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MEETING SECTIONS:

Part 1 (Video ID: FiJUmxH10oo):
- 00:00:00: Invocation, Pledge of Allegiance and Roll Call
- 00:05:07: Approval of March 24th and April 7th Meeting Minutes
- 00:05:55: Public Comment: National Day of Prayer Invitation
- 00:08:55: City Manager: Personnel Changes, Annexation, Waterfront Coding
- 00:11:03: City Manager: Harbor Point RVs, HR Policies, Code Enforcement
- 00:12:39: City Manager: PDA Negotiations, Amplified Music, US 19
- 00:14:15: Committee Updates: CAC Networking, Historic Committee Training
- 00:16:23: Event Committee: Boom on the Bayou Preparations, Sponsorship
- 00:17:29: Appointment of Greg Blackall to Planning and Zoning
- 00:19:12: Appointment of Carolyn Harris to Advisory and Events
- 00:20:21: Approval of April 28th Consent Agenda Items
- 00:20:38: Approval of Florida DEP Grant for Waterlines
- 00:25:13: Memorandum of Understanding with Penellis County
- 00:26:50: Mangrove Maintenance Contract: Reject and Re-Bid
- 00:29:49: US19 Landscaping Design Presentation by Kimley-Horn
- 00:42:18: Recess and Move to CRA Meeting


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I hope so. Oh, yeah. You were a little busy. going back. city. >> So, in God we trust and we want to thank you for the city and that you're guiding the leaders

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for all the counsel and the stuff that's coming up. Uh they've asked for wisdom. They've acknowledged you. You said in the book of Psalms 33:12, "Blessed are those who acknowledge you that you would bless the the city and the nation." So Lord, we've done that tonight. And we

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know that the planning and zoning is coming up. Thank you for good plans to develop and also for the citizenry advisory committee, how you're working in that and the stuff that's on the consent agendas and the grants that we

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get to get and the building of uh the areas around with landscape and new development, redevelopment and any old business. But you said in government that we would pray for our leaders and and so we do. And I thank you that I get

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to pray for them and all these leaders here to today and they work together as a team and you continue to just uh show us how to do it as a team and we're doing it and we've got a a new day. We got a new month, a new year and we will

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see your hand move through our lives and bless all those in Jesus name I pray. >> Amen. I aliance 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

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justice for all. May >> I cler please? >> Mayor John Eric Hoover >> here. >> Vice Mayor Chris Mayer >> here. Councilman Robert Huard >> here. >> Councilwoman Lisa Burke >> here. >> Councilwoman Christine Sullivan

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>> here. City Attorney Nancy Meyer >> here. >> City Manager Don King >> here. >> Thank you. Okay. First up, we got a couple sets of minutes. So, look for a motion to approve the March 24th, 2026 city council meeting minutes. >> So, moved. >> Second.

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>> Motion second. Any further discussion? Any public comment? See, I put a vote on favor signify by saying I. I >> I >> opposed. Motion carries. Next up, I need a motion to approve the April 7th, 2026 city council workshop minutes. >> Move. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Have a motion second by Lisa.

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>> Any further discussion? Public comment. See none of vote. All in favor say by saying I. >> I. I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Uh, next up is comments from the general public. I have one signed up. Danny Fields. Welcome. Well, my name is Annie Fields and my

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address is 8114 Leo Kid. So, I again I just want to thank you uh for all that you guys do, every one of you. And I thank the public for uh recognized the leadership in uh Port Richie and keeping you guys on. I'm I'm grateful for the

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chief and the fire department, all that you guys do. And so I do got uh something I want to bring to your attention and give you an invocation to come to that. So coming up

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uh on May the 7th at noon time to 1:00 at uh Pasco Government Center at 8731 Citizen Drive in Port Richie, Florida. We're going to be doing the National Day of Prayer. And

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so this is a time to come together to pray. And what are we praying into? Uh for the stuff that we're really doing here as a people to bring awareness to what have government lead

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to uh have the faith-based church uh to work together with the government and partner together to build families and communities to for education. It talks about business and workplaces here. And so these are the things that we're going

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to be talking about, praying about, and working together in the community for the better for all people. And then even arts and entertainment on that. You guys are putting on a lot of events in the park. You've partnered with other stuff. We've did it. We've uh had the fire

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department, the police, and you guys out there doing great stuff in the community, and people are noticing this is how we work together. What I loved when you made your uh >> proclamation to the to the people to

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lead and all of you, well, you hit every bit of these values. And so I I appreciate you as a mayor and the vice mayor and the council and the police and the fire department and then the public for recognizing that. So I just want to go ahead and give you that invitation to

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be there and uh looking forward to uh serving you and serving the community together with you guys. And I look up to you. I look up to you as leaders. I I I lead the best I can myself with you guys. But see, I can't do it by myself.

