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good evening and welcome to the March 4th Commission meeting for 2025 I'd like to bring this meeting to order and if you please would stand for the pledges of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to
the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all city clerk would you please call the role commissioner to here commissioner krael here commissioner minning here
vice mayor dicki here mayor doctor here thank you all right and moving on approval of regular and workshop agendas we do not have a workshop agenda tonight so approval of the regular
agenda no objection looks good good all right um let's go ahead and on the agenda do we actually take a a vote um or just we just ask if there's
anything to change on the agenda I mean I okay yeah if there's no changes you just move forward all right thank you sure all right tonight we do have an an accreditation award and I'd like uh for chief Barkley to
step forward she's sitting back in the audience but Gabby the accreditation manager Gabby Foster Gabby Foster yes so the accreditation process which we started our initial accreditation in 2021 is a very extensive process which
we are accredited by the commission for Florida accreditation which is in the State of Florida Premier accreditation agencies for law enforcement agencies in the country um what we were really excited about our first accreditation it was a big deal we got it done and uh but everybody says your next hardest or your
most hardest accreditation is your first re accreditation what happens is our first accreditation was for one year of proofs the re accreditation process was for three so this covered from 2021 all the way until 2024 I'm happy to say we absolutely knocked it out of the park during our re accreditation we had
absolutely zero corrective actions and no issues at all found when they did the on-site assessment here in August and that's significant um we were supposed to receive this award in Santa Bell Island in October but our friend came to visit to visit and visit and the
interestingly enough the commission for Florida accreditation was one of the first state agencies to reach out to us and say do you need any help how can we help you and we will push you on the agenda for St Augustine in February so two weeks ago my team who was Gabby Foster and Captain Savar uh we went to
St Augustine and gladly accepted this reaccreditation which is our re accreditation for three years and um the process any kind of accreditation process is difficult but it what it does for the agency and what it does for the community it shows that we're using best
practices and the best standards and it covers everything from your facility to training and all of our policies and procedures and when they come to give you a re accreditation they tear you up from top to bottom you can't just smoo them and say yeah we're doing that they they take all of your policies and procedures and then they want proofs
that you're doing things you're not just saying that you're doing them the right that you actually are doing them the right way so I'm very proud to say we were re accredited you want to hold that up okay for three years wow and due to the diligence and the Excellence of the entire Treasure Island
Police Department team and it was also recognized during the meeting what we have been through with the hurricane and our temporary facilities and one of the Chiefs who is on the board is one of the Chiefs who came to visit us here and he went upstairs and saw our temporary Armory and our temporary um property evidence thing and said it was amazing
that we're still carrying forth the accreditation standards for property evidence and all the storage of our equipment and um operations even though we want what we have been through in the temporary facility we in so it was a a good achievement for the entire agency thank you fantastic
let's go ahead and get a a picture with the accreditation certainly we're gonna move got it okay than [Applause]
you all all right next we have public comments for non-agenda items and the first is Rick Morales nidal thank you so much mayor uh for the record uh Rick Morales uh Pio public information officer uh with the SBA the
office of Disaster Assistance thank thanks once again for the opportunity um I'm here today because it was extended on the line to apply with the SBA uh that was requested uh by the state uh the governor and the our uh agency approved so of course a lot of
homeowners renters nonprofits and businesses are still in need um but I'm glad I feel better I remember when I came here uh at the FEMA Town Hall like four months ago at the end of October the mountains of debris and but everything looks better but yeah we are
recovering that's why we are here uh working on the long-term recovery so um not only the people is applying because of the one year deferment with 0% interest rates because that's one of the best benefits the people are using all these funds let's say for mitigation
they are combining different programs like with FEMA and uh Florida Elevate Florida so they combine all of that for a say to elevate the houses so these programs um um for physical damages that means on the infrastructure re uh real estate inventory walls floor of the
houses uh nonprofits and businesses the people are using that to elevate combining FEMA and the program from the state that's very important to know and also the people is also applying the constituents for economic damages losses on profits on businesses and nonprofits
I have been meeting uh and participating a lot of activities networking activities and events with Barry the president of the Panella Chamber of Commerce Madera Beach and Treasure Island so I have been engaging really well with then great guy and thank shout
out to him from here here so uh the deadline uh right now is until April 27 so this business Recovery Center to apply is still in in the eping center college so is the same address Monday to
