Very good. Good evening everybody. Welcome to the city of Parker's last council meeting for this this year. Um we've have uh three items on the agenda and um hopefully it won't take all evening to get this taken care of. Um if you miss
don't mind uh Mr. Chapel, will you do the invocation? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Mr. Reagan do the invocation. >> Oh, certainly. >> And Mr. Chapel's going to do the pledge of allegiance. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, we thank
you for all those that operate the city and the blessings you have placed in their lives this Christmas. We pray that the gratitude will overflow in everyone's hearts. And we thank you for all the blessings around them, the laughter of loved ones, the beauty of the season, and the gift of life itself.
And we ask that you bless all of those that are serving abroad in order to maintain peace in our world. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Amen. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Seated. >> Madam clerk, you please call the role. >> Miss Bifford >> here. >> Miss Barrow back. >> Mr. Chapel >> here. >> Mr. Haney >> here.
>> Mayor Kelly. >> Yes, ma'am. Thank you and I appreciate that. Um, ladies and gentlemen, if anybody in the audience would like to come to the podium and discuss anything that's not on the current agenda for tonight, now would be the time to do that. State your name and your address
for the record. Mark Ria, 1503 Dover Road, Panama City, Florida, Parker, Florida. I wanted to take a special thank you out to Kanye Barrows who for as long as I remember at her expense and uh at her desire has
been throwing tremendous Christmas parties for the city, those who work for the city. Uh this this last one was they're all good, but this last one was particularly good. Uh because we got an opportunity to really handshake with our police officers, get to know our
firemen, get to know the other political uh people who serve on a regular basis, and more than just about what they do on a regular basis. We got a chance to sit and talk about, you know, their individual lives. And that was a lot of fun. And the food was tremendous. Thank you again. That's all.
>> Thank you, Mr. Reagan. It was great >> at FO6 1344 Stratford Avenue. Mayor Kelly, >> Mr. Sloan, uh council members, I have something that I wanted to oh bring to uh the council's attention.
And some of you may or may not be aware of this and also I wanted to sort of consider it a public service announcement to the residents here in Parker. Uh on October 17th I received a trespass notice because I visited the
fire department. Um I stopped by. All four doors were open and I was not able to make the pushin on the 16th because my sister was in the hospital. So, I came on the 17th simply to take pictures of the firetruck so that I could post
them on social media that we had received a firetruck that Mayor Kelly and the rest of the council fought so hard to get. And I'm glad that we did get it. Um, I walked along in front of the doors asking, "Is anyone here? Is anyone here?" No one responded. I was
going to turn around and leave. My truck was sitting in the driveway. Door was open. The engine was still running. And finally a gentleman come came out, young man. He startled me actually and I spoke with him. Very pleasant. Told him what I was there for. I simply wanted to take a couple of pictures of the firetruck and
did I have his permission to do so? And he said yes, that would be fine. So I took a picture from the front and then I took a picture of the side. I did not go inside the garage. I did not go around back. Uh I did while I was there went
and knocked on the door of the office. No one answered. I opened the door and said, "Hello, is anyone here? Is anyone here?" There was no response. And then I went back out to the uh garage and that's where the uh the officer of the fire officer came and uh said that it
would be okay to to take a photo. And I thanked him. I left. I went home. Couple of hours later, Chief Baxley shows up at my door and I invited him in. He said, "No, no, that's okay. I've u you know, need to talk to you about something." And jokingly I said, "Oh, what did I do
now?" And for anybody that wants to see the video cam, I'm sure that it is available by a public records request. But Chief Baxley uh provided me, he said that he was required by law to uh provide me with this trespass uh warning. It was not a notice that I had
trespassed on private property. Uh I would also like to uh make a note for the citizens of Parker that there are no tres there are no no trespassing signs at the fire department. Um but I was instructed that as of October 17th for a
period of one year I cannot go on to the fire department property and that's fine unless I have an emergency. But I thought it was important for the residents to know this. I simply stopped by to take a photo. There was no one else there to my knowledge except for
the one firefighter that I spoke with. He had no problem. I assume he could have told me if I was trespassing, but he didn't. I go home and then not only did the chief show up, but there's also a second officer in my driveway standing
there outside the fence to serve a trespass notice on a citizen who visited the fire department. I find it shocking and completely inappropriate. But if that's the way, and I understand the
volunteer fire department doesn't belong to the city of Parker, the fire truck does, and my tax dollars helped pay for it. So, I'm simply here again to give a public notice to the rest of the citizens that hopefully are watching or will watch that uh you need to be
careful if you go to the fire department without a specific invite from the chief or unless it is an emergency. And I would also volunteer to the city of Parker or to the volunteer fire department. I'm happy to buy no trespassing signs to put up there if you
would like that so another citizen doesn't get treated the way that I was. I feel it was very inappropriate. Just wanted to make that for the record. Thank you very much. >> Does anybody else have anything for the council?
