e e e e Co the meeting to order welcome everybody to the Temple Terrace community redevelopment agency meeting of February the 18th it's glad good to
see everybody here I think our first order of business is to approve the minutes as everybody had an opportunity to review the minutes and if so is there a motion Mo to approve second motion a second any discussion or corrections to the minutes if not all those in favor
say I I I opposed no Nays minutes are adopted we we have an update from Florida Roi commercial property brokerage Eric Odum and John lochner are here to provide an update hello good evening council members appreciate the
time it's been been a while since we've uh had a discussion about the the properties and like to introduce John uh John's uh been with us now for about three years now John John's handling all of our inbound leads and you probably would remember the colonel before uh
Colonel's moved out of the area and so John's is is is helping us now on on the parcel Parcels um if you would be kind enough to put up the presentation we have almost three years of history now with the is it up he's
working on it right okay here we go uh we have a lot of history of the property now it's been almost three years and it's been now to two national development retail development conferences it's been to two State
conferences we've probably entertained last I checked we well north of a hundred legitimate folks that have come in and inquired I'm not saying that they would ready for to be proposed for yall but there's been a lot of activity on the site um and but I don't want to
spend a lot of time giving a real estate lecture today my preferences as we've done in the past is just to give you a brief update on what's going on with the market and then allow you guys to ask questions about about the U about what we think should is going on in the market and what we think it's it's
headed um interest rates that we discussed last time that they actually higher than they were and that's had a dampening effect for transactions across the real estate market we also have a new issue that's popped up recently and we're starting to see that filter through and that's tariffs uh the
tariffs the National Association the Builder Association sent a letter uh last week to the president asking him to lower tariffs particularly for housing but we're going to see we're we're expected to see a chilling effect in development world uh over the next however many months it's going to be
until we work through where we're going with these tariffs so these are a couple of issues that we see sort of macro from a macro perspective that could um that could affect and going forward uh sellers right now there's a difference between sellers and buyers in the market so we've seen decrease in transactions
and of course the construction costs have been considerably higher than they were when we when we took on this project and so you've seen considerably lower numbers of transactions that doesn't mean necessarily that there's not an appetite in the market they definitely is the challenge is you have tenants and
or developers buyers sellers they're here and they're they're not at the same place and so we're sort of working through this the market tends not to like change is when things stable even if the rates are higher they'll adjust to that accordingly and we'll free up
some of the market but right now we're in a period That's of a lot of fluctuation and a lot of uncertainty so really the last six to nine months have been have been tough in in the real estate in the real estate market particularly is uh for development but we're seeing a lot of Brands particularly National brands that are
continuing to expand and um it's just taking longer to get time to get uh to get deals done um forgot we even had a presentation here John just busy talking turn it green turn it green all right green is
go so we've talked about some of this you retailers of they're expanding but there is this reality of the difference between what sellers think they should be getting and what buyers and tenants need and we're just working through that it's just going to take some time to adjust to that and Retail is still where
it's happening we're not the re the amount of growth that we've had in the country uh from uh from population and particularly in the State of Florida has not kept pace with the development it's it's outpaced what the development has been so if you're an investor it's a
great place and time to be in the market be holding real estate the reality is that you know we're just trying to the Market's trying to catch up with that um John you want to talk a little bit about some of the activity on the parcels sure so specific um to the parcels uh this data
is out of loop net that is one of the listing sites that the the that the parcels are listed on um this is for 8447 and it shows the number of daily views um or views per week and you can
see that it's not a lot on 8447 but when you get to 8901 you can see a significant increase here so the type of Interest we've had um you know the inquiries we've had run the gamut and obviously a lot of these
um types of businesses are not compliant with um the city's um CRA here but some of them are and just wanted to give you an idea of you know the wide wide variety of interest in it uh specifically to 8 8901 um we do
have some parties that are have taken it to the next step so we're either in the process of vetting the developers or they're submitting information to us so uh we we have a pickle ball uh upscale
restaurant venue developer we have an upscale restaurant developer um there's a national retail developer and actually a hotel developer and a multif family developer insute right now and
8447 has as mentioned much less interest but there is a party um that has put put together some preliminary site plans to try to figure it out and this would be um multi-use that includes um
retail with office on the Second Story based on his current plans so that's a quick overview so just like to open it up you guys have questions about what's going on you probably the biggest question I would imagine is like you guys have been
at it for 3 years now like what are your where where are we going what are you thinking uh maybe you guys have your own ideas already about where we should be headed but I think it's it's it's good for us to to to open it up and and talk about that a little bit council members board
members what questions do we have board member Chambers thank you uh with our uh plans to uh uh develop the River Hills property into a a Park and redo that whole area the the
retention area and all that has that helped generate any interest in and these things or is these properties just standing alone I don't see a correlation between the the River Hills the development I think it's developers are funny in the
sense that they want to see a brick in the ground and then they react to it so I think what you'll see if as the there's actual movement there also with Baba's property to the north of that we'll probably start seeing some some uptick from the park specifically when
you start seeing some activity there okay when you're presenting these uh I this to your clients or the potential clients are you telling them about the Redevelopment and trying to tie in in our master plan to make everything walkable yes we are part of our
materials that are um out there all right very good thank you that's what I want know and we really like the I be careful with the VOC of how we describe the pond in the back but I love it I mean I think that's a that's a that's a selling point because it is
it's an area that with the restaurant you could show that look you can bring your dogs or whatever and you can walk around there and there's a big wide open Green Spot space there so yeah thank you yep board member schisler yes in your presentation you were talking about um
uh a value added uh K Le can you go back to the presentation like the first or second slide uh yeah the value added strip Sol remains Hut um especially with the value added component can you define that a little better for me yeah and really you
guys are tied to what's going on and the retail investment Market because that sort of what dictates things so it's a really more of an indirect than a direct causation for you value ad would be Baba's property where he's coming in and trying to make a an improvement in the
physical appearance of the property and then trying to backfill with tenants yeah and and obviously it's going to help us when you start seeing some activity on the leing side there my understanding is he still does not have his Co yeah yeah okay okay thank
you no I don't have any nothing I can't think of anything right off the top of my head that I don't know the answer to already so okay um but thank you so much for being here um we do appreciate it obviously on your list of people who are interested there's
some of those that we would be interested in and some of them that we could probably tell you right now that we're not um but I think you have a good f for that already and our community development director certainly has a good feel he's been dealing with it for
an awful long time so okay okay great wonderful thank you very much thanks for being here next we have a status update on the CRA from community development director Greg Paulie good evening Mr Paulie good evening sir good evening board um once again Greg Paulie
community development director I have a very brief uh presentation for you this evening um this involves the checkers quick service restaurant in the CRA located at 8800 North 56 Street which is in the southwest quadrant of the CRA on
February 11th um Representatives uh met with staff for pre-application discuss discussion um they are wishing to remodel the exterior appearance of their storefront if you will um the prop proposed changes will
modify only the appearance of the building exterior it will not change the site and there's nothing proposed that will change the building layout with that said um I would like to show you these two images the top left
image um is the one that most people are familiar with that's kind of that 50 diners Vibe uh that they've come on that they've used for many years they are transitioning to a new corporate model which shows the larger image to the
bottom right um they they wish to uh I'm going to call it give the building a facelift because this is all facade exterior appearance improvements they're not changing anything structural with the building and they're not changing anything with the site so with
that being said um I would like to put this in front of the board just so that you're familiar with it if you have any feedback you'd like for me to carry back to the checkers Representatives we'll be more than happy to do that um at this point it probably looks like they'll be
able to go straight to permitting for this project um our code allows um them to go straight to permitting provided their proposed improvements do not exceed 50% of the assessed value so they understand that section of our code and
they tell us as of last week that they can work within that not to trigger that full sight review process that'll help them get the project up and running quickly um less downtime uh for the restaurant and of course um
quicker processing as far as getting them through the approvals with that I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have thank thank you Mr Paulie board members no I I have one I don't have any idea when this was built but were there any special conditions of
approval when that was originally approved the site plan and all that was originally approved to be honest with you I don't I don't have that available for you right now I can certainly follow up and get you that answer um I do believe that uh
the the development of checkers predates our CRA okay um which of course is why it didn't go through the same process that today's developers would be required to go through okay I I I mean they're not asking for permission anyway
but no it's it's um well obviously they're asking for permission from the city as far as the uh I'll call it the facelift improvements but this is an upgrade to the building it's going to I mean this is a good thing it's absolutely a good thing I just didn't want uh want a bunch
of hammers and shovels and uh and other work going on and have you not understand what's going on yeah no I appreciate that um but yeah I see this as a good thing so very good good yes counc board member Fernandez um well I
have something that I would like to ask the other board members about the CRA area is it to do with this item or a new item not this item so we let's make sure we're done with this one and then we'll let you uh we don't have anything else so are we done I I am done sir um again
I kind of float the question if you have any comments or concerns regarding the remodel I'll be more than happy to carry them back to the uh contractor but uh without any objection from the board I can go ahead and give them a thumbs up to proceed thank you very much Mr poy
thank you board member Fernandez so we had some conversation at the last council meeting about the the park project for the river River Hills Park space and the use of that and
um so I just I want to float some thoughts and that is um we my husband and I when we travel we go to Jacksonville Beach howwood Beach Fort Meers the Gul Coast Center and in those
