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everyone if youall would make your way in and find a seat please we're about to get started please take a moment and silence your cell phones any other electronic devices you may have as to not disturb the proceedings today we'd sincerely appreciate it today is Tuesday February
11th 2025 the seal County Board of County Commission meeting shall now be called to order we're going to have the pledge uh led by Mr Matt Hassan today and Kurt from our own sgtv group is going to lead us in prayer Kurt if you
would so please please rise thank you Mr chairman if you would please join me in prayer in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen Heavenly Father we give you praise today and thanks for the many blessings you have given each of of us
as your adopted children we ask that you bless this meeting today and give wisdom and understanding to our commissioners and staff as they work through the items before them today we are grateful for the many natural Treasures that you have created for us to enjoy right here in
seminal County help us to be good stewards of our natural resources along with the taxpayers money of this County we thank you for your unconditional love for us and the sacrifice of your son our lord Jesus Christ for the Forgiveness of
our sins and eternal life in his name help us to love our neighbor as ourselves and be quick to help those in need please protect our veterans serving our country and all in public safety who leave their loved ones each day seeking
to protect the lives of others we ask this through Christ Our Lord amen father son Holy Spirit please join me in the pledge I pledge to the flag of the United States of
America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you Kurt thank you Matt we sincerely appreciate it very much we're going to have proclamations
and service recognitions next we'll do uh photographs on the pration we're done with it then we go to the employee recognition I would ask that we wait till all the employees are recognized and we'll have everybody come down and do photos uh at that time the first
Proclamation is declaring February 2025 as Black History Month in simal County I will read that and move the motion to move the proclamation of the simal County Board of County Commissioners procing the month proclaiming the month of February 2025 as Black History Month
in seminol County Florida whereas black history his month or national African-American history month was instituted in 1926 as negro history week by Dr Carter G Woodson on the association for the study of African-American life and history and
whereas President Gerald R Ford officially recognized black history month during the 1976 United States Bicentennial celebration as a time of great National significance to honor the accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history and where as the association for
the study of African-American life and history has designated the theme of 202's Black History Month as African-Americans and labor and whereas this year's theme underscores how African-Americans have greatly contributed to the nation's economy throughout history by being involved in
various labor sectors and whereas seal county is proud to honor the contributions of African-Americans to the labor history of our County State and Nation now therefore be it proclaimed that the seol County border County Commissioners hereby proclaims the month of February 2025 as Black
History Month in Simo County and encourages all residents to join and celebrating the importance of African-Americans in our history adopted this 11th day February 2025 second motion is second all those in favor I passes unanimously we have with us today
Chris Baker Battalion Chief from the seminol County fire department and KJ bogs from veteran service manager Community Services to receive the proclamation if y'all would come forward please please
[Applause] congratulations right okay next up we have Miss Christina brandolini who will do our Employee Service recognition miss brandolini good after afternoon chairman and
Commissioners Christina brandolini Human Resources Director this afternoon we have the pleasure of recognizing employees for their years of service to seminal County and today all of our recipients are from the fire department so I am going to turn it over to Deputy Chief Matt
hler good afternoon chairman and Commissioners uh Deputy Chief Matt hler with the fire department we have seven employees that were recognized we going to start with the 20-year employees uh first up is management support specialist Annie [Applause]
muda got come stand next to me there you go so miss muda graduated from South Miami High School and began her career with Bell South telecommunications for 18 years before coming to semal County
in 20 on 2004 she was served at the EMS billing department and continually handles our Department's payroll and he lives in Winter Springs and has a son Kevin who also works for the department at the fire training center as a fire support technician right thank
you next with uh 20 years of service is firefighter paramedic Jason Raa [Applause] firefighter paramedic Raa moved from
Fort Lauderdale to semal county in 1996 after serving the Army as a tank crew member in 2003 firefighter paramedic rppa attended simal uh State College and obtained his credentials to start a career in fire in the fire service since being hired firefighter paramedic Raa
has been on the tower team shot team and is now serving in our community param medicine Jason has been married for 27 years to his wife Ting and has two adult sons Taz and [Applause]
K next with 20 years of service is lieutenant John [Applause] Curtis you Lieutenant Curtis began his fire service career with the buffard County fire
rescue Department in October of 20 of 2000 and in 2004 started with the semal County Fire Department lieuten Lieutenant Curtis completed his EMT training in 1998 as in his paramedic certification in 2000 along with completing his ARF training while assigned at Station 41 Lieutenant
courriers currently holds an as degree in EMS and fire science and EMS and an State Certified Fire officer too and is a Florida health and safety officer Lieutenant Curtis was promoted to the rank of lieutenant in March of 2012 and has spent most of his time serving at
Station 22 for the last 5 years he has served as B shiff Lieutenant at Station 43 serving the citizens of CH chilota next with uh 20 years of service is Lieutenant Chris James [Applause]
Lieutenant James graduated from Ovito High School in 1995 and in March of 2004 began began his fire service crew at the city of Sanford Fire Department in October of 2004 Lieutenant James started working for seal County fire department and in 2007 became a paramedic in May
2019 he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and is currently a assigned to station 29 James currently lives in the city of OVO with his wife and three children next with 20 years of service is battalion chief Thomas
[Applause] Imon battalion chief Imon graduated from high school in Virginia and in 2001 moved to to the Orlando area he graduated EMT fire standards in 2003 from simal State College and in 2004 began his career with C the castle fire
department he continued he has continued his education completing The Paramedic program where he received an as degree in EMS and continued his Fire officer classes and obtained a second as degree in fire science battalion chief ion was part of the consolidation from Castlebury fire department to the simal
County Fire Department shortly after the consolidation he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and assigned em one position during covid in 2023 he was promoted to the rank of Battalion Chief and is currently serving as the battalion chief of EMS uh battalion chief Imus is married with a son Archer
and a daughter [Applause] Ansley next up with 20 years of service is assistant chief Amy gright [Applause]
Chief genri is a graduate of OVO high school and a former OVO fire department Explorer immediately following her high school graduation she attended semal State College and obtained the credentials necessary to join the Castlebury Fire Department in 2015 Chief genri joined the simal County Fire Department through the merger between
Castlebury and simal County from there she served as tech one and later Rose through the ranks she currently serves as an assistant chief of fire support Chief genri resides in Ido area and is married with two daughters [Applause]
last we have with 25 years of service battalion chief James [Applause] Monahan Chief Mahan started his career in 1999 with the Winter Springs Fire
Department during his time at Winter Springs fire department uh Chief Maham became a paramedic in 2000 and promoted through the ranks becoming an engineer in 2002 then a lieutenant in 2007 Chief Mahan started with seminal County Fire Department in 2008 after the merger and in 20 2019 promoted to the rank of
Battalion Chief and that concludes everybody that we have for years of service thank you good stuff we sincerely appreciate all the all the time that you all have put in and the uh time your families have allowed you to be away from your families while you're serving the
residents of of seol County with that said if you'll join us for a photo opportunity if you have anybody from your family you want a special photo with by all means we'll take the time and allow that as well thank you or we'll get out of the way and you can take a picture start6 two non
agenda and then two excuse me four on 23 got it you good that is good okay that's perfect I think that's the only thing but I'll make sure to mark
it oh yeah yeah I'll bring than app all right right here my than you there we go somebody back guysbody thank you all very much 20 more 20 more
all right we'll give folks a minute to flee our next item up is item number three three uh legislative priorities uh Miss Johnson was not able to be here today we are going to pull this from the agenda in the county manager's office
we'll uh get with each one of you with any questions you might have and decide whether or be back on the agenda at some future date but everybody will get filled in next item up is we're going to move to our consent agenda if anybody is here to speak on any of the items
4-9 uh please fill out a form in the front line Lobby it's a yellow form as Dominique will show hold up if you will write the item in which you desire to speak upon and if you will bring it down to n Dominique and also indicate your
full name and address contact information as well as whether you're in favor or against that item we will call you up when the time's appropriate we will move to the county manager to see if there's any revisions in the consent agenda do you have any updates Mr County Manager thank you uh Mr chairman and commissioner just a few
changes as always right um item number seven under the consent we are going to pull that and place it with the public hearing item number 25 so we're going to do item 25 and then we'll uh do uh seven right after that following that one and then also would
like to pull from the consent item number eight and this is a notification um issue that we just want to ensure that proper notification has went out so we'll bring that one back and we'll pull item number 11 and this one we a joint project with the city of Ido we just
want to ensure we have all of our ducks in a row on that one before we bring it back okay that's so for clarity you want to move number seven to the public hearing portion of the meeting correct and you're pulling number eight and number 11 correct okay and that's all
very good any commissioner have a desire to pull any of the other items seeing none we will move to the county attorney Miss Kate Lor which will read the rules of public participation certainly good afternoon 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 6 minutes when the individual is an
official representative of a formal Association or group the chairman May modify the maximum time for public comment at his sole discretion when in appropriate public comments on quasi judicial or other public hearing items will occur during the board's consideration of those items public
comments on pending procurement matters or on agenda items shall not be 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 present the form to staff and forms are available in
the lobby Mr chairman thank you Mr Lor M Dominique uh do we have any form submitted for the items that were pulled item 8 or 11 no not for those sir okay and do we have anything that was submitted for item seven which has been moved to public hearing no sir okay we
will then ask you to read the person's name and which item they desire to speak on if there is anybody we have one speaker Nathan Wright in opposition to item 15 item 15 yes sir Mr Wright please come down and if you would state your name
and address for the record please we'll set the timer at 3 minutes good afternoon my name is Nathan Wright 5225 Tech Data Drive Clearwater Florida I got um a couple things I'd like to pass around to you
guys I think I got seven copies [Applause] here thank Mr Wright give us ple please proceed sorry it is extremely disheartening that
we find ourselves in a situation that had that could have been avoided had staff operated the way the system was intended there was no substantial reason or justification that I have found for 2023 RFP 604 614 to be cancelled after
Hilton was not after Hilton was not recommended for public record emails they quickly asked what they could do they had received a copy of the 2023 bids per public record emails they scheduled a meeting with what looked to
be Amy lockart while I'm uncertain of the phone conversation the email stated they would match the County Commission to 18% and they had overlooked they had an overlooked PowerPoint this is Odd as rights bid was
18% on this project upon further investigation of the PowerPoint this was created ated after the due date and time had passed essentially meaning it was never overlooked and simply never existed to begin with it was confirmed by LS try the
procurement analyst via an email sent to the procurement manager Diane Reed that Hilton's bid submitt mentioned nothing regarding 18% and no PowerPoint was included if that's not enough they use an image from my proposal packet turned
in by rights to great said PowerPoint that they were claiming was overlooked bottom line is the plagiarism I spoke of and all the other illustrations and original protests had begun long before
2024 a letter of recommendation from Alan Harris the simol County Emergency Management manager should deem them to have a rejected bid upon research of this letter Recreation and Parks director Rick Durr and deputy director Michael foring was copied in in their
position why would they not speak up and inform Hilton that their communication to County employees was not allowed during an open RFP while the Code of Silence was active I sent a protest with several issues involved most items listed were
disregarded other than an unbalanced bid isn't the bid percent percentage 10.6 in 2023 versus 21% in 2024 doesn't that appear to be unbalance is this why staff is attempting to stop me from talking about
2023 both years are incriminating but 2024 does not look to be unbalanced if you avoid looking at 2023 then I filed an appeal and the committee was formed Rick dur Mr Right
need to wrap it up Sir okay Rick dur was part of that formed Committee in my opinion he had already allowed wrongdoing to take place with the letter of recommendation previously stated so how would he be so how would he be a neutral or impartial party for the county manager to place on the appeal
committee the committee was instructed that they were only there to decide if 2024 was unbalanced there were many instances where your time has expired sir thank you thank you very much all right we've got a commissioner
that has something on the consent agenda well I could just say what it is yeah so my apologies I should have pulled item 17 because I need to yes no one reminded me and I've made I I have to be responsible for myself up here I guess
um I have a conflict with item 17 so that needs to be pulled for separate consideration and I will actually um leave the dis for any discussion or vote that might occur I'll uh complete the required form and submit it within the 15 days fair enough all right thank you
very much commer we'll uh we'll bring number 17 up up is there anyone else speak on this item no sir we'll close public input on this item we could do the consent agenda yeah let's go with ahead with the consent let's get that out of the way I'll be looking for a
motion Mr chairman I will move the Constitutional officers consent agenda number four and the county managers consent agenda 5 through 19 with the exceptions of seven which will be discussed later uh eight being pulled
and 11 being pulled and 17 for IND individual conver conversation second motion second all those in favor I oppose like sign see none carries unanimously okay that leaves us with number 17 item 17 commissioner lockar is
recusing herself we'll give her a moment to leave the Das okay item 17 looking for a motion please move to approve second motion to second further discussion seeing none
all those in favor I oppose like sign carries unanimous all right four with one extension with one exstension that's correct um Madam Dominique do we have anyone else that wishes to speak on any
of the consent agenda no sir okay I didn't think so just wanted to make sure very good we will move on to our public hearing portion or well actually we're going to move to what was pulled you want to do that first correct no we're going to I'm
sorry we're going to do that with item 25 so you want to join them together then correct got itct all right I thought I heard you want to do it after 25 got it okay our first item Up is on our regular agenda is item number 20 reduction of lean request this will be
presented by Alexis bonei code enforcement clerk this Bron good afternoon um for the record Alexis v um clerk to the code enforcement office presenting item number 20 uh
appeal of Deputy County manager's denial of lean reduction [Applause] request so the code enforcement violation on this parcel is remains in Rebel of a structure the applicant
purchased the property via tax deed and ail 2024 and at that time four County Code Enforcement leans were attached to the property surplus funds from two tax deed sales resulted in the satisfaction of three of the cut enforcement leans on the property applicant request to reduce
the remaining lean from $247 18110 to $0 summary of the case again violation is remains a rubble of a structure in uh march on March 24th 2016 the code
enforcement board established a date for the uh respondent to come into compliance which was June 15th 2017 they the date was not met so there was um an order reducing the crude fine
to administrative costs I'm sorry on August 24th 2017 the compliance hearing the code enforcement board issued an order reducing the aced fine to administrative costs toing $617 if paid within 30 days of the order or the original amount of $40,500 will
be imposed as no payment was received within the given time frame the fine amount reverted to $440,500 including administrative cost the lane secured is $ 41,100 ref to as the house property in
November 2023 for $102,500 the county applied for and received tax deed surplus funds for the tax deed sale number two to combine lots lots and rectify building and crment issue applicant purchased the adjoining
