how's everybody doing today glad are yall doing great it's good to hear all right today is Tuesday February 18th the time is now 6:01 and the City of willston city
council meeting has come to order Miss Wright you call roll please mayor Goodman I am here council president Cox here vice president Hind here council member Jones here council
member Martin here council member Rio she's going to be late city manager Terry bouard I am here attorney Kristen Baloo here city clerk Latricia Wright I am here and all other staff such
excitement all right next thing on the agenda be opening prayer and pledge of allegiance to the flag Mr Mayor Charles Goodman join me if you choose Lord We Gather here today as a representative of the
people Lord help each one of them that have to make these very important decisions have looked at everything over and Lord just I ask that you be with each one of them and give them the wisdom that they need to make the
decisions for all of our people in this city and I thank you for the people that have come tonight Lord I ask you to keep them safe as they leave and Lord I especially you know My Heart Lord I
especially thank you for the care and the watching over you have done of our police force Lord every day I know that they put their lives on the line for us in this
community and I ask you to continue to PR to protect them and give them your grace I ask this in your name amen amen I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the
Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you very much thank you sir item one addition deletions changes
and approval of the agenda ask for any approval for the agenda seeing no word from staff I move approval of the agenda as presented I'll second all right we have a first or second any discussion all right seeing none we'll move to vote
all in favor say I I I those oppose no 4 Z who who made the motion you made the motion and D did you do a second thank you all right item two public participation this is your first of two
opportunities to address the council at this time anyone in the audience can come to the podium and speak for five minutes on any topic other than what is on the agenda all right please state your name and your residency Robert Langan 500 Northwest 5th Avenue here in
Williston um thank you sir my question is our subdivision is fixing to be turned over to from lar to the HOA to the owners we don't have street light one I've heard lar was going to do it I've heard the city was going to do it
and I've heard lar says they're not going to do it when are we going to get some street lights what is the play that's part of the developers agreement that was agreed with uh lenar lenar is in fact not going to do it because it's the site preparation
company's responsibility which is Armstrong and West to West uh M correct me if I'm wrong but they have been given what they need to order for us either to order it or they have the specs for what they're supposed to order um they uh have not given us a date as
to when it's going to be done but it is absolutely their responsibility and it is absolutely in the developers agreement so as as far as uh it's going to be Armstrong and West to West that's the site developer um that's who's going to be
doing the installs and um so when lenar says it's technically not their responsibility they actually are correct about that the developers agreement I believe is with Armstrong so that is the party that is responsible okay thank you
sir okay anybody else all right item three Cass agenda these are for the council minutes for February 4th 2025 can I get a motion let me just say that in the minutes I found I think
three typos I have given that to Latricia okay uh it's nothing of consequence it's strictly typos so with that said I will move to approve the consent agenda that consist of those minutes of February 4th see
okay all right have first got a second any other discussion all right seeing none we'll move to vote all in favor of approving the consent agenda say I I I those suppose 4 Z final four updates staff and board and
Council updates city manager Terry Bard so um no current updat for today although we did have a very exciting day this morning that several y'all participated in we had the the Elementary fourth fifth and third grades
from which school was it Wilson Elementary came in and uh thanks to Mr Cox and Miss Deborah they put on a mock city council meeting and uh we had a blast so we talked for how many minutes on one
topic 54 minutes on one topic it was a long time that we all agreed upon it was an easy topic we thought they would yeah panel pretty quickly so but it was interesting they got to see the city what the different places throughout the city was did we got to see a lift truck out front they had a good time with that
um other than than that I really have no staff updates other than today was a very joyful day we had a good day with the kids it was thank you it was fun all righty staff Anybody Everybody good Mr President yes ma'am Miss BL just
a um a brief update for you all on the Das in front of you you have the letter of support for bordon Institute of Higher Learning this letter was approved by you at a previous meeting um but you instructed me to just make sure that I was comfortable with the legal ease as
far as the fact that we haven't obviously approved any resoning or uses or developments um for the property but we are generally in support of of the concept um so that's what you have in front of you it's already been voted on you voted on uh sending it subject to my
approval of the legal ease so and this has um just saying that we give our blessing but financially we're not doing anything right it's that we we claim we like the idea we think the idea is a good idea we
