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Buddy, and welcome to the July 7th meeting of the Temple Terra City Council. I will call the meeting to order. Uh, I'd like to remind everybody to please silence your cell phones, and if you would please stand and join me in the invitation and the pledge. Lord, we pray for

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your blessings upon our meeting tonight. Grant us wisdom and good judgment as we work to advance the common good of our city. We pray for the family of Bobby Owens. Please give them your peace and assure them that our community mourns with them in their time of grief. We pray

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also for the healing graces of our colleague and friend Kevin Woodard. May he and his family feel your strength and love and support of their city family. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States

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of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. I'd like to encourage all of you to keep Kevin, uh, for those of you who know Kevin, longtime city

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employee, a great family and Temple Terrace, um, he's in the hospital overcoming some medical issues, so please keep him in your prayers. Um, before we get to the historic fact, I'd like to read something because we lose our crowd as the meeting goes on after you ever I know how this works, your agenda comes and

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everybody's gone, so I got this letter from a a resident recently and I thought it was worth reading. It says this is just addressed to me. This is to inform you of sincere gratitude and appreciation for the outstanding customer service that was provided to me

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by manager Stacy Stevens and her staff, which I received during the months of April, May, and May of 2026. My name is Phyllis Rogers. It is with great honor and a privilege to express my deep appreciation for the outstanding customer

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service that Miss Stevens provided. She is very knowledgeable professional and an outstan ding manager. Her staff not only showed a lot of respect, but they consistently demonstrated reliability, undivided attention, and valued her leadership. I myself know firsthand the importance of

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providing good service to our community. I'm a retiree with the Hillsburg County Sheriff's Office with over 34 years of service and this staff with the city of Temple Terrace utility billing department is outstanding when it comes to servicing this community with

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outstanding customer service. Stacy has displayed considerable managerial leadership and loyalty to this agency along with her staff members Marquita Wilcox, KB Cleveland, and Sarah Sims. Therefore, I think it's very important that you and this agency know how Stacy Stevens

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and her staff excel in both skills and demeanors towards the public. I ask that you would please relate my sincere appreciation to Stacy Stevens and her outstanding staff members. I trust this letter of appreciation in some way. will acknowledge what an asset Steve

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Stacy Stevens, Marquita Wilcox, KB Cleveland, and Sarah Sims are to this prestigious city. Sincerely, Phyllis Rogers. So anyway, they get a lot of rough times with people, but uh that was I thought worth sharing with the community. So, um,

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tonight our historic or interesting fact concerning the city or the surrounding area falls on councilmember Schisler. Thank you, Mayor. Um, my facto tonight centers on the northeast section of our city regions. somewhat to the east to specifically north of Fowler

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and east of Fifty-Sixth Street. Go back into history, 60+ years ago when I-75 came south and passed through Tampa Central Tampa proper, um, to malfunction junction, its intersection with I-4. Then in

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around 1973, the decision was made to create the I-275 bypass to, um, to, I 35 bypass to the east of the city and renamed the central part of I-275. This came along with the decision to

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extend I-75 all the way down to Naples and ultimately to uh uh to I-95 on the east coast. So I-75 was renamed I I-275, and the, um, uh, city, but there's no actual roadway built yet to

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actually identify as I-75. So it got confu it was quite confusing at first to a lot of people. The first phase included, um, I-75 being extended from the split up near Route 56 all the way, uh, Highway 56, all the way down to Fletcher Avenue. At that point,

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you had to get off. You had to exit a Fletcher Avenue. This allowed for the development of, of, um uh uh I, um, Fletcher Avenue east of Fifty-Sixth Street up until then you could only go to about the Edgewood

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Apartments and not much more beyond that. Uh, this allows for development of, of um uh Pellicon Park, excuse me, and I'm out of order, Don. Um my

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apologies I, um so basically, uh, this alleged was developed at Telecom Park, the apartments and everything else and a whole bunch of other stuff now the

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rest of I-75 construction moved from the from uh the south in Naples to meet up a Fletcher Avenue. And it's the project moved north, most of the uh the the the property involved was either farmland or totally undeveloped. This required

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pounding huge square concrete pillars, uh, posted the ground. They dropped hundreds of these posts along the, the whole I-75 way, imagine every bridge out there, every, every overpass had these, um, they were literally pounded into the ground with hydraulic hammers.

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Some of them were literally hundreds of feet into the ground, um, imagine living in that part of town with all you heard was the pounding sound, this pounding, bam bam bam. sometimes 24 hours a day. I'd write people, friends of mine that lived out there. I thought it was just absolutely horrific.

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And I said, um, after all this started to develop and I and I uh Fletcher Avenue opened up the uh Carlton Arm Apartments and Telecomp Park. The Fowler Avenue had always cut through to US 301. That road really hasn't changed through the years except numerous times

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where it's been widened, um, over the years. Part of the overall project was to reroute Morrisbridge Road. Now remember Marsbridge Road ran from Temple Terrace Highway through Fowler Avenue curved up north and then met up, ran up, uh curved east

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and north and ran up to 301 in Seford Hills. He wrote to designers chopped this up, and they recurved Morrisbridge Road to now go west and north and tie into Fletcher Avenue up around where Hong Kong Harrys

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and the Hilton Hotel are now. Well, that left um uh it got really weird. It got really weird. The Morrisbridge Road stops there and it picks up again after you get on Fletcher Avenue, you have to get past the interstate turns back into Morris Bridge Road and

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continues back up to uh all the way up into Zephyr Hills. Now Old Westbridge Road had been known as the dumping grounds for the for the Tampa Mafia back in the 50s and 60s. You did something bad, you may, you might end up in there. Um, however, when they chopped it

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up, it was just a very short stretch of old Morrisbridge Road still exists. If you drive up the n new Morris Bridge Road, crossover underneath the 127th is about a 1 mile stretch stretch of road, which is the old Morris Bridge Road. It dead

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ends up a, a pit and dead ends where the new I-75. I say it's very, very confusing, but if you go around and you come back up, you get on the original Morris Bridge Road and goes all the way up, still goes all the way up to I-75. So I, like I said, a very short stretch still still exists, but she

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can't get to it. We have a, a very small subdivision of 93 homes that exist out there right now. Um, so, OK, so that's basically how they chopped it up and rearranged everything. Now keeping with the spirit of useless facts, I want to bring one more memory item. Picture this. You live in

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Northeast Temple Terrace area about 62 to 84. Uh, not everyone has central heat and air, uh, I can attest to that where, where we moved here. So you relied upon open windows for ventilation and hopefully cool nights, always battling

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mosquitoes and moceums except on Friday and Saturday nights. The quiet might be deserved, or might be disturbed by the scream of racing machines and and tires squealing and cars crashed. on Fowler Avenue just east of the river in the future bypass canal set sat Golden

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Gates Speedway. It opened in May of 1962, Golden Gate Speedway rose to national recognition with the running of the 1962 NASCAR Grand National Car Race in November that year. The 200 lap race was won by none other than Richard Petty.

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While NASCAR never did race there again, um, here again, Golden Gate Speedway became the home to Florida State and the say this wrong. Florida State late model championship, which ultimately evolved into the Florida governor's race, Governor's Cup race, um, in addition, there were numerous

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NASCAR and USAC midget car races that were held through the years. The track was about 1/3 of a mile oval, but there was also a crossover in the middle for a figure 8 design. This will allowed for demolition derbies there as well. So just after dark on a Friday and Saturday night, cars

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would start and the wine Avengers and the tires would fill the air. I remember going one night and sitting so close to the track, you could get sprayed with cinders and tire rubber as in your seats. The crying tires and the busted glass exhaust fumes and the

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announcer blared over the PA system, which was quite an idea. It was quite fun. I went back and check, at least I can say I was there one time. The demolition derby was the most bizarre. With vehicles crashing into each other until only one remained functional. These races ran through the 60s and

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70s, but late 70s, residential growth in the east of Templetis led to the citizens complaining about noise and pollution. I don't know why. The, the, the speedway was shut down after the 1978 season and nothing was held there until 1980. New ownership did try to reopen in

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'81 under strict new noise control, specifically mufflers. This worked a bit until 1984 when the track was closed and finally sold. The Governor's Cup races moved over to New Sayrta Beach and are still held there. The property was converted into the big top flea

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market, um, and which operated there till about 2019, when the apartment complex was built up there. Uh, during the due diligence process with the with the apartment complex, I had an occasion to discuss the project with the developer. Um, at that point I just was, I just was curious that had to be an

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environmental hazard, say with all the bro, you know, the crushed cars, the pits and everything else. I had to be a, I had to be a super fun suck, but they said the testing proved negative. Now I'm just not sure how that happened or who what. Site interesting

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trivia tidbit, numerous scenes from the 1971 cinema epic Fury on Wheels, starring megastars Tom Leone, Logan Ramsey, and Colin Wilcox, chronically the real life escapades of dirt track driver Chester Drup, Che

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Chester Jump were filmed at the Golden Gate Speedway and anybody wants to see it, it, it's available on Facebook on the Facebook. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Well, thank you, girl. Thank you. So we, uh, you had me worried there for a minute because I used to hang out there in high school. I thought he was going to be getting some stories

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about me in high school. I'm like, OK, that's enough. Yeah, I remember that but I'm getting old, I guess, so thank you very much. You brought back a lot of memories, so we have one proclamation tonight, and that is for parks and recreation Month, and I would like to

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invite, uh, Corey Collins to the podium. while she makes her way up, I, I just wanna, I'm gonna read a a proclamation committing all of you, but um, I wanna tell the public a little bit about uh what these folks have been through. So most of you, uh, or a lot of

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you, I hope, uh, who are here or watching. went to the Fourth of July parade and or the fireworks the other day, but um, I have to tell you a little bit about what you, you may not know, and that is that our director Karl Langfield, uh,

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retired June 30th. Ms. Collins has been appointed acting director and I think you have you been, no, OK, so everybody's doing double duty here and in the meantime they're out a couple of key people in their staff at the same time. and June 30th was

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four days before the biggest day in Temple Terrace for the year and so, um, in addition to what you and I'm glad you got your team here with you. In addition to what you guys normally do, which is amazing enough, you really knocked it out of the park and, and, uh, I know every day I talk to you

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and I, I, I know you're like, OK, we gotta cover this spot, we're gonna move that person. We're going to have to, I, I know what you're doing and, and, uh, so thank you all of you. I know you do this, uh, regularly all year long. but what you're doing now is really remarkable. So thank you. That kind of

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makes the proclamation look lame. I think it was, and it reads, whereas Parks and Recreation programs are an integral part of communities throughout this country. and are vitally important to establishing and maintaining the quality of life in our community, ensuring the health of our citizens and