locations they have a stage it's a passive stage you you bring all of your own equipment it's concrete you know outdoors and you have your green space around it it's a gathering space it's not huge and I was thinking
that for me and based on the feedback that we got from various people it seems like the park on the river that we're looking to develop would be best served or the community would be best served keeping that a very passive nature forward park
with access to the boat ramp you know access to a kayak lawn and things like that but not a Bandshell and and very loud activities but in the space the the open space that we have in the downtown
area that that location would lend itself very well to having green space with a splash pad or a playground with a stage and I I did get some pictures for
reference from Hollywood Beach they City there was very nice to send me some pictures and from U Fort my Myers Gulf Coast so this is this is Hollywood Beach and you can see it's just a green space
with the stage in front of it but they keep it pretty activated and this is their they happen to have a boardwalk in a beach um so you've got the space for that would people would walk on but it's just a it's a Concrete stage and and
they do all kinds of entertainment there and it's in a very it's it's a very public space it's not a residential space so soundwise I mean I know they have sound ordinances it's not as um you
you don't have a lot of houses around it and then I don't know if you can in the in the real all right so and then this is the Gul Coast Town Center and you can see they've got something similar I just
took this off of Google Earth um where it's just a central Gathering space and they've got a concrete stage and then um there's some other I think I sent over some other pictures so they've got a little playground space
and um and then they've got a stage with again like basically just AstroTurf in front of it and they host events there when we go you know they have and actually we just came from St Augustine
where they have Colonial Oak Park with the stage and they they go off the they have a hard stop at 10: for the sound but anyway these are very commercial locations that seems like interfaces very well with having something like
this it's very active but I don't know I mean it's it's something I think would add a lot of value to the area but obviously um I don't know what your thoughts are what would we do with the project we already have you mean the one
going the Riverside Park and and the Springdale same keep it going exactly as it is or be what not it may be exactly but be very nature oriented what it is putting a bench right that's my point and then but so that's more like um
walking on the boardwalk looking at the river launching your kayak and your canoe but this space downtown in where it fronts 56th Street could have more noise and be more active so that's that's just the thought
I have we did um talk about this the same concept but I mean it's got some cool components to it like Festival grounds you could have the Arts Festival there could the craft beer I mean there's a it would be a great place to do some of that the the reason
going back a couple years that we decided not to do that and pursue Riverside was that you know the whole live work Play balance that we've heard about for 30 years now or whatever you got to have
a certain amount of density you have to have people that live there so we do have the apartments we have um so there are people we got have that component we have to have the play part which is what we're trying to do but you you also have to have
the restaurant I mean you have to have the the the other piece and if we go too far in any one we build on apartments we have no play we have no business we just have Apartments if we go all businesses we've just traded one old strip a new
strip center for an old one if we go all greens space what's down there when there's no Festival um now I don't know maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're talking but are we putting like a perimeter of you know like small restaurants and food
trucks or you know those shipping crate things I don't know if that's what you'd I I mean that any of that I don't necessarily I don't have a very rigid concept I just have an idea and I don't
know exactly what the space itself can support size you know the the size what can go around it we've got Enigma certainly in the works which if you go to G Coast Town Center
you see there are restaurants alongside nearby but there are also restaurants that are just awful little ways that you eat and you can just walk over um the same with Hollywood Beach there's restaurants there are some right there on the perimeter but there's others that
are around that you you're not necessarily adjacent to the perimeter well I wouldn't I mean my we can certainly do whatever the council's preferences as far as brainstorming it my my only concern is I think we're committed to the Riverside Park
project we we've already spent money on that we already in and and that area needs to be done something with anyway even if we did this we'd have to still do something with that underutilized property I I would agree I'm not suggesting yeah so this would be
an addition to that yeah yeah yeah I because that project also wasn't very suitable for residential purposes it makes the most sense yeah I just think but I now I understand better now um I just don't want to scrap all the work and money that we've already spent with
The Pedestrian master plan and the you know Concepts but I understand this would be okay um the other thing is we you know the funding piece which I know always come has to come later but well that would obviously be part of the discussion and would this be
economically viable to do I mean I I totally think it would add value it's more of does it shift us too far in not allowing us to develop enough okay so board member schisler
yeah um my comment on that would just remember that the the the the ability to develop Riverside Park was based upon the ability to sell those other two pieces of property eventually during the
life cycle um because because in 2035 2036 that nut comes due and under the current scenario selling those two properties has zero essentially a zero net impact to the city because Tiff and
everything else going along with it if we pull that out of the mix you're looking at a potential one to two million maybe even more million dollars worth of potential sales of that property I I can't remember that that's the exact amount I'm trying to visualize the spreadsheet I can't but was somewh
to $1 to2 million that the city would actually have to come up with to uh satisfy the final debt in the end in 10 20 years 15 years whenever that uh that that that note comes due so that would have to be something we'd have to
consider P you know conceptual wise it sounds interesting but just remember there's a significant financial impact not just to build out but the loss of those revenues we can absorb Riverside Park it's going to be a little harder to to absorb the other and that's a legacy
we're going to be leaving for somebody else to deal with well and that's where my question is to this board is this something that we can ask staff to look at the viability of
maybe building something like this for one thing I on just on the surface it provides value to the whole development because it be it creates a destination that can can withstand a lot of
programming but again if it's overbuilt in that area and we don't have room to put any businesses around it we have another issue but uh so I guess what I'm asking this board is if we can ask staff
to give us some some idea of would this even be a viable project what what it would look like if we took that that property and took some of it basically off the
commercial development and and I don't know maybe maybe the parcel that's 8447 that has such small interest is a better location but I don't know I I'm just asking this board to consider if if you would be interested in asking staff to
give us some well I I would I'm sorry I don't mean to speak before the others I but we're running out of time so I would suggest that perhaps this body as the CR board make a
recommendation to ourselves that we bring this issue back up at the council meeting under new business I think that rule wise that would be appropriate it takes the four minute timer off of us allows for a little more robust
conversation my my gut is to your question I think the idea deserves to be discussed and fleshed out I'm not in favor of just taking the sticky thing and putting it on Carlos I I think that the next step should be for us to
Workshop this or you know there's some of this work we can do we don't need to make them do all the work we can do some of this and we know what the property's on the market for and we know what the range of potential property taxes I mean
we don't know exactly because until it's built but we got some idea and what the anticipated life of the Tiff I'd like yeah I'd like to go back and review that spreadsheet because I don't remember yeah but I mean we that would allow us time to that would allow us time I mean
I would personally I think I'm in favor of having this discussion I just don't want to take the sticky thing and dumping on staff they're all we've got them pretty loaded up already and we're getting them ready to roll in the budget season so um that
my two cents but I think we should discuss it at new business if that's can I make a motion that we recommend to city council to discuss this under new business tonight motion second Motion in a second is there discussion Council board member
krabit you haven't had an opportunity to chime in we have a few minutes left you have any initial thoughts my only thought is that I think it would be really interesting to explore sort of a mixed use approach where we become a landlord for part of it and then use another part of it as a public space uh so something mixed uh where you're also
retaining control over who goes in and how it's used that could be very interesting rather than selling it but uh you know board member shisler's point about the financing is of course also really important um I'm not sure if the rentals would be able to compensate for the loss of tax revenue or sale Revenue
but it's worth looking into mayor may I give a data of real estate if you can do it in about 90 seconds we'd be but you have to do it from the podium um great idea great idea I agree with both of those one of the challenges
we've had is trying to get a nonspec building of basically 10,000 ft there um at that 89 8901 space if you were to do a park there with the Band Shell we have a better chance of getting say a 12 to 1600t restaurant space that would want
to have access to that park it would make it much more marketable for us my two cents thank you thank you any final thoughts we have about 90 seconds before this count City oh we oh we do we have a motion in a second any further
discussion on the motion if not all by unanimous consent all those in favor say I I I oppose I'll do it my way thanks okay we are uh going to discuss this under new business at the city council meeting is there any other business Mr
be anything Mr Paulie board members okay we will be adjourned see you back [Music]
[Music] hey welcome everybody to the February 18th meeting of the Temple terce City Council I'd like to remind everybody to please silence your electronic devices and if you would please stand and join me in the invocation and the
pledge Lord we begin our meeting tonight with gratitude that we live in a country where we are free to govern ourselves we thank you for our staff and employees who provide such excellent service to our community and for our residents and business owners who make our city such a
special place place to live we ask for wisdom and compassion tonight as we continue our work to advance the common good of all amened aliance 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 thank you and so see a few new faces there people that don't visit us very often or people that this is their first meeting and so we have a a a new tradition if you can use those two terms
together we have a new tradition uh whereby we we begin each meeting with a fun or interesting fact about our city or about the region and so we we alternate that Duty down the deis and tonight it falls to vice mayor schisler
so take it away thank you good evening everyone um I chose to do uh my addition of the historical fact segment uh to bring everybody up to date on our regional Bus system Hillsboro Hillsboro area uh Regional Transit Authority otherwise known as Hart um it has been
my honor to serve as the representative for the city of tempet terce as a city representative to that board for the last six years and the miss the mission of the of heart is to take people to places that enhance their lives har was created by Florida statute in the late
late 7s the charter was approved by the vote by voters by referendum which included the cities of Temple Terrace Tampa Plant City who later pulled out of heart and the unincorporated areas of Hillsboro County on October 3rd 1979 so
it is a little historic um membership of the board or of the of har is comprised of eight members from the be board uh border of County Commissioners four from the city of Tampa two are appointed by the governor and one one is appointed by
the city of Temple Terrace Hart provides public transportation to um for the county of approximately 1.4 million citizens and covers an area roughly the size of the State of Rhode Island which put that into perspective that's a little bit bigger than most people
