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okay we will go ahead and call to order the meeting of Stanford City commission for Monday March 10th 2025 first order of business is the legislative Prayer by Pastor Bernard John's of the connection Community Church followed by the pledge of Alle
everyone let's pray dear heavenly father thank you for this committed group of men and women who serve the community who step forward and take upon the concerns and the desires of their fellow citizens Lord let there be wisdom in the deliberations and let your will be done
in your name I pray amen amen of the United States of America to Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all thankor and then we have a business
Spotlight yes Mr Mayor m city commission I would like to turn to economic development director bretty lard and he has a very special guests in the business Spotlight so Mr lad yes thank you city manager mayor Commissioners it is a pleasure to introduce this lady to
you all tonight and uh actually I would be remiss if I didn't mention that Miss holder and her new uh colleague Nemo are uh planning to uh take this to a different level I said Nemo I can't believe I just said it sorry Nico Captain ni you know it's Mr it's actually Mr
bonart can he please have to stay after work every day this week it's actually appropriate that I called him Nemo instead of Nico uh the first time I met shara's husband for about a 45 minute meeting I kept saying Hey Kevin Hey Kevin trying to have the pneumonic
device memory of his name we walk myoy by that's her ex-boyfriend's name and her husband's name's Devin so hello so uh but honestly um many years AG ago and we can't remember where it was but I met
Shara at an event and I I remembered it more vividly than her if she even did because at the time I had one friend from Trinidad now I have two friends from Trinidad so um until you get her name wrong yes exactly so uh many of us know about uh the Sanford Brewing
Company story we were disappointed when uh they ran into some hurdles and it was really kind of a blow to the community it really was uh I started hearing that Shara was poten interested in this uh Venture uh so I reached out to her started probably blowing up her phone
more than she was interested in hearing from but I was thrilled when she called and said Brady we've made the decision I said great when do you Clos she said we just did so I thought that was fantastic so I wanted to get sha to come here as our business Spotlight to tell you a
little bit about uh her real career I would say prior to this Venture uh how her vision for her company Brando uh looks and and what those prospects are for the city of Sanford so with that I'd like to introduce Shara pic to you and
uh turn it over to her okay good evening everybody and thank you guys so much for for having me here this evening um I've lived in Orlando for a long time close to 30 years and probably ventured out to San conferred
maybe five times in that period of time um as BR mentioned Brando actually is is not well it was not my primary business but it's slowly becoming that I'm actually in manufacturing we manufacture
ID risk bands in or Orlando our operations are in Orange County and we do wristbands for festivals and hotels and surgery centers I'm sure everybody sitting here has worn our product at least one time and we're also into uh
software we develop an in-house software platform that controls access and cashless purchasing so I'm in a very very different space um in my everyday work compared to Brando but the Brando
story uh started because I had a tenant in a building and they didn't make it after covid for as much as I tried to help them along uh which I did because I felt like the quality of the beer and um and I'm not a huge Beer Drinker myself but
it was exceptionally good and I felt like they had something special there they um unique story they were funded by the Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church put quite a bit of money into that business until they just decided they didn't want to do it anymore and at
that time it was the middle of December in 2021 and when that happened I was is just going to close the doors and put the business in the hands of a broker and look for you know have him look for somebody else and then my phone started blowing up with the employees who who
knew me just kind of coming in there sometimes but they knew that I was the landlord and um reached out to just kind of plea you know hey we have nowhere to go do you know what's going to happen with this business and I I know nothing
about brewing beer well that's time and um you know right before Christmas I just thought give me a week or so I'm going to give you guys a little bit of a bonus from my pocket just so you can get through Christmas um but I can't make
any promises I don't know the first thing about this business but I I need to pray on this and I need to think about this and so I went to Tennessee that Christmas and um I walked into the house where we were staying and there was a plaque that that was the first thing that I saw in that house and it
talked about the man in the arena um I don't know if you've actually ever read that but I read it and I thought oh my goodness like this is like a sign I probably have to do this um so I went back and I said this is what I'm going to do there
is beer in the tanks I will come to some kind of agreement a settlement agreement with the old owners and they they'll allow me to use their license as long as you guys could sell you enough beer to pay for your salaries then I'll keep the