haven't approved anything and we haven't entered any agreements okay cuz I had a lady who um came in to where I work and she had said that she was told that the city was helping to get the hospital
back and I said the only thing that we're doing is we give our blessing but other than that we have nothing no ties no nothing to this project that's correct so which leades me of my question when it comes to Grants should we be going after those
for that or we don't own it okay that's why I'm just curious yeah it it's not ours it's private property owned by a private individual so um we're obviously if if opportunities come up down the road that we can be of assistance that will come in front of you all so talking
to Chad Johnson and all them we shouldn't be doing we already have you this this is that letter to the Florida legislature just in support of the the general idea of the project okay yeah just want to make sure there's a clarification if
you'll remember the legislative session that we went to in Bronson um there was a letter that we handed out to them that actually had that project in it yep and when we went most recently uh to visit with the Florida Leal cities and
Tallahasse last week we just reiterated what was written on that paper as a matter of fact we handed on the same paper okay I just don't want them to get the wrong impression that we're behind it if we're trying to get grants and stuff like that we can't get grants on something we don't Mr Barbara has a
question Mr sorry sir I have you ask for St updates um one thing I wanted to mention preemptively because I know there was question on it in the previous meeting uh Florida R water we've reached out twice by email we've made three phone calls I have not
gotten a hold of Diana Stewart who's doing our rate study I know that was a big question on reanalyzing the water tiers um so next week another representative from Florida R water will be here uh Jamie hope he runs our apprenticeship program while he's here I've told Terry that I will pull him
aside and ask him look get us on the phone with someone get us an update get us a meeting so we can know where we are on that rate study and uh but I just wanted to make sure preemptively all knew that we wouldn't we weren't not working on it it's just that we can't do anything further until Florida worldw water comes back with some information
okay thank you sir Council anybody I do we want to talk about our meeting with Mr Mitchell are you talking to me I am oh I'm sorry I mean I can start I think I
think that would be appropriate appropriate right here um last week Latricia Jonathan M the mayor myself seems to me there was another yep Chief rolls excuse me so
sorry he was LE had the chair at the head of Chief was lead in the discussion yes how do I how do I forget that um we met with Quinton Mitchell the father of quinon Mitchell U about his desire to
have a parade um and other festivities on behalf of his son who of course was on the championship team for the Philadelphia Eagles uh for the Super Bowl um he Pi we let him pick a date which has been
changed since that meeting um and we let him pick what he wanted us to do we were very happy to know he only wanted us to do the special event application the yep the road the road permit to close the road before the parade and
only very few other things none of which will cost us a lot of money um print a program that sort of thing it like I say it was to be this Saturday he has changed it to next Saturday because quinan now has an engagement this
Saturday and he can't be here so at their request it's moved to March 1 I will say I cannot be here on March 1st so I was planning to help with the pro to to MC the program uh so some one of y'all going to have to step up to do that I I can help do everything up till
Thursday but I can't do anything past Thursday um and I think he's really excited he has plans I don't know if you want to know about those if you do just tell us uh and we'll book and tell you about some of the things he wants to do but up
before you get started uh 12:00 noon sorry they're starting at Heritage Park they're going we talk about different parade routes from the school to The Stadium from the top of the hill all the way to Cornelius Williams what we finally ended up with was Heritage Park
to cornelus Williams out 318 and in the back entrance of cornelus Williams which was what he wanted to do and the chief got the parade permit in that day while we were talking on the Friday however now it's changed in a
different date I got so he's got to resubmit it for the 1st March 1st which is better because it gives us more time we are also providing a stage for that um okay and Mr Mitchell is working on the long extension cord that will reach
to where he wants to place it which is under the trees um at the oak tree that's out there so there'll be a little shade he's going to pay for all the tents all the tables all the chairs all the bounce houses he's arranging a flag football game that every single person in in the
game is going to wear number 27 oh wow they're going to be the Raiders the Red Devils the Toledo whatever they are anybody know what Toledo Ohio team I don't know what their mascot was um or Eagles so those are the all the teams that all going to play each other he's
trying to arrange that a few other things that he's got going he's going to have food trailer food trucks and he's arranging all that so we had very little that we needed to dat's got his hand up yes counselor Jones
that was well done thank you very much my only question is did this come from Quin Yan because his father created the event where the chief had to do a lot of work in an emergency Manner and then
