to next year's event so thank you madam --------- chair thank you all right moving on to commissioner comment starting with commissioner peler that's always oh you I can start with commiss I can go just teasing you always look this way for whatever reason CU you're on my right
Sor I care it doesn't matter um I too helped with uh parking the uh fishermen the first two days when the most of them are here and um very learned a lot talking to those guys and U that's such a a positive place for our County that
um we just get the rewards just go on for months and months and months as that airs on TV throughout the nation um I I was home watching and I was in a group text with my fellow boat Parkers and uh they were talking about that was on this channel and I hadn't tuned in so I did
and the guy that won the tournament actually caught this fish and they joked about it and they said it's it's probably not even legal he had to measure it and maybe a/ inch long enough to be counted as legal he didn't uh get his limit that day he only got four fish instead of five but
he won by three o yep wow so that one little tiny fish so put him over the top it's just uh kind of a cute story and and have be watching it when that happen um Mr Stout if you'd come forward please for just a second um I love to give those adab boys when you get those uh
return comments from from the constituents out there a lady at Federal Point called me and uh got some ditch cleaning going on in her area and she made a point to call me back and tell me about a a man named Mr Cooper is that right yep Coop and she said I just
want you to know he went above and beyond and did went the extra mile and um I called Mr Stout and said please you know put an adab boy in his box and i' I'd like for you to just you know hit on that just a little bit Cooper is um one of the guys on our rideway crew U that
we were able to establish last year and he runs the spider machine and a boom mower uh and he was down at Federal Point taking care of some of those ditches down there trees were in the way he took his time to get out move some stuff that was in the way and really make Federal Point uh look better uh he's also working uh we've got the
spider back up and running um he's going to be back in the outfall um off of Silver Lake and Geck uh cleaning that ditch out so that we can get some of that drainage going as well uh we threw him in that spider last year and said trial by or Train by fire trial by fire
however you want to say it he figured it out um but uh he's doing a great job for us and and we're starting to get those kind of phone calls it's it's really nice Public Works to get those those phone calls and I appreciate it that makes you feel good please pass along our thanks to him yes sir we'll do thank you thank you are those all your
comments yes ma'am all right uh Mr sugs yes ma'am I apologize uh wow and and wanting to talk about the festival I forgot and uh thank you commissioner pelir uh for jog in my memory I showed
up Saturday morning at about 9:00 and uh you know they were putting a stage up for entertainment for Saturday and Sunday uh at our courthouse and I got the uh got the phone call Saturday morning about 9:15 that the power was not working at the courthouse and so uh
I reached out to Mr Tim White who is over our general services for our facilities and grounds and first thing I said when he said good morning Mr Suggs was I said well I hate to do this uh but U but I got to tell you that he showed up probably about 30 minutes later uh
our first band was scheduled to start at noon at 11:32 he had the power on and that's what uh he did a a phenomenal job uh diagnosed the issue uh found a solution went to uh Ace Hardware picked
up a couple of GFI installed those and and the music never stopped from noon Saturday till 5:00 Friday afternoon or Sunday afternoon so uh you know when we talk about the folks that we have working for uh for this team and for
putam County there are a tremendous asset that you just can't replace and Tim White is one of those folks and I hope he's listening this morning he didn't know I was going to do this but uh I will do it publicly with him and personally with him uh that uh when you make the phone call and they come and
fix an issue uh it it it's I tell you we can ask for better staff so uh again just wanted to say thank you to Tim publicly this morning and um let me know he did a great job so thank you thank you thank you commissioner
Alexander yes ma'am I just want to add to what uh Mr sugs has presented about uh this weekend's events I was out of town the majority of the weekend but I did have the honor of coming back and attending the mayor's reception and we had a great turnout um of folks from
putam County and from outside of putam County it was a classy event um nothing but good things I've heard about uh what's going on downtown the activities uh also the actions that are being taken by the county as far as this group and
the staff um I've I've never been to as many events lately that have been as positive a lot of times these events there's always some kind of negative undertone but everything that I'm seeing now is moving in the right direction and I feel that that's uh major majorly uh a big part of our
staff and the teamwork that we see amongst them and that's all I've got for today thank you thank you um commissioner I'm I'm going to pile on I was out of town too we were not out of town together um just for clarity just for clarity but you know there is so
much going on in putam County I I missed the Soul Food Festival theia Festival the bass tournament and thanks all you guys for pulling all that together and before I left I mean we're seeing boat traffic down on on Lake Crescent like we haven't haven't seen in years and you
know I see those boats being pulled pulled around you know a full week ahead of time those guys are staying in hotel rooms they're buying food they're talking up putam County so you know thanks to all the community groups and staff and everybody so thank
you m Harvey thank you madam chair I want to bring to the attention of the board um I think it was a week and a half ago uh representative Jud and Sapp reached out to me about the uh veto list that had happened with um Governor dant
us and we had a Wastewater project on there he asked me to reach out to staff to make sure we still they were going to try to do some type of um res resuscitation of those projects if they could I reached out the staff staff uh
was pleasantly surprised and pinned a letter that you signed and I took up there last week and met with Justin sap about this uh project so for your area they are looking at trying to uh revive that Wastewater EXP expansion that we
Cur we desperately need out there and then I had some other meetings that I will uh bring back to the board really quickly as soon as um everything is ready for prime time I do want to remind the board if you haven't gotten an email you will the local technology planning
team meeting this Thursday at 10:30 it's not our local technology planning team but it's the state of Florida's major local technology planning team and I did meet with the Department Depart of Commerce they have some really great information that they're going to share
this coming Thursday if the audience wants to be involved we do have a link that you can plug in on that and just let us know but um let me kind of give you the brief highlights $720 million have been spent so far on bringing
Broadband to Florida 1.2 billion is still sitting out there and has to be done by October of 2026 so you're going to be seeing a big move the other big move that I found out last Friday was that if you have a let's
say that the Fiber goes down 17 but doesn't go to Earl's house but Earl's been needing um fiber at his place if Earl would let us know the Department of Commerce will get in touch with that contractor and actually change the