doors open until I find somebody else so the the search was actually very active um trying to find someone else another operator and I told them if they do a good job with this then I'm sure that they'd land somewhere well but it has to be run like a business and I learned
very quickly that the craft fair space is a passion business and often times um it's not really run the way that a business is supposed to be run so that was the first thing that we changed over there and that was the deal and that was how this started so in that search there was
a big conglomerate from Trinidad like Brady mentioned I'm from Trinidad and they wanted to expand their footprint um into Central Florida and they came and they looked at the facilities and I met with them and the numbers just were not making sense for me so I bowed out of
that opportunity but in that um exchange I met their CEO who was very well connected Ed in the the craft brewing space well brewing in general he worked for some big box places like Yingling he had been with that company for 15 years
I explained to him you know what I felt could be the vision for for something like what I had in my hand and I said it doesn't have to be the same name you know I just renamed it so that we could continue doing business but I think that there's good potential and I think that there's something special here for the
right people but it also has to make sense for me um long story short 6 months later he left them and we decided that we were going to give this project a go so so that's where that's where the story started and um there was a lot to
iron out um just in terms of the structure of the business and how we wanted things done and two years later we had an opportunity at Icon Park to make some bear for them and that led us to an opportunity to open a location on International Drive which we did in
October and uh it wasn't even a month that that location had been open and on the news uh I saw that the Sanford Marine company was closing down and just being in the industry I thought let me find out a little bit more about this I heard that there was some debt to be
paid and that if they just sold the building in Sanford they'd be able to do that and so that's how all of this started I did not did not intend to to buy the entire thing um but as we went through the process and as we spoke to more people it you know it slowly
started making a lot of sense and I have to admit not being familiar with the city of Sanford and really not knowing anybody here it was quite intimidating for me because I thought you know this could go really well or it can go
completely South um but with Brady's support and you know the assurance that there is a lot that the city has to offer I've I'm now a Believer so um that's the story of the brand but what's interesting is before I walked into this meeting
um somebody sent me this and I thought it was so perfect it says when you create a difference in someone's life you not only impact their life you impact everyone influenced by them throughout their entire lifetime no Act is ever too small one by one this is how
to make an ocean rise and that's how I feel about this brand and that's how I feel about what we've done and that's how I feel about what we're going to do here in Sanford um because we also have a manufacturing facility at Sanford Brewing here we have named this location
as The Innovation Hub for the Brando brand so this is where all of the recipe um all of the recipe creations and all of the fun stuff will happen and we're highlighting that uh to really highlight the Sanford location for for the brand
um these are just some pictures I'm not going to bore you to read the whole thing but I'd ask BR to share the slides with you all and when you have some time if you'd like to read it it just talks about um you know the what we created in
terms of of how this was born out of you know passion perseverance and you know um and and what it means to us it's always been a brand for Community hence the name so um I feel like it ties very nicely into what um is being done here
in Sanford and I feel like it's just a natural extension for growth for the brand we're also going into making um ciders which have become a lot more popular in the last year or so uh and that will all be also done out here in Sanford and and
and from our Sanford location the distributor that we've partnered with which is FDC which we've had a partnership with them before we came into Sanford which is why we didn't um use Wayne Den but the FD FDC actually really wanted to expand their footprint
into the valuan bravard corridors which they couldn't do uh because they just didn't have a brewery that they felt they could partner with um to do that and so this location in Sanford puts us right up into that Corridor so there's going to be quite a bit of manufacturing and distributing taking place from um
from the Sanford Rando location this is just an example of how we Market um our beers so we just recently got the award for not award um for the Food and Wine Festival at Epcot Japan chose Brando to manufacture the
Fuji apple IPA for this year's um Food and Wine Festival so this is how we typically would send out proposals apart from us being a Craft brewery we're you know we're obviously very sensitive to the way that things should be put together um and again tying into just it
