Latest updates for what's going on in town. The following projects are under review. A new 7-Eleven convenience store with gas pumps to be located at the southwest corner of Dair Road in US1. Hendricks Eye Care, a 2720 ft medical
office located at 300 Cheney Highway. Verona Villages A and E, which will feature 339 single family homes and 126 town homes in the Verona subdivision along Gryom Parkway. Two Garden Street apartment buildings with five units each at 1600 Garden Street and an amenity
center at the Shores Delation Drive. Plans have been approved or site permits have been issued for the following projects. A 96,000 foot Titusville assisted living facility to be located on Silverstar Road. A Mavis Tire and Break retail store to be located in the
St. John's Plaza on Garden Street next to Harbor Freight. A 44 unit Tropic Apartments complex to be located at the corner of South Singleton Avenue and Tropic Street. A 4un Palmetto apartment complex to be located east of Hitisville Apartments to be located at the corner of Fox Lake Road and South Street. A new
airport tower at Space Coast Regional Airport. A 6,000 foot addition to the Futuramic Manufacturing Building at 2210 Garden Street. A hydrosaurus brewery at 502 Josephine Street. A Heartland dental office to be located at 2035 Cheney Highway, 36 Palmetto Ridge condominium
units at 915 Sprout Lane, and a 12,000 foot true hotel to be located on Helenouser Boulevard. Construction is underway on the following projects. 91 Odyssey Ridge Town Homes to be located along Sison Road. The Pier 13 retail coffee shop and roasting facility at
1391 North Washington Avenue. Phase one of Titusville Resort and Destination which will include a hotel and restaurant spaces to be located at 3550 South Washington Avenue. A new 620,000 foot Loheed Martin manufacturing and warehouse building at 1103 John Glenn
Boulevard. A new Chase Bank located at 2035 Cheney Highway. Milright Apartments formerly known as Titusville Chance Partners will be located along Columbia Boulevard. Phase one consists of 255 multif family units in two buildings. While phase 2 will consist of 233 multif
family units in two more buildings. Falcon's Roost a 28 lot single family home subdivision along Knox Mcgra Drive. An event hanger for the Valiant Air Command at the Space Coast Regional Airport. Site improvements to the BP gas station on Garden Street, including parking lot renovations, invasive plant
removal, and interior refurbishment. a 51,000 foot TRG self storage building with covered outdoor RV storage at 3960 South Street and Huntington Park, an 86 unit single family home subdivision along South Park Avenue. For more information on any of the great
topics mentioned here, along with feature articles such as sustainability practices of Space Coast Ceramics and New Vision, and all about Red, White, and Boom, check out the Talking Points magazine at titusville.com/talking points. Alrighty. Well, good evening everybody.
Like to welcome you here to the city of Titusville City Council special press pres presentations meeting on July 22nd, 2025 at 5:30. I'm going to call this meeting to order. You would take a moment for the invocation with a moment of silence, please.
Thank you very much. Please stand for the pledge. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for
all. Thank you very much. City clerk. This is a city council meeting to hear special pres excuse me special recognitions and presentations. Council will not take formal action on the agenda items. All individuals wishing to speak may do so under petitions and
requests. No signup card is required. C is being submitted to city council shall be placed in the box on the table. Thank you very much, city clerk. City manager, do we have a quorum? Yes, we do. Thank you very much. And the floor is yours.
Thank you, mayor and council. Uh first item on the agenda is the employees of the month. And for June 2025, we have one of our IT network analysts, uh Mr. Justin Wells, has been selected employee of the month. And to present
that award, his supervisor, Justin Kenny. Okay. Um, this is a great uh award to be giving out this this evening um because it was actually not presented by me. It was one of the other employees of the city, which is always a great feeling for a supervisor to have. Um,
and it states, "Justin Wells does doesn't just do his job as a PC network specialist well. He excels and exceeds expectations. The excellence lies in his proactive approach to problem solving and the willingness to go the extra mile computer issues with Justin that really
don't make sense and cannot be replicated on demand." And Justin's listens and never dismisses a concern. Justin will then do research to try and solve the problem if it comes up again. I find this work ethic refreshing and really appreciate the willingness to be proactive, the consistent follow-ups,
and overall great customer service. Justin Wells exemplifies a great employee and should be recognized as employee of the month for the city of Titusville. Thank you, sir. How we do this? Now for July employee of the month, we have Sue Williams, our CRA planner. And
to present that award, we have Brad Parish, our community development director. I'm really happy that Sue was uh approved for this. Sue Williams has consistently brings fresh and creative ideas to the table. She's been a pleasure to work with the past couple of years with us. She came to us from New
Simra. She came to us with a lot of experience from there and it's really helped us out. I'm just going to read some of this here that I submitted. In an effort to foster collaborative spirit in the downtown, Sue personally visited each business owner and introduced herself to the property owners and made sure everyone knew to contact her with
any questions. She organized community meetings, presented information on several significant ongoing projects in the downtown, and helped businesses navigate local grants. She strives to ensure businesses utilize the local incentives to help maintain properties and enhance their image. Her efforts help foster grassroots efforts to
organize events and bring visitors visitors back to the downtown. She has established a rapport with all the business owners and property owners into downtown and the city is u you know the city could not have selected a better candidate. Thank you. She always has a
great idea to move forward on and I'm really happy that she was able to get this. Thank you. All right. Next item. Yes, sir. The next item, um, as you're you are aware that we have two unions, firefighters and the police officers,
and both the unions are currently in negotiations with the city on the next round of contract talks. So, um, we're going to go ahead and have our HR director give a brief on the introduction to the collective bargaining process and also talk about
pay plan and step issues and any other questions that council wants to know about uh how we compensate our employees. So, without further ado, I'll turn it over to Mr. Dairo. Thank you. Well, there's some high expectations that meet those expectations. Good evening, mayor,
council members. uh PowerPoint um presenting to you this evening an overview of collective bargaining and then we'll have a summary of our pay plan. I'm going to give a very high overview of our pay plan and and the
Yeah. Yeah. Joe, you definitely cleared out the room. I don't think that's indicative of your presentation. Oh, yeah. I know. That's all right. I don't I don't take it personal. The one thing I would ask, I don't take it personally, but
the one thing I would ask if you could just make sure you stay close to the mic. So, okay. So, the um major sections of uh collective bargaining are referred to in chapter 447 of the Florida statutes.
um that gives the constitutional right to organize um to the public employees and to uh the right to ga engage in collective bargaining u and prohibit strikes uh by the public employees.
The three major components um of of the law consists of the public employees rel whereby the commission uh protects the rights of employees and pro protects the rights of the uh employer.
um allows um collective bargaining um and the election of uh representations and oversees those particular uh elections. Um perk's role also um
provides for magistrates or special masters in the event that uh the parties come to um let's start with the creation of the public employees uh relations commission. It's a quasi judicial body.