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contributing to the economic and environmental environmental well-being of a community and region. Parks and Recreation encourages physi physical activities by providing space for popular sports, hiking trails, swimming pools, and

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many other activities designed to promote active lifestyles. Parks and recreation programming and education activities such as out of school time programming youth sports, and environmental education are critical to childhood development. The US

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House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Recreation Month, Temple Terrace recognizes the benefits derived from park and recreation resources. Now, therefore, I, Andrew Ross, by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of

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Temple Terrace, Florida, do hereby proclaim July 2026 as parks and recreation Monts. Congratulations, and would you like to share a few words? Yeah, definitely. I'm going to read from the paper. Good evening, Mayor, City council members and city manager. On behalf of the Parks and Recreation Division,

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I would like to sincerely thank you for recognizing Judely as National Parks and Recreation Month in the city of Temple Terrace. National Parks and Recreation Month is a time to celebrate the vital role that parks recreation programs and community spaces play in enhancing the quality of life

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for residents from youth sports, aquatic programs, summer camps to fitness programs, special events, community gatherings, and our beautiful parks and facilities, parks and recreation helps create opportunities for people of all ages to connect, stay active,

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and build stronger communities. While our parks and recreation programs are visible throughout the city We what truly makes them successful is the dedicated team standing here with me tonight. The passion, professionalism, and commitment to service helps to make Temple Terrace a place where families

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create memories. uh neighbors build friendships and residents feel a sense of belonging as we celebrate national parks and Recreation Month. We also celebrate the people who make it possible. Thank you to our team, our volunteers, our community partners, this council, city manager, sorry,

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you get the nervousness from me, um, for the continued support. So thank you. We appreciate it. Thank you. Yeah. all about this

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one. Yeah, I know. Thank you Oh I go hide here make a clear scooch this way, just a hair. There we go, ready? On 31231

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more, 123. Thank you. I think they weren't centered That's why OK, our next order of

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business is consideration of a minute from our previous meeting of June 16th. Has everybody had an opportunity to review the minutes and if so, is there a motion? Move to approve. Second motion is 2. Discussion or corrections to the minutes. If not, all those

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in favor say aye, opposed, no nays, minutes are adopted. Next, are persons wishing to be heard on items not listed on the agenda or items on the consent agenda. Uh, we do have requests to address the mayor and council on the little table in the back of the room. It's not

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too late if you have wish to address the council at this time and have not filled out a form, it's OK. There's still time. Uh, we have a 30 minute time limit for this portion of the meeting. I don't know that we've ever had to exercise that, but if it exceeds 30 minutes,

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um, we've postponed public comment and we continue with the meeting in order to get through the agenda and then we resume the public comment portion at the end. Um we have a 3-minute time limit imposed on all speakers. We ask that you come to the podium and state your name and city of

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residence, and we like to assure you that your comments are taken seriously. Um, we don't usually address your concerns right now during this portion of the meeting, but we do ask staff to reconnect with you, um, and then report back

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to us the outcome, so, uh, first request is Mr. Loeb. Welcome. Good evening everybody. My name is Charles Lowe, Terence Park, and of course I want to start with a reminder about the library sale, uh, coming up July 23rd to 25th.

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However, the bulk of what I want to talk about is more about the property taxes. I've been doing some more research since, uh, the last meeting 3 weeks ago. Uh, I, after thinking about everything and all that, I think the bill is a

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monstrosity, and one more. However, I, and while let's let's put it this way, if it were just you, if I were living in Temple Terrace and was just you all, I would vote no on it but, uh, but throughout the state, uh, there, um, there is

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enough concern of mine that a no vote would solve nothing. A no vote leaves the status quo. You need to, Igaim say this one more time yet again. that you should try to come up with your own ideas, so hopefully that you will have a better chance

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of getting a no vote and that if you get a no vote, that it will be strong enough that nobody in the state will say, Well, it just made it by a little bit, uh, so we might wanna try again maybe with a different bill. Uh, that of course is a possibility too. Um,

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I've been doing some research into it, as I stated, I saw, I saw some other things. I gave a list to the city manager. of some of the things, but the main thing I noticed was a very interesting report uh from Channel 3 in Pensacola. It was

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very, very detailed about property taxes in general, not just in Florida, but throughout the nation, had all kinds of ideas where to go into coming up with your own ideas. Now, of course, obviously you can't give it to the state, but you don't need to give it to the

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state. You need to get your ideas somehow communicated through through the media, uh, meaning not just you here in Temple Terrace, but throughout the state of ideas of things that you might want to do in order to, uh, in order to encourage people to vote no by

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giving them an alternative. Um I, uh, one thing that would make me not one of a oh that would make me reluctant to vote no. Also would be an experience I have with downtown. I, uh, won my point when it, I'll give you the short version of it

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because I don't have much time, uh, but I won my point so that the raise would be instead of sitting on their hands till November, uh, because of the property tax that they went and started looking for a contractor. but I shouldn't have had to do that. They should not have used property

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taxes in the first place. One idea I happen to have that you all might want to consider, well, I mean, you all, I mean throughout the state, and that is to give first-time home buyers, uh, an extreme exemption or on the village or maybe drop it all together. We

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need to invest in our young people, uh, and to give them a chance to get a start and put their families together by lowering the property taxes, thanking, good evening. Thank you, Mr. Quz. Good evening, sir.

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Good evening. My name is Matt Qulls, and I'm a resident of Temple Terrace. And the last time I attended a meeting here was November of 2024. after Milton had caused some flooding in our subdivision in Rolling

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Terrace. as we and retention pond overflowing. and at that time, uh, several of us spoke, and the council said that they would give thought to our request, which they did, and I'm here tonight to thank you

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on behalf of myself, Carrie Keenan is here with me, and I know there are others in our subdivision that appreciate very much what has been done since that time. uh, particularly we had two meetings with different

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individuals, including Carlos, I don't want to mispronounce your last name, Jason, uh, Eric, uh, came around and, and asked about things and I know those meetings were probably after hours for you, which we very much appreciated it was made at

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our convenience and we were able to discuss at length some of the issues that we have, some of the concerns, some of which might still be there, but as a result of all that, we found out that the city had determined to add some, uh, I guess drainage for lack of a

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better term, to the pond and we're very hopeful that that's going to be successful in in avoiding the problem in the future, but just as a human being, as a Christian, I think it's our obligation to say to you thanks for the concern that you showed us and for the steps

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that you took and were very much appreciative of that. Thank you, Mr. Qui. Thank you. Sir, did I see you get a form? Are you on your way up? No, the gentleman behind you, Mr. Close. myself Yes sir. is there a

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particular order? No, sir. I, I thought I saw you go to farm if you want to address the council, you're welcome to step up now, OK. It's been a while. Just, um, you can make your comments, but after you do would you give your form to the city clerk

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please so we can get on the record who you yeah thank you. How's everyone doing today? Good. I'm coach Tyrone Rimm, uh, from Greco Middle School. Uh, been there 13 years now in the in the community, uh, resident here in Temple Terrace as well,

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uh, by way of my, uh, partner and general manager, uh, Bobby Saunders. Uh, we're here today basically I always try to put things together for the community, and for one, I'm in the business with the youth, number one 2 uh, we always want

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to bring something to the table. I have my own company by the name of Rank U Athletics. OK. Rank Up Athletics is a professional collegiate, uh, showcase agency, um, we've been blessed starting from scratch. We've, um had about anywhere

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between 70 to 80 guys signed professionally and we've had some collegiate signings in the in the midst. Make the long story short, we have a an event here July 18th. King High School Once again, this is something that we want to present every year. It's called

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the Tampa uh Tampa Bay Citrus Bowl 2.0. So who we're playing is my team, football team is a professional showcase team. It's not semi-pro, it's professional. and we'll be playing against Team USA International Inc. They're also,

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uh, professional agency as, as well as ourselves, and we go from city to city. and we scout and bring talent and we will go pretty much have live streaming on tele television and I'm from the NFL CFL, all the way down to all the professional tiers,

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they all tune in and they'll watch our games and if they like any of our players, they'll have a live roster to see whom they would like to choose from to maybe give a professional contract. My big thing is, is I would love for everybody in Temple Terrace to come out and support us. July

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18th, uh, all the teams will be coming in. We're bringing in businesses, so whether it's in Temple Terrace or in the Temple region, that's our goal is to pretty much bring business to the community and give back for one to show our youth that

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there's, uh, you do have an advocate, your own coach. in the area that has a professional team. Uh, my general manager Bobby Saunders, he handles most of, uh, the administrative aspect of it. Uh, it's been a while since we've had anything in this particular

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area, but we're excited. We're gonna um honor uh Paralympian Regis Woods, a couple of Olympian that won gold medals. We're going to present them and honor them at halftime. We would love for anybody on the council or the the mayor himself would love to have you

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guys there to honor you all as well at halftime. Game will be televised on DR Sports Network and TLC Film Network and possibly YouTube, so it will be a live coverage you guys can go back and look at it anytime you

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like. So we would love if there's any way that you guys can uh get this information out in the community. and it's going to be a great event. It's gonna be a great event in any kind of way that you guys can assist us by any way. Uh, I will say we will need help with

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a tent by any chance, uh, just in case of the weather per se. So, other than that, it's gonna be very uh patriotic. Thanks. Thank you very much, coach. Thank you. Are there other members of the public who wish to address the council at this time. Seeing no counsel, is

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there a motion to approve the consent agenda. So moved. I in all those in favor say aye, I opposed, no nays since that agenda is adopted. First public hearing is a resolution

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approving the annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year ending September 30th, 2025, uh, finance director Jim Ingraham is here to explain. Good evening, Mr. Ingram Good evening, Mayor Ross, City

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council. Morvis Mazars, the city's auditor, has completed the annual audit for the fiscal year ended September 30th, 2025. The city's auditor Jeff Wolf will report on the results of

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the financial statement, audit, and both he and I will be available to respond to any questions you may have. I'd like to introduce now Mr. Jeff Wolf. Good evening. Thank you. Good evening. Good, good to see everybody again. Um, just as I

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always start again, I just want to thank you for allowing us to serve you as your external auditors. Uh, we work for you and we take that role very seriously. And, um, just kind of refresher as you might remember, um, our firm, uh, uh, MSL was acquired by former Susars about a year and a half

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ago, and this is the first year, uh, that the audit was done under the new methodology, um, so it really got a fresh look, different way of doing things, diff, you know, not reinventing the wheel of not it, but definitely, um, you know, a a fresh look at, at the city's finances and, and procedures.