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You can't do it by yourself, but together, that's the key. We could do great things for the city and for the Florida and for the United States. So, be blessed and thank you all in Jesus name. Amen. >> Thanks, Danny. You're >> welcome. I show hands. Anybody else like to

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speak? Okay, seeing none, I'll close public comment. Uh, moving along to comments from city manager. Pastor, Mr. King for his comments. Uh, got a little bit this uh for this meeting. Um, as everybody's been tracking here as far as the council, we've had some personnel change over the last uh couple of weeks. Um, we

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lost our uh finance director, our HR director, and our C c um director um all for resignations and position, one for relocation and others for just other reasons. Um annexation plan. Want to let everybody know that we're moving forward with the

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annexation plan. I've been working with the city planner with Tammy. Um we've come up with a pretty good strategy uh for council to review. uh we'll present that to one of these one of these uh upcoming meetings here shortly. What we're trying to do is we're trying to finalize how that strategy will work for council and then the implementation plan

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of the annexation and what we're looking at initially is um certain districts and then um uh those properties but up against um with Port Richie to do our initial take not take in appropriate word but uh inclusion. This is all voluntary and we'll be doing a voluntary

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request for personnel if they if they want to do that, but we're going to go out there and campaign with them and let them know the benefits of being part of Port Rich and the things that we do provide for the community, especially in storm time and those benefits that we can provide. Um, that'll be coming soon. Um, provide that review for you.

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Forbased coding, went did a deep dive on that. I know we're all eager to see our waterfront district and our in our town, you know, have that image of what we want corpus to look like. Now, I did some uh cost estimates on a few of the companies without any direct uh

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requirements of of of um I guess for actual hard bids because you guys told me to do a passive look. So, we're looking at anywhere from a hundred to $150,000 for an actual uh regulation plan that develops into our our code plan, which is all this is all

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inclusive. Um, what I'm doing right now is because it because of the significant amount of it, I'm looking at for offsets with grants. And right now, it looks like there's a potential couple uh there's a couple grants out there possibly from $75,000 to covering the full cost of it. Um, I've got the uh

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grant manager, you know, fully plugging in to see what we can get from that so I can give you guys some better feedback as we move forward on that. One of the one of the places we're looking at is the community planning and technical assistance program. Right now it looks like 75,000 but there's a couple more grants that will probably give us 100%.

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We just need to make sure our plan solved. Harbor Point is seeking to acquire code variation for their RVs. Uh they're going to that they will be coming up here shortly uh for discussion. Uh what they're interested in doing is having more direction over their RVs that that are in their

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community. They'd like to go from 24 hours to six days and having them manage that process. Um, so I want want you guys to be aware of that as this moves forward and as we get that up to you. Um, being prepared for that action. Uh, HR resolutions. I've got uh next meeting

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I will have HR plans for codifying existing HR finance actions that we do. So basically it's it's to to to address gaps in our HR management that we haven't addressed codifywise. We're doing it but we haven't officially put

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it in a resolution or in a document. So that what I need to do is get that documented so that we have it so that you know that that we're actually doing what we say we're doing. But that'll come up here shortly. It'll be part of the cafeteria plan and part of our healthcare opt out plan. And that's for people that already have healthc care

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through other means their husband or they have tryare know they're retired. Um special management still working with uh Nancy and Veronica uh developing the resolution. biggest part of it right now is uh codifying the code enforcement

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policy piece when it comes to fees. Uh right now we've we've already uh worked out a process with a law firm to cover down on it. That piece is complete. Once we complete our code enforcement policy piece, we'll bring that for for council for resolution approval.

