on any opposite thank you project recognition presentations city of Palaca
Proclamation whereas in 1765 and 1774 William Bram visited the area known as Palato County and whereas Mr described it in saying the territory of
Florida 1998 the St 79 American bike and in 2012 which began developing bike the national park service and April
125 the 8th annual St festival will be held in downtown 52 anniversary of Boston and the 52 and take celebration of heritage yet
relitation and history we have a motion to approve we have a motion to second all in favor any opposition thank product and that marshal product started right here in this room uh when the city
flag in the county of joined together to uh to create the tr so We should place And so you guys this festival here again is really bad to
Courtney James at 6 o' you're all invited to the U VIP products folks who come at that event that will commemorate the actual
starting quality so please Thank one more father record we now have Commissioner Jones in attendance on to city manager and administrative reports speakers limit to
five minutes summer internship program yes we are ready guys madame Mayor Commissioners um our summer internship program um that we do every year um we've had the privilege of bringing in students from Whitney County
at school um high school to participate in various departments here um to learn about Whitney and that permission to begin collaborative on people beginning 14th through May 5th so
that opportunity today began to apply um to participate in this um making announcements as tonight to apply um notify our department heads um who wish to have an intern um of the interview dates which
will be um the week of May 12th um we'll be interviewing the cannabis the week of June the second recommendations i didn't have any question i just had one question i know we got a a new position open with the ITA coordinator
for the state and um also would that be a qualifier for a student to also pig on that any department yes that they're yes policy made okay so this policy Um our new
grievance policy was actually brought before the commission um in October of 2023 um before we decided we were waiting on a full-time city manager to come in before we bought any more policies back at that time discussion concerning the hiring of the complaint
by commission and it suggested by conditional resources in the manage because we left human resources completely out of the process um to changes were made um the policy changes um from the salary study um
from okay the salary study um company anyway um had an all-inclusive name for employee relations for this policy because it indicated and added in the anti-discrimination um prohibition against retaliation
intentional false support confidentiality and the equal employment opportunity all under this policy so all of those were added so this section instead of being was named before you know so you can compress everything um
the reason being brought back for you to review and make sure there's nothing else that you all would like to add other than the information that was provided then which has been a period of time um and then it'll be brought back to you um guys for adoption i'm out of
the next option i don't I just want to say thank you because this is definitely a more complete and comprehensive policy thank you yes i've asked legal to take the lead on
this particular policy yes mayor commissioners uh before you is the city of Paka employee content policy we have conference rooms at max used by city employees or even just general community
and policy basically basically outside case by case basis and the host of the event whatever employee makes the class walking up afterwards so making
sure the the equipment is back thank you any questions on this part uh I just have a question locations and um the probations out of the house
um we we have access to right yes sir and also we never had to get permission before for the annex in terms of getting that because former mayor had that for
him and the commission and so I don't know how we lost access to it in terms of being able to access so I need need help understanding that we we did try uh to dive back into
history um naturally the various managers that were questioning but we did go back to employees that were working during that time and the best I've been able to come up with is that there was a a practice
in place that the city manager was communicated with um after after was not trying to understand the respect okay so done everything I can to try to
figure out what was going on before and the best one I came up with was there was texture manager um especially with just our best strength to go back and finally that is why I took the position
whatever the history of practice was and was but we have among employees as to when or how including our commissioners you know that they can use um city
facilities and you know not have any problems at all so we're trying to come up with something to possible and I I understand that very well but here's what you got did you you didn't reach out to any of the commissioners and that's my only
issue uh also the commission also had a commission vehicle 100% we uh myself commissioner camel was on the board of former mayor here we had that vehicle purchased and somehow that vehicle got
reopened so my my point is um the commission uh or given things or we put it in the budget for us to use and then somehow staff is just wherever it may be somehow we end
up losing access to it and so I just need to understand those things see how we can do better going forward yes sir and I did kind of try to speak to the commissioners to get input but taking note to what you just said I will do my
best to meet with staff and correct the things that we can encourage such as what we encourage is the use of vehicle that if we're supposed to be a commissioner you know a vehicle for the commissioners then if that is the well
of the board then I would definitely make sure that we for the square i believe it's part of the board with what we did when we got the vehicle it was dedicated for the commission and if staff need to use it when we're not using it that's fine but
we we need to be able to have access to vehicles whenever we go and do city business yes sir if we so choose i will follow up on that go ahead i have a question with regards to the um the use will there be something
communicated or is there working that we will be able to know if something is available um for planning so I don't want to run into the issue of we're looking for a place to meet we have
citizens that we need to meet with or whatever and get to the point of no avail because a lot of times when citizens ask to meet with us it's a lot of times it's last minute and it can be on a case by case or it can even be be
an emergency so I don't want it to be put place where it hinders us being able to bring constituents into facilities we already we don't have access as far as key or anything to anything but I don't
want it to pose any issues um if city manager is not available or city clerk is not available that we need a place to be able to meet that we have to jump through so many hurdles i appreciate um what you're saying one of the things that we're almost completed with
hopefully by next week and the week after we can have complete in response to commissioner expressing where is the legislative faith and we will sit down trying to make sure that we address that
concern that legislation will be assisting the commissioners directly from everything that we can come up with uh it's a calendar because what you're speaking about is a calendar and the log what we call it internally we call it a
log but it's really a calendar so that you can know the availability of the annex the two I think that are being set aside that we can understand but also this individual will make certain that she's
maintaining the calendar for each of the commissioners that's needs So hopefully that will be the umbrella substance commission I'd like to suggest that the calendar
um be housed on Outlook or one of the tools that we already have electronically yes to prevent having to make a phone call and not being able to get someone to look at the system reserve the room and it notify that needs to be notified electronically um I
think we have the tools and technology in place for this to be very seamless and uh impact anybody's job definitely I completely concur in place on outlook for the annex conference room thank you
thank you city attorney thank you space that an employee can access yes thank you okay so that is what we're in the midst of right now i'm almost completed with restructuring that front area so that it's much more effective and so now
the commissioners will have their individual as requested and uh we don't need to go down history we're just trying to correct things i just want you to be aware correct or control
uh it's not a new thing where commissioners have met with constituents public groups throughout the city uh you said that most of the employees are not here they are this have happened with
most of this commission uh of the former mayor sitting right out in the audience and I he's easy to reach if necessary he could ask for the history there he's always been willing to help um what I what I don't really
understand is when staff come up with stuff and like commission uh was no input from the commission who actually make policy we're policy makers so for us it's kind of like the this is what's
going to go on from here forth i think it could have been a workshop or something that we could have spoke on this and say hey what works because Mr k just hit the nail on the head we get calls to our neighbor emails most of us have second jobs or first jobs right and
you make time when you can have time and um a lot of these organizations groups individuals are here to try to help us at least want to be heard with their concern and so it used to be so long as I've been on
since 2020 can pick up the phone is the room available can we use it on such a date and time has been no problem with that uh in org chart it does say commissioners then city manager so I
think they should have some type of trump card where we are able to we're not trusted that to have a key to city hall to use for a a meeting or that that's that's sort of like I feel like we just been slapped in the face by
saying I I understand abuse I understand abuse and if there's case of abuse deal with it one case at a time that person on the risk what are you going to do but the the sense of controlling and I don't know what staff
made the decisions or why really why um you know we tighten up security we have cameras everything is being um audio video recorded so if something goes away you go back to our responsible party and do whatever needs
to be done but I think it's it goes a lot for the board we say we got to um most of the time need doing normal business hours we don't work normal business hours right they will come up
so I I just wanted to say say that get that off my chest so yes sir so uh the policy as written it's not really geared towards commissioners only that policy is geared towards all employees that's what I was trying to do and as it
relates to commissioners I can add something in there specifically you know that would address the uh needs of the commissioners we were just trying to come up with the policy that would stop the confusion how did we get to this well there were um I think um we held
there were meetings that were held with nonprofit organizations that uh I guess they thought that it wasn't done correctly and so I'm just getting here recently and uh I'm just been
here a while but again the question that was asked how did we get to this point because again it says uh when it comes down to the employee conference rooms employees have the right to meet
with whom they need to meet with during general business hours again as commissioners um we have to meet the needs of the people right and I don't know of anyone abusing the use of