Friday Clos on Saturday and Sunday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. hey all that people that didn't apply complete the procedures if you were denied go there to to ask why you can go there to uh ask the status of your application for to
appeal to reconsider to blow documents take advantage of these centers because these centers are not permanent so we don't know if it's going to be extended once again because we have been here for more than more than six months I have been here since debb so you know what I
mean so so those centers might be closing and we never know if they don't have good numbers they have to close so I came here also so you all can keep uh sharing the information to the constituents for the people here spread out that and disseminate that with your
friends family networking that we are still here we are still here hey take advantage of these funds and yeah we are an alternative to all the other programs like FEMA from the state so yeah we are going to keep pushing and informing and we are going to stay here until the end
yeah and once again where are you located well um we uh pios we uh usually we stay in hotels because I'm from Puerto Rico okay so but the centers uh in uh epicenters uh college so that's uh where the people can apply but the staff
always because we are from different parts of the United States or territories we don't have an office with the office is the field the streets okay so but we staying hotels but my colleagues uh um the csrs customer service Representatives the people uh
the employees that help with the applications they are there at the center and also it's very important to mention the name the um phone number 8 00 659 2955 800-659-2955 that's the customer service
center number with the SBA and you can ask any questions uh there and also I left some flyers um on the table outside and I I provided to you all and mayor I'm going to share more information with you the fact sheets with all the details okay um on PDF English and Spanish
Flyers everything so you can have more information I know you that you have everything but I always like to give more okay great great thank you thank you so much mayor thank you thank you and next uh Brandy long hi I'm Briny long Sunshine Beach
I'm in a way better mood tonight um I want to thank everyone involved putting the new policies and pro procedures in place so that the permitting has rolled out it has really made a difference so everything new that has came on the idea obviously is working I have one um thing
that I want to kind of put out there and find out if there's a plan for the walkovers on Sunshine Beach are all still destroyed and was wondering if there's a plan in place or a contract in place or like a plan for when that's going to start for
repairs and maybe a finish date or something but that's all I have thank you great uh let's see here commissioner report uh the first one we'll do tonight is our city manager Chuck Anderson
and sure thing and uh could you answer her question about the walkovers sure um miss Mr long it is one of the top five um projects that the commission did prioritize last year when they were asked to go through and prioritize the projects Public Works is currently
working on an RFP RFQ to go out to have all of the Dune walkovers and I think there's about 22 two of them allog together across the city have those repaired um the time frame right now we don't have but at the same time we're also looking for reimbursement to have that done through the FEMA 126 Pro or
excuse me the FEMA public assistance program so it is on our radar and we are taking a look at but I don't have a definitive timeline I could give you yet thanks yeah mayor and Commissioners if I could I'll just try to go quickly through a city city manager report over
in Economic Development Joan Goodridge our director there attended the penella County infrastructure recovery support and the Tampa Bay Regional planning County Post storm recovery meetings there's a short timeline but director Goodrich is going to be taking the lead to submit several economic recovery and
resiliency Project funding requests by tomorrow to the federal Economic Development Administration over in public works we're going to be closing the bascal bridge on Tuesday March 11th from 10 p.m. at night to Wednesday March 12th at
0600 the Clos needed to remove one of the hydraulic Bridge Pistons that will be out for rehabilitation the bridge will remain operational without the Piston which will be replaced again when the rehabilitation is completed public works also wanted to pass on there
facilitating a request from Duke Energy for an easement on city property to relocate a Transformer on 107 Street finally Public Works was also able to confirm that the demo of the old city hall building and the Public Works Administration Building should begin late next week or early the following
week we do have the contractor just working on a start date for that over in fire the police and fire chiefs are working with the city attorney to complete an RFQ for the public safety facility design and Engineering options are being pursued for a more cost
effective temporary fire and police facilities and they're being researched including a potential renovation of the community center and a potential Ren excuse me relocation to 108 Street in in existing or other temporary facility Chief bars is completing or excuse me is
compiling an after Action Report related to our hurricane storm responses there will be ongoing staff training on Lessons Learned and the con comprehensive emergency management Plan update will begin in March over in operations fire rescue responded to 26 calls this week 18 were in Treasure
Island one was a water rescue safe sitter classes are back Treasure Island fire rescue is hosting safe sitter classes for students in grades 6 through 8 these classes teach Essential Safety skills for staying home alone watching younger siblings and