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So I think just I say that as we go through the results, you know, I, I think you'll be happy to hear that they had a fresh look, but uh, similar results. So with that I'll get right into it. First, um, you have a handout which uh is our required communication letter. Um, I'll go over briefly. It

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doesn't really change too much from year to year, really just kind of standard-driven, but um if there's any questions on that, I'll certainly be happy to answer, but it really goes over the scope of our of the audit, um, our responsibility is to complete the audit under of the applicable standards, um,

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goes on obviously that we are required to be independent of the city, um, you know, management responsibility for the audit, um, the the Act for the large document that is the ultimate work product that is the responsibility of management, you know, that they're the one that prepares it, um, so it's, that's kind of important. They're, they're

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also responsible for the, uh, the financial information with within that document, um, also, it goes on the reports that we've issued, um, and then talks about, uh, significant accounting policies. There's one new Gatsby, uh, related to compensated absences that was

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applied during the year did not have a significant impact on the financial statements, um, and there was no other transactions that weren't uh reported in accordance with uh GAP. Ultimately, um, this goes on to discuss your significant estimates in the financial statements and your significant

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disclosures in the ACT for. Then lastly, just, just talked about that we had no difficulties with uh with uh during the audit management was always, you know, very responsive to our inquiries and and it was a smooth process. Then the last piece is just demand represent representation letter that they provide to to

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us at the end of the audit So with that brief overview of the required communications, I'll just go on the reports. Um, first is our uh independent audits report, and that's the report on whether your financial statements are materially correct. Um, you had an unmodified opinion, which I know that doesn't sound great,

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but that that is the highest level of assurance you can receive that your financial statements are materially correct. Um, our next report is a report on internal control over financial reporting and compliance. Now part of the audit process is we, we do evaluate internal controls to

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help plan or audit, meaning if we're looking over controls over payroll or disbursements, and we saw issues we would modify our approach, but we do not render opinion on internal controls, but if we had any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies

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related to controls. We are required to communicate those to you. And again, um, this was a clean report. no material weaknesses are significant deficiencies noted. Um, our next report is our single audit report. um, this year, uh, the city met the, the federal single audit threshold, which

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is a million dollars to stay to 750,000. You didn't meet the state threshold, so you're only required to have a federal single audit, and that's really a separate audit as it relates to compliance with the grants and also internal controls. Um, he had one major program this year and it related to the the

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corona release fiscal recovery funds. um, again, that was an unmodified opinion, no findings, issues noted related to, to, to that grant and the single audit. Next is our independent accountants report. Um, this is a report just on compliance with Florida statutes as it relates to investments, you

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know, it does your investment policy follow statute, then ultimately are you following your investment policy and again, um, this is a clean report, no issues, no finding, no, um, noted. Lastly is the auditor general required management letter. Um, this letter kind of covers a whole

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bunch of things. Um, if there's any financial condition or emergencies, or deteriorating financial condition, we would be required to report that to you. Um, again, no issues noted there. The city is very is financially strong. Um, if there was any other, um,

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findings that we had that maybe didn't meet the level of the internal control report. We would report in this report, but again, um, no findings, no issues noted. So I, I think the takeaway again, you know, fresh set of eyes, different way of looking things, but same results as the previous year, uh, you know, a very clean

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audit. So with that, I'll just go on to some real quick, you know, high level financial information. I know you're getting a lot of, you know, during budget season you're getting a lot of information and so this may be a little stale stale anyways, but so this is your citywide analysis, meaning if the city was a

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business, um, full, cruel, long term assets, long-term liabilities, probably different than what you're accustomed to seeing, you know, during the budget process is really more focused on the fund level, um, but I think the takeaway is your current ratio at 9.4 on your governmental activities, so that's your activities

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supported by taxes and intergovernmental revenue, um, 9.4, which is, um, down from 13.9% the previous year, but again, a strong, a strong number and I think really you had some planned, uh, fund balance spending down anyway, so nothing to be concerned there. And then your business

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type activities, um, is for, um, so good, again, another strong ratio. So now on to the general fund, probably numbers you're more accustomed to, to seeing this as your, your, the, the main operations of the city, um, I think the number that really

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focus on is that unassigned fund balance. Now you'll see it was 55% last year, down to 35%. Again, 35% is still a very strong fund balance number and really most of that was budgeted spend out of fund balance, um, so it was planned, you know, really just following

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your budget approved. So really no issues there and, and really still 35% a very strong fund balance number. So just to summarize again, um, uh, clean, successful audit, city remains in in strong financial position, and I'd be more than happy to answer any questions on the

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audit process. Thank you, Mr. Wolf. Council member, questions? I just have, I have comments but no questions. OK. Are there any members of the public who wish to comment on a report. OK, Councilmember Fernandez. Um, I just have a couple of comments

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for people that might be watching, and one is that the change in fund balance that you're seeing, uh, that is specifically because we wanted to get our fund balance. more in line with generally accepted

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levels and 55% is very high percentage um for fund balance, but I encourage all of you to watch the budget meetings because we are discussing how we intend to spend the revenues and any um unassigned fund

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balance that we decide that we think needs to be allocated to, um, projects or asset purchases. That discussion will be there in the budget. meetings and the last thing I want to say is to

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our finance staff. I do really appreciate the hard work that you have put in over the years because there was a time in we had a wonderful finance staff, and then in between that finance staff and our current

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finance staff, we had some that were not as strong and I appreciate that you all have put so much effort into really cleaning up how things are

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reported, the transparency and the fiscal responsibility that you have helped give the information to city leadership and and councils so that we can make good decisions, so that's it. There are no questions. Is

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there a motion to accept the report? I move to accept the report is presented. motion 2. Dis discussion of the motion. Council member just more, more of a comment. Um, I'm going to add to those comments. This is

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my 8th audit. through the city and uh there's significantly better than what they used to be, um, and it's, it's the hard work of our staff, but also the contributions of your company, Mr. Wolf, um, you're always there if we had a question, you

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were, you were good advice if we, if we didn't know how to do something, we could come to you and if, if nothing else is to val validate what we were trying to do, um, to, to Mr. Ingram and Jennifer and the whole staff they've done, uh, an incredible job and as this

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is my last um, uh, audit review. Uh, it's been a very sincere honor and pleasure to have worked with you for all these years. So thank you for all that you do for this. All you, all you've done for the city, Tele Terrace as well as the staff. Thank you. discussion I

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just want to make a real quick comment and I'm pile on to you. You won't be able to get out the door, but, um, I, I, a lot of us have been around for a while and, and, uh, I can remember the budget development

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process with that used to be Ms. Newman, you weren't here for some of the nightmare stories Mr. Ingram, you were, um the audit we'd get these audits were not like this. They would go on for, I mean, it was, we had a lot of, and I just wanna

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reassure everybody, you know, local government right now is taking a lot of blows from their painting everybody with the same brush, you know, we've been accused of being fraudulent incompetent wasteful. um, fleecing the public with, you know, we're

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just adding, buying gold faucets and stuff like that, and I, I don't know all there's 410 other cities, and I don't know much about all the rest of them, but I do know this one, and none of that is true and are are there could you look at our budget and say, well, we could save, you know, a little

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bit of money here and a little bit of money, yes, you could. I could do the same thing at your household. Um but in terms of professional clean, I mean, you, you guys are really doing a phenomenal job and, and, uh, I know your whole staff's not

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here, so please pass that on so just night and day so and Mr. Baea you've had a big part of this too, so, uh, thank you for that. Oh OK, any other discussion? If not, all those in favor say aye aye opposed,

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no nace, resolutions adopted. Thank you, Mr. Wolf. Next we have a resolution approving street sweeping services with USA Services of Florida via Sourcewell contract number 111125. Now our public works

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director Jason Warnfeld is here to explain. Good evening, Mayor, council members. Uh, tonight I bring before you a resolution approving street sweeping services with USA Services LLC. Counselor, you might recall in the approved FY 26 budget. There was a line item to

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purchase a street sweeper for $400,000 along with funds and contractual services. for street sweeping, doing this, it allowed staff to determine if purchasing a street sweeper was best or continuing with contractual services, um, after a deeper understanding of the

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overall budget impact, which would include an additional staff, um, short life span on the equipment and then some added maintenance costs. It was determined to continue with the contractual services. Uh, the NU operating cost for this, which is budgeted currently in the FY 26 budget and we'll continue into the FY 27 budget,

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uh, approximately 92,1 6 $0 for street sweeping, uh, this agreement includes a two-year term with 2 1-year additional options, um, and it provides 16 sweeping cycles annually. along with special rates for emergency and, and events, and

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I stand in for questions. Thank you, Mr. Warrenfield. Are there members of the public who wish to comment. Council members' questions, Council member Fernandez. So when we discussed buying a street sweeper. Uh,

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one of the concerns was that the frequency and the thoroughness of hiring someone to do it that we could do, uh, that having our own equipment would solve some of that issue

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of of having uh so. uh you've said financially that it makes more sense to have the contract, but does it meet our needs for uh the, the frequency and the

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locations and and special events and things that we might need somebody on a short notice or uh can you explain like. even though this because to me there's a difference. There's two considerations. One is financial, which is important,

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but one is also, um, meeting the level of service that we're looking at. So with this agreement, the way it is, the way it's a little bit flexible. It allows for us in emergency issues to request services a little faster than just the way

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we have it currently. Currently, our agreement has been extended from a previous agreement We, we don't have the extra two cycles for the leaves in the spring and the fall, which I've added into that, so that's how we get our 16 cycles, um we, we

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are working on the mapping, uh, the GIS tech is updating our mapping. Uh, we've had conversation back and forth pending this approval of how this looks and how the cycles are done, um, for better serviceability in the city. The, the challenge with having our own machine is, as I said, the

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additional staff person, um, when, when the contractor comes in, they bring a few machines and they're running simultaneously throughout the city. If we have our own machine, that means we're going to be dedicated primarily 4 or 5 days a week, trying to keep up with the tracks that, that the contractor can do in a few

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days a month. So, um, overall, it, it's been determined that this is a much better route, um, not only financially but you think about staff and the equipment downtime running in the sweeper is a, is a hard job. Short life cycle, 5 to 7 years on those vehicles is probably

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about average on them. We won't endure any of that pain, um, so we'll let the contractors do that and um, you know, wreak the savings of, of having a contracted service. Thank you. If I could just add to that. Yes, Mr. B, thank you. So if you recall last year at the budget too, we were, we just

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didn't know how much the new contracts were going to be. That was part of the the unknown factor, and we were concerned that these contracts could be upwards of nearly $200,000 a year. And so once we got to a point now we're looking in the 90,000

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$9,092,000 range that makes the math dramatically different, and I think that's also part of the the bigger, a big chunk of this consideration. Other questions for Mr. Warren Fills? If there are no further questions, is there a motion? Motion to approve. The, uh,

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excuse me, the street sweeping services with ASA Services of Florida, the, uh, Sourcewell contract number 1111125. Second, motion the 2nd is the discussion of the motion? if not all those in favor say aye,