being a business and it being positioned that way this is just a list of all of the beers we manufactur 23 different kinds of beers at Brando and uh with the acquisition of the Sanford Brewing Company the brand is now
Central Florida's largest Brey which I really did not expect so yes so that's it um I really appreciate you guys having me here and we're excited to we're excited about all the things that we're going to do I do want to let you know that um we actually
plan to open the doors this Saturday oh okay right yes um and and that got delayed a little bit because of our four cop license um the way that just because we have four locations we need to make sure that our documentation is straight and our licensing is straight and we're doing everything the way that we need to
do it so we had a little bit of a delay with the 4 cop which means that we just won't be serving alcohol when we open the doors but we'll be serving all of our beer wines and the kitchen will be open so we're aiming for that this Saturday that is hoping that we um we pass
inspection tomorrow for the kitchen which we we're optimistically hopeful that that's going to happen without any issues um and then on Friday which is the day before we open I'm going to send an invitation to Brady which he will send out to you guys we will we're just
going to do a very private um friends and family uh reception and we' we've changed a little bit of things inside of the space we had quite a bit of cleaning to do um and so I hope that most most of you will be able to make it on Friday
but thank you very much well congratulations and thank you for coming we're calling him Nemo now I'm already very positive this is going to be successful because she was smart enough not to tell you she was closing until after she actually closed
she already knew you Brady and this was excellent because it's women's history month and I'm glad to see a woman in business love it the wom I only saw two ciders on the menu
though I want to see more yes we are and Elder one is the most popular don't put on theot he lik are you saying Brady's there a lot also we have put in for a tradar for
sford so that's going to be the BR that we TI [Music] sford excellent wonderful thank you [Music] that's the one okay so to we do have public to
facilitate public input if you plan to speak on an item please complete one of the yellow citizens input forms at the rear and place it in the um the tray there um we also ask that you state your name and address for the record before speaking the public will be given an
opportunity to speak on any item before the city commission during the regular meeting including the cons agenda um during we don't have any public hearings tonight dur in regular items if you have not filled out one of the forms and um when we get to an item if you would raise your hand to be recognized we will
allow you to speak at that time there is a three minute time limit for each speaker on each item except a person representing organization presenting is the dur qu I um it's citizen participation which is before regular
items um individuals may address the commission on any topic um that is not on the agenda and there is a 5 minute time limit for those comments so first order of business for the commission is the minutes of the February 8th February 10 and February 24
meeting I have a couple of Corrections mayor okay um in the goals and work session February 8th minutes I just want to clarify when we're talking about the opportunities for the community um it kind of paraphrases and says that
commissioner Britain um says that sford needs to stop making it comfortable for the homeless people please I don't want that to be stated I the statement was for The Chronic and chronic homeless and that we don't need to be the hub for all
of the Public Services um It also says further down commissioner Britain suggested stock stocking the food pantries um in the schools rather than handing out food with the picnic project that's incorrect um it should State
commissioner Brittain um stated that we should stock the the Simo County Public Schools um pantries um instead of organizations doing it on their own it's nothing about
the not working with the picnic project or saying that we should do it instead of the picnic project it was just saying if organiz G ations wanted to do something that was uh an opportunity to work with Smo County Public Schools not in L of the picnic project so I just
wanted to correct that anything else no that's it than to approve as amended yes second motion second any further discussion all in favor any oppos nly is there anyone in audience wish to speak
on any of the items on the consent agenda no one will bring commission for consent a through L motion second all in favor I any oppos nly that we don't have any public
hearing so that brings us to Citizen conation is there anyone in wish to speak to the commission see no one we'll move on to other items and I may approve a pre-annexation agreement Mr yes Mr Mayor members of the city commission City
staff have reviewed the request for annexation and found the request to meet the criteria set forth in the Florida Statutes relating to voluntary annexation for property boundaries are contiguous to the city's boundaries and reasonably compact it is therefore the city staff recommendation City commission approve the pre-annexation
agreement as proposed questions or motion approve second motion second any further discussion all in favor I any opposed pass unly um budget transfer yes mayor members of City commission City staff is