property in April 2024 for $ 37,999 the county applied for and received tax deed surplus funds the county collectively received surplus funds funds and the amount of $120,600
121 the properties 2024 certified assess value is $137,000 $137,100 the deputy County manager's basis of denial for the applicants request for reduction if a property owner has
purchased property on which a lean was recorded a waiver reduction on lean shall not be granted in such cases the lean should have been considered in reaching a purchase price per the administrative code appeal of the Deputy County Manager
Nile the applicant requests that the board make an exception to its established guidelines and reduce or entirely wave the remaining amount secured by the lean which is $247 18110 for the following reasons reason
one there was Community Improvement applicant did not create yet rectified the violations applicant reports having cleaned up the vacant property next door ridding the neighborhood of an isore number two the county received a collective total of
$120,600 221 in Surplus plus funds number three the applicant requests that the board reconsider the application and generally the County's lean reduction process the applicant's requested action
on this case is to let the board consider and make a final determination on applicants written appeal from the deputy County manager's denial of applicants request for reduction of the lean to 0 and should should the lean amount be reduced authorize the chairman
to execute a satisfaction of lean upon payment of the approved reduced amount if any that concludes my presentation thank you very much any inquiries with staff at this point seeing none is the applicant here and desire to make a statement if so please come forward give us your full
name and address for the record hi uh Morgan voke uh 1280 band Street uh Altamont um so I have come before you all for several years now requesting that something get figured out for the lean process for the code
enforcement process for the whole deal um to make it work better for Community for everyone in general um that was all hypothetical and here I am with the problems on me so I'm asking for Grace forgiveness empathy uh pity whatever for
again not just me but everybody here um so the situation with this one first uh we owned the house next door that we purchased prior to that we find out later on that back in the7 whenever it was built they decided to build the house 19 ft across the property line so
we have two bedrooms of the house on someone else's property coincidentally a dead guy um so we were forced to buy that property um to not have our house extorted and somebody could bul us half of the house off um with that vacant property came these enormous amount of
$120,000 of leans um before we ever owned it before we ever even tried buying it we had already cleaned the thing up just because it looked terrible the grass was this tall so it encourages homeless camps you know it encourages rats and all the things um I live in the community I'm all about
let's make everything look good not just for me but for everybody um so here we are begging pleading uh I need your help uh so but with that we need to figure something out that can happen for future reference going forward um you know it it discourages anyone to buy any of
these dilapidated houses dilapidated properties because they come with that so you know we've spoken I I totally get the thing of if someone's delicious or lazy um and not wanting to clean up their properties that's a different story there needs to be some sort of caseby case evaluation to see what are
you working with what is the person trying to do what is the intention you know that kind of thing um part of my request also not to continue pushing a little further but um please don't just keep keep it keep it on point to this item I it's with this item I'm also
requesting that my um original request to reduce the lean as well as my appeal to deput County managers um additional fee not be saved by the county but sit there for um somebody that needs it to be able to appeal to you all to get
their reduced leans um we could afford to pay the the request I figured let's say it was $4 $500 then I think $200 so if that could go to somebody uh deserving that needs to come to you all cuz uh there's a lot of people that they're choosing you know medications or
apply to you all so see what you got okay questions thank you Mr V any inquiries of the applicant seeing none is there anybody here to speak on this matter from the public no sir we'll close any public input we'll move to board action this is
commissioner Lockhart's District district 4 commissioner um Mr voke and I have been talking for quite some time about um the East Altimont community and their desire to help clean it up and and asking the
county to make our process something that is easier for them to help clean it up and these conversations started long before this happened as he indicated um so I would like to um Commissioners make a motion to approve the request to reduce
the lean uh to0 um and authorize the chairman to execute a satisfaction of lean upon payment of the approved reduced amount if any that's my first motion second motion of second any further discussion
seeing none all those in favor I oppose like sign I would like to take up the other request of the fees that Mr voke M uh paid to the county for our process to be able to be paid forward in some way to the next person in line um behind
them um so that others could have an opportunity to access this process okay is that something that the county manager can of course we could probably do something but there is no we if you would just you know give us some time to think of uh because as you know with us
bringing the code enforcement process uh underneath the board again as as you all had recommended there's a couple other improvements that we would like to make so I would like to bring that all with that if that's uh possible but um I right now we don't uh I wouldn't even
know how to to administer those funds at the at this point so do you give us some time to come up with a process like that I'd be more than happy then we can get a hold of Mr vog and bring it back to you all right sure I withdraw the motion okay okay we have a motion a second all
those in favor I I oppos like sign carries we already voted on that I didn't get the opposed sign por but yall go right ahead so Carri is unanimous thank you thank you next item
up is item 21 reduction of lean request this will be also put on Miss by Miss Alexis pnon thank you good afternoon again Alexis V seminal County U clerk to the code enforcement board presenting item number
21 U Deputy County Manager Sile of lean reduction request there are three leans in this presentation um The Code Enforcement violations are for unpermitted construction uncultivated budget and remains in was
structured all three code enforcement leans total $ 2 92,5 62 and the applicant purchased the property via tax deed in February 2024 the county received surplus funds of $1
16,826 reducing the amount secured by the lanes to $275,000 $275,400 and 42 all leans remain on the property applicant brought the property into compliance and requests to reduce lean
from $275,400 summary of the first case which is going to be 19133 CB the violation is for remains in Rebel of a structure August 22nd 2019 the code enforcement board issued a finding of fact giving the
respondent and compliant date of September 22nd 2019 or a daily fine of $100 may be imposed at the next compliance hearing February 27 2020 the C enforement board issued an order finding non-compliance and imposing the
fine Lan $155,000 $15,800 for 150 days of non-compliance continuing to ur 100 days until compliant the property was brought into compliance as of February 20th 2024 this
lean totals $161,900 may be imposed as of the compliance hearing the Cod enforcement board issued an order finding non-compliance and imposing a $7,900 fine for 158 days of non-compliance continuing to recr 50 at
$50 daily until compliant the property was brought into compliant again February 20th 2024 making this lean total 81,0 $ 38611 for the final case 2107 cesm this is for construction without a required
permit on May 13th 2021 the special Magistrate issued def findings the fact um requiring the respondent a compliance date of July 14 2019 or a daily fine of $50 may be imposed at the compliance hearing the special magistrate issued an order providing for final costs and
imposing lean imposing a $4,600 fine for 92 days of non-compliance continuing to AC daily at $50 the property was brought into compliance as of March 5 5th 2024 the
lean totals 487 $34.40 the applicant's tax deed purchase there was a tax deed sale the applicant purchased the property by tax seed in February 2024 for $23,000 the county applied for and received surplus funds in the amount of
$168 5220 as the surplus funds were not sufficient to satisfy any of the Lan on the property all three leans remain on the property the properties 2024 certified assessed value is $ 29,42 as previously stated this table
shows all three lanes and amount paid if any along with the remaining Lane the deputy County manager's basis for denial of the applicant's request for reduction if a property owner has purchased property on which a lean was recorded a waiver reduction on lean
should not be granted in such cases the lean should have been considered and reaching a purchase price for the administrative code appeal of Deputy County manager's denial the applicant requests that the board make an exception to its established guidelines and reduce or
wave the total remaining amount of $275,000 $275,400 ations yet quickly rectified property violations which impact the entire surrounding area given rats homeless camps Etc that take advantage of such
situations applicant reports compliance within less than a week while the property was an eyesore for all neighbors for many years number two the applicant corrected the violations the violations were not caused by the applicant who quickly remedied the violations after acing the prop
acquiring the property number three the administrative costs the applicant is requesting a total reduction or waiver of the administrative costs Additionally the applicant requests their application fee for this appeal be used for a less
fortunate individuals Lane reduction application fee number four the applicant requests that the board reconsider the application and generally the County's leane reduction process number five the applicant submitted one request for a elective reduction of the
Lans to $0 the applicant requested action the applicant request that the board consider and make a final determination on applicants written appeal from the deputy County manager's denial of applicants request for reduction of the lanes to $0 and should the amounts of
the lanes be reduced authorize the chairman to execute the respective satisfaction of lanes upon payment of the approved reduced amount if any that concludes my presentation any inquiries to staff anyone here from the public fill
out a form to speak on this item no sir we'll close the public input is the applicant here to speak on this matter hello again Morgan voke 1280 manist Street alont um I forgot a couple things with the last one so um I have sadly been to the code enforcement board
multiple times because multiple times I put up fences and didn't pull a permit until after the fact um but one of the things they always tell you in there is that specifically that the fines and leans are not to um have the county profit they are there to encourage
compliance um so overall with all the money that's already on those after um after actual administrative cost from the county the County's already exceeded 14,600 on this property the county already exceeded
9,985 on the other property um so we're not washing necessarily to zero the county got a substantial more amount of money than than what they put out we'll say um so I'm requesting the same uh Grace forgiveness pity um all the things uh and as well the how do we figure it
out here moving forward um for everyone's sake okay any inquiries from the board I do were you aware of the leans before you decided to purchase this on a tax
sale I was not aware of ones on this one I was aware on the other one um the other one I didn't have a choice we were I don't want to say bullied into but we literally had a house that was 19 ft on someone else's property so we needed to buy it regardless um this one I was unaware I did not search um it was just
a taxied sale that we bought um looking to have my in-laws eventually have a place to move to Florida and right here we are but is this something you regularly undertake is buying tax de properties maybe bought five let's say as a ballpark idea so so you you do have
an awareness that you should do some due diligence orre have some title search done to verify this uh and what leans may or may not be there title searches are harder than you think if you call a title company and ask them to to do that they like it's not a quick simple thing we've tried that I don't know how you
can quick simplify that kind of thing but get a hold me after the meeting I'll hook you up with three or four that can do it for you sounds good pretty simple process just got to write a check that's all yeah right it's only money so great all right any other inquiries before we go to the District
commissioner commissioner Constantine this is your District yes District three uh the public hearing is now closed yes thank you Mr vot you can sit down this one is different um the you know I I concur with what commissioner
lockart said about the previous one I think that's wonderful I don't think that anybody's ever been bullied into buying a h a property for over $100,000 but that's what Mr V said but in this case this was a separate um property
they was buying he um if he did not know he should have known of the leans the the excess value of it that we received of $116,000 was over a $28
92,000 in leans and I understand the difference between what we get what we find but the thing that in this case we had and I asked the County Attorney $22,266 to cents was our costs I don't
believe that the citizens and taxpayers of seel County should have to pay those especially when the appraised value is 29 bought it 23 still has a profit value in there and therefore I will move that the property it be reduced to the
administrative cost of $2,266 62 cents second motion second any further discussion see none all those in favor I I oppose like sign seeing none carries unanimously thank you very much next item up is going to be our public
hearing agenda got I will move look for proof of publication so moved second motion second all those in favor I oppose like sign see none carries unanimously expart disclosure mine has been submitted to the clerk electronically
mine has been submitted to the clerk electronically Mr chairman I'll be submitting mine here hot paper okay uh we submit it electronically and also we'll give it to the clerk so that in case anybody needs to review it is there for them to review and I submitted
electronically both last night and continuing on today so I had given it electronically all right I'll remind anyone if you're here to speak on any of these items make sure you get in the lobby get a
form fill it out for the item you want to speak about whether you're in favor or against with your name and address contact information we'll call you up when the item is is ready to be heard we'll now go to the county attorney Miss Kate Lor for the rules of public
participation in this portion of the hearing while the board welcomes comments from all P persons with an interest in these proceedings Florida law requires that the board's decision in quasi judicial actions be supported by competent substant 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 the official minutes Mr chairman thank you Mr Tor first item up is going to be a continued item from the January 14th 2025 bter County
Commission meeting this is Eagle Pass rezone it will be uh put on by Miss Annie silway our staff will give the presentation I will then ask the applicant which whether they want to make any statements to the board we will then move to public
participation uh if you have a form filled out you'll be allowed to speak on this item for three minutes six minutes if you are a legally represented homeowners association or other recognized entity we will then close public participation and we will go back
to the um the applicant for any rebuttals and we will go to board action from there so miss silway please proceed thank you sir um good afternoon Annie silway senior planner with development services uh this is the Eagle Pass rezone uh the applicant is requesting a
rezone from A1 agriculture to C3 heavy commercial and very light Industrial in order to develop the subject property for an office and self- storage facility in compliance with the C3 zoning District which permits general office commercial and wholesale
distribution the request is consistent with the Land Development code of simal County Chapter 30 part 43 and is compatible with the surrounding trend of development in the area subject property has an industrial future land use designation which allows a floor area ratio of 65 and is consistent with the
zoning classification of C3 the requested C3 zoning classification requires a minimum of 25% open space and the applicant is proposing access onto State Road 426 and State Road 426 is classified as a minor
arterial and is currently operating at a level of service D and does not have improvements programmed into the county 5-year Capital Improvement program or the fdot 5year work program the applicant conducted a
community meeting on October 14th and the Planning and Zoning commission met on December 4th 2024 and voted unanimously to recommend the board of County Commissioners adopt the ordinance enacting a rezone from A1 to C3 on January 14th 2025 the board of
County Commissioners voted unanimously to continue the Eagle Pass rezone to the February 11th 2025 bard of County Commissioners meeting to allow Public Works engineering department to reach out to the Consultants of the storm water management study to find out for
sure if there are any issues or not with the drainage on the subject site staff requests the board of County Commissioners adopt the ordinance enacting a reone from A1 agriculture cure to C3 heavy commercial and very light industrial for approximately 9.40
Acres located on the west side of State Road 4206 at Eagle Pass Road and that concludes my presentation thanks miss silway any questions for staff at this moment seeing none is the applicant here in desire to make any statements if so please come
forward you concur with staff is that what you're saying yes okay very good Miss Dominique do we have anybody here from the public wishes to speak on this item no sir all right we'll close public input and public hearing portion we will move to the district commissioner Mr chairman make the motion
to adopt an ordinance enacting a reone from A1 agricultural to C3 heavy commercial light industrial to very light industrial of approximately 9.40 Acres located on the west side of State Road 426 at Eagle Pass Road second
motion is second any further discussion all those in favor I oppose like sign here is none carries unanimous thank you very much thank you our next item up is number 23 Raymond Avenue partial rightaway vacate this will be presented
