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person's right created by the Constitution, law, ordinance, or regulation. for the invocation. We'll take a moment of silence. >> Thank you very much. Please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. I allegiance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you very much, city manager. >> Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, and
city council. We have three items on this evening's presentations meeting. The first is for a the employee of the month for October 2025. And that employee is a member of the fire department and his supervisor is
here to present the nomination. >> Hit the button. All right. Can you hear me? Okay. Hello everybody. I'm Lieutenant Lane down at station 13. Uh I nominated my firefighter Lucas Lamoth uh for for being an awesome awesome employee,
outstanding citizen obviously. Um I wrote on September 10th, 2025, firefighter Lamoth responded to a call inviting involving a minor who was falling off his bike. After providing medical care, firefighter Lamoth noted that the only that I'm sorry, not only
was the bike very old, but it had been severely damaged. During their interaction, he also learned that the child relied heavily on the bicycle to travel a considerate distance to school each day and was not eligible for bus transportation. Recognizing the importance of the situation, Firefather
Moth went above and beyond the call of duty. Without hesitation, he purchased a brand new bike and lock for the child using his own personal funds. When his fellow department members learned of his generosity, many contributed towards the cost as a gesture to support his
selfless act. Firefighter Lamoth's actions exemplify compassion, initiative, and an unwavering commitment to serve others both on and off duty. He is a commendable member of our department whose kindness and dedication reflect the highest values of our
profession. For these reasons, I strongly believe that he deserves the employee of the month. And I'm glad that he got it. He deserves it. Firef [Applause] And sir, the next item is 4B and that's uh PFM, our our financial manager will
provide the city's portfolio presentation for fiscal year 2025. Let's do a quick test. Awesome. >> Good evening everyone. My name is Leslie Weber with PFMS management, your investment advisor for the city's
investment portfolio. Um we manage the portfolio to meet your key investment objectives of safety, liquidity, liquidity, and yield. And in that order, as these are public funds, I'm going to start off with making a few current um market remarks and then I'll go into the
portfolio and talk a bit about the performance. So some of the highlevel current market themes that we've seen. Firstly, the US economy has continued to be pretty resilient, but we are seeing signs of a cooling labor market. Um and I'll talk a bit more about this in
further detail here. Um, secondly, the Fed cut rates for the first time this year, 2025, at their recent September Federal Open Market Committee meeting. They did cut by 25 basis points and the overnight rate is now 4% to 4.25%. And
I'll talk a bit about why that matters to you as as investors and how it affects the portfolio. Thirdly, um, Treasury yields did also move lower across the curve. I'll give you a visual of that as well, so you could see where rates are standing to today.
Now, with the Fed's dual mandate, they have a dual mandate of keeping unemployment low and keeping inflation in check. And it seems right now there's a lot of mixed signals um just driving that economic uncertainty and and the outlook. So, they have a pretty difficult um dual mandate to try and uh
try and balance out right now. Starting out with some of the the negatives here or or the headwinds of the economy. Um this past quarter, there's been net new job creation of almost zero. So, we are seeing cooling in in the labor market and it seems as though currently
employers are taking more of a no higher no fire type of approach. Um, if we look at that other side of the the Fed's dual mandate of inflation, we are seeing that a little bit sticky. Um, they do want to bring that down to about 2% but we're not seeing that just quite yet. And
also, um, increasing credit card balances as well. That continues to increase with consumer spending. And then that takes us to more of the neutral challenges of the economic outlook. So with tariffs, we thought they were, you know, viewed as inflationary once they were announced.
But we are seeing some of that slowing. It's not really being passed completely to the consumer. It seems as though right now the importers or the retailer are absorbing more of that cost before passing that on. And then also stabilizing credit card delinquencies, high credit card debt would would enable
that those delinquency rates to go up. But we are seeing that um stabilize. If you look at the chart on the bottom during the great financial crisis 2008 2009 we did see that peak um and then during the pandemic but now it looks like it's starting to stabilize there.
And then some of the tailwinds are the positives. So that the Fed's easing policy. It seems as though the Fed is on a rate cutting trajectory. I'll talk a bit about that and I'll show you the the dot plot as well. And then also the resilient consumer spending. The United States is such a consumer-driven
economy. So that really matters. When we go out and spend spend money, that really helps drive the economy. And you could see on the bottom there, the personal consumption consumers are still spending. And then that leads me into the Fed. Um so this is their dot plot. This shows us where each voting member
of the Federal Open Market Committee thinks where rates are going to be at the end of each year. Now, sometime we have to take this with a grain of salt. Sometimes this chart is is more wrong than it is right. Um but for 2025 they're expecting two additional rate cuts um in addition to the one that
already happened in September. But what's interesting here is for 2025 you see there's kind of a divide between the Fed. There's one group that's thinking no additional rate cuts and then there's also a group that thinks there's two more additional rate cuts. A good probability and the market's pricing
this in for a rate cut in October which we'll find out tomorrow and then another one in December. And then as you see in 2026, 2027, maybe one 25 basis point cut each for for each of those years and then the longer term or that neutral
rate to get that back down to about 3%. But as investors looking at yields, um this gives you a visual. We do like to look at US Treasury yields because your portfolio, we do have a good amount of this um because again it meets your key objectives of safety, liquidity, and
then yield. So, what this chart shows you is all the different maturities across the different yields that you see. The shaded area shows you the one-year range where rates have been. The dotted line shows you where rates have been, January 30, 2025. And then
this past quarter, September 30, 2025, which is the solid line. So, you see towards the front end of the curve or the shorter end of that yield curve, when the Fed did cut, you you're going to see that front end go down and in tandem. So, if they do cut in October and December, you're going to continue
to see that go down. Um, if you invest in money market funds, very short-term type of instruments, that's going to continue to follow and you should expect to see those rates come down. But where the portfolio is, it's a little bit longer than that. Um, we are investing in a 1 to threeyear strategy. So, you
should expect rates between the one one and threeyear mark. And you could see across the curve that has fallen. And that's the market pricing in those expected rate cuts. So now I'll review the portfolio. Um so with the sector allocation analytics,
this is what we plot here against your investment policy. So your sector allocations for each of these what's actually invested um against your sec um sector maximums um outlined in the investment policy. And you could see down the line there with the different sectors that you have, you're well in
line with your investment policy. And the same takeaway for the maximum maturity analytics there. So the maximum maturity is about five and a half years and you could see all across those sectors that you're well in line there. So looking at the portfolio, the
portfolio size as of September 30, 2025 is approximately 49 million. Um I did mention we are managing to a 1 to threeyear strategy, so a little bit longer um than what's tracking the overnight federal funds rate. Um the overall yielded cost for that portfolio
at that point in time is 4.44%. 44%. And if we look at your yield at market, um that is a little bit lower because if we were to buy the same basket of securities on that day, September 30, 2025, because the market yields did drop, um what you hold in your portfolio
is yielding higher than what the market is at that time. Looking at the overall portfolio credit quality, doubleA, that's very high credit quality across the board there. Your portfolio is also well diversified um across all the sectors you see on the upper right hand
side. So again, a good majority in US treasuries. And here is um a sector allocation review quarter over quarter. I did want to note that you will see sectors and the allocations differ from quarter to quarter. Um as your investment advisor,
we are an active investment manager. So depending on what is value added during that time and during that market and what's the market is is doing, if we find something more additive than the other, um we will change the allocation within that portfolio. And lastly, I'll fit um I'll hit a few
points about the portfolio and its performance. Um what I will say is not only for the quarter, but for the year three, five, and since inception since 2006, this portfolio has outperformed the benchmark. Um and that's y'all having a very flexible investment policy. Of course, there's parameters
around that, but investing in in things other than just government securities, so government type of securities. But if we just focus on the quarter, you could see about 1.28% to 8% for the quarter. Um, which you've outperformed that benchmark of 1.12. And again on an
annualized basis at 4.42 again outperforming that benchmark. And if we look at it on an acrruel basis, earnings um those that total earnings there for the quarter about 608,000 and then out one year about 2.34
million. So we were in an elevated interest rate environment and you could see that with the chart with this the steepening of the interest earned that really helped with the um interest earned and also the overall portfolio performance. >> So are there any questions or anything
you'd like me to elaborate on? >> Council sounds like you wowed everybody. >> Speechless. >> I very much appreciate the presentation. as you know, we kind of look out into the future. I know it's hard to predict the markets and interest rates and
everything else, but uh with the prolonged government shutdown, do you anticipate any effects on our portfolio and what we're doing? >> I don't think so at this time. Um I would say the Fed, it seems as though they're data dependent and they're flying a little bit blind. Um we did see that that CPI number being released.
That's not the data that the Fed looks at, but we are seeing inflation increasing, but I wouldn't say that that would affect our strategy. We're trying to meet, you know, safety, liquidity. If there are liquidity needs, we're trying to manage to that. And then just sticking to to the strategy. If we switch strategies back and forth all the
time, that's not good because historically speaking, longer term strategy, sticking with the strategy has really outperformed the the shorter term market. >> Thank you. And so you said about every quarter we're making about 600,000 a quarter. >> This past quarter? Yes.
>> Approximately. >> Yes. >> In in interest. um about how much do we um liquid to use for operation expenses, capital expenses uh on an annual basis here at the city? [Music]
>> We really don't use any of the investment money for projects that sits there and it earns money and it's there if we need to liquidate it for operating if we need to. So we don't use it for projects. we use operating for projects. >> Gotcha. And that's why I was just asking
is approximately how often a year or if at all do we you know go after the piggy bank basically you know how often does >> this year we've gone twice uh we went in August for 5 million and then I think about three weeks ago for another 5 million and that's not uncommon because
we get advorum money in December. So as we're running towards the end of the advalorum uh it's common to liquidate funds at that time. I do hope to have a >> put aside for a rainy day, >> you know, and I'm just curious about how many rainy days are are we having and uh you know, I'm sure other than someday.
And then also, you know, I know we had to, you know, write that big check for the firetruck recently. So again, I was just curious >> that came out of operating. >> Okay, cool. >> And I do want to say that the fund that we did have to raise, we did sell it at a net gain, so it did not hurt the portfolio. And also all the securities
that are in the portfolio are very liquid. So that means, you know, if Terry or her team calls us the same day, typically we could turn it over to make sure you have the cash you need. >> Awesome. Thank you. Hopefully we're not paying too much capital gains. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, city manager.
So the last presentation of this meeting is the economic the economic development strategic plan and you'll be getting a uh presentation and at 6:30 meeting you'll be asked to approve this plan.
Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Luis Nice. I'm the director of economic development for the East Central Florida Reopening Council and I was the lead for this project. I will start presentation by talking a little who we are. We are a council of governments located in Orlando but covering an 8ount region. We
are 10 of we have other nine sister agencies throughout the the state of Florida and what we do is we specialize in providing technical assistance to local government organizations located uh within our service area. So this past like uh about a year ago we
started meeting with city staff just to discuss the what would it entail to create an economic development plan for the city of Titusville. So great discussions there. So this is pretty much the method that we follow. We f
firstly have an condition analysis where we look at all the conditions within your city, your people, economic and placebased assets. We also identify what 10 quarters of economic significance for the region. We also have a very extensive public engagement process. We
actually have three focus groups uh from city leaders, we had one for business groups and we had one for uh residents. Using that information, we actually went in and created a SWAT analysis. Look at your strengths uh weaknesses,
opportunities and threats and then we use that information to develop the goals and strategies for the report. So when we talk about economic development, we are looking for economic resiliency. that is the opportunity that if something bad will happen to your community, you're able to bounce back
more stronger than you were in the beginning. So, we follow this uh three-pillar approach, people based because we want to be holistic. When people think about economic development, they usually want to think about business information or employment. Now, economic development is much more than
that. So what we want to do, we want to as long as we look at these assets, we identify and try to address what are going to be your v vulnerability indicators. That's very important because if you don't address your vulnerabilities and address drivers of vulnerability, you're not going to get
uh better your economic conditions. And this is applicable to multiple topic areas. So what we did we basically look at your community look at your assets and we also based on the location of the businesses we identify what were 10 coilers of economic significance. These
are the locations where most of your businesses are actually concentrated in the corridor is the spine of economic development. If your corridor is not doing well your economy is not going to be doing well as a result of that. So
what we did is like we look very thoroughly and we develop a series of metrics approximately 30 something metrics that we measure. We look at your land use economic vitality which is the number of businesses and we also look at environmental constraints.
The publication part was actually really fun. Uh thank you to staffer Nicholas and Brad for helping with this. We actually had really really good uh feedback. Why we do this is here we as much as we love the city of Titusville
with only fear. So it's always good to actually go in take the results of the situation analysis present them to the community and learn the context because economic development is all going to be about your context your history and
geography are going to be very important to understand why you're in a station where you're in right now. So we have anything from like businesses to anchor institutions going to stakeholders. These are some of the people that actually join us. I was very very pleased to see so many people in the
business community actually participate in our in our like focus groups. I haven't seen this happen in many communities. So I think that that's a very positive factor here in city of titles. So using this information we create what is called the SWAT analysis. And that's
what it's very important here you understand that what is your internal factors those are the things that you can actually control that's are your strengths and your weaknesses and then you have external factors and external factors just like the previous presentation was saying they're things
that are becoming much more important and I got a effect in our economy but we have no control of. So what we did was basically we look at your strengths and we found a lot of really positive things. People complain a lot and this
is that is the third community. We actually look at Edward County and what we found that was very different from other communities. Most of your residents actually live and work in titles. You know I have in the south
boulevard I we look at the two communities where people actually most people actually leave the community to work and you have people coming in because all those high-tech jobs actually are filled by people from outside. We didn't see that in Tos. So
you have the really good job skills match. There are also really opportunities career pathways. A lot of people are really concerned, especially with this economy where a lot of people don't seem to want to work. That's what
they're they're saying right now. You actually found that your organization to your businesses have the opportunities to actually bring residents right in and get them the certifications that they need. And that's really important. And
one of the things that I actually asked is like I was very to the point. If I were to come from McDonald's today and I show up in your doorstep, can I get one of your jobs? And the answer and this I believe was a Blue Origin who said this like yes, you can come in because we'll
prepare you and have the certifications. This type of synergy is very rare to find in other communities. It's definitely a strength that you have. You also have a very strong presence on in industry clusters. N cluster is an elomeration of export oriented
businesses. These are the businesses that they sell outside your community and bring more of the economic investment. So we certainly know that aviation and aerospace is really big in our area because we're very close to uh Merid Island and NASA. But you have the
presence of other businesses. One thing that we found that was really interesting, there was this outcrop of businesses that actually specialize in cooling technologies. A lot of them working with hydrogen is something that I had not seen before in our region.
There are about two or three businesses. It's not a lot, but it's an outcrop of working in NASA. And that's an industry can be exploited to hopefully help it become something else. Uh, another thing that you have in your favor, you're a trail town. You have a trail
designation. You have about two, three trails that either start here or converge here in the city of Tyresville. That's something that not all communities have. So while we're trying with your strengths, when we we want you to prepare for strengths, you know, you
want to like reinforce what you have. So we reinforce what you have. What we're recommending is that you uh develop this business education task force. Why do we say that? because the conversation that we had was very candid during the focus groups and actually a lot of people were
really willing to work with each other together. That's something that as a city you should keep cultivating. So we that's one of the recommendation for economic development to at least have that meeting once a year. We're also asking recommending that you attract more firms within this actually closer
that you have because attracting does doesn't mean that you're going to go and search for a company pharmaceuticals and somebody comes in and tells you I want to look at in Titusville but pharmaceuticals is not your strength. It's great if they come and I'm not
going to tell you not to include them, but when you do economic development, try to look still look for those aerospace companies or those companies that were in the watercraft sector or when satellite technologies or cooling technologies. We also are recommending that you
develop some sort of economic trust fund or similar funding mechanism. Why are we saying this? One of the assets we originally had in the report was the number economic development summit. Nobody else had that cap district in the region. So as soon
as they were almost ready about a month before we were ready to submit the report, we learned that that program was eliminated. We know that we what we heard that there's some money that's been left there. I work a lot with federal grants, especially with the US economy
administration. The first challenge that most jurisdiction have when they're applying for a federal grant is finding the match. If you have some money saved in some sort of fund that could be used as a match and this is money that could be
used for infrastructure that could to attract new businesses or it could be done for a lot different projects. So that's very important that you think about that. We also think that your trail system right now is underdeveloped. You have a lot of great trails. People
are really really fascinated about it. But the trails need to be seen as an economic development tool. And what you need to do your aerospace, your high technology economy is really strong right now. You sort of need to actually
de develop your leisure economy which is currently underdeveloped and you do have the assets to be able to do that. weaknesses and this is where it gets really strange. You know, low level of participation
from what we heard from our businesses is that they're really cannibalizing each other looking for people to work and what we found out with the city of Parisville, this seems to be a BART county thing actually, is that the level
of participation is actually extremely low compared to the national. National you're talking about 62.6%. And Brear and Titusville are both below 60%. Uh we had been working with economic
development um administrator uh on this like grant um called the recompete grant and we actually were able to identify a series of 10 census tracks within the city of Titusville where participation is actually really low compared to what
it should be especially that prime work group people within like 30 and 54 that's what we're looking at and that shouldn't be the case because your median and age is actually much lower than Bvard County. Why is your level of
participation much lower than River County that there's no translation between having younger people and having more workers and that's something that we need to uh really look at. A complaint we heard about was the lack of amenities. I will take this with a pinch of salt. I
think for your size of community and actually some of the analysis, you have a lot of the amenities that you really need. is just being able to really show that you have them and maybe use them a little better. So, what we're proposing first of all is
to really think about how you're going to address this uh low participation rate problem. And by the way, this is really interesting because when we brought this discussion with career source is that they had no idea what
we're talking about. And a lot of them thought that a lot of these people not worker, they're just living out of investments or being influencers. Like I'm almost 50. I cannot be an influencer anymore. I don't have we passed that age already. And a lot of these people
already are past that age. We think that these may have been workers that stayed after the shuttle program ended and never really regain the skills to compete in the new economy. And based on what we've seen here, the business are
willing to come in and trade them for that for those jobs. So what we're recommending is to try to survey some of these census tracks where you have a very low level of participation. We already identified those for you. And if needed, you can evaluate uh to create
some kind of workforce entry program like I volunteer for one for about 12 years called just partnership. And basically you get people from the street basically and you get them through till 12 weeks prepared to actually go to work
and get a real job. The alo thing we're recommending uh is the creation of cultural natural asset master plan. We think you have a lot of assets. You definitely have a lot of museums. It seems to us that they're not really working together as well as they could.
