month of students of the month. I should say going to help me and we're going to call out each of our neighbors and then we will take photo. Trmon Baker Browning Pas and and Truman's not here today, so we'll put that aside. Children's Reading Center
Charter School. Richard Briez Hillrest Academy Braden Myth James A. Long Elementary Finley Blitch Kelly Smith Elementary School Weston's not here. Melon Melon Learning Center preK
sees a Medlock. I have Melon Learning Center K through 12 here, but it's not announced. We don't know who that is. It's the mystery student for Melon. I'm sorry. Yeah. No, no, no. Yeah, we're going we're gonna get Diana Mosley. That's next. Mosley
Elementary School. Naomi Singleton. Panio Baptist Academy. Uh, Aria Miller, Putnham Academy of Arts and Sciences. Jaylen Green, Putnham Classical Academy. William Clark, Little Sprouts Learning Center.
Isabella Donado. That was not okay. Thank you. So, we are going to take photos as we said. Um, we're going to get the educators up here first who are the teachers and educators and we'll take photos.
behind everybody. Three, two, one. All right, take a note. One, two, three. All right. Hold on. pictures. You guys [Music]
They always have one more. stand. Yep. They're here. Do you want me to get a picture with your phone? Okay. [Music] [Music]
Richard's family. Oh yeah, you're fine. I'm just kind of behind. Mayor, just a little bit closer. Braden along each One, two, three. One, two, the
last. Goodbye. Goodbye. Goodbye. Okay. Good. Don't know. Good morning, Commissioners and Mayor. I must ask you, we did work on the system all day today. We are not being recorded
right now, but I'm going to ask you if you can all speak into your mics tonight. We have to make sure that mics are perfect. So, are you saying like this? Mic or like this? Not all the way. Mic check one.
Oh, yes. Hello. Okay. Okay. meeting on May 8 will be called to watch. Father, we we give you thanks and we give you praise for your goodness towards us. We thank you because you
have been so good all day long. You brought us together once again, God, for the business at the city. We pray for your guidance. Pray for your directions. We pray for your instructions. And God, give us wisdom. We need to know what to
do, God, and how to do what even in times like these. We pray that your will be done, your kingdom come. It is in Jesus's name we pray. Amen. Amen. by the trig of the United States of America.
What the Yes, mayor. I move to approve the minutes. We have a motion. Second. Motion. All in favor. We're going to start with proclamations, public recognitions, and presentations.
Speakers are five minutes. Historical preservation process. When is the National Trust in historic preservation raises awareness for historic preservation during the month of May? Whereas historic preservation is an effective tool for managing growth and sustainable
development, revitalizing neighborhoods, fostering local pride and maintain character while enhancing live livability and historic preservation as relevant for communities across the nation both urban and rural Americans of all ages, all walks of life and all
ethnic backgrounds. Whereas the historic buildings, churches, and homes of the city of Pala help make our city unique and provide links with aspirations and attainment of the city's pioneers. Whereas the buildings constructed in the 19th 20th century contribute to appreciation for our heritage and we
important to celebrate the work that contributions made by individuals and helping to preserve the tangible aspects of the heritage that has now together members of the palaca city commission. You hereby will sign the
month of May 2025 as historic preservation month in the city of Palaca and urge everyone in our community to participate in historic presence. Do we have a motion for approvement? Second. The motion is second. All in favor? I thank you. Any opposition?
I will come on down. Who is here from the Societ? Thank you. Uh good evening everyone. Thank you so much for recognizing historic preservation month. I know. And not only preserving the beautiful, although that certainly draws
people into our area and there's an appreciation for all uh appreciation for all um but also those things that are not as beautiful and we use as learning tools moving forward. So, uh, thank you very much and
I do appreciate everyone from the historical society and black and main street that came to accept this honor. Thank you. One, two, three. So, we should be proud of your history. What's that?
Could you give us your name? Earl Donley, commander of the Black Veterans of Foreign War, Post 3349. We're here tonight to honor the policeman and fireman of the year for the Veterans of Foreign War for post
3349. My quarter master G shoulder will do the presentation. We want to thank and appreciate all the firemen and the policemen for the great duty to our community. Without them, we couldn't survive and continue on on our great
commission. I will now turn it over to Darl Scher. Thank you, Commander. Mayor, commissioners, pleasure to be here again this year. Every year we look forward to this. Uh,
let's give out the fire department firefighter of the year award first. Engineer Marcus Wilson. Thank you very much. And uh Chief uh Baylor is back here. I'm going to read his uh letter that he wrote to us so
that now everybody can hear exactly what uh engineer Marcus Wilson is recognized for. Engineer Wilson joined our department in October of 2020. He has shown great desire to achieve more and more with our
department. He's helped prepare our newest firefighters for the career ahead. His ability to teach others what he knows lays the foundation for our new recruits. Engineer Wilson has helped teach Georgia Pacific and the seminal
electric classes for special operations, spending time getting to know the hazards in these facilities and the personnel who run those processes that we may respond on any given day. Wilson's life experience and
construction background adds much to his abilities and ideas for the department to consider. Marcus is selfarter and is motivated to get better at his job to ensure others do as well. Wilson has
been a leader for hazardous materials response and training, attending several specialized classes, taking the time and energy to move our team forward. Marcus is known as a good firefighter and a team player. His reliability and his
commitment to the department shows as he stand as he signs up for standby missions, hurricane deployments, and teaching just to name a few of the contributions that engineer Wilson has made to our team. Wilson's team respects
Wilson as a teacher, a leader, and a colleague. We appreciate the opportunity to recognize the dedicated employees who make up the city of Palaca Fire Department. The VFW has enabled our responders to be recognized by a loyal and committed organization that
represents total commitment to our community and to our country. VFW has positioned itself to be a positive force for good in the city of Palaca. We thank you for your service and to all we thank Engineer Wilson for joining and bettering our team.
Thank you, Engineer Wilson. Photo. Come on, guys. Come on, guys. Don't be shy. You're gonna [Laughter] [Music] All right. One, two, three.
You should have brought I don't think anybody's going now. No. Get your head up. Congratulations. We had the policeman of the year and uh we got Chief Shaw here and
uh we got Mr. Nukem here. So, we're going to do we're actually going to uh uh Officer Dixon could not be here with us tonight, but we are that we're going to read the uh award and then we'll go present that to him tomorrow at the
police station so he gets it from our hands. But here is the write up for uh Matthew Dickerson. The command staff the Palaca Police Department would like to nominate Officer Dixon for the selection of the
veterans foreign officer of the year. Officer Dixon has been employed with the Palaca Police Department for a year and during that time has served this community in a positive light. Officer Dickerson has proven time and time again he is dependable and is willing to give
of himself without question. Officer Dickerson has grown into a productive member of this police department and continues to be a positive presence at community events which assist the department with bridging the gap with the citizens of Palatka. Officer
Dickerson possesses an easygoing outlook and demeanor while at the same time having the ability to work harder than his counterparts. Officer Dickerson's hard work and dedication is evident on a daily basis and it has quickly gained the attention of the citizens of
Palatka. Officer Dickerson's ability to multitask is remarkable and proves it is possible to be efficient while juggling several agendas at the same time. His ability to positively affect individuals he encounters has led to the
successful completion of these and other criminal investigations. His willingness to go above and beyond, combined with his ability to blend as a team member, has proven to be contagious. Those that have the opportunity to work with Officer
Dickerson often report that he makes the difficult aspects of law enforcement seem simple. It is without a doubt that Officer Dickerson's devotion, sacrifice, and attention to detail make all the difference. His professionalism and team
support truly reflects his work ethic and drive towards law enforcement. Officer Dickerson is truly an asset to our team and for this reason we would like to recognize him for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Officer of the Year.
Thank you, Chief Shaw. Yeah. Thank you everyone. Thank you, mayor, for uh letting me uh announce that on May 26 at 10:00 in the morning, we're going to have the uh Memorial Day parade from 11th Street to
the riverfront. Uh anybody that wants to be in the parade, uh we got a pretty good lineup going right now. the uh we're going to have a ceremony afterwards down at the riverfront like we do every year. Uh we want to thank
the uh city for giving us the street and uh the time and the place that we can do this. It's a great honor for our fallen veterans that we can honor them on this great day. After the parade and after the ceremony, the American Legion Birds
Post 45 will have an open house as well as the Veterans of Far more post 3349 open to the public. So every So you're invited. Uh if anybody has any questions, my number's in the
paper. I'm the commander of the VFW. You can call and I'll get back to you. Thank you and have a nice evening. Thank you. Downtown strategic action plan. Is Miss Dietrich here? I'm up here. Can you hear me? Oh, she's
up there. Okay. Yes, we can. All right. Am I loud enough or do I need to speak louder? You're quite well. Yeah, you're doing fine. All right. I know I have five minutes, so uh bear with me and I'm going to move quickly. So, um, before we
get started on the, uh, agenda item at hand, I wanted to just bring you up to speed on what has occurred since the grant was actually, uh, contracted with us. So, I'm Laura Dietrich. I'm the project manager. I'm a senior PM and planner with Half Associates, and I've
been working with the mayor, the commission, Miss Cardi, Christian Odum, and several staff members to do this. So this culminated with the city being awarded a CPTA or community planning technical advisory grant. It was
designed and submitted and awarded based on four deliverables. The first deliverable was based on a workshop to kick off with the community and discuss strategic things and take all their feedback to prioritize what would be in
this plan for the next 5 years. that was held on November 19th. While the city did follow all of their protocol in advertising that through four or five different mechanisms between newspaper, emails, social media, um it was somehow
confusing with the community. So, we only had 10 attendees. So, we went ahead and not only held that workshop for several hours and gained a lot of great discussion and feedback, but then we readvertised and held a second kickoff community meeting anyway because we
wanted to make sure we got as many participants as possible. That second meeting was held on December 3rd. We had, I believe, 37 participants and we had several good hours of interaction, a lot of uh feedback on items and I
purposely did not share at that meeting the discussion points from the first one because I didn't want it to be misled or pre-led or or in any way kind of um given ahead what the discussion points
would be just in case. So I kept all of the notes of course from both workshops and what flushed out was the fact that the priorities were very clear because the community's feedback was very poignant on several things which we'll go into in just a moment. So with that
the first deliverable had been concluded by December 3rd. That was the culmination of the notes, the minutes and then we produced a survey in which the citizens that attended took away with them or left behind with their answers. We posted it on the city's website for two and a half months and
several times did an email blast to uh bring people's attention to the fact that the survey was still up. After about two and a half months of that being posted, we gathered the results from those surveys and combined those separately though, so we can attest to workshop comments versus survey
comments. That's the first deliverable that was culminated before the end of December of 2024. The second deliverable is for a market analysis which we worked on and delivered that to staff and the state at Florida Commerce by February
28th of 2025. That is in your possession, Madame Mayor and commissioners and staff. Tonight, we're talking about the 5-year strategic action plan, which is not supposed to be a visioning of anything and everything. It's supposed to be something that's actually implementable, something that's
reasonable, that's realistic, and something that's a priority. So, while there were numerous things listed in the scope of the grant that was written by staff at the time that's no longer with the city, we did attend to all 17 of those items and we gave you strategies
on how to continue on some and how to embark on others because you do have your CRA action plan for the central business district which has ongoing reports annually talking about what has concluded, what's been completed, what is pending, and what is to be put forth
in the next several years as as a next item or something in your capital improvement plan. So, uh if you'll assist me, Kristen, um we've got the 5-year downtown strategic action plan before you right now. So, we're going to roll through this very quickly. So,
there are 17 items that were put on the scope for the contract. I looked through those and we decided that they really fit fit well into four buckets. And those buckets are public involvement, a community toolbox, economic development, and placemaking.