by staff member Miss Joy Giles Miss Giles you're up yes good afternoon Joy Giles principal planner for the Planning and Development Division the applicants David and shanana Larson excuse me David and Shanel Larson Maria Fernandez and
Jared Pitman have petitioned seino County to vacate and abandon a portion of an undeveloped rideway known as Raymond Avenue located in section 11 Township 21 South Range 29 East seol County approximately 1500 ft north of
Central Parkway in Altamont Springs uh the portion of undeveloped rideway subject to the vacate request is approximately 5400 ft in size and is jent to the east perimeter of Lot 23 of the Raymond Oaks subdivision and the
West perimeter of lot one of the West alamat height subdivision in the late 1990s the developer of the Raymond Oaks subdivision installed a sidewalk approximately 105 ft in length within the undeveloped rideway adjacent to the east perimeter of Lot 23 as shown in the
agenda attachment labeled Raymond Avenue existing sidewalk and Fence location the developer installed portions of a 4ft tall and a 6 tall ornamental open picket fence in the undeveloped rway which created a courtyard like area for the residents of
Raymond Oaks the sidewalk and fencing were not installed by or maintained by simal County therefore if the vacate is approved the sidewalk and fencing will remain under private ownership the applicants have provided letters of no objection from the utility providers in the area and Simo county
has no objection to the vacate Simo county has requested a drainage and utility easement be provided over the subject area which has been provided the request complies with requirments for vacating a rideway under section 35184 of the Land Development code and
the authority of sections 336.00 n and 33610 of the Florida Statutes staff has determined that vacating the right of way will not affect access for any persons or cause adjacent Parcels to be landlocked and is in the best interest of the public
therefore staff recommends the Border County Commissioners adopt the resolution vacating and abandoning a portion of an uncut RightWay known as Raymond Avenue as requested and this concludes my presentation thank you thank you very much M Charles any inquiries at staff at
this point is the applicant here in desire to make any statement to the commission seeing none oh you are here okay please your name and address for the record sir yes good afternoon Board of County Commissioners Jeff single ter president of Raymond Oaks homeowners
association um that is a fantastic presentation I had lots to say I really don't have much to add to that uh I just want to say uh Joy Giles and her team uh semal County Public Works and utilities have been phenomenal to work with thank
you Joy you've been a a treat to work with it's it's been a process we've been working at this for about three years now right and uh thank you Board of County Commissioners for your time and attention in this matter appreciate it thank you very much secetary
all right is there anyone here from the public to speak on this matter I'm going to read into the record there are several written comments that are in support of this looks like Maria Fernandez
Pitman is in support Mark Laney is in support a Carol Marshall is in support Ron Marshall is in support so those are the written comments in support if Miss Dominique
you would call those up who wish to speak sir would you like three at a time yeah let's do three at a time if you would we're going to call three at a time if you'd line up in the order you're called please keep your comments to three minutes um try not
to reiterate what a previous speaker has said in the interest of saving time if somebody has already said something ahead of you please be courteous to the next speaker and try not to be redundant if you agree or disagree we don't tolerate any shouting out or yelling or
or name calling if you would just say with your thumb up you agree with what they're saying or thumb down we'll get through this much quicker in a a very civilized fashion so we sincerely appreciate it please call the first three Don kining David Larson and Miguel
Pico Kinton Larson and Pico name and address name and address for the record first I'm Don kintai and I live at 755 Raymond Avenue I own the only only house that will be looking into this area that has already been
landscaped I bought my house in 1992 and I've been working with Mr Constantine in this board since 1997 to get this vacated so I wanted to say thank you so much total support um to get this through because it has been
26 years of work for our neighborhood to get this happening and so just wanted to say how much I appreciate all the work that you've done joy and the county thank you so much Mr ganine Mr
Larson yes my name is David Larson I live at 160 Raymond Oaks Court I am one of the applicants and I just wanted to thank Joy it's been a long process to get here and thank all the Comm Commissioners for considering this um
I've agreed and the uh Raymond Oaks Association has agreed I'm donating the property to the association so that we can guarantee that it the sidewalk will remain we'll be able to maintain that keep the Shrubbery keep it beautiful like it is west alamont Heights Raymond
Avenue and Raymond Oaks all share that sidewalk and by donating it to the association this is going to ensure that that remains open for hundreds and hundreds of people like it has for over a quarter of a century thank you thank
you next up good afternoon Miguel Pico 205 Alpine Street I'm pretty much right at the end of the street and uh unfortunately when I filled out the paper I put a Poe you got to understand English is my second if you want if you want to change that she'll hand you the
form so that was a joke I made a mistake but I do want to uh say that I I do like to uh continue with that and obviously pray for you guys you guys are in a um in a position of charge in leadership I read a lot of you um
internet and you guys have done F fantastic job over throughout your life I want to say thank you for that and I also want to see the uh yes let's keep the let's keep it close let's keep uh uh that area beautiful I got three little kids the little one back there you hear him going crazy so he wants to speak
it's only eight month and uh uh two little girls we love going around go biking walk in you know life is hecked as it is but I enjoy the fact that I can go through that and walk with the kids and keep it safe and I don't want to be dramatic but one one time when we bought the house I thought I made a big mistake
somebody stole a car and right at the end what they did and they took and running on foot and left the car right at the uh the a so that was kind of traumatic and I was like if they were to open that they can do anything so safety is a big concern so I some of you are
right that you had you have kids so you know the feeling of a parent something happen to your kids so I like for you to keep that in mind when you proceeding to go ahead and vote for this and let's keep that close like I said everybody here we got great neighbors besides our different political point of views or
faith point of view is a great neighborhood I like the fact that I can step out and see people opposing what I believe and we still say good morning we still talk we still hang out and we still enjoy that so that's it just and uh I guess I'm here because my wife
wrote my name on so thank you so much and God bless you all and thank you for you're a good husband and a good father thanks for sharing gra happy life for the record that is the quietest eight-month old I have ever seen clear my parenting skills wne compared
to oh the next three please Jose amram Janice Beckwith and Marjorie Galloway second hello good afternoon Jose amram I really don't have anything to add other than that that I support the right of wayy
bate thank you very much thank you hello how are you today good great your name and address for the record please I'm Janice Speck I live at 113 East Highland Street two blocks away from that and I'm going I'm here to tell you I voted for that development to be
built the developer that built the development put the sidewalk in for my kids to get to the bus stop that's how the sidewalk came about if you vote for me to develop my land I'll do something for you so he put the sidewalk there I
didn't I didn't get a notice of this the only thing I got to see was this sign at the end of the road and we already had to fight before cuz people want to open it I'm for it if it's being vacated and kept closed so I will be for it I just wanted to let you know where the
sidewalk came from sure thank you thank you hi I'm Marjorie Gallaway and I live at 180 East Highland Street alamont Springs and I am a on a corner home so I
am right on Raymond and right on Highland I tell you there's major traffic going through there already and we do not need that to be open and have tons more traffic we just
can't handle the traffic that's going through barely now anyways I'm for it and I'm happy that we're going to keep it closed right so thank you thank you all right Miss Dominique any
additional speakers no sir seeing none we will close the public hearing portion we will move to board action this is commissioner Constantine's District commissioner you Mr chairman and I think all of us remember the um the concerns
that the citizens had three years when there was a project that was going to use this as a right of way getting up to their other homes that they wanted to build the community came together they fought it they won and they said how can we resist or how can we stop this from
happening again uh both you uh Mr chairman and others said you know let's you know we need to vacate this they have worked diligently for three years to get to the point that they've also taken care of the concerns that staff had utilities had everyone had so you
know I I just want to give them all a compliment um I have talked to many of them um Mr sary specifically has been hardworking in trying to ensure that this thing would uh take place so it is
my honor to adopt the resolution move to adopt the resolution vacating and abandoning a portion of the undeveloped right of way known as Raymond Avenue located in section 11 Township 21 range 29 of seol County Florida for the properties more particularly known as
200 Alpine Street and 160 Raymond Oaks Court Altamont Springs second thank you motion a second any further discussion all those in favor I oppose like sign carries unanimous thank you all very much for being here congrat congratulations thank you thanks for
sticking with it you got to park all right we're going to move on to the next item which is turkey Avenue partial RightWay vacate this also will be presented by Miss Joy Giles Miss Giles yes good afternoon Joy Giles principal planner for the Planning and Development
Division the applicant Mary lordis Diaz Deo has petitioned Simo County to vacate and abandon a portion of an undeveloped rideway known as turkey Avenue lying adjacent to the north perimeter of lot three of the swope's amended plat as
recorded in plat book 6 page 96 of the public records of simal County Florida the area to be vacated is approximately 652 ft in length and 30 ft in width being approximately 19580 sare ft the applicant owns lot
three as well as the properties adjacent to the north of the subject right away and would like to incorporate the subject area into her property the applicant has provided letters of no objection from the utility company's service in the area and seminal county has no objection to the
vacate request this request complies with the requirements for vacating a RightWay under section 35184 of the Land Development code and the authority of sections 336.00 n and 33610 of the Florida Statutes staff has determined that vacating the right of
way will not affect the access for any persons or cause adjacent Parcels to be landlocked and is in the best interest of the public therefore staff requests that the board of County Commissioners adopt the resolution vacating and abandoning a portion of undeveloped RightWay known as turkey Avenue as
requested thank you thank you any questions for staff at this time seeing none we will go to the public are there any public speakers on this item no sir does the applicant wish to make any statement yes ma'am please come forward hi good afternoon my name is
Mary Norman um I I'm requesting this I own the lot to the left I'm sorry to the right of the vacate and right behind it and the main reason I want to do it is because I want my granddau my daughter
to build a house on the smaller lot and have my grandchildren be living right next to me and I don't want an issue where they would eventually be like a road going right between so I'm actually requ asking to see if you guys
would approve this any questions okay thank you very much no public comment items at all on this no sir so we'll close the public input this is my district I will move to adopt a resolution vacating a Banning a portion of undeveloped RightWay known as
turkey Avenue in the swopes amended plat of Iowa City as recorded in plat book 6 page 96 of the public records of seol County Florida located approximately 450 ft North of North County Road 426 and
210 ft east of Wall Street Ido second motion second all those in favor I oppose like sign seeing none carries unanimously Mr chairman yes today is Our Lady of lorda feast day so yes so
congratulations today is your feast day and you get a unanimous vote from the board of County Commissioners well could possibly be better thank you all right next item up is item number 25 seminal Science school expansion
small scale future land use map this will be presented by Miss Annie silway good afternoon um Annie silway senior planner for development services um this item is for the seminal Science school expansion the applicant is requesting a
smallscale future land use map Amendment for mixed use development and low density residential to plan development and a rezone from A1 Agriculture and C2 General commercial to PD plan development in order to develop the subject property as an expansion to the
existing seminal science Public Charter School located on the parcel directly to the north of the subject site lying within the jurisdiction of the City of Lake Mary the PD proposes twostory Public Charter School for grades 6 through 12 with a gross floor area of
73,8 ft and a maximum Building height of 40 ft with an overall maximum floor area um of 50 an accessory used to the school will be a recreational field that is approximately 44,500 ft there are approximately 6
Acres of wetlands and 04 Acres of flood plane on site Redevelopment of the site will address storm water runoff and Mitigation Of The Wetlands the applicant proposes to develop a portion of the Wetland retention pond on the parcel directly
adjacent to the east of the subject site known as lot two of the Victoria Square subdivision located within the City of Lake Mary's jurisdiction an interlocal agreement has been drafted between the City of Lake Mary and simal County that permits the review and permitting between the county and the city for lot
two the interlocal agreement was approved by the City of Lake Mary Commission on September 19th 2024 and the interlocal agreement has been included for reference in the agenda package and will be heard as a separate item on the agenda this
afternoon the subject property is located in the simol County Utility service area and will be required to connect to Public Utilities however lot two is within the City of Lake Mary service area and the City of Lake Mary has granted permission to simol County
to serve this project via a letter from the city of Lake Mary since simol county has connection to Utilities in the immediate vicinity the applicant provided a traffic study and no additional turning lanes are required for the proposed
development and a cross access easement between the subject site and the existing School site to the north will be established at the time of site plan review landscape buffers are proposed around the entire property boundary the proposed project supports the objectives of the plan development
PD zoning designation and the master development plan provides permitted uses are limited to a school and related accessory uses provide sufficient buffering to maintain compatibility between the existing development and the adjacent properties defined hours of
operation to protect the surrounding area from noise that may come from student pickup and drop off in the operation of the recreational field and also providing 25% open space the applicant has provided architectural renderings to demonstrate
how the building will be developed based on the renderings provided to show the design and the placement of the building of the proposed Charter School site per the Land Development code section 3.8.5 point3 it states in approving a plan development the board of County
Commissioners shall affirm the proposed development is consistent with the comprehensive plan uh greater benefit and Innovation criteria in addition PD zoning may be approved only when the board determines that the proposed development cannot be reasonably implemented through existing provisions
of this code and that a PD would result in Greater benefits to the county than development under conventional zoning District regulations such greater V benefits must include two or more of the following the first benefit is the crime
prevention the design of the proposed School building allowing pedestrian and roadway access around the entire building for parents and students to drive around the site this would allow more eyes around the school to allow for visibility of public spaces to reduce
and prevent crime and the second benefit is neighborhood and community amenities the applicant is providing an extension to the existing school which provides a community amenity the proposed project is consistent with the comprehensive plan
the purpose and intent of the plan development future land use designation is to enable Innovative Arrangements of the Land Development features that are not possible with the use of standard land use designations and Zoning districts and the proposed PD zonian
classification is compatible with the general trend of development in the area along North Highway 1792 and Ronald Reagan Boulevard which consists primarily of commercial uses as well as as Civic assembly uses such as schools for example the Lake Mary Bilingual
Academy and churches the master development plan demonstrates adequate buffering along the entire perimeter of the subject site and limits the hours of operation for the school and adjacent property surrounding the subject property Encompass a storm water Pond owned by simol County to the West vacant
common area owned by the Lake Mary Woods Phase 2 homeowners to the right which will provide extra buffering between the subject property and the adjacent properties staff finds the proposed plan development future land use designation and plan development zoning
classification to be consistent with a comprehensive plan and the applicant did conduct a community meeting on October 1st 2024 the Planning and Zoning commission met on December 4th 2024 and um voted unanimous ly with a motion to add two
conditions no connection to Pew Street and North Road and um fencing such as a PVC fence along the north side of the existing residents after hearing the concerns from the residents in the Lake Mary Woods neighborhood to the North during