requesting City commission approval of a budget transfer in the amount of 8,16 26 to reallocate funds from the project code WW1 1905 to project code ww 2502 and increase the purchase order
number 4545 in the amount of $ 63,65 with a new balance for the purchase order of $319 $496 for Cotto Way
project questions or motion Mo approve second motion of second any further discussion all in favor I any oppos pass anly uh purchase order 40173 Mr yes Mr Mayor members of the city commission City staff is requesting City commission
approval for an increase in purchase order 4173 to Roland de LLC for manho rehabilitation repair maintenance work in the amount of $1 million with a new total of $1,400,000 okay and
um this is something that will be continually to be added to until we get to the 5.5 million right okay questions or motion move to approve second any further discussion all in favor I any opposed pass anly um
engaging Donaldson Beerman calwell yes Mr Mayor M of the city commission City staff is requesting the approval of procurement for disaster recovery and government services from Donaldson Beerman Coldwell and bwat relating to issues arising from the interactions with the Federal Emergency Management
agencies pertaining to Sanford downtown Marina this is an agency we like to engage to help us with theme of reimbursement so Comm BR what actually what What's Happening Here explain explain to me what we're
doing good evening Craig radzak assistant city manager a a little bit of background we requested a meeting with FEMA because we had some delays in the request for reimbursement for the marina repairs has been sitting stagnant in the portal
FEMA's pornal for 6 to 8 months so we had the meeting with FEMA probably about a month ago and um in that meeting they basically said that um they would like to do another site visit which we did within six months after Ian so
essentially what they told us is they want to start over now when we did the initial site visit they spent a day and a half down there and then they were throwing in uh terms like deferred maintenance um 62-year-old Marina so which caught us off guard a little bit
so in order to um assist with FEMA reimbursement we thought it'd be a good idea to hire hire this firm that specializes in FEMA claims Chris has made a couple phone calls to other cities that um have used them and it's
uh mostly an investment in our part to spend a spend some money and get more reimbursement we think what's happening is fima is probably going to come back and offer us lower than the 18 million that we've requested Ed for claims so this firm would specialize in FEMA
claims and help us with reimbursement okay and then it says something about like um our legal expenses we may recoup those okay okay thank you didn't we didn't we already have
another group helping us get reimbursed feema we have FEMA Consultants that are on board to help us with all kinds of debris recovery and Marina this is one of the biggest projects that we have for the FEMA consultant we have on board now so they're part of the team and then this firm will be part of the team as
well so actually the FEMA consultant has been providing us advice to set up the meeting and this usually doesn't happen to slow so they kind of pushed us along to have this meeting with FEMA which it was a kind of disappointing and concerning meeting and that's what really sparked this engaging uh this
firm but the the consultant we have on board now is is mainly reporting not Advocate uh both they help with documentation reporting and provide advice on because a lot of the the consultant we have on board a lot of
them were ex FEMA employees okay and they they've been around a lot of them worked Katrina and other disasters so they know the process they know that inter working is of FEMA and they provide some guidance so they'll be part of the team along with the firm too they'll still be engaged with us so I know we're we're looking at
getting you know a a nice amount of reimbursement but their hourly rates are really expensive you know $600 an hour uh do we know how much this it's going to cost for them to advocate
for no there's no retainer fees that's good news I know um our assistant City attorney has talked to the firm I haven't talked to him yet but um I think it's going to kind of be one of those 14 dixan is going to be dependent on how much we use them and we'll be uh prudent with our monies with that if we don't need to use them we won't use them but
and in case we have too of to engage in them and that's the top uh hourly rate that's the uh attorney 600 and it scales down from there I think the lowest is probably 100 and something but it's still pretty high yeah um
okay that's it for me well um can we at least get some reporting on how much we are paying as this goes along absolutely absolutely just so we're not this is not
surprise certainly not taken lightly whatsoever but I have understanding they're the best in the nation I had a great conversation with the firm Lon talked to other city managers and their working with them and been excellent return they were able to recruit in in
city of cica in South Carolina 400,000 administrative fee their fee for Baker Donald 150 they recovered 98% so it's uh it's a really good you know I believe FEMA you know certainly toled them when they put their boots on the ground we put them on the front cover of the
paper um they were kind of we were kind of taken back by the meeting little surprising one of their persons there well they not here now well that's neither here or there we're damaged we are recouping legitimate funds from Hurricane Ian that hit us on September