Next, so the intent again of this grant was not to have buckshot into every direction so that way you could try to achieve 23 things in 5 years, which is not feasible. It was to do two things. one respond to what the grants directive
said in the scope which was 17 different items with regards to what I just read off in those four buckets. But I also felt that what we really need to do is after we go through those 17 different things combined in those four buckets, what really was the
most strongest intent and strongest passion from the community, from the business owners, from the property owners, and from the you the body of the commission. So going to next page. So placemaking being the first
bucket. Some of those items that we discussed in the scope with regards to connectivity and walkability. You'll see that in this document that that you have possession of you can look at later when you have more time. There are workshop comments and then there are survey comments and then there are listed strategies that speak to things that may
you may already be uh underway in working on or some things that may have been completed in some areas, some segments but still need more attention. So you can look at those because there's 17. So we're going to roll through these. So that's placemaking's bucket. As we go through, there's connectivity
and walkability. Next, landscape and streetscaping, public art, historic preservation and wayfinding, and transportation and
parking. So that's bucket number one with regards to placemaking. Bucket number two, we combine several things into what we refer to as economic development. That can be special events and promotion, branding of the central business district, whether it's merchants,
festivals, or what have you. So again, you'll have the comments from surveys, workshops, and then very specific strategies to address those. So special events and promotions, one of them. Next, messaging and branding, retail and restaurant
recruitment, backfilling vacancies, real estate analysis, supporting entrepreneurs, catalyst projects. Next one. Okay. And then bucket three is the community toolbox that speaks to things as uh incentives
and financial tools. zoning codes. Well, frankly, it shouldn't be zoning and codes. That was the text in the in the contract in the scope. So, we had to keep it as it was stated. What that really should say is the comprehensive plans, goals, objectives, and policies and the land
development regulations in the ordinance code. And then there's ordinances and policies. And then bucket number four is public involvement. So, that's identifying partnerships. That's community input and survey
results. And that leads us to the five action items. So the five action items basically culminated because of input from the community. And in looking through all of the story boards that we were taking notes on as well as the surveys and input, it was very very
clear what those five things should be. And we felt that it was reasonable for you. While five years may sound like a long time, five years goes by very quickly. Plus, in order to implement five things, they have to be financially feasible too. There has to be realistic
ways for not only the central business district's tax increment finance trust fund to contribute, but also layering that through other grant opportunities. So, if you'll go to the five, we these are these are in order of um all five are very important. They
just are all different types of things. So that way they're doable. Some are brick and mortar and some are intangible. So without a shadow of a doubt, the most important thing hands down from everyone was the branding and promotional campaigning on a constant and regular
basis about the city of Palaca. Now that being said, this is the central business district which is the kind of ground zero for the walkable, you know, heart of the main street town area. However, it is bookended by two other CRAAS and
it's within the city of Palaca. So, the city of Palaca's branding should be a messaging that is put out not just throughout the region but the state and the southeastern. So I think it's absolutely necessary in our recommendations to you that there be a
line item in regular funding not only in the CRA the CBD tiff to contribute but to to couple that with city funds for the branding and the campaigning and the promotion of Palaca as a city as a town period. And it should be all the time
not just during Christmas not just during a fishing tournament not during just the Aelia tournament. It needs to be something that is a constant flow and that needs to be done by an outside professional organization that again can be funded partially by the tiff but also
coupled with the other the other tiffs that are bookended in the north and the south historic districts as well as the city of pelacas. Now, um, we did work with the county chamber and economic development to have discussions and when we did the marketing analysis, we looked
at comparable data to make sure that we were all in line with how how the message and the marketing data and and what that that ring would be, what that radial area would be. So, for market analysis, it's a 90minute drive that is consistent with how chambers and
economic development brand and look at things within their closest proximity. However, for branding, it has to be at at minimum regionally and statewide. I think once you start to get, you know, your work going with the campaigning and the branding, I think then you need to
start reaching out into the southeastern United States, start hitting Georgia, start hitting um Louisiana, start hitting South Carolina, North Carolina, because these folks are traveling here and they're driving right by you and they're and they're then turning around and going home and they just don't know any better and they would love to be
here. So, that's number one. Number two, again, unanimously was code enforcement. And the city, I'm so proud of you all. You already acted on this. You've already used some of your TIFF dollars and coupled it with city efforts to have um all three CRAAS uh employed now
staffed with full-time and part-time officers and code enforcement. Number three is the port consolidated. That's the brick and mortar. That's the big lift. So, that is a five-year project from start to finish hopefully because you've already started off with your environmental due diligence and starting
to get that underway, get your arms around the studies that came with the building. Um, I believe from from Mr. Douglas that that initiated that. So, that's good that that's been moving forward. Now, the next step for that port consolidated site will be doing
feasibility and due diligence reporting uh to be able to sit down and look at what is the best use for the site. And I don't mean highest and best necessarily. I mean what is the best use for this site that's going to give this biggest return to the city and the central business district because this is in the
CRA. This is uh currently a city-owned business which or property which is not generating any avalor taxes and uh most most likely the best use for that would be something that's going to contribute back to the tiff and be a contributor as
it's on the gateway. you already have one side of the gateway from the east coming into town. However, that poor consolidated will really lock in that that gateway, that entry experience for you. Number four is shared parking agreements. Now, chair parking period
has been an issue and and folks have been talking about it for a long time and there's been some some very interesting uh discussion points and some very elaborate ones like very tall and steep uh walkovers which I don't see that being feasible um at least not at
the gateway. Um, however, there are a lot of businesses and properties that go dark and aren't open on weekends. And so, it seems like a very realistic and reasonable and affordable way to at least start on looking at at some of your ancillary satellite parking that kind of surround the central business
district from the river to 11th and from your, you know, two blocks east, north and south of the central business district. Shared parking agreements are something that the city may want to look into. And number five is public information and education. this has uh been brought to light. Um actually Jane
West had some great comments um when she looked through this along with staff on some things that have caused me to back up a little bit and and look at uh some of these uh recommendations. And I think uh there was a great point made that the Putham County's building department is who provides those permits. However, I
know that you've had transitional staff with the city with planning and development. So I think we can always improve on providing education and information with the community whether it's people that come to this the city to the offices to the buildings or
whether it's providing you know uh some kind of quarterly workshops that may be you know held half an hour before your commission meeting that just touches upon some some good simple fundamental information and maybe post some more things on your website but again sharing
that information. So with that, that will lead us to our fourth deliverable, which is not due until May 29th, which wraps up the entire project. So what we are working on now that the city will have back in their hands by the 18th or the 19th, is the final deliverable,
which is called an implementation support. I call it a table, but it's like a checklist in a way. It's going to be imagine an x-axis and a y-axis. So basically, it's going to have these five strategic items that are very doable.
One you've already taken care of swiftly, but these these other four are things that that need to be focused on on a regular basis and things that will be ongoing for the next several years. So this will take you through this is 2025 to 2030. And if you focus on these,
you can accomplish these things. And they need to be some of these need to be things that you do forever. Um, I know the brick and mortar one, port consolidated, that's definitely something that that can be attacked in the strategic action plan. Um, so that table is going to show all of
the government. It's going to show all of the stakeholders, all of the property owners, business owners, because not every merchant is an owner of their business or their owner of their business, but maybe not the property. I apologize. So, it's going to involve the community and all of those different entities that are stakeholders from
different positions that should all be working together are going to be listed in this table. And then it's going to cross-section or crosswalk you through what those items are and who would be accountable for that. Now, there's never going to be one group that's always responsible. This is always going to be
a public private partnership. Um, but this is going to make it very discernible. It's going to be very intentional, very direct. There's not going to be any any ambiguity to it. You're going to know exactly what's going on. And this is going to be a focused 5-year program. In fact, we're already into five months of 2025. So,
this is 4 and a half years now. The clock is ticking. And that document again will be in the staff's hands by next week. We will go through any edits of that. And then this entire project will be wrapped up by May 29th. And then grant cycle starts again. So, special session has uh is going to
conclude next week. I will actually be in Tallahassee working on some things. So, um, they will not announce the next cycle as they do every year for the next round of community planning technical advisory grants for the 2627 cycle, but most likely, as usual, there always
sometime at the end of June or beginning of July. So, what we'd like to do is go ahead and write the scope and fee for uh the items that you want to address, whether it be branding, um, poor consolidated uh, or both. we can, you know, you can submit it. You won two
last year, so why not? So, that's that's the uh that's where we are now and that's the goal and intention for the next two months. Thank you, Miss Dietrich. Any questions quickly because we're well over our 10 minutes. Sorry. There's a lot to actually pack into five
minutes. We're well over 10 minutes, too. Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, Lauren. Thank you, Laur. Okay. Uh we would like to introduce if I may ma'am. Okay. Sure. Kaka Housing
Authority. Mr. Bridge. Okay. Casey O Bridge for Hello. Thank you. Thank you. Um greetings to the mayor, greetings to the commission. I'm here with the Palaca Housing Authority. My name is Oceford
and I'm happy to be here because this is my first time being able to speak to the commission as a body. I've had an opportunity to speak to individual commissioners and some commissioners I still look forward to that opportunity uh to speak to. But from the Palaca Housing Authority, the biggest thing
that we want to make sure that people understand is that we are here. We are committed to investing in more than just bricks and sticks. we are are really invested and committed to investing in lives. And so as the as the CEO of the
Palaca Housing Authority, it's very important for us as a community to work together. And we noticed that as an agency, we haven't done the best job um historically in working with other institutions and other bodies and we are
open for business. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. President? No, I just I just thank him for coming to um speak to us as a body. But again, I had an opportunity to speak with him and um I have also but thank you for
coming and he he does come here. Well, he he he does have some um very good ideas for the the relationship that he can build with our city. So definitely look forward to Thank and we have met with him as well, the city manager and
ourselves and we're looking at working together. Yes. collaboratively. Affordable housing is one of our projects. Great. Thank you so much. Thanks. Go ahead, Commissioner Davis. And I look forward to meeting you as well.