Um there are three commissioners, three full-time members. Uh they serve four-year terms. Uh the commissioners uh represent typically they're chosen from uh an employee if
they've had some uh practice uh in the employee. Um there's also a commissioner that typically has had their practice representing employer relations and then the chair oversees uh the public employees relations commission. Uh
the uh uh public employees relation commission gives the uh a right uh to uh uh participate in elections uh for those representative for those uh earlier
certifies the union elections. The commission does not take part in any of the collective bargaining. That's between the employer and the representatives of the employee unions. The chief executive officer in this case
uh is the city manager who represents uh the city's uh position in bargaining and oversees the management team typically made up of um the uh operating departments uh particularly those uh
managers and depart uh uh directors who oversee those departments. ments. Um the HR director uh is the chief negotiator um and has the purpose of presenting the proposals
and the position that uh represents the employer. Um recommends the um city manager recommends the contract for ratification. um actor uh represents the employer in
and in in impass proceedings. So the significance of the uh legislative body um that's in this case it's city council. Um city council uh provides overall
direction and guidance to the chief executive officer in the contracts and serves as the legislative body in the event there's a disagreement uh during an impass and bargaining. uh and is declared uh unresolved at the
table. Uh ultimately um those impass issues come back to the city council for resolution. As I stated earlier, uh the legislative body is the um city council. Um
so how does the process work? Okay, section 447 um sets forth the public employers um right uh to determine uh services um
that's delivered to the citizens. Um sets forth the right of the employer to determine the size of the um uh operating department. for example, um and determines the FT count with
respect to the to the size of of of of those departments. Um but also um in terms of the uh services that are provided um those are the rights of the public employer.
Notwithstanding that um the public employer has the right to determine unilaterally what I referred to as the size of the departments, the FTEEs. Uh however, those uh sets of standards in
terms of the services are restricted in terms of the ask for more pay, have a right to uh ask for less hours. So wages and hours and working conditions uh have to be negotiated. Those are not
to be determined unilaterally. Um, for example, uh, the city may determine the number of police officers that that department has to serve the community. However, the the wages of those police
officers are what's negotiated. So, uh once an agreement is reached, um the city manager designate uh on behalf of of the uh public employer uh will
tenatively agree to uh what has been negotiated at the table. Um those uh agreements are um then are given to the uh uh employee organization
who vote on it uh who ratify that tenative agreement and then once the employee organization ratifies the uh agreement then that agreement is brought to the legislative body of the council for ultimately ratification. Now when it
when that agreement is brought to you, you have one decision to make. Either you accept or approve the um collective bargaining agreement as was negotiated at the table or you reject it. There are no um conditions whereby you would
select one article or one issue over another and approve that and and and and move forward. Um so the contract is written is either accepted or rejected in its entirety.
So let's talk about executive session for for a moment. Um it's required by law and this is an opportunity for the uh city council u to conduct uh candid and open discussions with the management
team. Um it's a time for developing and agreeing on strategy between uh city manager and the legislative body. These sessions are are closed to the public. Um uh the executive session um
can occur at any time during the period of negotiations during an existing contract uh preparing for negotiations uh during actual and impending negotiations. You see that section for
insulated period. We'll talk a little bit about that. Those are that's a time where um session or session outside of the sunshine is prohibited. And I I'll get into it uh a little bit about how
and when that occurs. So when all else fails um the parties uh come to impass and any one of the parties whether it's the employee organization the employer organization
can declare impass and that occurs when uh an agreement is not reached at the table. So there are certain um provisions whereby a an agreement or an impass can be resolved.
And we go back who at their disposal have a list of mediators or arbitrators and any either one of the parties can request from perk the public employees relations commission a list of those med mediators who will serve to make
recommendations in terms of resolving the impass. The proceeding or the recommendation of the se special magistrate is non is nonbar binding unless both parties agree
to the uh bypass. The final decision at impass uh is ultimately you all as the council members. So while the impass is occurring there it's
an important um point to maintain confidentiality of the exe executive sessions um uh and avoid improper cond contact on impass during the insulated period. So this I think this is a good time to talk about the insulated period.
Um so when the part let let's go through the option of selecting a mediator or an arbitrator to come and help resolve the impass. Um the special magistrate will make recommend after a hearing will make
special recommendation to relieve the impass. That recommendation will be served on both parties. Both parties will uh have an opportunity to review those recommendation and come to some decision where that
could be if if they both agree on the recommendations of the of the magistrate that could resolve via pass. Um however if one party uh does not uh agree then
um the um uh of the um of the particular uh magistrate then goes to the city manager who makes a recommendation to the legislative body on how to resolve the impass issues.
Once those um uh recommendations are made by the exe by the uh city manager to the legislative body um that's one of the times in which the insulated period occurs and
the um legislative body is no longer uh permitted to have an executive session. That's one component of of that installated period. Um there is an option for both parties to wave the special master and go directly to the
legislative body. Um and in that case then the insulated period occurs at that point and we can no longer have executive sessions at that point. So
once the um uh bypass issue or impass issues are are brought to the city council, um the city council will take sac such action as to believed in to be in the best interest of the employer and the
employees and the citizens. Uh this let me talked a little bit about the um the the time in which you as a
legislative body is is is conferred to make a rec a uh decision on the impass. This is uh where you switch your hats. If you can think through at the time that we were you were in executive
session giving your guidance to the management team. At that point um you have given those guidance but now you have to switch your hat at an impass meeting to make a decision on uh
resolving the impass. And that's where the tricky part of your your role as switching your hat to resolving the impass is is is is very important that
um you show no biases or prejudices. Um particularly those that um were uh discussed at the at the executive session. So, um that's an important uh hat that you all wear and it's a very
difficult one um in in terms of u uh resolving the impass after you've gone through executive sessions. So, I'm going to take any questions that you have before we get into the pay plan. I don't see any Mr. D. Okay. Member
Stokel. All right. More of a point of clarification. So, I think Uh, member Nelson and I I think through our tenure of eight years, I think we went to impass once in there and I'm trying to recall what that process
looked like. I don't think we had a mediator come in during our process. I just for those that weren't on council. So, typically what happens, we kind of stay out of it during council like they negotiate HR director, fire chief,
police chief, and we don't really see that. So, they're doing that. What comes next typically is if you guys are going back and forth and you there's some kind of issue then they invite us in for and correct me if I'm missing uh then we're invited in for these shade
meetings where it's we meet only with like HR director leadership and we're seeing what the city tells us what they're presenting back to the union and then nobody from the union is in these meetings so it's just this looks good or this doesn't look good or go back with
this. So, we give them kind of direction and then typically we'll work it out. One time it didn't get worked out and I don't think we chose the voluntary mediator. Um, I don't think we went to a special magistrate or um I think we just did impass and so um the difference for
me for that and as um Joe's saying how you kind of have to switch your hats during it um we're we're having our discussion what you're presenting what they're saying. So, you're trying to figure out okay how does this work? Then when we're up here, we have both sides now presenting. So we're able to see
both and that's kind of where we take on that judge um portion. So um I think that Yeah. Is is that correct? No, you're absolutely right. Okay. So I just wanted to clarify because it it's very confusing if you haven't gone through it to be like, okay, what what happens here? So and
again, like I said, we've only had it once. Um but that's kind of how it works. So it is a little bit different. We met several times though. There was like oh wait, we need another shade meeting. Oh, wait. We need another shade meeting. So, it it can be a little bit cumbersome and that was only with fire, I believe. Um I don't think we've gone
to impass with police or Luna. So, no, you're absolutely right. And that's the that's the tricky part is to maintain that confidentiality that we've had in the executive sessions. And now you're charged with the decision to make
a decision at resolving the impass without due respect to what was went what what we all talked about during that confidential meeting. And the other tricky thing that I learned I so we were in those and so I had my paper out. I'm trying to do math and on there and then they're like okay
everything you just did like turn it all in like you can't take anything with you and then most importantly you can't talk to anybody either during the union negotiation so um it definitely was a new process but I I don't know I feel like we're in a pretty good place now so okay no you're exactly right thank you
member Stokel Mr. Okay. Sure. All right. So, our uh get back to the PowerPoint. Okay. Let's um let's go on to the um pay plan. And I just want to keep this very
at a summary and give you some of the uh components of uh what goes into um the analysis of our our pay plan. So um tried to list a number of features here
um and we'll go into probably while I think it's a good idea that um I'll move on to the next slide. I don't know if yall can see that. You probably see it better on your monitors. Um,
this is our pay plan as it exists today. As you can see, it's an ending with uh the uh uh fire schedule. Um the uh fire classifications, those are position classifications
uh associated with each grade. uh those four sections of the uh fire department uh as we've talked about in union negotiations, those employees are represented by the union uh and the
wages for uh to determine the minimum for those positions and those classifications are firefighter, EMT, paramedic, uh driver, operator and lieutenant. So those are the um situated classifications within the fire
department. Okay. And as you can see those are the minimum and maximums. Um those are the spaces between u the uh hiring range which is the minimum and the top out range which is the maximum.