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Um uh we're continuing to negotiate with PDA. So that's ongoing. That'll probably be ongoing for the next couple of months. Um hopefully we will close that out sooner than later. I do have um I know there was a BOA meeting uh that was

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scheduled last week that everybody was concerned about. It was refer regarding amplified music in the waterfront district. Um what we found out that we can't we can't allow a variance for that process. What we have to do is we have to do a a code change. So what'll come

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back is does the city want to well does the council want to allow for amplified music in the waterfront district and then that'll be a conversation we have. If so then we'll go through the process of doing the uh resolution and the codifying of the code to make sure that that we are capturing what the uh

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residents in the council want. Um and then the last one give you an update on US 19 and grand. Uh right now uh the drainage measurements um and evaluations have been provided to the FDOT. Uh what

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we're doing right now is we'll wait for their review for any more comments. Once they get that information back, we should the process of of that project should surely fall and we should uh be executing that here shortly. Other than that, that's all I have for updates and notes.

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>> And are there any questions? >> Any questions? Don. >> Okay. Thanks. Okay, move right along. Comments from boards and committees. Um, is there any updates from board committees? >> Um,

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>> I do I do have a couple things. Um, on May 4th, uh, the CAC is partnering with the Nature Co, Nature Coast Chamber of Commerce for a happy hour networking at the Taco Time

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Westside Deli um, parking area like with both businesses. So, that's open for all residents to come mingle and uh, try those businesses out. And other than that, I have a request from the historic committee. Um, it

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appears that we're going to have some expenditures. We need some training. I think the state requires some training. We're learning and Newport Richie could provide that training. They have some people that are um certified to do that, but there would be possibly some expense and we want to know if that would be

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handled the same way that reimburse if if it is a reimburseable expense or if it would be covered up front. and um if there's a cap on that and you know how we go about that process. >> You know what the cost is? >> No, we don't know yet. We want to know

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before we ask um if you know we can if we have money to spend. >> Is it like a state type certification thing or >> um it's well it's I don't think it's a state type certification. No, I think they're just qualified to train and

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there's a lot of regulations that are involved in this type of uh committee and so the state recommends some training from what I'm understanding. We're we're really just learning as we go. So, you know, don't hold me to this, but that's, you know, that's what I'm

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gathering from Newport Richie who's a little bit further along in their committee. >> So, I'm assuming that like a reimbursement like me. >> Let me look into it. let me see what it is and what the training is and we'll figure that out so you guys have that answer. >> Thank you. >> I guess other alternative we have to put

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some budget to it or something. Okay. And we figured out yeah if you can get the calls back to us >> we did we just didn't want to you know get wrapped up in in that until we knew if we could even get some training. So >> we want you all trained for sure. >> I think so. Right. >> And that's it for me.

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>> Okay. Um not much from event committee. Obviously we're preparing for boom on the bayou um and starting to plan. That's end of year events. Um I did get a check uh for $2,500 from sponsorship from Coast today. GMC Buick and those guys. Um Darren Shelton and Ken Marks.

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Um so they're stars and stripes um supporter. So we have on our way. I think uh we asked that the the packet go out to all the businesses that had business tax received I just received the updated packet today. I heard there was some issues.

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>> Well, actually, there was an issue with printed printed wrong one. Yeah, >> I was sent a packet today, so I'll be sending that out tomorrow. >> Okay. Yeah. So, we're going to obviously start that solicitation, but uh we got 2500 uh in the bank. >> Great job. >> Um >> thanks, Coast. Yeah.

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>> Yes. Thank you, coach. For sure. Um that's all I got from that committee. Um anything else, CAC or anything? No. Okay. So, we got two items of uh board committee members. We got item number two, appointment of members to boards committees, planning and zoning. I'll

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pass it to Mr. King for introduction. >> I have no comments for these right here. Um >> Ashley, >> I can actually >> um Mr. Greg Blackall um he's a member of the city and um has been familiar with

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the the boards and committees and has expressed interest in becoming an alternate member for the planning and zoning board. currently that that board is full except for the alternate positions. Um so he's requesting to be appointed as an alternate to that board. So he would be able to if we didn't have

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quorum he'd be able to step in and fill that position. >> Okay. Is is he here or? >> Yeah. Yes. >> Do you want to say anything or >> just I've been a member of the city. I'm a real estate >> neighbor just for record. >> Sorry. Sorry. >> My name is Greg Blackall. I live at 4911

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Limestone uh Limestone Drive. Uh I'm a licensed real estate broker in seven states. Uh I live obviously here focus I have a real estate brokerage here in Newport Richie. So planning and zoning is obviously something that's near and dear to my heart and I think I could bring value to that committee. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you.