Absolutely. I look forward to it as well. Thank you, Commissioner Jones. Mr. Question relationship building and it's uh relate to homes right now.
Uh I know that Palaca Housing Authority has some units that they were to build here in the city of Pala or put them county um once they remove the high building here, you know, full history.
But as a liaison person on this board, um, as we address the homeless population that we have now, I would like to know, have you looked into any of the forecasting of building those units by partnering with the city of the
county of Puham and maybe obtaining land and building those units? That's like 36 units or you could speak on that. Yes. What we have is what is called, excuse me, fair cloth unit uh fair clock limit,
which means that there is a certain number of public housing units that every housing agency in the country has a limit because we tore down the high-rise in downtown. We have uh built 36 units which are um at the Annie M
spells community development and then we have roughly around 60 that are left that we can build up. That can be something that we can look at uh homelessness. We serve lowincome individuals all the way from homelessness uh all the way to
mid-inccome individuals. And so for us, we are committed to it, but our commitment has to be tempered by the resources that are available for us to do so. And so the desire is there, the commitment is there, but we also have to
do it in partnership with the community and making sure we're addressing the right uh funds that will allow us to actually bring this to fruition. So with our with our program that we have now, do you see an opportunity where housing authority can actually
come in with our new excuse our new population that we're trying to actually uh help with home ownership and that those those people that you're talking about now are in that group. Some homeless, some have been displaced. So that's what cause
homelessness when a person is displaced for whatever reason. uh and I just would like to see that partnership happen and I I haven't seen the collaboration as of yet but that is what I would love to see uh your agency work along with our agency and the agency that we actually
uh are part of the United St. Absolutely. That that is something that we're very interested in. Um we we have a big job ahead of us. One is our communities need investment. They've suffer from disinvestment for year upon year. Uh so we are looking at ways to
redevelop the comm the communities that we already have but ultimately we got to put more units on the street. We have to build more housing across the spectrum but especially to those who are homeless and low income. Thank you. Thank you
commissioner. Yes. Um I think something came to mind when talked about the fair clause. Well, was I thought I read something in your uh I guess on the uh contract or whatever that you have with the city when you do the five-year plan. I think it's somewhere within there. I think it
was a 10% was it 10% uh number of units in total that you normally have for people who are home considered homeless. So, we we have a number. I'm I'm not as familiar with that uh the 10% that you
speak about, and that's something that I can definitely research. But for us as a housing authority, there are a number of different ways that we receive our funding from from the federal government. And there are specific aotments for building uh homeless
housing. Um and those are a lotments that we historically have not tapped into. So therefore we have never produced it because it's its own line item. But moving and to understand the national context that funding source
that I'm speaking about has been wiped out. So when we talk about building now we have to look at new funding sources and new strategies for us to be able to actually fund those developments. Okay. Thank you. Certainly appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Any questions?
Question. Um, thank you so much, Mr. Thank you. Manager and administrative res reports. Got a limit to these to five minutes as well. Budget preparation 26. Oh, finance director,
Mr. Peter Payas, please. Good evening mayor and commissioners. Uh so um according to best practices on GFO extinguished budget presentation award um we need to prepare the budget calendar a road map or a plan for the next year budget preparation is that
time of the year we already start start thinking to the next year and I prepared this budget calendar for you to review and u maybe approve it and um there's some notable dates there especially couple dates in June for budget
workshops uh one date in July on the 10th for the budget workshop and two in August uh again for a commission workshop for budget and also September has couple days that we're going to you know discuss and approve budget there's
two readings on the budget that's it um I also in uh send you u I think last week I sent you the uh commission initiatives in an email uh which is bas based on uh prior year initiatives um which is was public safety,
infrastructure, affordable housing and etc. So um if you can respond to me by the end of the May, I would appreciate that. Thank you. If you have any questions, um I I did notice on the calendar and I don't know if anybody else has had an opportunity to see this,
but June 6th was a Friday. Yes. the 20th and the commission the I guess the general fund workshop starts at 6 pm. We could be here a while. So just clerk is okay with that. Prepared to do
that as a rule. I did ask the clerk when the the meetings are scheduled. So I put those dates in there. I don't I don't know how everybody else feels. Yeah. You need to find another date. Okay. I don't want to hang out on Friday.
Okay. Your company, but That's noted. I will uh I will revise it. Maybe I'll send it back out. Yeah, please. Please. Thanks for your Thank you so much. There's one new thing to note, please. That um if I may. Sure.
Okay. Um the July meeting noticed that we're going to make certain that nonprofits are involved. Yes. And making presentations. That's relatively new. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. U investing impact a citywide grants
snapshot. Miss uh Stephanie is our grants writer, grants administrative administration. All right. Hi everybody. How you doing today? I am Daffany Bru. She just introduced me.
I am gonna do my best to keep this at the five minute mark. I promise. All right. So, um, investing impact, it's going to be a high overlevel, um, run through of the grant snapshots to give y'all a little bit of information on
what we've been doing. Okay. Um so strategic alignment right now the grant initiatives that we're really trying to go after is modernization of infrastructure disaster resilience enrichment of parks and
economic development. Um the strategic alignment is really helping to ensure our funding efforts are meaningful, measurable and missiondriven for the community. Funding diversity. So what has been happening in the previous years is that we repeatedly go after the same
grants over and over, which is great if they're there, but we learned this year some of them aren't going to be there anymore. So diversifying the grants port portfolio has become critical to reduce our financial risk and maximize our funding opportunities. We're really
getting into the foundation grants coupling with federal and state grants. All right, our impact forecast is looking to be about $30 million. Obviously, it's spread out over multiple years. Um, but that's a pretty good
forecast. It's supporting 40 plus projects across city departments and it appears that we've kind of leveled off in 2024 from this bell curve we did 2020 on. So, we're looking good. 2025 is going to be the year that we figure out
if we're leveling up or if we are at threshold. Okay. Okay. The challenges we have identified, one of the biggest challenges we are having is that we are having infrastructure projects that are required to be multifased multifased
because we are having to write in getting an engineer. One of the things that we've really been talking about and I know the city manager has been pushing that. Is that me? No, keep going. No, go ahead. Keep going. Um, so one of the
things we've really been pushing is getting an engineer on staff because having this multi-phase project, it's causing us an extra 18 to 24 months on these projects trying to get the design build out to go forward. Okay. Um, one
of the other things we're running into is staff capacity. Um, there's a lot of projects, not enough of us. Um, and then critical needs capital campaigns and funds like the fire ladder truck, the master lift station. They are notoriously hard to get funded because
they are so expensive and so expensive. Um, so we're working hard to do that, but it has been a challenge. Okay, so looking forward, we really really need to emphasize shovel ready project. This goes hand in hand with having your engineer in house. they do this design
plans before we even go for that funding so that when we get that money it's shovel ready to go. Um focusing on resilience also known as mitigation. Um that's one of the big things that we need to continue to do because our infrastructure is so old and broadband
infrastructure. There is a lot of money coming down the pipelines for broadband infrastructure. One of the things we don't have around here is buried lines. We need to bury our lines. That's what's going to do it. and expanding our regional inter agency collaboration. One of the critical things that we have done
and worked really hard to do is get a good relationship going with the county. We can't sneeze right now without our projects buddinged up to the county because when you look at the city layout, it's almost like polka dots. Okay, so this is part two. I'll go
through it really, really quickly. All right, current grant submissions. So, right now we are somewhere over $320,000 that have gone in. Um, and it's diverse needs. It's everything from
mitigation to first responder needs um to mentorship. Um, so we are really working hard to each application really is supposed to represent and is representing a targeted alignment with
our funding strategy and our community priorities. All right, infrastructure opportunities in the work. Um, we got HMGP rolling up. We don't know if we'll have HMGP next year. They could choose not to fund it. So, this is the year to go hard on it in case it doesn't come
back. Uh right now we've got three areas of erosion. We've got Rody Road. We've got Tiierra Woods in the works. There's a couple of others that I really really want to put forth. Um one of those the three areas of flooding I was going to do for brick. Brick is now dead and it's
not coming back. So we're going to figure out how to possibly get that done in H&GP. All right. Opportunities in the works that are not infrastructure. So this is everything from fire department, um community affairs. We've got
technology data, community data centers, um and sports lighting for, you know, our kids leagues and are recently awarded. Yeah. All right. So, um we recently got the vulnerability assessment, $400,000. It's
actually really cool. Um it's to assess critical infrastructure and critical areas that are prone to flooding so that we can make a plan to stop that in its tracks. All right. So on the horizon, this is all in the R&D phase, research
