What I received as the three documents was agenda. The agenda, the one I just handed you. No, not the foster. This one. This one. That was the three. One, two, and the
three. That's the only three I got. See this? Yeah. So that the minutes which I picked, correct? That's what I'm telling you. This is not my document. I don't have it to correct. Okay. That's just a PDF that was sent to
me to print. Okay. I can't edit that. Yeah. So, I don't even have it. It just gets put in Dropbox. I think he may have it, but I don't know who did it. I don't know if Andy Dson it or somebody else. I have no idea. That's something I need to know about today. What it was was she
had a couple corrections she wanted me to make on the minutes. There was a space I had missed in the title of the resolution and the same on the agenda. I fixed those. And the other was the the one form.
Did we have a new agenda? I gave it to you. I sent it to you. It's got my name on it. This one. This is new. Mark the other one. I just stretch through it like that. So, I know this is your new one. And we didn't
know until last night that it was even going to have to change. Was literally after 5:30 before we figured it out. So, that's when I changed it today and sent it out. But, you should have everything on there. This is fine. Yes, ma'am. The reason why they didn't
come out the other day is because when I printed them in black and white, which is all I have access to, and you couldn't see nothing. You couldn't tell what was what on there. So, I wanted to have them done in color for y'all. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Okay.
This is the old one. Get out of here. set number and they confuse them. I know. Oh, they cause trouble. It's very confusing. I was telling them I did not know after hours. Yes, ma'am. Yes, ma'am.
The next The next package everything that goes together. You want it all stipulus. It's very confusing. Well, when there's a lot of stuff to look at, I told him I felt like it would be so
much easier for y'all if we had a tablet and I could group everything together on a tablet and all you have to do. Is that something you y'all think y'all would like? Because I can do an agenda and a minutes and then group everything
else together. Yes, ma'am. Like an iPad. was is that something that you would like because I would Okay. Well, it would save a lot of paperwork. everything. I can't no I can make
corrections or notes or whatever on here which you would be able to on one of those because they have a stylus that you can write on them with and make notes handwrite. So you would be able to do anything like that. Highlight it, circle it, question marks, whatever on
that and it would save a lot of that we throw in garbage. And that's exactly right because I have sacks and sacks and sacks of this that I throw in the garbage like a lot every time every now
and three up here with corrections on. And she said, she said they weren't all hers. Yeah, you got more. It looks like you need more paper. Oh, yeah. That's just what
we need. Everybody gets to do something here. I know. I'll just try to put it in order. Got a lot to keep you busy, huh? This is I haven't read his legal brief yet. I'm
like wrote his legal brief. I don't see I can't wait. I didn't bring my title plan back either. There's nothing. Thank you. That's your phone.
my Apple Watch whenever I hit something with a hammer or something. I'm working and start saying SOS call 911 weird morning, afternoon, evening. He used to say good morning, good
afternoon. He said he didn't remember that. remember we'll follow that together. I need something a I'm just I don't know. a
native all of a sudden when you're ready John. Is it recording? Are you live streaming? We are. Yeah. Hello world. All right. Say the prayer. You
want She doesn't want to. Did you ask it? We'll get the U April 22nd, 2025 city council meeting called to
order. Just a reminder to silence your cell phones and we have an opening prayer followed by the pledge of allegiance. Bow our hands, please. Heavenly Father, we thank you for
allowing us to meet here today to hand the business that come before us concerning the city of Perry. Dear father, we're asking that you will guide this meeting so that we will
make the best decisions possible concerning those issues. Asking that you will protect us, asking that this meeting will be held in a safe and orderly fashion. Father God, we're asking that you will
heal our land, asking that you will bring us together in love and in peace. These things I pray in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you. Thank you Sammy. Miss Amy, if you would call the role,
please ma'am. Vice Mayor Landry here. Council member Hampton here. Mayor here. Item number three, approval of items on the consent agenda. Item A, approval to read by title only. Ordinances 1050 and
1052 and section B approval to read by title only resolutions 2025-05 and 2025-06. Have a motion. Second. Yes. Hampton. Let's just Yes. Vice Mayor.
Yes. He Yes. Item number four, receiving requests from the general public. Do we have anybody from the general public who would like to speak on anything not on the agenda? Not hear anything. We'll move on to item number
five, bids and RFQS. Do we have any? See there we don't. All right, we'll move on to item number six, general business. Agenda item 6A, Lauren Facing Clark to provide council an update on
the do on daughters memorial hospital and the council will take any action dee necessary. Hello very much. My name is Lacy Clark and I live at 3428 trail Florida. Um but I've been proud to serve
as CEO of Dr. Memorial Hospital since June of 2023. I also have with me Sarah Grahamling who's our chief operating officer and interim chief financial officer and Ashley Betty who serves as our chief nursing officer. And we just wanted to come before you for a few minutes just to share what's going on at
the hospital. You have a couple handouts in front of you that I brought you. one being our annual report from last year and I will say since being coming here in June of 2023 I left TMH um it's been an incredible two years incredibly challenging two years as everyone in this room knows between the storms and
the economic challenges but I need you to know that your hospital is thriving we are growing you're changing you're adding services and we're constantly improving the quality and the level of care we're providing here locally we're very proud of that so in the one pager you have front back you'll just see some
of our financial metrics. Um, one that I'll draw your attention to is the $2.42 million of uncompensated care we gave away last year for the uninsured and underinsured. Um, as well as the $765,000 of capital improvements in our facility and equipment and our 12
million $12 million in our annual payroll. We have hired over 22 people this past year. These are good paying jobs. in the midst of that challenges, we're constantly looking at how do we grow and how do we add to our staffing to provide services to the community. Um
on the back there just some highlights from our year. One of the biggest things is improve our emergency room. Um I was a board member at Doctor's Memorial with Marco Bryant for 10 years before leaving TM to join the staff and one of the biggest opportunities and biggest challenges we always had was the quality
of service provided in the emergency room. We had to take some bold action and we were able to do that thanks to a gr a grant from the department of health to improve the aesthetics and the equipment and the lighting and everything in the emergency room. But the more important thing we did change our provider there. We terminated the
contract with a third party and we hired our own physicians and providers that work in the emergency room and immediately within 30 days our quality metrics all of our statistics improved um almost immediately and they continue to do that. Uh we also significantly grown what we call our swing bed
program, which is transitional rehab for people that need to be with us for several weeks after an illness or an injury or major surgery. We're doing occupational therapy, um uh speech therapy and physical therapy all day with our patients. Um we've had to add
additional physical therapists because that patient volume has grown to likes it's never been at TH. So we're very proud of that. Um, we've also brought more specialists here again with our partnership with TMH and other facilities. We've shown physicians the value of coming to Pay County. We're
very proud of a new one of the trauma surgeons who recently was unfortunately in the news stories about what happened at FSU is coming to Perry twice a month. Dr. Pattton Pennington, who is the head now of the trauma program at TMH, is coming out to Perry to do surgery twice a month. That's a huge win for us. He's
from Valdasta originally. He understands rural communities and wants to give back. And so we're very happy about that. Also bring out vascular surgeons. Um any type of specialty that can meet the folks in the local community so they're not having the hardship of of traveling. We're trying to bring here locally. We're also expanding our
primary care. Um we are adding providers to our family practice. Um we've just added one down at the plaza and we're adding two more in um August that are focusing on pediatrics. Um, for the future, we are really looking at moving
our facility. It's an old building. It's 21 years old. We recently secured a 1.6 million dollar grant from the Department of Commerce to replace our roof. Um, and during the storm, it got beat up. It was already old and now we're in the process of having a new roof put on the building. We're al also very focused on
improving community health. In Taylor County, there are some of the worst health outcomes in the state of Florida. That's not where you want to be on the list. So, we're doing a lot of focus on community education and community outreach. We got another grant from the Department of Health this year. We just built a walking trail next to the
hospital. Um, if you haven't seen it yet, come by and see it. It's open. You can walk on it. We're going to continually be doing things to improve it, putting benches, things like that to help both our patients and visitors, getting people. Um, also in your packet is um a flyer for our health and
wellness expo. This is on May 9th from 10 to 2. It's free for everybody to come out. We have over 45 vendors who are coming from several counties to come and make people aware of the health and wellness services that are available right here in Taylor County. Every vendor who's coming had to bring a
giveaway. So there'll be lots of goodies and music and free food and really want the community to come out and celebrate health and realize there are a lot of services people found at the games city and Tallahassee for that they can get right here in Perry and in our extended community. So, um, we're hoping a lot of
people will return out to that. And, um, again, we're constantly looking for, um, additional funding resources because, as you see, we do a lot of care that we don't get paid for. And insurance rates continue to go down while costs continue to go up. And in the past year and a half, we have secured $2.8 million worth
of grants, which is including the root grants. So, we're very proud of that, and we're always looking for those opportunities. And we just wanted to make you all aware of the changes we're making and our dedication to serving the local community. and I'm happy to answer any questions.
