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Heat. Heat. That'll be Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [music] By the way, >> [music] [music] [music] [music]

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>> Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. >> [music] >> Everybody, welcome to the June 16th meeting of the Temple Terrace City Council. I'd like to remind you to please silence your cell phones and if you would please stand me stand and join me in the invocation and the pledge.

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Lord, as we prepare for the 250th anniversary of the founding of our country, we are reminded of all we have to be thankful for. Help us to remember that our founding fathers and their families risked their lives and the futures of their children for an experiment in human freedom that no one

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knew would succeed. [snorts] Help us also to remember the brave men and women who have risked or sacrificed their lives over the generations to protect those hard-earned freedoms and keep our country alive. Help us always to remember that it is our solemn duty as Americans to nurture

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these freedoms and keep the torch of freedom alive for future generations. Amen. [snorts] I >> pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

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under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you and good evening. So each council meeting we begin with a historical or interesting fact about our city or the region or the the area that

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we live in. Uh tonight council member Schistler asked me to relieve him of his responsibility since he was going to not be here. I suspect he planned a trip just to keep from doing this, but I can't prove that. So, um, but tonight I'd like to talk about the Pleasant

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Terrace neighborhood. That's for those of you who may not be familiar, that's the neighborhood that's up behind Ace Hardware. It's between Fowler and Fletcher and then 56th Street and 50th Street. And so, for those who've been around for a while, you remember that wasn't always Temple Terrace. Uh, it

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wasn't even always a neighborhood. And so, um, that whole neighborhood was actually on the property of Henderson Army Air Base during World War II. That air base went all the way from Bush and 30th, where Busch Gardens is now. Uh,

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Adventure Island, uh, came east to about where 46th Street is now, and up. It took in, uh, all of the USF campus was part of the air base. Uh, Pleasant Terrace was part of the air base. Uh, this building uh was actually the

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property where this building uh was was part of the air base also. And so um after World War II, the government, the US government conveyed that property to the county and much in much the same way that they did Drew Park. Drew Field

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became later Tampa International Airport. We still have Drew Park. That was all part of the air base over there. And so, uh, originally that neighborhood, um, when it was built, and I don't know when the first houses were built, it was sometime after it was conveyed to the county, and I'm a little

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foggy as to how some of what used to be the Army Air Base became private property was sold to the public, and I don't know the story behind that. Obviously, what's now USF campus was sold to the state in 1956 when they

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started um USF, but I'm not sure how this property and and all the rest of it got into private hands. But um I ran into a fellow named Rudy Fernandez the other day. And for those who've been around for a while, you may remember Rudy Fernandez used to be on Tampa City

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Council. And then about a week later, I was talking to Pamorio, who uh is a former mayor of Tampa. And both of them grew up in that neighborhood. And so Rudy was telling me story, well, both of them were telling me stories about when they were kids

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there. Rudy's parents bought the lot on what was called Wiltsy Road in 1966. And when they bought that property, there were just two or three houses in the neighborhood. There's a big two-story wood shake house on what was

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then Wiltsy Roads, now Rolling Hill Court. Um, that house was one of the originals. And then there's an A-frame looking house at 52nd and 127th. That's one of the original homes. Um, they were there in in 19 in the late60s. Um, when

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they built their house in 72, they built it. His Rudy's dad moved here to take a job at USF and modeled the house after the USF Science Center. So if you go on campus and you find the old science center and then you drive by Rolling

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Hill Court, you can't miss this house because it looks like a miniature version of the science center. Fact, today people still call it the science center. If you've lived there a while, you know what they're talking about. Um, couple of interesting people that they mentioned that lived there in that neighborhood that I didn't know. If

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you've been in Tampa for a while, um what they called the Ferris wheel people, those are the people that owned Art Swap Swap Shop on Nebraska. Do you remember Art Swap Shop? Used to be on Nebraska just north of Bush Boulevard. Had an old airplane out front and stuff. Well, they lived in that neighborhood.

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So did the owner of Alpine Liquors on [snorts] Nebraska Avenue. It's been there for a hundred year. I think they built Alpine Liquors and then built Tampa around it. But um so all of that property at the time was was owned by a name a man named Wiltsy [snorts] um who

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sold on the property in 1967 to another fellow named McQueeny. McQueeny changed the name of Wilty Road to Rolling Hill Court which it is today and also changed the name of Oakaven changed it to Oakaven but nobody can seem to remember what the original name

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of Oak Haven was. I don't know what that was. Um McQueeny platted all the lot all the lots that were that he owned there and he built three styles of homes there. He built chateau, chalet, and regencies.

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And it's hard to tell because they put different outside they put different facades on all the homes. But if you drive through that neighborhood, many of them are really one of those three homes. Uh the Regencies are pretty easy to spot. Um and they're all over, but they look different. And some of them

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have arches, some have bricks on the front. So they look a little different, but they're all the three basic designs. In 1971, USF opened their medical school. That's the year it opened. And so a lot of the

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faculty who moved here to join the medical school in 1971 bought homes in Pleasant Terrace because it's right across the street from campus. So, some of the family names that they mentioned, um, only one of these rings a bell to me, but they name, if you've been here a while, they

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mentioned Cano, Beni, Don Smith, uh, Dr. Nelson. These are early faculty members at the at the college of medicine. The pit, if you'll recall, we just took over from DOT this borrow pit that's on 50th

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Street near the Catholic Student Center. There's a pit back there where it over the years it's grown up. It's just weeds and grass and stuff. Well, we recently took that over from DOT to use it for storm drain. And nobody seems to to know the history behind that pit. Well, I do

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now. And so that pit is where they took the dirt to build Fletcher Avenue on the north side of campus. If you go from 50th Street west along the north side of campus, look on both sides of the road. That road was built right through the

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swamp. The swamp is both on both sides of the road. They built that road from dirt that came out of that pit. That's where the dirt came from. But they had already taken the dirt out by the time they started building houses. So all these kids, Rudy and all the

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neighborhood kids used to go to that pit and that's where they shot their BB guns and whatever they did they did. But they the pit is what they called it and everybody all the kids hung out at the pit. Um Pammyorio grew up in the house. It's still there. It's on um 52nd Street

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up near Oak Haven. That's where she grew up. Um, so that neighborhood has been home to one Tampa mayor, one Tampa city council member, and a Temple Terrace mayor. So, um, we'll see what comes out of there next. But that neighborhood was

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annexed into Temple Terrace in the late 90s, 98 I think was the year um, that it was annexed in largely through the efforts of a guy named Paul Thomasino and Tom Mortonson. those two folks. Paul Thomasino,

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many of you will remember, owned the house at 234 Bullard where they're building the uh pediatric medical center now. That they own that property. He was the engineer for the city and he and Tom Mortonson brought that neighborhood in and they also were

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responsible for bringing in the property and developing telecom. So in one annexation they they doubled geographically doubled the size of Temple Terrace by bringing that one single annexation in. So part of the caveat when they annexed Pleasant

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Terrace was that they close off the streets which you know you can only get into that neighborhood off of 56th Street. Um and I think there's one road off of Fletcher that you can turn in but all the rest of them you can't enter. Um, which turned out to be pretty wise

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on somebody's part because it was already a lot of cut through traffic there. I remember when I was a young deputy, I worked that area for a while and it was just like morning people used to cut through. Everybody would cut through to get to USF. So, I'm really glad that they closed off those streets.

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Can you imagine what that would be like today with the backup on 56th and Fowler with the traffic today and the new football stadium? So, I'm really grateful that somebody had the foresight to to seal those streets off. So, anyway, I don't even know if you know

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where Pleasant Terrace is, but now you know the history of it. And so, [laughter] um, so our first item of business is employee of the month. And I'd like to call Lorie Smith from Code Compliance to the podium, please. Good evening.

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>> Good evening. So Lori Smith from Code Compliance is being recognized as the employee of the month for the month of May. [snorts] Lori has proudly served as code compliance officer for the city of Temple Terrace for the past seven years. Uh she's well known throughout the

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community and makes intentional efforts to engage with residents, building relationships rooted in trust and respect. Flor is detail oriented and deeply passionate about preserving the beauty and integrity of Temple Terrace. In 2025 alone, she initiated 1722 cases.

