committee. We were the fun comm we we set up the neighborhood um the the monthly neighborhood meet your neighbor. I want to say one one thing before I forget what you said last month about the one country limit for new people coming in or even even every resident.
Perfect. Great idea. I think it's excellent because this internet thing isn't for everybody. Correct. even though somebody knows somebody that knows how to do the internet and they don't want to join in with it. It's kind of weird because you know one out of 10 people watch maybe or listen or hear
bits and pieces but if the neighbor that an older neighbor perhaps that doesn't have internet doesn't understand the neighbor and said would you point to me then you said an older neighbor no but but you know I have older neighbors and you know if they they want to engage
and I will tell them what's going on some they just want it is what it But I was glad that that was an important thing. But we also established like the borders of the city because a lot of people didn't know like there's the county up in embassy that's all Fort Richie but
it's all the county it's not the city and they think they're at the city because they have Fort Richie. So, we put uh years ago, one of the first things we did when I joined the group was we got the signs and we got quotes for the signs and we even had some of the house come and do designs
for the signs and compete and then everybody voted on it and that's how we got our signs. Um, so we did meet the neighbor. We've cleaned up parks. We cleaned up streets. Um, we h we changed um what we what the
Hooters area used to be called the WOD and we were like, "What the heck is a wand? Who wants to go to the wand?" So went through this whole big probably four or five month proced um survey survey on Facebook and we kept whittling
it down, kept coming back and ended up transitioning to Cord River Landing. Um was recognized by the county. I know Cather Katherine Starky was like, "Oh, nice name." She said that nice. I was I was part of that trying to get it to something that was really desirable. So we've done stuff like
there's still like some kind of um backlash on it should be the value was not h was not happy with it saying that we didn't ask their opinion when in fact we did ask everyone's opinion and it was by popular demand and and
as evidenced by the fact that he sold his property. If we just go by property owners down there, then they can spend time in town. This is so we did it we didn't we didn't stick to just residents because um more than just residents go down there,
right? Newport, Richie, Holiday, Hudson, everybody goes down there. So, we had it opened up to whoever was on that, you know, on our on our Facebook page, whoever wanted to vote. So, so we've been doing stuff like that, the fun stuff, trying to trying to get
stuff All your your ideas here come from Facebook. You talk to your neighbors. Of course. Well, people that come here, our neighbors, the neighbors come here. Uh council may ask us to do things. Okay. So, the council designate and and
now with the ideas you come, I know that. But with all the ideas that come together here, those are all presented to council with possible they get a recap of everything in our meeting because I know a few things have but
and then we have a a liaison a council she's our leazison she reports anything back but I used even even before I was on council I would always get and I would always right because there was nobody um Tom really didn't real Tom was on the at that time
Tom Canella and he didn't really so I would always get up and and tell him of any what would happen and then I was on counsel and of course then I would do the same thing as Christine is doing right now. As soon as you were on council so I didn't know before. Yeah. So we always we always told council what was going on. We always had
that feedback of course but we always gave them verbal feedback during the meeting too because minutes they were there but when you go face to face it's a little concrete. We're supposed to be we're kind of to
try to help, [Music] you know, we were here to try to help the council to get ideas and and if they have something for us to do, then we'll know if if that's within our cap. No, no, council can't do it all. I mean,
need some feelers out to get a little deeper into their residents, whatnot. Well, it's citizens advisory committee. So, that's right. Exactly. Yeah. You know, plus there's too much negativity out there. People read that's all they hear. They don't hear the actual That's the thing.
I I want people to actually get the truth, the facts instead of all that you're saying because that doesn't help. Absolutely. Yeah. Of course. Oh, no. I I was looking of course. No, we every every voice is
extremely important. Every single voice. So, what's the procedure? We take you out back and Well, we would we could vote on you and then um uh then it has to be approved by council. Actually, we have no authority whatsoever, but we just give recommendations and then
they give final approval. Yes. Send a send a email to Ashley Ashley McDonald. Yeah. Send send an email to her. you just say you're interested like go through the process. I mean, I would read this mission
statement to you, but it's really just Is it online? It's online. It's I'll post it again on the town hall one, but it's Yeah. Here. Wait. I I brought It's probably on the city website right here. I brought my that it was recently, but um and then there's
a CAC website, too. So, on um on that thing that I I did I did a little newsletter last time. Um I just did a little brief synopsis. It our function is to gather input in an organized fashion from the citizens of Port Richie and make their recommendations to city council. That's
out of our um the city's definition of what our that that's directly out of. So that's kind of like a little synopsis. fine detail. Yeah, it's just one Thursday a month, too. Yeah. Well, one Thursday a month and then if
we do citizens speak, meet meet the neighbors or if we clean a street or a park. It's not mandatory that you do it. We haven't done the meet neighbors in We don't usually do it in the summertime because it's too hot. People don't want to do it. They're not Well, my neighborhood, but yeah, I'm in
the most We're planning one now. Huh? We're planning one today. I heard this from last month, right? Across the store. Oh, um off the river. No, the other one.
Oh, Alex's. Yeah. Yeah. And you founders, I think, right? Oh, we've been to we've been to We went to once, too. That was good. Michelle been a good spread, but we haven't been there since uh probably three, four years. But we've been to Hooters, we we went
we've been to Gildongs, we've been to um catches, we've been to How's the How How's the outcome? It's usually the same in the past. It's usually the same people, right, end up coming. Once in a while, you'll get newcomers um to come.
This is the thing. this I I would like to try to get people think you know the rumors out there are not good because no one's really taking the time and and listen I I may watch this you know on YouTube three or four days now but I do watch it I don't know how many
people don't even you can see how many views are on the thing yeah right you don't know how many people actually care that's the thing some people don't even know my neighbor doesn't even know well a lot of times people I'm going to go from my personal experience being here for so long, right?
I I my husband was traveling. I had two young kids and I was working 60 and 70 hours a week, right? I didn't have time, right? I was taking them to soccer and to twirling and to football and to going to their meetings and doing my own thing and cleaning my house and d So, you know, a lot of
Did you think about what was happening? That's what that's my point. So, if you're that busy, that's kind of a life you have, right? My neighbors, they just come home, they work, I see, and they all do they all the six new houses. I don't know if anyone even is aware of what's going on in C. Those are people that need to be
newslet. Well, we used to have one and yeah, it's perfect. I think it's a great idea. I mean, we have more communication now than ever and it I don't think it's really mattered to tell you the truth. Well, you can't give up. You got to keep pushing. It's like having an event. You
do the first events could be like keep if you believe in it and you got the right things going, you keep tweaking as you go, it will get better. I used to have a motorcycle magazine upstate New York. So when when when I start promoting the magazine and promoting events, it doesn't happen first time
out. It's like and and and I I did the whole magazine completely, but when I went to an event, it's like the first annual event, first annual. Sometimes it never made the second annual, but you can't give up if you believe in it and get all the right stuff. And it depends. No, I always put a positive spin on it.
I I didn't say there's only 30 people showed up. I'd say it was a great little event. This if you if you say nobody showed up then that's that's a negative and then people 10 people. So if you don't you can't put the negative aside and put a a bright
positive spin on it. You're not really deceiving the people. You're just making it is interesting. It wasn't a total of oh it was interesting. Come check it out. That's just try it. If you don't like at least you try it. And that's why
I sw these people I just get too much negativity. You gota give it a chance. You know everything that's going on with give a chance let this thing work through. I mean it's lots lot has happened. Let's make this better better place. I've only been here about five years ago. So
you know I like to see it get better too. Where did you come from? I came from upstate New York. Okay. Did you ever hear Woodstock? That's where I came from. Seven miles away from Oh, awesome. Calon Center.
Did you go? I was 12. No, I didn't even know was going on at that point. And so you've been in the city for five years. I've been here. I've been in Florida 10. I've been in Richmond.