really realize the system operates 132 fixed route buses of which 40 are still diesel the other 92 are seat compressed natural gas and each bus costs about $850,000
they operate a fleet of of eight vans that are used for Flex service Flex service is being uh where service is requested from a fixed rem remote location to a a local bus stopper or or
the uh uh uh Area Transit Center Temple teris has benefits by from one of those Flex systems of the only two in the in the area and that goes from a Telecom Hidden River over to the university area Transfer Center it also operates 75
Paratransit vans that are special need the special needs passengers who live within a 1 and a half mile radius of existing stops this could be for elderly U emot physically challenged um all
kinds of all kinds of uh benefits it also operates eight street cars that are operate in downtown Tampa in in E eor City with 11 stops now all this Rolling Stock is supported by a heavy maintenance facility on 21st Avenue that
has two CNG M uh charging stations there was an effort a few years ago to convert to Electric but the electric buses cost $1.2 million each and they only have a range of about 130 M 130 miles which doesn't cover any any existing routes
within the city very well um and it takes 7 hours to recharge an electric bus but only takes 7 minutes to recharge a CNG bus and the carbon footprint is almost equal um there is a street car
barn down on 7th Avenue I'm sure but's seen it right off a right off a 7th and I think it's 12th um the city oper the the system operates 2,294 bus stops 650 bus shelters which
we have six of in Temple Terrace um six transfer stations located around the county the coest closest to City of Temple Terrace is net Park and has two Transit centers the closest to Temple Terrace is at the University Area Transit Center behind the Walmart over
by um over by the VA hospital now this is all run by 819 employees which includes 627 bus drivers and system unit drivers which are covered by unions America Transit Amalgamated Transit Union excuse
me Amalgamated Transit Union and 55 members of the teamsters the rest is all office and non-un employees all of these items and stuff supports um service levels that include about 9 million Revenue miles and the
fixed bus rats that's over 12 almost 12.5 million passengers every year the parat transit does a little over 275,000 and the street cars do about 1.6 million passengers a year for a total of
14.3 million this is all done on 31 fixed routes that covers the the greater metro area the two fixed routes which I which I was two Flex routes which I talked about earlier tempet terce currently enjoys three of these routes the route
six which goes across from the university transit center down Fletcher Avenue to 56 goes all the way down 56 to net Park and then ultimately goes down into into Tampa that is the busiest line in the entire system it travels about it
carries about 3,500 passengers per week on a regular basis which is even busier than the Florida Avenue route that um is the city of Tampa supports and Coast for free the Route 39 which goes from the uh the Northwest County transfer station
down Bush Boulevard to 56 Street which then turns down and goes down to net Park and the third route that we that we benefit from is Route 48 which goes from the university transit center through USF fer Avenue all the way down to um uh
Davis Road loops around Amazon loops around the new VA which is relatively new to what we had what they had before and that all tyly goes down Harney D 78 Street and it help it supposed to help with the boys and girls club I'm not really sure how much of a benefit is to
that but then it goes down to the um uh net park facility and as I said before we had the the One Flex route comparatively speaking the budgets 1983 the budget for HART was 17.9 million this year's budget is
117.5 million so it's a significant increase funding is a Perpetual issue for Hart and the system continues to work at at um postco service service levels trying to get back to pre-co but that's going to be like a $30 million
just physical investment in in new equipment and so forth to get us back to where it was Temple terce generates about 2 and a half% of all the revenues for the for the system and it receives about 2.45% of the actual coverage SLP
passenger Services hard is a tier one transit system that benefits all of Hillsboro County and in my from my view with within heart I think it serves teteras pretty well so I guess everybody's probably pretty much asleep by now but I don't know it's just it
beats the old Tampa Transit company which was from what I understand what was service the area before but I can find very little about that in in records so everybody who wake up now and good thank you Gil so they also hard operat the Tampa street car system right
that's that's the street car yeah so thank you very much I do want to plug the vice mayor here a little bit I I am uh I know I'm friends with many of the members of the heart board and when the vice mayor says he's on the heart board
he's understating his role there he's one of the most active and valuable members of the heart board um and I hear that not only from one member who may just like him or something but I hear that from all of them and so thank you
for your service not only to the city council but to the heart board and I sometimes I think that takes more work for you than the city council so um just a little plug on him too so thank you so Brian Hill would you like to come
to the podium please and I trust somebody's in there running the video room okay Mary is because I've been worried this whole time about the camera view and like okay Brian's here we're just going to leave on this camera the whole time um we uh want to recognize
you I'm going to read from the script but uh this is a very heartfelt recognition of Brian as our employee of the month and I I do think uh every every month I say this but you know the bar is so high around here with our
employee performance that Employee of the Month here is really a difficult thing to get because we have some very high performing employees and the single one of them out I I'm glad I'm not on that committee because that that's got
to be we get some really really good uh submissions so Bri Hill is being recognized as January's employee of the month because of his exceptional teamworking skills his ability to solve problems and his positive attitude also your ability to shoot
movie quality videos on a you know $800 budget since Brian has been with the city he has repeatedly proven to be a valuable asset he's very experienced with digital Communications and what he does not know he will research and find out because city employees rely on him
for his technical advice and knowledge he's also constantly challenging himself to advance the city's Communications technology abilities to be more efficient Advanced and reliable not only is Brian proved proving to be a master in his field but he has positive but he
has a positive attitude and goes out of his way to assist other employees with technical issues even though Brian has recently faced personal challenging personal issues he has not prevented him from giving 100% to his co-workers in his job in fact he has spent
considerable number of hours after his shift ends completing existing projects and starting new ones as an example his recent work on the city's Rock the city video was attracted was creative and masterful with everything he has going on his easygoing nature never wavers he
always has a smile on his face and a good word to say Brian deserves to be acknowledged and recognized as an exemplary employee and the city's January employee of the month and so I have to tell you as somebody who um
works a lot with Brian shooting videos and uh he really is a master at at what he does he can really take anything and make you make you look reasonably good which is not easy to do and uh I I
personally owe a debt of gratitude to Brian because um I can speak to a room of th000 people without even giving it a second thought but put a camera in front of me and I I can't say a sentence without botching it and Brian has uh has
really taught me how to do that and so uh I I oh the personal debt of gratitude for that so so let's give him a round of applause [Applause] and now for once you get to speak on camera I know this is this is weird for
me uh first thank you this means a lot I think this has happened one other time in the past but that was during Co when we had to move everybody outside and separate everyone out um but I want to thank the council I want to thank Carlos I want to thank the employee committee
um putting this together getting the recognition is is really quite amazing I love it it's um more than I more than I could ever expect and I want to say thanks to Maria and Mary Mary's killing it back there um
for taking over and really helping me make this team as efficient as we possibly can be and it's it's it's because of them that I'm here so thank you everyone I really mean it another
[Applause] thank she's an angle one more thank you thank you sir thank you thank you thank you okay now we have a couple of presentations our first one is from
feeding Tampa Bay and I'm told that that would be presented by Thomas mans who's a president and CEO however looking around the room I suspect he's been replaced so good evening good evening thank you so much and I I do have
packets for them may I approach yes please give them to the clerk and she'll pass him down thank you mayor as the mayor stated I am not Thomas Manz uh my name is Lena Rivas Hardwick and I am the chief external Affairs officer for feeding
Tampa Bay um Mr Man sense his regrets he had a sports injury which he is getting looked at as we speak um so he apologizes for not being here um but I'm so happy to to join you and may or I can attest with councilman schisler I I
worked at Hart for a few years and he was a board member there I mean he's he's absolutely wonderful so thank you councilman schisler for all you do um for the community and for all of you today so on to our annual report which you have in front of you and on the on
the screens here uh feeding Tampa Bay we are for those of you that may not be familiar with who we are we are a food relief organization here in West Central Florida we cover 10 counties we have about a million lives in our care and the counties go as far north as uh
Citrus and we go as far south as Highland um so that's West Central Florida all those 10 counties in between there um the individuals and all let's see oh is it still
on decided may be off just C sorry there we go I remember someone saying look at the green there we go um so uh when I say a million uh
lives in our care um we're talking about individuals that fall within what we call the Alice households um they are asset limited income constrained and they're employed they are families that every day are facing challenges whether
it is um having to choose if it's you know senior on a fixed income having to choose between um prescription medications Andor providing a meal um for themselves and or their family um it could be mom dad and all of a sudden older parent moves in so now there's an
extra person in the household that they have to provide for uh we as you see these numbers I pulled some numbers from City of Temple Terrace just to kind of showcase you know what we're looking at but basically what we're seeing is about 16% of our population of children in the
State of Florida are living in poverty and 46% % of the entire population of Florida fall within this Alice household which is someone you know family that's making about $54,000 a year but living in this community that we live in in
this metro area that we live in you probably need about 94 95,000 to actually um make ANS meat so there's always a gap um what we do with feeding Tampa Bay is not only are we providing the food resources but we're also providing other Human Services as part
of it um we have evolved as an organization we've launched a uh strategic plan we have a new Mission um which you saw in the opening slide which is people focus Solutions um so when we have the individuals coming through our organization it's not just about food
but it's also about the other services and how we can start filling some of those gaps because when they're with us there's a crises but food is not the root cause the root cause is underemployed it's healthc care it's
Transportation there's a a you know array of things that that could be going on so we are now sitting down with them with Navigators with social workers and trying to resolve and you know bring them to self-sufficiency as far as our countywide numbers and our investment um
this gives you a a snapshot for here for Hillsboro County we have about 29.7 million meals that we Prov provide um within Hillsboro County and I will say that um you know we are monitoring we don't play politics but we do monitor
everything that's happening at the state and at the federal level um I will say that for every one meal that an organization like ours can provide for food relief snap does provide nine meals um so it is these social services are important and we definitely utilize them
as we are um communicating with our families or the individuals that are coming through we try to get them registered for the different things it could be Healthcare it could be snack Services uh we have 42 School pantries we learned um through various iterations