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Remarkably, only 38 of those cases originated from complaints, clearly demonstrating her proactive approach to identifying and addressing ordinance violations before they escalate. Lori consistently exhibits exor extraordinary empathy in her work. She partners with

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residents to achieve voluntary compliance whenever possible, recognizing that information and communication are the most effective tools in code enforcement. Lori approaches every case with care and understanding, fully aware that receiving a violation notice can be

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stressful for residents. She emphasizes respectful communication and makes it clear that her role is not merely enforcement, but service to the public. Committed to professional growth, Lori has successfully completed all four levels of the Florida Association of Code Enforcement Certifications and is

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currently working toward achieving the distinguished code enforcement professional designation. Lorie's consistent professionalism, dedication to the community, and pursuit of excellence bring great credit upon herself and the city of Tumble Terrace. Please join me in congratulating Lori

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for being selected as the May Employee of the Month. [applause] you like to say a few words? >> Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, council members, thank you very, very much for this award. It really, really means a lot to me. Uh, I've been here

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almost eight years, and I've had a really, really nice time these last eight years, uh, growing, maturing, uh, and learning the, uh, the job. I'm looking forward to another 10 with you all, sir. >> Well, thank you. [applause]

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congratulations. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Let's get the crew. >> Realize you've been here eight years already. Seems like you just got it. Oh yeah.

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>> Okay, perfect. Three, two, one. >> Thank you. [applause] Next, we have a proclamation for Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month. We have Cheryl Anne Haley >> here. How are you?

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>> Good. How are you? >> Good. Good to see you. >> You, too. Thanks for being here. >> Thank you. >> Whereas Alzheimer's disease, a progressive neurodeenerative brain disorder, tragically robs individuals of their memories and leads to progressive

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mental and physical impairments. Over 7 million Americans are living with Alzheimer's disease, including an estimated 500,000 under the age of 65 living with younger on younger onset Alzheimer's disease. Included in this

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number are an estimated 580,000 individuals in the state of Florida and an estimated 25,000 reside in Hillsboro County. In 2026, the United In the United States, nearly 13 million caregivers

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provided an estimated 19 billion hours of unpaid care valued at more than $413 billion. In Florida, over in Florida, over 877,000 caregivers provided over 1.4 billion

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hours of unpaid care valued at an estimated $30.3 billion. Alzheimer's disease is one of the most expensive diseases in the United States. And in 2026, the direct costs to American society of caring for those with Alzheimer's disease will total an

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estimated $49 billion. The human cost of Alzheimer's disease is immeasurable, impacting patients, families, friends, and caregivers. Whereas the city of Temple Terrace recognizes the efforts of researchers

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seeking a cure and of the Alzheimer's Association to raise funds to promote awareness to fight Alzheimer's disease and related disorders, thereby [snorts] improving the quality of human life for those living with this disease and their caregivers. Now therefore, I, Andrew Ross, by virtue

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of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Temple Terrace, Florida, do hereby proclaim June 2026 as Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month. And so, thank you again for being here. Would you like to share with a few words with us? >> Sure. Um, Mayor Ross and council members, thank you for the opportunity

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to be here tonight. Alzheimer's and brain awareness would not be important to me if my own mom had not been diagnosed with dementia a decade ago. The past decade is something I was not prepared for and has given me a passion to fight to help others learn more about

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brain health and how to care for a loved one with dementia. A little over three years ago, I was certified by global dementia specialist Tep Snow and positive approach to care techniques for dementia care. These techniques allowed my mom and I to experience life with

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dementia, creating moments for her. We stayed at every Disney Orlando property once to fulfill our bucket list, even with her dementia. And I even let her zipline over Gators at Gatorland. Um, these memories fueled me over the

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last year or two. She passed away this April. Um, Mayor Ross and I crossed path a couple times. One day at the state capital earlier this year, the first time I saw him after he left, I was like, should have asked him for a proclamation. And then I bumped into him again. So I asked him for a pro

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proclamation and here I am. So I've been to Tallahassee five times over the past four years advocating and testifying before committees for legislation for dementia and for caregivers. Leader Fentress Driscoll, who covers a portion of Temple Terrace, actually came to meet

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my mom and her memory care facility and signed on to co-sponsor legislation that takes effect this July because it was written out by a Republican. the bill. And so I emailed Franchress's office, leader Driscoll's office, and asked if

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she would co-sp co-sign so it would be bar bipartisan, and she did. Um, and then after two years of advocacy efforts, I wasn't here the first council meeting in June because I was advocating in DC. So, after two years of advocacy

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efforts, Congresswoman Laurel Lee, who also covers our Temple Terrace area, signed on to co-sponsor the ASAP Act, which would require Medicare to approve a simple blood test to identify Alzheimer's years before symptoms appear. While all of this is exciting,

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and I will continue advocating, my hope is to help those right here in our community who have loved ones with dementia. Families need to understand this is a medical condition and no one should be ashamed of experiencing this or ask for help. They should also know that there are local resources available

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um from the state's Alzheimer's disease initiative which many people probably don't know we have a state Alzheimer's disease initiative and a dementia care director and also our senior connection center. And most importantly, I want families to know there is life with dementia if you learn early how to

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understand the brain changes and partner together. It is certainly not easy. It's the worst thing I've ever had to do and I sad for anybody that has to do it. Um, but there is hope and more hope coming available every day. So, I thank you for allowing me to be here. I was also at a

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meeting on Friday and somebody said, "Well, I'm working to make Tarpon Springs the first dementia friendly city in the state of Florida." And I was like, h maybe I can work to make Temple Terrace the first or second dementia friendly city in the state of Florida.

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>> I'm not sure what that means, but >> just some training for local businesses and offices and things like that. >> I'm sure you'll be correct. >> I'll look it up and find out. [laughter] >> Thank you for being here. >> Thank you. Yeah, sure.

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>> We're also always looking for other advocates. You don't have to be like me. You can just >> Am I Am I the supporter? You >> sure? [laughter] >> Can I [laughter] get my slide? >> Amina, do you mind going this side?

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[laughter] >> All right. Three, two, perfect. Thank you. [applause] >> Okay, one more proclamation for World Social Media Day. I never thought I would live to see a

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world social media day. So, our own Mary Bates from our marketing communi and communication staff is here to accept this. This is appropriate because Miss Bates is the social media queen right here. She's very, very good. So, [snorts]

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um, thanks for being here. Whereas social media has transformed the way communities communicate, share information, and connect with one another, social media has become one of the primary ways residents receive news, updates, emergency information, event

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details, and important city communications. [snorts] The city of Temple Terrace recognizes the importance of social media as a valuable tool for public engagement, emergency communication, event promotion, and community connection. The city's social media presence has

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evolved significantly in recent years through innovative communication strategies, interdep departmental collaboration, and the implementation of initiatives such as celebrate what's next. The city of Temple Terrace has embraced creative and modern approaches to

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digital communication, including educational campaigns, trendbased content, [snorts] video storytelling, and engaging content designed to help residents stay informed and connected. The city's social media platforms now

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reach more than 16,000 followers collectively, serving as an important source of information and engagement for the community. One of the city's most successful videos reached more than 130,000 viewers, demonstrating the power of digital

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communication to inform, engage, and share the story of Temple Terrace with audiences near and far. The city recognizes and appreciates the efforts of staff across multiple departments who contribute to creating informative, engaging, and accessible content that

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reflects the spirit, progress, and community pride of Temple Terrace. Now therefore, I, Andrew Ross, by virtue of the authority vested in me as mayor of the city of Temple Terrace, Florida, do hereby proclaim June 30th, 2026 as World

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Social Media Day. And so, thank you for everything you do. Mary, would you like to say a few words? >> Yeah, absolutely. So, [snorts] thank you, Mayor and Council. Um, I'm honored to accept this proclamation on behalf of my team recognizing World Social Media Day. Um,