and development. Um if they fit with our funding strategy, we will go forth and put it forth. If it does not, it'll die. And this is my project funding list. my high priority projects, storm water lining, master lift stage, ladder
truck, fire hydrant, planning and zoning ordinance and regulations, um, and expansion projects, sanitary sewer, portable, that's what we have going on already that we want to continue to focus on. Um, and then other random projects that are on the list that I am
actively looking for funding for. Okay, so the next part of it we're not going to go through. It really was just for your um you know reading pleasure. But does anybody have questions? Anybody have any questions? Thank you. Great presentation. Yes, I
do. Before you go, okay, let's go back a little bit. It did go rapidly. So when you go back to your list again, go back go forward and
right there. you start saying high priority and the way you did that and I know of some of these uh projects most of them but when we start talking about uh the priorities and what's first
thought we had on there I know storm water line and other portable water lines but those road and the infrastructure projects that we had I see that almost at the bottom of this list has other projects that I don't think That's other project. I think
that's a way that we should try to we should try to find funding for our roads in the city of Black. That's throughout the city entire city. I'm not talking about one particular area. We have some road problems that we really need to address
that and more sooner than later and I think it should be on list a little higher project. That's the one. Um, and other you mentioned about how we're going to do the HGP side. I was told
that the county actually had loss mitigation money that they were actually sending back and they didn't utilize that money. I don't know if you were familiar with it or not. Um, but I would like to, you know, we started talking about
collaboration with the county and I know we talked about it and the road project. I'm still a little in limbo about the knowledge of where receiving the grant that's going out in the county and it's not being concentrated like I know we have water
lines going up but how do we end up with funding going out there? So it's not going to be the majority of funding their original plan that they put forth on Rody Road would actually cost us more out of pocket. So they were going to do
the entire design plan. Instead of burying our line, they were going to secure it. Once they invoiced us for the entire amount of that, it would have been more than what our 25% share is going to be with this grant. So we've taken that piece away from them so that
we can bury the line and actually be costefficient. So they buried the line. We don't have anything to do with the road at all. We just want to secure the line. Yep. And if I'm if I may add, today we just
received the design drawing. So we actually have an idea today of the possible cost. However, we're also asking that same engineer to look at other alternatives. He assured us that
within a week he will send us some other alternatives that he just found out about also today. So, we're doing everything as uh Miss Dafany has pointed out to try to address the cost concern
only to protect truly our interests. I got that. So, my my my main concern was as we receive that money, couldn't that money also be utilized in other areas? We're receiving the 310,000, right? And
only help me understand. Are we just giving the That's an application, right? That's an entire allocation. Yeah, that's just an application. These are applications we're putting forth, right? So, assuming that we get it, it will be used on that one project,
right? So, we're talking about other areas as flooding. Same grant that could take care of the flooding areas. So, I have a contingency plan rolling with three areas of erosion. I really want to move with
krill under the railroad 13th and 14th and the furniture lot at Kirby. I have a lot more that will not take it'll take a lot longer to explain to you. Actually, Peter and I went looking at that today. But we found one of the root causes on what is causing
krill 13th and 14th first street um and the issues on Kirby that I want to address possibly through that three areas of erosion. Okay, great. That's what I wanted to hear. Are we looking at other areas to concentrate? And I
appreciate you going back and taking time. We're pretty rapidly, but I had this question. Thank you. One more for you. Your roads. Um, so that's really something I'm looking to wrap into projects on top as the finishing cherry.
So when we're doing something underneath the road like a storm water like sewer, we're going to get the road done on top as the cherry instead of just repaving roads by itself. It makes no sense, right? I I I get that because also you
mentioned about engineering, the cost of engineering. Uh, I'm really a proponent of having an engineer on staff because we did some work downtown on those roads and I think that our quality assurance
failed us because those roads are still bad. you know, who spend a lot of money and I would like to see not only as I asked about the Rody Road and you just mentioned we'll see what we actually getting. I would like when you guys bring those projects up here, I would
like to see what we're expecting, what we should expect out of the project because it look fine saying, "Oh, we're going to do this." But we don't know what we going to even expect. Then we get a product like we have on some of our St. John's Avenue road. I think you
should be able to go to someone and say you messed up fixed it. Okay. Right. So, I agree with you. Here becomes the issue with that though. We don't have the engineer in house to do those design plans. We have to wait until we get the award to then go into that design phase
for them to give us that drawing you want to see. Hence the issue. Hence the extra 18 to 24 months that we've missed. Exactly. Working backwards. So, we need to fix that. Smarter, not harder. Thank you. Yes. Um, thank you for talking about the
smarter about them, not harder. But, um, we we had that problem solved back in 2022. Honestly, we we we budgeted for a professional engineer. It was in the budget. If you approved it, it didn't carry forward with
management. Didn't hire person saying that it took too long to get a professional engineer. they would and so they downgraded the position to a project manager and this is what we're
seeing throughout our city from 2021 22 to to present and we're still fighting this thing 2024 we bumped the money up to 100,000 and we still they say we couldn't get an engineer so what we I'm
willing to go up to what number we'll get one we can't keep we can't getting going less than our requirements and you're seeing it in the work we throughout the work throughout our city just a few few thousand
um 18 to 24 months projects to in combination with I won't keep beating the dead horse but we we got to fix this oh yes yes and we need to look within whatever we have that we Cuz if you look
in the budget, it had project engineer. So we need to fill that position. Go back to the other projects up here. The other am I going down or up? It's the other project with the one with the other. You
had your one more. No, I'm down. The one with the You almost finished. You're wrapping up, right? The last one. And then you know we we we covered the road projects. We covered some of the other things so we won't talk no more about those prior
palaca. Why is that even on the list? What are we going to fund that for? That it's a public private partnership that we already have a contract in with that has been going since 2012. We finished that thing several
times. We should be getting funds from that project to our city from the co share. So we should not fund nothing on that. We should be getting money back from the
partnership. The boat is in operation. It doesn't matter whether you want two or three. I understand that. But you we you're just saying one. We should be getting money off the one. I didn't say that either. I just said
one is an option. We should be receiving funds. Please let me finish. Um, but we got a number of projects up here that we really need to continue to work towards and they all need to tie in to our priorities. And
exactly. So we need to make sure and what'sever up here tied into the um department so we can make sure that this can move forward like we needed to Oh may I help respond? Sure. Go ahead. Okay. So basically just saying uh we
have been pointing out since the new team has come on board and all the work that Daffhne and project manager now Peter and myself we are all coming to the same conclusion that it would really help if we had the engineer on board
even to the point that just recently this week we made certain to start searching and human resources have given us information now as to what the cost is today which is higher than the
100,000 but it's still so what whatever it is it is so much worthy for us to have that inside engineer the project manager that we needed so desperately to get the grants project you know grants
and projects rolling back in September when it was completely disbanded because there was no personnel in that department. So that project manager also is an engineer. However, has not completed everything to be a PE. So we
desperately need to have uh a full engineer on staff. And one last thing and go back to the Creole under the Creole. We we got the monies to fix Creole and underneath there. So we're having to go back and revisit
that that project again. So just how much how much was that? So that I don't know. We're currently a couple of different ideas. The main the main issue that backs up to krill and again it's
something that I really need to talk to y'all outside when I can show you the liar from the Army Corps of Engineers and I can show you all the research I got about it. Um, it really goes back to the furniture factory and knocking
out all of the drainage when they put that in, which has now basically messed up the natural topography that um, those areas drain out. I think that's what um, for commissioner Ken was talking about
before something somewhere over in the area right up underneath where the drain is and that's what she talking about before. So, we're having to continue to redo projects that we thought that we had completed and we continue forward. So, we got to do better. Commissioner
Davis. Yes. First of all, thank you Daffany for this really complete report. Um, it's very helpful and I want to say I'm hearing that we and I certainly fully
support moving forward with an in-house engineer. So, the case is clear. I can't speak for my fellow commissioners other than those who've already spoken for themselves, but we have to do that because I know we also have another project that is contingent
and it may be coming up later. So, I don't want to get ahead of the agenda that we need to discuss um the the falling wall is what I call it. Yes. So, it puts the city at risk by not and I'm grateful that we have an um
a project manager who has an engineering degree and who hopefully can become certified because that would further solidify u succession planning and support. So again, thank you very much. So again the
past I think we have to go from a budgetary standpoint with time once you pass to present to us about the cost and we need to move forward we can't keep procrastinating. Yes finance director and I have already started. Thank you.
