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everyone and welcome to the Tuesday March 11 2025 Forida County Commission meeting it is now approximately 1:30 I would ask that you all find your seats please silence your cell phones any other electronic devices that you may have with you we' sincerely
appreciate it we're going to start out today with the invocation by Pastor Robert Bradley Bread of Life Christian church and then the pledge by commissioner lockart please stand let us pray Eternal God our Father we thank you for this day that you've given unto us by your grace and your
mercy we thank you God for life's precious gifts we thank you Father for the strength you've given unto us to be able to gather here today Lord God as our commissioners put their hearts and Minds together for the betterment of this County we thank you God for the Swift intelligence and movement of law
enforcement that foiled what could have been a catastrophic event at s High School we we thank you Father that no lives were lost during their weather event on yesterday God we just want to thank you God for just being a good God to us and father everything that we do from this moment forward hearts and the
minds of our commission be focused on doing what betters the citizens of this County and let all be done for your glory and for our betterment in this Christ's name we pray amen amen please join me in the pledge I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of
America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you commissioner thank you Mr Bradford we appreciate you being here Mr Bradley today to lead us in the
invocation uh before we get started today I've asked um our Emergency Operations Center Director Mr alen Harris to give us a update on yesterday's events uh I think speaking for majority of the commission uh we are
very thankful for our First Responders our our men and women in in the fire department as well as our law enforcement our building officials our our uh other employees that were deployed for this natural disaster so we sincerely appreciate all the efforts you made on behalf of the citizens of this
County thank you Mr chairman and Commissioners uh Alan Harris uh director of Emergency Management for the record we did experience a ef2 tornado yesterday at 9:36 in the morning uh began around uh Waka Springs area and
then moved about four miles into Longwood Lake Mary across Markham Woods Road area uh and ended at Lake Emma when it lifted at that point um want to thank the National Weather Service for their support and their early alerts a lot of
people went into uh closets and their safe rooms and things like that we heard that from a lot of individuals uh and we're very thankful for those individuals that did that and that potentially saved quite a few lives certainly prevented injuries as well we are certainly blessed uh that we had no
injuries in this event this could have been a very catastrophic event we haven't experienced an ef2 tornado we've had tornadoes we've had them embedded in hurricanes we've had individual tornadoes 2007 2009 we had tornadoes in oito and Castlebury but we haven't experienced a tornado like this since
1998 now it wasn't of course as bad as 1998 that was the worst tornado outbreak in uh State of Florida history uh but certainly uh one of the worst that we've seen here in Simo County uh in in in history and and my experience too uh we have opened up a tarp location for
individuals can get uh tarps for the roofs that's and that's in a partnership with St Stevens Lutheran Church we provided tarps to those to that location the American Red Cross has done case Assessments in each of the um uh homes along the the path of the the the
tornado this is a very similar to any type of tornado you've read about seen on TV where two blocks down the road Road a mailbox is standing and uh right here this home is completely destroyed and and um that that was very uh
consistent with what we saw uh yesterday um we have uh over nine faith and nonprofit organizations that have offered assistance to individuals uh that may need assistance uh special needs and they can't get out and fix uh their yard clean up their yard so we
want to thank our faith and nonprofit organizations that are always lending uh hands we reached of all of our special needs clients all the individuals in uh healthc care uh Home Health uh assisted living facilities nursing homes to make sure that all of those that were in the
path of the storm uh that they are okay uh as the chairman mentioned I want to thank our team uh of professionals fire department the Sheriff's Office our Public Works Crews our Public Works Crews along with the fire department had all of the roads cleared within 1 hour
of the event that is amazing that is unheard of uh are we had state representatives that were responding to the EOC and they were asking what roads need to be cleared and I said we had already done it uh and they were in complete shock especially after they went out and looked at the disaster they
said how did you all do that and I said we have an incredible crew here that just gets moving and that's what we do um we are in the streets today we are picking up debris uh that were pushed to the side of the road so all those large trees and we're talking about large oak
trees like this so uh those were all pushed to the side to clear Fire EMS law enforcement getting in and out of the neighborhoods we're in the neighborhoods right now picking up all of that debris this is going to take a while it's going to you be a few days before we pick up all that debris uh and then we're going
to be working through uh the neighborhoods to uh pick up all of the rest of the dery we ask individuals if you are watching today individuals that are picking you know cleaning up around their yards things like that make sure that you look for safety right gloves uh closed tote shoes things like that
because there's Nails there's wood there's objects everywhere and it may be hiding behind something so be careful when you pick up things uh to be you know be really cognizant of that our uh solid waste management team uh has placed four dumpsters in the hardest hit
neighborhood where people can put that construction debris and we'll be picking up those on a regular basis very similar to what we do uh in the flooded areas after a hurricane uh Duke Energy was able to restore all power last night uh to those homes that can have power
restored so there are of course our homes that have damage that do not allow us to restore power uh but Duke Energy working with our building officials and our fire department uh did a great job uh restoring power yesterday so we're extremely pleased at our partnership
with Duke Energy with that U have there's anyone that has questions thank you very much Mr Harris any questions or comments from the board commissioner her yeah so the this is my district and it was uh it is absolutely devastating
damage that happened luckily it's in a small area uh I just want to express my appreciation first of all for the neighbors that were all immediately out helping each other but certainly for our teams particularly uh Public Works fire
the sheriff and all of the utilities that were so quick to jump to be responsive to the needs of our community I would also say a big uh point of recognition for this board for buying the equipment that was out there it's
one thing when we see it on an invoice and we question whether or not it's the right use of taxpayer money which we do every single time we buy anything it's another thing to see it out there when there are people that can't get in and out of their roads and it's our team that's out there within an hour clearing
the roads with a it probably would have been a good idea if I knew what this thing was but a thing with the big thing on the front front and loader thank you it was giant uh beautifully new with a logo on the
side of it that said seminal County and I've never been happier to see a large piece of equipment in my life and I am sure those neighbors felt the same way so to our board putting our Citizens First is wonderful and I appreciate you for doing that to our team of professionals that jumped to the mercy
of these people um I can't be more appre anyone else well other than I I wanted to personally um I watched heard you know called and once again our staff it's
just incredible um you know and what they've done so I just wanted to thank all of them through you Alan thanks that's them in our hearts and prayers go out to the residents that were impacted on this and I I know a lot of them are going to struggle as they work through their insurance ins companies and start
to rebuild and put their lives back together but just know that everybody here at simol county is is working and doing everything we possibly can to make that as seamless and easy as a process we can from the county side under Allen's leadership and and uh Mr Darren
Gray's leadership with the rest of our staff so thank you very much with that we have our next Proclamation which also is Mr Harris which is going to be our state of Florida animal control officer of the year Mr James pile Mr Harris you I'm I'm extremely excited about this um
not so excited about tornadoes but uh uh animal control officer of the year for the entire State of Florida James uh I could stand up here for 30 minutes and talk about James I love this guy I mean he's the coolest uh guy um I have a lot