like do we think kind of like measuring this uh how the economy is working right now in Titusville will actually provide us kind of couple of ideas to bridge some of the gaps we're currently having again this is basically you're diversifying your economy in case something were to happen to aerospace
the aerospace economy opportunity we talk about state technology careers you definitely you have a jewel right here with the Eastern Florida State college their facility is amazing a lot of they provide a lot of certification programs
that are really important so there's and there's definitely that demand still we actually compare Titusville against other jurisdictions and percenters wise you're doing better than other jurisdiction when it comes to this like uh occupations
but we also heard that there's a lot of foreign companies especially in aerospace and aviation that are not able to get the right certifications to get into uh Mary Island because they just they're foreign. They cannot get
those uh certifications. You being located so closely to the island. Maybe you're the location. Uh there's a lot of French comp large French companies, aviation companies that maybe we actually kind of like go in and talk to them, they will be willing to come here
in the States. The other thing that we have is quarter of redevelopment. uh we had actually went around the city and look around the city just to make sure you know provide that context and we've seen great redevelopment happening in US1 we're actually very surprised
especially the old Searstown mall uh but then we have other corridors that need a little more help so there's definitely something that if we want to like basically increase that leisure economy we're going to have to really work on next couple of years so these are
recommendations So we want you to try to work to develop some of these global business connections. I think starting the conversation with Space Florida to maybe go basic basically you can go and start talking to Space Florida to start connecting to those uh companies. Again,
it's an asset. The airport right now they're opening a couple of new industrial parks. In the next couple of years they're going to have to fill up. So better start work that work now than wait until later. We also want to start studying the feasibility of establishing
business incubator within the city. That's a conversation we have already started. I connected your staff uh with the UCF incubator program. Right now the financials we're still working on them uh because it's it's getting a little more expensive than we're expecting but
we already started the conversations there. Then we also want to revitalize those key corridors and we specifically think Garden Street and Hopkins are the ones that need probably a little more help. Right now my team will be we have a brownfield assessment grant. We'll be
using some of that money to actually look at the Hopkins corridor and identify posible brownfields. That way we can get that information to your economy loan staff and they can start the conversation of probably applying for the program at least assessing.
So these are your threads. Child care is a national problem and it's not something that's specific to the city of Titusville, but it's something that we had to mention here because a lot of our job professionals in our tables mentioned it like it's
really hard to find good shocker in the city of Titusville. Uh we also uh are telling you to just keep ahead and look at who's your competition in aviation and aerospace. Right now we have there other clusters happening around
especially around Huntsville, Alabama is one of the ones that's like the biggest competition we have. You want to make sure that you're still making the right investments and staying competitive. Uh we also think that the lack of economic diversity is a problem. We
Titusville has a history. We have a cyclical history and every time we have like a new shuttle program coming in basically we get a lot of investment and a lot of jobs coming in then something happens at the federal level and boom we
basically go into recession for years. So how you prevent that is to actually diversify your economy away from aerospace. you'll still be attracting these aerospace companies, but at the same time, you want to develop other sectors that are going to
be so dependent on the federal government because even though these are private companies, they're still very heavily dependent on federal investment. Uh sea level rise is a issue. I know that uh you have a vulnerability analysis that's currently being worked
on. what we're asking for. We work in your previous analysis back in the 2019 I believe and we found out that some of our coilers could be affected by sea level rise and storm surge. We're just
asking that yeah look how you can probably fortify your coilers a little better if there like uh something were to happen. I was telling your staff, uh, we know what what happened with all the rain that came out and we don't know where that came from because there's no
real system. These type of events are going to become more common. And it's not only the coast. I have friends in uh, Lake County and they show me the pictures and it's bad. So, what you're going to have to learn is how do we
fortify ourselves a little more and prepare our communities to be stronger? We have a rainfall model that we developed through CBD meet grant. Uh we'll be willing to share that information with you because you're one of our jurisdictions. So that's something we we will keep uh helping.
The other thing that we have is residential intrusion. You're an economy that's very dependent on manufacturing. And what happens is that when you have more residential areas coming in, the demand for residential, sometimes those
residential areas try to locate near those industrial areas, especially now with the leaf local act. That's a challenge because the leaf local act allows for the development residential in industrially zone areas.
Not much you can do in that case, but you still have to monitor what's what what is happening because you don't want a lot of this industrial land to actually be lost because you you then you don't have the sites. I can tell you
from my experience regionally right now the region overall lacks enough sites like it's not only that people invar county will be complaining but in orange is the same situation seminal is the same situation we don't just don't have
those industrial sites we need to think about how we're going to land bankank some of these critical sites for new development because they take time to develop but they're the ones that act would actually going to bring the biggest economic boost when you come in
like residential is not going to bring that sadly. So for tres what we're saying here we want to promote you to promote the creation of more homebased shelter facilities as this is just mainly looking at the regulations and making
sure that they're not uh really obstructive when it comes to developing this. You also want to diversify the economy uh using the leisure hospitality sectors. Again, that natural cultural plan we think is really important that
you uh follow through and then you try to maximize a low impact development strategies especially on business corridors. So you like basically reduce the amount of uh purus surface uh the impervious surface that is located like
the uh concrete and actually be able to have be able to have the water get through. So this is the uh last slide uh my presentation. I'm willing to take any questions. My information is also here if you have any questions later but
again I'm here if you have any questions. >> Thank you very much Mr. Member Stokel. >> Yes. Um I have a few questions. One, um how long is the proposed strategic plan supposed to be? Is it a five-year plan? Do you know?
>> We didn't actually put a time frame on it. Uh we understand that the reason we don't put You're talking about my plan, right? The plan we developed. >> Yes. And the one in our agenda packet as well. So I was looking through it and there's >> we did not add time and one of the
reasons I'm not adding time right now is that I understand that a lot of communities are resource constraint. So we didn't add like a specific timeline on when you want to achieve all these things like for example if you decide to apply for that survey and do that survey
you're going to have to get an partner like United Central Florida or somebody that actually does that. That takes time. You know what I mean? So I don't want to tell you that yeah we're going to do this in five years and then other priorities come in from the budget. So that's why I personally don't do timelines on it.
>> Okay. It will be helpful and maybe this is going to be more Nicholas than you but for us at least from my perspective if we do have some type of timeline and benchmarks that we're reaching for. This is what I do in at my job currently. So that's why I ask um I think it's important for us to be able to monitor
and track our progress of what we're doing. >> Um so that was one. And then you did mention the business education task force. Um, this might just be more educational than a question, but at the college locally here, Eastern Florida State College that you mentioned, there's advisory boards there where we
invite industries to come in. So, it might be a good idea for us to be a part of that already existing structure. >> Yeah, there may be. Yeah. Um and then um did you during this analysis look at our currently um where we have commercial
and industrial areas within the community? >> Yeah. >> We do corridor by corridor >> and each corridor has the percentage of land the percent of vacant land. Uh not all of it >> looks exactly entitlements but we do also one of the things that we also did
for you. We have a lous capacity analysis which is part of the project. So that basically kind of compares what is forecasted to be the demand for uh for like employees for different industries versus what the land use that
you have right now. So we did look at it some of your industrial sites so that you know um have a lot of wetlands. >> So that's usually a hindrance to economic development. I don't the way to
clear those is to basically do like a wetland delineation and see what type of wetlands they really are. But the but we did look at every little corridor that you have and each one of them has like different maps and it has everything and
we look at every little business you have to. >> Okay. And again, this might not be council's uh wishes, but I I think for me it would be nice to see if maybe we prioritized those areas and try to incentivize perhaps the ones that aren't
wetlands first, focusing on those um to try to avoid the live local and residential because I I appreciated what you said, residential won't be the economic boost that I think that we're craving here. And I think that it we really want to capitalize on those properties and try to bring some of
these industries here. So, I appreciated that. Um, and then I think I had one more question. Okay. And I you noted the 10 corridors and I think you stated that within there you rated those areas as well maybe where we can prioritize which ones to focus on
>> on our case. It depends on what you really what you call them prioritizing. Uh there's the ones that actually need some redevelopment. >> Uh we did see a lot of and it's funny because they're parallel to each other. US1 has a lot of very nice redevelopment
going on and then parallel to it you go to Hopkins and Hopkins there's a a level of vacancy there that frankly is a little unacceptable and we definitely one of the recommendations we had was to actually go and do some kind of like a
corridor analysis >> okay >> where you can do more like a windshill survey of the area but on our side what we're going to be doing uh with our grant we are able to go in and do an assessment and look at corridors.
Why do corridors? Like I said, corridors are like the span of economic development. As part of our brown program, we're calling ourselves the resilient corridors coalition because we're actually developing a whole methodology of how to look at corridors and how to like the the idea will be
that at some point we're going to be able to provide specific strategies for each corridor. So, you're going to be kind of one of our pilot projects hopefully. >> Okay, that sounds interesting because as you were saying that, I was thinking it might be good for us to potentially order of priority. Should we focus on
US1? Should we focus on Garden Street 95 exit? Where are those major areas? >> Overall, I have to say your corridors are pretty solid. >> Like, we were actually pretty I've been to other cities where I'm like, "Oh my god, what happened here?"
Um overall your coders seem to be US1 is one of your older corridors. The level of investment there is really obvious to us. You know what I mean? And it's definitely uh it's something want to replicate in the city. Uh garden street
is a little older. >> Uh there are other strategies that I didn't go into here. The plan is a little more detailed. Uh we're asking for example ways we can you can live in an area because Garden Street is like much closer to downtown I believe than the
other corridor. So maybe >> one thing that I I always think of Garden Street uh one of the recommendations we have is to basically look at the physibility of doing some like outdoor >> type of of of uh arena. I was able to
visit Detroit back in 2023 and it was really interesting because in their downtown you go in and there's this block that's like magical but it's completely different from the rest of it and it has a lot of amenities and what the
community uses it and they were advertising was Shakespeare in the park for example and they're using that facility for that. It's not like a big arena that you have to really like maintain. It's just basically just an area within the city where you're able
to host that type of events. >> Okay. >> And in our in TA was going to look a little different, but I just want to give you an example of that. >> No. And I appreciate that because that garden street corridor I think has been really difficult for us to try to and the other one on 50 like we got Walmart then Starbucks came and other
developments followed and that Garden Street one has been people will try and then it closes down and it's been tough for us. So, okay. Um, I think that's all I have for now. Thank you. >> Thank you, Member Stokel. Member Mscoso. >> Thank you. Thank you so much for this. This was um excellent. I I am so
impressed. I feel like every new council member should get this. I learned a lot. Um Sarah, I'm with you on the benchmarks. I think we definitely need to have that. This is such good information. I would hate for this to be the only time we discuss it. So, I don't know if it would be possible for us to
have a workshop on it where we could go through and discuss it piece by piece because what I would hate is that we see this and then it gets handed over to the staff and then out of sight, out of mind. Um, and I was even thinking, I don't know, for me on council sometimes
I feel like I'm all over the place, like I've got my feet in this area and this area. Um, and I was as I was going through this, I kind of divided it up into different sections. And so you know there was economic development industry growth um and some of the suggestions were career source working with the
chamber of commerce um looking at manufacturing um another one was workforce and education so working with um you know EFSC working with uh how you talked about the zoning for child care things like that. So if that this could be something perhaps we discuss in a
workshop that each of us takes almost like a section and that is our um you know what we're focusing on and maybe you know somebody you might want to focus on all of it but then it's more um pointed and we can kind of focus on saying hey I'm I've been reached out
I've been reaching out to Career Source or I've been working with Brad about zoning issues so that we can make sure that there's like inhome child care allowed in these areas. Um, for me, I'd like to see that, but um, just it would just help me get a focus. But thank you so much. I felt like this is wonderful,
and I would love to spend uh, more time as a group working through it. >> And it's something that I have to say, you have great staff. Uh, we've been working with Brad and Nicholas for like the past year and a half, and they're great to work with. We're still here. We're in Orlando, but you are part of
our region. And we usually have uh small amounts of money here and there that we can actually go in and use for this type of facilitation if you're in need one. We're willing to come that we're part of the community. We're not just a consulting firm. We're here to help our
communities become better and more resilient. So, >> thank you very much. Um, member MCoso, Mr. Louis, we also have a special meeting on economic development in two weeks on November 13th at 5:30. So, it'd be a great time to iron out those plans
and suggestions. Vice Mayor Cole. >> Yeah, I just wanted to piggy back on meo because I do agree that uh this is a a very important document for our city. So, I do agree with you with some things, right? I do have a couple of
questions. You you talk about the the level of the water rising, but are you making a suggestion that we should build a seaw wall or something like that? >> No, like that. This is not a vulnerability analysis. >> Okay. >> You're going to have a professional. You already hire a firm. I think it's called
CDM Smith Brad that you hire. >> Geocentech. Geocentech will actually provide you those recommendations. >> Okay. What we're saying on the economic side is that hey let's look at your corridors and when we do any type of investment
they actually consider the importance of this economic corridors for your like uh basically your wellbeing of the of the community. >> Yeah I wouldn't if I were doing your analysis yeah I would like probably recommend you infrastructure or something like that but that's something that will come up when the plan is due.
>> Okay. And the the other question I had was you talked about residential uh intrusion and I know we have uh various housing areas which are going up but when I talk to some of the corporations that are coming in the people aren't
moving to Titusville. So uh I'm not sure if there's a ratio between the number of residential units and the corporations that come in. We did had one in your uh report >> and I believe and it showed that you
have more residential units than what you had in number of jobs. Part of that because you're located so close to like uh the lagoon, you get a lot of people who basically buy a lot of condos to basically come here on the weekend. That affects some of that analysis. Uh we
heard a couple of stories from that's why we love doing these focus groups because we talk to the community. Uh, one of the builders said that the issue is that he doesn't think there's enough housing, enough new housing coming in and I think that there's a lot of
development coming I believe mostly in the south and the west that will help that. I can also tell you this is anecdotal completely but uh one of our co co-workers her like daughter would got married to an engineer from like uh
blue origin and they actually chose to live here in titles and they bought one of the older house they're fix they're a fixer upper they're fixing it so you are attracting I think that a lot of a lot of communities usually
have the same conversation you're having people think oh you're not moving Okay. Um I had situations like for example uh I did an similar analysis for Coco and similar analysis for for Palm Bay. Uh there you actually show the flows of
people like basically coming in and leaving Tyusville based on commuter data. We didn't see that here that much. Yeah. Could you actually be more competitive if you have some residential new residential? Hey, probably you will. Everybody will. You know what I mean?
especially with all the new jobs that you're coming in, it will be good for you to attract more residents. And I think that you're attracting what you need to attract. Uh but with residential intrusion the problem we have usually is that planners we really know this
understand this because if you have if you have an industrial piece of property you basically have about like maybe like a high industrial for example or a intermediate industrial you have about like maybe 20 uses you can do you get
residential close in about half of those users are going to be gone because you're going to have to basically protect those residents. That's why res that's what we mean with set intrusion. Okay. >> And we get really concerned. I know there's also there's there before the
November economy development zone left. There was some new investments coming in because I think one of the issues you have is sewer right now especially on US1 and we we help the econom prepare kind of like the analysis why we should
they should invest in in in this infrastructure. Again each community is going to have a different set of problems. I from what I heard here we we definitely appreciate this community. retain their cell or you
have a lot of assets that you can really exploit. It's a matter of believing that you can do it. You know what I mean? >> Thank you very much. Are you done? Member Nelson. >> I just wanted to add one thing for Megan. Um, Space Coast EDC Nick belongs
to I belong to and that's one of the things they're working on is workforce development and they are partnering partnering with the businesses and the educational facilities to get those certifications,
line it up, figure out what what's needed and make sure that we have it. Um, one of the things that I was thinking of as we were talking about it, you know, um, you said there were
economic opportunities in some of the lower income areas >> and we have more center and we could offer CPT classes there, those kind of classes that might encourage some of the
people to get out and get a job and I can tell you I do have experience as a volunteer during workforce development especially with low-income communities. >> The approach it's it's going to change. You kind of just think that you're going
to offer a certification and people are just going to jump to the certification. Some people are going to need kind of like a program that sort of build their self-esteem first, >> right? and actually goes and works and prepares them to actually go into the
certification. This happens a lot especially with minority communities. >> Okay. >> Uh we have and I tell you I've been I I I've been volunteering with just I did volunteer for just partners for 12 years. like I saw a lot of people that I
work with and definitely establishing that job program is something that you are going to have to evaluate and usually it wouldn't be led by the city. The idea here jobs partnership the model basically is kind of partnership between
the nonprofit and churches local churches. So, we did point out a couple of what we think will be the stakeholders in one of your census tracks. Those will be actually be the organizations that should be doing this type of program. It's usually not
government helps, but it's not government led. >> So, is there a do you guys have a program that we could use? >> It's not mine. Yeah. I have a good friend that does it and I can ask him, hey, are you ready to like go to Revar
County? It's it's a conversation. I had I had it with him in Sam for too and it's a really good pro and they just celebrate 25 years. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Thank you very much, Member Nelson. Thank you very much, Mr. Lewis. We appreciate you coming here before us. I know I appreciated our conversation
along with your director and I think it was Jennifer and we talked about the business incubator program with with UCF and I I think I I found a place for them to land and hopefully we'll get that that call in the >> I'll be very happy if you do because we're really rooting for the city of Parisville.
