Good evening everybody. A little bit different meeting tonight. Um I'll explain in a minute but u madam cler you call a roll please. >> Yes. Miss Barrow >> here. >> Miss Bifford >> here. >> Mr. Chapel >> here. >> Mr. Haney. >> Mayor Kelly.
>> Yes. Here. Um I'm going to go ahead and Ron will do the pledge of allegiance. Did you want to do the invocation? >> Yeah. >> Okay. So everybody please stand. Oh Lord, bless our council tonight as we uh proceed for other uh items on our
list to bring Parker into a nice and healthy way of our life. Bless our farmer and our police department. Keep them out of harm's way. bless our citizens that they
will understand what some of the things that we're trying to do here for the citizen of Parker. I ask you all in this name. Amen. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation
indivisibley and justice for all. >> Please be seated. Uh, so I don't know if we need to explain to you what happened, but I'm going to ask the clerk to um
go over the mistake that was made on the uh on the um agenda for the date. Uh got a phone call this morning from Mr. Sloan uh and explained to me that we were fully compliant with Florida statute.
Even though a mistake was made on documenting the date, there were three other locations that were um the meeting was posted. Um the actual true website
in the world is the city of Parker's website. So, if you have a homemade website and you choose to publish things that you believe are right and tell people things that are inaccurate,
then you need to, those of you that can hear my voice, need to check the city's website to get an accurate factbased statement. And there's not been a change in the itinerary, but would you explain
about the dates for me if you would please? >> So when I posted it on the city's website as an event on Friday, I neglected to change the date to the 17th and it only posted for the 13th. So it looked like it was on Friday, but it wasn't. But it has been corrected. But
it was posted in the box outside and on the city sign >> on the city's web page. And it was never said that there was not going to be a meeting. It was just that the date was an oversight on the on our
part. And so people jump to conclusions. We won't wait for you. So with that, that's all I wanted to tell you. Moving on. So, this would have been the second meeting that we didn't convene and I decided to
convene it tonight, but we don't have a subject for review. There's been nothing from uh public works um or um any other department sent forward for our review or a vote, but I decided that we might
be missing out on items from the audience or anything that the council may want to discuss or you may want to have interaction with us. You may remember at the last Fifth Tuesday, we voted not to have one for Christmas, but
our next Fifth Tuesday is in March. So, if there's anything you'd like to talk about tonight, you can. Um, and so with without an agenda of items, I open the floor to the citizens of Parker. >> We do have the minutes to approve.
>> Oh, okay. Yeah. >> Oh, okay. I'm sorry. So, anybody on in the in the room that's not on the front row? >> So, I just want to let everybody in this room know that the big red bust, you
know what they do? They collect blood so that we can hopefully one day get out of this huge shortage we're in. They're going to be at the VFW Post 8205 on March 14th, Saturday, March 14th from 8
to 12. So, if you come have breakfast, get your blood drawn or get your blood drawn, then have breakfast, I'll buy you a drink. >> Let me ask you a question. >> What restrictions do they have on individuals who are able to give blood?
Like there was a time if you'd been outside the continent United States, they wouldn't allow you if you'd been to >> Yeah. I don't know. I don't have that information. >> Okay. All right. >> But I imagine if you go online, they probably have an overall guideline for
that kind of thing for donating blood. >> Okay. >> I don't think so. >> And that's the 14th. >> The 14th of March. >> That's a Saturday. >> Saturday. 8 to 12. >> 8 to 12. So eat breakfast and do it. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. That'd be good. >> Very good. Thank you very much.
>> You're welcome. I open the floor to anybody. Okay, brother Chapel, you're up. >> Got a couple things. U first of all,
I'd like our citiz going on at the park. >> Okay. Somebody that this past weekend want to borrow one of our trees of all things. And if they're that hard up that they need
to go and borrow a tree, I'm willing to go ahead and buy a tree. >> I don't think they borrowed it, Ron. >> Huh? >> Somebody stole a tree. >> They stole it. >> I'm sorry. Somebody stole a tree. >> A tree? >> They just planted them. >> They were $140 each and someone took an entire oak tree.
>> Wow. No cameras, >> but the people that provided them to us told Mr. Chapel they would give us another one to replace it. >> Wow. >> You know, I just can't believe people go around.
