[Music] good evening everybody um before I call the meeting to order I just want to let you know that uh there's a couple council members uh missing from tonight's uh meeting and we have three council members here so that is a quorum
so with that I call the November 21st meeting uh 2023 to order if you could um please silence all of your electronic devices if you could stand for the invocation and then the Pledge of Allegiance dear God we come tonight to
Bow our heads and open this meeting in prayer on this week of Thanksgiving we are thankful for many things we are thankful for this amazing city of Temple Terrace we are thankful thankful for all the Fantastic City staff we are thankful
for all of our citizens we are thankful for the opportunity you give this city council to serve others we are very thankful to anyone that is trying to improve other people's lives and especially thankful to those working towards peace and the
end of violence we pray for all these things in your name amen I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for all okay and tonight's uh historic fact is uh done by council member Fernandez okay um so I'd like to talk a little bit about how Temple Terrace was settled and and why we have so many different styles
of houses in the city um so we're very fortunate to not be a cookie cutter Community we have many different styles of and sizes of houses something to suit everybody's need um but the city has primarily been built in distinct time
periods so Bertha Palmer established River Hills around 1910 to 1914 and that was a Hunting Preserve and it wasn't really a residential Community like what we see now with the suburban community um but in 1920 Temple
Terrace began to develop into a residential Community with homes constructed in the Mediterranean Revival style built around a golf course as part of the first master planned Golf Course community in the United States but
during the Great Depression sales were very slow and very little de development occurred but after World War Two as servicemen came home and needed places to stay and started having families there was a very large housing boom and
Temple Terrace was a was part of that housing boom um the demand created a large set time of building for mid-century modern houses in the 1950s and the 1960s in fact the growth the
population increased so dramatically at that time that Temple Terrace Elementary was over capacity after 3 years in use and River Hills Elementary had to be built to to absorb some of the children
so then so that was our second large housing bu uh build and then in the 1980s that was our third housing boom in Temple Terrace and that's where you see a lot of our subdivisions were built Francis Arbor Teresa Arbor um areas
around the country about around the family recreation center and the best I can do to describe that style is it's very typical Suburban Style with a lot of natural finishes you'll notice that there's a lot of stone exteriors and
Cedar um but it's a very it's also a very distinct architectural style and throughout the time period because we are not a developer planned full community you will see
people filled in how Lots with different style homes so you you could be next to a Mediterranean Revival house with the mid-century modern house or maybe a 1980s style house um r scattered but if
you're interested in seeing some examples of homes in Temple Terrace besides the one you live in and the the Temple Terrace Women's Club is hosting a tour of homes and that's going to be
December 3rd at beginning at 12:00 p.m. I mean sorry well noon and it's going to take you to several houses in Temple Terrace that are all decorated for the holidays that's December 3rd it's during the daytime and right now I think they
have between four and five houses on the tour and then you'll find out specifically which houses when you get to the beginning of the tour but if you can if you're interested and you would like to attend you can scan this QR
code I don't know if you can get close enough but we're going to have this on our Facebook page and Other Things Temple ter the city of Temple Terrace is a sponsor uh but you can scan the QR code and and get more information and get your tickets but I encourage all of
you to take part in this to see inside some of the houses that were built during our distinct Housing Development time periods and that's it thank you okay recognitions and proclamations
there are none presentations we have a presentation from the southwest Florida water man management Management District Amber Smith who is the senior government Affairs regional manager welcome hi good afternoon or good evening at this point
Amber Smith I with the southwest Florida Water Management District also known as Swift Mud and uh just want to give you a couple points tonight about the water shortage order that went into effect today so the counties in our district are under this order however the areas
of Hillsboro pinelis Pasco as well as the cities in that area are under a mod ified uh shortage which uh starting December 1st will actually restrict irrigation for lawns to one day a week um and I understand from the folks in
your uh in your city um in your Administration and your utilities department that they have also already put this on the website with some examples of uh when the watering day is and those kinds of things but happy to answer any questions you have tonight as
well any questions no thank you thank you for the work you guys do okay board appointments we have one appointment for the school support committee there's one vacancy the city
