please rise for silent invocation followed by Pledge of the allegiance amen amen pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands
na indivisible andice for thank call the RO please councilman Foley here councilman gfor here councilman green here vice mayor grubs here mayor sner here more present
tonight item four any public comments on consent agenda items only robt mayor council members Robert rehagen 1425 Dexter Drive Port Orange um this this is uh I was going to
talk about was number nine a resolution to approve of a tree conservation easement so they've got a uh a 5 in or 12 in uh Red Bay that has a conservation easement around it and um
they want to switch it over they just happen to have a 12in oak tree um now I'm I don't understand why they weren't both conservation Eastman but um in reading the the uh the staff report uh
they it sounds like they're prepared to tear down the oak the uh bay Oak Bay Red Bay and um I hope that's not the situation because it's healthy it's not as healthy as the oak according to the
the thing but um so I would recommend that um that you don't approve it because uh you want to keep both trees to the extent that you can but other than that uh I want to talk about the purpose item three talks about item item
one purpose the purpose of this tree conservation and access agreement is to assure that certain trees located on the Eastman premises will be retained or replaced forever except as prescribed here in in
their existing natural condition and the present use of the easement premises that will will impair or interfere with the health and Pres conservation of the center trees um my my question is uh
does the city the city must have a lot of these easements around and uh does the city maintain some sort of register of what these easements are and actually go out there and make sure that these are being preserved
properly thank you thanks Robert thank you Robert anyone else to speak on consent agenda items only all right seeing none I get a motion to approve consent agenda items 5 through 10 move to approve consent items 5
through 10 second Motion in a second clerk call the rooll councilman Foley yes councilman gfort yes councilman green yes vice mayor grubs yes mayor stman yes I O on the public
participation uh Peter Arnold thank you I'd like to thank the council for allowing me to speak today my name is Peter Arnold I'm a a business owner here in Port Orange I've run the Edward Jones Financial uh advising office on Clyde
Morris Boulevard but I come to you today to bring greetings and thanks from the Port Orange South Daytona Chamber of Commerce I'm also on their board of directors um we greatly appreciate the support we get from the city of Port Orange so so I wanted to just share that with you uh also just
for um we have a couple upcoming events on uh this coming Thursday March 20 March 6 the Chamber of Commerce is hosting a lunch and learn uh develop you session to help business owners um uh develop a blueprint for business success
uh there's a cost for that it's uh $15 for Chamber of Commerce members $20 for future members and that's going to be at the river Side Pavilion here in Port Orange uh you can register on the Chamber of Commerce website uh chamber will also be hosting a morning mix and mingle on Friday the 7th this is for
Chamber of Commerce members um uh to meet other business owners that'll be at the Port Orange uh Riverside Pavilion at 88: a.m. on Friday the 7th and then on March 18th the Chamber of Commerce is also hosting a new member reception so
any new business owners that want to join the chamber or uh business owners in the area that are interested in what the chamber might offer to them we welcome them to come to the the new member reception and I appreciate your time thank you very much thank
you Sarah Hayes Sarah as you're walking up I want to thank you in advance for the uh the email you you sent to us very well put together well thought out a lot of good information there so I appreciate that welcome go ahead good evening City Council Members my name is Sarah I'm a
resident of Cross Creek within Willow Run I here tonight to bring attention to serious and Urgent safety concern in our neighborhood specifically at the intersection of Hidden Lake Drive in yearing trail a crossing point for children walking to and from school council are you familiar with the Cross
Creek entryway sign it's a beautiful Landmark welcoming people into our neighborhood but just beyond that sign lies a dangerous problem excessive speeding just this past Monday February 24th a child was nearly hit as multiple speeding drivers failed to slow down while children attempted to cross this
is not an isolated incident time and time again drivers use the stretch of road as a cut through often accelerating to speeds of 40 mph a deadly speed where children and pedestrians are walking this intersection is a serious safety hazard and we need immediate action we
are requesting the installation of a four-way stop sign at Hidden Lake Drive in Yan Trail along with flashing beacons improv signage speed humps and clearly marked crosswalks to enhance visibility and Driver awareness nearby neighborhoods like Pon salet South Daytona and Daytona Beach have
lighted crosswalks so why not us our community deserves the same level of protection we have a great support group that showed up tonight everyone wave high a recent speed study conducted on Hidden Lake Drive found that out of nearly 6,000 Vehicles monitored 70% were
exceeding the posted 25 M hour speed limit the highest speeds were recorded between 12:00 p.m. and 300 p.m. right when children were traveling home from school these numbers make it clear there's a sa serious safety concern please the email for traffic studies many pedestrians cross at this location
making these improvements essential for safe access to schools parks and other key destinations I know the city of Port Orange values the safety of its residents implementing these measures will not only slow down Speeders but also remind them that this is a neighborhood not a shortcut tonight I
urge you to take action a four-way stops speed humps crosswalks and additional signage will help save lives let's work together to protect the children and families of Port Orange not after another fatality thank you thank Sarah real quick you say that intersection
name again you said it but I just it was Hidden Lake in what Yan Trail okay thank you thank you sir Lisa I apologize TI T Ty yeah TI g h yes I apologize Mr that's
okay tell my husband useless letters so yeah welcome hi so I'm here again I'm Lisa Thai 714 Herbert Street I'm here again because the issues of the flood prevention have been ignored um you flooded us and you have
as long as you like to try and remedy our situation and yet I get this notice at bike week because I've got weeds and Outdoor Storage displayed I'm sorry I've been flooded twice I really don't have
time time when I'm trying to fix my house to deal with this if you don't have to fix my flooding issue then I don't have to fix my yard and I should not be penalized that's number one number two when you know that there's
flooding down Herbert Street why do you divert traffic down there I mentioned this before when I was here right after Milton even the police are speeding down that road and they're not speeding but the water is
this High the water was coming up over the top of my house into my house and yet Your solution is to say instead of 35 miles an hour on Herber Street let's make it 30 they didn't follow 35 miles an hour what are they going to follow 30 they don't okay so now then we have the
golf course Golf Course gets a special meeting but our flooding doesn't our flooding could just keep happening that's really special I'm really impressed you've got this money sitting $30 million Park and Recreation fund
that was put on the ballot and everybody approved it no indication of when it's going to be paid back how it's going to be paid back how much our taxes are going to be raised I suggest you stick your little fingers into that pot and buy up these
houses that are on Herbert Street on Eddie Lane and you make it a park you put in make it a a a preservation we've got coyotes coming over through there now we're losing our Wildlife that is supposed to be over there because of all
the overc construction my husband took my dogs out to let them out to the bathroom at 5:00 in the morning and there's coyotes running through the neighborhood my neighbor has a little dog that's big she's afraid it's going to be picked up and eaten it's ridiculous there is no more land for
these animals to go anywhere we are in danger besides the flooding so now we have why do you open up the floodgates to save one neighborhood at the sacrifice of another the engineer sat here after on the 15th of October and