suddenly was changed have you or anyone here talked to have you talked to him okay has anyone talked to quinan quenan came in this weekend he was here for probably 36 hours did you talk to him I
did not talk to him but I have seen his father again since then at an event that we went to on Sunday afternoon um and he still says quenan has an appointment on I know you're right that's happened to us before we
yes we we need someone the city manager somebody needs to physically talk with Quin young before I let that man go through all the stuff that he went through to try to get parade and then quinan says oh something came up I would
like this Council this city to physically talk to the young person instead of a third-party interceding just to confirm the date not details I have his dad's I have his dad's cell number okay I don't have Quin Yan's I'll
have to call his dad and ask Quin need to get it and then you can just tell the city manager all I want is some member of this Council to physically speak to that man and get it from his own lips you got it okay well then you verify it
for us no that's fine or either that I was just because he won't know my number from Adam I was just if somebody wants to get me a number I'd be glad to call and leave him a message cuz he won't answer he won't know who I am that's fine that's fine and also I can MC I just thought if I called his dad his dad
would know who I was and could get him to call because he's not going to know my number or who so are you going to con call him because I was not clear on that I can will you I can will you I can
call and speak with the Father the grandmother and see if they either one of them can connect me to quard thank you if you decide you want me to do it get the word to me we are not doing
anything Chief and until we have a confirmation from Quin Yan before you go through what you went through last time the only other thing I had was that and we and chief we appreciate all the hard work that you did but we also know
that you and everyone who was involved but we also know that quen Yan is at the mercy of whomever tells him what to do so yeah and it should be a little better now that the that the football season's
over but who knows he did tell us thank goodness as soon as he knew as soon as he showed up in town and his dad did call me on the phone and tell me that and that's all you can ask for I think Saturday morning which is all yeah earliest he could have done it okay you
had something else just the other thing I have was how much we all enjoyed or I enjoyed the thing this afternoon with the kids or this morning morning with the kids that was a great thing I appreciate Miss Latricia for getting that together with the teachers that uh cuz they I don't know who called who but
it was a great idea I I think it was well done did you guys record it yes Donald did awesome thank you and just to let you all know that Miss delato she reached out to me at the end of the day to say thank you very much that they
were still talking about it at dismissal nice right thank you may I ask I didn't know this was happening did was everybody sent an email and I just haven't seen it yes sir I have been indisposed so I'm not
surprised we had a new mayor today she did a really good job not yet you you got wait till she's ready she did a great job we we made her do it she like she led the pledge allegiance and that sort of thing so she she did a couple of really good think that's all I have Mr Mayor you got
anything else just one little one little thing uh if I get up and leave in the middle of this meeting it is because I need to because of some medical issues
I'm having and I didn't want anyone to think for it was for any other reason perfectly understandable thank you thank you all right item five discussion with possible action workshop for fire assessment in
April fire chief Lamar steagle yes sir um last year we put together some information about possibly pursuing a fire assessment inside the city um we've been working with the company it used to be uh it's now called
Accenture um was answer and U they would like to get together with the city council to discuss the possibility of implementing a fire assessment with inside the city they've gotten our call information um we've worked with them for the last I would say five to six
months pretty regular and we've come to that point okay anybody got any questions question are the citizens being assessed um County Fire assessments not and would
this be a double or duplicated fire assessment no ma'am in in the city um we have no fire assessment um I will point out that we're one of the few municipalities in the county that doesn't have a fire assessment anybody else got any
questions so we need to pick a date is that what you're saying yes ma'am April it gives you a whole month before we start budget again well either the first or 15th is good for me that's when our Council meetings
are do you want to do it on the same date as Council meetings um Miss that's completely up to y'all how long you think it'll take it's according to how many questions you got I imagine but uh you know I'm going to purely guess and say it I would say
at least an hour okay so we would have to if we were going to meet on Tuesday we would have to start at least at 5 o'clock yes ma'am and I don't know if that's possible for some of us I don't know that's why that's why I was trying to lay it out there and just a correction um April
council meeting is the 8th and the 22nd oh that's very true oh thank you because the first Tuesday is not before not after a Monday Mr President yes sir does it have to be um at 5 or can we limit the amount