28th in 2022 M after two and a half years of being an application process and we were told in December you're moving along great your application is doing fantastic we thought this was going to be basically kumay y meeting and we were blindsided not sure what's
going on with them at this time but those funds need to be spent on economic repair of of our city we were extremely damaged we're 83 days away from Hurricane Season yeah you know we we suffered an ef2 almost hit tamper today
M so you know we need to recover These funds right agree and you know I'm very very confident I had great conversations and um I did not tell uh you know Lonnie or Craig otherwise had a great great conversation I feel very confident we
need to receive a certain amount of funds so we can legitimately repair that Marina back to its standard so we get back on our feet so we need to recover a certain amount of percentage of those funds or it's going to be very difficult for the city to be able to fund
project and and we checked the sen experience where the consultant got sen Sena about four or five times what the fee originally offered as I recall and the rates that they were charged are the
same rates that we were being charged okay branded you know it's just kind of puzzling to us but here we go understood thank you any other questions we have a motion move to approve second motion
second further discussion all in favor oppos that's un um procurement from D yes Mr Mayor members of City commission City staff is requesting the commission approval for procurement relating to purchase of police department laptops computers and
accessories and this is in the amount of $427,500 questions or motion Mo approv motion second approve discussion all in favor all right any oppos pass resolution excuse me 3358 Mr Mayor
members of the commission City staff is requesting City commission approval resolution 3358 to amend the budgetary actions relating to the grant termination of the fla Department of Environmental Protection South Sanford wastewater treatment facility
BN BNR improvements for the nutrient reduction and protection of Lake Monroe and Lake Jessup Grant questions or motions move to approve second second any further discussion all in favor I any oppos pass
anly resolution 3359 yes Mr Mayor members of the city commission City staff is requesting commission approval of resolution 3359 to amend the budget and procurement to inside public Inc the police department will pay 43,000 $690 40 from Impact fees to purchase
ticket printers and accessories with subsequent expenses paid from the Department operating budget questions or motions motion second motion second any further discussion all in favor I any oppose pass nly resolution 3360 Mr Mayor
members of the commission City staff is requesting the city commission approve resolution 30360 amending the budget in the amount of $653 38 to purch Pur an F350 25 2025 for Ford Superduty truck
for the police department and these funds will come from the police department's impact V account questions or motion move to approve second motion second further discussion Qui question assume that the Superduty is necessary for the truck
yeah to pull the uh trailer that it has the really heavy barricade Barac to do so yes I don't question the police in his suit I move to approve oh I didn't notice he he's gone into being a pastor now I didn't even
notice so we have a motion in a second all in favor I any opposed passle resolution 3361 yes Mr Mayor members of the city commission City staff is requesting commission approval resolution 3361 urging and encour urging
the Florida legislator to oppose and defeat legislation currently Senate Bill 482 and House Bill 665 which would prohibit cities and counties from as a condition of processing or issuing a development permit or development order
requiring an applicant for development activity to install a work of art pay a fee for a work of art or reimburse the local government for any cost that the local government May incur relating to a work of art okay questions or motions move to
approve second Mo second any further discussion all in favor I any oppose question answer we're going to change that to not to provide a copy to all the chairs commit chairs to right yes budget transfer yes Mr Mayor members
of City commission City staff is requesting commissioner approval a budget transfer in the amount of $610,000 and Associated procurement activity in the amount of 9 $2,578 for a lift station Communications equipment from harder Services questions
or motion move to approve second motion second any further discussion all in favor any oppos iously resolution 3362 yes Mr Mayor members of City commission City staff is requesting City commission approve resolution
3362 urging and encouraging the Florida legislative to oppose and defeat legislation currently Senate Bill 4 20 and House Bill 1571 which among other things would prohibit the city commission from taking any poit official actions including but not limited to
adoption of ordinances resolutions rules or regulations programs or policies relating to diversity equity and inclusion move to approve second and this one also be more widely distributed
all in favor I any opposed pass Hansley and then we also wanted to approve a similar resolution opposing House Bill 301 so move second second further discussion all in
favor City attorney's report nothing to do this city clerk's report um I do have agendas here if you'd like them tonight for Monday the 17th for the city attorney's selection we are having that upstairs in the railroad Depot room okay