of you know what became the school Pantry that having a place for families to come shop get groceries and take home for them for them children and their families not just betters the family but it also creates an atmosphere where
there is trust within the school that is being built you know that's being built between the family and the administrators and the teachers teachers there's a lot more communication and there's just much more connectivity um so we're very um you know thrilled to say that we have 42 School pantries and I had the the honor of visiting with
Temple Terrace Elementary School um this past summer and talking to some of their administrators and meeting the volunteers and meeting the families and it's just an amazing uh operation that they have there uh we have nutrition Educators in every County um here in uh
Hillsboro County we do about 73 classes and freshforce that is our Workforce training program we bring individuals in to our facility and do Warehouse Logistics we do culinary arts and we also do CDL driver's license if you have
not yet visited our new facility that we've been in uh for the last eight months uh please I I hope you do in your packet there's a little um kind of opener where you can see the layout of the facility and I will say councilman schisler uh Harts very generously
donated a bus to feeding Tampa Bay uh we are dreaming big on what this bus can do um we see it as as an opportunity for us to use this bus and maybe go to Pasco or panelas or pul and bring individuals and use it as a way of transporting um
individuals to come and do the in-house training with us and then getting them back so they can then provide economic impact and return to the communities uh where they live that 5.4 million in economic output um through a freshforce program it's um it's a little bit of a
dated number number we did this study a few years ago after the program had been running for um a couple of years and what we realized and what we noted was that 86% of the individuals after two years that had gone through the program about a 100 of them were still employed
so it definitely works um you know it's something that we're very proud of and I just wanted to give you a very small snapshot of the individuals to kind of get an idea of the individuals that we work with 71% of the cohort that we currently have going through fresh Force um is making $1,500 or less in monthly
income 58% of them are food insecure 25% are living in um transitional housing so that could be a shelter Andor their couch surfing but those are the community um members that we're impacting and then as far as like what's next for us and how we can best
collaborate with um you as a council and the city um in our community expansion of services when it comes to food we work um in different areas we have a wonderful program that we're working through commissioner Simpson's office at the State of Florida which hopefully we'll be able to announce um at the end
of the legislative session um but it is putting money into various different Commodities to help our Growers to help our Farmers they are the foundation the foundation and the building blocks of a lot of the food that we rescue um in Hillsboro County and Beyond uh programs
uh such as capacity building for agencies during the Hurricanes it wasn't just you know us as individuals but our businesses suffered a lot um our agency partners suffered so being able to have grand programs that provide our agencies
with refrigerators with coolers with freezers and any other infrastructure that they may need to build them back up so they can continue to um receive the shipments receive the food and put it out into the community that most needs it uh very soon in the next week or so
we'll be able to also announce a new project we are getting some grant funding um from a great partner and we'll be able to actually use this to uh share that with our community for those individuals that did have impact within their homes and or their vehicles be
able to um Grant some dollars so that people can start fixing what we're seeing is that we have a lot of people living in unhealthy situations that just have not been able to um have enough savings to kind of refurbish Andor lift themselves back up um from where they're
they're living post hurricane um and as far as you know for us this is an opportunity um I'm glad that I'm here it's an opportunity for us to kind of continue this conversation of how we can in the future continue our collaborations um I think you know we
all very connected uh you know who we are in your packets there's information for resources and if we can ever be of service to your constituents and you know provide other resources provide information um provide guidance navigation resources
please um feel free to connect with us contact us um because we are here for you and and to help you serve the best um that you can to your constituents uh in Temple Terrace and with that I close and open for questions thank you m Miss
Hardwick council members anything thank you thank you for presentation bringing this up abolutely thank you sir than good thank you for taking time out to tell us about the uh wonderful organization and and uh please give our
best to the your injured boss and uh but thank you so much for coming and sharing with us thank you all have a good night thank you you too so next we have a very special guest uh who many of you will know and some of your newcomers may not
but um Miss Cheryl thomasino is here uh who is um I don't even know how to begin to tell the history between the thomasinos and the City of Temple Terrace but it's a very long history his uh and a very accomplished citizen of
our city and so we welcome you thanks for coming to join us thank you mayor and thanks for being here I was kind of your mayor for a while now [Laughter] you're you know what that means the building is finally
sold Paul hired me on August the 27th of 1972 I always had some responsibility for that building it was just we literally were take tearing out
U 3in rust colored shag carpet he had just bought it you remember that you better tell him which building you're talking about cuz not everybody knows well you said okay 234 Buller Parkway there we go that's the one at ridg Deale and Buller the old it has been a
blessing and a curse to us and to uh to the city I guess too um he bought it he had only started his own business just moved out of a one room office in the what was called The Lightfoot shopping center I don't know
what what it's called anymore um he loved the building I will tell you that and it was very hard when we had to sell it well we didn't have to sell it we put it up for rent and had
many the witor and other realt Tre groups and I can't even remember who all else has has been in there and um but then um after we sold Sherwood and everything the time had come for us to
do some some different things and Paul I'm sorry we had we had to move to make arrangements and we had family in Ohio and we still have family in Ohio and it's going to be hard to go back once
you get back down here it's just it's special but um we did love we did love the building we took good care of it we have tried to take good care of it although I know not everybody would agree with that but when you're a thousand miles away and you don't have
have X-ray vision you can only do what you can do we have many many happy memories of the building people I'm not sure who I know around here yet that um Christmas time
well usually the weekend after Thanksgiving or the weekend after that we would have um all the elected officials in Hillsboro County invited and many of
them came and we had James how many big reels of cable or cable reels that we have out there with TVs and so you could watch the Florida game or or the Florida Florida State game and you could decide who you were rooting for at that time um
it's been it's been quite a time it's been um it's been amazing but um we have a new owner and what I think is interesting is 6 years ago when we sat down before we
left here um with a broker and um he asked Paul what do you want to sell the building for and as was pretty typical he gave a
number I'm not going to say the number but I will say that um two weeks ago we sold the building for that exact number that was a God thing that doesn't happen otherwise over that period of
time but we are very happy to have sold the building um and we have the new owner of the building here I've invited her and her mom would you like to stand up and introduce yourselves yes you have to do
it from the podium though so we can capture you on no nobody be able to hear you welcome welcome thank you very much for having us uh my name is Juliana Grande and I'm the daughter of Dr Julia
barga uh we are a pediatric practice that is located right now on Bush and 50th so we were lucky to find a very good location uh in Temple Terrace from Miss um tomasino so we just made the
purchase and we are working and planning to keep the building renovated and we're going to build a pediatric office with 18 exam rooms we're going through architectural designs at the moment and of course requesting permits and all
that good process um to help our community and we are uh lucky to have to be in a city that has grown and we've been in this uh area for 25 years and um many elementary schools in the area yes
Junior High you've got more than a a a clinic can probably handle but yes yes many of our patients are go to Temple teras River Hills and all the different schools around our city and this is Dr
BGA welcome nice meeting you thank you for letting us inviting us here and I'm glad that we we did this purchase uh because we we've been s serving this community for the
past 25 years seen all kinds of patients that live in this area and trying to do our best um our office is remain small compared to all the
necessity that we have here we try to find more services for them to do the best uh that we can and use all the the resources that are
available and um now it's time to grow and and help all these families and we appreciate it there is a I feel that there is a a very good environment where
everybody's going to like observe pitch in to make this possible to in in on behalf of these children that we're being watching and taking care of
healthwise I'm sure it's going to be an asset to the city and that makes us makes me extremely happy because that was a big concern and we had other we had other proposals other offers but
this to me is like the perfect and keeping the front of the building I mean how much better does it get than that so we're we're very we're very pleased that you're able to do that we hope you will contribute to S the city like we did this has
been um Paul and I were married in 79 and um we just lived with we lived within the city well we eventually lived lived within the city we had to bring the city to us and um it's just been a
real it's a real experience a fabulous experience and um it's a great staff to get to know thank you very well thank you very much we're glad we're very thank you and welcome to the city we're very happy to have you very much thank you and I'm going to come back when it's
finished cuz I want to see the building very well thank you you're invited and everybody else we will let you know when have an open house right yes we will yes thank you that be great thank you very much thank you thank you for the
privilege of us being citizens here for a long time there's no place quite like Temple Terrace I can tell you the little town I live in is nothing like Temple terce but um I'm trying to learn to make a a difference there too so I thank you
all thank you well thank you Mrs thomasino and you certainly have made a difference in the city you and and Paul um the stories you've told me and some of them I lived through towards the tail end of that but uh we miss you we're
glad that you can finally uh close this chapter I know this has been weighing on you for a long time we're happy to have um new citizens in our city and uh we wish you all the best always we think about you and your our door here is
always open yeah at U we closed on a Thursday and the following Sunday I was at church and someone looked at me and said wow you're look great I said well there's this weight off my shoulders and uh there's nothing that
compares to that but well if the council will indulge me I'm going to go a little off script here would we be okay if we got a photograph with you of course so Council would you please join me down at the how are you doing we're going to put you in the center I'll show you how we do
this we we do this all the time so you stand right here in front of my name plate and we'll get the council numbers in tight we're going to take two right this will be the first one and I got another one I want to take let's act like we like
[Laughter] her one more thank you now all the city employees please join us now we're going to have to get creative to squish everybody I figured you might I figured you might so Maria you going to have to help
us you figure out what you want how we going to H hold the camera [Laughter] yeah I don't have you need us to move this yeah I was
going to move this to the side yeah can can everyone angle inwards not you you're in the middle my belly up tomorrow um I don't think about you to go in here
mhm okay has everybody had an opportunity to review the minutes from our February 4th meeting and if so is there a motion to approve them move to approve second any corrections to the meeting minutes if not all those in