the Planning and Zoning commission meeting the applicant has proposed additional conditions external shielding shall be required on the light poles for the recreational soccer field no outdoor speaker system except for for emergency or Life Safety purposes or as required
by federal state or local laws access access shall not only be prohibited along Pew street but also along North Road outdoor lighting requirements shall conform with part 15 of the simol County Land Development code in addition to the following light spillage illumination
from any recreational soccer field lights onto nearby residential property shall not exceed .1 foot candles the field lighting shall not exceed 25% in height and may not tilt towards any adjacent properties flood lighting is
prohibited and time controls must Dim All outdoor lighting by at least 50% within 1 hour of the close of business on the site and recreational and soccer field lighting fixture shall be shielded in such a manner that no light emitted above a horizontal plane passing through
the lowest point staff requests the board of County Commissioners adopt the proposed smallscale future land use map Amendment and current rezone as per the following based on staff's findings and the testimony and evidence received at the hearing the board finds the request does
meet the identified portions of the simel county comprehensive plan and move to adopt the requested smallscale future land use map Amendment from mixed use development and low density residential to plan development and based on staff's findings and testimony and evidence
received at the hearing the board finds the request does meet identified portions of the simal County Land Development vment code and moves to adopt the requested rezone from A1 Agriculture and C2 General commercial to PD plan development and Associated development order and the master
development plan and that concludes my presentation I'll be here for any questions thank you Mr silway any inquiries staff at this point is the applicant here or represented of the applicant and wishes to make a statement thank you good afternoon counselor if you give us
your name and address for the record please uh good afternoon chairman fellow Commissioners for the record Brent Spain theak and Spain 1809 Edgewater Drive Orlando Florida 32804 and I'm here this afternoon I have
the privilege of representing the seminal Science Center charter school and I have our entire development team team with us this afternoon some of them are on this first sheet of the PowerPoint so we've got a representative from the charter school we have our
engineer from kimley horn and then we have our representative from Summit Construction who is uh responsible for building the school should it get get approved this afternoon and to assist you all I've
giving you a hard copy of our PowerPoint presentation I'll try to get through this as quickly as I can this afternoon some of it Miss silway is already touched upon so those slides go pretty quick so first just the location as Miss way indicated the property is off of
Highway 1792 in North Ronald Reagan Boulevard as shown on the screen in green the project site which is shown in the green hash marks consist of three separate Parcels so you can see those sort of called out there's the the large
parent parcel on the east side and there are two separate Parcels on the west the total site acreage is 7.85 Acres the property has split uh future L use at the moment it's got mxd so it's
got mixed juice on the eastern half and the West half is ldr low density residential and then even more interesting is the site on the east actually has split zoning on it so you can see on the aerial it has
A1 on the western two parcels and then the Eastern parcel is split with A1 and C2 and as Miss indicated you've got two requests before you this afternoon concurrent requests we've got the small scale plan Amendment going from uh mixed
use and ldr to a PD plan development and then we have the rezoning from A1 EG and ret retail commercial C2 to a PD plan development and then the plan development is controlled by a specific master plan in accordance with your Land
Development code so before I jump into the master plan I want to touch upon briefly some about the operator so Orlando science stem school was founded in 2008 and it's serving orange SEMO and Oola counties
there are five schools serving close to 5,000 Florida students and every school across their Network achieved a a rating in 2024 the seminal science charter school which is the sister uh school to this
proposed new school open its doors in 2015 has a total of 540 students and currently serves grades K through 8 so the proposal before you today is to approve an extension to that school to
add grades 9 through 12 but the new building would actually house grades 6 through 12 eventually and seminal science Charter School's been a a school since 2016 on the right you see that's architectural rendering that Miss silway
showed you can see the trees that will be in the front are actually sort of ghosted out there so you can see the building that's attached to the proposed development order so we would be held to that architectural standard and again the the bullet points on this chart sort of lay out what this new
school building will do is host grades 6 through 12 eventually uh the first year I believe the plan is to just bring ninth grade on board the maximum student enrollment across grade 6 through 12 which some of those students are
currently students at the charter school it would be 970 in this component of the school facility and again it's got the companion facility on the adjacent lot which would then revert to K through
five the operational hours per the development order are Monday through Friday 7:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. and then the recreational field is Monday through Saturday 7:00 a.m. to 900 p.m. currently in the development order this is a image of the proposed
development plan and I'm going to walk through some key aspects of it this afternoon it's it was in the agenda packet so I'm sure and trust that you all have looked at it as you can see on here you've got the recreational field off to the West the building is
centralized in the middle of the site you have a on-site storm water system off to the east which is a wet retention system and then you have a a detailed queuing system uh to loop around the
entire site and the building and this would be the proposed site superimposed on an aerial so the proposed building is 73,8 to square ft if you look on the uh
proposed master plan the actual floor air ratio of this project is only 0.21 although the development order provides for a maximum floor air ratio of 0.5 so just some context the Eastern majority of this
property is currently mxd on the feature Lanes map and the floor air ratio of mxd is 1.0 so if this site were actually developed as mxd we would be able to do anywhere between likely 230,000 Square fet just
on that eastern part of the property if the western part became mxd as well you'd have over 300,000 Square ft under the mxd future land use so that the proposal actually brings down the floor area ratio on on the
property the the project under the do is proposed to be a maximum of two stories with a maximum of 40 foot building height again if you look at the development table for the actual School the building height proposed to the
parapet top of parapet is 36 feet and to the top of roof is actually under 30 feet and then you have the amenities you've got the recreational field off to the West you've got vehic vehicular and
pedestrian cross connections with the existing school facility is a little difficult to see but if you look at the aerial north of that storm water Pond you see some white going through that's actually a sidewalk connection to the existing facility further to the
East and again you've got the extensive vehicular queuing and you've got the landscape and perimeter offers an on-site storm water system which again is a a wet retention system the added conditions Miss silway
uh discussed some already again at the request of the pnz we actually had stipulated that we would agree to a condition to prohibit any access to Pew Street which Pew street is actually located to the north sort of in the middle of that aerial we also agreed to
install 6 foot of solid PVC fence along that sort of open part of the northern boundary there where the RightWay has been cleared that equates to about 260 ft of fencing we've agreed to an enhanced
Northern buffer which I have a separate slide to touch upon that and then we had actually proposed enhanced lighting conditions which missil way went over um I've been involved in projects the windir high school new football field at I represented the neighbors who had
concerns about that the new lighting facilities that are out these days have absolutely no glare in light spillage and my my clients in that case agreed to the new windamir football stadium high school but to alleviate any concerns here we're actually amenable to
imposition of an additional condition today I let Miss silway know this afternoon and the proposed condition is there on the slide quote installation of lighting for the recreation field is prohibited so to the extent anyone has concerns about lighting on the soccer
field recck field know that we're willing to stipulate to that added condition this afternoon that turns me my presentation to traffic as Miss silway indicated the applicant did do a full traffic North Ronald Reagan Boulevard as well as the
existing driveway connections with 1792 and welen Boulevard the roadway capacity analysis revealed that the surrounding roadway network will continue to operate at the adopted level of service there will be some timing modifications to lights but all the
surrounding roadways are operating at their adopted Los and again the project has a specific traffic routing and queuing pattern for those cars entering and exiting the proposed expansion of the charter school
it has over 4,400 linear feet for on-site queuing storage Vehicles which equates roughly to 179 veh vehicles queed at any given time so on the Arial here you can see
there's the yellow dot up in the top right that's the first access point to the site so you can come in there and you can turn left into that new access drive that then feeds into the queuing and then you also have the second access point which is sort of like an orangish
red circle off of Ronald Reagan and again the the queing on site is over 4,400 ft and allows 179 vehicles to be cued and then you can see the parking on site just to touch upon that because I
don't have a separate diagram on it but it was raised in some of the emails submitted to you all our parking on site actually exceeds the County's Land Development code requirements in fact we're meeting the state requirements for educational facilities which are 138
spaces plus we have 6 88 spaces I believe the County's Land Development code would only require I believe 96 spaces on this property so we're we're actually meeting the state requirements for a full public school on the queuing I wanted to pull
uh a couple things out of tpd's traffic analysis and again and that's that's in your agenda packet the the full Tia but again this middle paragraph uh says in terms of queuing the proposed site plan is expected to operate well due to the
significant amount of on-site queue storage provided during the critical Peak morning drop off period single Lane storage will be available for on-site queuing with a total distance of approximately 4,469 ft and again assuming an average
car is 25 ft in length you can see that the site provides for 179 regular vehicles but your your staff actually went one step further and required our traffic engineer to do a Synchro
analysis of that queuing to make sure that the queuing lanes would operate appropriately and that's what's demonstrated again this is an excerpt from the traffic impact analysis and you can see that the Synchro analysis
confirmed that uh there will be no spillage out on the 1792 or Ronald Reagan Boulevard at either site access one or two during the drop off SLP pickup times so again that was done at the specific request of
County staff and the applicant and the applicants engineer did so and it it confirmed that there's no stacking issue the next issue I'd like to talk about is we have committed to providing enhanced buffers I also want to touch
upon the separation between the uses because again I've the emails you all have been receiving have been forwarded to me I I've seen them and I was here at the pnz hearing so I heard some of the concerns so you can see on this aial to the looking West there's actually a
large storm water pond that's the county storm water Pond to the West that provides separation to the nearest house to the west and to the north there's actually a 60 foot right away it's actually been cleared out so in the aerial it appears that that cleared area
is part of the residential subdivision but it's actually a plattered right away that has been cleared at some point and then beyond that is the residential property line and so this diagram just sort of demonstrates close up the the purple
strip is that existing 60 foot RightWay and then you get to the residential property line and we are proposing it's part of the development order an enhanced 10-ft buffer above and beyond code requirement along that area where
part of the RightWay had been cleared some years ago so this is a little difficult to see on the screen but on the handout in front of you you can see and I have this on two separate slides but one we're we're proposing an enhanced landscape
buffer in that area that has the yellow horizontal line uh running east to west that's actually 260 ft of white solid 6 foot PVC fence per the pnz uh condition and along that area uh we're planting an
additional 25% above the code requirement which equates to two additional canopy trees two additional understory trees four additional evergreen trees and 40 plus screening shrubs and then if you look at the
diagram below that you'll see it's got the little silhouette of a person standing how the site has been designed is the requested fence is going to be on the inside of that landscape buffer so that enhanced Landscaping will actually be planted on the outside of the fence
facing the residential uh Community to the North and then there's a total separation between the school building which you can see there on the diagram and the nearest Residence of 181
ft so this diagram sort of exemplifies that this this shows the separation to the north so you have 181 ft from the school building itself to the Residential Building uh to the North and
then this diagram breaks down that 18 181 ft so you have 85 almost 85 1/2 ft from the wall of the school to the school's property line you have 60 feet of RightWay and then you have an
additional almost 36 1/2 ft from the next property line to the actual residential structure so we after the pnz because there was some concern or suggestion that we were too close to the surrounding residential uses from some of the folks we went and looked at some
of the schools that exist presently in seol County so on the screen right now is Pine Crest Elementary School and you can see they've got a queuing line coming in from east to west down there that their queuing Lane is
anywhere between 36 ft to 70 ft to the nearest residential building so not property line we measured it to the actual structure itself and again by comparison our queuing Lane the closest building it's to is 106 ft from the Q
Lane and we're separated 181 ft building to building Crest has 92 ft of separation from the school building to the nearest residential and this again this was a new school facility built after the existing homes to the south and east so
it wasn't a situation where the school came first and the houses came it was a situation where the the houses were there and the school came in so again Wicklow Elementary School you've got you can see the queuing Lanes on there you've got 46 ft queuing to the near
residential buildings to the Northeast and again you have a school that was built after the homes to the Northeast Mr Spain any idea how much longer you're going to need I have three more slides I believe okay
and again it's just another school where Lake Mary prep you've got the wck field down there close this is actually a lit recck field and it's 67 ft from the nearest residential building itself Woodlands Elementary again just
another example of queuing and the buildings in proximity to residential homes again we have significantly greater distances in queue separation and building separation and then just lastly again
same two schools Greenwood Lakes Middle School and Highlands Elementary School so in summary we would respectfully ask that this board approved the small scale plan Amendment and the concurrent rezoning we submit that the proposed
expansion of the existing charter schools of perfect infield development again as I touched upon actually brings down the floor area ratio on the property is a logical location for the expansion because the kids that are
graduating out of that k38 school they now are not going to need to go find a new high school they can just transition over into seminal science uh grades six through 12 and again as Miss silway testified we
submit that the proposed land use change and the proposed PD zoning are compatible with the surrounding area so I'm happy to answer any questions again we have our entire development team here with us great thank you Mr Spain we we may get to that here in just a little bit we
go up to the board we're going to go to the public hearing portion Miss Dominique how many speakers do we have approximately about 10 okay let's call um let's call three at a time if we could get the public to weigh in
again same rules apply folks if you agree with what somebody's saying feel free to put your thumbs up if you don't agree put your thumbs down we'd appreciate if you don't yell out or scream out or Boo or make any overt gestures would be appreciated so we'll
get you in and out here as quick as we can then we will go back to the applicant for any rebuttals afterwards and uh then we'll go to board action so let's go ahead and call Miss Dominic the first three Curtis Wilson John mcleland and Scott
litner litner yes lner lner okay there I'm attorney Curtis Wilson I'm a resident of the Lake Mary Woods pH 2 north of the existing school I actually if you look at the site map you see the
forest land the wetlands I own about an acre and a half of that Wetlands just beyond the school that currently exists um I'm here in opposition to this plan uh well it seems all well and good that they can add 900 students to place that
can hold 170 cars in a queue um and there's already 400 students at the original school without spillover is is a reach um every morning there's spill over to the fact that it's dangerous to exit our current our sub off Welden uh
it's gotten so bad that people are queuing on all the way down to 1792 and then going up to our sub and doing turnarounds in our sub every morning to get a right turn lane into the school as exists and that's only 4 100 students at the original school they're planning an
easement to go through to the other school which means people will be entering from Welden in an increased amount by about double what we currently have as well as we're talking about high schoolers who will have cars they will have parking there's not enough parking for high schoolers there so there's going to be additional parking in the