babysitting the instructor L courses include fun games and role playing exercises to make engaging and Interactive Learning for dates and details please contact fire at 727-547-9335 659 records in CAD between Friday
February 21st and Friday February 28th these incidents all included calls for service as well as self as well as self-generated Patrol activity two derck vessels were also removed from TR waterways this last week from the
Florida state of Florida Post hurricane program the step program selective excuse me a selected traffic enforcement program resulted in 19 traffic citations and 45 written warnings during this reporting period in park and wreck they asked me to pass on that the John morone
Memorial dog park at relli Park is open sod was laid down on the ground and there's Mulch on order thank you is put on and passed on to our community for their patience as Park and Rick work to keep the garden green and beautiful for the furry friends on March 8th and 9th Treasure Island Beach will come aligned
with alive with the sights and sounds of the back to the beach sand and Kites and Coastal Delights event presented by visit St Pete Clearwater this sand Sensational Festival brings together two fun Beach attractions sand sculptures and dazzling kites visitors
will be able to Marvel at giant sand sculptures symbolizing Treasure Islands resilience watch the sky full of colorful kites and enjoy a weekend packed with live music delicious food trucks and unique local vendors whether you're a beach lover a music fan or just looking for the perfect weekend escape
this Festival has something for every everyone Community Development asked me to pass on that they are still working hard and diligent at processing permits in case anyone had not seen we have received now 20
2463 permits up from last week's numbers we have issued 1887 permits and that is 160 more permits from the week prior in the review for permits our numbers have dropped from 59 to 46 I'd like to take a moment to
recognize the Community Development Department staff other City staff that is supporting them and the outside assistant who are focused on returning people to their homes and businesses in January this team took a look at their existing processes tweaked or eliminated redundancies and
introduced new methods to help residents and business owners since January 6 this has resulted in an average of7 permits issued on a weekly basis before they took this measure they were averaging 9 permits a week so there's more than 100
permits per week now that are being issued because of this so thank you to them FEA visited Treasure Island on February 19th to introduce a new flood plane management crew leader Katie Rand while they were here they reviewed the
city's current permitting processes and stated that they found no potential program deficiencies that would impact our resilient and compliant storm recovery so that was good news besides getting to to meet the new person to hear that Finance asked to pass on that
they're working with Tyler Technologies and they've taken a sample batch of invoices to test the transaction flow between Community Development and financial management once we know the results of these testes excuse me tests we will be able to have a better idea when we can begin issuing
refunds Mike Howard our finance director and our economic director met with Mike Twitty the pelis County property appraiser to deter a potential impacts to last year's hurricanes that they could have on our tax base and our tax revenues in the future years the disaster communities the county team is
studying include lead and Charlotte counties and when complete we'll be bringing this information back to the commission the 2024 audit is on track through CLA in the process of updating our depth threshold model for later presentation to the commission we are looking and
taking a look at what that model will entail based upon our assessed value the model will determine the level of debt that the city can sustain within the parameters of the city Charter we should have that information in about a week total and we'll be bringing that back to the
commission over an Administration Treasure Island was very expedient in submitting its claim for debris costs to FEMA in the amount of $1.43 million FEMA Public Assistance grants are given numbers in consecutive starting at one Treasure Island Excuse Me Treasure
Islands debris Grant was assigned number 34 and these grants go into the number of thousands so thank you to the individuals both from the state and locally in finance and the Departments who put that forward Florida is enhancing its storm preparedness with a new program called Elevate Florida which
is the state's first ever Statewide residential mitigation program led by the Florida Department of Emergency Management this Innovative program is designed to protect homes and communities by reducing damage caused by natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods the state is hosting three
information sessions in pelis County with the city of Treasure Island hosting one on Wednesday March 12th on the 5th floor from 10:00 a.m. to 700 p.m. these events will discuss El eligibility requirements type of type of projects available and pro provide oneon-one
on-site help for individual applications as of yesterday afternoon at 5:00 199 Applications had been submitted from the city citizens of Treasure Island for elevation requests and mitigation reconstruction help County Commissioner Kathleen Peters
was able to visit with our re rebuild TI working group last week and provided an update on the County's recovery and rebuilding priorities for the $813 million in HUD funding that the county had received an action plan needs to be developed by May of 20125 and a focus
