It was two to one, so don't worry about it. So, but congratulations. So, that's all I had. Oh, where's Carl? I didn't see Carl. Come on up, Carl. We do have one more. I've got the old agenda here, but Carl and Roie put on a Lake Jackson cleanup
day on an annual basis, and it's coming up and Carl's here to uh present it. So, Dave to Scott, thank you very much for your time. Thank you very much. Uh, thank you for your support in the years past on the Lake Jackson cleanup project. Uh, I brought a a souvenir.
First cleanup was in 2015. It had a list of all the people and agencies that helped support this and one was Jan and John Shu uh, and one was Cool and Cob engineering company and then places like Sebring Fireman. Uh,
there's a whole bunch. Uh but uh so this will be the 11th uh year. The first year was 2015 and so 2025. It's going to be Saturday morning like we've done in the past 8 o'clock over at
Veterans Beach. We'll meet there. If you have a boat, we would love for you to come. You don't have to have any special skills. You'd be able to drive the boat. If you don't have a boat, come anyhow. We have we'll have probably ample boats
for that. I know that uh Scott has arranged that the Sebring fire rescue boat will be there and they're very very helpful. They come with the dive unit so they can actually go down deeper. Most of us will be in boats around the shoreline of the lake. Some will be
walking around the lake around the sides. Uh the county has an airboat that they're going to be there with same was as last year. And the sheriff's office is going to have two of their boats with operators in it for the Lake Jackson cleanup project. That'll be September
the 13th, Saturday morning from 8:00 till noon. And we're going to be working and and uh Mayor Shupe has worked with the Sebring firemen uh and they have provided the
hot dogs and and the drinks uh or the hot dogs after And the Rotary Club usually provides cold drinks afterwards. And you we will have the bags uh for people to use. We have the vest that so that you don't hopefully don't get run
over as you're walking around the sidewalk picking up litter and then you fill up your bag and set it on side uh sidewalk and the city comes and picks it up. So uh it it's a good job and it does
a good work. We can do it annually and have done it for a long time. And we would encourage the the public that cares about the water quality in Lake Jackson to be there September the 13th at 8:00 in the morning. And I'm here if
there's any questions that anybody has. I talked to Dave Travers who does most of the cook does all the cooking. He just needs to get a number from you when you're when you're ready. So I I will get directly with with with Dave Travers and let him know the number. They've been every year. It's
been good. We've never run out of hot dogs. But you got you don't get hot dogs till after you pick it. Pick the your l and there'll be boats that come in that are full. I mean loaded down with with stuff
that they have pulled out of the lake. And you wouldn't think there'd be that much material in the lake in shore, but there is. And I think we filled up like two dumpsters last year. Like we fill up two dumpsters every year. So, it's a good community thing. Uh, and it doesn't
cost a lot of money and it's you probably make some new friends, too. We've made friends there that way. Thanks for doing that. Right. Any other questions? No questions. Thank the city for your support. Thank you for letting me come and speak and we'll see. If I don't see you before,
we'll see you uh September the 13th. Thank you. Thanks, Carl. Thanks for putting that on, Carl. It's a good event. Um, I'll be there. No boat, but it is shocking the stuff that comes out of that lake. Have you arrived? All right. Uh, anything else, Mr. Mayor? No.
Okay. Uh, council members, uh, concerns or reports, Mr. Carlile? Yeah, this, uh, past week, uh, went to the Florida League of Cities convention. Uh, I think it's one of the best ones I've been to, and I've been to almost every one of them since I've been a
councilman. And I just got to give uh, Hannah. Uh, they were very impressed with Hannah. She gave us talked about Sebring and, uh, I had several people come to me afterwards and and tell me
just how great she done and that we need to give her some help. So, anyway, she talked about what happened for downtown and shared that. She done a great job. It was a good meeting and I got my ethics training and
they fixed it this year. You can't sneak off. You have to sign in and when you leave you have have a QR code you have to show and it gives you a check. So there's no no leaving until you're done. I'm done. You have never done that.
Uhuh. I went I always done my four hours, but I'm sure there was some people that did. So, no report. Well, Lar, you uh stole my thunder. So, the mayor always does mine. I know.
It was really good to go to League of Cities, learned a lot about Florida Doge, got to connect with a lot of vendors, learn about some advancements with with AI. Um, so a lot of cool things are happening. It was a great opportunity. Encourage you all next year. It's worth the trip to be able to
connect with a lot of other people, figure out what other cities and municipalities are doing. Um, honestly, leaving that too, I'm just really thankful for our team here, Bob, Scott, Kathy, just we have a really good team and it's being able to see other people and some of the struggles that other
municipalities face. See in a really good spot. So, thankful for for everybody and thank you Hannah for being a great panelist uh representing us well. All right. Uh, we're going to go ahead and move on to the consent agenda. Is there anyone in the audience who has any
questions or comments about consent agenda? I I do. All right. I would like to, if it's okay with you, we could pull item 8G. Okay. I think we could have a little bit more conversation on that. All right. We're going to pull item 8G, the cottage market special event
application. Um, any other questions or comments from council? I'll entertain a motion excluding item 8G. I'll make a motion we accept the consent agenda excluding 8G. Second. All right, we have a motion in a second.
