Good evening and welcome to the regular commission meeting of March 3rd, 2026. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Now, if we could please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge 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. >> City clerk, please call roll. >> Good evening. Vice Mayor Vasquez,
>> here. >> Commissioner Sison, >> here. >> Commissioner Dicki >> here. >> Mayor Doctor >> here. Thank you. >> All right. Approval of regular and workshop agendas. Do I hear anything? Okay. I would like to uh something new
that we're going to be doing is that uh when we get back to the bottom for the commissioner's comments uh that we're going to actually uh if you need to have something or would like to have something put on the agenda for the March 16th date, that would be the time
to do it right at the end of your comments. >> Okay. I do want uh the H3. We kind of just got that yesterday and I haven't had a chance to read through it. So, I was wondering if we could put that on the next March meeting. >> I would prefer not. This is the uh
resolution that uh we've read through. It passed once uh after all of our changes. All that has taken place is the changes from the last meeting. So, there there's nothing new uh no surprises.
How does everybody feel? >> I it we did get it very late. Uh, but I did have a chance to read through it and I do have questions. Uh, I I don't think it's going to be I don't think we're going to be able to pass it. >> I would agree with that. >> Okay. But but we can talk about what
those are. >> All right. So, why don't we then take uh H3? >> We No, we can leave it there and just talk about it. >> We can talk about it. We just I don't see it getting get getting approval today. >> Okay.
>> All right. You can table it or continue it. >> No, I I think we need to we need to talk about it. I don't mind talking about it. >> Yeah, we need to talk about it. >> And then you can continue until next time while we make changes. >> Okay, perfect. >> Okay, good. >> Great. Thank you.
Okay. Uh, we have proclamations, recognition, recognations, uh, certificates of appreciation, and, uh, we have a couple here. So, I would like to start out by reading a proclamation of flood awareness week.
Whereas the city of Treasure Island has experienced severe weather in the past resulting in flooding and flooding has caused damage and flood losses to homes and buildings. And whereas the reduction of loss life and property damage can be achieved when appropriate flood
preparations, control, and mitigation measures are taken to a fleet. I'm sorry, taking to a flood event. Whereas public education and awareness of potential weather hazards and methods of protection are critical to the health, safety, and welfare of residents. And
the Florida Flood Plane Managers Association has declared the week of March 9th through the 15, 2026 as flood awareness week to promote awareness and increase knowledge of flood risk and availability of flood insurance, flood protection methods and emergency
preparedness. Whereas the city of Treasure Island recognizes the vital importance of community engagement and shareholder or stakeholder preparations uh in addressing flood risk and mitigation and does formally commend and acknowledge Clyde Smith and Brian Ford
for their outstanding dedication and service through the voluntary contribution of their time and knowledge as city stakeholders on the flood risk and mitigation public working group since 2019. They have played a meaningful role in advancing public education and
increasing community awareness through countywide public outreach initiatives. Now therefore, I, John Doctor, mayor of the city of Treasure Island, on behalf of the city commission, uh that the week of March 9th through the 15th, 2026 is hereby proclaimed
flood awareness week in the city of Treasure Island, and the citizens of Treasure Island are encouraged to increase their knowledge of how to protect themselves and their property from flooding. Be it further proclaimed that city of Treasure Island expresses its sincere appreciation to Clyde Smith
and Brian Ford for their commitment, civic leadership, and volunteer service in support of the city's risk and mitigation efforts. In witness thereof, I have here unto set my hand and cause the official seal of the city of
Treasure Island to be affixed uh this third day of March, 2026. Could we please have uh both of the gentlemen Clyde Smith and Brian Ford step forward? [applause] Yeah. So, we got flags behind us.
>> Obviously, I'm not Jason. [applause] All right, we have a second item tonight. This is for the run for the beaches check presentation. Could we please have uh Carrie step forward and
They're all here. [laughter] >> Sit down. >> See, I can't forget Carol's name. That's my wife's name, so I can't Yeah, >> that's right. Don't forget us. Carols will cause trouble. [laughter] Okay. Can Do I talk in here? Can you hear me? [clears throat] >> Okay. Well, we are going to present you
with a a check this evening. But before um we do that, I'd just like to say a few things. And that is Hello. Good evening, commissioners, mayor, uh, commissioners, mayor, and city staff. Um, I'm Carol Brady. I'm the race director for Run for the Beaches. And
tonight with me, I have Carrie Arbach, Sarah Busaka, who are um, my fellow 2025 Run for the Beaches board members. Tonight, we're proud to present the city of Treasure Island with a donation of $16,000
from the proceeds of the fifth annual Run for the Beaches. Hold on. A little technical thing here. Okay. Um before we start though, I'd like to just give you a bit of history because while I know most of you have heard about Run
for the Beaches, I know only a few, Commissioner Vasquez and Mayor Doctor and some of the city staff have actually been there and experienced this really incredible community event. Five years ago, it started out as a simple um idea
to raise funds for the Isa Capri Civic Association um for community improvement projects and to support the city of um Treasure Island's environmental initiatives. In 2021, Clyde Smith from the Billmar
helped us get started. We welcomed 152 runners that year and most of them are really the majority of them were from Treasure Island. My friend was the DJ. He volunteered and Sloppy Joe's provided some small bites. We had a few raffle items and that was it. It was simple,
but the community loved it. In 2022 and 23, the Thunderbird became our host venue. And they truly elevated this event with a live band, um, catered food and mimosas. Great Bay donated beer and
selzers. Kerry brought in the news stations and Treasure Island became a spot the spotlight on the nightly news. Um participants grew to nearly 400 um runners in 2023. Mayor [clears throat] Doctor and Kathleen
Peters respectively served as our race um starters. In 2024, we had to cancel, but um Lindy Cheney was going to be our race starter that year. So, we do have some important people at our run um that
you may not didn't know. Um but uh that's when really the run for the beaches became um earning its reputation for one of the best beaches beach runs in the area and beyond. We got a lot of compliments from our participants.
This past year um with the Thunderbird unable to host our event, we faced a real challenge, but Carrie and Sarah worked tirelessly to put this help me put this together. strong city support to support to help
offset some of our key cost. And 24 island uh Treasure Island businesses um sponsored our events and three businesses from off the island. And I think I can't emphasize that enough that
these sponsors, our community stepped up um and they delivered and they made this our most successful event yet. Carrie and Sarah meticulously ushered 27 um vendors into Golf Front Park starting
at 7 am on December 12th six 12th this year. Yeah. [laughter] Um and it was really it was really quite a spectacle because the fog was so thick. It was so thick you couldn't even
see the timing station from here. We had to have people directing people to the timing station and Tommy and um the city workers were incredible, but they ushered them in. And if you didn't know this, we had eight of our vendors, Sloppy Joe's. Uh thank you, Clyde again.
Um we had eight of our Treasure Island um restaurants u participate participate in a taste of Treasure Island. Mayor Doctor was there, Tammy was there. Um, and they actually provided the small bites for our vendors. Um, I'm sorry,
for our participants. Um, we had they assured, like I said, 27 vendors into um, Gulf Front Park, got them set up, and Barb Higgins, who's not with us this evening, coordinated almost close to 40 volunteers to their spots. That's how
big this has become. [clears throat] So, um, we welcomed over 500 registrants. Those runners and walkers came not only from our five surrounding counties, but as far away as San Francisco and New York and many places in between. On race
morning, geo tracking showed um nearly 1,000 people entering Gfront Park that morning about 8:00 I think um is what I was told. They were participants, volunteers, families, and friends that came to um cheer on the part their their
participants. Over five years, we built something more important than growth. We've built loyalty. Loyalty from participants who returned year after year and loyalty from the Treasure Island businesses that believe investing in community events like this. Without
their support and without the extraordinary dedication of Carrie and Sarah, this success would not have been possible. Um, through the proceed uh through the proceeds of this event and past events, we've supported five environmentally
focused nonprofits, all local seaside seabour Sanctuary, Birds and Helping Hands, Friends of the Pelicans, Treasure Island, Adopt the Beach, and Jane Goodall's Roots and Shoots. each plays an important role in protecting our and preserving our beaches. Funds have
already been um distributed to um I'm sorry uh funds have al also supported sea oat planting projects on Treasure Island. Uh um that's what we do with the proceeds from this from the run. The Isaac Capri beautifification and
improvement project and water refill station at Gulfront Park. In the past nine months, that station has logged in approximately 25,000 >> over 30,000 um refills, bottle refills. Because of that level of
use, we will be upgrading it to a more industrial model, relocating the current station to Sunset Beach Pavilion. Um a clear sign that our community and visitors embrace sustainability. Proceeds from the 2025 um run for the
beaches have already been distributed to our nonprofit partners. And tonight we proudly present the $16,000 to the city of Treasure Island with approximately 10,000 already earmarked for an environmentally themed mural to beautify the trash bin enclosure at Gulfront Park
and of course the new um water refill station. Run for the beaches reflects what is possible when the city supports commu community efforts with local businesses when local businesses step up and when residents care about where they
live. Thank you for five years of partnership and support. And we great we are grateful and look forward to the next five years with the continued support of the city making it possible. Thank you. [applause] >> Thank you very much.