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I opposed no nays resolutions adopted. Thank you, Mr. Warren Fields. Next item is a public hearing and first public reading of an ordinance amending Section 1-103. concerning definitions,

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sections 1-104 concerning enforcement procedures and 1-105 schedule of violations and penalties. I'll open the public hearing, then ask our code compliance director, Mr. Jack Shanks to explain. Good evening. Good evening Good

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evening, Mayor and council members. Jack Shanks, co-compliance. The item for you tonight is a proposed amendment to Chapter 1 of the City code that would update verbiage and applicable code sections to the table of Class 2 violations and establish a new class 4 violation category within our

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existing civil citation framework. This was previously presented for first reading where we received great feedback and takeaways. Specifically, there was conversation about creating additional time requirements for the correction of certain violations. This evening's presentation takes that feedback into consideration and

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incorporates it into the proposed ordinance. due to the changes that needed to be made and the need to update the ordinance titled this proposed ordinance required coming back to first reading. I want to begin by emphasizing one key point that this amendment is not intended to generate revenue. The purpose of this update is to improve citywide

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adherence to codes that already exist and are already enforceable today. What this amendment does is allow certain repeatable violations to be addressed more effectively and more immediately through civil citation rather than relying solely on longer notice-driven enforcement processes. The

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first change we've made is to, is to provide the definition of of itinerant or transient in nature in Section 1-103, which reads Temporary mobile or impermanent infractions or activities that can move locations exist for a short duration or are capable of

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being remedied and then repeated on the same day. The phrase was included in the original ordinance presentation, but we determined its meaning should be defined as well. The phrase is inserted in the section 1-104 subsection D.

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This allows for the inclusion of violations that can be complied with and then recur quickly. It includes violations such as yard parking or commercial vehicles in residential areas, as well as certain violations relating to the short term rental program where the renters change frequently. Based on the

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feedback received at the previous reading, we have incorporated the addition of subsection L into Section 1-104. This new subsection introduces an escalation procedure for certain code sections identified in Section 1-105's schedule of violations. To best

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explain the existing and new procedures, I'm going to run through the standard escalation process first. In keeping with our already established enforcement process. Any courtesy notice or citation will be directed to the property owner against that

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property. An initial violation with few exceptions will result in a courtesy notice with a reasonable correction period, as well as an attempt at direct contact from the co-compliance team to determine if assistance is needed. If noncompliance is exhibited or at the violation results in initial compliance

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followed by a pattern of noncompliance, escalation to citation will then commence. Following the issuance of a courtesy notice and a correction period. A first citation will be issued, which is designed to serve as a meaningful prompt for compliance while still allowing the responsible party an

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opportunity to correct the issue. The higher fine for repeat offenses reflects the fact that continued noncompliance occurs after notice and enforcement action has already taken place. This approach aligns with the city's graduated enforcement philosophy by distinguishing between initial violations and

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repeated disregard of the code and by encouraging long-term compliance rather than repeated corrective cycles. If compliance is achieved, no further fines are imposed Now we'll review the supplemental escalation process. We have re-envisioned the standard

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escalation process to allow additional time for certain violations, as I alluded to earlier. This provides more opportunity for initial correction while still allowing for more effective long-term results. As in both the standard escalation and current enforcement board processes, a courtesy notice will be provided to a property owner,

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noting the violation, it will be accompanied by an appropriate correction period. Whereas in the standard process, a citation would then be issued in the supplemental process uh, an initial notice of violation will be issued that would also have an appropriate correction period. If still not corrected

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final notice of violation within the company correction period would be issue. Following continued noncompliance, we would have exhausted low-level methods of achieving compliance and a citation would then be issued. To reiterate, the overall intention is to avoid reaching the citation level, thereby

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achieving voluntary compliance at the lowest level possible. As you've seen in an upcoming slide, the overwhelming majority of our residents do comply voluntarily. Our co-compliance officers are authorized to issue citations only for those violations specifically listed in the

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schedule of violations of penalties. The violations proposed for inclusion under Class 2 and the new Class 4, as you see here, are all existing code provisions. Nothing new is being prohibited. The challenge we encounter with these types of violations is that most are easily repeatable and under our

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current enforcement structure there is little immediate incentive for sustained compliance. This becomes an irritant for neighbors and businesses who abide by the city's code, yet witness the drawn out compliance process for violators which in the case of the code sessions uh code sections proposed this evening should have achieved compliance

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immediately. You'll note that several code sections have asterisks. These are the codes that will receive supplemental uh enforcement escalation that includes the courtesy notice, notice of violation and final notice of violation. In practice, we often see the same, the same violation types recur

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after temporary correction, which creates ongoing neighborhood impacts and increased staff time without achieving long term resolution. This ordinance update is intended to change that dynamic. By allowing civil citations for these specific violations, the city can encourage quicker and more consistent compliance,

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reduce repeat violations, and ultimately reduce the need for prolonged enforcement cases. The goal is behavioral correction, not punishment, and the intent is not to issue citations indiscriminately, but to provide officers with an additional tool when voluntary compliance is proven ineffective or when immediate

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correction is necessary. Counsel had asked for a breakdown of all the municipal code Enforcement board cases last year. What you see here includes only the violation types that were presented to the MCEB over 13 months. There are many other types of violations with cases created in the same time frame, but

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these are the ones that actually required MCB attention. As an example please look at the very first violation type on the chart, grass, weeds, underbrush. You can see that over that span there were 661 total cases. Out of those cases, 653 complied either the

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courtesy notice or notice of violation step. 8 out of those 661 cases received the notice of hearing and were subsequently presented to the board. For the ease of viewing. I've placed the violation types we've introduced in this

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ordinance for citation at the top. Those with the asterisks are the ones with the supplemental escalation process requirement. If these code sections had received citations, a total of 52 cases would have been removed from the MCUB. It's also very likely that with the knowledge of facing a citation, a good number of

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these would have complied voluntarily instead of requiring a citation being issued, which is actually the goal. Removing those cases, there still would have been 77 cases for the board to have heard. So over the 13 months, that would have been approximately 6 cases per month

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being presented. In summary, this ordinance strengthens our ability to enforce the codes already on the books, improves compliance outcomes, and supports neighborhood stability without expanding regulation or creating new prohibitions. Uh, staff recommends approval, and I'm happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Director

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Shanks. Are there members of the public who wish to comment on this. Sign on Council member questions? Oh. yeah, no yep, get my attention. Council member, question. We'll start on this side this time. Councilman Mercrevitz Hi, um,

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thank you very much for the overview. That was great. really interesting to see all that and um also good presentation. So, um, my question is about the um water use restrictions and why they were class 4 rather than 2, it

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just seems to me $250 escalated to $500 seems pretty steep. What was your thought process there and how come you opted for the more uh heavy penalty. So the, the reason we, we looked at that, and I actually spoke to a couple of my

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counterparts around the area, uh, for that specific reason, um we, we put that in that area specifically because of the water restriction violations we're seeing now. Um the phase 3 water restrictions are, are very significant, and they're

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very meaningful. Typically we don't have a lot of water violations in the, in the off offseason when we, we don't have a drought. um not many at all, to be honest with you, uh, in this case we want to go out and address these immediately. Now they're going to receive a

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notice of, um, uh, a courtesy notice first. We rarely see repeat violations with, with water restrictions. So when they received the warning, the the the courtesy notice is going to list what the citation values are, or the the fines will be, uh, that will be

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enough to deter somebody from, from moving forward. The, the, the water is, is very valuable resources, I'm sure you, you know, and, uh, we also have to do our part. That's why we put them as class 4 and not class 2. OK, interesting. I appreciate you going on the record with courtesy notice. However, if

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there's no asterisk next to that violation, doesn't that mean that there will not in fact be the staged process. There will still be a courtesy notice. We're, we'll do that for everything, um, with, with very few exceptions, so it would still receive a courtesy notice first. So let, let's say you're watering your, your grass at, at 9 a.m. during, you

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know, this, this time period, we will come to you and say, hey, this is a violation. Here's your correct times. This is your, your courtesy notice. This is what will happen if we see this. uh, uh, again, um, and that will be enough for somebody to go on there and and turn their water to the correct. uh, time frame. So no, it's not

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gonna be an immediate gotcha OK I get it. So, um, when you say they're gonna get a courtesy notice what I'm hearing is it's not going to be written that way in the code, but it is gonna be a policy of yours that you're going to do it that way. Yes, we, I have a policy

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drafted um after, after, uh, we get through the, the first sick of reading, um, any tweaks will be made and we'll put that in place. So yes, just like right now, uh, we have, we have water restrictions, uh, in place in in our code that would go in front of the the MCEB. It's the same thing. We would still

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issue them except for right now because Swiftmud's driving this bus, but we would issue them a, uh, a courtesy notice and let them know that that's not going to change. OK, thank you for elaborating all of that. Yes, sir. Questions Questions I don't have any questions,

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Director, thank you. OK, if there are no questions, I will close the public hearing and ask the clerk to read the title of the ordinance. An ordinance of the city council of Temple

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Terrace, Florida, amending the city of Temple Terrace Code of ordinances. Chapter 1. General Provisions Article 2 Code Enforcement, Division 3, Supplemental Enforcement procedures by amending Section

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1-103 by amending Section 1-104D by creating section 1-104 I by amending Section 1-105B and by creating section

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1-105D providing for severability, providing for conflicts, providing for inclusion in the Temple Terrace Code of ordinances providing an effective date. Thank you Madam Clerk. Counsel, is there a motion? First, it's actually L, not I. Thank you. OK, good,

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thank you. Um, you're gonna read I can't or you can. I got it. OK, uh, moved to approve, uh, first reading of an ordinance amending section 1-103 definitions Section 1-104

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enforcement procedures and one-105 Schedule of violations and penalties. and a question, do I need to put in the 2nd reading date? Yes. and that I'm sorry, what is August 4th second reading on August 4th.

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Motion 2. Discussion of the motion. If not all those in favor say aye, I opposed no nas a public uh ordinances adopted on first reading, will appear for second reading and public hearing on Tuesday, August 4th,

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2026. Next item is a public hearing and first reading of an ordinance creating code chapter 20, Article 4 school speed zone enforcement program. I'll open the public hearing. Our deputy city attorney Nicole Donnell

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and Captain Molay are here to present. Good evening. Good evening Good evening, Mayor. City council. Tonight I am bringing before you a proposed ordinance for the use and

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implementation of speed detection systems within the school zones here in Temple Terrace. As you can see before you, the title of this ordinance is the School Speed Zone Enforcement Program and speed detection systems. Florida statute 316.1895

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authorizes local governments to use and implement speed detection systems within school zones, and it also allows uh local governments to issue notices of violation if someone violates those uh speed limits within posted areas. This is

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also going to be implemented during specific days that schools are in session during specific hours and specific times. If there is an appeal to a notice of violation, a local hearing officer will be needed, and the the statute authorizes that local hearing officer to

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preside over hearings as well. Chapter 316 of the Florida statutes does require a traffic study to be conducted, and it also requires that traffic data to be considered before a system can be implemented in school zones within a designated area. In our case, a traffic study was conducted in

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February of this year, that traffic study did show that there are 5 school zones within Temple Terrace. that have a heightened safety risk. Those school zones include Greco Middle School, Woodmont Charter School, Temple Terrace Elementary School, Lewis Elementary School and River Hills Elementary Magnet School.