Kathy, can you call the role, please? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. All right, we'll move on to item 8G, cottage market special event. Um here speak on that or you just
Yeah. So, um, they've been operating on, you know, the old drive-through property. Y couple years ago, I had an idea to move them to the Nestle property, which I did for a while, and then they've moved back
for whatever reason to the u the drive-through property again. And I just posed a question to Scott a few months ago, you know, why don't we see if they would be interested in moving up closer to the circle to capitalize on some of this, you know, foot traffic that we uh
we've been getting downtown on the circle. You know, they're kind of detached, you know, I'm I'm not walking that far from the circle, but um yeah, so uh just I had Scott reach out to I'm sorry,
I'm Mrs. Forsby. Okay. So, um, and see if she would be willing to come tonight and we could have a little bit of conversation. My initial idea was to put them on North Commerce if they were interested in that. I'm not trying to tell them where to set up shop, but that is at least traveled spoke in my
opinion. Um, just just an idea. Wanted to see what their thoughts were. Okay. Uh, thank you guys for having us and Rob, thank you very much for allowing us the to come onto the circle
as close to the circle as possible. You're correct. It is a struggle over there. Um not a lot of people come like yourself don't want to walk that far and this would be a great opportunity for us like of it to move over there. We did
have a few questions uh in terms of the street parking the street will be blocked off or who how does that part work? I mean, I think those are things we can still work out, but the um if if you're
actually going to be on the street, block off the street. Okay. Um another option is because we've acquired the Sunrust property, there's the potential to have the event in in the parking lot where the Sun Trust is. It's a fairly large parking lot as you
may have seen. So, I think those are a couple options that we can explore. Right now we have electric on the what I'm say north side of North Commerce if you will. Um, and that
that we may have to and we've been looking at the potential to put electric on the south side uh of the street with this potential in mind in the future uh because on the weekends that parking lot gets very little use and could be
utilized for special events or something that yeah the I mean as far as being set up in the street on North Commerce the only uh obstacle I see is there is a bit of a a slope to that road. So, I don't know if that would
hamper anything that you guys would have going on as far as setting up tables. I don't know. It's just something you need to look at if you're interested in that area. We're interested in hearing. Okay. I'm not trying to tell you where to where to go. Just wanted to see so you get as much as possible.
Market that we got. This would probably more likely revamp the market and bring in more local customers taking advantage of the secret. But we're excited to be a part of it.
Yeah. And I mean, I'm open to other ideas if she wants to, you know, survey the area and see if she thinks that, you know, there's another area that would fit them better. I mean, I just I want to see them capitalize on the foot traffic downtown. I think the
street's a great location because it is walkable. Someone's going to a soda shop or there's a restroom that will soon be there. Yes. Right. Soon. I mean, you go um to other areas and most farmers markets have a a street blocked off
with barricades, right? It's meanable to you. We'll work out all those details. I even extended the potential that um instead of uh working from the October 19th date
that's on the agenda that there's no reason we couldn't get this started soon. No, they can move to whenever they want. So, do you want an amended motion? Sure. Given us authority to kind of work out the details. Okay.
Start date, end date. All right. Before we take that motion, are there any other questions or comments from the public on this? Anything else from council? All right, I'll entertain a motion. I move that we approve the cottage market
to continue. Um, and it'll allow staff to talk with the organizers directly to find a closure location closer to the circle. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. You can call the roll, please. Yes.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Very much. Thank you guys. Thank you everybody. Hello. All right. There is no old business. So, we're going to move on to item 10A under new business. Ordinance number 1552
annexing two parcels. Mr. Swain. This is on your uh agenda for second reading and it's entitled an ordinance annexing approximately 4.63 acres of land located in Lake Jackson Boulevard subdivision lying in the northwest corner of section 36 township
34 south range 28 east islands county Florida into the city of Sebring Florida and establishing an effective date. Okay, so as a reminder this is one half of a the shopping center that uh the other half is already within the city. This would just be completing the shopping center. Are there any questions
or comments from the public on this annexation? Anything from council? I'll entertain a motion. Make a motion that we approve ordinance 1552 or second schedule and final reading as
second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Kathy, could you call the role, please? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Stewart. Yes. Okay. Next up, item 10B. Uh, second amendment of the development agreement
for the Eagle Lake subdivision. Do we have Mr. Carlson with us? Carlson here. All right. Good evening. Thank you all for letting us talk a little bit about the our project and
thank you for I guess it was approved 10 years ago less than nine years ago and it's coming up to be uh our development order ordinance is getting ready to come out 26. So what we're proposing is we since
we been approved before would we simply allow another 10 year you know, extension for it. Sebring is taking a little longer to grow. We have had some nice beautiful developments over the the time frame we've this property has been approved.