We get a Let's get a picture with the the three of them. [clears throat] Thank you very [applause] All right, our third presentation tonight is we have a check presentation from PGCS for the Treasure Island Fire
Department safety equipment. >> Hi, good evening. Jessica Zora, human resources director and risk manager. And I am happy to be here with Chief Trip Bars and with someone you may remember, Lauren Quinto, uh who was our HR generalist and has moved on to be with
our insurance company and she's one of our reps. Um but uh this check is actually through um Preferred Governmental Insurance Trust and it's through what's called the TIPS program. And this is something we've actually been participating in for a number of years now, but we've never actually presented it and shown you kind of some
of those benefits that we get through our insurance company. And one of those um is money towards safety equipment and training each year. So if we spend up to $10,000, they'll reimburse up to $5,000. And so it's a huge benefit and we have
been able to get some really really great um services and products uh to continue to promote safety within the city. And I'm going to let Chief Bars uh explain to you what we received this year. >> Thank you. >> So I'll take it a little bit back. Um
we're building a new public safety facility. We hope we'll know by the end of tonight. I guess uh not to get ahead of the horse, but putting the card out here. Um, part of that facility requires some of the gear washing equipment that protects us from cancer, occupational cancer. This piece of equipment in
particular was about $46,500. >> Wow. >> Um, we applied for and were awarded a grant from the state fire marshal, division of state fire marshall um for about $37,000. We received that last month. So, leaving
a balance of right around $10,000. Um Jessica and Ashley and our HR department said, "Hey, that meets the threshold. Let's apply." They did. Um bringing us another $5,000 tonight. So, um what you will not see going forward
in the budget for the new public safety facility is a uh almost $47,000 piece of gear wash equipment. Um you'll be paying about $4,500 for that rather than 47,000. So, thanks to these grants.
Thank you for all you do. Let's uh grab a picture. >> Absolutely. [applause] [cheering] [applause] >> Come up. All right. >> Perfect.
[applause] >> Thank you for everything. >> [laughter] >> Oh, I'm sorry. >> You're fine. >> And then you [clears throat] had the uh >> you've had somewhere else. >> No, no, no. Are we going to
>> Yes. >> Um, yeah. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Yes. >> Just wanted to make sure >> that you could do that later. I'll do it um before we do the consent agenda. >> Okay, great. All right, we now have p public comments for the non-aggenda
items. >> And our first is Dan Bass. >> First time here, been on the island for 33 years. My name is Dan Bass. Um I'm just Can you talk into the microphone? Just curious. >> Um
>> if you like, we have to put >> No, that's fine. I'm curious about the building codes that are coming up. FEMA FEMA says we're a Vzone. We're all We all are familiar with FEMA and pilings are supposed to be put in for all buildings, but there's some buildings
being built on our island that don't have pilings, houses, and I'm just curious and how this is happening. And that's I just want to bring it to somebody's attention and maybe the people here. How does that happen? It depends on whether or not you're building a coastal lake. There's
different building requirements and there's certain setbacks where that's a requirement, >> but we're all in a coastal we're 600 feet across. I mean from inter coastal to on sunset beach
two two feet above sand or two feet above water. So I don't know how that works. So, I just want to make that a point and put it out there so people do know that you can build without pilings. It saves a lot of money. It's not I don't understand. I've
been here 30 years. I've never heard of it. And I don't know when the laws came across or when they changed it and nobody nobody's put out letters or anything for the code. >> That's it. >> Great. Thank you. Thank you. Have a great day. >> Susan Farley.
>> [clears throat] >> Susan Farley. I live in 7532 Beayshore Drive, Treasure Island, um, Land's End. And I offer my thoughts about the walkway around Land's End as a full-time resident, having walked that pathway since 2005.
Um, I loved the boardwalk and was sad to see it completely annihilated by Hurricane Helen's storm surge and buried under four and a half feet of sand. Yet, it was foreseeable because the boardwalk has been partially destroyed multiple times over the past 10 years by lesser
storms and that caused it to be shut down on the southern end for a while in order to be rebuilt. It failed to meet any resiliency standards. And despite my love of the boardwalk, and while living adjacent to the Gulf side of it, I observed it being perpetually abused,
not daily, but hourly. The city's prohibition against use after dark, bicycles, skateboards, dogs, and a host of other non-pedestrian activities were routinely ignored. Countless times while walking on it myself, I was trapped between the railings, um, 4 foot
railings on each side when a bicyclist or an aggressive dog was coming in my other direction, and I had nowhere to move to. I watched a friend walking the boardwalk, waving to me as she stepped off and broke her ankle. Step offs and
trips um, happened multiple times every year with injuries. It was uneven despite constant maintenance and visually scarred the landscape. In my opinion, when it was destroyed, boards and nails raged in that surge, [clears throat] and the scattered debris
was incredibly dangerous, I don't know if it would ever have been approved by today's standards, but the newly built um pathway, in my opinion, is so much better. It's more natural looking. It's ecologically sounder. There's no debris if it gets
washed away. It's more resilient. It's a whole lot safer. It's smoother. It's wider. And I'm pleased to report it is not being abused as much as it used to be. And I can get out of the way now if it is being abused.
Um the city designed wooden walkways to go over the dunes and and many of those in our area were destroyed, too. And they've been replaced by a sand pathway. And I think they look so much nicer. They look like a nice beach should look.
And I love what the city's done with the posts, the heavy posts and the roping, the nautical roping. I thank you for moving away from those wooden scarring structures. Um, importantly, I'd like to correct a few statements um set forth by a citizen speaker who appeared, I guess,
at the last meeting. Um, he disa disfavored the sand pathway, but I think the facts need to be clarified. First, he called it a golf cart pathway without a golf cart. Well, I've never seen a golf cart on it other than the lands and patrol, which we are obligated to do in
conjunction with the city to control it, and we continue to do it. Secondly, he said there's a 1.5 million grant to Land's End. That would be nice, but that's not the case. There has been a generous state grant of $511,713
to fund the installation of a rigid true grid stabilizing system that will go underneath the sand. It's it's truly ingenious the system and it will make it ADA compliant which by the way the boardwalk never was.
This system if it is washed away doesn't first of all it doesn't have to be lifted up anymore. is safe and it will create a stabilization similar to but not the same as cement but it's sand and it'll be hidden. I suggest if you
haven't seen it walk land's end and walk one of the arteries to the buildings. They've installed a few of them as a as an experiment. It's really quite amazing. That grant is supposed to fund that ADA system. He said there's no railings and that is true for now but that's because it's
still a work in process. We can't put anything up, I guess, until the whole process is finished. There's going to be something, I'm told. It's probably going to be similar to what the city did, which I think personally is beautiful. He also said there's no city oversight. Um, I just have to for the record state
that people have worked really hard on this over the years. There's been so much cooperation and partnership to get to this point because it is a public destination. It is a public pedestrian easement and it's very well known.
We had support not only from the state including state senator Nick Digglia and House member Linda Cheney who both carried legislation to get that grant but then the governor's budget approved it and now Florida DOT is overseeing the
contract once it's to be built. Prior to all of that happening, the project was studied by the county board of commissioners, Kathleen Peters, the chair leading the way, and the city of Treasure Island even produced a letter in support of it. So, Lanzen tried to
engage everybody they could to get support. >> Okay, you'll need to wrap it up, please. >> Okay. I just wanted to say with all the losses that happened, I think that this was a great way to make lemonades out of lemons. Thank you. >> Thank you, Susan.
Mark Hoey. >> Uh, good evening. My name is Mark Hoey, 225 104th Avenue, District 3, and Arthur Sison does not share my values. I wanted to just have a quick uh public service
announcement that the Penllis County uh supervisor of elections has set the date for the recall election for district 3 as April 21st, Tuesday, April 21st. So it is a strict up and down vote. It's
not a multiple slate of candidates. It's strictly yes or no to retain the current commissioner. So, I would encourage all the district three eligible voters to be prepared and come out on that date for this special election. And I'd also ask
uh the city manager to ensure that that date is on the city calendar. It is an official event uh as a special election and please have that in place. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mark. Diana CrarAel.
Good evening, mayor and commissioners and staff. I'm here this evening. First of all, let me see. Diana Craraval, District 2. I'm not here as a as much as a resident as I am the president of the ILATS. I want to give recognition to
three people that were instrumental in securing us a TV for our bingo on Thursday nights. That was Kathy Hayduke, Mike Baker, and Bobby Sha Lee. These um staffers,
I don't know the whole story, but Walmart came to the city or somebody found out that Walmart was able to do something and we were in need of another 75 in TV for our electronic bingo. And those individuals made that possible for
us. And we got that, I believe, a week ago, Monday. and stuff. So, that was really good. That was a good news item for the ILTes. And then I I have to sell the ILTs. The ILETs have been on this
island for decades. We are struggling like everybody else. So, please [clears throat] come to our bingo. It's Thursday nights at 6:30. $10 gets you in the door. But what I'm most proud of is that I went out to the
fire and police department and asked for a wish list and I went out for that maybe three weeks ago. I got that approved by the board and the general membership and last week each we didn't go we went through their association so
they would be able to get the money much faster and things to get their needs. So, we gave a little over $2,300 to each one of the associations for their uh need list. So, I just wanted to get out
here. You know, the ILTes are a strong part of this island. We're shrinking. We need help um in membership and participation. Thank you. >> Thank you for all you do. Diana, [applause] >> Mary Ellen,
Hi, I'm Mary Ellen Huer. I live at 2408th Avenue. Come to talk about ebikes. Sent a letter to city manager Vanzant in October about ebikes. Nothing has happened. Where are they
supposed to where are they supposed to be? On the sidewalk, in the [clears throat] bike, or are they supposed to be on the road? It's dangerous when the restaurants have their people who work there leave. Many
of them are on ebikes. They're all over the place. It's a dangerous situation. And I would appreciate some guidance for this. Someone had said the state's going to
take care of it. Well, the state's almost halfway through their session now and nothing is on any agenda. >> That's all I have. >> Thank you, Mary Ellen. >> The Florida Senate unanimously
approved the bill and it's in the House right now. >> Great. Thank you for that. All right, that uh ends our public comment and um >> All right, before we um do approval of
the consent agenda, um the first item on the consent agenda I just wanted to uh bring up because it's actually our fire department. Um it is they are donating their old breathing apparatuses.