said oh yeah we open up several ponds floodgates the one right behind my neighbor's house why and then I say what's go we have flooded and flooded I'm told even before Ian that my house had flooded it's a flood house and then I'm told
well you have to raise it I have a 2800 square foot house that's thank you for your time thank you thank [Applause] you lost $200,000 I can't even sell my house and you re buy your house for cash five
contracts and they've all ignored me and I'm losing $200,000 of value in my own Alysa defusco I'll calling the next speaker by name no they don't hey Alyssa
welcome hi my name is Alicia and I live in Sugar forest and I'm here tonight begging for somebody to help I bought my starter house in 2017 absolutely love the neighborhood it was so conveniently located for me at the time it wasn't even a flood zone since then my family has grown and I now have a 4-year-old
I've grown to love the location even more so now that I have my I have a vision impairment leaving me unable to drive so being able to walk to his daycare into and from his future Elementary School is huge then hurricane handed and hid us the neighborhood got destroyed but I thought all was well and
that we got lucky then in May of 2024 while cleaning the track to my sliding glass door I realized there was mold and moisture under my lvp I was skeptical whether it was from the flooring being laid incorrectly or unnoticed damage Froman but I just took care of it and moved on now by this time I already started dreaming and planning on adding
on to my house and making it at my forever house ironically hurricane Milton hit us during the same time my contractor was trying to pull the permit we had an elevation certificate done just days prior to Milton which determined I was a foot above the Benchmark for flooding within days
Milton hit and absolutely destroyed us and once again from the foundation up and way worse than an we are still displaced no work has even started on our house except for having the foundation waterproof which I did out of pocket and our dreams of turning our starter house into our forever house have been crushed now I just dream of
being able to live at home with my family again with all that being said meline Commons which is being built 3/10 of a mile away from my house will include 150 new homes how is sugar Forest going to survive clearly there is a major drainage issue that is beyond my control I should have never flooded to
begin with but especially not through the foundation according to the elevation certificate it's absolutely mind-boggling to me that major construction continues to take place in a neighborhood that is so vulnerable to flooding 150 new homes and then the new story facility built on the corner of
Nova and meline and then sugar forest sandwiched in between am I just supposed to plan on being homeless every few years other than selling which wouldn't be easy considering there seven houses currently up for sale in the neighborhood along with dumpsters and every other driveway it feels completely
hopeless it seems as if no one cares from the city to FEMA and every agency in between prior to the past 20 weeks I've never felt like such a number and I have my elevation certificate if anybody want it if you want to get if you if that's a copy you want us to have you can just keep
that Shirley rice EXC wait just one second Char where did Alyssa go is that a document you need back or is that a copy okay just want to make sure thank you than you Shirley welcome go right ahead hi um I
have questions more than I'm part of the flooding also uh there were purchases made to build a great big lake to help what is the status on
that this is your this is your time to speak we we we can comment on stuff when you're done go okay uh I would like to know what the status on starting that because it was supposed to be started in 25 so that is our help we also had a um
special meeting with um some people representing FEMA some very nice people and they tried to get our information do you have any results on that we talked to them about some of the things they had ideas on but we don't
know what happened uh third this involves the schools what's being done about flood prevention for sure Sugar Mill Elementary this is the first time it has
gotten flooded and like these other people all of this extra stuff is being built and it's you can see that it's higher than the school and uh they don't have enough drainage because the water's flooding the
school and finally is there any plans to fix Herbert Street around suar um not Sugar Mill but but um Silver Sands because there's getting to be a lot of holes along the edges and it's going to be a major repair if they don't
do something about the minor repair now those are my my four things this time but you will be seeing me constantly thank you no worri h hang out for a few minutes if you can oh I'll be here thank you thank
you was there any others Amanda [Applause] right moving on to council comments we're going to start with councilman green tonight thank you Mr Mayor um I've got a little speech I've prepared um
based on some some happenings in my life as of recently um and I just want to say good evening to everyone tonight I come before you with a heavy heart and an overwhelming sense of responsibility as you are aware I was recently arrested for driving Under the Influence I want to begin by expressing
my sincere apologies for my actions and my consequences they have brought upon myself and for those around me first and foremost I owe an apology to the Port Orange Police Department I understand that by putting myself in this situation not only did I break the law but also
showed a lack of respect for the very people who worked tirelessly to keep my community safe I am deeply sorry for any disrespect that transpired during this incident you deserve better from me and I take full responsibil ability for my actions next I want to address my wife
my beloved partner I apologize to you for putting you in a position where you felt the need to protect me I am sorry for the worries and the stress I have caused you and you have always been my rock I regret the burden I placed on your shoulders and I promise to work hard to regain your trust and to be the
husband you deserve to my family I want to say I am truly sorry for letting you down your love and support has been my Guiding Light throughout my life life and I recognize that my actions has caused disappointment I am committed to making amends in showing you that I can be
better I also want to reach out to the couple that I ran into in this incident I'm grateful grateful that you were not injured and I sincerely apologize for the fear and the disruption that I caused no one should have to endure such scare based because of my Reckless
Behavior I hope you can find in your heart to forgive me in this situation lastly to the citizens of port on orange I never intended to bring this negativity to the city I've called home for over 60 years this community means everything to
me I and I understand that my actions have cast a shadow on our shared on our shared values and pride I am truly sorry for any embarrassment or concern that I have caused I'm only human and I made a careless mistake and it's cost me dearly
in many ways I want to assure you that moving forward I am dedicated to becoming a better man a better person a better husband a better father and a better grandfather I'm committed to learning from this experience and using it as a catalyst for positive change in
my life I promise you that I will take all the proactive steps to ensure this never happens again I will continue seeking help and encour engage in programs that promote responsible behavior I owe it to myself I owe it to my family and I owe it to this community
thank you for listening I appreciate your understanding as I support on this and I embark on this journey of redemption together I believe I can turn this mistake and lessons into a benefit not only for me but for my community thank
you that's all I have anything else not today okay uh I I'll go next uh talk about a couple of uh items that were discussed tonight that um were already in our comments but so the the City previously
hired as you all know by the way has everybody had a chance to meet with kimly horn and go through that you guys are all good with that okay so the the the City previously after Ian hiring and contracted uh kimley horn to do an extensive um study that would allow us
to address some of the the storm water concerns improve upon the infrastructure we have and be able to model that and and one of the most important things is that as as we acquire the funding to do these projects we will now have a much
different level of confidence that they will work and that's really really been important in the past a lot of you know engineers and folks go in and and look at these projects and we work to get the funding and we execute the projects but I don't know that we've ever had this