especially a room that was dedicated to us for us so because we don't have an office space and so again I understand the concerns of those that um have brought them forth but again we want to
make sure that this policy does not hinder us from being able to do what it is that we have to do right um personally I just feel that it's a lot of unnecessary uh approval if the room is available we have access to it um so again I don't
know how we got to this point why we're at this point again nothing was brought before us we've heard of no abuse of the use of facilities um staff when we've reached out has been very much accommodating uh but again we have to
take in consideration there is really no space that we have as commissioners to be able to conduct business a lot of times when we do meet we have to go to other facilities that are not even city
facilities um we meet people at various locations throughout the commission i mean throughout the city so I would if there is to be anything to take in consideration I would like to have an office space that we as a commission is solely dedicated to us and we don't have
to worry about any other employee utilizing that space because it is dedicated to the commission and then if we need to input a policy to um as far as use of it but again we have
no dedicated space okay so uh commissioners I will take everything you said i I think this is just an attempt on our part to make No I get it yeah because I want all of us to you know be able to function i want I want it to be fair i want us to be able to have You
have an office that you're able to meet with right everyone else has an office that they're able to meet with them whoever whoever they need to but as a commission I've been on this commission that was elected in 2000 took office 2015 and I have yet to have a space that
is solely dedicated to us that and we brought it up several times that is solely dedicated that we're able to come in when we need to come in have access when we need to have access because a lot of times we don't have the ability to call and pick up the phone sometimes
citizens want to meet with we have to avail ourselves almost immediately and as you're speaking I think I see an actual solution i will meet with staff and further discuss it i hear what you're asking for i do actually see a spot across the And
well you do have you do the commissioners do actually have an office space right just to come in and sit there and do whatever you need to do but I don't think that's the concern that we're discussing right now what we're discussing is a space for the commissioners to come in to meet with
groups as needed and so uh I see public works here he's understanding already what I'm saying we do have space that's not yet used over in the annex building so we can develop space there that will
be available for our commissioners to go in as needed and uh we still would adhere to all of the safety rules and concerns you know we have um security being put in everything so I was so let
you know heard Commissioner Bar yes so again I I just think we still have the two spots we have the commission office over here and we never lost we should have never lost the annex space over there so right and I don't
know who did that in my opinion I think we still have it because that's the last I know so I'm sorry i will go and look into it but I don't know who changed your that uh usage but I'm just saying we never lost it so I think that we still have to spot and then we if we
need anything else we will work within the confines so we appreciate the input and we will go back and come back with an answer with our next uh meeting okay go ahead i just want to clarify a couple of things number one we have the
commission room here and that is when we where we can go in and access and work yes um two the offices that are in this policy or available rooms the
conference room is that what's called the mayor's conference room that you're referring to i became the mayor's conference room that the commissioners previously had access to when needed when I did my research the answer would be yes okay so to to the
point I want to make is that typically when we're meeting with groups of people that's and I you correct me if I'm wrong that's not typically on the spot yeah I'm I'm thinking and so that seems something that has to be scheduled and the
solution that um we talked about using Outlook having the available rooms because even if there's a dedicated commission conference room we still need to schedule it so commissioners are not stepping on each other as well so what
we've discussed previously would lend well to what's needed for commissioners um as well so I just want to put that out there i think we have a solution we just need to clarify it and it sounds like there's some discrepancy on previously availability and new
availability and this new policy but um what I'm hearing and correct me if I'm wrong is that we will as commissioners have access as previously um been allowable but making sure we schedule it through hopefully an
electronic process and that Yes ma'am thank you any further discussion on this if not um charter review committee update Miss West sure and actually the chair of the charter review committee Terrell Hill is
here to um walk through where we are in this process um clerk if you could pull that presentation up again mr h mayor commissioners next slide go
technology batteries don't work it's it's her presentation um just to kind of give you guys an overview of where we've been uh it's with great pleasure that I stand before you um as a chair of the charter review committee uh that committee was assembled with 11 members uh upon the election of
Commissioner U Davis we ended up losing a member and we are hopefully waiting for a replacement to come in um as it relates to that Miss Wetlick who was our who was our ultimate has now stepped into that role and we still need that
addition in case of absences we've met approximately seven times um since we since our inception there was a two-year window for us to move forward at that time u during the course of those meetings and we have a we have another member here Miss Wise is here as well
this time but during the course of those meetings we had an opportunity to go with various topics u throughout the process council has been an integral part of what we've done as well as the clerks and their attendance we reviewed the charter we've gone over the charter in totality uh we've talked about
various topics from the qualifications of electors all the way to the gas authorities uh inception and the current processes that are in place uh and so all those things have been talked about uh at nauseium we've also discussed opportunities for the commission and
we'll have recommendations within our summary so at the conclusion of our process we'll put together a summary package that we'll bring before you uh with language uh as well as recommendations that we put in place for ordinances or that can either be ordinances or be a part of a of the
charter amendments um there were some places where we thought that it would be a lot easier to implement them if it was the commission's design based upon the recommendation but we have ordinance so that you can get immediiacy on those things as opposed to pushing them forward uh through the process and you
can maybe get certain things that are enacted which are very simple within the first process you'll have a first and second reading of ordinances you'll have deadlines you've got an outline as to what the schedule is uh and what we're looking to push forward at this time um and so what we're looking at uh is
trying to have all of our things in place so that as we move forward with the 2026 election cycle you guys will have a significant period of time to go through language to go through process to go through any thoughts that are there um and you'll have a amount of
time for deliberation we see that being well before this 2026 period we see us in fact finishing up in the early fall month of 25 I think will put us about a year ahead of time um and will put us in a position where that city of black can
start to move forward on some of these processes that are there um I just again want to thank out the processes that we've had thus far uh the council has been great uh in her participation and she has been steady in the things that she brought
forward the members of the of the committ have also worked very diligently to make sure certain aspects happen and just as a point of information for the commission this committed back um we had subcommittees that go through and we do significant research so we've had Chief
Shaw participate uh we've also had HR participate and answer questions as well as supervisor of elections and so all of those things were very very critical in what we have to use these sources looking for leaders stems as well as with neighboring communities as it relates to certain questions that come
up and so we'll provide those recommendations to the commission uh in hopes that as we move forward uh with those amendments uh that we are taking the oldest charters in the state of Florida and bringing up to date so that it's no longer in legal ease it's in
common terms thank you does anybody have questions any questions from Mr h just got a comment put out the Commissioner Jones or I think I didn't see this before that's that's a great presentation um I know one of the things
that we talking about Brazil was um trying to have or chart restructured where it be we talked about it uh what is your recommendation so far i know it's early on but for the structure of
mayor I mean excuse me commission mayor start talking about city attorney and other reporting structure have y'all discussed that part we we discussed it at length and and one of the things that we looked at was where the city attorney works and and that was a conflict piece
that was there and I've I've actually seen it exercise a few times in your meetings where the city attorney finds himself in a position um as a fiduciary of the city manager not being able to advise the commission on that and so what we talked about was having just
like in most structures the city attorney works for the commission they work at the liberty of the manager through the direction of the commission so their client is the city commission not the city manager and so when that happens it changes the way our the way
our charter is set up the city attorney works directly for the man for the manager so whenever there's any conflict of any type then the attorney has to move conflict out of those because she can't advise both entities
a follow up to that is that one of the things that we change by ordinance or have to be on the ball we have to get it it has to be a charter amendment because it's the way it's specifically written in there it can be done that way the other way that allows you to have some
leeway but it still creates issues is by doing it through contract and by certain services that are there but ultimately the charter prevails over anything even that contract so as you as you sit today our city attorney works directly for the manager
and not for the commission commissioner my question was answered okay commissioner Bl i think I'm sorry Commissioner Davis yes um so I want to go back to appointing another member um I did
receive information that the CRC voted to have another member appointed and I've spoke to Miss West about it and I wanted to wait until this presentation to see if indeed and what I hear is you're asking for that person for
absences and as you get through the rest of the process yeah so to that point I have reached out to a citizen i have to get officially the application back from her and I just like to ask the at city
attorney um until I get the application i can't recommend her what what what can I do i I know the person you can go ahead and and make a motion to appoint her and we'll fill the paperwork out the application on the