We see a lot of nice new things coming to Sebring and Lake and other areas got Amazon. So I think you're going to see Cring hopefully have some nice, you know, slow growth and we have lots
of nice projects like this land unit developments that have a nice allocation of diversity which which is which I think is ideal for land unit development. We have basically family state lots on the lake. We have 50 foot
lots. We have two small portions of multifamily and then we have proposed area I don't part and then in the development or ordinance there's all sorts of caveats to protect
as the traffic studies to be updated and all the things that you could ever want to ask them to do you know should the roads get you know get more traffic than you would expect all those caveats are
already built into the de development ordinance to protect the residents around here. So, any questions that you have, we'd love to be able to help answer. Mr. Carlson, if I if I read it
correctly, before a building permit could be issued, you'd have to come before us with the final site plan, too. That's part of it. Okay. It's not like we're approving something, you know, who knows what it'll be, it'll be before us again before you start construction.
Okay. Any other questions for council? No, I mean the only feedback I have is that uh you know this has been a pretty scrupulous area over the last couple years, but um I think we're addressing
their concerns with the required traffic study and things like that. So I think I think we're okay. I think there's in there if the study comes back there's road improvements for Sparta and for passage that have to be done also.
I think they read they would have to put in the turn lanes or deceleration lanes if the traffic and nothing else is changing the same density that's there now part of a passage 27 andor state road 66 on the traffic impact the improvements
to all those roadways if it's so required and no changes to any density as what was approved 10 years ago Do you have an updated timeline? Do you think any idea when you're want to start construction with this? What?
Any idea when you want would want to start development on this? Um I would say my educated guess would be probably within the next five years maybe. Okay. and knowing the other developments that
we have around secret. Thank you. Any other questions or comments from anything from the public? Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. Make a motion we approve second amendment to development agreement at
second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Kathy, can you call the role, please? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. You're welcome.
All right. There is no business from the audience. So, we are going to move on to city attorney's business. Item 12A. When the city recently uh purchased property behind Lowe's from the Fryman Trust, the deed to the city included a retention
pond that the Fryman Trust intended to retain because Lowe's uh still concurrently uses that retention pond. This is a proposed clean deed to give them back the retention fund that we never intended to acquire to begin with.
Nothing more expensive than a free retention pond. I don't think we want their retention ponds. Uh any any questions or comments from council? No. Anything from the audience? All right, I'll entertain a motion. I make a motion we approve the quick claim deed and authorize the execution
of it by Mayor Shu. Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Kathy yes. Yes. All right. Moving on to item 12D. Mr. This is uh ordinance 1553. It's on your
agenda for second and final reading. And the changes to this ordinance will accommodate the official uh purchasing policy that the uh city will uh hear just after this. entitled an ordinance amending division two purchasing in chapter two of the code of ordinances of
the city of Sebring by requiring payment bonds and construction contracts deleting the requirement for vendor certification of local preference and increasing the threshold for competitive bidding and providing for an effective date. All right. So this is the purchasing ordinance we talked about at our last
meeting. Are there any other questions or comments from council on this? Okay. Anything from the audience? All right. A motion. Make a motion we adopt ordinance on second final rating of second.
We have a motion and a second. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Item 12 C. You have a resolution number 2025-15. You would adopt this resolution to
formally adopt the updated official purchasing policy that Jamie Cook been working on for some time. Okay. The companion to what we just passed. Any questions or comments from council? Any from the audience? Okay. I'll entertain a motion.
Make a motion we approve resolution 2025-15 adopting revised official purchasing policy. Second. We have a motion and a second. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes. All right, we're going to move move on to city administrator business. Uh, Mr. Nickle, your project report. I did receive word actually um this afternoon that civil service completed
100% deliverables for phase two as well. I have 100% deliverable for phase one and phase two. Um, I did get an email and I have a meeting
uh with Grant Gale on uh results from the root scan for this Thursday. So I'll be meeting with him in reference to that. Otherwise, I don't really have an update other than we we do have a proposal now from Widner Law Firm. We're looking that
over and hope to invite them to make a presentation for council. Any questions, Scott? Um, just on the on the foreclosure and the leans process, is code enforcement board aware of what we're trying to
accomplish here? Are they on board? Um, okay. Thank you. Anything else? Okay, we move on to our last item. Clerk Haley, item 14A.
Second. All right, we have a motion and a second. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.