Thank you. Thank you. What's next? Um presentation for the planning and code enforcement department. Uh okay Mr. Lorenzo please come up. Good evening, Mayor Commissioners. I'm
glad u to present to you an overview of the planning department and the code enforcing department. Um I have a lot of slides, but I promise you I'm going to try to keep it to the five minutes. And um so this presentation will cover a few
viewpoints uh the planning zoning department personnel also an overview what we do in the planning department. Uh I want to give you a little bit of statistics about the NAB application that we have reviewed and received in 2024 and basically I I really want to
update you about the major developments are going on today in the city there. Then I want to talk about the code code enforcement department the personnel uh process and the procedure that we that
we follow in the code compliance and also give you a little bit of statistic that I think are very telling you know based on what we heard today on the CRA uh presentation and also about the grant uh and then I want to discuss a little bit about the focus and goals that we
have for the department for the 2025 for this there. So basically the planning department is comprised basically of four four positions is the the planning director and two planners and the
planning clerk and you can see their names. U myself being the director we have Ryan Mikls who is planner one brown also a planner one and Avis Romero who is our planning clerk. about the planning department. Uh I'd
like to start first with our missions. First, you know, our mission statement is to maintain the quality of life in the community and promote economic development through the implementation of the comprehensive plan and the land development regulations that we have in
our in the in the in the city. The main function of the planning department is to manage development development growth in the city accordance with the city comprehensive plan and the land development regulations. And as you know
all development application that we receive in the city are measured against these two very important documents within this cont. I I have a list here of the type of development applications that we review. As you can see, we review sign permit, future land
use amendments, reszoning. We do certificate of appropriateness for our two historic districts. Uh we do site plan review and also building permit review through the county. Uh we process annexation. We review lot splits,
preliminary and final subdivision plat. Uh we do a lot of zoning verification letters requests and we also administer the business tax receipts and one of the one of the important mission that we have in the planning department obviously is to update and maintain our
comprehensive plan. We also work and we are the planning uh technician if you if you want to call it like that to the two two boards that we serve. One is the planning board and the other one is
story preservation board. Let me let me just give you a little bit of statistics that we have done in 2024. We have process 52 building permit application and the includes a variety
of items like sheds, carport, roof, single family homes, new single family homes, demolitions, uh etc. Also uh we processed 19 sign permit applications, 69 zoning verification applications. We did 31
certificate appropriateness that includes new construction repairs renovation both in the Bose uh historic district of the city. We have also prepared 29 staff reports that went to the planning board
and this includes annexations uh future line use and resoning. Last year we process uh two final plats uh two plan unit development, six future line use map amendments, eight resonings and six conditional
uses. and and I I like I'd like to go over some of the major developments that we have uh in progress today in the city. The total number of this development and they're listed here and I'm going to go one by one later on. But
the total number of this develop amounts to almost 800 dwelling units. It's not a very small number. This number is significant in many in many aspects. Pur that. But if you take these 800 dwelling units and
based on the number of h the person per household in the city, this amounts to almost 2,000 new residents to the city. It's that represents about 20% of our current population. So it's major. This
is just in the last two years. Yes. It's also important because u it represents economic growth of the city. obviously the ramification of the economic growth with this new development but also increase our tax base which is so important for the
city and I'm I think it's a reflection also that uh Palaka is a desirable place to live and to invest and I think uh this is just the development going on but we have many more uh applications
that are in the works that are going to increase even more what we have And last lastly but not least uh the important aspect of this new development is that these 800 units more or less will generate around $5 million in impact
fees that will be used to offset the the cost of the our needs for infrastructure. So this is very important. So let me start with the with the projects are going on right now. Uh, Silver Bay
is a 100 plan restricted age residential development, community development is located along uh, Old Wolf Road just behind uh, the hospital and the dwelling units consists mainly of manufactured
homes with recreational amenities. Uh, the developer will maintain the ownership of the land and really function just like a mobile home. uh mobile home park. The project is way under
construction as you can see in the pictures. This shows you know some of the units already being placed on on site. Uh also the the clubhouse is right now is under construction. So this develop is
proceeding very very rapidly. Next is the cottages. This is a this a proposed uh I mean it's a plan unit development price of 194 townhouse units. These are this is a rental
community and although it has some delays in the implementation of this project the construction in part is due you know to the change of ownership of uh the development. However, you know, in the last few months and few
weeks, uh they have invested a lot in infrastructure and the site preparation for the development. So, we anticipate that it's going to continue. I know that them talking uh with the county about getting the bill
and permits. So, I this development is going to come through. Next is the Blori town home development. And this is a residential community of tom homes consisting of
248 units for sale. And this is very important because this group that is developing this project as you can see it already started. Uh they they're doing the site preparation and putting the infrastructure needed for the development. But this this particular
group is looking at maybe two other projects in the city of Palaka and they chosen to come here because the reception that they had the first project. So uh that tells a lot to me. the Cypress Landing Townhouse. This
is a also a plan unit development of comprising of 68 dwelling units also for sale and as you can see the picture uh it was just recently in front of the city commission maybe two months ago not
even that and already starting with the preparation land clearing and some prepare site preparation for the development. This is the Palaka apartments project. It consists of 40 units uh plan unit
development. This is also a rental community. It's almost completion and the construction is almost complete and we anticipate that probably in the next three months it's going to open. So that's annexed into the city as well. Is that that is in the city? Yes, it was
annexed into the city. Absolutely. So this is is almost complete. Yeah. Yeah. Next is the Bully Road Town Home Development. This is a 128 town home plan unit development and right now it's going through the approval process is
went through the development review committee. Uh is it went to the planning board. It has it received a favorable view from the planning board and is coming to to the city commission probably next month. I included here um and this is this is
the site it's right behind the lows you know u on Moody road and I wanted to include also just uh an example of a plot that we've been working this is the fairway states you city commission reviewed this not too
long ago which basically is just a a subdivision of sick plots for residential purposes Uh this plat was recorded this week about two days ago and uh the owners of the development they're stating to me
that they're next week they're going to start building pulling the building permits. We also have some examples. I will include some examples of non-residential development. And this is I'm sorry. This is the site for the plat right there on
Mos Road. I included this. This is the Palaca Burger. This is the site of the old gas station. Uh 800 St. Jones Avenue is u is a 129 seats restaurant. Um it's
under construction finally. They're moving on and is under construction. So anticipate in the next few months, you know, that it will be open to the public. This is another project. This is in the uh 100 block of
St. John's Avenue. This is the It's called the St. John's Avenue Hotel and Restaurant and you're very familiar with the site. Uh actually the intent of the developer, the owners is to include not just this 100 block, but there are other property adjacent to it that they want
to incorporate and make it just one single development. Uh but this is basically is a mixeduse type of development. On the first floor, they're proposing to have restaurants and a venue for
uh an event venue. Uh also a hotel on the second floor with a bar uh in a not a big hotel. It's about eight units. So uh and they just and this is the site as you know very well. uh just in the last
couple weeks they have started the interior renovation I mean demolition uh preparing for the site development so it's moving forward this is just a little example also you know of u small commercial
development going on this is on avenue on 19 is a julian restaurant it's proposed to be a 60 seat restaurant and right now it's going through the bill important process with the county. Those are just the projects that
I wanted to highlight to you uh so you're aware of what's going on in the city. I know that uh in the past you know you have asked you know we approve all this project but nothing's happening. Well there are happening and and the amount of u number of units is
substantial. uh also the impact fee they're going to generate is substantial and uh and we we're going to get more I can guarantee you that. So let me move a little bit to the I want to give you a brief overview of the code
enforcement and let me just say that the primary function of the code the co code enforcement department is the protection of the health safety and welfare of the citizen as well as protecting the community character of
our neighborhoods and our commercial areas. That's the statement. The mission statement is to maintain improve the quality of life of our citizens through fair, equal and resol oriented enforcement of our core ordinances.
As you may know, uh the code enforcement uh department oversees building and property maintenance, sign violation, uh buildings with no permits, uh businesses licenses, whether they
operate with or without. And also one of the function they have is to prepare all the items that have to go to the magistrate. Right now we have three officer we have uh two recent hires you know in the last two months and they're
already been trained and they're already uh really working very very well in the city. And I want to show you afterward I'm going to show you a little bit of the some data that I have uh from last year and this
year. Let me go through the goals for 2025. As you may know, you know, the the CO compliance enforcement department came under the planning department. Um and during this this
transition uh we try to focus shift the focus of enforcement towards compliance. We think that compliance is the ultimate goal of the department is to make sure that the property are into compliance. So in in in keeping with that
uh focus that we want to do with the department, we are proposing to change the name of the department from code enforcement to code compliance. And we're going to bring this back to you during the budget process. You make it official. Some of the goals that we have
and these are things that we're already doing. It's already in place. uh the conduction of community footwalks that our officers are doing and basically it's just to get uh familiar and and establish a good
relationship with the community and the neighbors. They doing that walking the streets also working on ensuring that all vacant houses and business are registered with the proper information in case of emergencies.
Uh and this is a very important I think maybe it's a it's a little bit of a change when we receive a complaint right now for enforce of enforcement uh we go to that site but we don't just look at that site we try to look at at
least two blocks so we make sure you know that we are looking equally to all the properties and that I think is very very important towards acceptance you know by the community. We're also working on a flex schedule. We want to work on the
weekends. So, right now, we're rotating the staff to work on the weekends and also to work until six o'clock in the afternoon. This is already been uh being implemented right now. I'm pretty sure I don't know whe you're familiar with the procedures and the
process that we go through with code compliance but this more or less uh gives you uh a brief summary of what what we do and the time frames that are involved with code enforcement. And finally I want to show you a little bit of the data that we
have just a comparison between last year and what's going on this year. The first column is the total number of cases. As you can see, last year it was almost 200 cases. This year we're about
50 and uh as as of these months of May. That shows to me shows that more property are coming to compliance and the community is a little bit more aware of the issues you know that generates code enforcement. So to
me that's a good reflection. Uh that the same thing with the magistrate cases. As you see last year in 2024 we had about 50 cases brought to the magistrate. This year getting to about 20 again a sign you know that the
compliance is working. The next columns are the cases in the community revel area in our CRAAS and if you can see last year it was about 10 cases maybe less and this year you can
see it's almost already up to about 20 and this is because you know we have an officer and we pay much more attention to the CRA and also because you know that that new position that we code enforcement is funded by the CRA 50% of
the of the budget. And finally, the last column, the little one shows shows the cases that we had uh regarding that city property. And if you can see, last year it was about eight or 10 cases and this
year is already about 20. and and what it is is that we try to make sure you know that as we enforce the our code in in property owners and businesses we do the same with the city. So uh hopefully
it's not going to increase but if it does you know why and with that I I I conclude my presentation and I thank you for your time. Does anybody have any questions? Go ahead. Thank you for this awesome
presentation. Um I do have a question. You know, it's great that we are increasing um dwellings in the city and I always want to ensure that we're coordinating the required
um public health safety needs that increase accordingly. We always consider that. So I just want to state that on the record. I know we do. Absolutely. I just want them to know we're aware as well. Thank you. Anybody else? Yes. I
just I just want to commend them for the wonderful work his department has done. This is um the most comprehensive u report that we've ever has a great deal. Thank you for that.
I was already working city. Absolutely. Mapping of the city of our Yes. Thank you. Absolutely. I do know those comments as well. I also have a question as regards to squaring
off the city and our boundaries and I would like to know or like I would like to see here in the near future uh plans to square off areas like the Rolling Hills areas where we have spotted county
city right across the street from another and then we have Baileyville area off of 20 street right old highway You have one street. Yeah. Uh but west and you in the county and
then we jump to Highway 19. We're back in the city again. So I would like to see what type of strategic plan that we're putting together to incorporate that area because we're talking about eliminating sets, right? And we need to
we need to have a plan going forward. whole development is great and I'm excited about it, but I'm also uh excited about the people that want and need our services and going on death. I hear all the time
when I go to churches or uh talk to the pods of people and say, "Well, why are we being open?" It's almost like they're being so must address that and have a strategic plan to to square those boundaries as well. Yeah. I'm like Commissioner Bum. This is so important.