favor say I I I opposed no Nays persons wishing to be heard on items not listed on the agenda or items on the consent agenda there are forms in the back of the room across from the police chief if you wish to address the council you can fill out those forms and hand them to
the city clerk I currently have one request to speak from Mr L M Mr L good evening my name is Charles L terrorist Park and first of all before I even take into my regular uh talk I wanted to tell the vice mayor I heard
every word and I was wide awake when he was talking about it um now um the main thing I wanted to talk about tonight is that the uh thing I was talking about last time and that's the Johnny Bench Invitational and the uh and anything for
the same reasons I want to talk about it as last time number one I wanted to see if we could find um uh you know uh find the program that's number one that I gave number two find to see if anyone else has a program and number three see
if we can have experiences from people that actually were at the event in 1972 uh vice mayor I mean not Vice excuse me Council woman Fernandez told me that her mother was actually at it and meant Glen Campbell and I thought that was very interesting to know uh
unfortunately within my memory there's only three autographs I remember within the program that's Johnny Bench L panel and uh Max be who was Jeff on The Beverly Hillbillies uh now how I fit into this program is about four and a half decades
later uh I found it in a thrift store uh the autograph program and um I offered it to the city I I did want to get uh some bus passes for the kids uh but I kind of took care
of that but first I went over and I looked to see if you all had the golf program know he giving you a program that you already have uh anyhow that um soone make a long story short that I went over I got went
downtown on January 2019 I got them to uh well let's just say I suggested that they give free transportation to to uh to the kids or keep those back to school passes they used to have in January in uh in the uh
at the time over the summer but the County Commission or the BART board voted to uh give the kids transportation for free so therefore I had no reason to keep the program to give to give it to you all I heard I recall I got a Don I
got a little gift card for it uh and um I also heard I got a donation to the youth around here which is good from from my point of view that uh that it helped the for the program from the pastor of the future now this program
also you also might have other golf programs from other times so that you all would want to go look into it as a part of your history especially with your big event coming up on May 3rd any rate I hope it can be found I uh if not I hope someone else is another program
and I hope we can get more stories and maybe the will'll be kind enough to print some stories if people do have memories back at that time thank you and good evening thank you Mr L are there other members of the public I currently have nobody else signed up okay council members is there a motion to approve the
consent agenda move to approve the consent agenda second motion is second all those in favor say I I I opposed no Nays consent agenda is adopted next we have a resolution approving the purchase and installation of carpet at the Temple
Terrace library from Shaw integrated and turf Solutions and Mr langfield is here to explain good evening sir good evening mayor members of city council Carl langa Leisure Services director here for before you tonight requesting approval of a resolution approving the purchase and installation of new carpet at the
Temple Terrace library this purchase will be from Shaw integrated and turf Solutions in the amount of $173,400 this will be utilizing uh the Florida Department of Management Solutions contract
30161 7-24 dsrc wl- ACS this piggyback has been reviewed by our finance department and found to be consistent with our purchasing procedures this project will include
recarpet the main library floor meeting rooms study rooms and office areas uh it will not re refinish the floors in the bathrooms uh main lobby area kitchen and one of the offices which either have tile or
VCT on them currently the project will include removal and disposable disposal excuse me of all existing carpeting uh this project did come in significantly over budget um however we
do have the funds in our budget to cover the cost of this year uh but will require the postponement of the library bathroom Renovations for uh to to a future fiscal year uh this was discussed with and approved by the library staff
who felt it was uh very important to get the the library carpeting done now as that Library carpeting is approximately 30 years old at this point um and showing its age through fading and excessive wear in high traffic areas uh
when we started looking looking at how we were going to be uh refinishing the library floor uh we spoke with other Library directors in the area as well as different contractors as to what the best flooring options were to be for the
library whether it would be uh with carpet carpet squares VCT lvt uh and other opportunities for for flooring uh what we found from talking to to some of the library folks who have these other types of flooring um
that cost-wise and with sound mitigation wise that carpeting is is the best way to go uh it is the most costeffective way and it also does the best job at mitigating sound in the library which we all know is very important for that quiet environment Library squares or
excuse me carpet squares offer the opportunity to easily remove and replace a damaged uh section of carpet should it get stained or something spilled on it without without too much effort libraries present a very unique challenge when it comes to reflooring
and you know you look at the price of $170 plus thousand to redo the the carpeting in the library um the library book Stacks have to be moved in order to replace the carpeting there are very
very few contractors that have the the uh equipment necessary uh to pick up and move these stacks and put them back uh uh properly uh Plant City's Library just went through a re a reff floring process in their Library the contractor that
they hired thought they could do it um it took a project that was supposed to take about a week and a half three months to complete because their contractor was Ill prepared to manage uh the library book Stacks uh we found the contractor that would will be doing the
project uh in the Temple Terrace library uh through discussions that we had with the head of the Hillsboro County Library Cooperative um who recommended him as somebody who has a great deal of experience specializing in libraries uh he came out to the library on a couple
of different occasions we spoke at length about how the process uh is undertaken to move the library stacks and the Very specialized equipment that his company owns in order to undertake moving those Stacks without having to pull every book
off of the Shelf put it in a box keep it in order and then put it back they can put pick the stacks up just the way they are move them do the carpeting pick them back up and put them back in place very specialized process to do uh the project will take about 7 days to complete uh
during this period of time the library will be closed to the public uh staff will work closely with the pio's office to inform the public of other Library Avail library branches available for use as part of the Hillsboro County Public Library Cooperative as well as providing
updates regarding uh schedules for reopening staff affected by the closures will continue to work on administrative tasks such as Gathering statistics for state aid reporting developing summer programs uh painting a state Staff office and several employees have uh
indicated that would they would take paid leave during the time that the library will be closed I stand for any questions you may have regarding this project thank you Mr langefield are there members of the public who wish to comment seeing none council member questions council member Fernandez I have a
question yes um for the price you had you've said that it's higher than what we had budgeted for why what caused that discrepancy when when we were initially looking at uh redoing the carpeting we had called some
contractors out to come and take a look at this what we failed to articulate properly and what they failed to consider is the extreme effort and and required in moving the stacks they looked at and said okay we have a 20,000 square foot location this is what it
cost to do you know a square foot of of flooring when you're putting carpeting down without taking into account we've got to pick up about 60 stacks of library books um DVDs Etc and and move and relocate and get done underneath them and put them
back that that's what caused the big difference okay other questions council member vice mayor schisler I had three but you already answered two them how far over budget is it the LI the the flooring budget was $100,000 we had $75,000 for the bathroom Renovations um
so we are on under the total dollars that we have we had budgeted for the projects within the library this year but we will have to push the bathrooms out all right thank you my other question is were the employees and what they're going to be doing how long the library is going to be shut down but you
already answered those thank you other questions council member Kravitz can I hear correctly it's a 24,000 ft it's approximately 20,000 ft Mr langefield just to clarify for me I think I heard you say we are using carpet squares yes sir okay and the
second thing I I'm I'm figuring out the math from the background material so the bathroom renovation the budgeted amount for that was around 100 Grand correct yes and we did get um I've been working with uh Ron from Public Works Mr
scholnick who's the city new uh Building Maintenance uh supervisor uh he's kind of taking the lead on that on that project and bringing contractors into to to get quotes and whatnot on the bathroom renov on the bathroom Renovations yes so we're already working
on that some of the numbers that have come in are significantly less than that $100,000 number so we'll be looking for that will we have that a little firmer numbers by the time we start by the time we start the budget numbers yes we will yes I in fact I have one sitting right here in front of me right now
okay we that we've already gotten I don't have any other questions unless somebody else oh council member Kravitz contract with the service provider is that a fixed price or is there a risk of additional overrun when he starts work he's there's very very low risk of
additional Ro this this was the price for the job this wasn't a something contingent on something that they may pull up when they when they unearth the uh okay the carpet he has he's gone and he's cut some carpet away and looked at what was underneath it so is fairly fairly certain that what's underneath
the carpet is is what's going to be found and and not anticipating any cost overruns okay council members is there a motion move to approve the resolution or approve res purchase and installation Carpeting and Temple terce library from Shaw integrated and tur
Solutions second motion second discussion of the motion just one when you do this when you do this let me know I want to come see what they're you doing to move those Stacks what what the device looks like that's got to be something else okay any other discussion of the
motion if not all those in favor say I I I opposed no Nays resolution is adopted unanimously thank you Mr langfield any carryover counsel business from previous meetings carryover Council business I have one thing oh did you
have something all I have just a short council member kravit uh okay so um after the recent discussion about the city flag I um went ahead and scheduled a a meeting for the public on the 25th of February 6 p.m. so if anyone would
like to come by and attend uh where is it sorry what where is it and it's going to be here in the city council chambers at 6 p.m. so I was happy to get such a lovely room for that uh and uh we have an email that's going to be going
out and I also spoke with Maria which was very lovely earlier today uh about how we were going to go about um managing the process um she's looking into finding the older flags that we're submitted I'm going to try and reach out to everyone who submitted a flag previously make
sure that they're included in this process if it's possible to do um and uh we're going to be moving that along bit by bit uh I also spoke to the Centennial committee asked them if they wanted to be involved and um didn't really get all
that much uh interest on that so they said that they have their Centennial flag they don't really need the city flag for anything that they're planning so my um my intention right now is to have the finalist designs by flag day
which is June 14th and then have the final vote on the 4th of July so I thought that would be very nice we can have a lot of people out on the golf course and I thought we could have a little booth out there and everyone could see the actual physical Flags the final contenders uh when they're ready
uh we'll have a run of them and we'll put them out there and then anyone who hasn't voted prior to that can uh cast their vote in person on uh on the golf course on the 4th of July before the fireworks so that would be very festive and since the Centennial year extends for the whole year uh that