Uh the next column is the uh range spread and at the time that this uh u this list was uh prepared uh tried to uh demonstrate to to you uh how many
employees were in those classifications. Moving next as we uh move down through the uh pay plan. Uh we currently have uh service workers union. However, uh that contract expires September 30th of this
year and uh they have uh u relations commission that they no longer uh uh feel that they going to represent the service workers. So our contract with the service workers will expire on
September 30th. Um so our challenge will be then where you see that pay plan representing the service workers is to incorporate those classifications uh within and we'll work through that um
as we uh work through the budget year. Um the uh next set of alpha numeric grades are the non-union employees and again um tried to give you an idea of how many employees are within those uh
non uh non-union classifications. Uh the uh non-graded uh you see a number of employees 36 employees. Uh those are uh charter employees, city manager, city
attorney, uh assistant city attorney. Uh we have a number of our summer youth that are uh in that classification. uh we have a number of our crossing guards that are uh not within that uh
pay classification. So uh that's why you see that number not graded and then uh followed by the uh police union police classifications beginning with our dispatchers our um uh lead role of dispatchers, police
officers, corporal sergeants and lieutenants all represented by the uh Fraternal Order of Police and their uh minimums and maximums. Um you see that those are u uh open-ended uh pay ranges.
Uh those classifications have withtood uh three uh pay uh plan reviews that we've had. We started one in 2000 uh review in 2015 and then one
again here in 2023 where those u minimums and and maximums in terms of grades were reviewed by an independent consultant and then ultimately are situated where they um
are now. Um the manner in which uh our employees proceed through the minimum to the maximum are uh through uh colas cost of living adjustments that occur annually
during the uh u u fiscal year. Uh that's typically determined by the cost of living, the CPI uh and the market. Uh we always look at um our market, our geographical position
uh uh communities uh in terms of what those cost of living uh wages are. Um and uh we we try to be competitive in terms of u those particular um
components. Um the other way that classification can move through their wage scale uh is by found that in between pay plans for or pay studies that there may be some positions that may have uh grown non-competitive in the
market that need an adjustment. This open range allows for that study to be done uh and and move those positions whe if they're uh below the market average to move from minimum to maximum through
that uh pay schedule. Um people uh in those positions also can be promoted. Um there is a uh promotional matrix that we use um that uh allows people uh in those
classifications to progress up through the the the pay scale. That's all I have. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer those. Member MSO. Yes. Thank you so much for the presentation. You're welcome. Um
this also might be a conversation request for a few different cities just to try to understand their pay as well. Um and when I looked at our numbers uh we have now my numbers might not be 100% correct but um the idea is we have like
17 employees that are making 3.4 million and then we have our bottom 200 that are only receiving 7.8 million. Now I know we're not comparing apples and oranges. I know the bottom 200 that could be crossing guards, um, you know, 911
operators, people who maybe aren't full-time. Um, so my concern also is about the cola and that could be something we have. I I was looking at, you know, a tiered cola. Tom said I might be crucified for mentioning that. Um, but I just want to
discuss with you just how we can make sure that um our employees are um getting a a a competitive salary that we're keeping them here. Um, some of the things that I've heard, just to be honest, is that there have been employees who've been with us for a
while and then someone comes in brand new without kind of the longevity and they're getting a higher rate. So these are kind of little things I I would like to discuss, but I appreciate you bringing this up and kind of giving us this over to look at at the different data and your presentation was very
helpful as well. Sure. So and that's a good point. Uh we often have to deal with compression where um some of our tenured employees uh bump up against some of the the the least longevity or least tenured
employees. uh and there are times dur particularly during union negotiations we we have we have to relieve that compression. Okay. Um there are times that that compression uh exists and I
remember over our last pay uh study we we did a hybrid uh methodology whereby we took into account not only the employees tenure uh longevity with the city but their
tenure with their classification. with that methodology. It was costly, but it allowed those people that you expressed some concern where the the newer and the and the tenure uh employees uh are are
compressed allows that expansion to occur. So, we took that into account that uh at our uh Thank you very much, Mr. Diero. Member Stokold. Yes. Um, yeah, and that's always a tricky thing because when you do the pay plan study because we were part of one
of them that was conducted, it's you do have employees that are you you feel are underpaid and so then when we bump it up, they are getting the salary and then when we hire a new person, they're similar and so you have to account for that and then it always comes to budget into what is our millage rate and how
are we going to fund that. Um, could you explain what the range spread percentage means for us on that column? So right that that is the uh difference between the minimum and the uh maximum. So um if
if you use a 2% cola between the minimum and the maximum to get to that 60% would take you about 30 years. Okay. Okay. And that was going to be my other question. And and the midpoint would be a 15year
range. And then um our uh consultant um also uh subdivided um that minimum and maximum range within quartortiles. So you have the 25th% C 50% quartortile. So u
what what do we do if somebody is on the high end and the cola if they were to get a cola would push them above the maximum? Do they just not get the cola or what happens then? Good question. uh our um our method is that once you reach the maximum you'd
preclude you from getting a pay raise. So if you're cola for example or your pay was uh let's say it was 3% or we typically convert that percentage dollar amount and you would get that
equivalent in a dollar amount. So um as like a lump sum. Yes. Okay. Okay. Correct. Okay. Um and it doesn't preclude you from getting a rate u that to a dollar amount. Okay. So that probably impacts pension and benefits like that. So you're not
No, absolutely it does. Okay. Um and then um do our contract employees, I'm guessing they fall under the non-graded as well. Yes. Okay. So they wouldn't be in here. That's correct. And then the last question
and you touched on this too which I appreciate about the different levels. Do we have some type of formal succession planning plan in place for different departments? Is it kind of just a culture thing? Um do we have anything like that?