I appreciate it. More than welcome. I'm glad you bring it up. The issue about annexation, you know, how to square off. Uh the city manager has already started the conversation with the county. Uh and really the the venue to do this is to enter into an agreement with the county
through the interlocal boundary uh service agreement which basically going to it's like a plan for annexation where we're going to delineate with the county the areas that going to be annexed into the city in the future. They're going to happen right away or in the future. But
at least we have a plan, right? And and the biggest issue that you pointed out is the biggest problem is the deliver of services. It just not an effective way to deliver services when you're in the city and they you know some places is the county and it's the city on the
other side and it is an accident and and emergency have to respond. They don't know sometimes you know which which have to go because they're not sure you know who jurisdiction it is. So it is very important and I hope that we can proceed you know and and enter this agreement
with the county. we have to initiate the city has to initiate with the initiating resolution and then uh bring it to the county. If I may add on to that, we have been doing a good amount of research uh I would say the past two months
extensively uh even going to the point as uh next week we literally meet with the county to discuss this further. So we are working on this rather diligently. We're looking at the various alternatives of how to achieve the goal because there
you can do it legisl Well I don't want to get deep I'm just letting you know that we are working on it as a team right several things and I just learned just the other day that how far the three um two goes
um way past West River road so expans way out you know in and all that's going to be important going forward. We don't want that urban spraw boundaries have the potential of
beyond them but not as the city limits. Exactly. That's key. Go ahead. Um I also think we need to talk about the real reality is not enough time. Oh, thank you. I we wanted you to give us that guidance.
Okay. It was and that's why I didn't important but I I don't think allocating five years is sufficient to reports like this. Thank you. We appreciate that. Thank you very much for that. Thank you. Yes. So
um commissioners if I may go ahead. Okay. We appreciate the fact that you realize that we do need a little more than five minutes and we will start this valuable information that staff is putting together to help uh give you even more information so you can make
better decisions, be more informed. Uh that's our focus. So we understand that uh my verbal is going to be as quickly as I can do it. But mainly uh um city clerk, if you could put those pictures so they can see that Hank Brian Park now
have lights. So at night, you know, we're trying to make it more safer. Uh we're on the finishing parts of uh getting ready to open the bathroom. There will also be um you know, security and so forth with our cameras and all of
that. So, we're doing everything we can understand to do to provide a safe park to the community. Uh, public works uh are also the new building. We're looking to start pretty soon with the new building where public works will begin
to move some of their administrative activity to the new building. Also in fire department, we have 30 new employees that have gone through citywide uh CPR training and uh AED first aid. And we really appreciate our
department. Matter of fact, it was so successful that almost immediately we had an additional 20 that want to sign up. So that is our effort to uh have our employees more health consscious. uh you know if someone fell out or something
there's there many of us have now been trained in CPR. Uh the finance department had a successful report which you will discuss uh later very quickly the agreed upon procedures for the golf club that has been completed and uh
we've reflected it in this agenda. Both shop and palm bow parks are more than 80% complete. Great. Show up. We knew it. Yeah. Show up. Okay. Thanks for the assistance
everyone. But anyway, I just want you to know that your efforts and having faith in uh your staff is going forth positively. Uh we are working I I the we call each other the nickname is not just
team Palaka but also superstars. And the reason why we call ourselves that because we're trying to stay committed, reliable, passionate, you know, persistent, all of the things required to get things completed. Our legal department had uh a number of successes.
Um the motion for a summary was was granted. Uh it allowed us to now not be limited to $5,000, but instead to whatever the value of the loss is. The one that uh most successful was that
46,000 I believe. Uh and also uh not having to pay attorney fees. Yeah. You know, to reduce the 46,000. Uh the IT coordinator has started. We're in our infancy uh with working seeing how that's going
to go. But we do have an IT coordinator at this point and we are aggressively working today. we were working with at to get the cloud base going. Um, and I don't want to get into intricacies, but I just want you to know that progress is
being made. The fact that even this meeting uh is being told lies and the audio is a part of our IT coordinator working with the contractor reclamation windixie lift station upgrade has been completed. The bio solid project is is
actually started and moving. Uh so that's good splashpad. We have begun uh as you know we've been we've been researching uh we have received quotes but more importantly we're uh receiving community engagement. And I'd like to
mention that today we actually have from the time we went out there on site we now have more than 750 responses to the survey. Uh yesterday it was up to 694 70% 70.2% 2% approved the city
moving forward and is excited about the splash part pad. So, I'm just bringing that to you. Um, we are uh hopefully working with the chamber, Putnham County Chamber of Commerce as we're moving forward with possibly uh the 20 scholarships for small businesses and
our effort to um motivate economic development in the city of Palaka. Thank you. questions. I'm going to open the floor to public comments. Speakers are limited to three minutes. Please be respectful. Again,
determine a sign at their residence. We have some people that did fill out speaker cards. Miss Duke, Vicky Duke, Pala, Florida. I my question deals with the stone wall that's on
River Street. Yes, that's the concern about the safety there and the blocking off of that and I wanted an update on where we are in looking at getting that corrected after I think you had shared that there had been a survey in that property though does belong to the city
that the law sits on. That's all. I will fill it when she tells Okay. later on. No. No. So, we're going to do that later on. Yes, ma'am. I will. Lolita Thomas. Hello. Lolita Thomas, 2406 Lee Terrace,
Pala, Florida. I'm just here um on behalf of Pala Police Athletic League just to share some upcoming activities that we have for our youth in the community um so that everyone is aware. Um we have a two-week free camp. Um it's called Pathways to Possibilities. I did
provide flyers to the commission and to the mayor. Um this camp is being held June 9th to June 20th from 8 to 1 um at the Family Life Center. Um so the deadline to register for this um is still open. Um we did have a May 1st, but it's still open to our youth ages um
10 to 18. Okay. Um the next opportunity for our youth um each year um we do camp higher ground. Um camp higher ground is a 8week summer camp program. The cost for the program is $200 um for the camp.
However, for any it does not include the field trips. Um and we do have the fees for the field trip. For a total cost for the camp and field trips, you're looking at a little over $400 if the kids want to attend all of the field trips.
And I do have additional flyers um available for um anyone who would like to have one. So just wanted to share those opportunities that's coming up for um the organization. Thank you. M I ask you when the speaker is speaking, could you have the uh camera
on that speaker so It's supposed to automatically move over to one of those little comments. Okay, that's okay. Miss Pablo, I'm glad we didn't fix that yet. Laura Pabas, Paca, Florida. I I came
just to say thank you. The parking lot got p uh striped at the boat ramp and the marina and it looks phenomenal and thank you. Just thank you so much and really just to say thank you for staff and all the coordination and everybody
working so hard and so diligently and the incredible partnership and just it's wonderful. Just absolutely wonderful. So I just wanted to say thank you for a job well done. We just so appreciate you guys. Wolfson's uh best tournament next weekend and you're knocking it out of
the park. Just one after another. Thank you. Thank you. Does anybody else have any public comments that they want to express? Seeing none public comments. Yes. Um uh I would like to bring the
project manager up. Okay. uh responding to the River Street wallplace and reiterates the need for that in-house engineer which we will focus on. Go ahead. Good evening to everyone. Um currently um the
engineering records working on the um retaining wall it's Hansen Associates um they currently they have done the survey already for the project and they're currently finalizing um the design of the project. So hopefully in one or two weeks we'll receive this this final design for the for the retaining wall.
After that um we'll need to make maybe an emergency um to approve that because we need to go out to be all that stuff. So we'll take time to finish all that. Right. Additionally uh meeting with public works knowing that that liability is sitting there while we're still
patiently waiting for the engineer results. Uh this week engineer has come up with the way to uh put something. we're going to just put something against it. We have to do something while we're waiting on engineering. So,
I just want the commissioners to know that we have already met and we're beginning to just come up with something to try to reduce the liability and we're going to make the property owners aware that we're doing rental certain of that. Thank you. So,
we have a question. Didn't we already approve? We had already approved that, but when when we knew that was the the the thing that could potentially um injure someone, we just said we had gave your approval to go ahead and move
forward. Yes. The approval when we brought it uh that approval for the 121,000 was only the cost of the engineer. I'm sure that and so that's so that is being done. We're only about a
week away from receiving the design and strategy and so forth. You don't have to go into I'm just we just whatever we need to do to move forward. Yes, sir. Okay. And as it relates to the chamber of commerce, uh we just want to say thank you as well to chamber because uh
not only uh are we working together the part that you see, we're also working together by uh innovativeness uh with technology. uh we are in the midst the city is in the midst of um implementing fully the
GIS system and the different departments and we're grateful for the partnership as well. Thank you. Thank you. Um the contract any items to code the ENF just to kind of have a little
bit of uh discussion around that but not just hear from the uh department who who just no no real discussion or question on it but just I just want to hear from the department that's putting this forward here. DNA D and F. Could
you repeat which letter? I'm sorry. D E and F. Okay. DNF. Okay. Anybody else have any people? No. I was going to pull E, but it's already Okay. We have um D, E, and F. Do we have a motion?
I move to accept the consent agenda with the exception of items D, E, and F. We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second motion to second. All in favor? I. Any opposition? Thank you. G
adop6 authorizing a change to the agreement county breeze AC. Mr. Yes. So, Commissioner B, do you have a specific question or you want me to just give you the breakdown on why that changes was there? I just want to hear good news about what's happening over at Okay. Okay.
Well, we we continue to progress to make progress. We just like to hear good things that's happening. Well, I definitely would want to do that for you, but my slated presentation for next commissioner meeting because we know we had some long ones tonight. You can pull that one in there during that time. But
no, I'm going to go ahead. the uh the AC units, the six units on top has already been completed. The additional cost came with the other six units that surrounds the classrooms and the multi-purpose rooms. Actually, the money is coming from the grant funded because we took some money from the painting that we had
allocated 95,000 for. And once we got the quotes, we were well up under that. So, we used that extra money to get those 27 27,000 to go to those new AC units that be in the building. Actually, they just finished putting in the ceiling towels. So, if you come over now, it won't look
like a scary voodoo. It's coming along. Uh they are finishing up our parking lot. They've been paved. Uh so, things are coming along. Now, we need to start working on the build out of the museum and other parts of the building that we got going. I just want to hear the good news. All right. Thank you. Thank you.
