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regulation. November 11, 2025 at 5:30 to order. City attorney, do we have a quorum? >> Yes. Thank you very much, city attorney. Uh we're going to have the invocation. If you would mind, please bow your heads for a moment of silence.
>> Thank you very much. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. Member Nelson. Move to approve the minutes of the CRA meeting on September 9th, 2025. >> Second. >> I have a motion and I have a second. Any
further discussion from this board? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much, Mr. Executive Director. >> Good evening, Mr. Chairman, vice chairman, and members of the board. The first item is under old business is the
downtown directory maps annual business update. As you recall back in 2024, CRA established two downtown uh business directory kiosks, one at the commons and one at corner of Hopkins and uh Main
Street. And we're get in the process of updating the businesses and our CR planner will give you a update on the different business changes throughout the year. Good evening. Uh the pro this is truly a
process which is why the report tells you what the process is and I know the questions were how many open and how many closed. Again as we say we for the open ones we can actually run a business tax receipt report and on that list from September of 24 to September of 25 it
indicated 45 new businesses. However, after I call through them and with the BTR specialists, we noticed that there were some um duplicates and I'll explain that and and I'll explain that one now. For instance, um the GOAT, one of the new restaurants, they actually received
three BTRs. They need one for the restaurant, they need one for the alcohol license, and they need one for retail sales. So, noticing that there were five like that, the hardware store, and um couple others. Uh the was it Daily Trade? No, those are the ones that
closed. So, uh Oh, it was roots of roots of Titusville and the Titusville Playhouse. So, we minused out those duplicates. And then when you look at the businesses talking about ones that are closed, there really isn't a database or a system to capture that.
They don't legally have to tell us. And usually we notice it when they're gone. or for instance the three the three um businesses the Daily Trade the Latin restaurant and Seas Waffles when they come in for a new BTR we then know that they've closed we I I do I did notice
that the Coastal Sleepers is closed that was one that I was indicated to me when I was walking around to get the information for the maps so basically the answer is 40 opened and then that I know of four closed but again that's very difficult to capture what We have
done though is that you can find the vacancies in the CRA on our website. So there are there are nine vacancies listed. Um one of them is launched now which technically that has six. So technically there's 15 depending if somebody were to go in and and rent or lease that space the entire space of
over 9,000 square feet or if they take a unit. And I'm open for any questions. >> Thank you very much Miss Sue. I don't see any Oh member Stoke will surprise me. No, just a comment and I appreciate that and I know I talked about this briefly in our one-on-one. Um, while it's not
like exact, I think this is good benchmarking for us to know, you know, year-over-year how many new businesses are opened and truly how many vacancies we have because ideally we would have zero. Um, and so now we we have a baseline and so I would be I would just like to see this, you know,
year-over-year having a report so we can see our progress. So, thank you for doing this. >> You're welcome. As Facebook would say, data is everything, you know. So, we got to have good data so we can make good decisions. I'm not seeing anything else. Executive
director. Just moving on to 7B is the FDOT safety enhancements. [clears throat] Um, as you recall, um, the FDOT is planning to resurface US1 in FY 2029. Um in the interim they are proposing to
put in some traffic calming and uh lights and and uh markings and um they're forformational purposes they're presenting that information to you and Sue Williams can answer any questions regarding particulars of their initiative.
I will give you a little bit of background although most of you are familiar with this and just to let you know um I will be asking for a recommendation for uh to move forward just as a and I'll I'll give you an update on that. So this all started really back in August of 2024 at the CRA
meeting. So we've gone through the process diligently getting a a a street pedestrian study speed study from FDOT a formal request. Then we did the internal study. Based on those two studies, the CRA officially went back to FDOT and
said we wanted a formal request for those um safety enhancements. So that's one reason when budgeting the in this fiscal year that that 200 approximately 244,000 was bud budgeted for safety enhancements. Once we got the
notification in October of 2025, so it took a little time, right? that um that's the new concept that's in your packet that that you have seen. Okay. With the rapid flashers and the safety enhancements and more of the crosswalks
and being indicated um basic what what I was advised of because I asked okay how much is this going to cost and that's why the CRA was willing to put that money aside. I was informed that at these at this time those safety enhancements will not cost the CRA. Now
in fiscal year 20 27 and 29 to get the um side roads between the north and the south paving of of US1 to have those resurfaced will be 365,000. Fortunately there's been 244,000 set
aside and we can budget for that. That'll be coming back to you later. What I what we are requesting from you this evening and this is a request from FDOT as well that we would like a formal recommendation recommendation from the CR CRA board to the city council to
approve the new FDOT safety enhancement concept provided and I'm available for questions. >> Um maybe point of uh information for our city attorney. Didn't our last city council didn't our city council already approve this concept plan? I don't
recall that a formal action or motion was moved and action taken. I believe that the mayor you presented this as part of your report and I believe the consensus from the board was it was agreeable but no formal action and I'm
understanding that maybe FDOT is wanting just for uh to be cautious some formal action but I I believe it was very supported by the the the council. Yeah, they remember what happened in other beachside communities. Do we name us? So,
>> um All right, member Nelson. >> Oh, so move to approve the FDOT safety enhancement plan. >> Second. >> I have a motion. I have a second. City clerk. >> There's one card. Stan Johnston.