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>> Okay. Open up for motion or discussion. >> I'll make a motion. >> Okay. >> Yeah. I'd like to approve Greg Beckal as an alternate member of the planning and zoning board. Okay. Is there a second? Okay, see no second that motion dies.

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>> Okay. >> Okay. Do we need a motion just pass on? >> Okay. >> Okay. So, next up is item number two. We'll get back to it here. >> Um, so I have another member um who has

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contacted me, another resident who has contacted me, Miss Carolyn Harris, and I'm sorry if I'm butchering that just in case. um she's expressed interest in joining the citizens advisory committee as well as the Port Richie events committee. Um so she's willing to donate

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her time for both of those committees and I know that they've been amping up as you know with the citizens advisory as well as the events committee so we could use the help. >> Okay. Is she here? >> I I'm not familiar with face so I'm not sure. >> Okay. So bring back the board open for a

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motion or discussion. I'll make a motion to approve Carolyn Paris to the citizens advisory committee and Port Richie events committee. >> Okay. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Motion a second. Any further discussion?

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Any public comment? See I put the vote. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Next up is the consent agenda. Uh a motion to approve the April 28, 2026 consent agenda.

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>> So move. >> Second. >> Okay. Motion second. Any further discussion? Any public comment? Seeing now to put the vote. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. The motion carries. Okay. Next up is item number five,

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council business, Florida Department of Environmental Protection Grant Agreement. I'll pass that to Mr. King for introduction. >> Uh mayor and council. Um for each one of these items, I'll briefly uh introduce each one of the council items as we discuss them today to identify actions and uh discussions related to tonight and then we'll turn to the appropriate

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staff members and consultations for any technical details as we do discuss these points. For item number five, uh requesting the city manager to execute the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Grant agreement for the replacement of aging asbestous cement and galvanized drinking water manes.

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This is a $2.5 million state funded project that was awarded to the city in July of 2025. The project is intended to improve drinking water quality, reduce contaminated related risk, and define uh pre-construction and construction activities for approximately 13,000

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linear feet of water mainline. The agenda states there's no fiscal impact to tonight's action and the agreement shows that no local match is required. If approved, this allows the staff to move forward with formal agreement reimbursing the process, design, permitting, and construction and

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planning. Key points for council action. Tonight's request requested action is a motion to authorize me to sign the FD grant agreement so the city can formally activate the funding and proceed under the agreement through the June of 3028

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terms. >> Okay, that open up motion discussion. I'd like to make a motion since I was there with you when we got this. >> Yep. >> This is a very very very exciting grant. >> It is. Uh that's great. Um some questions though. Uh well, I'll make a

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motion. I'd like to approve uh the grant for water lines, the asbesus and galvanized water lines that need to be replaced for two and a half for downside. >> Yes. and uh

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>> Weber Lane State. >> What? >> State for Don to sign. >> For Don to sign. >> Yes. >> Got questions here. The one on Weber Lane has been run over by a truck several times and is that going to be corrected with the new line?

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>> Yes. Hold Bob. We'll come back to discussion. So, I got a motion to to allow Don sign that. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Motion a second. Any further discussion? Go ahead. not discuss. Yeah. Okay. >> Will that be corrected? >> Yeah. >> Yeah, we're we're going to correct it.

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It's going to be deeper. It's just shallow with them taking it. They just kind of run it over the corner. >> And in deep, so it'll be way deeper. There's a minimum of 36 we got to keep. So, >> and it it won't be damaged anymore.

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That's good. And looking at the over at Mallet and Beams, is that all we're getting for two and a half million? will be some more added on. Is that just the beginning? >> That one's all getting upsized for fire protection as well. So, >> and fire hydrants.