Yes, ma'am. I've not had to spend much time in the hospital in the last few years, but recently I did uh make a visit to the ER and I've also had surgery last year and I must say the
services have been just super just super and I'm was so pleased. Um, I do wonder about the if if you all have been able to do anything toward the dialysis. I was confident that question would come
up because we get asked it a lot since Devita was destroyed by the building they were renting was destroyed by the storm. Um, we have met with their senior leadership several times. We had them on site. They brought their facilities guide because we were trying to see if there's some space we could let them use for this. Um, they have not shown any
reciprocal interest to be here. Um, they have a facility in Madison. Um, I'm sure they're aware of the hardship many families face going three times a week to Madison. Yes. Um, but they have not been responsive as of yet to make that happen. It's not something we can do on our own. It's a very specialized
service. It's not a core hospital service, but we're trying to see is there some way we can support it. Is there another company that you can do? There is another company called Senas. Um, we're going to reach out and see if there's something to do. It takes a lot of space. It takes a lot of equipment. It takes a lot of specialized training,
but again, there's a way we can support it and help it. We're going to do that. Yeah. And we tried, but we got excited when they initially had conversations with us and they sort of gone. Well, thank you for trying. We're going to keep trying. We're pretty pretty. But I'm glad you've had good
service. We've heard that from a lot of people. Oh, I never wanted to go there and I had to go and oh my gosh, it was different. I love proving people wrong. I would invite each of you if you want to come and tour. I'll give you a behind thescenes tour um to see what's happening in your community. People don't realize what you can get right
here. Even the food is good. The food is very open to the public for breakfast. It's very good deal. So, we want people to come out. This is your community's hospital. Yeah. And so, we want people to embrace it. I was very pleased. Thank you.
I had a question. I was hospitalized February 11th. I have flu and pneumonia and I receive fantastic care. Um, a matter of fact, I think you
treat me pretty darn good. Yeah. So, thank you, Sarah. We we've been very aggressive in recruiting back nurses who are driving to other communities to work and therapists um driving for a couple bucks more an hour. We've reinvested in our staff to get
them to stay home because that's where they want to be. Um, we've got two longtime locals right here who are in the heart and soul of the hospital. So, we're very proud of the fact because we can't do it without. So, thank you. Very glad to hear this. And if you ever have a problem, you know, we don't know that
something's bad. We can't fix it. That's right. That's true. I've been hearing a lot of good things myself and I'm really glad the hospital's here. Yes. We always talk about economic development and all this. That's one of the first things a lot of people look for is healthcare. Absolutely. an hour
away usually doesn't work for people exactly for even 30 minutes it's about a part of the community I mean not just the health care of the community is a very important my mom had traumatic fall about two months ago and I she had
to have follow-up surgery and I brought her out here to have her surgery not and she was just blown away by the quality of care and how personal it was so that's a test thank you very good thank you I Yeah, cool. Just a couple.
I used to work for I used to work for DMH back in ' 05 and when the ambulance service got switched over, we end up going. But I just want to commend you on the change that you have made in place. I appreciate it. Takes a whole lot of people. Oh yes. Oh yes. And you got a
good team. You got a good team. Yeah. And that's the thing. They live in this community so they know the community. So I just want to commend you. I appreciate that very much. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item
6B, fair housing meeting for C DBG application and take any action deemed necessary. This is for a community development grant. Okay. Good afternoon. Hello.
My name is Andy East. I'm here to uh say few short words on fair housing. This is an advertised fair housing meeting and it's an opportunity to explain what fair housing is to the general public and to for y'all to answer ask any questions you'd like. But u I think you did get a
hand out what the agenda is about the fair housing in your packets there and um fair housing act is based it's from the civil rights act of 1968 as amended in 1988 federal law there's also a state of Florida statute that merits the federal
law and there's a local ordinance that city is all related to fair housing and the fair housing act makes it illegal to discriminate in fair housing transactions based on race, color, national origin, convention, gender, ability of status, and
disability. And so, um, that's what the Fair Housing Act is in this handout, and it's available in the, uh, the town if anyone is interested. There's some phone numbers on this and websites. If you have any
questions or complaints about Fairing, you can contact them. You can also contact the channel of par city of Perry and then they'll contact me. We can see if you have any see if we can address your fair housing questions. So
that's basically all I have to say about fair. So thank you very much and we'll collect the documentation and we'll go into the brand. I had a couple of questions um on the on the race, color, national
origin, and all that stuff. What if they're illegal? Can you deny it if they're illegal? Well, I don't um I don't think you will be able to No. What? I don't think you would be able to do that. No. You don't think you would
deny it or do you think you would allow it? Would allow it even if they're illegal? Uh-huh. Okay. I'm not speaking against someone because they're illegal. Yeah. That's that's a question that hasn't been asked before, but um I guess
there's a distinction between a resident and a person and a citizen. And I think the act is u that's written illegal to discriminate against persons based on so
we can look into that or that's a question that could need further research. Okay. The other thing is on the other side there refuse to provide you information regarding mortgage loans deny you a mortgage loan. If a person has poor
credit, you're not allowed to deny them a mortgage loan. Well, it's the if it's based on a race, color, you're not allowed if they have otherwise good credit. That's what I'm
saying. if they don't have good credit. Okay, but this says refuse to provide you with information, deny you a mortgage loan. Um, well, I think for example, if
someone called up and asked for information about mortgage loans and you refuse to give them information, that might be a violation. There's the difference in refusing to provide you and refuse and denying you the loan. So if you if the reason that you're
denied the loan based on any of these factors then that would be against but obviously if you deny them a loan based on credit then that it's not against them. Thank you. Yeah. I think it means deny you alone
based on this factor. Say it again. If you deny someone be based on race, color, etc. That could be against the law. If you deny them, I understand that. That's what that not if you have bad credit. You can
of course deny the loan if they have bad credit. If they have bad credit, what? Deny them. You can deny them. Okay. But it says, okay, against the law to deny you a
mortgage loan. Okay. Based on those based on based on this based on but based on your credit, you could deny that. Yes. Okay. or basically any other reason I guess besides the ones I listed. Anyway, what action do we need
to take? Is this just information or do we need to allow the public ask questions and to provide information about the council ask questions? The public can now. Does
anybody have any questions about this? Okay. Thank you. We're agenda. Is there anything else you need to Well, but was there the first public of the second public hearing? Is that the next time? Yes.