of information that's going to be on that city council meeting you could you know have the are you saying have the workshop during the council meeting well I think your question was you you going to the workshop is that what I'm hearing not a city council meeting that is correct okay never mind
than yeah whatever day is good for everybody I'll just make it work U the two the 22nd is not good for me I have another meeting at 6 o'clock either one let me see I don't want the Mondays work either neither one
of those Monday works either what the night on a Wednesday mhm yeah are you doing something on Wednesday do you do something I do but I could not I just don't know if it works for them WN Wednesday works Wednesday around 6
the night word for me long as it's not Saturday I'm good um okay I agree I would I would say about the night what I know from looking at my calendar is there is a general employee pension committee
meeting and a 185 pension committee meeting you part you're a part of that I am and it's usually in this room um one it starts at 4:30 the other starts at 5:30 they usually last 45 minutes or so sometimes an hour depends on what
we're up to so it's 6:30 okay with you that gives you three meetings in a day though 6:30 would definitely work yeah is that okay too late for no that's fine with me said okay with you mhm so sounds like 6:30 is a consensus
on the night 8 April 9th 6:30 could somebody repeat it so that I could hear it so April 9th at 6:30 p.m. we're going to have the meeting thank
you right so miss Belo do a motion or just do a consensus just a consensus is fine okay so everybody good with the 9th yes 6 o00
yes 6:30 6:30 all right just checking yall all right so we're all good there all right all right Item B discussion with possible action assistance to
firefighter safer Grant fire chief Lamar Eagle yes sir what I've got I brought before you tonight um is what they call the safer Grant it's uh Staffing for adequate fire and emergency response um it's a grant program put on by the federal government um they will pay for
a firefighter salary they will pay up to 100% for three years there's no requirements to retain them um you know I I put together a little bit of a uh PowerPoint program to look at there on the uh hiring of the firefighters and you know the assistance that it does to
it um you know there's no no no salary limits no prescribed cost share is zero to us for three years um and to be perfectly honest will
you I mean things are just it it's gone how do we put this got we've gotten very busy has gone crazy you know the way I've been using words to describe it it's almost like a mass migration to our area people are moving in not just in the city but all the way around us and
we've got to the point to where it's very hard to keep a staff of strictly part-time employees and volunteer mix uh we are we are at the Pinnacle of needing to hire full-time employees for the city of Willis and fire department and this
is the best option I can see at this time uh to give you a little more insight I told you that it PID for it for three years once you're awarded the grant you have uh 180 days to implement it so you've got
almost five six months to implement BR okay so couple of questions yes ma'am first one you said they're going to pay up to 100% but they're going to actually pay 100% yes ma'am okay yeah but what
they what they do and um you may have a little better insight about this way the overtime works so if it's part of your base salary of that built-in overtime they'll pay that but if the person has to cover an overtime shift the grant won't pay that okay you follow what I
gotta yeah so you know whatever's part of that salary they'll they'll pay 100% of but they won't pay the overtime or anything like that but now when they say 100% they're talking about everything that it costs to employ that person physicals and everything that's all part
of it equipment uh they will not pay for the equipment I I wish they would um we uh we talked to Citrus County who was awarded that that Grant uh two years ago and they're in their third year and uh they tried to get the bunker gear and
all their boots and helmets and everything paid for and they wouldn't do it so you're asking to apply for this grant yes ma'am I'm asking for permission to apply for it doesn't even mean we'll get it right and and I will say this if we are awarded the grant um you could always decline it if you so
chose to do so and we currently have one captain that is not full-time is that right we have or am I wrong about that no ma'am we have no we have one full-time employee from Williston fire that's you I know that is me yes ma'am but we do have a captain no we we we have we have a captain yes ma'am he's
just not fulltime he's not fulltime okay so you're asking to hire three full-time fire captains that is correct yes yes ma'am and that 277,000 is going to be divided between the three yes ma'am so at the end of this grant the city is
going to be required to now pay we're not but we yeah we I don't want to say why you say not require because if we keep them we're requ we don't have to keep them well okay I know you're I know you're heart and I know where you're going with that but no we're not
required to but yes we would have to pay for them you know we obviously if we decided to hire these people and move forward with it we're not going to want to lay them off in three years you know that that's not our style um you know so so how do we pay for that you know we have to look at