level of confidence in the modeling with what they've done to be able to know that as some of these projects which are incredibly expensive but we'll get there um we actually work and they'll do what they're designed to do so with that regard they have completed that study they have presented that we have all met
individually and had extensive talks with them and we have now scheduled a public Workshop that will be Tuesday March the 25th of this month at 5:30 we normally start at 6:30 so I encourage you to make note that it is a 5:30 start
time city manager we having that here in these Chambers so it'll be here in the chambers um that will be a workshop we will go through the uh the study that kimley horn has uh completed as well as nine projects that have been identified now I will I will
say that nine projects that have been identified that we are pushing and moving those forward that isn't everything there will be other things uh it also should be noted that there are areas outside the boundaries of the city of Port Orange that significantly impact
um the city and what happens in storm water um it's probably not the best way to describe it but in some regards and you'll hear this we're the bottom of the funnel so we have a lot of areas that are far north of us uh their storm water moves everything ultimately has to go
out of Pon Inlet so when you're the northern cities and it's flowing to the South Port Orange is kind of for lack of a better descriptive in the in the bottom of that funnel so we have to try to work with those Partners as well we're going to try to monitor what those other cities County and state level
partners and possibly even the federal government we'll talk about that more on what they're doing to try to to work all this out but that being said some of the projects that are closest in fact to a lot of the folks uh that that that are in the room tonight um we will be
talking about those um at the at the end of this month on March the 25th so I encourage you to come to that additionally uh the city staff myself and some other folks will be in Tallahassee next week uh we have already
begun the process of trying to acquire State dollars to help fund some of these projects you will see in the workshop some of these are very very expensive some of them require land acquisition we've already started the process of land acquisition for some of these properties we're working to identify
other properties um I will just comment on that one note I get a lot of people who say well what about buying this piece of property well one of the things that this modeling does is it lets us know very quickly if we try to acquire property X will that benefit us at all will it do anything or and if so how
much will it benefit and I will let you know that some some of the properties that we have looked at and considered they won't provide any benefit to us so acquiring them doesn't do any good for us other properties yes they do provide some benefit but now this modeling and this amount of research will also help
with that as well um as on another note and I sent this to council members in your email file and to the city manager one of the things that and this will require some consensus from the council that's why I'm talking this bringing to you guys tonight we're not looking for a decision
tonight in fact I'll be looking for you to provide individual input directly to the city manager but one of the things I would like to see is a section on our website that's very easy to find something right on the homepage that we're going to have because this this is
a long this this isn't happening overnight right we all know that so we need a section on our website that our residents can find very quickly very easily anytime they want to know about what's going on with regards to flooding concerns in storm water and so so I've
outlined a draft those are just some ideas in my mind that I think will help um I want to make sure we've got a good FAQ section on there because we do get a lot of the of similar questions and common questions that are asked that information's been put out there but we
want to make sure that it's easily retrievable so that as we are speaking with residents or residents are coming before us or they're talking with staff we can easily direct them to this site to say hey take a look at this there's a lot of information here so um anyhow take a look at that email send some
information to the city manager um I think the city manager has always already indicated that he believes kimley horn can also help us with how to design that and provide information that's easy for residents to access and see that um but it'll have a little bit of everything it'll have history of
projects that we've already done projects that we're working on uh the the projects we're identifying now that'll be talked about in the workshop timelines common questions all those different kinds of things we do have some stuff on there but mostly that what's on there now is more about how folks can communicate with FEMA and
different programs that are available so what I'm talking about is actually something just a little bit different but it does need to be very user friendly so um that's the concept that I've got on that um I want to thank the Chamber of Commerce um they put on a
Heroes dinner uh last week to recognize uh our police officer and firefighter of the year um and I just got to say man they went all out it was an incredibly well put together Class Act event it was something that was definitely worthy of
of of recognizing um our Public Safety uh reps that have been selected for those positions from from the South East fuchia County they did an excellent excellent job so I just want to publicly say thank you to the chamber that's all I got tonight how about you
Sean yes um so uh the storm water issues sitting up here and hearing the pain that you're going through really is probably the worst part of being up here and when we give you three minutes to share
your issues and we can't respond because we're taking away your time and this gives us the time to respond this city is not flooding houses Mother Nature is but what this City's going to do and I believe what this team up here is going to do is everything we can to prevent in the future and it does not happen
overnight and we spent I spent personally two hours with Kimberly horn last week and this project is huge and it's exciting to know that this city back after in decided we have got to do
something and this something is going to happen with what Scott shared with you about this study and the things that you know me as a person thinks oh man if we could just dig a ditch there out alleviate that and then you find out that no it's not going to help at all so
we could be throwing good money at bad situations but the experts that are and this isn't our staff this are these are experts that do this throughout the state uh are bringing some great
information to us and some hopefully Solutions but here's the deal if you get 15 to 20 inches there aren't many solutions there just aren't it's just an anomaly if you if you lived in a house for 20 years you probably never flooded until Ian and then you may be flooded
again at at you know Milton but those are amounts of rain that this city didn't pour on us Mother Nature did and and we can spend 100 what's the number going to be 100 plus million to do everything we can and we're going to do
it but um that might not be if we get a direct hit from the East side these were tropical storms that were hurricanes that just dumped a bunch of rain and I asked the tough questions does this help 15 in of rain and their
answer is we're going to do the best we can to help so these letters that are going out these repeated flood events on properties you know I got to sit through the uh County information Town
Hall that our staff put on with the County's help and FEMA out at colony Woods that had a lot of homes flood and this is this storm was something else it wasn't it wasn't the city flooding homes and um we're going to do
our part and I just want you to attend these meetings that we're going to be discussing in the future about how we're going to go about this like he said they have identified nine major areas which is sugar Forest Area and will run and there's some great Solutions I think
will help but um we're we as a team I know we are we are going to do everything we can thank you for bringing the issue about speeding through neighborhoods there's nothing more frustrating than me as a citizen and having three kids grow up in this community to hear cars race down roads
and tickets don't work other Solutions have to happen so I hope that we can look at that and prevent uh a tragedy that ultimately unfortunately does happen when people speaked through neighborhoods and I know that neighborhood and and something something's got to be done so I appreciate you bringing that to our
