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looks like we got everything together we're going to go ahead and get this meeting starting started I appreciate everybody showing up we are here for the Monday February 10th meeting post Super Bowl hope everybody's team won uh I know it was not the most exciting Super Bowl we're going to get this meeting started up and I've asked commissioner burette if he would open us up in prayer and I will get us started
with the pledge after that so if everybody please stand let us pray our most Heavenly gracious father Lord we just humbly come before you giving you all the praise honor and Glory you deserve Lord thank you for each and every person that's here today Lord just pray your protection around us all keep us all safe Lord and just give us the wisdom help each and every member on this board Lord to have the wisdom to make the right decisions Lord be with those that are in need and we just lift up all your blessings to us in Jesus holy and precious name amen
amen thank you sir please join me in our pledge to our nation's flag I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for for which stands one nation God indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right so I portion where we're going to approve the agenda I'll go down the line
we have any changes to the agenda no changes chairman no changes sir no changes sir just like to talk about three things on one you want three things in your comments yes sir okay cool no changes okay thank you thank you all right this point we'll go to commissioner comments and so I will just start down the line as well we'll go down to commissioner barquette no comment Mr
chairman thank you Mr chairman uh just want to take just a a brief minute to update the the public and the board uh on uh the recent trip to Washington DC this past week um as you know you know commissioner Smith and I were uh were not present at Thursday's zoning meeting but we did we did call in because we're in Washington DC um Mr chairman I want to thank you for for coming on that trip and uh getting an opportunity to see uh the hard work that and the and the
fruits that had been born from the work of the Northwest Florida defense Coalition um for those that don't know that's a that's a a two count it's a scami Santa Rosa County Coalition that was put together to work on advocating for needs uh funding and other needs for our local bases Whiting Field and NAS Pensacola and I just want to let everyone know how productive that was as you can imagine when you're trying to coordinate meetings with uh congressmen and senators in DC it can be very
difficult to arrange that and we have a a very good consultant um on staff for the Northwest Florida defense Coalition by the name of Jeff Burton and because of his many years of experience and the relationships he has he was able to score a number of meetings for us and we had a very packed agenda for the short time we were there but I just want to let people know that we met with staff members for representative Tom Cole from Oklahoma representative Barry Moore from Alabama Senator Rick Scott and Senator
Ashley Moody and some people may not be aware um one of the reasons we meet with with Congressional leaders outside of the Florida region is because when you start talking about uh house arm Services committee and uh getting Appropriations a lot of times these other Congressional members are on those committees uh and Congressman Moore actually his new District W wraps directly around the Florida Panhandle uh so he you know many of the outlying fields that the Navy has are actually in his district and then we met Direct with
uh the following Congressman representative Jake Elie from Texas who's actually uh used to be stationed at Whiting Field uh we got a full hour with uh representative uh Judge John Carter out of Texas uh representative Tony Gonzalez who's also a Navy veteran who's been through this community at one point uh representative Neil Dunn from Florida just next door to us here and representative Scott Frankin from the uh uh Central Florida area as well as another uh a number of other Congressional staff members and uh I
just want to thank you for attending that that trip um I'm sure you saw a lot of interesting things and and and and saw the relationships that have been built in DC in in the short year and a half that we've been doing uh doing these trips and um I think people will see that there's a there's a number of fruits that have already been born from those those efforts uh the um the hanger at Whiting Field that we currently have uh you know in the books
at be starting construction for the new THC T th73 Thrasher helicopter at Whiting and uh a number of other things so I just want to thank you for attending and just give everyone a brief update on what we did there thank you commissioner right yeah that was a it was a rather eye openening experience it's it's you know at first when I'm going there I'm like why would they even want to hear from a lowly County Commissioner but the reality of it is is when you get in there they will listen
to it takes the lobbyist to get you the appointments the lobbyist with their connections and and their relationships get you in the door but the reality of it is is these guys really want to hear from the local leadership because they need to know what the feel is and I did not understand their appreciation for the local leadership coming in and and visiting these people and uh I found it it was a very
refreshing atmosphere in DC I've gone to DC quite often as a tourist never in that capacity as a as a as a worker be and having those discussions with some of staff and and the representatives they're also very excited they're very excited about our uh upcoming new representation as well so and I thought that was very interesting and it was very eye opening to me
but uh it was uh it was very fun and if if work is that hard it it was hard work but it was that fun work and and I enjoyed it and it was eye opening to me all right we'll go over to commissioner Edington yes sir I want to thank y'all for going I went on that a year and a half ago with Mr wri and it's something you can learn from and Mr R done a good job for us when I went and I know he
done a good job this time too and I'm just want to thank y'all for going and getting what you could for us and I'm glad to have y'all back in one one piece all these planes crash and you just don't know I'm glad to have y'all back hey thank you chair um I just wanted to uh going back to our Workshop when we uh seemed like we had a consensus for uh aligning our rural
agline to the mson and Allentown fire districts and I was just seeing if we could give permission to uh go ahead and ask staff to start this process I want to make sure that was okay it seemed like we had consensus to move our agline um which is you know 182 now uh to the southernmost part of the Allentown and mson fire districts wanted to see if that was okay to give staff Direction on starting that process
as far as going into that process with I I'll defer to our County attorney it would require a Land Development code ordinance Amendment so so they would prepare an amendment or they give you an overview of the impacts and what the secondary effects are if any so that would be our first first step is to get authorized um a proposed amendment to
Land Development code to move that line plan Department would send it to the zoning board and they want to come back to the County commission for advertising and adoption Tom is that something that we need to put on Thursday's regular agenda to have a formal vote on or is just simply uh kind of head nod in a general consensus sufficient I mean it's a staff Direction might be good to have it on Thursday's agenda just as a matter of record
but the only thing you're going to need official action is to authorize the advertisement and to adopt the ordinance once at the public hearing but really the board's discretion I think if y'all just direct staff at this point the communication's effective if M if Mr Baker agrees so we're because I I think we have consensus on the board so we could go ahead and direct staff to
start that process start the process of of the realignment of that by well as soon as practical they'll have to get it repaired they may want to meet with the board to go over it with them that's up to Administration but then go set it for the next available zoning board then it comes to the County Commission and you will authorize the advertising at that point for public
hearing once it comes back to you from the zy board so at this point we're just getting staff started on the preliminary work ground work to get this going correct we'll we'll get it started so there's no need to bring this back up Thursday it looks like there's a consensus for the board where staff will get on it okay thank you all right commissioner eding you said you had like three items that's on my operation okay I got you I thought you said you had three items for
commissioner comments um so everybody's got their their ideas out there I'm going to float an idea that's something that I've been thinking about and when we look at some of our neighbors neighboring counties we look at and let me tell you something this is one of the things that I'm not the biggest fan of is having a bunch of attorneys surrounding us no offense to you J and nor you uh Tom but
I do believe that we are a little deficient right now with the amount of Land Development and land use contracts all of the work that we're piling on one attorney and I want to to start a conversation I'm not M saying a conversation to let's just see where the conversation goes as far as possibly getting in and bringing in an additional attorney
with Tom to work on some of this workload that we have and it's it's uh I'm not seeing there's a deficiency I'm just saying I'm I'm seeing that there's a possibility of a deficiency with the amount of workload that we're going to have coming this way um and I don't really I don't really know how to get that conversation started started and
where to start that but do we put it in a regular meeting to the Thursday meeting or do we go ahead and open up I mean I'm I'm not wanting to open up a big can here and kind of break my own rule when it comes to addressing without being on the agenda but I would like us to start a discussion is where I'm going if the board wants a assistant County attorney for land use
and assist with contracts you could authorize me to pursue that and advertise and solicit applications so we do it the same way basically with a head nod from the board or is that something we had to vote on it'll require a budget amendment some point but the uh really the budget amendment may be the only official action the board has
to take because it's just like me hiring hiring a secretary U but if you want me to solicit and look around for appropriate people who could benefit the county and be productive okay we can can start that search okay we could do that without discussion or is this something that we need to to put as a discussion item I'm looking at my board members because I want to get your feel of this Mr
chairman I'm I have one question to Tom Tom do you feel like you need an assistant honest well I mean Santa Rosa County's pretty known for being kind of lean and mean but that's at the wishes of the board if you think we can use those extra resources um that's set the wishes of the board other other Cy certainly have more people but um that's doesn't mean we mean we need need to but the board feels
we need more resources that's a policy decision for the board I'm all for giving you the help if you need it uh and y'all know me being an employee ex employee I'm for getting you the help you need but my question is do you need it and if you do then hey I'm all for it if not then let's just hold and see it's my my way of looking at it thank you Mr chairman