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>> Yeah, that one's going to get fire hydrants. It's going to be a loop system. We got to upgrade that whole system from limestone and peers. So, it's not just it'll be pier ballot BMS. You got restoration work, concrete work for the driveways that they can't directional drill.

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And then we have the other one's Green Street. Green Street too. >> That's all. >> Okay. So that's all Green Street getting replaced as well. Okay. >> Green Street said. Yeah. So

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>> because Betty was done in the mid 90s. I guess that was after the fact from when green was done. But green is a speesus the whole way down. So >> that's great to know. I've been drinking this water for 11 years. >> A lot of questions.

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There's a lot of It's only It's only the dust that's that's harmful with the asbestous. >> That's true. >> The stuff that comes through with the water. >> It's good. >> It's only the first few seconds. >> It's only harmful if you drink it, right?

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>> Hopefully that frigid air filters getting that out of there. >> I don't have one. They get any fire extinguishers over there or >> there already is there have some on there down that road. There's already there's hydrants all the way up the bedding. >> That's a good start.

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>> It's a good start. >> It's just the beginning. >> Problem areas first. >> I don't have any more questions. >> Okay. Any other comments? Okay. >> No. Any public comment? >> Okay. See none, put a vote on favor signify by saying I.

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>> I opposed. Motion carries. Next up is item number six, memorandum of understanding, PSCO, Florida information sharing. Pass that to chief or is that to you? I'll run some quick notes on it. Uh, mayor. Item six is request approval of the memorandum of understanding with

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Penelis County related to the Florida criminal justice information sharing. This item supports the police department's ability fully use the equipment already purchased for lawful enforcement purposes. Under the uh memorandum of agreement, Port Richie uh police department will receive updated license plate readers, extracts through

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the existing integration at no cost to the city to support criminal justice operations. Key points for council information. The agreement is operationally important because it allows our department to fun to use functions of existing equipment that have not been fully utilized since the installation. It also includes

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safeguards. uh data remains in the criminal justice uh information and must comply with FBI and FDLE rules and must be uh independently uh confirmed through Nc and FCIC before any law enforcement key

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actions can be taken. key points tonight. Tonight's uh request action is approval of theou county. >> Well said, sir. >> Okay. Open up for motion discussion.

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>> Motion to approve the memorandum of understanding with Penllis County. >> Second. >> I got Chris. >> Lisa got it. >> Lisa. >> Lisa did it. >> Sorry. Heard from that area. Okay. Any further

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discussion? Any public comment? Seeing none, put a vote on favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Next up, item number seven, Mangrove maintenance contract. Public bid approval/dismissal. Pass it to Mr. King for induction. >> Item seven brings forward a bid uh bid

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results from the city's mangrove maintenance contract. The city received one timely bid from High Trim LLC. The agenda packet notes that all bids were due by 3 p.m. on 15 April. uh with an opening at uh 3:30 p.m. A vendor a

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second vendor attempted uh the submission after the deadline. The submission were also missing required insurance certification information. As a result, only a one-time bid was opened. Key points for council. The key issue for council is this project is is

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not a plan is not planned in the FY226 and the agenda packet states that the funding source would need to be identified as a as a set aside as an ongoing maintenance project if council chooses to proceed. Uh the key uh point for council tonight uh council's

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decision is whether or not to approve the bid submitted by high height trimm or not to approve and directions on the next step. Um my short brief comments would be my recommendation to council would be since

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we did get a second bid in and because the co the price of what it's going to cost for the three-year contract kind of double that what we previously had had mentioned in previous council meetings is to give the opportunity to open it back up and see if we get more than just one bid so that we can have at least a

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good uh a good depth of opportunities to choose from because what I would hate to do is if if if if if we can if there's an opportunity to save some funding, you know, from other bids that we have that in place because this is going if if we put this against our current budget in the year of execution is going to be a

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significant impact to the monies that we have and the monies that we're going to utilize. So, I just bring that before council and you guys let me know what direction you'd like to go and we'll move forward. >> And if I if I may, if there's an interest in doing what was just recommended, the process for your code would be to have the council reject the bids and ask that it be refit and start