of great employees but James is one that just excels on his lunch break you're gonna see him playing with dogs on any special event that we have he's building the sets that when you go out to Paw and Claw all of the things
that you see around there are his if they need help in the shelter because we are overc capacity please adopt from us if we are over he is always the one that says I'll help I'll help on that weekend I'll help that at that time he is now
our deputy director for field services so he trains our officers because he's such a good officer we wanted to emulate that out in the field and James you know he smiled a lot in this video that's always him too he's an educator he helps
people he doesn't enforce he educates the public which is which is a good thing um you know the animal control officer position is a position that you're always going to have someone mad right either the dog is
barking or you just wrote a citation for someone that the dog was barking now hopefully we can educate the person and and have a happy result but sometimes that doesn't happen and someone is upset James always does this with a
smile with happiness with the customer service that only Simo County we've only I only see in Simo County and I'm just so excited uh for James I am also excited to introduce Chris stonco our new division manager for Animal Services
which will also be coming up but uh if I can have James come up James and I'm gonna ask his supervisor Lauren Watts field services manager to come up Chris stonco to come up um and U this is his
award here I don't know chairman if you let's let's go down the floor and good work we also ask his parents to come uh so if we can have them come up Alan why don't you tell them what the award is I don't think you said what the award was did I not say that Animal control
officer of the year for the State of Florida thank you so we beat all the other counties all the well and cities so there are some cities that have animal control that's right congratulations sir thank you for all right perfect every on my count in
three two one good work congratulations all right next up is going to be our Urban bear management update by Mr Mike Orlando little background in early 2015 due to increased calls for human bear interactions Cal County adopted an ordinance creating the urban bear
Management Area Mike Orlando a bear Management program coordinator with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has provided the board with an annual update on ordinance performance Mike will now provide us the 2024 update Mike welcome again thank you so much um good afternoon chairman
Commissioners uh here we are again another year it's been a a good time over the years we've been talking about a lot of be stuff this one is actually going to be relatively short um and the reason for that is because uh you guys
are doing an amazing job um this is uh actually our calls for the Northeast uh so that is um B it includes like Maran Lake and valuan seminal um you could see that last year in 2024 we had 2600 calls
come into the agency the majority of those calls are in in blue there are just general interactions these are somebody saw a bear crossing the street or they saw a bear while they were hiking in the forest and obviously uh seminal county has some of the best bear
habitat in the State of Florida so we're definitely going to have Bears now and into the future um the orange part is what we call Core complaints and those core complaints are bear that's some actionable thing on FWC which is a bear
getting into garbage or bear getting on a screen enclosure or something along those lines and our bare management plan directs us to keep those core complaints under 50% and you can see that thankfully we've been keeping it under 50% for quite some time um the pie chart there again shows
that most of the calls that we're getting are General interactions but the second largest um uh reports that we get are bears in garbage and that leads us to what's happening in seminal County and you can see that uh in garbage uh
the amount of calls that you've gotten in the last um three years has been extremely low if you guys recall um some of you I know sure certainly commissioner Constantine remembers um you guys were the number one county in
the state of Florida for uh be conflicts you would flip back and forth um I think between Lake and seminal County between between one and two and um as of right now unfortunately Maran county is still the number one County with
779 calls uh but seminal county is the number eight County with only 38 calls so you guys were getting 6 700 calls uh coming from seminal County uh 10 years ago and since um we've done all the uh
work really you guys uh did the hard lift of getting ordinances in place and getting money for garbage cans um and dumpsters um it is obviously paid off you can see just general interactions uh down to
127 which is really indicative of once you take care of the garbage which you guys are doing so uh amazingly that all of your conflicts start to go down just because of that once you start taking care of the garbage um obviously some certain things like Public Safety
incident we you know definitely lower than we were in 2022 and bears and people you know don't get along sometimes um thankfully we have not had a serious incident and um we're working you know uh hard to to make sure that that doesn't happen in SEMO County or
anywhere for that matter but I really just have to congratulate you guys on over the years I know some of you probably been uh keeping track and um it's an amazing thing and we we promote seminal County every single time we go to a conference anywhere in the world
world uh we're constantly saying how what amazing job SEMO county has done with the efforts that you guys and um you're really a role model for not only the rest of the counties in the State of Florida but also uh in the country I mean North Carolina is even talking about you guys quite frequently so um so
this is just sort of visual representation of where the conflicts are occuring occurring this is over the last three years so it looks a little busy but you can see most of the things are happening in the usual places uh right up against the w um you know State Forest and um all that
conservation lands over there it's where our bears are again some of the best bear habitat in the whole state of Florida um and uh that is right where the ordinate zone is and those folks are really doing a pretty good job overall um you guys see that down in Ovito since
uh the ordinance was um uh put in place uh our calls in even in the OVO area has has dropped so um it seems like the ordinances are working really well but I think most uh um the best thing actually is the berries with the garbage cans and all the efforts that people are taking to
keep attracts away from bears so a quick sorry a quick deviation here um as some of you probably know in December uh we staff gave a presentation a five-year update to our uh Commissioners and after that
presentation our commissioners asked us to return to a future commission meeting uh for options on a reg ulated bear hunt um so I certainly wanted to address this today uh with you all and um essentially
just tell you that right now we are in the finding phase of uh information not only from subject matter experts but from the general public so we've had um a bare stakeholder group and tag meeting
and uh on this Thursday at 6:00 we'll be having our virtual public webinar to try to collect uh information from the public so it's just a listening session right at the moment um we're not having discussions really about bear hunting at
all at this moment we're just trying to get options together to uh formulate present to our commission some of the things that we're talking about are season timing and length and methods allowed uh Harvest limits locations all these things and
certainly we do understand that there are a lot of folks who uh want to check the box of none of the above to not have a bear hunt at all um and uh we're you know we're also documenting that so um everything is sort of up in the air at the moment um but again our direction is
to try to come back to our commissioners with uh uh options for reopening a regulated bear hunt that's it very good thank you Mr Orlando any questions or inquiries by the board commissioner her just to be clear you're coming back to your Commissioners not these
Commissioners yes I apologize FC clear about that yes I hate to qu that pressure on you guys on this board no uh yes our FWC Commissioners thank you I I think the work that we've done is is
amazing I can see every little thing that we do has an impact and everything that you do has an impact I would ask our team to reinvestigate the haulers schedules with regard to trash if you go back to your heat map MH that heat
map if you look where those red dots are the haulers have started hauling trash later in the day okay and so we are regularly seeing Bears up and down the streets figuring out which cans they can get in they're adorable but it's not
cool yeah understood and so I I think the labor shortage caused scheduling to be changed and we were good with it as long as trash got picked up but labor shortage is waning we need to get back on top of our expectations with regard
to our contracts yeah that's an excellent idea and if we can help in any way we can uh we can provide uh you know those data to try to determine where things are happening one quick note like things like uh the tornado you guys discussed earlier and certainly