received uh two applications one from Mike seagrist and one from Casey Kendall Mr seagrist is currently on the school support committee and he served for the last three years and he is eligible to be reappointed Ed Miss Kendall has been a city resident
for one and a half years and wants to become more involved with our community um I don't see them in the audience so with that we need to vote you have ballots so please vote for one and pass them
[Music] down we have three votes for um Mike sigrest okay thank you all right I need a motion to approve Mike seis to the school support committee move to appoint my secis to the uh new term in the
school support committee second okay any discussion all those in favor I opposed thank you thank you you both for applying all right consideration of minutes from the previous meeting uh if everyone's had a chance to look at them
I can entertain a motion to approve the minutes I move to approve the minutes from the November 7 2003 meeting yeah you guys are be doing the work tonight okay we have a motion in a second any more discussion all
those in favor I opposed all right okay persons wishing to be heard on items not listed on the agenda or items on the consent agenda request to address the vice mayor and the councel are in the back of the council chambers please complete the form and uh
pass them to the city clerk Council agrees to a 30 minute time limit for all public comment to be continued at the end of the meeting if there's more time needed a three minute time limit will be imposed on all comments from the public uh if you come to the podium
please uh state your name for the record and your city of residents I don't have any forms up here now does anyone from the public want to speak okay thank you seeing
none Communications and petitions none consent agenda you approve consent agenda second okay Motion in a second any discussion all those in favor I I
opposed consent agenda is approved all right public hearings ordinances and resolutions the first one is a resolution awarding the China Berry booster Pump Station Rehabilitation to C motor and Utility Services LLC UTI's
director Troy tinch good evening your honorable vice mayor city council um I'm here this evening to seek approval for funding to rehabilitate the Chinaberry booster Pump
Station so a little bit about our system the portable water system as you know we have two water treatment plants within the city those two plants pump out into the system and two likely one of the two of our booster Pump Station we have one
in the Northeast part of the city and one in the southeast part of the city uh the one in the Northeast then stores out water through the pressure of the system pumps out into the outline areas during High need uh hours usually first thing in the morning or early evening hours uh
this station itself is the chin Berry station is located if uh you could pull up the aerial in the thank you in the um Temple Park area of Temple Terrace uh right there in the unincorporated area section of of the
city and a little bit of history about this station itself it was originally built back in the early 60s as part of the temple Park Subdivision it was actually built as what they called a treatment plant I suspect it was probably nothing more than a a pump a
well and maybe a holding tank I doubt they did much treatment at that point but once it came online it was likely turned over to the city or I'm sorry to Hillsboro County move forward to 1979 the city's expanding we're expanding our utility
service area we're approached by the county to take this system over we do so uh five years later we put together a CIP project and that project basically built the current facility that you see on site uh the system consisted of a a
pump station a half a million gallon serve tank storage tank and that system really from the mid 80s till today is not seen a lot of improvements basic needs when it comes to maintenance and
that's about it so we've got about four years of service life out of that system and it's so it's well beyond that design life so what we were looking to do is we put together a design package kimley Horn uh redesigned the entire system for a rehab uh the rehab will consist
of new pumps uh we're increasing the pump size is from 50 horsepower to 75 horsepower so that's going to allow us to have more availability of water again try and think of in terms of quantity and not pressure and the pressure itself won't change it just you'll have the
Avail availability to get more water out into the system quicker so as that part of the city expands which we kind of anticipate we we've designed the system to keep up with that demand in addition uh we'll put in new variable flow
devices these devices allow the motors to ramp up and down slowly it gives you a lot more lifespan on your Motors these motors can be quite expensive so that's something that we were looking to do and in addition it won't necessarily always ramp up to the highest speed it may run
at a lower rate saves electricity saves again the lifespan of the motor uh these will go into a controlled building we're going to build a new small Control building with all the electrical components it will be climate control because they do create quite a bit of
heat so in addition the existing Pump Station will'll get a bit of a a facelift we're going to repaint we're going to put in new louers and we're going to put out a new roof on it in addition the water tank itself will be repainted so kind of refresh that area
um and finally we'll be putting in a new generator New Gen set that gen set will be not inside the building as it currently is configured it will be just outside of the building it will be in a self-contained structure uh both the generator and the new uh climate control