We can open that. All right. Agenda item 6 C. Second public hearing for CDBG grant application and council will take any action deemed necessary. If you'd like, I'd like to explain what the second public hearing is.
I'm sorry. Yeah, I'll explain what what the second is. The purpose of the second public hearing is to u inform the public that the city is applying for community development block grant funds and the
application is asking for funding to construct a new fire station. They had a special rule for this grant. There's no limit to how much you can. Also, you can have other grants open as well. usually have
to close out your current community by grant this case wages. So there's they have a lot of waiverss on the rules. So we're expecting a whole lot of application this cycle and so the grand application now is in $6
million and it's for 11,000 square foot building and the grand application deadline is I'm sorry. Well, they extended it, I guess, because municipalities called them up and said they need more time to
application. So, I think they're going to get even more applications. There's really no way to determine what are being funded other than an application. Now, I'd like to say too
that uh we're doing this our door survey around the city to find out the income of the area and that application if you don't get funded for this site, but it also apply for some disaster funding that's coming also
to some special CDG funding this disaster. So there's you're in a good position to apply for funding on May 16th and then two or three months down the side. Well, yeah, we did pass it around
last week. That's really all the purpose of this meeting is to ask the public questions. Does anyone have any questions about the this grant application? Anyone else? Not. I guess we'll close the
public hearing. Thank you. We debate on this tonight or no second hearing. This is something item 6D resolution 2025-05 enabling
resolution resolution of the city of city council of Perry, Florida, authorizing the mayor to make application to the Florida Department of Commerce for approval of a community development block grant sponsored by the city of Perry, providing an effective
date and for other purposes. Section four, I think we need to make a correction where it says the mayor, vice mayor, and it says city clerk. Should it be city manager?
City clerk top line of that. Yeah. City clerk too. Huh? The city clerk too. Okay. But on the word vice mayor is misspelled.
Sometimes it's So you serve as clerk and Okay. Get two paychecks to go with that. City. You have city manager. It's fine. It's going to allow us to do what we need to do. Still got to make changes.
This one, I guess. So we just need a motion. Motion second. Second. Roll call, please. M. Yes. Council member Hampton. Yes. Vice
Mayor Landry. Yes. Mayor K. Yes. Agenda item 6E, resolution 2025-06, local match resolution. Resolution of the city council of the city of Perry, Florida, authorizing city funds to be used as
local match for an a proposed Y2023-2024 community development block grant. Is that right? Yeah. Oh, I didn't hear it all like that. Okay. Community Community Development Block Grant, CDBG, neighborhood revitalization
grant application providing an effective date and for other purposes on Why is it Did you say why it was 23 and 24? I don't know why they do that like that's ag but this is that's correct.
Okay. You don't have any questions? That's the only question I had. I'll entertain a motion. Motion to accept. Second. Council member Woodall. Yes. Council
member Hampton. Yes, Vice Mayor Landry. Yes, Mayor Ketchum. Yes. Agenda item six, F. Continuing the engineering presentations and discussion and council will take any action deemed necessary. Pull your mic down. Thank you.
Yes, it hasn't sounded. My name is Rachel Howard with Okay. Um I um I'm I work for a nonprofit and so we're a third party that independently reviewed your responses to your RFQ for engineering services. So we
went through and ranked each five of your responses as well as conduct conducted interviews based on um the referrals that the engineers provided. So really at this point I I was under the impression that you guys wanted to select three consultants. Um and then
there was a council member I believe that requested interviews as well. And so we just ask the top three based on the rankings to come and provide a three to five minute presentation and then just be present if you have any questions. I don't know also I didn't know if you
had it ordered on you got that. Okay. NF number one, NFPS North Florida. Is that right? Florida. Okay. The others can step out if they want. He said he's not here. He's not here. He said he said he was not going to be
here. He does not have some kind of procedure. Yes. You ready to go John or you want to wait? Okay. You said FPS. Yes. Good afternoon, council members, mayor.
As uh on behalf of North Florida Professional Services, we'd like to thank you for the opportunity to be able to present you today and for your consideration with the continuing services contract. Um are you running the slides? Next slide. Okay. So, a little bit about Florida professional services. So our mission is to help our
clients achieve their goal providing timely, accurate, cost-effective engineering, grant and planning services. Our firm provides exceptional and dedicated services to this region. Uh while we understand a priority is maintaining the rural lifestyle rural
view around us. Uh our client commitment is working with our rural communities. We have several uh continuing services contracts within uh the area and what we want to be is we want to be an extension of your staff. When you have those needs, those infrastructure needs, we want to support you with those needs
move forward. Uh we're committed to your success uh and to your projects. Um we and with each project we identify um a a a careful and professional manner moving forward. Next slide. Um so just a little bit more
about Northport Professional Services. We are a full service engineering firm located in Lake City. We have an office in Jacksonville, Panama City, and also in Tallahassee. Uh the company's founder, the company has been in business since 1990. Uh the founders are still with us, and I'll go over those
folks in just a minute. Um but we specialize in helping uh the rural communities within our area. U small governments provide best infrastructure. when you have infrastructure needs, we help support either uh helping to move those projects forward and also can help with finding grants that will help uh
fund those projects forward. Um we are committed to quality in everything that we do. We are stakeholders in our communities. Um many of the communities that we serve, we live in. Next slide, please. Um so just to give you some uh a little bit more about
the innovation and technology that we use um some state-of-the-art cutting technology mobile LAR and drones on the survey end. We have that that allows us to capture a lot of data when we're moving projects forward. It also helps
us keep our personnel out of the road. Uh it helps enhance safety. uh it's a very helpful tool for us and again it gives us a lot of data a lot of information that we can use to uh move the projects forward and to really work on some of the intricate details. Um
we've got uh digital levels which again just help with the accuracy of our survey information that we're collecting. And then um with efficient efficient use of our resources, we've got provided total stations, less resources uh to go out in the field and
we can collect the information just as fast. Uh with with everything that we do on the engineering side, we start off with models. That's where we start and those are big files. And so we we have the gamer computers, we have the high-end computers that we run all of our workstations with. So again, top of
top of the line, state-of-the-art equipment, and all that helps with is efficiency and making sure that we're moving those projects forward as fast as we can to help the communities out. Next slide, please, sir. Some best practices that we have uh just to share about how
we normally how we we uh engage in our activities with the communities. We have a a project field review checklist. So that's something that we take out to every project where you review the checklist against the survey information and then also against the field
information to ensure that what's being proposed is going to work. It's not going to cause any downstream effects. We also have streamline details. Again, that just helps with efficiencies. So we're not going to reinvent the wheel every time. We've got details that we can recycle and reuse that help move the
projects forward. um coordination meetings, especially with stakeholders and milestones. One of the things that we have been doing is at all of our 60% review meetings, we have a field meeting and we invite staff to come out and we look at the job. We walk the job and make sure that everybody is u engaged
and make sure that if there's any issues or concerns, um there's opportunities to be able to vet those out, make sure that the project is meeting the goals of the intent of of the project. And then um QAQC project process. Our process is
built on continued improvement. Um we use a blue ring blue beam software and it's got checks and back checks. We we have an assigned QC manager who's going to be with the project as the project moves through and then uh with construction collaboration. So we have a
CI group that also um works with us and we get their insight and and we get their opinion on some of the improvements that are proposed to move forward. make sure again that there's no issues as the contractors are out there building the projects. Uh they're seamless and and they're successful.