areas and as well as the fact that with the current spillover already taking up the right lane of 1792 and cutting across 1792 every morning leaving the school to go left down Ronald dragan we're almost hit every single morning both on Welden and on 792 with the traffic issues I know
they're saying they have the room for that but um already with the 400 students it's taking up the entire strip mall there plus Welden road every morning all the way up to our sub and into our sub I don't U understand unless the entrance the orange entrance they
cited that's way off ryal dragon is used primarily how there's going to be enough room on those busy roads at rush hour that's already full it's already backed up past Welden on 792 which is car is going down 792 how we're going to fit enough people for the spillways um in
addition to that these sound issues are are a major problem they state they're not going to have any after speakers the current school this week had field day with outdoor speakers with the DJ all day from 7:00 a.m. till 5:00 p.m. my
yard is like I said an and a half of that Wetlands I'm about A4 m maybe a little bit more behind that school and it was loud enough that I have a 2,000t deck I like to sit on work from I could not be outside the entire day that's every day this week it's even worse for
people like my friend Mr Lightner whose house is the house that they're saying is 120 ft from the new school development you can see it on the map it's literally in the backyard um as it sits right now they're loud and full we're talking about tripling that group of people it's just it it's it does not
plan for a good use of Welden 792 and Ronald dragan for any type of traffic circlage uh as it's already overwhelmed in the mornings and at the afternoons for drop off and pickup I do not even want to think about my children uh I've got a 13-year-old who's going to be driving soon having to drive with all
these high schoolers trying to pull in and out of places that they're already the adults can't seem to manage correctly so from I I'm speaking against it and just that I don't believe that the even though the traffic reports say it the current status of spillage is already overwhelming thank you you next
up please John mclen good afternoon Commissioners John mclen 409 Lake Road Lake Mary 32746 uh I I I've I've sat through a few of these meetings in the last 10 years so I know how they uh tend to go so I
just want to talk about a few concessions that I believe could be implemented in the plan the biggest one being is I I'm a sports dad I have to find fields for our teams to practice and whatnot and those fields become
Revenue generators for charter schools and I would like there to be a concession where they cannot use the fields for anything other than school activities during school hours as opposed to renting it out so every Saturday or Sunday we're sitting in our
backyard hearing cowbells whistles cheers and speakers uh and on top of that uh I the traffic studies uh I I've listened to quite a few of them they always make me wonder I think
about living where I live I want to live there for a long long time and I think about 2032 when I'll be so close that I can walk to work and that might be a good thing because out if there's all these County Employees right
there and then there's this massive Reagan center right there you're going to get stopped at every light from Lake Mary down to Ronald Reagan as the backup at 4:00 to 7:00 will be insane so I'm
definitely in opposition to this and I hopefully it does not go through thank you thank you next please Scott lner if you get the next three after that please Sean lurkin lurin uh Sebastian is the last name
Sebastian and then Beck Lester beam beam you say Beam Beam b e a m b a m if y'all could line up over here be greatly appreciate yes sir please proceed yeah good afternoon Commissioners thanks for uh having us and and listening to our
concerns um I believe uh you received an email yesterday of our neighborhood petition that we put together and we've had well over 50 plus homeowners sign that I don't know if you need a a hard copy or not um did all the Commissioners receive that yesterday I did okay thank
you great um so it just goes to show you know not everyone's able to attend this meeting obviously during the workday but there is concern by the majority of the 90 Plus Homes in our neighborhood about this project um you know personally I think I have the most skin in the game
here I am the house that is directly uh at the end of Pew Street uh literally 60 feet buffer between me and the school property so I have the existing School directly behind me as uh Mr Wilson stated it is loud you know during I
can't work out on the back porch during school hours it's between the the recess morning announcements field day this week was crazy you know luckily with double pain windows and doors it buffers some of the sound but you can't have anything open uh during school hours um
having a school that's now going to be four times closer than that school is obviously a concern with the noise um our other concern we we're happy that they're not going to allow cuts um but I know how high school kids are I know how I was at going to high school you're
running late you don't have time to deal with the traffic getting into into the school or obviously there's insufficient parking you're going to have 300 plus High uh driving age kids now going to the school with 178 138 parking spots no one address
where are these high school kids parking where is staff parking is just the size and scope of this project is just entirely too large for the 7.9 acres of land um so we'd ask that you that some concessions be made um obviously I think
they've addressed some of the noise concerns uh privacy wise a six- foot vinyl fence I think is a little underwhelming um we'd ask that something more permanent a block brick wall in uh conjunction with what we already have be built um something more permanent a
little higher 8 to 10 ft I think that will prevent anything any kids from in over cutting in and out parking in our neighborhood rushing to get to school parents dropping off kids on Pew Street and having them cut through to get in um so we definitely need something more
substantial there um again the parking um spots insufficient for that size um I'd also like to see if we can move the site of the building you know you have a 35 set foot setback off Ronald Reagan but only a 25t setb off of the North
Boundary um I feel like the school building should be closer to the road further from the neighborhood even potentially flip-flop with the soccer field why not put the soccer field closer to our neighborhood put the school a little further to the West so I feel like there's some different things
that the charter school could do in order to accommodate you know residential neighborhood that some of us have lived in for at least in my case 19 years um so thank you for listening to our concerns and um I hope that you'll consider some of the concessions that we've requested thank you thank
you if we could trust try to be respective of the clock and what has already been said we'd appreciate it go ahead absolutely good afternoon uh I do not have a prepared speech so I promise you I won't take up the entire three minutes I was one of those who walked in and I was given a yellow form would you
like to speak I said absolutely yes but I have nothing prepared I just want to share my story with seven all science Charter School chairman can we just have the name and address name and address please yes my name is ansu Sebastian 428 still Forest terce Stanford Flor
32771 so I have two teenage girls and a lot of my friends tell oh I'm so sorry that you're living with two teenage girls and I tell them don't be sorry I have two amazing girls whom I'm very very proud of and no credit to me it all goes to seminal Science chter school
they have some amazing teacher who not only are focused on their education of course they are focused on education but also on character building and behavior my girls are well behaved they are good citizens of this community they volunteer at church volunteer at school
they are part of National Junior Honor Society they do amazing work because of the teachers at seminal science so I work as an associate Dean at a university with 2,500 college students and when I read some of their emails I can proudly say my girls would have done
a better job and that all credit goes to the school so I am here to support the school and please beg and plead that this project moves forward thank you thank you next up please hi Beck Lester beam um 1806
Magnolia Avenue Sanford Florida um thank you so much for taking the time um to listen to all of this I know it can be a little daunting it is for us as well um earlier they were talking about that we opened Orlando Science in 2008 in Orange
County I was there as a parent um I got this little brochure in the mail and my son was like this number at this huge high school and I'm like my child's not a number so I went I I got him in there was a trailer in the back of it they weren't even opened yet about 6 months
later I was offered a job that I wasn't even looking for I'm like I'm going to get to spend time with my son and work at something that could be really great for the education um and students of Florida 17 year years later here I am
I'm still working with Orlando and seminal science I'm the admissions director now and Community out reach for the seminal Science school and I go into work every single day and I go I love my job I love my families I love my staff I love my students and I have watched
children just like my own go from not really a great student because he was so just one of the masses and I watched him end up graduating with honors from high school going on to college and doing great things and I owe that to the
Science school and for me not only as somebody who works there and gets to see all these children grow and gain knowledge but as a parent who saw my child go from head in the
sand to head hat held proud this is what seminal science does and we want our neighbors to be happy we want you guys to be happy we really really do I promise you that we want everybody to be happy here and I'm know we willing to make concessions to make
this happen but seminal science needs to be able to educate seminal County residents we are an a school we're accredited we even have a national character education because that's so important above and beyond just what they do in the classroom with their
grades we have to be there for these families as seino County and I appreciate you guys so very much thanks thank you next up please okay um well congratulations for your
children the uh name and address for the record please Sean Lin 304 Sprucewood Road Lake Mary Woods um is there any way we could bring back any of those pictures back up sure all right s
away which one are you looking for uh let's go to the back of the school I would say even where uh 1792 de goes in keep going I'll tell you when it's stop there's no more pictures okay well
let's go back to the picture that you have before do you have that one that's that's Ronald rean in 1792 okay I like to see it with the U the colors just keep going okay the question I have and I
don't know if if we're able to see it with the pictures that we have maybe if we could where they have the uh overflow the um for the water the retention pond that's on the right hand
side and how we have 1792 coming down this way we have 427 coming across this way and do we have a turning lane that's going into that area and is there any type of buffers that we have that is
going to buff that basically pond that's out there to where no vehicle in know try to catch a light or anything like that could possibly Hit It smash go into the water that was one of the questions I had uh
the second one is I was the one that went to Bishop Moore High School and I was the one that went through the golf course and I believe uh Andrea you're the one that actually
brought up the uh the six foot fence and thank you so much for doing that but we really need a wall we need a wall and developers I been developing also working on a job off of John Young
Parkway it's $168 million job it's not a big deal for you guys to put a a block wall with brick veneer that wraps around just like when you go into Lake Mary woods and goes around and actually
behind where the other school is that everybody's praising that their school has gotten so please if we could get that block wall that would be great in front of the Pew Road that supposed
supposedly nobody's going to get through thank you sir thank you Dominic next ones Michelle jump Alan Amer and jram bendala welcome please give your name and address for the record please I'm
Michelle jump I live at 73 Gregs Avenue and Castleberry um 3278 um I do have a speech cuz I'm nervous so I am here today not only as a teacher at semal science I've been there since the second year they've been open
but also as a parent my son's over there um I grew up in simal County I have attended Castle Bear Elementary South simal Middle School graduated from Lake how high school I have raised three children in simal County um my daughter just graduate or my daughter and son
both graduated from Winter Springs my daughter has now graduated from UCF and my son is playing baseball for Brighton and Stratton College in Virginia I say all this to say that simal county is one of the best school systems if not the best um with that being said my youngest
has attended seminal sence since kindergarten um he did struggle a lot with his AC academics and was not as athletic as my other children at similar science he was identified early as a struggling reader and had daily support since our school was smaller than a public school fast forward to sixth
grade I wanted my son to experience school without his mom there so we enrolled him into our local Middle School um we joined the PTA he joined the cross country team uh tried to be that involved parent as well as at my
school um however he did not have the same experience as his brothers and sisters uh within the first month he was thrown out of his bus seat twice um by some bigger kids I so I decided we'll drop him off we won't have to worry about the bus um that worked for a
little bit but during across country he was bullied as well um about his shoes not being as expensive as others and at our school we don't have that issue because there's dress code um but again we just let kids be kids but the final straw was when he was trying to leave a
classroom CU they're overcrowded and there's kids coming in kids com out and a kid got mad at them turned around punched them in the face um m j if we could try to keep it on specifics of this project okay we we we adore the things with your children and the school
in and there's no doubt that they do good work this needs to be about this hearing and the specifics of this complex being considered on this property okay so my last paragraph our students are not like most students they need um we have students from IEPs to
gifted we need students that are able the students need to be able to learn at their levels and what they need and that's something we offer at our school that other schools aren't able to do with the curriculum and the um stuff about the stand um the stuff that the
state puts on them so anyways so I'm basically saying we need the school because we need kids to be able to go to a high school that fits their needs um that aren't all like the typical student thank you all I have just just a
reminder we we really do love all of our children and we love the schools and our our community and I know that there's a lot of passion involved a lot of stories to be told but this is really about the use of this property a placement and request of this application on this property so if we could try to keep it
in those Realms um it'd be very much appreciated Mr chairman what you're basically saying if I we can see that it's a good school now let's now let's worry about you know the the the site plan correct absolutely hi uh I'm Alan Amer
211 South Crystal Drive some of you may know me from my time um at managing the utility of the city of Castlebury um I am a 5 year civil and environmental engineer but I'm here on behalf of Gabriel Aiden Ambler Pablo uh Ambler and
Noah Ambler and actually miss jump is um Noah's teacher uh that that way we were the the the first class um for seminal science charter school with Gabriel uh now he is in uh freshman uh at Lake Mary
prep and I'll tell you you guys obviously love your kids that's one of the the big decisions that you have to make is to where are they going to go to school what are their options going to be we want more options and not less um
I'll be brief um spending 10 years in government sometimes this is a a challenge just to get through the process but I'll I'll be honest from what I've seen the process is working you're hearing from opposition you're hearing from people in support of
exactly what this is um I've also worked very much close closely with principal auxu who's trying to push this forward uh through that process and they've made a lot of concessions they've changed a lot of things in order to be able to try
to advance this development uh I've heard from some of you that this is an acceptable use of this property I think so it would be G giving us great options to be able to now have more for our children and our children's children to
be able to go to school and in that manner so let's do that to the best of our ability with being able to try to satiate the neighbors requests as well through that process so it's working this is government this is government as it's supposed to be where we're hearing
people in opposition we're trying to modify those things that are necessary to be able to make uh everybody as happy as we possibly can and try to put our best foot forward for me I want more options I want to be able to make sure that my kids go to a place that are safe
as you'd heard from Miss jump uh she relies on that too she really wants that to be the case and there's a lot of other parents that appreciate this as well um Charter Schools the pickup drop off um I'm actually late right now to go
to pick up my kids um that that's just part of what those things are without bus patterns is the pickup and drop off are often uh hectic in that manner um but it it is one of those things that once we we get used to what is supposed to be in pick up and drop off we start
to recognize where we can do that better so um in talking to principal axu for uh probably 45 minutes Janette and I did uh when we were talking about pickup and drop off um this is the best possible option on their site with 180 cars in
cued so please uh thank you so very much for all of your time out of time thank you next please hello Jam bendala 2351 alqua Drive uh to the Commissioners I just want to thank you for your leadership and the the time and efforts you've spent throughout your
lives serving the public I really do appreciate that I um am Dr bendal I'm a physician residing in seminal County I am also for full transparency a member of the board of Discovery Education Services which oversees the Orlando Science school system including seminal
science charter school I'm a parent of a nine-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl who have been with the the school for um now in the fourth year and I I just want to underscore a a few items and this school is a public school um it it is