Sure. Um I I'll respond. Um in public works, for example, um in um in public works, uh Mr. hooked at a uh broadbanding of some
of those service worker classifications. So if you look at the ser service worker classifications um those classifications formally existed as service workers uh uh equipment operate light equipment medium
and heavy equipment. The ranges now have been transitioned to a public works tech one through five. you would proceed from a a public works tech one to a five is by acquiring certain knowledge by
certain skills and by certain um certifications. For example, um someone who comes in as a public works tech one um may not have his or her CDL but acquires their CDL and then once they
acquire that skill then they move up into that next band of of of classific the uh paramilitary organizations fire and police have their own succession plan. Okay. Where they go from corporal to be promoted to sergeant to lieutenant. U as
well as u um in the non union we have that as well you know where we have foremen and we have uh could be promoted to supervisors who could be promoted then to managers. So there's upward mobility based on someone's motivation
and and skill. We have a a great tuition assistance program where employees can take advantage of that to for their upward mobility as well. Yep. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Member Stokl. Me, did you
have anything else? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Dero. Thank you, city manager. Next item is uh 4C the evaluation appraisal report which is required every seven years and our community
development director has a presentation and Mr. Eddie Glendo While you get set up, Mr. Eddie, I have a question for the legal services, Mr. Stokes, uh once we get, you know, towards our 6:30 start
time, uh what would be your recommendation? Do we trudge on or we table it? You know, I know we have a time certain start for city council meeting. No, my I mean it would be acceptable for you to continue this meeting uh the 6:30 meeting and and we can announce it at 6:30, you know, in
case anyone's just showing up or just tuning in saying, you know, we're still finishing our 5:30 meeting. The 6:30 meeting will start, you know, after that. So, I'd say make an announcement at 6:30. Thank you very much. All right, the floor is all yours, sir. Thank you, mayor. That's a lot of pressure to try to get this wrapped up
in this meeting to continue. You got to get done. There's other things after. Okay, so like was mentioned, this is item 4 C, the evaluation and appraisal report or the EAR. Um, the state of Florida requires local jurisdictions to determine whether any updates to its comprehensive plan are required to
reflect changes in state requirements since its last update. This evaluation is required at least once every seven years through the evaluation and appraisal reporting process. The last year assessment was completed in 2018. The presentation of this report is a community engagement opportunity
associated with the current evaluation period which is currently underway and scheduled to be completed in 2025. The transmitt public hearings uh which let me pause to explain. So tonight is just a presentation and soliciting feedback from council and from the public and
then the transmitt public hearings which is when we'll ask for a vote will um give us permission from you all to send this to the state for review. And that's to a couple different departments. And so uh tonight the feedback that we gather will be used to make some further tweaks and then we'll bring this back in
August which I have the dates here as August 20th for planning and zoning commission and August 26th for city council. Um one last thing to mention before I turn things over to the Kimley Horn staff is that we had a public workshop with planning and zoning commission previously on June 6th and we
had members of the public there and solicit solicited some good feedback from there as well. Uh, so with that, I'll turn it over to Eliza Harris, Juliano, and Emily Thomas. Thank you, Eddie. Thank you, Mayor and City Council, for having us tonight. Um, well, as Eddie said, we're going to be
talking about we're going to be talking about the evaluation and appraisal process of the comprehensive plan and the associated updates. Um, so we're going to talk a little bit about the comprehensive plan. I'll go fast because Eddie mostly covered it. Um and then we're going to get into the meat of what's actually
being proposed. Um just at a high level, much of what we're talking about is driven by um the state statutes. So this is uh but there are some also some things that are communitydriven based on um prior public engagement efforts and input. And so we'll go through th those
updates. And then also um we did have a presentation to the planning and zoning commission. So we'll be going through the feedback that was received both from the commission and the public during that meeting. So uh at a very basic level a comprehensive plan is a policy document
that coordinates uh land use the economy and the infrastructure investments that the city makes to try to create a synergy that makes the city a six period. Um the outside is the 20 years and the state actually requires you to look at the 10-year and the 20-year. Um the one of the things that the
comprehensive plan does is as start as a basis for the the land development code or the zoning code. So the detailed standards within the land development code essentially are implementing the policies within the comprehensive plan. Um the ER is that every seven-year
process that's man at any time going through the appropriate process. So it's not limited to every seven years. It just has to be done at least every seven years. And during this seven-year um review, we are to look at both the existing and changing conditions within the community as well as changes in
state law that have happened that have not yet been incorporated into the comprehensive plan. So now let's get into the into the updates. Um so one of the important things we do as part of this evaluation is look at anticipated growth. We look
at the state agency, the Bureau of Economic and Business Research for the numbers. And so you can see within at 2025 the population is um just under 51,000 and we're anticipating by 2050 that that population could be just over
56,000. So about a $5,000 5,000 person difference in the number of um residents within the county. One of the exercises that's required by the state is to ensure that that anticipated population can be accommodated by the policies within the
comprehensive plan. Specifically, the future land use map which you see on the right of the image. Uh the good news is that the comprehensive plan as it stands today is already sufficient to absorb that population. So there's not a need to change the comprehensive plan in
terms of the future land use that's allowed in order to meet that state requirement. Um, we also looked at the existing land uses and and there's more detail within the evaluation document. Um, but the top two uh land uses by acreage are are vacant and single family
residential. Um, as part of this evaluation, we'll also look at the levels of service to determine whether the um the infrastructure can handle the anticipated growth. Um so looking at both parks and recreation, sewer and potable water and transportation, all of
the um all of those are still within the limits of what is um what would work essentially for the ex existing capacity serves the anticipated population through that date. Um so now we're going to move into the required updates per the Florida
statutes and I'll hand it over to Emily. Thank you. There are several required updates to the comprehensive plan based on recent legislation within the state of Florida. Uh starting with the removal of a policy uh which current which is no
longer permitted under SB180. Additionally, uh there's some updates to the public school element uh to clarify that the city must provide a dollar for-dollar credit for developments which contribute to school related
improvements as a part of the proportionate share mitigation agreement as well as some additional detail about notification requirements from the school board. Uh, additionally, there's going to be a big update to the
infrastructure element, which requires the addressing of septic to sewer conversions within BMAP areas in order to reduce pollutants into impaired waters. In addition to these required updates,
there are several recommended updates that are based on state legislation uh in order to better align with the existing goals of the city or to provide further clarification which have been
enabled by these new this new legisl. housing element related to accessory dwelling units which is supportive of some of the housing goals as well as uh capital improvements. Uh we are recommending just adding some
language to provide better clarity related to annual reporting requirements as well as the adoption of a mobility plan and fee to fund transportation improvements. We are also sorry a policy enabling the
city to provide a waiver for the provision of affordable housing within the future land use element. We are recommending additional policies to strengthen the coordination between the city and state programs related to
historic preservation specifically with the historic cemeteries program. In 2021, some comments were received from ECF RPC, which we are proposing to incorporate with this update, including updating outdated references,
particularly in relation to sea level rise projections, and adding some details about the different benefits and purposes that open space can serve, such as recreation or conservation. um sometimes both. And
as well as considering the way that we assess wetland impacts uh to consider uh different elements such as changing flood conditions and we have some recommendations for the transportation elements which can be
achieved through several ways. One of which is providing or supporting alternative modes of transportation such as biking and walking and increasing safety by reducing access points particularly at trail crossings uh to
minimize conflicts between pedestrians, trail users and vehicles and improving connectivity through improved internal site circulation. And now I'll give it back to Eliza to discuss some of our past community engagement.