hurricanes a lot of folks actually take like their freezer the food that's been is spoiling in the Freez and they put up by the side of the road if you could put that in in a very resistant garbage can that's the best way to do it otherwise try to you might need to take it somewhere else cuz they bears do take advantage of hurricanes and tornadoes
and power outages so commissioner Constantine thank you um i' I'd be remissed if I didn't say thank you to you Mike and all your people because you guys did a great job and most especially the citizens because this you know we
don't require be can um you know resistant um container ERS we have an education process a lot of them have taken advantage of opportunities that we have given them and they have taken on themselves but the education of our
citizens has been or them taking on and learning and doing the right thing has been phenomenal Since U you know the problems that we had back in the early 200 teens I did want to ask you about the illegal activities that's the only
thing that kind of stood out is is that feeding the Bears again yes it could be anything that's illegal most of that is going to be uh you know feeding bears or doing something that's against our Florida Administrative Code um so yeah it's not broken out but most of that is
people Fe and and because I thought that's what it was I just wanted to say to all the five people that are watching um to get the word out please Don't Feed the Bears you know causes problem the law yeah well it's against the law which
was you know you brought up North Carolina and Tennessee I was surprised that when I you know you know the people called us way back when when we started this you know that they don't have that as a law you know they they're allowed to feed bears not real smart it gets
complicated my counterparts up there are struggling a little bit sometimes not real smart thank you m and feeding a deer is feeding a bear I mean so whole another phenomena that happens yeah the Florida administrative code is pretty clear that allowing the placement of
garbage or an attractant like corn or um or intentionally placing it to feed of air that is likely to create or is creating is against the law so if you have a deer feeder out there um that's in a neighborhood or something it's fine if deer coming but if a bear shows up or
a bear is likely to show up yes you can be in violation of Florida Administrative Code Mr chairman I don't want to um continue this too long but I just wanted to ask one of question the Bears that were removed from seol County and moved I I'm sure that you have a
tracking device and things like that it's you know can you give us any update on those um which which Bears I'm sorry what the bear you had bears that you were removing from seminol County moving back up to the forest MH yeah you have you have tracking could you just give us
very briefly so typically so typically how it works is um our relocation sites are sort of uh distributed throughout the the forest um you know a mail bear has a 60 square m home range and female bears are around 15 square miles on average and so even when we take them to
the forest uh they they will likely return or they'll go you know in some other so really the key is to make sure that any attractant that is bringing Bears into the yards or into neighborhoods is eliminated because not only that bear might come back but
another bear that's in the area will take advantage of that so so when we relocate Bears um you know we are it's basically some adversive conditioning we're taking them trying to get them to understand that people are not nice stay away from you know humans and uh but a
lot of them will come back thankfully uh some of them do have recidivism where they do start getting into garbage and cans but some of them don't so we're trying to you know balance that out where uh you we're using relocation sparingly but effectively so
thank you thank you Mr Orlando we appreciate you being here thank you thank good to see you all again well see you next year question all right next up is our consent agenda if there's anybody here that desires to speak on the consent agenda please ensure that you grab one of the forms out front in the
lobby fill that out it's yellow and color the clerk is holding it up right now so you know what it looks like fill it out saying whether you're speaking on a particular item whether you're for against that and we'll get you called up here right now we'll go to the county attorney Miss Kate Lor for the rules of
public speaking Florida law provides that members of the public shall be given a reasonable opportunity to be heard on propositions before the board of County Commissioners except when the board is acting on emergency or ministerial matters or conducting a meeting exempt from the requirements of the Sunshine
Law individuals shall be permitted 3 minutes each for public comment or six minutes when the individual is an official representative of a formal group or Association the chairman May modify the maximum time for public comment at his sole discre when appropriate public
comments on quasi judicial or other public hearing items will occur during the board's consideration of those items later this afternoon public comments on pending procurement matters or on non-agenda items shall not be permitted at this time members of the public Desiring to make public comment must
fill out a speaker form and pre present the form to staff forms are available in the lobby Mr chairman thank you Mr tour uh County Manager do you have any updates to the agenda in this regard to consent agenda
thank you Mr chairman and Commissioners no changes just one I see typo under it says County managers consent agenda items it says five on the top says 5 through 20 it should be 5 through 19 just to clarify that so we're all on the
same page great any particular commissioner care or have a need to pull any of the items on consent agenda seeing none do we have any public comment on any the agenda of items yes sir there's one speaker Paul Zimmerman in opposition to item 18 Mr Zimmerman if
you would come forward Please Mr zimman if you would state your name and address of the record you'll have three minutes to tell us what your concerns are with number 18 when you are
hello I'm Paul zman PE retired 2241 kber Court Ovito 32766 good afternoon some of you may recognize me that's because I left employment as a chief engineer of the utility department 6 months ago after seven years with the county I've seen a lot of changes with the county as
employees in critical positions continue to come and go at a staggering Pace also I'm speaking to you with 34 years of utility specific experience including 27 years in highlevel professional engineering managerial positions from Municipal utility providers and multiple
States I also obtained my highest certification levels as a water and wastewater treatment operator however I'm here today as a concerned citizen of the county asking you to reconsider item uh agenda item 19 and not approved this request I'd like to point out that one
of the graders gave a perfect score no one gets a perfect you this guy gets a perfect score even though he's not a PE has no utility experience on that genda item furthermore um the vendor is supposed to provide
non-engineering utility operation Management Services as an extension of the utility what in the world's that as well as provide miscellaneous support and I just don't see a demonstrated need to spend $400,000 plus $60,000 previously to the
same vendor this is a duplication of services you've got J you've got CPA and Jacobs doing much of the same thing you got too many cooks in kitchen here also in concl well in conclusion I'm asking the BCC to vote no on agenda number 18 number 18 to give yourself time to make
sure this large expend is really needed furthermore I believe that I'm uniquely positioned to give the BCC an unvarnished opinion of the real issues confronting the utility department without fear of reprisal from the county manager's office that active employees would undoubtedly receive I encourage Mr
zmer we're not going to get into what you perceive what might be repercussions or any of those kinds of things you just get to the matter I encourage you to reach out to for me for a one time meetings to discuss this on an individual basis for anyone who wants kick this can down the road for at least another board ecy I'll be glad to meet
with you on my own time and discuss what really is going on I think you deserve to know I understand you've made some recent improvements and going kind of in the right direction but there's major cultural deficiencies you you really aren't doing it yourselves and your staff Justice this is really disgrace of
what's going on with the disrespectful management attitude we that we've been faced a lot of us will left I don't know what there's Mr zimman I'm going to warn you one more time we're not talking about disrespect of management we're talking about this topic only directly to this topic all
right well I encourage you to wrap things up I'm wrapping things up I encourage you not to do this it's just waste of money again waste of money and if you want to just blow money on another consultant doing what other Consultants are doing duplicate those efforts you go right ahead thank you for
your time thank you Dominique any others no sir here to speak on anything no sir see none I will go to board action commissioner her I'd actually like to have the county manager's office address that y absolutely vote on it and um thank you