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Based on that traffic study, the Temple Terrace Police Department had determined that it is in the city's best interests to implement these speed detection systems within those 5 school zones that I previously mentioned. This ordinance before you tonight is modeled after surrounding

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governments, uh, to include the city of Tampa as well as Hillsboro County. If this ordinance is put into our city's code, the police department will be able to enforce speed limits within those designated speed zones. I'm going to stay up here for any questions that you may have, but Captain Molave of the

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Temple Terrace Police Department will provide you more details and information on the implementation of the systems themselves. Thank you. Good evening, mayor, city council members, and executives. We are proposing the implementation of a school zone speed system to improve safety

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and accountability within active school zones. The system utilizes automated speed detection and photo enforcement technology to identify vehicles exceeding the posted school zone speed limit during active school zone enforcement times. These enforcement times consist of the specific active school

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zone periods prior to the start of the school day and during the active school zone period surrounding dismissal of school. Violations would be reviewed and validated by our law enforcement personnel to verify a violation occurred before any citation is issued and mailed to the registered owner of the

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vehicle. Additionally information obtained through the use of the school's own speed system is not shared with other organizations and maintained on a secure server system for a specified amount of time depending on assigned status. To ensure a smooth and effective rollout, the program

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will be implemented through a phased approach over a six month period. Phase one would see implementation of Greco Middle School and Lewis Elementary. Beginning with these two locations would allow us to evaluate the system's performance address any

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operational or community concerns and refined processes before expanding enforcement citywide. Following successful implementation, the remaining school zone would be activated. Remaining school zones would be activated in subsequent phases until all 5 locations are

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operational. Phase two would see Woodmont Charter School and Temple Terrace Elementary and phase 3 River Hills Elementary Magnet School. The school zone speed system is designated to improve driver compliance, reduce speeding in school zones and improve the safety of children and families traveling

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to and from school. The proposed phased implementation provides a measured and responsible approach to deployment while allowing the city to evaluate effectiveness and address any concerns before full activation across all school zones. With that, I stand for questions. Thank you,

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Captain. Are the members of the public exit? I have one request to address the public at this time from Katie Nash Good evening, Miss Nash Thank you. Good evening. Uh, mayor, city

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council members, city manager, and the entire city team, um, proud to introduce myself. My name is Katie Nash, and I represent a company called Genoptic. We are a Florida-based manufacturer, and we have 250 employees. Um, I did write comments because I am an obscene early riser, and so

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it's evening meetings for me, I start to ramble on, so I'm gonna try to keep this very succinct, but I am here tonight to respectfully ask for the opportunity to compete and earn your business We do want to demonstrate our product to the city, um, and while we are very proud of our technology and we

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do very much encourage a side by side technology demonstration of the systems that you're vetting. Um, I'd like to also just take a moment to reframe and sort of give you some other ideas about how to think about this tool. First, I do want to compliment you though in moving forward. This is a tool that will change

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driver behavior, um, so no matter what happens, I, I just want to compliment you on considering that. So the camera is a tool, but I ask you to think about this in terms of safety as a service. Safety that you're delivering as a service to your community. And so how do we consider this

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program with that lens. First off, we need to think about data integrity and the integration with your police department and how that technology integrates so be thinking about how your vendor goes above and beyond to really restore public trust and data integrity. That's a hot topic right now and something that

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we're all being asked to do. So think about third party audits and extra compliance measures. Another something to think about is customized reporting. How is the reporting in the dashboard going to bring that data back to the community and demonstrate that changed behavior. So your partner should always be thinking about

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what's next, how are we, how are we really, really benefiting the community and how are we demonstrating effectiveness? And that kind of goes along with community education. How is your partner a true and authentic voice and really coming and speaking before the community and how these tools are making a

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difference. Be thinking also about customer service. And you started your meeting honoring great customer service. We are so proud to have internal employees as our customer service agents. We're proud we keep about a minute. That's our, that's our measure, a minute, um, to try to keep the, when

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someone calls and has a complaint, and I know there's, whenever you're rolling out a new program, you're gonna have people calling that's gonna be something you're gonna want to think about is who are they getting on the other line? And then just finally I really want to compliment you and the city of all I've heard tonight is a

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strong support of your professional staff, and that isn't always the norm. I do, I do this a lot and it is really a breath of fresh air and so I wanted to really compliment you and I've been hearing that with every one of these meetings, uh, one of these agenda items and just, uh, it really shows and it makes a strong city. So

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thank you very much. Thank you, Ms. Nash Mr. Loeb just got one question. Is this meant to be enforcement just on the main street or over on the side streets, for example, what I

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mean, let's take Woodmont for uh an example would be meant to be for some 56th Street, it would have been meant to enforce on Tarina or ball on both. Are there other members of the public who wish to

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comment on this item? OK. one of you like to respond to the question before we forget it? Oh. So, the, uh, the school zones would be set up on side streets, so none of the major streets thoroughfares through Temple Terrace would be monitored, so no Fowler, no

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56th Street. It'd be Serena Drive, Gillette Avenue, uh, streets of that nature. Council member questions Council member Fernandez, um, so you mentioned something about the, the data

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of being held for a particular amount of time. What is the structure around the pictures and how long that data would be maintained. So we would be operating the camera system specifically on flashing light times, so early in the morning

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time period, 30 minutes and, uh, before, uh, breakfast time for the kids after, uh, same thing for school at the, at the beginning of school. Uh, additionally, we would be operating 30 minutes before and after dismissal time period. During those periods of time the cameras are running and recording, but there's two

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varieties of, of how it's obtaining data. One would be a passive where it is recording information during the active hours, uh, and then triggering events such as this is specifically designed for, uh, speeding. So if a triggering event, a speeding event is it

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occurs, the camera system focuses on the infraction and is in, in providing information of that vehicle. Otherwise, it's just generally recording, um, but that information is only held general, not triggering events is only held for 30 days, whereas a

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violation is held as for evidentiary value, but also gets destroyed 90 days after disposition. OK So in other jurisdictions that have uh put

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put these cameras in, uh, if we're trying to change driver behavior. The revenue or the infraction fees are going to decline over time. So what happens when you, when what's

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the end result? We wanna change driver behavior to be safe during school zone, um. the flashing light times. but then what happens when we actually achieve that goal? What's our end goal? Do we see that we would take the cameras down at

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that point? Would they, they're already there, would they then someone would want to switch them to some other type of enforcement. What, what's the plan? So if in, in a perfect world, if we were able to get traffic violations down to zero, and we were consistently seeing that, uh, yes, the option could

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be to remove the camera system because at that point we would see that it's no longer needed. Uh, the, the main focus and point of this, of this system is specifically designed to ensure that during those times during the beginning of school and after school, which are time periods where you have a large group of individuals

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walking around parents crossing guards that we're making sure that we're doing everything we can to provide a safer environment for those individuals. Um, it doesn't, it it wouldn't be costing anything more, uh, as far as we, we wouldn't be paying in any, the, the, the, the vendors for this if we didn't have any

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violations, Essentially if we were able to get to the point where it was 0 it would just it would be a point where we could discuss removing it or going to a different, uh. segment of, of, of addressing the issue. Thank you. Vice Mayor, thank you. Uh,

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you mentioned, uh, the cameras will be synced with the flashing lights that are out there now. Who controls the times on the flashing lights? So the current flashing lights, so I will tell you I've looked into it a few times and everyone has denied ownership of it, um, specifically the one

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at Greco's location. Um, I've asked a couple times and I, and I'm not quite sure who owns that specific, uh, light. Um, I do know that all DOT and, and, and, uh, school zones are established by the DOT. So any modifications that we would want to make to a school zone or any adjustments would go

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through the DOT. Um, I'm just not sure specifically who controls that box, but it is within the an actual school zone. OK, so I guess, uh, a follow up so. the schools all operate on different somewhat to set times, but there are

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different times too Mondays are early release and the times change, Holidays, who would, how would that take an effect so fewer should be speeding anyway, period. But if you do it on a when the school's not in session, but the camera thinks it is, would that ever happen? So the onus would be on us. So we would, we would want

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to make sure that the uh as our officers are reviewing these violations, we're, we're keeping in touch with the school, uh, the school's district as well as ensuring that, you know, if we're provided a calendar, we, we would make sure that before we assign a citation for a violation that that individual

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did commit that offense during a time where children were present in the school zone was active. OK. Thank you Uh, council members, yes, thank you. Um, good presentation. Thank you both of you for, for all the information. Violet question, my big question was, what criteria was used to

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establish these school zones. So probably before my time, but again, the, the Department of DOT is the one who established all these school zones, um I'm not sure what they used to establish the school zones. Well, I mean, why only those 5. Well, those are the 5 schools

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that are public schools or charter schools within our school district that have always been assigned a school zones, so it has to be because I mean there's, I can think of three other schools that have proximity to side streets and back streets that, you know,

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Corpus Christi and Focus Academy, I mean, it's right on the street. uh uh FCA, uh, uh, my granddaughter goes there and it's, it's like Speed Demon going down or speed racer going down there. So I'm just curious as to why they would not have been included, so it would be a

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matter of contacting the DOT and reaching out to them, having a conversation about establishing new school zones, um. but that's how we would approach it. OK, so we say new school zone, I mean, we have the top your side where you get the, the flashing yellow lights for school zones or something

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more a different delineation that has to be made. I, I, I was just curious. That's zone, but it's a county road. our ordinance. I understand. I realize that. OK, but Druid Hills, so OK, so it's, what about Corpus Christi on, on, on,

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uh, Bridgedale. So in order to include Corpus Christi on Ridgedale, there would need to be an extension of the school zone. Currently, it, it's, it's a bit out of their area. OK. All right. OK, thank you. Otherwise it's, I'm, I'm, I'm, it's a good deal. I think it's great. Thank you. Councilman

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McCrevitz, thank you. Yeah, great project. Everyone cares about speeding, really big issue, um, about the cameras themselves, they're gonna be fixed or mobile. They're going to be fixed. OK, so there's a permanent installation and when it comes to the bidding process, uh, this is gonna be rigorously competitive. You're gonna open it up to everyone and all