Um so the first and public engagement effort I'm going to talk about is Titus tomorrow. The um this is actually one that I was privileged to be a part of with the city. Um you know several years back in 2017 like there's a little bit. Okay. I don't know if you're trying to tweak the
volume. Um there's a uh this is a vision plan that established goals um both generalized goals for the city as well as specific and um the downtown as well as the gateways and these were basically the highlighted priorities based on
community input. Um, there have already been updates to the comprehensive plan implementing much of the Titusville uh, tomorrow vision goals, particularly those goals around downtown, around the gateway corridors, as well as specific updates to the transportation and
housing elements. Um, updates for Canaveral Heights um, that originated from that plan are currently under review and actually are anticipated um, have have scheduled transmitt hearings. So, those are not part of this update, but they're on a on the separate track. Um the the one element from the vision
plan that hadn't really been addressed in depth yet um was the waterfront piece. So we've proposed a number of policies to implement that throughout the the um the comprehensive plan specifically within the future land use element. We're recommending establishing
an objective um related to enhancing the um as well as for mic maintenance. Is that it? Um so the uh yeah so specifically looking at the waterfront an objective to um I can talk loud. I just assume we want the
public record to include the the presentation. Um so uh for the public waterfront the goal really here is to expand access to the waterfront whether that's through public acquisition and public investment and partnerships. So if there's going to be any sort of
development not to allow new development on the waterfront but if there's going to be development that is waterfront adjacent moving forward. Um things like having restaurants or boardwalks those kinds of things in partnership with the private sector can expand the public access to the waterfront. So
establishing um policies to support um those kinds of improvements are recommended within the future land use element. There's also a policy uh recommended within the transportation element specific to um a continuous waterfront trail which was a a
significant part of the vision plan. Um the second prior public engagement effort that we're looking at is the natural resources public engagement and um that the overall goal of that was to look at how the city can prioritize natural resource protection. The topic
areas included water quality of course focusing on the Indian River Lagoon um in general aging infrastructure, tree canopy and preservation, land acquisition and conservation as well as wetlands and flood planes. Um, as noted in that plan, there are many policies already within the
comprehensive plan that support uh many of the goals and strategies within the natural resource protection uh document. Um, but we identified a number of remaining policies that could be addressed through part of this process. So those policies are uh and in some cases a number of these policies
actually support efforts the city's already undergoing or standards that are already within the land development code but they're not reflected in the comprehensive plan. So having them in the comprehensive plan um reiterates the importance of these things makes it so
that uh essentially they are um they're stronger. So those include um expansion of the urban tree canopy and and establishment of an urban forest management plan. This is an effort already underway within the city. Um continued part participation in
the tree city USA program which supports tree preservation and planting. Updating policies related to native plants and adding policies related to Florida friendly landscaping. Then um the last two here are maintaining an inventory of green spaces
and finally a direction to research and incorporate best practices around conservation of wetlands based on quality and importance. The um the natural resource protection um document raised some questions about that that really really deserve more attention and
so they can't be solved within this effort but direction to spend more time on that and and address that. Can I interrupt you for just a second? Sure. I just like to make an announcement. We're at 6:31. Uh, normally our scheduled start time for the regular city council meeting. However, if you're
just tuning in or arriving, um, we're still in our 5:30 special presentations meeting. Um, so once we conclude this meeting, we'll probably take a short recess and then get into our regular city council meeting. So, thank you. You have the floor again. Thank you. Um so we're going to wrap up
here with what we heard within the planning and zoning um work session which included comments both from the members of the the planning and zoning commission as well as members of the public. We didn't hear any objections to the proposed policies. Um we did hear
support for that any changes we made um we did make some changes following that were either refinements or additions. So um one of the things that we heard was support for policies and amendments that um and uh and expansion of green space
um as well as uh preservation specifically of native vegetation. So that was one of the drivers for really beefing up and refining that language around native vegetation within the policies as well as adding the language. We also heard about a desire for um what was referred to in the meeting as medium
density um housing and a variety of housing types. We didn't see a need to up create an update in response to that because that's really already pretty well addressed within current policies in both the future land use and housing elements. The um the importance of historic preservation was something that
was mentioned at the meetings and in response to that we really dug into the historic preservation policies and made sure that those were reflective of um of the best that was available particularly relative to those changes in state statute. Um we heard some discussion about
growth. So these two these two sections are really related and essentially um one of the the questions that was asked was well this is the amount of growth that's projected. Some people were concerned that more growth might happen that than what's projected. And there's a couple of answers to that. One is that
um the growth projections really are very much in line with what the city has seen. The city hasn't been growing terribly fast. So fast growth would be out of um out of what we've seen in the recent past. Um but as as I said at the beginning, the city doesn't have to wait
seven years to update its comprehensive plan. So if that changes, the city has the option to update its comprehensive plan in response to that at any time. Um and specifically as it relates to some of that infrastructure analysis. Um the uh the existing potable water as we said
and sewer support the projected growth, but the water supply plan is updated even more frequently. It's updated every five years. Um and also if it if you were in a situation where there wasn't enough water or sewer capacity to support those developments that the development permits would not be able to
move forward. So there are back stops in place where um you know if these projections are not perfect there are still mechanisms within the the planning. Um um we also had questions about storm water which is addressed within the conservation element. So um this slide really just kind of
summarizes what we talked about um that some of the changes are required, some of them are recommended based on the statutory changes and then there's a number of other sources of updates um based on the regional planning council um research on accident access
management best practices particularly as it relates to trail crossings and these prior publicment efforts and with that I yield to the the mayor. Thank you very much. City council, you have any questions? Member Nelson,
I don't know that this is a question. This is a comment. Um, one of the things that I was interested in was wildlife corridors. Have we considered that? Not in the recent not in the recent past.
Okay. Is this something maybe we should consider? Uh I don't know that it's anything that's currently addressed in the comp plan. So it' be an addition and that could be done. Um it would probably take more analysis and might be more appropriate as a separate uh comp plan amendment adjustment.