attention and hopefully we can work on that but tickets don't work something else has to has to happen uh tickets a temporary solution to one's problem of speeding um and that is all I've got for now all right thank you councilman
Foley oh man uh where do I want to start with this I guess since you're we're talking about storm water I'll start with that um my position on this or my opinions on this are very strong and and they're
very personal because I flooded twice and that's one thing I have in common with people when you come up here and speak my my house right now is wrapped in TYC I still don't have a dining room table uh because I have flooring that I'm fixing and you know I'm I'm going through the process with the rest of you
so uh it irritates the daylight out of me to hear things are going to take a while and and and I wouldn't have a tolerance for it if it wasn't for the fact that I work on the government side too and I know the
processes and it's so frustrating just like we've talked about in the last several meetings uh she's not here tonight but we've talked about code enforcement um the government not just City but state county etc etc has done a great job of creating all these
processes that you have to go through you can't just go A to B you have to go a to zyx 1732 and then get to be and so unfortunately that's just the reality with a lot of things um I did sit in on this project um this storm water master
plan which we're going to talk about uh at the end of this month and um I will say it is encouraging to see not just one there's I think there was nine there nine nine different projects that when they model them out on a
computer they show why they're a benefit versus something else and they were able to show me in that period of time that I sat with them two 3 hours of we tried this and it did and it only helped two homes but when we did this it helped
36 they were able to do that they were also able to show me how the system would work really really well you know you see 4:00 5:00 you know 6 in 8 in 10 in and then all of a sudden it's like it just over spills like out of a bowl the
modeling was done using uh light on and and uh satellite imagery if you don't know what ldar is it's everything's with a laser right and and they're able to and not only did they do that as a kind of 10,000 ft view when
they get specifically into the projects of the neighborhoods that are affected like sugar Forest like Sleepy Hollow they're going back and they're going to go actually around there and remodel things and make sure it's accurate because the thing is this is going to be very expensive to over take this is not
a seven fig thing this is not an eight fig thing this is over nine figures we're talking over $100 million in projects in nine of them that we have to get funding for and that we have to start implementing and some projects are going to take a long time because they're more expensive so we have to get
that funding I want to put one thing at rest because I've heard it so many times and I know it's a suggestion out of frustration the money for the park Bond can only be used for not only just Parks it has to be used very specifically for
the parks that were in the bond that we suggested we cannot grab that money and use it for this I think everyone up here understands that on the Das and I I need my residents to understand cuz I want Solutions and I want them yesterday as I
know you do but I also do not want to get in a situation where we are in trouble with other government entities for using funds we're not allowed to use for things we're not allowed to use them for all right um I can't wait for the 25th because I can't wait for more
answers to these questions I want you guys to see what I saw it made me feel better about where we are going I don't feel any better about where we are now because I can't cuz we haven't been able to do very many things we've been able to do very limited things because that's
all we had the ability the finance and everything else to do but I do feel very good about the presentation I think they're going to be able to answer a lot of questions and I think it's going to provide some solutions that are going to work and that's what I feel good about
um I also wanted to touch on um speaking of repave I don't know about the Herbert Street thing but uh Florida do let me know um because of the TPO that uh Nova is being designed to be repaved and um I
don't know why they're telling us now but they're expecting the design to be between now in Fall 2026 and once it's funded they'll get it done they expect to be completely repa it'll be from US1 to Herbert Street um they let me know about that like I said
that's over a year and a half away but I'm assuming the reason they did that is because if funding shows up in the dot they may bump that project up and they want us to be able to let people know now so that's that um as far as the Sarah with the four-way stop and and that appreciate you guys coming in in um
Sleepy Hollow has a lot of kids uh I have an 8-year-old in there who likes to ride his bike and it scares me uh I do the speed limit in there is 25 and I do 25 and it scares me and I've start found myself I've started slowing down to 20 I don't know how anyone can go faster than that around homes and children um so I
I'll meet with the city manager to talk about that because this not the first issue in the city that I've seen with similar things and finally uh just a little bit of exciting thing I find it exciting uh in my entire time here uh I love Port Orange University it has been
so great it starts on March 10th um if you haven't heard of it you should look into it check out the city website uh it is a great way to learn about how our city actually functions and some of the great leaders in our cities and different departments uh it's it's been
a thing that Christine started years ago and she did and now uh Michael's been doing a great job with it so um Mike Springer appreciate him running this up and it starts on the 10th I think this class is already full but they do it what every four six months or something
like that about every every every spring Every Spring well maybe we need to do it more often either way uh it's a great program and it's really awesome and so name it it's called Port Orange University and it's it's where they just they'll take you over several days show you what uh
what gets done maybe on the daily at at uh the Police Department fire department you'll learn about uh Community Development you you get to it's just an awesome program don't forget the Sewer Department that's right absolutely Public Works it is a really neat program where you can learn a lot about how the
city actually functions um I I can't recommend it enough and I'm fully support doing it twice a year if I can get Mike to do so so anyway I know that's a lot but um yeah thanks councilman
grubs so going into uh kimbery Horn uh Master uh storm waterer plan March 25th I will tell you meeting with them and seeing like all the councilmen up here have talked about seeing the models
physically and the data that they put together is is pretty outstanding um and and they're right they they took the models and you guys will be able to see this is and they show it by inches of rain in these communities and where that bubble bursts
you know and that 15 to 18 in is is tramatic and it's not just one Community it's like quarter of the city just the screen's blue you go that's not good and that's one of the things that we need to make sure that we're we're
trying to strive for here is understanding where the computer models allow us to know where's the limitation to how much money you throw to it and I know that sounds bad because we want to throw as much money as we possibly can but it's got to make sense the nine
projects is over $100 million and I instantly went hm Port Orange needs to start playing the lottery so we can get the money faster and possibly fund all these projects but what they did do is went in
to find where the most problematic areas were to try to figure out what was going to be the best solution for to houses I guess is the best way of
explaining it you know if you spend $2 million and it it saves 50 homes that's better than spending $2 million on one home and I don't want to lose any homes but there's got to be sense of reality to this so March 25th that that date
5:30 here in these Chambers I hope those that are watching YouTube and everything for Port Orange this place will be filled so you can ask them to questions we ask them there's much more that needs to be done this is
a 2year study I wasn't even up here when Scott and Reed were the only ones up here that had the knowledge to vote in the money to be provided for this study to be