uh Commissioners Mr chairman and Commissioners as you know when I first came here as the uh County Manager our utilities were in a little bit of disarray as you as you know not to go into too many details I pulled out
utilities under environmental services and had it as a standalone Department we had a few compliance issues we have some Wastewater uh plant issues and we immediately uh got in touch with this kin's Consulting and actually helped us
he does have extensive experience in utilities he ran a utility a big utility a City utility so he has a lot of experience but he actually came in and looked at all of our compliance issues which as you know we had a few compliance issues when I when I first
came on on board so um worked he works well with our team Works in collaboration with cph and Jacobs uh Mr uh Edwards our utility director now uh depends on him a lot for you know an outside view of of looking to ensure that we're on the right track and moving
forward so um I'm recommending that the board move forward with this he's uh this is a part of the team as you know we're going through the utility master plan process now we've had three of the five U presentations to the board that we will be wrapping up this this summer
and this consultant is a big piece piece of that thank you anything else okay I will move for board Direction on items 3 through 19 that's constitutional
officers items three and four and 5-9 chairman recommend we move to approve second motion second any further discussion seeing none all in favor I posos like sign carries majority thank
you all very much next up is our number our public hearing agenda I'm sorry is item 20 this is going to be our public hearing agenda I want to move to the board for proof of publication so
moved second all those in favor I oppose like sign carries majority any particular commissioner have any expar disclose on any of these items if so identify mine has been submitted
electronically I have none I have none I have none and I have none as well all right we'll go to the county attorney Miss Kate Lor this is our public hearing agenda for quasi judicial if you would give us the rules for public engagement
please while the board welcomes comments from all persons with an interest in these proceedings Florida law requires the board's decision in quasi judicial actions be supported by competent substantial evidence presented to the board during the hearings on the applications competent substantial evidence is such evidence as a
reasonable mind would accept as adequate to support a conclusion there must be a factual basis in the record to support opinion testimony from both expert and non-expert Witnesses persons presenting testimony May rely on factual information that they present
information presented by County staff information the applicant presented or on factual information included in the county staff report to support their testimony all persons who Present written materials to the board for consideration must ensure that a copy of such materials is provided to the clerk
for inclusion in the board's record of the proceedings and official minutes Mr chairman thank you very much if there's anyone here that's going to speak on any of these items again make sure you've got a the yellow form which you can procure in the lobby fill out the item on the agenda you want to speak about
whether you're in favor or against and get it to the clerk right here with her hand raised and we'll make sure you get up and speak first item up is going to be Encore at Hillview reone this will be put on by Miss Annie silway our senior planner our staff will present the
project we will then go to the applicant if they desire to make a presentation we will then go to public comment we will then close public comment and go to any that the applicant may have or Desire Miss silway good afternoon Annie silway
senior planner with development services the applicant is requesting a rezone from A1 agriculture to r3a multiple family dwelling in order to construct a town home development with a minimum lot size of 2200 square ft with a minimum density of 10 dwelling units per net
buildable acre for a total of 28 Lots the subject property has an existing one agriculture zoning designation and a highdensity residential future land use designation which allows up to a maximum of 20 dwelling units per net buildable acre
however the requested r3a multiple family dwelling zoning District limits the density to a maximum of 10 dwelling units per net buildable acre the developer will be required to build a 5 foot wide sidewalk along Hill viw Drive since there are no existing
sidewalks the applicant has provided a a development plan showing the layout of buildings circulation buffers and parking for the town home units the applicant is proposing a 25-ft wide landscape buffer along the western portion of the subject site that abuts
Oakland Hill subdivision a 10ft wide landscape buffer on the south along Hillview Drive and a 12 and 1 half wide landscape buffer along the Eastern portion of the site and the applicant will provide a 25% common usable open space excluding landscape buffers on the
subject site per section 3.4.8 of the semal County Land Development code the R3 and r3a multiple family dwelling District um that the requested r3a zoning classification is composed of low density to medium
density residential areas Plus open space where it's likely and desirable to extend such type of development the subject site is situated where it is well serviced by public and Commercial Services and has convenient access through to thorough
fares and collector roadways per policy flu 5.2.3 the purpose and intent of the high density residential future land use designation is to provide for a range of residential development at a maximum density of 20 dwelling units per net
buildable acre high density residential development should be located adjacent to Major collector and arterial roadways to minimize traffic on local and minor collector roadways and to provide convenient access to Transit facilities and can act as an efficient transitional
use between non-residential and medium density residential uses the applicant conducted a community meeting on May 13th 2024 and on February 5th the Planning and Zoning commission voted unanimously to approve the
rezone staff requests the board of County Commissioners adopt the ordinance and acting a rezone from A1 agriculture to r3a multiple family dwelling for a town home development of 28 lots and that concludes my presentation thank you miss silway any inquiries of Staff
commissioner Lockard just one um very minor typo question on the last slide did it go to pnz in February of 25 excuse me 2025 okay I was all right thank you no worries that was going to
be my question how come it took so long to get here good work the um applicant desire to make any comments or presentation if so please come forward good afternoon Commissioners Zach Miller at 8241 via Bonita um honestly just here for any of your
questions I um this seems to be a logical spot for Town Homes between single family residential and there's um RV storage behind me so and then there's a industrial um just to the South so just seems to be a logical spot for
it any questions for the applicant seeing none thank you Mr Miller thanks guys M Dominique is there anyone here from the public to speak on this matter no sir we will close public comment on this agenda item and move to the district commissioner commissioner Constantine Mr chairman I just wanted to
make sure um there were a couple of individuals that came to my office earlier today and were asked to go down to community uh Community Development to get some of the answers I wanted to know and I was going to
um I think one of them is behind Mr Miller I just wanted to know if they got their questions answered everything is because they didn't I don't know if you they walked in after the meeting began so I just wanted to make sure yes sir I um I went out to meet with the
gentleman and answered his question um I'm going to get him in contact with our um Public Works engineering department to provide the information that he needs great thank you very much that's welcome sir that's what we needed to know if you're ready for a motion I am sorry then I will move the board adopt the
ordinance enacting the reone from A1 agriculture to r3a multif family dwelling for Town Home Development of 28 Lots on approximately 3.34 Acres located north side of Hillview Drive
approximately 1/4 Mile East of 434 second motion second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor I oppos like sign seeing none cares unanimous thank you very much thank you next item up is item number 21
Highway 46 commercial small scale future land use map Amendment and PD rezone this will be presented by Miss Caitlyn apgar Miss abgar welcome hello good afternoon Caitlyn abgar planning and development services the applicant is requesting the
approval for a small scale future land use map Amendment from higher intensity plan development Target industry to plan development in a reone from A1 Agriculture and C1 retail commercial District to PD plan development for proposed automotive collision center
located on the north side of State Road 46 and west of Harvest Time Drive the proposed future land use amendment is from higher intensity plan development Target industry to plan development the applicant is proposing a maximum floor area ratio of 0
35 the parcel currently has split zoning the northern half is A1 agriculture zoning and the southern half is C1 retail commercial zoning the property is currently existing as an abandoned borrow pit and has a single family structure on the