>> Thank you very much. Definitely appreciate your time. Thank you. >> Definitely. Anything else you need? You have my contact information, but thank you. >> Thank you very much. All right, we're at the petitions and requests non-aggenda items and we're still in our 5:30 meeting. So, this is not the official city council meeting.
This is special presentations meeting. But anybody for petitions and requests for this meeting before we adjourn for our next meeting? Come on, Stan. >> Yeah. >> As you know, I'm Stan Johnson. I'm a registered professional engineer and uh
I want uh I'm allowed to speak about item 4 C economic development strategic which uh was just presented by Mr. Lewis Norris. I can't pronounce his name. Uh >> pardon >> okay he's got it. So, uh, the problem is
is that, uh, I've had a big problem or let's say the city of Tyville has had a big problem with the, uh, ECFRPC big time. Big time. Please listen. Please listen this time. So, what they had is that the E ECFRPC
along with Eddie Galindo and Brad Brad uh, Parish uh, created a res resiliency Titusville. I think it's called 2019, which is completely false. Completely false. You should know about it. And in
other words, when he's shaking his head, he knows absolutely nothing about it. So, I complained I complained about the fraudulent this fraudulent document that I'm talking about that was created by this company, which the city of Tyville is paying for is paying for this.
>> Mr. Johnson, please direct your comments up to the DA. >> Okay. Well, you you should be listening to it because he should be listening to it. I don't know why he's walking away, but the thing is is big. So, I went to all the workshops for this sustainability pro project, all the workshops here in here, right here in
Titusville, and I made all kinds of comments about it, the problems with the drainage and so forth and like that. So what happened is when they when they published it and signed it and everything by the city and by this group it completely left out hours
and hours and hours of work we did in workshop neglected completely has to do with for example storm water storm water the problem that I presented many times in sustainability so I don't know why he'd be leaving which is crazy to me
because I'm I'm telling you so what I did is I complained to to our our our human resources director and and they found me in favor in favor and such. So so they they had to they made an amendment to it. Brad Parish was
disciplined for his dishonesty. I'm saying dishonesty. And now we're going again with this group right here. And I think you should listen to what I'm saying is that what I did was I filed a complaint against a professional engineer
about this study which is completely false. So what happened is that the he argued he said well I never said anything in public about this problem. Never said anything. So it was dismissed. although it was dismissed is
that what I'm saying the East Central Florida Regional Planning Council was dishonest big time big time big time and they completely lost it. And so what the city did is they changed it. I would I would like another two minutes to
explain this. >> Thank you. >> I'm disappointed that you're not going to listen. Sorry. No second. >> Anybody else for petitions and requests for our 5:30 meeting? >> Seeing none, have a motion to adjourn.
>> So move. >> We'rejourned. We will reconvene in you say five minutes, guys. >> Five minutes for our 6:30 meeting. Thank you. Part: 2
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section shall be construed to limit or restrict a person's right created by the constitution, law, ordinance, or regulation. Good evening everybody. I want to welcome you to the city of Titusville City Council regular meeting October 28,
2025 at 6:30. I call this meeting to order. For the invocation, can you please take a moment of silence? Thank you very much. Please stand for the pledge to the flag of the United States of
America and to the stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you very much. Before we get started, I want to talk about the events
of the last two days. Um, unfortunately, our city was devastated with over 15 inches of rain in a short afternoon. No city could have withheld that and I firmly believe no city would have done
as well as we have. We actually did pretty well. While there are people uh that have had water intrusion in their homes and we still have streets that are still flooded, the water did go down in a lot of areas very very quickly uh very very fast. So um I can't say enough to
Brad, sorry Brad, Kevin and Sandy. Uh those guys have been working around the clock the last 48 hours, them and their teams uh trying to keep uh lives and property safe. There was no loss of life loss of life in Titusville. I don't
think there was any injuries. Um just things that we got to continue to work on. As of October 27th, I've did a proclamation of a state of emergency in the city of Titusville. And I think it's important that our citizens know that all five of us up here care deeply about
this community and we're going to do everything we can to help protect our residents, our homes, our businesses, whatever we need to do. And with that proclamation, uh it gave us the ability to act quickly and accessing additional
resources. Um unfortunately um there's a hierarchy to these things and as of yet the the county has yet to declare a state of emergency in the North Bard area which has limited us in accessing maybe some state level resources
uh which then prevents us from going even higher. We're doing everything we can so that our residents can hopefully get to the place where they can file individual claims with FEMA so that they can recover and restore what was lost.
Um later on in my report, I will be bringing up our storm water master plan and asking council to direct staff to um rework that plan in its entirety so that we are prepared because what happened
while it was something we could not predict. I still do not want to see it happen again in the city of Titusville. And it's not about 10 years from now, it's about 20, 30 years from now. So, we're going to plan ahead and we're going to make every opportunity
available for us to be successful. And with that being said, I've asked our city manager to give us an update as to where we currently stand. Good evening, mayor, vice mayor, and council. To put in perspective the amount of rainfall we had in such a short period, normally for the month of
October, we get about four to five inches. Um on the 26th starting around 7 o'clock till about one o'clock over a period of six hours we got 15 inches which is a one in 500year event according to the National Weather Service. Not something a stat that we
came up with National Weather Service that that's the uh uh stat. As far as uh current status I can tell you that as of this afternoon all traffic signals continue normal operations. We did have a number of city buildings that had
water intrusion, including city hall, the city hall annex, the Harry T. Moore Center, and the fire department headquarters. And they were mainly roofing type issues that we are addressing. As far as lift stations, we have 104 lift stations, 53 of which had high
level alarms. As of right now, 24 still have high level alarms, and we're addressing that. Um we had a number of well actually four lift stations that had um overflows. Lift station right here at South Street had a 12,000galon
raw wastewater overflow which impacted the Indian River Lagoon. Um our master pump station had 60,000 gallons of raw wastewater overflowed. Um and we're still um working on that issue. Um over
in Parkland, the lift station had electrical panel damaged by flood waters and a transfer pump was placed there to to uh control the flow. And of course, um our sewer field operations crews continue to monitor the stations with
24-hour coverage. As far as water reclamation, we're treating 17 million gallons of waste water a day. Normally we that is 3.8 eight times more than normal. So almost four times normal
amount of waste water is passing through our treatment plants. So therefore we did have over at Osprey Water. It was overcome um by this huge deluge of waste water had 797,000
gallons of of reuse water which is already treated overflowed the outfall box and it's being contained on site. There may be a potential that some of it may uh uh seep into a retention pond, but we have it plugged up where it won't
go into Indian River Lagoon. Um, and you know, we're monitoring that. As far as street maintenance, we have street maintenance crews working throughout the day and evening to repair and restore. Um we did si we did um
reach out to our uh county and to the state and to the cities to get additional um assets. The city of Melbourne sent a vacuum truck. The Florida State DOT sent a vacuum truck. Um city of Coco has offered a reserve
fire engine in in the event that we need that and um and we are you know getting any offers of of assistance that we need. So there's a cooperative state throughout the county and the cities to help us and augment our crews and again um you know we are making
progress. There are still a number of areas that are are underwater and and we're doing our best. Obviously the St. John's River just crested I believe this afternoon. Um and and we're hoping now that that will allow us to get some water um pumped out of some of the areas
that are still affected. and we're going to be doing building and damage assessments in the coming days and um we're continuing to do whatever we can to help mitigate this incredible rain event. Thank you. >> Thank you, city manager. And I just want
to reiterate, we're doing everything we can to get FEMA to open up their their checkbook. have had personal calls and conversations with our federally elected representatives, Congressman Heridopoulos and Senator Rick Scott that are working things on their end and
we're we're going through the process. So, we're here to help and support any which way we can. I know city manager has been out to a lot of the affected areas today. I know I have. I'm sure other council members have. So, this doesn't sit in a vacuum. You know, we're
we're we're people in your community. We care. So, with that being said, uh we'll proceed into the rest of our agenda. Member Nelson, can I have a motion, please? >> Oh, >> I saw approval on the minutes on the
agenda and I forgot to look below it. Never mind. >> Yes, sir. Uh Steve, >> the first item is boards and commissions and that's 6A and that's the historic preservation board and the terms of regular members Ros Foster, William
Gatens, Alan Keel, Joseph Adams, and one alternate member Ula Rup Croftton expired on October 31st, 2025. They have all expressed their willingness and desire to continue to serve on the board and have re have requested reappoint for another two-year
term to expire on October 31st, 2027. And there are no other applications on file. And the the recommended action is to reappoint four regular members and one alternate member to the historic preservation board for two-year terms to
expire October 31st, 2027. Thank you, city manager. City clerk, >> we have one card. It's Dan Johnston. My name is Stan Johnston and I've been this is about a historic uh the historic board and u I certainly approve what
they're doing here and uh I'm hopefully that since they're seeing that this is being approved that that uh what has happened at the la just the last meeting the misinformation and so forth that's happening within the city Times bill. Thank you. >> Thank you. City clerk.
>> Yes, sir. We um Tony Shel. >> Good evening, Shuffalo. The tr uh the historic Norwood House. I'll use that address tonight. I've come to blow the horn of the historic preservation board. I recommend reappoint of the four
regular members and the newest alternate, Miss Ula Croftton. She's lived here long enough to have real historic stories that she lived through firsthand. Miss Foster is an encyclopedia of Brevard historic lore
and an internet of information about current historic issues. Allan runs the most efficient but most encompassing meetings I've ever attended. Even though short in time, often less than an hour, our historic preservation
board meetings are deep and accomplish a lot. May I remind you, architectural guidelines, joinerville project, etc., etc., our historic tour, we're working now in Metatory Modern in the space industry. Come to Titusville. He
allows alternates to be part of the conversation and considered in our decisions that require no official vote. Member Adams, our secretary, is the keeper of a vast amount of historic history and historic places, museums,
and he augments my growing library of architectural historic buildings and books by calling out his collection. Matt could serve on no more a formal board as he only wears shorts to meetings.
Very appropriate to Florida, so he couldn't dress up to go to something fancy. He's our board's factchecker as he uses the computer up here um during the meetings to research topics relevant to the discussions that we're having.
and you have no other candidates. So there's no other choice to keep your efficient and functioning historic preservation board active. So you might as well and I ask you please consider a
blanket approval of these four people. Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Miss Tony. City Clerk, >> I just need to ask Miss Villain, did you want to speak on this item? >> Yes. >> Okay. It didn't have a item number. >> Oh, I'm not used to putting in cards. I
think I've done it twice in the three years I've been here. Hi. >> Uh, Melinda in Historic Indian River City. Um, I had planned on applying to the alternate position, but I didn't see the little like things at the bottom and I missed the deadline for it. Um,
however, with the Joinerville project, with things that I have heard uh in the meetings that the historic board wants to cover, I'm all for it. I would actually like to offer my I'm really good at research. I'm sure you guys have
realized that now that I am fantastic at research. So, I would like to instead of sitting on that, I would like to offer my services of historic research to the historic advisory board. Um, and just to prove the point that I'm good at it, um, if you're not a member of the talk of
Titusville, um, I posted a thing about the flooding and and historic uh, nature of it that really isn't known unless you do really deep dives. So, just to show that I can help the historic board out even though I am not a member. In the
early 1910s, Titusville Fruit and Farmland Company bought over 22,000 acres of the Dallas Pine Land Grant headed by EW Ellis. They built Indian River City around the railway station, Pritchard's Landing, and got to work draining the wetlands west of IRC to sell off as far foreign land parcels. Yes, the same Ellis as the Addison Ellis
canal. There were two phases to the project. One creating drainage ditches around each property to drain the land and feed it into the St. John's River and the other to drain Bird Lake to the Addison Creek and have 800 acres to sell. They brought in large dredging and draining machines and started clearing miles of ditches to drain the wetland
and then brought in even bigger machines to build the Addison Ellis Canal. And no, those machines did not come from building the Panic Mock Canal. They came from Chicago. Over time, a lot of those drainage ditches have been filled in or redirected. That is why we have areas in southwest Titusville have major drain
drainage issues. It was built on drain wetlands and over a hundred years later that water has less places to go. And you wouldn't know all that stuff unless you were like me and had the hobby of reading 100-year-old newspapers for fun. So, please proof this board and please
know that I am coming forward in two years. Thank you. >> Thank you, city clerk. >> Council member Nelson, >> would you like a motion? >> Yes, please. >> Okay. I would move to repoint the four
regular members and the one alternate to the historic preservation board. >> Second. >> I have a motion by member Nelson, second by Vice Mayor Cole. Any further discussion from councel? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously.
Thank you very much, city manager. So the next item is the North Boulevard Commission on Parks and Recreation and they have included a semianual written report in the agenda packet and no action is requested.
>> City clerk, are there any cards on this item? >> Yes, sir. >> Thank you very much. City council, anything? >> Seeing none, city manager. Sir, the next item is a planning and zoning commission leave of absence and
you you are asked to approve a regular member Theodore Garage's le request of leave from the planning and zoning commissions from October 15th to December 1st, 2025. >> Say clerk, are there any cards? >> Member Nelson
>> move to approve U member Gerard's leave of absence. >> Second. I have a motion by member Nelson, second by Vice Mayor Cole. Any further discussion from councel? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously.
Thank you very much, city manager. >> So, the next item is the Titusville Environmental Commission and the recommended action is to approve staff time to review and revise areas of the conservation element policy 1.16.2 two
in the comprehensive plan as well as other policies and related strategies that may help clarify and strengthen the intent of protecting wetlands on smaller parcels. And Brad Parish is here to answer any questions you should have on that initiative.
Thank you very much, city clerk Laurely Thompson or Thompson Mims. Um, and I'm the co-chair of your environmental commission and and our job is to look at environmental issues around Titusville and make recommendations to you. And so
I hope you would support um this request for the uh TEC to be able to work with staff to um review and revise areas of it says in this um in the agenda conservation element policy 1.16.2.
It actually should be future land use element 1.16.2 in the comp plan. Um, and there's a couple of other places uh in your um staff report or I'm sorry in your agenda
packet where it refers to conservation element um policy 1.16.2 or C policy 1.16.2. Um those should be changed those references um should be changed to um references to the future land use
element policy 1.16.2 2 or LEU policy 1.16.2. It would be great if um staff time could be approved and um and and also um permission to work on the rest of the future land use element language re
regarding conservation land use. Um, the TEC has two more points of confusion and suggested clarifications to look at for the future land use element. And obviously TEC and staff need to work cooperative cooperatively together if
this confusion um this ongoing confusion is to be properly cleaned up to everyone's satisfaction. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Thompson. City Clerk >> Tony Shuffalo
Shel Tropic Street. Um, these numbers that Miss Thompson was just reeling off are are related mostly to the ordinances and things relating to wetlands. Rains of monumental proportions are
increasing due to atmospheric alterations, flooding a lot due to recent nearby construction on filledin or parcels of wetlands that are separated from the hole.
Geographic alterations. Old weak infrastructure. Flooding. Wetlands absorb drainage. Prevent flooding. Do we need to say anything more?
>> Thank you, Miss Shifflo. City clerk. >> Last call to Stan Johnston. >> Thank you, Mr. Johnson. City Council member Stokele. Yes. Um so in my briefing when I saw the advisability I was the council member that requested a list of all the
advisabilities that we've given staff and so we all got that um I don't know when you sent it to us either Monday this sometime within all this um that's been going on and there's 23 items on that list and I was telling the city manager that probably makes it difficult
for staff to prioritize those. So my suggestion would be and if you looked at that list um and at the last meeting I had asked for the advisability on the wetland storm flooding issues. My request would be that that would be at the top priority with this request being a part of that. That would be my
request. >> Member Nelson. >> I like that idea. Um Brad, how long do you think how much time do you think we'll have in this? Afraid to ask.
Um, it's hard to guess. So, I'm going to point you to page 38 and 39 of your packet. You'll see the specific recommendations that come from that natural resources report that the TEC is referring to. Those are policies that those recommendations are trying to address out of the city's comprehensive
plan that um are very difficult to unwind. So, we will do our best based on your if you approve this to work with the TC to see what we can come up with as far as changes to this language, but if um if we need to, we may need to re
come back to you to seek assistance depending on the complexity. >> Thank you, Member Nelson. And uh conversation I had with Brad during my briefing is uh he informed me that the county's comp plan that they submitted
to the state was what turned away basically. >> Well, they received an objection to their ear just like what we're going to hear uh our ear or evaluation appraisal report which is comp plan related amendments later this evening. This
county uh had their some issues with theirs. U I'm not sure what specifically was the issue. So I I don't have an answer for that. But um if you are going to make changes that are more stringent
of land use or even code changes uh it appears to be a conflict with the Senate Bill 180 in many for some of the communities we've been talking to and I think the county um came across that issue.