back end as an emergency item yeah time is of the essence it may be an opportunity for you to do it as an emergency item because we're continuing to move forward and we got another meeting set pretty quickly and just for transparency I was asked that as the new
commissioner that I would um appoint a person since I have not I was not a commissioner when the CRC was created so um I'll make a motion that we accept this as an emergency item we have a motion second motion to second all in
favor any opposition okay no but I have comment go ahead who appointed you on the commission who who appointed me yeah who was your who yeah recommended we appointed her
but who recommended yeah it had to be recommended by Yes i I get that i was asked by a couple of people and ultimately you ultimately was recommended by I think it was Commissioner Campbell i also asked
Correct so Campbell just Okay um Thank you thank you go ahead Mayor as a as a point of information during our during our CRC meeting uh the board in totality recommended that um that we re we made
the motion and that we recommend that Commissioner Davis um make a recommendation to the commission for her appointment i think that's where the the confusion comes in um because that's that's the way we we did it inside of that meeting as a recommendation to the commission but the commission's at liberty to do whatever it chooses i mean I think it's only fair because each
commission did have each commissioner did have the ability to make that recommendation so it I think that's wasn't I wasn't bing I wouldn't know but information point information so go ahead so I I want I recommend uh Miss
Margaret Ellington to the CRC motion to approve second a motion to second all in favor i any further discussion any opposing position i just want to make sure they don't have to be a city resident correct
is he a res she doesn't live in the city so I don't think so because there are members on the We have members that aren't i just wanted to make sure that that was clear okay okay okay thanks for clarifying so adding Okay and I will get
her paperwork okay um Commissioner Bor yes i I mean I just I know we had um decided on at least moving the city attorney um direct report to the commission and I thought we had done
that quite early um I know Commissioner Jones John will mention we did the research and um the majority of the state of Florida and even across the nation that's the way uh most uh attorneys report to the commission and
that's what we decided on i thought that we have that already put forth for the last election that we just had so that's what I was left with after the the decision that was made and I don't know if anybody else understood that to be or
not that's not how I understood it because there wasn't a referendum on the ballot you know we we we had spoke about it being on the referendum uh for the last for the the last election that was pass
commission did you did you hear that or were you there was discussion however I think at that time the city attorney advisor she did not want that at that point so that's not accurate i I've always been amendable to reporting at
any rate it wasn't it wasn't it was a discussion but it was never finalized and it has to be upon the whole trial revision via referendum in this case and there's a specific process by which it has to be submitted to the supervisor of election and the language has to be in place that's going to be on the ballot
and voted on by the commission so but we did discuss it at I think we were we had consensus that that was what we all thought the way the way it should be in the future once we get through this process any other questions discussion
thank you oh go ahead i'm sorry crc thank you for your hard work as a former member of the CRC um that's definitely a labor of love and um Mr hon was a great chair when I was there obviously moving this
CRC along um and getting done early but thank you very much because things were very archaic but thank you guys for all you do thank you we we spent three hours working on one sentence and and so it just let you know but thank you again and I thank everyone that on that
committee as well thank you airport advisory update yeah he is here so we're going to have an update and not just not just airport advisory but actually airport as well
focus on environment mayor commission commissioners so um as city manager stated um this is really more of a a will be an established communication with you guys
uh post advisory meetings uh you know even though you guys approve everything uh that goes before uh it it's still a good mechanism to keep you guys up updated on projects and and activities before I go any further thank
you for giving me this opportunity for the new commissioner um and for others so we got going on out there obviously you know uh it's a lot of lot of things going on at Vala uh we're
fortunate that uh we are in a place of uh really favor with FAA and and FDOT we have been very fortunate grants that are going to pan
out to be very very good projects for this community so this presentation is going to be broken up in three different parts uh similar to what was presented to the advisory board one is going to give you guys a recent accomplishments uh and then transition over to what were the
regular business items that were discussed updates on each item um and give you guys a snapshot of airport uh activity from a op standpoint as well as from a rapid standpoint in this specific slide here
the activity is going to run for four month period typically you know I'd like to have it about three months or every quarter but uh this particular one is about the ultimate period to cover the bread and butter you know you
can't be in airport without having the the proper uh uh standards and inspections uh passed by the FA we were successful this year uh as a result of our our uh relationship with FDOT we
were able to convince them and show them of the need to address some significant other problems like uh payment markings retainings those kind of things so uh next commission meeting you will see the item on there in amount of about
$200,000 from Ftown to repaint 92735 which is significant not only with the airfield safety there's a focus on beer quality every year we get inspected our guys were successful uh they checked the the two
12,000 gallon tanks they also checked obviously the mobile units uh I will say this is the first time since I've been here that we've had a really good core group that's certified in the training space so checking field and those kind of things you cannot operate the
liability is unimaginable if you don't take care of that first so I can treat you guys I'm focused on training the team is focused on training and we are providing quality service when the gym start showing up
you got to be able to accommodate this item here is called a ground power unit essentially it is an external electrical source for jets jet pull instead of running his engines which is very expensive to provide cooling air or
electronics inside we have a unit that we were able to purchase uh three grand dollars that will power the aircraft while it's sitting on the ramp and the customer is out on their business so they come back a matter of gate they just throw the engines up the electric
power is already there and they move on this is probably one factor a common factor um that plays into jet service at Palaga they call "Do you have a ground power unit?" "No we don't." Okay we
going to the next airport that's over so we're very fortunate it's a popular item the guys been trained on it and we haven't start pushing it out just yet but we certainly will start pushing out that flag to have these kind of amenities upgrading hey you
know this has been a chore for us but over time you know delayed maintenance those kind of things and this is one of those projects where we had to go through and look at the airfield side the landing side we upgrading y'all the landscape light if you ever get a
chance please go out there and take a look at your airport you know I've got many complaints and concerns from pilots coming in because you have a 247 airport okay so while we sleeping they're still able to use the airport they can
manually cut on the lights and those kind of things they turn on the benefit lights so they always call it the black hole either you pull in and you can't see anything and that's alarming because it must be emergency issue or maybe just
someone late to the bus but we got the airport lit up got the parking lots to take care of next but uh you know in terms of the facility and the hangers you know it is a really good looking
place security security is a serious item in Air Force whether it's commercial or GA we're going to bring our security i'm not going to get into specifics but I need you to know that we got we got uh
mechanisms on the gates you know before kind of free fall uh we have the the the ability to go code access uh not getting off the airport but coming into the airport uh cameras replacing security
gates access control system we are in a in a place where we're dealing with older equipment and obviously you don't miss it so much so you know we got great dollars from FDOT and we're subjectively complete on truly upgraded security at
the airport transitioning into probably the signature project for this commission okay the taxway echo project uh most of the commissioners were here when we first had a conversation the former mayor was smarter workshop if
this is tax away echo this is this is a project where we are um support of FAA in doing a taxi way from 27 approach to the midfield in two
phases um environmentals have been complete as permitted um and we are are funding uh to do the design aspect of it and we're also looking at um you know next steps
coming back for you guys and showing you you know this is what we're looking at at the end of the day you know this is what it's involved for 28 years you have a large personal aircraft ownership
clientele 90 plus I think we need to transition to accomodating the bunker folks we need to transition to having the bunker folks here and staying here okay so so having movement on this project was a a significant achievement
so we are we are looking forward to the next six months to come to you guys with some really good news and and a clearly understanding kind of timeline continue on this is a look so we talked about
Texaway Echo you know the old do illustrations on the airport look at this picture these are the kind of facilities that you'll see over there coming down the sides of 27 along Texas way to go this that tax away allows us
as a community as a city uh airport management to accommodate property folks want to come in there develop property lease property from us longterm fairly common in airport
industry it gives us longterm option user revenues so if you want a picture where we going to be in three to five years this is probably the clearest picture that you can get and you know it's probably one of my
most favorite pictures probably one of my my most awesome achievements of late so this is the first collaboration um outing with the uh school district so we are set up now to cycle all the different schools
throughout the county come out to the airport not just get a tour but you're also going to get firsthand um uh knowledge from pilots and others about how and what you can do in the aviation
industry being a rural small town guy from South Mississippi you know I understand rural America you just don't have the exposure so we want to really really be aggressive at letting these young folks know there is plenty of
opportunity in aviation you can always say it started at our hometown airport so that's an awesome picture we got this tour coming up I believe the 20th of May so look around for more pictures into regular business land uh so we've been hearing about this long