Yeah, it seems like my house. Pretty involved. Yeah, but there's nothing around my house and it was like field of dreams. I said then my neighbor used to work for the city. Mike goes, "Ah, they'll never sell me like this. I'm here." Yeah. Guess what? I closed on my house October 1st,
January. They're already digging it up. Took that one month. Six houses. Really? Yeah. All lots. I tried to buy a lot, but the banks used to house. I know. Thank you.
All right. Well, our next big project is going to be painting that wall over at Park and then um we were also working on having a community garden, but um we're gonna I'm trying to turn that over to people that actually live over there. Yeah, I do have quite a few people
interested and I connected them all. I don't know if they're doing anything, but they're the ones that want it and they're the ones that they have the connections as a way to make it happen. So I felt like uh take that off. Are you an artist by any chance? Not really.
A fan good art. No, I I do like hashtag kind of stuff. Uh so I mean it so just lost my train now. How much input do you give towards like the parks? I mean there was a big thing with council about spend all this
money on on parks for a new park. Uh, you know, let's concentrate what we have. I think before we go too far with new parts and I know that's a council thing. They're all doing they're doing actually a lot of work,
but the more That's right. That's what's Yeah. Yeah. How did that come about? How was that determined? Well, that wall was just real ugly. We've been talking about doing some murals. You you folks just came up with well people residents saying how ugly
the wall is cuz it was well it was also mildwy and stuff like that but but it was it was it's a cute little park. You I mean I launched my kayak out of there. You can there is a teeny little beach. I mean but you could you could fish off the dock and stuff. It's a cute little it's a cute little park. I think it's a
good wall for us to start on for a project be being not that we're all professionals because you don't want to start on like a big building or something and we're like if we did the the uh ways wall I post that on the sound like he's
a professional artist he's had those murals all over the state and people just drive around to try to find those murals I could talk I could talk out there see if anyone's be interested time to do something.
Wow, look at that. They put new. It looks good. Today they uh you know where the culvert thing is or the end of the river, right? They cut all the shrubbery out of that. Now you can see 19 through there.
I guess if you don't if you don't come up with the different things that could be should be done. They just do what they have to do every day. Well, you know, they don't realize they don't realize the necessity, right? You know, they don't somebody has to mention it. Not just that, but if you do it every day and you do the same thing every day,
every day it just becomes obviously becomes invisible. Yeah. So we do come on [Music] the one that crosses over the road that
cross going towards York and all the other stop signs are the Queen's got the only stop sign there. It's like why did they have check notice? That's true. Is there really and I don't know if this this had probably no relevance but the the traffic study and all that they did and
they recommended that I hope you guys don't know that they're recommended because I'm not a fan speed but other than that for where speed bumps where speed up on on the road that goes like this as opposed
to Washington that goes like that. Yeah. So, it's getting Yeah, definitely. And you got you can't The only thing you can do with Washington is just have more patrol out there. You can't you can't There's been more patrol lately than there has been in the past. It's been to me in my opinion. I mean, that's the same for Grand really to be honest with you.
Yeah. The the the occasional person that's going 60 miles an hour down Grand is rare. Yeah. Because you physically can't go 60 down grand. I don't care what you're about. A week and a half ago, this guy guy came through like really I I don't know which direction he was
going, but it's it is rare. It's like they get they get crazed down. It's every street. I mean, that's you could put a stop sign. I mean, they put one on Washington now. I mean, Massachusetts right at Madison.
Oh, yeah. Washington could be tough because that's mainly between Portidge and Port Richmond 19. So, you go from the S-curve to 19. It's a straight run. Yeah. It's a straight run.
So, what kind of things would you like to see us projects you would like to see us do? Oh, I put it on the website. I think you saw it. I get my ideas. Yeah. Today. No, no, no. She put a survey out.
No, she actually she it was a pretty long question. And I actually answered it exactly. Well, because I see not everybody is going to do what you did. But that's that's that's the thing. That's the difference between me and other people. I mean, I you wanted three things. I had three things in mind. Even
if I didn't have, I would come up with something. So, I came up and I exactly I answered exactly what your questions were. So, other people may and then it go off to something different. Were that the relevance of the questions that you asked? Right. This is what I said. I said, "Hi, everyone. responded to the post um about
city of Fort Richie and I think it was amazing. Buckle up. I have I'm a member of the citizens advisory committee for the past eight years and I would like to know what from the citizens your answers to these questions. One, name your top two areas to improve. And I'll read you
there's 27 comments. Well, some of them are some of them me just saying thank you. So, um two, pick your top three projects the city should focus on. Three, what holds you back from attending the council meetings? Four, finish these two sentences. If I was
king or queen of Port Richie, the first thing I would do is, and if I was still if I was still king or queen of Port Richie, my top project to do is so um want me to read them now or do you
want me to? No, go ahead. Uh, fix the boat ramp, dredge the canal, city owned or not, from all the silk. Okay. With what? How you going to pay for that? Everybody says that. I just want to know
how they're going to do it. They think Well, think about it. Just to do the study for the secret is a half a million dollars that every single resident, whether you're living on the water or not, is paying for. Every single res. Just remember that.
Okay. We need a beach for swimming, but we also need an area for flood waters to go instead of our homes. Drainage, runoff, and old brittle water lines that break weekly need cleaned and replaced.
Um, that was from Adam. I believe all these concerns are being addressed. Oh, that was Ken. Um, okay. So, um, make the Bayou area a go-to place for everyone and proud. Make Grand Boulevard main
street for a go-to place for everyone to be proud of. Um, C number one plus improving our current parks. Waterfront Park needs to double the size of the dark park for small dog and large dog areas. Um, I try to attend, but by the
time I get home and take care of what I have to, it's I'm pretty beat. I I watched about meeting on my computer. If I was retired, I would be there. That's me. Yeah, they're all these are all you. I didn't want to call you out. Yeah, those are all you. I just did want
to call you out. Okay. If I was king, make it mandatory for the me for a member of each household within the city to attend a meeting of all the business on on all the business that the city council is working on. No Q&A, just factual information to eliminate the
rumors in the street. If I was still king, make US 19 the safest road within city limits. Code enforcement. Boats, trash, clean up the city. I understand with flooding, it takes time to get things cleaned up, but we have a code and there should be a time frame to get
it under control. Areas that are not part of the flooding should be held to the code standards. Citizens have been fined in the past for not following the code and now it seems like nobody cares. The code is followed. uh dredged the canals near Brasha Park. We heard we
heard that the contract that there was a contract but was also told by the permit office the canal by Tropical Woods Court uh will not see it for 10 plus years. That's sad. Who chooses which canals to get dredged? Same person. This is all
same person. Also make US 19 again so we can get um to Main Street by golf cart. If people can ride their scooters, wheelchairs, bikes across 19, we should have no reason um in the world for um bring more entertainment around
catches Gildog area, the old Gildog property. Um I've been watching the name as I answer that and then I answered about the judging. That's that's every single response. I didn't there were 27 but that was me saying thank you for the response.
Now here's half of those not half but many of those are being addressed by the council but apparently that one person doesn't know other people. So how do you this is the thing how do you get that to them? I mean obviously I mean they're on here so they should know that you can
watch the meetings or see it on YouTube later. Well you have to remember to I'm going to speak up for some of these people. Okay. Um, these meetings are two to four hours long and people don't have two to four hours
but isn't there on the bottom where you can actually watch certain parts of it. But then how do you know which part you're going to miss? And that's part of your question. You know the first 10 minutes I mean okay 10 minutes out of three hours months behind on that is three months. Yeah behind. Yeah. So
but still I mean in three months time you know I don't know that because I I remember it was first done like oh that's great. So I can skip past and you know you may go through a little part you listen to a minute of something not and then you go stroll forward or whatever. I
was doing a little like overview a little synopsis of the meetings too but then I was told that if I do that then people aren't going to come to the meetings or you know that I'm actually not doing a service. I think I think it's wonderful if you
did a synopsis because I don't want to watch the meeting. Did you I like that idea. But see, see the only problem see there's a pro and con. I agree with you. But then the con is they don't get to watch the meeting to see the actual react.