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I'd first like to mention all the city staff who helped to contribute in telling the Temple Terrace story. And I'd also like to recommen rec recognize our public information officer, Maria Rodriguez, and our digital communications technician, Brian Hill, who's back in the booth. Um, but most

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importantly, I would like to thank our residents, and I guess I'll look at the camera for that. Thank you. Um whether you're liking a post, sharing information with a neighbor, or letting us know that we had a typo, we always appreciate it. Um at the end of the day,

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social media only works if people engage with it. And we're grateful that so many residents choose to stay connected. So for anyone watching, if you don't already follow us, you can find us on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X, LinkedIn, and Eventbrite. I think that's

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all of them. But I Yeah, thank you for this recognition. >> Well, thank you. Thank you very much. And I have to tell the the public that this is u this marketing communic and communications group is a really small group. There's three of them and they are just everywhere. They do an amazing

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job and and thank you to the directors. I know that you help a lot with that because you give them content and cooperate with their zany ideas, but um they really are um amazing with what they do. And I can remember just a few years ago that we weren't anywhere like

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this. And so I'm not sure how best to do this cuz Maria, I see you have the camera. So you can take the official Okay, there we go. And Brian, I don't know if you can put that equipment on autopilot so that you can step out or not, but we'll give you a second and

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see. You should. Yeah. >> Squeeze in. There we go. Think I got it. >> [applause] >> Let's just hope the police chief took the lens cap off. [laughter] Okay. Uh council, has everybody reviewed

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the minutes from our June 2nd meeting? And is there a motion to approve? >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> Any discussion of the motion? All those in favor say I. I >> I opposed. No [snorts] nays. Minutes are adopted. Next up are persons wishing to

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be heard on items not on the agenda or items on the consent agenda. We [snorts] have forms uh in the back of the room on the table back there. I currently only have two requests, but it's not too late. If anybody wants to address the council at this time, we have a threeminut time limit uh for each

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speaker. We do ask that the speakers come to the podium, state their name and city of residence. Uh during public comment on items not on the agenda or items on the consent agenda, the city manager, directors, and elected officials do [snorts] make note of these items. And presuming that we have

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contact information for you, we do follow up on these um issues. And so the first request I have is from Charles Loe. Mr. Loe, >> good evening. Charles Loe, Terrace Park. First of all, happy Father's Day to all the fathers out there. Secondly, uh I

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did see some of the uh the decorations over in the library, which is under 15A. So, I'll mention that. And I do want to mention the library sale, which is going to be next month, July 23rd to July 25th. But my main topic tonight is I

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want to talk about the property tax item on in the November ballot. It's very it's a very difficult thing for me to do because and I made up my mind unless something changes, I'm not going to vote either way on it. I can't vote uh against giving people that need

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property help with the property taxes, but I also can't help but seeing drastic cuts in the city services uh and layoffs and all that. So, I can't either [clears throat] way. Uh I do want to give you before anything else a little

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review of the figures back in March that I happen to recall from the uh comp meeting. Uh the uh typically when a person buys a home they take 37% of their income according to what these figures were and that doesn't I'm not sure whether that meant total income I

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mean gross income or take-home income. Secondly, that that does not count property taxes. That does not count property insurance. That does not count upkeep with the gold enforcement lady here. And of course, this does not count uh paying bills like water and and uh

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and electric and other utilities. Um and this and I won't even go in about cars and things like, you know, cars and raising families and things like that. So there is a definite need for help from the property taxes, but what the governor is putting on is too extreme. I

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can't vote in good conscience to see people lose their jobs. I I I can't see any other way but that uh if that this occurs or losing social services. However, I did think of an approach that you all might want to take. When I say you all, I don't mean the city of Temple

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Terrace. I mean throughout the Florida legal cities and using some of those communications that you all have to talk to other legal cities about that and that is to sponsor uh your own more moderate reform. Uh so that so at the

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same time you could have a more balanced approach toward toward uh maybe for example saving money on high tag tag items like they have downtown with the stadiums and all that and freezing employment but not but not but not losing any services. Uh the math is

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still in your favor if you want to call it that. Uh it takes only 40% plus one voter to defeat the property tax reform. whereas it would take 50% more people in order to make it pass. Now, of course, property taxes are not the only form of

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revenue, but it is significant in every municipality. I I imagine so. And that's all about I want to say about it now. Thank you. Good evening. Hey, and Martin. >> Good evening, ma'am. >> Good evening.

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My husband and I have u lived in Temple Terrace for 30 years now, and we love it. >> [clears throat] >> The reason I'm here is to complain about the um penalties that are levied on the

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um utility bill that comes from the city. Now, uh we own two houses in Temple Terrace. One is our private residence, my husband and I live, and the other is where my daughter, who's a handicapped young adult, she lives there

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with full-time caretakers. So, I pay the bill twice for our residents and for her residents. [clears throat] And I notice a big discrepancy in the amount of time uh that the city gives her to pay her bill. I'm the the um

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person that takes care of all the billing for uh my daughter. I'm the uh pay. I noticed that on her bill uh there's only 21 days it comes in. The bill came in on the 16th of February and it was

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due on the 28th. So that left 21 days to pay the bill or there was a $10 [snorts] penalty on my bill. It came in on um the 1st of June and I had until the 4th

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of July, which gave me 31 days to pay the bill, no penalty. I pay both of these bills before the end of the month. Um, both of them have different uh due dates. My daughters is due on the 28th and mine is due a couple of days into

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the next month. And when I called the city hall to find out why there was this discrepancy, I was told I had to speak to the board because they are the ones that that set the policy. So, [clears throat] I would like to know why we cannot have if the bill is paid

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in the month that it's due, why we can't have a couple of days grace. So if I write out my daughter's bill and it's due on the 28th, I write it on the 28th, you have it on the 29th, so the bill is paid that month in full. Why do we have

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a $10 penalty? That is a lot of penalty for a day of being late. And I don't even consider it late because it's paid in the month that it's due. uh it has never happened to my bill because my bill allows me those extra

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days going into the next month. So even if I write my bill on the 30th, you I still have a couple of days for you folks to get it, no penalty. So I would like you to allow um a couple of days grace beyond the the date that you have

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on the bill if it's paid in the month that it's due. So, please take that into consideration. So, that um $10 month after month adds up, especially for somebody living on disability check. So, please um be more

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fair. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Martin. Mr. B, will you be circling back on? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, somebody from our staff will be contact. You're going to let us know the outcome. >> Do we have Miss Martin's information?

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>> I have. Yes, I do. Yep. Yep. Somebody will get with you and you'll let us know what happened. Okay. Thank you. Are there other members of the public that wish to address the council at this time? Okay. Seeing none, council, is there a

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motion to approve the consent agenda? >> Move to approve. >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I. Opposed. No nazs. Consent agenda is adopted. Next is a public hearing, a resolution of the city of Temple Terrace, Florida,

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approving the purchase of a hydro stop of hydrostop equipment and associated training services in the amount of $148,922. And our public works director, Jason Warrenfield, is here to explain. >> Good evening, [clears throat] mayor, city council.

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The item before you is a resolution authorizing the purchase of the hydrostop equipment. Hydrostop Insta Valve is a permanent insertion valve that allows a new isolation valve to be installed in an active water mane without service interruption, providing utility staff with additional system

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control while avoiding shutdowns. [snorts] Currently, [clears throat] the city relies on an outside contractor contractors to perform these services resulting in significant costs response delays during emergency situations. The proposed purchase includes comprehensive

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training and implementation support for the city staff and will ensure staff can safely and effectively operate the equipment to perform the services independently. Uh funding for this purchase is available through budget savings uh under the contingency reserves within the water and sewer utilities fund. Staff recommends

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approval and I stand for questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Warrenfields. Are there members of the public who wish to comment on this item? >> Council, was there were there questions? Yes, >> council member Fernandez. >> Um, I have a couple questions. Um, can

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this be used for the water distribution and the sanitary sewer and storm water or is it just one? >> Sorry. >> So, this is the components just for the water distribution side. So, focus right now is because of our water the water

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main issues we had um the focus is to get staff trained up, get them prepared. Some of the equipment is transferable but not the drills and not the components, not the clamp valves on the pipes because of the unsanitary conditions that are faced between the two u liquids.