>> Stan Johnson, 860 Points Avenue. Um I'm I'm not It's nice to hear that there's no cost to the CRA. It's um uh there's a recommendation for an approval, it sounds like, of a cost of $365,000.
And I notice here it says that no action is requested. So, you know, that's that's a change. Uh, I would think that uh uh before before council or CRA accepts this is
that they look at this $365,000 expected payment from the city of Titusville and what it includes rather than just whitewashing. I believe I'm correct in what I say. I think she said $365,000
was going to be city cost >> for fiscal year 29 for repaving, not for safety enhancements. >> Okay. Well, if if that that sounds like Well, just I just think you ought to check that. I'm not sure. There must be some kind of possibility of over
overpayment. I mean, underpayment, whatever it might be. So, that's all that's all just a consider consideration. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Johnson. So basically it's FDOT's road. They can do what they want, but they want our support for these safety enhancements
given the fact that we asked for these safety enhancements. But the key point is they are doing these safety enhancements on their dime. The state is paying for it 100%. >> $365,000. >> No, that's again $365,000 is for the
road repaving. when they come through and repave US1 and they do our city streets in the in between Hopkins and Washington. That is something that we are budgeting for long term as something that's kind of normal processing. If they're already mobilizing and repaving
20 miles, they might as well knock out this 0.1 in between and we we pay for that. But in regards to these safety enhancements specifically, even though we requested them, FDOT will be footing the bill to get the job done. In fact, construction is going to begin on
November 20th. I received an email yesterday and they are mobilizing. They had a directive and I'm very, very appreciative for Secretary Tyler and his leadership to get the job done for us and the city of Titusville. >> Any further discussion from council? All
right. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Executive director. >> Yes, sir. Moving on to new business. Uh 8A is community de redevelopment agency goals and objectives
and um the requirement is that special districts must establish goals and objectives for each program and activity they undertake by October 1st 2024. Also required to create to create performance measures and standards to determine if
their goals and objectives are being achieved. And we have a short presentation by our CRA planner to go over those performance measures. Good evening and you all will see this once a year. It is a new legislation that came down. It was handed down last
year at the legislative session and it'll be moving forward. There was a lot of talk about it then because it was legislated but the legislation didn't indicate how to do this. So we looked to the FRA for guidance and we based it
upon it. It'll be always tied to your budget. So you'll see that it's tied to the budget this year. Um this is the legislation on uh okay there's our goal to eradicate blight as identified in the 1982 feasibility feasibility study and
then here's the goals and objectives and these should look very familiar to you. They are our goals and objectives that are listed in our adopted CRA plan of 2022. So based upon this what is really different that they're saying is that we need to create performance measures and
standards and then also those performance measures and standards to make the determination if we have achieved them or not or what portion we have. So, this is your our um fiscal year 2026 budget. And so, it's a line item to see
how much money in and and where we've um where we've put the funds to utilize for FY2026. This is really where we we measure those performance measures. You can tell the trail amenities 30,000, grant 110,
infrastructure safety improvements 244,000, and Broad Street improvements 100,000. So now we're going to tie it into the CRA plan. Uh we're indicating what page and what program that that the money is is allocated for. So again,
it's in your plan. And then this is the performance measures. So you can see with the trail amenities at the end of FY2026, we will measure the number of trail amenities installed. So it's very clear-cut. The CRA grant program, we will list the number of facade and
interior grants awarded and the amounts on the infrastructure. the number of safety related infrastructure projects completed and for Broad Street the number completion the percent completion of design and construction phases. This will be listed on our CRA website as
legislated and with those figures and this is just another way of saying how we're going to determine the measurements. It's just in in word form and then there is our CA board and where we are and who we are. So, I'm happy to
answer any questions that you may have. >> Thank you very much, Miss Sue and board. >> Member Stokel. >> Sorry. Yes. Um I'm very happy about this legislation because this is this is what I do day in and day out and I mayor
mentioned this too data. Um so I like the performance measures. Um, I guess is the plan. So, we will submit these. Will they give us feedback on whether or not these are good measures or how does that work? >> No, ma'am. There's been no feedback yet on any of that legislation. >> Okay. No. And these are good. I would
say I and we don't need to do it this time. Other ones that I would like is if the tracking of the new businesses, I think knowing our vacancies and showing, hey, our CRA is working hard to make sure that we have no vacancy. And then these are things we're doing. We're doing the trail town amenities. we're
doing of whatever it is that we're doing to try to keep the grant program. So, I'm thinking, okay, our goal is to have, you know, a safe downtown environment, remove blight, as we're saying. Um, and then these are things we're doing. We're providing grants to try to encourage more business in. Um, we're doing safety
improvements, lighting, all of these things kind of feed into that. So, um, the new businesses and then, um, I think there was one other one I was thinking of, but I think that was the main thing. Oh, and I I think this is hard to track, but and I don't think we can ever, but
it would be nice to see, you know, how many people people are frequenting our downtown. Um I don't think that one I haven't figured that one out yet, but that would be nice. Um thinking just brainstorming about that. So, thank you. >> Member Stokel, if I may, I think a way
we can get maybe a guesstimate is how many people come through the visitor center. >> Yeah. >> Then that might be a good measure that we use to track. I mean, it's not going to be all-encompassing, but you know, maybe we can extrapolate a number from there because as somebody who goes down
there on Saturdays, it is pretty busy. So, um I don't know who's going to stand there and count people. So, I think yeah, >> see clerk, >> um there's one card on this. Stan Johnston.