also lines up with that objective so that's uh just the current situation on that and I've been talking to Fred over there who's been a great help and also Mark fedman who's been a great help and uh I imagine that the uh level of Citizen interest is going to pick up
once the um publicity campaign starts going and Maria is also going to help with that I don't know if she's in the room but she was going to have there you go Mar uh she's going to help with the um Facebook presence which I obviously don't have uh and uh all the other internet enabled social media outreach
efforts so I'm very grateful for that help and um for her effort and uh really happy that she's on board and part of the team so that's uh even though she's only been on a job for a couple weeks she's been incredibly helpful so far and I'm really looking forward to uh getting this moving so if anyone has any
comments for me I'm happy to take them on board otherwise that's just a status report thank you council member council members one thing I would just I'm sure you're doing this but just let's want to make sure that Mrs
Rodriguez is working under the umbrella of the city manager so we have to make sure that city managers plugged into this dialogue as well so good well thank you I will absolutely be relying heavily on on Mr B so I look forward to that
good sounds like good progress so so thank you for the update appreciate that um very good I do have one item um it concerns the golf course the the country club as you know
um city manager and I have been meeting with them I guess we started out bi-weekly and now we're down we're monthly now which is fine for probably a year or maybe even longer than a year now and they've been very good they've been they've they've they've been very
open we've had some very good discussions they've been very um clear on what they were going to do to increase revenues um and they've done some some good things I think they've taken the right path on some of it they've done some membership drives they've done some
open house open houses they've uh increased uh public rounds of golf through golf now they've um improved the course conditions the course is much better than it was before they've uh I guess they've increased
some the banquet utilization they've they've got a terrific golf pro in there so they've taken some some good steps and as a result of that their revenue has increased however what hasn't increased
is their payments to the city and they they come and it's it's frustrating it's it's extremely frustrating because as a member of the Strategic advisory committee uh vice mayor schisler is supposed to be getting their uh
Financial reports and their p&l sheets from them on a regular bases he doesn't get them he continually has to go demand to get them and and we don't get them um even when we ask for them sometimes we
don't get them they at the last meeting we had a week or so ago they were uh paid up through September they hadn't paid October November December or January now to be fair January probably wasn't quite due when we were meeting so
I hate to throw January in there but but they're four months behind and they offer no explanation for this and yet they keep telling us how good their revenue is and and if the revenue is so good and this is the frustrating part we've had this
conversation like a broken record every month we know you're paying your other vendors because you wouldn't have any food to cook if you weren't paying your vendors you you wouldn't have any alcohol you wouldn't have any anything so we know you got to be paying your the
other debts why are we the last check you write and you only write the check when we Hound you to death and so they offer no answers they just go I don't know you know I I going to I'm going to have to tell them they better rate the
check better you know and it's every month that's the same story now as has happened before the day after we had this conversation they brought a check in to pay October and November
um but they're still behind now December and January and and I know when we meet with them in March it's going to be the same thing and so I I don't know what action I expect to come of this discussion I really just want to
let you know that it's very frustrating and it's not getting any better even though their revenue has gone up they still won't pay us and they offer no excuse I also know that they have very little money in capital reserves so if something significant breaks down there
we're going to be doing the same thing that we've done for years and that is they're going to be here asking for us to help them come up with the money to fix this because they're so important to the City it it's this is not a thriving situation
this is a you know why why aren't they willing to pay the debt and we're writing a check to the bank for this loan and you know I it's not that I have a personal ax to grme with the country club I don't I write him a check for $85 every month for the privilege of doing I
mean I'm subsidizing them I I mean I'm a social member I haven't been there and I don't know how long but I am adamantly opposed to our constituents the taxpayers of this city paying taxes that are being used to hold
up a private club I I am adamantly opposed to that and if they can't pay the debt that we're paying to the bank then we need to close them down and take it over at at least at that point we can tell the public yeah your tax dollars are going to support this golf club but
it's public you can go there and get a hamburger you can play golf you can do whatever I mean yes your tax dollars are going towards it but it's a public facility you're not holding up a private club and and uh I don't want my tax dollars going to that either because I
don't golf but at least that's a legitimate um so anyway I'm frustrated as you can tell and uh if the circumstances don't change I will be hope asking for this Council let's vote them out let's just
terminate the contract kick them out and we'll take it over so I don't know what your thoughts or feelings are on that but okay I can start yes council member chamers disclosure I'm a full golf member of the golf and country club um
and I used to be on the board years ago before I was on Council and that would be a conflict so um that um I have not been part of any of the negotiations between the board or the city because that's not my role as
councel um I have asked last week if I could share some of this information because my feeling is I do not think that most of the board members know there's an issue now whether that's a fault of uh people on the board I don't know uh but I don't think they know I
think uh I overheard one last week talking to a member and the question was asked is the city being paid the answer was yes so I don't know that detail um well one the other problems is their board meetings are on the first Monday uh first Tuesday of the month which is
our Council night so none of us can go there you know council member schisler our liaison or mayor could go there to to see and we could ask them to come in the whole board to do that uh but the a couple comments any citizen right now
can play any time there's no restriction they are not a full thing there's golf now which is a thing they are not a private club there's also member and non-member priv pricing in the in the uh restaurant so non-members can go up and eat it's a slightly more expensive than
if you're a member so some of those arguments have they've been trying to to help that so the citizenry rightly so can utilize that facility but I think it's still somewhat of a communication issue and I understand it's not us so
when I say us this group and the city manager because doing but I I still think there's more talking could be had so I that's just my comments on it thank you and in a month or two when they have the general membership meeting
I don't know the date but it's coming up they get a new new board members and a new president I don't know who that would be obviously so thank you council member any other comments vice mayor and full disclosure I too a full golf member with the club
but I I agree with with uh council member Chambers I don't think that everybody there knows their status but it's very difficult to communicate with that because we can't go to the meetings we just you know um and when anecdotally
we have an opportunity we share that information as much as we can but then again everybody's talking different things I would like to suggest we just F the whole the entire board to come to a council meeting and ask him to come let's let's talk about this um before the general membership
meeting so council member Fernandez my suggestion would be I agree inviting the board here in their entirety however if the general membership meeting I'm a social member from disclosure I don't
golf either but um if if the board if the membership meeting is coming up soon and there will be new board at the club then I think we should have the new board come in because if we have them come in before that and then it's just just a month later if there's a new
board then we're going to do it all again right then but I also would like to know if if at any time we're going to entertain some discussion about the future of the club that it might not be a private
country club or it's a hybrid right now but what that means for the lease of the land what that means for the land use I'd like us to know specifically legally
what this land could be used for and what it needs to be used for to to maintain it and not have it revert back oh we can answer that right now Mr be question so my recollection of the lease
is that it provides for two uses which is a golf course or a public park y asides from that then it would probably revert to the airs should we want to do anything else okay that well I'm just saying I I'm not saying that we do something about it right this minute I'm saying as part of the discussion we have to know
as a city council that that's the what the uses are that are allowed so that if this Council does go forward in the future and decide to make changes in the structure that we make
the right you know we we have the right information and we make the right changes in it but um but I so I agree with bringing the board in front of council I do think that we should probably wait until the new board is present if it's if that's going to
happen very soon when is it April I I don't know uh but early April usually end of March early April but I'm going to disagree with council member Fernandez on that I think the old Board needs to come in to
hear it so it can be discussed at the general membership meeting so when the general members talks and says is everything good and they report yeah it is I'm not saying that they're going to do that but well I I think there's value I think
both of you are yeah speaking logically here but if we wanted to do it why don't we bring the old board in and then we can always we if we have to do it again we have to again council member Kravitz
anything I'm concerned about the golf club I think they're a great part of the community I think I'd like to see them Prosper you know Miss Fernandez can probably address this topic better than I can but right now we have an asset on our books which is the loan if we were to move in the
direction of taking over the golf club that would become a liability in ongoing basis um I don't I don't think that we have the capacity in terms of our administrative Staffing to handle a huge project like that either from what I've
been told that we're all capped out um on new projects so I think that uh we should absolutely bring the entire board into here we should have a conversation with them and I'd also be interested in seeing what the terms of the loan are to see if there are any penalties they've
incurred because their late payments I think that we should enforce the terms of the loan uh but I also think that if we enforced the terms of the loan they would have been out years ago but at this point we're PID we're just about paid off the loan and they still owe us
half million no because we've had to make the payments on the loan when they didn't if the terms of the loan aren't being enforced then we should probably look at adjusting the terms of the AL of the loan to reflect the current reality and then we can also include Provisions in there that are to our benefit that
would be another idea mayor yeah and guys I I really would hope that we limit this discussion on what ifs but right now the biggest thing is communication and payment schedule yes and let's work on that because if that gets
taken care of the rest of the conversation on loans and stuff doesn't doesn't matter right now I as as a person that goes up there a lot to play golf and certainly sits here and talks to people I'm in the middle and I see that things could be better and I don't
know how it could be better on the club side uh I don't know where the disconnect is between paying us on time is it at the board level is it the office level I don't know and we have to well we don't really have to I mean we are the landlords we we expect this but
I think as uh for our city to we need to work as hard as we can to find out those answers and and the benefit that of not knowing the background and stuff if if we enforce the terms of our contract or our
agreement between them they would have been out years ago they they don't whether it's the payment clause or or any number of other Clauses they are way out of compliance and we can change the agreement and then they ignore it I mean they're not paying us