um I understand your concerns um I I share some of those I think it would be in my opinion that I prefer that we be very um cautious and judicious on it I think it would be appropriate I think the next meeting uh according to the calendar I think we have a committee meeting on the 24th and my thought would be maybe you know put that on the 24th meeting as an agenda item for discussion that way the board has some time to kind of do a little bit of research between now and then discuss with staff um and actually
have an item on there to discuss and then uh I think it'd be wise to probably have some discussions with Sabrina too on on what that would like would look like from a budgeting aspect so knowing that it would require budget amendment as well based on any decision that was made um so that just be my recommendation we put on the the meeting for the 24th as an agenda item for discussion okay appreciate that commissioner Edington do you have any input on this no sir if we need one and he needs help I'm I'll for
it but we just make sure what's he that new attorney gonna be doing will he be doing just the LDC stuff land you know zoning board stuff well you that's what I want to know you wouldn't want to have them fixed because you don't want them sitting there with dead time you'd have the person you need someone skilled where they could be flexible and address personnel and contracts and land use and
civil rights and various other things but they could concentrate in certain areas okay commissioner R do you have any input yeah I like uh commissioner W's idea um give us some time to to do the research and then and then go into it but I'm a okay having the conversation at the uh 23rd you said 24th okay yeah I'm going to take tend to agree with you two on that let's go
ahead and put it on the agenda for the 24th and then uh I'll be another year wiser then all right it's my last week of the 50s I'll be going into the dreaded 60s next week I gotta grow up all right so we finished that portion of the commissioner commit comments we have an upcoming
Proclamation so that's going to be for the February 13th meeting and we have another and that Proclamation is for the day of Hope at PACE high school it's a suicide prevention program that the students and and uh staff have put together there at PACE high school and then the second one is an upcoming Proclamation for the 211 month for you United Way and I have to send out my apologies to United Way I had
they had approached me a couple of weeks ago and I think I came back with a very very tardy response because it was still sitting in my drafts box I did not send it so as soon as I saw it I sent it and I was on the phone with you um and that's for that next one and today the next part of this one we have a presentation from the tobacco free public space and that's Florida Department of Health if you guys come on up
uh oh I'm seeing the technical guy back up here again I know gentlemen y'all have a folder up in front of us here for a presentation
morning I'm sorry push that mic you'll push it there you go how's that all right good morning gentlemen thank you for allowing this opportunity I'm Denise manasse I'm the chairman for the Santa Rosa County tobacco Coalition so in your packet today you do have the PowerPoint you also have a sample public policy for um public Public Health you have the
Milton or ordinance and the Gul breze ordinance and we've also spoken to Jay as well and moving forward with the ordinance there so so really what we're here to talk about today is public health when related to tobacco and we I'm having trouble okay basically our mission for the Coalition is to reduce and the prevalence of tobacco use now tobacco has changed
throughout the years and so it's just not smoke tobacco we're also looking at uh smokeless tobacco and Vapes um the purpose really is to enhance our Public Health um just not with our adolescence but with our adults as well so we Engage The Coalition engages um Representatives like you public uh officials but we also engage the public we have business people on our Coalition
we also have health experts on our Coalition we have representatives from the health department here um to enhance our mission as well the Coalition has been established since 2008 we also have what we look at is again holistically this public health Venture because we know heart disease is on the rise and other things related to tobacco use so the Clean Air Act for Florida um came about in 1985 so this is not a new
adventure for us here in Florida but it is a constant Adventure that we need to look at so as of 1985 there was some new um policies that came into place for the Clean Air Act in Florida and it happened in 2022 and that allows you as representatives of us in this community to make local ordinances related to act askk and where we're at public
healthwise so this policy allows you as representatives of the city and the county to make those changes so this amendment allows local leaders like you to develop and Implement tobac free public policies related to parks and beaches we understand that that our beaches are a destination for a lot of people today we're really looking at our parks where um our families go and where um children
go and it look at it as a way to represent this community where we put in place um the mindset that we want clean air outside as well but also looking at Behavior how we're encouraging young people and adults to live a healthier lifestyle so in um I'm going to go ahead and move past this one it's really more focused on the beaches but today we're really looking at the
parks but at your leisure you can read through these slides um we do know that tobacco products cause a lot of waste it also in infiltrates our water system as well so these are just some slides showing you what we've um encountered at the beach and at um some of our waterways along the streets but also in our Parks if you don't know what a vape device is this this is a picture of a vape device that
uh we took a picture of at a public park and there's another picture of a vape device they're also called NS there's many slang words that are used for these devices as well um the legal age for devices and tobacco products in the State of Florida is 21 so really looking again at our policy it's up to us to Le community members to a healthier
lifestyle and help encourage again grow our youth to also live those Healthy Lifestyles and we believe that this ordinance change of language can help in uh with that so really what's what's the ask that's what we're here for is really what the ask is um your current policy which is in your packet on page 16 yours isn't isn't numbered but mine is so it's really passive the pictures if you
really look at the ordinances currently your ordinance just says the smoking of tobacco as defined shall be prohibited in any County Park where such Pro prohib prohibited is posted so we're not asking either for you to uh pay for new signs I believe the health department um will be able to do that correct yes all right so the language change that we're really asking you for is to to be more inclusive to the
language to include spoke smokeless tobacco electronic nicotine Delivery Systems which is called NS as a slang word including Vapes Vapes pins uh and vaping products also we've seen a rise in what we're uh now seeing as nicotine pouches it's different than smokeless tobacco it's uh tobacco products that are concealed in a pouch and we're seeing a rise in that in our uh younger adult and young um people and new and
emerging tobacco products that way we don't have to come back here in a couple of years and have you change the language when we make it inclusive it will help you move forward and that's really what the ask is today is to consider that language change for the county so today also we have a representative from our SWAT students they are our driving force for the young people they're they live and breathe this and they also so
represent which one day will be adults in our community and they really have the best voice and James is here and James is going to come up and and speak on that good morning I am James roar I am a sophomore at PACE high school and today I'm here on behalf of the C Ros of the County's students working as tobacco clubs to press issue of including smokless tobacco and Vapes into the
existing tobacco free policy for all parks and beaches imagine with me you're sitting on a beach with your family when suddenly a group of people walk past your chairs using Vapes and dropping the empty cartridges in the sand or you're feeding the Ducks at the local park with your kids and see a lot of Vape cartridges in the pond puding the environment and causing harm to local wildli as well as people the main cause of harm to people is the pollution caused by these tobacco products regular cigarettes already are a huge detriment to local environments the Vapes are much
worse than normal cigarettes while normal cigarettes are already pollute the environment by releasing toxic chemicals Vapes do that and so much worse according to the point of not only biohazards but plastic and electronic waste as well according to the National Institute of Health ecigarettes have different types of waste including biohazard plastic and electronic waste we contend that the political the potential waste loaded from ecigarettes components is sees that of traditional cigarettes due to the larger amount of component on top of that considering how we're
uniquely located on the coast of the gulf when it rains heavily those chemicals and other wastes were run off into the GF causing even more problems for the environment and a life in it with this said we call for you to include two tobacco and Vapes into the tobacco free policy for local parks and beaches thank you thank you James so there's also stories at from other students in your packet today and also in your packet later on in the packet um on your slides I'm not going to go through through those at your leisure
please read that it gives you some data on what we're seeing for our adolescents and when our adolescents start to use tobacco products we want to encourage them to live a tobacco free lifestyle but changing the ordinance and changing this language will help Implement that when they're out in the community as well and I'm done unless anybody has any questions oh I sure appreciate your uh your presentation and I appreciate that young man coming up here and giving his present ation as well it takes a lot to
get up there in front of people and read these things but uh you did a great job and I appreciate you yeah thank you and please at your leisure um read read from the other students they are very instrumental on on their drive and maybe one day they might be up here representing our community later on amen amen yeah I know as being a former smoker myself I think I quit back in 2008 and congratulations yeah it's been one of those things it was a journey you know I quit smoking
and then I I just became a full-time Dipper because I always dipped when I fished you couldn't take up a cigarette hand when you're fishing and throwing throwing a bait caster but uh luckily I got past that because dipping is way more addictive than than smoking is because and and I always knew that but I always use my smoking as my nicotine light was basically the way I went about it but smoking is a lot a lot
more uh lot more uh problematic to the people around you than than dipping is so yeah and we're seeing a lot more challenges with Vapes so yeah and the Vapes I I'm so sick of seeing those ENT empty cartridges everywhere they are very very it's bad enough to see cigarette butts when you're seeing electronic cartridges busted up in parking lots because that's where people think that they need to throw things you know it's that is something that's