I'm going to say banter the the discussion in between the the synopsis. And that's just as important sometimes as the end result is seeing how did you how did we how did you put the time stamps you know like the time stamps. That's
put the agenda, the timestamp, and then the outcome, but like you said, people saw the outcome, so they didn't go look at the time stamp or that's what was suspected would happen. You could just remove the synopsis and just put agenda item and
I mean, that's what we do where I work and we just put the agenda item and then the case number. So then you have to click on it to see the whole thing. We got two law professionals here. Oh, so just the time stamp and the time stamp and then you can put the time stamp and the item number.
Well, the agenda item. The agenda item. Yeah. And they just click on it. If you want to see about the boat ramp, go to this. If you don't care about the boat ramp, don't go. Exactly. I mean, it's tough. I I don't know why we're not drawing. Why don't you sit up in one of these chairs so you don't have to stand? Yeah. Just join us now.
Only when it's controversial do people show up. That's right. when when we had this whole issue that this whole room was totally packed and the back was totally packed. So that's that's when when there's no one here. I tell them people don't worry about that. Everything's going well.
People are going to show up when they're not happy with No. All right. But but but Tarpon Springs and Newport Richie does quite well. There's people there. Well, you have to remember Tarpon Springs and Newport Richie have a whole heck of a lot more people. I know. But
when two people show up at 3,000, how many how many are in the city? 3,000. So that's you know, and you you figure out a third is that vote or is that residents with children all the same? That's another question.
I don't remember. I think that's actual residents. I don't know. I think I think there's like 1900 voting. Okay. I think it's 1900 voting if I'm not mistaken. Now maybe you know some of these um questions, but like how much was the estimate to dredge all these canals?
They haven't come up with they haven't done it yet because it was like a hundred times what our city income is last I checked. So like I don't know if it's ever going to happen and everybody keeps talking about this judging and I hope it does. I'm not anti-judging
but I think it's just misleading. I don't think they're doing any gild dogs and that's why and they were trying to tell everybody else, "Oh, you're gonna get yours done, too." No, you're not. Yeah. I'm sorry. It's probably never gonna happen. And to be honest with you, the majority of them are owned by the county. So, I
don't know why we don't pay the county streets, too. Well, the council's got to be council got to know between They do know. So, why would we be responsible for the county? The majority we have
the city of Fort Richie owns one possibly two and the Army Corps of Engineers owns Quist I one maybe two out of all the canals. So I'm going to say four. I I think it's really three but I think I'll say four
just let's say five just because so the city only the city only owns like two or three canals and I think that's wrong. I think I'm a lot less than that. But in order to go to the county, you have to have the survey done, the
survey to tell them the depth and what you know what that's what I'm told. Jack Mariano has been trying. Yeah, you can't just go to the mistake, right? You can't just take Well, Jack Mariano is very familiar with this because he has come to the city
before and he was one with Dale um the mayor um touting for we're going to get your canals dredged free, right? Yes. Wasn't he wasn't he wasn't Jack with um Yeah, he wouldn't put that in writing. No, he would. No, but was it election
year? He needed he needed the money for his Hudson project. So, I'm kind of worried that hey, you know, we go to the county, there's no guarantee that they're going to spend our tax dollars within our city. That's the only way we have control of our tax dollars. And if you're with the county,
people think, oh, you know, you're going to pay less money. Well, you're really not. You're going to pay more and have a lot less services. Oh, yeah. That we got to try to get rid of that. I don't know why people keep throwing it out there. Well, because it's You know why?
No, I don't. I will tell you why. Because the county wants the waterfront. There is no waterfront of Pasco County that say, "Yeah, give it to the county. Let the county take over the state." So, how how do they Well, look at the county around us. It's
terrible. Yeah. So, there's nothing good about it. What makes anyone think that they want our water? Because Pasco County No. Has area was it? Oh, no. They almost closed. They would dump money into that and they would make that absolutely beautiful. Do
you mean the Hooters area? Oh, okay. Just just that. Yeah, that's what they want. Who else has waterfront? We only have You meant the whole waterfront like Well, they might want all of us and get all of us out of here. No, no, really. When you think about it,
Holly, there is no county except the Sunwest Mines. There is no county park area to go town um downtown area in in
water or a nice water. We we have the only true accomp accumulation. Thank sorry it's not a park. Counties got the parks but this is not a park. That's the only place that isn't. This is this is a business this is a
business area. that Port Richie was a port years aundred years ago, right? Fishing. Well, I think they called it a port, but I don't know that it actually was. But we do have the fishing in there. I mean, so that's that's my opinion that the county wants the that's not just my
opinion. That's many people's opinion. They want the water pumps, but I've heard the residents want it. Just just let the county take it. And one of the most important ones just hold the property down. You keep saying let the county take care of it. I I don't I don't think it' be a good thing. No, try getting somebody at the county when
you have a problem. You know, just leaving messages never to have anybody call you back. I just I'm I'm not against it or or for it. But I just think you got to have everything in writing and you cannot trust once you lose that power, you are never
getting it back. You're never going to get your city back if you don't like it. Just and you have no say so whatsoever. I have a friend of mine that lives in Port Richie but in the unincorporated up by Jasmine area there. This is this is a story he told me about five to six years
ago. He um he was over at Date City for a meeting and his wife called in the afternoon. She came home from work and she says, "Oh my god, we were broken into." He says, "Call I did." Okay. He said, "All right, I'm on my way home." He left the meeting. He goes home right
away from Dade City. He made it to his house before the sheriffs because there was nobody in the house. It was a robbery. So, it was not life-threatening, imminent, you know, that type of thing. So, it gets put they
they they they triage they triage their their calls and because it was a robbery and there was nobody in the house, it's not as important, rightly so, as somebody dying or somebody dead, of course. So um but because it's such a
big area it gets triaged and so and also I got a question where now we had something came up with about the uh the dispatch that dispatch is now going to the county. Correct. Correct. Now if you call the actual uh outreach police department goes directly to the county.
No what it is is that it always h well it has 911 goes to the county. Always has been right. It went 911 when I fell five years ago in my road and broke my ankle. I called 911 and I went to county, right? I had a big problem with that. That's a
separate story. Um, but you call the um non-emergency number. It goes to our people here. Like I call because usually locked right away. So I call, you know, when we come in six o'clock. So I call the non-emergency number and and the cops usually come
over and they'll unlock the door for us. Um, when my husband used to fall all the time, I never called 911. I would just call the non-emergency number and then they would send fire rescue out the fire our fire guys and they would help me fix I they wouldn't help me. They would do
it. They would pick them up off the floor and assess and make sure that they need to go into and that happened about 12 times or so. 10 to 12 times. Um, and they were usually to my house before I hung up the phone and got to the front door. I have I have a story or two of that also. Yeah. But now someone online said
that they called I I don't I don't know if it's 911. May have the 911. They said ridiculous said go here they went there. Yeah. Caitlyn did and I mean how long did it take? I mean I didn't see how long it took and I don't know what the mercy was. Whatever. But
she was saying she was upset. Well her husband used to be a cop. Yeah. So I mean that to me that doesn't it doesn't matter as long as the outcome's the same and maybe quicker who cares that I always call right here. I go call
call direct. I the last time I called I only called twice. I couldn't believe they I mean it it was less than a minute. I don't know where they were but they came fast. Well see people don't know that we we don't advertise the non-emergency number. We and rightly so because it's not an
emergency. If they're on the call they're not going to hang up to get another one. You should call 911. I'll give you another example. About a year ago, year and a half ago, I was sitting at Alex with two friends of mine sitting at the bar. Oh, yeah. Remember, I remember the story. Oh, did I tell it?