one of the focuses will be on residential rebuilding and helping people directly affected which are top County priorities the city received several online inquire inquiries having to do with City Vehicles operating and driving
around Community neighborhoods these vehicles are white and black in nature with some apparatus on the outside and they are not ref returned to the Future type cars or anything like that what they are are their parking enforcement and code enforcement cars they've
doubled up on some of the training opportunities and they're taking people from code enforcement and putting them with parking enforcement to get a familiar familiarization with the city and they're driving around so if anybody sees any of these cars that's all they are is just code enforcement and parking
enforcement and last as a final reminder the municipal election will take place on March 11th next Tuesday with the community center still under undergoing repairs this year's polling place will be the city commission Chambers right here at City Hall please note that this
is next Tuesday March 11th and due to that the Community Development Department will be closed to the public so that we can facilitate the election that's all I have thank you very much commissioner Toth mayor I'm sorry
did you want me to give my report now or or later I I'll do it uh after we finish sure great thank you okay thank you and thank you for attending tonight um I just just wanted to say there's some upcoming events with
the gulf beaches public library we will be having a special ribbon cutting to welcome our neighbors back to the library and see what the library has new to offer and also to show off our new R remodel of the library thank you to
Helen um right now we don't have a date that's set and then secondly in Library business um I'd like to announce that our proposed budget was developed and approved by by the trustees last night and with careful consideration and
impacts to our communities we've been able to keep the budget flat which means no increases this year for our city and we will be submitted by the librarian as per our interlocal agreement to our respective um City
shareholders and then I'd like to also welcome back I've notice that we've have a plethora of different out ofate plates driving around um traffic's gotten a little heavier which is a good thing which means that we've got some tourists and visitors coming to
our businesses and congratulations to our businesses that have recently reopened um especially foxy a Floridian Ricky T caddy um I can't really don't want to run down the list but there's a bunch of them support our local
businesses and then I'd like to shout out to Kathleen Peters thank you for traveling to Washington DC to work on supporting and securing support for our beach renourishment and I look forward to seeing everyone this weekend out on the back to the beach event
and um I was going to make a comment about our code enforcement vehicles but our city manager covered that nicely and then also thank you to parks and wreck for the dog park residing it looks really nice I drove by today and had
time to look and the dogs are out there already enjoying themselves along with see the people back talking to each other that's all I have thank you thank you very much commissioner Crable yes I'd like to thank everybody all the community that came out and supported
the fireman's um chili cook off it was a great success matter of fact we had to turn people away we outs sold the more ticket we had more requests for tickets than we had tickets available so I think that's great and I see two winners out
in the a audience and that's Kathy and Chris won on the on the chili and stuff so congratulations to both of you guys um at that event um inspired Acres was out here and
trying to promote a little bit about their organization and their organization is for transforming lives through therapeutic recreation this is for children it's for veterans it's for first respon bonders so please take a
look at their website this is something that can be of benefit for the whole community and they have it's inspired Acres florida.org or they're also on Facebook so this is a good opportunity to take a look at some items that way
and the other thing is that the veterans and First Responders when they're participants there is no charge for them so that's a straight A great thing for the First Responders and the veterans now I've been um really kind of
sitting back on our financials I'm not saying there's a problem or anything but I do think we need to be watching our financial picture much closer when you get into crisis mode there are things can slip
through the cracks and I want to make sure sure that we can stay on top of the balances of different funding so I would like to see and not everybody's in agreement with this but like for our different funds like we're going to see
a little bit later tonight uh the general fund income and then the expenses just that quick one pager so we can see how that is going and this is going to be especially important that we need to track when we start reimbursing
our refunds for our building permits so that we can see how that's affecting that building fund and how we are progressing down through on getting those free funds once those start and how much further we have to go and
knowing that we're having less tax revenue coming in from property taxes that's why I want us to look at these funds more frequently than quarterly in a big overview um but quarterly I would like to see
that any of our contracts that are open-ended and stuff that those be reviewed on if we've had any calls against it so an open end to contract being ones that we have for on call and
we have an analysis of that that makes things much clearer to our residents and to this Commission on exactly how those contracts are going so I really think it's very important that
we have have that information out and have those by category um because like one of the contracts we were approved last week we had different categories for different wages from from highly level professionals all the way down to