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>> Okay. And then I can you how difficult would this be for staff like is it is it reasonable to expect that staff would be able to operate this equipment after the training? >> Absolutely. So at some point this was a

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system that older technology existed in the utilities department. Um the staff still have some of the piece and parts but we not all of it. It either aged out or it was disposed or broke or whatever. Um we have a few components. This completes the component factor. There's very limited difficulty. I would say

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that the city staff that would be using this. This would be [clears throat] not a nothing issue but a very minor application. Um, currently when the vendors come out and do this work, I mean, I've been there. Um, you you stand there and you're like, that's all you do. Um, so it's it's it's a fairly easy

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task, but in a live situation, it's super important to be trained properly, monitor the pressures, make sure the drill bit comes out of the the line, make sure you don't damage the line, like just it's an attention to detail item. >> And then I just have one more question.

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Can you uh describe what the cost is when we do have to bring a contractor in just so we can see the actual savings that this purchase would provide. >> Sure. So the most recent uh water issue

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we had was over on Fowler Avenue Planet Fitness area. um about a 4 to 5 hour delay and the charge with if I remember correctly was right around $20,000 for the service for a onetime valve. So having this um would remove all of the

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labor fees that are in with that which is um probably 75% of because every time we request it it's an emergency response. So there's added cost for the emergency drop what you're doing response. So, um, you know, West River, for example, we

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put four in on West River, and we put those in at 3:00 in the morning. So, you know, to have the system at our our disposal saves the labor money, the response money. It's really just a pieces and parts number after that. And and the vows are minor compared to the service.

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>> So, then my my last question is, how long does this equipment last? Is this is this anticipated to be an annual expenditure? No, it is not. So, this system's purchased and and with proper maintenance and training and and staff care for the equipment, this will last

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for years. Um, obviously the drill heads of [snorts] those, they're going to wear down. They're going to need replacement, but the system itself, the clamp valves, uh, the pneumatic cylinders, you watch the water pressures and things like that. Again, routine maintenance will prolong their life. >> That's it. >> Nothing questions.

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>> If there are no questions, is there a motion? Move to approve the resolution for the city of Temple Terrace to purchase a Hydra stop and the associated training ser equipment and the associated training services in the amount of

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$148,922. >> Second motion second discussion of the motion. >> If not, all those in favor say I. >> I opposed. No nazs. Resolution's adopted. Thank you, Mr. Warren. Next is a resolution approving change

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order number one and generator purchase for fire station number one and the EOC project and city manager BA will explain. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of council. Uh actually, Chief Merley, you can probably >> you don't >> I don't need you right now. >> I may be able to answer some questions

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if I if I can't I can get them back. >> Okay. So, um Chief Kemp was going to be here this evening. Unfortunately, he took ill uh this afternoon. So, uh, the chief chief Merlin and I we're pinch hitting for him. Um, uh, so regarding [clears throat] this item, when the EOC

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was designed, um, as there's always an effort to make sure that we contain costs, the generator that services fire station one at this facility, it it's about 25 years old. Um, still in good working order. Uh so what they did is they looked at the generator and the

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designers the contractor and uh it had a it was labeled as a 28vt producing generator. Uh the building current standards are 28 volts. So the building design went forward with a 28vt design based on the generator being able

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to service that. Um, as they got further into the uh process, what was discovered was that the the the voltage for the fire station 1, which this generator today services as a backup, was actually 240, which was odd. And so they had the electrician come in and then evaluate

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the generator. And the generator actually is, although labeled at 208, is actually producing 240 volts, not 208. um because of that it couldn't support the design that's already been put into place for the EOC on the current standards. So uh the the best

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recommendation here based upon the age of this generator was to replace the generator with a uh modern version that could service both both buildings at the 208 volt capacity. So this is a 400 kilowatt generator that's being proposed as a change order.

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Uh the total amount including the the generator itself is $213,440. Uh there's $125,100 for installation and associated electrical work because they're also going to rewire fire station one to bring it up to the current standards at

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208. Uh so the combined cost is $338,540. The fire department is requesting authorization in an amount not to exceed 375,000 just so they don't have to come back in case there's any issue uh concerning this. Uh and that would be the request

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this evening. I I'm happy to answer questions as far as my knowledge will take me. Otherwise, I'll I could defer as well. >> Thank you, Mr. B. Are there members of the public who wish to comment on this? Sir, >> just need your name and city of residence, please. Frank Martin, you you

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want my address? >> No, just your city of residence. >> Uh yeah. Uh I just wondered if if this was put out the forbid. >> So they this item because of the nature of it being an emergency. So this item has about a 7month lead time and so

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because of that what if we had to go out to bid this would be a 3 to four month process just to go out to bid. So in lie of that we have allowed the fire department to solicit quotes. So they solicited uh multiple quotes uh at least three quotes and this price that they got here was the most uh economical of

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the quotes that they had in hand. Um we have the ability to do that whenever it's impractical uh to pursue that the competitive bidding process that is a an exemption that we can use. In this case it would make sense because otherwise we'd run the risk of not having a generator in time for hurricane

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season next year which is something that we really don't want to be u situation we don't want to be in. Are there other members of the public who wish to comment? >> Council members or other questions? Council member Kravitz. >> Just from my own understanding, the old

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building ran on 208 volts and now it's being upgraded to 240 or did I >> No, it's the other way around. So, the the fire station one apparently the not apparently it is 240 volts. The generator that was servicing the backup power for Fire Station 1 had a label on

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it. The label for the generator is 208. And and because the what I what I probably believe happened here is this generator was donated to the city about 15 years ago. So already had 10 years of life under it. And I I assume that when they got this generator donated at the

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time, they probably converted the generator um to allow it to adapt to the building because they were getting it donated. That's probably what happened. But no one ever bothered to change the label and annotate that for the for posterity. So that's that led to this issue.

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>> Why why is um why is it necessary to change the other building over from 240 to 208? 240 is a relatively standard voltage in my mind two-phase power, right? >> Because the the new building is 208. The new EOC building is 208. And you can't

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have the two you can't have generated 240 to 208 because it creates safety uh safety hazards for the for the for the building and the structure. that because the buildings are connected or >> correct. So this generator will be servicing two buildings. So it's going to service fire station one and it's

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going to service the new EOC. >> Why not wire the new one to run at the same as the old one? >> Well, the generator is already 25 years old. Uh and the current standard from what I'm told is 208. That's the industry standard. Runs more efficiently. So it it seemed to make

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more sense to invest in a newer generator because originally recall this was a cost containment measure. They thought designed the building for the existing generator that was 208. They thought 208 is the standard that they'd want and they anticipated at some point in the future if the generator stops

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working, which it could. I mean, again, it's 25 years old. It would just simply be mean replacing the generator. Uh, in light of the discovery here that it's not in fact producing 208, it produces 240. They need to replace the generator now. So, that's the the concern we have. Yeah, I was just I was just thinking

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because if you [snorts] have um 240 volts and you go to 208, you need a thicker wire. But if you go from 208 to 240, then you can you could do that. You'd be fine actually with a thinner wire then. But um so in terms of rewiring it, I'm just trying to think through why not run the new building on

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the higher voltage. Is that like a code issue now or is there a reason why they have to be at the lower voltage as a safety or what? >> So my understanding is 208 is the current standard. Okay. Today >> So all the all the equipment runs on 208. Is that the idea? >> Yes, I believe so. For that building, yes, it's 208.

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>> All right. Interesting. Well, thanks. >> Member Fernandez. >> Um, I know that sometimes a competitive bid process is not practical, but a lot of times our u police or fire departments will go out and look for

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contracts that have already been negotiated by other jurisdictions. Is that something that they that the fire department looked at to make sure that we're getting, you know, the the most marketable cost bid?