very so we appreciate your time and this consideration we appreciate you thank you yes sir just real quick I I don't have a question thank you for uh presenting thank you for coming out I know that the the the main goal of of of your organization is to you know educate at a very young age because that's you know the the the elementary students see the middle school and the high school students doing and then it's just you know that's just we get in a in a bad
habit there um I was lucky enough when I was in high school to be a part of this club but it used to be called something else I want to ask the board it used to be called tattoo t a t t a t anybody want to take a guess what that meant tobacco teens against tobacco usage yeah Mr Dobson did you know that that was a long time ago but yeah so that's what we used to be tattoo teens against tobacco us at least at J
high school that's what it was so but thank you thank you for coming thank you for for speaking you are a little bit younger than me we had a smoking section at my high school yeah yeah yeah yes yes Mr Smith people our age had smoking sections but yeah I didn't quit I I didn't even start smoking until my well hate to say this my sixth year in college I'm still not a doctor thank
[Applause] you thank you for that presentation we have two public hearings coming up this Thursday one is for the ride of way on Deon Bridge Road we have backup to support that so gives people time to look at that before Thursday's hearing and we also have a second one for Del Ray Street and I believe that one's down in G Breeze or naar area all right our
next portion of the meeting is public forum so I'm going to name them off from the top and I believe we do have some on public forum that are here for another reason and I don't know if you're here and you you hear me call your name and see I see some tobacco prevention so okay I'll still call your name first on
the list is Pauling Grimes and I want to also point out the fact that we do not have a visible timer there's something going on with that Miss Gilly will be keeping the timer over there to that end and when you hear the bell ring over there on that end that's when your Tim Paul mulet how are the builders still getting away with building houses on these Wetlands Kip is building more on Damon he destroyed the natural spring also Damon
looks like a nightmare now I can't believe there is not someone who can stop the madness where is the holding Pond going to go if the builders are f a half a million a day I think that would sort of stop them I have not seen wildlife in a long time except squirrels and birds and God left man in charge and they are destroying their habitat does the Love of Money mean that much to them
Genesis 1:24 said God let the Earth bring forth every kind of animal cattle reptiles wildlife in the 28th Genesis you are Master of the fish birds and animals they're supposed to take care of man Kip told me he was selling the houses for 200,000 now I hear he's going to go more I wonder why seems like I'm wasting my time because I see nothing change I see truck all the time delivering Lumber
machines to clear the land in my 43 years the water in the Stream I Furlong has never been as high as it has now and we're going to get some rain this this week when they dug up the road by Damon it needs to be fixed I have to drive one mile an hour to get over it goes I have to slow down every time Paving furong will be a mistake because a cement will not so up the water at
well it will come in my yard but Mo no one seems to care and it still needs to be a law that people who buy these houses on these Wetlands you need to tell them their house will sink one day and we need a light at Damon delman and Avalon bad I called last year she said they'd have one but I think y'all would have an influence to get at light at delman and Avalon well Commissioners
have a blessed day thank you Mrs Grimes next is Matthew cotton did I get that right Matthew cotton yes that's correct and I'm the pastor at Avalon Baptist Church I live in on shmuck Highway in Pace and I'm here to speak um I thank you very much for hearing us ladies and gentlemen and distinguished guest guest and members of the community uh I want to say I'm very
appreciative of our firefighters and those kinds of things but uh First Responders our EMS is my next door neighbor we share a parking lot we actually uh had the opportunity to bless them by sharing our our space during the uh the blizzard so that they could spend the night there and not have to drive home on these roads so we we we partner with them uh willfully and and we want to help them we've even Don ated to our local fire district in the past but now
we have been assigned an non-ad valorum tax now it doesn't say tax on my tax bill from the tax man but it's a section of the top says ADV valorum tax and it then it goes down to the bottom it says non adalum assessment which is still a tax um and it's a a frighteningly huge number compared to the number that it was before which was zero and now just for our small church is over $4,000 and this um I just want to take this
opportunity at the heart of this discussion is a recent legislative approach that processes the imposition of a non-ad tax on churches and other nonprofit organizations through an empowerment of state- managed fire district boards while this proposal may have been designed with the intent of supporting fire districts and the valuable Services they provide we must carefully consider the broader implications it holds especially for our religious institutions and those who benefit from the mission-driven work in our communities first let me be clear we
deeply respect and appreciate the hard work dedication and bravery of our firefighters these individuals risk their lives daily to ensure the safety and well-being of our communities without question they play a vital role and we want to support their services however it's crucial that we work together to sustain these essential Services we also uphold the Democratic principle that the voice of the people the very citizens and organizations we aim to serve must remain Central in the decision-making proc process and the introduction of a non-ad tax for
churches raises serious concerns particularly when we consider the lack of clear recourse for citizens to voice opposition to appeal such attacks our churches often the heart of soul of our community are not just places of worship but also pillars of Charity and education and support for those in need and to place a financial burden on them could undermine their ability to carry out their mission and serve our neighborhoods the fundamental concern here is that under this proposal Fire District board are empowered by state legislation would have the authority to
impose such taxes without apparent oversight or accountability to the public and I wanted you people to know that that's what's going on so we can't even we can come to you and tell you and you just say well I'm so sorry because there's a legislative board that sort of pigeon hold somewhere that I I don't even know who they are and uh it's no it's not only a question of fairness but constitutional principle and uh thank you for your time thank thank you
sir this next one is Denise Manassa and I think she's here with the cigarette okay next will be Sher Chapman Sherry Chapman P Ridge uh first of all I'd like to thank the Commissioners and the staff if you call call in and ask for something or make a
comment to someone in the hall it's amazing how quickly it gets handled and I do appreciate that and the citizens appreciate it um these meetings have taken a totally different atmosphere and um it's because of you guys listening to those of us that are out here uh first of all I'd like to say that the LDC um code rewrite that's coming up um as um commissioner row said earlier there are
some things that we need to do now and um I appreciate the fact that he brought that forward because our our rule line is in a bad place and has been for a couple of years um there were a lot of people that came to the last LDC right and this room was full of citizens and um I'm I'm not sure how y'all are going to about going about selecting a panel of 10 people out of
the many many people that came to these meetings um stayed late 1:00 in the morning sometimes um but um the citizens that have been involved in the Land Development code need to continue to be involved there was a lot of things that were just totally not even brought forth last time and this needs to be a group that will go through every word and every page of that L development code
and get with their District commissioner and get the feedback with them another thing too is um we have um the biggest thing is Commissioners not being able to respond to the citizens um after this comment and citizens are asking for it in fact that's one of the biggest complaints that comes on this new panel is that we don't have anything so it might be an idea to have commissioner resp response complete right after
public for not necessarily give them the whole Lowdown but my number is or call my office make an appointment I'm your commissioner um I've been looking into that just very briefly so that people do not feel that they come up here and speak needlessly and the wall is the only thing that hears them even though that's not the case another thing we need to hold our state Bhed and EPA accountable you guys in the county are
doing what you can do um for these problems that are on mulat but we have to have someone on our behalf as Citizens going to these U maybe our attorney going and saying hey these people are ruining on our land and you people are coming down here and not really doing much they can stop the building they can find them un unimaginable amounts we're limited because of the state legislations put on us as a County thank
you thank you Mrs Chapman Arthur Hal hello Arthur H uh Avalon Beach area um I have some pamphlets that uh are being passed out to the Commissioners now that I'd appreciate if you just take a look at I know everybody's seen these pictures um basically I want to stress that uh
the clearing that's been done on Damon Drive and Furlong Drive um the amount of water that was being absor absorbed by the trees that were removed there um is well over 500,000 gallons of water on the average storm in the summer and there there's no drainage pond so where is that water
going it's going in front of my house and in between Furlong and Damon and my house is three septics that were put in those septic drain lines in the summertime during high tide or underwater so I think it uh makes sense that maybe
some of that stuff that's in those drainage lines is coming not just in front of my house but in the muul La by you um the reason I bought my property was because of the 100 foot of Waterfront and a beautiful ecosystem I used to see and catch bluegills bass trout and red fish there that ecosystem has been destroyed from Clay and other sediments coming from over 300 truckloads of clay fill
brought into Avalon Beach area and this is all without any infrastructure or drainage considerations the seagrass is dying I have dead fish in front of my house two times after the extreme flooding of clay after the storms now I've not seen any of those fish I used to see um
I'd like to see some accountability for this destruction I'd like to see some transpar transparency as to how we're going to make sure that this uh behavior that causes this kind of Destruction is stopped in the last five months I've spoke with over 850 local people about the issues and nobody thinks there should be any more building in Avalon beach now I know that's building's going to happen but we're being flooded out and this summer it's going to be a disaster we need drainage