that in in a long range one of the things I will say is got 36 months to figure it all out now that doesn't make it easier but you know we're currently trying to implement some impact fees which is going to offset the cost of equipment which is going to free up some money there in the future you know U
renegotiate with the county the County's wanting to re renegotiate contracts now or or they're trying to come up with a plan to renegotiate some of the the contracts and if they follow their plan we're going to be okay um and the
LA last but not least I'm going to say you know we're going to be talking about a fire assessment you know and having to go and just sort of taking a step back away from that for a second something I didn't mention um when we start talking about looking at what's going on in the State of Florida with Enterprise R funds
and and things like Enterprise funds and property taxes possibly going away those fire assessments look better and better so it's just something to keep in mind but I I brought this up about safer Grant I think it would be a good
opportunity for us it's something that that I feel we really need and it's up to y'all well with the growth that we're experiencing like you said not just the city but all around us in three years we're definitely going to have to have
it probably yes so so question two I think so um are you going to be able to are you going to look at um minimizing
the amount of overtime that the staff oh absolutely and then how are you going to budget how much overtime is possibly expected so that you can put it into your budget for the well current three years current currently we do budget
some overtime now you know uh one of the programs we would look at at is the you the 2448 shift like we do uh but you implement like a 3-we Kelly shift so that drops them to 52 hours instead of 56 okay per per pay period so that cuts
down on the amount of overtime you're paying out every two weeks okay and I know that I just pit something that a bunch of you you might not understand but what that means a 3-week Kelly what that means is every 3 weeks they get a day off with without
they get it five day five days off straight but it's one of that day is without pay that's the three-week Kelly program it cuts down on the amount of overtime we backfill that position with a part-time firefighter we currently use okay
okay Miss Bel M Meredith did you have something to say I did I I was just curious if I bring on these three um full-time positions whether that would eliminate any part-time positions or would be purely in addition to this is
purely in addition to we can't we can't come off of anything we've currently got got it we're we're running wide open right now and why three uh one for each 24hour shift you do a three shifts that rotate around
each other so a 2448 shift you you got one person on two off off and then one person on two off one person on two off so you need three captains y okay I mean I'm I'm sure that it would be a lot easier if we wanted to look at the uh
new Gainesville fire rescue schedule where it's a 2472 or we'd have to hire four but I figured we better start with three and I would ask since this is a federal program do you think it's going to be an
existence um yes ma'am if you look at at what's going on on now and in those cuts and stuff fire has not been affected and we're just applying for it so if it's not there we've lost nothing
yeah sounds good Chief so um just one more question I think um so when you when they are hired on there're going to be benefits or is that is that Grant going to include their benefits that are going
to be that cost um that I put in that little packet there that that included benefits and everything okay so you know I had to run some of this back through Steven and I want to make sure I had the numbers right and um it that that that that cost was the total for benefits and
everything that cost right included the increase in F FRS everything yep do you have um anybody in mind already since you will probably be under a timeline um
if we were to be awarded this Williston fire rescue would not have any problem filling it with in-house people who currently work for other fire dep okay good to know all right very good free money hire within free help that that
goal was to hire within very good Miss Belo can we just do a consensus with this you need to vote on this one okay all right I will take a motion for approval I make a motion that we approve
the assistance to firefighter Grant safer um as described and discussed by Chief Lamar second we have a first we got a second any other discussions no all right all in favor
say I I I those oppose right 5 Z thank you all right item C resolution 2025-the that okay um for for the latter to serve
as city manager for the city of Willison authorizing the city council president to execute the agreement and provide an effective date city manager Terry Bard attorney Christen
Belo so this is the agreement that you all talked about at the meeting that I was unfortunately unable to attend um the edits um were made based on the conversations that you all had during that meeting um and this is the
finalized version there was one typo regarding his versus hers we caught that we changed it um everything else should be correct in this um happy to answer any questions that you may have but hopefully nothing in here is a shock or
a surprise I'm looking at you miss Hines I see you making eye contact with me Mr rard do you have anything to say um no sir U you know anything that we may consider if if maybe Mr Bat would want to come on
early no okay so I try so it's worth a try it was worth a try uh you know I found everything on my side of the house in order uh I sent you some documents over the weekend take a look at and I think you have found a