um also I received Central for Expressway they have two upcoming meetings I did see I received this in the mail today but I also received one email when I went back upstairs for dinner so you may have this as well okay they'll be holding two meetings and I
received a thank you card from the zoo for our uh Asian Lantern Festival with a copy of the lanterns that we sponsored if anybody would like to see those as well great um following up on the expressway Authority I don't know if you'all have
seen they've eliminated two options and modified one of them to be a little bit different and it really is a little bit different um but that's why they're going back to another public meeting because there's a new alignment it will be Wednesday April 2nd you can do in
person or online yeah we have put copies of that in your each individual mailbox can someone make sure they send me the the latest please she has it you have a copy of it
right yeah you can have this one well okay because I have an email copy as well I I can you s me the email please send the email okay I've also sent you an email while I was upstairs during the break of the resignations of each board thank
you all right when you when you said that mayor you made a face really is a little bit different can you expand the two that they are still looking at are the ones that go both of them go in that
narrow gap between um not one to preserve but the other one kington place and the newest one one of them comes off a little further down 417 um before it cuts over and connects
to that um I would have to look at it to really understand the bit of difference I think it's a shorter Road Route but it may have um I think it impacts a historic home
um so couple options down to to go yeah oh boy all right um city manager report yes Mr Mayor we received a request for a change of time from p and pause I'd like
Miss Jones to explain that good evening mayor City commissioners uh last week we received notice from the business owners um an applicant for pintes and PAW which is scheduled for March 29th their original application was
approved for street closures from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. with the event hours from noon to 6 uh upon some further investigation and seeing some promotions we realized that they were actually promoting the event from 11:00 a.m. to 7: p.m. that would not affect the street
closure times but it does affect the hours of operation so we wanted to bring that back to your attention and uh for discussion or approval the music would stop at 7 yes ma'am okay yes street closures would remain until 9: no
problem that's still early enough right yeah move to approve no change to the yes ma'am that's correct okay do we need to a motion to approve that I believe so okay do we have a motion do we have a
second second all in favor any opposed thank you okay nothing else Mr all right commissioner Bretton um I was going to say it at the work session but I wanted to say it publicly I want to
congratulate um our city employee Britt Henderson and our City Commissioner um Carrie Wiggins on a very successful Gayla although it is not a city government related event it is an organization that benefits the people of
Sanford And I was very impressed and um happy to be in attendance of that so Kudos good job commissioner Wiggins thank you um earlier in the year I I told the commission that I will not be doing the back to school event for the the the teachers which is the district
one large event and I'm keeping my on that uh my Community Partnership is with um the school at my district Hamilton Elementary School I will be the speaker and MC at um their event their Vision event for uh the girls and their mothers
and I would like to sponsor the t-shirts for uh that event at Hamilton Elementary School um it is in the amount of $1,300 for a public purpose so I am asking the commission for a motion um for those funds taken from the district one
account move to approve second okay all in favor any oppos Manley thank you um um members of the commission um I spoke uh at the work session about the cultural Guild um uh that commissioner Thomas and I both attended I just want
to briefly on the record say that I'm really excited about the future of the possibility of the Botanical Gardens and to let those know who are watching that IDE did ask for the guild to come and do a presentation alongside the CRA to the
city um commission and publicly I'd like to thank Brady Pam Jerry and um brigit um for all that they're doing um to see that um come to fruition um a couple of things I want to address the zoo um Lantern
advertisements on SEMO Boulevard are still up that event was over in January so I don't know I know that our Public Works is responsible for taking those down but when you ride down seminol Boulevard it looks like it's a an event that's still happening so I'm wondering
when are we taking th those flags down um uh I don't have to have it right now but that's something that we should address uh I requested at the beginning of the year a log sheet regarding the
trash uh the commission approved a um an employee that was to you know solely pick up trash I haven't heard anything about that um I was adamant about that employee not being on a crew uh the
commission asked for that for that employee to pick up trash we have four weeks in a month four working days out of the week that should not just be dedicated to district one but to all four districts and I have not seen um