ponds and we need them fast and uh I'd like to thank M Mr Bat for putting together team to try to solve this problem i' like to thank him for getting Damon Drive Road uh worked on it looks good but uh let's think ahead here and I'd like to get you know people I'd like you to look at the the third picture there first if you can go to the second picture now three minutes ain't enough time but thank you for your time thank you sir all right all right next we
have Jim Waters and before you start sir I'm gonna look at head nods across the board because I saw commissioner burkette was wanting to respond to something are you guys good with doing a general response after public forum I'll just just just
give me a head and I you know you can you know we'll just we'll limit ourselves to three minutes a piece how's that how's that sound to you Miss Gilly we'll let we'll we'll get you to time us too so we don't get spiraled out so if we respond because I think that's a good idea from Mrs Chapman we can respond to the whole thing at one time pick your points as
you're taking notes up here but you got three minutes all right sound good got got consensus across yeah I'm I'm fine with it I I I do think that uh we could likely run into a situation where many of these um situations get brought up to us are far more complicated in 3 minutes would allow response I know but I mean I'll just go ahead and and preference it by saying uh anyone is able to reach out to me via email phone call um stopped by
the office anytime and I'll always make time for people um I'll do my best to respond in most efficiently way most efficient way I can but commissioner right that's that's what I wanted to do is be able to give you give you time to put that out too you know at that point we can just sit here and say we're available for that we we're all available every one of us are available so all right we'll go from there all go ahead sir I say one thing Mr chairman uh Mr talk I appreciate your comments but I just want to bring that we're a team
from here to here and there's no I in team it's just we're a team together okay I just want to bring that out and God we're going to work to get things straighten and I'm available at any time thank you all right so I think I think we got a rule here no Florida shirts all right Jim Waters you got to push the button push that key
push that red key there an Auburn fan and it's a bad Saturday for you so uh anyway hey uh Jim Waters with the S Rosa Baptist Association uh collection of 40 churches that partner together for the gospel and uh I'm I'm here in support of the pastors because 40 of those uh 20 of those churches about about half of our churches are affected by the new tax that Mr cotton spoke to and uh just we we're here to make y'all aware and uh I want to thank Brad Baker for giving us some kind of uh further information
before the meeting today and really some Avenues to pursue to uh kind of help our churches in that but uh again we just want to kind of put that before you and uh any churches in your District that uh are affected again any any phone calls you can make would be greatly appreciated so thank you thank you sir Jerry Koy
Jerry KY Milton Florida I appreciate the opportunity uh I want to thank all of you for coming back to give and take a little bit here we all suffered eight years in one and four years in another they caused a lot of problems I think you're going to see with a new board you're going to see that it's not going to be so massively confrontation and most of the time those confrontations was based on two people not the other
three so thank you and I appreciate you putting in the Parker rule to hold it at three minutes uh I want to talk about Avalon Boulevard um and and the situation there I'm going to say it again unpermitted illegal illicit discharge on multiple times in violation of state and federal clean water those words should mean something to you
I know and and and it was said privately to commissioner burette I will say it again to to the five of you I understand you're working on it we just want you to be as strong as you possibly can on this issue I encourage you to write those letters and those emails and stand upon D and uh Northwest Florida Water Management District uh and for the record one time Northwest Florida Water Management District sent a letter up
here thinking that getting rid of the well protection area was a good idea so that'll give you a little clue into how they operate um we simply as a people need you to do everything you can to protect the environment now I know we're heading into LDC conversations and I I would hope that this time around there won't be a special table up here with a tablecloth and four chairs for the king to sit at
uh this needs to be driven by the citizens who these resources belong to and these decisions don't need to be based on money they need to be based on our stewardship of the resources that we have one of the greatest things that we have in Santa Rosa County is our resources and we need to get serious about protecting them one final issue that kind of came to my mind today we typically build roads when there's a
need and it just hits me strange that all of a sudden we jumped out there and while Avalon Boulevard was being Forlan we put one of those clay roads in and it caused all kind of problems and now all of a sudden this Clay Road showed up so I hope it doesn't become a process of the county to put roads in specifically for development I'm all for spending money on road
improvements and things of that nature but this road gets put in and now we see what's happening on either side of it so uh I would just ask that we uh think about that when we make decisions to build roads in Santa Rosa County what is it actually for does it help the citizens that are already there or is this for one specific group and I thank you for your time thank you sir Diane wi D Wigan
good morning I would like to say a few things about um mlet Bayou and also um related subjects uh the first is we need some drainage ponds in the Furlong and Damon area there's not any that 500,000 or millions of gallons of water that the
trees cleaned that when the wetlands were destroyed it's got to have somewhere it's got to have some kind of process and uh the drainage ponds seems to be the way to go right now um I'd like to thank you for deciding to respond to our concerns because it means a lot to think that and to know that you're you are listening and and you are going to try to do your job
um on Furlong and on Damon we drive we drive down there once or twice just about just about every day and it's um it's no news we look every day and we don't have any kind of um updates or information it's just the water is getting higher and higher and on Tinsley it's it's it's going over the road just a tad but we hadn't had any rain in a
long time and when we get some rain I don't you know it's we're we're worried it's stressful um thank you for your time thank you Mr Wiggins all right next is Ryan Fowler morning Ryan Fowler pace so welcome new board members I haven't
been here for a while but I'm here LC's back on the agenda a resolution really caught my eye that there's an alternative subdivision even mentioned on there again you never heard of it in 2021 to 2023 this County was doing it last board some of those members that no longer here pushing it hard um
basically developer doesn't have to get every Zone they just submit the plat any size Lots go so it's hurting the northern agricultural area totally changing the dynamic up there turning into some kind of cities little mini cities everywhere um I don't I live up there I just don't want it to be like the city and neither do our neighbors so we're
asking that you remove that verbiage from that you know you're probably going to vote Thursday but remove that alternative subdivision verbage even off of the Proclamation when you form this LDC board and I don't know who's going to be on the board but my fear is you know the developers will somehow get in there and um give you recommendations that people don't want
and I just don't want to go down that road again thank you thank you sir next we have Chris cerb
thank you I passed the handout there Chris CER with flood Defenders um we had a meeting yesterday at uh acis
hanger with the Avalon beach neighborhood and I wrote up some notes this morning and on the way in I was listening to some music you know there's three different artists ACDC azy and Judas Priest they all sing songs about breaking the law we got some bad actors in uh Santa Rosa
County breaking the law one of them not even a bad guy I've talked to him several times his name is Thomas Cornelius and he's over on Furlong you know what he telling me he says everybody clears without [Music] permits he can't understand why he got a $35,000 fine cuz he cleared without permits and he went back in there on
that map there he obstructed a drainage way and he tried to restore it with every intention on building houses there part of a common larger development handout I gave you doesn't have a chapter 62330 environmental resource permit which is state law then you got Damon road down uh Damon
Drive excuse me down the street Mr kit Walker he divided up all the properties into different llc's different ownerships so he could skirt the law so how do we fix this you do it with your home rule instead of going hey DP do your job hey Water Management District do your job APA do your job no we need to do our
job our codes do not need to refer to those regulations they need to match those regulations or be stricter Sabrina has mentioned several times that uh the lowest Staffing levels per capita of population and inspection and enforcement is what you need you need to be proactive rather
than reactive I'll go ahead and tell you scammy County don't allow this crap over there thank you sir next onment next on is Jeremy Holly uh yes chairman and board thank you for the opportunity to speak on on the ADV valorum assessment as has already been mentioned by my brothers uh
thank you commissioner burette and commissioner Edington for taking the time to meet with me uh commissioner Wright I appreciate your comments I did try to get in to your office and meet with you but schedules would not allow for that uh I would love to sit down with each of you one onone and and share my heart but felt like that with the the timing and the urgency around the matter we needed to bring this to a public uh setting I wanted to talk about why I
believe that not only is the ADV valorum uh against Florida state law and unconstitutional but also not in the best interest of the county and I do have an ask and that's for the board to agree with that assessment and request the state to reverse that assessment on nonprofit organizations uh specifically churches the reason that I say that it's against Florida state law is because as
has already been stated it came as an advolum assessment not an advolum tax but an advolum assessment now when you read about what an ADV valorum is I'm sure you're all familiar with ADV valorum it actually says it's based on value adalum means based on value the greater the value the greater the assessment it is attack they can call it an assessment but it is a tax Florida
state law says that portions of property predominantly used for charitable religious scientific or literary purposes are exempt from such taxes it actually came from the tax office and it came on a bill that we receive every year that has a z amount because we are as a nonprofit exempt and instead this year it was $116,000 not only uh did we receive a bill for
taxes that we should be exempt from we also received no notice that they were planning on doing this and so the first notice we got was a bill that said this is due in a couple months now that's why I believe that it's not constitutional here's why I don't believe it's in the best interest of the county because whether you understand and appreciate the spiritual investment that churches make in the county or not you should be able to see the Practical benefits of churches I know that all of the