Okay, with that we'll proceed on. All right. How many times did you go there, ma'am? >> Once. >> Okay. Um, other than that, any items from the
audience? I don't know if anybody knows or not, but I'm going to go ahead and address this. Our firemen live at that fire station. It's their home. In your home, you shower.
In order to do that, you may disrobe. We have a front door. It's got a sign on it says this is the property of the park and volunteer fire department. It's got a phone number. You're entitled to call that phone number. Nobody's entitled to go into anybody's home and just wander
around and see what they're doing in their house. And that's their home. They live there for 24 hours and they do a shift change. If you're not happy with that, we can maybe do something different. But that's your answer, ma'am. That's their home.
Thank you. Um, approval of the minutes from November the 5th, 18th, and no, and December the 2nd. You should have them in your packages before you >> just one meeting. The other one was canceled. >> Yeah, it was canceled. Yeah. >> I make a motion that we approve as
presented. >> Second. >> We have a first and a second. Madam clerk, would you please call a role? Miss Barrow, >> yes. >> Miss Barford, >> yes. >> Mr. Chapel, >> yes. >> Mr. Haney, >> yes. >> Mr. Mayor Kelly, >> yes. Thank you, ma'am. Item two is an
application for partial combination. It went through the uh planning council on the 9th of December. You should have that in your packages before you. This is um uh let's see what their names are. >> Sellers. >> Yeah. Mr. Mrs. Sellers.
>> Yeah. >> Are you here? >> Yes, sir. Come to the podium, please, sir. >> I shall do that. >> So, you putting in corn? Is that the plan? >> Uh, no. I'm putting me in a putting green. >> Putting green. >> Putting green. That's even better. Good
lord. >> Um, it's been approved by the planning council. Council, you're welcome to open the I The floor's open at this time. >> No, just uh I'm I'm doing two of them there. Item one and two. Uh, I got my house I live in at 45 48 Seedar Street
and uh I had bought I I don't know if y'all remember that strip of land that runs by there. They gave everybody a >> chance to buy behind us and I >> You did? I remember. >> I bought I bought the property behind me and then behind my neighbor, >> Barber Helen. They couldn't afford
nothing. But, uh, so, uh, now I want to, uh, I just want to add that that >> that piece of land to the property you already have, >> right? >> I think Wayne did the same thing down there. >> Yep. Yep. Wayne, >> you plan to build on that property, huh? >> Are you planning a build on that property?
>> On what? The my the one I got my house on right now. >> Either or. >> Huh? >> Either or. >> Oh, yeah. Now, the other one at 4530, >> I'm going to build a house there. >> I see. >> I already got that the whole trailer tore down. That's still a good size lot. >> It's huge. It's huge.
>> You'd be about 3/4. >> That's why I was teasing about planting corn. It's a field. It's nice. >> It's smart to combine those two, >> huh? >> It's smart to combine those to get them out of landlock, >> right? >> Yeah. Yeah. They're landlocked anyway. There ain't nothing I mean, if I'd put something back there, I'd have to build
some kind of access point. >> Yeah. No, you're you're right. You're right. >> You know, and that just kind of puts it under two umbrellas there for taxes and all that. And uh that gives me more more room if I want to build something else on there. Workshop. Another workshop like that.