um they receive new ones and Trip I'm going to count on you if I say something wrong to [laughter] to correct it but Penllis Park High School has a first responders magnet program and so if you want to I don't know if you want to say anything about it but I just I wanted to
point that out and not just approve it in the consent agenda. Um you know it's nice to have good things you know uh to to be able to share. So >> yeah, thank you. Thank you, [clears throat] Vice Mayor, and I appreciate you bringing that up. Uh we've been blessed to be well taken care
of by our city and our commission. And uh we get about uh 10 to 12 years of life out of the breathing apparatus we use um until the new technology uh the old stuff is no longer supported and we get the new technology, which we just did um through the generous, you know,
approval of of our budget. Um the old ones were not worth much, about $200 a piece. So, we were contacted by Penel County School Board, who's been a great partner with us. They've uh loaned us the building that we're using for fire administration. It's a former uh
temporary school building. Um, so we saw an opportunity to give back and it benefits us again in the respect that we can get in the high school and help this magnet program that's teaching youngsters what it means to be a firefighter, giving them a taste of the
job and hopefully providing uh that that insight that will lead them down a path that would put them in our careers. So, it's a win-winwin. Thank you. >> Perfect. Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Chief. All right, moving on to consent agenda.
>> Yep. >> I move that we approve consent agenda as presented. Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion? >> Do you have a question about G2? I just want to know uh how much we made
how much we received last year and was it competitively bid out? Did do you have >> I don't have that with me. You have that Kathy? >> Yep. So, basically last year, unfortunately, paddle was only allowed
to have their machines at the golf park because the beach pavilion was under repair and fenced off. So, Golf Golf Front Park is not one of the best most feasible locations and that's why they're looking to not do that area and
just continue at the beach pavilion and then wanted to do the Treasure Bay location. And at Treasure Bay, they would offer not only rentals, but they would offer storage and they'll do paddle lessons and events and beach cleanups. So it was not competitively
bid at this time, but years ago they had come to the city and just requested it. Nobody else had requested that. Our non-exclusive license people on the beach are concessioners all have kayaks as well and paddles. So it's kind of not a necessarily a sole source and the
non-exclusive license agreement doesn't stop anybody else from coming in desiring to do an event like that. So this is just a renewal of a contract that was already in place. >> Thank you. And if I recall, it's a non-exclusive. >> That is correct. So basically,
[clears throat] anybody can request and if we were to obviously we wouldn't have two of those stations, different people at one location, but we could look at other locations if somebody else was to come. It's very similar to our four beach concessioners we have. Okay.
>> Thank you, Kathy. All right. We have a a motion and a second. Uh any other further discussion? Okay. Hearing none, uh voice uh vote, please. All in favor say I.
>> I. >> All right. Moving on to items of business. This is going to be a quasi judicial proceeding. Uh with that, um Agenda item H1, case number V0000595,
2026. Approval of one variance. Approval of one variance to section 68-458 to allow a 6-foot open fence along 87 linear feet of the required waterfront yard setback to permit a safe enclosure
of an existing inground swimming pool abudding a public beach. Since this is quasi judicial, we would ask to swear anyone who's going to be speaking this evening and then ask the city commissioners to disclose any exparte communications that they may have had
with either the applicant, their representatives or the public. And they can also disclose if they have visited the site personally if you would like. >> The site is in my district so I have
visited uh more than one occasion. uh but have had not had uh any discussions on this particular topic. >> I was at the site but had no discussion. >> Same. >> No. [clears throat]
>> If the clerk, would you like to swear the witnesses? If anyone is going to speak on this item, please rise. >> Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? Thank you. You may be seated.
>> Thank you. You can proceed. Uh good afternoon. Um my name is Braden Evans. I'm the principal planner with the community development department. Uh nice to meet you all, commission. Uh I'm presenting today case VR-0000595-2026. Uh, this is a variance request seeking
approval of a variance to section 68-458 to allow a 6-oot open fence along 87 linear feet of a required waterfront yard uh to permit the safe enclosure of an ingground swimming pool. The standard currently for the waterfront yard for a
fence of 6 feet is 4 feet I'm sorry, the standard uh for fence height is four feet. Uh what's being proposed is six feet. That's a twoft variance. Uh we have some pro pictures of the subject property here both from a front and rear angle. On that bottom right
photo you can see the subject's swimming pool in discussion. The property is uh was is lo is located in the RFH50 zoning district and contains 103 units. The applicable
waterfront setback is 5 ft as abuing a public beach and the existing swimming pool that you see in that bottom corner is located 6 feet from that adjacent waterfront property line. Also to the south, the property abuts at public beach access.
Following beach reourishment in 2025, the resulting elevation on the inside of the seaw wall, I'm sorry, the outside of the seaw wall was elevated above the previously existing um elevation. In regards to the land development
regulations, this variance is in response to section 68-458, which states, "In all cases, fence height is measured from the lowest of the two adjacent grades based on natural or finished grade, and all fences within a waterfront yard shall not exceed a
3-ft solid or 4ft open fence. An open fence defined by a fence with openings not less than 3 and 12 in, so that a 4-in diameter sphere can fit through those openings. And the reason for this request coming in before you the commission today is in response to
section 70-221 which um grants authority to variances to the waterfront setback abuing a public beach uh to this commission. Here we have some photos of the subject property uh from 2024 prior to the most
recent beach reourishment project. We have another angle here. Um, I'll point out the adjacent sand with the structures located there. Uh, this is a photo uh roughly currently in 2026 and you can see that elevated grade change
um to the south of or to the seawward side of the retaining wall. This is a photo uh taken of the site in its current condition. The inside of the seaw wall is approximately 32 in below the top of the
seaw wall uh compared to the outside elevation which you can see there with the sand. We also can see here the public access walkway uh which is uh partial reason for the uh this request coming before you. The applicant has stated that uh safety is an utmost concern to the
property owner and the management of the of the parcel. Um, a number of instances have occurred where people were able to easily access the pool, uh, who were accessing the beach from this walkway. We have another angle here. Um, and just for visualization, a 6ft fence including
that 32 in um, deviation in elevation would provide 40 in above the seaw wall, which would approximately uh, look about this way with an open fence. that pillar all the way to the left that you're looking at is 42 in above the seaw wall.
In regards to the variance review criteria, uh staff has analyzed um all eight variance review, identified hardship um and is uh this request meets all eight variance criteria. I can go through them if you'd like beyond the staff report, but if that's all, then
I'm available for any questions. Um and staff recommends approval of this request. I appreciate it. You've done a good job of uh putting this together. I don't know who did all the angles and everything, but uh it's well done. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor.
>> I I thought uh the presentation was excellent, too. I mean, the what you were able to do with the pictures and the graphics there was very helpful. Uh I just have two questions. There was a couple of references in your presentation and also in in the formal presentation about about this being an
issue after the beach reourishment. Uh and and I don't think that was it was the problem began after the hurricane brought all that sand up to up to the old fence and it made it very easy for somebody to step over that old fence. So
it really to my knowledge had nothing to do with the beach nourishment. Do you know anything about that? >> I'll be honest, I don't. Um I'm fairly new to coastal communities as far as that's concerned. Uh so I was kind of
basing this off of what the applicant provided me. Um it was stated that these were results from the beach nourishment process. >> Um I [clears throat] yeah I anyway that's not a big issue uh because the beach nourishment was quite a distance from from that area. But anyway, that's
that's not a big issue. The other question I had, and again it's just a minor point, uh on on uh a couple of places here, uh you've referred to a 6-foot uh fence, correct? >> And in the paperwork that the property
owner submitted on page 99 of our agenda, uh the property owner says that they we are requesting to erect a 5- foot high fence in order to secure the pool area. So they're asking for a 5ft but in the in their proposal but we're
asking for a 6 foot here. Can you help me understand the difference there? >> Yeah, absolutely. Um I I would refer to the applicant in that case. Previous uh permits were submitted to permitting which prompted this application to be needed for submitt uh and that was for a sixoot fence. Our conversations also
revolved around a sixoot fence. Um that could perhaps have been a typo on the application. But again, if the applicants in the audience and would like to speak on behalf of that, I to encourage. >> Oh yes, please come up to the microphone. >> Yes. I I would like to address both both
points. Go up to the uh De >> Sorry. My name is John Okant. I'm the manager at Island In. Thank you for this opportunity to address the two points that uh that were mentioned. Uh the first one about the uh level of sand
being due to the sand renourishment project. It's not uh it's not because of that. It was because of the hurricans washing um the sea the sea um dunes right up to the property, >> right? >> Um but even before that, we had the problem, you know, for all the years
that that I've been involved with the property that people would climb into the pool area at nighttime. So, um, we we got away before because it was like a a high sea wall and then a a little bit of a a small small fence, but [clears throat] you know, even even
with that, it didn't it didn't um safeguard the pool properly. So, I think it it just became, you know, more more of a problem with the the level of the beach being lifted. The second point about the level of a height of a the fence, we we would prefer a six ft um um
railing type fence, you know, to make it difficult as possible for people to get into the pool area. But at the time that we had meetings with the uh permit office staff, um we were told that it's um you know, it's going to need a variance and we actually at that point
said that if it needs to be a lower fence like 5t, then we would also um accept that. So I I I would just put it on the record that the the request is for as a six feet. Um but if we for some reason have to um accept a lower lower
fence um we'll we'll accept that. We'll accept anything that we can get at this point just to safeguard that. >> Okay. Thank you for that answer. Those are the only questions I have. >> Couple questions here. Uh so uh do we
have uh the six feet fence? Is that is that what's in the recommendation to staff? >> That is correct. >> Okay. So, it is 6 feet >> 6oot open fence. >> Yes. >> Okay. I just want to make sure that it's that we're talking about, you know, what
did the staff recommend and they recommended six feet and Okay. If I could ask the city attorney when reading the motion, just because that whether that's a typo or whatever, do you want me to clarify that it is for the six-foot? Just to be clear.