Monthly CAD meetings just up and updating our folks as changes happen. They always happen. U whether it's through uh software changes or through criteria that we're designing against. We just make sure that all of our staff members are up to date with the latest and greatest information. And then a
hallmark for NFPS is is establishing connections and building relationships. Again, we want to be an extension of your staff. So when that need comes, we can help support you and move those projects forward. Um, this was the org chart that was proposed on the continuing services pursuit. And I just
want to go over a little bit more of of who we are through this or chart. So John, if you would, next slide, please sir. So this is our executive leadership team. Again, we've got 108 years of experience. Uh, Greg Bailey and Bill Bishop are the founders and they are still active in the company. Brian Rose,
she's over in Jacksonville. came from JA. He has got 35 years of experience. Executive level has has designed many utility systems. Uh very experienced myself. I came from FDOT. Got I have 24 years of experience. Megan Carter is our
administrative director. Uh she graduated from Florida State has her business degree, 19 years of experience. And then Robin Smith who has 23 years of experience and he came from the city of Jacksonville. He was their chief engineer and he is our site. Um, so just a little bit more below
appetites, 46 years of experience with the roadway group. Uh, we've got Kellen Bailey who is recently passed to speed. He's got seven years of experience. Clint Caps is our QAQC manager. So he's the one that actually managed those projects on the QAQC side all the way
through. And then Brian on our utility side, we've got working with him. Ricky Hendricks has 24 years of experience. um he has uh got he's a very technical engineer uh has got a lot of different um very diverse experience working on
different utility systems and then Trevor Nolles who uh has just recently passed his TI he's going to be looking to sit for his be very soon he's he works with Brian on the utility side um our construction team a lot of experience u and that's with Bill and
then we lead into our inspectors so we got Michael Bishop Kyle Markham and Matthew Boo all those guys have several years of experience. Daniel Craps, uh he is our structural engineer. So again, a service that we can provide, we've gotten him on board and he's he's done a
very very complex uh from building to roadway to bridges, structural design. And then James Smith is our survey director and you can see the team underneath them. Just to note that Gabe and Blake are survey. So, just like the the PE track the PE program, there's
also a survey program and they are survey surveyors in training just waiting for the time to be able to take their test. Um, and then Mark Thomas who is our certified uh building official and he helps support a lot of communities with a lot of the inspections that they need. Uh, Robin
Smith again, our site director. So, working with him is Tory Humphrey. He's got 23 years of experience there in Kilo. He's actually a B. He passed his PE, but he's just waiting for his time to be able to officially claim that title. And then Zulia will be sitting
for her PE very, excuse me, for her EI very soon. And then uh what separates us a little bit from some is uh we've got a little on our administration side, we're a little bit unique and different. We've got Dale Williams who is the business development director. He's he was the
Columbia County manager for 30 plus years. has got a lot of experience, but he really understands the concerns and needs of local governments. And then Jimmy Norris, who was the uh economic director for Swany County. He's now working with with us as the uh economic
development director. And then alongside him is Brandon Stubs, who is our planner, our planning manager. He worked with Columbia County 20 plus years. And then Barbara, Debbie, and Felicia, and Dana all help with our pursuits and
helping to put all all of our proposals together. So, they're kind of our our legs on many of our pursuits. They they help us out a lot. Next slide, please. And so, our pre-qualifications uh for FDOT pre-qualifications, all transportation 31, 32, 33. So, that
means we can go up to uh major interstate reconstruction projects. we have those capabilities in house u and then as far as signing pave marking signalization we can do anything related to those two items roadway CPI 10.1 and
then again the planning 13.5 and 13.6 we we recently did get pre-qualified for surveying 8.2 two and we are still continuing to work on 8.1 and 8.3. We of course plan to have that very soon. It's just working with that PFD to get those
pre-qualifications acknowledged but we have 8.2 now. Next slide. So that's that's it in a nutsh professional services the services that we provide and again thank you for the opportunity to be able to present to you and to to to work with y'all
hopefully uh and then you know again be able to work back at home. So, thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you. We hired three people. CPH Mayor, council members, manager, staff,
Greg Lang with EP tower. We're going to keep it brief. Three, five minutes. We don't need We're not We didn't even bring a PowerPoint. Keep the low tech. We brought two boards and then uh we'll ask any questions. But what we wanted to kind of touch on is not so much our qualifications. That's in our response.
You if your CV was broken and you looked that big book we submitted, you know that we are quality engineers. We've been working for 44 years here in Florida and we can cover all the bases that you need. So I'm not going to touch on qualification, but we'll answer any questions you have. So in the three to five minutes we want to touch on some
real world examples of what we do. And John, introduce yourself. I'm John Petitch alongside Greg and then we can turn around for the public. So here's a real world example on how we hope we can take our skill sets and work for the city of Perry.