building will be wind rated so in event we do have a hurricane those facilities are rated for that those types of events so when we originally looked at cost for this project is back in 22 uh we were budgeting for 23 so we sat
down with the engineers and they gave us an opinion of probable cost in OPC and that was about 800,000 so since then there's there's been quite a bit of movement in the construction Market I think we're all aware that there's still continues to be shortages and the supply and demand
curve tells you that when demand is high and Supply is low costs go up so what we saw was a pretty significant increase we actually talked to the engineering firm right before we released this project in September of this year for bid and they
figured it would come in somewhere around 1.5 uh the bids all came in we had three in total uh the the bid range was from 1.7 million to 2.3 so a little bit higher than we had anticipated so we sat down with the folks in finance and said
okay we need to bridge a gap here we're about 900,000 short of what we budgeted for because this project is improving on the system uh the funds that are put aside for water impact fees would be something we could utilize for this
effort so we're going to dip into that fund there is currently about $3.2 million in that fund so we're going to take about $910,000 out to to bridge that gap between what we had budgeted what we're actually going to need for construction so that said staff
recommend city council adopt the resolution authorizing the expenditure of 1,796 120 to C motor and Utility Services LS LLC for the re Rehabilitation of the
China Berry boost pump I'll stand for questions if any okay uh before that or any comments from the public SE and councel any questions go ahead go ahead well my
first question is looking at the the price range and I know the selection has has has been for the bid that was the lowest of the three bids yes but are there
any pieces that the lower bid has not that has left out that the more expensive bids did and the reason I'm asking is I'm just concerned even though we may accept the lower bid if there are
a lot of change orders or things that are ordinary and expected parts of this project that maybe weren't in the bid to to make the price of a more pal even though it's very high more palatable and
then we end up with a lot with change orders for ordinary work not for Extraordinary changes that we might make right we end up spending more so when you looked at the bids was that part of your consideration yes it was so part of the
bid process is we initially literally open the bids we read the bids as they stand we then verify the bid so that verif verification process we literally go down through the line items and ensure that every item that we require
for this project is listed and there's a dollar amount Associated so that there's no like you said there's no surprises and if we find it one bid doesn't have a line item covered like say they left out the generator or some piping or whatever
the material may be we consider that to be a non-complete bid and we throw that bid out what about if the mat material listed is maybe not enough for the project so the so the example I have is
um years past doing a street project and one of the bids didn't have a sufficient number of uh traffic cones or something you know something that you needed so they maybe they were there but not in a sufficient number so then that they were
the lower bid except that bid and then you have that add-on cost because because even though it might have been listed in the bid it wasn't listed at a high enough volume or item count to be
functional so when we put that bid estimate together the specification package lists very specifically what we want so there's no like you buy aluminum pipe versus a metal there's none of that kind of stuff going on so you get con for con you get apple for Apple in
addition the items are IIT of of quantity we need X number of linear feet so they bid on that X number of linear feet of pipe or whatever material is required for the project and they give us a bed price if they've underestimated that that's on the contractor if for
some reason we have underestimated that as a city that is something they could talk to us about to do a change order but other than that there's really no option for change orders that would be allotted for this type of work okay anything else
no okay we knew that we were going to hit this kind of a wall given arer and construction and everything else 110% increase D more than double mhm well I I there some several questions
along with that and you may not be able to answer this may have to go to James what is the use of the uh water fund that where the money the extra money is going to come from so the water uh impact fees are specifically used for
expansions to the system so because we are improving the capacity of this for future expansion it qualifies for those dollars okay can I answer that have we talked to Jeff about that no I don't think we specifically
talked to Jeff you've got a come on I'm sorry come on I I don't mean to I don't want to put anybody on the spot but it's it's it um I don't want to get ourselves at the end of the year then we have an issue with we couldn't have done what we did no I didn't okay think that it was a
concern enough to to ask our auditor okay that's why just you know we we we start getting into the legal issues as to what the funds are designed to be used for what is what is the future expansion I guess I guess my question is
the southeast PL is the southeast pump system strictly for that geographical area yes so so if we expand through annexation there's not much residential that's going to go down there it's going to be more commercial than anything else I think you're going to see some