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over. Chris, >> just some general comments. Um, >> um, remember we added to this, our first initial look at this was a certain amount of stuff and then we started throwing more in there. So the the amount to go from here to there was because we said, "Hey, we want more opportunity, more cut." So I would make

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a motion that we would reject the current bid and open it back up for bids, hoping that we get additional participants to bid on the project. Is there >> motion to second? Any further discussion? Public comment. See puts a vote. All in favor signify by

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saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Motion carries. Next up is item number eight, US19 medium landscaping design presentation of Kimley Horn and Associates. Pass Mr. King for introduction. >> Mayor and council. Item eight is uh the

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return of the M of the US 19 medium landscaping design for formal consideration. This project is supported by the FDOT grant and Kimley Horn has has revised uh the design based on council input from the March 24th council meeting and the April 7th

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workshop. The FDA concept is intended to create a a strong entry feature for the city while remaining compliant with FDOD restrictions and keeping long-term maintenance practical and safe for staff. Key points consideration for the council. The agenda uh summary

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identifies major uh revisions inclusions of 10 foot uh boxillms were allowable uh increased layer of planting to improve the visual wild factor and weed control fabric throughout the landscape area. The package is also also states that the

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overall corridor beautifification project is tied to a $450,000 FDOT grant while design component noted for reimbursement is $45,000 under the current agreement. The engineer is representing the revised landscape and remains with within the budget. Key

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point tonight's uh request action is approval of the Kinley Horn landscape design and authorization for the city to submit uh the final plans to FDOT District 7 for final approval. That being said, I'll turn it over to David. >> Thank you, Mr. King. Uh David Flanigan, Kimley Horn, 200 Central Avenue, Sweet

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600, St. Petersburg. Good evening. U as Mr. King alluded to we after our workshop we were able to take all that valuable input and go back and modify the plan. So they've been updated provided them to Mr. Licari big picture the most prominent thing we were able to include a total of 10

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foxtail palms five at each end in those median space 25 ft apart etc. We did add the weed barrier fabric as we suggested which is a great great idea and we're well within budget to accommodate that. We also modified some of the shrub plantings a little bit at your suggestion to kind of increase that wow

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factor a little bit by not having it just be quite so much massing of just individual plants and kind of create a little more visual interest and the the palm trees are staying along the side of the road etc. So by and large we're able to accomplish everything that we talked about during that um workshop and I'm

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happy to answer any questions but I you know Mr. King said it pretty well. We were able to accommodate what you were asking for. Yes. >> Yeah. Were we able to include the plant you mentioned that thing? >> Oh, hey succulents. I we really I mean we >> look like a large alo plant huge.

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>> Are there any of those in there? >> Any succulents that maybe we talked about? >> We didn't we suckets are a little bit touchy where we're at just because of the the humidity. They don't like when you're planting them in volume like that. Um we stayed pretty much with a plant pallet that's pretty much ironclad

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and durable for DOT roadways, etc. But beyond that, we were able to add pretty much everything you were asking for. >> So zero, is that what they're called? Succulents >> like a large aloe vera plant. >> Correct. No, no aloe vera plants. >> I saw some down in Tampa. Phenomenal.

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Are they are they not because these were in the middle of the road. They just they were like bloom at like 5t. Probably beautiful. >> I don't think those were aloe vera. I think they were probably yuka yucka. >> Okay. >> It's it's a similar leaf type. We do have some of the stuff. The the flaxy kind of has that appearance, but it's not technically a succulent.

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>> Daryl's happy with this. >> You guys happy? >> Daryl's like, "You like the color?" >> You you mentioned the the the palm trees that we talked about staying or whatever, but when I look at the diagram, it it doesn't show the palm trees on there. Like if you look at the

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um page it's seek five um page 115 in the agenda you'll see that it talks about um the proposed sign. It shows exist existing un story landscape to be removed transplanted by others landscape area shall receive continuous weed

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fabric but doesn't show any trees. You can see the trees on the satellite image, but >> right those are existing so they're not called out on the plan because we're not providing Yeah. The existing trees are all staying right there. >> And then like this side to side we talked about

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>> those do show on the plans >> in the medians. The proposed ones are on the plans he's talking about on the side of the road at Washington southernmost and northernmost median. Correct. >> Correct. >> So like on that So since it doesn't show