>> Anyway, that happened. So, and uh I did talk to them where I buy my trees at and uh he ordered he's ordering
me tomorrow. He ordered me 10 uh peon trees, pan trees, and uh next week they should be delivered. So, we'll start putting them out at the park there, too. Uh it'll be a few years before they
bear, but I'll get them in the ground now before the heat comes. It's a good time to put them in. So, eventually we'll have peon trees out there at the park and
hopefully they'll bear peons from people to go out there and pick up off the tree. Got 10 of them coming. Our playground equipment uh they brought that into some of it today. So, it should be uh this week or next week have
the playground equipment all fixed and ready for use. That'll be a good thing. The other thing is uh we're going to start uh our yard sales uh the second Saturday of the month. The
first one started in March. Be from 8:00 till whatever. continue doing yard sales as long as people want to come to them all the way through November and be the second Saturday of every
month. >> Okay. Thank you. I got ahead of us. Council, we should have um approved the minutes before we started general conversation. So, it's in your packages. >> I make a motion that we approve presented.
>> Second. >> Motion and second. Madam clerk, call roll. >> Miss Barrow. >> Yes. >> Miss Bford. >> Yes. >> Mr. Chapel. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kelly. >> Yes. Thank you. Okay. Miss Barry, you have anything for the council? >> Nothing really. Kate, nothing. The only
thing I can tell you is the um pipe that we're putting in the ground, you know, the SRF, the loan that we got for the pipe is moving along pretty good. Um uh some of the places I know the ground isn't completely smooth and it's a
little bit bumpy and the reason for that is is because they'll they get a they get so many streets ahead and then they'll bring in the black top and the equipment to repair the black top and the road surface. And um uh as soon as
they have reached that point, then they'll do that. They've done it once on this side and now they're going to start working their way down the Parkway. And as soon as that, I'm told as soon as that pipe is in, the the people that have the mobile home park in the curve
are going to put an 8 foot um fence on their side of the road. So, you won't be able to see into those mobile home park RV parks is what they are. That'll all be blacked out. And I'm not sure about Harders. I haven't spoke to them yet. So, I'm thinking we're going to come all
the way around that corner and uh close it off to the public's view. Um that's pretty much all I have to report. We uh we've been pretty darn busy. Um the fire station, the first part of the the the
dormatory wing is finished. We got the blueprints today for the interior to be bid. We're going to probably go out to bid. I haven't talked to Egggins till about it until about 4:00 today. We're going to go out for bid for the interior. I think we got a guy that that
built it is probably going to be the one that builds the inside. Um and we're waiting for um just EPCI to review the plans and move on from there. But anything else, citizens? I >> sure make sure that a couple people that
are watching that is the volunteer. Yeah, the the as you may or may not know from um all of the land uh to the left of the fire station and a big chunk of the land to the right of the fire
station and the actual fire station itself is property of the Parker Volunteer Fire Department. They were established in 1955 and um I even have the blueprints for the original station which was next door
and somehow over the years it kind of was integrated into the city building but that building belongs to volunteers nonforprofit 501c3 and they paid for the building that was there and they saved their money to
build the extension on the building and truthfully we couldn't The people of Parker couldn't have afforded that building, that land, or or the extension. They just wouldn't have the money. So, what the extension is going to be is some downstairs offices with a
day room for the guys and gals to sit in and watch TV in the daytime hours. And upstairs a dormatory so that there'll be six or seven bedrooms. I'm not sure what was on the map. I can't remember. And two per room. So when there's a
hurricane, they won't have to leave the city. Individuals can come in and stay not just for hurricane but other national events that they could stay in the fire station where we have um generated water and sewer and heat. So
and cooling obviously. So, um, we in the hurricane, you may or may not have lived here then, but we allowed hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people to come and bathe at the station because we had water when nobody else did. And almost
all the law enforcement on the east side came and took a shower there and got a meal from FEMA or whatever, whoever was serving. And Yep. And there were other people that were there that were just couldn't couldn't beat it. Now, the
the the the grants are about to close out for that storm. Um I was telling me the other day that we've got just a little bit left from FEMA. The volunteers don't make a fortune. Um they so it takes a while to
save up money to to be able to do things and they got enough to finish the dormatory. And then we'll be looking at um some kind of a fundraiser probably to um put new beds in there. It's my I want to put all new bedding, new everything
goes inside. U and and that's that's what I got to report about that. So, well, ladies and gentlemen, I wish there was more to talk about, but there's not. And uh um our next meeting uh not not not not stated meeting, but
in March, we'll have a a fifth Tuesday and that's what we're done. The community building invite everybody to come down and that wants to and and I think that the um thing at the at the VFW is going to be really really good. Have you done it there before?
>> Did it turn out was good? >> Okay. >> 18. >> Okay. Okay. >> The amount. >> Yeah. >> But did you give out more than you got? Did you have to give out more blood than
you got donated? >> No. >> Okay. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> They're running a big deficit.