contract and give them money to go ahead and go to Earl's house so there's some really they want to spend this money they don't want to send it back they want move these projects out and you're going to learn more about that on the local technology planning team meeting on Thursday at 10:30 if you can make it
um it's a zoom meeting and Mr Richie will get that out to you and let me piggy back on Bassmaster I couldn't make it down there Sunday I was just wore out from a thing I did on Saturday night with u with the National Guard people
but sitting there watching the accolades from these fishermen talking about Paca and put County and the river and the crowd and the hospitality that received you cannot buy that kind of advertisement for our County and you do
see our members shine at that moment I'm sure there's some disasters behind the scenes but we all learn from those disasters and we move forward but I can tell you sitting there watching that online sat Sunday afternoon Bass Masters they've never been more excited to be in
putam county in Paca than than they were Sunday afternoon so hats off to our staff half off to the city of Palaca um for what you've done our TDC partners and our chamber Partners did an excellent job and I tell you again you
can never ever pay for that kind of publicity because Word of Mouth publicity is always the best so thank you very much Madam chair and that's the end of my comments commissioner Alexander thank you madam chair there is one thing I forgot and you know I'm a big fan of giving credit where credits
due and I want to let everybody know that picco boat ramp the new docks are in and I would like to thank Terry Turner and Bill Pickins for dedicating the time and their dollars uh to finishing that project obviously there's more work to do to the parking lot we'll
talk about that later but they worked hard to get that done and it looks amazing and um Matthew h Brook and his crew um as far and as well as Brian and uh another gentleman in the audience here did a fantastic job of executing
that thank you that was actually on my list so thank you I'll mark that off thank you Mr Miner for your help with that um I'd also like to recognize February is Black History Month and also in um 24 days we're going to have the
putam county fair from March 21st to the 29th that's always an exciting time in putam county and um I know we all look forward to that I do want to um also comment regarding the bass tournament I tried to go every day and um and visit and walk around and and walk through the
aelia festival and I do want to thank Revitalize historic Palaca for all that's all completely volunteer run and uh they put on that aelia festival and we appreciate that for them and for them doing that and that hard work and also of course the chamber the city the
county it takes a group of us to work together to get things done and that's exactly what's happening and I'm thank you commissioner Alexander for your comments about what you're hearing ing in in the community I think um we are trying to continually move the ball forward and improve in putam county and
um in the city and um we have a good partnership with them and we want to work together as we move forward I did also notice that we do have some derel boats in the water and I have reached out to um our staff and they're going to look into the process of how that how
that is handled it is different than the way it used to be um apparently 3 years ago it was one way and now it's another way and so we have to figure that out to see if there's really anything we could do um but the process has completely changed so that's why we haven't been
able to to get some of those boats removed like we should excuse me also I want um you guys to pay attention to the rural Renaissance bill being filed in town Cassie remember whenever you see bills filed that approximately and I'll just
use a round number 3,000 bills probably get filed into Tallahassee every year only about 10% of them actually make it through so when you hear the rhetoric or you see the stuff on the news don't get too worked up about it because you need to follow if it's something that's really near and dear to your heart
follow it through the process because if it doesn't make through the committee stops it's not going to make it on the floor so pay attention but one of the ones that could really affect putham county is the rural Renaissance bill which was filed by Senator Corey Simon and it is supported by Senator Senate
President Ben Albritton and going to be very important to our small County because there's it's gives some protection for Rural counties and what we see throughout the state is money goes to big cities so it doesn't come back to putam unless we're up there
asking for that money and you know I've I've seen people in the in the community make some comments on social media that puam County should not depend on state funds we're not depending on state funds but by God we're going to go to the table and we're going to ask for them because if we don't then that money goes
to duall County that money goes to Palm Beach that money goes to all the big cities because they have a lot more Representatives than we do and and when you go and buy something in the store and you're paying a 7% sales tax only 1% of that comes back to this County the other six goes back to the state and
that money doesn't come back to putam unless we go up there and we apply for for funding to come back to putham County so that's why we do what we do with the state and we we try to work really closely with our state representative and Senators but follow this bill I'm hoping that it does go
through with whatever version it can but it's very important to putham County as we move forward because it's a it it helps rural counties immensely with that do we have any other comments all right this meeting is adjourned thank you for your time Part: 2
25th and we will convene our regularly regular scheduled Board of County Commission meeting uh Tommy Stillwell who was a former County Commissioner he was elected in 2016 and um he had to take care of his
family members and he he resigned in April of 2017 passed away um so if you'll remember him in your thoughts and prayers and uh we will be having a wreath at his funeral when that time comes with our putam County emblem but
Mr Stillwell was a great commissioner for the little short time he served and um he is a fellow commissioner and we should honor him today thank you Madame chair thank you if we can have uh do so let us pray our heavenly father we uh
pause this morning as we come together uh Lord uh acknowledging you for your goodness and your grace and your mercy uh Lord You Are The Sovereign God uh omnicient omnipresent uh and omnipotent and father
to whom else could we come except to you Lord and so we uh we honor you this morning uh father we turn to you because there is none other which we might turn and so father first of all we ask for uh
your comfort to be upon the still well family upon their loss uh thanking you for U uh the dedicated service of Mr Stillwell uh in past Lord uh father uh be with his family as they deal with his
loss and uh thank you for the privilege of being able to uh uh to be a partner with him in the work of uh this County Lord we do thank you for all of these that are gathered here today each and every one that has dedicated themselves to public Serv service Lord and and so
father I would personally ask that you would bless each of them uh magnify their efforts Lord uh help them to be very productive uh at the same time Lord help us to know that we can turn to you we must turn to you uh for wisdom for
guidance uh for direction and so father uh help us open our hearts and open our minds Lord uh as we consider others uh more highly than ourselves and father that a difficult thing for any one of us
to do uh Lord uh Empower us uh in a way that uh uh We've not seen in the past Lord help us to be more than we ever could be uh Lord uh and guide us and lead us today in the work that's to be done in this meeting in Jesus name I