Okay. To add that language. And then the second question that sort of bothered me as I was going through it. Um years ago we were talking about wetlands um out on Helenhauser
and we had one piece of property that had I don't know 2.4 acres of wetland and adjacent to it was like three acres of wetland. So I was interested in seeing if we
could give those wetlands equal protection. Um in that case the wetlands were poor quality but if they were yeah worth
worth having then shouldn't they be protected? Yes, ma'am. I remember that that site well. It was yeah, primarily low lower quality wetlands compared to the surrounding site. Um that we have some wetland um policy guidance to to direct us to look more into how to protect wetlands. So
that with the proposed language that would help um our our current situation with uh the policy kind of being very uh black and white. So maybe later on tonight we should ask for a clarification of the policies.
What's that are you asking? Or that okay that staff will be clarifying the policies. Got it. So um yeah, just to just to reiterate, one of the pol one of the proposed policies is further study to really address that issue holistically.
Um in terms of the the current practice, I'd certainly defer to staff. So I don't need to say that, right? Okay. Thank you very much, Member Nelson. Member Stokal. Yes. So, are you looking for feedback now before you start drafting the proposed policies for the comp plan
changes or what what's our next step, I guess? Um, sure. So, next steps um just a reminder, this was a public engagement opportunity. So, we're soliciting feedback. Okay. Um after this will be the transmitt um which is t tentatively scheduled for
August 20th with PNZ planning and zoning commission and August 26th with city council. And then after that, if that's um moved forward, um it'll go for review by the state and we'll address any comments and then bring it back for you for an adoption vote.
Okay. So, when you say transmitt, what are you guys submit? Is that ready to submit? Are you presenting something that's ready to submit now? Because what you went over is like recommended, but is this like final or we getting something separate before? At this stage, you will not get anything
separate. We uh after the feedback we received during the planning and zoning commission workshop, there were some modifications made and then any modification any feedback we received tonight that we want to um that we can create add some clarity or modification further modification to then that'll be
what we present to you during the transmitt hearing in August. Okay, that makes sense. Um and then a couple things that I had I appreciated PNZ's feedback. I thought it was pretty consistent with my uh thoughts. Um, I wasn't really a fan of the recommendation to wave impact fees for
affordable housing. I personally wouldn't want to see that and I feel like they're already limiting us with live local. Um, and I wouldn't want to put that feedback on our other residents. And then to kind of what member Nelson was saying, anything that we can do for conservation and wetlands and that protection, I would definitely
want to see in there. Um, and that's all I have. Thank you very much, Member Stokl. um looking at your analysis of our water supply you know as you know compared to projected growth are you guys 81 gallons a day per person that's how you guys did
your calculation so um the the calculations are based on the adopted level of service within the comprehensive plan so we had at this time had not made recommended changes to the the level of service in the comprehensive plan we calculated it based on the existing adopted level of
service 81 gallons a day seems like a lot to Okay. I mean mo must mo a significant amount half of uh water is typically used on irrigation but so it's definitely not all in the house. Okay. I was just curious because I was just like that's a lot of water.
Yeah. And we we can certainly take a look at that as compared to other I'm not saying change it. I'm just it just seemed like a lot of water to me. But you know we're producing 6.5 million gallons of water a day currently. That's a lot of water.
Trust me. I try not to look at my water bill, but any other questions from council. All right. Thank you very much, guys. Appreciate you, city manager. Next on the Osprey Water Reclamation
Facility. Also an update on some water sampling uh test results. Mr. Cook, I'd recommend you use the other mic. This seems to work a little bit better. Yeah. All right. Good evening. If I could get
the presentation pulled up, we'll get started on this one. I think you all should have the presentation. Just to be forewarned, I did put animation in it, so you may have static images. But um so we're going to talk about the Osprey Water Reclamation
Facility, which opened in September of 1960 for uh sewage operations. It was the first purpose-built plant that was the start of the sewer expansion for the city of Tyville. the city had purchased some package plants throughout the surrounding communities, but this was the the start of the expansion of the
sewer system. So today we'll go briefly over the Osprey Reclamation Facility and then uh specifically into how we respond to water quality concerns and the Osprey pond investigation. So, so original pictures from 1970ish
of the Osprey facility when it was uh the far lower right hand side was drying beds that used to dry the sewage after it was treated and it overflowed into the pond to the south as part of its original permitting.
This time the city was purchasing the property to the west. This is the addition of the reclaim system. The two tanks added, one is the reclaim and one is the reject for any water quality that doesn't meet reclaim. This was also the end of the discharge
of the Osprey facility into the river. Is this permit changed now stuck? Go backwards. All right. This is structures added in the late 2000s and hopefully
And this is the final version of it that has the addition on the south side of the B&R facility which was completed about three years ago which is the advanced treatment for nitrogen phosphorus the additional step in the treatment process. So currently this plant treats about 80 uh sorry for 45%
of the city's water uh sewage supply. Uh the blue heron has started to take on more. So in the last five years it was closer to 50 but this year dropped about 45% of the load comes through this plant. It is a smaller of the two facilities but they are interconnected for the discharge of the reuse system
and Osprey can use the wetlands for an ultimate outfall if it needs it. So just stepping through the process uh everything enters through the pre-treatment facility. This is a there's no gravity feed to this plant. It's all under pressure.
Feeds out to the BNR step lands in his rehydration basins. Works out to the clarifiers. It takes away the solids, separates solids from the system, ultimately landing in the chlorine contact chambers
before it goes through the filter system ultimately to the reuse storage. Reuse storage feeds out to our citizens. So we supply reuse to most of the air critical concern uh both roll oak golf courses no longer sent to roll oak now that's no
longer used and then the great outdoors also uses our reuse system but it pulls directly from our wetlands just briefly over the history trending of capacity um capacity of the plant is greatly influenced by the rains it gets but as you can see by this we were about
82% in 2017 last year we finished about 80%. So it does cycle up and down depending on the weather patterns. And this is an annual average daily flow treated through the plant. The top line at 27 2.75 million gallons is our max
capacity of the plant for its average daily flow for permitting. Just to give you an idea of what happens when it rains, the blue line is rainfall. The green line is the average daily flow coming through the Osprey facility. So when we have heavy rainfall
events like we had in August of se and September last year, the plant peaks out above 4 million gallons a day. The daily maximum is about 9 and a4 million gallons that it could be hiccups in the process as it takes on more rainfall. Uh we spent about $2 million ARPA funds to
start lining lines and lining manholes, putting rain barrels, rain guards in the manhole tops to try to help with this occurrence. Once the we can keep the rainfall from getting in the system, the variations will smooth out. So part of our recent repermitting that
we just did uh wrapped up last year to get our permits renewed for this year. We had our consulting go through and they're required to make a recommendation on our capacity. part of this process is anything they find that we need to address. We have to sign that we agree fiscally to take it on in the
five-year cycle. So this is just a statement that's included there just simply stating that by 2032 we expect the total maximum daily to exceed the annual and they recommended taking on infill and infiltration reductions during that time period and the expectation that in the next 5year cycle
we would have to look at the expansion uh sorry during the next 10ear cycle for AADF the other part that they did for us and this was done by meeting and hunt this is a review of the go through every treatment process and give us a grade between good and not and poor and they
grade out every part and piece in the system to make sure they're in good working condition for D's review. At this time, we had two items that they labeled as marginal. Both one of the pumps which transfers reuse from the chlorine contact chambers to the distribution tank and our secondary
filtration system which is a sand filter backflow backwash. Sorry. We've already replaced the tank the pump that was out a future project to take a look at replacing the sand filters with a different type of filter. Then just a bottom statement that is a
note they do make a general statement the plan is in good condition and meet all requirements of the Florida administrative code for operation. Um to give you an idea of what we had in our 10-year plan that you recently saw our our rate projections for the future. Osprey specifically has about $2.3
million worth of projects. We want to separate the reject tank from the reuse tank so that they can be shut down for operational purposes as we need them. The building itself has become aged and needs u pretty well needs to be replaced if not overhauled completely.