done without these studies Port orang residents need to understand is without these studies us going out trying to find the money wouldn't happen federal government state government entities and FEMA don't
provide a whole lot of money unless you have projects that are proven and ready to go forward so here we are we're two years we have this ready what's that mean to us well those dollars are available now by the state and local and federal
governments that they're bringing these dollars up and there's a lot of cities around us that are just now starting their studies so I have to give staff and the two councilman that was up here during that time frame kudos for getting the
ball rolling two years has been a long time nobody wants a house to flood two years is a long time it's going to take time to be able to do these projects to get the projects rolling and to try to solve it so we don't have to deal with us again nobody wants
that so please be here on the March 25th because it's it's going to take everybody's voice to hear this and be able to get things moving and what I mean by things moving it's not just Council sitting up here it's your county and state
representatives that need to be contacted also um they need to hear it just as strong as we need it so this can proceed and go forward on consent agendas tonight we
had a consent agenda number 10 I just want to go over that real quickly um and point out that uh turkey Rod run those that know that happens uh every Thanksgiving in Daytona Beach uh they raise a lot of
money and and the reason I want to point that out is in the consent agenda kind of got glossed over turkey Rod run actually provided $50,000 to us for a grant for the all children's playground park
so these are the things that outside entities outside of Port Orange uh with Echo grants and other community development areas uh provide for us too so I want to make sure we give a shout out to them
uh to the city staff we had a uh showing at Atlantic High School the other day probably had 12 of us there at least from all the Departments uh for the Academy of law yep uh great
program phenomenal program uh these kids got to sit down with staff members one onone and learn their positions so they can actually do a mock City inside the school and run their departments just like we do uh pretty pretty unique to
see uh 16 to 17 yearold sitting there and uh actually engaging and asking detailed questions that you wouldn't see a a young youth be able to do but pretty phenomenal uh let's see
here one of the other things that uh was in discussions this week and I want to make sure uh the rest of council understands what we're going through and some of the things that I've asked for is dealing
with e Vehicles e Vehicles being e1s e2s deal with bicycles um we had a traumatic uh fatality uh this past week unfortunately with e vehicle and some of the things that is
uh concerning is is we have electric bikes that do up to 28 M hour now and we have electric bikes that don't have to have kids with helmets on them I don't know about you but 15 M an
hour flying off a bike and doing a header into a vehicle it's not going to be u a likely thing to see lone it's going to be traumatic for the family so please if if you're watching this make
sure that you understand uh regulations and things of that nature for lsvs E1 e2s the county parks have signs up for it I'm I'm hoping that uh the chief will come back with a proposal for
uh amendments inside codes for us for the city to to keep our kids safe um as our sidewalk systems grow and get larger as insurance keeps Rising on vehicles it's becoming a more popular uh mode of
transportation around town so it's something that we need to be proactive and get ahead of I think for regulation so I've asked the chief and U City Manager to look into things so be looking for that in the future and then lastly is Miss Sarah you
did a phenomenal job tonight thank you she reached out to me and uh Cross Creek subdivision is my home uh I have complained about stop signs and people running stop signs on the north side of our community for a long time going into
Sunset Cove and coming back over into town park uh but at the same time uh police presence came in and we requested that they did a good job and they put a permanent sign up that's an LED flasher showing the speed going one way the
issue in my mind is is when they go Southbound on Hidden Lake there's no speed control sign reminding them that they're on a straight strip now and now they're flying and they blow through that intersection um I'm with you I
think one of the things that could possibly be done is a four-way stop stop there um but and studies having the police department do their jobs and doing the study on that to make sure that's going to be the proper thing so
we don't jeopardize other wrecks in that area I want them to be able to do that and uh also do the speed study the opposite direction to make sure we're not just seeing one side to get both sides of that that speed so we're fixing the
area um I always say signage is a beautiful thing and uh there's a a law firm here in town that puts signs up that says slow down sponsored by Esquire attorneys call us uh they they don't do that just
because um kids are kids and they will run out in the streets and people aren't paying attention with cell phones and everything else and I I think we need to try to figure out how to slow them down as best we can so I think the proposal you you gave to me the other day on the four-way stop is a is a fantastic ideal
so hopefully they'll come back with the studies and they'll say the same thing to us but uh thank you for the representation and and I urge all Community she she did a beautiful job she she pm' me first and then I told her call my cell phone and she Tech and she
calls me we had the conversation and I says what what do we need to do write down exactly you what you told me and I says send it to council so Council actually knows what you're talking about I says and then you need to come and you need to represent just don't send an email represent it's this process of
knowing what goes on other than just an email and then you wonder if the email gets answered it's it's represented that all of us have seen it you came and you showed and you did exactly what a community comes together to do and I want to thank you for that because
that's that's how we get things done so thank you he did reply to my email I got to reply so thank you on that uh I'm going let you slide from there so I'm going to I'm going to add one more
to that for the city manager um and for for those that haven't been on Council very long so the city has always had a history along with most cities throughout the entire State of Florida is we don't do speed bmbs uh and that that discussion comes up periodically uh but with the last Council we had a a
little bit of a discussion about some of the newer options that are out there traffic calming options and devices which are more like these gradual humps and things like that and and so we have directed the city manager to take take a look at some of that and maybe consider
um a couple of places and and almost do test case and study and see like you know are these going to be a there's obviously a cost um not every road is going to fit that because there's going to be things like you got to find you can't put it in front of somebody's driveway and things like that so but um
Mr city manager if you could bring that back to us uh at for a meeting uh so that we can at least have that discuss disc as a council as to whether or not those types of options are something we want to to start considering and allowing probably Case by case but maybe
at least finding a couple of locations that that uh are having these really excessive programs or problems rather where the speed Studies have have validated that there is a major concern because I got to be honest with you had a a 20 plus year career in law
enforcement you can sign this city to death and signs just really only there's very there's a lot of limitations there strict enforcement writing tickets help my experience has always been you know who gets the most tickets It's usually the people who live in that neighborhood
which is always a you know I I I can't tell you how many times I wrote a ticket to somebody and they're like I'm the one that called and complained I'm like well I know what you're doing 12 M hour over the speed limit and and so you know you see that a lot but I I think some of these physical options these traffic calming options may be worth exploring
and us trying a couple of places and let's see if we can get some results out of it so bring that back to us when you get a chance and let's uh have a conversation and see what those options might look like to for I'm seeing more and more cities that are doing this on some of and they're called speed tables now speed bumps you can't do for the