Got everything done. Gym floor. The gym floor going to be last, but we already got quotes and we got money allocated for it. Sure it is. Okay. With that said, do we have a motion? Motion to approve. Second. Motion in a second. Is there anybody here for public comment to sign it
on? Public comment. All in favor? Opposition? Thank you. E 2025 68 granting a special events permit to ancient city entertainment 2025 festival 23rd, 24th, and 26th. The
center on the 21st, 22. Well, um, first of all, I'd like to say I had an awesome opportunity to visit every U merchant on St. John's Avenue. You didn't come see me. Sorry. Most of the merchants on St.
John's Avenue. Okay. Um, we did not. And I'll tell you, but I'm with Jessica today and it was amazing. We got really good feedback um from the merchants. Um we also have some
opportunities to address which is why I wanted to pull this item as well. I do want direction as to should we let uh Miss Cruz give her report first and then because items may be addressed. Yes, let's go ahead. Go ahead, Miss Cruz.
Okay. Are there any specific questions? Just give your report. Well, I don't know if she has a real report or if she Okay, I think it's she's asking us to prepare questions. So, one of the issues that we have which I think is really really um important to
address um that came from um specifically from the tax collector's office and a couple of other businesses is the request is asking for the city to close streets to some degree beginning
on Wednesday night and Thursday I believe. And so we need to clarify um well we need to make sure with whatever we approve that businesses are open and that citizens and customers are
able to access those businesses. There is a an impending tax sale coming up. And according to the tax collector this um that week will be a push. people will come in to pay taxes and we need to make
sure streets are not closed and they have access on Thursday and Friday. So, um that is one of the major concerns. Um another concern is confirming where the vendors will stop
for the blue crab festival. There are some businesses. So, we're disappointed with the um well, we understand that vendors will stop on third fourth street. So, they'll go from the riverfront to fourth street. And I know
there's a new business I think in the third in um block who really wanted to participate and those businesses and on those streets forward are concerned that there will not be there will not they
won't have the flow for their businesses. So they definitely want um I'm sorry Ladybug wants to make sure because she wants to ensure that we can put signs or she has signs to say other businesses
this way but some kind of advertisement to those businesses who are not in the direct way. Um so those are um and and the permit request goes up to eight. Yeah. Well, on the application, it was
initially the 8th. Um, I had a conversation with Captain Williams this afternoon and I guess he met with prior to um and it's only going to the end of the 400. Okay. Okay. Because that was again another concern for businesses that to close it all the way
up without vendors. What was the point? Yeah. And um and I do have a question. And I believe that would go to attorney west. Um just for clarification um there is one business
and I have his name um Marshall. Yes. And remedy. Yes. Was it remedy? Remedy staffing. And he does not want anyone in front of his building. He was not asked.
And so again, just want to make sure we don't have any confusion regarding placement businesses being blocked and what does that look like and it be a conversation. So those are the key takeaways from our business today to
purchase. Okay. And and so we can make arrangements to not block the sidewalk in front of his business, but the street is the cities and we will be putting for the street. Okay. Any questions, concerns? I a lot of them, too.
So, I have a lot, but I I don't know what we can deal with and what we cannot, what comes with the territory, what we've inherited with working with this um manager of the um festival.
However, I do, and again, this is for attorney West, the lack of response. We're hearing that over and over and over. Um, lack of response to our city staff.
Um, it's just unacceptable. And you will have an opportunity next year to use a different provider for your Blue Crowd Festival. We are under contract with RQ Music. Um, and these issues that we're agreed to.
We are having construction, but we will make it better next year. Thank you. And um I think we can make that happen. Yes. Because I've also had musicians and vendors who are now paying very late
that are pretty upset about this. So, we really have to discuss this in detail for next year. Um, thank you. And I do want to make sure that on the application where the requests to begin set up on the 21st and 22nd and road
closures that we understand um who will be impacted, what that looks like, which roads will actually be closed. Will St. John's Avenue be open on Thursday? Yes. At what time? Okay. Yes, it will. Okay. It won't be closed until the evening time when all the
businesses are already closed. Can we summarize exactly the parameters so that we can share that with the merchants? So the roads were closed to 45 that is. And you know that's only going to fourth street. That's what we did today. Yeah, that would be great.
Is that today? Yes. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? No, I just think this is probably one of the worst coordinations, not with not with you guys, but with with our entertainment, the entertainment group that is putting this on. We went well
for the first three years, and all of a sudden, you know, this is what we're doing. I think uh we we're giving way more money uh than we've given in the past and we're getting a lot less out of it.
Yes. I've also had people concerned or complaining about the lack of promotion of the event that I'm just not seeing and that's brought been brought to my attention several times. With all that said, do we have a motion to approve? Motion to approve that. Well, it's we
already agreed to the unfortunately we already agreed to everything previously and already she's gotten to approve. We have a motion. I have to go. Go ahead. Yeah, that's true. She
don't want I want to thank I agree. I agree. You're right. And so that's important. It need clarified because we're about to say yeah merchants saying they have a concern. Now temporarily we can actually make
those scribble errors correct to where you'll be able to be personally wrote into the contract saying the time. But right now the soft closure leading up to 5:00 pm is what we had. So access of that road will still be there, but the hard closure will come out the business hours around 5 p.m. But we can get that
put into writing. What is that setup looking like? Just that big of a setup. So we just had that that one business. No, you can't be on the sidewalk, but you can be on the road. So we going to set up on road today. The event itself is on Friday. So it'll be soft closure
and it'll be staging equipment so they can move in to Friday to put it where they need to be at. So, uh, Friday at the Vent start at 5:00 PM on Friday. That's when the hard closure come in and the major equipment come in. Thursday will be staging equipment in areas where
it still give access to the roads as much as can. So, okay. Yes. Is it possible again? Go ahead. I'd like to modify my motion. Thank you, Commissioner Jones. I move that we approve the request with the
following conditions that we um that do not conflict with the contract to our understanding and that is that access to
St. John's Avenue will not be um stopped until um Friday at 5:00 p.m. Second finish with motion. Second. We have a motion, a second. Is there
anybody here for public comment on this item? Public comment. All in favor? Congratulations. Any opposition? No. Thank you. That's what she said up at 5 p.m. We going make we going to make
sure she know. I can't guarantee is pumper. Good evening. Thank you. Good evening, mayor of commission. Um, so a brief on this. These uh these
pumps were the original pumps from when the plant was built in 1986. They had original life expectancy of 20 years. We've made them last 39 years by rebuilding and maintenance. It's just to the point where it's no longer cost efficient to keep rebuilding these
pumps. There's there's damage to the inside of the metal and the the housings of that of that that nature. Uh it's just not economically feasible to keep pumping money into these pumps and they don't work as efficient as they used to. Um this was another capital project that we had put into our budget at the
beginning of the year. We had asked for $122,000. We're coming in quite a bit lower than that that number. Um that is the vault that they the pumps rest in. Um we are asking for a sole source on this because we really can't
change the configuration of the pumps where they sit. They're inside of that vault. There's the pumps. The one on the right is the number two pump. Number on the left is where the the uh number one pump usually sits. Um that's where the spot is for number
one. Another picture showing the damage to the concrete base plate. So this this money isn't just for the pump itself. for a pump, a more efficient motor, a base plate, and new concrete supporting slab, which is all deteriorating and showing signs of cracking um after 39
years of service. So, it's just time to replace the whole setup, the pumps, the motor, the base, and the concrete slab that it rests on. Um the pipe in the middle is where it comes out of the concrete structure coming from the primary clarifier. again to change the
style of pumps we have. We had to change the entire configuration which is going to ask add massive amounts of money to getting these things back on service. Thank you. So, we're just asking that we u are allowed to go with the sole source purchase of of these of these pumps.