very good uh replacement so okay thank you yes sir anybody have Council any questions anything if not I will entertain yes sir I'm still here you're still here snuck back in on us yes I had just had a
couple of questions I was really thankful that for the first time in a long time we actually going to have an existing city manager and a new city manager being able to talk and collude
and to show each other what we have so that there Mr Bard yes Mr manager Bard you were thrown to the Sharks and you swam with dignity and I appreciate
it but if it's unnecessary only reason I say this is because you're acting like you want to leave and so I'm saying that we we I specifically would appreciate it if you could spend enough time with the
new city manager to get her on board with all the various many things that I'm sure you're involved with thank you yes sir thank you Mr Mar I appreciate the comments it's heartfelt uh you know we will we
will spend as much time as we can for my departure date which is uh Set uh February February 28th is is my departure date but as I've talked to several people I will be around uh at any time that she needs help and we' be
more than happy to come back to the city council as an expert or maybe not an expert in the field at least an understanding and background of certain key things we're looking at like the water rates the srf loans um things like that are dearly important to the city um
so and I I'll be just a phone call away from are we going to have to pay you a stip and to do those things are we do what said are we going to have to pay you a sping to do no that no great come back anytime no
I it's on it's on it's on this thing just didn't light up yeah um no yeah no no need for a compensation w're than happy to come over here and do my part uh the city's been very good to me uh and my family so I'm I'm good to
go yeah that's great to hear yes that's thank you all right who would like to make the motion for resolution 2025 d33 I'll move approval of resolution 2025
d33 do I have a second I'll second all right any other discussion no discussion move to vote all in favor say i i i those oppose all right it's 5
Z all right item six just stuck now item six public participation this is your second opportunity to address the council at this time no all right I real real quick um I
just we just received an email this afternoon from uh Le County Department of Emergency Management if you didn't get it it's offering four classes that um toward grant writing or federal grants uh damage assessment for the city
I don't know if any of our public works or any of our damage assessment team have had that class but they're offering four classes there if you did not receive that email let me know and I'll get it out to you yes sir yeah Whoever has taking Brooks place needs to take those classes
because it's how to get our money back haha that yeah that's what I said haha not that we've got any Fe of money yet but chuckle chuckle whoever's going to be that designated person needs to Chief you know when they're offering
it it's it's here I couldn't tell if they were online or actually that's what I couldn't tell was if they were online or I thought I thought [Music] EOC well just send them send them to me
and and even if we don't which we won't have a replacement for our our interim um human resour resource manager which is Selena Levy um couldn't be here tonight she had another commitment but um we will make sure that somebody goes to those two classes and you have to
pre-register through c yeah thank you yes yes you may please go to the microphone and please state your name wayling that for me suette new city manager
y it is exciting I I just want to say first and foremost thank you to the council um very much for giving me the opportunity I'm very excited about it and um you know I do have some you know prior knowledge of raising our water and
sewer rates I went through a rate study I think my first year there and we had to raise our water rates 25% and our sewer rates 50% so I'm very familiar with that um also of course we've worked on a fire assessment um which we passed
the first time at 129 per resident and then we actually increased it last year to 137 per resident so I have experience doing that as well so um everything that you did today we actually had a safer Grant as well everything that you talked about today is definitely in my wheelhouse things that I've I've done so I'm excited about that wasn't anything I
didn't know how to do so I am very excited um to work with the staff I mean you know I know a lot of these people I've been close to some of these people for years and you know I'm I'm very excited to get started next week so again thank you very much for the opportunity I appreciate it well welcome
[Applause] aboard all right item seven announcements staff uh give you an update on uh brick if you guys remember brick grants are the storm water grants um we had come before you guys many months ago and talked to you about these uh two grants
were filed uh believe uh by the de line on Friday the first one was for a project which is our our what we call our primary project it's the one that we put the most Gusto behind and that's to revitalize Northwest 7th Street where a
lot of that flooding has occurred and affected probably the higher majority of homes and to rehab that pond that the city already owns behind the west side of the houses the second project that we put in for um we'd have to be really lucky to get it but we're we put in for
it and that would be uh over by erson Park and the CVS along first Southeast First a and Southeast Fifth Street so those are the two that we put in for just wanted to give you an update that those went in and um we'll find out when