[snorts] Uh Stan Johnston, I'm uh happy to hear that you're going to be uh introducing some uh money on the safety and I it appears that that you don't need to spend any more money on on this uh
fountain issue at Sandpoint Park and Space View Park. I mean, that is uh I've I've complained a number of times with spraying people with with sewage, but I understand is that those have been cut off permanently or something like that. Uh although I think it'd be better if
just to not to turn them off permanently, but to uh just when there's a sewage spill. So any anyhow uh so I don't have any objections to it and I'm thank you that uh uh that it appears that this that our
two parks, San Park and Space View Park are not going to be those places where we're going to spray people with sewage. And I think that's it's work you're working on on the senior center. Thank you. [snorts] >> Thank you, city clerk. Any others?
>> There's no other cards. >> Thank you, >> member Nelson. So I'd move to approve the CRA goals, objectives, and performant me performance measures um with if possible
um keeping track of the open and closed businesses and potentially if there's a way to do it, keep track of the visitors at the visitor center if it's possible.
>> Second. All right. So, I have a motion by member Nelson and uh second by member Cole, sorry, Vice Chair Cole. But I I do think they they count the numbers of of visitors. They should be able to provide that data to us. Um any further
discussion from this board, seeing none, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you very much. Appreciate you, Miss Sue. >> Executive director. >> Petitions and requests. >> All right. So, we're at petitions or
requests from the public in our CRA meeting, which is a community re redevelopment agency for the downtown area before we go into our 6:30 meeting. >> Okay. >> Mr. Johnson, you have the floor. >> Stan Johnston, 860 Poinsetta Avenue. Um I'm a little bit surprised is that I I
thought this was supposed to be before old business and new business, but yeah, I guess it's your choice. You can delay it. But anyhow, uh uh there's a there's something that said it's like what's what is what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. So this is what I want to happen
and what I'm telling you is because I don't want my wife to find out. So um uh and if she does, I'm just going to deny it. But okay. So here's what what situation what you guys have and is you've got to make decisions. And so how
do you make proper decisions? So I have four four ways that some people can make decisions. And one is is that is that uh if there is a massive majority to be in the majority vote. That's number one. Number two, I wrote this down just a few
minutes ago to agree with the figures in authority at all times. That's number that's second possibility. Number three is is is is for me like is is the man the man in the house or the master the is the master of the house. That's
number three. Number four is the man is the master of the house as long as he does what his wife tells him to do. Uh there well actually there's a fifth one. The fifth one is something like this is the man is the master of his house as
long as he hears what his wife tells him to do. That's the That's the one that I'm So unfortunately for my wife is that um when she talks I don't always hear what she says. So So those are those are
those are five different ways of making decisions. I'm sure there's other ways, but uh uh I want you to consider those when you uh when you vote because you know there's even some religions that say is that women aren't supposed to
make decisions. And uh I remember when I was in in school is that we we wouldn't allow we wouldn't allow black uh black students to become the uh president of the not the president but the quarterback couldn't
become the quarterback. And uh if you all remember it's is that the Germans said that they were the uh superior race and uh they were very upset with uh Jesse Owens when he uh was the fastest. He beat all these Russians. Not
Russians, but Germans. So, just give that some consideration and uh don't tell my wife. Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Johnson. And I'm pretty sure Jesse Owens beat everybody. Anybody else petitions or any questions from the public? Non-aggenda items.
Seeing none, executive director. >> Yes, sir. The last item under executive director's report is just a activity listing what of items that staff is working on and it's provided for your information only.
Thank you, executive director, CRA board. Any questions, comments, concerns about the executive director's report? Seeing none, >> all right, I guess uh that to >> comes the end of our CRA meeting. All
right, I got a motion to adjurnn in a second. We're adjourned. We'll see you guys at 6:30 for our regular city council meeting.