time back and forth um the latest everything has been submitted to nothing you know all documents been submitted we are waiting for them to respond back to us uh but uh you know that process was long but at least it's out of my hands
now so the old terminal building that's not out of our hands yet still got some work to do on that uh you know it's always tough when you inherit uh older projects you got to work
through them because a lot of practices change and a lot of rules change those kind of things but um as discussing advisory board uh we're still looking at options to come up with the best decision for
this I come up with the the cost per direction of city manager looking at using modular buildings but at the end of the day you know no decision has been made and latest uh tail ending of trying to get
information for uh you to consider any question before I move from this or you want Yeah let's wait on hanger maintenance so a number of years ago uh the airport started a
maintenance fee because obviously dollars were not available so we had to figure out hey how do you get how do you offset some of these uh costs here we have a fee and we've been really aggressive addressing issues at the airport to the point of some of you
probably have received emails do you have any maintenance issues please respond to me so um they've been using it lights doors not functioning properly so those are just ways of you know taking care of data facilities but it's
also a customer service piece to where we need to focus on that and that's what I'm trying to drive that environment therapy i think that's the last slide on regular business so I think I'm going to transition into the opposite side revenue
stock so that's the last four months or so um the take away from this is looking at the month of February that is probably the highest grossing revenue for Black airport in
years okay and uh I won't take all the credit for it but there was some intriguing factors that played a part one was the temporary flight restrictions over Daytona when the president of the United States
showed up so believe it or not we got some of those impacts so we had seven or eight jets Nets come in they purchased fuel and when they purchase it you know you're talking,000 gallons of P 1500 gallons of
P and that that's significant for us so you know we uh we really had a good month um during that time also the flight schools were very active um and probably from a from a a flight school private owner standpoint the biggest
driver was probably the the prices higher prices you know we finally found the spot uh in the region we got the location but now we're finding that most folks in the region are transitioning they are starting to look at collect as having the most competitive price and
they've been responding to it operations take off and lers okay so if you look at the bottom right most folks don't realize that's the reality of of of where we are so we averaging about you know before the weather kicked in about 500 ops a day
that's busy that's real busy but untwowered every so you know over this period here you know what I'm showing is 19,000 ops okay but I'm also breaking it down to
was single engine turbine hilos military etc etc we have a large diverse group of operators coming in and out of there so you know this is something that I report routinely uh this is something I think you need to be aware of but I think it's
something that gives you a really clear idea of how the the airport is growing and how we need to be smart about how we move forward with setting it up i think this the end and the end the end okay thank you does anybody have any
questions i don't have a question but I do have a comment i thank you first of all um that really gave me a better insight um to the operations at the airport so I definitely thank you for bringing that before the commission thank you well I I would I would
encourage each of you guys come out come out you know it it it makes a difference um and I believe I've met with most you know gave the tour came on board and those kind of things but you know things changing things are are are really
changing and you know we have an opportunity in this community we have a significant opportunity to be the best airport in Northeast Florida best GA airport i I'm telling you it we have an opportunity we
need to embrace that not just for you know the citizenry but for the youth you know it it it's an opportunity okay anybody else have any comments or questions i just want to just thank him for what he um brought forth and again
thank you for where you where the airport you brought airport from and where you have it at right now i have a lot of work to do but but we gonna get there thank you thank you Mr sure okay so thank you commissioners um what you're
experiencing tonight is uh in response to your request to have our advisory boards or the various boards that are meeting to come and update you so that as commissioners you know what's going on in each of the boards uh meetings and
so forth uh so some of the events I would like to bring to your awareness is the fact that the rise solution did officially start April 1st and it's been very successful we also um um we had the ribbon cutting ceremony
etc uh and at city hall itself we are still continuing to improve city hall we realize that um the fire alarm system uh we don't have really one so we're in the midst of uh addressing that now we also
started recently with addressing even the landscaping of city hall you may have seen that too today um per one of the commissioners request we've taken back to security and um they are involved with all of the buildings that
we have um and suddenly was scheduled very soon for completion and we um started on public boards and uh we're looking to work with Jenkins as well as they're completing uh construction by
the middle of May June price Martin will be addressed as well when it's uh when it's completed uh additionally north side the resurfacing and deal with potholes and storm drainage and so forth that has now been addressed and as you
know we are hoping to do a lot this year with that north area uh we expect to have a construction contractor or not construction but contractor uh awarded by April 17th so not only did the best
go but you know we are now almost at 10 wait he's done or can I I'll let you okay um additionally uh public works department has um repaired some of the
storm drainage entrances that have been broken for five six years or more so we've repaired at least six and hope to get more done i think the most significant improvement that the city is experiencing is the quantity of water i
met with water treatment plant and uh I will send you uh the reports themselves but I looked out uh where we came from in March 2024 to where we are now March 2025 march 2024 the quality of water was
at one uh we are not supposed to go beyond 80 so that mean we were very problematic because we had to request it to uh put the statements uh on all bills invoices to the public etc
and then uh we realized uh around September 2024 that the water treatment plant did not have the necessary tools and and matter if I came to this commission and the commissioner awarded funds for us to
address that concern so to want you to know that we're very grateful that you made that decision because now the quality award is down to 5.7 and what that means is that now we have been housing um inspections we have
inspections every 90 days and at this point we're now reaching out to the state and requesting that we be taken off of the the 90day inspection and we will probably only be inspected every five years
okay so that's a huge huge huge huge um accomplishment by the water treatment department we also um want to mention the flashback that we're at the end of the feasibility study and we've also
gotten quotes and we are very much in line with the amount that's in the bud agenda close now or about 150,000 so we're pretty confident that we'll be able to give you a bank update within the next two um commission the fireworks for the
glow crab um we have come to a very good understanding we will have fireworks um without contractors working with us in a real positive manner and so the cost will be very low and will not be
that $12,000 that we were looking at and I think that's pretty much it does anybody have any questions Miss Cotti or John um about the street resurfacing uh is
that something Joe's going to present later or you just wrap it all up um I just kind of gave you a highlight and Joe can talk more thoroughly on that matter can you come up okay so sir we're going to talk about this later i guess
bed tabulation so I can wait okay i have a question okay but on splash pan did you see the one in Klay County i see where you took the field trips how did you like that well I went to report yeah and it's probably the CRA coordinator
that actually did field trip i did do one or two i went to the one in Ocala and saw that one uh I also saw the one in Green Cove and I saw the one in Winter Park but our CRA coordinator actually went out to six places and uh
we we are confident that um the city of Kalaka can have a splash pad that we can maintain um the one offer for instance in um green co they're running it using spring water yeah we cannot do that okay
so we have to address it as if we're maintaining a pool and um we've done the research and we're confident so we we're moving ahead great i'm sorry there is one more thing I very important that I should have mentioned again uh we've
made significant progress with the affordable housing grant and I think that's something that the commissioners were really uh looking forward to um we had one person already that has actually closed and was a recipient of the 20,000
so um you know she could not have done it without the funds that the city of Pala school gave to her through the grant from Department of Commerce as well as to the home repairs uh most of those are in permitting with the county
and pretty much at the end of that permitting cycle so really coming forward we have in total of about 12 homes that will be repaired uh by we are hoping by the end of June okay thank you any additional questions of missed no
just want to commend her for the work that's been done but I'd like to get those reports especially in um not only just virtual way you can send those to us in electronic form that's something that we can certainly help showcase to the community that we have very fiscally
responsible for with these funds i don't know over time that since I've been in my life since 1992 uh that I've ever heard of anything as it relates to any programs for uh giving you know helping the community in this
capacity thank you anybody else okay i think we all agree yes okay thank you and it's all team team effort team palaka just to kind of piggy back i
think it's very um I think it's to our advantage to highlight um as Commissioner Borum said we don't praise our own pond the way that we need to and I think that things of that nature needs to be more visual
um and even if we have people who are have been recipients asking them do they mind giving a testimony so that they can um so that we can put it out there because again we we we do a job but we don't do a great job
at publicizing what it is that we have accomplished um anytime we go into Tallahansi or beyond people are amazed at the things that we've accomplished in this small town and so again I think it's to our
advantage if we begin to put it out force it out a little bit more um so that we can praise our own pun right here in the city and they're willing to have their photo taken in front of their new home i mean that real estate we do that and that they're willing to have
that become public also the water quality I think we need to sending that to you yes it's quite remarkable move from whatever number to down to 5.7 5.7 is really right and then and then
also you're moving from 9 month every 9 month uh no 90 days uh inspection to five years in yes sir that's what we're pursuing and additionally um the insert that is on the bill that is going to be deleted as well but that