This is the city a little bit called Fort me down in central Florida. old sore system much like you'd have a lot of clay pipe much like you have this manhole the date on it 1913 112 years old we looked at the entire city sore system mapped it found the worst areas
and then started looking for funding because Perry very financially constrained there they are city uh county seat of pole county they're oldest city in that county so we found some funding over a number of years total of 216 million only loans
loan that they took on was 1.8 million that was paid with revenues from their own bills. So, and the last bill was the last revenue came in with a grant governor brought for 6.5 million. So, we're actively working on our tour system today. we have for probably five
more years to get it tuned up and it wouldn't have happened unless our shop John and I and our staff really worked first on the funding because when I met with the manager and city officials informed me 10 years ago they said yeah we have all these needs and we don't
have the funding and we can't raise our rates on our touch much at all. So we understand where you're at. Um, we understand what's happened here the last two years. My hometown of Cedar Key, those storms that came through the coast and came through Cedar Key, I have homes
destroyed around me. Um, I know what it did up here and uh, we know you need a lot of help. So, we can look at our grant expertise and bringing out help. And then once we can bring you the grant expertise, we know how to do the work. I just drew this board together for for
your consideration. And it's just pictures of Fed Key actually and the CRA there uh community redevelopment agency. And he worked on a lot of rural development money, SRF money, CDBG funding for a number of projects. I'm
not going to bore you with all them, but whatever was needed at the time. We had saltwater intrusion, so we needed some reverse osmosis help. We had to replace a lot of water and shorelines. I actually put together a volunteer team to look at all our ancient oak trees to make sure
utility crews didn't damage them when they put in new lines. You know, we really want to become an extension of your staff. That's the other message I wanted to bring here is that we understand too your staffing is limited. We understand that you can't build that
expertise inhouse. It's too costly. And that's the beauty of working with us. We work behind the scenes. We don't cost anything. We don't charge anything to the city for putting applications together or working with your grand administrator Andy Eastston. We've worked with them before in other communities, whatever the program
requires. And then our expectation is if we help bring the funding in, then we can earn our paycheck and get the engineering work going. That's how we work. I think I'm at about three and a half, four minutes right now. And I'm really going to stop right there and answer any questions because that's
probably more important than us going on about engineering or or grandfist of it and that's what I wanted to relay is that we have all the expertise in house. Uh our firm total sizes of 450 individuals. We have architects, planners, engineers of all
types, road engineers at wastewater and water and so forth. So we can handle all the engineering, but what's most important I think for tonight is that the grant funding expertise we've developed over the last 35 years is what's really important to Perry and
most of the communities we serve are mostly small and mid size like Perry like Fort me like Cedar Key and without that behind the scenes work we can't really solve enough problems. So that's what we want to bring home and that's
it. That is five minutes. All right. Thank you. And next we have I pronounced this right. Ardura. You know, we were on time. Thank you everybody.
I have Joy from our office and Shaquille here we have worked with you guys uh before. So I'm going to go quick on these presentation. Um so agents are basically give you our introduction our target
clean experience and then you know permitting and funding a work city a lot and then you know some of the next u so we are we have about 1,800 employees and
we have actually 22 offices in Florida give you the latest offices here um you know we have uh scheduling contracts and we are one of our top uh my name is air I'm shakil and
join with me um our bio is there I have 25 years of experience working with your water sewer system uh treatment plants we have worked one way or the other worked with us and they have
worked with the majority of the water system and is our sort of lead manager a lot of expertise in underground utilities. So we do have inhouse capabilities on you know
locating utilities we do a lot for many municipalities. So these are our uh you know experiences we have continued contracts with all of these municipalities um they're working for them. uh just to give you some flavor of our
work plant we did for Okusa County. Um it's a fairly large size but you know it's similar to your facility has fire and oxidation. So similar to your facility and know you have some capacity right now it's your facility that
capacity with my former firm we were working with you guys on something. Next slide. Uh these are some of our experience and services we offer. on the right hand side tells you what we offer water based water transportation
aviation civil surveying any of the engine GIS service you name it we have people in the company on the left hand side uh these are the treatment facilities we have
worked in treatment facility same thing as the water treatment facility should have worked facility at both of those facilities shown on pictures. Um and then we have done a couple of monster project and uh we do a lot of work with
conservation. So these are our experiences with different funding agencies. Um RAF which I think city currently have three grants who were instrumental in getting those. Uh SRF uh we have one
contract right now. I think the city and USDA which have many works with them on those and we've worked with her many times and set up a lobbyist and then the water quality also we have you know worked
with you on 10 plus why you know us so I can familiar with utilized with the funding what is available what's coming and we work with a lot of your staff and your other
consultants work some of those we have a lot of resources not to say you know we need to be obvious we don't have expertise we never need to be tight deadline like we
have we are with three days probably outside but that's one of the key that if we need to we can bring it to mobilize next
slide so I just put it in we you know we are local team we have experts if needed uh but we and that we have ample resources and you know we provide a lot of similar services to about
50 with that just kind of echo what you're saying is we do a lot of we have a lot of services but they're lately with a lot of small utilities um that's where is we like trying to develop a
relationship work alongside of you make sure that you're getting the best benefit. Um, we're giving you every opportunity you can to save money, but also help improve your infrastructure. That's just that's our motto. That's how we have any questions. Very important.
Thank you. quality. Say again. I'm sorry. Facebook post on water everything for me about products or any of that kind of
stuff. The letter we had to send out newspaper and mail. I don't write hell myself. Yes. You all put in. So, we're not using well number seven. No, we are using well number seven. And if you look at the actual
sample results, the samples at the prison site have been steadily low and very good numbers is the other sample site that we see the issue at that's on the far end of town has the longest distribution time of the system. So,
we're still seeing an issue out there. I've got a few ideas how to address it, but that's one of the issues right now. Is that the one down Bucket Road? Yes. It's end of the line or something. It's mainly because of the distance from the plant. It's farthest away from it
with the least amount of flow. It's all residential and it's all six inch mains. So, the only thing that we can do without getting into more treatment options right now would be to try to pull water south of the town flushing. And I just got a few ideas of how to address
it right now, but just haven't had time to really But this is a different site to what we've been we have two different sample sites. One of the sample types has been good solid good numbers. The other sample side is the one that we had to
address with the limit. Okay. And but that's the same one that has given us problems all they've given us problems in the past. Okay. But now one of them is doing much better than the other. Yay. It's doing much better. consistently lower numbers staying well
below the MCL's but the other one has been staying on the higher end. There was a plan we designed. I was designing a good numbers. Some of that has to do with some things going on at airport ground storage tank right now, which we've just got most of
that dealt with with our USG company, the ones who've done tank maintenance. Um, so soon as we get other issues resolved at that station, we'll be in better shape. But I have some ideas to address. Thank you.
I think you remember but yeah two years ago we gave you some recommendations so I think you have addressed half of it the other half still is that a matter of funds or uh we we are looking at it so you have to complete one project at a
time that's how the fun works the one side of it okay so I think that's something there are some funding how opportunity from the next. So we did one application
yesterday. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. on sale and it still makes no Yeah. So, it was really key that you guys were thinking about hiring three. So, those were your top three and those were the presentations. Unless you have
a local procurement policy that states you need to do anything further, you are good to go ahead and put them on contract or if you want to, you know, do less than three and that's up to the city. But there's really nothing else that's needed at this point just to
agree on who you would like to select. Would each one be addressing a different problem or are they going to work together on the whole project or that's up to city typically if you have a project you can select whichever
engineer if you especially if you have them on contract um as long as the project cost falls under CCNA requirements then since they're already on continuing services you can go ahead and use them without having to advertise. So that's kind of the benefit of having an engineer on service. Yes, I
agree. So if you have three, then you have options um for different types of projects. Whichever one you like to use. They do better. Yeah. Yeah. I know in the aviation in the aviation world we have there some airports that have a
dozen engineers. 18 or 19 all of them. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, one may be good at roads, one at water, one at sewer. I like just never know. It's just bas I know them because I worked with these firms with
other communities, but just going based off their presentations. It did look like some may have streets that other ones don't. So, it you know, I think it's good to diversify, but that again, that's ultimately the city. So, if you'd like to hire all three, I think you're you're good. There's really nothing else
that's required as far as the selection process goes. It's not going to cost us any more to hire three than it will one, will it? I mean, the projects are going to be the same. The engineering is going to be the same. The rates were not included in the proposals. So, I don't know their cost, but when you have a
project, I mean, obviously, if you if you go enter into a contract with them, then they will they should have their rates listed out obviously, but um that would you know, things like that you can use to help determine if you wanted to use them on a specific project. So, they're probably not going to be that
far apart. I guess not. I mean, I don't know that. I haven't seen their prices, but they're usually not they're usually not that far apart. I wouldn't think so. And I printed out an extra copy of all the um rankings that we did if you guys need to look at, but I think last meeting you were able to discuss that
pretty thoroughly. So, um what do you suggest, John? Enter in the contract with all three of them. Okay. It just gives you options that prevent you from having to advertise. Sure. Do you need a motion?