churches represented here today pour back into the community give back to the community support the community uh often times when they're in their greatest time of need we have a food pantry that's open every Monday and Wednesday where we give out thousands of pounds of food to the community in need we assisted 26,000 individuals last year alone uh who were in great need we have a cold weather shelter through Ferris Hill Baptist Church one of our sister churches that's provided a lot of
support and assistance to people facing uh unprecedented weather challenges and cold weather here in the State of Florida and so we do so much for the community and request that you agree that this needs to be reversed so that we could provide that uh support to the state thank you thank you all right we've wrapped up public forum and at this
time sir you have to sign up I'm gonna give you this one time you've been a frequent flyer in the past I have been a frequent flyer in the past so next time I want you to come in and sign the sheet though okay I will sir okay thank you I appreciate you giving me this moment um happy to see all these new faces give wish your name and I'm Stanley gray and I'm from point Baker
and uh I appreciate the the input that the public has given you today and in the past and the in the uh action that you folks are taking you're doing a great job and I know you will as long as you continue uh getting the support from the group that you have here they are identifying unsafe uh acts unsafe conditions and unhealth conditions and it's our job to provide a
safe and healthy environment as a safety professional I identified unsafe and unhealthy conditions in order to uh prevent them from occurring these folks are identifying things that you need to take a look at and make sure that uh you have the opportunity to go ahead and prevent instead of react and try to
respond to something that is already messing everything up it's important that we all work together like Bobby said we're all a team y'all are not just the team got a team right here that's a very good resources for you to keep the litigation out which saves the uh taxpayers money there's no point in wasting that kind of money prevention is the key I love you guys I thank you so
much and uh my door will always be open you don't need a lobbyist to come and talk to me I thank you sir all right we're gonna as I did in in promptu and please forgive me but I'll go ahead and get us started just kind of give you an idea of what I'm thinking about and I will push a timer just so I have an idea too so here I'm going to start off with uh the fire assessment it's something that was
not well thought out I'm I'm in agreement with the pastors on this and I think there's something that could be done on this Mrs Chapman the entire LDC will not be opened up we are we've identified problems that we see we're not about to spend five years open up every jot and tile of that as far as some of the development that goes on down there I'm going to just caution you I know that there's and I'm not going to do this out of
embarrassment but I know one such house that when we have the individual up here he was a part of being fined because of problems that he did we have codes in place people break them people break them sometimes accidentally but I think we I think we've been working hard and I think I think we've been doing all of the due diligence we can to get things
done as far as Mr Koy we've been in touch with d we've been working with these guys we've been trying to alleviate this problem this has not been something that we've been kicking a can the per Bal can we've not been doing this we've been working our tails off and I don't think there's one commissioner up here that's not been involved with this not to mention staff that's been the been the force behind it uh as far as putting in a new road I
don't care where you put in a new road there's going to be people out there accusing somebody of making a side deal and we need New Roads there's New Roads that are needed these are things that are these are this is something that I ran on and when you get up here you start realizing well I can't do that and I'm going to tell you another example some of some of the dirt roads that are back there you at I was looking at them a long time ago as being something that needed to be paved because I hate seeing
red clay roads that close to waterways but then it was approach it was uh told to me he said well you got to be careful because the minute you do that somebody's going to start building houses and then all of a sudden you you PVE those roads for that developer and that's like it's Catch 22 it really is it's it's it's it's it's a tough position and there's a reason why every one of us pray really hard before we get up here because it is a tough position to be in you're never going to satisfy
everybody and there's going to be people that are going to be ticked off at you either way you come um that's about all I've got I don't want to start the next one because it'll give me more than 12 seconds and I don't that's all I see I have is that correct so I'm going to stop right there who wants to be next I will uh I say agree with everything you just
said U it's a tough decision that we have to make I want people to know that we're working diligently at making some changes it's going to be positive and I feel like that we are as I said before we're a team we're want to have a better goal outcome than what we've had in the past and so I feel like we're heading that direction uh we are working diligently it makes some changes I think that task force that we're bringing on is going to be a a grave asset to us or
tremendous asset to us should I say um I just want people to know that I am available at any time you want to meet with me see that lady right there she'll set up a time with you I'll be glad to meet with you uh my phone number is available um you can email me district one Santa Rose county.gov I promise you I will answer your email if I don't do it that day day sometimes I get called up in I camp I
will answer your email up next day so don't think I won't respond to you it may not be what you want to hear but I'm going to tell you the best of my ability the honesty that I can do so other than that uh just continue bring the issues to us let us try to address them and know that we are working de it to be for you that's your safety is our number one concern so that in our environment uh I ran on the tree cutting and I'm not going to shut
up on that so y'all don't worry about that I'm I'm going to try my best to stop all that if I possibly can thank you commissioner R thank you Mr chairman um I oftentimes get criticized for my extremely logical and direct approach and uh it sometimes people feel as though that means they don't have feelings or that I'm not empathetic and that could not be further from the truth um I understand people come to this Podium and they're they're very frustrated um and I think it's important
that the people in the audience that come and speak at the podium and are frustrated understand that we are equally as frustrated for a number of reasons we're frustrated with many of the same things you guys are talking about and we're frankly and sometimes we're frustrated with the way you're approaching us and that's me just being 100% honest with you and the reason being our hands are tied in so many ways by the state legislature and yet we have people weak at after week after week come to this Podium and come to us about it I would
love to see you folks get a 15 passenger van and drive down to Tallahassee or go to the State representative's office here locally and let them know coming to us is one thing trust me we are all frustrated with the same thing we have those conversations but I'm telling you right now us talking to one state representative or two state representatives or one state senator only goes so far and trust me we have those at least I can speak for myself I have those conversations but I am but one voice from day one I didn't like the
fire assessment fee I thought it was a terrible idea but I'm one person okay I was put in a position where I had a state senator on one side a state representative on that side as well and I had fire departments on the other I think somewhere in the middle was a was a place to be but there were extreme stances taken and that's where we ended up where we are I didn't like it I think it's unfair um um at the same time I will say that if you if you want to look logically at the cost of
fighting a fire on a 10,000 foot Church versus a 1500 foot home one has to understand there's a much bigger risk on one versus the other uh when it comes to mulat Bayou look I understand the concerns and the situation there um I think it's important though that people remember just because they live there before the other developments coming in it's not fair to look at it that way it's not fair to be upset with other people people wanting to build homes to provide homes for people and I think you also need to remember that because we may not
have a a policy or regulation right now based on the way that property was originally ploted and designed and their attorney can can explain more about that but we can't retroactively go back and change the rules on people so we can look at what we do going forward but no different than if there's a law that says you know you'll go to jail if you drive over over 55 miles an hour if that was put in place today don't retroactively go to everyone that ever got a speeding ticket for doing 65 and a
55 and throw them in jail we can't retroactively go back and address Land Development issues and we are working diligently to try to solve problems but every time you make a regulation or policy something else creeps up it's just the nature of it I've used the term whacka a number of times here and that's exactly what we're doing thank you sir commissioner Edington all right Mr meth you talking about Paving the dirt roads you are correct I've had some people want roads
paved in Holly by the Sea we paving some guess what we're getting houses built now they upset about that ain't nothing we can do they wanted Road pave we done it but I'm I'm with y'all we're trying to do everything we can to help the people here in Santa Rosa yeah I'm against the fire attacks like they hit y'all with but there was nothing we could do I feel sorry for you we don't have that in the bar but we'll probably get it to before it's over with
and I'm against that that much you know but we do listen I'm in my office every day if I'm not here in Milton I'm in the bar in my office and believe me in my office in the bar I get hammered for people coming to my office they've never had a commissioner down there every you know two days a week when I can be there sometimes on Tuesdays we have meetings up here I got to be on Thursday I have
to be here I just don't like to drive back and forth and I try to stay down there as much as I can but my my door is open to anybody I don't care where you live District 1 2 3 four and five we all are countywide and we will work with y'all every one of us we are a team this is the best board I've been on right here we all get along we don't scream we don't holler at each other and we don't holler at y'all and
y'all don't holler at us yeah I get upset with some of y'all You Preach to us we can't do nothing about it we do what we can and I hope people realize that a lot we do what we can for y'all but our hands is tied like Mr Wright said go to Tallahassee hit them people that would be a big help to us and y'all you talk to the Senators