commercial but there's still a fair amount of open land down in there if you think about that area down around MMB right the area over by the booster station for too right there's a lot of vacant land still and I think you could see we're already starting to see
some housing projects come into that area do we need to do we need to set a motion expansion of the service area I mean I'm not sure what that would require at this point I would not recommend expanding the service area at least at least looking into it we could certainly look into that but keep in
mind the service a expands well beyond the city limits right to the east it goes beyond the bypass Canal right almost to 301 right so it's pretty expansive out in that region again there's a lot of opportunities for growth out there I think you're starting
to see more growth within that area and I don't I don't foresee that slowing down for sure the other question then is just how desperate are we to get this done at this point you know we talked a lot about that because of the cost but
try and keep in mind it we really thought the realistic number would be more like 145 so when it came in at 17 it was about 10 12% above what we really had anticipated uh even though we had budgeted a much lower dollar amount we realized that
that was such an old number that was utilized to create that 23 budget line item we knew that we were going to be over it anyway so we we talked about it we talked with Jim about it in great detail this Money's been sitting for a little bit of time it's seen some recent
uh large flows into that fund from say uh the housing developments in the area Amazon things of that nature so we we have those funds available and we really felt like we're going to see this expansion sooner rather than later the
system is old it's approaching 40 years it really needs to be rehabbed I know that I know the pricing gets sticky okay I mean it's going to go up and it's but it's going to come back down yes a little bit um we just don't
know when that's the problem and how far down it's not going to go back to what it was before we know that the pricing will let that happen exactly I just I just have a tough time with the with you know 110% increase yeah I mean it was certainly a little bit of a shock for us as well but again talking to the folks
in the industry some of our more recent bids that have come through for Lift Station rehab re rehab projects those have been coming in 30 to 40% above the OPC the problem is the market has just kind of exploded for building you know you again you had that kind of Perfect
Storm with covid and the shortages of materials and then the boom associated with you know the arpa projects all this Federal funding so people are pulling in these material as soon as they can get it and again supply and demand when
demand is high and Supply is low the cost of goods goes up so that's kind of all kind of converted to this unfortunate storm that we're in right now with construction and we really hesitate to push it out too much further
because we may push it out a year and maybe we'll save a couple $1,000 Maybe not maybe we won't maybe it will be more expensive um or maybe we'll need find that that station now is desperately in
need of a a rehab and we have to go a different route that drives the cost up understood okay uh have have the residents been contacted in the areas to what we're going to and how long is this going to take the construction period the actual construction time frame
probably a couple of months we're going to have a good amount of lead time before we actually begin turning dirt uh the generator self will likely take 12 to 14 months maybe longer so we have some time to get out and talk to the public about what we're doing there
really won't be any change to the system people aren't going to see some kind of difference while we're working on a project um again think of in quantity versus pressure it's just the the avail ability water would be greater um the
pressure will stay the same okay all right I'm I really don't like doubling contracts like that yeah trust me we didn't care for it either but no I know you didn't we again we knew going into this bid that we were
going to be upside down um with the the budgeted amount we knew again it was going to be closer to that 1.4 1.5 who's going to manage the project it'll be managed likely through the engineering department so it I'm sorry can we handle
it yes everything else going on that's why we have the Consultants on board to help with the Opera project so that we could focus on ecip projects okay so it would be a combination actually this will be run through the U the water department so so Nate will be likely overseeing this effort what other
projects do we have hanging out there for them we have a handful of lift station projects that we're looking to bring forward this fiscal year um another water line replacement project that we're we're looking to implement this this year as well so probably all
said and done maybe four to five total so we have staff that can handle that workload you know the engineering Department's staffed up now I don't know if you know but we have a a junior level engineer and EI we have GIS and we have
an inspector on staff now so it seems to be running quite efficiently I just don't want us to get bogged down Absolut not be able to get these things done yeah I mean I think the the true goal is arpa right now because it has defined time frames and we're doing what we need
to do to ensure that happens uh these projects if they need to slip for whatever reason something we'll have to evaluate if this has to slip do we get a rebid after 30 days yes or 60 days I'm