should be national news uh so and we are in the uh as you saw tonight I did have a young man here Mr carter helping me and he's going to be one of the persons helping me do exactly what you said
until they can see of the commission and staff yes sir okay thank you okay I'm going to open the floor up to public comment please limit your comments to three minutes be polite respectful provide your name and city or
town of residents and we do have a yellow card Mr vickers three minutes will be up no it sits so long waiting was well worth it good evening good evening to all of you employed by
the city state county or whatever my name is Ascu Vickers i reside at 207 no my business at 207 North 18th Street 32178 this is what I came about
we can we must do better than what we've been doing i want to talk about something that's a reality that we talk talk about lives matter regardless of who they are where they come from what they do in the
past few years four people have died right in the prison of our police department sitting there noise beyond the scope of what the the state statute
says the state statute says in that vehicle within 25 ft of that vehicle is a felony it's not a crime it's a crime the statue is 316 03
3045 316 304 and I know I measured myself the distance from my place to across the street is over 150 yards 150 ft I should say that's a
difference between yards and feets and the police said there and nothing happened in the road two people died at that value a couple of years later same thing needs to be played loud two more people
died why is this happening no one has addressed this problem it is a problem when we have people come shooting people right at prison police department singing of the vice
president the second thing is that I talked to uh Chief Strong about the issue that I'm doing and had some complaint about that the vehicles of the police department are not over he said to me that they are have a tracking
device right so he knows that I don't have I looked at all county I all their cars are the final but we don't have our car we speak
we cannot that should be changed another thing is that when I call for uh for uh for him I have been posted I've been there for 49 years been sight for over 47 years sting
no alcohol no drugs and all this I call for help and I can't get it I speak with the same protection as everybody else I venture into this city by building a place 49 years ago that meant I was not going anywhere I have not gone where I'm
not going where you're going to be with me for at least 10 or 15 more years i respect something happened with this noise and yeah about that you're about you're about at your time i'm not out the woods i'm looking for something that
happened there's a lot more I have to say but I'd be back every time you open these doors i'd be back here thank you thank you is there anybody else here for public comment seeing none we'll close public comment does anybody want to respond to Mr vicker's concerns yeah I I would like
to say something but not directly to Mr vicker but it was it's it's in regards to his his request and uh I did um speak briefly uh with Miss Carter i ran it by about the police uh car numbers on the
vehicles um a while back but again there are numbers on some of the vehicles i mean it all of the vehicles um are not marked but I mean we will have to figure out why some of those vehicles may not be marked some of them may be um people
who are investigators among other things so I'm not sure that will have to be determined by chief and the city manager determines which cars are marked and what but they're all are not unmarked with with numbers
sir say that the other piece uh that was asked of me was uh that we have a location uh specifically specifically designated for um residents or whoever to come in just
to have access to an agenda book of what have you i haven't passed that on this card yet but I did speak with our city clerk and um so in say that there there is a book available but my request would
be to have a a dedicated book available to the public to be able to come in and view it and not have to worry about trying to go online and and access it so that that's my quest to
Yes I hear you now thank you um Chief Sha do you want to speak to any of Mr vicker's concerns or comments good evening mayor and commissioners let's see where to start um I'll work backwards um vehicles numbers on vehicles u there is an
additional cost when we do our striping for the numbers on vehicles when we went to the GPS units it addressed answering any complaints on any vehicle we were able to see where they are from the time of the complaint and identified it um if it's something the commission would like to see we can also add those numbers
back to the vehicles but we hadn't had anything additional come in the last uh about 10 years so we hadn't made that change um I am open to adding numbers to vehicles if needed if that's what you guys would like to see um that's not a a
difficult change it's just something we definitely have to change when we add our striping to our vehicles again you are correct all the vehicles don't necessarily get striking and wouldn't have numbers but we do have a way to monitor as it pertains to Mr mr vickers
and his calls for service again I'll reiterate we met Mr vickers almost a year now um we haven't had any calls for service for since that time uh we sat down with him we outlined
a plan so that we could make sure when we approached we did not uh get accused of harassing his customer and we asked him for some simple things some simple changes and we told him we would be back make those changes and we
would proceed forward we had not at another meeting situation but we haven't had a call specific place of vision to address those issues i think I spoke several times about the other situations and then I'll
be prepared to answer any questions that you may have regard thank you does any have any questions for Chief Shaw well I I don't have a question to Chief well maybe it's uh I think you've answered it already before in terms of
having um if you're if you're staged across uh or at a distance from crowds or whatever that may be that's on private property um that you don't you don't have the right to disperse that
crowd is that correct if you're on private property well we're I'll address it a little different we're cautious on how we handle that and we like to get with those private owners before doing so but in in this situation um we also
have procedures and and how we attack certain things so that's something that the public doesn't understand but it's not as simple as um you would believe to say automatically we already addressing so and that's something that I have stated
i just wanted to at least get that out there so that people understand better as it relates to why sometime officers just stage or whatever they there's protocols um Yes sir that's correct force people off private property then
the other piece of it as it relates I'm assuming is is the noise sound of the house in terms of if you hear noise that's um within 25 ft of you and whatever ele um from standpoint that you
know people could be fined for that if they maintain that correct that's correct and uh one of the things Mr biggest fail to mention is that that law just actually changed back um not too long ago but uh the the the purpose of
it is clear clear and audible and that's the other portion of the statute that that needs to be understood okay um it's just not you just hear noise it's clear and audible thank you thank you sir now question chief
during striping process is there I mean I don't know how many people complain about numbers but if it is on a big concern can you do that put numbers back on the card we don't have any problem with that sir if we need to we can uh haven't had
any complaints outside of that but I mean yeah we can go back and do to doing it seems like big things Mr rickers I mean he's been around 40 plus years in this business and as a small ass um I remember one time they even had names of
officers on the cars the dog names as well so um I I do understand concealment of UC cars undercover detectives you know concealing their identity but our fleet is not that big if that's a man if
we get a win with Mr vicers I would love to see that happen um and and and this is to Mr vicers what What would you like for us to actually do Mr vicers cuz I I appreciate you coming up week in and
week out when we have these meetings but sometimes it is a little unclear what what what where's that mark that we need to reach where so that we could actually median so to speak after the chief get I
really would just if it's a one sentence type deal come up just think about that while it's not give and take so sentence yeah I just want to be specific and then maybe we could right we need to we need to know because I know I don't want Chief getting beat up time any time come
up here just want something that what we expect we we got you with the numbers I think yeah we well I mean that's what they had before so what you know outside of the UC like what what should you see on undercover undercover so that's not
police lingo but um so probably not more so you know those type things and and So again I think that that's valid and so I'll be happy to assist the community and and I other people ask as well so I think that's a good answer one sentence
mr vick can you can you come up Mr vickers in one sentence one this is this is what this is what I would I get I get it i would make the request that Miss Party and Mr vickers um get together i'm quite
sure these meetings have happened before yes to see if there is something that from the day-to-day side of things um that could be addressed um and personally with some of the things that came up in town hall um there's
substantial things that are being addressed by the police department but again I think it'll be to the advantage of Mr vickers to have that one-on-one um with our city manager to see what his overall concerns are i appreciate that
and Mr vickers I will make sure that we follow through um uh city clerk will get with you your phone number etc so we can schedule thank you thank you consent agenda okay
consent agenda pull on the consent agenda mayor yes i'd like to pull H and I H and I also like to build a a we have a H and I any other things any other items okay i'll make a motion that
we accept the consent agenda excluding items A H and I for discussion second you have a motion to second all in favor i any opposition may I make the request sure
if a item is pulled instead of us listening to the entire breakdown if the commissioner has no specific questions that can be asked directly so that it possibly um save a lot of uh unnecessary chatter that it be
done that way so we can move forward accordingly we can i just didn't know if again the people in the community that are here in the audience would know what we're talking about but well I'm asking that to give the reason of why it's being pulled because sometimes it can be a quick address okay so Commissioner
Jones first read as you agree to first please adopt resolution 2025 R51 authorizing the submission of a hazard mitigation grant HMGP application to Florida Department of Emergency Services Fore,750 75% grant funding up to 25% go
ahead what was your question so 25% of the project is $80,000 to the city uh I think it's the city on a road that's in the county it's not city and as I understand it from doing a little bit of
research that road excuse me that was currently closed i went out spoke to some residents on that road and they like that because there was a lot of racing going on that road uh hazardous activities around the
road i can't ask our officers because our officers don't patrol that area uh the county did have a meeting with their constituents in that area but they didn't go into details with us so we actually know what we're going what that feedback was um I know that we have