And there was a there was a a party right by the front window, like about 10 or 12 people, adults. They were eating dinner and drink or whatever. And all this, I don't know how I was drinking. And um all of a sudden, some guy falls off the chair. He went to get up and he
falls off the chair and falls and I go, "You're drinking and you're a nervous." Well, I I I had one drink. I I don't drink a lot anymore, but I went He's not getting up. Oh, really? She said, "I should go work on that." So, I go over. He has no pulse.
He has no pulse. So, I turn around and I go, "Call 911 because it's an emergency. The guy's got no pulse." So I start CPR on the guy. My friend has called 911 and going through the rigomearo and so now I'm by
the window doing CPR on him. His family is all there. The restaurant is there's outside my friend looking at me on the phone to 911 still looking at me doing CPR. Finally he puts and he goes to the fire. He go
he walks runs to the fire department and they were there right there. Yeah. But it took to call 911 catt and by the time the rig showed up the pulse just as it was coming. Good job.
He walked to the stretcher and he was fine. I checked I checked with mama a couple or uh FAD a couple days later and he was fine. So um but my point is the 911 call was I know. We caught him on our dock. My ne
my husband saved my neighbor with CPR and um the hospital said for sure he would have been dead if it weren't for somebody doing CPR. But they came and Jim Jim Matthew was there too. Oh, I heard about that. Yes. And it's usually a three minute and I'm looking at where did they come? Where
are they? It was 10 minutes before they got there. It's usually three minutes max. A year ago. Yeah. during crab uh scallop season. So hopefully it's gotten a little better now, but I'm not It's not going to get any better. You're dealing with the county. The county the
county has an algorithm they have to do. When I fell and broke my ankle, I had my five dogs on a leash at night and I said, I fell in the street. What's your address? I'm in the middle of the street on Lantern Court. What's your address? So I
don't think I wasn't anyone near my house. I was one and a half houses away. I gave him my address because I didn't know. It was nine o'clock at night in January. I can't see no I don't know my numbers of my neighbors. I said I'm the only one laying in the I
used the splitter in the street. When they come down they'll find me. I've got five door. Well, I had four. One got away. Did you give the street? Yeah, they did. They wanted the address number. I Well, I did. I gave them mine. But but you have to understand when you're laying there with a broken ankle,
you know it's broken and you They got to know where to go. So then I tell them all this. She says to me, "Okay, there's somebody on the way." I said, "Okay, fine." They She says to me, "Okay, well, if
you've got any animals, can you please make sure you put them away?" Because you felt because of your [ __ ] dog. What part what [ __ ] part of I'm walking my four dogs laying in the street do you not understand? We're not recording this one.
Oh, it's not recording. Well, they it's recorded at the county. Don't worry. Because that's what I said to them. But it's true. I mean, come on. I mean, so so it's an algorithm. They have to say that. But I told her that I have And it turned out by the time they got
there, I had already called my girlfriend to come take my dogs and she did, but not when I called. How many here? Can I make a suggestion? The prestigious church. This is the one I hear on [Music]
and this house system is so hard. It's always been horrible. They've tried to fix it two times. Anyway, so what's on our agenda? Okay. Okay. We need to approve the minutes. Anybody want to approve the minutes? Because we've been talking for 40 minutes.
A motion to approve the CAC minutes for for September 3rd. Yes. For September 3rd. A motion to approve the 9325 C. I just did that. Oh, I'm sorry. You want to second that? Yeah, second. I was thinking you were chairing for a minute. Okay. I know I'm very noisy.
We need to vote on committee chair. We need to vote on a a chair, a vice chair, and a secretary. Do have any any volunteers? I think you're making a wonderful chair. I think Carolyn puts a lot of time and effort into the city. I see you've come
to other meetings. um doing lot. So I'll make a motion for Carolyn to be a chair. Okay. Who's going to do secretary or secretary? Whatever you want to do. Whatever you guys want to put me in. I don't care.
What would you like to do? Whichever you guys could you be chair secretary? Yeah. They can't do that. No. But um usually the chair is the person who's been here the most and the longest and that that would be myself or
Linda. I don't I'd be willing to do vice chair maybe. I don't I I would make a motion that let that be chair. Okay. I know you wanted to take a break out of it. Yeah. I would like to step back.
Is that okay with you? I'm fine doing anything. I'm fine sitting here. I'm fine sitting out there. You can vote me back over there, too. I don't care. Well, I'll second Linda. I'm good. Linda, you're the new chair.
I've already done this once before. Caroline, do you want to stay on as um Yeah, secretary because you do an awesome job. Make a motion for Caroline. I second it. Awesome. And I make motion. And you do do good minutes by the way. Thank you.
Not that doesn't always happen and that's kind of Yes. And I make a motion for um Lori to be vice chair. second. Well, we got two seconds. 30. There you go. All right. So, we'll move on from that. Um, the meet and greet. Now, we had
talked about and when we do the meet and greets, hardly anybody shows up anymore. So, we thought about maybe doing some activities with it. Like, this guy owns the pontoon boat. It's not Hubard anymore, but the guy that bought it, he had a call back, but I thought it
would be nice to offer if he offered maybe a little bit of a discount. Or maybe he doesn't even offer a discount, but just one night that it's just citizens of Port Richie that go out and see what he does. It would actually help help his business. I remember your last meeting. The last meeting you mentioned that I can know somebody that's smaller boat might be
willing to do a discount. Okay. I got to check how big his boat is. Can I make a suggestion? We probably need to send this through legal to make sure that there's no legal problems with putting people on votes
and citizens on a city on a city. It's not going to be a city function though if it's Oh, it is if it's if it's through CIC. It's a city function. We go to bars. I mean, yeah, we go to bars and we I know. But I thought it might be perfectly fine, but I think we just need
to run it through legal. Sure. That's all I I mean sign a waiver. Okay, we'll check on that. Arts North you said is not or um is not in the Arts North is not in the city. No, but I thought that might be fun to do
line dancing. They're close to the city. They are close to the city. We could try. I Canu Beach, they have a mariachi band which might be fun to join and do that. So, we're working on that. Um the painting of the wall in Olner Park. I
wanted to try to pick some dates like some weekends in October when we working there and and I'm gonna in the meantime I'm going to try to get somebody to be in charge of it because we lost our two people that are going to be in charge of the whole project and I think I could get some art
people from Golf High unless you know of anybody else who's qualified to I don't. So the painting the actual paint is provided by the city. Yeah, we'll get them. They're they're gonna pay for some and then we're gonna get some donated. Okay. I I talked to uh I talked to the guy at
Sheron Williams, the manager there, and he said he would give us some of their I was think mixes me ups. Yeah. I was thinking of doing like you had said about a um a competition or something. I don't know if maybe because I mean
people will say, "Oh, I want to get paid." But a lot of them want to get recognition as well. People can go see the artwork and then they can get hired to do other projects. So I don't know if we could do something that Well, I was thinking they would just sign next to their painting. Yeah.
Like she had it with a frame, but I think it would be better each person sign the picture that they did. They did painted. But how can we get that on social media? because I can put it on groups, but how can we um announce it, market it?
Well, we have we've done it just within the city, but do you want people that aren't in the city? Because there's that guy that on US 19 that does the sign things. He might be willing to help us, but I don't I mean, he usually gets though because I saw once that he did that. um he we were asking for the logo
for the um centennial one and he was like well no I'm not getting paid or anything like that so I saw his comments so I don't know if they would do that but maybe someone's willing to do it you know yeah just to come out and I just looked on PHCC to see if they
have an arts program and I don't see anything so school behind um isn't it Chazco there's a yeah it's it's uh Wendell Prinn I don't know if they have something. Maybe
I'll be looking. Hold on. Did you see that photo you're looking at? Yeah. I think this must be John Durnney who was like the first mayor or something. Or they named that journey key after him. It says to John D, I think. I don't know who these two are,
but that's Martha. And here's some other pictures that I printed up for the wall that I'll pass around. I'll pass these on to you. Oh yeah, it sure does. Now the only um like I would be available
next weekend but not the following weekend. And then but to do what? To start painting. On the wall. Well, different pictures, but like Well, I thought we That was just an
idea. It's not turned on. Okay. Wendel Krin has an arts audiovisisual technology and communication commercial arts technology digital camera. So they might have something. Okay.