We do want to replace a dewatering system with better technology and more reliability. Some other rehabbing into the digesture system. We do also by 2032 we have to eliminate in both plants the surface discharge is the Addison canal. It is our ultimate overflow for the
wetland that the state mandates by 2032 you have to be using 90% of your reuse within this your system. Right now Osprey meets that goal but we do want to give it a little extra help by looking at the ability to putting in a surf ASR system to allow to be pumped into the
ground and stored or just pumped into the ground for disposal purposes. um it operates about 91% uh in 2025. We also anticipate during this 10-year period to look at the rehabs and expansion study to see if that's viable or needed. And then we have various
operating projects that are housed in the operating budget that take care of pump replacements and pieces and parts. give you an idea of uh if this plant which was I think built for $390,000 in the original con concept 1960 if it had
to be replaced today the plant itself so about a $33 million investment just to get it treatment capacity um if it were to go up I arbitrarily put in 4.75 would be roughly 57 million to force main to connect it to blue heron would range between two and six depending on
how it's done and ultimately because this plant is the ultimate destin ation for a bunch of sewage. There would have to be a large lift station built at the site to push that to wherever the future site would be. So you're looking at a range of 48 to 77 million if that plant had to be completely rebuilt or
relocated from its current location. And just to move on to the water quality concerns and how we respond to them. um August to September 2023, we were doing some sampling on the river at both Scobby Park and Space View Park over some concerns of water quality to help
us uh assist with sampling and determination of calls and if human waste was present. One of the things we also tked them with was to come up with a blueprint of how we handled this in the future. Prior to that, it was interpretation of rules. It was efforts to do testing on our own. Instead, we
wanted to get a real plan for how we step by step address any future concerns for water quality. So this is the the sketch of that plan taking it from uh first response to ultimately in the end where it could
have an option if the water uh is found to be impaired not by human waste but in general going to the state and asking for it to be listed as an impaired waterway if it were state waters. Um we've used this now uh twice um both
at the Scobby Park that did have good results. We were able to find a pipe actually inside a storm conflict box within a state road that was not lined that we were able to line and remediate the opportunity of any introduction and we saw that um the testing around it
didn't didn't yield any additional needs of concern there. So specifically to Osprey u roughly April this year we were responded to staff concern over the condition of the pond outside the Osprey plant. um both in-house staff at the plant, our field
ops staff, our administrative staff all reviewed the area around looking for any leaks, any signs of uh clear uh leakage of pressure piping into the environment around or overflows at the plant. We also brought in our in-house sampling ability for our lab which can do focal
chloroform and ecoli which are basic sampling uh we do every day in our plants. start initial sampling. Um went through found no leaks able to be found inations that that bordered a pond and gave those owners inspection. Both were found to be
in good shape uh direct directly south of us. Um so we completed a four-week cycling period with an outside lab. Um this water is salt water or brackish water. So our lab is not really set up to test it. So we switch out to Pace and
up in Valuchia County to do our testing. We still do the sampling. We cycled back through our inspection process after we completed our first four-week in accordance with the plan. We didn't still haven't found a call. So, we started the second week of sampling last week.
Just to give you some results. I know this is small on the screen. Um, so with this testing, you classify everything into three broad categories, good, moderate, and poor. And you also look at the mathematical geometric mean.
And in this case, both the pond was considered poor and the inner river on the north side of u the marina also had a poor water quality. The inner river to the south of the alpha point had moderate.
Um as you can see much higher numbers uh in the first week at all three locations. They kind of went down the second week. Um they did various in the the last week much higher. This is the second four-week sampling. We have one back. At this point, the
numbers have all dropped drastically down into the moderate and good range with both river samples falling. One, the one shown as less than 10 is actually undetectable by the machines. 10 being the detection limit and then the other one being 10. We expanded the
pond testing because technically for the methodology we're comparing to, you need to have uh 10 samples in a 30-day period. So, by doing three locations four times in a month, we'll get 12 and that'll be able to categorize the pond into the water quality standard. This
standard matches beach testing for the state. Um, the pond itself is not a listed water body, so it's not technically a class two or three water body. So, as outcome of the pond, the the we
had a primary concern we had was there's still two existing 14inch force mains that are scheduled for abandonment with our Indie River uh force main project that when the contractor exited the project, they haven't been done yet. We currently have that out to procurement for our utility contractors come in and
do that. While we haven't seen any leak there, that is the last of our infrastructure that hasn't been addressed and where it's located in a ditch. it. We It's hard to tell whether or not it has anything, but we haven't seen anything present in that ditch or in the pond from those forge manes.
We did come up with two opportunities for improvement. Um, as part of the recommendation and review from the Scobby and Space View, they recommend sampling all of our major stormwater outfalls twice a year for the introduction of uh feal chloroform into those, which will let us know if there's
any problems. They also recommended we kind of look at the areas to see where sewer is crossing them uh to kind of prioritize those testing. So we're looking to implement that probably in the next year. And we've already been awarded a soil grant to add a solar powered aeration system to to the Osprey
pond which will go in with our existing BMAT. So to help with nitrogen phosphorus uptake by circulating a pond that otherwise is stagnant water uh predominantly throughout the year. And with that I'll be happy to answer any questions. member Moscow.
Thank you, Kevin. Um I've been out to the plant a few times and I I'm so thankful for this presentation. Um um a lot of times, you know, I've had people reach out in the in the mobile home park next to it and say they think there are issues. And I really appreciate you guys
being proactive and not only testing for the four weeks, but going longer for four more weeks and then for sharing the results. I think that's that's what we need is um even though it it may seem minor um I think it's just important concern and these are the areas we're going to improve on. Um if you haven't
been out there it's a great field trip. Um it it's really neat and we have some wonderful workers who are out there and um and I was just reminded when there's a hurricane, when there's a storm, these men and women are out there keeping this plant going. And so, um, it's things you
don't think about each day, but I appreciate, um, you sharing this with us and then being open to when I have questions or concerns to immediately going out and responding. So, thank you so much, Kevin. Thank you, member Mscoso, City Council.
