with me. Lord, thank you once again for the wonderful city that we live in. Thank you for the citizens that are keeping us moving forward and our city council. We ask that you give them uh the ability for sound and right decisions tonight and be fair. We ask that you watch over everybody.
We honor in the next week our first responders, our police and our sheriff's department uh through National Police Week and that we ask that you watch over them and lay your healing hands on them and protection and also with our fire department. We ask that all we do in
your name, Jesus Christ. Amen. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Okay, Kathy, can you please call the role here here. All right. If there is anyone in the audience who has something they would like to speak about that is not on the agenda, um you can please fill out one of these forms up front and give it to Clerk Haley and we'll address public
comment later in the meeting. uh mayor support. Uh just a few things. Attended the National Day of Prayer at the courthouse. Uh did a good job. Jerome uh continued on with the clerks. They've done uh and really it's it's kind of an honor to be there to see the amount of
people that showed up for the prayer and it was just a good day. Appreciate them doing that. We as I mentioned that we have uh the police uh officers memorial day is on the 15th of next month or this month, I'm sorry. So,
we get to honor our protectors and uh thank them for what they do on a daily basis. We have uh also this is the municipal clerk's week. So, congratulations to Kathy for being our municipal clerk. The last municipal
clerk's week you're going to be able to say I'm a municipal clerk. So, we appreciate the 72 years that you've been here and uh it's been honor. But thank you Kathy for that. we extend our appreciation. The only uh really event
that I have coming up is at May 17th is the fire department's uh bike fest and uh so if you all can attend that if you want to donate bikes it's gets bigger and bigger every year. So congratulations to the fire department. Thanks for what you guys do. Bobby, the last thing I have is a
proclamation for peace officers memorial day and week. And Carl, if you'd come up, I'm going to have you come to the podium since proclamation. Whereas Congress United States and whereas all understand agency and that members of
the city police protect against therefore the qualify. doing so further call them. Police Department appreciation. There will be a ceremony tomorrow
morning at 9 Sheriff's Office National Police Memorial Day and the tragic death. Yes sir. Yes sir. All right. Uh moving on to council member
reports. Mr. Carlo. I'm just glad to be back in the United States. I've been on a missions trip and I tell you we are a blessed country, blessed nation. The things that we take for granted. Uh getting up and eat breakfast or
having lunch or taking a hot shower, all those things we take for granted. And all these people don't have much of anything. They look for their next meal. So just glad
to be back and thankful that the Lord chose for me to be here. Mr. Bishop, Mr. H. Two things. Uh, congratulations to the fire department. Uh, thanks Bobby Carlos Austin. So today COPC application got approved by the
board of county commission. So, it's a uh next big step into uh going towards ALS and advancing our services that we provide to the city. It's a long time coming and a lot of work has gone into this and very grateful for the fire
department for making this happen. Um and thank you. It's a it's a big day for the fire department. Also want to say thank you to u fire uh police department for letting me shoot some guns and uh going through some simulations. Um, they did not shoot me this time, so I'm very
grateful for for that. No tasers were used in this simulation. So, thank you. And I thought I had a good shot until working with you guys. Apparently, I had terrible shot. So, that's it. All right. Uh, we're going to go ahead and
move on to the consent agenda. Um, if there's any item that a council member wishes to pull off the consent agenda, um, say so now. Any questions or comments uh from the audience on the consent agenda? Anything from council?
A motion. Make a motion we accept the consent agenda as second. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Stew. Yes. All right. There is no old business. So we will move on to new business. Item number 10A. Um appointment to the
Sebring airport Authority. Uh so you handle this one. Is that right? There is one vacancy that has expired on the city authority. Two were submitted. One from Carl and one from Gary
Germaine. The names in order to get one vote and city Bishop. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Stewart. Yes.