Um I think there's another picture showing the new pump. Yeah, it's just a pump itself without the the motor and the base plates. Yeah, we have pretty purple. Yeah, blue little blue little blue little blue purple. And what's your use for life on those
pumps? They basically basically rate them at 20 years. 20 years. So you went 100% over the useful life. Yes, sir. And that's what we appreciate. The community need to know these type things
back for critical infrastructure. So yes, thank you. I just want we just commun I I'll fore warn you next year's budget we'll ask for two more of the same thing for the grit. Same situation 39 years old and these handle pretty abrasive material. It's the sand and the
eggshells the grittiest stuff that comes into our system. Yeah. So they're very durable. Um but they're very abrasive material that they're pumping. Appreciate. Thanks. Thank you. Any questions, Mr. I don't think so. Thank you. We appreciate it. Motion. Move to
approve. Second. A motion and a second. Is there anybody here for public item? Public comment. All in favorition. Thank you. Do we want to take a reset? Moving on to policy funding nonprofit
quest. Well, it was a combined effort. Um, okay. With legal and myself. Um basically last time uh you did see what we had put forth before the uh some of the slight modifications would be uh
specifying a a timeline so that it um come it reconciles with our budgeting process. Uh for instance that the deadline the request for funding must be submitted between um May 15 to June 30th
to be considered. uh if anything comes after the budgeting period that's under the deadline it would be limited to 1500 and they would have to really really clarify what happened why is it an emergency but basically everything is
there that was there before uh the reporting requirement the dispersements the use of the funds the audit and oversight uh all of the controls are in place uh if there was Um there was one more thing that I think
I would like to add in and that would be uh that mandatory rotation cycle. So I think that's the one item that uh did not get written in. I'll make sure that that's put in. Mandatory recite mandatory recycling means that we don't
fund the same agency every year. Okay. Thank you. Any questions on that? commendation. Come on up, Mr. Alra Kitchens, Pala, Florida. Uh, I have the same cons uh concern in general. I
like this. I think is good. But my concern has to do with the eligibility criteria under paragraph one, nonprofit status. I'm 100% for the nonprofit. That's wonderful. What I have a a concern about, which I voiced the last time, is the last paragraph, the last sentence in the first paragraph, it says
the city shall not consider consider funding requests from for-profit corporations. Well, that's great. Or religious institutions. I believe that that violates the first amendment of the constitution. that I think that's putting uh discrimination against religious const institutions because
they are nonprofit. They do help the community and I think that should that part should be removed. I think it should say the city shall not consider funding requests from non from for-profit corporations period. And I request that the rest of the senates or religious institutions be dropped. Thank
you. Thank you. Yeah, I mean this this goes back to the the first amendment issues of separation of church and state. Um, however, it's fully acknowledged that religious organizations are do have status and
they do a lot of work within our community. So it is within the discretion of the commission on on how you want to handle that. any discussion on what you want to think about this based
on legal I mean because I I don't I can't I don't know about you know I just want to do what legal right that okay um in running a nonprofit organization
and dealing with some of this uh prior what we ended up doing because you can't with the federal funds procilitize really spread the gospel but a lot of religious nonprofit organizations do great work in the area
of tutoring dealing with the homeless. So maybe you could have the language restrict in terms of spreading the gospel or doing that aspect and you wouldn't run into this whole thing with church and state separation. I appreciate that. We will reise that
small portion. Okay. Bring it back to us. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Okay. So I have a question. Right. So if you don't take out religious
institution as a church request not being qualified to get any funding. So I'll be honest with you from a legal perspective. This landscape is shifting
dramatically as we speak. Um so and And that is why I I put it back from the city commission because I am not in to give you aative answer as I was a year ago on the separation of that that is a
great state for the US. Um so um in order to provide confidential guidance I was not able to be okay but I want to make sure I understand um Commissioner Jones's
question if because the requirement is that if you have a nonprof 501c3. So I believe Commissioner Jones, and correct me if I'm wrong, that your
comment or question was if a church applies and they're not a um nonprofit, then that is correct. They would not be eligible according to our guidelines. So I think that was the point Miss Kitchens was
making is we we don't need the religious that statement because it the requirement is a 501c3 one of the main criteria and as long as again I I appreciate Mr. Sharfield's comment that perhaps it would specify what the funds
can't can't be used for or only can be used for whatever. Yes. Agreed. Thanks. So for profit and not forprofit church of course you're going to have most of them are not most of them are nonprofit most
rhetorical question it's a question that you that you know Miss Kitchen said just eliminate the language but the language is in there for protection. So the question has got, you know, I think when we when we put it through the test, we ask these questions up front
and and so you're saying an institution that is not for profit, no matter what it is, and they ask for funding. We said, we put it here, it
should be a 513. Um, some organizations haven't gotten to the point to the 5013C, but they want community, they want help from local government and they're not. Sure. So, and so you
eliminate them from that. Yes. Yes. We can modify the language to clarify that it's a nonforprofit corporation which would be their registration with the division of corporations state of Florida and not necessarily specify that
they have to go that thank you okay we'll make those changes that's what you going that's that's where I was going from my head thank Thank you. Good. And so we'll bring this back. And one I
have one question now. My question would be if just because they meet that status, do do they have to already be like uh in business for or in operation for a period of time as opposed to
because if somebody just start up somebody just start up a 501 U3 or nonprofit and they got the application, they got approved, they're coming to you for money, never operated anything and coming to you for funds. How do you going to know if they're
going to perform any past history of performance? You don't have anything on this organization. So, uh I like to have at least and that's what I've asked for in the northeast Florida League cities that we have at least two to three years
people have performed and you got some kind of u history on these individuals and their organization. Yeah. We'll we'll do the eligibility criteria. I'm going allow city attorneys. We do have as part of the review and
evaluation in town organization, but you make that point and you can um make that language a little bit more. Thank you. Any followup questions or discussion? No. Okay.
Um back to the golf club. Okay. Yes. [Music] Peter Kayakus, director of finance. So as a part of uh city of Palaskco audits
uh we contracted with the HT HCT our auditors to do um agreed upon procedures regarding the golf course uh to make sure that we have uh appropriate correct amount of revenues coming into the city and our
auditors HCD uh certified public accountants and consultants they issued um a report stating that we app uh they they performed agreed upon procedures and we uh they didn't noted no any
variances from uh our reports and uh reports that provided by the golf course. Um if you have any questions have any questions I miss I missed a portion of it.
Yeah, go ahead. I do know that from a past been speaking with the city manager, but from a past report there was some things that need to be looked at and addressed and be I
guess corrected or what have you. I want to make sure that those things uh don't float off into um Are you are you referring to our expert that's probably or no? Or this is just golf course because
Oh, I'm just independent but they just they just looked at the golf course if we receive all the revenues contracted with our management companies. Okay. That's different. That's different. Yeah. And basically uh the report is good. Yeah.
No. I'm I'm coming good with that. So we still on the golf course? Yes, we sir. All entirely or what part of it? All just the golf course. This like pool and stuff like that. We don't the bar
recently did research on that city attorney owned by a separate not forprofit corporation country club pool association when that happened. Yeah. It was conveyed in 1988. 888. Can we get
those talking? Yes. We can get that a while. Yeah. But we I know it's a matter of public record, but at the same time um we've had this pool that was um built with public dollars, wasn't it? No, it was
not. It was uh the palakum that's golf association put together $9,300 in 1953 to build it was privately but we have paid for some maintenance on that
not it's been a yeah yeah we just recently did this research we have not done any expenses toward the pool no it's it's private membership based They paid they actually paid to build their
own bathrooms at the $10,500 just a couple years ago. No, I just want I just want to be clear on this because I get a lot of questions about it. Sure. Because it is considered the Palaka Golf Club and uh golf course
and pool is sitting there and then you also have a bar in there and everything else. So when I say it's it's the city of Pala, it's the city of Pala. Yeah, it's so we we need to put some other
except the pool. One of the things that we will be doing this year, thanks for the conversation, is uh the finance director we're matter of fact we're meeting in the morning on uh some of the internal reviews that we will be conducting. one of which is the
agreement for the clubhouse because it is actually written in there uh some of the responsibilities and so we're now following up on that as well. Thank you. And that is why we had done the research on the pool. Thank you.
Appreciate that. No, we we since we're on the pool. Yeah. Yeah. But the the the other post that we the building that one we probably need to revisit and then we're getting there.
The one that got covered up over on So we just need to revisit that. That one's gone. So it's over. So this I did put in a request with the city man. Me too. Okay. We It's coming tomorrow.
Thank you. Progress. Progress. Okay. Okay. We're on to public hearings. Ordinance 202511, diversion of business tax receipts for insurance companies in compliance with statute
2042. It is the first reading. I don't know what happened to the staff report, but let me just walk you through this. It's it's an extremely long ordinance. We do actually need to read the ordinance title, mayor. So, if you don't mind, if you could please read the
entire Go ahead. I'm sorry. Whichever your preference needs to be. I can either one of us can read it. And of the city of Palaca, Florida, amending the Palacru Registration and 3215 foreclosed
blighted unsecured or abandoned structure registration and amending appendix A schedule the municipal color of the city of Pal as pertains to fees and other challenges related to chapter 10 alcohol beverages. Chapter 30 registration and avoided securing or
abandoned structures. Chapter 15 parks and recreations. Chapter 34 planning. Chapter 16. Chapter 74 subdivision. Chapter 78 taxation. Chapter 94 zoning providing for conflict
surveility effective date and strictness. Thank you. Sorry. Excellent thought. Uh so very briefly uh it was brought to our attention
that we increase the ETR for insurance providers and we were not going to do that and so this is back to parking dollar. So it's in compliance with state
law and the restrictions for insurance companies. And in addition, uh the ordinance adds what should have been added a long time ago under the
zoning that runs in the daily news. The applicant for anything changes is responsible for the advertising fees. We have set amount that we charge. Um but then it's the applicant that is
responsible there's a postponed. Can't anticipate that and it goes on the budget. Thank you. Any questions? It's pretty clear. Yeah. If you go down to the order 78-170, right? Why is that still existing in
there? If we not I'm sorry. I'm trying to find where you're at. Right where the cursor is. Right next to the cursor. Yeah. That's a a good um and and as we go
through this uh this we're going to be doing a comprehensive clean up we have tried systematically to remove some of the old uses. Believe it or not just up until last year we had
we need one though. actually but we will be working on uh cleaning this up so it's uh modern day and thank you too much okay we have a motion motion to approve
a second motion a second anybody here for public comment on this item now public comment all in favor any opposition Thank you. We're on to commission a comment. Commissioner Davis,
thank you. Um, I'd like to say to the city manager, thank you. I see the work that you're doing and it's evidence in the staff. Yes, ma'am. Um, and we really appreciate your timely responses to request and bringing clear and transparent information to the
commission. Thank you. I'd also like to say that um we have a goal to increase the Girl Scout um troops in Palaca. As such, the um council from Jacksonville
has a um will be doing anformational session at J Middle School in the multi-purpose room on June 7th at 2 from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. There will be fun events, hands-on activities, and it's
open to girls in grades K through 12 and their caregivers. In addition, we need true leaders. No experience is necessary. The council will do all training and help us set up hopefully many troops in the city. Um we have
please share that information and u we'll get it out in the community. But that's all I have for Commissioner Bora. Yes. Just want to um say great job city manager, great job staff. Appreciate that you guys do it every day. you guys
are uh the um backbone of the city and we appreciate everything you do. Um also condolence to um the Campbell family um or for their loss and loved one and uh Commissioner Campbell as well. So just
condolence to the family while they're going through this season of grief. Commissioner, I have nothing else. I I would like to say um in transparency from the commission, one of our tasks is to do a 90-day review for our city
manager. And that is approaching and so it is due by um May 25th, that is Memorial Day, so May 26. So just wanted to put it out there. We are following just a reminder to our
commission and that we do have that. I'm saying she going to be here still around for we will determine that after the native she'll be here. Thank you for the reminder. With that said, do we have a motion to adjurnn? Motion to adjurnn. Thank you. Thank you
everybody.