property the applicant is proposing to dewater a portion of the borrow pit while utilizing the rest for storm water retention the applicant proposes to develop the subject site as an automotive collision Center to the East and a second commercial parcel to the West permitted uses include as allowable
Under The c2's General commercial zoning District as well as the Collision Center uses the PD proposes sufficient setbacks and buffering between the proposed development and the abing medium density residential uses as well as future commercial development to the West fronting State Road
46 the the subject property is located within the city of Sanford utility area and is subject to the provisions in the joint planning agreement established between the county and the city of Sanford the applicant and staff have coordinated with the city of Stan Sanford to organize a pre-annexation
agreement which would also allow for the provision of utilities from the city of Stanford the development propose proposes access via State Road 46 which is classified as an urban principal arterial operating at a level of service b and a second access off of Harvest
Time Drive which is classified as a local Road operating at a level service a the proposed project also provides for a minimum of 25% open space and parking shall be um in accordance with the seal County Land Development code the property is located within two
overlays the urban centers and corridors overlay is applicable through the through the comprehensive plan the development meets the overall intent of the urban centers and Corridor overlay and the Redevelopment of the site will provide for jobs in the area near existing housing and shared
vehicular and pedestrian access will be provided the proposed development tends to connect the existing sidewalk fronting State Road 46 as well as provide a 5-ft sidewalk along Harvest Time Drive the development is also proposing to provide
bicycle parking in order to further meet pedestrian oriented requirements the State Road 46 Gateway or Corridor overlay includes design standards to provide a Scenic Gateway with uniform Design Elements signage and Landscaping are to comply with the code Provisions for the Gateway Corridor
overlay and the required building setback of 50 ft from State Road 46 is provided the buffer width per this overlay is 25 ft and is Illustrated on the proposed Master development plan the applicant also provided a 15t wide landscape
buffer to the east in compliance with the code requirements the West perimeter buffer requirement will be established at final development plan for phase two in accordance with the code Provisions this will ensure there's an adequate transition between the adjacent Town Home Development and Future
commercial development to the West um with the proposed intensity of phase two as a summary the benefits of this development include the provision of an automobile Collision Center as a service but also the potential for a second commercial use that could be an amenity to the surrounding residential area the
development is also providing a sidewalk on Harvest Time drive as well as bicycle parking and the allowable use of EV charging stations for increased multimodal activity consistency with the comprehensive plan is achieved through the amendment to PD
by pursuing a future land use amendment to PD it allows for the property remain to remain in the urban centers and Corridor overlay and eliminate eliminates the resulting prohibition of the automotive repair and sales uses by itself the overlay does not prohibit the use thus the future land map Amendment
from um hitti to PD will allow for the requested use in compliance with the uh seminal County Land Development code section 3049 community meeting procedures the applicant conducted a community meeting on December 9th 2024 details of the
meeting have been provided in the agenda package the Planning and Zoning commission met on February 5th 2025 um and voted unanimously to recommend approval of the request staff finds the request to be consistent with the seminal County comprehensive plan and compatible with the trend of devel
vment in the area staff requests the board of County Commissioners adopt the ordinance enacting a small scale future land use Amendment from higher intensity plan development Target industry to plan development and a rezone from A1 Agriculture and C1 retail commercial to PD plan development for proposed
automotive collision center that concludes my presentation thank you very much any inquiries to staff we'll start the far end commissioner Constantine will come right across thank you very much in looking at the pictures and the plan
um the idea split in two Collision one side future on the other side in right now part of that is a borrow pit which you have which is full with water which you have indicated that they would
eliminate some of the water there and move it to um I guess this would be the um the east or north or wherever behind the property my question is the property is in the
city of Sanford the other property is that correct the property to the north yes is it North okay North that is that prop that's property in the city of Sanford and that's where part of the borrow pit will be going it won't be um
relocated to the northern parcel so there's um the borrow pit does exist to the north there and it will be used for um the storm water retention um they do have to have a plan in order to dewater it um I think part of it is to remove it from the site to a different location um
but I don't think it's not my understanding that any of it will be transferred to the northern property so okay so to finish my thought that you know this area has had some flooding concern um just the question of it's since it's not going to the city it's going to you know they're going to do it
within the their own property I'm talking about the retaining of the water yeah yes storm water retention will be within the constraint of the property even though they're they're changing the configuration of the burrow pit correct okay thank
you commissioner lockart so I have a question about the buffer to the west and I think this is like size three font but if I'm reading it correctly it says
that the perimeter landscape buffer to the West will be determined at plan based on seminal County Land Development code can you in other PDS we determine what we want those buffers to be we we
do and this is saying that someone else is going to determine it when we get there walk me through that absolutely um so we don't know the end user for the phase two part of development yet um we do want to ensure there's an adequate
transition between um the there are Town Homes over there and um the other vacant Parcels are projected to be future commercial so we do want to ensure that there's an adequate buffer there we wouldn't want to um because we don't know the end user um we can determine it
based on intensity per our code um which would provide uh the code minimum standards for those adjacent uses okay my my concern is at some point in time the folks who live in those town homes
are going to have a development behind them of some sort they'll be wondering what the what the buffers might be between them and their new neighbor and it will it won't be this board that will
they won't have the ability to petition this board for what those buffers will be it will be done completely at the staff level based on a zoning code not a negotiated PD process I think that's okay I wanted to
make sure that I was understanding what was that's correct right okay I I'll defer to the district commissioner on how she would wants to handle that commiss glori did you have it's not really a comment uh but I did when I did review this with our staff when they
briefed me uh I like the idea uh I think it's a good project uh it's really a borrow pit in Reverse cuz I got to fill in part of the Bor pit really is and I think this is a good thing uh and my question that I had at staff at that time was that I know there'll be a Hall
Road to fill in part of the borrow pit and that's going to be reviewed I was told by our staff during the time of engineering and permitting as long as that's going to be the plan I'm okay with it commissioner
her so given that the the future use of the phase 2 is unknown known and perhaps this is a mistake and judgment on my part but I don't think so I think our codes protect that the development behind and so as long as
we're following code typically in my experience when we're coming for PDS we're trying to actually do less than the code and we're negotiating to get up to the code so my view of it was given that these are town homes in proximity
to commercial development and 4 and sitting where they are that I I think they're protected given the code so I would be willing to move forward but do you have comments first I do and then I'm going to go to the applicant and public input
um to to that point that was raised earlier although albe at a staff level this board is who have put the guidelines in place for that staff level determination um or otherwise I would not feel comfortable moving forward
forward uh but those guide rails have been put in place by this board and of course are amended from time to time but this would fall under what exists today so it may be helpful for the board to understand not knowing I would expect you cannot tell