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comers. for the system looking at doing is we're we're, we're looking specifically at one company, um, however, for a piggyback agreement, um, the reason we were considering this was because the agreement that the, that city was able to obtain, uh, allows for that

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city not to pay for certified mail being distributed to the violators, whereas other cities were having to pay for their own certified mail to be sent to everyone. So it, it, it was kind of a nice deal to, to, to, to be able to piggyback and get that benefit of not having to pay for certified mails for

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every single violator. which could add up pretty quickly OK, um, apart from that, is there any reason to think it's such a good deal I'm sorry, uh, apart from that, is there any reason to think that that one deal is the the best deal, if I, if I may, Mr. B, so we're not, correct me if I'm wrong, but

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we're not paying for this service. So there's no cost to the city for the service. The certified mail would have been a cost and as Captain Molove just said, based on the, on the piggyback approach of this particular company that we're looking at, that cost is covered as well. So this is the way the statute's written and it provides for this, this,

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this is going back now 2 or 3 years, but that is the way the statute was written, and there's basically an incentive in the private sector to provide these services. The private companies make money because they, they get a piece of every violation in financial piece of every single violation that goes out, and that's how they make money. There's no

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cost to the city, however. Uh-huh, OK. And is that true for all of the people who are in this space that they're all going to finance themselves from the revenue that's generated from the violations. My understanding is, yes, that's the the basic business model. Now there might be some changes here and there like he,

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like the, the captain mentioned with certified mail with the small details, but I believe the business model is roughly the same for all these companies. OK. Is there a reason why we couldn't open it up to a more competitive process. Is there, are we gonna lose the opportunity with the piggyback if we do that, or what is the, what is the

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mechanics of that. Uh, great question, Councilman Kravitz. So for our um our city's purchasing manual in our own internal policies, our bidding or competitive process doesn't start until the contract hits $50,000 and then from there we move into the competitive

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bidding. If we don't want to put out competitive bidding and you, I think we mentioned the piggyback, then that's an alternative option, but uh as the city manager mentioned, because this is essentially a zero cost. We don't even get to the $50,000 competing competitive competitive bidding threshold. OK, I get it. So I'm

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sure we're getting at least $50,000 of value, but because we're not spending $50,000 it falls under the exemption. So there doesn't have to be any bidding process at all. Correct. So we could just open it up however we see fit without adhering to any sort of competitive bidding process, and we could still let people come in and make their offers,

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right? Yes, that's accurate, and myself and the finance team, we are actually looking into what is the best approach, if there isn't no cost to this contract. OK. Well, I, I personally would like to see more than just one vendor. offer its services for this, and I'd also be interested, um,

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is there a process right now being used by staff to scope the performance that we're looking for? Is there some sort of like a, uh, a schedule of, uh, services that we're looking to obtain or anything like that, something more formal or we we just purely going back to the

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piggyback again. At this point it was the the referring back to the piggyback. OK, so the benefit of of cost. I would love to see that circulated so that we could just look at it because if we're going to put speed cameras up everywhere. I think everyone here has expressed um specific things

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that they're interested in making sure are delivered. So if we could just see what the deliverables are in that scope of performance that we're examining right now then that would be helpful because then we could discuss it, we could see whether that meets

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everyone's brief or whether we want to go out and open it up to more vendors potentially. That would personally, I think that would be great. Anyone, anyone not feel that way? I mean. happy to yield the floor I have, I have a few questions,

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um, for really for a variety of people here. So will this contract once the vendor's been once all that's been worked out in the in the contract, will that come back before the

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council for approval? Yes. OK Um, so since you're up, I'll start with you, Ms. Dunnell. So can you, um, first of all, the hearing officer, we will not be piggybacking on the sheriff's office. Hearing officer we'll

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be doing our own Yes. OK. As a plan. Um, we are, depending on how this discussion goes tonight we'll kind of start to draft that out a little more, but we will come back before you with the resolution for local hearing officer implementation. OK, and so that

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hearing officer would hold hearing cases here, much like the parking enforcement magistrate in the Code Enforcement board, there would be here. So if you got a citation for this, you would come and you wanted to appeal it, you could come here and here and have your case heard.

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OK, that's, that's, so basically what's the due process for somebody who gets a citation on with the camera, but they're not driving the vehicle or they claim they're not driving the vehicle, so how does that work because it's.

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first of all it could be true. Second of all, it could not be true, and all you got to do is say, oh, it wasn't me, you know, my nephew was driving it, so how do we sort through that? So the, I'll, I'll let Captain jump in on this too, this, the statutory language does say that the um moving violation is

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assessed to the registered owner of the vehicle, based on the tag, um, but I'll let Captain add some more Captain. That said, however, those individuals can complete an affidavit. Basically within that affidavit that's completed, they're going to say, hey, look, I wasn't driving that vehicle during that time period.

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However, this is the information of that individual driving the vehicle. Um, and they would have 30 days to, to do that, um. that does that answer kind of does but begs the next question. OK, so I tell you my nephew was driving my car and I have to give you a

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a notarized or sworn statement to that effect. My nephew's name is John Jones or whatever. but John Jones is, first of all, does he then get a citation or does that just a violation similar to he does so it doesn't stop at that. correct, yeah, it would, it would be reassigned to the individual

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that was for the uh of the information provided. OK, so he gets the citation now. He, he would get decided it. So he says, oh no, it wasn't me. He's just trying to get off because he doesn't like me so he's just making it up. I wasn't driving

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his car that then comes to the hearing officer to sort that out? The way it, it, it's written, I don't know, the way it's written is those individuals would have to provide some type of, uh, proof as to to to to help assist with much like other video tools and

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other, OK, or if the person were say so if a driver had committed this violation and I got you. I got you. So let's move on from that. You did say this, so I don't want to belabor it, but I just want to make sure I heard it correctly.

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This would only be active during school times, not just the school zones, but the times, specifically only during school, flashing light time, so early in that morning time period and then during dismissal time because I do know early on some locals with, I don't even think

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the local governments knew it, but the vendors were leaving the cameras on and issuing citations all throughout the day. Might not be going over, it's not a school zone. The speed limit is not 15, but it's 25, and they're going 40, so boom, give them a ticket anyway. We're not gonna do that. And and even from that standpoint,

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those violations would be seen by our officers, and if we're seeing that citations are or violations are being scanned at different times that we haven't set up. It would be easy to just decide. I know that you're not at the point of a contract yet, so this is premature. but I would, when that contract comes back, the reason I asked about that, I would want some

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assurance in that contract that that's. because I don't want a vendor going rogue on us and start sending people tickets OK Second question concerns data. and that is, I've already been asked by council member Fernandez, but a little follow

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up on that. So I know on the cases the target viola where the violations are issued. Now you've got some evidentiary state laws and stuff we have to retain those photographs. I understand that. but the 100 or several 100 cars that drive through that school zone that

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are not speeding, you said would be retained 30 days. I'm assuming you're getting that from conversations with the vendor, with vendors, correct? OK, couple questions about that. One is why retain it for 30 days. What's the reason for that those camera systems

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during those time periods of the active school zone, um, was, well, if, if there was, uh, some another event that occurred during those time periods that was not a triggering event such as specifically uh someone speeding through the school zone, perhaps, you know, unfortunately, maybe somebody was going to the correct speed

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limit, but they bumped into someone. Uh, you could then review that and, and, and use it for that situation and, and review what occurred during that time. period. However, being that it wasn't a triggering event, it would be removed after 30 days, and we're the only ones who have

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access to it. OK, I would also want to see the retention period spelled out in a contract too. and the final thing on the data retention which for me is the big question in this whole thing, it's not the, it's not the speeding in the school kids' safety. That part we all get.

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It's the data. um I would want some reassurance from whatever vendor you go with that what they do with the data do they sell it? Do they share it with another do they share it with Flock? Do they share, I mean, there's a number of companies out there that are doing public

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surveillance and their trading the data. um and I wanna know exactly what we're getting into with the data um and I would want to know how long they're retaining the data, what they're doing with it, are they agreeing not to sell it, not to

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share it. right? this is data that I mean I don't I'm I'm trying to look for villains here, but I'm not interested in getting in the business of public surveillance. I know a lot of people are doing that, and I, I don't. school's own safety is one thing. getting

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into selling personal data and stuff and spying on the public. I'm not interested in that. I'm know about everybody else, but so really that comes down to contract language, but I'm trying to give you a heads up so don't come for one vote, don't come back with a contract that doesn't address the data

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stuff and the We'll make sure that that's in there. I will just say so everyone knowslord is statute 316.1896, subsection 15A expressly states that speed detection systems are not allowed to be used for remote surveillance. So we'll make sure that language is in there,

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but just so you know by Florida statute, it is illegal. I think I've beaten a horse to death. OK, 2nd round of questions. Oh, Councilman Kravitz, thank you. A question to the Deputy city attorney and, and, uh, to begin with, uh, amazing citation of

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the statutes there. You're the first American lawyer I've ever run into who can actually remember statute numbers. So I was trained in Europe. Fantastic, absolutely magnificent. Um, regarding the uh installation costs, since it's a fixed installation, I know that the vendors have a

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good idea of what the cost is going to be. That means that they could do a cost plus model. So I'm wondering whether there is a hard or soft cap on vendor revenue from this. Um, so I don't know if Captain Molabi mentioned this. I'm sure you did. Um, there is a range of

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how much revenue would come to the city and then how much goes to the company. So it's either $39 or 65% of whatever the ticket violation is. Some of the contracts that I've previously seen, they actually have language that says this is not a cost plus contract, this

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is not a lump sum contract. This is just a um a revenue sharing contract. So whatever comes in. the city takes their portion and then the company has their portion and that's how they are generating their own revenue. Yeah, I'd just be really interested if there is a vendor out there who would

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remove their own incentive to give people citations after a certain point, right? So like, let's say it cost him $100 to put the camera in when they hit $105 then all of a sudden. the revenue cuts off, right? So then they have no more incentive going forward to keep issuing it, going back to what was mentioned earlier, that

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there was a, a situation here where one of the vendors was in fact um issuing more citations than they should have just in order to drive revenue. That would be a great mechanism to stop that because after a point there's no incentive anymore, so I'd be curious if if there is a vendor out there, and we

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should check into that. That would be willing to cap their own revenue and then the citation is going beyond that point, we would get the revenue and it wouldn't be an incentive for anyone to issue a ticket. That's all. That's my question. Thank you Question and longer somewhat those lines, what would be an answer to the uh

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this is just a money grab on the city's part. So I, I think there, there's a couple of pieces to this, uh, Florida State statute does allow for us to monitor all day long during the school period. Um, however we're I, I don't know, I can't

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think of another city that is chosen to say, hey, look, we're going to monitor specifically during flashing light time, morning time, and at the end of the day. This is, this is a system that could be used all day long to essentially capture more money, but it's not being

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used that way. It's specifically used for those times where we know we have increased traffic by children and parents and crossing guards, uh, just to ensure that we're trying to prevent folks from speeding through those zones. Thank you. I hope our um and

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all our publicity states that very well. Captain, are they gonna be again another contract question premature, I know, but what is there should be a schedule of surveys that are conducted. by them on an

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ongoing every school year they do a survey, maybe twice a school year for the first couple of years and then maybe once a year at some point after that, but we need to be able to capture the effectiveness of this. to say it's not a money grab, right? um speeds or down

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85% or they're down 60% or. we reach a point I don't think it's ever realistic. We're gonna get to 0. I, I, I, the I, I've never seen that, but, um, you know, if we slay the dragon or something, but um we do need

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an ongoing measure of effectiveness. So that that should also be in the it probably is, I, I would imagine, but it needs to be. Other questions? Council member Fernandez. I, I meant to ask

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this earlier, but with the discussion of the specific time that these cameras would be active? Would that be actually written into the resolution or would that be a policy, and the reason I'm asking is if it's if

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it's written in what counsel is agreeing to, then it can't be changed without council action versus if it were a policy that that could be something that could be changed over time. so I what, what would the plan be?