pray amen amen please join me in the FL United States of America thank you please um silence your phones if you have not done so already um approval of the minutes I have one
change um on um ride Solutions um actually that his name was Boyd Boyd Thompson instead of Blake but that's the only change I have Madam chair I move approval of the minutes as stated and amended right we have a
motion on the floor second I have a second any discussion all in favor say I I any oppos motion passes I'm moving into our presentations um UF IUS blueberry season and while they're making their way up I do want to recognize Miss Annie
councilwoman Annie Davis from the city of Paca for being here today thank you good morning Commissioners good morning y'all know what season it is blueberry season is berry season Berry season I'm sorry that uh Tim Campbell couldn't make
us make it today but I did want to give a quick update I talked to him this morning he is uh they started strawberries out at Miller blueberry I saw that and so they started their upic on Friday and sold out this weekend
wow so they're uh 170 180 Acres of blueberries uh 3 acres of strawberries as of this year two acres of blackberries and two acres of sunflowers so please get out to the farms in Berry season strawberries are every weekend
until April and then blueberries will start in April he told me that blueberries are way behind this season couple weeks behind because it was cold y'all remember February yeah that was the wrong time for chill hours our blueberries love chill hours but not
when they're flowering so um today we're here because we have a neat partnership and this is a great way for y'all to understand how extension works so as the agriculture agent I work with our commercial Farmers as our 4AGE agent Heather works
with the youth as our horiculture agent Julio teaches our youth how to grow grow something and uh our youth is here today to talk to y'all I'm going to let Heather introduce or Julio introduce the project that we do every year at the fair just so y'all get a little bit of
understanding of what extension is doing good morning morning so we uh I've been here for three years now and how long have we been doing Barry project been okay so Barry project is a great opportunity for for our youth to learn
some responsibility because this Barry Bush did not look like this when she got it I can testify to that and she is doing an incredible job and she's going to tell you a little bit more about that but uh we have a berry project book so the kids obviously get to do record
keeping they learn some incredible life skills the night of the fair they're going to be out there talking to people um of the sale they're going to be out talking to people um we had a meeting last night pring them teaching them about the things they can talk to folks about and about working in their record
books so it's just a great opportunity for our youth I've told you guys before that these kids are our future leaders and so this is how we're prepping them you might think they're just growing a blueberry bush but they are just gaining some incredible life skills so uh this is Tatum Lynn and she's just going to
speak to you for a quick moment about her blueberry project thank you good morning my name is Tatum Lynn and I am in the buck and do for each Club this is my fifth year doing the blueberry
project last year I won best of show and I was able to sell them in the live auction Friday night for $250 I have kept a record book throughout my blueberry project so that
I can speak to people during the silent auction I can let them know what I did to repot my my bushes and how much I would need to break even I'd like to invite you out to the fair on Friday
March 28th from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. and all they to see all the kids projects hopefully purchase some in the silent auction very good thank you Tatum that was a great great presentation really was thank you um I do want to say before
you leave um we we have Ro County day up in Tallahassee in April and for the audience and everybody in the public we will be showcasing blueberries for putam County and it's a great partnership but um that's so we're we're taking blueberries to Tallahassee from putham
County March in March March sorry so yeah that's good thank you is that bring them up for a picture would you like to come up for a picture bring your blueberry will you Mela you guys can come up to Grandpa Grandma does
it how about the variety name do you know the variety name Optimus all right just for you Larry just for you [Laughter] close and I do encourage y'all just one more thing please during Berry season
for everyone if you can't get out to the farms and do a up pick or buy directly from the farm when you're in Publix or Walmart or anywhere you go please look fresh from Florida absolutely because that is what keeps our farmers in business fresh from Florida thank you
guys appreciate y'all thank you next up we have good morning Alex sharp PO Box 953 Hollister Florida how's everybody doing this morning Good Wonderful Mr Sharp I think your group to come
up they certainly can yeah where's our Tech guy cuz his computer's locked she's coming right now oh wait wait there we go okay there we
go so I I am here uh is everybody up y'all are welcome to come up if you want it's your choice everybody come on up let's let's get everybody up here that's a tough act to follow with the blueberries I know I didn't bring any small children with me I'm sorry I cute
ones too I know well you're here you can wear the hat though if you want if you heard we fully expected your son to be with you I would if I would have got up all right so how do we start this thing here she's
coming I think I got it choke it did that work so I I'm here on behalf of uh three uh organizations that I think all of you guys are familiar with uh Palaca Sunrise Rotary um the sons of the American Revolution um which I just
became a new member of uh John graciously found some uh relative of mine on the family on the mother's side that fought in the Revolutionary War and and the one of my favorite organizations the daughter of the American Revolution
Daughters of American Revolution uh as all of you already know I bombarded you with uh literature emails and and such uh it's coming up on America's 250th anniversary uh back in
1776 we decided we no longer want wanted to be under British rule and we broke away and formed this country that we're in right now and one of the things that was instrumental in that breaking away was that the people that wanted to break
away had to have a place to gather and where they gathered in Boston uh was under a tree and it was called The Liberty Tree and it was an Elm uh an elm tree which is indigenous to Florida and what the organizations uh the uh alalum
SAR and dar are doing doing is they are replanting these trees or designating these trees all across across the country uh to recognize that event that's coming up next year and we would really like to have one in putam county and the way that this Dove tailed in
with the Sunrise Rotary is as you know several years ago the uh plaa Sunrise Rotary let me get here to it uh did a project invol involving put
uh some putam County property the welcome sign uh at uh Highway 17 as it comes into pla at the intersection most of y'all are familiar with that uh our Sunrise Rotary uh we took that project on under Brink coats and we repainted the entire
sign uh it had fallen into a little disarray uh nothing wrong with that uh we repainted all the lettering uh we landscaped it um we eventually ended up there was already a place for a flag but I believe that original flag pole had
been removed because of the power poles uh we did uh we did remove the we did put one in at first but we decided it was too small uh we wanted a bigger flag pole every man can sympathize with me on that we want a large flag pole to raise