us what that buffer will be is that fair you know based on ultimately what goes there right which this board is blessed and put into the code great thank you very much all right is the applicant here and wish to make any statements or
comments please sir come forward your name and address for the record please uh good afternoon Tad Dixon uh 1300 Country Lane in Orlando uh thank you to the board for your time I have nothing to add to staff's presentation but am I available for any questions great thank you very
much any questions for the applicant at all see none we'll go to public input Dominique are anyone here that's fill out a form to speak on this matter no sir seeing none we'll close public comment and go to the district commissioner commissioner her I'll make
this in the form of two motions based on staff's findings and the testimony and evidence received at the hearing I find the request meets the identified portions of the comprehensive plan and I move to adopt the requested smallscale future land use map Amendment from
higher intensity plan development uh Target industry to plan development so second motion second any further discussion seeing none all those in favor I oppose like sign seeing none carries unanimous thank you all very much second motion oh that's right
second motion so I also move that based on staff's finding and the testimony and evidence received at the hearing uh that I find the request meets the identified portions of the seminal County Land Development code and move to adopt the requested rezone from A1 Agriculture and
C1 retail commercial to PD plan development and the associated development order and master development plan second motion second further discussion seeing none all those in favor I oppose like sign seeing none carries unanimous thank you very
much next item up is our Public Presentation on the resolution and collection of Tours improvement district assessments this is going to be a legislative hearing this will be put on by Mr gee
Kun good afternoon Commissioners for the record geia director of Economic Development and Tourism here to present the resolution of assessment for the seminal County tourism improvement
district so our tid referencing the tourism improvement district uh based on Department of Business and Professional regul ations uh dbpr within the State of Florida there are a total of 5,054 qualified rooms these are hotels
with 60 rooms and above we receive petition uh petitions in favor of the seminal County tid formation of over 2,600 rooms the term would be for uh 10 years unless tied to a bond upon the
resolution the $175 assess mment per room per day would begin on April 1st 2025 with the first collection by the SEO County tax tax collector being May
20th 2025 upon approval the uh timeline would be uh the indoor sports facility work session some time in the summer of
2025 that would be upon the approval of the assessment resolution staff is requesting that the seminal County bard of County Commissioners adopt the seino county tourism improvement district resolution
of assessment and Mr chairman if I could just real quick and Commissioners um what Mr CA was referring to the work session of the indoor sports facility right now I had that scheduled in June the first meeting in June for the board to to look to look at great thank you very much any addition no questions from
the board seeing none is there anybody here from the public that desires to speak on this item yes sir there's one speaker Kristen Oswald Miss Oswald good afternoon my name is Kristen Oswald the address is 151 Douglas Avenue
Altimont Springs Florida 3271 for um good afternoon everybody um I know that I have talked with you guys before about proceeding with the tid I think it is very important that we move forward
and create SEO County into this the next era we have hotel rooms that we need to fill and we need to be able to move things on to their next Generations um I've done several News interviews at this point now um and this
is kind of unexpected to come up and chat again with you guys um but we we really have to we have to go forward as I as I said the last time I was here um I was initially against this uh project
uh based off of Altimont Springs my location to it and being my hotel um but as we continue to gather data and go through what's going to be happening as a county we have to move forward Altimont Springs will benefit from this
and so will Sanford Lake Mary everybody will benefit from a new indoor development so I urge you guys today to please pass this um we look forward to seeing what our next Generation has to offer great thank you very kindly thank
you any questions for me no questions that I have I have a comment for you yeah yeah it is a true sign of leadership and professional is when you can admit that learning more changes an opinion absolutely so congratulations on that it's rare and appreciated
absolutely thank you anything else no that was my comment okay thank you thank you any additional public input no sir seeing none we'll close public input and go to board action commissioner delari
make a motion to approve the request second any further discussion seeing none all those favor I I congratulations G congrat unanimously and I I would be remiss not to recognize
Mr Robert agusa from Central Florida hotel Ling Association here in the audience today thank you for being here today sir can't wait can't wait to go back and tell everybody else about it thank you all very much for all the hard work y' all put in all right next
up is a county attorney's report Mr chairman I don't have have a report today okay County Manager report thank you uh Mr chairman and Commissioners and just to add on what Mr Harris was saying briefly in the beginning of the meeting that I appreciate the cooperation not
only from the board but from the staff who reacted and very efficiently and effectively to the tornado yesterday and we uh immediately started this morning to start picking up the debris uh so we'll be that our staff will be doing that and getting out there immediately
so if any of you your offices have issues or if there uh things that we could do better please you know submit them to me and we'll make sure it's taken care of thank you any questions the county manager anything else sir yes sir seeing none we will move on to the district commissioner reports first up
is commissioner lockart District 4 um had the opportunity to meet with our new state attorney will Shiner sh Shiner Shiner Shiner uh last week um I congratulated him on getting elected in
a way that all of us are very jealous of um he was if you all have not had an opportunity to meet with him yet I'm sure he will be making an appointment uh to meet with each of you we talked about his budget and vision and how what he
plans to do at the office and then I also had the opportunity to talk with him about the medical examiner um discussion and um he understands very well now what our situation is at the
time when he was uh ped by another state attorney from another part of the state um he was he had just been sworn into office and really did not have the information that he needed um and basically said if if you're pushing me
for an answer now I'm going to have to say status quo because I don't have enough information yet now he has done a considerable amount of homework um before he even spoke with me and came into the office to talk and um I think he's going to be very helpful for us in
communicating he has great relationships with the other stakeholders and the other counties um and so I'm I'm encouraged by the conversation that we had um on uh February 28th I got to go out to our spring hammock preserve and
um thank everyone and commend everyone for the work that was done to be inducted into the Forest it's a tongue twister and I couldn't even get it out there um the the forest preserve old growth
like old growth forest Network say that 10 times fast um we are uh they are hoping this a organization wants to get a a forest inducted in every County in the country um and we are we were number
180 something I think of what of of um on the list and so wonderful time commissioner Constantine was able to participate before he had to run off to the airport and um a lot of staff that were there are just a lot of work
volunteers staff members who went into to getting us on this list and being inducted and it was really wonderful um Patty and I toured our SunRail Operation Center which is right here in Sanford off of Rand yard um if
you're coming up Monroe Road and you make a right it's Sun SunRail Boulevard or something to that effect it's a little small Dead End Road that if you blink you miss it but it is an incredible operations center there their Emergency Operations Center their dispatch maintenance facility um really
loved getting to meet all of the different folks that work out of there we have of course do staff but also the Consultants multiple Consultants that make up the operations of SunRail in this community and they all just work so well together and love what they do they
were beaming um and many of them had worked for other railroads and said how much um they really appreciate being a part of the SunRail team so we spent a couple of hours out there and i' highly recommend if you ever have the opportunity to get out there and take a tour um they're doing really great
work um let's see I'll be out of town next week at the Florida Association of counties legislative um a Day activities in Tallahassee um a great lineup of legislators and agency heads that will be speaking um I'm sure commissioner