Um somebody had posted to Gai had helped a business in Newport Richie paint their wall and it was really good. It was just the golf pile. Could we reach out to the person who does that business in holiday? Um
well that's what we were talking about. That guy on US he's the one that was saying he wasn't getting paid. He gets paid pretty well. That makes sense. I mean if you're established business Yeah. I'm surprised we got as many.
Although we did have surprises as we What happened? What happened? old people. I mean, I know two. Well, one Sam Sam Cruz is the guy that is real good artist. He's done stuff for the Yankees and everything and he can do
faces and just really really he has retired, but now he's working like seven days a week at his job because a lot of the staffing changed there. So, now he doesn't have time to help us. And then Cherokee moved. Cherokee. So, those were the two leaders. I think
Janet Mallet might help us if she's in town. She's at her other location. These are um so you think we need to put this off another month, Melinda? I I kind of do only because we don't
have an art. We don't have art to do. How far is the wall come to come? How I mean is the 100? No, not long. It's clean, pressure washed, and made for paint. Yeah. So, but no, nothing has been determined
what be put on it. This is what Cherokee the There's four of you whiskey, right? Yeah. That was what she That was a very crude, but very nice ideas.
Yes. And if you Yeah. But if you lay them out like this, it's the wall. Okay. Well, guess what? I can't be here at the next meeting. November. So, it's my sister's birthday. 50th
birthday. November. November 6. Okay, that's fine. Because November for her birthday. November 4th. November. November 6. No, no, but the meeting is the fourth signage.
No, it isn't. The sixth. Oh, we're looking at Tuesday. I'm so sorry. The 6th. You're correct. Yeah, you're thinking of council. Yes. I'm sorry. You are correct. It's the sixth. You are correct. Okay. I'm usually not correct. No. Yes, you are. Okay. Well, then when we get into
November, I can't be there that first week, seventh, and eth. And then the next weekend I could, but then the following weekend, I think, is Thanksgiving. Do you know what? 27th. 27th. Okay. So we have the for the 15th
and 16th the 22nd and 23rd. We could plan on those for painting days tentatively. So tentative the 15th 16th and November 15th, 16th, 22nd and 23rd
paint days. No, the mound is tenatively sunset on the south side of the river. This is over on um nice little It is a nice little park. It is a very nice park. I haven't been here recently, but yeah. Nice little sandy beach with a big cabinet.
Yeah, it's a nice little park. So, it seems like something would those dates be okay with you guys tentatively. November 15th, 16th, 22nd, and 23rd. Yeah, that's for November because I don't really want to wait and then get into December because we're not going to end
up doing anything in December. November 15th, 15th. This is a Saturday and Sunday and Saturday and Sunday. So 15th and 16th and then the 22nd and 23rd. Hopefully we can get some more. But then if we don't get anyone then
what is it that we're doing? We're painting painting. So it's already painted this weekend. They painted it. It's paint. I'm I'm saying we could start on some of the the phases of it. I don't know how to like We don't have any art. That's what I don't understand. Well, those are pictures of art. These
are Everybody just take a square. There's no way I can neither. I can't even do a stick figure. Not I can't either. I'm really bad. I can paint a wall, but I can't art. Um,
as everyone Well, we have the three at the council. We haven't done that, which is which is not a problem. With a lot of confidence. I don't think they're going to really say no. They have the best thing. You know what I mean? You have the pictures offered to trade me
for just so I'd have something decent to take home. Oh my gosh. I think this is just all this is here. This is just that like that. I don't know how this I can't believe.
So So I can paint just a whole wall, but I can't. The Welcome to Port Richie established 1925. That would be not horrible to do.
If we Well, we can get we can get a stencil. Yeah, that's we would have to get I mean because that's just because that can be done. Yeah. Get somebody with a really good writing which is not me. to write large on there like this
and we just follow. So this is not a problem. Okay. Both this and that. I mean this says Port Richie, Florida here. Um maybe we should just put welcome to Port Richie, Florida right there. I mean I
think this is just taking up extra space here when we could get in some of the the aspects of the city that we don't have there. Like she put everything. She put this which is our centennial and then the police and the fire and then the name but I'd like to have
some room to put in the Indian and um yeah Aaron Richie maybe a picture of Martha Olner the the um ships I think just starting somewhere I think the ships are definitely indicative and the stout
house I don't know if I think combining this these two would be perfect Welcome to Old Richie Port Richie, Florida. Down here with this in the middle of that. Do you know what I mean?
Oh yes. Yeah. This is too much. So, welcome to city of port. This Okay. Oh, wait. No, you could do Thank you. Sorry.
How tall is this wall? I don't remember. It's 100 foot tall. I think it's like It's probably like six foot seven foot. It's It's taller than that. Is it tall enough? I don't remember. Way taller than my husband. It's like 8 10.
So if if it is that tall, we could do welcome. Welcome to like straight across. Put this in the middle park over here and then underneath it Port Richie, Florida
in the middle of the wall. Yeah, I like that. I like that. Okay, we can start with that. Sorry. Do you see what I mean? Could we This is so detailed right here. Couldn't we just get one of these
printed like that, a really heavy duty one, and put that right in the center? And then with it being like a 3D look, it's going to just add a little bit more character to it. We would have to It would I would say not not like a um not like a canvas or anything like that because in the storms it would blow away. But something that
is more permanent. Yeah, that would be that would be cool. That would be really cool. Something hard and durable that's can take the sun and the heat. Yeah. You can order one of those. It won't get stolen. It's gonna be glued down
or or or you can get if it's like on I'm going to say glass because I don't know. Well, plexiglass or something. If it's on that, you can get those hooks like you put mirrors on clips on and you can screw you could actually screw the whole thing down. What is this?
That's old. Yeah. But what's it made of? I don't know. Because if you can make something like this, probably about that size, too. Yeah. And put that out of it. Yeah. So that that would be a start.
I can probably do leaves. Leaves. And if it doesn't look good, we could always just paint over it. Really? No. Serious. True. Yeah. I mean, if it doesn't look good, I mean, I'm not I'm not opposed to trying it, but I am certainly not an artist.
Yeah. No, me neither. Maybe leaves, though. I mean, yeah. You know, can we show Can we present this to council with putting in some of these pictures? I can get more pictures of what you guys think we should add. I don't think I have a picture. Should we determine what's going to be on the wall first? Well, that's what we're trying to do.
I think that needs to be a a discussion between us and the artist, whoever decides to do that. Oh, it Well, there's going to be multiple artists. There's not going to be just one artist. I would like to get somebody to be in charge of it, but I have I have quite a few artists that are willing to come. It's not just you guys, but
Okay, good. Well, maybe they can do leaves. Oh, yeah. They can do leaves. And I I it's I was really depending on Sam to do pictures of faces because that's so hard to do. So, you already have artists that would be willing to do this? Oh, yeah. Oh, so yeah, but I mean they're not they're not
paid. They're volunteers. So, no, but hard work with volunteers because they don't always show up. Yeah, but they're all artists. But I mean, if you could um maybe put like, oh, the sailboat uh the boat pictures would be implemented here or
whatever and then show them this and show them how we're going to do it and where we're going to put that on her design. Pretty. I love that that we have to have because that's our mascot. That's something that else that the correct coloring
I had a picture of Aaron Richie and it wasn't printing out right. But he's the one with the beard. He's out there in the front. I know how to do this. Yeah, my friend could definitely do that with if we just get a if you if we get a
um a big we can get it printed big on just a regular photo because you see the buffalo I did, right? Yeah. focus. Thank you.