that flag up and uh that's there now now there was a if you look up on the screen here this was the end of that project that Paca Sunrise was going to take on originally we had wanted to honor all of our armed forces and have the military
insignia behind the sign there and in the centerpiece we were going to have the American flag um that's really not uh what we want to do now um as I'm here today we would like to take this is the area here if you're not familiar with it
um and I keep calling it Triangle Park if I call it triangle it's actually the John thebold Sports Complex I need to recognize that this is what we're envisioning without the other trees just one tree um and it's a it it would be a sapling it would
be an area that uh veterans could come we could uh have uh it's already an open Park that area is it's a huge field there uh we could have events there and all three of the clubs would be responsible for maintaining this and getting
Benjamin Putman uh he a legislator he was in involved in those Wars and he was you know he was a lawyer too so and that's what we're named after and uh it it it's just a a great way to uh preserve our history uh
educate people about the Liberty Tree and what went on almost 250 years ago and to and to honor our other military services and with your permission and staff's Direction uh we'd like permission to go ahead and finish up
this project and uh make that a small area dedicated to our armed services and have a have a have our own putam County Liberty Tree here in putham county and that's it I I I rush through that because I know you all have a busy schedule but I am open to any questions
if you have any are there any questions from the board okay is there a motion Madam chair I move that we approve this quest for tree at John theable Sports complex behind
the city of Welcome to P I absolutely second that motion all right we have a motion a second all in favor say I I any oppose like sign all right congratulations Cong you guys are great than for your presentation it's going to be a great asset for putam County can we do
pictures too absolutely all right so do we you want us to shift around yeah that would probably be easy come on guys y'all want to get in over [Music] there okay everybody get
thing wait we got another guy all don't fight with people at the paper than you're welcome you're welcome thank you I like your hat I like your hat right thank you thank
you don't don't let him forget a hat Sally next time come in with a flute playing okay I would have like yeah hurt all right employee recognition find out where the cuts
are a second employee coniss morning to everybody uh this morning I just wanted to uh pull Kayla Wy up uh she is one of our uh operators she runs our Ro plant for the water um
forget your go Y and uh anytime someone better themselves and goes for further education I think that needs to be recognized Kayla just recently and it's in your packets but I'll read it for the public just finished her Associate in Science environmental technology um she
also got a certification for water quality technician and environmental science technician all from Florida Gateway College and this was uh just happened this past December and so I wanted to give Kayla the recognition that she deserves for trying to be the
best water plantor we've got thank you uh thank you I appreciate it uh I thought I was here to talk about our membranes uh you are that's later on in the in the party but thank you I I appreciate the recognition well let me say from somebody who's worked full-time
and had to get and and got our education once at a time I understand what you went through so you should be very proud we're proud of you thank you thank you thank you pict yes we'd love it picture there you go I got a road block in front of me I
see that we love to see our employees make strides and improving their education all right moving into Planning and Development public hearing did get didn't
that good morning Commissioners for the record Zachary Baker planning and development services uh the first case is a rezone uh it's case number 24-12 the applicant as Robin Matthews they're requesting a zoning map Amendment from residential mobile home park RMH to
residential 2 on a 0.85 acre parcel located at 135 finny Trailer Park Road in patka near the high school currently there is one single family residence located on the parcel uh so the property is non-conforming with the RMH zoning
District it has a future land use designation of urban service um according to the NWI Wetlands layer and the FEMA flood zone layer on the gis reference map uh there appears to be no jurisdictional wetlands and it is within
special flood Hazard area X um there's already a home on the property so if the application is approved the property owner would be able to maintain their property in accordance with the residential 2 zoning
District here we have an aerial you can see it's within an enclave surrounded by the city of Palaca future land use designation zoning District staff is recommending approval of the request to amend the zoning map from residential manufactured home park
to residential 2 as it is uh consistent with the adopted goals objectives and policies of the putam county comprehensive plan the Planning Commission also unanimously recommended approval of this request on January 88th 2025 I can take any questions are there
any questions from the board all right this is a public hearing is there anybody anybody in the audience who wants to speak in favor or against this item all right coming back to the board Madame chair like to make a motion
to approve U let me get my rezone Rez 24-12 Matthews ordinance 2025 d005 um amending ordinance number 24- 12
and by title that's stated in our packet on page 53 I won't read the entire thing so I make a motion to approve we have a motion second and we have a second any further discussion all in favor say I I I any opposed like sign all right thank
you all right Commissioners next on the agenda is um two applications being read concurrently one is a future land use map Amendment the other is a zoning map Amendment um at the end I will be seeking an a determination on the future
land use map Amendment first followed by the rezone case numbers respectively are CPA 24-5 and rezone case 24-13 the Jones family owns a 6 acre parcel located in the rural residential future land use designation
um and in the agriculture estate zoning designation uh they're requesting an amendment to a future land use and a zoning again the property is 6 Acres it's located on 1722 County Road 308 in Crescent City which is just North of the
Eagle Landing I think subdivision um there are some special flood Hazard areas located on the property it is a waterfront property so with that Waterfront there is some special flood hazard as well as some jurisdictional Wetlands um on
approximately the north 2 and a half acres uh any development um if the request is approved we'll have to be compliant with the a future land use designation the a zoning district and be developed in accordance with um FEMA
special flood hotard regulations and in consideration of the jurisdictional wetlands here we can see an aerial of the property the feature land use you can see it is adjacent to the a feature land use
designation here's the zoning completely surrounded by Agriculture and this shows the wetlands on approximately that North half of the parcel staff is recommending approval of the request to amend the feature land use map from rural residential to
Agriculture and recommending approval for the request to amend the zoning map from a estate to agriculture as the requests are consistent with the putham County Land Development code the goals objectives of policies therein and also
Planning Commission recommended approval January 8th 2025 unanimously I can take any questions are there any questions from the board no I'd move for approval of of both the future land use map Amendment ending in 05 and the rezone request