sorry the bid's good for a defined time period once that time period lapses you would have to rebid it because hopefully interest rates will start coming down here soon anyway okay all right thanks thank you Trey sure anything
else no okay okay if acceptable I need a motion awarding the China Berry booster Pump Station Rehabilitation to cc motor and Utility Services LLC in the amount
of one 1 milon 7 1, 79,00 620 is there a motion move to approve resolution awarding China Berry booster Pump Station Rehabilitation to C motor and Utility Services
LLC is there a sec do have to say the amount uh go ahead in the amount of $1,796 120 there a second then second second
you second it okay okay there's a motion and a second now we're into discussion seeing no discussion all those in favor I I opposed motion passes okay next is a resolution
approving the final adjustments to the fiscal year 2022 2023 Budget Finance director Jim Ingram will explain good evening council at the conclusion of the fiscal
year 2022 2023 there were several expenditures and revenues not included in the adopted or midyear amended budget section 166 2418 Florida Statutes allows the
governing body of each municipality to amend a budget within 60 days following the end of the fiscal year to account for such expenditures with matching unbudgeted
revenues each exhibit that was attached contains the general ledger account numbers and amounts that require a budget adjustment I know that that was uh quite lengthy uh so I have a summary here
exhibit one is for adjustments to the general fund budget as summarized below hurricane idelia expenditures and matching FEMA revenues $273,700 incurred in uh October of
2022 so it was in this fiscal year if you remember that hurricane that storm hit us right at the end of uh fiscal year 22 uh 4th of July parade expenditures and matching sponsoring donation
revenues 8,270 HR Wellness event and matching United healthc Care Wellness revenue is $20,000 Boys and Girls Clubs support expenditures and matching Community
enhancement revenues from the police forfeiture restricted funds $110,000 the Jag Grant expenditures and matching Jag Grant Revenue 5,200 additional contribution to the
fleet fund and and matching interest Revenue $40,000 Friends of the library expenditures and matching donation Revenue was $1,721 exhibit two is for the
adjustments to the community community investment fund as summarized below police it library and Parks and Recreation operating and C Capital expenditures exceeding the original
budget and matching excess over budget CIT revenues otherwise added to reserves or 136,00 and I note here that we had a total of uh $ 42,2
42 of CIT Revenue that was not budgeted we got in about $2 million we budgeted 1.6 um so the balance of 275
958 will go into the CIT reserves exhibit three is for adjustments to the water and sewer utility funds as summarized hurricane idelia expenditures and matching FEMA
revenues $ 4900 524 hurricane Ian expenditures and matching FEMA revenues 19,95 exhibit four is for the adjustments to the sanitation fund
hurricane Adalia expenditures and matching FEMA revenues $1,840 hurricane expan expenditures and matching FEMA revenues 73,000 , 270 I just make a note that because of
all the cleanup post cleanup work on Ian that's why that is higher exhibit five is for adjustments to the fleet fund as summarized below hurricane idelia expenditures and
matching FEMA revenues were 7,213 and Hurrican Ian expenditures and matching FEMA revenues are $948 staff recommends that Council adopt a resolution approving the final adjustments to the fiscal year
2022 2023 budget and I stand for questions okay thank you Jim um before that are any uh comments from the public okay seeing none council members any questions I don't have a question I
comment well that'll be under discussion okay um What's the total fee of receivable that we're going to be recording for both Ian andalia was it Adalia o um I don't have the total right
here I'd have to add it up okay just curious all right but it's a um a pretty good number it's it's a pretty good number but it's under one million okay okay is that it yeah yep okay uh if acceptable need a
motion approving the final adjustment to the fiscal year 2022 2023 budget move to approve the final adjustment uh a budget adjustment for the uh 202 2022 2023 uh revenue
cycle second okay a motion and a second second now discussion so my comment is is really just for the public to simplify all that information that you gave us that the net impact is actually zero because that's ma we spent the
funds that have been received from from various Revenue sources that were not anticipated when we created the budget in for the just past fiscal year so this is just so that basically we are
reporting what was not anticipated and the expenses that were not anticipated that we are adjusting the budget for are covered by the revenues that we were not anticipated that we are adjusting the budget for so
the actual net impact to our budget is zero that is correct okay very good any more discussion seeing none all those in favor I I opposed thank
you again I'm glad we had a quorum tonight to get that done yes okay uh next I want to open the public hearing uh on the second reading of ordinance 1556 amending chapter 2 of the
code of ordinances firefighter pension and retirement uh fire chief Ian Kemp will explain good evening city council mayor city manager Ian Kemp your fire chief I'm here presenting the second
reading and public hearing amending uh the ordinance of chapter 2 ordinance of the code of ordinances firefighter pension and retirement the firefighter pension ordinance pertaining to the drop plan was amended January 2020 after two notice public