laborers well if we have that categorized in different methods that can help help us also negotiate other contracts or find out how we might be able to break those out so I think we have some hidden opportunities there to
help our finances by looking at some of these contracts and stuff um I just think because of the hurricanes and all that that we really should be looking at our fin financials more
frequently um and if you if we're not looking at them we could end up running into a problem I'm not saying that they're is one or there it's going to be one but we're going to have to curtail things knowing that we're having less revenues and what's going to happen with the building
fund so I just want that to be brought to light I want to thank Deb and Bob for all of their dedication to the city over the years
um Bob I'm going to do a special one to you because you've been the mayor and the commissioner so thank you for your service thank you Deb thank you for your service you guys have put in a lot of hours for this community and I
appreciate it I can remember when you're when you were Mayor Bob so that takes us back a little bit wasn't that long ago [Laughter] okay with with that said since I'm
thanking them I also want to thank all of the city employees they have worked endlessly and in different areas of expertise than what they were trained and hired for and
in view of that I want to earmark $500 of my discretionary fund as District 2 commissioner to some type of reception or lunch to the employees and I challenge my peers up on this dis to do
the same and that's the end of my report thank you commissioner minning well let me start off by saying that uh you can have my 500 that'd be a great event for us for
City staff uh who have really busted their you know what um to keep this town going through uh some times that we've never been through before and I hope that we never go through again so uh keep your fingers crossed um one thing
to to mention is that from here henceforth I guess was February 27th was the last time for mail in ballots so that ship is sailed and uh for those of you watching on TV or here uh everything else now has to be done in purpose if
you're waiting around for a mail and ballot folks it's not going to show up um they um did away with all the previously mail and ballot registrations and if you want one now you got to reapply so just an
FYI uh on Paradise Island um it's interesting to see which house is getting torn down next because it seems like it's a new one every day uh a lot of homes are being raised and it's nice to see the piles are being driven and uh
which tells me that new homes are going to be built um but it truly is a sign of the time and I'm sure Paradise Island isn't the only one uh where homes are being raised and uh new homes will be built but as commissioner krael
mentioned uh a vacant lot uh isn't bringing in a lot of tax revenue to the city so uh we need to be cogn cognizant of that uh as we go forward into the future and I want to say that it's been a privilege and a pleasure um serving as
a commissioner here for a Fillin spot uh I said I wasn't going to run I'm not Arthur suan uh is going to be sitting here next and I wish him the best so that's all I have thanks thank you commissioner dicki I wanted to add a
little bit to what the city manager talked about on the uh the progress we've been making in terms of getting permits issued he he' mentioned earlier that we as of uh as of yesterday 1800 187 permits had gone out uh so the total
amount of approved permits up to this date through uh going back to the beginning of of the two hurricanes is we've got 78.5% of the permits out uh that have been applied for uh in addition to that if you adjust for the
voided we have 156 voided permits people who applied for permits and for whatever reason changed their mind or modified them or took them off the table so you you if you adjust those out of the total permit applications we we're really up
to about 84% of all the permit applications that have been applied for since the beginning of uh of the hurricanes have been approved so that's a pretty good number and and uh the the the city manager had mentioned about some of the St uh changes that had been
made in including I even just heard Brandy talk about some of those too and it's made a big it's made a big difference so I'd like to again thank the staff you've heard that from other Commissioners and from the city manager but the work that's happened in the past uh several weeks uh has been absolutely
incredible uh especially I want to thank the deputy fire chief Tom Brennan for his leadership in reorganizing and streamlining the permit process uh having said that I wanted to end by saying uh public acknowledging the volunteers that helped out for four
months 16 weeks uh we had the volunteers that came in and if I could mayor I'd like like to go ahead and read their names because uh I think they deserve this uh this this acknowledgement and credit please do thank you uh Donna dicki Joan leaks Heidi hork commissioner
Diana krael and I apologize I don't know that this one's last name but we called her Cindy from Indie she spent a lot of time here uh she's a seasonal resident but she came in here and helped out uh many many consecutive Tuesdays and
Thursdays Steve rybold Le gray Jennifer Gray Lexis uh stolen Chris Hawkins and Nancy bosk so thank you very much for for the work that you did uh things were so
smooth last week that we pretty much decided that we could uh abandon the volunteer effort so today was the first day in 16 in 17 weeks where we didn't uh need the volunteer so again I wanted to thank them but also thank the staff and
and uh deputy fire chief Tom Brennan for for for uh the great progress that's all thank you City attorney oh sure I just wanted to um make the commission aware that I don't know if you participate in the Florida League of cities Monday