ending in 13 okay give me just a second let me ask for a public comment okay is there any public comment this is of public hearing is there anybody for or against this item all right thank you sorry second motion it's on the floor my apology for the no fine
fine all right we have a motion and a second any further discussion from the board all in favor say I I any opposed like sign motion passes that was on both of those commissioner yeah yes okay yes sir all right land speed record
this morning uh finally we've got case re24 -15 the applicants are Kathleen Weaver Oscar Smith and Carol Smith being represented by um Patrick Kennedy this request is to amend the zoning map from agriculture to commercial neighborhood
C1 the partial is 2.22 acres and it's located at 921 South Moody Road in patka uh the request here in particular is for a dance studio um directly across the street from the parcel while it is within the
city of pak's Municipal boundaries it is a commercial designation and then to the east of the parcel uh also city of Paka which is a multif family development currently under construction the subject site has a urban Reserve future land use
designation approximately 150t of Road Frontage on Moody Road um and according to the National Wetlands inventory layer and the FEMA flood zone layer on the gis map M it does not appear to contain jurisdictional wetlands and is located
within flood zone x uh should this request be approved prior to construction of the new commercial development uh the project would need to be reviewed by the development Review Committee um it's a multi- agency committee that looks at um
commercial developments and multif family to ensure compliance with local state and federal regulations um so that would be the next step to development here we can see an aerial of the property the future land use of the
subject property and surrounding the zoning district and staff is recommending approval of the request to amend the zoning map from agriculture to commercial neighborhood C1 as it is consistent with the goals objectives and
policies of the putham county comprehensive plan and also January 8th the Planning Commission unan ly recommended approval for this request all right questions from the board commissioner Harvey thank you madam chair uh Zach I appreciate your presentation um when I got here many
many years ago it we really kind of didn't spell out what that development would be um and the reason I'm bringing that up is for our new Commissioners just because it says to allow the development of the dance studio it can be anything under C1 zoning correct that is correct the only reason we included
the dance studio information is it was in the packet I get it thank you thank you madam chair yep any other questions from the board is there anybody in the audience who'd like to speak in favor or against this item I see oh go ahead all right
attorney Kennedy is here Madame chair like to move approval make a motion to move approval of rez2 24-15 reone from egg to commercial neighborhood C1 for Kathleen Weaver Oscars Smith and Carol Smith second all right we have a motion in the second all
in favor say I I I any opposed like sign motion passes thank you Commissioners thank you moving into consent agenda items public comment on agenda items this portion of the agenda is designed to allow citizens an opportunity to bring matters to the atttention of the
board it is not reasonable to expect that the board will engage in debate or deliberation about matters on which the board has received no prior information as part of the agenda please limit your time to 3 minutes public comment cards are conveniently placed at the meeting room entrance and should be submitted prior to the meeting to the deputy clerk
who sits to the right of the podium are there any comment cards for the consent agenda items is there anybody in the public who'd like to speak on consent agenda items only all right seeing none Madam chair like to make a motion that we approve consent agenda items eight oops I'm
sorry um is there any Commissioners who'd like to pull any consent agenda items commissioner pisier commissioner Harvey ma'am no ma'am all right now you can go we're all in a I don't know why Madam chair I make a motion we approve consent
agendum it a b c d and e all right we have a motion on the floor second and a second all in favor say I I I all right motion passes to approve consent agenda items code enforcement do we have anybody here that wants to present code
enforcements that'd be great wasn't trying to be tur that's just my personality I'm just I'm just be a good time for you to come now I'm just trying to get the work done Tom Tom's usually watching the meetings and he usually will slide in here so but I can go ahead we moving a little fast
yeah that's all good so it's just the um we'll start off Mr Helms yes sir may I ask a question Madam chair is there anybody in the audience that uh represents any of these cases that are coming before us today on codes enforcement not that I'm
aware but I can see all right Madam chair if you don't mind I could go ahead I mean we don't have to listen to them we've had the opportunity to read them I make a motion we approve case 2020-18 uh for a fine reduction of 2144 pay within 90 days is there a
second second all in favor say I I I any opposed like sign all right nobody oppos nobody opposed we're good yep Madam chair on the next case if no one's in the audience on that case number 202-596-2679 we have a motion is there a second
second second all in favor say I I any opposed like sign all right moving along Madam chair on codes case 2010- 0148 Eugene Nelson Ferell I recommend that that we take the enforcement cost of
1671 if paid within 90 days right is there a second second all in favor say I I I any oppos like sign all right and Madam chair on the next case um two 2012- 00729 Eugene Nelson Ferell staff
recommendation is to for hard cost of 1781 if pay within 90 days and that's my motion is there a second second all in favor say I I Madame chair on case number 2020-61
1886 within pay within 90 days and that's my motion second is there a second second second all in favor say I I I all right thank you Thomas great presentation sweet and easy and and just for those watching I want to say
something about this process we have to do this we have to bring this in the public for public comment and um in case there's somebody who has issues with it and also recently an article and I thought it touched it really touched me regarding how we handle this process because in some counties they don't have
this process there's not an option for fine reduction and what happens is properties stay in derel throughout the county because the fines are much higher than what the party is actually valued at and it's the only thing that we have as far as teeth to is to find somebody
and so we go through this process um moving on to new business parks and R it's me Madam chair thank you uh thank you uh commission we have received a request from the TDA the transportation data analytics office uh they've received funding for an
additional pedestrian bicycle counters on our sun Trail Network they'd like to install on the duns Creek us7 Trail that portion of the trail is fdot and putam County there's a joint operation they're going to Bear the expense of the
equipment and and the um reporting of it and maintenance of it and upkeep of it and ultimately when they decide to dispose they will bear the expense of disposing of it properly and all of that um they'd like to install these non-motorized traffic monitoring for the purpose of collecting and maintaining
statistical data on our bikes and our uh pedestrian walkways which will then convert to allocating of funding as it becomes available right right so we're looking for a memorandum of agreement um Commissioners are there any questions for staff
n none okay is there a motion Madam chair I move that we authorize you to sign the memor of agreement on this non-motorized traffic monitoring program there it's presented is there a second second all right all in favor say I I