All right. Thank you. Moving on to item 10B. proposal from the Highlands Lakeside Theater to renew the lease for the former Museum of the Arts building. Good evening. How are you tonight? Uh first of all, I want to apologize if you were expecting somebody to come and
entertain. I'm not that part of um we have enjoyed for the past year use of the former U Museum of the Arts building which is our education program building. I you all a little recap of what we've
used it for in the past year and also looking forward to what we plan on using it for and that's just the tip of the iceberg. We do know some other plans for the ongoing classes. It's taking us a little bit of time getting that started just because we are so busy already and
with our competition show that kind of stretches. However, um I do anticipate that we're going to make that into a regular program whereas for example every Saturday will be a class schedule for something. And this is not just for
children. The classes will also be for any questions or comments from the audience. Okay, seeing none, I will entertain a motion. I move to approve uh approve a one-year lease renewal and instruct the city
attorney to amend the current lease for council president signature. Second, yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Stew. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you. Okay, we're going to move on to business from the audience. And as a reminder, you have
three minutes um for each comment. Uh first up is Mr. John Watson. topic on just a reminder of a subject of concern. If you could again state your name for the record, please. My name is John Watson. I'm a Highlands
County uh citizen. Very appreciative of our city council and all the decisions that you have to make. I have just a concern. I hope and pray that you will uh make decisions for the betterment of
the city of I'm here today just to remind you of any decisions that may be asked of you concerning a sexual preference celebration that appears to be scheduled again in the city limits of Sebring. We ask that any permits, and I know as of yet there's been none asked
for, they probably will not ask for any, uh, be denied as an open celebration of sexual nature of perversion, gender dysphoria, or LGBTQ, plus 72 other gender imaginary forms of humanity. Having an open celebration of
this type is psychologically damaging to children, and we don't want Highlands County to be the LGBTQ gender dysphoria celebration hub. Thankfully, the presidential administration that was elected has seen the ridiculous circumstances and damage
that this has caused and is writing the damage as best as possible for our families and our children. I want to thank you again for your service and I would ask that all your decisions and thoughts be made for the betterment of this community. not
just for the financial and the economic aspect, but also the mental well-being to build a thriving, healthy community. Please push back any of the sexual deviency that might be out in the open back
into Thank you. Thank you. All right. Next up, Miss Aisha Aliande um on mental health awareness and Mayhem. Mayhem. All right. Streets. Hi,
my name is Aisha Alleande 1800 Drive. I'm here on behalf of Hartland for Wellness. Uh, I would have had something prepared, but many community partners have been working on this mayhem campaign because May is mental health
awareness month. And unfortunately, our community has experienced uh many uh tragedies where we've had completed suicides and completed uh suicide murders in our community. So, I am I
don't know if I should be happy to say this, but myself and uh Advent Health and South Florida State College have been working to make a mental health first aid class happen for a while now.
And I literally just got a text that on May 28th, we will have a class to certify people to become mental health first aid. So, it's like CPR training for mental health. So, people would be able to identify behavioral cues
exhibited by adults or children. There's two different types of training. The first one that's on May 28th at 9:00 a.m. at the college. Uh that will be an adult training and you will be certified for three years and it will teach you
how to identify behaviors that people exhibit when they are in distress or when they're having a mental illness um uh what do you uh symptom. So it doesn't mean that we're going to go out there and look and be like we're police
officers or anything like that. It will just teach us to identify and make sure that we can get them to the help that they need. So, a lot of us have been working to make sure that those resources are available and it's free. So, all that you have to do is sign up.
Um, our administration here at uh city hall uh Robin normally has a sheet of resources. So, that will be updated and many businesses and organizations around the community will have that information as well. Uh we also last year uh Mayor
Shupe uh proclaimed May as mental health awareness month. So you will see other organizations and businesses changing the narrative so that we can have a culture of helping every mind and that's what May stands for. May is a month where we help every mind and we want to
do that in May and beyond May. So I just ask that people be aware uh speak and act in love and and and know that uh each one teaches one. So how you show up
in the world is is your testament and um and I do want to say that there are a lot more things psychologically damaging to children and when it evidence-based information so there are a lot more things psychologically three minutes. Yes ma'am. Sorry. Thank
you. No problem. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Um, we're going to move on to item number 12A, city attorney's business. Mr. You have before you resolution 2025-07. It's entitled a resolution city council of the city of Cedar, Florida
establishing its public participation policy for city workshops and providing an effective date. You have a public participation policy on business from the audience for council meetings. This is a separate for specific for city workshops. As council knows, you've got
a workshop coming up on May 12th. This is if council wishes would be effective for that. So, as I understand this um policy gives presenters for the workshop 10 minutes at the beginning to give a
presentation, 10 minutes at the end to address any public comment or other matters, five minutes for each member of the public. Yes, sir. encouraging, of course, uh, groups of people of likeminded thought to perhaps have a spokesperson present on
behalf of all of those with with a with their thoughts just to make it a little more efficient for everybody. Okay. Questions or comments from anybody? Okay. Any questions or comments
from the audience on this? Okay. I will entertain a motion. Make a motion to approve resolution 2025-7 effective May 7th, 2025. Second, please call the
yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. Moving on to item 12B. Mr. Sw. Resolution 2025-08 would if approved authorize Scott Nate city administrator to execute and deliver grant applications and
related documents to so that those may be you know started underway a little more frequently two meetings of council per month. All right. Well, I'm in favor of anything where he can sign instead of me. Um any questions or or comments from
council? Any questions or comments from the audience? All right, I will entertain a motion. I move to approve resolution 2025-08 as presented. Second.
Fish. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. We're going to move on to item 13A. City administrator. Good evening, council. I'm happy to report that we have closed on the echo
park now park road swap and relocation of public works utilities property phase one is complete and we're moving towards closing on that All right, great. Sunrust building, we have an appointment for an elevator
assessment. You sent out some information on on that building to fall council today. Okay. Any questions or comments?
Okay. And last but not least, yeah. So, move Second. All right. Call open. Yes. Yes.
Yes. on sideing.