>> Yeah. So I, you know, big fan of us, you know, taking this step. My only concern is, you know, we dedicate the time and resources to do it and it basically we get our hands slapped and said we, we know, we can't do it. So just something to consider. Member Mscoso, >> um, do you think because one of the
suggestions is looking at wetlands that are um, less than five acres. Do you think that would be something that the state would say would be placing making it harder to develop? But one of the recommendations in here
is to if you see on page 38 and 39 uh states the recommendation is to clarify the intent of the 5acre rule to include adjacent properties. Wetlands acres wetlands 5 acres or larger are currently required to be designated by conservation land use. And in the adjacent column talks about particular
strategy related to that and the need to clarify that and to come up with um some criteria such as u coming up with a function of value um you know those things could be cons um
the same as what the state already uses. So you have to be careful of that. You can't have regulations or processes that are similar to or duplicative of what the state has. So, we would need to carefully evaluate what we can actually adopt if we want to come up with something that's different.
>> Is is there something we can do with that one that's not necessarily a comprehensive plan change? Because I feel like that is kind of the loophole that developers use. They look at it as they subdivide the the wetland. Um, so does it have to be a comprehensive plan
change or is there something else we could do to add? >> It's hard to answer. Like I said earlier, when you look at these particular policies, they sometimes it can be difficult if you if you make some tweaks that could impact other policies because they're all intertwined together
in the comprehensive plan. These policies come into play primarily when you have an an application to amend the comprehensive plan, the the map, in other words, the boundaries of the conservation land use. And so these policies come into play as far as
reviewing to uh whether that's a good idea legislative wise. So making a change here could cause us to maybe look at other policies. And so as you can see sometimes it could be more complicated as you look at it. We look we evaluate this. We'll have to
determine how difficult this might be and but it is something we need to get assistance with. We'll have to come back to you to get that request. >> Yeah. I just like to thank the TEC for bringing this forward. I think it's important because we often have people come up and then there is confusion over some of this and so I think it's helping us clarify our language a bit. So, thank
you for bringing that forward. >> Member Nelson, >> I sort of think we ought to try it, see what we can do. Um, it's always bothered me the idea that you have two land owners. One has four acres of wetland.
The one next to it has three acres of wetland and that doesn't count. Um, so I think we ought to try it. I'm trying to figure out how I can say it where it gives you some flexibility.
So, I think my motion is to approve staff time to review um and potentially revise the um floor land use element
regarding wetlands. Does that work? The advisability request was the conservation element policy 1.16.2. >> I'm trying to keep it sort of >> well if if you basically the TC's I'm sorry
>> trying to keep it a little bit vague so that you're not hampered in any way. So if you look at um 1.16.2 two, I don't want you to say I'm only supposed to look at that particular section and not
look at anything else that's related. >> I think if you approve this advisability or this direction to us, we will look at these two policies uh the strategy from the from the future land use element and I'm sorry, the conservation element and the 1.16.2 to from the future land use
element and if we see that it's room for making changes to that um and we find that other policies may need to be changed as a result we'll we'll show that to you >> okay >> you know we'll we'll tell you what the impact might be >> so if I say move to approve staff time
to review and revise areas of the future land use element 1.16.2 to and any related sections. Okay. So, that's my motion.
>> Second uh for discussion. My my only question with that is um going back to what I originally said, I I would like to have us look at that component, but all wetlands, our storm water, probably what Mayor Connor said he's bringing up in his report and this be a part of it because now this is just adding number
24 on the list. And I want to direct staff that this needs to be top priority, not, you know, the 24th off of this list. >> Uh m maybe I can make a suggestion. Maybe you can make a motion to reconsider that directive and include it
all together. >> Yes. >> Or or amended. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> To include that. >> Okay. >> So, do you you withdraw your motion? >> Well, I'm not amending it to what I said that it would include the wetlands,
storm water, flooding, and it would be the top priority for advisability. Okay. >> Right. >> My understanding is that we were just going to amend the motion made at the last meeting. So, >> oh, >> all right. >> Yeah. >> Go ahead and make your motion again. >> Oh, >> yeah. >> So, moved.
>> And my second still stands. >> All right. Is staff clear on the motion? Because I don't think I am. >> It is. It is to continue to look at the wetlands, storm water, flooding to include the future land use element that
brought up by TEC and it would be the top priority for advisability. >> Thank you. Thank you. I just wanted you to say it on the record. >> Yes. >> Appreciate it. I have a motion and I have a second. Any further discussion from council? >> La last thing I will say and I'm glad we are looking at this because Senate Bill
180 will have some changes this session. So I'm hopeful that as we do this because at for the timing our ear will probably get rejected as well, but then we'll just keep working and then hopefully we'll be fine. >> All right. Seeing no other lights on. All those in favor say I.
>> I. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much, city manager. >> The last item is the Titusville Housing Authority semianual written report also included in your agenda packet and no action is requested. Anybody have any thoughts on it? Seeing
none. Okay, we're at the point of the meeting for petitions and requests from the public. Present non-aggenda items. K Saint an Maryland Avenue. I appreciate what the mayor and the manager were saying this early at the beginning of the meeting about the flooding and also
the great efforts of the public works department and and your declam declaration of the emergency. I wish to report on the extensive flooding that happened in my neighborhood if you don't mind. I live on Maryland Avenue as you all
know. Casey notch Maryland Avenue. Um the rain started Sunday evening on Maryland Avenue about 5:00 p.m. and by midnight the entire street was flooded waist high. I went waiting at midnight. Four homes were flooded. 2290,
2300, 2310, and 2320 Maryland. all the homes of elderly residents. Their homes were flooded to the to the degree that all furnishings were destroyed and had to be tossed and the drywall up to 2
feet high had to be removed. Multiple vehicles parked along the street were flooded, destroyed, and hauled away by tow truck. While we've had minor flooding before, nothing like this. Uh let me explain. An underground covert
drains the 30 acres of woods north of Maryland Avenue. This underground culvert goes under Maryland Avenue to an open ditch that parallels Maryland Avenue between Georgia Avenue and Maryland Avenue. The city had not
cleaned this ditch in some time. This ditch that runs along Georgia and Maryland Avenue. a baffle box is being installed on Tennessee Avenue about half block from Maryland Avenue. I spoke to the contractor when this work began about a week or so ago. He asked me why
the city had not cleaned this ditch and and said that this was needed to be taken care of. While I would have thought that he would have contracted the contacted the city to clean the ditch prior to the building of the baffle box, that is not what happened.
So, this dish that flows into the baffle box hadn't been cleaned for a lot of time, and I I think that may have added to the problem with the flooding in our neighborhood. I want to let you know that no doubt other neighborhoods such as mine were
flooded Sunday night. Our neighborhood is not particular. I understand that. Um, I also want to commend the public works department. They do an admirable job with the funding they are provided. They must prioritize their efforts while considering funding allotted to their
department. There in lies the problem. As our city grows, public works needs to be more robustly funded. Existing infrastructure needs to be able to accommodate everinccreasing demands caused by climate change like the 11 to
15 acres in 5 hours experienced in my neighborhood. When considering one more sentence, >> thank you Miss K. Okay, one I'm gonna squeeze in. >> Be fair to everybody. >> Please, when considering new development, think about flooding.
>> Thank you. >> Hi. Um, the storm the other night. I want to say thank you to all of the emergency response. Unfortunately, there was not enough. And I can say that because when I got the hysteric phone call from my 16-year-old daughter who
was trapped over by Bonade on Singleton with trash cans and pallets floating past her, there was no one to help her. I know that because I stopped a high water vehicle who was coming through there as I was waiting from Darien Singleton all the way to Bonnie in waist
deep water in the pitch black and pouring down rain because I will stop at nothing to make sure my daughter's safe. And you know what they told me? They had higher priority calls. But they couldn't stop for my 16-year-old daughter to make sure she was safe while she was surrounded by the storm hunters because
they had higher priority calls. So there's not enough there's not enough emergency response and that needs to be clear. Now having said that, that doesn't take away from the emergency response that was had because they I'm sure they gave everything they had to
give. But it's the city's responsibility to make sure that there's enough to go around. And at 48 years old, I waited a quarter mile in waist deep water to make sure my daughter didn't float away in storm waters because nobody was there to
help us. And when we were done, boys from Mems and Titusville and lifted trucks drove out to Singleton and they pulled people out of their cars and they pulled their cars out and they drove them to safety. My white knight came in a white diesel
and let me and my daughter ride in the back of it because Bonnie me was the high point and there was high water on either side where vehicles couldn't get through. Otherwise, we would have been trapped there all night long. >> There's not enough response. And
furthermore, unincorporated Boulevard where we have good drainage can take 24 ines in 24 hours and not flood. It's an infrastructure problem. Granted, you still would have flooded, but if your infrastructure was fixed, it wouldn't have been as severe. And if you'd planned for an emergency response,
people like me wouldn't have risked our lives to save our own children. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. You know, >> please pass. >> I find it um disheartening when I hear things like
that. Um but I also believe the same person um says that there is no infrastructure in MIS and that person's boss voted against funding a fire truck today in district one and a fire station. So I think that
is an issue as well. Mr. Johnson, you have the floor. >> You have the floor. Mr. Johnson, >> I'd like to have her. >> Mr. Johnson, you have the floor. >> City clerk, start the clock. >> Can you give her a call? City clerk, start the clock. >> She hasn't have the card up. >> Mr. Johnson, you're wasting your time.
>> I'm I'm asking you to to give her the card before I speak. Would you do that, please, Mr. Cole? >> No. >> Okay. No, thank you. Okay. I want y'all to understand what's going on here. It's just just we had just we had a uh a
meeting at 5:30 and what what I happened to do is I approached them with an explanation of what a problem is with the city that has to do with drainage and I explained that Mr. Brad Parish and and Eddie Gando were convicted of fraud
by HR Joe Dairo and they admitted it and it has to do with what it has to do with flooding. flooding and drainage and you did not listen to it. And that is why I changed my shirt to wear this shirt that says fire fire our city manager who is I
don't think you're compassionate about what's happened to this flooding. But this happened to me. Shame on all you. Shame on you. Shame on you. Shame on you. I told Lauri I wasn't going to do this. But not until after what what he happened is that other other words I'm
saying is that Brad Parish committed fraud and so did Adlindo and ECR East Coast central Florida regional planning council regarding the s resilient Titusville report of 2019 and it was amended accordingly and you should know
that and I think that Tony Shifflo should report in her historical reports too. So I'm letting you know and you don't want to hear about it. You showed me complete disrespect, Mr. Cole. You disrespect. You respect my engineering profession. You expect as far as I'm
concerned is I want y'all to understand that God's law is that water flows downhill and you violate it repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly, repeatedly in your storm water management plan and in your sustainability report and Mr. Glendo and Mr. Parish and you don't do
anything about it. You don't even want to hear about it. You're not listening. You're not listening because this is a serious issue of drainage and I was I was talking to you about it last meeting. You don't want to listen to it. Mr. Cole doesn't want to co
cooperate. You guys are not telling the truth. You're mishold. You're mishandling information and you're giving misinformation and you're withholding information about storm water, about what you're doing and you're not doing
it right. That's why I'm wearing this shirt. It says fire the city city. Uh uh. Okay. What I had is I just went this past Wednesday. I was at a prayer at a No, it was it was a a breakfast meeting. Mr.
Connor was there and I explained that I I needed help and prayer for my mission to oppose city corruption in my area of of engineering. >> I get disrespect completely. May I have another minute? >> No, you may not. Thank you. Thank you,
Megan. >> First of all, before I get to my agenda, you probably heard if you can't baffle them with brilliance, you buffalo with bull. You can use figure what the rest of it says. Okay.
I'm still trying to get you, Mr. mayor or someone on your staff to correct the embarrassing display of the American flag in front of the fire department headquarters. I take it that you, your staff or your fire chief are not
knowledgeable of the current display and should be at all times be on the observer's left, which is not. You can go out here on your this Washington Avenue and look and the flag is on the right
and it show it with the way it's shown right now. It's shown as patriotism to the fire department parking lot, not to the fire department headquarters, which if it was on the left, it would be shown to the headquarters. And the the flag is considered to be
nothing but a piece of cloth on a pole the way it's flying right now. I will not end with a thank you or your staff council. You have done nothing to deserve it in regards to the display of the American flag. In my personal
opinion, you and your staff are nothing but a new nothing body in regards to the flag. And I challenge anyone on your staff to correct me if I'm wrong. >> That's it. Thank
>> you very much. >> My name is Joanne Stanley. I came to give a gift to the city of Titusville from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And she's passing out the flyer to you right now. We are placing giving machines in the Alamonte
Mall November 19th through December 14th. Now, a giving machine is a large red vending machine, similar to all vending machines where you make a selection and you pay. But this time in the vending machine, what you pay for
goes to a charity. There's five Central Florida charities being represented in this machine. And one of those charities is your own North Bard Charities. It's it's challenging to get to be
represented. You have to be very you have to do a lot of good work and be very well situated to be able to be in this machine. So, there's five Central Florida nonprofits and two international nonprofits. Each of the five
uh Central Florida nonprofits can select five items to be in the machine. Um, and for example, North Bard Charity chose one of their items with bedtime story books so parents and family can read to their children because families in
crisis sometimes forget to do those things. That item is $5. So if you would select that item, the $5 goes to North Bard Charities. The church covers 100% of the expenses of this machine. the
charity gets 100% of the donations. So, I'm giving you an invitation to come to the ribbon cutting for this machine, which is on November 20th from 1 to 2 in the afternoon. And I would like to request that you
tell others about this experience in your community so that you can help your own people. And I would like to request that you bring other people to the giving machine. Yes, it's a donation, but for the person who comes to the
machine and makes the donation, it's a feeling. I wanted to see if you had any questions for me about it. >> Well, first of all, let me say thank you for supporting one of our local charities here in Titusville. North
Charities is a great organization. Um, and again, we we really appreciate that. Member Mscoso, >> thank you so much. Um, how far did you did you come all the way over from Orlando for this? >> No, actually I live in Merit Island, so do you? Okay. >> It was really easy to get here.
>> Oh, good. Thank you. Um, if we can't make it over to the Altoont Mall, um, can we send a donation or I mean, would it be just be better just to give it to Northard Charities? So, if people want to get involved but can't go to the giving machine, how do you recommend that they get involved? >> Probably just a donation straight to
them. uh if if you can't do it that way, you the church provides an online donation, but that won't go to local ones. It only goes to the international charities. >> Okay. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. And I you have my card if you have other questions.
>> Appreciate it. >> Good evening, council. For the record, my name is Dwight Severs here in Titusville. Again, I want to congratulate Mr. Robati on his appointment as city manager and attorney treasurer for her appointment. I view this as a new beginning on the
part of the city. I would expect a number of changes in the city organization as well as personnel which I believe are in the best interest of the city. I would likewise would expect attorney treasure for you as city attorney to set a new tone or direction
for the city upholding the public policies that stated in Florida statutes 112 and 286 and using the statutory words recognizing that promoting the public interest and maintaining the respect of the people in their
government must be of the foremost concern. It is the public interest for public officials and employees to maintain the respect of the people in their government and to remember they are to hold those position for the benefit of the public.
I would expect the city manager and city attorney to further emphasize transparency, communication with the public, accessibilities to public records and fair treatment of all citizens and obviously following the
rule of law. Second, I would like to mention for 40 years in serving with seven different city managers, I sat on the dis along with the city manager. Matter of fact, one city uh mayor had me sitting there and the city manager
sitting there. That was Mayor Mariani who served on the city council for 20 years or more. So I would respectfully suggest that this was dis I was here in 1968 when this was dedicated. I was here
whenever they rededicated this council chamber. The dasis laid it out. So the city clerk is there, the city manager there. The five of you are sitting there. The city attorney is sitting over there. CDC guidelines dealing with CO
changed that. It's over. Why haven't you returned to the normal seating arrangement? Don't you respect the role of the city manager and the city attorney? Don't you? You understand protocol?
>> You understand certainly protocol. In addition, is it in the interest of public safety that they be sitting here? Is it really in the interest of public safety? In addition, I'd like to mention with regard to the assistant city attorney.
In 1999, for 5 years, I did it all myself. Didn't hire outside counsel for virtually anything. I needed an assistant. And the city manager, the city council agreed with me. Let me just simply say on a personal note because of
not hiring an assistant in some ways I paid a very heavy price for that. >> Could I just finish >> one sentence? >> I'm being fair to everybody. >> Could I ask councel for a minute? >> Yes. >> Yes. >> I see two heads, three heads shaking. Is
that right with you, mayor? >> If there's a motion and a second and a vote. >> There's a motion. >> You said protocol. So, I'm following the protocol. >> Okay. >> All those in favor say I. I all oppose. All right, you can have additional minute. >> Thank you. In some ways, I paid a very
high price for the commitment I gave the city since in 2000, I lost my 17 year old son. In hindsight, I probably spent too much time for the city and not with my son and my family, and I regret that.
Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Chvers. [Applause] want to go. >> Hello, Melinda Villain, Historic Indian River City. Um, I'm not going to be able to be here for a little bit because I
got cast in a show. Yay. So, I'll be super busy. Yay. Um, however, I just did want to come down and remind you guys that we still have a freight truck problem on Acorn Drive. But before I do that, thank you, Mr. Mayor, for coming down and having the historic tour. I
hope that you realized how important the history of Indian River City is to all of South Titusville because Indian River City really is the history of South Titusville. Uh, I also want to thank uh, Mr. Cook for coming down uh and talking
with me about putting a freight loading and unloading zone on Acorn. All right. Uh thank you so much. He also put up uh signs that say do not block driveways because they were blocking everything. Nobody went out and said,
"Hey, do we have 12 feet by 70 ft, which is what a loading and unloading zone on private property is supposed to be?" Nobody went and checked to see if we had that on Acorn. Just like nobody went and checked to make sure that my little half alleyway
was a part of the trucking route cuz it never was. It took four months for me to discover that. So there should be no trucks pulling up. And right now I have trucks pulling up between Acorn on the alleyway between
Acorn and Birch now and pulling out onto there. So what I have provided you with when I had my first determination, all right, the city me the city member representative that came down for the freight truck determination told me that the
neighborhood plan does not matter and that Indian River City is an overlay district, not its own zoning. And yet from your compre your uh conditional use for a food truck that was going to go into Indian River City, it states right here, the neighborhood plan, and this is
from your city staff, the neighborhood plan for the Indian River City neighborhood was adopted by the uh city with resolution 8-202 and shall be the guiding document for zoning regulations. That plan states there are many issues with the interaction of residential uses and commercial uses along the Hopkins
Avenue with very little buffering, inadequate setbacks, and no screening. The plan's first policy recommendation states, "Limmit the encroion of non-residential uses within the core residential areas of the neighborhood by instituting new zoning regulations that stabilize single family uses and
encourage single family land uses and growth." And then you adopted that plan. I should have had a safety study done before you decided to just pull freight trucks up because guess what? We are 22 feet across. There are only 11 ft lanes, which means when freight trucks are
pulling and delivering on the street, they are actually pulling up and parking into the second lane on Acorn, which means they are pulling up into the residential zone still, which is a violation of your 2017 codes because
everything directly around this my house is zoned residential. I've also provided pictures of the trucks parking and how danger it is. Thank you. >> Thank you. Did Did you ever petition for the vacation? >> Um I have I have not petitioned for a
vacation. Uh Mr. Bati when he came down actually uh said that he would suggest that the city vacates it and me not petition it but the city vacates it instead. So I'm just kind of waiting around to see if we're going to get a freight loading unloading zone or the alley. And by the way, that's also a
school bus zone right now because you guys didn't tell the property owners that freight trucks were going to be pulling up in front of their house. And my favorite thing was watching a freight truck pull away and 10 minutes later a school bus pull up to drop off kids. >> Thank you. >> Thank you.
>> All right. Um, city manager, can you get working on that and bring that back before us? >> I I don't recall saying that. I probably did, but I I don't recall saying it. I did have a site visit with her and obviously I'll I'll continue to work to get resolution. I know she's very
passionate about the issue and I I certainly want to get it resolved. >> Thank you. >> Yeah, I I I understand. I understand. Thank you, sir. >> Good evening. My name is Tom Dobson. My wife and I own a 25 acre parcel of land
surrounding the Country Club Heights subdivision that contains a lake that maybe some of you already know is crucial to the storm water runoff system. All the area west of Park Avenue from the YMCA to Bell Terrace, three canals and three different streets
empty into this lake or onto the surrounding wetlands uh around that lake. Water flows from this lake in a northeasterly direction toward Lake Morca through canals and wetlands surrounding neighborhoods to the north.
Eventually, this water finds its way through the heart of Titusville into the Indian River. The lake is at full capacity right now, as are all the canals and surrounding waterways to the north. Some streets and homes in these neighborhoods are
flooded, including one a block from my home. There is no war where for any more water to go where and where we don't want it to go. I know that you have and are highly concerned about this situation.
What I'm also concerned about is any future highdensity development and the impervious services that come with it encroaching on any part of this critical storm water system and the additional flooding it will certainly cause.
Thank you. You have a map there. Do you What questions might you have? >> See none. Thank you very much, sir. >> Thank you. [Applause] Hello, my name is Angelia Felzone. I'm
from Titusville, Florida. I'm concerned about the SS22024 PD South resoning. My concern is the negative impact that this amendment and resoning may have on my property, the sensitive areas around the plan
development. I have to stop you. This is petitions and requests non-aggenda items. And because this is on the agenda, you'll have to wait to speak on it during that time. So, I'm sorry. So, this petitions and requests from the public non-aggenda items.
Lori Thompson. Um, Mims. Um, I really appreciated Miss Villain getting up and pointing out their newspaper article from a hundred years ago and stating that drainage um from the wetlands was directed west to the St. John's River flood plane. So, it doesn't go that way
anymore. As Mr. Dobson said, it it goes east and it ends up in the Indian River Lagoon. So, um, right now, not only are the big wetlands on the south side of 405 draining into the Indian River Lagoon,
the wetlands on the north side of Singleton and the north side of 405 are connected through coververts underneath 405 and they drain into the big wetlands and they all go towards Lake Morba and there's massive, massive flooding
occurring once again in Temple Terrace and Baker subdivision. you can't even get into those neighborhoods. It's unbelievable. Um, so I want you to think about, um, in order, you know, to be truly functional, wetlands have to have
upland borders. And, you know, you're required by St. John's River uh, Water Management District to maintain a 25- foot border. That's not enough. Um and and also wetlands need to have trees in their borders because trees are
tremendous um they absorb tremendous amounts of rainwater. And if you take out the trees in the borders, then the water that those trees would have absorbed has to go somewhere. So it's going to go in the wetland and it's going to make the flooding even worse
downstream. Um, I want to mention coming up on November the 4th for anybody that's interested in flooding in Titusville, um, the Resilient Titusville Vulnerability Assessment Public Engagement, um, uh, event is going to
happen November 4th at 5:30 p.m. It's in the Tom Stathith Community Building at 7101 South US Highway 1. Um it's across from the entrance to the uh Space Coast airport down on the south side of town.
And you know, we've been working off of the um FEMA flood maps from 2019, which obviously are inadequate for the kind of flooding that's happening in Titusville. So, one of the really exciting things that's going to happen at this workshop
is the first public reveal of the brand new 2025 FEMA flood maps for Titus Fell. And I've been told that they are they are showing a lot more flooding potential areas than the 2019 maps. So I
think that's significant. And I we want a lot of people to come to this event. And so you know the the timing of this um I heard tonight that it was once in a 500year um event. The developers are only required to keep the the first like
inch of rain for a 100year flooding event. The rain's not going to stop. It's going to keep getting worse. >> Appreciate it. >> Additions and requests from the public. Non-aggenda items. Seeing none, city manager.
So, moving on to consent. We have three items plus one addendum item. Total of four consent items. The council wish to pull any for discussion? >> Seeing none, city manager. >> Sir, I'll go ahead and I'll read the titles for the record.
8 A, Economic Development Strategic Plan. 8B, award of contract for Indian River Forest Main Completion Project. 8 C Florida Department of Law Enforcement Drone Grant. And 8 D, a Tranquility
Right-of-way Use Agreement. Thank you, city manager, city clerk. >> Yes, sir. >> We have Tony She for item 8.A. Shalot Tropic Street. Basically, I really like the economic development
strategic plan findings and um I I just had a couple of thoughts while the presentation was being made earlier about the bike trail. Now, I spoke to the CRA, which most of you are on. Well,
actually all of you are the CRA about the trail coming over the Garden Street Bridge that that big long trail and it dumps onto the ground and then you come onto Main Street. Um, what happens is if
you're coming from town, you cross over the railroad tracks and you're immediately in the eastbound traffic on Main Street. Um, which isn't much of a problem now. There isn't a lot of traffic, but according to our future plans, there's
going to be a lot of development along Main Street. It's one of the gateways to be, and so there will be a problem. So in thinking about the economic development, he mentioned this is a bike trail town. We ought to make that
connection more safe for bicyclists. Um arts and culture, Miss Stokel, you were the one who said we don't support the arts. Let's just take it off our goals and objectives. But here it is coming back at you. Arts and culture are going to be
very important. I g I spent a long time in the city of Atlanta where there were a number of theater independent theater groups. There were smaller ones and there were larger ones in Titusville. There's only old Broadway musicals that
are being brought in. Um, what about the little blackbox theaters that are doing original plays, sometimes very sightsp specific related to um, say the history
of Titusville. I've got a play in my back pocket that a young man who was turned down by the theater in Titusville. Um, but we're still wanting to produce it at some point. And there's another play in the works that um member
Nelson knows about. And also I wanted to speak about foreign companies. That's a great idea, but you better watch out. Foreign companies mean foreigners. That means diversity. Whoa.
>> Thank you, Miss Shifflo. The report also said we are more diverse than the rest of the county. So, you know, that's good. >> Thank you. >> All right. City clerk. >> Yes, sir. The last card is Dan Johnston for A, B, C, and D. >> No, for a
this is just for you can't bring any props up. >> Okay, that's a question. Am I allowed to bring this or >> you have to take it back to the back of the room? >> Okay. Is that what is that what your new attorney says? >> That's what I say. >> I know, but what does your new >> That's what our rules say.
>> Mr. Mr. Johnson Mr. Johnson, please take the podium. Put this line down. Please come up. >> Sarah will get her card. >> Go ahead, city clerk. Okay, you you that took I know it's took
about 15 seconds of my out of my time, but I want you to understand is something strange is happening right here. Listen up, St. This is strange is that what happened at 5:30 they had the presentation of economic development strategic plan. Do you know how much
public partition participation they had at that meeting of this project? Any want to guess? How about zero? >> Mr. Please direct your concerns to >> I think you should listen. Listen. In other words, you had you had a
presentation of economic development strateg how much public participation did you have? Absolutely none. So, how do you bring it up? Next meeting. You have a next meeting. You say, "We're going to vote on it in the next meeting. We're not going to have any public participation. This is si this is what
the city of Tyville is doing. This is dirty. This is dirty politics." Yes, it is, Mrs. Dolan Nelson. It's dirty politics. In other words, you have you have presentation of an of an item over 20 minutes long, and what do you
do? You have no participation in the public. You bring it up at the next meeting under consent agenda. That's dirty politics. You Okay. So, what is going on is I oppose this because I mentioned to you, by the way, that this is a this is a
matter of drainage. This pink card that I gave out has a matter of drainage that just happened flooding. And then then we have fraud. Fraud of the strange issue by the city of Tyville admitted by Brad and and and and Eddie. And what do you
do? You do nothing. You don't want to hear about it. This is a serious charge. This has to do with what just happened the last few days here. The flooding of the city of Titusville that was ignored ignored by the
resiliency Titusville plan of 2019. that was changed because of my complaint and that these guys are guilty of what? Fraud and dishonesty and they still work here.
This is what's happened to you. I want the city of none words. I asked I was hoping the city that our new city attorney would comment about my freedom of speech and using something like pictures and so forth like that. She's not going to comment. Yes,
our freedom of speech is is subject to your discretion and your discretion is disrespectful of my engineering profession, disrespectful of community and violation of laws.
>> Thank you, Mr. Johnson. >> City clerk. >> No more. >> All right. Council >> Nelson, >> I would move to approve consent agenda items A through D. >> There's a second.
>> There's another card. >> No, there's not. Mr. Johnson, please have a seat. >> Mr. Johnson, please have a seat. >> Second. >> All right. Your point of order is not recognized. All right. Any further discussion from councel? All those in
favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you, city manager. >> Sir, the next item is uh nine 9A ordinance second reading and it's the transmitt of the evaluation and
appraisal review and the recommended action is to approve the transmitt of the evaluation and appraisal review ear based on amendments to the comprehensive plan to the state land planning agency. And we have members of staff here to present it.
Good evening, commissioners. My name is Emily Thomas. I'm here with Eliza Harris Juliano. We're from Kimley Horn and tonight we're presenting on the updates to the comprehensive plan based on the evaluation and appraisal review.
We were here for a work session back in July. So, we're going to start off with a recap of some of the updates that have come out of this evaluation uh that we presented in that meeting just to provide a refresher and then we'll cover some additional data that we've included
in the local conditions analysis since we last met with you. uh and then go into the public feedback and the outcomes of the input that we heard and we'll end with some questions and discussion
starting with the review of the updates from the work session. Uh just as a reminder, the evaluation and appraisal review is required by the state every seven years and it's an
opportunity to uh ensure that the comprehensive plan is meeting the projected needs of the city and allows us to make sure that the the comprehensive plan uh
is in line with any state statutes that have passed since the last update. The city of Titusville is uh projected to grow by about 6,000 people by 2050. And based on this projection, the current densities and the future land
use will support that population as well as the existing infrastructure is projected to meet the needs of that population based on the existing levels of service. We made several amendments to the
comprehensive plan based on new statutory updates. Uh some of which are required, some are only recommended. Uh firstly, we removed a policy in the coastal management element uh because
post storm moratoriums are no longer permitted by the state. We made some updates to the public schools element related to uh impact fees and uh report notification requirements
and the infrastructure element to address septic to sewer requirements to in order to uh improve the quality of our impaired waters in this area. The recent statutes have removed barriers to accessory dwelling units.
So, we've added a policy to the housing element uh to support ADUs and added language to the capital improvements element uh regarding mobility fees to support the millability plan and enabling the city to wave
impact fees for affordable housing. We've strengthened the language in the future land use element related to historic preservation specifically because of a a statute related to cemeteries, but we expanded it to
include other state programs as well. This update also provided an opportunity to address past public engagement exercises including the Titusville tomorrow exercise in 2017. Many of the goals of this plan were already implemented in the comprehensive
plan. However, uh the the goals surrounding the waterfront were lacking. So, we strengthened that language to focus on the waterfront as a public realm, including uh connecting the the trails and protecting that public space
along the waterfront. And the natural resources public engagement report from 2024. Again, many of these recommendations were incorporated in the comprehensive plan. We identified a few that were missing and added policies and strengthened language uh related to
expanding tree canopy coverage, green space, um and policies related to native landscaping, specifically Bvard native and Florida friendly. uh recommendations were provided by ECFRPC which we incorporated into this
update. Uh mostly related to the coastal high hazard area and updating outdated references and some updates to the transportation element related to access best management practices. uh looking at reducing conflict points
along trails so that we can protect uh pedestrians and cyclists as well as increasing cross access management to uh reduce traffic. Some additional data has been added to the local conditions analysis in your
packet since the work session. Uh we took a closer look at some housing data uh to align with some state expectations for this report and found that the majority of housing is single family and there's a high home ownership rate at
72%. Uh there is an older housing stock in Titusville with 79% of homes being built before 2000. And while some of these h homes are in need of rehabilitation, this also includes some of the old
beautiful historic homes in the city that need to be preserved. Uh about 35% of households in the city are costburden, meaning that they spend 30% of more of their income on housing. It's most prevalent among uh household
income groups making 80% or less of area median income. However, this is expected to increase among income group, all income groups by 2050. Now, I'm going to pass it over to Eliza
to share what we heard from the community in our past work sessions. Good evening, commissioners. Thank you for having us. Um, so we saw you previously on July 22nd for the city council work session and we wanted to talk a little bit about
how we address some of the comments we heard there. Um, we heard no major objections to uh, moving forward with the with the update. Um the specific concerns that we did hear and were able to respond to were um a concern regarding whether there was a need to
wave impact fees given that live local and um is a program that's already out there trying to support uh workforce housing. So what we did was we strengthened the language around impact fee waivers to be specific to lowincome
and extremely lowincome housing. So it wouldn't be accessible to those live local projects which are typically more of a workforce to to middle income project. Now um this policy enables the city to wave those impact fees. It
doesn't require the city. So the city would still have to take a next step within the land development code to actually figure out the specifics of those impact fee waiverss. Um so really making sure those are targeted to the the lower income band truly affordable housing projects. We also heard a desire
to support the um statewide Florida wildlife corridor program. So we um modified some ex an existing policy and the conservation element to explicitly link to the Florida wildlife corridor and help coordination with building out
that that statewide effort. Um during the so we also had a PNZ work session. We told you about the updates related to that last time we were here. Since then, we've had the transmitt hearing with the PNZ on October 8th. There were two changes made to the
proposed um update at that meeting, both based on public comment. Those two changes were to explicitly add the language Bvard native to the policy that had been crafted relative to Florida friendly landscaping. We were already
recommending beefing up that policy to address Florida friendly landscaping to actually require Florida friendly landscaping as well as to deal with the spec specific climatic conditions of Titusville. Um we've added based on the
PNZ meeting the specific Bvard native language. The other recommendation request from the public which was adopted by the the planning board was to remove policy 1.6.8. This was a policy related to revisiting the wetland um
elements within the con basically doing further study on how to deal with those wetland evaluations. I believe that is essentially what you guys were talking about earlier. So the policy wasn't required to enable the city to do that. You can move forward with that with or
without the policy. The policy has been removed. Um and that that doesn't affect your ability to address those issues. Um during the PNZ transmitt hearing, we did hear some concerns revol regarding the level of service for water and
sewer. So um we wanted to provide some additional information on that that we've gathered since that meeting. So the concern was are we going to are we projecting enough population to ensure that we're going to meet those future water needs. Um the water supply plan is
actually a separate exercise from this update. The water supply plan based on our conversations with the the city staff who manage that um is done every five years. It doesn't go all the way out to 20 years. It's a 10-year plan, but it's updated every 5 years. It
actually uses more aggressive population estimates than we're using in the comprehensive plan update. the comp plan update is the likely scenario. Whereas, in order to be um make sure that we can meet those water needs, the water supply plan uses a somewhat more aggressive
water uh population projection. In addition, that's updated every 5 years. It so happens it's going to be updated in 2026. So, there's going to be a very near-term more detailed deep dive into the water needs of the community than um is part of this comprehensive plan
update. Um, we also heard some concerns that there's been residents experience experiencing low water pressure in the city. So, we uh we dove into that with staff as well. Um, the first thing we want to state is that the fact that a particular area is experiencing low
water pressure doesn't necessarily indicate that there's an overall lack of water supply within the city. Those can be two two separate issues and in this case seem to be two separate issues. um to the the city responds to these concerns on a case- by case basis. If
they hear there's a water pressure issue, often they can resolve that with localized cleaning out of uh I'm not going to get into the details because I'll get myself in trouble, but that they're able to deal with those on a case- by case basis. In addition, we learned that the city has about 200
pressure monitoring sites throughout the city so that they're not just responding to those calls, but being proactive about trying to identify where there are water pressure issues. And not only that, but the city over the next year is planning to um add more of those water pressure monitors so that again they can
be proactive and identify those water pressure issues as soon as possible and address them. Um I mentioned earlier about the population projections relative to the water supply. We did want to dive a little bit deeper into that. Um historically what we found is that the
the growth patterns have not outperformed expectations. So um you know if we we could project more growth but that just hasn't been the pattern that we've seen to date. Even when in some cases there was there's a desire or an expectation that it might be faster
growth. These plans are updated at a minimum every seven years, but they can be updated before that. And in fact, you have updated your comprehensive plan multiple times within the last seven years. So, um, should conditions change, should that growth speed up, there's the
ability to pivot and to to make an update to address that. Um, these projections are based on the University of Florida Shimberg Center. So, this is a statewide resource that's used very commonly within plans. um based and we're using the Bieber medium projection
with the the Schindberg cent's data which gets more specific to go down to the city level. On the right of this slide, you'll see the historic growth pattern. On the top, that's Bvard County. On the bottom, that's Titusville. So, essentially, historically, Titusville hasn't been
grabbing a large proportion of that growth that the county has seen. Now, we've in the past been engaged with you on vision planning and essentially trying to um identify uh things that will improve neighborhoods in the city and probably capture more of that growth. So, I think that's something that you all would love to see and we'd
love to support you in that. But for this purpose, we're following the standardized projections um that have borne out so far um as to what what's likely to happen with respect to future population. And with that, I'd be happy to um hand
back the hand back to the chair and to the mayor and take any questions if you so desire. >> Thank you very much for your presentation, >> city council. Member Stokl. >> Yes. Um my concern is regarding the level of service as well. Um just as our
city manager was giving the update, our sewer is at almost four times the capacity that it normally is running I think right now due to the storm. So, how do you guys make your calculations whether or not we have enough capacity for what we're estimating the 6,000
additional residents? >> So, we're using the adopted level of service within the comprehensive plan. We did not change that. That's what's been adopted in the comprehensive plan. We did talk with um the utilities about what the actual current service usage is
and we made sure that we started with a baseline that was commensurate with what's actually being used rather than higher or lower than that. So we did that coordination. Um if it's related to a storm event, I believe that may be a separate issue, but I a little bit outside my expertise. >> Yeah. Yeah. And I guess that's my
question is normally I think we would be fine but if we are having these storms more frequently how do we as a council plan for that to the best of our ability. So it makes it just makes me cautious to move forward with this and say yes it seems fine assuming we have no more storms but now we just had a one
in 500 year storm and it's you know this is I can't count this is multiple times that we've had a one in 500 year storm since I've been on council. So I don't know if you're the person or somebody on our staff. How do I how do I know I'm making the best decision for our city?