any opposed like motion passes um sanitation uh commissioner if you would allow I'm going to handle that one as well absolutely we did a bid 2318 and it was awarded to a cont contractor who then subsequently did not complete the project was brought back you guys to
formally terminate the contract that's part of our bond process of calling the bonds uh The Next Step was the bond agency reviewed the project and the outstanding scope of work we received um two quotes or solicitations on completing that sent those to the bond company the bond company came back and
selected the vendor um as represented here and then the bond company has um proposed a settlement offer cutting us a check for the difference between what what's remaining in our County um budget allocation for the project and to complete the project so with this um sum
of 31401 combined with our funds that we already have for this project it will equal the total of the 6234 so we are asking that you accept the settlement agreement and that you authorize us to engage the contractor as selected with the bond process thank you are there any questions from the board I
have one go ahead Madam chair thank you so much um I just want the public to know that seldom and I don't recall that we ever got somebody's Bond but seldom does this ever happen but this is no BL or stain on the county this we do our
due diligence UPF front and things happen during the process with contractors and you know and and that's just part of what goes on so um I I appreciate the bonding company stepping in I wish they wouldn't have had to do that but they had to and um and leftover
money will make this project whole so we win and I and I really wish the contractor uh good luck in the future because it it is I mean nobody wants to start a job and not complete it but sometimes things happen in business and it just goes that way so those are my
comments Madam chair I would also like to say that this is why we have these process in place to protect us which protects our citizens and and our tax dollars and it's really doing the right thing um to have bonds and I know uh sometimes we get a little um you know
people get upset because they're like why are you have all these requirements I can't I can't be a qu vendor but we have we have these these requirements in place for situations just like this okay those are my comments with u is there are there any um any other questions or
comments all right I I entertain a motion Madam chair I move that we approve the sanitation Administration construction project Bond settlement and budget resolution 2025-the items this portion of the agenda is designed to allow citizens an
opportunity to bring matters to the attention of the board it is not reasonable to expect that the board will engage in debate or deliberation about matters which the board has received no prior information as part of the agenda excuse me please limit your comments to 3 minutes public comment cards are
conveniently placed at the meeting room entrance and should be submitted prior to the meeting to the deputy clerk who sits to the right of the PO okay yes I do all right we do have some comment cards um Mr steel Dan
steel they're all asking for they all speak with three minutes each please give your name and address for the record good morning my name is Dan steel live at 202 M Lane Interlock in Florida uh all three of us are here for the same reason here yes sir pardon
I said yes sir okay uh the uh contract we have for the msbu grading uh I believe in the past that they've always taken the lowd and we'd like to see if we could get that changed to use the throw out
the high bid the low bid and take someone in the center if there's a couple people haven't checked out what kind of job they do if they got the manpower to do it if they've got the equipment to do it and go from there because our roads are deteriorating
faster than what than than they have because uh I fed the grader yesterday where we put down $800 of of Cl he's grading it off to the edge of the road so after a while the Clay's
gone and we've got a lot of problems Tony gets a lot of phone calls on people that uh have said they haven't had their Rose graded and uh we like to also have GPS in those graders so Tony can go back
and say yes that road was graded two weeks ago so they know that it's been done and he knows where to go to find that grater also the greater Opera we have right now and uh I could bring a guy in here that is over in District 5
he'll pull off the edge of Road probably his feet up and talk on the cell phone for a half an hour now that's not helping us a bit with him on the cell phone and if you want to find out about the roads you probably should talk to the bus Department because the buses we have are
getting tore up by a lot of the roads because they're not graded properly and we need we need a lot of work done uh so we're all here for that and they may have some more comments here and you are Ralph hey Ral hegy hey
Ralph hi 112 pul Drive Hollister um I can't really top what he just said it's pretty much about the same thing and uh sometimes you pay if you pay less that's what you get you get less you got
to find like a happy medium you know so uh we got some good graders out there but we got to have somebody that's got good equipment so other than that yall thank you for thank you Mr reic
my name is Andre reck I live at 410 Jackson Terrace yes sir thank you interlockin I guess I'm in the West plam msbu I moved here in 2023 and I heard about the msbu as the advisory committee for the roads in my area so I got
involved and have been participating I do want to give a shout out to Tony who's done a good job with the advisory committee he's always available he seems to have a lot of integrity and uh he's given us good information on how things work with msbu um and I do want to say
that there have been some Great accomplishments I've seen more cover put in uh we've got some crushed asphalt on one of our main roads coming in to our msbu so I applaud the commission on getting that done I'm not sure how that worked out but we're
grateful and um I have been saying as then was saying more Clay is coming in and our concern is about how the clay is being used on the roads there um so my main question coming to you today is based on your policies and procedures choosing the lowest bid the only option
you have for choosing a contractor for doing maintenance work um and the biggest complaint that I've heard in the two years that I've been involved from Neighbors and from people who come to the committee meetings is that the quality of the grading is poor and that
the uh response to things that happen to the roads we know they're dirt roads they're not going to be anything more than dirt roads but they can be maintained um but the response to things like wash outs when it rains and um when it gets rough because of use of heavy
trucks and things like that or when the side by sides decide that it's their own private off-road Racetrack and they tear up the roads doing donuts in the intersections the response from the contractor repairing those problems is very slow and so those are the biggest
complaints that we hear um and so I wonder about always choosing the lowest bid because typically they have less equipment to use I only see the greater maybe once every six weeks comes down coming down my road and it takes months for things to get fixed uh when there
are ruts and wash outs which happen on a a regular basis when it rains real real hard um and so I I do encourage you to look at choosing mid-level bids if that's something that you can do um I encourage you to include performance
metrics in the contract leing process a lot of the contractors are known in the area they have done work were able to see what kind of work that they do um and I encourage you to seek feedback from us your advisory committee in the two years no one has ever come to me or been at one of our meetings that and