fire truck and you can't do for the garbage truck right so they're now called speed tables and they got the paint where it Narrows down and there's a sign that says speed hump you know and it's I'm seeing more and more cities doing them in bigger you again Willow
Run I think would be a perfect location to to try one but I think they're called speed tables now and they're they're up and they're flat and but if you hit it more than 15 mph you're going to know it you're going to know about it yeah yeah mayor talk about one thing on this sure go ahead jump in there last little thing
is this deal is in two weeks uh Council has on the agenda dealing with a fluoride and what I gave the rest of council up here so we're publicly talking about this before two we weeks so one of the big concerns was is dealing with eliminating or or adding or
whatever it is for the fluoride concerned with water uh is those services or children that may be without fluoride in their water and what it may affect with their teeth so did a little research this is
for you guys to do research further with this is from the state of Florida um Florida health uh Department Luchia County actually gives to uh underprivileged uh or concernings of
Youth from ages 1 through 18 with fluoride toothpastes and dental care so this is a program that's out there that's free to them um so when you guys are doing your research this is one of those things that came up with questionings last time
so I want to make sure y'all had that good all right City attorney comments nothing ton nightmare Mr city manager all that so far you've got to have a couple coms write there enough them I had to write stuff down to remember so a couple of follow-ups on on
the Cross Creek information so it was very thorough it was already provided to us a couple days back so it's already been given to the police department who were beginning another speed study in the area the last one was done about two years ago as you heard she mentioned that the number of people who were compliant with speed in that area is about 70% two years ago which is low so
there was a lot of activity in there as far as enforcement so we'll be doing another one of those now uh the the traffic calming pilot or looking at some other areas might take a little longer but while we're doing that we can get a study in that area done quicker and at least see if there's short-term Solutions like you were mentioning with
signage or something but the longer I didn't want to I want to make sure that there was something going to happen in the short term not just the longer term because that that it will take longer even if we decide to come back and do that you got to design it and and get it constructed so there'll be a shortterm man a longer term there uh follow up on
a couple of the items that came up during the flooding just a couple of updates on coming forward so the Cambridge project has already been under design so the people who live in the Cambridge area experience flooding uh when Nicole the BM failed and Nicole and we've had that temporary wall in place
since then so we at about 60% on the design for the permanent replacement which is elevating the burm and then piping the outfall of the pump east of the railroad track so you're not going north and trying to go through the train tracks uh that's 60% we're they the plans are now off at the Army Corps of
Engineers we need their authorization before we go much farther forward in design so on that pace it comes out of design and permitting later in the year and then we can start construction early next year but that's a that one's already moving forward although there is stuff in the storm water master plan on
that one of the benefits of the master plan so we had already started down the process of that project and as they started looking at the Cambridge area they found a couple of other things that were impeding that the function in that area of the storm water system so we're going to those improvements will be done as it would be tagged on or coming in
behind them so that that that was one where we had a start and the plan identified something to make it even better but for that one it's underway so we don't help people that there's things going on the Pepper Hill meline Pond area we bought the land at the next meeting There's an actual agenda item
for a contract to start the design process on that so we're going to go ahead and start designing it when we went to the state to look for money for it uh we had told them we we already acquired the land we're going to pay for the design and that was part of our our pitch to them is we're just asking you
to split the cost of building it so that one's moving forward there'll be actual activity on it to begin the design process going forward so there's there's projects moving forward uh in addition to that so you you saw how long it took it took two hours to get some of you were longer than two hours to get
through those nine projects so the the concept of the the workshop was mostly informational to you uh because there are nine projects that a affect nine different areas of the city it could take a day to have constant if there was
a big back and forth on nine projects we'll be here for six or seven hours so the thought process is to overview them on the 25th and then we're going to go and do individual meetings in the areas so that if you are from uh South Winds
you don't you don't want to sit through two hours of conversation about Cambridge or Sleepy Hollow so we're going to go to those areas so that the people who are affected by them in those projects can focus on their own issues and not have to be a part of being the other one so you're welcome to come to
all nine if you want to nobody can will be stopped but we thought the best way to have them talk to them we we'll wear those poor guys out if we tried to do all that in one meeting so the the 25th is an overview of the nine projects and then there will be follow-ups as they get closer to the end of the plan on
each one of the individual projects for the people who it impacts that's all I have that and that's that's some good information there you you guys those that will come to the meetings will see you know some of these projects the the concepts and design and
and what we would like to try to do there might benefit 500 homes other projects might benefit 15 to 20 they're all they're all important um but the areas around Port Orange what do we come up with there it's so the the
potential flooding structures from the last two major storms is about 4% four or 5% in the city that's correct there's a little over a th000 homes there's about 25 residential 25,000 residential structures and another 5,000 commercial so 1,000 of 30,000 structures yeah so so
you're looking you're you know 5% of the structures in Port Orange have sustained flood damage over the last those two either one of or both of those storms but they are geographically located in different areas around the city where the type of projects and what needs to be done to help that and mitigate that
and improve that are going to be significantly different um the the what we refer to is that Pepper Hill property really uh has a lot to do with the the long range project long range project for sugar Forest um one of the things you'll see in the modeling I
don't want to be the spoiler but um you know the acquisition of property alone and just creating a retention Pond actually doesn't do much at all to help the area but that in addition to some of the other elements in the project We Believe can significantly help the area
but then there's also going to be a portion of that pertains to the Nova Canal system and what happens north of us which is going to be in the hands of the state and the Army Corp of Engineers so there's a lot of moving parts and pieces so I will and I appreciate the city manager he he he framed this a lot
better we can get meaning the staff and the engineers and stuff like that deep deep into a lot of details that won't necessarily happen at this particular meeting but we're going to do a lot of we're going to get a lot of information out there have a lot of really good discussion because up till now none of
us can have that discussion as a group this has all been individual stuff because of the way the laws are in the state of Florida so that'll be our really first bite to really do this uh collectively as a group that being said the city the city team will will have additional meetings that will be very
specific to project areas and those are going to be equally as important so there's a process to this and I know people want we wish we had that one and we can make it happen overnight it's just not reality it's not going to happen that way but we want people to stay engaged in the process so they understand what's what the processes are