>> I could try and answer that for you. >> Okay. >> So, you're referring what's being discussed right now is the level of service standard in our comprehensive plan. There's several level of service standards of different facilities including storm water. That level of service standard, the minimum standard inside that's stated inside the comprehensive plan is related to a
design. So, when a new development comes in, they have to meet that minimum standard. Uh the question is whether we should go forward with maybe making amendments to that. There were some discussion about that that may be related to flood and storm whatever that might be. So maybe something to consider
adjusting that minimum design standard. And then we also have the resiliency study the vulnerability assessment that we're doing uh which is a grant from D to look at the how the city should can adapt to sea level rise and to more
frequent storm events. So there's two two ways that can play out. Now, if we need to consider what kind of infrastructure to put into um that can come out of the vulnerability assessment or any other studies, including the storm water study that um that the public works department has been trying to seek funding for.
>> And I do want to clarify, we looked at the level of service for sewer. Um there's not a per capita level of service for storm water. That that would be a separate sort of effort. >> Okay. Um, and then Brad, do we have a time frame for when we need to submit
this to the state by? >> We are already exceeded our time. We did get permission from them. We told them that we were um we we had a year from the date we told them we needed to do this year and we've already exceeded that time. They accepted that time frame. So, it just basically means that
we can't process a comprehensive plan amendment until this year is adopted. >> Okay. And so, if we do move forward with it, can we still make changes? pending the results of the resiliency study and other things that are coming forward to us. >> Yes.
>> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> Seeing none, thank you very much. >> Thank you, >> city clerk. Laura Lee Thompson or Thompson from Mims Florida. So, I I want to thank the folks from Kenley Horn
for listening to your planning and zoning board and um adding the native Breard um plants to to the ear uh the ear amendment um transmitt also for
removing their proposed conservation element element policy 1.6.8. And so just to make sure that you guys know what what I'm talking about that that language of that said the city shall consider a study to research and
incorporate best practices to conserve wetlands based on quality and importance within the wetland system. So you guys just approve staff time to work with the TEC on um trying to eliminate the confusions in the wetlands language. So,
uh, we would appreciate, um, having a a blank slate to work with and not make our project harder by by adding the proposed conservation policy 1.6.8. So, thank you. When you when you make your recommendation, please keep that
thing out uh of of the transmitt. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Thompson. City clerk, >> the last card is Dan Johnston. My name is My name is Stan Johnson. I'm registered I'm a registered engineer and I have a photo to present to you
regarding this matter. And the photo is back here. It shows something. So I'm asking whether uh I will be allowed to bring this photo which is a sign up for it to show to the public here. So that's a question that that should be
recognized by your your uh state your uh new uh attorney because uh you have a policy that says I can't do that which I believe is a violation of uh our constitutional rights of freedom of speech to pres make this presentation.
So I'm asking first of all is may I bring this picture which is a which is a a sign or whatever you want to to forward to present to you >> stay on the rules of council state the signs have to be in the back. We're talking about the comprehensive plan.
>> Exactly. So what I'm saying is is that I believe what your rule is is is unconstitutional. >> It's against freedom of speech. I don't anybody. So, I'm asking you to somehow maybe maybe Mr. Mrs. Muscoso can ask the
city attorney to respond to this issue. >> Mayor, >> Mr. Johnson has his time. Mr. Johnson, continue, please. >> I am continuing. I'm waiting. I'm waiting for response to this. In other words, I'm asking that I I can bring this forward because I believe it's in
within the freedom of speech and although it's a violation of of your rules, which I believe is unconstitutional. No one will ask the question. In other words, nobody will ask it. Maybe she will. >> Mr. Johnson, this is your time to talk to us about this item. >> This that's why that's why I'm here.
>> You're talking about the rules of council. >> This has to do with my presentation. May or may I be recognized? >> Um, Mr. Johnson has the floor. >> Megan can have the floor. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Johnson. Member Mscos, if
you'd like to bring up the rules of council and changes to those rules, um you can do that in your report or whether those rules should be adopted or changed, but until then, I have to enforce the rules as stated. >> Uh thank you for that. I would just like to ask attorney treasure um her thoughts
on this. I think it would just save us a lot of time. Um, so if you feel comfortable and I'd love to know your thoughts. Thank you. >> The uh question is directed at me. Uh, I would have to respond stating that the reading the rules currently as written.
Play cards or signs are only permitted in the back of the room unless utilized as part of the speaker's presentation. Play cards and signs will be displayed in a manner so not as to disrupt or disturb the meeting. That's uh number
eight of the uh city of title Titusville council chambers guidelines on page two. That's the plain language of the rules as written. >> Thank you very much. City attorney, city clerk, any other cards?
>> All righty. City council, we're talking about the comprehensive plan changes year report to the state. Member Nelson >> move to approve the transmitt of the ear
um based on amendments to the comp plan. >> Second. I have a motion by member Nelson, second by Vice Mayor Cole. Any discussion from council? >> Does this include the PNZ recommen? >> Yeah, that was my question. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> And I understand those have already been
changed, so it includes those, but that's already done. That's correct. >> All right. So, motion still stands. Second. City clerk, can you call the
role, please? >> Member Muscoso, >> yes. >> Member Nelson, >> yes. >> Mayor Connors, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Cole, >> yes. >> Member Stokel, >> yes. >> Motion carries. Thank you very much, city manager. Sir, the next two items
are subject to quasi judicial rules of procedure. And before we go to 9B, city attorney will refresh us on the rules. This these are the quasi judicial proceedings as written previously.
During the public hearing portion of the meeting, anyone wishing to speak on a quasi judicial item must first sign public hearing agenda card and sign the oath contained thereon. swearing to tell the truth, the full truth, and nothing but the truth. These cards are located
on the table at the entrance of the chambers and should be provided to the clerk. Those speaking in favor of a request will be heard first. If you have photographs, sketches, or documents that you desire for the city council to consider, they must be submitted into
evidence and will be retained by the city. Please submit any exhibits to the city clerk. City clerk, may I may I inquire? Have you received such oaths? Oath cards from persons wishing to speak before the city council? >> Yes, ma'am.
>> And those cards indicate they're willing and able to to tell the truth, the full truth, and nothing but the truth. >> Yes, ma'am. >> If there is anyone present who has not signed an oath card that wishes to speak on a quasi judicial item, please submit
a card to the clerk at this time. and I'll read the instructions for exarty communications. In the event that a council member has received an exarty communication, verbal or written, outside of the hearing, the council member shall disclose the identity of
the person, group, or entity with whom the communication took place and the subject of the communication, including all opinions or facts disclosed. Any written communication must be disclosed and made a part of the record. Also, in the event that the member has
conducted an investigation or site visit or received any expert opinions regarding the quasi judicial item, said visit or opinion shall be disclosed at this time. If written exparty communication exists,
verify that the applicant has received them and has had the opportunity to review and is ready to proceed at this time. Those are the instructions as written. >> Council member Stokele,
>> um we got this email um I think to all of us from the Forest Hills Baptist Church um regarding their that they couldn't be there and for access extension to any future development road from Forest Hills Baptist Church parking
lot entrance to ensure safety ingress and egress to state road 405. Um, so that so I just wanted to disclose it. >> So who are we doing on that? >> Yeah, >> that that comes up for first reading I
believe >> apologize. >> All right, seeing none. So the next item is 9B smallcale amendment five tac 2025. That item has been withdrawn by the applicant and will
be rescheduled and um heard at a later date and readvertised. Uh next city manager, hold on a second. City clerk, did you receive any cards on that item? >> See, >> no, I'm talking about 9B. Did anybody submit cards? Okay. I was just making sure nobody was here waiting for that
item. City manager. Sir, the next item is 9C and that is the smallcale amendment 6-2025 annexation smallcale comprehensive plan amendment resoning of Golden Heights Boulevard Industrial and Brad Parish is
here to provide the narrative. The staffing report starts starts on page 412 of your packet and I'll just give a brief description of the application for the public hearing. This includes an annexation, a comprehensive plan amendment to the to
amend the city's comprehensive plan um future land use map and a resoning. So there are three ordinances before you. The first action is going to have to be the annexation and then the next one will be the comprehensive plan amendment and then the final one will be the reasonzoning. Mayor, if I may, um, we should read the
ordinances before we get any further into this and city attorney will do that. It's, uh, my bad. >> All good. >> Ordinance. Let's put the mic on. Ordinance number 32-225
amending section 7, chapter 63-20001, laws of Florida special acts of 1963 by annexing certain property located south of Golden Knights Boulevard and east of Tao Road having parcel ID numbers
23-35-02-01-star-9. 90 and 23-35-02-01-star-77 to be included within the city limits providing for severability providing for repeal of conflicting ordinances and providing for an effective date.
The second ordinance number 33-2025 amending the code of ordinances by amending ordinance number 6-198 which adopted the comprehensive plan of the city of Titusville by amending the
future land use map by changing the land use designation on a approximately 9.18 plus or minus acres of property located south of Golden Knights Boulevard and east of Tiger. road having Bvard County
parcel ID numbers 23-35- 02-01-star-90 and 23-35-02-01-star-77 from the industrial parentheses Bvard County future land use designation to the industrial pen city of Titusville
future land use designation providing for severability, providing for the repeal of conflicting ordinances, and providing for an effective date. Third ordinance number 34-20225
amending ordinance number 5-1993 of the city of Titusville by amending the zoning map made a part of said ordinance by reference by changing the light industrial PN IU Bard County
zoning district to the industrial PN M-2 zoning district on the approximate on approximately 9.18 plus or minus acres of property located south of Golden Knights Boulevard and east of Tao Road
having Brevard County parcel ID numbers 23-35-02-01-star-90 and 23-35-02-01-star-77 providing for severability providing for repeal of conflicting ordinances and providing for an effective date. I think that's it.
>> Thank you, city attorney. City clerk. >> Yes, sir. Um Jean, excuse me. >> Oh, sorry. I skipped over Brad. We got all out of I'll be brief. The So, again, you have the three ordinances. You have to make action on each one individually.
On page 413 of your packet, I'll just give a brief description of the the request here. The applicant is requesting a voluntary annexation with a smallcale comprehensive plan amendment for, you know, nine plus acres of land. Uh the property is made up of two parcels with
unincorporated BVAR county and currently vacant. Uh the property is situated south of Golden Knights Boulevard in East Taco. property has a flu designation, a Bvard County flu designation. So the annexation will then require you to amend the comprehensive
plan or basically put the city's comprehensive plan on it. Without that action, that it will continue to have the county's comprehensive plan. After that, then you'll have to uh amend the the zoning by putting the city's zoning, which is they're being requested to put the industrial, which is our most intense industrial zoning district, onto
the property. We believe that is consistent with what's already there, which is the light industrial of Bvard County. We did include um in your report on page 414 of your packet a comparison of the light industrial county zoning versus the
city's industrial M2 zoning. And you could see that there are many uses that would be permitted by right that are more expansive in the M2 in the city's uh zoning code. So it appears that that there's more restrictive in the county
be more expansive in the city. Again, this our city M2 zoning is the most intense. We believe it's appropriate there where it's located. There's u similar zoning around there. We believe even with the county zoning that's remaining around this property. Eventually, this entire area will be
annexed into the city and be incorporated and we'll have a similar zoning. It's primarily at the entrance of the airport between the airport and US1. On page 415 of your packet, we did an analysis or um analysis consistent with
the stat Florida statutes uh chapter 171. This is a voluntary annexation. We believe this annexation is consistent with the statute. It is contiguous to the municipality and reasonably compact and results in a create and does not result in the creation of an enclave. It
actually reduces an enclave which is another priority of the statute. The comprehensive plan future land use element uh policy 1.7.2 considers annexation. We believe that the annexation is consistent with that comprehensive plan policy.
One of the reasons for the annexation is that when a development comes in and they and it's an incor unincorporated county, they require you services for water or sewer. We typically we're going to require them to annex if they are able to annex. If they are not able to annex immediately, then we'll have to do a an agreement with them that will allow
us to annex in the future. But in this case, this property is immediately adjacent to the city. I'm going to skip to page 423 of your packet. We did our analysis uh consistent with several policies of the comprehensive plan that we believe are
most relevant to this on page 420. And then we also reviewed it against the criteria for resoning in the code on page 423. Some of the highlights staff's analysis
findings. The annexation is consistent with the city's comprehensive plan and chapter 171 of the code of the statute rather. The future land use small-scale map amendment is consistent with the city's comprehensive plan. The proposed resoning to industrial M2 zoning district is consistent with the proposed
industrial future land use category and the city's comprehensive plan. We believe that there is adequate water and sewer service to serve the proposed facility. Our recommendation is to approve the annexation, approve the comprehensive plan future land use map amendment,
and approve the resoning from light industrial county to the M2 zoning in the city. I'm going to point to you page 452 of your packet and show you an aerial so you can get a orient yourself as to where this property is located on the south side of
Golden Knights Boulevard. If this is developed, it'll have to adhere to that recent ordinance from last year where there would be additional buffer along Golden Knights. If you recall, that was worked out with the with the airport. And then finally, on page 453 of your
packet, the next page, you'll see the current land use designation in the county versus what it will be if this is annexed and the land use is amended. And so you can see the majority of that area is industrial. With that, I'll try to answer any questions you have.
Thank you, Mr. Parish. City clerk >> Jean Abion. >> Good evening, mayor, council members. My name is Jean Abion. I'm with Thomas and Hutton. We're the civil engineers representing the developer. Um staff has
made great presentation. I'm not going to repeat it. We concur with Stam's recommendation. Uh the area is industrial so we are consistent and compatible with the city the current city zoning that is around us and so um
we respectfully ask you to approve the annexation and the amendment to the comp plan and the reasonzoning. I'm mainly here for any questions that you may have and to have any rebuttal if somebody comes in and ask any question and I can respond to that.
>> Thank you very much sir. City clerk >> Carrie Kennedy. Did you want to speak on this one or the next one? >> Okay. >> And then Stan Johnston. My name is Stan Johnston. Uh, as you know, I'm a professional engineer
registered by the state of Florida to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the public. So, this project is within my jurisdiction. Some people say, "Judge not unless you be judged, but they forget it's if they continue
reading it, it says that by that which you judge others, you too shall be judged." I'm in a position of judgment many times about what the city of Titusville is doing. And I find the city of Tyresville guilty guilty guilty of violation of
numerous laws again and again especially in storm water. So I asked the question to staff on this particular subject. This is the storm water management plan of the greater Titusville of of uh of greater Titusville stormwater drainage
plan that the city has adopted. So my question is to staff is that have you reviewed this project according to the storm water master plan? That's my question.