Okay. something. This is the same idea. Okay. See that buffalo? Oh, wow. That's great. That's awesome. You did that. Yeah. Beautiful.
That is two. That is 3x4. Um just This is my owl I just did. But my point is I did this from photographs. Yeah. And well, that's the way the tattoo artist I had coming.
If we get the big photo, I can cut I I know how to cut this out and then we can color it in that I that that we can do. This is my box so far. My little pink was running out. But this is a real photo right out of the golf.
Yes. Beautiful. That was We took that with the pink. The water is in that color. All my ink was coming up. I think this is a good picture. Yeah, I love that.
I can't find it. I'll find it. Okay. Anyway, we will we'll work with this plan that Cherokee started and implement other phases into it, modify it a little bit, present it to council and set up the dates and I can get the
paint from uh the starter paint and some table, some work tables over there and some if they need some shade, I could probably provide that with tents. I have some umbrellas and stuff, too. And I'll bring some drinks, waters, and
aids or whatever. Um, do you want to check with um Walmart and see if they would give us any scrap paint? Sure. Yeah. And I I'm getting scrap paint from uh
from um Sherman Williams. I just don't know. We can use as much as we can. Whatever we don't use. Home Depot. Home Depot. I mean, they're not Yeah, they might give it to you anyway. They definitely took in a lot of Fort Richie money recently.
Oh, yeah. Definitely. They took in a lot of my money. That's for sure. Yeah. Okay. Next on the list, Linda, is you. The uh welcome packet for new residents. You want to skip over that for now? Um I didn't do anything more with it. I
well as I spoke to S and S was a little confused because his packet as I as we saw was um more on a monthly bianual you know type of thing right so um I will get with S this week and um
we're going to be okay well I think they're two I think they're two different newsletters okay my opinion yeah I don't you didn't have one of these problems so let me I have made copies if you want.
She did one and um I have one of these at home. Yeah. Okay. to see it again. I have my So that was something came up with also pretty much No, I came up with it and then at the
same time because Andy was here, he told S to do something but because S was here when I've been talking about this for a long time trying to do this and I've been shut down but nobody wants to pay for the postage. And then I was talking to a neighbor across the street who had just moved in and he goes, "I didn't
know about XYZ." True. And I said, "Oh, okay." Okay. So, and I took I I again went back into this mode of what we need to do. Um, so this is just real quick one time by Yes. It's not complete. My
idea, my personal idea was this gets mailed out to 100% of the residents one time. Yes. After that it goes here to the utilities because when you come to you have to come to utility department to sign up for work and then we give this to them at that point
and then in the a different newsletter could be a once a year once every two year one twice a year whatever they all they all decide to do you know then if they want to do another newsletter like that I happen to get the um Newport Richie one all the time because my zip
code is different I have um 34652 So, I get the um the Newport Richie City newsletter, which I find I read. I don't go on their website. Do you have one laying around? You bring one? I will, but I don't Yeah. No, I I I get them and then I read them and then I throw them out,
right? I have brought them in to show people. Okay. They do it real fancy. Of course, they are new Richie. It's glossy and color pictures, you know, 8 by10 glossy is like, you know, Alison, but um only Thanksgiving. early on
Thanksgiving. Um, we used to sing that every time. My son could sing that song. 20 minutes he could sing that song. Beginning good enough for me. Um, how often does that come out?
I think it's twice a year if I'm not mistaken. Definitely twice a year. I don't think it's quarterly. Yeah, it might be, but I haven't gotten one recently. Well, they have to do one twice a year for the for the um insurance for uh the hurricanes. They have to give
No, we we do we do that's once a that's once a year. And that that's the same hurricane thing that I've gotten for 38 years. I just throw in the garbage, but they have to send it out regardless because of the insurance, right? So that's to me not a newsletter. Yeah. I just throw it away. It's a waste
of money. Yeah. And they But this But they could add to that newsletter. They could just add a little bit more to it. Well, people throw it out immediately. Well, if there was something else besides the the same stuff that they send us every year. I I think it should be different. It goes directly into the trash can
before I get to the house. You know, you know, I I think a newsletter even twice a year would be would be good. I'm agree with you on that. But um I I think I think to start with I'd like to start with something and go from there.
What's the cost that it gets shot down? Um what kind of cost? They didn't say I they I never got that far. I used to help do the newsletter years ago. I did count Well, that's No, I don't how many I don't know how many resident actual
physical homes there are. Okay. There aren't 1,800. That's 1,800 people. a dollar a piece. I I I don't know. That's that's what I was told by by the city.
Um doesn't sound like a lot of money. I I would assume it would go out. Well, don't you have to print it and stuff like that? So that that's all. Would you think this would be an actual size of it? Basically, five pages, four pages, four pages.
I mean, they had to cut out $5,000 worth of uh fireworks. So, I mean, if that's going to be $6,000 a year, that is a lot of money for a little city like us. $5,000 fireworks. Yeah. I mean, they had to cut it out because we didn't have the money for it this last we used it for the centennial,
but no fireworks for Fourth of July. Oh, that's Well, that I think that No, I think we voted to do that because I think it was because it was about three weeks. Yeah, it was three weeks. That wasn't a money thing. It was so close between the fourth July centennial. It wasn't
right. Right. Yeah. Well, I just know that's why they quit doing it before because they were complaining it was too expensive before. We only started doing fireworks about three years ago, four years ago. Something like that. I think it's longer than that. Well, we our our um neighborhood used we used to
pay for our own. We had two professional fireworks people though. Oh, very good. Bill Columbbo, he was a licensed fire. Yep. And Bill Bennett. They're both licensed. Is he still there?
No, I I don't know if he's in a nursing home. Oh, is he? Anyway, um so um so you're going to work on that with S to make sure it's not I'll work on that with S. And when we get something together, do you want me
to give this to Christine to present to council? So the uh the post office offers special pricing for qualified nonprofits including municipalities which can save 54 to 80% on mailing costs for various materials.
So it's a city it's a city thing like whatever they want to do I can talk to a purchase see if he can't come up with some kind of deal on that. So let me never asked. S knows all about it. And S said it's just a
I'm not whatever. So I'll get with S about this. If you have any suggestions, if anybody has suggestions of what they would, this is only my ideas. This is just very very cursory. If whatever you think should go in or be taken out, I'm open. Um this is
just whatever whatever y'all think. I saw little things like Well, it's funny. Yeah, this time. Yeah, this is me just typing. Sure. I didn't see any. No, I'm not complaining. And I know you'll catch that. Yeah. When you do your final,
I didn't see anything that needed every Thursday come out. No, it's all good info. Residential grant program. Let's see. You don't I didn't do the um I did not do the um
uh the business. No, I didn't because that's going to change every year, right? So, it's about Well, hopefully it'll change very soon. So, I think the way you have it breeds fine. I tried to be very nonspecific so that they call the city to get the information. I don't want this to be the
end all beall. I want this to spur spur a question and say, "Oh, let me call and find out how do I get $5,000, right?" You know, that type of thing. Yeah. How much do we get from CRA money? Do you happen to know? What do you mean? How much,000? 5,000.
Which whatever they whatever they put in budget. 5,000 per household for 100,000. No, but I mean for overall what does our city get for CRA? How many millions? Oh, it's about 1.7 is what I gather because when they did the last judging
thing, they spent almost $900,000 of CRA money to get those permits which expired. And so it was $900,000 just spent on nothing because everybody had this dream. Oh, I'm gonna get free dredging because that's what they tell me, you know. So
we wasted $900,000 that could have went to better people's houses in the neighborhood. And that's what it's supposed to be for. It's supposed to be. It's community redevelopment. I'm working on that hard and it's to to fix up the dilapitated areas and make your your place more
presentable. Right. That's what the money is supposed to be. I have a meeting with the city manager and Nancy on Tuesday about that very thing to make it easier payments direct to uh contractors. So people who can come up with $5,000.