>> That's right. Put your big old barn back there. Nice. >> So it gives me more impervious surface the concrete over and less the boat. >> Technical words. >> More conversation. >> Well, I learned that at the planning meeting. >> Is that Mark Reagan's words? >> Yeah. Pervious surface.
>> Impervious service. Okay. Well, this is u to approve his >> Okay. Okay, we got a first. >> Second. >> We have a second. Call a roll, please. >> Miss Barrow. >> Yes. >> Miss Bifford? >> Yes. >> Mr. Chapel? >> Yes. >> Mr. Haney? >> Yes. >> Mayor Kelly?
>> Yes. Good job, Mr. Sellers. I think you got another one here. >> Yeah, that's that's the that's >> an application for parcel combination, which is actually the one beside the one you just did. >> I'm making a motion to approve that as well. >> We got we got a first and a second. Madame Clerk, >> Miss Barrow, >> yes.
>> Miss Bifford, >> yes. M >> Mr. Chapel. >> Yes. >> Mr. Haney. >> Yes. >> Mayor Kelly. >> Yes. Mr. Sellers, you got two beautiful lots down there. >> Thank you much. >> Thank you, sir. >> Mayor Crystal. >> Yes, sir. >> Uh, and item four, ladies and gentlemen, is the application for a lot split.
>> He's right there as well. >> Um, >> sir, >> come on to the podium if you would. How you doing? >> That's good. How you doing? >> Good. What are you going to build >> eventually? Probably build a house. Yes. >> Everything is allowed.
All right, sounds good. Um, I never looked at this slot other than from the aerial survey, ladies and gentlemen, but it was approved by the planning council and um, >> mayor. >> Yes, >> it was approved with condition, sir. >> Go ahead, sir. Please go come to the
podium. >> So, um, when we whenever we look at these, we look at the surveys and we also go to the Bay County uh, property assessor's office. Yes. >> So, there were three conditions. The first one is uh to make sure that the
lot has not already been split. And that may seem a little unusual, right? >> Because the survey shows it as 73 acres, right? >> Bay County shows it as 38. >> If it's actually 38, it would violate a density rule, but I don't think that that's right.
>> Bay County often gets those those >> Do you remember what you bought? Do you remember what you bought there? >> Uh in that time, I didn't know just one piece. I thought it was all >> You didn't know how much land you bought? So really so we have we have the whole survey though is ours. >> It's it's an old survey but the survey
is 33 years old. So it's it's a little suspect. However, so we asked Mr. Discerty to make sure that the lot hasn't already been split. That's number one. Right. >> Second one is is the line that he drew was six feet uh to the south of a
concrete or a building that's already there. So, we asked him to move that at least a foot or two more so that we've got an appropriate 75. >> And then the last one was just to make sure that the uh the final uh piece that he shaves off is no smaller than the 7500 ft.
>> All of those things were met. >> Well, if he has the 73 acres, which we think he does, then those could easily be met. However, if uh if the lot's already been split, then we approved it conditionally because then he wouldn't need Well, this shouldn't be before us
until those rules have been required. >> We can't make a judgment on thinking. >> We can't what? >> We make can't make a a decision on thinking. >> No, no, no, no, no, no, no. What they're saying to you is we got to get some um more accurate information to verify what
the size of the lot is, not the 33y old survey. Are you going to have a new survey conducted? >> Actually, we are right now. So, >> okay. >> It should be done actually yesterday. Unless the council has something different to add. Uh or Mr. Sloan,
>> can I add one more thing, sir? >> Sure. >> And then we and then there was one last thing and I just remembered it that it meet all five of the state requirements as well. Uh same ownership. In other words, one owner. You you can have multiple owners or you divide or or um
combine a piece of property, but you have to have approval from each of them. >> It's contiguous. So that that requirement is met. It's in the same tax district which we know because it's in in Parker. All the taxes have got to be shown to be paid with no outstanding taxes and then each owner has got to
make the request to the city council. Okay. So >> So you understand what he's what he's read to you there? >> Absolutely. >> Can you meet all those requirements after the survey? >> We we are going to Yes, >> you will. Okay. What you need to do is once you've met all those requirements and you've completed the new 2025
survey, it'll be a 26th right now. um then reapply back with the clerk's office and then we'll do this again and come before the city council because we can't approve something that's a maybe. It has to be a for sure. >> So, and it's not a for sure until we
know the exact size of the property. >> All right. Great. >> All right. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you, sir. >> Little bit premature on there. Desire to get that taken care of. Okay. Uh, Mr. Chapel. >> No, I have nothing today. >> Nothing today?