I don't believe they have. >> Can I get an answer? >> Mr. Johnson, you direct your public comments. >> I asked Okay, I'm asking you. Could you ask staff, has this project been reviewed in compliance conformance with the compreh with the with the storm
water management plan of the of greater Titusville? >> Mr. Johnson, Brad just gave us a detailed report of all the reasons why they felt it was deemed appropriate. >> He has not reviewed it. I that's what I that's what I complain according to the
stormwater master plan. But the fact is is that I paid $35 or more and gave him a copy of this stormwater management plan. And I do not believe that he can answer truthfully saying that this this project has been reviewed according to the stormwater master plan. He won't do
it. You won't ask him. You just you just cover up for his mistakes. That's what you're doing. That's what you're doing. That's what all of you are doing. The city of Titusville is flooded because you're not listening to what I have been saying for many times. The city of
Titusville disobys God's laws. For example, there's another law, God's law that I is God's law says. Two things cannot occupy the same place at the same time. That's compensatory storage. The city of Tisville violates
that repeatedly. That's one of the reasons we're flooded. another law that says it says thou shalt not steal. In other words, what you're doing is you're taking property when you flood people's property and build dams. You don't recognize it. Violations of laws. Now,
as far as what this lady read about that is she's saying she's saying that you just violated my my freedom of rights. >> No, she did not. Thank you, Mr. Johnson. >> I had this to show. >> No, thank you. >> City clerk, any other cards? >> All righty.
Would you like to rebuttal? >> Yeah, you would you like to rebuttal? >> You have that right. >> I I have a great respect with Mr. Johnson. I knew him from long time ago, but we are today only requesting an annexation and amendment to the comp
plan and resoning. We're not going through a site plan, but just like to add a little bit. We did meet with staff and we discussed this project with them and staff told us upfront that while our property drains to the east but we don't
have illegal positive outfall so they're making us hold the entire 100redyear storm event within our site. So staff already made it clear to us there will be no discharge from our site. We have sandy soil very deep groundwater table so we will be able to meet this criteria. just explaining but this is
not a site plan review but the staff took the extra step to explain to to us what to expect going forward. >> Thank you sir. City Council >> member Nelson >> move to approve ordinance number 32-2025
uh annexing certain property located south of Golden Knight Boulevard um providing for severalability repeal of conflicting ordinances and providing an effective date
second. Well, I have a motion. I have a second. So, at this point, I'll close the public hearing. Um, >> city clerk, >> member Nelson, >> yes. >> Mayor Connors, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Cole, >> yes. >> Member Stokel, >> yes. >> Member Muscoso, >> yes.
>> Motion carries. Thank you very much. >> Member Nelson. Move to approve ordinance number 33-2025 amending u the comp plan by amending the future land use map from industrial river county to industrial city of
Titusville. >> Second. I >> have a motion. I have a second. City manager, were you trying to say something? City manager, were you gonna say jump in there before she made the motion? >> I'm sorry. Okay, just making sure. City clerk.
>> Yes, sir. Mayor Connors, >> yes. >> Vice Mayor Cole, >> yes. >> Member Stokel, >> yes. >> Member Moscoso, >> yes. >> Member Nelson, >> yes. >> Motion carries. Thank you very much. Member Nelson. >> Move to approve ordinance number 34-2025 amending the zoning map changing light
industrial uh to industrial zoning. Second. >> I have a motion and I have a second. City clerk. >> Vice Mayor Cole. >> Yes. >> Member Stokel. >> Yes. >> Member Moscoso. >> Yes. >> Member Nelson.
>> Yes. >> Mayor Connor. >> Yes. Motion carries. Thank you very much. City Manager. >> Sir. Moving on to what I was just reading. The ordinances first reading and um we're going to have our city attorney read uh both ordinances.
Ordinance number 38-2025, an ordinance of the city of Titusville, Florida, amending the code of ordinances by amending ordinance number 60-1988, which adopted the comprehensive plan of the city of Titusville by amending the
future land use designation on land located at the southeast corner of the intersection of Singleton Avenue and State Road 405 South Street from low density residential to conservation on
11.25 plus or minus acres of property and from conservation to low density residential on.44 44 plus or minus acres of the property having parcel ID numbers
22-35-08-0000-1 22-35-05-0000-752-35-5-0000-758 22-35-500759 9 and 22-35-5-0000-76 providing for severability, repeal of conflicting ordinances, and providing for an effective date.
Ordinance number 39-2025 and ordinance amending ordinance number 5-1993 19993 of the city of Titusville, Florida and by amending the zoning map made of part of said ordinance by reference by
changing the zoning classification on land located at the southeast corner of the intersection of South Singleton Avenue and State Road 405 South Street from the general use uh GU zoning
district to the planned development PD zoning district on 27.99 plus or minus acres of the property and from the open space recreational O zoning district to the planned
development PD zoning district on 0.44 44 plus or minus acres off the property having parcel ID numbers 22-35-08-0000-1 22-35-5-0000-752-35-5-0000-758 22-35-5-0000-759 and 22-35-05-00-760
providing for severability, repeal of conflicting ordinances, and providing for an effective date. >> Thank you, city attorney. Mr. Parish, >> this is a first reading, so I'll just try to answer any questions you have. >> The next the public hearing will be on
November 11th. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Parish. to the clerk. >> Uh Jill Dawson. Good evening. You should have some photos in your hands. I'm Jill Dobson, Titusville. My
husband and I own the adjacent 25 acres of designated conservation land that includes 4 acre lake on the south boundary of the proposed PD south development and borders the wetlands to the west. Our property receives a significant amount of runoff from
existing developments along the higher elevation on Park Avenue, including Country Club Heights, Tennis Village, Heritage Apartments, and Whispering Hills Estates. Additionally, runoff from the into the lake from wetlands to the west, east, and north, including the
proposed PD south water drains to the east, finally flowing downtown into Titusville and the Indian River Lagoon. In Titusville, conservation in Titusville conservation areas are environmentally sensitive areas. Please reference the aerial photo that you were
given and the flooding photos that are in the packet. I'll be referring to those. The area's unique mixture of topography, highlands, and wetlands not typical to most areas of Titusville. My concerns are the negative impacts of the PD south will have on the
environmentally sensitive areas, and the destruction of large areas of old growth oak forest, the significant threat to flooding to existing single family homes in Country Club Heights and Whispering Hills neighborhoods, which already experienced flooding due to runoff from existing surrounding developments and
topography during normal Florida's rainstorms, not the past significant event of Sunday. The proposed development master site plan places multif family buildings 40 feet tall, 100 ft wide near the lake and a detention pond within 10 feet 10 to 20
feet of the lakes's edge on a hill 25 ft above the lake dramatically increasing runoff and soil erosion directly into the lake adjacent to single family singlestory homes. The development will push water downhill draining the hair the higher PD south elevation into the
lake into neighbors neighborhoods and the lagoon. The existing tree uh trees absorb a tremendous amount of water and deliver soil stability today that will be replaced with the ac with the with acres of imperous surface including massive buildings very close to the
lake. The lake and drainage systems are working to protect the se the residents safety and property values. Adding the strain of another large development unnecessarily adds significant pressure to an already overstretched asset. Once this land change has has been made, it
cannot be undone. Negatively affecting our community forever. Please don't make the situation worse by adding significant pressure through more development. What questions do you have? Thank you very much.
>> Thank you, >> city clerk. >> Angelia Falsson. >> Angelia Felzo, Titusville, Florida. I am concerned of the development for PD South. My concern is for my property
value as well. the resoning, the forest, the wildlife, the preservation, the conservation land also in the community as a whole and all the residents who have the historical homes that we all live in that have been here for 70 years
and the families that have been lifetime residents here, lifetime taxpayers here. This is their sanctuary as well. I do not support the small scale amendment or the resoning and I request that you deny this to the resoning and amendment.
Thank you. >> Thank you very much. City clerk >> Laurely Thompson Laurely Thompson, uh, Mims, Florida. I support the smallcale amendment, um, change in the conservation, um, land use. They're going to have to do that
regardless of whatever they do with the property. I'm okay with that. I I'm opposed to the um, PD zoning. And, um, you know, when you look at the the past pattern of development in that area, there are no
buildings higher than 20 ft. There's a couple of old apartment complexes that were built a long long time ago that are two-story. There's a few twostory houses. The most recent development is right across the street. It's a
beautiful um single family um residence subdivision called Srano Point. It's absolutely spectacular. And that is the kind of development that that's the most recent development in this area. There are zero 40-foot buildings anywhere
along 405. If you um if you approve this, then you're going to set a precedent for that type of development in the borders of our conservation lands along State Road 405. Um the the
developer is allowed to build 16 single family residences. They could create a really beautiful conservation type development on that land and not have all the imperous surface of parking lots and 40 foot tall buildings and the
increased density um that most definitely is going to impact our conservation lands and these wetlands that continually flood the neighborhoods um downstream. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Thompson. City Clerk,
>> Stan Johnston, Stan Johnston. I'm a registered engineer and I'm reading from uh what I believe our city attorney just read. It says placards or signs are only permitted in the back of the room
unless utilized as a part of speaker's presentation. That's dated 42418. Is that the same thing that you read? Let me read it again. Plers placards and signs are only permitted in the back of the room unless utilized as a part of
speaker's presentation. several times tonight. I've been dis disallowed to to uh to present my signs as part of my presentation. >> Mr. Johnson, you're not giving a presentation. You're providing public comment. >> Pardon? >> You are providing public comment. You
are not giving a presentation. >> I'm presenting my comments. And so in other words, okay, I'm so I so I should I'm going to take this back then because of what you said. >> Uh I believe this is just what happened was
the freedom of speech was just violated and just violated several times at uh this evening by Mr. Connors and all the rest of you too. And I maybe I should say also point this lady here because I I uh so what I'll probably do is I'll
probably sue you. >> Mr. Johnson, please stay at the topic at hand. >> I this is the topic right now. I'm trying to talk on this. Now this this particular topic is that I' I've also presented already. I've asked the question stormwater master plan when it was at
PNZ. Stormwater master plan has it been reviewed by them? I'm not saying I'm opposed to it. I'm just saying the city of Titusville needs to do their their their homework. And I'm saying right now is Mr. Parish has
not done his homework. He has not looked on the comprehensive plan of what it says and what to do with this property and what it does to do with this young these these owners. What it has to do it has it there's a significant difference
and very important essential things has to do with flooding of the city of Titusville. that they they talked about that I've talked about that has happened and I in this particular presentation I was going to show you in this illustration I'm going to show you where
the city of Tyusville violated numerous laws like putting dams in ditches and violation of city code I believe it's 12-11 and violation of constitution taking of property without due process
of law no survey done for the for what these dams flooded four dams. This is what you're doing illegally. This stinks. This is corruption by our government, the city of Tyville, including Mrs. Ms. Moscoso, who hasn't
said anything about but flooding property is illegal. Thank you, >> city clerk. Any other cards? >> Yes, sir. >> All right. Thank you all for being here tonight. Again, it's the first reading. No actions taken. City manager. Yes, sir. There is no items 11 old business
or 12 new business. And next item is petitions. All >> right. So, we're at petitions and requests from the public. Non-aggenda items. Um, anybody that hadn't spoke the first time around? Seeing none, city manager.
>> Next would be mayor and council report. >> All right. I guess I'll uh kick it off, guys. Um, I have a request to for council to approve a proclamation recognizing November 2025 as hospice and pallet of care month
in the city of Titusville to St. Francis reflections at the number November 25th, 2025 city council presentations meeting. Is there anybody opposed to that? >> Do you want to make a motion? Yeah. >> Okay, I'll make the motion.
>> We have card. Yeah, I understand. Make the motion first. >> Motion >> second. >> Motion a second. City clerk. >> Stan Johnston. >> Um uh my name is Stan Johnston and I'm a professional engineer. You've heard it
many times. and uh you made a proclamation then I'm not opposed to but what you've done if you made a decision to make a motion a second before I even speak what's going on here I have a speaking card and you make a
and your process is you make a motion and you second it before I even get to to put any input in >> we called you up here your input >> you called me after you made the motion >> yeah Yeah. Yeah. >> Kind of. >> In other words, what in your making? So,
you started your re decision. Two people have made a decision already before I even get to speak. >> Mr. Johnson, please comment on the topic at hand about the proclamation. >> Mr. Connor, >> you are officially cautioned. >> Mr. Connors, let's be truthful about what's going on here. Is that right
procedure? >> Yes. >> Oh, it is right. Okay. I don't know what I'm doing. Okay. So, in other words, you guys go ahead and make a lot of your decisions, your motion before seat. I pardon. >> Have a seat. >> I'm speaking about what you're doing right now. >> Please have a seat.
>> Okay. I'm going to sit down under duress. >> Thank you very much. >> Another violation of my freedom of speech. >> Okay. >> I have a motion and I have a second for the proclamation. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you very much. Um,
also it wasn't included in the agenda packet. Uh Christine uh was was out and um it didn't make the deadline. You all should have received in your box a map of downtown. >> Okay.
>> All right. Yes, that is the map. >> All right. So, our CRA, our city council has been trying to slow down downtown for a long time, try to make it more walkable and accessible and safer for our residents.
Um couple months back I had a meeting with Secretary Tyler who leads all of District 5 FDOT, the seven counties that it encompasses. We walked around downtown. I explained our issues and uh his staff had a meeting with me last
week. It was their governmental affairs person and like five project managers and they said we got direction from our boss to make some changes for you guys. They said this plan is the quickest that we can can do to to make it um safe and
effective. So, what you'll see on the plan is uh not only speed sign or um speed limit signs that are not obstructed by tree branches, which is helpful, but also radar detection in them. There's also pavement markings
leading up to crosswalks, speed signs in the middle painted on the roads so that people will see them even if they're not paying attention to the side of the roads. Uh there is then also uniform crosswalks with the RF RFD flashers um
downtown and they basically said to me, you say go, we will get to work on this. and I said, "I can't make that decision." So, I'm bringing it before y'all. Tell me if you approve of their plan. I asked them, you know, what about
race crosswalks or these other possible slow down uh techniques? And they said, "This is what we can do quickly to help you guys out. I know this has been something that has been requested of the city of Titusville for, you know, probably 10 plus years. So I just wanted
to show you the the fruits of some labor and see what you guys think. Member Stokel. >> Yes. So this first map that we have the picture did they create this from the state like looking at our area and say this is what we suggest and do we have any option to deviate from this or is
this what they said we can do this? Do you guys want to move forward? >> They said we can do this if you want to move forward. But I also brought up some other points of concern. You know, future developments, Broad Street Project, you know, the PD that's coming down south or up north a little bit. >> Um,
you know, it wasn't just them looking in aerial because when Secretary Tyler came to city hall to meet me, we walked around downtown. >> It was just him. It was the director of Bvard operations. It was their government affairs, you know, their engineers. So, you know, they took a
pretty extensive look at it and re evaluated their speed study that they did. Remember, they did a speed study and said speed could be faster, right? And they said, "We appreciate you giving us a firsthand account look at your
downtown and its unique characteristic. We'll relook at the data and we'll come back to you with the plan." And this is their plan. Um, and then I guess my other thing I I mean I think this is great because we talked about this previously at a CRA and council meeting. Um, and they I think had proposed
different items than this. Um, I know we had talked about the flashers and at one point they said we won't do flashing. Um, so I'm in favor of it and it sounds like it's I don't know if it's something that we would need to put on our agenda because it's not really our decision, it's the state's decision. So, um, no, I
think this is exactly what we were talking about. I don't think it's realistic to actually um do anything different than probably this um based on the conversations that have had hap that have happened prior. Um so I think this will help to slow it
down some and then we continue to work on our street parties and stuff. Um maybe over on Julia Street, Main Street, the outskirts of US1. Um I think this is the best that we can do with considering it's a major highway. So no, I would be
in favor of it. Thank you for bring >> Thank you, Member Stok. Member Nelson, >> I agree with Sarah. Um, I'd still love to have the red flashing light >> at Julia Street. >> I Okay, you're saying Julia? Because I was like, they do have flashing on here.
>> Well, Julia and U US one northbound because that seems to be a particularly dangerous intersection. But I mean, if this is something they can do quickly, um, retake it.
Yeah. >> And member Nelson, I apologize. I did not ask that question about red flashing lights on those. And I think I remember conversations that they don't do that, right? >> Yeah. Yeah.
>> Okay. So, to clarif There's none on here that are flashing. No, no, they're yellow flashing. They're not red flashing. Okay. Okay. Remember Nelson was talking about red flashing? >> Okay. That's confused. >> One of the beach communities had a red flashing light. >> That's the Hulk system. That's actually
a pedestrian traffic signal. >> Okay. >> Um this is rapid flashers. Um so these are a much easier for them to do. Um >> and cheaper. >> Uh yeah, somewhat cheaper. I won't say they're cheap.
>> Okay. But I I like how it's multiple approaches. So you'll have the flashing, the yellow flashing, but you also have stuff on the road and extra signage. So I think it will kind of shift the culture a little bit as people are going down that road. >> Thank you very much. Member Mscoso.
>> Um I appreciate all the time and effort you've put in this. Have our has our staff had a chance to look at this? >> Yes. I I discussed it with traffic ops of DOT as well. >> Okay. And so you guys completely support this? Yeah, they're are going to they're
evaluating our lights now to see if they have to improve our lights or use our current ones. Um but no, the the plan they have is I think meets the goal what the council asked for. >> Okay. >> Um and we even offered to add it to our maintenance for traffic signals. We
maintained the other flasher now. So from my understanding, the secretary had green lit the project and actually funded it. >> Okay. Wonderful. >> So but they do want the council support. >> Okay. Absolutely. I just wanted to make sure that uh because I mean we're just seeing it now that that you guys have
seen it and everybody's giving the green light. So, thank you. >> Yeah, FDOT staff met with our staff prior to meeting with me. You know, they did a staffto staff conversation after the secretary basically gave them a directive to to get this done for us.