hearings it has been recently discovered that upon codification a sentence in subsection c1a that has been proposed at the time of the amendment may have been invertedly omitted the the Omission is substit such that it cannot be deemed as a mere scribner's error the purpose the
proposed amendment has been included in the back of material to the agenda at the first reading in January 2020 but is in explicably omitted from the proposed amendment that was adopted upon the second reading the city council is once again being presented with the omitted
term and we need to consider amending section 2-25 to include it staff recommends and City the pension board recommends as well that the city council approve the ordinance on the second reading extending a deferred retirement option program from 5 years
to 8 years um and six 60 months will be compounded quarterly at a rate of 6.5% um anything beyond the 60 months will be compounded quarterly at a rate of 3% okay any public
comment seean Council any questions just just as a point of clarification uh you may so it's on the record that the calculations have been performed according to the
intended um uh ordinance not in other words we don't have to come back and fix anything in order to make the make the fund hold you are correct sir correct okay anything else no I just had a comment okay little bit later on all
right I'm Clos closing the public hearing and asking the city clerk to read the ordinance please an ordinance of the city of Temple Terrace Florida amending the code of ordinances of the city of Temple Terrace chapter 2 Administration and elections article 3 offices and employees division three
pensions and retirement subdivision four firefighters section 2-2 205 deferment retirement option program drop subsequent subsection C funding subsection one establishment of drop account providing for severability and for codification repealing all
ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith and providing an effective date okay thank you if the ordinance is acceptable I need a motion to adopt ordinance 1556 amending chapter 2 of the
code of ordinances firefighter pension and retirement move to approval on second reading ordinance 1556 amending chapter 2 of the code of ordinances firefighter pension and retirement second okay motion and second discussion
well I just I just want to confirm for uh people who might not have caught the first reading and that is that the sentence that we're discussing and that we're that we're discussing right now was originally in all of the documents
that Council eval valuated and Council believed were part of the approved statute or ordinance at chapter 2 part of that original language of the ordinance so this vote that we are doing
right now is basically to uphold the original intent of the discussion I think you're partially true um the first reading of new ordinance um was read exactly like this one was the
second reading back in 2020 for whatever reason omitted the 3% and so it would remain 65% so um for whatever reason that language got in there we're really not sure why we've had a lot of discussions
with the pension attorney the City attorney um so and it was found when someone was getting going into the drop and they were reading the ordinance and it didn't match up with what we were been told it would have probably been at his advantage of maybe not saying anything because he would have gotten a
higher interest rate or probably not but we would have come back and fixed it so we felt the best thing to do um driven by the two attorneys was to come back with you um and make sure that uh everybody agrees and that this is what
the intent of the language was um so yes ma'am thank you okay is that it that's it okay uh no more disc discussion um need a vote all those in favor I I opposed okay motion
passes next open the public hearing and second reading of ordinance 1557 amending chapter 2 of the code of ordinances by revising section 2- 61 entitled travel expenses for City
officers employees and authorized persons Finance director Jim Ingram welcome back thank you the city recognizes that outof town travel and related business expenses can
be an integral and necessary component of the operation of local government Florida Statutes 11261 sets forth the perdum and travel expenses for public officers employees
and authorized persons applicable to travel paid for by a public agency Florida Statutes 166 021 allows a governing body to establish Equitable standards and to provide
consistent treatment for those who incur such expenses as well as establishing and maintaining effective controls over those expenses the city council initially set
forth the per DM and travel expense policy for the city through ordinance 516 on July 10th 1984 and subsequently amended the policy to increase the per DM and mileage
reimbursement through ordinance 891 on January 3rd 1995 and again through ordinance 1192 on November 21st 2006 six after a thorough review of
chapter 2 Section 261 of the code an update to the city's per DM and travel expense policy is again warranted and staff is recommending that city council adopt the
attached ordinance on second reading and I'll add that couple things one the mileage reimbursement is we go strictly by the IRS rate that is updated one at the beginning of
each year sometimes depending on price fluctuations they may do an adjustment July 1st uh the rest we are basing everything from the United States General Services United States General Services
Administration per DM rates uh based on this area the Tampa Bay area and so that unlike previous ordinances where there was a fixed dollar amount we can continue to use