Seeing none, thank you very much, Mr. All right. And we're still in our 5:30 special presentations meeting. So, we're at the end of the agenda right now before we get into 6:30 meeting with this petitions and requests from the public non-aggenda items. Mayor, can I ask a question?
Yes, member Nelson. Um, somebody reminded me the other day that I believe the signs are supposed to be in the back of the room. Is that correct? I believe it is. Mr. Johnson, can you
Not with the sign so that you're not blocking anybody because there's rules that say am I blocking people from Hey, I'm just asked to enforce the rules by council. Say it again. What is it? I am being asked to enforce the rules by council. What count? What rule is it? The signs are supposed to be in the back of the room. No, you said I'm wearing this sign. This
is part of my So I understand that. No, I'm wearing this. Okay. All right. So, uh, are are you ready for me to speak? I am, Mr. Johnson. Okay. May I have the time spark? Okay. My concern is something is that uh
everybody should listen to this. Listen up. Is when I flush my toilet, when I flush my toilet, I don't want it to go to sand park or space view park and being put in fountains in the air and sprayed on
women, children, and babies. I do not want my piss and poop sprayed on people. I'm serious. But we have a problem here. We have a problem as council. Four out of five council
members have continually approved the spraying of women, children, and babies with my piss and poop beginning December 2020. I don't think anybody heard me.
I do not when I flush my toilet, I do not want my toilet, my piss in my poop being put on women, children, and babies, these innocent people. Yet, four out of five council members have said, "What?" Four out of five council members
and the last city manager. So, what have I done? I have asked our new city manager, this guy right here, Tom uh Abati. Is that right? Yes. I I've asked him. I said, "Mr. Abati, what do you think? What do you think, Mr. Abati?
Should the city leave the fountains turned on or off?" So, what does he say to me? What does he say? He says he will check with Kevin Cook. You would think that an adult would be able to under to to be able to say no.
But he's like, so so I asked Kevin Cook, has has Mr. Abati talked to you? No. Kevin Cook has told me privately that indeed this is not right. It's harmful to to take my piss and poop from my toilet and put it on women, children,
and babies. Yet four out of five council members have said yes, let's put Stan's poop and piss on our on my neighbors. I don't appreciate it one bit. And I've asked Megan Moso to to to check
with Mr. Abati and she still hasn't done it. She still hasn't done it. So we still have the condition that it is okay. The city of Tyersville is the only city in the world that deliberately sprays when with piss and poop. Delivery
does only city in the world. And I'm seemed like I'm only one of the people who who disapprove of it, but Mr. Carters approved of it even before he became mayor. Thank you, Tom. I wish I would think it would be nice if you would answer the
question. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Pardon? I said thank you, Mr. Johnson. Okay. You're welcome. You're in my prayers. You're mine. Thank you. Anybody else from petitions and requests? Hi guys. Good evening. Thank you for having me out. My name is Derek Hale. I'm a Titil resident, born and raised. I
live up in live up in Mims. Now, um I'd like to bring attention to the council about a previously deemed completed project. Um it was the BMX uh course right over here near our skate park. And I'm curious um I had a PowerPoint that I built up. Didn't know if I could uh show it today evening or this evening.
Realized that I could not. But wanted to get an idea from council as far as what project underway. Um, you know, I I understand I think I actually met with Mr. Cook years ago, probably six, seven years ago. Um, trying to get an understanding of, you know, what
opportunity we might have and what was done with that project previously to appease those individuals that were that were looking to get it done. Um, so I would just look to the council as far as what recommendations would you give me um to kind of start that process and maybe get your backing on, you know, um,
something that would benefit uh, our community of all, you know, of all ages. A number of other communities throughout Central Florida have put something in long-term like an asphalt pump track um, that would give not only the opportunity
to alleviate some of our public works from mowing that field that is literally unused right now. Um relevance and and giving giving the community something to use. Um do you guys have any any recommendations on which direction I should go?
Well, thank you very much for for coming in. Um my understanding track that was developed but maybe not to the level of specifications that u would have enticed people to use it. And I don't know at that time if it was a budgetary issue or maybe just an an execution issue. Uh but
you know, prior our conversation earlier, I just recommend you know, reach out to us individually, share us, uh your ideas for for how to do that. And then I know we'll probably get with uh our city manager and parks and wreck because the county actually maintains our parks. So, you know, kind of figure that would be my recommendation.
Okay, awesome. I have sent the four council members an email. I'm going to follow up that email with my PowerPoint presentation in hopes of just showing it to you guys as far as what I think the project could benefit the community. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Anybody
else from petitions request? Yes. I'd like to start out by saying thank you to the council for being here. So, my name is James Erdman. I'm born and raised local right here in North Bard. And it's been a tragedy watching the area we grew up in get destroyed by corruption and overdevelopment every
year. And there's been big rumors flying around about the city of Titusville wanting to annex as much land as they can. Is there any truth to them? We have a voluntary annexation program here. If that becomes rumor becomes true, will
it be up to the public to vote on it? I believe that's how the process works. Again, we have we have no plans to to do in involuntary annexations. Thank you. Thank you.
Christina Michelle on July 8th entered on the record. More than a thousand voices strong. More than a thousand voices signed in support of the petition created in response to the murder of
Chamari Charles, a young black man chased, shot 10 times in the back with more than 16 bullets fired by Titusville Police Department. Officer Chiez Bay, responsible for the murder of Chamari Charles, has an
extensive history of misconduct, use of excessive force, police brutality with a deadly weapon, and fabrication of evidence since starting and transferring from the Koko Police Department in the year 2020. The petition represents a collective
voice of citizens calling not only for transparency and account value of black lives and public safety. Activist, community leader, friend, family, and comrade Dwight Seagler shared to Facebook
a social site that many citizens of Titusville and Bvard County have experienced targeted cyber harassment on. Particularly, I am speaking on the weaponization of the Tisville Police Department's usage of taxpayer dollars for the censorship and illegal
surveillance of community members with the involvement of city officials, including election interference, for example, Mayor Connors, October 2024. Dwight Seagler shared
Officer Bayz of Tisville Police Department. December 11th, 2018, Bayaz fired six rounds through his patrol car windshield, striking the caller to 911 in the elbow. The victim had no weapon.
The object in his hand was a cell phone, not a gun. The FDLE investigated in relief that the man had a handgun. Bias was placed on paid administrative leave and returned to duty in February
2019 with a disciplinary record that only grew. June 11th, 2021, he backed his patrol car into a parked sedan after moving his seat belt. Another avoidable incident on
his record. April 6, 2022. Bayas failed to respond to multiple radio calls vehicle on foot, prompting unnecessary concern and gathering of other officers. September 21st, 2022.
I'm running out of time. Thank you for your comments. Anybody else petitions or requests from the public? We're honestly will adjourn once I get a motion to adjurnn and we will make a motion. Motion to adjurnn. All right. I have a motion to adjourn
the special city councils and presentations meeting and then we I was going to let everybody know that we will uh be taking a 10-minute break and we'll reconvene at 7:20. Thank you.