the decisions are made usually those are made sometime and and known whether or not about in June so okay thank you sir Council one I have one more quen yon Mitchell thing I know yall probably hear tired of
hearing about that um I had a private individual actually two private individuals who contacted me about wanting to put a sign up didn't say specifically where but they are mostly talking about as you come in to Willison um and at this time I am not
asking you to pay for anything so don't get that in your mind um we've looked at a couple of different designs for signs I've talked I've been actually to the Sign Company with the graphic artist we've tried to put something together so that I could actually show it to you um
we're not quite there yet um I have private individuals I said we may want more than one he said count on it so they're willing to put their money where their mouth is to help
us put up signage and it's things like welcome to Williston home of quinon Mitchell and a picture of him on sign and they want his Red Devil picture in uniform as well as Philadelphia Eagle picture in uniform so that's what we're
trying to do we're trying to get good pictures of him uh and then you know Super Bowl champion at the bottom that sort of thing just wanted you to know we're looking at currently at a 4 by six um I've asked him to give me price
for double-sided and single sided and I'm just talking to you about it because I it will go on our property if we put them up more than anything um and we talked about Cornus Williams in the park um I
we'll just have to either get private property owners to let us put them there or we'll have to use our own property but I would love to get four or five the children at at the moach city council meeting today that was the question we gave them for their
agenda where do we need to put up a sign for quinan Mitchell and if we do where would you put it that we thought it was something that they would relate to and they went crazy with it took them 54 minutes to decide not only did they want one they wanted was it five we ended up
with we ended up with five and none of them I think one was where I would have put it but they gave us ideas of where else we might want to put one I could even think about putting one at the high school and obviously I would ask the school board to pay for that one or get
Don for that one um so at this point I am not asking you for money I'm just letting you know that I'm working on that um I'll also let you know I don't know if you received letters from the Florida Le of city or an email from the Florida Le of cities about sovereign
immunity being on their going to committee tomorrow I think I received the email yesterday there 18 people on that subcommittee and I have I myself they sent really good information so so it was easy to put into form of a letter so
I did not use City letterhead so don't get me wrong but I did put my name on it as a council member encouraging them to vote no to change the caps and sovereign immunity um if you don't know what that is um Mr Mr Bard can certainly tell you
what that is it would affect us greatly um because they're trying to either take the Caps off altoe or move them to like 1 million 3 million right now they're like 250,000 I think
500,000 um which is the highest you could you could sue a city for that's about what that amounts to and not only cities hospitals universities other Sovereign entities like us so it would be really bad it came up
last year if R leue of cities was able to defeat it um it was on the legislative committee that I served on and they are the ones put get that's why I got the email probably and I I did send all 18 people on that um sub
committee a letter that consisted of the information that the Florida leite put out the other thing that I just really wanted to to say was this Armstrong lenar letter for these street lights would it be helpful if our attorney sent
a letter to the developer and tell telling them that we it is now past time for them to do that I mean I know they know it's their responsibility yeah so uh Laura has reached out to him and has mentioned it to him and I believe there is emails
corresponding if the council wants to go further with that then that's definitely up to y'all but we have notified him of that and there's been discussions as recently as was it last week Terry that we met with him and we brought it up again um they were here for a different development but we brought it up again
and reiterate at that it needed to be taken care of but it is absolutely in the developers agreement it's totally their responsibility is the electric in the ground that's needed for that service so there's a part that we play in it and Mike can address that further if he wants to but yes there is a part that we have to do in pulling the wire
but we can't do any of that until the hardware is in the ground and that's solely their responsibility okay and what we can do if we if we feel like we're getting at a crossroad where maybe we need a little more legal push we can ask uh Kirsten to help with that so I
mean I'd certainly hate to put a moratorium on their other project until they finish this one but if that's what we need to do I realize it's not the same developer necessarily that's probably hard to do it is oh it is the same developer okay so we may have to think about something like that because
that's a huge development with no street lights I know how I would feel if I didn't have a street light in front of my house so or at least close in front of my neighborhood see Mr Bishop's got his hand that's all I have thank you Mr Bishop as far as the clle is