and everybody like that that would help y'all a lot and that would help us they would know where we coming from too but if we don't have y'all up there preaching to them it ain't helping us at all we getting to blame for it and it ain't us we are not to blame for everything we got laws from the state we have to go by yeah I wish we could find the people a little bit more but we cannot and the other problem we got we
get people to do this stuff on the weekend when we don't have coding Force out there on the weekend I caught one last week doing something they wern't supposed to we got them but we get out I I know I ride my district and I know these guys here they ride theirs and what we can do to help we do but like I said my you can call me on my phone I like to talk to people in person or on the phone I do not like emails because they get
twisted they take it the wrong way sometimes well that commissioner don't want to help us we do want to help come to us face to face thank you sir I was hoping you weren't G to make me start shouting at you yes sir yeah just real quick I just want to Echo our other Commissioners feel free to reach out um and like uh you know we're going to we're going to do what we can to to help you um uh there is a very uh positive feeling and
a lot and a lot of positive um the way our meetings are being run um and I appreciate that from the chairman um so that's that's you know kind of what we were thinking with the policy uh that we you know started out the new year with so uh that's you know there it's not like we're trying not to um ignore it's just more of a you know set appointment with Victoria she will she will always um set up a time um to to meet but yeah I appreciate that and that's I can't say
it any better than these four gentlemen have already thank you no please no shouting from the crowd all right and I want to make sure everybody knows that our emails are well it's the district and I love emails because that's what I respond to to the most District which would be district one District Two District three
which one whichever one at Santa rosa. florida.gov oh yeah welll I'm sorry yeah dol.gov so let me do that again district one or it's a capital D now it doesn't have to be district one at Santa Rosa . fl.gov all right we got the next part of
the meeting is County Administrator and County attorney go ahead Mr chairman before we get started on that I would say that I I had talked with brother Jim brother Matt and gave them some information I'll also make sure that they're aware of the contacts at the delegation and encourage them to go as a group of pastors to that delegation um and I'll I'll work with him to help explain more things if they have questions the other thing we did start a dirt road paving we were
fortunate to get some restore money for District 4 primarily District 4 dirt road paving and three years ago the board had discussed and I believe it was at that time commission Smith had a had a road that had a lot of concerns so we established a dirt road paving fund and we've put 500,000 a year in that so um that's how Damon Road was added I believe two years ago with a dirt road paving and then we've had a couple of
Roads paved by developers and um furong is one of those that is being we're going to PVE it to County standards but the developer will be covering costs the other one if you're remember um um Harold dowy paved um Three Notch three Hollow three Hollow three Hollow three Hollow Road so I just want the board to be aware of that the two new Commissioners that this actually started in a conversation three years ago in the last two two years there have been $500,000 allocated for dirt road paving
so if we get into the next item item number one under County Administrator is the citizens Land Development code task force resolution y'all know y'all hel held a workshop on January 28th and discuss the creation of this this resolution just does that I know the chairman reached out last night in item number four on page two there the the members shall be residents of Santa Rosa County and I believe we have two on the initial five that y'all had brought up that um I know one for sure doesn't live
in the county and perhaps another one um but I did talk to those five um so Paul mlau Jeff Helms Trent Matthews Nick Herpst and I didn't reach out to Chris because he said in the meeting that he was willing to serve um so all five of them have agreed to serve and then um district one has recommended Philip Robbins and District Four has recommended um Carmen Reynolds and um I don't have the recommendations for the other three what was district
one Philip Robbins and District Four is Carmen okay I think it's important that we do keep that portion as Santa Rosa County only I don't I don't think that either of us none of us need to be picking somebody from other counties or anywhere um I've got I want to weigh in on this this is uh this is something that's very
exciting to me I I'm I came in yesterday to do some work and I I just read the the resolution and or the ordinance and I I just this is something ladies and gentlemen this is this is a a board that I'm blessed to be on I love this board I I love the the work ethic of everybody on this board the tenacity
their their sense of responsibility to community and this is what is the outtake of that this is what you get and I and I want to address this we're not putting this is your place at the table we're not going to have a recliner set up here here or a throne for any Builder developer this is something that's for
the people and we're going to concentrate on areas that we already have identified as being problem areas in the Land Development code so spam I want to congratulate y'all because you've made some good decisions to get this type of action done and I think that we're going to get a lot of good things done out of this so I want to I want to congratulate the people of Santa Rosa County you've done a good job
and I'm I'm I'm proud to be right here all right if we don't have anything else on that we will go to the consent agenda Mr chairman so we'll update the wording on that to reflect that the five appointed by each one of the Commissioners will be from Santa Rosa the others do not have to be we'll update that for okay okay thank you sir so we're going to go to the portion of the consent agenda is everybody
looked over the consent agenda I got one question I see Jason's gone I got one question and this will be for the clerk's office I'm noticing and this has been a problem I've noticed it in the past and I'm just going to I've not not asked anybody on staff about about this but we're looking at approval of October 24th
minutes and I'm just wondering in this time of Technology why we're at a point where we're approving minutes from three or four months ago and I hate it that Jason's left but you're filling a seat so I I'm G to let you uh answer the question on that I'll have to ask the staff um I'm not in that office directly so I'll have to
find out and I can get that information to the board okay yeah because that's a I know we're not carving things out with a chisel and stone anymore so it's just one of those things I was wanting to ask a question on right yeah I'm on consent agenda on the
consent agenda right now so is there any items on this that anybody else wants to bring up and just for a note of record just so if if the clerk will get back to me on that I'd appreciate that we have anything else on okay is there anybody in the public that would like to speak on the consent agenda anything on the consent agenda okay at this point we'll go to the reg we'll push we'll push the pardon
me pardon I would just say if there's no concerns about the consent agenda I I would request that we move that to Thursday's consent agenda yes corre correct hearing none so moved so now we're going to go to the regular agenda and this is the part where our County Administrator is going to have to do double duty because his assistant's out today with the with the cruise crud floor is yours
Sir Mr chairman item number one is uh approval of anou with the senator the sheriff's office for previously approved allocation of opioid settlement funds to be used for a medically assisted treatment program y'all know um the board approved the concept of this and uh the board uh the sheriff is asking to implement that within the the jail system so
$772,500 responsible for the Sheltering of citizens during emergencies and disasters we've had a good relationship with the city over the years and this
agreement just allows us to continue to use the Milton Community Center as emergency shelter do we have any discussion amongst the board on that I'll take this time to address this right here with the uh snow mageddon that we had I want to I want to uh send a shout out to fisel Baptist Church for their work I I was I had had the privilege of volunteering one night for that and it was I just wanted to get in there and see the operations of that and I think
they had to actually push some over to to the uh Center that one that night I don't know we were full at Ferris Hill but we did not have to activate it they were able to work it all out at at Ferris Hill so but they were we did have to reach out to the city of Milton and they had everything ready if we did have to roll anybody over there for Cather okay so they were back up that yeah okay thank you so if we have no more discussion on that I'll make a
motion to move that to the Thursday's consent agenda without objection heing so none so moved Mr chairman the next item is approval of the updates to the Santa Rosa County grants compliance manual incorporating the latest version of 2 CFR 2000 the uniform guidance that's updated in 2024 by the Office of Management budget and I just wanted to note that you know our Grants Department spent many hours as a team going through this and providing
the best and most current update so I'd like to just thank Sabrina and her team for for this and uh we are requesting your approval of the revisions to the grants compliance manual yes I had time to yesterday I I started to read into that it's rather large yall done a lot of work and it's uh it's it's good night sleeping reading but it's it's very intense we
have any discussion on the board on this hearing none I'll make a motion to move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection Mr chairman the next item is under Economic Development approval of task order number two for Engineering Services to Moffet nickel for Baghdad Industrial Park as you all know we receive $7.7 million in a Triumph Grant to provide a suitable industrial site to house a distribution Logistics Center there on it exit 26 and um you know this
task order is just to approve Engineering Services based on a master Services agreement for $313,500 is also Economic Development approval of a Construction contract award to Panhandle grading and Paving
Incorporated for the taxiway construction project in the amount of 7,755 67480 u this includes a 9.26% contingency of 700,000 and continue with the task work order number four for postd design engineering Services by Moffet and nickel at $12,238 34 C this is alth also authorizing the chairman to sign all related documents
and authorize the County Administrator to approve the change orders with weather delays and utilization of the contingency fund you know this is part of the project at the whing Aviation Park and um we do have a limited AG limited access use agreement with the United States Navy and this is a project yall all familiar with and this just helps us move it along um to support our Partners out there yeah I know that uh commissioner W and I are very familiar with that as last week a lot of the
discussions were you know when we were talking to a lot of the contingency up there in DC these are the things that matter to us and that's a big one we have any more discussion amongst the board on this here none I'll make a motion to move that Thursday's consent agenda Mr chairman item number six is approve approval the following events and there are five of them listed and I'll answer any questions if you