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>> So, I know they they solicited direct quotes in this case. I'm not sure why versus the piggyback they did that. I'm not sure if Chief, do you know? >> So, we don't have that that answer for you. I do know that Chief Kemp did tell me that he had multiple quotes. >> Okay, that's it.

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>> Yeah, a couple. So, um, if approved tonight, this generator will go in the same pad as the other generator. >> Chief Merley, >> Mr. Mayor, members of City Council, um, it's my understanding that yes, they'll have to modify the the current pad that

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it's in. Uh, but that for the most part, it'll fit with the existing structure, but there will have to be some modifications. >> Okay. And it'll be diesel like the current one, or is the current one uh natural gas? Diesel. Well, natural gas natural gas was back up. >> Okay,

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>> that's all. >> So, I have a question. Um, let's if this were approved in its present form, would it be I don't know if you can answer this on the fly or not, but if it gets approved,

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could you still, if it's practical, check for existing contracts to see if there's a piggyback? I mean, governments buy generators all the time. Um, I don't know how hard that is to do to check the database to see if there's like the

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sheriff's bid or the fire, you know, to see if there's a piggyback opportunity. >> I'm I'm sure I can follow up with Chief Kemp on that. I'm just You have a resolution this evening. It's very specific. So, we if that were the case, we would have to come back at a later

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date and and try and change that. >> Okay. Okay. Thank you. >> One more. >> Oh, Council Member Kravitz. Um, in terms of the delivery date, uh, if we accept one of these offers, how how certain can we be that they will

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deliver on time and are there any contractual remedies if they don't? >> So, the lead time is already pretty uh pretty extensive. So, we were if we've looked at the work program here and it's basically being if everything goes well,

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it would be delivered right when the building is about to open. So, in January, um I will talk to the chief about any sort of u penalties for for late delivery. I don't know what those are at this at this point, council member, but I can certainly talk to the chief about that and seeing what what's in the

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contract. >> I'd just be worried that the the delivery date will slip back because that that happens quite commonly. >> Yeah. Um but if it's going to be delivered in January, that's also no longer in hurricane season. So, >> no, I'm I was concerned about the following hurricane season for next year

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because if we had a threemon delay to do the the bid process, then you're looking at potentially pushing it pretty close, particularly if there were any kind of delays. >> Okay. Thank you. [snorts] >> Okay, council, if there are no further questions, is there a motion?

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>> Yes. Move to approve um change order number one and generator purchase for fire station number one and the EOC project. Seconded. >> Motion second. Discussion of the motion. >> If not, all those in favor say I. >> I opposed. No nays. Resolutions adopted.

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Thank you, chief. Next is a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with asphalt paving systems to conduct paving services for select taxf funded street projects. Public works director Jason Warrenfield will explain.

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Good evening again, mayor, city council. The item [clears throat] before you is a resolution to execute the work authorization for asphalt paving systems. Uh council, as you may recall, the city was awarded approximately $9.4 million in certax funds for street resurfacing. Prior to my arrival at the

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city, the engineering staff had determined a list of streets to be considered for the program and upon award, all the listed streets uh were accepted. The proposed project on this award or this resolution is for paving

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services to cover West River Drive, East River Drive, Druid Hills Road, and Mabel Place. Uh this resolution total 1 1.804 or 1,84,736.97. Uh staff recommends approval and I stand for questions. >> Thank you, Mr. Warrenfield. Are there

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other members of the public who wish to comment on this item? Council member questions. >> I do. >> Council member Fernandez. >> Um so I I know that this isn't necessarily um well we have two separate

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items, but my question well two questions really is one is are they broken up for a specific reason? Um, and then also do you have an idea of when we would

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have a like a a cycle of paving or you probably already know the cycle, but when we would have a system where we would have the streets on a certain paving cycle scheduled so that it would be a consistent application of paving.

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So, in [clears throat] the transition of the city engineer position, our paving got off. Um, two things. We had to bid out for paving services, which the current city engineer, Ron Patel, he was able to push that through, and we have se six or seven vendors that are on

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retainer that we use for the services. So, [clears throat] this program, um, these streets on this program, we're we're moving forward. the uh pavement condition index report is still under review in the engineering department. So

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to get some paving completed is particularly on these larger uh streets, longer streets, we're bringing these to you now to get this in motion uh during the non-school time period of the year. We'll get this in, get it in motion, and then hopefully, barring any other issues,

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when we get to the budget approval October 1st, we can do the same cycle late fall and have the paving done in the in the cooler months of the of the year. >> And then, um, when you when you talk about sir tax um, select tax funded street projects.

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Can you describe what that is for people who are listening or watching? >> Sure. So the list [clears throat] of the city was asked for a list of streets to participate in this program when it was would have been awarded and they provided I believe it was 11 streets

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to be eligible for the program. So when the when the county administered the awards for this there was enough funding to award all of the streets in our program um dollars to be funded for paving. So, we anticipate to use every dollar. I'm sorry. We're going to use

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every street that we have. We will not spend every dollar, but we will cover what we've been approved for. >> So, this funding is actually provided to the city through Hillsboro County and not directly from our gas taxes.

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>> Can I can take a take a stab at that actually. So this is the uh if you recall folks who have been here longer than I have actually there was a county certex that was approved probably 5 years ago at this point five or six years ago it was challenged in

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court ultimately it was overturned but the issue is that communities the county cities in the county we had all collected a a year of revenue if you will uh for that that tax and so those dollars the state legislature had to figure out what to do with with those dollars. And that took period of time, a

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couple of years to get through that process. And what the state legislature ultimately did is that they created in essence a law that says this is what these dollars will be spent on. And they had solicited lists from the different entities in the county and so the county and the three cities for streets to be

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used. So the list was sent by the city by um Mr. Warrenfeld's predecessor and uh the DOT is administering this, not the county. So the DOT said uh last year give us the award of $9 million and a little bit more than that and indicated

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these are the streets. You can't use these dollars for anything else except for these streets. And so that's what Mr. Warrenfel was just saying. We may have money left over. That is true based on the streets because we have some of the work is less expensive than it was originally tallied and some of the work we had already done as part of other

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projects by the time we got this award. So >> okay, thank you. >> Other questions for Mr. Warm fills. >> There are no further questions. Is there a motion? >> Move to approve the resolution authorizing the city manager to execute

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a contract with asphalt paving systems to conduct paving services for select Certax funded street projects. >> Second. >> Motion second. Discussion of the motion. If not, all those in favor say I. >> I.

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>> I. Opposed. No. NA's resolutions adopted. Next is a similar resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with Superior Asphalt Inc. to conduct asphalt paving services for select certax funded street projects

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similar to the last resolution and our public works director Jason Warrenfelds is going here to explain. >> Yes sir. Thank you mayor. Exactly [clears throat] the same scenario as the previous resolution. The difference is the vendor is superior um asphalt and then the proposed projects on this are

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south south river hills drive and north river hills drive. Um this resolution total was 1.1 1,149,560.50 and I'll stand for questions. >> Thank you. Are there members of the public who wish to comment on this? Mr. >> Lo,

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Terrace Park, I'll fill in I do have a question. And the most obvious one is why do you have a different vendor for each of these sets of projects? To fill in what the city manager said, that was the offer transit uh referendum in 2018 and last year was when they gave out

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those transit rebates. So, but I am curious though why I have a different vendor on 12C and 12. Yes, sir. >> Are there other members of the public who wish to comment on this item? Okay, Mr. Warren Fields.

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>> Mr. Mayor, the reason in the different vendors is when the engineering department um asked for quotes for these projects, there were different u numbers for each vendor for each street. So, the city engineer used the most responsive um vendor that had the best price for

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the work. So, that's why there's two different vendors. >> Council members, are there questions for Mr. Warren Fields? >> Okay. Thank you. If there are no further questions, is there a motion? >> Yes. Move to approve the resolution authorizing the city manager to execute

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contract with Superior Asphalt Incorporated to conduct asphalt paving services for select taxf funded street projects. >> Second. >> Motion is second. Is there discussion of the motion? If not, all those in favor say I. I.

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>> I. Opposed. No. Resolutions adopted. Thank you, Mr. Warrenfeld. There any carryover council business to come before the council? [snorts] New business or board reports? Council member Kravitz.