>> Yes. If you make a motion to approve or deny, please say to allow or deny a six-foot open fence. >> Okay. Okay. >> Thank you. >> This fence is only where the pool area is. >> It's not the entire length of the
property. All right. >> I see this as a public safety issue. >> I think six foot is appropriate. >> Okay. >> I agree. >> I agree as well. So, >> all right. [clears throat] >> Do we uh take a official vote?
>> Let me see if there's any public comment and then you can make a motion and vote. >> Okay. Is there any public comment? >> Podium. [cough and laughter] Scott McKenna 235 126th A uh Treasure Island Capri. Does that set precedence
that every beach property can get a sixoot fence? >> No. Varianc is considered on its own merits. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Any more public comments? Okay. We'll close public comments. Any additional discussion? Okay. Roll call,
please. >> Motion first. >> Oh. Um, I move the city commission has determined that an unnecessary hardship does exist and ex uh pursuant to sections 70-221
of the Treasure Island Code of Ordinance and moves to approve a 6-foot open fence along the pool property line. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second.
Roll call, please. Vice Mayor, Vice [clears throat] Mayor Vazquez, >> yes. >> Commissioner Zison, >> yes. >> Commissioner Dicki, >> yes. >> Mayor Doctor, >> yes. >> Thank you. >> All right, moving on. H2, first reading of public hearing ordinance 2026-07.
An ordinance of the city of Treasure Island, Florida, amending the fiscal year 2026 general fund budget to recognize additional expenses of $536,000 for expense of causeway mechanical repairs providing for severability,
conflict, and an effective date. I move to approve ordinance number 2026-07 at the first public hearing and to schedule it for the second reading at the April 7th regular commissioners board meeting. >> Second.
>> We have a motion and a second. Uh any discussion up here? >> I I have a a couple just again one or two questions. One is uh this is an unbudgeted item. That's correct. We had some money left in the budget. Uh the
536,000's the delta we need to complete the repairs recommended uh by public works. >> Okay. Uh so and we get this money from the a reserve fund that's been set aside for >> Yes. So as you're well aware 3.8 is your
3.81 something is your mill levy for city taxes. 0.5 of those mills are set aside strictly for that causeway bridge maintenance. And um so after we expend this 536, if the commission votes to do so, that'll
leave us about 1.7 million for other repairs that might creep up in that set aside fund. >> Okay, that was that was going to be my second question. So, thank you. >> I have a couple questions. Uh this is obviously an unexpected uh m maintenance
issue. How often are we anticipating this type of expenditure? >> Um the original analysis from public works was putting this about a year out from now. Um but the last time they got in there and replaced eight of the
cylinders. They Mr. Volneck's recommendation was to go ahead and do the other eight uh and that oil water separator device. Um, so that's my recommendation to the commission. >> Good evening. Gary Vanick, public works
director. Um, the the cylinders in question, I believe, are the original c the cylinders that raise and lower the br the bridge decking. There are 16 of them, eight of them are replaced at a time. The other eight, it's redundant and we can still operate the bridge.
We're in the final steps of that process. So it as as city manager mentioned, we were scheduled to do that in another year or so, but we noticed that there was some leakage of hydraulic fluid. We accelerated that program by a year. All the the bridge is is inspected
on a yearly basis by DOT and by us. We have a very strict uh repair and replacement schedule that we follow. So, it's it it's it's a very public safety first and foremost with a bridge structure and and and also it keeps the
cost down when we when we stay on top of maintenance and let things not let things get out of control. So, um we will we should not have to do this another 15 or 20 years. >> So, what's the plan for future reserves? So,
I'm actively uh pursuing ways to not own a bridge anymore. I I I can't, you know, if you as a city resident or a city commission want to propose a larger mill levy dedicated to the bridge, um then
that can certainly be a discussion. I'm not proposing that uh or anything of that sort at this time. You've got 1.7 million left for future uh issues. Um and you got the reoccurring.5
mil every year to deal with it until the commission decides to change its taxing rate >> or to give it away. [laughter] >> Sell it. >> If we could put it on eBay and let it go. >> I don't I don't know.
That's good to hear that you're looking at possibly uh passing that on to somebody else. >> I always look for ways to not spend the city advalor taxpayers money first. >> Very very good. And just for since you
brought that up, just for general public who may not know, we are if I am correct still only one of two municipalities in the state of Florida that actually owns their bridge. >> That is my understanding. >> And that's not a good thing. [laughter]
So just for people who may not know, I just kind of wanted to point that out. I've heard uh from several folks some very creative ideas and I think that uh what we need to do is uh when we meet
with our and and select a master planner uh we can share those ideas. >> Fair enough. >> Okay. Do we have any public comment hearing? None. We'll close public comment. >> We have a motion.
>> We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call, please. >> Vice Mayor Vasquez, >> I. >> Commissioner Dicki, >> I. >> Commissioner Sison, >> I. >> Mayor Doctor, >> I. Moving on to H3, resolution 2026,
city commission rules of procedure. A resolution of the city of Treasure Island, Florida, adopting amended city commission rules of procedure, providing for conflicts, providing for severability, and providing for an effective date. >> All right. Um,
>> these are the uh rules that we considered at the last workshop. um they've been distributed uh based on the discussions and changes with some proposed language um that uh we tried to put together based on your last discussion. Um so we're open to more
discussion and if you'd like to make additional changes or have concerns um we can address those and and bring them bring this back again at the next meeting if you'd like. >> Okay. So let let's have a little bit of discussion up here on uh some of the
issues that you want to point out and um and then maybe we can table it till uh the next meeting. >> Okay. Okay. Maybe when you talk about them if you reference the page number of where you're looking and then it'll be easy for me to track and make pencil marks.
>> Absolutely. >> Pencil notes I should say. I'll start out on pageuh 17 of the of the rules of procedure or page 127 of the agenda packet, whichever way you want to look at it. >> I like for the rules of procedure pages.
>> It's page printed separate. >> All right. Page 17. >> Okay. >> Section 14. uh that whole item where it says uh no member of the city commission without a vote by the majority of the vote of the quorum present at the workshop special or regular meeting shall direct request
or require the city attorney to undertake any legal research prepare any written or oral opinion draft documents or perform any other legal services except pursuant to direction authorized by consensus of the majority of the city commission. The city attorney shall take
direction only from the city commission acting as a body and not from any individual commissioner. Uh I have a pretty serious concern with that because I've I and I'm sure some of the others have quite frequently used our city attorney to uh give us guidance to help
us out when we were considering uh different things. Sometimes, you know, long before I'm ready to present something to the commission and to the public, I want to know, you know, what my what the city's legal obligations, what mine are as a city commissioner. And seeking out the city attorney and
and being able to ask to research a particular subject uh has been helpful. Uh so I I don't like uh in fact, it would have been in some cases awkward to to bring this sub a particular subject
up here. uh when after I learned about it, it it turned out to be a non-issue. It was something we couldn't do anything about anyway, so it never had to had to uh be discussed here. So I don't I can understand us not uh not wanting to
undergo extensive legal research or uh you know written written legal opinions but for for e you know everyday type of questions I I I don't uh this section doesn't doesn't sit well with me. >> We can take it out if you'd like. What
we've experienced is we've asked our commissioners sometimes ask us to issue contrary opinions, find ways to find contrary things. And if that comes up, we'll let you know as as you call that. Uh, you know, we can't go further than a certain distance with your questions.