Motion. Motion. Wood. Yes. Yes. Vice Mayor Landry. Yes. Yes. Agenda item 6G.OU of the second judicial circuit and
the council will take any action deemed necessary. This is Joe has a certain area and we've worked out an area task force that makes my ears go
But this has nothing to do with outside. No. Okay. Did you make a motion? I'll make a motion. Second. Council member Wood. Yes. Council member Hampton. Yes. Vice Mayor Landry. Yes.
Mayor Ked. Yes. Agenda item 6H. First reading of ordinance to amend Perry Municipal Police Officers Retirement Trust Fund and the council will take any action name necessary. An ordinance of the city of Perry, Florida, further amending the
city of Perry Municipal Police Officers Retirement Trust Fund restated by ordinance number 881 as subse subsequently amended. Amending section five, contributions. Amending section six,
benefit amounts and eligibility. Amending section 8, visibility. Amending section 9, investing. Amending section 28, deferred retirement option plan or drop. Amending section 29 reemployment
after retirement. Providing for codification. Providing for severability of provisions. repealing all ordinances in conflict herewith and providing for authority and manner of adoption and providing an effective
date. Then we'll try to figure out what all that means. the mic. Basically, it sounds a lot more complic 25% raise for law enforcement, especially in a small town. It really dries up our pool that second thing is
for a nature drive. I said that's also kind of falling a line st said all the other stuff is basically once we change one thing we have to change it all because all the different the good work for the city it's not going to cost you anything so we decided
basically with unanimous vote of all the active paying to us and our increase be like a go for 3.1 to a 3.8 that we pay. There's a portion of the actual statement. There's a portion of our actual
statement that shows the city will not be contributing anymore. The 7% is solely on the officers that are contributing. They're contributing to the u we just received this what 4:00.
It was also in the work which is basically just showing the woman. Like I said at the last meeting, of course I'm not too versed at this. You work 20
years and you retire. You come back and what? one year. There's no time limit on that. But see that our retirement does not follow that. So can you you can't get another retirement. You would come back
and contribute to the one you've already got. So it's not like the the state retirement. You have to be out six months if you wanted school resource. You got that year if you're going to to a regular F FRS retirement. You can't get another retirement. You can only add
to the one that you're already drawing for a benefit after you work that age to 10 years basically still like you can't get any more than 100. Yeah. Like for me I come back I retired at 20
years come back to now I have to work another eight years if we do change it to get anything. I work harder than that but I can never make more than 100% of my salary which would have been no change. If I would have stayed 31 years, it's going to be the same retirement. If
not, you can't double deal with it. State law get up to 100% retirement. For the record, that's how it already is. The only things that we're asking to be changed is the investment change in 10 to eight years and the drop extension. And on the forms that y'all were given, it shows that the city will not be
contributing anymore. The 7% that's added to make up that loss of two years is on the officers individually. And the drop change doesn't add or take away any money because the officers are already time. They're already pulling the pinch. That doesn't add any money by extending the draw date. Most of our officers that
we're getting out are basically brand new title of the academy. It's hard to get insurance. If you tell them somebody with experience from another agency and go, "Hey, going to have to have to work at least 10 years and then be 55 before you can draw." That's a lot a decade. Eight years. They're like, "Okay, that's
kind of in line with the state work here. work here and then draw retirement once we get it done. It just makes it more appealing to try. One last question. I'm always watching the
news and they're saying that retirement funds are really being impacted. Somebody help me out with that. retirement funds. You know about retirement funds? I
thought we went down here. Are you asking? Are you asking about the police officers are funded several? It's mainly dependent on the investments that we've chosen and it has exponentially grown over the last several quarters and it's projected that that's going to continue
to grow and it'll be well well insured for the lack of a better term because of the investments that we chosen. I've been on retirement for probably I say around 14 to 15 years now. I want to say when we took over it was at four million and we're up to 9 to
10. I mean, we've had, you know, bad years, good years, and of course, stock market, it goes up and down, but overall, ours have been actually quite successful. We're doing good. Lately, it's just been down. State law also mandates what you can invest in in
these retirement funds. You can't just go out for blue chips and high-risisk value stocks. It has to be things that are long-term growth related, but the risk is reduced because of that. and we have an attorney for the retirement plan and the pension board to make sure we're
invested responsibly in this fund. Uh she's nodding her head yes because she has set on retirement for the fire board for the fire board. It's a similar setup. Um and I I do know that the contribution amounts into the police
pension fund is less on the city than the FRS pension payments that the city's making for regular employees. So our fund is more sound um to make sure we make the payments to those that are eligible than FRS is we're in better shape than FRS
and the completed by the officers. It keeps going up. That's good. Well that years and that year still give you what are you five now with the drop? Same as five right this minute but I give you eight. Well, they went three they went out to three more years to try
to retain some people because they were having trouble finding people to stay working. Is that you want to keep institutional knowledge as long as you can in the skilled areas and that's that right? That's what we need to balance out. Like I said, most of all of our people hiring are brand new. Most of
them are young, just out of school. Yeah. And we're actually losing a lot of our experience. And you need that experience. They do. Yeah. And part of the goal with this is if we get a a 30-year veteran from, let's say, a huge agency, he's wanting to get a second job and not work a whole another career, eight years is way more appealing to a
guy that's got 30 years that just needs an extra paycheck versus having to sit and wait 10 years to to pull that second pinion. Eight is much more appealing in that in that nature. So, we just need a motion first. This is first
state used to be a 60 I think one time. Yeah. 6 10 then back to eight and six. Yeah. Any more discussion? Any more questions from anybody?
All that. Thank y'all. Appreciate it. Okay. Agenda item six. I public hearing and final reading on ordinance number 1052 for purchasing regulation updates and council will take any action need necessary. An ordinance of the city of
Perry, Florida, amending financial matters of the city to update purchasing regulations for repealing ordinances in conflict here with and providing an effective date. instead they went to an insurance conference. I
can't which is good for a while. Anyway, it's just bringing the I have been here. I took a month off. So, the limits or something more. That
makes sense. Yeah. John, is this one of the ones that I had marked some typos on? I don't have it. That was the agenda. the minutes that
one city public hearing city that was answer that I had it's the same last anyways anybody have any questions or comments about the purchasing manual or
the changes we're making? Any discussion on the board members on anything? Agree with all their second reading. It's going to be the final
Final read has made a motion. Second Wood, yes. Council member Hampton, yes. Vice Mayor Landry, yes. Mayor, yes. Agenda item 6J, city manager to continue discussion
on the five-year capital program or revision or extension thereof and council will take any action name deemed necessary. They throw the aquatic center on there. I asked AI what it would cost for the city of Perry
to build an aquatic center and he said $21 million. That's what I put in there. That's what it cost $21 million for the city to build aquatic center. That's expensive swim. Exactly. AI has expensive. Yeah. Apparently,
I don't believe actually I think it next or something. have a number to add. So I would say always put a number. If you don't have a number that you're not going to
have that's being proposed, do you know of any local um community or county or city that had a center that's close to ours like Madison? I said okay. Is that the one on John Knox road?