have said you know we're looking at doing this what do you think so use us as your uh as your listing board or hearing board right that's all I got thank you Mr Rik I appreciate that those were good comments thank you um thank
you commissioner Harvey thank you madam chair just want to for our new board members of msbu the M Municipal service benefit unit these are vital to uh West putam the West putam msbu is 95 miles of
dirt roads with the highest elevations in putam County so it's not like um it's a flat Road it isn't and I can tell you it's um it's a challenge out there when we get rain like we have last couple days is really good when we get 8 Ines
of rain really bad um it just washes everything out so even if you tried to pave all that for $95 million or less you would still have problems with wash outs and all that so it's just a very
weird area out there it's a beautiful uh elevation but the msbu process and and let me say this what we've done before you got here and commissioner paler was here back when the msbu were going pretty strong we we indexed them a few
years ago so now it's a cost of doing business and that cost has actually moved on to per lot out there uh before we never had that availability so it's very important um that we do that and Tony I came across an email the other
day that you had sent that you asked the contractor to start doing the GPS and all that which is very important to know where they've been it is hard to find a Contractor on 95 miles of dirt roads but I will say you know these kids are young
too and we have problems the minute you grade it they smell that new clay and they are out there with their four wheelers and they're playing around um and then we have a sand pit out there that is privately owned and they use that they haul material out of there a
private contractor does so that area has a lot of challenges but um I don't think it ever will not have challenges but I think Tony you're doing a fabulous job and and I don't think we can change our bidding process can we Julianne to Lois
bidder uh but we can probably tighten up contract so I'll let you talk about that so it's a loaded question you just asked I know I didn't mean to put you on the spot it's just public procurement Statewide when you do a bid it does
require the low bid lowest responsive vendor to be awarded that contract um in cases where they don't meet eligibility or where we have locally debarred them or we have had reason for to disqualify them from a solicitation then of course
they regardless of what their dollar bid would be they would not be an eligible responsive vendor um alternatively you could enter into an RFP request for proposal but this is not an ideal scenario where we would cons as a procurement official or we would
consider this um a need for a request for proposal thank you and I remember a time back years and years ago when they did go out for bid and some out of town companies uh got the bid and they were double what they and and we had to scrap
it and start all over because again we couldn't index the fee at that time so it would have been disastrous so thank you madam chair for allowing me commissioner paler this may be a question for our staff um me being in
the dark here how often are these uh being graded and are we have any checks and balances going behind these people to hey this is a quality job hey might never go back over this again or just kind of being sure they're doing what they're supposed to do uh yes sir
commissioner we uh that's a monthly uh grading in those particular areas I Boulevard which would be in your District uh West putam I North I South those are graded every month uh we do our best to get through there uh once a month to make sure that we're we're
checking behind the contractor making sure the grading has been done sometimes it's a little bit difficult depending on the weather or like commissioner Harvey talked about how many times the the level of traffic in there the number of if the if the road was graded on Friday
how many people came in there on over the weekend to go do donuts in the intersection uh we we definitely do our try to do our due diligence to see what um to to make sure that the work has been done uh I would like to say that the new contract that is currently out
to bid we are tightening up those numbers we are requiring that the contractor uh have GPS on their equipment much like Public Works does because uh public works also gets those phone calls of well the motor grader hadn't been to my Road in six months and
all we have to do is type it up and say well that's incorrect the motor grader was there two weeks ago right so that's a way of also too protecting our contractors along with protecting the County's reputation more or less with the citizens uh we actually just amended the contract with a couple of other
things to try to I guess the direction we want to go in is we want to we the county needs to dictate how the contractor is getting his work done to where we're it it's a little more organized and we can and
there's better accountability so uh this is there that is one msbu it's I South that's out to bid right now and that's going to be our that's more or less our test bed for moving forward uh as far as any of the bigger ones and in the future as long as it works and and whatever we
may have missed or got wrong we can just uh we can add to the next contract whenever it comes out to bid and we'll we'll just keep on moving forward like that in our current situation the way this works um they do the grading do they provide the material or is that up to us do we intervene anywhere they do
every bit of start to finish or how does that work uh no sir we provide the msbu uh pays for the material and that's part of the contract there's a a grading and the material delivery and spread that's all a contracted price and we're also too we're in the process of trying to
piggyback onto the County's um uh contracted price for material as far as any other material other than clay like your Lime Rock and now Shell Rock we actually uh we've had a lot of luck with the Shell Rock uh recently in uh commissioner Alexander's area in Satsuma
we were able to really make some time on some of those roads there and and Shell Rock once it's been uh once it's been rolled it it seals itself I cannot take credit for knowing that County engineer told me that so thank you Scott I appreciate it and uh but it it really
does work well I I I I'm astounded at how well it holds up after a rain you would think that it would be a soupy nasty mess and it was not and i' actually went and looked at it after a rain specifically to see what how it holds up and that's the way we want to move forward with the main collector
roads whether it's West putham is easy enough to find those main collector roads they have their main thars through there which yes is got is kind of tore up sometime because of the towns and pit or what would be the the old towns and pit I'm not 100% sure who owns it now
but uh I II North and II South are are different animals they are there's a lot of roads out there there's that's 100 roughly 133 miles of uh graded Road in those two msbu so we do work with the
putam county school district identifying the bus routes I get phone calls from the uh from Transportation saying when the you know the buses are having issues down here uh but I will say this though the buses the trash trucks and honestly
the rural Mar carriers are part of the problem these dirt roads are not made to take a a trash truck driving through there as fast as they can to get their route done slamming on brakes creating burms uh the buses I you know I understand that uh you know that there's
a lot of and there's a lot of people moving in too so there this this problem will not go away it will continue to get worse as the years go by so we're just trying to manage it the best we can as you were talking about that material what did you call it that holds up really well the Shell Rock Shell Rock um