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Just topic for discussion. Um I've heard several residents bring up to me that uh on account of the difference in the trash collection days south of Bush being Monday, north of Bush being on Tuesday, uh that the areas south of Bush

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tend to fall on a a federal holiday. So, we got um Martin Luther King Day, Washington's birthday, Memorial Day, Labor Day, and Columbus Day. Uh, and I was just curious whether this is accounted for in some way in the trash collection schedule, or in the fee

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schedule in some manner. Uh, since I think the only holiday that affects North Bush is Thanksgiving, but I could be wrong on that. Uh, is there any uh so so that's a five five to one ratio. I'm just curious if there's any thoughts on this. Has this ever been mentioned or

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discussed or considered? Um, so the collection days are based on the number of streets in the collection area based on staff um and routes and and whatnot. Um, since I've been here, we've not shifted

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um collection days on streets. It's uh I would say it would be for the marketing world, it's going to be a lot of announcements if we if we change streets for these areas. I will say that, you know, the city services are provided two times a week. Um,

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Tuesdays and Fridays, so missing missing that Friday. They have the Tuesday before and obviously the Tuesday after. Um but yeah, it's not I mean since I've been here there's there's not been a shift in anything like that. Um we receive some concerns about that but

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Tuesdays are a heavy day for us and we staff accordingly. >> I don't think Thank you. I don't I don't think anyone has an issue with the with the frequency. Um my thought was mostly along the lines of the fact that everyone pays the same collection fees, right? >> They do. >> But there is a difference in the in the

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frequency. So yes, there's a difference in the frequency, but the volume doesn't change. So if they hold their trash one one extra pickup, it's still the same amount of trash. >> Do we charge based on volume or do we charge based on pickups?

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>> So we charge based on the service as it's provided in a business format. So the trucks don't have a we don't have a way we don't have the ability to weigh the garbage on the trucks. Um, but the services are provided. I mean, each resident's eligible to have two toaders

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two times a week. Um, and we're and that's comparable with our neighbors and they offer similar services. [snorts] >> Yeah, I understand. I mean, in in my mind, and I've seen this done elsewhere, it might be worth thinking about to charge based on actual collection days

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that occur for a particular customer. Um, just as a thought. >> Sure. I mean, and in that scenario, I would say that there potentially I mean, potentially could be a price increase um because the weight doesn't change. So,

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if we're picking up if we're based, my opinion is we're basing the collection on the number of times that we're there compared to the volume that we pick up, we won't see a reduction in volume. We will only see a very minor reduction in maybe fuel, maybe.

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>> Yeah. So, >> well, um, it's something that I'm kind of considering and keeping an eye on right now because I do I do think if we are going to collect less from certain parts of the city, then perhaps they ought to receive a rebate or something along those lines. Or instead of receiving a rebate, perhaps we simply

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ought to invoice people based on the actual number of days that they have garbage collected. So each day could be a certain amount. We just charge that in that way. um rather than making the assumption that everyone is getting an equal service. Uh this is just something

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that occurred to me. And as I said, some cities do actually charge based on actual numbers of collections. Um uh one thing I've seen done is they put an RFID chip in the uh trash can and then uh every time it's collected, it automatically registers that it's been visited and then that's that's how it's

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collected. So, um, but, uh, obviously not necessary to do anything that complicated. Uh, but it might be interesting to see whether we could, um, equalize the amount of money that people are paying for the service based on the actual service they're getting. So, that that would be one thing that I' I'd be

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happy to see happen personally. >> Yep. Happy to happy to hear other thoughts. Yeah. What's up? >> Question of vice mayor. >> Yeah. Thank you. So if you residential service you twice a week Monday or Thursday. Monday and

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Thursday >> or Tuesday and Friday. Yes sir. >> So if you have a Monday Thursday Thursday and we have Monday holidays off you lose that Monday. >> Correct. But you pick up on Thursday. If you're a Tuesday Friday person you lose the Friday day. Right.

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>> So now the question only becomes the disparency between the two groups. How many Mondays we have holidays and how many Fridays? and they're close to the same. So I don't see the Tuesday people still lose the day on Friday as the Monday people lose it on Monday. So

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that's just my comment on that. Is that a correct statement about >> It would be correct. Yes. I mean we do have other holidays that fall on different days. >> I know. But I mean we we have predominantly Mondays or Fridays and stuff. So it it almost balances out.

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>> Okay. That was just a comment. Okay. Other new business or board reports? >> Yes. >> Um so I recently um attended the Hillsboro County Arts Council meeting and some of the things that came up at

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that meeting I wanted to ask if the if it was possible to increase our city's art offerings. So, uh, one of the things is that there is a ca the county arts council does offer a calendar of art

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events or art activities that take place and it is possible that um, we could link that on our web page or art or to some extent or maybe put something out in social media so that people know that

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they could access um, art events through that. And then another question I have is we have Florida College within our city limits and we have USF nearby and I

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wondered if there was some way to increase our connection with either of them with regard to art displays or um partnering with interns with them helping maybe with helping us display

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items. So, those were some of the the topics that were discussed at the meeting about just basically increasing the community's access to art. And I did want to ask specifically here, we have

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all all of our art on one side of the city hall building. And now that we've opened up the the billing area, would it be possible to move some art where people might see it more if

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they're coming in for city billing or I know we had some lights hung and I'm not asking us necessarily to spend money, but it's a consideration. That's that's all I have. Other new business, board reports. Okay.

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City manager report. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of council. I'm going to ask um uh leader services director Langville to come up. Uh back in December, the council asked us to uh provide a uh a report on uh

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ways to increase holiday decorations in the community. Mr. Lfield and his team have done some research on that on this and he's going to uh tell us his findings. >> Good evening, Mr. Langfield. >> Good evening, mayor, members of city council. Uh yes, back in December, uh city council did direct staff to do some

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research into uh possible excuse me, holiday uh display recommendations uh for the upcoming holiday season. Uh after discussions with the city manager um we kind of looked at at three things that would establish as criteria for

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moving forward with this. First of all be fiscally uh reasonable and responsible. Uh that it will be scalable with opportunities for expansion and added displays in future years. And finally it would be it would provide the the greatest uh visual impact uh with

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the available funds that we have. So once we kind of took those things into consideration, we started looking at what we could do and where we could do it that would meet these three goals and we looked at a lot of different options. But the the the final one that that

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seemed to make the most sense was to do a display in the redevelopment area. Um by doing so we we are concentrating our light displays in one area which which would provide the biggest impact uh

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visual impact. Two it is activates the downtown area which is something a goal of this council uh for many years and to draw people downtown not only to see the lights but then to patronize the businesses. Uh secondly, it becomes scalable. Um where you now in year one

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uh which is what this proposal is uh is focusing on is is Bertha of Palmer uh between Bullard Parkway and the Wind Dixie. Year two could expand to the south where we would light up around Springdale Pond and then year three beyond that where we would light up in

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Riverside Park. Once that project is completed, at the end of year three, you now have a corridor of holiday light displays from U Bullard Parkway all the way down to the river. Again, accomplishing that goal of activating that entire area.