that like I would have liked to see when I do my own picking up trash in my district I pick up two bags of trash so there should be you know there should be some kind of log showing how how that trash is used especially is is being picked up
especially because a lot of our residents were complaining about the amount of litter that we have um in specific areas so I requested that I haven't seen it and I've heard that it's
um that employee may be moved to a um a crew and that's not what we asked for um I am going to ask for the commission to please give me 30 seconds
of respectful un un interrupted time it is so important that we treat others how we would like to be treated and my 30 seconds are starting right now I don't need to go any longer
this is from district one commissioner Britain staring at someone for an extended period of time is considered disrespectful especially if I have informed that individual that it makes people feel
uncomfortable judged or scrutinized I feel and have been told that it has been used as an intimidation form of management I am offended it is in appropriate behavior I do not condone
it I've witnessed it being done to employees and it has been done to me I had my 101 with the city manager and I asked for our meetings to be recorded and also a staff member to attend there
I had serious issues with uh employees not being able to freely come to the the city of sford when they have issues there was a matter that was brought before HR regarding abuse of uh supervisory roles and I asked the city
manager to please look into that to follow up because uh employees felt uncomfortable because a staff member allegedly had asked them for money and did not return it and I have explained to City staff that they need to follow
protocol because honestly I do not feel that I can help but we do have a city manager we do have human resources and the process that they went through was very poor uh they were called in a recorder was shoved in front of their
face the whole process went to where the accused supervisor knew what was going on and people felt like there was an era of retaliation my response is is we need to treat others how we would like to be treated I address that with the city manager and I've done it over and over
again because if we don't have we don't have a city government if we do not have city employees and we must always treat others how we want to be treated I was stared at after I made my ending statement to Mr bonapart I've asked Mr
bonapart in 101 meetings before to not do that because it is intimidating and it is a tactic that he uses he may not do it with you all but it has been done to me I am exhausted with it I've said that it's been disrespect F I've watched
him to do it to public works I've been in meetings with business owners and he's done the same thing it is in appropriate it is unfair and I do not like it so this is my verbal reprimand and I will be writing a written reprimand to give to all of you be
regarding this behavior that concludes the district one report commissioner if I could you sure commissioner we were in a meeting and you were talking and then you became quiet and I was talking you but and after that meeting was over
after that brief that 30 40 minute stare because it was longer than that did it require for you to stare at me that long because we had talked plenty of times before that you do that in my opinion as an intimidation and it is unfair and I've
told you about that in 101's before I've told you that with other business owners that it has been done there is a difference between pausing and waiting for me to finish because I put my head down as well to let you know that I was done with my comment and then I looked up and you were still staring there was
another employee that was in there too and it has been recorded it is not fair and it is inappropriate you say Okay commissioner you had finished I was looking at you to see what else you
going to say and you knew that I was done well I mean I'm confused are we not supposed to so I'm supposed to look out here while I'm talking to you no there is a difference art and don't don't don't don't don't do that
because there's a difference between me looking at you and then me staring at you in an intimidation as to saying are you done was what you saying is is valid because that's why I asked you all for 30 seconds of your time and I sat I did not raise my eyebrows I did not look at
you incorrect incorrectly I just stared we are adults it I have seen it being done to staff and it is inappropriate I've been in meetings with at for some reason whenever I address things that need to be addressed it is always we
just we don't know where that's coming from and the only reason I'm bringing it up to the commission is because I cannot pick up the telephone and call you and tell you how this happened I'm tired of it I've said it before so it should not be done our city employees can go there an
open door policy and they've experienced the same thing it is not fair I've sat in a outside of Public Works when Mr bonapart talked to the public works department that wanted to speak to them regarding their director when when he was just done he
sat there they asked questions he stood on the back of the the the chair and just stared I am not making just trying to find issues there is a problem that we have
here and it needs to be addressed and I've already said plenty of times before that that is inappropriate it is not fair and I'm not I'm not an employee so I'm not you you cannot intimidate me like that and I but I want it to