Is that the one on John Knox? Yes. That's an aquatic center. John Mlean. John Knox. No. No. The name of the center. Name of the center where Yeah, it's on gym. Is it gym? I'd love
to find out a place of 8,25. It was the one you pulled up, John. That is not true. city was John John McL. Is that the idea to build an
indoor aquatic center Aquatic Yeah, the golf have an airport. Not a big one. They have one. I see her Sandy. Okay. 2008. 14 data that coming in the past three
years. for discussion on the CIP. Agenda item 6K. the council to discuss leasing land to Al Smith with Elite Industrial LLC at the 50 acres and council will take any action name necessary.
Good business started here in Mike Sheriff's office garage. He's asking lease out that middle section between the two buildings. Just a fenced in grass concrete pad area. He wants to store
like a big trailer and some of his equipment. He climbed a permanent home base. I ask y'all have to prove lease. What's he doing? He's want to build a fab shop. Sounds
like here to speak on it, Mr. Bob. Or can you speak on it? Oh, but I can I can dance around it. There's a pipe fabricator wants to run construction projects all around the
southeast out of Taylor County. Give it a two thumbs up. It's a good deal. They want to obviously be located permanently, but until it gets permanent like West Frasier that it's up temporary, I would be 100% supportive if this isn't getting in the way of
something else we already had intended to do. I think we should support it. If you have any questions I can answer, I'd be happy to answer them for you. I don't see that. I see it's a very low risk and high return.
We just need like a lay down yard or something. Is this on the West Frasier property? Is that where we're talking about? No. Where are we talking about that? This is on the city of Perry property. And I said I said that is shortterm solution. Longterm they don't. Okay.
after what 51 acres across the street from the fully leg. Okay. So what happens I know where you're talking about now we call it city property. So a little confused it's in the county. It is city property. It's not in the city. So what this is a
this is uh a how long a lease are they asking for? Let's think in the six month range. Six months. Okay. My my only my only concern would be that if you had somebody that wanted to come in Yeah. and they've they've got their
lease, you know, for six months. Where does that leave us? Back out. What? We would have a clause to be able to back out the lease. That's the same thing we got with the sheriff now. He knows that economic development is going to happen here. Bringing big jobs. They
got to get out. Okay. Long as that's in writing. should be no differently structured than the one with the sheriff's department. We have that lease with them having all the equipment inside that building, but it can be changed if something longterm
and permanently. Right. Okay. That was my only concern. Thank you. So, it's about a month-to-month deal type thing. I gota need an amount charging. How much do you want to charge? Oh, you
have It's just right here. Just Why don't you just go with what yates on one end of it is on this end? Why don't you just go with what you charging? They got build with it. I know. I'm talking about the
land or is it just kind of lump together? I got you at least,00 gates. 2000. Yes, ma'am. Absolutely. John, why don't you and I hope just get together and
just bring something back to us. How soon are they? Things like that. He told me he was overflowing there. So I don't move. Do you have any ideas? Do you have any ideas? bubble is your
charge. Since you're over, I respectfully leave that to the council. I don't you missed the fig you would do that and give us a range. I always want to tell I do not know what rental should be. That would be outside my scope. But
we have a chance to have a a long-term business plan itself in Taylor County and grow. And we should be thinking long term, this this is going to help us all. And short term, we think about how many $100 or $1,000 should we get a month,
but long term, let's make them feel welcome and glad that they're here. And then when they can buy something like a West Frasier site, just use that as an example, then they'll, you know, I think they'll be glad that we open the door and help them connect the dots to to
success in T county. Yep. 500 bucks for the first six months. Defense lines. I think exactly where it is. Back up a little bit. Defense lines. just on this side. It runs through the
old uh gas area right there where the uh the road turns left. Kind of go straight off. I think that road right there go straight in there to the fence line or
inside the fence line. It does. you turn in to the other one. Generally speaking, anyway, you want to just That's probably a good idea. Y'all to get together and come up with something and get back to
us that work. Yeah, sure. Faster you do this, the better the chance that they'll actually come. Say the price per acre, whatever many acres they want. Just kind of do it that way. commercial. How much How much is Yate
How much is Yates, ma'am? That's why I left it up to them. John, how much is Yates le? How many acres? 56. How many ble How many acres is Yates leasing? Five, six, seven.
They got the two buildings and some property and plus the building they put in. Um, Woodland's office, cruise sh they put in the oil building too probably. That's those are names we called it 30 years ago.
Um probably closer to 10 acres. You think commitment that 500 months or six months then renegotiate after that? 500. They just want a portion. They just want a piece. They just want a piece of dirt.
Just a portion of what we have though, right? Yes, ma'am. It's not the whole thing, right? Something like that. I guess one acre. Excuse me. I'm okay with that. Sounds good to me. I
think we need to give an answer. Everybody give it. Yep. Okay. I'll make a motion we do it for $500. Have a second. Have a second. Second.
Clarity. Council me or Vice Mayor Landry. Yes. Motion is for $500 per month. What? Your motion is for $500 per month. $500. Yes. Please. Council member Wood. No. Council member
Hampton. Yes. Vice Mayor, but I would excuse me. I would like for John to go out and make sure that it's not worth more than five. Whatever you
We shouldn't be voting on this. That's why it exactly. Well, we we got one person saying we need it now. They need it now. That's what I was just
going to ask, is there an amount that you feel is acceptable at 500 if it's less than an acre or half an acre? What measurement are you putting to the It's almost an acre. That's what he said. He just measured it out. It's
almost one acre. You're you're pretty adept on rental rates just uh just based off the ACE lease and it's only six months. I mean, you can come up with an idea for
the land value based on that lease. I would think. So, we not going to vote on that motion. You all have to vote on the lease anyway. It's written up. I think we're in the middle of the vote. No, actually clarification. Then would
it be fair to say that Councilwoman Landry would like $500 for up to an acre for six months if they agree to that? $500 per month for six months. What did I say? $500. You
just You didn't specify that per month. Okay. But you're right. Correct, John? Yep. Okay. Okay. We got a motion, a second on the table. Need to either finish that off or something. Mayor Landry. Yes. Mayor
Kendrick. Yes. Okay. Agenda on 6L the council to discuss health insurance and council to take any action deemed necessary. I think I want to bid out our health insurance October.