So, I think we can deal with this without having section 14. If you'd like, you just take that out. >> I would agree with that. >> I agree. Have no issue. >> We'll delete that for the next round. >> All right. And then one of the only other thing that jumped out at me that I
was concerned about was let me was on page uh 13 and it is uh section 8.1 under public comments. Uh there's uh in the old language it said each person is limited
to speak once on each agenda item. uh the new version scratched out on each agenda item which would suggest that we're saying one each person is limited to speak once at a commission meeting as opposed to once on each agenda item. So
I >> we could put that back in the intent was to allow one for every agenda item. >> Okay. Thank you. Those were the my two concerns. I also agree. >> Yeah. I too. >> Yeah. Good catch, Ardan. >> Okay. [laughter]
Th those were the uh only things that jumped out at me. But but uh if we can make those and and maybe get the next version out a little bit uh earlier, uh I think we'll all have time to look through it one more time. But it is
shaping up uh to be a a better document than what we've had in the past. >> Okay. >> Commissioner Saddan, do you have any additional issues? >> I didn't get a chance to read it because it came out late last night. >> Okay. All right. >> All right. I um
let me just it's kind of page five and six. Um these are things that I addressed uh the last time we looked at this. Um and I did have an opportunity to discuss it. So I just kind of with um the city manager and attorney and they
had some good ideas on it as well. Um, I had mentioned my concern about the ability to put uh meetings on the agenda and >> items items on the agenda. >> I'm sorry. >> I think you uh said put meetings on the
agenda. It would be putting items on an a on a meeting agenda. >> Items on a meeting agenda. >> And sorry. [laughter] >> Okay. And it's still to me when I read it,
it just it's very limiting. um it really kind of ties the hands if we're working on something with a particular staff member and you know it could be this week and it could be Friday that you
know okay I think this is ready to go on the agenda but now I have to wait till the next meeting to be able to say it in public and I have that I want this to put on the agenda and and two other commissioners
have to agree with me before it can be put on the agenda. My my biggest concern on that is on 99% of the things it wouldn't be that big of a deal, but if it's a a tough subject item that's going
on there, my fear is that it may be denied to be put on the agenda even though it needs to be discussed. even if it fails. Um, you know, our job, I feel, is to put things on the agenda so that they can be discussed in the
sunshine. And I mean, how many times um, and I can definitely speak between Commissioner Dicki and I that we've changed each other's minds on different things just in discussion in the meeting. Um, so my fear is that things will not be allowed to go on the agenda
that just need to be discussed in sunshine and then they can either be tabled or shot up, shot down, whichever. So that is a ve that's a big change to me that we have to in an actual meeting submit our request to put things on an
agenda two weeks ahead of time whether it's for a workshop or whether it's for um the main meeting um that I just I could [snorts] foresee that becoming an issue um down the line. So,
um, you know, do we limit how many items so that none of us go crazy and put, you know, a bunch of different items on there? We could. Um, do I think that's a big issue? Not really. Um,
again, I just I think it's tying the hands of the commission a little bit and and I shared my my worries. Um, because it's it's another thing that's put into our meeting that we now have to discuss
and have to plea our case to even get it on the agenda to plead our case. So, it it doesn't it doesn't quite make sense to me. It's like we're going to have to, for lack of a better word to use, it's like we have to sell it twice. We have
to sell it to a fellow commissioners to get it on the agenda and then we have to sell it for l again lack of a better word again um if it gets put on the agenda. So I just I don't particularly
care for any of that. I kind of don't see where we've been going wrong with the way we've been doing it. Um, >> which number was that? >> Uh, it is page six
and it is >> 4.5 and 4.6. >> 4.5 and 4.6. Yes. >> I mean, technically you could start at 4.4 on page. >> Well, yeah, it's actually the first page um 4.1 and 4.4. four is what you're talking about. >> Y
>> I mean I I had a item that I was going to place on agenda with backup information far be on before the Thursday cutoff and I got blocked by the city manager uh over and over again. I mean I remember uh
Commissioner Clark had this issue with uh Chuck Anderson. you know, it was hard for him to put an agenda item on the agenda. And then Chuck Anderson literally apologized in the commission meeting for blocking Commissioner Clark
of putting items on the agenda. Item uh putting items uh of on the agenda and it was one of the [clears throat] reasons why obviously we voted to fire him. Uh, so
I'm literally going back and forth with Charles and Lisa and literally I was pushed into commissioner comments for one of my items which I have this massive amount of information to
share that would take 15 20 minutes and I'm not going to do it on the commissioner comments but yet Charles keeps blocking me. So that's a huge frustration for me. Any comment, Charles? >> Let's deal with the item at hand if
y'all are good with that and then I'll address your item in my city manager comments. >> Sounds like a plan. So, did I mean am I the only one that sees the potential of it being a a train wreck? If it was a train wreck, I agree
uh with your comments and with your uh where you're trying to steer us at this point in time regarding this subject. So, I do like I would like to have more flexibility with getting things on the agenda without going through a formal process where we have to preapprove, you
know, by by getting a consensus uh of that. I don't think that's a good system. And now having said that, uh what I was hoping we could avoid was the last minute uh adding items on the agenda at the last minute, like when we
sat here and and the mayor asked, "Is everybody okay with the agenda?" And somebody would say, "Uh, I'd like to add this on today's agenda, tonight's agenda." That that didn't give the public any time to review whatever it was, and it didn't give the commissioners any time. So, I didn't like any of that last minute stuff, but
if we can get things out early enough where they are uh visible on the on the draft on the draft, not draft agenda, but the final agenda that's posted for public uh viewing. Uh I'm I'm fine with allowing the commissioners, each individual commissioner, to put things
on there uh without going through a a two-step process. >> And and to what you just said, that was going to you just took the words out of my mouth. So, I'm glad you did because that's exactly how I feel. I don't like the last minute, you know, dropping things on the agenda, you know, where
the public doesn't have time. We don't have time. There's not really any backup materials if you try to do it on the same day. >> But, um, no, I would agree with cleaning that part up. I have no problem with having us have to ask the other
commissioners to put an agenda item on the agenda in a meeting. I just I I I don't think it's one. I just don't think it's necessary, but I don't think it really allows us to do the job we're supposed to do. >> No, I I I agree because I think once you do put it on, even if you can't get get
can't get it through, it opens it up for discussion, for public comment. Uh, and I think that's the best way to handle that. So, so I do think and I I think at least three of us are in agreement. I haven't heard from the the mayor yet on this subject, but I think the three of
us would like to see a more open uh process in getting the commissioner uh specific uh items on the agenda >> and not the formal if I'm correct. Yes, not the formal in a meeting having to do it. Okay. I just wanted to clarify that.
And also many moons ago, um I put uh two items on the agenda, uh the censure of uh Commissioner Clark and of Vice Mayor Vasquez. And both commissioners voted uh to remove their own items off the uh
agenda, which is that allowed, Ralph? >> Um on that one, we have the mic is on, I think. Um, in 4.6, uh, the city manager may remove staff
items from an agenda. Uh, the mayor who proposed an agenda item or a commissioner who originally proposed an agenda item may individually remove an agenda item that they individually originally proposed. The city clerk will advise the commission of any items
removed at the meeting if the agenda has already been published. But if the centra is for that particular commissioner, they are allowed to vote to remove it their own agenda item. That's uh uh city commissioners I believe are
even allowed to vote on the actual censure of themselves. And then censures have a due process component. So probably a censure needs to be broken off and held in a special meeting. So that you would say um put on the agenda
to schedule a special meeting for censure and then pick a time that gives the commissioner time to prepare, obtain an attorney if they want to and get ready for due process for that actual hearing. And then there's been some
recent uh case law on censures and the limit that you can do, the maximum penalty if you will of a censure is a uh a reprimand. So, you can censor them with a reprimand, which would be a piece of paper that would be posted on the bulletin board, but you can't take any
rights or privileges. You can't remove them from the board. You can't prevent them from future discussions, and you can't infringe on their first amendment rights. >> Understood. Thank you. Um on on the first one, uh if the mayor
u doesn't have a comment, I could suggest language that I think works for the others. >> Yeah, let's go ahead. >> That would be any commissioner may propose that an item be placed on a future workshop, regular or special meeting agenda, provided that it is
provided to the city clerk prior to publication of the agenda. >> I I like that wording. And then backup for the particularly backup for the particular added item if provided and available will be included in the future
published agenda. That way the documents you were holding up for example they will be included with the agenda in that agenda packet if provided prior to the publication of the agenda. >> Okay. All right. Good. I think we're good. And I think I think you could
still um bring up an item when we have changes to the agenda as part of a regular meeting. Um if someone was adamantly opposed to having this item discussed, they could make a motion to remove it and then you would uh take a vote at that point whether that item
stays on or comes off or is tabled, >> which we've done that before. >> Yeah, that's been done. So that that might fit in better with what you have been doing and allow you to add things um all the way up to the
publication of the agenda. >> Okay. >> That >> I can make that change for next time. >> Say manager. >> Yes, sir. Through the mayor. I'd just like to clarify with the attorney that the when he uses an item in the English
language >> Oh, yeah. That is a a singular item or is that an item a day? Multiple items. Becky Voss um it's nice to have multiple attorneys. She opined earlier that an item is one.
So I just want to set expectations if that's in one item or >> let's decide right now and then we'll either write one or or just and add items. So, are we saying >> I think the the worry is that an email comes in and said, "I would like the
following 18 items put on the next agenda." Got it. >> 25 >> and then they would all go on and then there would be an impossible meeting. >> So, basically, you're looking for a number whether it's one or two or >> Yes, ma'am. We've got like five items that are all staff items on here tonight [snorts] and if each commissioner had an
item be 10 items and that'd be a pretty full agenda, >> right? So, what is everybody? Are you good with one or do you want what's your thoughts or two or I mean >> I honestly I I have mixed feelings about
this. I certainly don't want one commissioner to put 25 agenda items on the same agenda, right? >> But I also don't want to lock ourselves into one. So, two maybe >> within reason. Obviously, we had a canceled workshop so we could have had items on that.
>> But I still wouldn't want 25 items on the canceled Understood. I like two. >> I'm good with two. >> I don't have an issue with two. >> Okay. Two. It is. >> I'll say up to two. >> Then you don't have to add two. [laughter] >> All right.
>> So, do you need me to move to table it? >> Yes. >> Then Okay. uh continue the resolution to the next. Would you like to go to the special meeting on the 10th or would you like to go to the following following meeting?
>> The 16th I think is going to be the 16th. >> I agree. >> Okay. >> All right. I move to continue resolution 2026-02 adopting the updated rules of procedure
until the next scheduled meeting uh March 16th. >> Second >> motion and a second. Uh do we need to do public comment on this? >> Yes, it' be helpful. >> Okay, public [clears throat] comment [snorts] hearing none. Oops. I'm sorry. There's
one. Okay, >> Matthew, District 3. Uh, I guess I'm a little confused. One item, 25 items. None of that matters. One item can can last you four or five hours. There's got to be some way of, hey, this is going to
be too much. We got to break it up or we got too much on there. But just saying two items. Well, one of those could be like the Thunderbird that we droned on for three hours. So, there's got to be some leeway for the city manager to look
at that and say, "Too much on the agenda. We got to break this up." As you guys probably know, and we know, we don't want to sit here for four or five hours. >> So, look at what's on there, do some little uh mental math, and say this too
much, right? Thank you. >> Thank you, Rick. You raised a good point. >> Any others? >> We'll close public comment. Uh we have a motion in a second. Any further discussion? >> No. >> None.