morning calls but they have Monday morning calls that are open to any elected official um and you can listen to the legislation they go over I want to say like the top 20 bills affecting local government every morning there are a lot of bills have been filed that are
um that could greatly affect local government including the city of Treasure Island at this point very early there's a lot of session left um you're going to see a lot of movement but I encourage each of you to dial in to be aware of what those bills are and then
um as they go along we may need your assistance or the assistance of um the citizens in voicing the concerns um if it'll affect the city of Treasure Island thank you well we've been going now for about uh 20 minutes I don't know that
there's a whole lot to say but I'll say it anyhow um the Florida League of cities also is going to be hosting it March 24th through the 26th um up in Tallahassee and we're going to be looking over the legislation
so uh there are the opportunities for the City commissioners to attend one and that there's a second uh meeting going on at the same time up there which is for the mayor and the vice mayor and uh so we'll be uh looking forward to
attending that as well um couple of things um I think that we've said uh you know about how everything is beginning to open up again and I I just have a couple comments on that is that yes it's it's very exciting that our businesses
are back open our residents are are back um but uh as as Commissioners or city employees um if you would uh when you go into some of the restaurants and that that are newly opened uh and thank them and and let them know especially
Commissioners let them know because they uh they take a lot of pride in that uh I think that uh the the best opportunity to uh to express what we can do here in the city is what we did with Ricky te's on Friday night uh literally there were
hundreds and hundreds and I wouldn't be surprised if the number had even reached maybe a thousand it's unbelievable how it was done and I want to thank not uh not only uh Ricky te's but also our Police Department I had mentioned uh the other
day to uh to our city manager that uh we're very proud of the well placed uh police officers for the event um they were not real visible but they definitely were ready if anything were to to happen and um and I think that
everybody just had a great time uh I don't think that there was one incident that took place at the police had to respond to or anything even with that large crowd so I think that it was just great but thanking these folks that a lot of them they're still riy te's is only operating three days a week um and
uh krabbies or not krabbies uh caddies um is going to begin operating yet this week they hope to operate and hopefully everybody will be able to get down there so I I really appreciate that and I too uh commissioner Toth and
commissioner minning uh thank you very much for your service um and uh it's a long a lot of long hours and um I'll try to make it shorter tonight than what our average meeting has been which has been about two and a half hours so uh and and
that's so I'll say um thank you for all being here and uh for your patience and uh let's just continue to get back to normaly and uh and unfortunately about the same time we're going to get a lot of the normaly we will have uh the next
hurricane season beginning so um that's all I'll say so thank you very much and uh and let's go ahead and move on to our consent agenda we have three uh topics on the consent agenda agenda i' like to read out what those are very quickly here
it's uh the first one is an amendment to the contract for the annual Run for the beach 5K run the second item is renewing the hold harmless agreement with the city of Clearwater Fire Rescue Training Facility and the third is a memorandum agreement within the State of Florida to
assist with Federal immigration enforcement actions having said that I move to approve the three items on the consent agenda second we have a motion and a second is there any discussion good is there any public
discussion seeing none let's go ahead and have the role please vice mayor dicki I commissioner to I commissioner krael I commissioner minning hi mayor doctor I thank you unanimous thank you and moving
to the items of business uh our first is to request approval for the ordinance 20251 creating a temporarily expanded time frames for special events ordinance 20251 and ordinance of the city of Treasure Island Florida
amending chapter 68 zoning regulations of the city of treasur Island code of ordinances by amending section 68- 51 special event permit to allow for certain extended special events for a limited time in the aftermath of Hurricane's Helen and Milton so that
businesses May begin temporary operations providing for severability providing for conflict providing for codification and providing for an effective date thank you yes good evening mayor and Commissioners um so this is the second reading of this ordinance you
heard it on the 18th um essentially it is if you recall it's the uh extending the special events we only allow it for nine days so this gives them an opportunity to apply for six months with two extensions um basically gives them an opportunity to to run while they're
building their primary business there's been no changes since the first reading so you have any questions any questions no okay um public comment seeing
none um let's go ahead and move on um we have a motion please yes I move to approve ordinance 2025-the a roll call please vice mayor dicki hi commissioner Toth hi commissioner krael hi commissioner minning hi mayor doctor
I thank you all right motion carries unanimously moving on to the next item first hearing of ordinance 20252 amending fiscal year 2025 general fund budget to recognize Insurance proceedings of $483,500