according to the agreed upon terms now they haven't for years and so yeah if you're looking at I mean it wouldn't make any difference we could go through that contract and change the terms but they're way out of
compliance with much of that agreement now so it wouldn't matter um I hear that if if they're in default if any creditor uh excuse me debtor is in default I would always examine the
agreement and try to find a way to align it with what people are actually doing even if that means that we acknowledge that they're may be on a different payment schedule I would find some sort of agreeable minimum and then we did that we did that the contract says they're supposed to pay us
$331,500 every quarter that's what their agreement they came to us a year ago and said we can't do that but we'll pay you 5% of our gross take every month until December of 24 and then it'll go to 7% and we never formally accepted that
but we told them well we're not going to change the terms of your agreement but we'll take your money money getting some money is better than getting no money so you do that and we'll see how this works so we've been accepting their five this
is their scheme this is their payment scheme that they're not living up to and so we've not gotten the 5% off of Gross for oo well they did October November they paid the day after we yelled at them December and in January they
haven't paid and this is according to their payment scheme so I I don't know what else to do other than just tell them here you know you do whatever you want to do because that's what they're doing what one thing excuse me if I yeah one thing I'd like to see happen is is
that uh the city the city the council somebody uh gets a seat on the finance committee because right now we're we're blind we can't see we don't know what they know and don't know so if we could F figure out a way to to to enforce
something like that um yeah we as a sack are supposed to meet with them on a quarterly basis I haven't seen financials since October okay and I've I've repeatedly asked for them and yeah we're going to get them for you they finally got caught up to October about about a month or so ago two months ago
so um I would like to I would like to figure out a way that we could actually become more ingrained with us so we could share the information so we know that everybody's on the same page that I don't know that we we we we know of but for a year we've been telling them pick a day of the month when this payment is
due you pick the day we don't care it can be the 20th the 15th the 18th the 31 you picked the day but that so that we know when to expect payment from the previous month and and every month it's like well you know we'll talk to them
and see what we can do and then they come in the next month and nothing's changed yeah I I I like council member shisler's idea about being having a seat on the finance committee I don't know if that's with their bylaws or not but I think we could ask them that so I'm
going to make a motion that we authorize council member schisler as our Lea on and also our accountant person to uh try to get on their finance committee I I will second that so we can discuss this okay we have a motion in a second I
I would respectfully suggest that perhaps that motion would be more appropriate after we've had that discussion with the board yeah okay yeah and then we can talk to them here about that also I would have some questions about being able to
appoint I I don't know what the ability is of this Council to have someone on that board then things would come here it's not a council established board but things that they're doing would come
here in front of council possibly yeah I don't know the yeah seems a little I just don't know if that would be some sort of conflict or yes city manager Mr Mayor members of council I was just chatting with the city attorney I I believe and I'm not AB absolutely
certain that there was a provision this agreement as the council knows most of the council council member cits you wouldn't know this yet per se but the agreement has been amended many multiple times in both in in in in in paper formally and also in practice and uh in
one of those amendments if I if I recall correctly I think there was actually a city appointment to that to the finance committee I believe temporarily when they were going through the loan process no I don't recall that okay well I mean maybe I I stand correctly that I thought thought it was but it definitely is not
in place today we tried we tried okay tried thank you I I've the number of documents your microphone on yeah says it's on the number of documents fills a notebook that looks
like that and that's probably only volume one I I've been through them many times in this last seven years there are many things that they must do to comply now and periodically I make a list um I know
it was discussed probably five years ago that we have somebody actually on their board and they resisted that that's how uh the the sack came up and we were supposed to
have two people on that um three three there's three there three yeah there's three three two citizens of one our our current sack members are U Mr uh council member schisler U Mr pagor and Mr
Arron okay and that was approved by coun voted on by Council so I don't know whether you all are still then meeting with them periodically yes um but they are supposed to under the agreement they are supposed to be providing us with
their finances on a regular basis and they must do it upon demand so if they're not doing that that's a breach of the agreement right there but that's breach 130 that's just well all you can do is is send them a letter tell them they're in breach and tell them what the
consequences are maybe you'll get a response all right so Council are we in agreement that we should extend an invitation well kind of a strongly worded invitation to appear at a council meeting yes do we need to resend our
motions or vote on it we would or vote on it which I resend my motion I'll resend my SEC my second okay so and a discussion on your question would it be a better served in a work session or a counos to a council
meeting I say Workshop myself any thoughts council members you don't Workshop be a to make a motion sorry workshops work okay okay uh absolutely fine I think it probably needs to be in the evening so everybody
can sure okay we can make that happen that works okay um I don't think we needed a motion to invite him to a council meeting but if we're going to schedule a workshop we do so move to hold a workshop uh
discussing the uh Golf Course issues with the with many of with the entire the intent of the entire the entire board yes and and I like to see the finance committee there too but that's and if I could ask you to amend your
motion to make it not on a Tuesday night oh yeah I have no Tuesday nights open on a non- Tuesday evening okay so the motion is to schedule a a worksh with the board of the country club correct not on a Tuesday is there a
second second discussion of the motion all those in favor say I I I opposed no nay thank you for indulging me any other carryover Council business okay new business I know we have some is there any new business
before council member Fernandez because that might take a little time any new business vice mayor should no not not new business I'm I'm thinking about the other prior to that Workshop could we get together and make sure that we're everybody's on the same
page so that we have an outline of what the current agreement looks like like cuz I got I got a lot of it in my head but there's got to be there's probably going to be a few issues that we need to make sure that are bounded upon to so that everybody on our side is at least
on the same page okay other new business to come before the just the CRA recommendation yep council member Fernandez so when we travel and we go to these
various places with that type of City Park Central Gathering space it's a way that that area is very activated and um so if you look at St Augustine um Hollywood Beach and the
Gulf Coast Center they always have some sort of entertainment there obviously during the weather season appropriate um but they all they're small they have small bands there um it's free they're they're they're free
it's just a way to activate the space and bring people into the area and you know and actually didn't name Tuscaloosa Alabama also has a similar setup and it's just a way that the community
gathers um I think that it would be an a Very it would be an asset to the development in that area but at the same time I do know that it needs to be balanced with
if we were to do this the space that's coming off of the the tax roles per se and off of the development ability so it has to be balanced so that there's also
room to have the ancillary or you know the businesses and the restaurants and things but and I I don't and we obviously have to look at it is it even viable to develop the property that way
and not sell it or does it need to be sold um in order to to meet our financial obligations to me if we were to create a development like this if there's the
space there to do it and to have the the financial uses around it so that they the partnership Works um it adds value to the space and it act it makes it a more
viable Business Development well I don't I don't know whether I think this is a good idea or not but I don't I don't think I don't know how any of us could until we have further discussion and exploration and I mean I I think we need
to all have open minds about sure if I could my two cents worth uh first of all I keep hearing when we talk about an event space moving the Art Festival there I don't see the Art Festival ever going down any of I mean certainly not River Hills property and certainly not
in this area because there's just not enough room for parking for I mean the artists alone take up 130 spaces so we couldn't do that but anyway but a small space that enhances that we heard from Florida or Roi that it might help so
maybe we task staff to work with Florida Roi Mr Paulie and his Department as city manager to uh um explore that and see if it enhances their ability to sell some of that property I don't know I don't have enough information you know I don't
I don't really I mean it's not my decision to make I don't want to T staff with anything at this point I want us to I think we ought to get together I mean I can pull together some basic data about the Tiff and the what we're trying to
sell it for and that kind I mean some basic math so that we'd have some framework to at least go for them but I think the first step in this is not to task them with anything for us to get together and say what could this look like what are
the ideas you had a different idea right we didn't let's talk this out and draw it on a whiteboard and say you know what what could this let's do some brainstorming and some Concepts before we start giving them stuff to do that
they're going to come back after doing all this work and that's not what we meant we didn't want that yeah I think I don't I'm very guarded about wasting their not wasting but spending their time until we know what it is we want to can we start some of this at goal setting
I mean it would be I don't think that's that's a separate okay um I I would be in favor of I mean I know we just scheduled a workshop but it ain't going to kill us to have another Workshop as long as it's not a Tuesday night can't no Tuesday night please but let's uh you
know we public meeting we have it at L foot or wherever and we get some you know those esel with the white paper or something because I'd like to hear everybody's input and during that discussion we'll all think of things that we're not thinking of right now you'll say something that triggers an idea or your idea will trigger you know
I think we need to schedule a workshop to have a more in-depth discussion and just spitball what this could be well I would agree because I can't I I if I look at that space I don't know how
big or small something would need to be to make space around it viable okay I I I have no idea well we without killing them we can get some basic numbers about the Tiff and the tax revenue and the payment that we the loan and you know
some big aerial photos of stuff so we'll have something to work with that they can handle that I mean it's not um so let's how about we do that is that agreeable to everybody yes evening I'm assuming yes evening not not Tuesday
not Tuesday daytime is fine too I I'm semi-retired I don't care well probably what say you I mean I don't know you're good to go daytime okay yeah and even Tuesday daytime is fine daytime
is fine I'm flexible okay so we would like to ask city manager to schedule a workshop get jeie to do her magic and put together a workshop and I'll talk to you about kind of the what we might need okay we need a motion to that
effect please how's what's this what's the name of this parcel 8901 89 yeah 8 8901 right so I'll motion to schedule a workshop for not a Tuesday Tuesday is all right not a Tuesday night can I ask
you to not specify the address so if we conversation Strays over into the other lot we've now exceeded what we publicly noticed so we'll have a workshop not on a Tuesday night regarding the development of the downtown area of Temple Terrace
second discussion all those in favor say I I I very good thank you okay other new business city manager report thank you Mr Mayor members of council at the last