and have confidence that as we do these projects they are going to significantly help these areas so anyhow appreciate that anything else M okay thank you okay moving on to item 14 this is the uh joint annual meeting members and directors of the Port Orange property
development I call the annual meeting of the members of the board of directors of the Port Orange property development to order roll call please councilman Foley oh sorry here Jonathan poy here Tracy grubs here
Sean GT here Lance green here all on attendants uh item two do I have any objection to the notice of the meeting hear no objection the notice is accepted item three do I have a motion to approve the minutes of the March 19th
2024 meeting of the members directors and design review board so moved have a second second all in favor say I I those opposed like sign item four election of officers to the board of directors do I
have a nomination for the position of chairman I'll move to nominate Sean Gord have a second I'll second it all in favor of councilman gfort being the chairman of this board signify
by saying I I I any opposed congratulations sir thank you Item B do I have a nomination for the position of Vice chairman you can get even y I'll move to nominate uh Lance green guys are too slow down there a
second and second it good job Tracy all in favor of Lance green as the vice chairman signify by saying I I those opposed 5 item C do I have a nomination for the position of President
C I'll nominate uh TR grubs do I have a second second those those in favor signify by saying I hi it was opposed like sign titles are getting
narrower item D do I have a nomination for the position of Vice chair or I'm sorry vice president yeah I'll nominate Scott stiler to be vice president I would happily accept that second all in favor of me being the vice president signify by saying I I those
opposed do I have a nomination for position of secretary yeah do you have one would be Jonathan Foley okay do you have a second for that second those in favor of councilman Foley being the secretary on this board signify by saying I I was
opposed you have to type all the a secretary yeah right that's why I didn't that item F can I get a motion to elect Linda Truitt assistant City Finance director for the position of Treasurer to this board so move have a second second have a motion in a second those
in favor signify by saying I I those opposed like sign and item five any further business to come before the board of members corporate mayor we have a hand up in the audience I'm not sure what the policy is on that for this
particular attorney do we have a public comment for this no no public coms on this okay you get with me after I'm just going to ask if you could explain what this is there a lot of people out here don't understand what you just did all right sounds good get with us item 15
report in for Kipper Sports of Cypress Head Golf Course you've been to these meetings before Stan know I know that everybody welcome sir oh uh got have a motion to adjourn
that meeting so moveed second second all in favor signify by saying I I I welcome temper Sports talk to us about it good evening mayor and council members uh Jeff Dayton here Cypress Head Golf Club uh reporting on the months November December January so um it's
been a pretty good run uh November was a great month for golf in Florida had a great uh great financial uh month with $23,000 net profit December was another good month uh and then we got slapped in the face January obviously with uh Rec
here cold temperatures uh 10 unplayable days uh good news is we only lost $7,000 to the bottom line which is pretty incredible and year to date through uh January we're still 177,000 to the good so we're head of budget we had a great
February and uh you KN on wood March is going to uh pan out too but revenues year to date through January were 700,000 slightly under budget but we're making some up on the bottom with payroll and and operating expens is we're we're under payroll for 15,000
we're under operating expenses by 68,000 so that's where we're kind of making up the difference um rounds were under budget year-to date by over a th000 rounds about, 55 uh prior Year we're down by a little over 600 so a little
down um we we hope to catch that up course is doing great even considering that the cold spell that we had most of the courses suffered a lot of um trauma to their greens if you will we better than most so while our course is not maybe as nice as we would like it it's still in great condition and we're
getting great reviews our MPS over the past 6 months our net promoter score is 88.6 which is very high you know we like to be around 90 our company standard is 70 which is very good but we're 88.6 um course conditions out of 10 we
got a 9.4 from our surveys and service satisfaction 9.8 so we're our team's doing great uh they're performing great our car path project finally completed itself or didn't complete itself but finally got completed so there's a minor cleanup but the the reviews on that is
great everybody's backs are really appreciating the the smoother car Pats out there so it's been really good um heading to finish off the second quarter uh we've got a lot of charity events we're starting to hit our tournament season so we're uh we just had the the Spruce Creek Academy of Finance
tournament this past weekend with 136 players we've got several other tournaments coming up our tournament Pipeline on Saturdays is booked through June right now so the inventory is light on Saturdays everybody wants to play their tournaments on Saturday so for events they willing to go on another day we have inventory but other than that
it's going to be July um we're hosting the Drive Chip and Putt local qualifier in June so that's exciting for junior golf we just booked four us kids tour events for uh July and August remember a little slower so we're continuing to uh
support the junior golf and um we're uh I think I talked about this last time but we're really excited about our upcoming greens air ration techniques uh it's going to be less intrusive the course won't shut down as long and we'll have less unplayable uh times in day so we're excited about that and the big
project we're working on try to get the out for proposal right now is our bunker project so we've been talking about this now for a year or two it's supposed to go out to bid here soon and uh we're hoping to get that started by October September October November so it's still hopeful but we've got to get the ball
rolling so that's where we're at things are pretty good life is pretty good as long as the sun shining I I will share with you a few weeks ago I had a very positive comments about the the condition of the course even through tough weather uh this summer or this past winter and the person noted that a
couple of the other courses in our area have not done very well so that's a credit to your team and your staff because you got to deal with Mother Nature when it comes and and you got to react and make the best of it and take advantage of opportunities to to quickly improve those conditions and um I got
some comments that that were very favorable so that's nice to hear I've noticed some other courses too you know Darren has his share stress but he's done a pretty good job yeah well and that you know and that gets out in that community and you know not that they won't go back to those other courses but they're not going to go back until
conditions are much better so I think that works in our favor too so any questions I go ahead you go first Lance go ahead no I just want to I just want to say Jeff again I I want to commend you you and the staff I mean you have
really turned turned that place around over the last handful of years I mean it is just it has come so far um and for us to go out there and have all of the cart path project done great job on that I mean it was a about a smooth transition
on some hard work yes I mean I put them path ends and I I know what it takes to put get concrete out on the fifth Fairway or and uh they really did a good job it was clean they were respectable I mean I don't I mean I know it took a little time but a great job overall and
huge Improvement yes um but again you guys are rebounding from the cold and and to make the course what it is uh we've done just doing a really good job and I get nothing but positive comments uh on what you guys are doing and obviously the weekly raffle is a big or
whenever that raffle is when you guys that's a big deal man giving away some good stuff on that uh on that raffle but uh keep up the good work I mean uh Port Orange couldn't happier for what with what you're doing thank you awesome uh just looking through everything how
how's the range doing uh month to month year over-ear uh what would you say is about pretty flat or is it up it's it's up uh it's uh honestly we need to take it to another level um it could it we're