>> No. >> Did the yard sale fly last Saturday? >> No, we didn't have a yard sale last Friday. I checked it 7 o'clock in the morning and nobody showed up. So, >> yeah, it's probably too cold.
>> Okay, Mr. Haney, you had the floor, sir. >> I'll say for next year. >> All right, sir. >> Next year. >> You're up, man. Uh the only thing I didn't know if you wanted to talk about it the scam that's been going around with >> invoices invoices invoices
that >> were the um people they're getting invoices from somewhere they don't know yet >> uh to pay with the development orders. >> Before we go to invoices, I'd like there's something that I'd like to add to that. >> Well, I was want to know if you wanted
to to do it. Well, you can bounce off this, but um last month we had a um Thanksgiving dinner and uh it was in the community building next door and on that day um all the ladies have control of the front
office. the CCTV goes to a different location in the building, but um this past week a lady came in and she said that uh she came in and paid her water bill and that uh there was no ladies
outside in the lobby out front. There was just myself and two other men and at that time the code officer and the planner had already resigned and moved on to their new jobs. So, she says that the person sitting
outside was wearing a white hat and a white coat. She didn't specifically say what kind of coat. And that she paid her water bill to either me or this these two men that were outside.
So, in order to be able to access our our money or our without going into a great deal of detail, it takes several steps and you have to have several keys, combinations, and different things to
get in. Starting with the first door, second door, then when you're in the room, you got to have certain codes and combinations that I don't have. I choose not to have them. I have no keys. I have no credit card. I don't drive the city vehicles. I get driven. There's I don't
have access to any of it. And I don't know of any men that are on our staff that would be in that room would even for any reason. But anyway, she couldn't produce a receipt. And so we we could not give her relief on her
water bill because it showed that it wasn't paid. But the whole thing was very strange in that that uh they she could have swore that she'd seen me up. I'm kind of a distinctive person. Uh that you would uh she saw me up front
with two men and that one of them was wearing a white hat and a white coat. So if you should see anybody with a white hat and a white coat and they've got that lady's water bill, she'd sure like to pay it. So she ain't got to pay it twice. Go ahead, ma'am. about these. Uh
>> I was just trying to so the council um since there's been several of them and yeah the boters have been caught with it too as someone's getting anyone that's um going through their development orders to get build things that they're
sending invoices and tell them they owe them. What was yours? $5,200. >> Um the first one >> the first one was $5,200. The second one was probably about $6,000. Yeah. >> I mean, it was it was upwards of $10,000. >> So, >> and another one of our men who've been
building have he came in with a check ready to pay me. >> A lot of a lot of you may or may not know, you don't know. I know you don't. In order to obtain a check, I'm not saying it's not possible, but in order to do anything untoward to the city, the
fail safes at the bank are really, really strong. It takes more than just me to sign and we have a check system that you guys are aware of that when we do it make account changes or clerk changes or whatever. Um that requires
each of your signatures on those documents that go to the bank and we do business as you know in more than one two three locations for sure. So, that being said, we received a letter
recently requesting payment uh for I don't know, $5,700. Miss Dalton brought it to me. But the interesting thing was it was signed by a past clerk and it was pristine. Man, remember
>> I would have sw if I was reading that in the morning, I read a lot of documents. I read it, I sign it, I read it, I sign it. If if that was coming across my desk for approval and she still worked here, I'd have swore to you that was her signature. I would have swore to you.