this ordinance allows us to use these rates as updated each January 1st so I will stand for questions okay thank you Mr Ingram uh any comments from the
public seeing none city council any questions no questions okay I closing the public hearing and asking the city clerk to read the title of the ordinance an ordinance of the city of Temple Terrace Florida amending chapter 2 of the city of Temple Terrace code of ordinances Administration and elections
article 3 offices and employees by revising section 2- 61 entitled travel expenses for City officers employees and authorized persons providing for authority to codify providing for repeal of ordinance are parts of ordinances in Conflict here with providing for severability and providing for an
effective date thank you city clerk okay if the ordinance is acceptable I need a motion to adopt ordinance 1557 amending chapter 2 of the code of ordinances by revising section 2- 61 entitled travel expenses
for city employees City officers employees and authorized persons I move to approve ordinance 1557 on second reading amending chapter 2 of the code of ordinances by revising section 2- 61
entitled travel expenses for City officers employees and authorized persons second okay any discussion have a comment um I think that this is a uh long time overdue and I appreciate
everybody all the Departments that worked on this but it it it's it's indicative of the the administration that we have now and the staff and and the directors that are looking inside our codes our ordinances and so forth
fixing what needs to be fixed it allows us to be more agile and be able to take care of our our our employees um it it was probably somewhat honorous honorous on them to to do the travel was probably
costing them money in the long run so uh I want to say thank you to everybody who was involved with this these are the kinds of things that we need to as we find it we fix it and that's good so I I thank you very much for getting this done thank you well city manager but be
uh made sure we reviewed all the ordinances so a lot of credit goes to his leadership but you guys do you guys got to do the leg work too so that's true thank you any further discussion
all those in favor I I opposed motion passes thank you thank you uh any uh Council carryover business seeing none new business and board
reports got nothing none City manager's report thank you Mr vice mayor uh members of council so on in your backup this evening you have what will be the first of a regular series of quarterly reports on our arpa projects I know this
has been a point of discussion as council member schisler alluded to earlier we want to make sure that we we hit those timelines those are important projects so um U Mr tinch and his staff will be putting those together for you so you can see clearly where we are uh if you have any questions about those
you can obviously ask him today you could ask them at any point but again we want to make sure that you and the public and the public to council member Fernandez you had asked me last time if the public had access yes they do have access to to this to these reports as well um any
questions okay um I wanted to also uh take an opportunity to introduce the newest member of our executive department uh Joel DTE is our new marketing and Communications officer uh so Joel's up at the the podium here uh just ask to
say a few words uh thank you Carlos good evening vice mayor and council members uh first and foremost I'd like to express where an honor to work for the great city of Temple Terrace I look forward to elevating Temple Terrace brand while maintaining to our core Valu um I'm confident together we achieve great things I would like to take this
opportunity to share with you uh the promotional video for our Winter Wonderland which is coming up in December 2nd so if you can take [Music] [Applause]
[Music] a 2 [Applause] 1 understand for any questions you guys might have yeah well how's this going to
be promoted this vignette how's that going to go out yeah so uh after this we'll post it on our YouTube Pages our social media pages and do paid ads on social media so that they can go out to this region as well as push it out on uh press release so that the Press can get
it as well uh the flyer already went out today on social media I don't know if you guys were able to see it but we did put out the flyer already and the video we wanted you guys to check it out first before we push it up who created it uh I I did creative Direction and then Brian I see a hand we back there Brian did the
magic excellent great job thank you great job thank you I could just add to so um I'm very confident and in in the team so Brian's outstanding and Nathan and and Joel uh I think they're doing great things um in addition to what he
just said we've also pushed this out to visit Tampa Bay uh because that is a big Regional Powerhouse in terms of getting this the word out so uh much the sugar in of Mr langfeld who's I'm surprised I can actually see him I thought he'd be shrinking in his chair thinking about all the people that are going to show up
now U but it should be an outstanding event and speaking of that let me ask Mr lanfield to come up and talk a little bit more about that and where we are and some other things good evening vice mayor Chambers member of city council um in addition to some of the items that uh
Mr dwarte just mentioned about uh information going out about this upcoming event there was a great article in the beacon uh that came out earlier this week regarding the event uh so publicity is certainly getting out there but I just want to kind of touch on some of the highlights of the winter