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Um, [clears throat] so on once we we kind of set the guard rails of what we were looking for, um, I went out and started having some conversations with, uh, contractors and vendors who do this type of work. Um, we met with, uh, Full Stop

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Productions, um, which is a firm that, uh, Nancy Hudson is associated with. um myself and city manager and Corey Collins had a meeting with her and and a member of her team to kind of discuss parameters and and what type of materials exist uh that we could do with

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this. Uh following that discussion, I had multiple lengthy discussions with a firm called Moscow Designs, which provides holiday light display um opportunities for municipalities and businesses and and stadiums and and and

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other organizations uh throughout the country. um and they spent some time with me on the phone and and through multiple Zoom calls where we discussed where we're looking, what's in the area, and how we could best activate that with

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the funds that we have available. Included in your packet is a um is their proposal which has some great visual displays of what we're trying to accomplish in that area. I also uh engaged with a firm called Holiday Designs, kind of laid out the parameters

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with them. We had some conversations and and based on what I had already learned from our conversations with Full Stop Productions and with Moscow Designs. Uh we were able to really narrow down what we could do in the area, how it would be sized, how it would be scaled, um and

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how it would work in order to really do something there with the funds that would that would be available that would have a great impact, have have a beautiful display downtown and something to encourage people uh to go there. Um, in addition to what I had asked them to

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provide, um, city manager also asked me to, uh, have them provide pricing for the new wreaths for city hall. Right now, city hall has four 4ft, uh, Christmas wreaths that get hung on the building during the holiday season. Uh, we're upping those to sixoot lighted

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wreaths with bows. um that would go on the city hall again to to you know improve and expand upon what is being hung on city hall and and you know the overall impact of the holiday displays at this location as well. Uh Maria

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Rodriguez and the PIO staff have been working with uh the Chamber of Commerce on banners uh which would get hung on uh light poles along 56th Street. um information on those were in your packet as well as uh it is my understanding that those banners and that project will

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be funded through uh donations and contributions from businesses and through the Chamber of Commerce. Uh given direction tonight, uh we will be prepared to to engage with the low quote

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the low uh for this project which is Moscow Designs um to get this materials ordered. Um, we're not on a real tight timeline here. Um, it is my understanding that as long as we get orders in by August, there's no issue getting things in place uh for this

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upcoming holiday season. Uh, these materials would be installed uh by city crews and in the offseason will be stalled at the public works complex. The general understanding is the uh the

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lights uh that get strung up on the poles. They they call them a threeseason product uh which would get we get expect to get about 3 years of life out of them before they would start to fail. Um these are not lights that you buy from

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Home Depot. These are these are higher quality um LED uh lights. we have opportunities to do either a soft white, which I think, again, my personal opinion is kind of a classier look, or we could do uh multicolored um they call

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them RGB lights, red, green, and blue. Um and then the uh the decorations that hang on the light poles, uh they have a far longer lifespan. As long as they are cared for in the offseason and stored properly, we can easily expect to get 10 years of

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life out of those once they are as long as they're properly maintained. Uh I stand for any questions you may have about uh the products that I've brought forward. Um any suggestions that you may have on what you may want to see differently or you know what your general thoughts are

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on this. >> Thank you Mr. Langfield councils. Are there are there questions and ultimately this is involves an expenditure of funds. So we do need to culminate in a motion if you choose to move forward. Vice Mayor. >> Yes. Thank you. Um first is about

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budget. Uh would that be this year's budget? >> Correct. We would we have some savings from a project that was used the actual capital project that used unassigned fund balance. So we we're projecting to take the the savings from that the current fiscal year and use it to if the

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council wishes uh use it to apply towards this expenditure. I do want to make note which I uh did in the report as well that uh if the state constitutional amendment passes the way it's currently drafted, this would be a challenging expense to incur in the future. Uh when we're talking about core

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services and trying to fund core services, this would be one that would be um just difficult to make make happen in the future for future phases assuming the November ballot goes a certain way. >> Okay, one more. So, you mentioned uh these would last at least three years

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with proper storage. Do we have proper storage? >> Yes, sir. Uh we've already uh consulted with public works director Jason Warfelts and they have adequate storage here to at at their facility uh to keep this it doesn't need to be climate controlled. It just needs to be inside and out of the weather to uh uh ensure

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the longevity that we would expect out of it. >> Okay. Perfect. Thank you. Council member Fernandez. Um, you mentioned the downtown redevelopment area and city hall, but are there any decorations that you would that we have or you would propose for the family recreation

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complex or Lightfoot or the library >> in in in order to accomplish what we try to um do in in the downtown area uh within the budget parameters that we had working with keeping it under $50,000. um there there wasn't the extra funds

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available to do things at the individual city facilities when we first started putting eyeballs on this and saying how do we want to do it that was one of the things that we considered doing is if you do uh decorations here and at Lightfoot and family complex and the library now instead of having a focused

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holiday display in one area that creates a draw you have pieces spattered all over the city which would provide less of an impact I felt than doing it this way. >> Thank you, >> Mr. McCravitz. >> Thanks very much for looking into it,

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for getting this proposal. It's very nice. Thank you so much. Um, I have a three questions right now. Um, first of all, we're activating downtown. Excellent. Uh, is there any plan to put a decoration kind of like uh uh a

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highlight piece on 56th Street so that people going by know that there's something downtown with lights or >> there there is a little wiggle room in the budget but not a lot. And I can talk to uh talk to the firm and see what they have that could fit in our budget that

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might meet that uh that request. just uh just thinking in terms of how do we draw people in? If they see something festive when they're driving by, they might register that there's something interesting to look at uh in the rest of downtown and then pull in or they might

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go by several times a day and then realize, oh, maybe I should check that out. Just something to think about. Um and then my second question relates to the ongoing cost. [snorts] As I understand it, the first cost is 50,000 which includes the equipment setup. If

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we can use these items for anywhere from 3 to 10 years, does that cost drop off in the subsequent years? Well, there would be a annual maintenance cost to replace things that may have uh failed or need replacing. So that this once we get this stuff in and on board and and

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use it over coming years, there will be an ongoing expense to maintain the equipment, >> but it will be much less than 50,000. >> It well because we wouldn't be buying all of it at once. So we may need to replace strands of lights here and there or a pole fixture or new garland or wreaths, things of that nature. So yes,

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there will be an ongoing operational expense to this. >> Got it. Great. So I'm just trying to think. So our first year expense is going to be 50,000. subsequent years, >> second year is going to be very low because again, we're going to expect to get at least three years out of out of the light strands and then and more out. So, I wouldn't expect much in year two.

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Maybe one light strand failed for whatever reason. Um, but very minimal years two and three. Uh, but by year four, you are going to be looking at some operational uh expenses. Yeah, totally reasonable. >> Depending on the tree, >> we have a tree. We've already bought the tree. >> Okay, good. [laughter]

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[snorts] >> Um, final question. Uh I'm I appreciate very much that you uh solicited sponsorships from the Chamber of Commerce. Um is that accounted for in the 50,000? >> No, sir. The the uh the funding from Chamber of Commerce is on the end of the

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banners that are going along 56 56th Street. I believe there were pictures of them um in your packets. Uh that was not included in the light displays in the downtown area, just for the banners. >> But we will be soliciting businesses for sponsorships for the lights. >> We can certainly work on that. Okay.

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>> Because I think that there would probably be interest from both citizens and maybe also businesses to to kick in some money >> and uh we should take advantage of that if that is the case. So um >> yeah may I just >> Yeah, sure. Of course.

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>> I apologize. So Mr. L I was more directly involved with the chamber project. So the the chamber of commerce they uh they run the the banner program for the city. And so what they've uh in their collaboration with the city and and I want to thank Maria and the team.

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They drew up designs for holiday banners for them. And what they're going to be doing is they're going to fabricate banners and they're going to basically for the existing sponsors that they have. They'll offer that as I think it's a premium uh to those to those sponsors to have a holiday banner up as well. So they're doing that direct business

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solicitation. The this this direct business solicitation is not part of the city's program. We're not that's not anything that we've contemplated in this program. Um just I just want to make sure that it's evidence just to not create a mis mis expectation here. >> Is it is it not permissible or

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>> wouldn't say it's not permissible. I think that you just it's I don't particularly feel comfortable with the city going out myself and and you know this team members trying to solicit donations for for city for city for this kind of activity potentially.