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the trees on there, I guess all these little circles, those are individual plant types. >> Correct. >> So it's somewhere in between there would be the tree trunk. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Correct. And and they we adjusted those plant beds on the sides to previously we

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we had modified them slightly based on the trees not being there. Now since they're staying, we sort of modified the bedding to contain those existing palm trees. So I would assume that the existing trees would be this uh other landscaping would be wrapped around those trees, right? >> Correct. Correct. And pulled back to

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avoid any conflict with the sign >> and this is working in conjunction with the new sign. >> Yeah, they show the signage on there. >> David, how long does it take for us to get shovels in the ground, get the stuff going? >> So bas assuming approval tonight, I told Mr. Lucari we can get him updated 100%

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construction documents next week and we can then package with your all your procurement folks to get that on the street and just depend a little bit on what your typical is what you allow for bid process but we'll have the plans to you next week >> what's typically the time frame it takes to get from where we are right now to

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having green stuff >> uh you can speak better to that probably from timing for under contract >> well we have to send these out to FDOT for final approval so it all depends on their timeline but once that timeline has been been accomplished um I would say within six months. >> Six months. >> Six months max.

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>> The dot >> 6 months shape the turn lanes for the golf carts. >> No, that's much different. >> That's much different. >> This is our third time doing the medians. So the FDOT is very aware. Um most of the blueprint has not changed since the medians themselves have not

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changed. So this this should and plus the fact that this is their grant that they've they've done this with several other municipalities and and counties and whatnot that they they put this money out to do this. This should go much much faster than that. >> So that's something that you just brought up that is interesting to me.

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You've been through three of these media plantings. >> Yes. The last >> What have we done wrong? What have we done right? >> Well, the last one was done in 2018. So I mean that's um I we're in 2026 right now. So by the time this is all said and done, we'll be in 26 27. So that's

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almost 10 years. Um I mean you got to understand, you know, being US19, average speed is 50 miles an hour. We've had several trucks go through the medians. Obviously, we had hurricane Elen, which pretty much wiped out all the mulch, a lot of small plants. Um,

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I'm surprised how much we have that's actually existing right now. Um, we've tried to we've tried to run irrigation in them in the past, but um, when we did it one time, the FTF came in and added the designated right-hand turn lane, so

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the irrigation lines was all extracted when they put in that termite. So um we didn't look to redo that again because obviously if FDOT comes in to do any other modifications they they will take presidents. So um I don't see us like

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it's not like more or less doing wrong. It's the fact that FD you know FDOT is providing this money and uh giving us this chance to refurbish medians. It's a great time since since Hurricane Helen um and especially with the with the signs that we're doing for the branding and wayfinding I think and and of course

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the intersection I think those combination of those three things in the next you know within this next year, you know, and I think we've said it before, we're going to see some large improvements along the 19 corridor. So, um I I I've talked to Daryl. I think

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moving forward what we'll do we what we're going to we're going to designate that the uh whoever whatever company is assigned to install these they're going to warranty it for the first year. So if any plants die or anything happens they'll come and replace that for that first year make sure everything is established watering wise. Um they'll

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have they'll be responsible for that. But then after that year, we're going we're considering of just hiring a you know a company to go out and maintain these and report back to him of any you know any issues that we have to you know take care of. Um I think that implementing a program a maintenance

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program like that will go ahead and you know provide longevity on these medians. So >> what would what would be expected Dave to to for how long should this last if we maintain it correctly? It it really again maintained correctly it should last longer than >> do any municipalities maintain them

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correctly or they just kind of like one administration changes out and the other guys like what you want me to cut the grass kind of stuff. Um but how's that work >> in varied amounts is the best way I can answer that. Some some do a tremendous job. >> So do we need to put something into our

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charter that requires us to maintain? I mean if we're trying to be on the map and this is our start and our finish and everything in between here is what we're trying to attract people to. Should we not have something in the charter that forces us to maintain the the the the plants and things in the in the medians?