>> Thank you, Vice Mayor Cole. I just wanted to add to uh the mayor and I are on the transportation board and I tell you what getting anything out of them is very difficult. We have discussed this in our board meetings and you know uh
Cocoa Beach had the raised uh crosswalks and the mayor wanted that taken out because he didn't they didn't like it down there. But I said anything we get and that plan looks good. I think if we he you got them to do it. I don't know what you promised him, but
>> And I got to pay for What are you talking about? >> I just have charming good looks for me. >> Oh, yeah. Okay. >> All right. Well, uh it sounds like we're in a consensus. I don't think I need to take any formal action. I'll let um them know that our council's in support. Um,
and then the next thing I want to bring up is what I teased at the beginning of the the meeting, our storm water master plan that was written in 1966 that had addendums in 1993 and 2007 that
were mostly around studying different basins and there was never a a complete relook at this master plan for storm water. Um, I believe a few years back it might have been brought up. Um, it was
an estimated cost of $600,000. Um, council apparently did not move forward with that. Um, it'll probably cost $800,000 at this point, but I think it's an important step that we take as we look at all of our plans, whether it's our comprehensive plan or economic
development plan. we might as well look at the stormwater master plan because as I said in the beginning, we need to do everything we can to make sure things like this don't happen again. And uh as things have grown and changed around Titusville, it is not 1966 anymore. We
need to have a very crystal crystal clear uh goal and objective for our community. So that is my ask of councel that we direct staff to uh evaluate that and bring bring something like that back before us in terms of advisability. Uh
but that would be my ask of of you guys. Member Nelson, >> I agree. I think it's important. However, we also turned around and asked for a study of the St. John's basin.
So my question to Kevin would be, do we wait until we get that back and then go forward with the storm water master plan or looking at it revising it? >> I think it would depend on what the
parameters the council would like to address in a master plan. If we're looking to raise the level of service above the 100redyear storm comprehensively, the entire city, um I think the plan that's currently under grant funding won't be affected by that because it's going to have to
incorporate some of that shifting of water. Um so I think that would be the question was if if the old plan was more of a move water around plan, it was really meant to drain wetlands, move things through an old system. If we're looking to take what today would be, I
would say a 10 to 25 year design system and upgrade it to the hundred, then then that would be a comprehensive citywide. The other question be is if the council would like us to take a more focused approach and pick out those floodprone areas to address first. Um,
it's really up to the council, but it will sculpt how we procure a consultant. Uh, the previous plan, as the mayor mentioned, was 675,000. And that was a comprehensive citywide plan for flooding. So specifically >> targeting floodprone areas, raising the
standard for flooding. There are a number of subdivisions in the city that were not affected by flooding, the newer ones mainly, but there a lot of the older ones are. Um I don't think that we should wait for the St. John's that the council would like us to move that plan forward. It will take a quite a bit of time to develop that model.
>> Okay. Okay. Then I would agree. Um, and I think we need to go above the 100year planning for a 100redyear flood. >> You think like 125?
>> I was thinking more like 500. >> 500. >> I don't know. I mean, >> you know, I don't know if you guys remember, and I don't know how this impacted Titusville, but back in 2007, we had like what, two
weeks of rain straight. You remember that? And all our roads were flooded. Um, I got two weeks off work. That was great because you couldn't get to work. um courts were closed, nobody could go
to court. Um but you know, this seems to be happening more and more frequently. So, I would support it. >> Thank you, Member Nelson. Member Stoke. >> Yes, I'm definitely in support. My um I guess my question or I wanted to see what your guys's opinion is on this. I
was hoping that maybe we could get um like more of a status and an update of where we currently are in terms of three areas that I feel like I've been noticing and I want to make sure that before we move forward on any decisions that we understand like the full picture of what's happening. And so the three
areas were development and like what our current standards are. If we are approving development or what staff is approving per policy for a hundred-year storm, what does that mean and what does that actually look like for us? um because development does impact what's
happening. I mean, you can't argue pvious pavement versus impervious pavement. Um so, I think that's part of what we need to look at, the storm water master plan, um and how that aligns with development. I think as to the mayor's point, it's very outdated. Um and then the third one, what does our current
schedule look like for cleaning and maintaining our current drainage systems, ditches? So, those are the three areas that I feel like they're all great things, but I don't want us just like picking and choosing one and then we're neglecting another one. But those were the three ones that I feel like if we could get a holistic picture of what
is happening within those three areas, I feel like we can then make better policy, we can maybe say we need more employees in a certain department, if what whatever is happening currently. Um because I think those are the three things in my opinion that we should work
on improving to make sure to your point, member Nelson, that I mean these storms are happening way more frequently. >> Um so that's kind of what I was wanting. >> This isn't your report. This is my ask. >> I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Well, you were asking for that one thing and I I wanted to expand it a little bit.
>> Could I expand one more thing on your report? Could we add the status of our uh water treatment plants? Because it doesn't matter how clean our ditches are. It just means the water's going to get there faster and they're not holding the water right now. >> So, it's great to clean them out. But >> yes, >> if the water's faster actually right
now, that would be a really bad thing. >> Yeah. >> So, I got Yes. So those four areas if we could get some type of staff presentation on those four an overview and then we could maybe have discussion and see what does our focus need to be like to Kevin's point should we focus on
those floodprone areas first and make kind of priorities. So, um, just to counter combat, I guess you'd say why I'm pushing for the stormwater master plan is I believe there are several areas of that plan that are probably not
up to the Florida statute. >> No, I would agree with you and I >> we should probably definitely >> and the reason I'm saying that is I feel like I would like to hear from staff to kind of give an update of what is what does it currently look like? Because I think about that for my job. If if a board were to ask me, can you tell me really what's happening here? I could
tell you exactly where I feel like I need more money, where I could use more employees, where what would make sense. Um, and I would like to have the staff be able to provide that to us to maybe change policy. That's that's my big thing that I want. And to your point, yes, to incorporate
we might not be meeting state. I don't know that. >> So maybe a presentation. >> Yes. Some type of presentation or workshop, whatever staff thinks is better. But those are the main areas. the development storm water master plan, current uh schedule for cleaning and
maintaining all of our drains, ditches, lift stations, and then um the water treatment plants as well. So, four items. >> Okay. >> But she's doing a good job. >> I know she's doing a good job, but it's still not your report. Like I just asked, you know, you guys, you know,
give advisability on stormwater master plan, but Vice Mayor Cole. >> Yeah, I think we need to take a stairstep approach in this. And I I I agree with everything that everyone has said, but I'm not sure that, and you can answer this better than anybody else,
Kevin, what you have asked for is almost a comprehensive report of where we are right now. Do you have the in-house capabilities to do that or do we have to go out to do it? >> Uh well, we can give a report of where
we are now. Uh >> yeah, >> but we can't. Uh no the the flooding master plan would be an outsourced item. >> Yeah, but certainly I think >> what what member Stokal asked, you have the capability of putting a presentation together for us on that.
>> Yeah, we can give a level service presentation and and you know kind of touch on the items you have. We work with Brad on the specific development items, but I think maybe two separate items. one is the the >> right there'll be time to develop a scope to get to and I can do a
presentation in between if if that's what the council desires. >> Okay. >> Yeah. So hopefully we can walk and chew gum at the same time. Hopefully we can give direction to staff to start the process of you know hiring a consultant and bringing that back before us because that'll take some time and then while
they do that hopefully we can have that presentation in the meantime and then ultimately that contract would come before council to be approved. Right. So, um, that's kind of my walking and chewing gum. Yes, I need a motion if you're gonna uh make that motion.
>> Member Nelson. >> Yeah, >> I I need a motion first so I know what people know what they can talk about because it's not on the agenda. >> So, I will make that motion. >> All right. >> Second. I have a motion and a second to direct staff to bring back before us an
advisability um for uh hiring an outside consultant to redo our storm water master plan. Anybody like to speak on it? I mean this is your time to shine, Mr. Johnson. >> Pardon? >> This is your time to shine.
Maybe this is your time to shine also because I shine very very in the darkness. So uh at the end of my emails I put this uh quote uh John5 and and it has to do with it says and
the light shineth in the darkness and the darkness understanded understandeth it not. So what I'm doing is I'm trying to shine some light on to you guys and this time I've told it many many many many times violations of laws violations
of the stormwater master plan. For example, see page 7-2 in your stormwater master plan. See that page it says it says that maintenance is required for the stormwater master plan including maintenance to the St. John's River. You
don't do it. You don't do it. You don't do it. You violate the storm water master plan. I have many times. That map right back there, it shows. >> Point of order, Mr. Mayor. >> Beg your pardon. >> Point of order. You We're talking about
doing a comprehensive plan to review these things. >> Please stop the time. >> And you're telling us what's wrong with the that what we aren't doing. You're not on point, Stan. >> You're not on point. You need to talk about the motion that's at at hand.
>> All right. >> Okay. Stop taking my time. If you're going to speak to time, stop. >> Just just continue. >> Okay. So, right here it shows six drainage ditches, canals, and so forth between
State Road 50 and Fox Lake Road. Only one of them is functioning. The other ones are blocked. And I just read to you page f 7-2 that you're violating big time right now. You don't have those
maintained offsite even though they're out of the city limits. It's the responsibility of the city of Titusville and you're breaking FEMA laws. You're breaking drainage laws. You're just not having them maintained. It's illegal what you're doing. What the city is is doing is illegal. We are flooding here
because you're not following the storm water master plan big time. The same thing that's happened to to the into these people that talk about over on Oak uh what is that called? >> Overlook on overlook. In other words,
you've got you've got issues in here that you're not reporting that that Brad's not reporting. Even I gave him I bought it. I gave him the plan. You're not vi you're violating right now. you need to correct what you're doing and what you're doing is violating laws big time and you do nothing about it. You
just airheads. You guys, as far as I'm concerned, are you're you're shysters and con artists because you're violating laws and you're doing it secretly and and it's not >> Thank you, Mr. Johnson.
>> Okay. You're welcome. >> Anybody else like to comment? Seeing none, I have a motion and I have a second. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Also, one other
little topic conversation. Crease Career Source in Bvard Flagler and Valuchia County is looking for a new headquarters. They would love to do it in the city of Titusville. And as per our economic development presentation, I think we need to work a
little bit on that. Um, they could use a place to go. If anybody has any ideas, any city property they can get uh cheap or a little to no rent, they would love because their funding got cut by like a third. So, they're really trying to just
operate as best they can. So, they need about 5,000 square feet, maybe a little less. So, >> Career Source, Bard, Flaggler, Valuchia. Okay. So, it's all three counties um their headquarters. So, yeah, they would
uh love to come to Tisville. Member Stokal, >> have you talked to them? >> Yep. >> Okay. They're So, they're um moving a spot into our Coco campus. So, maybe ask them since they've already have a partnership with us at the Coco campus if they have space at the Tisville campus. Have you had conversation yet
with that? >> I have not had a conversation with uh Jack about that. Okay. I was going to let them reach out. >> Okay. Okay. But they were specifically asking us as a city what could we potentially do. >> Um, >> that's the first thing that comes to my
mind since they're already have a spot at our Coco campus. >> That was part of my recommendation. >> I feel like that's why you kept looking over at me. >> That was part of my recommendation as well, but I also did let them know that, you know, we we do have some space available in the Harry T. Moore Social Services Center. >> Okay. Um that might be something to
consider as our um community service ad hoc committee moves forward as to what community services looks like and what um partners are in there providing services in our community. Um so I just wanted to kind of put that out in front of you >> and then yeah that's kind of that's kind
of it for me guys. But I I appreciate the the work we've done tonight and uh I'm excited. We'll we'll we'll keep press pressing on. Anybody else like to go? Members. >> Oh, did we need a motion for the presentation that was requested or did
you get enough direction from us? >> No. I I will we'll do a presentation. >> Okay, perfect. Thank you. >> Does that conclude your report? >> Yes. >> Vice Mayor Cole. >> I just want to make a more or less a
public service announcement. I always have, you know, the last time I came up, I talked about a scam where my doctor's office called me. Well, a friend of mine called me yesterday and said he got a call from the sheriff's office and they said it was a warrant out for his arrest
and uh uh obviously it scared him. It it's obvious that they are targeting the older communities in Titusville. He says as he's driving down Highway One to go down to the sheriff's office in
Melbourne, they call him by the time before he got to Tao and they said that, you know, if you pay your bond right now, uh, you won't have to go in and they wanted a $500 bond from him. Well, he
recognized at that point that it was somewhat of a scam. Now, I told him to report it to the sheriff's office. I reported it to our police office. But there are a lot of these everybody needs to be aware that anytime someone calls you and they
ask you for money or they ask you for your credit card, it's a scam. It is a scam. A lot of these things are going on all over the United States. So all I'm saying is be
aware. Just always be aware. And then my second thing is thank you to the police department, the fire department, and public works. As Mr. Mayor has already stated, I went around to our uh
sewage treatment plants yesterday and looked at them, and these guys, I mean, I tell you what, it's proud to be on city council here because I see the dedication that we have from our city employees.
Thank you, Vice Mayor Muscoso. >> Yeah. >> Uh yes, thank you. I actually went out to Osprey today and um those guys are working really, really hard. It's amazing. Um but I do think like that it's always good to go out there because
it's a reminder of how much of a priority that um that plant needs to be. Um so for me on council that is that is a big thing to make sure that we can handle it because um even with I mean we had all of this rain but even with just
um a little bit of rain a few weeks ago there was an overflow and you know they've had to kind of block things so it doesn't go into the river. So right now if you go out there they're literally they can't handle the water. It's going in a circle around the plant and they said well what are we going to do if more when the rest of the
neighborhoods drain? What are we going to do? they're figuring it out as they go, but they have a really good attitude. So, I think that um that needs to be a big priority for us and that's why I'm asking for kind of an update on the plants because I feel like we're doing a lot of band-aids. And I did ask
the operators like if there was one thing we could do, what would you need? And um they mentioned the sand filter. Now, that would have to be something we go through Kevin and I mean it's quite expensive, but he said that would have really helped a lot as well. And so, just keeping that in mind like that that is huge. I think um blue heron is okay
because they can dump out into the wetlands at this point. That's not going to be possible in the future, but osprey is I think that needs to be one of our top priorities. Um so that and then I I wanted I I'm just going to see if I can open up a conversation with um I I guess
with uh the county about seeing if we can get a shelter in North Bards for when we have hurricanes. I remember I mean this wasn't a a huge issue this time but I know that last year when we had hurricanes there was nothing in North Bard for people to go to. They
were all down in the south and so that's a conversation and if anybody has any contacts I'm going to talk with the county um and see about that. Um but I I think that that's something a service we need to see if we can provide to our community here. And then um one thing
that the county does and Kevin you you might you can chime in if you if we have a system like this. I talked to our city manager about this, but when someone has flooding or a a request, they they can just go online and submit that request and they actually get a confirmation
code and it helps public works or their road and bridges keep track of it. And so what happened during this this hurricane or this this rain is I had people email me um pictures and videos and that was really really helpful. And I'm trying to document it. I didn't want
to overwhelm Kevin. Um, so I kind of picked out the ones that I felt like were really serious at this point, but it would be great to have a system where people could go in and just fill out that service request. Um, a lot of cities have it. Um, and so Heather from um, the city did reach out and kind of
was asking me questions. So that's something I would like to see our city move forward and have. And Kevin, if we have that, please let me know so that we can start pushing that out. Um, and then is it being is it useful? Are people using it? Because you're smiling now.
No, when the when the council approved our asset management system for the water sewer utility that's part of that and it's forthcoming. >> Okay. >> Uh it's in test right now. I think we have our manager trainings coming this week. >> Good. >> So it'll be in the very near future. There will be a online
essential ability for a citizen to enter a work order into our system that currently is not a available but it will be coming real soon and those work orders will go be deployed directly to managers tablets and their trucks. >> Excellent. I think that's going to help a lot. So when people have uh issues, we
can um of course like you know I often reach out to Kevin, but we can direct them to that and I think that'll make uh public works life a little bit easier too because you can keep track of it. So thank you for for getting on that. I appreciate it. >> Amber Nelson,
>> absolutely nothing. I was going to give Herman a hard time and say I didn't get any of those calls >> because I'm doing it. Oh, >> you just said they call
>> No, I I would say the only thing that really Well, glad it quit raining, but other than that, I went over to the Boys and Girls Club Thursday and we have two volunteers from Lockheed. The kids there were probably
10 to 14 and they were sitting there learning chemistry. I was like, you know, since I had to learn about nanobubbles, I I thought maybe I need to sit in.
The kids seem to understand it. I was amazed. >> It's all about those veence electrons. Remember Nelson? >> Alrighty. Yeah, >> sir. I have uh on the city manager report, I have two items or actually
just one item on the city manager report and that's the uh fourth quarter strategic accomplishments which crosswalk over to the goals and objectives. Also, for your information only, no action requested. I was uh contacted by the police hall of fame and
they indicated that uh they were going to be closing down and um therefore that facility would be available and if the city had any use and um I did conduct a survey or a site visit with staff and we
would like to come back next um meeting with an advisability to look into whether or not uh initial acquisition and renovation would make a good EOCC police headquarters. And again, I'm just informing council that I'll be coming in
with an advisability at the next council meeting. I have no numbers or anything as far as it's too precisional. Thank you very much, city manager. City attorney, do you have anything to report? >> Nothing. It's just week two. Happy to be
here and my first meeting down. Hopefully ready to go. >> Thanks. Thank you very much, Attorney Treasurer. We're very excited for you to be here. And just a further update uh from council. Um we'll probably keep the
proclamation of emergency in effect for 7 days. I mean, we could repeal it. >> Yeah. So, but we'll keep it open for the seven days, but we'll most likely close it out, but uh just so you guys are aware. Um anything else? I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn.
>> Motion to adjurnn. >> Forjourn.