sewage pipes buried under the ground well not buried underground that's the problem not buried on the ground and um I spoke with some of the county m road man folks as well doing research and they
were also stating that the road being closed have actually some of their problems out there so I want to know why we're going to spend $80,000 where we probably could spend less just to cover those pipes with them is that a
person needs is that an option uh let me have wait excuse me let me first have Mr the public works person explain and then uh our grandfather came up and ask the question um first is that an option that's my
first question secondly what would be the cost of the second option versus going in we talk about helping them with the restruction road I know the 310 totality of the funds is not coming out of city dollars
however 80,000 is and is going to outside of the city limits we benefit from from that that that right away um but we talked to folks out there and we know they actually want and if so that's
what I would like that's what's missing in the detail of the report it said the county did it didn't say what our due diligence were so I wanted to ask that question when we're actually going to have that much invested well it's it's
one of our main uh feedbacks to the plant so it's a very important pipe right the pipe ran through the center of that bridge that they taken out um the problem is that if they leave the bridge out and the consensus I got from the people out there and we didn't ask a lot
of people just the closest neighbors on both sides yes they're happy with it being closed um they've already had one accident uh one car came barreling through the concrete and landed in the creek already since they've closed the road so there's going to be that end of it um the problem is supporting that
pipe because right now if they pull that whole thing out and just go back to a natural uh waterway we have no way of supporting that pipe it's a crucial factor we have to do something with it so we currently got some drawings and some things uh as far as trying to shoot underneath the river pulling a new pipe
uh the county is also working with us to their engineers coming up with some ideas how to support the pipe but it it get very convoluted but there's a lot of things that we have to do to support this pipe um we have to dig back further where the junctions are where the pipes come together if it moves at all it's
it's there's a lot that has to be done so more importantly uh to your question commissioner we have met also with the county concerning this matter uh at least twice and
additionally the pipe that u Mr joe is referring to is a very critical pipe for our entire wastewater distribution system so we cannot afford to damage that pipe at all we cannot afford for it
to get harmed at all and right now uh my understanding is as it is you know we can we can leave that but I have matter of fact just uh yesterday last week I contacted county administrator myself to
find out when will their engineer because we're working with them collaboratively um they offered the services of their engineering preparing the drawings for us so and the recommendation and then that way we would have not just one
option but possibly two or three our primary concern is that we cannot allow those particular height to be damaged at all and that that makes us want to look at something else called resilience you know resilient I can't say the word but
you know that word so the reason why I say that because we we need to have options as to how to take them that if it's that critical which it is so I said my number
one thing what are the options that's my that's my first statement of question there yet can we have what are the options because this is just what if that grant wasn't out there so we're going to come out and kick out 300 $10,000 i mean please so you know this
is something and let's give a little bit of historical perspective this is something that the county found because they had a problem and they stumbled on it and then their stumbling you know we were alerted so we immediately went out
there and started jiggling uh with that um so now Miss Green can you go a little It wasn't It wasn't finished okay let's bring Joe back because when we talk about options I was going to ask you sure um so you you said several options
so what uh bearing horse man that's one of the options well one of the options to directional bore we cut it on both sides it's not a malible pal pipe it's something that's it's hard and it's in place so we'd have to shoot underneath and we dig up that's the probably the
higherend more expensive option but it'd be the more permanent option the other more cost effective option that we're working with and the county is putting together now is building uh like stansions putting foundations in holding it up in place but then yeah it would just float but we would have to put all
safety measures so kids couldn't crawl over it which they're of course being to do so um and and things to try to keep the public safe would be additional costs and things so both have both options that we're we have right now we are limited to just those two options there's not a lot you can really do here
um but uh no no one will be exceptionally cheaper to one but just building stansions so the county's actually working on those drawings with their engineers right now so we're just waiting on that we currently got another drawing and uh uh we're waiting on a
price as well from DB Civil to give us to find out what it would cost to actually shoot underneath and be the permanent fix so So with the remain 310,000 you have plans for that money i do not know sir when you say that please
explain well the grant is for 310,000 right if we're just our our contribution would only be the 80,000 yes sir so I was wondering that's why it's cost would it cost us that much to do this
repair um or we talking about doing a repair plus the road because the road isn't no no okay so let let if I may may I have Stephanie explain at least the grant application so you'll know what we're
applying for I actually spoke on it i knew but Go ahead yes go ahead so the public can hear so I actually went and I spoke to the engineer uh Scott over there um there isn't a decision yet about the road if they're going to keep it or if they're going to junk it at
this junction it doesn't matter to the city about the roads it's all about the coverts underneath so in speaking to him if they are going to do their fix on it they're going to to the cheapest which is not in the best interest of us in the
best interest when I brought him actually the estimate on what was going to get done he said it was better to bury it and pay the 228,000 plus the bidding fees plus everything else on top so they are
putting their project forward for the road for the coverts for the bridge with HMGP so it makes sense to put it in tandem together to get the project done in the same timeline and with the same funding it makes sense but I was wondering what
options we had and I and I again this is speaking because the people out there are thinking we're going to make that road smooth and nice for them to go speed and so a lot of times people that live in that area that really have a big big voice to me that's Yeah and the
sidebar was that uh from the county perspective for them to do it the way how we would consider perfect it's more than a million dollars and so that is remembered and that's a part of their decision making process so we are
actually you know we're given the courtesy and we do have a timeline that we can kind of wait for the drawings from their engineer so once we get that then we'll know how to proceed okay thank you so we're consistently this
project one last thing you mentioned um a car almost barreled into that in the in the in the hole in the road yeah um Mustang no we won't be I don't think you'll be liable for that that that
county however could we ask them to help us put some barriers further away from the bridge that would make sense i don't know if you have a relationship with them but I do and they they're working on that as well right now there's a big piece of equipment sitting there they put it in place but they are going to put the concrete barriers they'll put up
signage everything i mean it'll be a actual road end there'll be all kinds of safety measures put in place when it comes time to Yeah yeah we were there too yes go ahead Commissioner D i move to accept
uh consent agenda A sorry motion to second all in favor i anybody have any public comment on this public comment all in favor i did i'm sorry okay thank you
item eight hi and then I can talk Jane yes I can talk about HNI together in general um my question is and the reason I pull these I've noticed we're doing a lot of reappoints to boards my question is how are these open board
appointments made available to others to apply because when I look at the applications on some of these some of these board members have been there for years and years and years so that's my question forward
and miss clerk who wants to speak to that do you have a legal address that for the moment sure we can structure it in a different way like the way that Putnham County does if you ever look at their agenda um
they have the rolling board appointments and if if you would prefer for a structure like that on our agenda we can certainly accommodate that so there's more transparency for the public yeah and and and really agenda is fine but again making sure Yeah some some way
that we can let our citizens know that there's opportunity to serve i mean I just keep seeing real I see this all month all of the boards over in so what I am asking for is whether it's on the
channel or whatever it looks like for recommendations or some kind of transparency and availability to our citizens to be able to be on these boards as well
we confer with you yes but sorry that I'm not saying that things are not changing but I just think there needs to be opportunity for others and I'm not sure how other communities do it as well and it might be worthwhile to look at
that and get it also on social media and our website of course which I think it's on but just call is there I know that each board has um
Go ahead commissioner i know that his board has different policy but it may be something that if we can bring the policies for the boards to the commission um that we do have the the power to look at to see if um there's an
opportunity for us to revamp or update them um so let that please be one of the policies that come before us so that we can take a look at thank you but in terms if you are okay I'll make the motion i'll make the motion that we move
forth with these reappointments we have a motion do we have a second second i'll second we have a motion to second anybody um for public comment for this item say no public comment all in favor i any opposition thank you Madam
Mayor yes um I'm at her in my pull i don't and I had to say I had a circle for B and it's it's a legitimate question we already approved it well for the record or
something you got to look at it you'll see why it's Yeah we already approved it so Notable do we want to recess for 10 minutes or Zoe okay um commission appointments just to let the commission
know she's already been appointed but it's just to give people information and that a motion a second all in favor give us some information about
once you start attending about this about the coalition um Missy or Jones I'm going to ask Miss Jones human resources to explain where we are with that process
okay so um Madame Mayor commissioners um this was one item that was on the T uh we had been planning for a while and of course um it was pulled by the commission until we got a permanent city manager in place so we didn't want to move forward with that um we had reached
out previously to the other three vendors that we had um without using Mr witson for the first one and they were available then um in contacting them at this point i have two of them that are still available um that have expressed