>> Roll call, please. >> I'm sorry, who was the second? Son. Vice Mayor Vasquez. >> I. >> Commissioner Zison. >> Hi. >> Commissioner Dicki. >> Hi. >> Mayor Doctor. >> Hi. >> Thank you. >> All right. Let's move on to item number
four. [clears throat] Authorize the city manager to execute a task order for public works facility design, permitting, and construction administration. >> I don't have any comment. Why don't we get a motion in a second? And if y'all
have questions I can't answer, I'll call Mr. Okay, that'll work. >> I move that the city commission authorize the city manager to execute a task order with Kimly Horn for the public works facility design and permitting.
[snorts] >> Second. >> We got a motion, a second. Any questions for staff? >> Uh I I do I have some discussion uh or some issues. I I just second it just so that we could talk about the issue. And
the question I had uh uh is I was just curious why in in the case of the public works bu building that we're not using the same process. I think you referred to it as the design build process that we're using in the next agenda item for
the public safety facility. We're we're not using that same process here. Could you help me understand the logic? >> I' I'd be happy to. Um the the public works yard facility is a
very relatively easy design project. It's it doesn't rely on any um specialized it uh decontamination areas, things of that nature. Fire related to the fire program. Um the the design
phase, we we actually allow like allowing four months to get it designed and we're going to go out for bid. It's something that a lot of people could bid as contrasting to the public safety facility. Again, complicated, larger, a lot of integrated systems. Um we want
specialized contractors that are experienced in that particular niche of construction. So that's why it's just, you know, typically we go, we just design it and then we bid it and then we build contract it out. Um, the public safety facility because we're trying to
expedite the public and I'm kind of talking about the next item too, I guess, a little bit in that we're looking at speed, efficiency, and effectiveness. Um, what we're looking at is is is a a relatively quick design process. We want it to be effective in that we've got the professionals working
shoulder-to-shoulder with each other during the development of the construction techniques. I don't want an architect to be sitting with the with the structural engineer going, "Well, what do you want to do? Do you want to use, you know, this kind of construction method or that kind of constru?" I want the contractor to be sitting down with
the architecture and saying, "This is what's going right now in our area, in our industry with the trades that are available, with the material and the supply chain." I want those sorts of dial that dialogue to be conducted so that we can deliver a first class public
safety facility and get our police and fire personnel into a permanent facility. the yard. Again, stepping back, we're talking about pre-engineered metal buildings, mainly pavement, lay down area, a 1,200 square foot office, y
uh restroom, kitchen facility for the for the crews, um very standard construction techniques, very standard design, uh application. So, it's it's kind of a we're talking about a very specialized construction,
a space shuttle or a go-kart kind of thing. And and it's it's it's really a a different animal. And and that's that's the reason I I hope that answers your question. >> Okay. No, it does. Thank you uh for doing that. Uh how was Kimly Horn
selected as the uh as the vendor for this particular project? Well, [clears throat] under the consulting contracts we had available at the time, um the commission had previously eliminated Baker Engineering
from further use and AED engineering from further use. There was only there were only three consultants we had at the time under our general consulting practice. We we retained them. That was one of the reasons. But the second one is that they also had done quite a bit of work during a previous exercise. I
think they evaluated before I came on board. they evaluated that area. So they had a little bit of of [clears throat] boots on the ground there and and experience on the site. Um so they were doing the master pump station. This is sort of integral with the master pump
station. So it just it made a lot of sense to you continue using them. Well, Art didn't talk on my questions, but I just want to say on record that although Commissioner Clark's not here, both of him and I gave Kimly Horde to
one. Uh, but um, you answered my question about going out for bid, so that's all I have to say. Anything else? >> Okay, we have a motion in second. We have a motion to second uh public
comment. Hearing none, we'll close public comment. Any further discussion up here? >> Okay. Roll call, please. >> Vice Mayor Vasquez, >> I. >> Commissioner Dicki, >> I.
>> Commissioner Sison, >> I. >> Mayor Doctor, >> I. And now moving to H5, which you just discussed a little bit of. Authorize the award of the design, build, contract to core construction services of Florida
LLC for the new public safety facility. >> I happily move to authorize the award of the design and build contract for the new public safety facility to Core Construction Services of Florida LLC.
>> We have a motion. Do we have a second? Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion that uh you would like to have for staff? >> The I I I have again some questions and
and they're more about the the uh page number 256, 257, and 258 in the agenda packet. Uh that basically is a a rough uh design draft of the of the space. Uh my initial reaction at looking at this
was this is very bare bones and uh almost to the I mean it is as uh austere as I could possibly imagine and I guess you know if we're looking to spend uh the least amount of money
possible that's what we want to do but I would like to hear some assurances from both the chiefs uh if they feel they've all their needs are met in this proposal. Uh Chief Barkley, I see you're back there. Maybe you can uh come forward and
and say yes or no. And uh that I I didn't see you back there, Chief. >> Lead into that. They can both get up and talk. >> All you know, we like to look at it as an efficient layout. All the square footages that are identified in this in the in those exhibits are from their
tables that they were they prepared. Those floor plans were were vetted on a couple they had a couple of occasions to modify it, comment on it. We incorporated that. I believe that and they can get up and speak on this, but
the uh during the review process I I I don't I don't think I don't think we saw much push back on the layout. They in fact they were complimentary to some extent about it being a you know fairly well laid out. Good afternoon, mayor and commissioners. Good afternoon. Good evening. Um, in
regards to that, commissioner, to answer you honestly, um, we took the same square footage we had in our old building, and that's in the new building. >> The good thing about technology and all that and spaces for things, we don't need a server room that was as large as the other server room. Um, the most
important thing for us is that we have a locker room area for the officers, which we do. We have showers for the officers, which we do. It'll be um a building that I think we'll be very pleased with. Now, that is just a very, and I'll get a second from Gary. That's a a rough
drawing of and this is was all to help not only speed up the process, but bring keep the cost down is a very rough estimate of the interior. I mean, getting the outside concrete block is one thing. If we have to move walls, interior walls for different facilities
as the engineers and the architects go, hey, you need to think about this. Those are adjustments we can make inside the building. But if we're moving sheetrock walls and stuff like that, that's not going to bring the cost up. It's not going to change the outside of the design of the building. Basically, we have the core of the building and then we'll be able to put whatever we need
inside. So, it's kind of a it's kind of a rough drawing of of what we have. And I keep looking at him because he's an engineer. I'm not. I know what we need for space and we are very happy with that. I mean and I just to give you a point of reference and and I know that
the storm the storm didn't cause this. In six days I hit my six-year mark as your police chief here in Treasure Island. After my six months here I was told, "Chief, you're going to be in a new building in two years." And that just kept getting pushed down the road and pushed down the road. Now everybody thinks we're getting a new building because of the hurricane, but this has
been on the drawing board for a very long time. And I have to thank Gary and I want to thank uh Charlie for bringing this to the forefront and pushing it and and Gary were the one with you know my myself and Trip are put in a in a really bad position and almost had you know
some a lot of push back from the community about a $12 million Taj Mahal building. We went out to builders and asked, "Hey, coastal construction, what is an estimate?" Everybody and all the builders we talked to said, "Thousand dollars a square foot." And Gary says, "Yeah, that's true." But you can do this. And that's where his experience as
an engineer has come and really helped us bring the cost of this down. That I think has calmed everybody down. So the because the city doesn't have a lot of extra money to spend. So I mean, I'm very pleased with the interior. And I'll let Chief Bar speak to the fire side. >> Thank you, [clears throat] Chief.
>> Yeah, a great question, Commissioner Dicki. Thank you. Um the the fire component of this design is a little more complex than the police side. We need more than just, you know, secure and locking. Um we're just needier. That's just us. Be honest. No. Um no,
it's it's a different facility, right? So, um we we're operating 24/7. It's a firefighter's home. It's also the place where they place of business where they work. They come back from a a a very intense medical call with blood on their
boots and contaminated uniforms. Um exposure to uh communicable diseases. We come back from a fire and we're covered in soot and carcinogens. So the fire piece has to have separated um living areas, transition areas, and
work areas. It has to have ventilation that does not crosscontaminate that area. Um so it's a little more complex. the the company we've selected and the architect that we've selected to build or design and build this facility uh top-notch. We're very confident that they're going to they're going to meet
our needs and exceed them. Things that we don't even know we need, they're going to let us know and make sure it's the right facility for us. Keeping in the parameters that we've specified for cost and space. Um like chief said, all of our space needs are met. It's very
similar to what we're coming out of our old building. Um, but it's a lot more efficiently organized. So, we're making better use of the current space and um, yeah, we're very excited and you know, kudos again to Gary and his his team to
to put this RFQ together and see us through the process and thank you Charlie and you all for your approval and uh, to get where we are so far. Um, you know, it's it's our our firefighters and police officers deserve this and I'm glad that we're finally getting there
and doing it. Thank you. Okay, thank you. >> I would just like to I'd just like to add one thing getting back to your original question about those three pages before you with a design bill program especially when you you tell them this is how much we have to spend.