Okay. But need what what they do is now they send you a W whatever W9 or whatever they do. But Delry Beach does it so I think they do. Oh yeah. New Richie they they will pay but they it's a delayed payment. So, you have to find a vendor that will accept
payment later. They'll have a promisory. Oh, you know what? No, you're right. Because I just had hurricane shutters done and I'm I I did the thing and if if it was a delayed payment, they wouldn't have done it. You're right. Yeah, but our reimbursement only takes a
couple days. So, we have some um we have some pre pre what do you call it? pre-approved or whatever it is where they've already submitted their business info to the city for this program um pre in previous years. So if they
could reach out to them and see if we can come to an agreement that they would take direct payments then they could get more business but not every like the hurricane people have debit they had they had to do the stuff. Yeah. So they had they didn't they a lot of things
and it would be an option too. It's not just everything is direct payment, but people people who can can't afford to get their house painted. Yeah. Or new siding. We could pay their contractor rather than them having to come up with $5,000. If you have if it's an either or, that's perfect. Yeah. Sure.
But they're not going to pay the contractor before the the thing is done and they pay after. So, and that's going to be, you know, a challenge that those homeowners will have to work through. Um, and the city can assist with that with some of those prequalified vendors, you know, people
vendors that have already worked with the city on this program because they kind of have to jump through those too. Yeah. Um, so it would take an agreement, you know, uh, for the vendor to expect that the labor payment, but if they eventually get more business because
they're they get known as they'll put siding on a house. It's it's the city paying them. It's not like you're waiting on the resident, you know, to get a paycheck or something. The city's just got to cut the check and it takes days. Like when I got my check, it was three days.
Wow. I mean, she had to wait like a month or two. My daughter Newport Richie. Newport. Another thing that they did in Newport Richie that you might want to recommend is they made her take a picture of her house before the project and then a picture of her house after the she got
new windows. It was a dramatic and difference comes out. Pod comes out when you put your application in. They come out and they take the pictures. They keep them. They come out. They take the pictures afterwards. And then the building official comes out and does his building official stuff and signs off the permit.
Well, it's also like they had it on display. I I know that they would keep that in a file somewhere, but it's nice to have it on display so people come in and say, "This is where your money, you know, tax dollars went to better your community." doing some before and after stuff on the city
websites, but share it to like town hall some of the projects that we are working on. You know, we could do some before and afters. Then our res Oh, yeah. We're not on Yeah. But uh you know, our residents are saying that nothing's changing, but
really a lot of things are changing. um they are getting out and getting a bunch of things on the punch list. Yeah. Said, you know, you could show them that things are getting done instead of instead of just residents always assuming nothing's getting done, you know, just that's their go-to.
I thought they did an awesome job with the hurricane. I know people complain, they did a fabulous job. I've been to third world countries just I think they did an awesome job. They did. They They really did. Some people, you know, it doesn't matter what you
always hearing the same thing. You know, nothing is getting done. It looks the same. It's the worst it's ever looked. And so I'm like, well, if we could do some before and afters, things sure are getting done. Then you could be like, you know, look at this. Look at this. And then if they if people say it's nothing's getting
done, it's like, you know, we're showing you the before and afters all the time. So, right. I don't know. Should take a picture of that fence before and after. Yeah. Yeah. I had to complain about a the dredge slot fence because it was really bad. Um
the sign the sign was really a shame because it said your CRA dollars at work had the mayor and all of that at the time the city council everybody who got that dredge lot approved but at the bottom and large font it said your CRA dollars at work and it was black.
It was like just the sign was a white sign you know white sign. Yeah. good that you and it was black. Well, they came and turned it down. They came they came and gone like us to notice these things at the
fire department and I'm like poor fire department has to look at this grungy black fence and then it also had like John called, you know, they they weren't they were directing the grass at the fence, you know, as they mowed. So, it was like
green. It was bad. Um grass caked all over it. it bullet holes through it because the rocks, you know, and the glass thing that they, you know, that's what it looks like. It looks like, you know, so yeah, come on.
This it says your CR dollars at work. You know what I mean? We can't have that. Yeah. So, they did they got right on it. So, Oh, and I went to Shel's cleanup that she had um was a couple weeks ago. Yeah. I didn't It really wasn't bad in my neighborhood, though. It was
that to go to that. What was I doing that weekend? Behind the eventually. She has it every year. So, yeah. No, I had signed up for that and then I had I can't remember what it was now that came up. I think I had a will. So, we
see what you got final. So if you want to add anything or delete anything or another another topic or too much about this topic is what you know whatever your ideas or suggestions are um just shoot them to me and then I'll get with
S because you know my my my goal is to ask S what do they get questions about. Yes. How about maybe um how about the portal how to submit a portal something you
know um like if they want I mean I hate to refer them to cones right away when they're move in but they if they don't know how to submit a complaint to the city then um public a
public works portal at least if they need something like that done and possibly I did put something about I did put something about that here somewhere permits please call the building department for any questions about permits many home improvements need approvements to prevent any discrepancy
just call and ask but that doesn't say anything about the for maybe just put the number for the direct number on that's on the website isn't it yeah the portal well that's what she's saying put that on here so that that's a good idea like a lot of times when I want something I don't I don't go to the
codes portal I go to the development services or the uh public's work portal and put in a request and I get an email right away saying status like if a tree is dead in the ement you know then they'll come check up dead tree and then
they'll cut it down and then you'll get an email you know day saying that they cut it down. So they they handle things like that. Okay. Next we have um veterans memorial flag. Um we're going to have donuts and coffee for the veterans on November 11th
at the firehouse. Yes. So I made flyers to pass it down. Nice. Yeah. Thank you. And then I didn't event write. I've got nothing. I RSVP. Um, but I'm gonna start sharing it now more as
we get closer to the date. Um, and I'm planning to go starting this weekend to give that to um, businesses and community or residents that live here. Um, I have like 20 something copies and I'll just give it and say please. If you give me some, I'll give them to
the people that I know are veterans on my in my neighborhood. Or if you gave us each some you know who veterans are in your neighborhood, right? Yeah, I have a whole bunch. Um, we had a lot of dollars you think we need.
So, yeah, we may get we may get um um donated by the volunteers, firefighters, but they need to know how many people or less are going. So, they need about approximately 3 to 5 days beforehand to see how many people
that's taking care of it already. But I want to make sure I'm going to confirm with them as we get closer that they will be donating it. Do you know somebody at Sand Pebble? You know the I don't know who the president is association. I can find out. Yeah, I would. Sand Pebble.
Yeah, Sand Pebble. I don't Yeah, I'm sure they have a lot of veterans there. Yeah, I know. But if you guys want to help put that in your calendar to show up on that day and maybe help out, that would be great. And also the um the trailer parked right here on Ridge. Yeah,
I bet you they have a lot of veterans as well. You're right. Okay. I want to do some walking and like talk to people too for that because I think this is very nice. I don't think you could walk around the trail or just put it somewhere. Yeah, but I would maybe um talk to the the or whatever they are.
So, this thing in my calendar on November 11th that says city celebration fire department. That was a that was a preliminary concept. Now we're moving it to the third, right? No, it's the it's the 11th and VP by the third.
You're welcome. No problem. I saved you. Do they have the firehouse? I assume has coffee makers there like big industrial type. They didn't I didn't ask that. I need bring coffee m Yeah. See if we need to bring um Do we need to bring the donuts and the
coffee? Yeah. I'm going to confirm with them because they said the coffee and donuts to be provided by the firefight uh volunteer firefighters. Okay. But I want to confirm that they are bringing it so that if we appear there's nothing we need. Yeah, we're just running. If you talk to Tom Quinn, yes,
his dad, that's that's the um head of the volunteers, I think. Oh, okay. I know they're in the thread. Yeah. So, I've been talking to Captain Quinn and um Jeez, Polycastraic. How do you say again? Polycast. Polycast. I have to learn.