So, we referred it to law enforcement because that's all you can do. But because we have so many checks and measures, checks and measures to be able to get access to our money. Some of it has to be approved in Pensacola before it can be approve spent here, right? Um
the the manager at this particular uh lending institution bank knew knows my signature and they know your signatures because you sign those forms and they know my clerk's signature because they do it often enough often enough. And
I'll be damned if if it wasn't for her catching it. It may have gone through for like 5,600 bucks. Now, it would have been insured money, but nevertheless, if you could trick a city, you could trick a person. You know, >> this email I got says that um I owe
$5,800 for development order. It breaks down different things. >> Yeah. >> And it says it's got the city of seal on it. >> So did ours. >> Well, here's it comes from the planning commission. It says >> I don't I don't say anything bad there. There's there's there's nothing a bad
difference between a man and a woman. Okay. My husband looks at a lot of things every day. All his business partner partners look at things a million times a day. They didn't think anything of it, right? But he showed it to me and in the instance that I looked at it said that is not right. >> Right. >> Nothing about that was right.
>> Well, the street was spelled incorrectly. >> The street was spelled wrong. >> See, that's right. I mean, >> it was um it wasn't even listed as a city council. >> It was the planning commission. >> Chamber chamber council. >> Yes. >> Um and it may have been sent to more than one place. wire instructions. Yeah,
>> that definitely threw me. >> That's the big one. >> What I'm trying to say is I I think we need to be investigating this somehow. But we need to be putting something out to everybody that applies for a development order or has maybe in the
last at least what six months or so at least send them something that if they get anything >> Yeah. >> We could maybe draft a letter >> something >> and attach it to there. It's a miracle paid to be honest. >> It is >> right. >> We just
crazy. >> Like she said, a man come up here and he was fixing to pay his >> He had his check written out, >> but he's like, I wasn't going to wire the money. I was just going to bring it to you. >> Just come and pay it to you. That's right. >> He would he didn't want to wire it because, you know, and he said, "I'll just pay you." I'm like, "This is not real." >> Stamp, stamp, stamp. And then the
receipt. See, in order to pay money to that cash register up up front there, although there is no cash register, it's a steel safe that once it's locked, you can't get in it unless you know who you are. And they have to use a computer and they have to have a code and they have to have a second person. And then when
they do their thing, it makes a receipt. And if you haven't got that receipt, then then that didn't happen. That's what it boils down to. and and this particular lady, I've known her forever like all of you, but she she made a mistake or she
didn't make a mistake. Someone's been able to trick her really good. And with what you had there, Chuck, it's interesting because I've had my own personal one set up. And it's probably just a random thing across the United States, but yours had the logo on it and so did the one they sent us for the six
grand or six and a half thousand. >> Freedom of Information Act. >> Too freedom. Too much freedom. easily. >> Moral to the story is uh it don't trust somebody in a white jacket or white hat, >> right? >> Unless you're unless you're straight
jacket. >> When he levitated when he levitated and left the room and if you get an invoice in your email, always show it to your wife. Show it to your wife. >> Spend spend American money. >> Well, I was wondering I know the Bay County Sheriff's Department, they they do a lot of work with the scams that
they do, right? >> Not against our police department, but if that Then we need to have the sheriff's department look into because they're always looking for scanners. >> The problem is a lot of these lot of these people operate outside the United States,
>> Nigeria. >> Yes. >> We hit a wall when we hit a wall and then we get an answer from the sheriff. >> Yeah. I'd like to find out if that's something that >> it won't take but just a minute to call.
They're all the time warning people about the scams that >> I'm gonna be honest with you guys. Scamming is the worst possible thing. And I was a victim of a scam not too long ago. And to be honest with you, it is the worst thing because I lost all of my baby pictures of my daughter. Every single one of them.