Constantine and I will both bring back um some good nuggets I think we have staff members who are going as well so that'll be um very cool um today March 11th is uh World Plumbing day so for any plumbers anyone in
Workforce that um we celebrate you um today World Plumbing day tomorrow March 12th is Tim's and my 31st wedding anniversary congrats congratulations so yeah no one thought it would happen no one no one they never thought it would
last my especially commissioner lockart my my parents this is nuts what are you doing um but anyway love you Tim we'll celebrate tomorrow that's all I have great commissioner herd District Five
uh on the 4th the rescue Outreach Mission hosted its Bronx House pizza pizza party for a cause I will give a huge shout out to the Bronx house if you've not eaten there Lake Mary Boulevard near the publics they give 100% of the cash receipts for that day
to the charity that they elect it's not of the profits and uh they were working hard the place was packed and they also give 100% of the proceeds from gift cards purchased that night so I don't know the number yet I'll be glad to
report back but it was a a fabulous event and we certainly appreciate business partners in the community that are willing to lean in um I supect that you're going to talk uh chairman about the homelessness Symposium but I did attend that on the 4th as well was actually the same
night and um I actually have a a few an assignment so I save the best for last I'm sure you're all aware of the fact that there's an orange boulevard multif family preapplication in process
and it's the first that we've encountered under the Liv local act it is squarely in the warpa and um I just want you all to know that at the county attorney's office is fully engaged in it and making sure that
we dot every ey and cross every te it is unknown but we believe not going to come to the board uh not 100% certain because of the warpa connection uh but that work is being done we are all getting emails into our
office I would encourage you all to respond uh relatively uniformly that at this point the work is still being done by the county attorney's office and I'll leave it at that unless the County Attorney would like to add anything I don't have anything to add
unless you have any questions um so my my office has responded exactly to that point with with the and then I would highly encourage our team that's going to Tallahassee I'm certainly doing it from here to encourage our legislators to make sure that that law
is as trim as it needs to be because I think this is certainly an unintended consequence and I'll leave it at that that concludes my report thank you commissioner next is commissioner delori district one thank you Mr chairman there's a retirement in the county that
I'd like to recognize an individual Bill tell Camp bill is with risk management I know he's not here today but uh he wanted to go quietly in the night and I'd be
remiss if I didn't recognize him here he has done a phenomenal job in many different levels uh he's with risk management or he is risk management yeah right and Bill to say thank you sometimes doesn't go far enough and this is one of
those times so I know you want to go quietly in the night so I'll let you do that but I have to say from all of us and the county to you thank you and I know that you're a very big photographer you've shared many of your
photos that you've taken in many different foreign lands and I wish you all the best God bless you moving on Mr chairman I know that uh there was several of us that were at the uh ribbon
cutting in oito for Broadway Street which was 426 419 which is the widening uh on March 6th which went from Avo High School on Pine Street to Jackson Heights Middle School over by Academy Avenue and uh
that project literally took a little over 30 years 30 years I first came involved with that project uh when I was with the Ido in the mid90s and the person that actually spearheaded that from the Ido side was a
gentleman by the name of Tomo handland we all know Tom back then in those days that road as well as a couple of other roads in noo were constrained legislatively from the city uh Tom took point to remove uh
the constrain designation and got us to understand the significance of not just widening that road but how to widen it uh the big thing that happened in those days was the oneway parallel pairs in downtown
oito I will tell you that uh for years if not decades uh that was the uh Battle Cry of Elections and I want to thank Tom for all his hard work as well as other people and I also want to thank uh
commissioner Constantine when he was with Tallahassee as not just a senator but up in state representatives he was very helpful in helping the city and the county getting the funding for that that was a multi-jurisdictional project the
state the county and the city many elected officials for me to start naming them I'll be here all day but uh I wanted to thank everyone for all their hard work as well as staff uh many staff individuals were very involved in that so that was a a great
day cutting that ribbon uh and seeing how long one simple project would take it took a little over 30 years so thank you everyone for participating for the past 30 years well and congratulations to you commissioner delari because you
have been shepherding this your entire career just about much and I as a public citizen went to his office and said hey why don't you take all this money that you're planning on 4 Lane in 419 at the Orange County border and
reallocate it where it's needed over in Ido we did that which they actually did there was a lot of pieces to it so I just wanted to give kudos to where Kudos is uh deserved and with that there's also an appointment uh from the BCC at large
reappointment of our metrop plan Orlando citizens advisory committee and I'd like to reappoint Mr Tomo hanlin to that for a four-year term that' be a motion second asking for one or are you second yeah you always say you know second I
know but he said second so I didn't know if he was asking for a second or if he was seconding it second I was just asking for clarification I wasn't clear all those in favor I oppose like sign seeing none congratulations or condolences Mr oan and Mr chairman if I
would uh uh as we've done in the past uh veteran appreciation lunching committee is having their veteran appreciation luncheon this coming April April 21st the reason I'm bringing it to everyone's attention You' be getting an email or a letter from the committee but uh we're
hosting it at the Marriott this year and it's April 21st it's the Monday directly after Easter the reason why I got moved to Monday is because the Marriott made a phenomenal deal with the committee to host it and it was a deal we couldn't
turn down so I just want to make sure that everyone is aware of it so when it does come to your desk and individuals that are out there veterans and we're recognizing the veterans this year we're going to recognize an individual from uh the Korean
War uh it is on Monday make no mistake we normally do it on a Thursday and I just want to make sure that uh people realize it's Monday the day after Easter which is April
21st it's Monday right it's Monday Monday trust me commissioner I question have people to call you I questioned it myself but uh it was a financial deal that we just couldn't pass up so I want to thank the mar for helping us with that otherwise we couldn't afford it Mr
chairman it's the end of my report thank you very much commissioner Constantine District 3 thank you very much um I did want to congratulate give a shout out to the Boys and Girls Club um seal County they had a thank you event on the 26th
and it's always nice when a charity you know has an event to thank you for what um helping them but they they do a fantastic job here in Seal County with all of our different Boys and Girls Clubs um did want to also say the it was
wonderful to see us in the spring hamic and doing the old growth forest congratulations to all of us uh but especially our Parks and Recreation Department um it's it's really fantastic commissioner luckart did a great job
doing that um I was at the National Association of counties legislative conference in Washington as you know I'm on the board of directors but one of the good things that happened and I wish that Christian was here because we all know that it's something that we're
trying to do in the legislation this year but on their Federal agenda I was able to change the pest um initiative to include other forever chemicals so that
is now on the on the federal um agenda for the National Association of counties um congratulations to Bob and everybody on the in the city of Ovito on 426 419 um only the Waka Parkway took longer
to build I think but that is great um the on past Saturday the League of Women Voters had a leadership program and and asked me to speak on seol County successes and I did and it's always wonderful you know to
sit there we we talk about we think about it but we never you know we never really express it and to do it in front of an audience it's always nice to talk about how many things this county is doing right today right
now beatress is listening in but my the board that I'm on the Statewide Council on opioid to baitman is having a meeting in which our sheriff is also on so I I'm going to be leaving here to get back on there tomorrow um is a very busy day
they've got the metro plan in the morning the Waka the federal Waka Scenic River Comm commission is meeting in the afternoon and then the board the zoo board is meeting in the afternoon and I did want to say that yesterday there were supposed to do a golf tournament I