looking at 2026 is a possible teaing ground expansion on the course which might turn into a t- box uh expansion on the on the driving range but also we need to put install a uh artificial taline at the rear of it so we can utilize it more at nights and there's many times when you know people are
waiting for spots this time of year yeah but but when uh when we do our Google search for keyword that people look at driving range is like near the tops of every Google search so I so I just went and played down uh used Turnal Bay's new top Tracer for the first time and I'd
love to just see what the what the stomach would be for us to consider adding that because I happen to know one of the people who works down there and they've 10x their revenue on their uh driving range because everyone wants to go play this thing you scan in with your phone it tracks your shots it tells you
how far how straight it turns into a bit of a video game for people who want to or if you don't like that they have another section that is just regular grass tees or regular mats but um we took the family down there kids and everything and I mean we now we're
planing a birthday party down there because it's such a cool thing the kids were playing Angry Birds and things I love it it's definitely a possibility I I would love to see U I could see that as a as a smart decision for us to you know build to boost Revenue out there um
it's like I'm glad to hear the rang is doing good but I would love for you guys to just kind of entertain that and see how what how everyone else feels about it because um I I think I think that's some you know that one in teral is a good drive actually for a lot of people that's kind of sits back it's 20 30
minutes from anywhere in Port Orange and you know the next closest thing is going to be real Top Golf um we could have the location that's close for a lot of people so just something to consider no I've considered it and I was close to doing it at my previous property it's all about getting an artificial tea line
down there first Y and then uh making sure you can support it with a good FNB service because that's where you really is there any idea if you explored it once before any idea what the like startup cost is on that by chance I mean you're depends how deep you go if if you go with cover Bays or if you go with
just the technology out there where they can plug in with their phones it could be anywhere from you know 990,000 to 300 $400,000 even at that from from the numbers that I heard that turn's do doing and I don't you'll display some business yeah the guys that just want to go hit balls but if you if you've got
more enough te- space to accommodate you know well that's where I think they they got it right but wrong they have you know now 20 bays and then they have like six regular te- spots and I feel like it'd be better if it was like more of a 5050 drawn out thing so people CU some
people just want to golf they don't want to be about around a bunch of kids while they're out there working on their shot I understand that but at the same time if if we're able to somehow Implement that and it be half of our driving range and then half be regular keep a little bit of separation between the two you
know there's got to be a way to do it there's no question that top Tracer technology is one of the top trends in the golf business I it it could work I'd be fully behind exploring that on that note Jeff you really actually want read on your range and not on your
course so for the on theber look into that I'm pretty sure the end his phone suggested bowling thanks Jeff appreciate you thank you sir appreciate it have a great night public hearing portion of the meeting item 16 second reading of ordinance
number 20257 an ordinance of the city of por orang B County Florida amending chapter 74 article 8 cross connection control section 74241 to update references to the revised cross connection control manual amending 74 242 to update
references to the Florida Administrative Code providing for immediate disconnection or prohibited cross connections amending 74 243 to update references to current version of the American Waterworks Association manual amending 74247 adding to the list of conditions that require cross connection
protections amending section 74 248 and 249 updating reference to the revised cross connection control manual along with establishing the frequency of Maintenance testing and inspection amending 74252 updating references to cross connection Control Ordinance providing for codification repeal of conflicting ordinances separability and
an effective date can I have a motion to approve on second reading ordinance number back to council call the role councilman Foley yes councilman gooder yes councilman green yes vice mayor grbs yes mayor stman yes 5 item 17 since you did so well Mr City
attorney we'll try this one second reading of ordinance number requirements to install a fence adjacent to Sugar Mill Elementary School providing for repeal of conflicting ordinances severability and effective date than a motion to approve
second any comments from Council no just again I appreciate this yeah I think this is a good swap absolutely abolutely yeah this works out good but brings a lot of safety right there to the area for sure any comments from the public on this one back to council call the role
councilman Foley yes councilman gerer yes councilman green yes mayor grubs yes mayor still Yes 5 Council committee reports Lucia Flagler TPO fly I was unable to attend the meeting and my liaison was also uh
unable to attend the meeting so um nothing to report there I read through the uh the agenda minutes and there was nothing really uh out of sight of standard business so okay and a b fire pension board councilman Foley that
meeting had to be rescheduled uh they were unable to get a quorum and so we are now meeting on it is somewhere in my calendar um later at the end of this month we'll be meeting and I'll provide a report once we have that
meeting police pinion board councilman green so I attended the meeting uh my first and it was very interesting and very um very informational uh couple couple things that that we talked about um
the plan is sitting just just under $69 million right now uh beginning 2024 this was the end year ending of 2024 which is actually in September um beginning 2024 it was at 61 million and some change it
had an increase of over $7.6 million or just right at 12.5% that's with employee contributions and City contributions and net gains of the plan itself um so like I said year ending uh it was
just under 69 million uh quarter ending of 930 it actually went down a little bit went down by about 100,000 in the last quarter but overall a decrease of 0 2% um we we voted to uh amend the assumed rate of return
from 6.85% to 6.75% so the the the advisers and and the the money people in in that basically said you know you can you can lower the expectations a little bit
because it's performing um the uh audit was conducted by James Moren company and they issued an unmodified position which basically means they found no issues on anything in the report uh a couple other things was that
the estimated minimum requirement on the city contribution come next budget term is actually going to be down a little bit down just under or just just above 2% it went from uh 3710 to 3574 so the contribution that the city is going to
contribute next year is actually down a little bit um and then they had a couple of issues like uh the Supreme Court denied to accept a jur jurisdiction in in a matter of a benefit payment um and so uh the the legal staff is handling
the the uh repercussions of that particular ruling but overall um they have a great team of people they have a great administrator uh they got a really good financial advisor and I mean it it was
on point and um the fund is uh the fund is healthy awesome good good report uh on the general employee pension board I was not able to attend the last meeting however the uh the financial assessment on it was a pretty good month for January AR at
2.9% 9 2.96% increase as we're seeing with all the plans and and stuff like that with the uh Finance returns uh month to month and quarter to quarter they can kind of bounce around they seem to be doing that a lot lately uh but this is more of a a long-term uh
commitment to these plans current market value was back over $40 million for the general employee P that includes cash on hand um there are some other elements in the in the uh from that meeting I get a briefing get an update and I will bring those back in my Council comments at the next meeting but I've also sent you guys
uh copies of the meeting packet in the agenda and stuff like that so you can take a look at that any other items to come before the council tonight no with that being said have a good night