See what else we put out there. We're paying $12,800 a month for family coverage. What we using? That's what we using. 33,600 a year for
family coverage. It's dark blue. Bit it out. See what's out there. Cause versus coverage. Current. You're saying our current policy is 28 for family coverage. 2750
and we're paying out how much a month is that what you that was that the other figure you gave family coverage the city and employees pay 33 33,000 a month family coverage 70% of that city
pays 30% does the city cover 100% of an employee like you're alone salary if you get better rate salary. No, no, no, no, no. I'm saying with them. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. I'm just saying does it cover
100% of an employee and then the percentage of the family? No. 30. No matter what. Okay. 60 40 and 70 30 for supervisors but over the past couple years he hasn't always
but to make sure we stay under the affordable healthare if the city don't pay enough of it we don't we're not given the right kind of health insurance our health insurance ought it with
publicly. It's one it's a really low deductible, low out of pocket what you pay the premium in every month you're paying. Yeah. I don't know if we'll get better results back some of the ones I talked to. They probably not. I really wish we could get
on state. Well, it's worth looking for better rates. I would for the same coverage. What have you asked about getting on the state insurance plan? They're paying plans right
$2,000 per month and there kind of employee I think the employ,600 It would be nice if I mean can I keep we can participate in FRS if we can do the same thing with the insurance employees we had indeed
like only about guess probably 60 insurance taking any action on anything or justformational I get all that paper together it out I make sure y'all were me what I was doing have you been looking already have you been looking
already brokers. Okay. Our pool's so small that we have some help this year. It's hard to get good prices. If it was my city, I'd probably get selfinsured. I'd probably Okay. Agenda item 6M. Council to approve
Amy Love at moving to to the fifth member seat on the Perry Fire Pension Board of Trustees and take any action deemed necessary. What she went from the city appointed one since she's moving out of the city
limits to the county. She can't set she can't be appointed by the city because she's not living inside city limits anymore. So we just moved her from there to the fifth seat which
is basically u it's a board appointed seat that anybody can sit in. They don't even have to live in Taylor County any location. Is it a board appointed seat? It is a
board seat. The board appointed seat. They voted on approved it at the last meeting. It has to be approved through council. So what do we have to do if it's a board? If it's fire board, we still have one opening on the city
council's I mean pitching board. Yeah, we still have one open. You need a vote on this. We'll entertain a motion. Motion. Have a second. Second. Council member Woodall. Yes. Council
member Hampton. Yes. Vice Mayor Landry. Yes. Mayor Pet. Yes. Agenda item 610 and 6. Anybody come up with any data for
anybody? Anybody? Anybody wants to serve? Neitherbody. Good deal. About somebody for the fire board now. All right. Uh, Miss Shley, you mentioned
before you wanted to um you're on the North Central Florida Regional Planning Council. Um, I'm stepping down until I get my health issues. Okay. Under control.
All right. The next forgiveness is on Thursday. This Yeah, this Thursday. They have meetings every fourth Thursday of each
month, either virtually in person. Um, sad for somebody that has to get their feet wet. Where do they meet? Lake City.
and and they will give you whatever funds for your gas. Okay. Now, when I was doing it, I stayed overnight. And you can do it virtually if
you need to show up every now and then. Anyway, do we have anyone who would like to volunteer any nominations for someone to serve on this board? It's meeting once every Thursday. Fourth
Fourth Thursday at 6. It starts at 7:00. Okay. Starts at 7. Okay. I'll give it a I currently serve on the clearing house committee.
And that meeting starts at 6. Kind of appreciate pre premeating to the regular meeting. Yeah, it's different. Yeah. Almost like a committee and the session. I guess you'd say it starts at 6 and
and there's dinner involved too. And the other meeting starts at seven. Volunteer, Miss Landry. Yeah. Okay. Also, I give I have the information in my call. Yes, I would need information.
Okay. Would also need to switch around. Yeah. Good. Guess we go and do a formal vote on that. Do I have a motion? That motion you accept. She accept it. Yes. I take it over later
sometime. Council member Wood. Yes. Council member Hampton. Yes. Vice Mayor Landry. Yes. Mayor Petron. Yes. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you for your service, Miss Tam. Yes, I know that's a a commitment to do that
one. Okay. With the minutes from April 8th, 2025 regular session. Do I have a motion or is there any discussion about them? Just the minutes from the last meeting. changed there. Yeah, there were several typos
that the rest were on the agenda. That's already corrected. That's the new set. Okay. Motion second. Yes. Councilman. Yes.
Yes. Mayor D. Yes. Return. John 3. Sitting there. They're interviewing you. Yeah, I had some banners and nobody like them.
Well, well, say what we said. They said it looks like a horror film. Well, oh, that does look like police like a like a sun burning in the background or something. and headed down. I had some black
in that color. Maybe not. Yeah, the green looks kind of scary. Trying to stick with green. That's not one.
It's beautiful. I like it. The pictures are pretty. And the hard I didn't know what that was. I guess but I like that. You only one vote, John. All right. Way better. Way
better. Anything else, John? See, Carly is not here. Jamie, several meetings ago. Oh, sorry. I did. I'm sorry. I I apologize. Ago, we got approval to purchase the
metal building off of a quote because we couldn't get any bits. Um, since that time to quote her has increased the expense on that, want to pour extra concrete, other things. We didn't find another company out of Lake City that
quoted us the original price that we looked for in on the pad we have existed. I just need permission to go to move forward with that quote. We're not paying an extra $6,800. Is this a quote for 16? Yeah. 168.
That's actually about the same price we originally quoted. Okay. Have you got vent some kind of ventilation in it too? Yeah. But we're going to take care of that. So don't become a hot box. Yeah. Okay. Where are
you putting it? And the compound across from a concrete pad there suitable. It's already poured and it's thick enough. Did you motion? Yes, I made one. Yes, I made a second. Council member Woodall. Yes.
Yes. Landry. Yes. Mayor, yes. That's all I have. All right, Arby. Yesterday we received the washer and dryer. got off. They pumping gear um extract during
dry. They got them in yesterday. Guys hooked it up in the process hooking them up today and tomorrow. So they should be good to go. Um MDA association has called and want us
to help them out again. So, we're in the process of of getting that set up probably around Memorial Day weekend maybe. Um, probably out in front of Martin L
Dixie. We had said a day or time yet, but it's just it's in the beginning. It probably it won't be Memorial Day weekend probably around that time. That's all I got. Very good. Thank
you, Daniel. All I have is the employee that y'all the city get test very grateful. investing in people. That's great.
Andrew, you good. Sean, looking forward to working with the engineers getting work done. So glad to hear that we're ready to roll. Good
deal. Garrett is not here in uh the Shirley. One thing John's evaluation is about four months as some things
February just did. Um, it's due in February. I guess we need to get that taken care of. We have a stand a standard evaluation sheet. We
come up with Stephanie. I think I don't have anything that I know of, but she may email that to us or something maybe or she like it printed either way. Either
way, what was that? I said either way, credit or email it from me. Okay, that's true. Guess the next bag. I guess I'll stop by and pick it up. We can We should do it in the meeting.
We should have his evaluation met. It was due in February. She's saying we need to do it by the next meeting. Okay. Email it to it. We can do it. Okay. Email it or explain by city hall and get
it or whatever. Okay. All right. Have it on. I guess put on the agenda for the next meeting or do we Okay, that'll work. Good night. Okay, Landry.
Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Well, I wasn't doing anything else outside. Thanks very much. Yeah. Yeah. What is