don't think it happened and we will see what happens with that um and what they're doing looking forward to the board retreat on Thursday and uh also I did want to shout out and maybe I if I take this over somebody else I'm sorry
but the taste of Ovito is coming up at the 22nd and the um some very special people that donated a lot of money and a lot of land especially to seino State College it's going to have a dedication for the
public safety and that is Janette and Norman G who are friend of the family and I'm sure friends of many of you I did want to tell you that and I do this to commissioner zimbauer because a portion of his family came from Canada but I had the honor to speak at the when
I was in Washington the at the embassy in Canada uh with the trade Minister and a few other Municipal leaders from Manito and others but uh the one thing that was going on is as we know later that evening at 12:00 the tariffs were going
into place so I can you can imagine what the discussion was all about at at at that meeting um did they run out of molson's they did how dare Canadians run out of M is a fine shock in fact all I
was supposed to do is to say thank you and and leave with the others but I had to point out that they ran that when Canadians ran out of molsen it's time to go it's a bad day um not only is it national plumbers
day but it's National dream day I today uh so do that I think we all know that the 17th is St Patrick's Day wish you all the best um thank you commissioner her I know it's in your District but you also
know how important this is to me about the um wava Parkway and protection act and these this um this thing that's happening potentially or trying to happen on Orange Avenue in the 300 units I do
believe that the Waka Parkway and protection act takes precedence over the live local and hopefully we will have a hearing and all of us know how vital that is because each and every one of us were very much in leadership position when it came to the Wawa that was trying
to be put it there um I don't want to remind you all about Senate Bill 118 it's still out there and uh very scary and I know we're have our our folks um engaged in that very strongly and thank
you Trisha for making sure that that happens I did want to um let you know that I was talking to the Florida Association of counties Ginger delegal our executive director and she told me that um she just had had lunch with Brian Applegate he's up there causing
trouble Hass he but she says he looks fantastic and I said well getting rid of us I guess is a very easy thing to do also um County Manager looks like you got a suntan on your vacation
congratulations and Tim it's good to see you back you're smiling and everything and with that U um Mr chairman I'm I'm finished thank you very kindly uh first item uh combining the chairman and District 2
report uh I am looking to approve BCC at large reappointments of Mark rays and Daniel cavano to Kavanaugh to the Fred R Wilson Memorial Law Library Board of Trustees from1 2025 at 1231 2027 that's
a motion check it could I ask a question yes is this timely well I guess I can't answer that I typically try to turn things around as quick as I'm requested to do them but I'm just wondering since it's a board appointment what the process was to
select to choose to reappoint these folks were there other applicants not not that I'm I'm told there were not um January is when this term was supposed to start it's now March I looked at it from a timeliness it wasn't filled since January so
probably it's I just don't recall it being a part of the list of board appointments in January I'll withdraw the motion this seems to be an ongoing issue so if you could try to get with staff sure and make sure all the Commissioners have every detail
necessary for these kind of issues for reappointments or appointments to these and if necessary pull up their bylaws or whatever Supply those to all the Commissioners okay motion withdrawn moving on the airport uh Advisory board meeting Sanford Orlando Airport held the
2025 Regional um air Aerospace and air days approximately 6,000 people attended it was a great event uh corporate entities were blue origin NASA L3 Harris and many others introducing the students
uh to possible Aviation and and space uh careers also uh thanks to simol County Public Schools and the simol state college who also were part of this uh uh presentation and Outing which also support uh these type careers so big
Kudos out to both of them uh on March 4th we had the homeless syposium out of my office at the action Church in Sanford was very well attended there was a lot of discussion um there seemed to be a desire to having further
dialogue and working together uh with all the NOS out there so there's going to be a followup um from the Steering group who is going to reach out to these agencies to have those discussions on when they get back together and what further discussion they have have to
work for the homeless scenario and homeless situation I've asked him to keep me uh apprised and I'm happy to keep everybody else apprised as well commissioner her also attended and was present um I think it was very well attended and and a lot of good uh
discussion was had there so we'll see where that ends up uh next on the item is I did meet with the new State's Attorney um no sense repeating what uh commissioner lockart said my conversations were pretty much the same and I think he clearly understands it I
did give him a little background on the previous conversations with the previous State's Attorney and uh I think fully understands now what what we are dealing with so uh I think like commissioner lockart indicates he's much more knowledgeable now than he was previously
and I think you'll be able to have good dialogue into those uh conversations also March 6 ribbon cutting has already been mentioned for the 426 419 uh I I had in just told commissioner laus it splits our splits our districts
right down the middle we should have had the ribbon cutting right in the middle of the road uh March 7th Sheriff Lima's faith-based Community celebration uh internation women's day was well attended uh I was not able to make it
but my um office did attend and it was very well attended and another great uh aspect of what the sheriff does for our community so we're sincerely grateful for that with that that is the extent of my report I will move on to public comment for items that are not currently
on the agenda do we have anyone here from the public to speak on items that are not on the agenda related to things that the commission has jurisdiction over yes sir there's one speaker Gabrielle milch good afternoon Miss milch good to
see you well welcome and thank you guys for being up here today and um I just wanted to give you a little reminder and shine a little light on our waterways in Seal County um there is a basin management
action meetings with the um staff and also other members on um on March 26th at the extension office and the first um meeting is about Lake Jessup and that starts at 10:00 a.m. and they're going
to go over the Basin management action plans and and where they're going and where you know what what's left and if you guys um would maybe get briefed if you can if I would suggest and finding out about how the quality of the water
is improving or not in in those areas and then in the afternoon there's going to be another uh hearing on the middle Basin Lake Harney uh and Lake Monroe and also the Smith lart canal and so those
are you know very large water bodies that are big part of seal County and so I would just like you guys you know to if you can ask your staff to brief you on um either after the meetings about the Basin management action plans and
where we are or um you know if you wanted to find out and perhaps attend and experience what what these these programs are because I know they're kind of under under attack in some respects some there's it's a long range plan that
goes about 20 years in understanding and it's not easy to clean up a lot of these Lakes the pollution is is pretty bad and you know we have good ordinances and we have some things involved here that that's going to help so um I just wanted to let you know that about that meeting
and then also um the other thing is I wanted to um thank you all for considering the holistic water policy plan um we had some meetings earlier um with staff and an introduction to the holistic water policy plan which this
bmap fits very the 2B Maps fit very nicely into that and um I know that a lot of the environmental Community or people who are interested in in natural areas um attended and staff did a great job and then they briefed the soil and
water boards as well and so I just wanted to give you guys Kudos and thank you and encourage you to um to learn more about the lake Jessup and I know there's going to be some development you know a new road going to the airport
that's going to go through some wetlands in um Offa Lake Jessup potentially and maybe a widening of the bridge so that's going to be some pretty big construction going on in suo county in the near future so thank you any questions no thank you Gabriel thank you as always to
see you take care guys appreciate it Dominique is there anyone else here to speak on non-agenda items no sir seeing none we'll close public comment anything else for the good of the order we shall be adjourned thank you all very
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