really serving the community serving everybody irrespective of income of the parents irrespective of Parental education it's really open to all children of the community it's serving our community as a public school and I just want to underscore that for for the the group and it's a school that focuses
on science technology education um engineering and math like no other in terms of preparing our children for college for the workforce for the military for their future I think it's really important to have this opportunity I hate to interrupt you let's try to keep it on this school this property we understand what the school
does I think we all understand that and they're great with that you're either for or against and tell us why or what your concerns are this specific School site for this project sure I'd be glad to do that so I'm specifically for the project I think the expansion is important and
necessary for us to have this 9th through through 12th grade uh campus available to my children the other students and the children of our community um it it's not enough to go through eighth grade and have these opportunities we need to go to 12th grade and I think that we can uh
certainly accommodate uh neighbors concerns and already begun to do that and will'll continue to do that and um I commit to you as a board member um overseeing the the school system that we will work in in concert with The Neighbors in the community to make this uh a place that is uh special and
valuable for everyone thank you thank you Miss Dominique who are the next speakers please one more speaker Mohammad sahi Mohammad saladi salady Sal salady Mr
salady anyone else here from the public desires to speak on this matter see none we will go back to the applicant for any rebuttal Mr Spain thank you chairman Commissioners I'll try to keep it brief I want to I
think I can address some of the the big concerns that came out uh but Mr Wilson he talked about hey there's already this many students and there's a traffic issue well by expanding the school and having 9 through 12
again the school age groups much like any other public school have staggered staggered hours so it's not like suddenly you're inundating the area with the full School population there was an issue about noise we've already talked about that we have an Express condition
in the do of no outdoor speaker systems will be permitted The Only Exception is for Life Safety or if it's mandated by law because we have to have it uh Mr mcellin I believe asked about the fields if there could be a stipulation that the
recreation field would only be for school use we're completely fine with that uh we will agree to a condition that the recreational field is to only be used by the Orlando the seminal science Charter School not third parties
so I believe that issue has been resolved um there was a issue from Mr I think Laken or L Lin about the drop offs and like it was touched upon at pnz the school has an Express adopted policy of
pick up and drop off you can't just drop your kid off at a side street because you're in a hurry and have them enter the school they won't be allowed to enter because they're either a rider or a walker so that's addressed um the parking again I'd
already touched upon it we're actually exceeding your parking requirements for a school facility we're meeting again srf standards for the state requirements for educational facility so again if we were a public high school being built
we're meeting meeting the parking requirements I'm sorry but I just need to clarify that public high school has a bus system are you saying that you're meeting I mean they're two separate they're two entirely different things
yeah I understand we don't have a busing system but again from a parking requirement I think that's why we didn't stop at 96 parking spaces which would be the county requirement we went to 138 plus the adaa
spots there was a question asked about why don't you flip the whole site and there's a number of reasons one the storm water Pond has to be on the east side to operate appropriately and in compliance with St John's requirements secondly the
recreational field can't fit because the area where the the recreational field is located as the largest part of the property from a north south uh length so that's where the recreational field wants needs to go and frankly from a compatibility standpoint one would think
you'd rather have the buildings centralized and the recreational Field located further from any surrounding neighborhood rather than bringing it closer the site's also been fully engineered and again the storm water system's been reviewed by St John's
Mr Larin I believe asked a question about will the applicant change the 6 foot PVC fence the 260 foot long fence to masonry wall we're willing to stipulate to that the change that fence that the P that the pnz asked for on the
Northern boundary on that open area we will uh commit to changing that from a six foot solid PVC fence to a six foot masonry wall uh I think with that
said I've addressed the issues and just from a locational standpoint you know even the County's uh sighting requirements for public schools encourage that they be as close to residential developments as possible to
encourage it being a Community Asset so again we've been very receptive to the community's concerns we address them at pnz I'm here this afternoon stipulating to additional condition we stipulate to no lights without
anybody even asking for that this afternoon and we come to you with a unanimous pnz recommendation staff recommendation and you didn't hear a single individual today actually mention to you that we
don't comply with a policy or goal of your comp plan and you didn't hear an individual this afternoon cite a Land Development code provision that we don't comply with and the County Attorney started this afternoon off very early on
about what is the standard and that really is the standard for you all is that you apply your adopted criteria in the comp plan and the Land Development code it's not a popularity poll it's not hey this is this might be bad we've
evaluated the traffic your engineers at the county have reviewed that have signed off on it fot has looked at that St John's has looked at the storm water so again we we ask for your support So this needed Community Asset can come on
board in the next year or two so thank you and I'm happy to answer any questions thank you Mr Spain any questions for the applicant at this point not questions commissioner her go ahead Nisa oh I if I was only
going to ask if I could ask a question but if you I was going to let you guys go first I didn't hear anybody we certain want your questions on the table absolutely I um I just can't fathom how the traffic
there's no issues with traffic I I this is in my traffic pattern um I don't understand how we can possibly ceue up 970 vehicles and I realize some kids carpool but most don't these
days uh including high school students in potential cars on that Road system in that queue all at once and so there there there's no mention of stagger starts in the PD there's none of that you just do it out of the your normal
process but but that I I just can't fathom that it met traffic standards and what I don't want to have happen so for whatever Engineers on our team that said yay let's go with this I do not want this to become a county problem with we have to expand the damn Lanes on that
road to pay for this I'm just going to say that out loud cuz that's where I think this is headed there is already as the the neighbor said backups because of the current school on the on that property and so I I just don't understand the traffic uh component of
this and so I you know I'm not necessarily asking you a question for the applicant you can come back you're going to come back anyway and for the record I do definitely understand the charge that the attorneys gave us it's not a popularity contest but the rest of the community has to to be accommodated
as well understood if I could chairman just Comm take a minute and close the public portion of the hearing we're now into questions from the from the board so go ahead yours um on the traffic issue I think it actually had come up at pnz and we had responded we we would be open to
a condition and I've had developer clients do it where there's a continued monitoring because again the school even when it's built the first grade to come online would be ninth grade it's not suddenly going 9 through 12 the first year so we would be open to a condition
that requires the continued monitoring of the traffic patterns for this first few years of operation to see if in fact if there's a issue arising then perhaps we are required to add a turn lane or a deel lane so that did come up pnz they
didn't impose it as an Express condition but it is something we mentioned the willingness to do that ongo tra ongoing traffic modeling commissioner lockart um so questions first um how
many faculty and staff do you anticipate working out of this um building that would be above my pay grade commissioner so I'm going to see if somebody from the school somebody is standing up for you help is on the way we we've talked about students I
understand 970 how many faculty and staff good afternoon Chris clot 421 south Summerland Avenue Orlando Florida uh there was approximately 60 staff members planned for this new campus okay so [Music]
um okay thank you that'll I'll yeah I'll add that to um to another question that I have um I'm going to back up if I can as the district commissioner on this and just kind of share
my participation in the discussions the last few days because they've only started the last few days the first opportunity that um anyone from the developers team reached out to talk to me um we had a scheduled meeting Thursday afternoon where I specifically
said that I thought that a school was a very appropriate use for this site but that I felt that the most intense negative impacts on the community had been placed closest to the community and uh gave you the charge I actually called it homework and said I I know it's a
short amount of time to come back but I'm giving you some homework could you please come back with the things that you would propose to do to mitigate um some of those negative impacts and one of the things that I was very clear with you about on Thursday was that I would not support any
development order where that field was lighted so Mr Spain may have missed that but that was something that I requested and actually said would I would not vote to to do so you all may not have communicated that um there were three very specific things
that I mentioned to you that were my concerns with the parking as you have it laid out and I know you keep saying there's 130 some odd spots I can't read the tiny numbers I count
108 um but I I again I can't I can't see the number on the site plan that's in front of me so you you're accommodating for the large amount of stacking because you're going to have a lot of cars going through 179 Vehicles cued was what you
said my so one of my concerns in all of this stacking was that there would be cars sitting there idling for a period of time and there was exhaust a fence doesn't hand doesn't deal with exhaust so I asked you to come back with something to mitigate that I talked
about the lighting from the field asked you for that mitigation and I I guess that's what address so I appreciate that the sound was my my third biggest issue and um and I felt the lighting being limitated from the field would at least keep there being activity in the
evenings from that um I think education of kids is fantastic I think that we have a lot of community members who really really appreciate this school that is a very separate and
different topic from the site plan that's been presented to us today um love love love that people love love love the school but that's not what we're here to decide today as whe whether it's a good school or not um so looking at 970 students grade 6 through
12 I did some quick math maybe 130 140 students per grade Juniors and seniors combine those you'd have 270 some Juniors and seniors that would be age 16 and over if half of those students drive that's 140
students is um you got 60 staff you got 140 kids that are eligible to drive You' got a we'll go with your number of 130 parking spaces again I only count
108 it it can't be both and I will tell you for my experience as a Schoolboard member and a parent of high school students not have having adequate parking for your high schoolers and frankly I don't care about srf I've lived under srf there are a couple of
employees here at the county who are with me at the school board we talk about that all the time that just isn't the way families operate today in terms of parking and getting students to school especially if you don't have a busing system commissioner darari and I work diligently to try to help Hagerty
High School with some parking situations because they didn't have enough parking they followed as um so I I'm disappointed because I feel like I and you and I spoke again yesterday around noon and you told me that you there were no other accommodations that you were
going to be able to make except for some additional vegetative buffering and now today and I asked this morning were there going to be any additional has staff heard from anyone from this team is there are there any changes that are going to be proposed and the answer I heard was no
commissioner our staff has not heard from anyone yet so here we are at the meeting and all of a sudden we have these concessions I don't have them in writing they're not in the do I have been willing I've been very gracious working with you all to try to come up with some accommodations and this isn't
it so I have my own list of things that I think would be appropriate and um and I'm happy to share them with you but first i'm just going to tell you I'm annoyed thank you uh recognizing what you said that there was a short window to turn that feedback around to action I
just wanted to make sure wasn't lost on the commission that we did um attempt to address your three items uh the first being uh the light and we came out almost immediately I don't know when that made it through staff but our team worked very quickly to come to the
conclusion that if if if the lighting was a big issue with the commission that we wanted to uh eliminate that field lighting so again I don't know when that came through but that's our intent that's our um our wish today is to is to eliminate that option the field lighting
to comply with your comments uh commissioner uh you you talked about the sound so there's been a lot of discussion with our team and uh Brent mentioned it today and this has been something again that we've uh been diligently working on as a team that we we do want to be responsive to your
comments and the neighbors comments about sound uh we are prepared to put that in writing as a um as a condition that that fence be changed to a wall to increase the sound buffering and also the privacy and the um limit the ability
for anybody to move through that area so that's um we also um would like to propose off fence along the uh West Side as you had mentioned that you also concerned about um noise the pond no
offence does not address noise and I said that to you so so could I make a suggestion at this point there is so much to be done I'd like to continue this item I I'm was going to ask m Mr Spain if he might want to consider a continuance but go ahead
commissioner well I before he ask for continu can I just ask one question absolutely if it's when it's my turn well sure could be your turn you have to ask the chairman well wait a minute the district commissioner has the floor so continue um unless you're giving up the
floor for a moment no I think um just and one more note Pine Crest Elementary was built in 1955 and the architect was Edward moton um so I just want to get that on the record as well I do have a
question mr's wait commissioner darari has a question then commissioner her will run the meeting and then tell me when I can speak so go ahead commissioner delari Mr chairman you definitely asked your question I I have no problem waiting please no go ahead please so the
question I have is for staff and I know when we talked about Trinity Prep they wanted to limit the number of students it was I think it was 45 plus acres and they wanted liit limited to 900 students
and that's basically 19.6 kids per acre this is 7.85 Acres I don't and they want to do 12.6 students per acre I know this is a PD it may think that there's too many
kids going to this piece of property has anyone looked at that I'm asking staff the question I I'll of Mr Gomez I'm just going by what the past and this was your pres not my presentation this was staff's
presentation about a year or so ago yeah from what I remember good afternoon Commissioners Jose Gomez the bment services director uh yes the the uh Trinity Prep is an A1 zoning district with a special exception this is in a
but I'm just going by students going to a piece of property this a PD and I know we're just looking at that yeah and it's a mixed use future land use with a PD zoning it's in a more urban area uh the really the number of
students is based on the uh the size of the school in terms of the square footage of the campus not necessarily the acreage okay um so that's that's where um that that's limitation is coming from thank
you Mr her my turn I don't have anything else if I'm running the meeting do me L do me after you no go ahead you already said you had questions go ahead and then I'll I'll do something
do me now do me later is is is the applicant willing to go to an 8 foot masonry wall instead of a six foot oh W yes yes okay it's the only question I had thank you commissioner Constantine then commissioner lock well you know I think
there's a lot of differences here that um uh that all of us that have been involved in the schools you know seem to have first of all when the school board buys land you know it's usually in the community that's going to have the students that are going to go to that
school we all know any study will tell you that the smaller the school the better the school um the neighborhood schools uh so you know I comparing this to those other schools that were in the the neighborhoods to me uh you know I I
think that's not compatible it's not you know it's not oranges to oranges let's say this is a charter school yes by definition it is a public school it is a charter school that is on a major
highway and the people that live there have um they were there and I think that their consideration needs to be made so I am very happy to hear here what the district commissioner saying and I just want to back
up some of her concerns and and and others that have mentioned the other Commissioners uh you know I don't I I appreciate that the chairman mentioned 8 feet I I think it should be 10 feet for God's sakes I I think it should the
higher the better the less noise um you know for the community but also if we are going to do this if we're going to postpone this which I hope do I think that we should look at I think that you know because this is a
PD this is not Street zoning this is a PD here my here's you know my wish list if you will the brick wall more you really more accommodation to parking I don't think that you've
addressed the concern I'm concerned about setbacks I think the setbacks are not you know um uh deep enough if you will will and um you know I'm I'm willing to look at other things those are just my three biggest concerns that I had when I looked at that and that's