council meeting I presented you with several murals for your approval and then we had one that was uh still not quite in final form I'm pleased to report we actually have the final mockup of it if somebody could put on the screen and there you go this would be
the mural that would be at fire station one and I believe there's actually a building mockup so you can see the scale hopefully we have that there you go so you can see uh the actual uh scale of the of the painting
um the chief uh fire chief Kemp has looked at this and has approved it uh I'm okay with it as well it's really at this point council's discretion whether you want us to pursue this or not if you do uh we'll have the contract signed probably within days and the artist can
start preparing for it council members I like it it's vibrant yeah who's the who's the artist for this one do we know I can't remember always
Ashley Ashley K is the artist appar being told are we good yeah move to approve the uh bu I just think we need a head knot on this no okay I don't know I think you voted on the others so okay go ahead I see okay move to approve the uh
uh presented buau for the uh fire station second any discussion all those in favor say I I oppos no n thank you and the final thing I have this evening is uh last meeting I know you recognized
Chief Albano uh I'd like to note that tonight will be his last city council meeting uh in his service to the community s Chief he's here with his beautiful wife uh I just wanted to thank him for everything that he's done uh for
me and for the organization and uh I'm sure there there will be many occasions in the next couple of weeks to to to do this as well but publicly at the council meeting I just wanted to say that when I came to the city um a manager is only as good as the team that's around them and
the chief has been uh exceptional um when I Define integrity in my mind I think of Chief Albano and uh he's been a rock for me and uh he will be missed but I'm very much looking forward also to working with his prot uh deputy chief Staley I think he'll do great great
things based on the lessons that he's taken from Chief Albano so I wanted to thank him personally uh for everything he's done for me and for the organization and um and for the public so Chief good luck come on down your last council
meeting now don't make us set the 3 Minute Timer here but I have to tell you I I don't even know where to begin we've been through a lot together both when we were uh both in law enforcement to together um and then afterwards when I came to
the city but even here 17 years is chief that that's unheard of in today's world to be 17 years at as a chief in a single Department that doesn't happen anymore um I I mean we've been through so much
here together riots and covid and U corruption investigations and acting city manager and keep it uh GOI I mean you know no building officials in the city
uh I mean just finding an interim city manager and I mean it would I don't even know if I start to think about everything we've been through um so I I I don't even know what to say but but you're not done yet but this is your so
anyway I'll stop and you have it after what the city manager said it's got me a little at a loss for words trying to keep my composure but I I have certainly loved the 19 years that I have been here in Temple Terrace Temple
Terrace was a special place before I began my career here in Temple Terrace because it's where I met my wife um growing up Temple Terrace was all the rich people lived yeah um we'd come to Temple Terrace to see my uncle had two
one on my mom's side one on my dad's side and uh so many good things about Temple Terrace but certainly having the chance to come here 19 almost 19 years ago was a a big part of my career didn't come
here to be Chief who came here just to to to serve take charge of the Patrol Division and see what happened and God had a plan kind of like what Mrs thomaso shared earlier God had a plan and I am
so grateful for every day and for all that we've went through um you have a great group of people working for you in your police department and I know you know that you have a great group of Staff members throughout this city and
that is what makes us successful you like to say good getting getting better great getting getting better we are we are so far ahead of where we were 19 years ago interoperability with between the staff
the staff works together staff doesn't have silos the staff works together for the betterment of the city as a whole and our citizens we have a a city manager that I've enjoyed tremendously the last the last three over slightly over three years getting to know and
certainly working for uh we have a council that has for every one of those 19 years been supportive of its Police Department supportive of all of us not just the police department but from my perspective I certainly appreciate all your
support and a a community to serve that loves its Police Department supports its Police Department um that means a lot it means a lot when things are going going on in other places um and people are having doubts and their and their police this city has never
turned its back on us and I can promise you that Rob Staley is ready he'll do a phenomenal job for you and your police department will never turn its back on you so God bless you all thank you so much for the privilege to be your police chief chief tell share with with
everybody um we were talking earlier today at the worst we were down what 12 15 officers something like that it was 15 15 I thought it was like 15 officers that we were down we couldn't hire people in and they were leaving to go to
other agencies um we were talking earlier today I think the first time maybe ever we now have a waiting list we do to to get and quite quite I don't want to but quite frankly it's
because of the conversations that we've had because of of that support it's because of the leaders ship of our city manager allowing us to try some new new Concepts and recruiting and now we have a list of people we just hired gave a job offer today to a
seven-year veteran from Hillsboro County Sheriff's Office and and in a in the environment where agencies are giving thousands of dollars of signing bonuses to try to attract people they people can't find enough police officers and
we're sitting on a waiting list so man you picked a good time to retire because you you're on top we are again I got to mention that the the public safety building that that we're working on together with with fire to to
and and the property that you guys supported buying I mean long before my 19 years that was a dream decades and decades back in the making and you made it become a reality and the support of the city manager goes a long way in that that's going to be a tremendous this
addition to our city and those are the kind of things and and everything else that that I've tried to mention those are the kind of things that mean a lot when you're trying to recruit the stability that we have the vision the support that we have to finally to finally have a home for our police
department and at the same time uh quite quite hopefully be able to have a a a place that will house Fire Station 3 as as as well and the services that that will bring and allow us to provide to the city all of it matters it's a team it doesn't matter it's not me there's
nothing I've accomplished here by myself everything I've accomplished here is either because of the team that I have at the police department the council support or the other directors and every member of this city I'm sorry I went over three minutes I was good you you
you made me go further um but we're in a good spot we're in a good spot not just at your police department but our city we have great directors in place we have a staff um doesn't matter what department that you're in I've always asked my people just to give your best I've always tried to give 110% of what
I've had to give this city and um when you do that when you have people that I have the privilege to work with on a day-to-day basis in all the different departments when you do that you can't help but be successful and that's what makes Temple Terrace a great place to live and certainly an awesome place to
work so again thank you for the privilege think we last meeting I'm sorry this is your last this is my last this is my last meeting deepest respected admiration thank [Applause]
you thank you city manager that's all I have you want to talk about fire hydrants or something now I just I have one question for yes council member Fernandez at a previous council meeting there were some comments or some concerns expressed
about the maintenance that exists maintenance issues that we may be having at some of our other parks and they wanted to make sure that we weren't adding to our Park inventory without U addressing maybe some of the
the repairs or issues that we need to make it other Parks that's it that question yes yes so yeah yes so we heard those comments and in fact uh coincidentally we we we've hired a park monitor we had
a position open for a park monitor which is basically a person that uh goes around to all the parks and makes sure make sure the trash is picked up and if there's work orders and things will be placed and things like that and that position existed in our city system but had been open for about four months um
that position was filled in the last couple of weeks uh has started as Mr lf's giv me a nod so we anticipate that will help uh with some of those weekend concerns where you might have trash because the crews don't necessarily work through the weekends but the park monitor will be working through the
Saturdays at least be able to if there's trash that's there be able to take out the trash and notice and observe there's other indications that we need to do some additional maintenance um uh if there's other issues we're going to commute the Le of services director Mr Lille and I have had this conversation I
think multiple times now since that council meeting uh about a plan and looking in the budget for next year you may have some items in there related to just enhanced maintenance our Park facilities um so there's more to come okay thank you thank
you city attorney's report so as many of you um may recall the city had elected some time ago to participate in the opioid litigation that many of these states had initiated against numerous companies
uh that either made sold and distributed opioid painkillers and in 2022 former AG Ashley Moody had announced that the State of Florida would be getting $3 billion over the next 18 years Florida in fact
received approximately 25.7 million in year one and it is finally the state has finally begun to distribute those funds um Walmart was not SU by Florida but Walmart approached
the state to negotiate an additional settlement um which it's not going to have to pay until year two but money will be coming from Walmart to the state then ultimately that's going to flow to uh
regionally um the state is going to be getting uh money uh counties and cities are getting money and um Florida uh will receive 84 million doar of and I don't know if I'm going to pronounce this
right uh n nalaxone uh which is an opioid reversal drug over um over the next 10 years that's going to be distributed by Walmart so that's part of the settlement um cities and counties are going to be getting 15% of
the settlement funds Regional settlement funds will be paid out during the fourth quarter of each year and um 30 to 40% of the total well they're going to be getting they're going to be
getting that money um they're going to be getting 30 to 40% of the total that is received and um today the city of Temple Terrace received six checks from the various drug companies totaling $
31,8 12261 so um and and this is supposed to be used in a particular way this doesn't just go into the general thund but um it's supposed to be used for say developing of um prevention education
programs and working or working with the schools and assisting people who um may be directly affected by this opioid epidemic but primarily prevention and education so that's it good questions council
members thank you Mr Shan and and we'll be getting money each year so this isn't just it so this is a kind of an 18-year plan we'll be getting money each year very good thank you what other question what do we how are we communicating or
how are we disseminating These funds how we going to plan on doing that it's a great question um so several months ago we received the first installment from one of these settlements um because it came with that restriction we had to think creatively this is a line of
service that typically cities our city at least doesn't doesn't do so we at the time were looking for regional Partners I mentioned this to the city council at the time who might be in this business and I think that's what we ended up I have to confirm that with the finance department but I think we ended up trying to partner and have those funds
used in our general area by but some by a nonprofit it actually works with this type of business not business per se but this type of practice U so that's we'll have to look at that see if that's something we can continue on ongoing basis it's into Works
yes okay council members anything else any other business to come before the council directors anybody Speaks now the others will kill them okay very good we will be adjourned [Music]
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