>> I cannot get those back. >> I have lost 10 years of my daughter's life >> that I cannot get back. >> And I've been down to the sheriff's department >> gone. Lord, >> those guys are so busy. But there's there's nothing that they can do. >> So busy >> and that's that's something I can't get
back. I can no longer have any more children. So I've lost all that, >> right? >> You know, so the scamming thing is serious. >> I got a couple invoice. >> What did you say? >> He's got a couple he'll give him. >> He'll give her. >> I'm good. But you know, if you if you
get an invoice from the city parker for definitely call >> verify verify it. I I'll talk to Tony and and Taylor and see if we can't put something on all the applications too, just so there's a note or something so everybody knows. >> We didn't pay. >> Yeah.
>> Very lucky. >> And then also, I did want to tell you too, I got my daughter her hat for her elf. >> Was it white? >> You did. Outstanding. >> She is ready. >> What? >> I said, was it white? I'm just
>> Mrs. Clausing her. Well, no, no, she does have her hat, her elf hat that I bought her >> Saturday. I have it on good good authority that about 8:00 in the morning. Uh along with Chuck, Chuck's
daughter and everything, uh Santa Claus will be leaving the station >> to make his journey around the city of Parker. >> We'll be there early >> so that uh he can deliver candy. So, we're going to do it in two stages. Um, the VFW, I'm surprised she's not here
tonight, have got, I was told, 500 stuffed animals. So, we'll throw those, too. And it should last, we won't it won't make all 2,000 stops, but it'll last a big percentage of those stops. These little stuffed animals that they
give out. And um uh anything you can uh give um uh we're routing it through not not Saturday, but we're going to route everything through um Beth Anne at Parker Scoo. Now we were fortunate this year that we got a truckload or two of
toys and they were able to take care of that for us at the at the school and um we're doing a a fundraiser at our at our lodge for um children's underwear. Now, that sounds crazy, but that's what they're asking for. So, um, we'll be
doing that in the next couple of days. The men already gathered the money that we're going to make our part of the donation. And like I said, the 20th is the big day. We're going to get started. We've got um, uh, elves in the room if
they all show up. Mrs. O'Brien and, uh, >> are you going to do it this year? >> Oh, sure. I enjoyed it a lot last year. >> You were wonderful. >> Thank you. >> I'd love for you to do it again this year. And um >> not supposed to be.
>> I'll do it till kickoff on football games. >> Are you going to do it this year? >> He's just going to jump off is what he's going to do. >> He'll break an ankle. >> Can we dress him up? >> Damn right. >> This is going to be >> bunker pants and elf hat. >> White coat or white hat?
>> White coat with a white hat. >> I won't wear that. He might make a few bucks out front out there. while he takes his off. Okay. Anything else, >> sir? We're all good on paper. >> Madam, the jobs uh for the clerk's
position is closed and we've got about uh probably of all that we have maybe 15 that we can review sometime after the holiday. It's no point interviewing anybody before the holiday because we're going to be closed half that time. And
um I'm told that the uh code enforcement officer will be narrowing it down in the next few days and I don't think um we've had that many people apply for the planner, but Mr. Sland is handling that and that will be taken care of in in the
next few days. >> Yes, ma'am. >> Just one more question. Um I saw on TV somebody over on Donaldson disabled vet had Florida Power and Light come up and Christmas decorations. Did anybody
>> see that? Do we know anybody anything about that? They recently moved in Florida. They picked them, >> right? >> Because they're a veteran, >> right? >> And they picked that person and they went over there and they took all the Christmas decorations, everything, hooked it up for them. And all >> they don't tell us. They just they just
did it. That was good of them to do that. >> I I Well, I was just curious because they've just recently bought that house. It's a new owner, >> right? >> So, I I I was just shocked. house. It was because of the bedroom. >> Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But I just didn't know if anybody in the city knew. I thought
that was really nice. >> We didn't know till after it was done. >> Okay. >> Which I mean >> I'm glad they did it. Yeah. That was nice. >> Thank you. >> Thanks everybody. Appreciate you. Don't need my wiring instructions.