that if the scope of what they submitted the first time their price remain the same if the scope of what the commission is looking for has changed then their prices would change i also contacted a third um team building
um um that has given the information that they presented to me um that he sent out actually sent it to me today is pretty much in line with what the others were and he just takes like a different approach so it all depends on the venue
and the date that um the commission would like to have this team building and if the scope of what was previously submitted is what we're still aiming for then we'll be able to go out and get the um one minute to go finish yeah finish
please okay so we'll be able to get um to be able to provide a better um a product at the end of it so we'll have the location we'll have a date we'll have a time if the scope is the same we'll have the vendor and then we'll be able to present back and say
these this is what they're going to provide um based on what you have with an actual number of the of what's going to it's going to cost us to do this team building and Commissioner Davis I'm going to ask for clarification what are we looking to accomplish with this
team building and who are the expected attendees not sure what we're doing so if we can operate in complete transparency um during the time where we talked about the team building um previously um just to be honest and
honest there was a major disconnect between commissioners amongst ourselves as well as staff um so we asked that at that time we bring in someone to help us uh come up with what's the issue and
come up with ways that we can navigate and move on as a cohesive unit there was a lot of discourse and it may have been um none not intentional but ways that we would be able to better work amongst the administration component so the
attendees at the last one um was the commission as well as some of the department heads um one of the reasons why we halted with um moving forth at that time was because the last time we did it we had a temp we had an interim
serving as the city manager at that time so um it wasn't a lot of things that were discussed or a lot of things that we took into consideration began to change as a result of that interim moving in so so forth and so move so
that kind of how we got to the point um and even more so um recently um it's we wanted I wanted I desired to wait so we that we would have be able to have the permanent city manager whomever that may have been now we know as Miss Cardi so that she would be able to have the input
and to um as we can continue to grow as a cohesive human um so yeah that's how we got to the point of okay and then second question was what was the hope accomp to accomplish what was the intent well I
think I think the question was answered however um in light of that history I guess my question is as a commission and having a team building with city staff so you will have to help me
reframe this because our relationship and I'm not saying we don't have relationship so please hear me in context and where where I'm going with this next statement is that we have a city manager the city manager commissioner relationship is critical
the city manager manages the staff and so I'm trying to understand a benefit of or even appropriateness I I think I want to venture to ask of a commission city
staff team building in light of um movement that we've had relationships so I guess that's where I'm trying to go and again I wasn't here but from the point I've been here I'm just not seeing a benefit of what we're
trying to accomplish and what would be the scope of that so that's it commissioner Bond okay i think I might be able to answer a little bit of that um it it was some discourse uh within the city at that at the time prior to
you coming on the board and um as a result of that there was a meeting that was we we we all decided that you know having a team building um exercise would would try to help break down some of the
barriers and help everybody understand what their roles were as they sat whether you were in u you know leadership role or whether you was in a commission role and so out of that we we we we solicited the company who captured
all of that information and as a result of that I think you should have gotten that report okay so that's where we are right now in terms of um reconvening that to make sure because I don't think
everything is all clear based on the um the delay in terms of now we now we've got a permanent city manager so I I think it's still important to to kind of finish that up because I don't think um I think there still may be some things that need
to be cleared up and then once we get past that everybody understand what their roles responsibilities expectations is and and I think we can um you know go from there commissioner I think to answer the question
um our initial point of it I think does differ um with regard so I understand where Commissioner Davis is coming from with regards to uh the joint the joint venture um I
think there may be consideration that doing the team building amongst ourselves and the city manager and then having the city manager do with her staff um as far as the uh department head so I do understand where
you're coming from but the initial um I believe serves a different purpose than what we're looking for this time so there is possibility that we need to start from ground zero to build a twofold type deal to where it's the
commission and city manager then city manager and department heads so I think that was a very much valid point but again at that time there was a much different approach that we were trying there was something else that we were trying to accomplish um and it involved
everybody but I think that was a very much valid question and I personally as a recommendation would make that recommendation that we look at it as a city manager and city manager and uh
department Commission well and and those are really uh excellent points and with that being said I mean um would it be even a need to even move forward with with this if we just need to just if unless this
particular if if they can do it in a two-part I mean in the same day to where um we can do it amongst the commission and the city manager and the city manager can then work with uh staff u at that time so would that be a
recommendation with the department head city manager and the department heads can we do it like that maybe could you repeat that just one more time okay it was the recommendation that both you and Miss um you and Commissioner Davis mentioned so that we can do it between
the commission and the city manager and as well as with the city manager and the department heads and that way it'll be what you guys came up with i think that's what's said but then are we also looking to have somebody externally come
in and do it for each group and what does that look like i believe more specifically for the city manager and staff based on some things that have recently transpired i think that would satisfy some of the outcomes of um what
was presented so we can scratch this out for now and let's focus on staff giving them the ability to build the morale um that they need so I would say let that be the focus makes sense to me too thank
you i I agree and um to that point then that would then go into the city manager's court to coordinate with her staff doesn't involve and I also want to say that um now it's
coming back outside looking in i kind of remember i also want to say that I think the commission has made a huge step in the right direction now that we have a permanent city manager now that she has
goals and she has things that we're evaluating her on and that then holds her accountable to holding her staff accountable so I think those things will also hope I hope remedy any of p the
past behaviors and we can address them appropriately thank you so at this point that that seems to be the thought going forward is that city manager will work on this with the city thank you for the direction we understand and we'll move
forward we'll also be certain that you receive update as well thank you grant of a hearing ordinance 202512 annexation of property located at 1609 more street into the corporate limits of
the city of Palco Florida and is the second reading mr obama may commissioner good evening but this is the second hearing for this uh annexation along with the reasonzoning uh nothing has changed since the you
heard this on the first hearing and recommended approval motion to approve second have a motion to second is there anybody here for public comment on this item close public comment all in favor any opposition thank you ordinance
202514 reszoning property located 1609 Edgemore Street from Putnham County urban reserve to city of Pala single family residential again same property second reading um have a motion to approve second a motion to second is there anybody here
for public comment public comment all in favor I any opposition thanking property located 1822 Street from residential single family to two family residential R2 second reading again any questions motion to approve
second motion second anybody here for public comment on this item seeing none I close public comment all in favor i any opposition thank you ordinance 20256 annexation of property located on
1519 Cruel Avenue into the cooperate limits of the city of Palaska this is the first read mr gold that is correct madame Mayor the applicant is not present uh this item's been continued a couple times at the request of the applicant but he's not here today uh we have
placed calls to him we left a voicemail about alerting him about the meeting today um it is a very simple annexation request it's a single family home for the purpose of connecting to
waters system in the city and along with that request for annexation obviously we have to do a change to the future line use amendment map and also reszoning so it's up to you consideration whether you want to proceed with this item or you
want to wait until Mr spells the applicant is present go ahead commissioner Davis I have a question i know that the commission asked for first readings that the applicant be here sure um that is that is the reason I'm
bringing it up that's why it's been continued so there there is a legal basis for that uh when you have a quasi judicial hearing the applicant has the burden of proof of presenting their side and if obviously they're not here
they're depending on our planning director upholding their burden thank you thank you which is acceptable but that has not been how I have been advising this board because it deviates from standard land use i mean even in
addition to that that the failure to um even avail themselves or return phone calls i I mean yeah I'm going to move for continuous yes continue we have a motion and a second anybody
here for public comment on this being no all in favor i any opposition okay um nay okay i want to recuse myself from that vote but I didn't think you guys gonna go or let me let me let me let me
um wait what let me just You can't recuse yourself from a vote if you don't have a direct financial gain from it or Well I'm not going to have financial gain for from it but we said that they have to be here first of all last meeting there was a a letter stating
they want to continue that's correct because of uncertainty so I instead of continuing take it off until he requests it again okay so there there are advertising implications involved with that but I I need to go back to the
recusal yeah no letter last we'll need to have the for on the recusal okay so that was done before all right thank you okay i'm I'm confused me too the last meeting no we know about that we know about the letter but we're talking about the recusal you can't recuse if you don't have
conflict conflict of a dire have to vote there has to be a vote okay you want to vote yes we we already did all in favor and all of a suen I impose i may or may not have a financial gain i don't know