stop okay but I'm not sure there's a method for an individual commissioner to Rand the city manager well we can we can start it today well M Mr Mayor just real quickly from a total legal perspective
there is absolutely no ability to do that whatsoever under any way shape or form for an individual commissioner Publican the city manager and as far as I've ever experienced I've never seen that in any City Charter or County
Charter and to be totally fair to Mr bonapart I think that needs be stricken from the record by the the rest of you m one commissioner can vote against that obviously because it's not fair to Mr bonapart or any other city manager to
have that stated because he would have to if he was ever asked in the future have you ever been reprimanded he would have to say yes but if you nullify it the answer would be no does that make sense no sir it does not because unless if you can show me
unless if you can show me legally the group where it cannot be done then do not say that it cannot be done now you should send me the email and tell me where it cannot be done the reason why it has to be brought before the commission is because I cannot have private conversations when I bring these issues up when we're having the
evaluations I don't have anything to stand on this is something that is being brought to my brought to uh the commission's attention because we do not have private conversations Mr bonapart works at the will of the commission and I am letting the commission know that I am dissatisfied so until you you can
bring it to me to tell me that legally we cannot do that I don't care if it has not been done before sir legally you canot do that and I don't want to argue with the commissioner M Mr Mayor but legally she cannot do that and
and but yet it stands as a public statement now and I think it needs to be but it can be stricken at the next meeting right you could be stricken at the next meeting or any other appropriate time yes sir okay okay but that's what you think please bring it to that says it was required to be
restricted thank you sir commissioner wiin I just uh I know I said it earlier since we uh have some more people just wanted to uh again thank staff uh in the support of you guys last week on
Thursday with my commiss my community meeting and again Mr Henderson Brit Henderson and uh Mr Josh Brown honored by the Zas uh for the work they do over at West Side and then on Friday again with picnic project we were over in uh
Simo Gardens and we uh fed about 50 to 60 fam's groceries and then on Saturday uh over at the Dr velvin West uh Westside Center we um had my third annual community event and uh we had hundreds of folks come through um all
ages from the even the senior citizens were in there playing bingo uh we had numerous folks out and so we had a great time so again thank you all for your support and uh again more part you coming out with us supporing the call as well thank
you Comm Ross nothing Comm Thom uh I did attend the central Florida Indian Community spring Mela event which was wonderful it was at Bentley Elementary and a larger
Community than I realized we even had this uh organization provides school supplies clothing shoes hygiene items groceries they apply do a lot in the community and I hope to have more interactions with them in the future if any of you thought I had a disease on my
hand it's not it's uh henna what's left of it from that and uh the only other thing is just maybe a hypothetical question because we only can do certain things in public and not as commissioner was saying discuss things privately if
hypothetically I wanted to say raise a concern that I wasn't happy with Tracy's work cuz she terrible I'm just kidding it's hypothetical but um is this the appropriate form to do that just to get it on record that I'm dissatisfied
or well it is it a lawful Forum yes if you want to say I'm tired of your legal advice and I think your legal advice is horrible and and I really think that the city commission should fire you Mr Groot you're absolutely positively to say that
right you had the positive right to say that if you say however Mr Groot I I'm a commissioner and I'm going to reprimand you for this legal opinion you have absolutely no right to say that only the commission has the right to say that
because I work for the commission Mr bonapart last I heard you work from commission and the commission can I'm not sure you actually can you can fire me you can fire Mr bonapart I'm not sure you had the right to reprimand this you can say whatever you want to about the
performance which in in essence is a reprimand but to say I to point your finger at me and say I reprimand you okay that doesn't that that's you have no right to this I could come here and say I want to fire you you can absolutely well that's interesting which
is a Rec but whatever okay that's all I have okay um I had one more thing we had talked about um Main Street and Dan's position and funding I did meet with Main Street board and shared with them concerns
about overall funding and their lack of financial support of the or of their organization um I then met with Paul Williams and Alex Williams um separately and talk to them
um about a path going forward and so I am waiting on um Dan to provide me with basically the ask and for Paul to provide basically a framework of what they expect to do and
when I have that I'll bring it back to commission right and with that we are adjourned e