have I've looked at all of them I don't think if there's any that gives me any heartache anybody all right make a motion to move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection and that concludes that section and we'll move into operations and safety item number one is really an information only and but but we wanted to make sure the board was aware at Barry Hill Road and Stratford Lane the
board previously um had done a resolution you'll see that in the backup um after being reached out by that neighborhood and statford Lane no longer has access well it has a gated access to Barry Hill Road that they would um utilize for emergency conditions as we do our four-lane widening project um as it stands right now we are not planning connection there um if we're going to not have a connection to Stratford that's going to be utilized it's our
recommendation we just leave that without a connection so previously the board had said there would be no connection there so um just kind of information only un unless the board wants to action on that and us to reach out to that group but it's kind of at a critical point where we're in design we either going to connect to it or we're going to bypass it and there will not be a connection no emergency access for that second acction to that subvision anything amongst the board on
discussion on that all right I'll make a motion to move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection Mr chairman item number two is approval to enter into a 5-year contract with Motorola Solutions for cyber security detection and response for the radio core the amount of $947 18320 as uh the board knows we are utilizing the core with Escambia County that's what we partnered with back in
2007 I believe and um this just allows us to have some enhanced cyber security detection and response um if you're not familiar with the current Radio Systems we're really working on computers now um that's that's the the world we live in so our radio system is driven by a computer core and obviously cyber security threats are continuing to increase as we've seen them with a 911 system as well so just to recommend approval for this 5year contract with Motorola Solutions any discussion amongst the
board hearing none make a motion to move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection Mr chairman the next item is also Public Safety and it's related to the Next Generation 911 um the action request is that you authorize the terminating of the contract with NGA 911 LLC for Next Generation 911 services we do have Ryan and Tom here with a short presentation
for you um we went into this Regional concept of Next Generation 911 um I want to say a couple years ago as it's evolved um NGA 911 has failed to provide us adequate um coverage and I believe now all but one county has already terminated their contracts um as far as the 10 regions go and we did just get an email from the state where they also indicated that 9 NGA 911 was felling to meet the demands of their clients so um
I'll just get Tom and Ryan up here and we'll do a quick overview for you and then ultimately we're asking for termination of the contract with NGA now good morning Mr chairman members of the board Brad thank you uh for asking us to come up here and speak uh so the current situation that Santa Rosa County is dealing with with our nextg 911 uh
system uh our vendor uh NGA is is not meeting their obligations uh so to give you a quick background here uh going back to the end of 2021 early part of 2022 uh this was an initiative by the state of Florida uh by region uh and of course we're in region one so there was 10 counties that were involved in this project with NG to begin with uh as Mr
Baker stated we're now down to our final two uh that is us and one of our um stakeholder counties to the east uh the timeline uh on on this as I stated goes back to the early part of 2022 which is where we signed an agreement statement of work and got everything uh going to move forward uh the contractual uh end date for it was supposed to be May of
23 and uh here we are a year and eight almost nine months later and the project is still not complete uh we were recently supposed to be completed with phase six and NGA failed to meet that Milestone as well um so at that point we had to put a hold on payment uh which I would like to speak on that for just a quick second I want to make it very clear to um the board members that Santa Rosa County is not paying for this uh
out out of our own tax funds this is all funded uh purely through um state level grants and part of that project with region one um so we're not out any money per se as far as uh that consideration um would go uh from a technology standpoint uh NGA has missed the mark on several occasions uh my primary concern is the Annie and Alley which is the
automated location information and automated number information uh that transfers over from 911 calls uh this is important to us um if we were to have a catastrophic failure and needed to fail over to a scambia system which right now uh with where we're sitting we would not I do not have confidence that we would be able to do that successfully um they're doing that with uh analog admin lines uh but that does not give us
the ability to have those automated numbers and and automated locations as those 911 calls come in um so that is a big concern of mine from a contractual standpoint uh NGA has missed the mark on several occasions as far as uh services that they needed to provide um we have had corresponden with them uh over the last 120 days and uh those those concerns have not been addressed
properly uh which leads us to this point here where we're at now in the way forward um so a a viable solution for us uh what I'm requesting the board do is give us permission to start looking elsewhere uh we do have other uh vendors in mind uh from a financial standpoint um I believe we will be able to stay on state level grants to be able to fund that uh and also why we make the
transition from NGA to a new provider so pending any questions that's all I have and I'll turn it over to Tom so as Ryan said um the the uh contractor definitely has not met their contract requirements for us to proceed forward our 911 system is still solid uh we're still able to process calls appropriately get citizens the help that they need um and the majority the state has gone with uh several there are several other contractors uh that we can look at to be able to provide this C uh service to our
citizens so the project will continue forward just hopefully with a a vendor that provides things in a timely manner and a product that they uh can guarantee so got any questions I appreciate that I appreciate the breakdown on that I don't know I don't know about the rest of the board but when I have see you to and then we have the luxury of having Brad Baker on our as our County Administrator I see three experts in the room that are looking that way so anybody have any
questions with these gentlemen gentlemen I appreciate you coming up here and addressing that for sir the team did excellent job of a deep dive into this to definitely going to be able to find out exactly where the issues were for us with thank you thank you thank you Ryan FL is yours are again Mr chairman I would like to highlight Natasha is sitting in the background back there she's uh also the one she took over for Kevin sell with his recent retirement she's been working
um in that department for quite some time and uh is another great asset to the team out there so I want to give her a quick shout out but yeah we're just asking that um y'all authorize the termination of this contract with uh NGA 911 LLC and the team will will bring you additional recommendations when they find another vendor make a motion to move that move this to Thursday's consent agenda without objection hearing none so
moveed Mr chairman the next item is approval of task order number three with Vulcan Materials for the purchase of stock for the public works sign shop uh the county has had an agreement with them for some time now and um this is just a task order to buy those materials as you know we upgraded our our sign machine last year and they're able to do some nicer more efficient and more costeffective signs for the county now we have any discussion amongst the
board here none I'll make a motion to move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection hearing none so moved item number five is approval of task order number one for acne barricades to perform thermoplastic striping is detailed in the backup documentation and authorize the chairman to sign all related documents and you can see there in the background around the different um streets that'll have this striping done you have any discussion amongst the
board Sir Mr chairman just want to point out just so the uh the public and the media is aware that could simply because I've had so many phone calls and emails about this uh as part of this uh contract for striping it would include Santa Rosa Drive from from College Parkway to bayw Lane and Circle Drive West Avenue and circle Lane would be the stop bars there near Swinson Park okay any further discussion I'll make a motion to move
that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection hearing none so moved Mr chairman the next is to the environmental Department approval to hold a household hazardous waste Amnesty Day event Saturday March the 8th from 8 to 12 at the South Service Center as you know we have that available here at at the primary land fil and we just offer this to the south end we try to do it at least once a year if not more and um so
this would be the day set aside and we do partner with Okaloosa County which receives the state funding for the events and they cover about 80% of the cost for us to do that so this is when it says South it's at the landfill this is the drop point correct the drop point will be at the South Service Center and Michael's team will have people there and they'll bring it back up to the to the HH um W facility here to manage it I mean you know the paint is a big thing and we try
to recycle a lot of that so if you ever have a a craft project and you need some paint you're welcome to swing by there and they have gallons and five gallons of it and and get the paint and reuse it so for cheap like real cheap yeah uh is there a way to I'd like to have a better advertisement of this to tell you the truth because this is something that I've seen I've seen uh I've been behind a garbage truck before and I've seen a lot of stuff fall out of that truck when
you're just sitting there watching it that like wow and I'm I'm not g to put the onus on The Collector to sit there and police things but I've seen it firsthand myself and that's something that's you know we we do have to keep our landfill clean and you know I know that's an oxymoron to some people but it's not but if we could just put a you know make sure we advertise that and make sure we have proper addresses on
there we will Michael team works with the PO and they'll get it out and it is limited as to what they can bring and dispose of their limited quantities Etc but that service is available at the landfill all the time correct yeah I know I've got to catch my wife sometimes all right any more discussion hearing none I'll make a motion to move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection Mr chairman the next item is approval of an extension to the central landfill green waste grinding contract agreement
with Jimmy crowler Excavating and Land Clearing Incorporated for an additional year existing contract pricing back in May of 2022 the board approved an agreement with that and the agreement was uh for one year and allowed up to three oneyear extension so this is the third and final extension uh with Jimmy Crowder Excavating so we just asked the board approve that and then next year we'll we'll go out to bid for that we have any discussion amongst the board he in none