all I need to say commissioner lockart are you ready for a motion um I have two more questions I just want to uh on something that was mentioned um somebody mentioned that the site was already fully engineered yeah correct so you fully engineered the
site before getting the approval from the board that would include the site plan yes commissioner our our goal was to that's on y'all that's not on us for the record um the staggered hours if I have a fifth grader and a ninth grader I'm
going to have to drop my kids off at two different times and pick them up at two different times even though I'm benefiting from them being at the same school no there's there's accommodation for that uh within the school so they have some before school and after school options to accommodate those car pool
Riders and siblings okay um the time to talk about these accommodations and amendments to the do and this negotiating is not on the dis it's just not I don't think it benefits the applicant I don't think it
benefits the community it doesn't benefit this board um I have some I've made some notes in the do of things that um I believe need to be modified including setbacks the re wall um the
opacity .95 plants per 100 linear feet does not a buffer make one plant less than one plant per 100 feet and this is I mean this is our staff's Doo I mean i05 opacity opacity right 0.1 opacity
rating right .95 plants per 100 linear feet I'm reading it right the D I didn't read it that way I the opacity maybe staff can educate me on what that actually means if it doesn't
mean 0.9 plants per 100 linear feet um uh again I was increasing buffers um adding masonry walls prohibiting the lights um and for the record if you all
could find a way to move that field I wouldn't mind there being lights on it because the the building would potentially block the light but that's that's conversation for another day so I would like to make a motion to continue this item to uh the second meeting in
March is that I'll leave staff to kind of give us the idea of what would be an appropriate amount of time so date certain of the SEC our second meeting in March is that acceptable yes which is the 25th of March we can okay um
25th yep second second motion second all those in favor I I opposed like sign seeing none continue to the 25th and then Mr chairman that item number seven that was on the uh consent if we could just we'll just move that
item with along with the postponement on the March 25th as well and Mr chairman just as a suggestion uh I you know I think that the some of the folks that have have sent us letters some of them said that they couldn't make the first meeting would like to meet with the again etc etc I would really ask that
they try to make accommodations with the neighbors and try to work with them again I I don't disagree and I would urge Mr Spain if if you could make sure from your first community meeting and the county will have records of who is here
today before you come back in March if you could find within your ability to meet with those folks to let them know what you'll be bringing forward cuz we're going to go through the process all over again and I'd sure hate for us to go through this whole process all
over again and find out that we haven't made any Headway um in getting the public in informed of what is really happening since District commissioner wasn't fully informed of the latest changes so if you could do that I think we'd all be
appreciative commissioner her uh do you have a comment no I was just saying um when it's continued to the date certain we can we don't have to to go through the whole presentation again you will have to open it up for public comments but we can cut to the chase of
course when it comes back and I'd just like to get on the record that I somebody's got to alleviate my concerns about traffic that didn't come up in your dissertation but but turn Lanes the time to put them in is not when we're in crisis after you do an analysis and
watch traffic back up on 1792 commissioner I did bring it up but I'm I'm just saying I I concur with you I'm sure our staff will have a complete list of things to help the applicant y amend their proposal yes ma'am um just real
quick I wanted to clarify for you miss um commissioner lockart um the the landscape buffers you were talking about 0.9 opacity that's not one tree the applicant has the option to choose from different types of trees um so it's like
one canopy tree per 100 um linear feet so it is one plant well can be it's based on a calculation so it's not like 95 plant it's not 95 plant so I just want to clarify that for you I was I was
rounding to one assuming that we wouldn't be chopping off limbs um but so my thank you very much so it is it is a designation of a number of plants per linear feet yes it's part of a of a calculation that we have yes okay forac
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we're going to go back in session it is now approximately 3 I mean 4:15 uh we'll come back into order we just finished up uh number 25 and for clarification make sure the record
remains clean I'm going to go to the County Manager on item seven so we preserve the record yeah so uh uh chairman and Commissioners I'm going to pull item seven and as you know if when this comes back I'll be bringing this back but for the record I'm just pulling it from the consent agenda
item consent agenda thank you fair enough all right next item up is item 26 this will be put on by Miss Tama Morton it's adopt ordinance to create the bear Gully Lake management msbu Miss Morton you're up good
afternoon TOA Morton mspu program manager um the mspu program brings this item to the board for consideration to adopt an ordinance create an um Municipal service benefit unit assessment District to provide funding for Lake Management Services on behalf of beer Gully Lake
which is located in commission District 1 this hearing was publicly advertised in the Orlando Sentinel on January 5th 2025 in accordance with Florida statute the request for establishing this msbu was initiated by um Community
application in May of 20 um 2004 24 sorry the standard petitioning process coordinated by the msbu program demonstrated 68.3% response in favor of the BCC creating this requested mspu therefore
exceeding the required 65% threshold the assessment boundary of the proposed mspu consists of 101 um waterfront properties with each being assigned one benefit unit the MSB will consist only of phase 2 Services
which are known as variable rate or ongoing um we just like to give the honorable mention that we do have two phases typically we have have fixed rate and variable fixed is when we have Capital this one will not have a capital there's no need for a restoration the
residents have done a very good job of keeping their water body in very good condition so we'll only be going forward with phase two the variable rate they only need maintenance at this time um as mentioned phase two is a variable rate the estimated annual
assessment it's based on a 5-year cost projection for contracted Services um and what we estimated it would be about $335 63 per parcel annually um of course this is subject to change it's based on
um you know whatever Lake management program deems necessary so if there is anything like hydrilla or you know water quality goes down it potentially could go up there's also times where it goes down um like some of our Lakes last year the estimated assessment will
include our annual um admin fee of 7% this is levied on the tax bill following public input the MSB program request that the board approve and authorize the chairman to execute the ordinance creating the bearly Lake management msvu thank
you thank you Miss Morton any questions or inquiries of staff at this point seeing none Miss Dominique is there anyone here on the public to speak on this matter there's one speaker Harvey Barnett Mr Barnett please come forward give us your full name and address for the record you'll have three minutes I'm
Dr Harvey Barnett I reside at 4107 Gabriel Len um I'm at the far uh West End of Gabriella and if you go back to that picture you can't even see my house it's nothing but Woods um I moved onto that property in 2000 and along with uh
a neighbor that's since passed away uh we were the the first volunteers for the operation water watch that was out of gainville Florida um I participated with Dr Summers on that and we collected a lot of the data that we sent off to
Gainesville and so forth and watching those reports come back I was concerned about the degradation of the lake uh as more and more properties were being develop more and more in that area and we've had housing developments come in um I'd also like to at this time thank
um uh Dr uh I'm sorry uh Mr Calhoun the senior uh environmental scientist with semal c County the guy's a genius and he helped provide an extremely uh significant source of information for me
to continue my study and research on this Lake I've I've read the um analysis and all the reports um that are currently involved with Ms uh buus Lake briquette um East crystal chain and and
Amory uh for 2023 now I'm a psychologist and in my area of psychology we talk about controlling behavior and I got a sign in my office that says uh controlling human behavior with your mouth is like trying to drive the car with a horn there is no
enforcement is that come off my true can we put that above the sign here the context of this the context of this is I am for anything that will protect the late I I that's my passion and thank you for this opportunity to speak about this think that's very near and dear to my
heart but in all of these things I see nothing where there's an enforcement element we analyze things we take data on them but we don't set it up and we've got to have the same Precision in our in our ideologies and in our ideas about
collecting the data and then analyzing the data but if somebody isn't doing their part around keeping this Lake clean as a property owner they need to be more than just reprimanded they need more than verbal aspects so I'm for this thing as long as it has some teeth of
enforcement in it you don't want to put that in I'm still going to vote no but the opportunity that you've got here to set a precedence to put some teeth in these kinds of things is going to be vital as we move forward it will do us little good to know about how more is
more it's degrading when we can't tell these people stop fertilizing your lawn you got this nice Green Lawn but you're killing my Lake I've never I haven't mowed my lawn in 25 years I don't have a lawn if a tree falls it's going to rot right
there is part of the natural process even though the water coming down bar Gully lane gabrielan ends up down in the lake that's one of the reasons I don't have any kind of spray any kind of nothing just leave it alone so if you're
going to if you're going to propose this thing and let it go through put some teeth to it so that we can enforce the the problem as it exists we're good at finding the symptoms now let's go for some CA thank you Doctor very much and I I would ask staff if you would get with a good doctor here and just help give
some some background on the penalties financially and legal from D FWC and those other bodies as well as our own ordinance fertilizer ordinance and so forth how that functions so we can shed
as much light as it sounds like he needs or would like to have in regards to that not related to this but related to to the health of that Lake Mr Calhoun should be able to assist you with that sir thank you thank you next speaker
please one more speaker David Sim Mr SE any other speakers on this matter no sir okay welcome Mr sign how you doing I'm not a public speaker a little nervous side here but my family had been in the same house on that Lake for 78 years we
never had the government come in and $30,000 worth of chemicals in the lake to take care of it if you give us your name and address to the record please 1491 herwood Place Winter Park Florida 32792 and your full name David Sim s yme
yes sir um we own 28 Acres of raw land the only raw land left on that Lake it has all the Otters Turtles birds and everything else the island is the same way and I'm totally against the solution of dumping I've got the estimates on the
uh Lake Association and from these people that it cost $40,000 to spray chemicals in the lake that's not you know you're taking an issue that was man-made created by all the stuff we're putting in there and then we're going to fix it by dumping a bunch of chemicals
in there I was also told well what about the fish and they said well just don't eat the fish for a couple of weeks well what about the birds what about the wildlife there I I think it's totally wrong to dump chemicals in that Lake when the water quality is good the only problem we have on that Lake right now
is it floods every year now because it's not draining right on the tusco Willis side the water stagnant over there it's blocked up on both sides of the bridge and for the last two years my neighbor's doc has been there since 1971 has been underwater a fourth of the year for the
last two years now getting back to him saying about the chemicals where do you think all those chemicals are going when the lake Rises 20 30 40 foot up in people's yards which it did in my yard and my neighbor's yard all that stuff's going right back in the lake and we're going to fix it by dumping chemicals in
there and I'm I'm just not for it sir I appreciate your time thank you we appreciate you being here okay we will close the public hearing portion of this item and go to the district commissioner this is commissioner delari thank you Mr chairman I have a question for staff I'm
looking at uh assessment phase two the 5year installments and it say the assess at $1,855 which uh it says five installments in five years in each year is $335 63 but that equates to
1678 I don't understand the math allow me um we can look into that for sure and let you know I mean I'm in favor of doing the mspu that's not the issue the issue is the math I understand I think that's does have that have to do with the option of a property owner can
pay that all in one lump sum no so for phase two there's no um lump Summits ongoing um so it never falls off so there's nowhere for you to pay it out that is only possible for phase one which is the capital assessment they do a big job the restoration that you can
pay out but not phase two this is just ongoing so we just need to make sure that the math is correct yes sir we could do that commissioner lockart I have a question good so while we're figuring out which it
is is it the because I guess we are voting on the actual assessment which is going to Prevail the monthly or the total so you would be voting on The 33563 so that is what we've calculated
for the annual okay um based on the 30,000 that does include um our assessment fees it includes um um you know we do also factoring the potential for the 4% discount um as well so it includes everything in that um I do
think if anything the assessment that 14885 that is wrong okay because based on our breakdown it was 335 okay so for so for our purposes and for the motion maker we should probably ignore the total amount and just talk about the 33563 monthly correct okay got
it sorry okay so so Mr chairman i' like to make a motion to adopt the ordinance authorizing chairman to execute the ordinance created the bear Gully Lake management
Municipal service building unit mspu and two initial variable rates assessment roles for Phase 2 msbu Services of an annual installment of $335 63 monthly month monthly monthly
annually it's annual yeah it's annual myad myad my bad annually yep okay motion second all those in favor I oppose like sign caring none Carri is unanimous
thank you thank you very much all right next item up is county attorney's report Mr Lor I have no report today chairman amazing uh next is the county manager's report same here no report uh Mr chairman very good we will
move to District commissioner report commissioner delari you're up first okay thank you Mr chairman I just want to uh acknowledge an event that I went to this past Saturday which is February the 8th over in AO uh for the uh Vito
Memorial post 243 for chaplain's uh ceremony uh those I know we've spoken about this before in the past with the post uh they're recognizing the four chaplain that uh went down with to doorchester on February 3rd
1943 uh it's pretty significant obviously as well as other things that took place during war war II doorchester went off uh was sunk by a torpedo from uh a ubo off the coast of Greenland uh the four Chaplin was uh was a Methodist
a Catholic a dust reform and a rabbi uh they did a phenomenal job uh recognizing them and it'll be an ongoing uh event and I just want to commend them V Memorial post uh 243 for doing this and
uh uh next year I'm sure more people be there end of my report thank you commissioner commissioner Constantine District 3 thank you very much um just I wanted to inform you that at the Florida
Association counties u tech Summit in Okala there was a um really interesting uh uh seminars on cyber security and Broadband specifically and the one thing that I can report to you that I I'm very pleased with is that Florida is ahead of
most of the other uh States and the nation when it comes to broadband so you know yay for us um every once in a while we do something better than others but we are doing that um the uh I did want to congratulate the seminal County Arts Council uh commissioner delore and I
both gave away Awards I was very proud that our um good friend Donna Bundy received an award for for that and it was a great event and forget Diane Mar huh y I was going to say that so you you pointed that also uh on uh February 4th
at the board of uh directors meeting for the OE I just wanted to let you know a couple of things number one they've now done 200 projects one the latest is with Charles Schwab in matland and I will guarantee you the number of those folks
that are coming and it's supposed to be 30,000 new jobs but a lot of them are going to live in seol County because they want the school district than the school system but in in addition to that we also um there was a couple of things
that came up number one that Orlando region us uh had the largest uh growth domestic product this past year at 10% in the nation and that U we had the uh
we we were number 10 in the best metropolitan area for stem professionals so that was kind of nice uh couple of things that came up the um at the Koo meeting uh uh it was in Altamont Springs
this past week and uh our good friend uh Frank Mars gave a rousing oneh hour discussion of all the great things that alam's doing um but I'm not going to go into that for
you uh also if you did know the Greek um Church which does the Greek Fest and everything had a big table uh extraordinaire this past week and they they were auctioning off items that would go to things like domestic violence and and um also uh human
trafficking programs but it was amazing the the the different uh place settings and table settings that were there was just amazing and I was at the the dinner that on Friday how's the
food Greek delicious Greek anybody but anybody that you know my favorite is baklava I just you know I can't get enough of that but it is it is very good that's the last that's the last thing you want to eat I know but I