ordinance 20252 an ordinance of the city of treasur Island Florida amending the fiscal year 2025 general fund budget to recognize insurance proceeds of $483,500 thank you um pretty well speaks for itself in SE in September we had you
know the the storms and everything we immediately filed started filing for insurance uh we did get this $483,000 uh for flood insurance um and it was for about four different
different uses that are detailed in here contents building and the like and the purpose of this is for us to actually now that we have those funds to be able to utilize those funds against the damages that were
incurred great thank you does uh anyone here have questions for the staff are we expecting additional uh Insurance uh payments from additional insurance company yeah
yeah that's that's accounting card go thank you all right thank you Mike is there any public comments okay seeing no public comments
uh public hearing is now closed we have a motion to and a second is there any discussion no I think I need to make the motion sorry you got to make the motion okay I I move to approve ordinance number 2025 d02 at the first as the first public hearing and just schedule
it for a second second and final reading at the March 18th 2025 regular commission meeting second Motion in a second any discussion no okay roll call please vice mayor dicki hi commissioner TOS hi
commissioner krael hi commissioner minning hi mayor doctor I thank you once again unanimous motion carries okay going on to the next authorization of city manager to approve the purchase order to Johnson Brothers Corporation to p and install one hydraulic cylinder for
the bascule bridge in the amount of $ 42,6 10.91 good evening uh commissioner mayor um the city of Treasure Island has a basal Bridge as you probably have noticed in there since 2007 uh that bridge has 16 cylinders on
it and four leaves that means there's four cylinders per Leaf um back in July one of the the cylinders started leaking and what happens is you have a Telltale drain and if it goes past the one ring uh um Oil ring then the tail drain
starts to collect so we monitored it that way we did a couple test openings see if it would stop um and it did slow down for a little bit but back in October it started to toh develop a more uh persistent leak uh so we started
looking at what ways can we um can we extend the life of it a little bit found out that uh really the the seals are pretty much blown on that one cylinder so we got uh two contractors one of them
is Johnson Brothers the other is our hydraulic company I can't remember the name of them uh they're going to come out on uh March 11th at 10 p.m. shut down the bridge pull one of the cylinders out put the bridge back together so that we can still operate it
you can still operate it with one cylinder out because we have two on each two for the opening two for the closing so as long as you have one of those uh out you can still operate the bridge sometime in uh April we'll put the uh
the other cylinder back we just do not have a date at this time we probably want to get it sometime after April so we miss the um the uh April uh the um spring break any
questions uh is that a rebuilt cylinder or is that a new one that has failed well all as you remember Bob back when you for the mayor we pulled all 16 of them because one of them had uh one of them basically had a
design flaw so as a new bridge we decided that at that time to replace all of them so this is one of the ones that was replaced and uh the the seals are blown on it about every 20 years years you're going to
have to replace the seals so I expect over the next five years for us to have replaced every single one of those seals again any indication for the others none none at this point Thank you you're welcome okay thank you very much is
there any public comment seeing none do I have a motion I move that the city commission approve the authorization of a purchase order to jot and Brothers Corporation to pull and install one hydraulic cylinder for the basuel bridge in the total amount of
$2,619 second we have a motion at second roll call please vice mayor dicki I commissioner to I commissioner krael I commissioner minning I mayor doctor I thank you once again motion carries
unanimously okay our last item for this evening is the selection of the city clerk candidate hi how is everyone today great all right so I know I'm last up um what I want to do is just quickly walk through the process that we went through trying to
find uh the city clerk candidates um so that way everyone is familiar with uh how we ran interviews and that type of thing so uh we received we received quite a few applications there were two specifically that stood out to us that we wanted to um offer an interview so on Friday last
Friday the 28th uh we did do those interviews with two candidates Lisa Marie Kennedy and uh Cassandra Kilgore so what we did was we had formal interviews uh the people who sat in on those interviews were me the city manager and Mary Ellen Edwards our
assistant uh community development director and we asked you know just a series of formal questions as you would normally in an interview process about their background and uh leadership capabilities and that type of thing and then in the afternoon we invited you all to come and do an individual more
informal uh just conversation with both candidates uh just to get to know them better so um with that uh that with that information um then I also provided you with some salary comps uh from surrounding areas the one thing that I
want to point out though about those salaries is that they don't take into consideration any sort of longevity um how long the person has been in that role whether or not they're new how long they've been with the city in general if they were promoted up these are just straight salary numbers um so I just
wanted to you know just so you kind of take that into consideration uh the other thing that I wanted to point out um in those city clerk uh comps when it says that the ranges are under review I believe that they might be going through a comp study and usually at that time