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Um, if there's a preference to have specific language, uh, in the audience, we can definitely adjust for that. Um, right now I, I, there, there is no time in the ordinance specific times, um, and that may be because the schools have different times uh

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coming in, going out, it also accommodates for breakfast time as well as when school's ending. So if we have our charter school versus our elementary versus our magnet school, those times may be different. So to put the times in might be a little tedious, um, but if we keep it vague, then we can cover everything, but of course we have our fine officers who

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are going to confirm that those violations are given during the specified time when that is active. So I'm not, I'm not asking for you to say from 8:05 to 8:32, uh, in this time, the cameras would be active. What I'm I'm asking for the general

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time of when the flashing light time period would be for the specific school zones, however, what I'm asking is, would that type of language be in the ordinance as in these cameras would only be active during

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school specific school zone uh, flashing light time in the morning and the afternoon versus that being a policy created by the department. ordinance that's in front of us, it says that. Well, that's what I, no, that's what I'm just

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saying to get this on the record to confirm that that's what I wanted us that's what I want to make sure we hear. Thank you for clarifying. Yes, and thank you, Mayor. Yes. Other questions If there are no

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further questions, I will close the public hearing and ask the clerk to read the title of the ordinance. An ordinance of the city council of Temple Terrace, Florida, creating the city of Temple Terrace Code of ordinances, Chapter 20, Article

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4 titled School Speed Zone Enforcement Program, and Speed detection systems providing for use of speed detection systems in accordance with the state law, providing for definitions. providing for use of local hearing officer, providing for

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the designation of school speed detections providing for severability, providing for conflicts with state law, providing for codification, directing that the ordinance be filed with the Department of State, providing for correction of scribner's error, providing

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for conflicts, providing an effective date. Thank you, Madam Clerk. Prior to a motion, council. I'd like you to consider holding a second hearing on August 4th instead of July 21st, if that's your pleasure. July 21st, we will

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barely have a quorum as long as nobody gets sick, so there will be a very skeleton crew up here on July 21st, and I think with something like this would be important to have the whole you know, we often see how things can change between 1st reading and second reading, something

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comes up, so that's only 2 weeks later or even less than that, so. uh if that pleases everybody, uh, I would recommend that we have the 2nd reading on August 4th, which would change its language of the motion, so. is there a motion, Council member Kravitz.

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Oh, I'd like to make a motion to approve this agenda item 12D, an ordinance of the city council, Temple Terrace, creating the city of Temple Terrace Code of ordinances. um Chapter 20, Article 4 titled Scoot's Cool Speed Enforcement Program and Speed Detection

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Systems with the two following provisos, the first being that, um. the that other vendors be explored going beyond just the piggyback. and also that um we receive a report on the scope.

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of, um, what's being pursued so that we can see exactly what we're, what we're getting into in terms of what the vendor is going to supply and and what that will provide. So that's

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the motion We have a motion No one wants going twice OK, motion does not get a second There's another motion but to

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prove our first reading ordinance creating um code chapter I'm sorry, code chapter 20, Article 4 school speed zone enforcement program with the second reading of the ordinance scheduled for August 4th. meeting There's a motion 2

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motion 2. Dis discussion of the motion. Councilmember Fernandez I'm, I'm not going to support the camera. I, I have. every um I want to see people slow down,

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and I, I, I completely support having uh speed detection, but I prefer it to be live. I just have a, a real issue with the remote speed enforcement, and I had the same issue with the red light cameras, um, I had the

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same issue with the bus cameras. It, it's just not a program or a, an enforcement model that I can support. Other discussions Sure, I'm sorry, I saw councilmember Kravitz first. Go ahead, defer to the vice mayor.

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Council member Travis, you are recognized. OK, so I think this is a weak motion because we're not getting all the other vendors into play, and I think that we've had many examples where we have not gone to multiple vendors, and the

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result has been suboptimal for the city, and this has been a repeating problem over the years even from before I was elected, and so we are once again um only giving completely

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informal instruction on this, uh, it's completely possible that we will end up with a piggyback contract out of convenience. and that will not be tailored to any of the concerns that the people on this days raised. So it's a

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weak motion because it's you. collectively members of the city council, are not advocating for the things that you yourselves just said you wanted. So I hope that the piggyback comes back with everything that we need and that it's customized to our

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requirements. but I have my doubts, and I hope that when we do see what has come back to us, that we will have an opportunity to look at it and evaluate it and as necessary make some changes. But of course with a piggyback what you see is what you get. There is no further negotiation. That

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is what makes it a piggyback So that is why I will be very, very reluctantly voting yes on this because speed enforcement is a very huge issue for the people in Temple Terrace. This is not the way to do it

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Schisler in comments. I, I, I did. No, vice mayor, I'm sorry, I forgot. Yes, vice mayor. OK, I was just gonna say I'm gonna support it, um. on the issue of of what I asked the money grab just like I was an advocate of

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red light cameras. uh, it they definitely worked. It isn't a way for the city to make money. It's a way to enforcement. I wish we didn't have to have it. I wish we didn't have to spend money on speed humps. We've gone on that record before, so I'm going to support it. The whole idea, if you don't want

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to pay the city or anybody money, don't speed through a school zone. keep the kids safe That's just my comment A couple of real brief comments and um on the issue of the piggyback versus the competitive bid.

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There's a couple things that I'd like to comment on that. I'm not morally opposed to competitive processes. I don't, I that that's fine. Um two things that bother me a little bit. One, having worked at the

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sheriff's office for 32 years. I've seen what happens when we go. Tampa's got one thing, Temple Terra's got another. The sheriff's office got another USF's got something else, whether it's radar guns or radios and flashlights. I can't charge your flashlight on in my

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car. Uh we're on the same call because we all on top of each other I, I have seen this for decades and I think there's a value. in having at least some measure of uniformity. That doesn't mean we got to follow everything that the sheriff for

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TPD does, but some level of, I mean, we're all in the same school district. School times, the schools have a voice in this from the school times and so I think there's some incentive to try to go with what's being used in the rest of the district. That being

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said, now if we can't get a contract that covers some of the things that I'm concerned about then, you know, we do get another bite at this apple and I, I at that point it'll be like no. you know, I want some assurances about the date. I don't want that kind of thing. Um. there was a second thing.

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Oh, the second thing that bothers me a little bit is when the council is tempted to meddle with the procurement manual. that always makes me uneasy. We have a procurement manual and I know that the city

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manager's a stickler for that. I, I know that you're trying to buy a mop bucket, and if you don't do it according to the approved procurement manual, you have two choices. You can change a procurement manual or you can buy another mop bucket that applies. I always have a

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little, I get a little squirrely up here. when elected officials try to meddle in the procurement manual and if this is according to the procurement manual, then do one of two things, right? Address it and change a procurement manual to

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to address a deficiency or we adhere to that. Um, so those are the two reasons. Now if you can't get the contract that we need. I, I'm not like I said, morally opposed to this. but because of those two reasons, I, I am fine with the piggyback,

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at least right now. Council member thank you for the point. Uh, the reason why I engaged in the Q&A with our legal staff was to determine what the framework was for this procurement. and since it is under 50,000, there is complete

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discretion. So the only thing that I was trying to achieve is that we ensure that our will is respected too go beyond the piggyback and obtain as wide a spread of vendors as possible so that we can get a good idea of what's out there on the market, who has the most competitive offer. And while I

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have the floor, I'd like to make an amendment motion to amend this existing motion. that we instruct staff to go beyond the piggyback and look for other vendors and open up the process. That is my motion and I would invite a second.

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That is a substitute motion. I made two motions in my previous motion. I said both the instruction to staff to explore beyond the piggyback and also to scope out the work. This is a motion only including the first item, not the second, and therefore it is not a

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substitute motion. It is a different new original motion which I have properly made, and I have the floor. So, well, you may have the floor, but I'm the chair, and that's a substitute motion whether you like make another illegal ruling because you're going to be at 5 then. I have all the other ones on record too. Would you like to

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restate the motion so we can try to get a second. The motion is that we instruct staff to go beyond the piggyback and explore other vendors for this particular project. There is a substitute motion. Is there a

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second? Is there a second Substitute motion d for lack of a sense. Very happy to have made that motion without a second, and I'm happy to stand up here as the only person apparently willing to look into other vendors instead of going

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through the same noncompetitive process that we have so often used in the city to very ill effect. and with that I yield the floor There was a motion that's been seconded, uh, all those in favor say aye. opposed?

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I, nay, nay, sorry. I'm opposed. Um, very good. Uh, motion passes. Oh, yes, August 4th. Ordinances approved 4 to 1 on first reading and will appear for second reading of public hearing on Tuesday, August 4th.

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Council business. Um, I have one item before I forget and then I'll open it up and that is scheduling a special meeting to adopt the tentative military. uh, pursuant to Florida statute 200.065, the city council must adopt the proposed tentative

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millage rate by resolution and certify it to the Hillsboro County Property appraiser no later than August 4th, 2026. which is the date of our August meeting, but we need it before that. It's recommended that the city council schedule of a

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special meeting to adopt the tentative military by resolution on the special meeting on Tuesday, July 28th. at 11:00 a.m., which would immediately follow the budget workshop previously scheduled for here in the council chambers and so. um, that is a

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recommendation, of course, subject to council's consideration. I have a question. Yeah, if I can answer it, but we have our finance team here too. Well someone should probably be able to answer it, and that is, is 11, I mean, is that would give us 2 hours for that budget workshop?