I think I'm pretty sure Tom's dad senior is is the president. Okay. So, are these going to be storebought or regular doughnut shop? I don't know. I'm sure it'll be regular shop. I could talk to the guy and see if
they want to donate. See if you can and then I can let them know. I mean, it doesn't I mean, anything would help. I don't even know how many people we're going to have though. I would assume we would have if we start spreading the word a few like, you know, older veterans and
stuff that they think. I would say minimum. I mean, because we had the the um September 11th thing here and it was not many people. Maybe there was maybe 12 of us. Yeah. If you count me in the baby, there was
13. I brought the baby with me. I mean I mean if he if he not including the fire department and the police department. Yeah. I mean that those were just people. The fire and police were separate. So there were more than none because
and I'd rather you know more than less run out. That's kind of so you have the knife. Well, it is three hours long. So yeah, that's going to be that I would say
people are trickling it out. Well, you're right. Yes. I know I'm going in different places, but can would you want to work together on this whole plan for the wall? You and I can we do that without breaking sunshine? We're not going to be voting on yours.
You're not voting on it. You're fine. No, I don't think you can. I mean, can work on this together? So we can design it and they told us with the events committee and stuff like I was speaking with Anthony and through email having um Ashley on it
and she was like you cannot speak with him because he's part of the committee because he's what part of the committee. Oh yeah. So we can't discuss like if I want to send for example like I want to send an email to you I would have to send it through Ashley. Yes. And then Ashley would send it through
you. you because I was speaking with Andy through email thinking that we can discuss stuff because not voting breaking the loop, right? Yeah. Just think that you're doing something. Which um committee is that? Um the events committee. Yeah.
That's not really an official uh group either. Yeah. The centennial the same thing. We couldn't do that. We worked together but it was like we couldn't go if we would go to speak. Let's say we all go to the the trailer park to speak to someone just on any on the veterans
day. Only one person can speak, not both of us or all all of us can speak. So it's say that last part again. You can only one person from the group can speak if we're all at the same time there. Okay. So what if we if we made like a
meeting at either your house or my house and then everybody's invited, but if they don't want to come, they don't have to. It's going to be a public meeting. That's the thing. Let let me call I'll call Dancy. I have her number. I'll call her tomorrow. Okay. Yeah. And find out. I love that because sometimes it was hard for the centennial. It is hard to get to work cuz it was
like how do we work together? Yeah. But we had to do it. Okay. Next on the agenda, we have two more things. I'll be quick. Um teachers fulfillment for new year. That was Caroline's. Yes. And I just real quick because I was going to do that but I said let me check
first. I wanted to reach out to actual teachers to see would that benefit them like if they would want if that's something they would even want right and then we would do I guess in November speak or yeah our next meet November well we would speak like how we would do
it I even thought of um you know how they do a Christmas tree and you like sponsor a teacher you they put like five items on a list or something you grab and you can buy you know not expensive stuff. Oh yeah, that's a good way of doing it because I didn't know how we would get all this all this stuff. Like have somebody just sponsor one teacher.
One teacher. Yeah. And see how many teachers we can get on that. Okay. Um I know in my community there's a lot of teachers. And that's another thing we're we're sponsoring a teacher that lives in Port Richie, right? Not that the school is in Port Richie, right? We only have like one school. So a teacher that lives in Port Richie, they
can sign up, put their five things that they need, and then Is Caitlyn still teaching? Do you know? Anybody know? Um I she was like a system principal, but I don't know if that's still true. Do you guys like that idea? I do. I like Okay.
Um she's the only teacher I know of. Anybody know of any other teachers in Port Richie? My my teacher I talked to is in she teaches at Genesis. So she lives in Newport Richie. Okay. But she told me a couple of things that they What school rich school? It's the Edison private school
which I'll reach out to them too. But see, and then in my community, I know there's a lot of teachers because they're always saying things to each other like with the kids and stuff. Yeah. So, I think that will be helpful too for them. Even if it's like wipes or whatever they need. Yeah. She told me like glue stick and band.
Well, she has little kids. Yeah. But they need Yeah. I could donate first of I can't. So once you're on like a so you're absolutely right. It's not
just a voting matter. It's any of it's anything. Yeah. Number of board members required to be present just two members. That's even a civil service boards. You're right. So other residents should you talk to res
but you cannot confir because it's part of business. Well, they don't want me and Christine to say, "Look, I want I want you to vote for this and you vote for this for me and then we and and or Christine and I together and I start
talking about to Joe Blow about how I want XYZ. It's she might not even say anything, but she hears it and it's not public forum. So, really does make sense. I mean, I'll I'll be able to do this. No, I'll
I'll work on something. Okay. All right. I'll just drop it off at your house. I won't talk to you. Okay. You can't leave a note, Linda. No, no, no. Welcome to Port Richmond.
Okay. The last thing is, and Christine had asked us to add this to the agenda, discussion on water trunk front park development ideas. This is something that the council had asked us to uh just I'm gonna have to put a pause on that for a minute. I've
done a lot of research into that part recently. And um you can't do anything with that part. It's a highly restrict restricted by two different It's a trust and you can't even we tried
to have a car once. There's two. It was restricted once and then we borrowed money and restricted it further. So um it's really there's no way to change that. Well, some potential negotiations for management.
There's some there's some stuff. I don't think we're not looking up there like I don't know if I can do this and say that's a little bit more for today, but um they want to do something with it. Well, council, we have to do
this. that something has to come of it because we're in violation of certain things within the FCT agreement. Um, which we borrowed money under the FCT. That was a grant. When was that? Yeah, it was like
I think that's 1997, something like that. And I have a whole timeline, but I don't have it memorized. This has been the hugest research project ever. I mean looking at maps, taking all these little details and
tracing them back and just like at one minute I think we can do nothing and then suddenly there's a light at the end of the they can't do what they want to do. They want to put splash pads and they want to put a boat dock and they want to do all this stuff. It's not you and I both know concessions can be made through
Tallahassee some through some negotiations if say we get the residents to agree that this park as it sits now um is it's really kind of hard to even say
this because it comes off wrong when when you're right until you hear the end tail the tail end of this you have to understand that we we mow the park we we have to pay to keep that part going, right? And there's
a lot of restrictions. So, in order to negotiate with Tallahassee, you have to have like a give and take sort of thing, right? So, if we tell Tallahassee that this is actually so cumbersome on the city for what this is that there's a
possibility we might like the state to take this part, might start happening where they allow little of this. and a little of that and they provide a little money. Well, they don't want that park. They
really do not want that. I had an idea. Park is is so burdensome. You have to keep all of we're we're in violation of like even taking the pepper trees out of it. We have to take those Yeah. pepper trees out. We're supposed to be doing things for that risk
risk. Um that's within the the agreement and we're not doing that. final annual reports. What do you have to do with the atrisisk? It's highly unlikely that the state wants to take that part. So, I'm not saying that you threaten it.
You just say, "Come on, this is so cumbersome." You know, you start you start negotiations as to we need a little something because this is what we have as far as revenue in this city. This is what this park current currently
takes from that thought and this is what we cannot do at this park. So, can we just do some small things? You know, it won't be anything of grandeur like you're seeing online. It we would also have to make concessions like the
grounds would have to be impervious where the water will go through. Um, but we can get some things. Um, I've I've put a lot into this and we can get some concessions if we continue to maintain it and if we maintain it in the fashion
that we're supposed to be maintaining it because that is part of the agreement. So, if we get ourselves caught up, we start negotiation. So, we could possibly get some stuff, but it's not what people are hoping for. I think some people it's not going to be a music venue. No, it's not going to be
or I I hope it doesn't turn into a parking lot for just all the trailers because that's that's a wasted piece of property a parking lot. So, don't worry about that. I