you know I'm sure it's cheap it's not as cheap as clay or something else but we might be getting more bang for our buck by paying a little extra by for something that lasts longer and holds up better under wear and tear yes sir it it's just a matter of staying within budget for the msbu so I kind of need to
I need to be picky about where I put it uh also too commissioner Wilkinson that Committee in Bostwick has uh approved uh shell rock to be taken to some of the roads that are not slated to be paved up there uh is just a way to move forward we're trying to really get a and and one
so one thing that I found out from Scott again is that uh the Shell Rock has a better lbr than Lime Rock does uh is it load bearing rating is that correct okay so thank you we're actually getting we are around the same price
we're getting a better product to put on the ground uh than uh Lime Rock necessarily so we're just like I said it is a it's a nuanced complex problem throughout all of the msbu in West puam they all have their own
personalities and you just have to deal with them accordingly I understand thank you yes sir and just for those uh listening IL means inter lar and Lake Estates um commissioner Alexander you're recognized thank you madam chair I had a ton of questions for Tony but uh he's
done a good job of answering most of them but I I applaud you for the work you're doing and also giving credit to those that have given you the information you know a lot of people are so proud but I know it's difficult just being the pretty face but uh I've lived with that my entire life it's a burden but one that I I live with I deal with
it every day thank you brother I appreciate it yes sir all right thank you all right are there any other public comments come on sir you already had a chance go
ahead I I'll let you come back with come on that's okay we're glad you're here please say your name and record your name and record my name is Kevin Nelson I live on 106 camar way pull that microphone up a little closer there you
go I live on 106 cam way and I've gone through different Avenues of trying to address a problem I have I'm going to read a letter that I a bit at a while ago when I did petition to vacate this road at put we are Kevin T and Melanie V Nelson having been putam County
residents our current address is 106 Camaro way since the early 90s we chose this location to raise our family because it's secluded and surrounded by Nature over the years we've not been able to fully enjoy our property due to frequent nuisances of other people gathering on the North End Of chimo Way
which have been engaged in lottering trespassing breaking into property theft vandalism harassment discharging of firearms excessive alcohol consumption unattended fires frequent littering excessive noise without regardless
without regard to the time day or night um and I've just wed to uh I've talked to Mr Stout at Public Works recently um and the the answers I keep getting are a little bit uh nothing's
definite nothing's written on what I can do to to address this so one of my questions is for this of how how can I communicate or get information on stepping forward I did petition to vacate the road that seemed to be Pandora's Box I do believe everything I
filled out was correct but my question is how do I get information on what's allowed from the your position on what's allowed to be done on Camaro way so when you say you petitioned you filled out formal paperwork already and it went through the process or it did not go through the process it it went to Public
Works I talked to Trexler twice and nothing after that I did talk to Mr Stout talked to Mr Harvey commissioner Harvey um and it seems to be a gray area and I'm just wanting to push to get this addressed I think we do
have a process for that um commissioner Harvey thank you thank you madam chair and thank you Mr Nelson I mean this has always been through legal also this is a problem on the south side of George's Lake and it's a it's we don't own it it we don't the county does have no
ownership on this property some Deeds out there are saying that people have access to the lake I haven't seen that I'm just hearing that Mr Nelson you and I talked about trying to move more to the west of your prop whatever easement is provided and and creating a new
easement down there that might could help alleviate the biggest one was fire rescue when we when we first did this as far as well there there's a lot of problems and it was the the the boat ramp on the north side of the lake there was a a few problems but we are we did try and we went through legal and we
can't give you something that we don't own with the end result uh but you know so what what who do I talk to for for the steps of legal then I would still go back through public work works and let them go through the channels and bring it back what your
plan before the board here well bring it back to us and we'll probably Madam chair we'll probably do a workshop one day and that might be on it and then we could bring it up or do it here and have a discussion on it what we can do but we can't give something away we don't own
that's the key okay so so it's it's a recorded plant but the county has never accepted it as a dedicated PL correct that and that's not just your area there's that that's happened to hand to our box because that this opens up a
whole new level of of ownership which actually would revert back to a budding property correct that's my I mean that's I'm not a legal counsel right well I mean as far as chapter 177 in the Florida Statutes that that pretty much
lays out okay um but I did like your idea that we talked about in public and I told you that that day that I like that idea and if we can make that happen somehow well well keep in mind I'm not trying to burn anybody here and I got understand that you wanted to create a
new easement on theist and I did want to address fire rescue because right now if if they had to use that part of the road there's no culto saac no turnaround it's a mud hole it it' probably be more of a waste of time or more more of a problem we were talking about putting a big
swing and a dry um so we were were talking about helping life safety and working forward here not burning anybody so um and for the new Commissioners we do have dry hydron on the north side of George's Lake out in Flor home but again we have a very short lease on that there
was a new landowner that bought that out from I believe it was raner if not not mistaken but so we are working with that new landowner to try to to have a more permanent location there but we're not sure that that's going to happen either so okay so um thank you for your time
thank you thank you madam chair thank you all right um with that we'll close out public comments did you have something I'll let you come back up um real quick all right that'll be great thank you all right no problem um appointments
do we have any appointments starting with commissioner Alexander I have none all right commissioner newold none today commissioner paler none commissioner Harvey
um let me look real quick all right I don't believe I have any all right uh clerk reyolds had told me he couldn't be here he's at a at a another event uh County attorney do you have any comments no Madam chair thank you County Administrator uh yes ma'am
Madam chair just quickly uh and I don't want to steal any commissioner thund there but we had a great weekend of events here in putam County uh enjoyed the uh Bassmaster Elite tournament this weekend enjoyed visiting the way in a
afternoon with our our our chair and the event as far as the zya festival that that's that went on at this time was a phenomenal success uh Kathy Griffin and her team deserves all the all the uh accolades they can they can get that
because it was a an excellent event uh my wife and I were there both Saturday and Sunday all day uh and you know the comments that I heard up and down the street were nothing but positive comments about putam County and and I'm going tell you the comments that we heard Thursday at the way in