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Because if you don't maintain it, it's just like at your house. You know what I'm saying? Your stuff eventually just turns into a pile of rocks and wheat. >> Well, charter change requires a vote. So, um I guess we a resolution. >> Okay. Resolution policy would be the resolution. >> So, I would love for us to look into

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doing that to make sure that this is something that's on the agenda that has to be taken care of. I would recommend a resolution with a with an SOP um attached to it. Basically, that's what you'll be passing is making sure that that SOP provided to the, you know, public works utility director that no

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matter what that policy is still followed, you know, through directors, through city managers, whatnot. So, you know, just stating on the resolution, we want this done. As long as you put a a set of guidelines on that attached to that, that's what they'll they'll follow. does that for us. So,

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>> we'll obviously work with the city attorney and then, you know, look, we can probably reach out to other municipalities and see if they have standard operating procedures for their for their median control. Um, and then we can go from there. So, it shouldn't take long to do, but we have time because obviously we have to wait, you know, for the design to be approved and

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obviously installation and then we also have a year after those are installed. So we have time to make sure this is uh you know going forward we'll be able to take care of these >> the expanded enterprise uh working platforms that we're doing now what we'll be able to do is be able to best

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support that because I I that's going to come with bill attached to it and so that's one of those things I want to make sure as we move forward to this next budget we're starting to focus on that is that we look through a solution and then kind give ourselves a pocketbook >> I just want to make sure we don't drop this kind of money >> and then we're like oh we just burned up in the thing you know what I'm saying

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and we're all walking away from wonder why our city's looking like crap. You don't want to do that. So, >> okay. >> Is that is that something that would be part of the comprehensive plan, the maintenance of that stuff that would have some durability as opposed to resolution or >> we can talk to Tammy about that to see if that would be something that the comp

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plan would you >> address and then there's other might be a better place for that. >> Yeah. >> And I've got and we can build that into our our larger strategic plan as we look at our our our district area and how we're developing that. One thing we talked about briefly during

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the workshop was we already have in the plans what Mr. Clari referred to about maintaining the stuff and warranty it for a year. But we're happy to assist you as if you wanted if you needed to write something for what a maintenance specification should look like to accommodate the specific plants

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that will be in the corridor so that they're appropriately maintained as you discussed. >> Well, then you put out a bid and say, "Hey, this taken care of." >> Exactly. >> And this is what it entails. And there's nobody like chucking the job. >> Specifies how many times it's trimmed per month that it's all that kind of stuff's laid out. Correct.

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>> Okay. Thanks. >> Nice job, Dave. >> I'd like to make a motion. >> Okay. Motion to approve Kimley Horn and Associates landscape design for the US 19 medians as per her ha

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number 01-25 with FOT District 7 and submit to FOT for final approval. >> Second. Motion a second. Any further discussion? Any public comment? Seeing none, put to vote all in favor signify by saying I. >> I opposed. Motion carries. Um,

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next is uh is probably going to be a lengthy agenda item. Um, and we also have a CRA meeting that uh is also probably going to be a a potential lengthy agenda item. What I'd like to do, um, as we got people here, I'm not sure what they're here for. Um, but I'm

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assuming that the the one thing that's very important is this incentive pack that we're going to talk about in CRA. Uh, we need to get that uh solidified and it's going be, like I said, a very lengthy discussion. Um, so if you guys are good, I'd like to uh call a recess on the city council meeting. Um, move

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forward with the CRA meeting, do that uh that agenda, and then come back to that afterwards. Manage our time better. Is that >> I'll make a motion for a 15minute recess. >> 15 minute recess. Sure. Perfect. >> Motion to

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>> Well, so the recess actually the recess is going to be it's be it's going to be a uh >> we're going to pause the meeting, >> right? >> Um it's not really a recess because we're we're going to come back to this meeting. We're going to pause it for now. Uh we take a 15-minute break and

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then um we'll start CRA meeting at uh 7 >> and then this will pick up >> and this will pick up as soon as CRA meeting ends. We'll come back to this agenda. >> 15 minutes now. >> Yeah. Do you need a motion or you just >> No, we do this. >> Wait, for recording purposes, would you

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rather me continue this recording, go into the CRA and then we will go back into council or do you want me to start and stop? Because this one I will have to physically stop and start a whole >> Yeah, I probably I'd probably stop and start it. >> Just >> Yeah, just do a part one, part two.

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>> It'll be part one, part two. Okay. Just wanted to make sure. >> Okay.