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Um, I know we do it for for certain special events. I think it just it has some problematic issues uh to it because we're also the people that kind of go on and regulate things and things like that. So, uh I'm not too keen on it personally um from that perspective. Uh

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[laughter] but again, it's your council council's direction. I also want to be cognizant of the fact that we have limited staff and we have many other activities we're going to be doing um and different constraints we're operating under. So, just to want to create an expectation that we're going to be doing this business solicitation

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program. >> I I don't want to be misunderstood. I wasn't suggesting that city staff go door to door and ask for donations. I was just thinking that it could be available online in any business because we are enriching the businesses who are downtown by creating a beautiful holiday display and they will benefit from that. And so, I would imagine that many of

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those businesses or at least this is commonly done in other countries uh very common that the businesses themselves will arrange for the holiday display. So if we're taking the lead on that, it's quite possible that many of the businesses will take an interest and then they will make a contribution without us even needing to go to them if

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we make it possible for them. So for example, they might go online and find it and say, "Oh yeah, I'll support that." Then we just have a little page on the website that thanks them, says, "Thank you for sponsoring the holiday display." Something along those lines would be very low effort and potentially very rewarding.

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Um, so I I think it's a great idea. I like it very much. Other questions or discussion? Is there a motion? >> Yes. Okay. >> Oh, can Well, I had a I I have a question about what guidance the city is

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looking for. So, for example, we have three businesses here that you got information from. Are you expecting city council to choose one of them or should we be saying a not to exceed 50,000?

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Um, I'm I I think at this point because the the expenditure is the under $50,000 uh level, it does not require council approval. I think what I'm looking for at this point is just

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affirmation from you all that uh the expenditure of the funds for the holiday displays is something that you want us to move forward with. Okay. Still ready? >> Okay.

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>> Ready? Okay. Um I move that we authorize the city to move forward with this uh not to exceed $50,000 for the holiday uh decorations provided in the report with a caveat that you also work in um

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trying to get decorations at the family recreation complex in the Lightfoot Center in the library. So second >> um yes. Okay. >> Motion to second discussion decoration. >> All those in favor say I.

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>> I opposed. No nazs. Thank you Mr. Langfield. Mr. B is still on your report. >> So before Mr. Langfeld walks away. Um, I'd like to take this opportunity to uh recognize him and thank him because uh

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when I first toured the city the day before my interview, I remember he told me he started working here when he was 10 years old or something like that and [laughter] and he I think it was 45 years of work for the city and I was very much impressed by that. Uh it stuck with me since. Um Mr. Langfeld has

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announced that he plans to retire from the city effective June 30th. He's going on to uh uh bigger and better things probably, I imagine. Um and I'd like to give this opportunity to for him to talk to us a little bit and um and have him recognized.

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>> Okay. Well, thank you. Um yes, my career with the city is coming to an end. Um I've thought a lot about how this moment would go. Um I ended up here almost by accident. Um

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many years ago um I got out of the Navy and didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Um I had moved back home with my parents um outside of Fort Lauderdale and a good friend of mine was a tennis pro at a local country club and he said, "Hey, we need a lifeguard for

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the summer." I said, "I know how to swim." Um so I went and got my lifeguard certification and spent my summer working at this country club. the pool closed for the season and I got a uh I got a job at for the city of Coral Springs um at a lifeguard at one of

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their facilities and I worked there for [snorts] about two years and the time I spent there I said you know I I watched all the all the folks who had careers there I said that's something I'd really like to do. Um, so I came to school at USF

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and the fall season of my senior year, um, I got a part-time lifeguard job at the pool and worked there till the pools closed because at that time the family complex was much different than it is now. And

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in November at the end of King High swim season is when we closed the pool down for the winter time. and I stayed on through the winter and did odd jobs. I worked in the fitness center, worked at the front desk, I helped out with youth programs and all that stuff. Um, my spring season of my senior year, I was

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in Fort Lauderdale, back in Fort Lauderdale doing an internship at a hospital. Um, middle of the internship, I get a phone call from Stacy Jenkins, who was the head lifeguard at the time, and she said, "Hey, do you want to come back and work this summer?" And I said, "Yes,

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because I wanted to move back to this area." And I said, "But understand, I'm going to come back, but I don't know how long I'm going to be there cuz I'm going to be looking for a real job as soon as I get back. It's 33 years later. [laughter]

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I'm still trying to find it." Um, >> a real job. >> Yeah, a real job. Uh and through a combination of uh timing, luck, and hard work, my career kind of grew um with this city and with the recreation

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department. Um through the years, I've had three great mentors who helped me out. U Kevin Dunar, um director taught me about vision, taught me about loyalty. Uh James taught me about management, taught

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me about working in the city. Um, Ron Swanson taught me about people and working with people. [cough] Those of you who don't know who Ron Swanson was, he was the director of parks and recreation on the TV show Parks and Recreation.

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>> Um, James, for the first time in 30 years, you're not going to be in a position of influence over my life. [laughter] >> Um, it's it's been a great career. I've watched a whole generation of this community grow up. Um, I've had great

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people work for me, [snorts] [clears throat] celebrated with my staff, births, weddings, mourned at funerals. [snorts] We did it all. Um,

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so many of my staff violated fraternization policies and are now raising wonderful families of their own because they got married because they met working at the rec center. Excuse me. [snorts]

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>> Do you need a tissue? >> I'm okay. Um, we've done great things. We built buddy baseball fields, expanded the family complex, playgrounds,

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focus cafe, things that really made an impact on the on this community. [snorts] Excuse me. I wish you all the best. This this is a great city. I've been here my entire adult life. I couldn't imagine it

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any other way. Thank you. [applause] [applause] Mayor, can I have one comment? Thank you, Carl. Um, you know, I knew you when you were that young lifeguard. So anyway, not

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going to get into that, but I want the public to know. I don't know what you're going to do um for his successor. Um that's up to you. I don't think the odds would be in the last 26 or more years, the wife of the director has been named

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Beth. So Carl's wife Beth, my name Beth. So I don't know if that's going to continue, but anyway, Carl, good luck. City manager. >> That's all I have. Thank you. >> I have two questions for the city manager. >> Council member Fernandez.

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>> Um one, can you describe the or give us information about the meeting that's going to be on June 30th? That's um I guess the results of the planning commission study. >> I actually don't have that information,

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but I'll get it to you. >> Okay. I just want to make sure for for anybody watching I' I know we've put some information out about it but encourage the public to attend. And then um there's been a lot of discussion about water restrictions and I wanted to

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ask if you can explain to people what the stage three water restrictions entail. And also um for people that have wells to make sure they understand that um

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just having a well mean you still have to follow the watering restrictions. Uh good evening. Yes. So the phase 3 water restrictions are currently running through July 1st. Uh we're monitoring to see if that changes, if they're extended, if they bump back to a phase

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two. Uh but right now they're still in effect. Uh we're still enforcing, we're still out there and about. Um we do get calls like we got a call by the golf course today. The golf course is doing exactly what they're supposed to do. There are specific rules for golf courses. Uh there's specific rules for

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seating, sod, new plants, and things like that. Um everything is available on our website. It's very in-depth. We actually link out to the Swift Mud website as well. Um if anybody has questions about that specifically, contact us. We're happy to come out.

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We're happy to to to look at your uh equipment with you to make sure it's operating the way it should on the right schedule. Uh we've done several videos about that. Uh it does go by the last digit of your your address. Uh you can water with with nothing else like no sod

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or anything like that. New new stuff. Uh in the morning from [snorts] on your watering day, one time per day between midnight and 4:00 a.m. or 8:00 p.m. and midnight, one day per week. uh whether you're on a well or city water, it

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doesn't make a difference. Um or where the water's coming from. Uh the only one that's different is reclaimed water, but we don't really we don't have that here. Uh but if anybody has questions about that, contact us directly. We'll like I said, we're happy to come out and explain further. But as right now, it's

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supposed to go to the July 1st. Um and if anything changes, we're going to let everybody know immediately. All >> right. Thank you. Council member Kravitz, >> small question about the Sunnyside complete streets project. I'm just

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curious if there's any status update on that. >> Mr. Mr. Warren Felt, you want to [clears throat] >> city staff met last week with the engineer on record for the project and the city manager, I believe it included

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in his last week's update that uh solicited the council for a date in later part of July to um have a community meeting to show the proposed redesign or speed and um reduction options. [snorts] for that street.

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>> Fantastic. Thank you. Really appreciate it. >> Any other questions for the city manager? City attorney's report. No report [clears throat] tonight. >> Any other business to come before the council? If not, we will stand adjourned. >> [music]

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