You have to go ahead and give them some idea that you are being realistic in your expectations and that that will that those three pages are what we call the design criter part of the design criteria package that lets them know that we're not asking for a 30,000 square feet or
something crazy that it's limited, it's tight, it's efficient, it's doable. We had uh was it eight or nine companies that initially proposed? Eight at least. >> Eight. We had you know great teams proposed. We shortlisted. We we
interviewed the three teams uh that we uh found that you know we wanted to give a little bit more discussion with and uh uh we're we're all on board with this the team. We've got a great uh uh contractor and design professionals that will help bring to fruition. So uh we we
appreciate your support on this. Thank you, Gary. >> What duration are we looking at to get this work done? [clears throat] >> 16 to 18 months. Something something that >> got everything else was touched on. I'm
good. >> All right. Uh do we have any uh customer or customer [laughter] do we have any citizen comments hearing? None. We'll close the uh the comments. Um and anything else?
>> No. >> Okay. >> I'm just happy to see it. >> Yeah, absolutely. >> Very very happy to see it. You guys >> call roll, please. >> Deserve it. >> Vice Mayor Vasquez. >> I. >> Commissioner Sison. >> Hi. >> Commissioner Dicki. >> Hi. >> Mayor Doctor. >> I. >> Okay, that uh wraps up our items of
business. And next we have city manager and city attorney reports. I I assume this microphone is on. I've not sat up here before. So, um, I just wanted to hit on a couple of the things that are, uh, we're working on here in
Treasure Island right now. Um, we we've talked about the bridge. Thank you for approving the budget amendment, uh, to fix the other half of the cylinders. Um, there's 16. Evidently, it'll operate with eight. Um, so we're in the second
phase of that project right now. um and should be wrapped up uh in the next month if uh site goes well. Um had some questions about the living shoreline. Uh that project is
substantially uh complete. We've done the things that uh made sense that you guys had agreed on in and around there. Um [clears throat] I just let you read the slide for a second instead of reading it to you.
Um, we're doing some re repaving projects. Um, Third Avenue, uh, went well. I mean, they tore it up, put it back down. Um, trapped a few people in their homes, uh, a day or two, but, uh, we got it done.
um the turn lot and sidewalk construction just um before, during, after um much better, much safer, etc. Um any questions just in in general on our
public works and what we're doing. Okay, I do have a couple I do have a couple additional items to bring to your attention. Uh we do have an election in the community center on
March 10th. That is for you as the basic ballot question is for the city commissioners to be able to uh grant the u easements for the army corps of engineers versus having to go to a referendum. Um, our next regular meeting is on the
16th, which is a Monday. The 17th, Tuesday, would have been the normal day, and that's St. Patrick's Day, a federal holiday. Um, we'll be swearing in uh Commissioner Clark and Commissioner Dicki. Um, on the 16th, um,
I do have a little update on FEMA. Had a commissioner request some information on where we are with the project. Um so far we've submitted about 3 million in FEMA reimbursement projects for hurricanes Helen and Melton. Uh these
cover debris removal, emergency protective measures, temporary facilities and infrastructure repairs. staff is coordinating uh daily with FEMA to move projects towards the obligations, cure eligible requirements, pursue extensions as needed, uh while
also evaluating um alternative uh project options, including potential alternate scopes for facilities such as the public safety building to strategically align funding with long-term resiliency and operational
priorities. Now, this is for free. My personal experience with FEMA is you never get money quickly. I wouldn't even hazard a guess on how quickly. And right now, as most of us probably realize, the federal government um is in a partial
shutdown. FEMA comes under the Department of Homeland Security, which is partially shut down. Um so that doesn't speed things along at all. Anything else on FEMA? the state for for uh quite some uh
length of time was funding and uh consultants I think deote to help us with uh the FEMA process going through and and getting our money. Are we still working with Deoid or is that uh run out? >> I I believe we are but I'll let Victor
hit that one more squarely. >> Good evening commissioners. Uh so we are working with deoid but uh it's not to expedite the the projects because that's up to FEMA. There's nothing we can do other than communicate with them. We are meeting with them every week before the
shutdown. Right now we have to wait until they open back. But we're meeting with them. We're pushing them. But sometimes when we believe the project is getting to the end and they're going to appropriate the money, they they change the project manager. It's nothing we can control. That's FEMA being FEMA and this
has been my experience with with them. So what the lawyers is working is because the documentation for submitting projects is too much that is impossible for one person to work with that also with with the grants and
FEMA and document h working with documentations and and that's that's their help her we're getting from them is not to expedite it and and also deoid uh is an employee is not our contractor is they are
contracted by by the state, >> right? Yeah, I knew that. >> So [clears throat] if the states say something that to them or instructing us, we were not aware that they're not contracted by us. >> Okay. the I I think this came up as a as
a topic of interest a lot of the residents because a week or two ago we saw uh where the city of I think North Readington or one of the Readington's uh got uh a $750,000 reimbursement for trash removal from
FEMA. So I think that kind of got the sense that maybe we're getting closer to that point. But what you're telling me, and I realize that since I've asked you the question that we've had the government partial shutdown to deal with, but but what you're telling me is we really don't have any sense of of
where that money is in that. Uh >> I do have a sense that we're getting close to the debris. So I have the sense same sense and when we were getting closer that I believe they were going to appropriate the money once the state appropriate the money, we received the money in three to five weeks. So the
first step is then to appropriate the money. We had submitted everything. Deoid had evaluated everything. So I believe we're close. But then they changed the project manager on us. So I don't know what FEMA's purpose is to change the project manager
uh once is getting to the finish line and but what I can tell you is that we are talking to them every every week. >> Okay. >> On that and I'm asking those questions to FEMA. So why why is this happening? >> Okay. All right. That's all I wanted to hear was an update and I appreciate uh I
appreciate that, Victor. Thank you. >> Okay. Um two more items, Mr. Mayor. Um your LPA and PNZ board um obviously appointed by the commission. Same group of people for
both boards. Um couple months ago the LPA um requested um something very similar to uh what the Thunderbird had submitted for the text amendment which the commission voted
down increases the height increases the density. Um and my response to them uh was that uh the city commission at this time wanted to wait um until a
master planner had been secured. We got through the feasibility study phase of the master planning and let some objective outside planner uh tell the commission, "Yep, your current heightened density limitations [snorts]
uh work and are profitable." um or no they don't and here's our suggestion. Um most recently uh an LPA member has submitted um another document in the form of a
resolution um similar issues um bringing the height and density even on uh this side to the downtown uh area of Treasure Island, not just on the west side of um Gulf Boulevard,
which was the amended uh tre uh Thunderbird's application and the discussion of planned developments um to to the forefront. Um I've drafted
a letter um in response to them saying that um we're in the uh master plan process. for within the RFQ process. And my my letter draft, which is just a
draft, you're free to change it um and tell me that it's no longer your position, but is that the commission's position is to still uh wait till the master planning is initiated and you get a recommendation from that master planner um as to your heightened density
needs. Um, so my question to to you guys, if I could just get some kind of consensus uh to tell me that is still your position or you have a different position because at at some point I have to allocate uh staff time to the LPA to
formalize these resolutions. Um, but uh talking with our attorneys when the city manager allocates that staff time is in my Bailey Wick and I'm certainly not going to do something as an affront to the commission after since you've recently voted on that.
>> Personally, I I think that uh you know, we're going to be choosing uh somebody on March 10th um for the master plan. Uh I think that once we initiate that we'll be having discussions along with that
about height density and and you know a dozen other things and um so I think that uh that is right now kind of the path we're on. I correct um and I think that uh that's a a safe path uh for us
at this point. >> I would I would agree with that. I think the the guidance you got from the commission at at our uh one of our last meetings was to hold off on those kinds of resolutions until uh we uh proceeded
with the with the master plan and and we're getting closer. Hopefully this time next week we'll have have chosen the firm to do that. [clears throat] >> All right. I just wanted to uh gain your consensus. We have some enthusiasm among
that particular committee and I will relay that in the form of this letter at their meeting next Thursday evening on the 12th. Um, last item. Um, I in no way want to uh
preclude a commissioner's uh request to have an item put on the agenda except for when I detect uh no public purpose. I consult with the lawyers. They say the remedy is already
in place. And to get specific, Commissioner Saison has requested multiple times the agenda some kind of action um regarding insufficient insurance by the parts of our last two
attorneys, Sabatini and Rollins. They're no longer under contract. Ralph tells me that the remedy would be to not have them under contract if they didn't have the insurance you want. Um, but they're no longer here. So, unless the commission in this meeting as a
whole tells me you want to take up and basically pick a fight with one of your former attorneys, then I'm not inclined to put that on the um agenda, but I'll do whatever the majority of the commission wants. I mean, it sounds like it's kind of resolved itself.
>> I I agree. Yeah, it's that's uh in the rearview mirror. >> I concur. >> Well, it was required liability insurance to practice law. They were not insured at all. They had a liability policy for the office is what they provided
and [clears throat] pretty much in action by you, the city manager, because you knew about it. You signed off on it. >> I'm not saying that it it it was or it wasn't. I mean, but the if our attorney, our current attorney says that the way it would be to them no longer have a
contract, it's already resolved itself because they're not under contract. They were let go. So, >> I think that this one can just fade away. Let's hope no one goes after us. >> You can you >> Okay, I think that um that concludes my report. [clears throat]
>> City attorney, >> nothing this evening. Thank you. >> Okay, Commissioner Vasquez. All right. Well, the city manager kind of stole some of my things with the meeting types [laughter] and such, but [gasps] it's
all good. Um, he did miss, don't forget. I think we're all excited. We change our clocks this weekend, so we will get that extra hour of sunshine so we can all make it to sunset. So, don't forget that is this weekend. Um, I was going to mention the municipal election. Um, I
will say as someone who has sat on the charter review committee, it may seem like a little thing, but there's only one charter amendment. It's very important. And I will tell you, being on a review committee and you go through weeks and weeks and months and months of
of seeing different things that need changed. Um, this particular one isn't necessarily from that. It's definitely frustrating when no one shows up to vote on it because they really are important items and this is a very important item on there. So, please, you have from 7 to
7 at the community center to go vote a week from today. So, please do so. [gasps] Um, he already talked about the meeting on the 16th instead of the 17th. I think we should all wear green though. [laughter] But um also I will be announcing I
haven't done any of my district one meetings for the last couple months because of my uh my back issues that I've had going on. I am going to try to get one scheduled um in April. So hopefully by the next meeting um I will
have something in stone on that. And other than that, um I would just say please uh pray for our troops, pray for their families, and definitely pray for our leaders and our country. >> Thank you, Commissioner Suzanne.