the ranges will come up so that's been historically what happens ranges rarely go down they usually come up so um so just something to to look at um where ranges are not provided then those are usually usually just set by commission and that is the number that they came to
so there was really no specific range um so that was the entire process um we like I said we've got the two candidates just really quickly um Lisa Marie Kennedy I'll just give a little bit of background for uh the people in the audience uh she would be coming to us from Hillsboro County Clerk of Circuit
Court uh she's currently the director of official records and tax deed sales uh she comes with a very very strong background in public records um as well as a very very busy uh organization so she was also the recording secretary for the Hillsboro County Board of County
Commission or hillsb Hillsboro County Board of Commissioners there we go that was mouthful um Cassandra Kilgore is coming out of the city of Lake Mary where she's currently the deputy city clerk she has also moved up into that role where at one point she was also the deputy clerk too for the Fifth District
Court of Appeal so she has that city clerk background um as well so I just wanted to point out those few things at this point I would like you know if you all would uh just take into consideration you can discuss from the Das who and which candidate you would
like to move forward with in the process um and then who would like to be the primary point of contact for salary negotiations and then I would assist with that as we move forward great thank you I would uh like to to basically
point out that uh we had two great candidates she just gave kind of their backgrounds um both are very qualif ified um I was very pleased to see the quality of candidates um and um the
basically we can uh move forward um who wants to start we we let the guys start we'll start with commissioner minning uh I agree with with the mayor that we did
have two very well very well qualified candidates and that's always a tough job when you boil it all down and then you got to choose one so it's not an easy task um but I thought that there was a uh a reasonable differentiation between
the two of them uh and I thought that Lisa Marie Kennedy was the uh the one on top so nothing to do with uh no no disparaging remarks to the other candidate but I think she uh was the better
one commissioner dicki I'm just going to hear uh repeat what you've heard twice already and that's that uh both candidates were were excellent both were qualified I felt that uh uh regardless of which one we went with it uh we would uh we'd have a good uh city clerk uh
that we would be working with uh having said that I I considered uh back the background the level of experience familiarity with Treasure Island and uh Lisa Marie Kennedy uh came out on the top of the of the two uh choices we had
okay M Toth yes um again concur that they both were very strong candidates and thank you for making our job a little difficult here um but both of them are very um very talented ladies um I also would concur with Lisa Marie
Kennedy with her familiarity with our area and the beach environment and her background in the busy Department thank you commissioner Crable I was not at the interviews so um but from looking at the
resumés and what stood out to me was uh a little more um professionalism from Lisa Marie and I really liked what she had for when she had to stand up for an ethical issue great thank you and I am uh it's
unanimous um I I think that we have a a great candidate here and um she's in the audience so um so where do you want to go from here okay so at this point um it's completely up to you if you want to
talk a little bit about where maybe everyone stands regarding salary um and then like I said you'll appoint one person to work with me directly to work with Lisa Marie regarding um any sort of salary negotiations and moving forward
okay I I would uh I I would prefer that we appoint one of one of us to uh work with the uh work with the Jessica and the city manager to negotiate the contract including the salary in that discussion yeah I I know that you're working with
the the committee with Chuck right um I I would be more than happy to sit on that uh that committee or not committee but working with the three of us so if that's fine with everyone absolutely have all right uh so let's
let's talk a little bit about uh the celery then uh just so that we have a ballpark figure um and I I'll start off I I see it being $105,000 as a as a number that we'd like
to work with and uh but we'll we'll continue to to work forward any other thoughts yes yeah go ahead please okay I'm looking at the St Pete Beach and Madera Beach salaries that are shown here and I
think we need to come right into that ballpark great thank you I would add that our previous Seline Kidwell uh was at 90 92 92 so we're we're given a little jump um here uh if
we're going to go with 105 or in that b ballpark I would like to note that there should be a condition in there um and that condition should be that she obtains her city clerk certification okay within I don't know whatever time seems reasonable but okay we can
definitely do some research on that to see how long the process normally is and then also just to point out as well and I'm not arguing the the 105 or anything uh Seline was at 92 her predecessor was somewhere in like around like 76 so you can see that kind of escalation of a
little bit is pretty normal so okay any thoughts I we'll leave that up to and Jessica and the city manager to negotiate great so I think that uh our
decision is unanimous and we'll be working with Lisa Marie and yourself and Jen all right thank you congratulations all right she's okay we do not have anything else
tonight so this meeting is now adjourned oh my gosh