I'll make a motion to move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection hear none so moved Mr chairman items number eight nine and 10 are uh very similar um items item number eight is approval of a w of Construction contract for Navar Beach Bridge f repair to sold construction for the amount of 1,796
18985 and authorize the board chairman to sign all related documents the next two um I'll take them however you want but they they are just allow us to do on or direct purchase of those Bridge materials but they're all tied to the same same project so however you'd like to handle those are you suggesting to tie them all together or well we can cover separately but I know the district commissioner had some comments so I just want to make sure everybody knew that that all three
of those are the same it just allows us to save roughly almost $880,000 the tax benefit by purchasing them yes I saw that uh yes sir yes sir I I want to talk about these three you know I've been on board wanting a new a new bridge in thear these three right here are costing us $3,168 784 39 this telling me we' been kicking this can down the road for a long time we
keep repairing it it's a 1960 Bridge it's it's done its part it's time for a new bridge we need more Lanes we got I've talked to sherf Department they've talking about how much trouble they have going across the bridge and coming back if they have a wreck they can't get across they can't get back across yeah they can go down way to Pensacola that's a long way but this right here telling me we we wasted a lot of money on this bridge and I I'd appreciate y'all
looking at this see what we can do get a new bridge right now I think we need to put a toll back on the old bridge should never come off that would help us pay for some of this repair and if we do get a new bridge we don't have to put a toe on it it don't have to be a big toe but we got to have money coming in to repair it instead of using all the taxpayers money we got tourists coming from everywhere let them
help us pay for this that's the way I look at it and you know don't put it all on Santa Rosa County people let let the tourist help us pay for it and I appreciate y'all looking at this real close please okay any more discussion amongst Bo hearing none I'll make a motion to move this to Thursday's consent agenda without objection hearing none so move Mr
chairman the next one would be approval to use the direct purchase um direct owner purchase Method to buy Bridge materials from tangent Technologies LLC in the amount of $364,800 Cent for thear Beach Bridge fender repair projects saving us just under 21 ,000 in sales tax yeah that's this was interesting to look at
and I and I I I just want to take the time to reach out to Sabrina for being very very Thrifty um the these are the things that really matter it is nickels and dimes I know a lot of us when we're in the government side we're looking at nickels and dimes is being 880,000 stuff like that it's like okay but when you get into reality it's it's it's real money and I appreciate you and the work you've done we have any more discussion on those hearing none I'll make a motion to
move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection Mr chairman the next one is um Owner Direct purchasing approval um through creative pul trusion Incorporated in the amount of 1,759 for the Nar Beach fender repair saving us approximately 56,000 in sales tax any discussion amongst the board
hearing none I'll make a motion to move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection hearing none so moved item number 11 is approval of final plat acceptance and maintenance of in infrastructure of marlin place at Avalon Phase 2 a 95 lot Public subdivision located in District 2 in the has met the engineering Department's review based on the current Land Development
code any discussion amongst the board hearing none I'll make a motion to move that to Thursday's consent agenda without objection hearing none so moved next item is approval of the final PLA and acceptance and maintenance of infrastructure of Hidden Pines first edition 139 lot subdivision public subdivision located in District 2 once again this has uh met the engineers review based on the current Land Development code we have any discussion amongst the
board hearing none I'll make a motion to move that Thursday's consent agenda without objection hearing none so moved Mr chairman the next item is approval of a task order in the amount of $6,350 for MIM and Creed to develop a master plan service for the japa Road football complex authorized the board chairman to sign all related documents as you know we've done practice fields out there at the japper road football complex and this would just allow us to
master plan and let y'all phase in uh the next things that'll give us survey data traffic engineering conceptual designs along with a cost estimation so the board can make decisions of how we move forward with a a really a um a competition field out in that complex yes sir very excited about this um I think this gives us an opportunity to kind of broaden our tourism tax as we
start looking into sports tourism as I know um you know everybody on this board is has talked about one way or the other so I'm very excited about this and I know this is just a you know we're just getting the ball rolling supposed to speak but uh very excited about this yeah I'm in agreement with you commissioner that's a very good one I it's one that made me very excited as well any more discussion heing no more discussion I'll make a motion to move that to Thursday's
consent agenda without objection Mr chairman the the next item is a preliminary plat approval before I get into it I will make sure the board is where we have authorized past board have authorized the engineer to sign off on preliminary plats um however this one is unique so this is a discussion to allow the County engineer to prove the preliminary plat for the the Monarch subdivision once all comments have been addressed with a stipulation that the capacity for sanitary sewer must be
provided before approval of the development order for the construction of the subdivision um this uh developer has reached out to us to for us to consider um capacity in our wastewater treatment facility there at the industrial park um he has they have met with the chairman and myself and we've discussed it with the team and we believe we'll have the capacity as we evolved that out there made it very clear to them that it would be contingent upon you know us going
live before they could get a um any Coos issued um and me this is kind of out of the ordinary and our first of these we just wanted to bring it to the board and um make sure the board was good allowing Rebecca to sign off on that preliminary plat when it comes down to only the capacity letter being needed right we have any discussion amongst the board all right here none I'll make a motion to move that to Thursday's
consent agenda without objection Mr chairman that completes the operations and safety report all right I want to reach out to my board members here my fellow board members I made a mistake earlier in the meeting I skipped over the County Administrator part of this it is a it is an agenda item s citizens Land Development code task force I had members I had three people signed up to talk on that and I skipped
right over them and I apologize for that so I'm going to make a redo on this and uh go ahead and open the floor up for that and I apologize to my guys everybody understands what we're doing we're back on the page of the Land Development code task force first name on the list is Jerry Koy
Jerry KY Milton Florida Mr chairman you could have wedged us back in there a little bit sooner uh I think this is a good step I appreciate it we all know what the last one look like please don't have a repeat of that I don't mind everybody having a seat at the table but I don't I don't appreciate a 14t wood wall put between us and us being in the back of the bus like what happened the last time um I
know it's early in the process and I'll certainly express my concerns to this board um when it's put together but our best management practices are failing us miserably around any moving bodies of water uh certainly I've had some conversations with commissioner burette on on uh some waste to to fix that but I hope that in in light of what has occurred in muac valou
and Annie's Basin that that be one of the big focuses to this committee because that's what's generating all the problems that's what's generating all the contempt that's what's generating all the staff time that is necessary to take care of this uh that needs to be a major focus of this um and and also streamlining processes to identify when people are skirting the rule of law or
skirting the rules in Land Development um uh Chris had just pointed out something to me and I think he's going to get in a little more detail you already have the authority to to pull a building permit today so I I think it it should be pretty clear to everybody here now that in the situation we're talking about on map byou there should have been an environmental resources permit pulled there should be some holding ponds over there and the Le the law was skirted and
uh that that's one of the areas that you can do something about it immediately you can get some attention very quickly thank you for your time thank you sir and the next we have is Chris K thank you Chris curb uh Le Defenders again uh I did uh I've already started going through the Land Development code U actually did that before you even
started the task force but uh Jerry was speaking about something that I um pointed out to him this is under 3.04 05a 1A that's under your erosion and sediment control and it says any siment and debris that leaves the development site shall be properly recovered recovered by the building by the building permit holder failure to comply with this requirement
shall constitute a violation of this ordinance and shall cause for suspension of a building permit or development order and code enforcement action uh so uh those 23 billing permits on Damon Drive they could be suspended if you so chose because they do not have an environmental resource
permit um if you go to I got it right here I think it's 3.02 n of your Land Development code I don't know where I've been done with it basically it says you got to I have a water man uh Water Management District permit yeah 3.02 09 um something that needs to be added
to that when we get to the code for staff it specifies Northwest Florida Water Management District Section 3 73.0 36 that section of Florida statute actually sets up the water management districts you should also add chapter 62 330 but you do have that covered under under 3.04 where you specify environment resource permits thank
you thank you thank you I want to take this time to also point out something too that uh when U Mr curb you had said something about and I'm not this is not a question but you had said something about a developer saying that they always do these land clearings without permission I'm just here to say that's not the deal anymore that's not happening anymore so I wanted to make
sure you that that's pointed out this board does not allow for that and we've got proof to show you that we don't put up with it all right this time we go over the meeting list T yes tonight we have the fire department executive group meeting it'll be at the EOC building at 6:30 p.m. this this evening Wednesday night in this chamber we'll have the a Aviation advisory
committee meeting in this chamber at 5:00 pm and then next Thursday we'll be back with this cast of crew at 8:30 a.m. in these Chambers for the regular meeting there's your meeting list at this time we are adjured
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