love it um the central Florida hotel and Lodging Association I went to their state of the tourism and hospitality and uh the different trends that were going on there also I did want to let you know that I as many of you know I flew in from Washington DC this morning for the
National Association of regional councils the um we at the dinner last night for the board of directors uh I was able to invite uh Congressman Daren stto he came and uh he was really great
with the 75 members that were there and also today um I I asked a congressman Webster to speak to them on on Transportation issues at the Library of Congress and it
I I'm I was not aware and maybe maybe others were but that he is now the ranking member in trains and uh and other Mobility um programs up there so he's going to be a good one for us on
that um write that down yeah I was very impr I was very excited about that today you've seen all those five new restaurants that are coming in right there where they used to have uh furniture stores in Altamont Springs on 436 one of them Raising Cane opened up
this morning I I just made it from the airport to there they had lines wrapped around coming in it's chicken fingers chicken tenders it's a chicken tenders but for some reason it comes from Midwest and they it's just it's huge
people you know they love it did you pick up huh yeah I did have a little bit of it that's it was very good um also I did want tomorrow is a metrop plan meeting that commissioner delor and I will be at I I'm not going to bring up well I'll let you do the state of the
county and um let me see just a couple of other things before I end uh the regional planning Council will be doing the diamonds award at Lake Mary uh Center uh on the 19th of February which is always
a great event and the Rotary Club of Altamont Springs will be toing the taste of Altamont around Cranes Roost on the 20th and in addition the same day the city of Altamont Springs is going to open up their Global Innovation lab and
um I'm going to leave the dream uh in addition I did want to make some appointments today uh one of them being or three of them one is the reappointment of Lind dictor to the historical commission another is Trac
Fleming for the animal control board and new appointment and a new appointment Sky Buckner who is with v Mary Marriott for the tourist Development Council second all those in favor I I opposed like sign hearing none Comm gari is
absent and I do want to ask that because commissioner um lockart uh asked last week you know if we're still doing resolutions or whatever you know we're doing her letters what ever we're doing I don't know what that is because you know commission uh Mr Gray is changing
the rules every week but whatever whatever your policy is now Darren I would like them to go to the two folks that are leaving Miss D Dori who of the tourist development who is retiring and Miss um Bridget Lake who is
also uh can no longer has the time to be able to do it uh for the uh animal uh control board and also I just wanted to thank the office of emergency management for the tornado action plan I have a picture that I'm going to pass down of
our hardworking staff doing doing their thing during the trial um and uh it was again it was um um something that uh you know you you just love to see that people are getting U not only involved
Safety First and also understanding that uh drill baby drill I guess when it when it comes to when it comes to tornadoes Tado drill or when it comes to tornadoes or in the Gulf of America oh
please that's it all right commissioner commissioner lockart District 4 oh goodness there I always feel like when it comes to me there's like this I need to take a deep breath before I move on um lots of things going on but between now and our next board meeting
but um I did I do want to say that I I spent a considerable amount of time in Tallahasse last week met with a number of legislators and lobbyists and um members of of various Department staffs and it was it was a very positive um
time up there um the there is a letter that I'll be happy to pass down um the aisle the the dis um that I asked our County attorneys office to draft uh bres drafted this just to to memorialize the County's $500,000 commitment to the
sunshine Corridor for the pdan um obviously everybody in the community already knows about this because it's been talked about so many times but this letter just memorializes that and we've cced uh all of you and uh the other members of the
cfcc um of course this Friday is Valentine's Day um so whoever you special person is in your life be sure and remember to do something nice for them uh the Saturday is celebrate Lake
Mary which is a a great annual event that's hosted by the City of Lake Mary hope to see folks out there uh Monday is President's Day so honor your your favorite whoever that may be I won't tell you who you think who I think yours should be because I have mine you have
yours and that's okay um additionally this next week uh well actually tomorrow I'll be while you're at Mo I'll be um in Sumpter County for the medical examiner board thank you commissioner zembower
and um it's a fun drive yeah so um I believe uh Christian Swenson um and maybe a couple of other staff members are going to be joining I um know that you have all been briefed and brought up to speed on the latest situation there so I'll um staff will be
able to provide you additional information I'm sure after tomorrow's meeting um the oh sorry couple different things there is a oh are you going to talk about the
silven lake ribbon cutting Park okay um there is going to be a a trail ribbon cutting at silven Lake Park for the loop on Tuesday the 18th at 10:00 um that's I know something that everybody's excited folks on that side of town are are really excited
about that opening up um talked about the diamond Awards there is Saturday the 22nd it's a big day we have the seal County gardening Expo that's put on by um our Master Gardeners
and partners over at the extension office that starts at 9:00 in the morning there's all sorts of fun things going on there so if you are a a plant person or if you want to buy half a cow or if you want to buy Worm Composting tea or any of those kinds of fun
interesting things you want to be at the seminal County gardening Expo on Saturday morning at 9:00 you can last year I was able to pet a cow so that was a lot of fun um then you also if you if music is your thing we have porchfest in downtown Sanford Saturday the 22nd
starting at 11: bands all over downtown Sanford on different people's porch fronts it's a fabulous event if you've never been and then that evening is the semal State dream Gaya which is U one of our biggest fundraisers for the foundation for seminal State College and this year's theme is magic so
um however you choose to dress for that whatever that looks like to you have at it um again a lot of a lot of great things going on so um also I'm going to um just a note of personal we have a
staff member who is going to be getting married between now and our next meeting and so congratulations and best wishes to Tim JX and who soon to be bride Allison um they will be getting married the end of February but before our next meeting so I don't see Tim here I was
going to say something he's listening congratulations and Mr chairman if I I I I'm sorry you stimulated something God my mind I I wanted also birthdays Christian is going to have a birthday on
the 14th can you believe he is is Valentine's Day Christian our Darth Vader really you just call him a dark well he didn't call him a Sith I love him it's a couple and and also and also
our our fellow colleague on the 20th of February is having another birthday Bob delori oh yeah Bob happy birthday but I don't think he wants us to sing us feels good to be 50 huh at least I'm not the one that's doc
Vader calling him but father you [Laughter] don't all good one last thing sure so in addition to today being um Our Lady of lorda feast day it is also National
inventor day and yes and this day is to celebrate the Ingenuity and innovation of inventors throughout history and to encourage future generations to be inventive and think outside the box okay commissioner her District 5 I
know you guys don't know this but I have actually invented something and patented it one time in my life did you what was it nice a necklace for real was it like puppet beads necklace cuz those were fun it was a a
poppet diamond yeah I'll show it to you sometime love that I'm going to start out my my entire goal here with my district report is not to stimulate anything in Le team oh I'm I'm going to I'm going to listen I'm going to listen I'm listen
put something down so I'm going to start out by uh saying thank you for the well wishes go eagles they did win thus the eagle outfit with the eagle there we go there a fan in the room I did not take part in the tearing down of the street lights in the city just so you
know um I did attend the touch of truck disaster equipment showcase and it it is marvelous how that kids just love that event it's just fun to watch them do it was happening at the same time that there was a groundbreaking for the Ace
Cafe of Sanford so closed down in Orlando moving to Sanford uh and it was not a groundbreaking it was a ground shaking and they have all the old muscle cars hundreds of them and they rev up their engines all at the same time I'm sure the city got
complaints um it was it was pretty cool but uh the folks are thinking that they may be open if all permitting and approvals through the city of Sanford go well by the summer or late summer maybe early fall I don't know but they're
we're anticipating a great new venue in in downtown Sanford I will be participating on February 11th uh actually it's not February 11th but February 11th is a meeting but there is a uh Orlando Business Journal uh
executive women's uh mentoring program and I will be participating in that event I do want to call out the fact that we had uh a couple of citizens today that were exceptionally complimentary of our team uh particularly Joy who was apparently a
joy to work with and Mr Calon and I just want to say that I think the compliments to staff happen every day we don't often hear them we hear the other end of that Spectrum uh but we know that everybody out there is doing really good work and I would also say that I certainly
appreciate it when citizens actually come in and treat the staff so respectfully and cordially it's wonderful to see that happening and that concludes my report very good you know it gets down to me it's everybody's pretty much covered everything which is great uh
Sanford Orlando International Airport as many of you been following the news there's been some exciting news there withus uh letters of intent to move forward with some significant development projects on the air on the yeah land side of of the the business
which is some improvements and and uh developments that will serve uh the retail Market uh estimate somewhere in the area about $300 million in uh Revenue to be spent there uh once these get moving and probably more as one of
the big ones uh wants to go through phase one and then possibly into a phase two phase three if phase one is as successful as they believe it will be uh travel in and out of the airport has continued to increase with the economy and as things have you know postco have
occurred um state of the county is February 14th on Valentine's Day I want to thank all my fellow Commissioners and those constitutionals and staff for putting everything together and uh getting everything ready and queued up ready to go so I look forward to seeing everybody
there the uh March 6 10:00 a.m. ribbon cutting for the State Road 420 6 bro on Broadway in or in Ido uh for the opening of that new segment of Roads um also I want to thank staff we had Community
meetings related to two drainage projects old Mims Road and the Lake hary Circle um and I will tell you very impressed um with staff's ability to help these people understand what's
really happening there's a lot of discussion in my District especially along the river in Lake Harney and Lake Jessup that there's this perception that Orange County and the City of Orlando has some magic drain that they keep opening and sending all the water to
seol County and it's an ongoing dialogue um and I think staff's done a pretty good job in saying you know that's that's really not the case in a polite manner that there's no evidence of that there's no Spillway there's no secret valve that they can open and send all
the water to us albeit we all know it drains North anyway uh so arguably from Indian River County North most of it's coming this way through the river uh also mark your calendars for the Boy Scout dinner on April 24th love to see
all of you be able to make it if you can that's uh one of the fundraisers we do here or I do here locally for the Boy Scouts and goes to a great cause finally I will go to the Chairman's area which is item 27 on your
agenda to approve the board appointments of Maya Aus County Planning Department non voting member from 101 2024 to 9:30 2028 and Aaron Archie a non-impacted citizen voting member from 101 2024 9:30
2028 to the Sanford Aviation noise abatement committee that is a board appointment I'll make the motion for those to be reappointed or one to be reappointed and one new appointment to that board second motion second all those in favor I oppose like sign see
none that is the conclusion of my report sincerely appreciate everybody next we'll go to public comment on non agenda items Miss Dominique is there anyone here from the public that wishes to speak on a non-agenda item yes sir there
are two speakers Judy bonad and James Gorman again the last names Judy bonad James Gorman Swan stat if you would come forward spell the second one for me g o r m a
n one n okay Mr Gorman you'll be next gosh long day with you guys yes ma'am uh Judy bonat 1170 tooy Street Winter Springs Florida um my my main concern is addressed to you Jay because you're over
our area sure okay and basically what are we doing about the engineering situation for the drainage and everything and the ditches in that area staff if if engineering staff you could get with with this resident and
also direct her to the city the base study occurring in Little Lake how Soldier Creek G Creek basins and Lake Jess Basin and Engineers are still finalizing the date for the final report
and this is back in 24 when we started doing this you were supposed to walk around in our neighborhood you never did that or anything you had all the engineer people out there and stuff like to know what's going on with all this so so you and I may not have seen each other but I was out there on on the
ground met with me many of the residents both on the winter spring side and the county side and there's a basin study going on there Winter Springs has studies which I supplied to many of the people out there that was done years ago and never acted upon so our engineering
staff is coordinating with the city staff because we don't have full jurisdiction to that area okay we only have jurisdiction to a certain point we've already cleaned up a good portion of our side as far as the re removal and taking on those Culver Replacements and
and the banks of those uh streams and so forth the city Side have done some but not all so the Basin study will identify by further enhancements or improvements that would be done okay when will it be done I can have our Public Works
director uh Mr slot he'll meet you out in the hallway and he can he can update you because I'd like to know when this is going to be done because this has been going on for seven eight years everything okay sure and we I'm being that we're in a Tri County Area and everything just like this I'm gone to you guys I went to win Springs yesterday
gone to long was done the most for us and everything and I'm after this if nothing's going to get done I'm going higher up into the government okay I just want to let you know another thing is the Avenue Apartments too they need to be addressed and all because
apparently there is a situation where they have their area of of uh cleanup and anything over on the other side is either County or Winter Springs and nobody's taking care of it and we call Cod Department and
everything nothing ever gets done so is there anything as you as County Commissioners can get this where we talk to each other and get these things done and all because I like to have our area just as nice we're getting ready to build a senior cent center on the end
over there by on 1792 and 434 right on the other end of our street or anything that's going to be 144 uh units there so we need to get this kind of situation addressed I'll have Mr yeah have Mr slot get with my office I've got all
the background ground notes and so forth along with the city of Longwood and Winter Springs a lot of notes as far as I'm concerned you're not getting anything done J great thank you enjoy the rest of your day okay me too okay Mr Gorman hi my name's Jim Gorman I live on
uh in in Ido at uh 2996 Cedar Glenn place um I I've showed up here uh October of last year with a complaint about a restaurant being run as a nightclub
um they were okay for a little while and they just started up about a month ago uh where they're they're ramping up the volume and they're open to sometimes one 2:00 in the morning so um I started
going over and because I knew I was going to come to this meeting I went over there with my my phone and recording the time of night that they're playing the music and and trying to get the volume in the music CU I knew I was going to come here and I wanted some some background so I went there on
Saturday night and I photographed in in from the parking lot with my camera and you know I left and again Sunday night I went there same spot took the camera out started the video and they were three or
four guys in front of the front where the front door is to this restaurant and one of them came over to me and said why are you taking my picture I said I'm not I said I'm just recording it's a public area I can I can record what I want and he came and he said I want your phone I
no you're not getting my phone he said you got to you got to delete my my photograph off your phone I said I'm not doing it you no so I went back to get in my car and leave he stopped me from getting in my car I started to back up and going dial
911 but it was still on video by the time I got it to dial 911 I was close to my car it connected to my car so I couldn't hear the deputy on on the phone meanwhile he knocked me to the ground he punched me in his side of the head couple times and soon as I could get up
from the ground I ran over to n um 7-Eleven to try to get him a call 911 this guy was was all over me so I called the sheriff and I filed a complaint uh but that that's that's where I stand now this is still
happening with the with the loud music and and it's just it's unbearable I can't use my backyard at night it's all weekend long it's Tuesday nights Thursday nights it's I just can't live this way so I'd like someone to try to do something to
help us out thank you so so you're I think you're commissioner deli's District I've been talking to the sheriff's department and and they are addressing it appropriately okay all right I don't really have any more information than
that because understood I don't have any more information thank you very much sir all right thank you I'm so sorry glad you're good any other members of the public that have filled out any forms to speak on non-agenda items no sir seeing nothing else the meeting
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