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Is that enough time? Good question. And, uh, so we needed to have a specific time to set for this particular action that's why we we chose 1 and giving ourselves two hours. The workshop can continue. You can stop the workshop, go into the meeting at 11, and then come back and finish out the

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workshop after you take this, this action will probably take all 5 minutes. I believe that's what we're envisioning if you need the extra time. but it has to be a council meeting, which means it has to have a time certain to be noticed, right? That was discussion questions.

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Are we a new business? right now, so do we need a motion to so um I, I moved to schedule a special meeting to adopt a tentative millage rate on July 28th at 11:00 a.m., motion the

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2nd. Discussion of the motions. if not all those in favor say aye I opposed. Unnazouquet we have a special meaning adopted. Is there any carryover council business besides this? I have one item Councilmember Kravitz,

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distracted to the city manager. I apologize if I've missed this in one of the council updates. I was curious if there is any update on the sunnyside Street, um, project and the community workshop that was to be held. We were looking at a date in August. We have, we have a date set Warfields, but we are looking, I think, 3rd week of

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August was where we were finalizing the schedule, but we'll, we'll get the date to you, uh, this week. August is, um I think that's a little late, isn't it? Um, isn't this project already moving into its final phase? No. No, OK, it's

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still in preparation? Right. So what I, why don't you come up? of us, can you just come up and explain kind of where we are with the project and what, what the community meeting will entail. So, so, uh, better part of a month ago, city staff, the engineering team met with the

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outside consultant and we have two outside consultants for this project. We have an engineering consultant that is doing the Brentwood Sunnyside intersection because of the stormwater issues we had experienced in the past there. And then the consultant that is

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doing the complete roadway design for Sunnyside itself. So we have to merge them together and we're in the process of merging them, those two projects together. Um, they were separated because of the stormwater issues, so, um, we did get a preliminary drawing for internal review, which has

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not been completed yet, but the August, the third week in August 8 is still. on track to be, uh, have the community meeting. OK, great, thank you. I was worried that things had already sort of escalated to the point where, where there were final decisions being made with the engineers. No, sir, no, we, we're still working to get

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the two the two consultants merged. Thank you very much. Good Any other council? I mean, I could make a comment about some of these chair rulings from the past, but I'll spare us the, the burden of that. I said I could make a comment or two about these chair rulings that have continued to be an

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issue, but I'd rather, I'd rather not, so, you know, if, if you'd like to have that discussion, we can do that at another date, perhaps in a workshop, or perhaps we can have that coffee that we all voted to have but never did. I know what a substitute motion is. I'd love to do that. I know what, maybe you ought to brush up on it because I'm not silly

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enough to make one of those. So thank you, I yield the floor. Well, thank you. Any other council business? any new business Yes, Vice Mayor, thank you, Mayor. Uh, wanted to let everybody know that there's new

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art in the city hall. uh art gallery, um, uh, the artist is Roxanne Tobiasin. Uh, she's a local artist, been in the arts festival, uh, many years, but it's, it's out there, so come see it, it's good art all our art's good, it's different, so

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you know, come out and see it. Thank you new business award reports. I have one thing I'd see her fire chief is not here, but I, I do want to say thank you to our firefighters. Uh, it's not really a city initiative, and I want to

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respect people's privacy, so I don't want to divulge too much, but our firefighters on their time off have really stepped up the volunteer uh family in our city who is struggling through a medical crisis right now. I need some help, uh, to sustain

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their properties and stay um. just to keep things up during the growing season and uh between like two phone calls, the firefighters jumped right in and like I said, this is not a city initiative. This is our

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firefighters on their time off doing this and uh unfortunately, Chief Kemp had to leave, but um hopefully this word will get back to them that uh just want to publicly acknowledge that, so. and I don't have any other new businesses or any other new

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business? OK. City manager's report. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, um you are aware that Hillsborough County Planning Commission, um, have invited the Temple Terra City Council to participate in a joint workshop. I think they

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want to discuss the the pro progress that has been made on the comprehensive plan updates. They are suggesting Monday, August 17th, from 40 to 5:30 p.m. at the, uh, we, and we've already tentatively booked the room at the Lightfoot Center for that workshop. Uh, we would

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just need the council, if you're amenable to doing this to in in essence, vote uh to hold this meeting because it'll be a official city meeting on August 17th from 4 o'clock to 5:30 at Lakefoot. Good. Councilor, any questions for

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city manager on this? I do have a question. Yeah, sure So that's also the night of the city council meeting, correct? That's correct. So then, the council meeting would still be in council chambers. Correct. OK. Um, that, that was one

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question, um, my second question is for those who are maybe unable to attend that particular meeting but want to get that information? Will it be televised? I know we don't live stream usually from Lightfoot, but will that be

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televised or um how would somebody see that information? Can I ask Mr. Hill to come up? This, this is a new one Um, it will be recorded, uh, and rebroadcasted the next day on

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our channels, uh, but it will not be live. Just being there and here. not enough resources to make that happen, so. OK. Thank you. That's it. OK. Yes, no, no, you ready for, um, if there are no other discussion, we're ready for a motion. Offer

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a resolution to confirming the joint city council planning commission workshop on August 17th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Lightfoot Senior Center. 5:30. but I say 50, I'm sorry, 5:30. I apologize.

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motion 2 discussion Not all those in favor say aye, aye opposed no nays. The, uh, special meeting is scheduled. Mr. Beer Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, so, uh, we've added a meeting to your agenda. I'm now going to propose to take one

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away, um. with the action, uh, earlier today with the, um, um, speed zone issue, moving it to August 4th. That was the only action item that we actually had on the agenda for July 21st. So right now there is nothing on the agenda, uh, except for a there was a presentation

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scheduled from the lobbyist which we could move, um, I would recommend that the council consider canceling the meeting on the 21st. OK, council, I, I I'm one of the ones who won't be here, so I feel kind of foolish chiming in

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on this, so. you guys that are gonna be here really it's more your decision. I guess my only question would be, would that be too long a duration if somebody needed to come in front of city council for some reason, but if we don't have

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any business, we, as you know, we'd have a tentative agenda. We kind of look at, look at things further out and based on our schedule right now, because we, we knew that we were gonna have a limited council presence that night already, so we were kind of sensitive to that, um. but I, I don't, I don't foresee

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any issue at this point. I, I, I don't think it makes sense to continue to have the meeting and just make you come out for a 5 minute presentation. and I don't have an issue with it. Well, if that's your pleasure, somebody should make a motion to that effect. We're canceling the meeting, so I, I have a comment on that, yeah, I'm

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sorry, um. what's that due to the schedule for our uh historic fact. I don't know, I mean, does that, uh, the next one would be, uh, that meeting would be council member Kravitz does more than happy to waive

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it, please. I bet you will. Yeah, I just, that's fine. Problem solved. OK. All right. That answered my question. uh moved to cancel the July 21st, 2026 council meeting. Then

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second, motion the 2nd and the discussion? All in favor say aye, posed no nas. OK, got some meetings canceled It's a laugh. Oh, is this, I'm sorry, just one more thing. I, I did want

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to, uh, just recognize, uh, on behalf of the administration also all the work that was done for July 4th. Um, everybody that was in the room, uh, great fireworks display, great parade, probably one of the bigger parades we've, we've had in, in quite a while, um, and I just thank you again for all the, all the great work and, and Mr.

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Hill and his team for getting everything on video and and then photographs that was uh really well done. That's it. Thank you. Questions for Mr. Bae? more of a comment than a question, um, I, I just wanted to, uh, reestablish my

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confidence in in our procedures and processes for the our bid process. I have probably been one of the most vocal council members through the years as to circumventing or attempted change or whatever our, our

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purchasing policies and practices, and I for one, am very, very confident and very, very satisfied with the methodology that the, the administration uses that a department heads use, um, I have confidence in, in, in, in the way we handle our contract

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negotiations. we will have a second shot at this. We want, you know, again for the second reading of the of the ordinance and then again with the contract. So, uh, I, I support the, the, the, the way that the administration is handling this

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and I don't want the public having any negative aspersions that we do things behind improperly and I think that that is is not a good sign for, for, for us to leave that, uh, with, with the public. That's all I have on that. Any questions, Council member Kravitz. Thank you for

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recognizing me. I just want to specify that I did not assert that anything improper was being done in terms of our bidding processes, I will give just a couple examples. Several years ago, before I was elected, a property was sold to a bid that was $1.5 million almost

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under the next highest bid, and that bid ended up not even manifesting the thing that we hope to get out of that bid for that property. Then there is another example. uh, of, uh, a messed up process that did not

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yield the right result. um and we can go through a whole sequence of these. None of them were done improperly, but the problem with all of these is that they were not done in a competitive way, and we didn't get all of the inputs that we could have gotten, and as a result of that, we got bids

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from people that we just went along with. um so it's not about being improper, it's just about being smart, and it's about letting the market work for you. The other example of the bid that I was about to mention was where we nearly sold a property downtown to a

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pickle ball court that only had $600,000 of equity, and that was another example where we simply did not look at what the market had, and we were about to make a very poor decision but luckily we did not, and that investor was now replaced with an investor who's paying

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all cash for that property. So we have several things here that are not improper but also not the best practice. And so when I make motions like the one that I did, all I'm trying to do is move us closer to the best practice, which is to see

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what's out there, to not just go with the first thing that lands on our desk and to look into these options that we have so that we can pick the best one and be smart about it because we're a small city and and mistakes compound and they're big for us, a small mistake can really hurt us. and

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we have to be very careful about everything we do, because if we mess one thing up, that'll have a giant impact on the entire community, so it's not about being improper or proper. It's just about doing things in a methodical way and doing everything we can to get the best possible outcome.

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That's all it is, and you're more than welcome to vote no on all of my motions or fail to second them. I'm not going to change my approach to this, because this is the way to do it. This is how you don't end up with a really bad contractual outcome as you look at all of the different possibilities out there, and

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then you make an intelligent decision, but as long as we're not even willing to look. there's no way to know, is there? I yield. City attorney's

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report. Yeah, one thing real quick, I have one, lien reduction to report, uh, it was for property located at 10027 North 5 2nd Street uh, violations were for overgrown grass, uh, the exterior walls

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were damaged and had mildew and a fence was in disrepair. The MCEB heard the case in June of 2024. Found the property in violation issued a $50 a day fine, uh, until the uh until the violations were corrected,

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which were corrected on May 26th of 2026, at which time the lien had accrued to about $34,000. Uh, the lien was reduced to 1000 plus we, uh, recoup the cost of $257 so for a total of $1,257 and that lien

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reduction has been paid. Thank you, Mr. Mueller. Questions for the city attorney. being none, and other business to come before the council. If not, we

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will be adjourned