>> Uh Ralph, can you explain uh the uh for the election on the 10th, uh what a yes vote would be and what a no vote would be? um for the referendum question would be to allow the city commission to issue um approvals to the Army Corps of
Engineers >> and it um would make things uh streamlined for our >> beach nourishment projects. >> Thank you. >> For city- owned property only. >> Yes. >> All right. Well, I have uh some slides of Treasure Bay. I walked the property
yesterday. um some areas of concern um which I uh Kathy addressed to me uh earlier today. Um yeah, I think there should be a pretty extensive punch list. Um
uh yeah, so we're seeing uh this is obviously the rip wrap. I believe this to be like 40 ft to the sidewalk. Uh this uh area of the sidewalk is white concrete and it looks really awesome. Uh but then there's some areas of concrete
that uh don't look so awesome. Um here's the um volleyball uh sand. Are we going to bring back the volleyball sand or the volleyball area? >> Um there are no attentions at this time
to bring it back. H okay. Um so uh this area of the rip wrap the uh rocks are not on top of the seaw wall kind of like right here.
That looks like a hazard. Uh but I know I understand the checklist is going to happen. So, and I have some of the answers to your questions, too, that and Gary can help because you're going to get my very not technical words
and you'll get Gary's technical words um in reference to the first photo of the area by the towers. So, when we first started this program and they referred as to like the zero zone or something,
um the towers had requested that that rip wrap not go all the way up to the property line and be pulled back because they didn't want people climbing on the rocks to go into their property. >> So, I do believe we're going to do
something. I just don't know what at this time to just fix that up and pretty it up. But that's the reason the whole rip wrap didn't go to that corner. >> Gotcha. You have some debris here. >> You You know, this is the comment section. This is supposed to be where
we're wrapping up. This sounds a lot more like a workshop >> that we can open. Yeah. So, we had a canceled workshop. So, didn't have the opportunity to present this. >> Yeah. >> Awesome. So, I'm going to continue, but thanks. All right. So, um this is the
rest of Treasure Bay. Um, this uh seaw wall here has fallen apart [clears throat] and and what are the uh answers to my questions I had earlier or would you like just email them to me and then I'll present them at the next workshop?
>> Um Kathy's free to email you whatever you asked her, but the short answer is we're still working on Treasure Bay. We're working on multiple uh possible outcomes. Um public works is working hard every day. I could keep twice as many of them busy.
>> So what's the anticipated final cost of what was to what was budgeted >> that I do have if we're so the contract price is 3.036 million including the 276 cons contingency. The project is
anticipated to be completed with 127,000 remaining in unspent contingency funds. >> And when is it going to be done? It's it's the the project itself is close to completion if if not substantial completion, but we still
have work to do. And I know that in two updates for Treasure Bay, we said that would take a few months for us to kind of get everything going. They just actually put down the um hydro seating. So, we're trying to stay off the grass,
well, the dirt area until some of the seeds start taking in. But our priority has been replacing and fixing irrigation. >> All right, that's it. >> Can you help me get over >> Oh, yeah, sure. >> I don't know. >> Commissioner Dicki,
>> thank you. Sorry. Uh I had But I'm going to need some help on how to get into it. I guess I get out of this one here. Uh I I've got a couple of things. I wanted to show some uh photographs of the Lands End uh uh scenic walkway and I
just need to figure out how to get into them. I was going to show this, but >> yeah, scroll down. >> Scroll down. Okay, there they are. Okay, here's just a handful of Let me see how I can get them here. >> Not sure if John's going to apply the same rhetoric to your presentation. >> Well, this isn't a workshop.
>> Yeah, we had a cancel. Anyway, there's just some some pictures. That's the sand walkway. Now, that is what that's what replaced the boardwalk uh that you heard about at our last commission meeting. You can see it's wider. You uh you can see from some of these pictures that, you know, it's fairly heavily used.
Here's a couple walking a d one of those double baby strollers with two kids in it down uh down the the the uh pathway to the west of Lanzen. Uh this is a a view of the south end of where blind
past is. And again, you can see it's I think I can enlarge it here. You can see it's wide. It's safe. It just feels safer. You know, uh lots more room. Susan's comments. Uh I think we're right on the mark there. Uh another another quick view of it. Now, keep in mind it's
not even finished yet. They're still waiting for the state grant to finish this project. Uh but you can see the sand looks, you know, looks pretty solid. I I I use this frequently uh and uh find it much much safer and and easier on my uh on on me than than
than a boardwalk did. Uh here's another view of uh this is the back by blind pass here. But you can see again there's plenty of room. It looks uh safer. It's not rickety. You don't have to worry about about uh stepping on on stuff here. And it's got and it's only going
to look better once they they finish this project. But this is what it looks like right now. Let me see how I get out of this. I guess that's the last one. Uh I do have a quick a threeminut video that the president of this is Greg Wickcham the
>> This is Greg Wickham, president of Lansen Condominium and you help me with the volume and I wanted to visit with you about our sand walkway that we're working on today. Behind me, you're looking north on the east side of our walkway and you can see a rock burm on
the inside path. The second phase of our walkway is about to begin. We'll be widening the path to 8 ft. We'll be using True Grid to hold the sand in place and make it ADA compliant and easy for wheelchairs. And in a moment, I'm going to show you some things we're
going to do on the south side. This view along the westside trail looking northward where the hurricane deposited up to four feet of sand, some of which filled several of our garages. We pushed the sand back to make sand BMS on both sides and planted various salt tolerant native plants along the BMS and
on the slopes leading back to our buildings. When we complete phase two, more plants will be added as needed to create an attractive vista here overlooking the Gulf. An 8 foot wide walkway of True Grid will also be installed along this stretch of the trail running all the way to the
mansion's property and connecting with several pathways to our property. Notice the depth of the sand covering the crossover that had been 3 ft above the original grade. here. You're looking northward to mansions here on the pathway. And we're
also going to put the true grid down here, clean it up, and make it 8 foot wide. And you'll notice on on your left, the uh city has taken a wooden crosswalk, cross over, and made it into a sand path much like ours. The sand versus the uh wooden boardwalk
is more resilient than wood. It can easily be repaired. You know, over the last four or five hurricanes that we've actually had significant damage and the walkways been closed for some time. Sand is a lot more level than the wooden boardwalk was. Made it difficult for wheelchairs and strollers. The new one
will be much wider. Two wheelchairs could pass going in the opposite direction. will eliminate some pedestrian injuries that occurred because the former walkway was elevated. Sand path is more keep in keeping with the natural environment and pleasing aesthetically and it's more eco-friendly
and has less of an impact for walkers and jog joggers. So, you may know we're waiting on our grant money to be released to us. We think that'll happen soon and our timing is probably in the next uh 45 to 60 days
we will begin work and we hope to complete the work by summer and Land's End has already put over $600,000 of our own money into the pathway to reconstruct it and keep it open after the hurricane damage. We look forward to completing it. Appreciate your support.
>> Okay. I just wanted you to see that so you could see that it's being heavily used. It's uh it it's meeting the needs and the purpose I think that the original agreement uh was intended. The only other thing, mayor, I have is the I talked with the manager at Publix today
about the replacement of their dock. Uh because I'd had several residents ask me about when that was going to take place. He says that is a plan. They are definitely going to replace the uh dock they had out there. He said it's very expensive, but uh and he doesn't have a date yet, but he says it they're they're
working on getting the permits right now to get that uh to replace the dock uh uh behind Publix. >> Great. That's all I have. >> All right, and [clears throat] we'll wrap up here. Um very proud of our city, very proud of all all the workers that uh are out
there, our police, our fire. Um, in the last few days, uh, I've taken a walking tour, uh, around Treasure Island and, uh, the things that I'm seeing, uh, I really appreciate. Uh, the public works and the landscaping, um, they're doing
one heck of a job out there. and um the vacuum truck that that we uh purchased. Uh I saw today it was out there for at least 6 hours today and uh picking up uh going over the bridge uh and everything else. And I'll tell you what, it really
looks first class when uh when people are coming in. Um the beach trash uh something that uh we were concerned about. Um, I don't know. I should have asked the ladies at uh the the beach a little earlier, but um today at about
10:30, I walked the beach and I took a look at all the garbage cans and there wasn't a garbage can that is on the wall uh of the uh over there that uh that was full. There were some that were over by the uh the parking lot over here, but uh
the truck uh garbage truck pulled up about 11 o'clock and uh and cleaned all that out as well. So, I know we're still having some issues because there are u you know, just little notes I see uh on social media and stuff, but uh but I I'll tell you what, our folks are
working uh very diligently and I uh I appreciate all of them and I appreciate all you for being here tonight. And with that, we're adjourned.