so without recuse lose yourself i can provide some some legal guidance when it comes to a pecuniary loss or gain it has to be direct it can't be remote or speculative so if if there is a direct
pecuniary loss or gain then you have to fill out a form 8 um in order to recuse yourself from voting but if it's remote or speculative then you still have to go ahead and you guys made me my brother-in-law was having an event and you guys made me recuse myself up here
on his dice i had nothing to do with it i don't even have a relationship with them and you guys said yes that was Do you remember that they had that uh Funday Funday funday Sunday and he's a brother-in-law no blood relation at all
i never dealt with any of his uh food trucking activities and you said that it could be from kinship well he's my godfather okay that's not good can I tell you Florida cities Florida cities has provided a
weapon that address those families fathering not fall within that c I mean father god father god father godfather those parameters of being able to if you yourself does do not have a financial gain and then even prior to you're
supposed to conce I mean I can make it easy I can make it easy on vote okay okay we got that So even though it's a little off cost we have four yeses and one nay
okay moving on to I know they're all tied together we've got to do each one individually ordinance 257 amendment of future land use the adopted comprehensive plan or property located 592 Krill from Putnham County urban reserve to city of Palo residential low
first reading same circumstance so the none of the the annexation didn't go through so we can't consider the res okay thank you i want to make I want to make sure that it has been continued
right yes thank you thank you okay we're at commissioner comment commissioner Davis do you have any comments yes I have a couple comments um Commissioner Borum Mayor Kh and I had
the opportunity if I'm still in your thunder she call me ahead but we had the opportunity to participate in Steam's wine so ribbon cutting with Miss Car as well um and a
few other um dignitaries dignitaries and we also had the opportunity to take a trip around the city on the bus to experience the route and we had the best opportunity to interact with something
like this um the police are extremely grateful that this bus has um started again even though it's just two days a week but um they said it's been lifech changing and we also got um a recorded message from two of the writers uh be
sending over to the city clerk so that we can have it um but they were just ecstatic um also I just want to let you know I had a meeting with April Ethridge who's the recruitment manager for the Girl Scouts of Gateway Camp Council um she's interested in growing Girl Scouts
in Pala and she's looking to have a community recruitment event which I'll talk to community fans about um but basically she has an overall goal of having them collaborate with the city so we can create a civic leadership badge
series um a meet your leaders badge series meeting with city commissioners so she has some great opportunity but more than anything is to develop young leaders in our city um back home about there's nothing to do for kids nothing
to do um but what's more important is this was based on a 2024 Florida girl report that identified some starling statistics 52% of high school girls in Florida report symptoms of depression
one in six girls in Florida have experienced sexual violence and over half of girl the girls girls in Florida don't feel supported by their communities girl Scout is a way that um that can support that and to help girls
um feel that they belong so I just want to um put that out there and let you know that um I'm looking forward to um hopefully working with um the Gateway Council and lastly I just
want to thank the police department that community policing is in effect i have seen it firsthand they are visible thank you very much i know it's going to expand to other neighborhoods but I just want to say thank you we still the
efforts are much appreciated thank you Commissioner Dora yes again I want to uh pick it back off Commissioner Davis uh community policing um that's something that I'm passionate about and I think it really helped break down the
barriers in the community uh when officers show up not just to uh engage in in an arrest or what have you but in a positive manner so I want to thank them for being in the community helping break down break down barriers and
create relationships um the other thing I mean we we really had an awesome time on that on the bus ride um reestablishing those routes uh mean the world of difference to a lot of people who do not have transportation or had not and the routes had not been uh
active for the last for a year and a half or two uh and so but again I think it's a it's a it's a big ask for the city to start getting into the uh providing public transportation um but
um we will commit to do whatever we need to help uh make ends meet because uh uh the people who did use those services were anybody from uh teenage up to um elderly uh and so they certainly need
that and we're filling the gap at this time but we would like to have um the rise solutions um CEO to make sure that they are fiscally responsible with their dollars so it help make sense when
everybody um that being said uh I I passed along FMIT uh information over to all of the commissioners i don't know if M chance to get it out but uh that information is something that I think
that commission needs i've been trying to get it to the past couple two or three um city managers or what have you know but I think it's important for us to be able to understand and know how
our city is operating as it relates to workers comp um claims as well as property insurance among other things um we have room for improvement and there before you have five years back um
what we have uh some of these things need to be um put in the very very forefront and not to be uh uh dropping off of the radar either very important
is insurance that is very serious to the nature of our operation and we need that in order based on the number of things that we get that we're responsible for and uh you'll get more information uh as things continue to m materialize but um
we have for six uh individuals who who are willing to come in and help explain the information that we have available to us so again I don't sit on this information when I get it I make sure that it relevant people to have
it um but moving forward we um we had an opportunity to take uh 20 plus students as well as about 10 chaperons uh down to Orlando Magic game this is our seventh year
again we had two years with the um Jaguars and we had five years with the Magic and so the uh the students had an opportunity uh to go out on the on the floor with the players and they open up
with the national anthem so they had that experience uh of a lifetime to be able to to be on the floor with the players to be able to do the national anthem and we gave each each student a $25 stipen so that they could uh eat and
I want to thank Miss Carter for her gracious contribution um that she provided to us uh want to thank you for that um but these kids a lot of them don't know
um they know the president they may know the governor but they don't know their local leadership and so uh when we was on the bus came up with an idea real quick to just kind of get them a little bit more engaged and help them understand your local leadership or the
people who touch lives every day and so what we did we they they did a little bit of a mentorship thing per associate told them about their background how they got to where they were from a college standpoint they went the military route or whatever to get to do
the engineering and everything that so I just think to them how the city work as well as uh his staff uh also was mentoring the kids and kind of help them understand what their roles were as it
related to him being the president not the president but he's the organizer of the whole police athletic league in addition to his chief role and they explain that to the kids to help them understand what your roles are now you have a lot of different choices in in
life as to what you want to be so we can't a number of different options as related to that but anyways so as related to that well you got I like for people to
kind of opportunity to earn more money because we all got $25 stipens so we take our funding up and I think that was another $175 additional that we gave to the
students to give them opportunity so we asked questions of them and as they answered the questions um they got5 or $10 for each question they answer we asked a little bit about the city okay we asked who was the commission they they mentioned somebody who wasn't on
the board anymore they even mentioned Commissioner Camel i said "No that's not the right guy." But anyways but we we we we have to um you know continue to educate our kids and get them engaged but that was the first time we've ever done that and
the kids super engaged i don't know if you want to say Commissioner Ke [Laughter] uh I I just wanted to say thank you to Commissioner Borne because he is exactly correct that is the first time we ever
had an opportunity to do that and for us all to come together and decide to give back our funds just to be able to make sure we educated them on a little bit about the city about what we do here and how we exactly like he said touch their lives every day uh I think was something that was was vital it was very important
uh the opportunity to educate a young person uh you must take advantage of it every time you get it and I appreciated him for allowing us to participate in it thank you with that being said uh and and and that's all that's all I have i thank y'all for giving me an opportunity
thank you Commissioner Jones commissioner Kim I just have two quick things that I want to mention um in speaking with our kids Palaka Police Athletic League is hosting a summer camp this summer um camp higher ground their
theme this year is around the world in seven weeks ages four to 14 are welcome the registration fee is $200 you will not find a camp around this area for $200 for seven weeks um it's Monday
through Friday from 7:30 to 3:30 p.m at the Family Life Center um on Bronson Street um that is a phenomenal organization phenomenal camp led by uh Miss Vel
offered and Jennifer uh Puroy that put their into it um and it's an educational component the city of be providing the recreation for uh the camp Mr reno so definitely if you have a child that is interest or a parent you have a child
that you would like to get more information please contact the Pala Police Department and they point you in the right direction also on Monday at 6 to 7:30 um is the line dance that is taking
place over at the JSON Community Center each week we've had about 30 people um to show up and we've actually had individuals who've been consistent in coming from Jacksonville um to join us for our land live in class and we have a few of Miss Jones join uh we've had Miss
West join us before we've had Miss Cardi join um but we've also had youth that have been consistent in coming um each week we've had we've had everyone of all age r all age ranges to come so we're looking just to have fun and get people
active miss Jones has come to uh our line dancing as well so if you want to put your boots on the ground come on we got you thank you um just Davis and uh happy birthday to
Missville i was just gonna say happy birthday happy birthday to birthday where you want to spend your birthday but well you know this is a place of love you know I'm good
just quickly Mr davis is coming from the flag trust on Tuesday April 22nd at 5:30 to talk about listing on the national register whether that's for downtown so that will be notice sent out
but just a heads up yes but that's No we want to sing to Miss Cardi yeah happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy
birthday oh rock