concerned um the conduit is in the ground so all we have to do is pull the wire after the light poles are put up we cannot do it before and there's only one house left to be completed for Cle and it's totally built out okay thank you
sir Mr Miller you got anything want to add microphone well I said I my son C that out out of my yard no okay Mr Miller we
do we do have the poles and the lights for the inside only not the outside okay but the poles and the lights were ordered and paid for by Armstrong in the beginning of this but
we did not in install them it was on them to install so in the developers agreement though they're required to install them correct correct right but my understanding is we're going to assist them in a portion of it because it's critical right um I will tell you from
our last meeting last week with Armstrong lenar and West to West they're receptive to the review of their contract and are happily we'll happily make sure that they abide by the contract which should come in front come
in front of y'all and approve so um I seen a reason why we can't have a further discussion with them to point it out to them and then maybe get back with uh Kirsten and and see if we can um even if we give them a certain number of days
to start the project well they're very close to turning over the HOA which I know is a big question for everybody else um we still have to accept the infrastructure there which means we still have to bring back to y'all a contract for the extended warranty so
there's quite a few things that we still have our hands in out there on um so I don't think this is going to be that big of an issue question so if we are going to assist them in the installation of these lights if something happens where
does the liability stand is it with the company still or is the city partially liable no that the part that we would do is something that they wouldn't normally do so we would actually pull the wire to make the connection to turn it on their responsibility is the hardware in the
installation we don't want them touching the electrical they end up hurting themselves and then but Laura just texted me and said to remind you all that in cases like this do remember that we do have a bond so she wanted me to bring that up so if somebody were not to comply we have that protection of the
bond to call in forcing us to be able to get the money to hire and kirston I guess can talk more about that yeah that that's the reason that we go back and forth a lot on these developers agreements because there is the ability for the developer to transfer ownership
over to the HOA but we hold a bond um which allows us to say okay well if you don't do everything that you say you're going to do in the developers agreement we will take on this Bond and then we will use that financing in order to complete this project so you will be finishing it whether we finish it for
you um using your money or you fin it for you using your money cool very good so the city is not liable as far as money they'll probably deed it to us sooner or later won't they de it to us
once we get through the okay the city won't be accepting any infrastructure for this [Music] project so in other words I can state your name Robert Langan 500 Northwest 5th Avenue again thank you um they can
turn it over to the HOA incomplete I've not had good luck with them they turned my house over and I shouldn't even have turned it over after they signed all the paperwork I don't trust Lenard you got money for it from holding that's good but keep
because they have I still have punch list items from a closing on the 18th of last year and I get no response to it so I'm not real happy but my question to you all is they can turn it over to the HOA incomplete and you all still have
the agreements and bonds to hold M so they cannot turn over to the HOA incomplete we have the ability to pull on our bond before it's moved over to the HOA okay CU they've been saying all
along with middle of next month they're going to turn it over people say lots of things all the time yeah that's the reason I'm here we're glad you are because we didn't know about it we didn't have a clue so we're glad you told us all
right thank you anybody else I would just like to ask on the signs I'm all I'm all for the recognition but I think if we have a lot of signs all over Willison what's going to go on with the
next person that goes from here and goes to the pros College pros and things like that what are we going to do for that person are we setting a president or do we need to set something to say this is what we'll do I think we'll address that
when that time comes but I think the people who are giving this giving money towards this are private entities is not the city of Williston so there's no precedent to be set okay it's only it's only if we allow them to
put it on our property and if you want it smaller tell me I I looked at a four I looked at a 4x8 I looked at a 4x6 they actually showed me the signs a 4x6 is still a big sign the four
is Big it may need to go to a 3x6 instead of a 4x6 but if it gets much smaller than that you can't read it and the purpose is for people driving through town to know that quenan Mitchell lives here and we're proud of it y
so I don't know what those sizes are so I have to go me either that's why I made them show show them to yeah all right I appreciate your comments Mr President all right any other
announcements no all right item me adjournment can I get a motion to adjourn I move that we adjourn I'll second all right got a first got a second any other
discussion seeing that all in favor say I to adjourn I those oppose it's 0 the time is 6:59 and this meeting is come to an end