wonderland event for those who may be listening uh the event is this Saturday December 2nd from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. uh at Woodmont Park and on the first Fairway of the golf course uh as in years past the event will feature a
snows slide and snow pile for children to play in bounce houses new for this year are holiday train rides uh we will have a rock climbing wall arts and crafts projects will be brought to the public by the University Presbyterian Church uh the Caroling tradition will
continue with support from Mission Hill Church the annual tree lighting which all of you have graciously uh accepted the invitation to will occur at 700 p.m. at Woodmont Park visitations with Santa for everybody who's been nice this year will start at
7:05 uh the Drone show the highlight of this year's event will kick off at approximately 8:30 p.m. um due to some of the anticipated uh increases in attendance there will be some modific ation to
traffic around the first Fairway uh Woodmont Avenue will be closed uh as it normally is uh between the entrance to the Woodmont Clubhouse and Greenfield green Greenfield green what's the name
of that R Green Way said it we know yes and and Bel te will also be closed uh between the uh college dorms and Ridgedale uh so that will just allow for the safety of the public who is in the
area that night also on that night is the annual golf cart parade uh this parade runs from the family Recreation Complex to the winter wonderland site the parade starts at 6 p.m. staging for the event will start at 5:00 p.m. uh it
is $10 to register for the golf cart parade but that $10 registration that get you into the parade also get you your golf cart registration sticker for the year uh so it's kind of a two for one if you join the parade this year new we will have prizes for the top three decorated golf carts in the parade so
please get your gol carts signed up get them decorated and come join the parade it is a great time every year for those who participate and those along the parade route who watch it um one last housekeeping note regarding the Thanksgiving holidays and Leisure Services facilities the library and the
Lightfoot Center will be closed on Thursday and Friday we will res normal operation on Saturday the family complex will be closed on Thursday but will be open holiday hours from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday and then back to
normal operations Saturday and Sunday um if anybody has any questions regarding Winter Wonderland the golf cart parade yes just wanted to clarify one thing that Mr I know Mr mville is super excited about winter one land he actually said it's this Saturday I just don't want people showing up Saturday
sorry December 2 December which is still a week from Saturday so looking forward to it so much hold on a second Mr ba on will it be visible from the third Fairway like the fireworks are the Drone show yes it is visible however
the Drone show unlike fireworks is directional okay so unless you're looking at it from the intended viewing area you're not going to get the full effect of what the shapes in the sky are made okay because I've had some people ask oh we we'll just go to third
Fairway so let's find out okay you can see it but you won't get the full effect understood thank you okay thank you yes sir and the last thing is just to pick up on what Mr langfeld talked about in terms of our operating hours for the next several days for the holiday uh wanted to remind
the public that there will be no trash pick up on Thanksgiving day but we will resume regular operations on Friday and City Hall uh the Public Works building will also be closed on Thursday and Friday okay that's all I have your report thank you sir uh city attorney's
report Miss shonne I have nothing for the for this evening I have one thing that's in line with the city attorney and regarding the Sunshine Law and council member responses on social media
and it's not I don't want I just want to make sure people know because a lot of times there are posts on Facebook or like Temple the Temple Terrace bulletin or something like that that concern City
issues but as city council people we cannot respond to those posts so I just can you just clarify for people just so that they don't think we're ignoring them that they need to we just can't respond to those
posts the the reason why it is not recommended that you respond to those posts is because if all of the council members were responding to these posts it would turn into to a a a discussion that is not happening in this public
forum here in council chambers and so since you all are not to discuss City business outside of a noticed City meeting um it is recommended that you not be posting responses to things on
social media okay I would I would like to comment on that because I see those posts a lot of them on tble Terrace boltin board things like that and they are City related and I don't respond but sometimes I do let staff know yes uh so
they can respond and now that we have new head of pio or Communications uh maybe we can watch those websites a lot closer and get comments back again for the public out there please instead of putting it on Facebook why don't you
just get a hold of the city you that's that's a good policy yes that's I just wanted yes there were a number of things on there okay anything else anything else yes sir I just wanted to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving staff and directors and all your people enjoy the
weekend and thank you very much for all that you do for the city okay yeah same here Happy Thanksgiving with that said uh meeting's adjourned you travel sfe okay so I talk to [Music]
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